(See Course Numbering System.)
201. Seminar in Managerial Economics (3)
Economic analysis of managerial problems; theory of the firm.
202. Economics for Business Decisions (3)
Not required of students with credit in Econ 40 and 50. Microeconomic decisions;
product, service, and factor markets; risk, uncertainty, and profits; macroeconomic
framework of business decisions.
203. Seminar in Office Management (3)
Managerial control of office functions, services, and personnel; case studies.
205. Financial and Managerial Accounting (3)
Not required of students with credit in Acct 1A and 1B or 4A and 4B. Financial
accounting; statement analysis and interpretation; transaction analysis;
partnership and corporations; taxation; financial reporting; managerial
controls, information systems, budgeting; costs, capital budgets.
208. Quantitative Methods in Business (3)
Not required of students with credit in DS 73 and 173. Statistical analysis
in business, tests of hypotheses, time series, correlation analyses, index
numbers, estimation models, and Bayesian statistics in business decision
making. (2 lecture, 2 .lab hours)
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, finaance, 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.
211. Legal Environment of Business (3)
Not required of students with credit in B A 18. Basic legal concepts, nature
of the legal system, administrative law, law of contracts and of agency,
antitrust law, and legal research.
214. Organization and Management Theory (3)
Not required of students with credit in Mgt 110 or Mgt 104 and 106. Organizational
theory, structure, and forms of organization, authority, leadership, group
dynamics, policy formulation; conflict resolution, organizational control.
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.
216. Operations Analysis (3)
Not required of students with credit in PLM 124. Prerequisite: Bus 202,
207, 208 and 214 recommended. Operations theory and methods; operations
planning and control; methods analysis, work measurements; materials handling
and control, facilities location and layout; application of statistical
techniques and electronic data processing; relationships with other functional
areas of management.
217. Marketing Organization and Policies (3)
Not required of students with credit in Mktg 100. Prerequisite: Bus 202,
205, 207; Bus 208 (or concurrently). Environmental factors for marketing,
elements of marketing and marketing systems, marketing activities and strategies
of the firm; evaluating marketing programs and systems.
218. Principles of Finance (3)
Not required of students with credit in Fin 120. Prerequisite: Bus 202,
205; Bus 207 recommended. Impact of uncertainty and environmental considerations
upon the finance function. Financial problems and policies; working capital
management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and dividend policy. Problems
and cases.
220. Seminar in Business Policy (3)
Prerequisite: completion of foundation courses; completion of MBA core or
concurrent enrollment therein' Advanced problems in business policy; evaluation:
determination. execution, administration, and control; policy objectives
in integration of product, marketing, manufacturing. finance, find organization;
analysis of administrative policy-making bodies and processes.
221. Marketing Organization and Policies (3)
Not open to students with credit in Mktg l00. Environmental factors for
marketing, elements of marketing and marketing systems, marketing activities
and strategies of the firm; evaluating marketing programs and systems.
222. Seminar in Business Research (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 208, 209. Methods of research; applications to business
problems.
223. Seminar in Organizational Behavior (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 214; Bus 221 (or concurrently with permission of the graduate
program director). 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.
224. Manpower Management (3)
Not open to students with credit in B A 150, 131, or Ind R 150. Principles
and methods for the acquisition and utilization of human resources in organizations;
staffing; compensation and motivation; communications; employee evaluation,
labor relations.
225. Seminar in Production Management (3)
Current production management theories and problems; critical analysis and
review of present practices and theories.
227. Computers and Programming (3)
Not open to students with credit in B A 61, 62, 62A-B, or Q M 63 or
64. Programming languages; data processing, COBOL; FORTRAN; simulation,
models; problems.
232. Seminar in Money and Capital Markets (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 218. Analysis of money and capital markets, their organization
and role in economic activity.
233. Seminar in Business Finance (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 218. 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 217. 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 217. Analysis of basic problems of marketing management
and alternative methods of approaching these problems; case studies; use
at 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 214. 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. Seminar in Labor Relations (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 214. Current trends in labor relations theory and practice;
labor relations systems; contract negotiations; dispute prevention and settlement;
role of government; applications of behavioral sciences; individual research.
260. Seminar in Accounting Theory (3)
Prerequisite: Acct 120A and 120B. A historical perspective of the development
of accounting theory. An evaluation of the objectives and standards of financial
reporting as they are applied in contemporary income determination and asset
valuation.
261. Seminar in Accounting Control and Reporting (3)
Not open to students with credit in Acct 120A-B, 132. Prerequisite: Bus
205 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 relationships, data processing.
262. Seminar in Programming (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 209. Advanced techniques of sorting, file maintenance
and information systems, controls and teleprocessing directed toward business
applications.
263. Seminar in Cost Accounting (3)
Prerequisite: Acct 132 or Bus 245. The development, interpretation, and
uses of accounting reports and supplementary information for management
planning, control, and decision making. Topics include cost-volume-profit
analysis; lines programming, capital budgeting; inventory models; the use
of standards, budgets, and variance analysis for planning and control purposes;
divisional performance; and transfer pricing issues.
264. Seminar in Quantitative Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 208, 216, or equivalent. Quantitative analysis of business
problems; development of models, simulation and matrices; applications.
265. Seminar in Information Systems (3)
Prerequisite: O Ad 161, Acct 146, or Bus 246. Theory of systems and information
as they relate to design, management, and control of business systems. Study
of information and systems as resources to be managed.
266. Data Processing Management and Computer Selection (3)
Prerequisites: Bus 205 and 209. Theories, costs, and problems of operating
computer centers; standards, lion of work, scheduling, batching, spooling,
multiprogramming techniques. In-depth study of hardware and software of
various computers; feasibility studies; comparisons o1 competitive systems;
costs of reprogramming.
267. Sampling Design (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 208. Theory and applications of probability and sampling
distributions; theory of point and internal estimations of means, proportions,
ratios, totals; precision of estimation and sample designs; probability
and nonprobability designs; simple, stratified, cluster, systematic, and
Bayesian estimation.
268. Regression, Correlation, Factor Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 208. Conditional, marginal, and joint probability distributions;
statistical dependence; simple, multiple, linear, and nonlinear regression
models; correlation analysis; analysis of variance and regression; introduction
to Bayesian decision theory.
271. International Business (3)
Prerequisite: Bus 202. 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)
Prerequisites; Bus 202 and 218. 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)
Prerequisite; Bus 221 (or concurrently with permission of the graduate program
director). International trade and finance; cultural and institutional environment
at multinational enterprise, trade and development aid; accounting, marketing,
production and operations aspects of international trade and enterprise.
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 of the teaching of
business subjects and the secondary school level.
282. Seminar in Business Curricula (3)
Objectives, principles, and curricula of business in secondary schools,
colleges, and universities; evaluation and trends of current programs.
290. Independent Study (1-3; max total 6)
See Academic Placement -- Indpendent Study.
291. Management Project (3)
Prerequisite: Completion of the MBA core or concurrently completing the
MBA core, 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: completion of 9 units of core and electives; permission of
director and instructor.
299. Thesis (3 or 6)
Prerequisite; completion of master's core or concurrently completing master's
core. See Criteria for Thesis and Project. Preparation, completion, and
submission of an acceptable thesis tar the master's degree. Elective for
Master of Business Administration.
(See Course Numbering System.)
Business (Bus)
367. CPA Review (2-4)
380T. Topics in Business
(1-3; 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)