Course Descriptions: Undergraduate Lower-division

BUS1000 American Business: Foundations and Practices (3)
Gives an overview of the development of American business, its history, traditions, and major functional areas. Class activities examine current practices and develop group decision-making, analysis, and presentation skills.

BUS1008 Building Business Values (3)
Students learn the relationship between law and morality, develop individual core values, and study various business decision making models.

BUS1016 Human Relations Management (3)
The course is based in applied social psychology and is aimed at increasing knowledge of effective individual, group and team practices in management. Through experiential exercises and discussions participants in the course explore group dynamics, as well as personality and relationship theory.

BUS1100 Macroeconomics (3)
Gives an overview of the national economic structure and the relationships among the major aggregates. Includes national income accounting, monetary vs. fiscal policy, the banking system, and approaches to economic analysis. 

BUS1108 Microeconomics (3)
Gives a detailed examination of a specific component of the national economic system (industry, firm, household) as each impacts the aggregate. Includes implications of the pricing process and contemporary issues.

BUS1200 Personal Financial Planning (3)
Gives an overview of the fundamental concepts and practices of financial management and planning for the individual. Specific topics include: budgeting, goal setting with controls, asset management, tax planning, and portfolios.

BUS1208 Preparation for Financial Accounting (1)
The workshop will address basic accounting fundamentals and principles including business transactions, double-entry accounting, and financial statements such as the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows. A self-paced text is expected to be reviewed prior to attendance.

BUS1216 Accounting Procedures (3)
Gives an introduction to accounting, including the recording, classification, and reporting of business transactions in proper format according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Emphasizes preparation and understanding of the income statement, balance sheet, statement of changes in stockholders' equity, and statement of cash flows to meet the information needs of lenders, stockholders, and other business decision-makers.

BUS1224 Financial Accounting (3)
Prerequisites: BUS1216
Emphasizes internal control as well as recording, reporting, and analysis of specific transactions for short-term and long-term assets and liabilities, and stockholders' equity. Some consideration is given to accounting for proprietorships and partnerships. Particular attention is paid to the statement of cash flows.

BUS1232 Managerial Accounting (3)
Prerequisites: BUS1224
Introduces methods to utilize financial information for internal line management use. This course extends the study of accounting in the preparation of and the evaluation of management reports to facilitate planning, control and decision making. Selected areas of focus include job-order and process costing systems, cost behavior and cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, activity based and standard costing systems.

BUS1400 Introduction to Communication (3)
A survey of media including broadcast, print, radio, film, and Internet. Students learn critical approaches to media messages and media ethics.

BUS1408 Oral Communication (3)
Students develop their skills to become confident and effective speakers and learn how to gather organized researched information from a variety of sources for making informative and persuasive arguments. Course methodology includes group discussions and extemporaneous presentations of prepared speeches.

BUS1416 Communication Technology (3)
Students learn desktop publishing skills using software, such as InDesign and Photoshop, for document design for internships, personal and classroom use, and on the job. Special attention is paid to the mechanics and psychologies of design in print and web publications.

BUS1440 Writing for the Media (3)
Prerequisites: ENG1032
This course covers the mechanics of effective writing for various media: identifying the story, collecting data, writing under deadline, and journalistic ethics and applications to media as they meld onto the Internet. This course is especially suitable for those interested in careers in public relations or marketing.

BUS1456L Journalism Lab The Argonaut (1-3)
Produces the campus newspaper, The Argonaut, and its website, www.theargonaut.net, which provide hands-on instruction in all aspects of news production including news, editorial and feature writing, editing, headline writing, layout, design, photography and advertising design and sales. May be repeated for credit. This is a writing intensive course.

Undergraduate Upper Division Course Description