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GRADUATE COURSES

(See Course Numbering System.)




Note: "G" courses are open only to those graduate students with a nonbusiness undergraduate degree and to graduate foreign students.

Business (Bus)

200. Seminar in Business Research (3)
Research and scientific method; forms of scientific method applicable to business research; types of business research problems. Actual research procedure and application by student to a required research project.

203. Office Management (3)
Prequisites: Bus Ad. 110, 120, 151, or equivalent. Analysis of the office, function, control, coordination; application of principles of management.

220. The Administrative Process (3)
Advanced problems in business policy; evaluation, determination, execution, administration, and control; policy objectives in integration of product, marketing, manufacturing, finance, and organization; analysis of administrative policy-making bodies and processes.

223. Human Relations and Business Leadership (3)
Prerequisite: Bus Ad 151 or equivalent. Problems of the individual and groups brought about by modern industrial organizations and techniques; motivations for work and cooperation between executives and different economic and social groups; analysis of effect of company policy on employee and public relations.

232. Money and Capital Markets (3)
Prerequisite: Bus Ad 133, 135. Seminar in the organization and functions of the major money and capital markets in the United States; analysis of the impact of private and governmental financing operations upon these markets.

240. Seminar in Marketing (3)
Prerequisite: Mktg 108 or epermission of instructor. Critical review of the literature of marketing, special reports and research dealing with marketing institutions and organization, and marketing functions.

242. Marketing Management (3)
Prerequisite: Mktg 106 or epermission of instructor. Seminar in the analysis of basic problems of marketing management and alternative methods of approaching these problems; case studies; use of statistics, economics, psychology, and other tools in directing marketing activities; relation of marketing to other areas of business administration.

250. Seminar in Personnel and Industrial Relations (3)
Prerequisite: Bus Ad 151 or 152 or 153. Trends and problems in management-employee relationships; administrative action in selection, motivation, and development of personnel; relation of personnel administration to other areas of management; concentrated study by each student of a special phase of personnel work.

252. Advanced Problems in Management-Union Relations (3)
Prerequisite: Bus Ad 151,152 Background and process of collective bargaining; strategy techniques in contract negotiations; analysis of provisions of labor contracts; problems of contract administration; arbitration procedures; pathways to peace in management-union relations; practice in negotiating a labor contract.

260. Seminar in Accounting Theory (3)
Prerequisite: Acct 120A, 132. Seminar in development of accounting theory; current accounting theory; areas of accounting theory where professional differences exist; AICPA research studies, governmental regulations, recent literature, and accounting classics.

265. Accounting Systems (3)
Prerequisite: Acct 132, 162. Seminar in principles of system design and installation; correlation of accounting records and business activity.

267A-B. CPA Problems (2-2)
Prerequisite: Acct 162, 167 or equivalent. Advanced study of accounting theory; analysis and solution of type of problems given in CPA certification examination.

280. Seminar in Business Education (2)
Prerequisite: Bus Ed 154. Advanced study of instructional problems in business education.

282. The Business Curriculum (3)
Prerequisite: Bus Ed 154. Seminar in evaluation of the curriculum and trends in secondary schools; methods of reconstructing business curricula.

289A-H. Workshop in Business Education (1-6)
Credit may not exceed one unit per week of workshop activity. Maximum total credit 6 units.Open only to experiencced teachers. Study and critical analysis of problems in teaching and business content of business subjects related to student's teaching situation. (A) Bookkeeping, (B) Econominc education, (C) General business, (D) Shorthand, (E) Typewriting, (F) Distributive education, (G) Consumer problems, (H) Office machines.

290. Independent Study (1-5)
See Regulations and Procedures -- Independent Study.

291. Seminar in Business Theory and Practice (4)
Prerequisite: Acct. 120A, Bus 220, 223; Bus Ad 124. For students in final semester of graduate program. Cases requiring the coorelation and coordination of the several business functions; problems of management in terms on significance to overall operation as distinguished from operation of component parts of an organization.

298. Business Internship (1-6)
Required of candidatesfor master of science degree when candidate has no approved previousoccupational experience; this requirement is in addition to the 30 units required for the degree. Course may be taken only by candidates for a masters of science degree in business.

299. Thesis (2-4; max total 4)
Prerequisite: See page 70. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acccptable thesis for the master's degree. Required for master of arts, elective for master of science.


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