Bachelor of Science — Business Administration, Sports Management Emphasis
Get Ahead of the Game with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Sports Management
Athletes may be the face of a sports organization, but they aren't the only superstars. Every touchdown, three-pointer and home run is made possible by the skilled men and women working behind the scenes. Sports management professionals negotiate contract terms and trade deals, handle press relations, organize promotional events, coordinate partnership opportunities and more.
By adding a Sports Management concentration to your Business Administration degree, you will deeply explore the specific and unique challenges native to the fast-paced world of sports management. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of leadership theories, ethical and social issues, as well as fundraising, marketing, facilities management and sports law, equipping you to lead effectively and ethically within any sports organization.
What Will You Learn in Our Business Administration Program with a Sports Management Concentration?
MACU's Business Administration degree with a Sports Management concentration prepares you for advanced work in all sectors of the sports industry by providing a broad understanding of athletics management. You will obtain the knowledge and skill sets you need to pursue a variety of careers related to sports management, including:
- Athletic Coach
- Athletic Director
- Event Coordinator
- Facilities Manager
- Fitness Manager
- Game Day Coordinator
- Marketing Consultant
- Public Relations Manager
- Sales Coordinator
- Sports Lawyer
Why Choose MACU?
MACU strives to provide a unique college experience by combining our accredited and acclaimed curriculum, affordable tuition rates and financial aid opportunities, and most importantly, our passion for Jesus Christ. Our professors truly care about you as an individual, not just a number, and are dedicated to you and success. You'll find that their office doors are always open and they are ready to pray for you, answer your questions and walk your collegiate journey with you. Whether you attend MACU as a commuter or live on-campus, you'll feel at home with our thriving college community and develop meaningful relationships with your peers as you attend weekly chapel services, take part in small groups, join campus clubs and more.
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Courses
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| ACCN2103 | Principles of Financial Accounting |
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Fundamental accounting relationships; completion of the accounting cycle; accounting process for merchandising enterprises; receivables, payables, and inventories; deferrals, accruals, and intangible assets; and formation. Offered every fall semester.
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| ACCN2203 | Principles of Managerial Accounting |
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Accounting systems, concepts, and principles; formation, organization, and operations of corporations and partnerships; departments and branches, statement analysis, cost, and management. Prerequisite: ACCN 2203. Offered every spring semester.
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| BUAD1103 | Introduction to Business |
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A survey of the field of business administration. How business is owned, organized, managed, and controlled. Offered every fall semester
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| BUAD2103 | Principles of Accounting I |
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Fundamental accounting relationships; completion of the accounting cycle; accounting process for merchandising enterprises; receivables, payables, and inventories; deferrals, accruals, and intangible assets; and formation. Offered every fall semester.
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| BUAD2203 | Principles of Accounting II |
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Accounting systems, concepts, and principles; formation, organization, and operations of corporations and partnerships; departments and branches, statement analysis, cost, and management. Prerequisite: BUAD 2103. Offered every spring semester.
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| BUAD2303 | Macroeconomics |
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Macroeconomics principles, such as national income, production, employment, the money and banking system, the modern theory of national income, economic growth, inflation, and the problems of economic stabilization. Offered fall semester: odd numbered years.
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| BUAD2403 | Microeconomics |
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Surveys microeconomic principles, applications to the firm, concepts of demand, supply, pricing, and resource allocation under various competitive conditions. Offered spring semester: even numbered years.
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| BUAD2503 | Business and Professional Communications |
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Principles of effective communication in a business environment. Practice in the preparation of letters, reports, and other forms of business writing. Prerequisites: ENGL 1103 and ENGL 1203. Offered every spring semester.
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| BUAD3103 | Principles of Marketing |
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An introduction to the marketing of goods and services in advanced market economics; study of the marketing mix, pricing, distributional activities, consumer behavior, and marketing research. Offered fall semester: odd numbered years.
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| BUAD3203 | Principles of Management |
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Management principles with emphasis on organizational theory, human relations, interpersonal communications, production, business ethics, and the development of management thought. Offered spring semester: even numbered years.
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| BUAD3303 | Computer Application in Business |
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Computer Application in Business (3 cr.) Computer systems including machine functions and computer organization is included. Course examines the uses of computers in dynamic environments and business applications of the microcomputer through hands-on experience. Offered spring semester: even numbered years.
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| BUAD3403 | Business Finance |
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Financial principles and functions with applications to business organizations, including investment, dividend decision, and an introduction to the models and tools used for financial analysis. Offered every fall semester.
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| BUAD3703 | Introduction to Statistics |
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The course is a complete introduction to basic statistics as a method of analysis. Statistics is a powerful tool that is used in the business world and in the behavioral science area extensively. This course will provide the student with a working knowledge of statistical terms and formulas. The student will use Microsoft Excel as the medium technology throughout the course. Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program is required for this course. Prerequisite: MATH 1513. Offered every semester.
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| BUAD4103 | Legal Environment of Business |
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Law and the legal system, social forces that make the law, business response to the social and legal environment; governmental regulation and federal regulatory agencies which impact business decision-making; the study of the legal concepts of torts and contracts. Offered every spring semester.
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| BUAD4303 | Human Resource Administration |
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Human relations and adjustment in all forms of institutional and business organizations. The course deals with such problems as proper placement of the individual, training, incentive, methods of supervision, discipline, promotion, and retirement. Offered spring semester: odd numbered years.
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| BUAD4703 | Business Ethics |
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Designed to raise the moral recognition level of students; to provide them with the apparatus to make moral decisions in a business context; to consider ethical problems in advertising, accounting, finance, marketing, and personnel as illuminated by Christian principles. Offered fall semester: odd numbered years.
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| MGMT3213 | Applied Business Management |
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This three-credit-hour course provides an introduction to the principles of management. The emphasis is on understanding organizational theory, human relations, interpersonal communications, production, business ethics, and the development of management thought.
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| MGMT4103 | Group and Organizational Communications |
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An introduction to the concepts of effective oral and written communication to include functioning in teams and other organizational settings as well as interpersonal exchanges.
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| MGMT4413 | Strategic Management |
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This course introduces the strategic, tactical, operational issues that arise in management of production and service operations; product and process design, facilities planning, quality management, materials management, operations planning and scheduling, emerging technologies in production and service management. This serves as a capstone for the program. Prerequisite MGMT 2103
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| MGMT4433 | Managing Change |
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An inherent aspect of leadership is managing change. This course will explore the various change theories and available options for designing, implementing and managing change. The students will learn how to develop their own change protocols, lead people through turbulent times including lay-offs due to downsizing and outsourcing, and be a bastion of hope and support exhibiting a Christ-like attitude to one’s employees.
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| MKTG3103 | Principles of Marketing |
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An introduction to the marketing of goods and services in advanced market economics; study of the marketing mix, pricing, distributional activities, consumer behavior, and marketing research. Offered fall smester: odd numbered years.
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| MKTG3143 | Consumer and Market Behavior |
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A study of personal and group behavior patterns in the acquisition of goods and services in the marketing environment. Prerequisite: BUAD 3103.
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| SMGT3113 | Leadership and Ethics in Sports |
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This course examines the ethical issues individuals face in Sport Management settings. Emphasis is placed on ethical dilemmas sport managers encounter in the daily operation of commercial, recreational, and educational athletic programs. In addition, students study leadership theories and practices as they relate to sports organizations and its effects on employee motivation in an athletic setting.
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| SMGT3123 | Sociology of Sports |
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This course examines diverse ways organized sports reflect and influence the values and social structures of society. Students analyze major political, economic, and social functions of sports in historical and cross-cultural contexts. Topics include women and sports, violence, race and sports, and the changing functions of collegiate and professional athletics.
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| SMGT3513 | Sports Fundraising and Sponsorship |
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This course examines skills, strategies and techniques needed for successful revenue generation in the sport industry. In addition, students examine corporate sponsorship and its impact on the sport industry from a sales and marketing perspective
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| SMGT4123 | Sports Facilities Management |
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This course is designed to provide learning experiences in managing sport facility operations, planning new sport facilities, and renovating and maintaining new facilities. An understanding of sports facilities, their design, and management will be gained through field study, speakers, and standard classroom material.
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| SMGT4223 | Sports Law and Risk Management |
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This course provides a presentation of the basic legal system, its terminology, and principles as applied to professional and amateur sports. Emphasis is on identifying and analyzing legal issues, the ramifications of those issues, and the means of limiting the liability of sport organizations.
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| ACCN2103 | Principles of Financial Accounting |
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Fundamental accounting relationships; completion of the accounting cycle; accounting process for merchandising enterprises; receivables, payables, and inventories; deferrals, accruals, and intangible assets; and formation. Offered every fall semester.
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| ACCN2203 | Principles of Managerial Accounting |
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Accounting systems, concepts, and principles; formation, organization, and operations of corporations and partnerships; departments and branches, statement analysis, cost, and management. Prerequisite: ACCN 2203. Offered every spring semester.
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| ACCN3903 | Intermediate Accounting I |
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This course will focus on valuation and other theoretical problems in accounting for cash, temporary investments, receivables, inventories, long-term investments, plant and equipment, and intangible assets. Prerequisites: BUAD 2203 Offered every Fall semester.
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| ACCN3913 | Intermediate Accounting II |
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This course will focus on the study of stockholders' equity, dilutive securities, investments, issues related to income determination including revenue recognition, accounting for income taxes, pensions, leases and error analysis, preparation and analysis of financial statements, including price level changes and statement of changes in financial position. Prerequisite: ACCN 3903. Offered every Spring semester.
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| ACCN3923 | Cost Accounting |
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This course will study the development of cost accumulation and reporting systems that complement a firm's strategy and structure; how activity-based cost management systems increase competitiveness by helping a firm manage its costs, processes, and people. Prerequisite: ACCN 3913. Offered every Spring even numbered years.
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| ACCN3933 | Income Tax Accounting I |
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This course will examine Federal income taxation and individual, corporate, and partnership income tax laws and regulations. Emphasis will be on developing a broad perspective on structure, administration, rationale of federal income tax system. Prerequisite: ACCN 3913. Offered every Fall, even numbered years.
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| ACCN3943 | Income Tax Accounting II |
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This course will focus on the study of taxation of corporations, partnerships from organization through liquidation; relative merits of conducting business through partnership, corporation, proprietorship, S corporation; introduction to tax research. Prerequisite: ACCN 3933. Offered every Spring, odd numbered years.
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| ACCN3953 | Accounting Information Systems |
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A study of the structure, flow, and use of financial and non-financial data in computer-based environments with a heavy emphasis on ensuring data integrity. Conceptual data modeling using business rules, normalization, structured query language (SQL), and physical database design and data administration. Course includes crossfunctional team project with phased deliverables. Prerequisite: ACCN 3913. Offered every Spring, odd numbered years.
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| ACCN4173 | Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting |
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Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting covers accounting principles applicable to federal, state and local governments and other non-profit entities. This course includes fund accounting principles used in recording assets, liabilities, equity, revenues and expenditures along with analysis and interpretations of financial statements of governmental and non-profit entities.
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| ACCN4443 | Advanced Financial Accounting |
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This course is designed to impart a detailed understanding of alternative accounting principles and practices and their effects on balance sheet valuation and income statements, including critical evaluation of these alternatives. Subjects covered include: foreign currency transactions, partnership accounting and accounting for non-profit organizations and governmental entities. Prerequisite: ACCN 3913. Offered every Fall, odd numbered years.
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| ACCN4623 | Accounting Legal Environment |
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This course familiarizes students with the fundamentals of external financial reporting for business enterprises and not-for-profit entities. The financial accounting segment of the course focuses on the preparation, analysis, and limitations of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The conceptual framework that serves as the basis on which financial reporting standards are developed is also discussed. The managerial accounting segment of the course covers such internal reporting issues as break-even analysis, capital budgeting, cost behavior patterns, and cost allocation. The legal component of the course addresses the formation of different types of business entities (e.g., corporation and partnership) and the regulatory role that the SEC, PCAOB, and Sarbanes-Oxley play in financial reporting. Prerequisite: ACCN 4243. Offered every Fall, even numbered years.
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| ACCN4633 | Auditing |
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This course will study the general framework underlying auditing, role of audit standards in planning and conduct of audits, effect of regulation, ethics, liability, and audit practices. Prerequisite: ACCN 3953. Offered every Fall, odd numbered years.
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| BUAD2103 | Principles of Accounting I |
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Fundamental accounting relationships; completion of the accounting cycle; accounting process for merchandising enterprises; receivables, payables, and inventories; deferrals, accruals, and intangible assets; and formation. Offered every fall semester.
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| BUAD2203 | Principles of Accounting II |
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Accounting systems, concepts, and principles; formation, organization, and operations of corporations and partnerships; departments and branches, statement analysis, cost, and management. Prerequisite: BUAD 2103. Offered every spring semester.
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| BUAD2503 | Business and Professional Communications |
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Principles of effective communication in a business environment. Practice in the preparation of letters, reports, and other forms of business writing. Prerequisites: ENGL 1103 and ENGL 1203. Offered every spring semester.
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| BUAD3403 | Business Finance |
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Financial principles and functions with applications to business organizations, including investment, dividend decision, and an introduction to the models and tools used for financial analysis. Offered every fall semester.
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| BUAD4303 | Human Resource Administration |
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Human relations and adjustment in all forms of institutional and business organizations. The course deals with such problems as proper placement of the individual, training, incentive, methods of supervision, discipline, promotion, and retirement. Offered spring semester: odd numbered years.
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| ECON1103 | Introduction to Economics |
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An introduction to basic economics concepts. It will relate principles such as scarcity, opportunity cost, and markets to current events. This practical non-major course provides tools for economic analysis. (humanities, social/behavioral science, general education elective, elective)
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| ECON3503 | Applied Macroeconomics |
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This course is an overview of the field of macroeconomics emphasizing how national income, unemployment, inflation, and economics growth are determined. Additional topics reviewed include taxation, the multiplier model, money and banking, and business cycles. The effects of government policy on the economy are also discussed. The course will also include the study of international economics and globalization. Prerequisite ECON 1103
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| ECON3603 | Applied Microeconomics |
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This course is an examination of basis economic principles with application to current economic situations. Emphasis is on understanding how households and business firms make decisions in the economy. Topics include how prices are determined and how they help solve economic problems of scarcity, the distribution of income and wealth, problems of monopoly power, labor unions and labor problems, environmental and energy concerns, and how other aspects of the economy affect businesses and individuals. Prerequisite ECON 1103.
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| MGMT2103 | Business Software Applications |
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Introduces the basic features of Microsoft Office, Windows basics and file management. Develops familiarity with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Students demonstrate their ability to use a personal computer for word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications through weekly labs and projects.
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| MGMT3213 | Applied Business Management |
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This three-credit-hour course provides an introduction to the principles of management. The emphasis is on understanding organizational theory, human relations, interpersonal communications, production, business ethics, and the development of management thought.
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| MGMT4103 | Group and Organizational Communications |
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An introduction to the concepts of effective oral and written communication to include functioning in teams and other organizational settings as well as interpersonal exchanges.
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| MGMT4233 | Principles of Business Law |
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This course provides a general introduction to the legal environment that affects individuals, businesses, and business transactions. In addition to providing a general introduction to the American legal system, this course will focus on specific legal topics such as contracts and the Uniform Commercial Code.
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| MGMT4413 | Strategic Management |
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This course introduces the strategic, tactical, operational issues that arise in management of production and service operations; product and process design, facilities planning, quality management, materials management, operations planning and scheduling, emerging technologies in production and service management. This serves as a capstone for the program. Prerequisite MGMT 2103
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| MGMT4503 | Financial Analysis for Managers |
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Finance is the art and science of handling money. In the modern world virtually every organization, public and private, runs on money. That includes families, businesses, governments, and nonprofit enterprises. The study of finance will be broadly divided into two areas: (1 cr.) Investments and financial markets and (2 cr.) the financial management of companies. These are separate but related. A financial system involves flows of money and paper between them.
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