Course description

This Course examines the impact of core business processes on the efficiency and effectiveness of a firm and its supply chain allies. The techniques of the design, implementation and innovation of process improvement in production and service delivery operations comprise the body of knowledge. This course uses experiential learning to challenge students to apply the techniques of continuous improvement and innovation to production and service processes.

Course Prerequisites: Prerequisites for this course are BUS 2700, STAT 2160 and MGMT 2500.

Course Objective

This course provides a common bridge linking a general understanding of business operations (BUS 1750) and the application of information infrastructure (BUS 2700) to strategic business solutions (BU 4750). After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate business activities as processes

2. Determine the goal and measures for process success

3. Describe the flow of activities in a process

4. Define and implement improvement in process productivity

5. Apply principles in production and service settings

6. Identify causes of variability

Learning Outcomes:

Success of every organizations (i.e., private, public, for profit, non-profit) depend upon its ability to attract and retain customers in the most productive manner. This requires providing customers goods and/or service that yield higher levels of customer satisfaction and greater value than the competition. Creation of goods and/or services requires use of an organization’s processes, which transform given inputs into desired outputs by means of available capital equipment and human resources. These processes constitute the core technologies of organizations for creating value.

This course is concerned with analyzing, planning and controlling these processes with the objective of improving their efficiency and effectiveness. Ever-increasing competition in today’s domestic and global markets creates continuously rising customer expectations regarding the product cost, quality and delivery. In order to gain and sustain a competitive advantage, organizations must continuously improve productivity through improvements aimed at satisfying current and future customer needs, wants and expectations. Some of the techniques used by world-class companies to gain a competitive advantage are Total Management, Sigma Six, Just In Time, Time-based strategies, Supply Chain Integration, Single-Minute-Exchange-Of-Die, and Business Process Reengineering programs.

The goal of this unit is to provide students with a critical understanding if these and related concepts of process management that yield a competitive advantage through operational excellence. Students learn how to approach these complex and seemingly diverse techniques by examining their similar underlying methodology: (1) determine the goal-what the organization wants to accomplish. (2) analyze the capabilities of the current process. (3) determine the impediments to reaching the goals. (4) develop approaches to eliminate impediments.

Course description

This course provides an overview of the Chinese, Japanese and other Asian economies.  Topics include economic systems, development and industrial policies, achievements, problems and reforms in these countries.  The coverage will be primarily on the East Asian economies. This course fulfills the requirements for General Education Area IV, Other Cultures and Civilizations.

Course Objective & Outcome

The objectives of this course are to introduce to the students about selective Asian economies in the fastest growing areas of the world, and to compare and contrast their similarities and differences with the U.S. At the end of the term the students are expected to gain basic understanding of the working and evolution of these economies and to be able to form informed opinions and decisions in their respective disciplines on issues and developments related to these economies.

Course description

Presents a basis for understanding the financial management function of the business enterprise. This course considers financial principles and techniques essential for planning and controlling, profitability and liquidity of assets, planning capital structure and cost of capital, and utilizing financial instruments and institutions for the raising of capital.

Course Prerequisites

ACTY 2100 Principles of Accounting & STAT 2160 Business Statistics

Course Objective

1) The basic role of financial management in the business enterprise;

2) Basic financial principles, concepts and analytical techniques, and how they
    are applied to financial decision-making;

3) Practical applications and current events related to financial management.

You should realize that a full understanding of basic business finance is essential to survival in your daily life and the business world.  A solid foundation is necessary for advancement in the finance discipline.

Course description

Topics include functions, limits, continuity, techniques and applications of differentiation, integration, trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions. Tutoring is available for all Math 1220 students. A graphing calculator is required. Students who take more than one of MATH 1220, MATH 1700 or MATH 2000 will receive only 4 hours of credit toward graduation. This course satisfies General Education Proficiency 4: Mathematics or Quantitative Reasoning.

Course Objective

1. Understand the concept of limit and how it related average and instantaneous
    rates of change.
2. Understand the concepts of a derivative, interpreting it geometrically and
    physically, and using it for optimization and linear approximation.
3. Understand integration and its relationship with differentiation and applying
    integration in geometrical and physical problems.
4. Learn to write readable solutions and use mathematical notation
    appropriately.
5. Develop sufficient computational skills in differential and integral operations
    for subsequent courses in mathematics and other disciplines.
6. Further develop the ability to tackle multiple step problems and to explain the
    process used to solve a problem.
7. Understand the possible uses of modern technology in assisting the analysis,
    visualization and understanding of problems in calculus and of their solutions.
8. Further develop skills in mathematical reasoning.
9. Develop an overall perspective of how the different topics in this course fit
    together.

Course description

This course is intended to provide an overview of Human Resource Management (HRM), focusing on various HRM functions including work force needs; staffing and development; organization and individual appraisal; employee compensation and benefits; safety and health; approaches to employee problems; and labor relations.  Students completing the course are expected to have acquired an understanding of the challenging business issues surrounding HRM, contemporary approaches to address them, and the critical importance of strategic HRM to organizational success. 

Course description

This course is an introductory entrepreneurship course intended to provide students with an understanding of the role played by entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinking in today’s global economy.  The course is intended for anyone interested in starting a business, working for a new, young, or small firm, working for their family business, or working with entrepreneurial firms as an investor or advisor. It is the first required course in the entrepreneurship major and is used as part of the application process for being accepted into the major.  The course is also one of the three required courses in the entrepreneurship minor.

Course Objective

The main objective of this course is for you to obtain a general understanding of a variety of topics within the entrepreneurship context so that you can explore topics further in depth in the future on your own or in courses associated with the entrepreneurship major or minor.

More specific objectives include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Appreciate the role of entrepreneurship within society, at the level of the
    organization, and in your own personal life
2. Recognize the entrepreneurial potential within yourself and others in your
    environment
3. Identify the many ways in which entrepreneurship manifests itself, including
    start-up contexts, corporate contexts, social contexts, public sector contexts,
    and others
4. Develop an appreciation for and understanding of opportunity discovery,
    value creation, and innovation
5. Improve your ability to think of new business ideas
6. Appraise the nature of ideas that can be turned into sustainable business
    ventures (opportunity evaluation)

Course description

This course introduces students to East Asian societies from a United States perspective, with a focus on international relations, conflict and cooperation, and the role of the United States. The world’s center of gravity is shifting to East Asia, a dynamic region that hosts several of the world’s largest economies. East Asia’s remarkable economic growth presents opportunities for trade and investment, yet the region is home to a number of the world’s potential trouble spots (the Korean peninsula, the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea). How do we better understand East Asian societies and the region? What are the prospects for conflict and cooperation? How should the United States position itself in East Asia? This course aims to provide students with the necessary knowledge and analytical skills to begin to answer these questions.

Course Objective

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to describe the differences and similarities of East Asian societies, explain the foreign policy of major actors in the region, understand the history of East Asian international affairs, be acquainted with the substance of the dynamic events happening in the area, and critically analyze how particular factors influence the course of regional events.