| BUS ADM 202 - Business and Its Environment | |
| The major components of the business enterprise and its resources, competitive and regulatory environment; pricing, profit, finance planning, controls, ethics, environmental impact, social responsibility and other important concepts; environmental issues that challenge the business leader. | |
| No Prerequisites | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| General Education: Social Sciences 1 | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 206 - Law and the Individual | |
| The American legal system; its principles, processes, language, ethics and laws from the viewpoint of the individual, including family, personal injury, property, consumer, privacy, probate and administrative laws. | |
| No Prerequisites | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| General Education: Social Sciences 2 | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 215 - Introduction to Business Statistics | |
| This course starts from the beginning principles and ideas of probability and statistics and progresses to many business statistics applications. Topics included: a definition of business statistics, describing sets of measurements, probability, random variables and probability distributions, three useful discrete probability distributions, the normal and other continuous probability distributions, sampling and sampling distributions, large sample estimation, large sample tests of hypotheses, inferences from small samples and other topics as time permits. Credit will not be granted for both Bus Adm 215 and (Comm Sci 205 or Math 260). | |
| P: Math 101 or Math Placement of Math 101/260 or greater. Credit will not be granted for both Bus Adm 215 and (Comm Sci 205 or Math 260). | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 217 - Advanced Business Statistics | |
| A treatment of advanced topics in statistics applied to a wide variety of business problems. Topics include analysis of variance, linear regression, correlation, multiple linear regression elements of time series analysis, forecasting based on time series models, quality control techniques, survey sampling, analysis of enumerative data, non-parametric statistical methods and decision analysis. Practical business examples are used to illustrate and apply the advanced statistical techniques. Computer applications are included. | |
| P: Math 260 or Comm Sci 205 or Bus Adm 215. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 282 - Personal Financial Planning | |
| Exploration and functional analysis of consumers' financial needs and problems in our modern and complex society; learning to formulate financial goals, implement and monitor them through specific plans, financial functions such as budgeting, investing, financing, protecting and distributing wealth; philosophies and values of consumers; legal aspects of consumer rights. | |
| No Prerequisites | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 322 - Introductory Marketing | |
| The marketing system and the managerial techniques used to market goods, services and organizations. Relationships between marketing activities and economic, political and social institutions; understanding consumer behavior; product, price, promotion and distribution decisions. | |
| P: earned cr > or = 36 and gpa > or = 2.50; or major/minor in Bus Adm or major/minor in Acctg or minor in Intl Bus or spl clsf of PBM or gr st; and Econ 203. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 327 - Selling and Sales Management | |
| Principles and techniques of successful selling that lead to a mutually profitable relationship between salesperson and customer. The nature and scope of sales management: selecting and training sales personnel, importance of customer satisfaction, relationship of company philosophy to the sales force, fundamentals of communication processes. | |
| P: Bus Adm 322. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 343 - Corporation Finance | |
| Organization of basic financial management functions and principles for business; management of fixed and working capital; short-term and long-term financial planning through investment and financing decisions; domestic and international money and capital markets; ethical issues relating to business financial management. | |
| P: earned cr > or = 36 and gpa > or = 2.50; or major/minor in Bus Adm or major/minor in Acctg or minor in Intl Bus or spl clsf of PBM or gr st; and Acctg 300. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 344 - Real Estate Principles | |
| Nature of real estate ownership, importance of land contracts, title transfer, and mortgage instruments; real estate valuation, finance and investment; impacts of taxation, insuring, marketing, and laws affecting real estate (not intended to prepare students for real estate licensing examination). | |
| P: Bus Adm 343. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 345 - Risk Management and Insurance | |
| Nature of risks, principal techniques of risk management and the bases for making decisions with respect to the management of personal and business risks. | |
| P: Bus Adm 343. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 347 - Financial Markets and Institutions | |
| Role of financial markets and institutions in forming and managing financial resources; examination and analysis of financial intermediation; organization and functions of the U.S. and international financial systems; structure and investment management strategies of specific financial institutions (such as banks, thrift, insurance and investment companies). | |
| P: Bus Adm 343. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 350 - Business Computer Applications | |
| Business Computer Applications is designed to give students hands-on experience with popular software applications. The course also covers current management topics in computing and the use of technology in Business. | |
| P: so st. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 362 - Human Resource Management | |
| Personnel management: human resource planning, recruitment, selection, training, motivation, fringe benefits, salary and wages, labor relations, and performance evaluation. | |
| P: Bus Adm 382. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 382 - Introductory Management | |
| The realities of management in contemporary situations, emphasizing the functional approach; understanding the management environment; knowledge required by managers to function effectively and adjust to rapid changes. | |
| P: Min of 36 cr and 2.5 cum GPA and Bus Adm 215 or Comm Sci 205 or Math 260; OR major/minor in Bus Adm or Acctg or PBS or PBM or Graduate standing, and Bus Adm 215 or Comm Sci 205 or Math 260; OR major in Interd Stu or Nursing, and Bus Adm/Econ 152. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 384 - Production/Operations Management | |
| The management of physical and human resources in the production and operation functions for producing goods or providing services in manufacturing and processing enterprises. | |
| P: Bus Adm 382. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 386 - Field Project in Business Management | |
| Students are afforded the opportunity to work with an operating business throughout a semester. Individual and/or teams of students conduct applied problem solving research, formulate potential solutions and present those solutions to the business. | |
| P: Bus Adm 382. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 389 - Organizational Behavior | |
| A micro organizational behavior course examining motivation, leadership, job satisfaction, learning, group dynamics, and stress in the organizational setting. | |
| P: Bus Adm 382. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 421 - International Marketing | |
| The course is designed to help students explore the global market via the disciplines of economics, cultural studies, geography, history, languages, jurisprudence, demographics, politics, and many others. The opportunities and the threats that emanate from the global marketplace are highlighted, and the need for an international marketing approach on the part of individuals and institutions is emphasized. | |
| P: Bus Adm 322. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| General Education: World Culture Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 423 - Advertising | |
| Developing and executing advertising campaigns; how these campaigns fit into the total marketing mix; social, legal, and economic considerations and constraints involved in the advertising campaign planning process. | |
| P: Bus Adm 322. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 424 - Marketing Research | |
| Techniques of obtaining and analyzing information about marketing problems; obtaining and interpreting data from primary and secondary sources for marketing decisions. | |
| P: Math 260 or Bus Adm 215 or Comm Sci 205; and Bus Adm 322. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 426 - Marketing Management | |
| Advanced level course in marketing. Strategic interrelationships, development of analytical techniques and abilities and decision making in marketing. | |
| P: Bus Adm 322. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 427 - Practicum in Marketing Research | |
| Provides students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge of marketing research in hands-on fashion. Students will be doing comprehensive marketing research projects on behalf of area businesses. | |
| P: Bus Adm 424. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 428 - Consumer Behavior | |
| Theories of buyer behavior, including ultimate and industrial customers, and their implications for marketing management. | |
| P: Bus Adm 322. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 442 - Principles of Investment | |
| Fundamental concepts, theories, and techniques relating to investing; securities markets, investment vehicles and environments, economic, industry and security analyses, portfolio construction and management; active and passive investment strategies; global investment perspectives and their impacts on investors; blend of facts and theories relating to traditional and modern portfolio approaches; ethics in investment decisions; applied computer-assisted investment decisions. | |
| P: Bus Adm 343 and Bus Adm 215 or Comm Sci 205 or Math 260. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 445 - International Financial Management | |
| Conceptual framework and applications of financial management decisions of multinational firms in a global setting; survey of the international financial environment; determinants of international portfolio and direct investment capital flows; assessment and management of impacts of foreign exchange and hedging strategies; impacts of international factors on capital budgeting and financial structure decisions; multinational money and capital markets; taxation of international business. | |
| P: Bus Adm 343; REC: Bus Adm 442. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 446 - Advanced Corporation Finance | |
| Short-term and long-term financial decisions under risk and uncertainty; financial analysis planning and control; in-depth coverage of theories and applications of capital structure, cost of capital, dividend policies; working capital management; long-term financing decisions; valuation of mergers and acquisitions; international capital budgeting. | |
| P: Bus Adm 343; REC: Bus Adm 442 and 347. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 447 - Advanced Investments | |
| In-depth coverage of theories and applications of portfolio construction, analysis, and management of investment portfolios under the context of efficient and inefficient market hypotheses; computer models for portfolio construction and management; fundamental techniques in selection, analysis and management of stocks and bonds; reducing investment risk inherent in asset selection and management through the use of financial derivatives; techniques for measuring investment performance; global investment decisions. | |
| P: Bus Adm 442. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 450 - Bank Administration | |
| Commercial banking theories and practices from a financial management perspective; operations, administration, overall asset-liability management of commercial banks, including bank services, credit and loan pricing and analysis, investment portfolio problems, profitability, cost control, and capital budgeting and analysis; implications of deregulation or re-regulation on the financial industry. | |
| P: Bus Adm 347; REC: Bus Adm 442. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 452 - Advanced Microcomputer Business Applications | |
| Use of computer technology in management decision-making using Microsoft Excel. Review and application of managerial decision-making models. | |
| P: Bus Adm 215 or Math 260 or Comm Sci 205; and Bus Adm 350. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 460 - Human Resource Development | |
| This seminar focuses on the primary functions of Human Resource Development--training and development, career development, and organizational development. Activities and processes to assist an organization in becoming a learning organization are addressed. | |
| P: Bus Adm 362. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 462 - Seminar in Human Resource Management | |
| Analysis of human resource problems and issues and their translation into corporate policies; urban, cultural and legal realities in human resource matters; decisions affecting the development and management of human resource policies. | |
| P: Bus Adm 362. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 467 - Compensation and Benefits Planning | |
| Theories of compensation and work motivation and their impact on various reward systems and the rationale for decisions affecting the selection of benefits. | |
| P: Bus Adm 362. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 472 - Seminar in Leadership | |
| The course examines contemporary ideas of leadership and issues leaders will face in guiding the organization of the future. The topic is addressed from the perspective of skills and abilities that can be acquired and applied by the student. Theoretical concepts are tied into practice through a course project in the University or the community. The course is structured in a seminar format with an emphasis on discussion. | |
| P: Bus Adm 382. | |
| Typically offered in Fall | |
| General Education: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 480 - Quality Management | |
| The course introduces the philosophical and theoretical foundations of quality management; the individuals who have developed and popularized the components of quality management, the practical tools and techniques of quality management, and the role of quality management in modern organizations. | |
| P: Bus Adm 382. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 482 - Strategic Management | |
| The course focuses on the formulation, selection and implementation of business strategies through assessment of organizational performance; competitive, market and industry analysis; development of strategic positions and identification of strategic opportunities. Students practice strategic thinking for a cross section of business types from small, closely held to coprorate, publicly-held, multiple business enterprises. The concepts and ideas of the course are explored through the analysis of case studies. | |
| P: Bus Adm 382. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 485 - Managerial Economics | |
| Applications of the basic theoretical tools of micro- and macro-economic analysis to the problems of business management, including such topics as demand, production, costs, pricing and forecasting as well as current economic issues such as environmental policies and regulations. | |
| P: Econ 202 and 203. | |
| Typically offered in Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 489 - Organization Theory | |
| A macro organizational behavior course examining organizational environments, structure, power and politics, conflict, innovation, technology, and culture in the organizational setting. | |
| P: Bus Adm 382. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Writing Emphasis: Writing Emphasis | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 490 - Strategic Decision Analysis | |
| Course draws on the conceptual, analytical and interpersonal concepts and skills developed throughout the course of study in Business and Accounting. Students participate in a cross-functional, community of practice environment designed to enhance holistic issue resolution. | |
| P: 85-earned credits; major in Bus Adm or major in Acctg; Acctg 302, Econ 202, Bus Adm 322, Bus Adm 343, Bus Adm 350 and Bus Adm 382. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| 3 units min / 3 units max, Lecture | |
| BUS ADM 497 - Internship | |
| Supervised practical experience in an organization or activity appropriate to a student's career and educational interests. Internships are supervised by faculty members and require periodic student/faculty meetings. | |
| P: jr st; and major/minor in Bus Adm or major/minor in Acctg. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Course is repeatable for credit. | |
| 1 units min / 12 units max, Field Experience | |
| BUS ADM 498 - Independent Study | |
| Independent study is offered on an individual basis at the student's request and consists of a program of learning activities planned in consultation with a faculty member. A student wishing to study or conduct research in an area not represented in available scheduled courses should develop a preliminary proposal and seek the sponsorship of a faculty member. The student's advisor can direct him or her to instructors with appropriate interests. A written report or equivalent is required for evaluation, and a short title describing the program must be sent early inthe semester to the registrar for entry on the student's transcript. | |
| P: fr or so st with cum gpa > or = 2.50; or jr or sr st with cum gpa > or = 2.00. | |
| Typically offered in Fall and Spring | |
| Course is repeatable for credit. | |
| 1 units min / 4 units max, Independent Study | |