Courses

MGT 403 MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS SKILLS   3.0 Credit(s)
Explores supervisory skills required to effectively manage and deal with people in the workplace. Emphasis is on strategic human resource issues of recruiting and managing to retain talent. Includes skillbuilding applications to practice supervisory skills such as interviewing, providing feedback, resolving team conflict, dealing with emotional behavior, and managing terminations. Business communication skills focus on effective written and oral communication used in business settings and in formal and informal presentations at work. Prerequisite: Take MGT-202 or PS-355 or PS-255
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

MGT 373 The Entrepreneurship Experience   3.0 Credit(s)
Students utilize their skills in various business disciplines to explore the passion of creativity. The course enables students to conceptualize and pursue the development of a new idea or concept or the improvement/new application of an existing product or service. Students utilize their knowledge of the market and competitive landscape, research, financial models, and management skills to determine the feasibility of a project and evaluate risk and the process of raising venture or risk capital. Prerequisite: Take MGT-101, FN-215, MK-201, AC-221 and junior or senior ýstanding
Offered: Fall Semester All Years

MGT 374 SMALL & FAMILY BUSINESS MGT   3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces the student to the challenges, opportunities, and rewards of owning a small business and provides the tools needed to be successful from startup through growth. The course is also directed to students who will enter into the management of family businesses, either their own family's or someone else's, and who will do business with family firms, consult with them, work with them in private wealth management, mergers and acquisitions, banking, consulting, outsourcing, etc. Prerequisite: Take MGT-101 or BU-201
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

MGT 380 GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS   3.0 Credit(s)
Supply Chain Management (SCM) encompasses the planning and management of all activities related to supply chain including sourcing, procurement, supply channels, design, optimization, demand forecasting, sales and operations planning (S&OP) supply chain trends and sustainability. Global Supply Chain Management integrates supply and demand management within domestic and global organizations. This course covers SCM concepts, strategies, processes, and management of lean production and Six Sigma quality issues, integration, tools, and technologies applied. Students will examine risk management, project management, quality management, cyber security, and ethical considerations.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

MGT 390 BUS. MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP   3.0-6.0 Credit(s)
Students are directly involved in various dimensions of business. Emphasis is on the practical application of business principles and skills to a specific industry or organization. An on-site business professional supervises students.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

MK 310 RETAILING AND MERCHANDISING   3.0 Credit(s)
Studies history and development of the retail function and its relationship to the wholesaler and manufacturer. Topics include store management, the buying function, elements of style and fashion, pricing policies, customer relations, store location, and sources of supply. Examines retail mathematics including markup, markdown, and turnover. Prerequisite: Take MK-201
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

MK 320 CONSUMER BEHAVIOR   3.0 Credit(s)
Explores various fields of knowledge necessary to understand marketing behavior. Materials from psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, and history are used in conjunction with marketing problems. Examines consumers in terms of both individual and group buying behavior patterns; the consumer's process of arriving at buying decisions is appraised at both the retail and non-retail levels. Prerequisite: Take MK-201
Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer Sems All Years

MK 425 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING   3.0 Credit(s)
Provides a broad-based understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and problems associated with international marketing. Emphasis is on understanding other cultures and current events and how they affect international marketing. Classroom work is supplemented with case studies, current readings, videos, and speakers who are active in the field. Prerequisite: Take MK-201
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters Contact Department

MK 430 MARKETING MANAGEMENT   3.0 Credit(s)
Studies the effective management of the marketing mix. The case approach assists in viewing the marketing manager's efforts as coordinated with the contributions of the firm's segments. Provides understanding of marketing decision-making as being wholly related to the firm's goals, with a view to the larger context of society itself. Prerequisite: Take MK-201 and MK-320
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

MK 335 DIGITAL ADVERTISING   3.0 Credit(s)
This course is an introduction to the rapidly evolving and dynamic digital-advertising sector (e.g., search, display, social, and mobile advertising). Recent changes in consumer behavior and opportunities, problems, tactics, and strategies associated with incorporating electronic methods into the marketing communications function are examined. The course also includes discussion of current metrics used to gauge the effectiveness of digital advertising. Prerequisite: Take MK-201
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

SM 305 SPORT SPONSORSHIP   3.0 Credit(s)
Examines the unique dimensions of corporate sponsorship. Emphasis is placed on proven sponsorship sales techniques, the dynamics of selling sport sponsorships, and on an analysis of the global sponsorship market and the necessary steps needed to generate sponsorships revenues for sports events. Insights into creating a sponsorship inventory, research base, and sales plan are provided. Prerequisite: Take SM-265
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years

HINF 410 INFORMATION TECH. OVERVIEW   3.0 Credit(s)
An overview of technologies that support healthcare information systems. This includes system software, system analysis and design, data management, networks and data communication, information processing distribution schemes, information systems architecture, system standards, and security.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

HINF 420 INTRO TO LANG & CULTURE OF HE   3.0 Credit(s)
Introduction to organization, economic, culture, policy, and terminology of healthcare for non-health professionals. This also introduces the students to fundamental terminology, practices, and processes found in clinical and business operations.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

DA 310 SOCIAL ISSUES THROUGH DANCE   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores various current events and historical, social, and political issues as represented through dance. Through this course students will have a deeper understanding of a range of social issues as well as knowledge of how greater global awareness can be achieved through dance.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

ED 454 SEC. CURRICULUM: ENGLISH   3.0 Credit(s)
Explores National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and state curriculum standards for grades 7-12. Philosophical, psychological, and practical implementation of curriculum in the secondary classroom is emphasized. Candidates develop subject specific curricula appropriate to English. Students will also examine and discuss a number of current curriculum issues that impact the secondary school. The content of this course will focus primarily on putting theory into practice. To that end, this course will emphasize the practical aspects of how a school district writes curriculum with an emphasis on both process and product.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years