Establishing procedures for complex projects, organizing teams, improving efficiency and achieving cost-effective results are at the forefront of a career in project management. THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY’s online B.S. in business administration with a concentration in project management prepares graduates for a career path that focuses on managing project workflow, efficiency and success. The degree program is designed to improve students’ abilities to motivate employees as well as concentrate on the importance of personal values, moral excellence and professional competence in the workplace.
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Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Finance
August 21, 2018
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE FIRE ADMINISTRATION
August 21, 2018
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Project Management
The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree equips graduates with a knowledge of business theories, policies, and procedures that prepares them to assume a responsible position within the world of business. In addition to fundamental business and management procedures, graduates also acquire skills in decision-making, problem solving, and leadership.
Categories: BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAMS, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Tags: BACHELOR DEGREE, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, Project Management
Upon completion of the program, students should be able to do the following:
- Interpret business concepts, principles, and financial strategies.
- Examine the effects of globalization on their work environment.
- Analyze financial statements.
- Apply managerial decision making through utilizing best practices in business.
- Recommend measures to prevent project risk.
- Analyze and plan for project constraints.
The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree program equips graduates with a knowledge of business theories, policies, and procedures that prepares them to assume a responsible position within the world of business. In addition to fundamental business and management procedures, graduates also acquire skills in decision making, problem solving, and leadership.
Designed for professionals who seek to enhance their ability to motivate people, integrate complex projects, and achieve cost-effective results. The concentration also refines a student’s commitment to personal values and moral excellence as well as professional competence.
Major Requirements | Total Required Semester Hours: 36
Major Requirements – Group A : Total Required Semester Hours: 30 HOURS
BBA 2010 Introduction to Business
BBA 2010 Introduction to Business (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents the fundamentals of business principles and practices. Business strategies emphasized are decision making and planning, teamwork, technology, and communication. Topics include analysis of the business environment, starting a new business, managing business and employees, marketing, accounting, and finance.
Outcomes
- Identify basic business concepts.
- Examine the different environments in which businesses operate, to include social, technological, economic, legal, and market.
- Explain management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
- Identify the basic principles of marketing.
- Determine the function and role of human resources, including key aspects of human resource management.
- Discuss the importance of ethics and social responsibility in business.
- Evaluate concepts associated with entrepreneurship.
- Explain how outsourcing, offshoring, and foreign entities affect the operation of businesses in the United States.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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BHR 3352 Human Resource Management
BHR 3352 Human Resource Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Provides a management-oriented exploration of human resource management, structure, functional applications, and labor management relations. Focus is placed on managers and leaders within organizations and their responsibility to optimize performance and make decisions based on ethical criteria.
Outcomes
- Compare and contrast effective human resource management strategies.
- Estimate the impact of legal provisions on human resource management.
- Evaluate the components of workforce planning.
- Recommend basic human resource management (HRM) principles to develop a recruiting program for an organization.
- Relate different selection criteria and selection methods to organizational considerations.
- Appraise the importance of project management processes for launching training programs in organizations, to include planning, design, implementation, and evaluation.
- Analyze the roles and responsibilities of organizational leaders in the safety and health of employees.
- Critically evaluate the challenges to human resource management in a global corporation.
- Formulate a compensation strategy that aligns with an organization’s business strategy.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Human resource management: Linking strategy to practice (Rev: 3rd ed.)
Publisher: Wiley (2015)
Author: Stewart, G. L., & Brown, K. G.
ISBN: 9781119185635
Price: $147.23
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 3201 Principles of Marketing
BBA 3201 Principles of Marketing (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Provides an introduction to the functions of marketing. Discusses the influence of social, economic, ethical, legal, and technological forces on marketing activities, and marketing around the globe in a socially responsible way. Features real-world examples that show concepts in action and how marketers address today’s marketing challenges.
Outcomes
- Explain the concept of value proposition.
- Apply the market segmentation process to identify target markets.
- Use a target market to develop a marketing mix.
- Relate the importance of product positioning to brand strategy.
- Examine an organization’s pricing strategies.
- Discuss supply chain and logistics management in marketing.
- Explore factors that influence promotional strategies.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 3210 Business Law
BBA 3210 Business Law (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Provides an introduction to three major disciplines: law, ethics, and business legal organizations. Students gain knowledge of contracts, the Uniform Commercial Code, administrative regulations, dispute resolutions modalities, and international business law. Ethical business behaviors are stressed throughout the course as well. Students are provided suggested guidelines for being both successful and ethical. Business legal organizations are also explored, providing students a broad overview of shareholder protections, tax implications, and management styles.
Outcomes
- Explain Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code pertaining to all types of transactions.
- Interpret contract and lease assignments.
- Evaluate delegation of contractual performance.
- Demonstrate research skills using all modalities available for legal issues.
- Define the limitations of all forms of business ownership.
- Classify the different types of intellectual property.
- Explain the basic elements of forming an enforceable contract.
- Analyze business ethics in legal matters.
- Explain the need for promoting business social responsibility.
- Summarize the implications for third-party liability regarding various forms of agency.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Dynamic business law: The essentials (Rev: 3rd ed.)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (2016)
Author: Kubasek, N., Browne, M. N., Herron, D. J., Dhooge, L. J., & Barkacs, L.
ISBN: 978-0-07-802384-2
Price: $167.70
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 3301 Financial Management
BBA 3301 Financial Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Bridges financial management with corporate finance. Students apply financial data for use in decision making by applying financial theory to problems faced by commercial enterprises. Introduces students to basic financial theory, financial forecasting, time value of money techniques, and risk analysis. Other areas covered involve analyzing financial statements with ratios, valuing securities, capital budgeting, and calculating weighted average cost of capital.
Outcomes
- Explain foundational finance theories.
- Analyze a forecast using relevant data.
- Apply time value of money techniques to various pricing (valuation) and budgeting problems.
- Apply measures of risk in financial analysis.
- Conduct preliminary financial statement and ratio analysis.
- Evaluate stock and bond valuation.
- Perform a capital budgeting analysis.
- Calculate weighted average cost of capital used in capital budgeting analysis.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Financial management: Principles and applications (Rev: 12th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2014)
Author: Titman, S., Keown, A. J., & Martin, J. D.
ISBN: 978-0-13-342382-2
Price: $225.88
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 3551 Information Systems Management
BBA 3551 Information Systems Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Provides a comprehensive overview of the management of information systems and the combination of hardware, software, and people vital to the successful business operation. The strategic role of information systems is examined, as well as the characteristics of computer systems, software applications, programming languages, and relational databases.
Outcomes
- Analyze the key differences between data, information, information technology (IT), and information systems (IS).
- Explain the similarities and differences of personal knowledge management tools.
- Examine the importance of mobile systems with regard to securing information and knowledge.
- Explain how information systems can be used to gain and sustain competitive advantage.
- Evaluate the approaches to developing organizational knowledge management strategies.
- Assess the key issues involved in managing the components of IT infrastructure.
- Summarize the requirements for successful collaboration in information systems management.
- Evaluate major types of hardware and software used by organizations.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Using MIS (Rev: 10th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2018)
Author: Kroenke, D.
ISBN: 9780134606996
Price: (No information available)
UCertify: Integrated Learning Resource.
Publisher: UCertify
Author: Pearson.
ISBN: (No information available)
Price: (No information available)
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 2201 Principles of Accounting I
BBA 2201 Principles of Accounting I (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Provides an introduction to business accounting. Topics include accounting concepts and principles, financial statements, internal control design, and accounting for partnerships. Students demonstrate knowledge and comprehension of the foundational theories and methodological tools utilized in accounting. Theoretical constructs are applied to solve real-world accounting applications.
Outcomes
- Examine the accounting cycle.
- Identify business transactions.
- Generate inventory systems and costing methods.
- Appraise the classes and transactions of liabilities.
- Formulate financial statements according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Analyze financial statements to inform decision makers.
- Evaluate internal accounting controls.
- Compare International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Horngren’s accounting (Rev: 11th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2016)
Author: Miller-Nobles, T., Mattison, B., & Matsumura, E. M.
ISBN: 978-0-13-385678-1
Price: $267.61
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 3651 Leadership
BBA 3651 Leadership (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents the importance of leadership in conjunction with various leadership traits, styles, and qualities. Enhances the importance of having a vision, the motivation to lead, social motives in the workplace, levels of morality and values, and the significance of empowerment for effective leadership. Topics include situational leadership, organizational climate, moral dilemmas, personal integrity, servant leadership, participative management, human relations, high-performance teams, diversity, cultural and interpersonal differences, workplace stress, performance management, and organizational change.
Outcomes
- Analyze the significance of the concept of leadership and the different leadership styles.
- Distinguish between the importance of vision, the motive to lead, and organizational climate.
- Explore various aspects of effective leadership, to include influence, follower motivation and effective followership.
- Illustrate the role of ethics and values in guiding organizational behavior.
- Articulate globalization and the resulting cultural implications of leadership, including unique considerations for leading multicultural teams.
- Analyze the role of leadership in decision-making processes that serve to establish an organizational climate oriented to meet business goals.
- Analyze methods used to effectively manage groups and teams.
- Evaluate different aspects of organizational change.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 4951 Business Policy and Strategy
BBA 4951 Business Policy and Strategy (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines strategic management activities and benefits, including a practical, integrative model of the strategic-management process and the important relationship between business ethics and strategic management.
Outcomes
- Analyze the nuances of strategic management.
- Correlate the characteristics of vision and mission to business success.
- Analyze external and internal audit processes.
- Evaluate policy creation strategies.
- Diagram the strategy analysis process.
- Identify the process of selecting an industry appropriate strategy.
- Establish a strategic management follow-up process.
- Examine the process of implementing strategies across business operations.
- Assess the strategy evaluation process.
- Diagram the strategy review and control process.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Strategic management: A competitive advantage approach, concepts and cases (Rev: 15th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2015)
Author: David, F. R., & David, F. R.
ISBN: 978-0-13-344479-7
Price: (No information available)
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 4751 Business Ethics
BBA 4751 Business Ethics (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Provides an introduction to business ethics that sets forth and applies various philosophical ethical doctrines, including relativism, virtue ethics, and utilitarianism to contemporary business practices. Corporate social responsibility, corporate culture, and their impact are analyzed. Philosophical ethical concepts are reviewed with reference to the applicable legal landscape in which businesses operate, including employment, workplace monitoring, accounting and financial reporting, and product liability.
Outcomes
- Analyze the philosophical concept of ethics, its practical applicability to business, and its distinction from the law.
- Relate ethical behavior to high-profile events.
- Examine regulatory and sustainability market approaches to a business’s environmental responsibilities.
- Examine the role of leadership in corporate culture, leadership styles, and how they affect ethical decision-making.
- Summarize ethics in financial responsibilities affecting and controlling public and private companies, including those required by Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Evaluate the ethical considerations of executive compensation and insider trading.
- Explore the professional ethics and responsibilities of intermediaries, the responsibilities and loyalty of managers, and the responsibilities of employees to the community.
- Analyze the ethical considerations governing marketing practices.
- Identify ethical considerations related to child labor and sweatshops.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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Major Requirements – Group B : Total Required Semester Hours: 6 HOURS
BBA 3826 Managerial Decision Making
BBA 3826 Managerial Decision Making (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Investigates the theory of decision making, including the process of rational decision making and the various problems associated with making rational decisions. Ethics and fairness in decision making are highlighted as well as the various ways to improve decision making, both as an individual and as a member of a group.
Outcomes
- Summarize the foundations of managerial decision-making.
- Examine the rational decision-making process.
- Explore the psychological aspects of decision-making.
- Evaluate the role of fairness and ethics in managerial decision-making.
- Consider how motivation and emotion impact managerial decision-making.
- Outline the decision-analysis approach to negotiations.
- Discuss the methods for improving managerial decision-making.
- Summarize best practices for managerial decision-making.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Managerial decision making
Publisher: THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Author: THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Ed.).
ISBN: VST-SE-BBA3826-073117
Price: (No information available)
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 3602 Principles of Management
BBA 3602 Principles of Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents the dynamics involved in managing organizations within the construct of today’s global environment. The course provides students with an opportunity to study and discuss the functions and elements of management. Topics include the principles of management as they pertain to leadership, strategic decision making, motivation, goal-framing effects, organizational design and change, perceptions, high-performance teams, and group behavior.
Outcomes
- Analyze the impact of change and innovation in organizational processes.
- Evaluate the role of strategic planning in organizations.
- Recommend ways to motivate employees by applying a human behavior theory, a leadership theory, and a leadership style.
- Recognize the impact of ethics on shaping an organization.
- Explore the value of corporate social responsibility.
- Identify the impact of different types of leadership on organizational behavior.
- Discuss the value of human capital in an organization.
- Relate resource management to strategic planning in an organization.
- Define the five components of management: planning, organization, staffing, directing, and control.
- Apply managerial skills, principles and decision-making strategies to the implementation of business best practices.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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Concentration Courses : Total Required Semester Hours: 12 HOURS
BBA 2026 Organizational Communication
BBA 2026 Organizational Communication (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines the communication process as it pertains to modern organizations from the perspectives of various organizational members. Topics include elements of the communication process, responsibilities of communicators at various levels, methods of verbal and nonverbal communication in organizations, factors that affect intercultural communication, role of organizational culture, and strategies to manage conflict.
Outcomes
- Determine communication processes that guide organizational behavior.
- Employ communication techniques for effective strategic planning.
- Explain communication techniques that improve employee trust and engagement.
- Relate effective communication techniques to public relations and marketing.
- Recommend communication techniques that are effective in managing conflict.
- Integrate strategies of communication for managing organizational performance.
- Summarize the differences in communication styles of managers vs. leaders.
- Create a communication strategy that fosters change and innovation.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 2926 Introduction to Project Management
BBA 2926 Introduction to Project Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Explores the history and development of project management and the project management process framework. This course provides an overview of the five project management process groups, including initiating, planning, executing, controlling and monitoring, and closing.
Outcomes
- Implement a basic project schedule.
- Define project management as a series of activities and tasks.
- Explain how the project triple constraint is used to manage a project.
- Discuss risk as a measure of not achieving a defined project goal.
- Design a simple project communication plan.
- Analyze the growth of project management from 1945 until present day.
- Clarify the role of project procurement.
- Identify factors impacting the control of project costs.
- Create a general overview of quality project management techniques.
- Examine project teams.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Project management in practice (Rev: 5th ed.)
Publisher: Wiley (2014)
Author: Meridith, J. R., Shafer, S. M., Mantel, S. J., Jr., & Sutton, M. M.
ISBN: 978-1-118-67466-6
Price: $136.02
Project management absolute beginner’s guide (Rev: 3rd ed.)
Publisher: Que (2013)
Author: Horine, G. M.
ISBN: 978-0-7897-5010-5
Price: $38.99
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 3626 Project Management Overview
BBA 3626 Project Management Overview (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
An introduction to modern project management practices and techniques. Examines current terminology, definitions, and conventions along with the different objectives, roles, and responsibilities of individual project team members.
Outcomes
- Identify project management concepts.
- Examine the steps for identifying projects and developing their proposals.
- Identify scope, quality, responsibility, activity sequence, and schedule of a project.
- Determine the budget requirements for a project to include earned value.
- Analyze risks by identifying their potential impact.
- Analyze a project team’s characteristics in its entirety.
- Identify the steps for closing a project.
- Describe the project management organizational structure roles, including responsibilities and skills of the project manager.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Contemporary project management (Rev: 3rd ed.)
Publisher: Cengage Learning (2015)
Author: Kloppenborg, T.
ISBN: 9781285433356
Price: $266.14
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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BBA 3826 Managerial Decision Making
BBA 3826 Managerial Decision Making (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Investigates the theory of decision making, including the process of rational decision making and the various problems associated with making rational decisions. Ethics and fairness in decision making are highlighted as well as the various ways to improve decision making, both as an individual and as a member of a group.
Outcomes
Summarize the foundations of managerial decision-making.
Examine the rational decision-making process.
Explore the psychological aspects of decision-making.
Evaluate the role of fairness and ethics in managerial decision-making.
Consider how motivation and emotion impact managerial decision-making.
Outline the decision-analysis approach to negotiations.
Discuss the methods for improving managerial decision-making.
Summarize best practices for managerial decision-making.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Managerial decision making
Publisher: THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Author: THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Ed.).
ISBN: VST-SE-BBA3826-073117
Price: (No information available)
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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GENERAL EDUCATION | Total Required Semester Hours: 36
History
HY 1010 Western Civilization I
HY 1010 Western Civilization I (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Traces the history of western civilization, examining developments in western thought and culture from the earliest recorded civilizations to the 18th century.
Outcomes
- Analyze how early and contemporary Western cultures define Western Civilization.
- Analyze the political, cultural, and social contexts out of which the West developed.
- Evaluate the causes and effects of major historical events, including the influence of key individuals, institutions, and ideologies.
- Evaluate significant developments of Western culture in art, literature, history, and architecture.
- Analyze Western written and visual materials of a historical nature.
- Appraise relevant and irrelevant sources or evidence.
- Create conclusions through the examination of facts about Western Civilization.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
A history of Western society: From antiquity to the enlightenment (Rev: 11th ed., Vol. 1)
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s (2014)
Author: McKay, J. P., Hill, B. D., Buckler, J., Crowston, C. H., Weisner-Hanks, M. E., & Perry, J.
ISBN: 978-1-4576-4222-7
Price: $130.00
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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HY 1020 Western Civilization II
HY 1020 Western Civilization II (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Traces the history of Western civilization, examining developments in Western thought and culture from the 18th century through the 21st century.
Outcomes
- Describe the evolution of philosophy in the modern West.
- Discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution.
- Describe the migration of peoples across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Contrast political systems in the Western world.
- Explain the changing scope of Western civil roles.
- Analyze worldwide political conflict in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Discuss the role of a nation as a world superpower.
- Utilize academic resources within the field of history to develop creative and well-reasoned arguments.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
A history of Western society: Vol. 2. From the age of exploration to the present (Rev: 12th ed., concise ed.)
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s (2017)
Author: McKay, J. P., Crowston, C. H., Wiesner-Hanks, M. E., & Perry, J.
ISBN: 9781319073893
Price: $70.20
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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Humanities and Fine Arts
ART 1301 Art Appreciation I
ART 1301 Art Appreciation I (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents a diverse array of art works to help students distinguish artistic form, content, and importance in society. Original art works are analyzed through their historic style, elements of design process, and impact on cultural heritage.
Outcomes
- Justify visual arts in relation to history and culture.
- Examine the characteristics of works of art, including the purpose and structure of the work.
- Interpret artworks using the elements of design.
- Analyze artworks using the application of media, techniques, and processes.
- Recognize an artwork or artist by style and time period.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Prebles’ artforms: An introduction to the visual arts (Rev: 11th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2014)
Author: Frank, P.
ISBN: 9780205968114
Price: $140.53
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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PHL 1010 Critical Thinking
PHL 1010 Critical Thinking (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Explores different methods of enhancing the quality of learning and life by systematically improving an individual’s way of thinking.
Outcomes
- Recognize the traits of the fair-minded thinker.
- Explain the concept of intellectual standards for thinking.
- Develop questions that result in critical thinking.
- Apply analytical reasoning to a variety of situations.
- Identify strategies for self-assessment.
- Apply decision-making patterns that result in problem-solving.
- Recognize bias and fallacies in messages from mass media and other sources.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life (Rev: 3rd ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2012)
Author: Paul, R., & Elder, L.
ISBN: 9780132180917
Price: $72.09
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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English Composition
EH 1010 English Composition I
EH 1010 English Composition I (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Introduces the basic concepts and requirements of college-level writing. This course provides students with the opportunity to implement effective communication skills via the written word.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate proper use of Standard Written English and the conventions of APA documentation style.
- Employ the concepts of audience and perspective when approaching others in the writing situation.
- Construct different genres of writing.
- Effectively incorporate relevant academic sources containing both qualitative and quantitative data.
- Demonstrate critical reading skills that translate to improvement in writing practices, such as the crafting of effective sentences and paragraphs.
- Utilize pre-writing and planning strategies for the writing process.
- Assert argumentative thesis statements that are supported by structured essays that have an introduction, body, and conclusion.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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EH 1020 English Composition II
EH 1020 English Composition II (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Provides an advanced introduction to the basic concepts and requirements of college-level writing. The course includes additional skills, methods, and techniques to improve and polish the student’s completed written documents.
Outcomes
- Implement ideas of the writing situation, genre, and audience learned in English Composition I.
- Develop an academically valid research topic.
- Identify parts of an argument through persuasive writing.
- Conduct research resulting in an annotated bibliography.
- Produce an argumentative research paper.
- Utilize the accepted APA style and conventions.
PreRequisites
- EH 1010
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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Mathematics
MAT 1301 Liberal Arts Math
MAT 1301 Liberal Arts Math (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Introduces non-technical applications of mathematics in the modern world. Cultivates an appreciation of the significance of mathematics in daily life and develops students’ mathematical reasoning. Subjects include quantitative information in real-world situations, geometry, statistics, and probability.
Outcomes
- Apply mathematical principles used in real-world situations.
- Relate numerical concepts to problem-solving applications.
- Perform computations with real numbers.
- Apply geometric principles to solve problems.
- Demonstrate counting techniques.
- Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts of statistics.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Mathematics all around (Rev: 5th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2014)
Author: Pirnot, T.
ISBN: 978-0-321-83699-1
Price: $97.89
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Natural Science
BIO 1302 Ecology and the Environment
BIO 1302 Ecology and the Environment (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Introduces basic ecological concepts and their relevance to human impacts on natural systems. Students explore ecosystem structure and function, population ecology, and current environmental issues related to sustainability and the use of natural resources.
Outcomes
- Explain the importance of ecological concepts in everyday life.
- Describe the various factors that affect population growth regulation.
- Identify the various ways in which organisms interact with their environment.
- Summarize the importance of biodiversity within the environment.
- Detail the global exchange of nutrients through biogeochemical cycles.
- Describe the various factors that affect the evolution of ecological systems.
- Identify ways in which ecology can be used to solve environmental issues.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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BIO 1100 Non-Majors Biology
BIO 1100 Non-Majors Biology (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Explores the principles of biology, including the scientific method, cell theory, cellular process, theories of heredity, evolutionary theory, ecology, human physiology, and a survey of the diversity of organisms.
Outcomes
- Evaluate concepts of basic biological sciences.
- Explain processes that occur across various levels of organization.
- Identify characteristics of living organisms.
- Relate chemical processes to living organisms.
- Relate cell theory to the development of different cell types.
- Describe human anatomical systems and their disease states.
- Evaluate relationships between living organisms and nonliving factors in ecosystems.
- Apply lab simulations and activities for further scientific understanding.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Biology: Science for life with physiology (Rev: 4th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2013)
Author: Belk, C., & Meier, V. B.
ISBN: 978-0-32-176783-7
Price: $126.62
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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Social and Behavioral Science
BBA 2401 Principles of Macroeconomics
BBA 2401 Principles of Macroeconomics (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Surveys important macroeconomic concepts such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), unemployment, and inflation. Students learn how to determine the overall levels of output, unemployment and prices. Students examine the concepts of scarcity and opportunity cost, explore the framework of supply and demand, and review factors that impact the overall economic activity and macroeconomic stability. Finally, students are introduced to selected topics related to international trade and finance and investigate government fiscal and monetary policy and their influence on the level of economic activity.
Outcomes
- Recognize resource scarcity and opportunity cost as the central economic problem.
- Define market prices and the role of supply and demand in determining prices and quantities of goods and services.
- Discuss various national economic indicators and how each relates to economic growth.
- Examine the effects of unemployment and inflation on the economy.
- Construct the aggregate expenditure and demand model of the macro economy.
- Discuss the interaction of the Federal Government and the Federal Reserve Bank in controlling the economy.
- Illustrate monetary theory using the money supply and demand model.
- Analyze the international economy through trade interdependences and financial interactions.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
ECON Macroeconomics (Rev: 4th ed.)
Publisher: Cengage Learning (2015)
Author: McEachern, W. A.
ISBN: 978-1-285-42362-3
Price: $54.56
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PS 1010 American Government
PS 1010 American Government (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines government and politics in America by focusing on the origins, entities, processes, and functions of our political system and the influential role of interest groups and the media.
Outcomes
- Summarize the origins of American political thought.
- Identify the distinctive attributes of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
- Describe the three branches of government.
- Explain how the U.S. government functions at the federal, state, and local levels.
- Identify the role of political parties in the United States political system.
- Discuss how policies affect change.
- Identify the impact of media on public opinion and politics.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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Electives | Total Required Semester Hours: 36
BBA 2026 Organizational Communication
BBA 2026 Organizational Communication (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines the communication process as it pertains to modern organizations from the perspectives of various organizational members. Topics include elements of the communication process, responsibilities of communicators at various levels, methods of verbal and nonverbal communication in organizations, factors that affect intercultural communication, role of organizational culture, and strategies to manage conflict.
Outcomes
- Determine communication processes that guide organizational behavior.
- Employ communication techniques for effective strategic planning.
- Explain communication techniques that improve employee trust and engagement.
- Relate effective communication techniques to public relations and marketing.
- Recommend communication techniques that are effective in managing conflict.
- Integrate strategies of communication for managing organizational performance.
- Summarize the differences in communication styles of managers vs. leaders.
- Create a communication strategy that fosters change and innovation.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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BBA 2551 Intercultural Management
BBA 2551 Intercultural Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents an overview of the impact of culture on international business. Review of intercultural skills needed to develop successful management strategies across cultures. Emphasis is placed on assessing the environment, ethics and social responsibility, communication skills, and formulating business strategies.
Outcomes
- Explain how the political and economic environment affects decision making.
- Compare universal cultural variables that affect job behaviors.
- Describe the necessary steps involved with developing international business strategies.
- Examine the influence of culture on strategic choice.
- Explain the processes of preparation, adaptation, and repatriation in relation to intercultural management.
- Discuss new demands leaders face in relation to human rights and ethical conduct.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
International management: Managing across borders and cultures (Rev: 8th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2014)
Author: Deresky, H.
ISBN: 978-0-13-306212-0
Price: $180.25
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BBA 3221 Sales Management
BBA 3221 Sales Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents a contemporary, practical approach to managing sales. Emphasis is placed on the sales manager as a strategic partner to the business, including an evaluation of leadership, technology, motivation techniques, and ethical concerns that assist in the creation of effective, personal selling processes.
Outcomes
- Explain strategic sales force management.
- Describe methods to recruit, select, hire, and develop salespeople.
- Trace the evolving role of salespeople to business consultants.
- Discuss the role of vision in leading and motivating a sales force.
- Identify the role of the sales manager in forecasting sales, developing budgets, and managing sales territories.
- Explain methods used by sales managers to evaluate the performance of individual salespeople.
- Explore ethical situations facing salespeople and sales management.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Sales management: Analysis and decision making (Rev: 9th ed.)
Publisher: Routledge (2015)
Author: Ingram, T. N., LaForge, R. W., Avila, R. A., Schwepker, C. H., Jr., & Williams, M. R.
ISBN: 978-0-7656-4451-0
Price: $92.56
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BBA 3361 Professionalism in the Workplace
BBA 3361 Professionalism in the Workplace (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents an overview of the challenges associated with workplace expectations regarding business etiquette, appropriate use of technology, and proper attire. It is designed to assist students in gaining knowledge of how to appropriately communicate with others and how to effectively deal with conflict, teamwork, and accountability in a fair and ethical manner. The basic skills necessary for obtaining a job and achieving success in today’s challenging economy and increasingly competitive work environment are enhanced through this course.
Outcomes
- Evaluate the effect of attitude, personality, and goal setting on work performance development.
- Describe the impact of time management in the workplace.
- Explain the meaning of ethical behavior in the workplace.
- Analyze the advantages to an organization offering quality customer service and human resources.
- Analyze techniques used to promote effective communication, accountability, and positive relationships within the workplace.
- Explain the dynamics of teamwork, to include motivation, conflict resolution, and leadership.
- Construct a resume package that demonstrates methods for highlighting job-related skills.
- Critique interview techniques.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Professionalism: Skills for workplace success (Rev: 4th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2016)
Author: Anderson, L. E., & Bolt, S. B.
ISBN: 978-0-321-95944-7
Price: $61.95
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BBA 3626 Project Management Overview
BBA 3626 Project Management Overview (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
An introduction to modern project management practices and techniques. Examines current terminology, definitions, and conventions along with the different objectives, roles, and responsibilities of individual project team members.
Outcomes
- Identify project management concepts.
- Examine the steps for identifying projects and developing their proposals.
- Identify scope, quality, responsibility, activity sequence, and schedule of a project.
- Determine the budget requirements for a project to include earned value.
- Analyze risks by identifying their potential impact.
- Analyze a project team’s characteristics in its entirety.
- Identify the steps for closing a project.
- Describe the project management organizational structure roles, including responsibilities and skills of the project manager.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Contemporary project management (Rev: 3rd ed.)
Publisher: Cengage Learning (2015)
Author: Kloppenborg, T.
ISBN: 9781285433356
Price: $266.14
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BBA 4226 Risk Management
BBA 4226 Risk Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Provides a study of problem solving from managerial, consumer, and societal perspectives. Emphasizes the business managerial aspects of risk management and insurance, as well as the numerous consumer applications of the concept of risk management and insurance transaction.
Outcomes
- Examine the elements of the risk management process.
- Analyze the parameters used to categorize risks.
- Recommend established risk management methods, tools, and techniques in the analysis and reporting of risk events.
- Differentiate between risk management principles and catastrophe theory.
- Outline a risk management strategy, including a risk mitigation plan.
- Assemble an organizational policy for planning and performing the risk management processes.
- Identify the foundational vocabulary used in contract law, listing four essential elements of a valid contract.
- Explain how an insurance system operates.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
A practical introduction to security and risk management
Publisher: Sage (2014)
Author: Newsome, B.
ISBN: 9781452290270
Price: $76.96
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BBA 4426 International Management
BBA 4426 International Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Presents a study of the challenges that confront managers of organizations and individuals in global settings. Special focus is placed on benefits of diversity derived from interactions between different cultures. The course also covers an overview of markets, governments, and organizations as well as a general overview of the concepts of internationalization in contemporary business.
Outcomes
- Categorize consequences of globalization on countries around the world.
- Compare and contrast the impact of different political, legal, and economic systems on international management.
- Defend ethics and social responsibility in international management.
- Evaluate the cultural challenges of managing an international business.
- Analyze important elements of effective cross-cultural negotiation and communication.
- Examine international management strategies that emphasize global integration versus local adaptation.
- Compare and contrast the entry methods and approaches tailored to international business organizations.
- Assess political risks of international organizations managing their relationships with national governments.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
International management: Culture, strategy, and behavior (Rev: 9th ed.)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (2015)
Author: Luthans, F., & Doh, J. P.
ISBN: 978-0-07-786244-2
Price: $225.51
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BBA 4851 Production Management
BBA 4851 Production Management (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines the production of goods and services in an efficient and effective business operation. The course also addresses the management of resources, the distribution of goods and services to customers, and the analysis of queue systems.
Outcomes
- Explain how operations management relates to a firm’s success.
- Assess how globalization affects operations strategy.
- Analyze the application of different forecasting approaches and methods.
- Examine quality management tools in operations.
- Determine how process strategy is applied to products/services.
- Explore how operations managers determine facility needs.
- Outline methods operations managers use to control the work environment.
- Examine supply-chain management.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Integrated Learning Resource
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BSL 4060 Team Building and Leadership
BSL 4060 Team Building and Leadership (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Examines high performance skills, innovation, management, and effective development of cross-cultural teams in relation to leadership. Analysis of leadership styles in both social and professional situations, the importance of making wise business decisions within a team-based environment, and overcoming unhealthy agreements are covered. This course examines leaders’ communication styles, leadership power, situational leadership, creativity and leadership, resolving conflict, teamwork, motivation, coaching skills, emotional intelligence, and the impact of leaders on organizational decision making.
Outcomes
- Summarize the determinants of high-performance teams.
- Construct a team member skills–motivation matrix.
- Examine the impact of shared leadership on team competencies.
- Explain the importance of teamwork in an organization.
- Describe team-building activities leaders can incorporate for better managing internal teams and interorganizational alliances.
- Distinguish between the coaching and facilitating roles of a team leader.
- Identify problems-solving approaches to resolving conflict between and within teams.
- Predict major challenges teams will face in the future.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Team building: Proven strategies for improving team performance (Rev: 5th ed.)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2013)
Author: Dyer, W. G., Jr., Dyer, J. H., & Dyer, W. G.
ISBN: 9781118105139
Price: $44.46
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CS 1010 Computer Essentials
CS 1010 Computer Essentials (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Explores computer literacy topics in a very basic, hands-on environment. Presents the fundamentals of computer hardware and software, the Internet, operating systems, and current application software within Microsoft Office Suite.
Outcomes
- Describe the relationship between digital basics and computer hardware.
- Generalize the impact of software applications on computer software and hardware.
- Explain the relationship between peripheral equipment, networks, the Internet, and intranets.
- Apply the principles of basic Excel functions.
- Examine the current electronic media sources to include the components that make the World Wide Web operate with webmail.
- Discuss the impact recent trends within the computer industry have on information systems.
- Describe file and database concepts such as data management tools, database design, structured query language (SQL), and database security.
- Identify the computerized tools and practices utilized in today’s business sector.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
New perspectives on computer concepts 2014, comprehensive (Rev: 17th ed.)
Publisher: Course Technology (2014)
Author: Parsons, J. J., & Oja, D.
ISBN: 978-1-285-09692-6
Price: $184.54
* Disclaimer: Textbooks listed are based on the last open revision of the course. Prior revisions and future revisions may use different textbooks. To verify textbook information, view the course syllabus or contact the AU Bookstore at [email protected]
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PS 2010 American State and Local Politics
PS 2010 American State and Local Politics (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Introduces components and processes inherent to state and local government in the United States. Acquaints students with the structures and functions of state and local governments as well as the methods and motivations behind political decisions.
Outcomes
- Explain the nature of politics.
- Analyze the political processes in local government.
- Differentiate between powers allocated to the federal government and those allocated to the states.
- Distinguish between liberal and conservative ideology in state and local politics.
- Explain how policy responsibilities vary among state and local governments.
- Summarize the processes of changing state laws or state constitutions.
- Explain how citizen attitudes influence policies adopted by governments.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Politics in states and communities (Rev: 15th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2015)
Author: Dye, T. R., & MacManus, S. A.
ISBN: 978-0-205-99472-4
Price: $104.65
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PSY 1010 General Psychology
PSY 1010 General Psychology (``3 SEMESTER HOURS``)
Description
Surveys the principles, theories, and methods of psychology as a basis for the understanding of human behavior and mental processes.
Outcomes
- Outline the historical development of the psychology field.
- Differentiate research methodologies used in the field of psychology.
- Recognize factors that influence human behaviors and cognitions.
- Describe ways in which humans learn new behaviors.
- Interpret basic cognitive functions.
- Identify symptoms of various abnormal conditions.
- Identify contributors to human action, motivation, and drive.
- Summarize a scholarly, peer-reviewed psychology journal article.
PreRequisites
None
Textbook(s)
Psychology (Rev: 12th ed.)
Publisher: Pearson (2017)
Author: Wade, C., & Tavris, C.
ISBN: 9780134240831
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Students may select electives from courses not used to meet other requirements.
Students must take into consideration the 36 semester hour upper-division requirement when selecting courses. Each student is encouraged to speak with his or her Academic Advisor for more information.
