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Business Diploma Programs - International Business
BUSS 106 Office Communication Skills (3)
Prerequisite: None
This course focuses on the essentials of office communication. Topics include effective letters and memos writing and effective tone and style. In addition to the writing components, students will review the basic concepts in oral communication and active listening. Upon completion, students should be able to produce effective written documents BUSS 154 Introduction to Import/Export Management (3)
Prerequisite: None
For many organizations, the first step toward multinational operations begins with importing and exporting goods. This course focuses on the strategies of import/export management as well as the processes. BUSS 216 Human Resources Management (3)
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the ways in which firms recruit, select, train, evaluate, and compensate employees. Current practices in industry are discussed as well as theories and labor law. BUSS 340 International Business (3)
Prerequisite: ECON 101, ACCT 201, BUSS 303
This course focuses on the international environment and the ways in which businesses adapt to differences in culture, economic systems, and political systems. It is the first course in the International Business major, but may be used by other business students as an elective. BUSS 444 International Finance (3)
Prerequisite: BUSS 303, ECON 201, 202
This course focuses on the techniques and strategies of firms operating in the international environment. Topics covered include exchange rates, currency trading and risk, hedging techniques, international capital markets, and blocked fund alternatives. MATH 201 Applied Business Mathematics (3)
Prerequisite: 100 level Mathematics and Basic Computer Skills
A wide array of skills is required in arriving at informed managerial decisions. Among these are analytical and quantitative skills. This course seeks to develop these two important attributes of a successful decision-maker. This course covers the fundamentals of statistics and provides a strong mathematical foundation in both probability and statistics necessary for more advanced statistical methodologies and quantitative methods. BUSS 442 International Marketing (3)
Prerequisite: BUSS 202
This course focuses on the marketing of goods and services in international and global markets. It examines the ways in which firms globalize and localize their offerings to balance the demands of needs of scale economies with consumer needs. - Small Business Management
ACCT 201 Principles of Financial Accounting (3)
Prerequisite: MATH 201
This course is an introduction to accounting concepts and procedures for an organization. The emphasis is upon the accounting cycle as well as the recording, summarizing, and interpretation of accounting information. BUSS 312 Organizational Theory & Development (3)
Prerequisite: BUSS 301
This course examines how knowledge of individual and group behavior is applied in an organizational setting. Topics include motivation, leadership, group formation and behavior, dysfunctional behaviors, job/task behaviors, and job enrichment/enlargement. BUSS 307 Business Law I (3)
Prerequisite: BUSS 216
This course examines operations relative to the legal and regulatory environment of business. Topics include torts, contracts, liability, sales, and forms of doing business. BUSS 303 Principles of Finance (3)
Prerequisite: ACCT 201, ECON 101, 102
This course focuses on the methods of financial analysis and planning within the firm, including time value of money, cash flow analysis, capital budgeting, and valuation of debt and equity instruments. BUSS 216 Human Resources Management (3)
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the ways in which firms recruit, select, train, evaluate, and compensate employees. Current practices in industry are discussed as well as theories and labor law. BUSS 302 Principles of Marketing (3)
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the role of marketing in society and the economy, the role of marketing in business operations, and the management of the firm's marketing effort. ECON 101 Principles of Economics I
Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the student to the basic concepts of supply and demand, market demand and elasticity, cost theory and how political and cultural variables affect economic policy and pricing decisions for consumers and businesses. BUSS 165 Small Business Management (3)
Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the challenges of entrepreneurship including the startup and operation of a small business. Topics include market research techniques, feasibility studies, site analysis, financing alternatives, and managerial decision making. The management application of the computer in a small business situation is highlighted. Upon completion, students should be able to develop a small business plan. BUSS 240 Advertising & Promotions (3)
Prerequisite: None
The course will include a variety of disciplines and specialties. Such things are research, media buying, print and broadcast production, sales promotion, product publicity, budgeting, scheduling and even business presentations will be covered. This course will emphasize the main duties of sales managers who recruit, select, train, compensate, and motivate the salesperson. These main duties are to coordinate sales promotions, advertising, and publicity, and provide their sales force with adequate support and selling tools. |
