Posts in category: School of Arts and Science

A study of style, syntax, and basic organizational patterns. Topics include various rhetorical patterns, audience, purpose, diverse perspectives, writing, revising, and editing. Research paper required. 

A composition course in argumentative writing, including invention, organization, style, and revision. Critical reading and thinking will be addressed though students’ writing. Research skills and documentation will be introduced.

Pre-requisites: Successful completion of ENG 101 with a grade of C or better. 

Includes a brief review of intermediate algebra, equations, and inequalities, functions and their graphs, exponential and logarithmic functions, linear and nonlinear systems, selection of topics from among graphing of the conic sections, introduction to sequences and series permutations and combinations, the binomial theorem and theory of equations.

Includes derivatives, integrals, and their applications, with attention restricted to algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions for business, life science and/or social science majors.

Introduces the application of fundamental business principles to local, national, and international forums. This course examines the relationship of economic systems, governance, regulations, and law upon business operations. It surveys the concepts of career development, business ownership, finance and accounting, economics, marketing, management, operations, human resources, regulations, and business ethics.

Explores events, trends, peoples, groups, cultures, ideas, and institutions in United States History, including the multiple perspectives of gender, class, and ethnicity, between the period of the American Civil War and the present. Focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening the skills historians use while constructing knowledge in the discipline.

An introduction into the empirical study of human behavior and mental processes. Topics to be treated include biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning, memory, motivation and emotion, language, lifespan development, intelligence, stress and health, social behavior, personality, and abnormal behavior and treatment; applications of psychology in a culturally diverse world.

Introduces the basic concepts of ecology and the relationship between environmental problems and biological systems. This course includes interdisciplinary discussions on biology, chemistry, geology, energy, natural resources, pollution, and environmental protection. A holistic approach is used when analyzing how the foundations of natural sciences interconnect with the environment.

Focuses on the study of the human species and related organisms, and examines principles of genetics, evolution, anatomy, classification, and ecology, including a survey of human variation and adaptation, living primate biology and behavior, and primate and human fossil evolutionary history.

This course introduces accounting principles for understanding the theory and logic that underlie procedures and practices for business organizations. Major topics include the accounting cycle for service and merchandising companies, internal control principles and practices, notes and interest, inventory systems and costing, and plant and intangible asset accounting.

This course continues the application of accounting principles to business organizations. Major topics include corporate equity and debt financing, investments, cash flow statements, financial analysis, budgeting, cost and managerial accounting.

Explains financial accounting standard setting, concepts of financial accounting, balance sheets and income statements, and revenue and expense recognition; defines accounting for current assets, current liabilities, fixed assets, and intangible assets.3 lecture hours per week.

Pre-requisite: Successful completion of ACT 102with a grade of “C” or better.

Continues the study of financial accounting standards; emphasizes accounting for inventories, securities, stockholders’ equity, long-term liabilities, earnings per share, accounting changes, error analysis, and cash flow. 

Pre-requisite: Successful completion of ACT 201with a grade of “C” or better.

Describes the nature and purpose of cost accounting in relation to industrial situations; highlights common practices of job order cost accounting, processes, standard and direct costing, preparation of cost statements, analysis of cost information, and project planning and control. 

Pre-requisite: Successful completion of ACT 102with a grade of “C” or better.

Explores emerging applied software applications and technologies for PC and mobile devices as tools to generate, present, collaborate and share information for education, employment and personal enrichment. Students apply information literacy skills to research and present course materials in a variety of digital formats.

Focuses on the study of the national economy, emphasizing business cycles and long-run growth trends. Explores how macroeconomic performance is measured, including Gross Domestic Product and labor market indicators. Examines the saving-investment relationship and its relationship to Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand. Discusses money and banking, international trade, fiscal and monetary policy. Explores the macroeconomic role of the public sector.

Focuses on the study of individual decision making, emphasizing households, business firms and industry analysis. Explores market models, including competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly. Examines market failure and related efficiency criteria for government intervention. Explores public policy, including labor market issues, poverty and the environment.

Examines major ethical theories and then applies ethical decision-making criteria to various moral issues and challenges in a business environment. This course will include issues such as job discrimination, worker’s rights, consumerism, advertising, whistle-blowing, product safety, responsibility to the environment, as well as compassionate and fair responsibility to society

Emphasizes public law, regulation of business, ethical considerations, and various relationships existing within society, government, and business. Specific attention is given to economic regulation, social regulation, labor-management issues, environmental issues, and contract fundamentals. This course analyzes the role of law in social, political, and economic change business environments.

Emphasizes effective business writing and covers letters, memoranda, reports, application letters, and resumes. Includes the fundamentals of business communication and an introduction to international communication.

Focuses on statistical study, sampling, organizing and visualizing data, descriptive statistics, probability, bi-nominal distributions, normal distributions, confidence intervals, linear regression, and correlation. Intended for business majors.

Introduces the concepts and techniques of managing computer-based information resources. Includes hardware, software, personnel, control techniques, and the placement and integration of information systems resources within the organization.

A study of style, syntax, and basic organizational patterns. Topics include various rhetorical patterns, audience, purpose, diverse perspectives, writing, revising, and editing. Research paper required. 

A composition course in argumentative writing, including invention, organization, style, and revision. Critical reading and thinking will be addressed though students’ writing. Research skills and documentation will be introduced.

Pre-requisites: Successful completion of ENG 101 with a grade of C or better. 

Includes a brief review of intermediate algebra, equations, and inequalities, functions and their graphs, exponential and logarithmic functions, linear and nonlinear systems, selection of topics from among graphing of the conic sections, introduction to sequences and series permutations and combinations, the binomial theorem and theory of equations.

Includes derivatives, integrals, and their applications, with attention restricted to algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions for business, life science and/or social science majors.

Introduces the application of fundamental business principles to local, national, and international forums. This course examines the relationship of economic systems, governance, regulations, and law upon business operations. It surveys the concepts of career development, business ownership, finance and accounting, economics, marketing, management, operations, human resources, regulations, and business ethics.

Explores events, trends, peoples, groups, cultures, ideas, and institutions in United States History, including the multiple perspectives of gender, class, and ethnicity, between the period of the American Civil War and the present. Focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening the skills historians use while constructing knowledge in the discipline.

An introduction into the empirical study of human behavior and mental processes. Topics to be treated include biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning, memory, motivation and emotion, language, lifespan development, intelligence, stress and health, social behavior, personality, and abnormal behavior and treatment; applications of psychology in a culturally diverse world.

Introduces the basic concepts of ecology and the relationship between environmental problems and biological systems. This course includes interdisciplinary discussions on biology, chemistry, geology, energy, natural resources, pollution, and environmental protection. A holistic approach is used when analyzing how the foundations of natural sciences interconnect with the environment.

Focuses on the study of the human species and related organisms, and examines principles of genetics, evolution, anatomy, classification, and ecology, including a survey of human variation and adaptation, living primate biology and behavior, and primate and human fossil evolutionary history.

This course introduces accounting principles for understanding the theory and logic that underlie procedures and practices for business organizations. Major topics include the accounting cycle for service and merchandising companies, internal control principles and practices, notes and interest, inventory systems and costing, and plant and intangible asset accounting.

This course continues the application of accounting principles to business organizations. Major topics include corporate equity and debt financing, investments, cash flow statements, financial analysis, budgeting, cost and managerial accounting.

Explains financial accounting standard setting, concepts of financial accounting, balance sheets and income statements, and revenue and expense recognition; defines accounting for current assets, current liabilities, fixed assets, and intangible assets.3 lecture hours per week.

Pre-requisite: Successful completion of ACT 102with a grade of “C” or better.

Continues the study of financial accounting standards; emphasizes accounting for inventories, securities, stockholders’ equity, long-term liabilities, earnings per share, accounting changes, error analysis, and cash flow. 

Pre-requisite: Successful completion of ACT 201with a grade of “C” or better.

Describes the nature and purpose of cost accounting in relation to industrial situations; highlights common practices of job order cost accounting, processes, standard and direct costing, preparation of cost statements, analysis of cost information, and project planning and control. 

Pre-requisite: Successful completion of ACT 102with a grade of “C” or better.

Explores emerging applied software applications and technologies for PC and mobile devices as tools to generate, present, collaborate and share information for education, employment and personal enrichment. Students apply information literacy skills to research and present course materials in a variety of digital formats.

Focuses on the study of the national economy, emphasizing business cycles and long-run growth trends. Explores how macroeconomic performance is measured, including Gross Domestic Product and labor market indicators. Examines the saving-investment relationship and its relationship to Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand. Discusses money and banking, international trade, fiscal and monetary policy. Explores the macroeconomic role of the public sector.

Focuses on the study of individual decision making, emphasizing households, business firms and industry analysis. Explores market models, including competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly. Examines market failure and related efficiency criteria for government intervention. Explores public policy, including labor market issues, poverty and the environment.

Examines major ethical theories and then applies ethical decision-making criteria to various moral issues and challenges in a business environment. This course will include issues such as job discrimination, worker’s rights, consumerism, advertising, whistle-blowing, product safety, responsibility to the environment, as well as compassionate and fair responsibility to society

Emphasizes public law, regulation of business, ethical considerations, and various relationships existing within society, government, and business. Specific attention is given to economic regulation, social regulation, labor-management issues, environmental issues, and contract fundamentals. This course analyzes the role of law in social, political, and economic change business environments.

Emphasizes effective business writing and covers letters, memoranda, reports, application letters, and resumes. Includes the fundamentals of business communication and an introduction to international communication.

Focuses on statistical study, sampling, organizing and visualizing data, descriptive statistics, probability, bi-nominal distributions, normal distributions, confidence intervals, linear regression, and correlation. Intended for business majors.

Introduces the concepts and techniques of managing computer-based information resources. Includes hardware, software, personnel, control techniques, and the placement and integration of information systems resources within the organization.