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BUS 110 - INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS
4 credit hours; 4 class hours
Provides the basic understanding of five functions of business. All business enterprises require fundamentals in operations, marketing, finance, accounting, and management. Other topics covered include the global environment, entrepreneurship, quality and how economics affect business.
An introduction to the supervisor's role in management. Challenges for supervisors include planning, problem solving, organizing, staffing, training, leading and working with individuals and teams along with controlling costs and improving results.
A study of the principles and practices relating to the successful management of modern business. Topics include planning, organizing, designing, and decision making. Ethics and organizational change are also covered. Cases are used to provide practice in the application of management concepts.
Surveys the opportunities and challenges faced in an increasingly digital world. More and more product information and selling strategies are linked to the world-wide web. Topics include the buying and selling processes supported by electronic means.
Survey of the sources and nature of American law administrative law, the federal court system, the litigation process, basic tort law relating to business, product liability law, contract law, property law, agency and employment law, partnership law, corporate law, antitrust law, securities regulation, business ethics and social responsibility. TAG course.
Provides a conceptual understanding of the skills, duties, and responsibilities required of modern, professional salespeople. Both the concepts and the applicatory student exercises are presented and practiced from within an organizational business-to-business context. Course emphasis is placed upon enabling the student to generate effective applications of the Marketing Concept Strategy for both manufacturing and service organizations.
Allows a student to gain knowledge while working at a practicum site. The practicum site will provide learning experiences consistent with the student's interests and learning desires while meeting the approval of the department. Requires a minimum of 14 hours per week of an approved business site and one hour per week in consultation with a faculty member. Responsibility for securing a practicum site rests with the student.
Quarters Available: Day - Offered based on need; Evening - Offered based on need.
Prerequisite(s): BUS1210 and BUS148 and ENG101 and MTH110.
Investigates a variety of functions considered essential to the personnel function of institutions including job analysis, recruiting, selection, motivation, training, evaluation and career development. Special attention is paid to federal hiring requirements and the issues of health and safety.
Develops an understanding of the economic and social environment within which small concerns function. Provides the student assistance in career choice and finally, to afford practice in decision making under conditions of uncertainty and incomplete facts.
Recognized as an essential function in any successful organization. Leading corporations have demonstrated that improved quality raises profits, reduces costs, and provides competitive advantage. This course will explore the foundations of quality; tools and methods for analytic study and administrative systems for quality management.
Explores the essential nature and strategic role of logistical operations for the American business enterprise. Included will be the design and control of the flow of goods, services and personnel to its destination and management of the flow within the supply chain. Focus will include inventory, warehousing, packaging, environmental concerns, and transportation modes.
Major communicative tools for businesses of any size. The student will consider the whys and hows of these persuasive tools as they relate to strategy for both retail and industrial firms. Areas to be studied include research, setting objectives, positioning, message selection, layout, copy media, evaluation, budgeting and control with a focus on local advertising strategies. TAG course.
Designed to give students a basic understanding of exporting and importing functions that relate to goods, services, employment, and marketing/management opportunities. Topics include significance and benefits of international trade, the positions of the United States and Ohio in international trade, how to get started in international trade, international marketing techniques, international finance, transportation, and marketing/management opportunities, foreign customs, foreign government regulations, and employment opportunities.
Helps the student understand behavior in different cultural, political, economic, and economic geographic setting in order to engage in export and import activities. Targeted areas include: the Middle East, Africa, the Far East, South/Central America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and other areas of special interest.
An application course in which some of the methods of identifying and solving business problems are applied to case studies. Emphasis is given to qualitative analysis and the application of the material and concepts taught in previous courses.
Quarters Available: Day - Sp; Evening – Sp.
Prerequisite(s): ACC111, and BUS121 or BUS226, and BUS148, plus any writing course.
Challenges the student to consider personal, managerial, and organizational ethics as prerequisites for sound decision making. A strong focus, when possible, will be applied to identifying ethically correct and socially responsible decisions. Current and classical examples from the macro and micro environments of the business enterprises will be thoroughly discussed.
Presents a specific topic in Business Administration that is not normally covered in the current Business Administration curriculum. Credit hours and topics will be pre-approved by the academic administration.
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