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COURSES

Business Administration (Bus Ad)


8. Survey of Business Law (3)
Primarily for nonbusiness majors. Legal concepts common to all; rights, duties, and obligations in the law of contracts, sales and business torts; functioning of judicial institutions.

10. Introduction to Business (3)
Required of entering freshmen business majors and limited to those with less than 25 college units; others referred to Bus Ad 15 or 110. Business organization, principles and practices; job opportunities on the area; major programs of the business division, offerings and instructional staff.

15. Business and the Individual (2)
For nonbusiness students. Business enterprises; importance of business in American life; history, philosophy and growth of American business; the worker and job opportunities; functions and interrelationships of business enterprise; specialized developments.

21. Business Mathematics (3)
Fundamental operations and arithmetical processes; equations and use of formulas; application to specialized fields.

22. Business Data (3)
Prerequisites: Bus Ad 21, examination or permission of instructor. Application of mathematical processes to uses in business; accounting, retail merchandising, investmetns; introduction to statistics; compilation and classification of data.

50. Business Lectures (1)
Maximum total credit 2 units. Not open to freshmen. Points of view of business executives on current business developments; problems of various businesses presented by visiting lecturers.

100. Business Economics (3)
Prerequisites: Bus Ad 133, 151; senior standing. Applications of economic principles in business management; measure of profit, analysis of demand, cost analysis; price, wage, and public policies.

102. Business Statistics (3)
Prerequisite: one year high school algebra; Econ 1A-B. Recommended: Sec Ad 16, Bus Ad 22. Principles and methods of statistical analysis; application to business and economic problems; collection of data, construction of tables and graphs, averages, methods of dispersion, statistical inference, index numbers, cycles correlation; statistical methods in research, in analysis of business conditions and in forecasting. (2 lecture, 2 lab hour)

104. Business Forecasting (3)
Prerequisite: Bus Ad 102. Analysis of forecasting techniques currently utilized to estimate cyclical and secular-trend changes in both firm and industry output; correlation techniques, models, composite indexes; time series,lead-lag and flow of funds analyses.

110. Principles of Management (3)
Primarily for juniors. Principles of business management; history and development, planning, organizing,directing, staffing, and controlling; applications to production, marketing, finance and personnel; ethics in business.

118A-B. Business Law (3-3)
Prerequisite: junior standing. (A) Sources, forms and expressions of law; general law of contracts; law of agency and employment, and torts. (B) Law of bailments, shipments; sale of personal property and negotiable instruments.

119. Advanced Business Law (3)
Prerequisite: Bus Ad 118A-B. Law of partnerships, corporations, estates, real property acquisition, conveyances and transfers; encumbrances such as easements, leases, mortgages and liens; riparian rights and boundaries; wills, administration of estates, bankruptcy, and debtor and creditor relations.

120. Management Problems and Policies (3)
Prerequisite: Bus Ad 100; senior standing. Analysis of business operations by case study, actual investigation, research and study, actual investigation, research and study; business policy, structural organization, and principles of management.

124. Production Management (3)
Prerequisite: Bus Ad 10 or 110. Problems of production management; production planning; production control; purchasing and procurement; materials planning and control; product development; plant location.

131A-B. Public Finance and Fiscal Policy (3-3) (See Econ 131A-B)

132. Financial Institutions (3)
Prerequisite: Econ 1A-B, Acct 1A-B. Nature and services rendered by various financial institutions such as commercial banks, savings banks, trust companies, insurance companies, investment banking and government credit agencies; emphasis is given to these institutions as sources of business funds.

133. Business Finance (3)
Primarilv for juniors. Prerequisites: Econ. lA-B; Acctg. 1A-B. Promotion and financing of business enterprises; obtaining permanent and temporary fixed and working capital; bank loans and commercial paper borrowing; credit and collection policies; stock market and stock speculation; management of earnings; administration policies; expansion and reorganization.

134. Investments (3)
Prerequisite. Bus. Ad. 133. Channels for investment of funds; investment characteristics of stocks, bonds, and real estate mortgages; fundamentals of investment analysis; investment safeguards and investment policies.

135. Money and Banking (3)
Prerequisites: Econ. lA-B. Types of monetary systems, exchange standards, the international exchange, stabilization of the price level; nature, development, functions and control of the banking system; recent monetary and banking experience in the United States.

136. Monetary Policy (3) (See Econ. 136)

137. Principles of Credit Management (3)

Nature and principles of mercantile and consumer credit in modem business; derivation of credit information from business data; credit agencies and credit bureaus; valuation and ratio analysis of financial statements; technical and legal aspects of collections.

139. Financial Management (3)
Prerequisites: Bus. Ad. 133, 135. Case studies and analysis of financial policies of business enterprise from the executive viewpoint; principles of effective management of the flow of funds through the individual firm under changing economic conditions; evaluation of alternative methods of financing, capital budgeting, valuation problems.

143 . Property and Casualty Insurance (3)
Prerequisite: Bus. Ad. 8 or 118A (may be taken concurrently). Fundamental principles of insurance; descriptive, nontechnical study of property and casualty insurance and insurance carriers.

144. Life Insurance (3)
Prerequisite: Bus. Ad. 8 or 118a (may be taken concurrently). Principles of life insurance, nature and use, scientific basis, types and forms; organization, management and supervision of life insurance companies.

150. Labor Economics (3) (See Econ. 150)

151. Personnel Management (3) (Former Bus. Ad. 122)
Primarily for juniors. Human relations in industry; case studies of labor management relationship; methods of recruitment, selection, training; wage-paynient plans; employee services, labor laws and application; collective bargaining methods and policies.

152. Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining (3)
Prerequisite: Bus. Ad. 151. Relations between employers and organized employee groups; organization, election, and certification procedures; techniques of collective bargaining; basic clauses in labor contracts and their economic significance; administration of the written agreement; mediation and arbitration of disputes; determinants of labor-management conflict and peace.

153. Supervisory Training and Development (3) F (Former Bus. Ad. 123)
Prerequisite: Bus. Ad. 151. The framework of supervisor-employee relations in modern industry; management action to improve personnel relations; supervisory development programs; techniques of administrative leadership of employees; practice in dealing with personnel problems.

154. Wage and Salary Administration (3)
Prerequisite: Bus. Ad. 151. Interaction of economic forces and institutional factors in wage determination; techniques of establishing wage programs; theory and procedures of job evaluation; establishment of job classifications and pay structures; wage determination under collective bargaining; incentive wage plans; special problems in wage and salary administration.

156. Labor Law (3) S (Former Bus. Ad. 126)
Prerequisites: Econ. lA-B; Bus. Ad. 118A-B, 151. Recommended: Bus. Ad. 150, 152.
State and federal labor statutes, workmens compensation, social security; procedures and methods in handling labor problems; leading decisions of courts and other bodies in settling labor-management disputes.

170. Transportation (3) (See Econ. 170)

174. Government Regulations of Economic Activity (3) (See Econ. 174)

180. Urban Land Economics and Real Estate Principles (3)
Prerequisites: Econ. lA-B. Real estate principles and urban land economics; processes and patterns of land utilization where man and his artifacts are assembled in communities; determination of urban land use in a market process; economic competition among alternative uses.

183. Urban Real Estate investment and Management (3)
Prerequisite: Bus. Ad. 180. Problems and practical approach in the acquisition, development, management and sale of investment properties; for those interested in leasing, investing, or trading in real estate. Guest lecturers for certain specialized phases.

184. Real Estate Law (3)
Prerequisites: Bus. Ad. 118A-B, 180, or equivalent. Legal aspects of acquisition and ownership of real estate, especially in California; conveyances, mortgages, evidences of title; planning and zoning.

190. Independent Study (1-5)

199. Supervised Work Experience (1)
Maximum total credit 4 units. Open only to business administration majors. Prerequisite: approval by division committee, Practical experience in business administration. Regular class meetings and reports.

Graduate courses are listed under Business.

 

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