Minors

BUAD 203 | 3 credits

A study of the use and preparation of financial information and the accounting system as an interpretative tool to communicate information about a variety of economic events to both internal and external users. Topics covered include the preparation and interpretation of financial statements for external users as well as managerial uses of accounting data, cost analysis, budgeting, and performance evaluation.

BUAD 301 | 3 credits

This course focuses on the financial reporting environment: evaluating the quality of the reported information, analyzing reporting choices, and assessing the role of financial information in resource allocation decisions. Topics traditionally included in intermediate accounting are covered by analyzing key business transactions on the financial statements and measures of performance evaluations such as profitability, competitiveness, and leverage. This course is designed to be taken as either a one-semester course or as part of a two-semester sequence with BUAD 302 - Advanced Financial Reporting and Analysis.

BUAD 302 | 3 credits

This course focuses on an advanced study of topics in financial reporting that are traditionally considered in intermediate accounting. Reporting issues related to topics such as pensions, stock options, and deferred taxes are considered with reference to original course materials and accounting research.

BUAD 303 | 3 credits

Applications of cost analysis to inventory valuation and income determination and planning and control of routine operations and non-routine decisions. This course emphasizes the relevance of cost concepts to modern decision tools. Substantial use of problems and cases.

BUAD 404 | 3 credits

Application of technology, modeling, statistics, and other auditing procedures within the framework of generally accepted auditing standards. Reporting, ethics, international practices, and case application are emphasized.

BUAD 405 | 3 credits

An analysis of the federal income tax laws. Development of conceptual awareness of federal income tax structure and tax planning and gaining ability to determine solutions to problems confronting the individual and business taxpayer.

BUAD 306 | 3 credits

This course introduces students to worldwide financial reporting standards, regulatory regimes, and capital markets. Students will gain an appreciation for how the above have developed differently across the countries due to cultural differences, economic differences, and variation in political and legal systems. Students will learn what these differences mean for analyzing and comparing companies. The course will also familiarize students with how multi-national companies identify and manage operational risks and risks related to foreign currency. Finally, students will learn about similarities and differences in how countries tackle other reporting issues, such as sustainability reporting and corporate tax policies.

BUAD 340 | 3 credits

This course exposes students to fundamental innovation and entrepreneurship frameworks and mindsets.

* This course may be taken before admission to the Business School and does not have any prerequisites.

BUAD 443 | 3 credits

Entrepreneurial Ventures focuses on the issues, decisions, and problems faced by entrepreneurial owners and innovators who wish to create and manage new or smaller enterprises, family businesses, technology-based enterprises, or franchises. Students will develop the knowledge and skill sets relevant for the creation, operation, and ultimate success of the venture based on enterprise.

BUAD 451 | 3 credits

Many business opportunities and decisions depend on an understanding of customers' values, needs, aspirations, and behaviors. These unique insights inform the development of products, services, and brands that are valued by customers and differentiated from competition. This course will be an immersive and experiential introduction to customer insights research, including fieldwork using a variety of qualitative research methods. In addition, these methods will be applied within the context of generating concepts for new products and services that address the insights identified.

ART 211 | 3 credits

Introduction to visual expressive concerns through lectures and projects in drawing, color, and design as they function two-dimensionally. Six studio hours. Additional fees apply.

ART 212 | 3 credits

Creative problem-solving in a variety of media dealing with the elements of three-dimensional form (line, surface, volume, mass, color, light, and space) and exploring concepts of image, message, process, style, and expression May be taken before ART 211. Six studio hours. Additional fees apply. See the class schedule for details and amounts.

APSC 251 | 3 credits

This experiential engineering design course will expose students to fundamental engineering concepts and tools.

BUAD 457 | 3 credits

A study of the processes of creativity and innovation in complex problem-solving, informed by both business and interdisciplinary approaches. Throughout the course, students engage in a mix of experiential, experimental, and reflective exercise designed to promote integrative and creative problem-solving, with an emphasis on the techniques, frameworks, and mindsets that drive innovation in organizations.

BUAD 492 | 3 credits

This hands-on course provides real-world, on-the-ground learning about how the Private Equity & Venture Capital industry runs, with a particular focus on how PE & VC deals are done.

BUAD 453 | 3 credits

Many companies are embracing sustainability as the inspiration and impetus for the next wave of product and service innovation. In this course, we will explore the reasons behind this growing interest in sustainability, what sustainability means to consumers and the opportunities it presents to companies that want to "do well while doing good." This course will also emphasize the process and outcome of product and service innovation, from creative idea generation to concept evaluation. Specifically, students will gain significant hands-on experience with the tools and techniques of "Design Thinking" in a studio setting, with a focus on developing innovative ideas that promote the principles of sustainability.

CSCI 420 | 3 credits

General approaches in entrepreneurship towards launching a startup company, including design thinking, customer development, and agile management, are combined with a file software development to develop a minimum viable software product.

BUAD 317 | 3 credits

This course develops the ability to recognize and manage human and behavioral factors in work settings. Topics include individual differences, group dynamics, motivation, and an introduction to organizational structure and leadership.

BUAD 430 | 3 credits

This course is designed to enhance students' understanding of current issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and to help them develop their distinctive voice as they cultivate an inclusion-focused professional future. The course utilizes current research, best practices, and lived experiences to demonstrate the inherent benefits of having a diverse workforce and how a diverse collection of skills and experiences equips companies to be globally competitive. Students learn to identify and leverage their unique strengths to help successfully drive diversity and inclusion initiatives in the modern world of work.

BUAD 435 | 3 credits

This course is designed to develop the knowledge and skills to enable students to improve the performance of most teams. Working in teams has become the norm in most organizations, yet most people have many misconceptions about what makes groups effective. Groups can be exhilarating or maddening. This course will cover work in a variety of teams, including project teams, self-directed teams, research teams, consulting teams, and multinational teams. Topics include team design, principles of selection, team performance management and rewards, managing transnational teams, and team facilitation.

BUAD 436 | 3 credits

This course explores the complex relationship between business and the wider social context in which it operates and the challenges leaders face in balancing their economic, ethical, legal, and citizenship, ecological and natural resource concerns, business-government relations, technological change, public relations, and corporate governance.

BUAD 437 | 3 credits

The course will focus on effective process design, change management, and transforming the organization through changes in process, people, and technology. Topics will include stakeholder analysis, goal/strategy alignment, generating buy-in, effectively informing processes, performance measurement and incentives.

BUAD 438 | 3 credits

This field-based course is designed to develop the ability to work with and through others in order to make effective contributions as a member of an organization. The course emphasizes developing a leadership orientation, understanding critical leadership issues, and developing appropriate leadership skills.

BUAD 442 | 3 credits

An examination and analysis of the cognitive factors that aid and hinder choosing alternative courses of action. The major emphasis will be on psychological processes underlying choice and judgment. Applications to business decisions and policy-making will be considered.

(Cross-listed with PSYC 442 - Psychology of Decision Making)

BUAD 482 | 3 credits

This course will focus on the concepts and tools related to the management of projects within organizations. Students will examine all phases of project management, including selection, planning, scheduling, control, and termination. Topics include writing project plans, developing work breakdown structures, project scheduling, resource management, earned value analysis, and project risk management.

BUAD 492 | 3 credits

A course designed for special topics and for special opportunities to utilize the expertise of a faculty member.

BUAD 231 | 3 credits

Basic concepts of statistical analysis within a business environment. Attention is given to solution methods via use of the computer.

BUAD 330 | 1 credit

This course is designed to complement functional courses in the Business Core Program by providing instruction in the use of application software. Typically the course will cover presentation software, spreadsheets, and database application. Graded pass/fail.

BUAD 350 | 3 credits

The objective of this course is to provide students with an introduction to the concepts of business analytics, operations management, and information systems. During this course, students will develop skills in analyzing business situations, developing visualization and decision models designed to effectively analyze and communicate and to identify expected risks and benefits associated with decisions based on the models developed.

BUAD 351 | 1.5 credits

This course focuses on operations knowledge essential to successful management. Topics include demand forecasting, process analysis, minimizing the effects of uncertainty in supply and demand, operational decision-making and other operations topics of current interest.

BUAD 352 | 1.5 credits

The objective of this course is to provide students with advanced skills in the most common business analytics tools of the modern workplace—namely Excel and its companion programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). During this course, students will develop visualization and decision models designed to effectively communicate the meaning of complex data sets and to identify the expected risks and returns associated with decisions about uncertain future events through the application of probability concepts and Monte Carlo simulation methods.

BUAD 461 | 3 credits

This course focuses on developing lean processes within a variety of operating environments. Tools and strategies leading to improved process management are included. The course also focuses on Six Sigma approaches to process quality and includes emphasis on tools and procedures for implementing Six Sigma strategies within organizations.

BUAD 463 | 3 credits

Mathematical optimization techniques and applied solutions for problems in logistics, distribution, facility location, transportation, and supply chain networks.

BUAD 465 | 3 credits

Over the last five years, technology, specifically the WEB, has revolutionized the way firms do business with each other. The usual stumbling blocks of poor information availability: incompatible organizational structures and information systems, and the high cost of collaboration are being "blown to bits" by tailored supply chain initiatives and web-centric software. This course will explore these initiatives and tools that firms are using to manage supply chains and B2B integration.

BUAD 460 | 3 credits

This course is designed to equip students with the kinds of analytical skills used in the era of Big Data to reveal the hidden patterns in and relationships among data elements being created by internal transaction systems, social media, and the Internet of Things. Students will use the open source programming language R for the development of Data Mining (and other statistically-based analytical solutions. No prior experience with programming is required.

BUAD 462 | 3 credits

Successful management of health delivery requires a scientific information-driven approach. This course explores the use of information and information-based technologies to address challenges in rising costs, quality of health outcomes, and timely access to those who need healthcare. Through hands-on analysis of industry data students will diagnose issues, identify alternatives and develop a plan to deliver value-based healthcare. Topics include a comparative analysis of healthcare in other nations, digitization of health processes, health informatics exchange, accountable care organizations, and business model innovations in health sector. Students will learn about regulatory reforms in US health sector and various career opportunities in health sector.

BUAD 466 | 3 credits

This course focuses on the collection, representation, and analysis of evidence in support of decision-making and process improvement. The course will examine hard and soft measures, criteria for evaluation, and performance measurement.

BUAD 467 | 3 credits

This course focuses on solving business problems with data using predictive techniques, particularly in situations where the problem statement is ambiguous. The course covers five integral elements of analysis including:

1. General problem framing
2. Framing analytics problems
3. Managing, evaluating and cleaning data
4. Methodology selection
5. Model building/reporting

BUAD 468 | 3 credits

This course focuses on solving business problems using prescriptive techniques. The course covers optimization models, including linear programming, and simulation models, including Monte Carlo simulation. This course will focus on how prescriptive modeling techniques can be used to make decisions for different business applications.

BUAD 469 | 3 credits

This course is designed to provide students with the skills necessary to develop advanced decision models using a variety of programming and database tools. These models apply concepts from probability theory and statistical inference across a broad range of business disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of Monte Carlo simulation models.

BUAD 482 | 3 credits

This course will focus on the concepts and tools related to the management of projects within organizations. Students will examine all phases of project management, including selection, planning, scheduling, control, and termination. Topics include writing project plans, developing work breakdown structures, project scheduling, resource management, earned value analysis, and project risk management.