Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

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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)

MAT104 Statistics & Probability
MAT101 College Mathematics
MAT107 College Algebra
ENG101 Composition I
ENG102 Composition II
PHI101 Ethics in Contemporary Society
ENG103 The Literary Experience
SOC110 Sociology in a Global Perspective
POL110 American Experience
BIO110 Understanding Human Anatomy
PSY101 Introductory Psychology
COM301 Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
PSY180 Interpersonal Effectiveness
SCI110 The Rise of Modern Science

Core Electives (12 credits)

Students complete a collection of major electives Concentrations in Healthcare Management.

Core Elective 1
Core Elective 2
Core Elective 3
Core Elective 4

General Electives (21 credits)

Students complete a collection of General Education elective courses.

Elective 1
Elective 2
Elective 3
Elective 4
Elective 5
Elective 6
Elective 7

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.

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Program Facts

  • Program: 120 Credits
  • Credits per Course: 3
  • Course Length: 7½ weeks
  • Program Length: 4 yrs
  • Tuition: $480 per semester credit hour
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