Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Online Program Course List
Curriculum: 4-Year BS Business Program
The student must complete a total of 120 credit hours as follows:
- Core Requirements: 45 Credits
- Core Electives: 12 Credits
- General Education Curriculum Requirements: 42 Credits
- General Electives: 21 Credits
All courses are 3 semester credits in length.
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Core Requirements (45 credits)
Customized Professional Concentration Requirements— Students selecting this concentration work with a faculty advisor to develop a learning contract tailored to individual and specific needs. Students are required to take four courses (12 credit hours) to complete the customized professional concentration. These courses must be taken from the 300- and 400-level course listings found in the College of Business undergraduate course offerings. The Customized Professional Concentration must be approved by the campus dean or program chair.
This course provides an introduction to the preparation and use of
accounting principles. Emphasis is on basic accounting procedures,
measurement of income and expense, working capital, and investments.
Includes material on corporations, capital budgeting, and interpretation
of financial statements.
Prerequisite: None
Current topics in the area of law, regulatory controls, and ethical issues
and their effect on decision making are examined. Attention is given to
developing critical thinking skills to make humane and informed choices
in resolving managerial dilemmas that pose ethical or legal problems.
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the role of ethics in business and the ethical issues
that confront today’s corporate leaders, managers, and employees.
Emphasis will be on advancing ethical awareness, critical reasoning
skills, and core principles of ethical behavior to provide students with
the basic tools to address and resolve complex, critical and at times,
conflicting interests and opportunities. Students will assess the role of
ethics in relationship to corporate social responsibility, managerial
decision-making, executive leadership, and corporate governance
through diverse perspectives.
Prerequisite: None
Principles, procedures, and practices of good communication and their
relationship to management supervision are discussed. Oral and written
communication skills, critical thinking skills, and time-management
planning are emphasized.
Prerequisite: None
This course examines models and theories of organizational leadership
and change management. Topics include alternative leadership roles and
styles; attributes of effective leadership; managing change and methods
for predicting change; critical drivers of effective change management
processes; and evaluating the success of change interventions.
Prerequisite: None
This integrative course is the culmination of the Bachelor Science in
Business Administration Degree Completion program and focuses on
analyzing a company’s current strategy, performance, and results.
Students investigate the external environment, industry dynamics, and
competitive forces in a strategic business plan. Attention is given to
special issues, topics, and challenges faced by those making corporate
strategy. This course must be taken in the students’ final semester.
Prerequisite: None
This course provides a study of economic analysis of the factors at
work in the marketplace. Emphasis is placed on the study of macroeconomics.
The study of the determination of income, output, employment,
and prices in the economy are also examined..
Prerequisite: None
This course places an emphasis on the study of microeconomics.
A descriptive and analytical study of the market economy, it includes
market structures, pricing, and distribution of wealth and income.
Prerequisite: ECO401
An introduction to the processes and principles involved in financial
management. Practical emphasis is given to corporate entities, capital
markets, as well as stock markets. Basic principles such as financial
ratios and other financial measurements are examined.
Prerequisite: None
This course examines information technology trends and use in the
context of modern business organizations. Emphasis is placed on
the integration of a wide assortment of information system applications
that support: a) management decision making; b) organizational
communications; and c) business processes. Students will obtain
an understanding of emerging hardware and software technologies,
evaluation tools for justifying the development of new systems, methodologies
for designing and managing systems development projects,
and implementation approaches.
Prerequisite: None
Problem analysis and evaluation techniques are presented. Students
are shown methods for defining, researching, analyzing, and evaluating
a problem they would solve in their work or vocational environment.
Specific statistical information covered in the course includes identifying
and measuring objectives, formulating hypotheses, collecting data,
working with levels of significance, analyzing variance, and constructing
questionnaires.
Prerequisite: None
Current and significant issues in management are examined. Students
will examine the formal and informal functions of organizations, as well
as basic management theories and principles associated with current
business practices.
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the formal and informal functions of organizations
and diagnoses an agency or organization based on a systems model.
Students analyze and solve problems using systematic approaches
associated with project management.
Prerequisite: None
This course studies the management of marketing in a dynamic
organizational environment, including an analysis of such functions as
product development, promotion, channels of distribution, and logistics.
Includes a survey of basic methods of market research.
Prerequisite: None
Application of the theories and research in psychology to industrial and
social organizations, including topics such as personnel, human factors,
organizational development, and welfare of the consumer. Examination
of the ethical and legal dimensions of conducting psychological
research and practice in the workplace.
Prerequisite: (DAL) PSY101
General Education (42 credits)
Core Electives (12 credits)
Students complete a collection of major electives Concentrations in Healthcare Management.
General Electives (21 credits)
Students complete a collection of General Education elective courses.
Concentrations
Healthcare Management Concentration
Students are required to take the following: (12 Credits)
The elements and significance of business strategy are examined, drawing on the literature of leadership, strategy and organization; students learn to formulate and implement strategy and apply general business theory to the healthcare industry.
This course examines the functions and strategies of human resource management in healthcare systems. Planning, staffing, compensation and benefits, performance evaluation, labor relations, and legal compliance are studied, using lecture, case analysis, exercises and simulations.
This course focuses on developing, managing, and implementing quality assurance operations in healthcare systems. Course materials and assignments develop student skills in intra-company, supplier, and customer quality relationships, supported by quality planning, quality manuals, procedure and job instruction development, communication, training, and preparation for quality certification programs with emphasis on continuous improvement.
This course examines a wide variety of societal problems and evaluates the healthcare public policies that have been proposed and implemented to address those problems. Students analyze problems using basic economic concepts and techniques, relying on economic criteria to develop optimal public policy.
