| BUS 905 & 910 |
Management Concepts and Applications I & II
These courses will cover both the basics of management and selected topics in advanced management. |
| BUS 915 |
Managerial Economics
This course will focus on the principles of microeconomics, and more importantly, their application to management decision making. Topics covered will include (but not limited to) pricing decisions, production theory, cost analysis, risk analysis and market structure analysis. |
| BUS 920 & 925 |
Marketing Management I & II
These courses will cover both the basics of marketing and selected topics from advanced marketing courses. |
| BUS 930 |
Applied Macroeconomics
This course will focus on the principles of macroeconomics, and more importantly, their application to management decisions making. Topics covered will include (but not limited to) macroeconomic policy issues, business cycle analysis, forecasting and structural changes in the U.S. economy. |
| BUS 935 & 936 |
Accounting for Management Decision Making I & II
These courses will concentrate on the principles of financial and managerial accounting. The emphasis will be on the use of this information in management decision-making. |
| BUS 941 |
Business Statistics
The objective of this course is to review basic business, mathematical skills, use spreadsheet software to create and solve mathematical models, and to introduce students to basic statistics such as: descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions and inferential statistics. |
| BUS 942 |
Production Management
This course introduces students to production and operations management concepts and related quantitative methods practiced in a typical business organization. This course will focus on the strategic importance of operations and its relationship to other business functions. It will also familiarize the student with the facility design, the management supply chain and ensuring the quality product or service. |
| BUS 945 & 950 |
Financial Management I & II
These courses will cover both the basics of corporate (managerial) finance and selected topics from advanced finance courses. |
| BUS 952 |
Management of Information Systems
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the how and why of managing computer-based information systems. The goal is to enable a manager to serve as liaison between a corporation’s technological staff and its less technologically oriented functional staff. To that end, the course introduces and analyzes the nature of the various information systems that are currently being used in organizations today and the managerial level they support. Time is also spent on the ethical and legal implications of information gathering and dissemination. The course also services as an introduction to the topic of e-commerce and other commercial uses of Internet technology. Included in this discussion are the various e-commerce business models that have thus far emerged and an analysis of their efficacy. A critical element of this course is the ability to use spreadsheet and database software to solve typical business-related problems. |
| BUS 955 |
International Aspects of Business
This course will expand on international business topics already introduced in previous courses and introduce some new ones. Like most international business courses the topics will include the international environment (economic, political/legal, socio-cultural, etc.) and the international aspects of the various functional areas (e.g. marketing, finance, human resource management, etc.) of business. |
| BUS 960 |
Business & Society
This course will cover the ethical and legal issues facing business people today. Emphasis will be on both the ethical behavior of the individual and the social responsibility of the organization. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between morality and law. Topics will include employee issues, environmental issues, informational and intellectual property issues, and consumer welfare. |
| BUS 965 |
Integrative Capstone Course
This course will first, integrate and synthesize material from the previous courses, and second, provide the opportunity for a more formal writing exercise (in keeping with Albright’s “Writing Across the Curriculum” program). The objective of this course is to provide the student with the opportunity to analyze realistic business problems, formulate and present the solution. |
Business Administration Program