Business (BUS)

BUS 1133 Introduction to Business
Survey of business activities covering principles, problems and practices related to economic enterprises.

BUS 2633 Business Statistics
Applies descriptive and inferential statistics to business and economic problems. Statistical distributions are used to conduct interval estimates and hypothesis tests. Empirical evidence of cause and effect relationships is investigated through simple two variable linear regression and correlation analysis.

BUS 3233 Business Communications
The essential qualities of business writing.

BUS 3333 Business Ethics
This course explores accounting, business and legal decision-making from an ethical perspective. It focuses on the businessperson as an ethical decision-maker and on the business as a socially moral agent. Case studies from the core business disciplines as well as supplemental materials or assignment for the disciplines are used as learning materials.

BUS 4123 International Business and Law
The course provides the student with an overview of International Business relations and the various legal systems that such relationships will operate within. Public law of international business will be analyzed with special emphasis on commercial sales contracts, various legal systems and disputes resolution, treatise and custom laws, export and foreign licensing, and environmental law. The course will also explore private law concept of business transactions comparatively with the United States’ common and statutory law. Present current events happenings will be discussed and how such events will affect unilateral laws such as economic crisis, wars and other social events or upheavals. The course will also contain specific emphasis with the legal system and the business relationships involving Native Americans. Instructor consent required.

BUS 4133 Employment Law
This course is a study of employment law in the United States with a focus on discrimination and employment regulations. We will discuss the principles of employment law and how they apply to factual situations. We will use this to understand judges’ opinions in real cases. Retaliation has become the number one area of concern in regard to employers and employees. We will discuss how students, as employees, know when they have a ripe case, and what students, as future employers, must do to stay within the bounds of the law and the mores and ethics of our times.

BUS 4901 Career Development Seminar
This seminar is designed to help students transition from college to the professional work environment. The seminar will be led by SE faculty with guest speakers from across the university and from area businesses. Topics include developing a professional resume, interviewing skills, and business etiquette.

BUS 5113 Research Methods
Concepts and methods of the scientific research process within the context of business and management. The course emphasizes an applied approach providing a thorough understanding of the nature and scope of business research.

BUS 5133 Employment Law
Employment law is approached from a practical and legal standpoint. Participants will take a role in a mock HRM department composing real company policies based on legal principles. Topics include economic realities, employee testing, privacy, termination, ADR, race and sex discrimination, pregnancy, disability, OSHA, wage and hour regulations, benefits, workman’s compensation, and religious and age discrimination.

BUS 5253 Data Analysis for Managers
Theory and application of statistical and quantitative techniques to various types of business data. Emphasis is on the interpretation and use of data analysis results from a manager’s perspective. Use of statistical computer software is an integral part of course. Both descriptive and inferential statistics are covered.

BUS 5463 Project Management Coordination
This course focuses on the processes and activities used by the project manager and team to identify, define, combine (integration requirements), unify, and coordinate project work, such as developing the project management plans. Further, special attention is given to the planning, executing, and controlling of the project scope. Finally, students will learn the processes, policies, and procedures that must be implemented to meet quality requirements.

BUS 5473 Project Management Control
This course introduces students to the policies, procedures and documentation required to plan, develop, manage, execute, and control the project schedule. In addition, students will leverage the schedule baseline when creating the project budget. An important takeaway is the relationship between schedule management and cost management. Students are exposed to the procurement management knowledge area, which focuses on the processes required to acquire products, services, and results from external vendors.

BUS 5483 Project Management Strategy
This course emphasizes the criticality of effective and efficient communications from the project manager to both internal and external stakeholders. In addition, stakeholder identification and engagement are examined relative to the communications strategy. The learning underscores the value of effectively managing resources that are assigned to projects, with an emphasis on how they are planned, estimated, acquired, developed, managed, and controlled. Finally, the risk management process is evaluated to include risk planning, identification, analysis, and response planning.

BUS 5493 Agile Project Management
This course is designed to teach students to identify and manage products that are suited for the Agile approach. These projects are typically ambiguous in scope, such as initiatives launched in the information technology (IT) field. Students will learn the Agile Manifesto, and the different agile methodologies including Scrum, Extreme Programming, Crystal and Lean Development. Special attention is given to the Scrum ceremonies, such as sprint planning meetings, daily standup, spring review meetings, spring retrospective, and grooming the prioritized product backlog. Students will learn the similarities and differences between Waterfall and Scrum projects.

BUS 5553 Intro to Data and Text Mining
This course provides opportunities for students to gain skills in data-analytic thinking required to succeed in today’s analytical and data-driven economy. The course will introduce the basics of data management and data analytics. The course also covers the core analytic techniques of data exploration and visualization, pattern discovery, predictive modeling and forecasting.

BUS 5563 Applied Business Projects
The course should be taken during the student’s next-to- last or last semester, and is designed to integrate the functional areas of business at the graduate level. Numerous projects will be used to evaluate and develop the skills and competencies deemed important for MBA graduates.

BUS 5573 Predictive Analytics & Data Visualization
Students will learn to build a complete (albeit rudimentary) machine learning environment. The course will also walk students through the data mining process in its natural order as documented by the Cross-Industry Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) beginning with identifying the unstructured business problem to be solved or goal to be met. BUSINESS INFORMATION