Prerequisite: None

This course focuses on differentiating the conceptual and theoretical aspects and models of leadership and leadership studies in order for students to apply leadership skills and principles in their places of business. The fundamentals of leadership are taught with an emphasis on how to live out these fundamentals in an ethical manner.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course develops competence and judgmental skills in using quantitative models for planning and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on recognizing situations where models can be used advantageously, when to work effectively with them, and how to make good use of them once they have been developed. Topics include, decision making under conditions of uncertainty, decision and risk analysis, forecasting, linear programming, modeling applications in marketing, manufacturing, finance and scheduling, and project management methods.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Easily add a Post Baccalaureate Certificate: This course can be applied toward the embedded post bacc certificate in Entrepreneurship.

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the basic concepts and fundamentals of marketing and data analysis. It applies these concepts toward improving the prospects of companies faced with opportunities and challenges of doing business today. Focus is on implementation of strategies through pricing, distribution channels, promotion, and new product decisions. Qualitative research techniques are addressed. To make the study of marketing realistic, exciting, and dynamic, the case analysis approach is used to illustrate how concepts and tools presented can be applied in marketing decision-making. Cases allow the student to work on real marketing problems, to develop an appreciation for the types of problems that exist, and to develop skills of analysis and decision-making necessary for success in marketing and other areas of business.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course provides students with a broad perspective of the important issues in the 21st century global marketplace. Students will engage in readings and discussions on issues related to global markets, interrelated global economics, the impact of government mandates, and the shift to a knowledge-based economy. An examination of analysis of demand, cost and output, market structure, and pricing policy is included.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the theoretical framework and practical concepts of financial principles and policies. Particular attention will be given to understanding financial statement analysis from a business decision-making perspective. Learning components integrate standard accounting and financial analysis with an emphasis on business activities of day-to-day operations. Students will learn to analyze cost flow and construct cost flow statements.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

In this course, students will closely examine organizations that have experienced significant or functional disruptions to their business practices and assess their organizational responses. The primary focus will be developing strategic foresight in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) environment. Students will also develop and apply resilience, agility, adaptability, and critical thinking skills.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students will produce an action research project that examines a real-world problem in the context of global, industrial, and organizational impact. Students will integrate and apply various theories, methodologies, and practices acquired throughout the program and develop an original solution to the stated problem through this culminating project.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the interactive nature of the ever-changing marketplace locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally is the focus of this course. Learners consider how the dynamics of these relationships provide inherent risks and opportunities and, most likely, unprecedented business opportunities for the future. The underlying current of this course is the question of how economics and political globalization affect culture and vice versa. Because there is a tendency to view globalization only within the process of economic advancement, this course intends to move beyond that singular conception and encourage learners to identify the cultural, political, and social dimensions.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Easily add a Post Baccalaureate Certificate: This course can be applied toward the embedded post bacc certificate in Entrepreneurship.

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the business, legal, political, and social aspects surrounding the phenomenon called Intellectual Property. In particular, this course is predicated on two fundamental questions, "What is Intellectual Property, and does my company have it?" This simple yet powerful inquiry---and the subsequent responses---guides the course over four days of intensive readings, discussions, and writings.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Easily add a Post Baccalaureate Certificate: This course can be applied toward the embedded post bacc certificate in Strategic Leadership.

Prerequisite: None

Students will apply the entrepreneurial concepts that they have learned throughout this course to create a detailed entrepreneurial business plan. The Kauffmann Program will continue to be utilized to review the multitude of issues related to the process, including marketing planning and financial planning.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students develop the ability to analyze and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness of organizations through the use of appropriate information technologies. Technologies that influence organizational strategies, structures, risks and processes are emphasized. Ethical global and security issues are also covered.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: ACC 0101 Financial Accounting II

A course that focuses on providing information to managers through the use of internal applications of accounting. Topics include job-order costing, process costing, cost-volume-profit relationships, variable costing, profit planning, standard costing, flexible budgets, and overhead analysis.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course develops competence and judgmental skills in using quantitative models for planning and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on recognizing situations where models can be used advantageously, when to work effectively with them, and how to make good use of them once they have been developed. Topics include, decision making under conditions of uncertainty, decision and risk analysis, forecasting, linear programming, modeling applications in marketing, manufacturing, finance and scheduling, and project management methods.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

 
*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the interactive nature of the ever-changing marketplace locally, regionally, nationally and internationally is the focus of this course. Learners consider how the dynamics of these relationships provide inherent risks and opportunities, and most likely on unprecedented business opportunities for the future. The underlying current of this course is the question of how economics and political globalization affects culture and vice versa. Because there is a tendency to view globalization only within the process of economic advancement, this course intends to move beyond that singular conception and encourage learners to identify the cultural, political and social dimensions as well.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the ways in which entrepreneurs use social media to influence a brand. Using a mix of discussion, lecture, analytical writing, and engagement with social media products, this course allows students to practice positioning a business, reaching the public via the web, using social media activity to help shape a brand, using social media and brand-related terms, identifying the factors affecting a business’s choice in social media use, and connecting real-world networking to social media activity and branding. Course work includes analyzing the social media activities of other brands, identifying ideas from experts in the field, and using evidence to make intelligent decisions about social media and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)