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Bachelor in Business Management (BABUS)
 
A. Purpose:
 

The Business Management courses offered at Georgia Christian University (hereinafter, GCU) are designed for prospective students in need of gaining a mix of theoretical and practical management knowledge and skills that will enable them to work as professional managers after they complete the given courses during their academic years at GCU.

As a Business Management graduate, the student is likely to be eligible for employment as a professional manager in a variety of profit oriented and non-profit oriented business entities; from small, local enterprises to large multinational or international corporations.

Graduates may not only perform executive decisions for their own businesses, but also fill positions from first-line management through to senior executive level, and they will be equipped to effectively and efficiently plan, organize, lead and control an organization's human and non-human resources so that it is better able to achieve its objectives.

B. Objectives:
 
The students who graduated from the Bachelor¡¯s Program in Business Management will:
  - Understand and identify the relevant economic and financial issues of current market system and forecast the future in a logical process

- Understand techniques to maximize electronic devices and Internet potential in business communication both within and outside of corporate organization

- Understand the concepts in marketing a corporate product including price and location, productivity, efficiency, value added and time management

- Understand the importance of both Human and Material Resources and the required skills for resource management
Have knowledge of:
  - Review procedures for justifying corporate decisions
- Proposal presentation
- Corporate organization and structure
- Corporate business plan and Corporate culture
- Legal requirements and protections governing intellectual property
- Regulations governing environment protection and employee rights
 
C. Components and Requirements:
   
  ADMISSION POLICIES
    Admission to the School of Business Management is based on completion of the requirements below:
If Students wish to major in Business Management pursuing Bachelor¡¯s Degree and completed our required courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the pre-business curriculums, students may apply for the School of Business Management at GCU as a junior. Also, students can enter to be a freshman then students must complete our required courses at the end of the sophomore year.

GCU strongly requires Students to have minimum Grade-Point-Average of 3.0 to be admitted. Applicants must submit completed application forms. Applicants who are not currently GCU students must submit official transcripts from all previous colleges and universities attended to the Office of Admissions to be eligible for admissions.

  GENERAL CURRICULAR REQUIREMENTS
    GCU¡¯s curriculum for the School of Business combines carefully constructed and outstanding business courses, Chapel, and Elective courses to provide students with a strong foundation in critical thinking and reasoning.

During the first and second years, the primary academic emphasis is on Elective Core courses and Chapel. Students have to acquire ¡°PASS¡± in chapel each semester. The push for academic advancement shifts to business courses in the junior and senior years. Students must complete more than 128 credits comprised of 45 general education credits,18 business preparation credits, 30 upper division credits in business courses, 27 credits in major or minor core courses specific to major or minor, and 8 Chapel credits.

If a student does not complete these requirements within five years of last attendance, he or she must complete the requirements in effect at the time of readmission.


  TRANSFERRING STUDENTS
    Transferring Students find it to their advantage to enroll at GCU in the sophomore year or at least during the summer session before the junior year. Otherwise, some students may need more than two additional years to complete the degree.

Students who intend to transfer to GCU and enter the School of Business Management should consult with an adviser (advanced appointment for consultation is strongly recommended) to select first and second year courses that will ensure progress toward the degree, and the academic advisement is available Monday through Friday from Academic Advisor


D. Curriculum:
   
  GENERAL EDUCATION, PRE-ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS (45 credits)
   

Writing and Communication (Select Two Courses, 6 credits)
ENGL101 Business Communication I (3)
ENGL102 Business Communication II (3)

Fine Art/Humanities (3 credits)
ART120 Western Art History (3)

Social Sciences (18 credits)
ECON101 Fundamental Economics (3)
ECON201Introduction to Microeconomics (3)
HIS140 History of America (3)
SOC110 Introduction to Sociology (3)
SOC121 Theories of Design & Color (3)
PSY130 Introduction to Psychology (3)

Mathematics/ Statistics (12 Credits)
MATH101 College Algebra (3)
MATH102 Calculus (3)
MATH204 Probability (3)
MATH202 Statistics for Management I (3)

Science (Select One, 3 credits)
SCI101 Chemistry (3)
SCI102 Biology (3)
SCI103 Physics (3)

Information Systems (3 credits)
IIST101 Introduction to Business Computing 3

IMPORTANT: STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE A MINIMUM ¡®B¡¯ AVERAGE IN GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES

Chapel - (8 Semester Hours): Students attend chapel each week during the semester and earn one semester credit hour for the eight semesters of the program. Students receive a pass/fall grade for chapel.

  BUSINESS PREPARATION COURSES (18 credits)
    ECON202 Introduction to Macroeconomics 3
ACCT201 Financial Accounting I 3
ACCT202 Principles of Accounting II 3
BLAW151 Legal Environment of Business 3
FINS151 Personal Finance 3
MKTG101 Fundamental of Marketing 3

  UPPER DIVISION COURSES (30 credits)
    Required Courses (Select Six Courses, 24 credits)
BLAW313 Law and accounting (3)
BLAW320 Product Liability (3)
IIST301 Management Information Systems (3)
ECON301 International Economics (3)
STAT301 Statistics for Management II (3)
MGMT301 Operations Management (3)
MGMT311 Leadership (3)
MGMT321 Human Resource Management (3)

Elective Courses (Select Two Courses, 6 credits)
IIST304 Introduction to E. Commerce (3)
FINS301 Corporate Finance (3)
FINS302 Financial Issues of Small Businesses (3)
FINS354 Financial Statement Analysis (3)
FINS405 Real Estate Finance 3
ACCT305 Principles of Federal Taxation (3)
MKTG351 Research & Analysis (3)
MGMT371 Internship (3)

  Major Courses (Select Nine Courses, 27 credits)
    ACCT301 Managerial Accounting (3)
BLAW401 Business Law (3)
BLAW404 Merger and Acquisition (3)
ECON401 Managerial Economics (3)
ECON405 Economics of Labor and Discrimination (3)
ENGL401 Business Communication III (3)
FINS405 Real Estate Finance (3)
MGMT401 Organizational Behavior (3)
MGMT411 Strategic Management (3)
MGMT421 Principle of E-commerce (3)
MGMT431 Labor Relation (3)
MGMT441 New Venture Creation (3)
MGMT451 Management for Logistics Managers (3)
MGMT461 Senior Project (3)
MGMT471 Internship (3)
MKTG401 Market Research (3)
MKTG411 Retail Marketing (3)


E. Course Description:
   
  Accounting
   
Dept ACCT Number 201 Title Principles of Accounting I
Credits 3
Description A study of concepts of accounting, theories of accounting valuation and their effect on management decisions; meaning of financial data; interpretation and use of accounting-produced financial data as a basis for management decisions.
Prerequisite MATH101


Dept ACCT Number 202 Title Principles of Accounting II
Credits 3
Description This course work emphasizes partnerships, corporations and the study of financial analysis, and the curriculum includes and introduces cost/managerial accounting concepts.
Prerequisite ACCT201, MATH102


Dept ACCT Number 301 Title Managerial Accounting
Credits 3
Description A Continuation of Financial Accounting I. A study of concepts of materials, labor, and overhead control; budget administration; cost accounting systems including standard costing; full costing and direct costing; income determination; differential costing; break-even analysis; accounting statement analysis; and use of return on investment as a basis for management decisions.
Prerequisite ACCT202, ENGL102


Dept ACCT Number 305 Title Principles of Federal Taxation
Credits 3
Description Presents the study of federal taxation as it relates to individuals and related entities. Includes tax planning, compliance, and reporting.
Prerequisite ACCT301
     
  Mathematics
   
Dept MATH Number 101 Title College Algebra
Credits 3
Description Course is designed to be a modern introduction to the nature of mathematics as a logical system. The structure of the number system is developed axiomatically and extended by logical reasoning to cover essential algebraic topics: algebraic expression, functions, and theory of equations.
Prerequisite NONE


Dept MATH Number 102 Title Calculus
Credits 3
Description This course provides students with expanded functions with applications, and an introduction to differential calculus, with a laboratory component. Topics include a review of algebra and functions, mathematical modeling with elementary functions, rates of change, inverse functions, logarithms and exponential functions, the derivative, differential equations
Prerequisite MATH101


Dept MATH Number 204 Title Probability
Credits 3
Description A calculus based course in the theory of probability. Topics include sample spaces, combinatorics, axioms and rules of probability, conditional probability and independence, discrete and continuous random variables, mathematical expectation, and the moment generating function.
Prerequisite MATH102
     
  Business Law
   
Dept BLAW Number 151 Title Legal Environment of Business
Credits 3
Description A course designed to acquaint the student with the basic principles of law that are applicable to business transactions in the modern business world and the legal system.
Prerequisite NONE


Dept BLAW Number 313 Title Law and accounting
Credits 3
Description This course is recommended for students without previous accounting training. Permission of the instructor to enroll will be required for those having more than two undergraduate accounting courses. Elementary techniques and basic theoretical concepts of accounting for lawyers; bookkeeping, financial statements and statement analysis, accounting and operating cycles, fixed asset accounting, depreciation methods, tax accounting procedures, partnership and corporate accounting, financial analysis and valuation of business interests.
Prerequisite BLAW151, ACCT202


Dept BLAW Number 320 Title Product Liability
Credits 3
Description The development of the concept of recovery for injuries caused by products; survey of civil actions for harm resulting from defective and dangerous products; study of problems associated with hazard identification and the process of evaluation of risk; government regulation of dangerous and defective products; review of Consumer Products Safety Act and current legislation dealing with injuries and remedies in specific areas.
Prerequisite BLAW313


Dept BLAW Number 401 Title Business Law
Credits 3
Description Focus on legal and regulatory environment of business. Fundamental ideas on the law and its relationship to business; government regulation; and such topics as the law of the employment relationship, occupational safety and health, financial regulation, antitrust, consumer protection, product liability, and the environment.
Prerequisite BLAW320


Dept BLAW Number 404 Title Merger and Acquisition
Credits 3
Description The course provides an understanding of the issues arising in business acquisition (and divestiture) transactions. Coverage is given theories underlying acquisitions, alternative acquisition techniques and planning considerations that bear on the choice among those techniques.
Prerequisite NONE
     
  Economics
   
Dept ECON Number 101 Title Fundamental Economics
Credits 3
Description The goals of this course are to introduce registered students the basic concepts of Economic theories and for them to master and apply these tools to a variety of problems encountered in daily lives.
Prerequisite BLAW320


Dept ECON Number 201 Title Introduction to Microeconomics
Credits 3
Description Microeconomics is concerned with the analysis of economic phenomena from the perspective of the individual. The course covers the basic concepts and tools needed to undertake the analysis of such problems that arise due to the law of scarcity. In addition, the functioning of competitive and noncompetitive product markets is studied, as is the performance of the markets for resources.
Prerequisite ECON101, MATH101


Dept ECON Number 202 Title Introduction to Macroeconomics
Credits 3
Description Macroeconomics is a major branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, and behavior of the economy as a whole. Macroeconomists study and seek to understand the determinants of aggregate trends in the economy with particular focus on national income, unemployment, inflation, investment, and international trade. In contrast microeconomics is primarily focused on the determination of prices and the role of prices in allocating scarce resources. While macroeconomics is a broad field of study, there are two areas of research that are emblematic of the discipline: The attempt to understand the causes and consequences of short-run fluctuations in national income and the attempt to understand the determinants of long-run economic growth.
Prerequisite ECON201


Dept ECON Number 301 Title International Economics
Credits 3
Description The economic space of the market and the political space of the nation between the two have never coincided perfectly and the process of globalization has increased the gap. This course looks at the economic factors driving this process, in particular at the determinants of international trade, international factor movements, and the foreign exchange market. It examines the emergence of multinational corporations, and analyzes their role in international markets and national politics. It also considers the interaction between global markets and national development.
Prerequisite ECON202


Dept ECON Number 305 Title History of Economic Development
Credits 3
Description This course carefully examines theories and evidence that explain economic development. Selected topics include the growth incentive in constitutional framework, the debate over the profitability of slavery, the role of immigration economic development, and the pros and cons of the factory system.
Prerequisite ECON301


Dept ECON Number 351 Title Environmental and Resource Economics
Credits 3
Description This course analyzes environmental concerns and the economics of resource use. Specifically, a contrast will be made between governmental solutions to environmental issues and market-based environmental reforms. Issues addressed include: animal extinction and common ownership problems, pollution, water management, global warming/global cooling, and land management. The underlying theme of the course is the ability to use economic theory to develop appropriate incentive structures for the use of economic resources.
Prerequisite ECON305, MGMT321


Dept ECON Number 401 Title Managerial Economics
Credits 3
Description Economic analysis provides the framework to consider the problems of resource allocations that confront managers in business, government and non-profit environments. Topics include consumer choice and demand for products, production and cost functions, alternative market structures and the profit criteria for long-run planning and investment decisions.
Prerequisite ECON351, BLAW320


Dept ECON Number 405 Title Economics of Labor and Discrimination
Credits 3
Description Economic analysis of labor markets, including issues of labor supply and demand, wage determination, unemployment, job search, education, and other human capital investments. Emphasis will be placed on the analysis of data on labor market outcomes relative to ethnicity and gender. Theories of discrimination will be addressed. Policy issues and programs such as minimum wage, comparable worth pay programs, and affirmative action will be discussed.
Prerequisite ECON401
     
  English
   
Dept ENGL Number 101 Title Business Communications I
Credits 3
Description Students will be expected to read text assignments and to prepare discussion questions in advance of each class, work through the learning guide on their own, and become a critic of current business news: Student will be expected to grow in communication skills.
Prerequisite NONE


Dept ENGL Number 102 Title Business Communications II
Credits 3
Description Students will be expected to read text assignments and to prepare discussion questions in advance of each class, work through the learning guide on their own, and become a critic of current business news. Also Students will be expected to grow in Reading and Writing Skills.
Prerequisite ENGL101


Dept ENGL Number 401 Title Business Communications III
Credits 3
Description Students will be expected to read text assignments and prepares discussion questions in advance of each class, work through the learning guide on their own, and become a critic of current business news. Also Students will be expected to grow up Comprehensive Skill.
Prerequisite ENGL102
     
  Finance
   
Dept FINS Number 151 Title Personal Finance
Credits 3
Description This survey course is oriented to the identification and solution of personal financial problems. The subject matter ranges from the determination of one¡¯s financial condition to estate planning, including controlling credit usage, making major purchase decisions, buying insurance, making investments, and planning retirement.
Prerequisite NONE


Dept FINS Number 301 Title Corporate Finance
Credits 3
Description This course focuses on financial decision making in the modern corporation. The basic issues include: capital budgeting/corporate investment, capital structure, corporate sources of funding, dividend policy and corporate contingent claims, international finance, and financial risk management. Some areas of corporate finance that are covered in electives - leasing, mergers and acquisitions, working capital management - will be omitted or covered in less detail than they merit. Course concepts are integrated into the standard theories of risk and return, valuation of assets and market structure
Prerequisite BLAW151, ACCT202


Dept FINS Number 302 Title Financial Issues for Small Business
Credits 3
Description Applying financial principles to the management of privately held, owner-managed businesses. Examining the operational, investment and financial value drivers within the context of enterprises that are often capital constrained and organizationally flat. The businesses may range from mom and pop lifestyle type businesses to old family enterprises to high-growth early stage companies. Students should leave the course with a solid understanding of financial statement analysis, working capital management, capital structure issues, and business valuation principles.
Prerequisite BLAW151, ACCT202


Dept FINS Number 354 Title Financial Statement Analysis
Credits 3
Description This course will teach you the fundamentals of financial planning and analysis as applied to ¡°for-profit¡± business organizations. Financial statement structure and analysis will be discussed, with the objective of using this skill to create a financial model for a business. This model, which is built around the "operating/investing/financing" activities of a business, will be utilized to predict the financial results of a firm's strategic plans and objectives.
Prerequisite BLAW313, ACCT301


Dept FINS Number 405 Title Real Estate Finance
Credits 3
Description This course is designed to provide the student and real estate professional with a basic understanding of the instruments, methods, procedures, institutions, and money markets involved in the financing of real property. There is special emphasis on the mathematics of real estate financing and practical problems.
Prerequisite BLAW313, ACCT301
     
  Information Systems
   
Dept IIST Number 101 Title Introduction to Business Computing
Credits 3
Description An introduction to use of computers in management, concepts of computer software, hardware, and systems analysis. Applications will include electronic spreadsheets, database management software, and other special purpose tools. Word processing tools will be used for most graded assignment. Programming will be studied in the context of spreadsheet macros.
Prerequisite NONE


Dept IIST Number 104 Title Introduction to E-Commerce
Credits 3
Description This course teaches students how to conduct business on-line and how to manage the technological issues associated with constructing an electronic-commerce Web site. Students will implement a genuine transaction-enabled business-to-consumer Web site, examine strategies and products available for building electronic-commerce sites, examine how such sites are managed, and explore how they can complement an existing business infrastructure.
Prerequisite NONE


Dept IIST Number 301 Title Introduction to Management Information Systems
Credits 3
Description Undergraduate business majors emphasizes the importance of information technology in today's businesses.
Prerequisite IIST101
     
  Marketing
   
Dept MKTG Number 101 Title Fundamentals of Marketing
Credits 3
Description Major concepts and theories relevant to the study and practice of marketing are introduced. Topics include the changing global marketplace, marketing processes and planning, the use of market research, an understanding of consumers and customers, decision-making and the marketing mix, market segmentation, positioning and product differentiation. This introductory subject prepares students for further study across the broad spectrum of product, service, consumer, business-to-business, industrial, global and social marketing.
Prerequisite ENGL101


Dept MKTG Number 351 Title Research & Analysis
Credits 3
Description Marketing decisions are among the most difficult for business people to make, largely because of the uncertainty involved. For Example, a market manager, faced with the decision of whether or not to introduce a new product often must make this decision without full knowledge of the future level of sales, how competitors will react, the price consumers are willing to pay for the product or the best method of promotion. This creates a situation in which poor decisions are often made due to a lack of adequate information. The purpose of marketing research is to improve the information available to decision-maker to facilitate market research better marketing decisions.
Prerequisite MKTG101, MATH204, IIST101


Dept MKTG Number 401 Title Marketing Research Methods
Credits 3
Description Managerial applications of market research techniques, including methods of design, analysis, interpretation of market research studies; assessing value of information, sampling, sources of bias, instrument construction, interpretation of scanner data, geo-demographic data, applications of integrated research systems.
Prerequisite MKTG351


Dept MKTG Number 411 Title Retail Marketing
Credits 3
Description Larger retailers are looking for graduates to fill management positions. Graduates from this degree are ideally placed to participate and benefit from this phenomenon and will have a solid ground for a wide range of careers in marketing beyond the retail sector. The retail marketing professional of the future will be at the heart of the consumer society. They will be involved in developing new concepts around some of the most exciting innovations in marketing, exploiting opportunities offered by the digital age, fast moving fashion trends and lifestyle changes
Prerequisite MKTG351
     
  Management
   
Dept MGMT Number 301 Title Process and Operations Management
Credits 3
Description In a dynamic, competitive world, a company's effectiveness depends significantly on how well the firm's resources are managed. Managing a company's critical performance dimensions-quality, speed, flexibility, and cost-warrants a thorough understanding of both the physical and information processes that are required for developing and manufacturing products and delivering them to the customers. This course focuses on managerial tools for understanding these processes, and prepares the students to use the results of analysis to constantly improve the firm's operational performance. This course is taught through lectures, readings, and cases.
Prerequisite ENGL101, MATH102


Dept MGMT Number 311 Title Leadership
Credits 3
Description IIssues related to strategic planning, team building, decision making, communication, and currency with professional knowledge.
Prerequisite ENGL102


Dept MGMT Number 321 Title Human Resource Management
Credits 3
Description The core focus is on management concerns of staffing, training, and development, compensation and labor management relations. Constraints on management discretion, including legislation, court decisions, labor, unions and labor markets are reviewed. This course is in the human resources area.
Prerequisite MGMT311, BLAW151


Dept MGMT Number 371 Title Internship
Credits 3
Description Approved on-the-job experience of students in the management internship program supplemented by seminars as appropriate. Open only to students formally enrolled in the program and taken during their terms of supervised work experience. May be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours, but may be counted for free elective credits only. Offered on a credit/no credit basis.
Prerequisite MGMT321, School Approval


Dept MGMT Number 401 Title Organizational Behavior
Credits 3
Description The major focus is on management concerns of staffing, training, and development, compensation and labor management relations. Constraints on management discretion, including legislation, court decisions labor unions and labor markets are reviewed. This course is in the human resources area.
Prerequisite SOC130


Dept MGMT Number 411 Title Strategic Management
Credits 3
Description The objective of the course is to give the participants an understanding of the fundamental nature of strategic management, covering a number of important themes on the topic. The course aims to combine broad theoretical background of strategic management with practical implications to the way businesses are run, offering different levels of course content to different needs of participants.
Prerequisite ACCT301, MKGT351, MGMT401, ENGL401, BLAW401


Dept MGMT Number 421 Title Principle of E-commerce
Credits 3
Description This foundational course focuses on principles of e-commerce from a business perspective. This course provides an overview of business and technology topics, business models, virtual value chain, and innovation and marketing strategies. In addition, some of the major issues associated with e-commerce-security, privacy, intellectual property rights, authentication, encryption and acceptable
Prerequisite IIST104


Dept MGMT Number 431 Title Labor Relation
Credits 3
Description Introduces students to labor relations and collective bargaining; covers the parties (union and management), the legal framework, union structure and administration, the employer role, union organizing, bargaining issues, the negotiation process, grievances and arbitration, and public sector labor relations.
Prerequisite BLAW401


Dept MGMT Number 441 Title New Venture Creation
Credits 3
Description Creating a successful new venture requires a broad range of core skills that MBA candidates are typically in the process of developing. The new venture creation process provides an opportunity to refine these skills and integrate them into a cohesive plan for a new venture. Additionally, communications of a new business venture's strategy, business model, and competitive advantage, no matter how straight forward, can be a daunting task. This class is designed to give you the hands-on experience of developing all of these skills while producing a viable plan for a new venture.
Prerequisite BLAW320, MKTG351, ENGL102


Dept MGMT Number 451 Title Management for Logistics Managers
Credits 3
Description A capstone course designed around the steps in the performance/communication process as they relate to recognizing, understanding, planning, implementing and evaluating performance competencies. The course will look at performance challenges in the logistics arena and how to proactively approach and resolve them. It will also focus on creating positive relationships and ensuring effective workplace communication.
Prerequisite MATH204, ENGL102


Dept MGMT Number 461 Title Senior Project
Credits 3
Description This course puts students into entrepreneurial firms to study and analyze the problems of an actual business. A comprehensive final report to the firm is required.
Prerequisite ACCT301, MKGT351, MGMT401, ENGL401, BLAW401


Dept MGMT Number 471 Title Internship
Credits 3
Description This is the course designation for students completing three (3) credits of construction experience internship. This internship is intended to prepare students for, and provide sponsor companies with, beginning management experience. Sponsors are asked to make every effort to expose interns registered to activities in the areas of field operations, office operations, and project management.
Prerequisite MGMT371, School Approval
     
  Sociology
   
Dept SOC Number 110 Title Introduction to Sociology
Credits 3
Description This is a basic course in sociology offering a basic understanding in sociological principles for those who wish to take only one quarter of sociology. The goal is to acquaint the student with core sociological concepts which he or she can apply to an understanding of contemporary American society. The format of the course is to apply concepts (e.g., culture, class, primary groups, bureaucracy, deviance) to concrete issues (e.g., family, church, education, politics, ethnic groups, and mass media).
Prerequisite NONE


Dept SOC Number 120 Title Western Art History
Credits 3
Description This is an introductory art history survey course in which the student examines the art, aesthetic and philosophical ideas of the western world. The focus of this course is the history of art in the western world from the Renaissance to Modern times. Through the use of visual aids, student will be introduced to works of art in painting, sculpture and architecture in the Western World. The course will include a series of assignments and tests which are meant to assess a student's understanding and comprehension of the reading and lecture material. Writing is an important component to this course and it is therefore important that students have written skills.
Prerequisite NONE


Dept SOC Number 130 Title Introduction to Psychology
Credits 3
Description This course provides a general introduction to the principles of psychology. Included are topics such as perception, learning, motivation, intelligence, and social behavior.
Prerequisite NONE


Dept SOC Number 140 Title American History
Credits 3
Description This course will examine the meaning of empire in its relationship to the historical development of what we now call the United States of America. Starting with the thirteen colonies and moving west through time and space, this course will examine the relationship of ideas, geography, borders, immigration, culture, economies and the military to the expansion of U.S. power in the world.
Prerequisite NONE


Dept SOC Number 121 Title Theories of Design & Color
Credits 3
Description This course is designed to demonstrate knowledge of the nature of design activity, basic elements of engineering design, the design process and design methods with appropriate application of engineering methods for each stop of the design process.
Prerequisite NONE
     
  Statistics
   
Dept STAT Number 202 Title Statistics for Management I
Credits 3
Description This course work covers the basic topics of applied statistics, including the sample mean and variance, random variables, elementary finite probability, the binomial and normal distributions; sampling, point and interval estimation, control charts, and hypothesis testing as they apply in business situations.
Prerequisite MATH101, IIST101


Dept STAT Number 301 Title Statistics for Management II
Credits 3
Description Includes analysis of variance, regression, correlation, time series, indexing, nonparametic statistics, bivariate distributions, and chi-square tests. Uses extensively statistical computer package in the analysis of data and application of statistical tests as they apply in business situations.
Prerequisite MATH102, STAT202


Dept STAT Number 403 Title Statistical Method
Credits 3
Description IThis course lets students to become statistically literate, to develop a conceptual understanding of basic statistical principles, to learn to use technology (Excel in particular) to analyze data and aid in conceptual understanding, and to learn to use statistics to help understand and solve real-world problems.
Prerequisite STAT301
 

F. Recommended Business Management Curriculum
   
First Year (1~2nd Semester)
Third Year(5~6th Semester)
Chapel 1
ENGL101 Business Communications I 3
MATH101 College Algebra 3
IIST101 Introduction to Business Computing 3
ECON101 Fundamental Economics 3
MKTG101 Fundamentals of Marketing 3


Chapel 1
BLAW313 Law and Accounting 3
STAT301 Statistics for Management II 3
ECON301 International Economics 3
MGMT321 Human Resource Management 3
IIST301 Management Information System 3

Chapel 1
ENGL102 Business Communication II 3
MATH102 Calculus 3
SOC110 Introduction to Psychology 3
SOC120 Western Art History 3
ECON201 Introduction to Microeconomics 3


Chapel 1
BLAW320 Product Liability 3
MGMT301 Operations Management 3
MGMT311 Leadership 3
Elective 3
Elective 3


Second Year(3~4th Semester)
Fourth Year(7~8th Semester)
Chapel 1
ACCT201 Principles of Accounting I 3
ECON202 Introduction to Macroeconomics 3
SOC140 American History 3
MATH103 Probability 3
FINS151 Personal Finance 3


Chapel 1
ACCT301 Managerial Accounting 3
ENGL401 Business Communication III 3
STAT403 Statistical Method 3
MGMT451 Management for Logistic Mangers 3
MGMT 401 Organizational Behavior 3

Chapel 1
ACCT202 Principles of Accounting II 3
STAT202 Statistics for Management I 3
BLAW151 Legal Environment of Business 3
SOC130 Psychology 3
SOC121 Theories of Design & Color 3

Chapel 1
BLAW401 Business Law 3
MGMT 431 Labor Relation 3
MGMT411 Strategic Management 3
MGMT461 Senior Project 3
MGMT471 Internship 3

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