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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)

101G. Fundamentals of Economics (3)
Not open to students with credit in Econ 1A-B. The pricing process in commodity and factor markets; national income analysis, income determination, and rates of growth.

105G. Essentials of Accounting (3)
Not open to students with credit in Acct 1A-B or 4A-B. Basic accounting concepts; account construction; statement preparation, utilization, and interpretation; alternative bases of valuation in measurement of income and financial condition.

108G. Quantitative Methods in Business (3)
Not open to students with credit in B A 65, 102, 103. Statistical analysis in business: tests of hypotheses, time series, correlation analyses, index numbers, esti- mation models and Bayesian statistics in business decision making.

11 5G. Legal Environment of Business (3)
Not open to students with credit in B A 115, 118, 119. Basic legal concepts; nature of the legal system, law of contracts, sales, negotiable instruments, agencies, partnerships, corporations.

121G. Organization and Management Theory (3)
Not open to students with credit in B A 110. Principles of management ap plied to business organization, structure of plans and decisions, business objectives, policies, functions, executive leadership and control; current management concepts.

125G. Production Analysis (3)
Not open to students with credit in B A 124 or 165. Prerequisite: Bus 108G, 121G or concurrently, or equivalent. Production theory and methods; pro- duction planning and control; methods analysis; work measurements; materials handling and control; plant location and layout; application of statistical techniques and electronic data processing; relationships with other functional areas of management.

130G. Principles of Finance (3)
Not open to students with credit in B A 133. Financial management problems and policies; role of commercial banks, institutional, and other investors; case studies.

145G. Marketing Organization and Policies (3)
Not open to students with credit in Mktg 100. Environmental factors for marketing; elements of marketing and marketing systems; marketing activities and strategies of the firm; evaluating marketing programs and systems.

150G. Manpower Management (3)
Not open to students with credit in B A 150 or 151. Principles and methods for the acquisition and utilization of human resources in organizations; staffing; compensation and motivation; communications; employee evaluation; labor relations.

164G. Computers and Programming (3)
Not open to students with credit in B A 61, 62, 62A, or 62B. Basic programming languages and data processing techniques including COBOL and FORTRAN. 200 Series (open only to graduate students in classified standing except that teaching credential candidates mav take Bus 280, 281, 282 in unclassified standing when approved by the Business Credential Adviser.)

200. Seminar in Business Research (3)
Methods of research; applications to business problems.

201. Seminar in Managerial Economics (3)
Economic analysis of managerial problems; theory of the firm.

203. Seminar in Office Management (3)
Managerial control of office functions, services, and personnel; case studies.

210T. Seminar in Business Topics (3; max total 9 if no topic repeated)
Prerequisite: 9 units of 200 courses. Theory and developments in accounting, administration and organization, business education, communications, consumer economics, finance, industrial and regional studies, international business, law, management, marketing, personnel and industrial relations, quantitative studies, real estate and urban economics, records management, resource economics, risk and insurance, or transportation.

215. Seminar in Public Policy and Enterprise (3)
Development of legal controls of business; constitutional problems; legal aspects of business organization; anti-trust laws and competition, securities regulation, consumer protection.

220. Seminar in Business Policy (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. Seminar in Organizational Behavior (3)
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.

225. Seminar in Production Management (3)
Current production management theories and problems; critical analysis and review of present practices and theories.

232. Seminar in Money and Capital Markets (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 130G or equivalent. Analysis of money and capital markets, their organization and role in economic activity.

233. Seminar in Business Finance (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 130G or equivalent. Critical review of theory and practice; supply and demand factors; sources and uses of business funds; management of financial assets; cost of capital; theory of financial structures; promotion; liquidation of firms; current trends; changing institutional environment.

240. Seminar in Marketing (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 145G or equivalent. Critical review of the literature of marketing, special reports and research dealing with marketing institutions and organization, and marketing functions.

242. Seminar in Marketing Management (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 145G or equivalent. 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 Management (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 150G or equivalent. Trends and problems in management-em- ployee relationships; administrative action in selection, motivation, and develop- ment of personnel; relation of personnel administration to other areas of manage- ment; concentrated study by each student of a special phase of personnel work.

252. Seminar in Labor Relations (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 150G or equivalent. Current trends in labor relations theory and practice; labor relations systems; contract negotiations; dispute prevention and set-tlement; role of government; applications of behavioral sciences; individual research.

260. Seminar in Accounting Theory (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 261 or equivalent. 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.

261. Seminar in Accounting Control and Reporting (3)
Not open to students with credit in Acct 120A-B, 132. Prerequisite: Bus 105G or equivalent. Procedures for financial reporting, systems and internal control, interpretation of administrative reports; accounting control-statistical inference, budgetary planning, standard costs, differential cost analysis, profit volume relation- ships, data processing.

263. Seminar in Cost Accounting (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 261 or equivalent. Advanced study of process and standard costs; overhead costs; budgeting; use of cost accounting data in economic analysis and managerial control; problems illustrating course material.

264. Seminar in Quantitative Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 108G, 125G, or equivalent. Quantitative analysis of business problems; development of models, simulation and matrices; applications.

265. Seminar in Information Systems (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 164G. Analysis of integrated and decentralized systems related to business organizations, their decision and control centers; underlying teclinologics and methods for designing, iniplenienting, and operating an information system.

266. Data Processing Management and Computer Selection (3)
Prerequisite: Acct 128 or equivalent. Theories, costs, and problems of operating computer centers: standards, flow of work, scheduling, batching, spooling, multi- programming techniques. In-depth study of hardvare and software of various computers; feasibility studies; comparisons of competitive systems; costs of re- programnling.

271. International Business (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 101G or equivalent. Principles of trade and finance; comparative business systems and national policies; organization and management of business enterprises under different national systems; cultural and environmental factors influencing business operations in various countries.

272. Seminar in International Finance (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 271 or equivalent. Theory and practice in international money and capital markets; foreign exchange; balance of payments; problems of adjustment; comparative financial systems.

275. Seminar in International Business (3) (Former Bus 270)
Prerequisite: Bus 271 or equivalent. Examination of the economic, social, and political environment for operation of the multinational enterprise; consideration of the policies, practices and problems of the firm in the international setting. Text, case, and literature analysis.

280. Seminar in Business Education (3)
Study of advanced problems in business education.

281. Instructional Procedures in Business Education (3)
Objectives, procedures, materials, and evaluation in the teaching of business subjects at the secondary school level.

282. Seminar in Business Curricula (3)
Objectives, principles, and curricula of business in secondary schools, including junior colleges; evaluation and trends of current programs.

290. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Regulations and Procedures -- Independent Study.

291. Management Project (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 200, 220, 223, 261, or permission of instructor. Independent field analysis of an operating business firm or one of its principal functional areas. The managerial audit may be submitted to the faculty in lieu of a thesis.

292. Readings in Business (2-3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: Bus 200, 220, 223, 261, or permission of instructor. Individually directed readings in a field of special concern to the student's graduate program; appropriate reports and evaluation required. Individual conferences; no formal class meetings.

299. Thesis (2-4; max total 4)
Prerequisite: Bus 200, 220, 223, 261, or permission of instructor. See Master's Degrees-Thesis Requirement. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acccptable thesis for the master's degree. Elective for master of business administration and master of science.

 




IN-SERVICE COURSES

Business (Bus)

Note: In-service courses (300 series) are not intended for use on degrees except by special, prior approval. See Extension and Summer Session Bulletins for course descriptions.

367. CPA Review (4)

380T. Topics in Business (2; may be repeated if no topic repeated)

381. Instructional Procedures in Vocational Business Education (2-3)

385. Bridging the Gap (2-4)

389. Workshop in Business Education (1-6; max total 6)

398. Business Internship (1-6; max total 6)

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