HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CORE
Take the following courses:
EB-100 Introduction to Management
This course develops an understanding of management principles in the areas of planning, organizing, staffing and control, including but not limited to the aspects of strategy, legal environment, operation/supply chain management.
3 CreditsS
EB-105 International Economic Issues
Understanding international economics is increasingly important for private and public decision-makers. In a world of growing economic interdependence, the ability of policy makers to provide a stable environment for business is a key issue. Accordingly, this course develops the principle topics of international economics, including trade theory, the balance of payments, the cause and consequences of exchange rate movements, the flow of capital, currency crises and regional trade issues. The applied topics emphasized will be based on the most pressing current issues.
3 CreditsS,I
EB-131 Financial Accounting
Introduces fundamental principles and assumptions of accounting as they relate to transaction analysis and basic financial statements.
3 CreditsS
EB-202 Behavioral Analysis of Organizations
The broad focus of the course is to examine how individuals come together to form a successful organization. The course is broken into three major sections: people, organizations, and leadership. The course emphasizes student involvement and engages students in a variety of in-class exercises, case analysis role playing exercises, small group exercises, and an off-campus class experience or two. One or more off-campus experiences are required for the course.
4 CreditsCW,S,WK-SIPrerequisite: Sophomore standing.
EB-204 Legal Regulation of Business
Examines the areas in which by statute the legislative branch of government regulates business. Topics include anti-trust law, bankruptcy, consumer protection, securities laws and the uniform commercial code.
3 CreditsSPrerequisite: Sophomore standing.
EB-211 Business Statistics
This course covers basic descriptive and inferential statistics, normal curve and z-score computations, and addresses hypothesis testing using Chi-Square, T-Test, ANOVA, and linear regression modelling.
3 Credits QS,S
EB-223 Principles of Microeconomics
The optimizing behavior of households and firms serves as the focal point in this study of market-based resource allocation. Supply and demand analysis, spending and saving decisions of households, production and employment decisions of firms, alternative market structures, and environmental economics are among the topics covered.
3 CreditsSPrerequisite: Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing.
EB-236 Managerial Accounting
Emphasizes accounting concepts for the internal use of management in planning and control. Course focuses on spreadsheet applications to analyze management policies.
3 CreditsS,QM,CWPrerequisite: EB131.
EB-341 Product and Operations Management
Examines the necessary things business firms must do to efficiently convert inputs to outputs. The course is about equally divided between qualitative operations management theory and quantitative tools that have been developed to solve typically occurring problems in production/ operations.
3 CreditsSPrerequisite: EB-100
EB-351 Marketing Management
Analyzes consumer behavior leading to selection of product as well as pricing, promotion and distribution strategies. Research projects help students apply concepts to the complexities of decision making in marketing.
3 CreditsSPrerequisite: EB201.
EB-361 Financial Management I
The management of business assets and liabilities and the concurrent creation of sources and the use of funds. Special attention is given to financial statement analysis and decisions involving working capital management.
3 CreditsSPrerequisite: EB131 and Junior or Senior standing.
EB-371 Human Resource Management.
The early part of the course takes an in-depth look at the fundamental nature of the employer- employee relationship. The fundamental framework is then used to evaluate traditional aspects of Human Resource Management practice: Selection, training, recruitment, performance appraisals, and compensation. Class time involves some lecture, in-class exercises, guest speakers from industry, and case analyses.
3 CreditsSPrerequisites: EB202 or PACS202.
EB-379 Bargaining and Conflict Management
Bargaining and Conflict Management provides students with an opportunity to learn about bargaining and conflict-management theory. Students will have the opportunity to explore and apply this theory, and to examine aspects of bargaining style, in a variety of bargaining simulations. The course will also have an international component by utilizing international bargaining simulations as an instructional tool.
3 CreditsS,CSPrerequisite: EB202 or PACS202.
Take one of the following courses:
EB-210 Quantitative Business Analysis
This course introduces quantitative techniques for solving business problems and works to establish a link between data analysis and business decision- making. The course presents algebra, graphical methods, applied calculus, and descriptive statistics as tools to aid business decision makers.
3 CreditsQM,SPrerequisites: High school algebra or pre-calculus.
MA-130 Calculus I
An introduction to calculus including differentiation and integration of elementary functions of a single variable, limits, tangents, rates of change, maxima and minima, area, volume, and other applications. Integrates the use of computer algebra systems, and graphical, algebraic and numerical thinking.
4 CreditsN, QM
ADDITIONAL COURSES
Take 9 credits from one of the three categories listed below:
PSYCHOLOGY
An overview of the content and methodology in the field. Topics such as the history
of psychology, physiological psychology, learning and memory, perception, motivation,
child development, personality and social foundations are considered 3 CreditsS The study of human interaction and interpersonal relationships, including selected
areas of current research and theory such as social perception, interpersonal communication,
attitude formation and change, conformity, aggression, and interpersonal attraction. 3 CreditsS Explores the issue of how we are changed by experience, using primarily a behaviorist
perspective, applied to animal and human data. Both theory and applied applications
of theory will be considered. 3 CreditsSPrerequisite: PY101. Explores an array of issues in human memory, primarily from a cognitive/information
processing point of view. Major emphasis is on using research data to formulate answers
to both theoretical and applied questions. 3 CreditsSPrerequisite: PY101.PY-101 Introduction to Psychology
PY-205 Social Psychology
PY-303 Learning & Conditioning
PY-304 Cognitive Psychology
COMMUNICATION
CM-130 Introduction to Human Communication
Surveys the fundamental tenets of human communication through application. This course
is concerned with how and why we speak, listen, respond, and strategize through the
uses of verbal and nonverbal symbol systems.
3 CreditsS
CM-230 Interpersonal Communication
Introduces students to the various theories and styles of one-on-one communication.
It emphasizes the transactional approach in the study of the communication process
as it occurs in interpersonal relationships. It explores interaction as a way by which
we come to know ourselves and each other.
3 CreditsH, CSPrerequisites: CM130
CM-340 Intercultural Communication
This course examines symbolic patterns of communication as they relate to issues of
diversity. Interactive skills needed to open channels of communication between and
among people of diverse backgrounds are analyzed and developed. A multi-cultural approach
to the study of human communication serves as a basis for exploring issues of diversity
that include but are not limited to race, gender, class, ability, orientation, religion
and ethnicity.
3 CreditsH, I, SW-GEPrerequisite or Corequisite: FYC-101
CM-405A Women, Work & Identity
Women. Work. Identity. These three words are related in a complex web that many of
us struggle to untangle for our entire working lives. In this course, we identify
and name the components of the relationships among these words--all in the context
of the unique perspective that the communication discipline offers.
3 CreditsSPrerequisites: CM130 or CM230 or CM220 or CM365 or permission of the instructor.
CM-130 Introduction to Human Communication
Surveys the fundamental tenets of human communication through application. This course is concerned with how and why we speak, listen, respond, and strategize through the uses of verbal and nonverbal symbol systems.
3 CreditsS
CM-230 Interpersonal Communication
Introduces students to the various theories and styles of one-on-one communication. It emphasizes the transactional approach in the study of the communication process as it occurs in interpersonal relationships. It explores interaction as a way by which we come to know ourselves and each other.
3 CreditsH, CSPrerequisites: CM130
CM-340 Intercultural Communication
This course examines symbolic patterns of communication as they relate to issues of diversity. Interactive skills needed to open channels of communication between and among people of diverse backgrounds are analyzed and developed. A multi-cultural approach to the study of human communication serves as a basis for exploring issues of diversity that include but are not limited to race, gender, class, ability, orientation, religion and ethnicity.
3 CreditsH, I, SW-GEPrerequisite or Corequisite: FYC-101
CM-405A Women, Work & Identity
Women. Work. Identity. These three words are related in a complex web that many of us struggle to untangle for our entire working lives. In this course, we identify and name the components of the relationships among these words--all in the context of the unique perspective that the communication discipline offers.
3 CreditsSPrerequisites: CM130 or CM230 or CM220 or CM365 or permission of the instructor.
PEACE & CONFLICT STUDIES
PACS-105 Introduction to Conflict Resolution
A survey of the field of conflict, this course explores the causes and consequences of social conflict. Theory and case studies are used to understand interpersonal disputes, the intricacies of groups in conflict and international issues and crisis. Emphasis is given to understanding the basic theoretical concepts of the field and developing basic conflict resolving skills.
3 CreditsS, WK-SIPrerequisite or Corequisite: FYC-101
PACS-205 Conflict Intervention
The course explores the roles third parties play in managing and resolving conflicts. Students become familiar with both the central components of intervention design and the nature and structure of third party roles ranging from managers as mediators to conflict intervention in community disputes, or third party intervention in international disputes. The focusing questions of the course center on issues of how and when third parties can effectively and ethically intervene in conflicts. Research, case studies, and simulations are used to explore the answers of these questions and to increase students understanding of how third parties affect the course of conflict.
3 CreditsSPrerequisites: PACS105 or PACS108.
PACS-305 Gender and Conflict
This course looks at the intersection of gender and conflict to understand what it means to say that a conflict is gendered. It uses gender as an organizing concept to study issues of gender equality, justice, and peace, challenging and interrogating dichotomous, oppositional constructions of masculinity and femininity to understand how they contribute to direct, structural, and cultural violence.
3 CreditsS,I,CW,SW-ERPrerequisite: FYC-101 or EN-110 or EN-109
CAPSTONE
Take the following course:
A capstone course for POE in Business. Through the use of readings, case studies and
simulations, students in the course will formulate corporate strategy and implement
it in a competitive environment. How firms may gain and sustain competitive advantage
with the formulated strategy will be examined. In addition, students will also be
trained to craft business reports on corporate strategies. The evaluation of performance
will mainly depend on the content and the quality of the business reports. 3 CreditsS EB-480 Senior Seminar
NOTE: The option of Junior Year or Semester Abroad is encouraged. Foreign exchange partner institutions are likely to offer equivalent courses for EB-223, EB-341, EB-351, EB-361, and EB-371. Internships are also available.
EB-001 Non-Credit Business Internship
Course Description
CreditsFISHNPrerequisites
EB-490 Business Internship
Develops students' skills, through practical experiences or field projects which require
proposals for problem analysis and solution. The experiences and projects are provided
by local businesses or other organizations and use technical and decision skills developed
in students' areas of concentration. Note: Limited availability. May be repeated up
to a total of 9 hours credit.
2-9 CreditsSCorequisite: EB495. Prerequisites: Permission and Jr. or Sr. standing.
EB-495 Business Internship Seminar
Requires students to reflect on the experience and/or pursue relevant research. Note:
Limited availability. May be repeated up to a total of 6 hours credit.
2-6 CreditsSCorequisite: EB490. Prerequisites: Permission.
EB-001 Non-Credit Business Internship
Course Description
CreditsFISHNPrerequisites
EB-490 Business Internship
Develops students' skills, through practical experiences or field projects which require proposals for problem analysis and solution. The experiences and projects are provided by local businesses or other organizations and use technical and decision skills developed in students' areas of concentration. Note: Limited availability. May be repeated up to a total of 9 hours credit.
2-9 CreditsSCorequisite: EB495. Prerequisites: Permission and Jr. or Sr. standing.
EB-495 Business Internship Seminar
Requires students to reflect on the experience and/or pursue relevant research. Note: Limited availability. May be repeated up to a total of 6 hours credit.
2-6 CreditsSCorequisite: EB490. Prerequisites: Permission.
The Accounting, Business, and Economics (ABE) Department does not permit students in their department to pursue more than one ABE Program of Emphasis (POE). Students wishing to develop individualized POEs incorporating multiple ABE disciplines should consult with their POE Advisor for guidance.
POE Credit Total = 60
Students must complete at least 18 credits at the 300/400-level. Any course exception must be approved by the advisor and/or department chair.