Courses

BU 601 ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT   3.0 Credit(s)

Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 610 ENTREPRENEURSHIP   3.0 Credit(s)
Students utilize their interdisciplinary business knowledge and creativity to evaluate an entrepreneurial opportunity, whether a new product/service/business or a new application of an existing product or service. In developing a comprehensive business plan, student teams use their knowledge of the market and the competitive landscape, engage in research, develop financial models/forecasts, and gauge the project's financial feasibility, taking into consideration inherent business risk and the likelihood of being able to raise venture capital.
Offered: As Needed All Years

BU 621 COMPARATIVE MGMT & INTERCULTURAL COMMUN   3.0 Credit(s)
Sensitivity to different perceptions, values, traditions, and ways of thinking are critically important in today's global workforce as organizations interact across cultures. This course explores how culture affects individuals as well as organizations and introduces frameworks for understanding how cultures may vary. Students develop strategies for effectively communicating, working with, and managing people of different cultural backgrounds. Prerequisite: Take BU-601 or WGB 521
Offered: As Needed All Years

BU 632 MANAGING CHANGE   3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines strategies and techniques for successfully introducing and managing change in organizations. Explores power, influence, leadership, motivation, and communication in the change process, as well as organization development, organizational learning, and innovation management. Student teams develop a framework for recognizing factors that influence change and a process map to manage change effectively.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 635 HUMAN RESOURCES AND CAREER MGMT   3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on the role of the contemporary human resources function in organizations. Emphasis is on analysis of policies related to the organizational life cycle from hiring through termination, workforce and succession planning, compensation and benefits, career development, labor relations, and employee training. These concepts are discussed in light of working with and managing a multicultural workforce.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 637 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT   3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces and explores critical issues, problems and challenges facing organizations in managing their knowledge resources for competitive success. Students will learn state of the art concepts and tools of knowledge managemnt and have opportunities to apply them in developing practical solutions to KM probkems for their organizations.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 652 PROJECT MANAGEMENT   1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
Using the Project Management Institute's focus on framework, processes and knowledge, this course examines soft skills needed to manage a project. Students will learn to avoid, anticipate or manage obstacles.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 654 INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ANALYTICS   3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces the field of business analytics by covering statistical and quantitative methodology for data analysis and managerial decision-making. Some of the topics include regression, forecasting, risk analysis, simulation, linear programming, data mining, and decision analysis. The course will emphasize on conducting analysis in a spreadsheet environment including XLMiner and Tableau.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

BU 665 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS   3.0 Credit(s)
This course describes the scope of international business and studies multinational enterprises in light of cultural, historical, political, and economic factors. Trade theories are examined in the context of international economics and finance. The focus then turns to the management of global operations, from initial entry into international markets to strategy development for the multinational enterprise.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 675 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION   3.0 Credit(s)
Provides students a better understanding on trending digital technologies and how they can be integrated into existing businesses to improve internal processes and increase touchpoints with their customers. Benefits may be realized all along the value chain and can range from simple cost and efficiency savings to the creation of new sources of revenues due to a reassessment of the existing business model.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

BU 687 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN GLOBAL MGMT   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores a variety of current issues and emerging trends affecting global business, utilizing a cross-disciplinary approach to the management of today's global enterprises. Prerequisite: Take WGB-521;
Offered: Obsolete - Summer Semester Even Academic Years

BU 699 SPECIAL TOPIC   1.0-6.0 Credit(s)
This course number is used for courses offered on a one-time basis or for courses being piloted.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

CS 602 ADV DATA STRUCTURE/ALGOR   3.0 Credit(s)
Explores the relationship between data structures and algorithms with a focus on space and time efficiency. This course will review recursion, data abstraction and complexity analysis, multilists, trees (including balanced binary trees, n-ary trees, and Btrees), hash tables, external sorting, graphs, and algorithm design techniques. Prerequisite: Take CS-501 or CS-502
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CS 603 ADV DATABASE DESIGN   3.0 Credit(s)
This course discusses goals and techniques in the design, implementation, and maintenance of large database management systems: physical and logical organization; file structures; indexing; entity relationship models; hierarchical, network, and relational models; normalization; query languages; and database logic.
Offered: Fall, Spring & Late Spring Sem All Years

CS 604 ADV. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING   3.0 Credit(s)
This advanced programming course reviews models and metrics for software engineering in the large: software life-cycle models, software modeling tools, design and analysis of software subsystems, management of software projects, test plans, configuration control, reliability, and metrics. Prerequisite: Take CS-501 and CS-603
Offered: Fall, Spring & Late Spring Sem All Years