Course Descriptions

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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

BA2280 Cooperative Work Experience
1-8 credits (3-24 lab hrs/wk)
This course provides the student with an opportunity to gain on-the-job
experience in coordinator approved business situations that closely parallel the field of study.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent.

BA101 Introduction to Business
4 credits (4 lec hrs/wk)
This course surveys American business organization, operation, and management. This course develops an awareness of the nature of business in the capital system. Introduction is made to the fields of ownership, organization, personnel, accounting, financing, marketing, management, production, insurance, real estate, foreign trade, and government regulations.

BA156 Essentials of Economics
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course introduces the subject of economics in a practical business-oriented sense. The course relies on current events and practical applications. The content includes supply and demand, fiscal and monetary policies, and international trade.
Prerequisite: MTH94 with a “C” or better, or appropriate score on placement test.

BA177 Payroll Records and Accounting
3 credits (3 lec 1 lab hrs/wk)
Provides practice in all payroll operations, the recording of accounting entries involving payroll and the preparation of payroll tax returns required of businesses.
Prerequisite: AC2766 or BA211 with a “C” or better.

BA198/298 Independent Study in Business
1-3 credits (hrs to be arranged)
Prerequisite: Instructor consent.

BA206 Management Fundamentals
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
The course explores the duties of managers and the techniques they use to improve organizational performance. The course focuses on four key responsibilities of management: planning, organizing, leading, and control.

BA211 Principles of Accounting I
4 credits (4 lec hrs/wk)
Discusses the theory, principles, and procedures for organizing, interpreting, and reporting the financial transactions of business or industry. Describes and discusses the problems of properly recording and measuring income and expense. Specialized areas such as merchandise inventory, special journals, cash, and receivables are discussed.
Prerequisite: MTH70 with a “C” or better, or appropriate score on placement test.

BA212 Principles of Accounting II
4 credits (4 lec hrs/wk)
Discusses the theory and principles of recording financial records, including accounting systems, management control, depreciation, merchandise inventory, evaluation, partnership and corporate accounting, capital stock, investments, statement of cash flow, and dividends.
Prerequisite: AC2767 or BA211 with a “C” or better.

BA213 Principles of Accounting III
(Managerial Accounting)
4 credits (4 lec hrs/wk)
This course will cover cost accounting for manufacturing plants, income taxes and their effect on business decisions and analysis of financial statements.
Prerequisite: BA212 with a “C” or better.

BA215 Cost Accounting
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course develops techniques for determining product costs under job order, process and standard costing, and introduces cost analysis for decision making.
Prerequisite: BA212 with a “C” or better.

BA217 Accounting Process
3 credits (3 lec, 1 lab hr/wk)
Review and apply basic accounting systems in practical applications. These will range from working with journals and ledgers, to the application of accounting systems on a microcomputer and analyzing financial statements.
Prerequisite: AC2767 or BA211 with a “C” or better.

BA220 Tax Accounting
(Personal Income Tax)
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
A beginning course in federal income tax preparation. Business taxes as they relate to a single proprietor will be briefly discussed.
Prerequisite: AC2766 or BA211.

BA222 Finance
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course covers the procedures, practices and policies of financial managers.
It deals with financial management, financial markets, financial analysis, working capital management, and long-term financing decisions.
Prerequisite: BA212 and MTH94 with a “C” or better.

BA223 Principles of Marketing
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
Surveys the nature, significance, and scope of marketing. Emphasis upon the customers (marketing analysis and strategy), business marketing decisions
in promotion, distribution, and pricing, and control of marketing programs.

BA224 Human Resource Management
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
The student will be introduced to personnel functions as they relate to the management of the human resources of an organization. Areas of concentration will include employee selection, training, and compensation.
Prerequisite: BA206 with a “C” or better.

BA230 Business Law
4 credits (4 lec hrs/wk)
This course introduces the student to the legal environment of business. Students will explore/understand the specific legal issues in conducting business. Topics include: the Legal Environment as well as Tort, Contract, Sales, Agency, Real/ Personal Property, Partnership, and Corporation Law.

BA232/MTH243 Business Statistics
4 credits (4 lec hrs/wk)
Introduces elementary statistics techniques to aid decision-making in the business environment. Emphasis is on statistical inference, probability, sampling, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
Prerequisite: MTH95 with a “C” or better.

BA233 E-Marketing
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course introduces the Internet as a marketing tool. The student will be exposed to the strategies necessary to successfully market online.
Prerequisites: BA239 and CS195.

BA236 Electronic Commerce Fundamentals
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course will examine the use of electronic commerce from three perspectives: business-to-consumers, business-to-business, and intra-organizational. Through readings and case studies, both current and prospective e-commerce practices will be identified.
Prerequisite: BA223 with a “C” or better.

BA238 Sales
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course involves the role of sales as an integral part of the total marketing function. The application of selling to behavioral science will be included, with special emphasis on sales psychology, sales techniques, and the fundamental principles of sales communications.
Prerequisite: BA223 with a “C” or better.

BA239 Advertising
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
A detailed examination of the purpose, preparation, placement, and analysis of the various types of advertisements and relative merits of media such as television, radio, and the newspaper. Involves practice in the planning and analysis of complete advertising campaigns and their coordination with other marketing strategies.
Prerequisite: BA223 with a “C” or better.

BA242 Introduction to Investments
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
An introduction to American securities markets including exchanges, over-the-counter markets, bond markets, options markets, and the money market. Investment strategies, margin purchases, short selling, and efficient market theory will also be introduced. Reading financial news and corporation reports will also be covered.

BA249 Retailing
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
A study of retail strategy, structure and management. The course stresses the role of the supervisor in the daily operation of retail work.
Prerequisite: BA223 with a “C” or better.

BA250 Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course covers the basic principles of business entrepreneurship, including planning, organizing, innovation, staffing, and controlling, stressing those elements needed for financial achievement and personal reward.
Prerequisite: BA223 with a “C” or better.

BA277 Business Ethics
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course is designed to make the student aware of the ethical issues currently facing business and to provide a background against which the student may evaluate and/or compare his or her own ethical views/stands.

BA280 Field Experience
1-8 credits (3-24 lab hrs/wk)
Practical on-site experience that will allow students to test knowledge learned in the classroom and explore the variety of workplaces in which to apply that knowledge.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent.

BA285 Human Relations in Organizations
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course explores interactions in organizations by examining human perceptions, communications, small group dynamics and leadership. Includes the dynamics of change, cultural diversity, substance abuse, work stress, ethics and social responsibility, career development, and the challenges of globalization.

BA288 Customer Service
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This course provides a thorough introduction to customer service skills. The skills, strategies and techniques covered in this course are valuable for every job, since identifying and satisfying customer needs is at the heart of every business.

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