Course Descriptions

This course offers a broad overview of the business world for both business and non-business majors. It is an introduction to the business environment, business ownership, management, marketing, technology and information, human resources, accounting and legal studies. This course introduces students to the concepts and knowledge of key business functions within the context of the global economy. This class will provide a foundation for other business courses and help students discover their career path while learning the fundamentals of business.

This course is an introduction to personal financial management and planning. Topics covered include key factors that affect personal income, budgeting, cash-flow management, use of credit and credit cards, planned borrowing, managing taxes and major expenditures including housing, automobiles, insurance and investments.

This course covers principles used in analyzing financial statements and budgets. Students learn how to prepare, read and analyze financial statements. Topics include analysis of income statements, balance sheets, flow of funds, risk, obtaining and spreading statements, cash flow projections, capital accounts and financial ratios.

This course offers an overview of the American legal system and provides an introduction to what a business person should know about the law and the American legal system. Major content areas include the court system, trial process, alternative dispute resolution, business and the Constitution, the administrative process, torts and product liability, common law of contracts, employment law, employment discrimination, anti-trust law, international business and ethics.

This course examines the historical and philosophical foundations of management as well as current theory and practices. Managerial decisions as a planner, organizer, motivator, controller and leader of a diverse workforce in a competitive environment are identified and evaluated. The course is a study of the basic principles of business management, including the functional, scientific, behavioral and systems approaches along with the role of projects in contemporary organizations. Current literature, concepts, models and applications may be included as well as the use of case studies.

This course examines the business function of marketing and will enhance students' decision-making skills in a global market. The course focuses on how marketers create value by satisfying customer needs and wants by analyzing which target markets the organization can best serve, and the appropriate strategies to serve these markets. This course will also discuss the implications of environmental factors (including the digital environment) that can impact the marketing strategies of a business. Topics include business and consumer markets, branding and product strategies, marketing research, digital marketing concepts, pricing, promotion and supply chain management.

This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of hospitality management including lodging, food and beverage, entertainment, recreation, travel and service companies, as well as an overview of the tourism industry. Students will be exposed to local industries through guest speakers and/or field trips.

This internship course is designed to provide the student with a purposeful occupational experience in a business environment related to his or her program of study. A learning plan is created for each student in conjunction with the business site to provide experience related to the skills and knowledge acquired in the program. Each internship is an individualized experience; therefore, this course offers a flexible, variable credit experience: The student may choose from 1, 2 or 3 credits, depending on the number of hours pre-arranged with the internship site supervisor. Each credit will require 45 hours of on-the-job learning.

Business technology is a continuously evolving catalyst for opportunity and innovation. It is necessary to learn and share new technologies and innovations in order to maintain a competitive advantage; therefore this course requires students to do comprehensive research on a preapproved business technology or innovation topic. Students will develop and present a written report and visual presentation designed to educate their peers.

This course provides the fundamentals of computer-aided drafting (CAD) using the latest version of the AutoCAD drafting software. The course develops the CAD skills necessary to design and print complex two-dimensional drawings and sheet sets.

This course will cover the solid modeling tools and functions in AutoCAD. Students will learn to create and manipulate primitive solids, extrusions, sweeps and lofts. They will learn to utilize the Boolean functions, solid editing commands and derived view drawing tools required to generate complex solid models and create industry-standard drawing layouts based on the designed geometry.

This course provides the fundamentals of computer-aided drafting using the latest version of AutoCAD drafting software. The course develops the fundamental CADD skills necessary to produce and print complex drawings and sheet sets.

This course is an introduction to solid modeling and model derived drawing layouts using the latest versions of the AutoCAD, Inventor and SolidWorks drawing software.

This course will introduce students to the part modeling and drawing layout tools in SolidWorks software. Students will learn the concepts of parametric sketching and modeling, feature creation and editing, and model derived bidirectionally associative drawing layouts.

This course will introduce students to the part modeling and drawing layout tools in Autodesk Inventor software. Students will learn the concepts of parametric sketching and modeling, feature creation and editing, and model derived bidirectionally associative drawing layouts.