Program Overview

DePaul University Academic Catalog

The DePaul University Academic Catalog is a comprehensive resource that provides information on the university's programs, courses, and policies.

Programs

DePaul University offers a wide range of programs, including:

• Business Administration (BADM)
• Accountancy (ACC)
• Administration & Supervision (A&S)
• African&Black Diaspora Studies (ABD)
• Allied Health Technology (AHT)
• American Sign Language (ASL)
• American Studies (AMS)
• Animation (ANI)
• Anthropology (ANT)
• Applied Brass (APB)
• Applied Keyboard (APK)
• Applied Music (APM)
• Applied Percussion (APP)
• Applied Professional Studies (AP)
• Applied Strings (APS)
• Applied Technology (AT)
• Applied Voice (APV)
• Applied Woodwinds (APW)
• Arabic (ARB)
• Art (Art, Media, and Design) (ART)
• Art and Architecture, History of (HAA)
• Art and Craft of Theatre (ACT)
• Arts and Ideas (AI)
• Asian Studies, Global (AAS)
• Bilingual-Bicultural Education (BBE)
• Biological Sciences (BIO)
• Business Law (BLW)
• Catholic Studies (CTH)
• Catholic Theological Union (CTU)
• Chemistry (CHE)
• Chinese (CHN)
• Communication (CMN)
• Communication Studies (CMNS)
• Community Service Studies (CSS)
• Comparative Literature (CPL)
• Composition (COM)
• Computer Graphics & Motion Technology (GPH)
• Computer Science (CSC)
• Computer, Information and Network Security (CNS)
• Core Curriculum Arts and Ideas (CCA)
• Core Curriculum Human Community (CCH)
• Core Curriculum Scientific World (CCS)
• Counseling (CSL)
• Criminology (CRIM)
• Critical Ethnic Studies (CES)
• Curriculum Studies (CS)
• Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering (CSE)
• Data Science (DSC)
• Decision Analytics (DA)
• Design (DES)
• Digital Humanities (DHS)
• Digital Media Arts (DMA)
• E-Commerce Technology (ECT)
• Early Childhood Education (ECE)
• Economics (ECO)
• Educating Adults (EA)
• Education - General (EDU)
• Elementary Education (EE)
• English (ENG)
• English Language Academy (ELA)
• Environmental Science (ENV)
• Experience Design (EXP)
• Film & Television Documentary (DOC)
• Film & Television Production (FILM)
• Film & TV Creative Producing (CP)
• Film & TV Post-Production (POST)
• Film & TV Screenwriting (SCWR)
• Finance (FIN)
• Focus Area (FA)
• French (FCH)
• Game Development (GAM)
• Geography (GEO)
• German (GER)
• Graduate School of Business (GSB)
• Graphic Design (GD)
• Greek (GRK)
• Health Communication (HTHC)
• Health Information Technology (HIT)
• Health Science (HLTH)
• History (HST)
• Honors (HON)
• Hospitality Leadership (HSP)
• Human Centered Design (HCD)
• Human Community (HC)
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• IIT Chemical Engineering (ICE)
• Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
• Illustration (ILL)
• Information Systems (IS)
• Information Technology (IT)
• Institute for Professional Development (IPD)
• Integrative Learning (IN)
• Interactive and Social Media (ISM)
• Interactive Media (IM)
• Interdisciplinary Commerce Studies (ICS)
• Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS)
• Interdisciplinary Studies Program (ISP)
• International Business (IB)
• International Studies (INT)
• Irish Studies (IRE)
• Islamic World Studies (IWS)
• Italian (ITA)
• Japanese (JPN)
• Jazz Studies (JZZ)
• Journalism (JOUR)
• Labor Education (LE)
• Latin (LAT)
• Latin American & Latino Studies (LST)
• Law (LAW)
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Studies (LGQ)
• Liberal Learning Seminars (LLS)
• Liberal Studies in Education (LSE)
• Liberal Studies Program (LSP)
• Lifelong Learning (LL)
• Management (MGT)
• Management Information Systems (MIS)
• Marketing (MKT)
• Master of Public Health (MPH)
• Masters in Social Work (MSW)
• Masters of Liberal Studies (MLS)
• Mathematical Sciences (MAT)
• Mathematics for Middle School Teaching (MMT)
• Media Studies (MCS)
• Middle Grades Education (MGE)
• Military Science (MSC)
• Modern Languages (MOL)
• Music Education (MED)
• Music Ensemble (MEN)
• Musicianship (MUS)
• Neuroscience (NEU)
• New Media Studies (NMS)
• Nursing (NSG)
• Organizational Communication (ORGC)
• Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies (PAX)
• Performance (PRF)
• Performing Arts Management (PAM)
• Philosophy (PHL)
• Physical Education (PE)
• Physics (PHY)
• Polish (POL)
• Political Science (PSC)
• Portuguese (POR)
• Pre-Law (PRELAW)
• Project Management (PM)
• Psychology (PSY)
• Public Policy Studies (PPS)
• Public Relations and Advertising (PRAD)
• Public Services (MPS)
• Real Estate (RE)
• Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (FMS)
• Religious Studies (REL)
• Russian (RUS)
• Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
• Scientific World (SW)
• Secondary Education (SEC)
• SNL Degree Completion Major (DCM)
• SNL Liberal Studies (SNC)
• Social & Cultural Studies Ed Human Dev Grad (SCG)
• Social/Cultural Studies Education/Human Dev Ugrd (SCU)
• Sociology (SOC)
• Software Engineering (SE)
• Sound Recording Technology (REC)
• Spanish (SPN)
• Special Education and Reading (SER)
• Sports Communication (SPRTCMN)
• Strategy Execution Valuation (SEV)
• Study Abroad Program (SAP)
• Sustainable Urban Development (SUD)
• TEACH Program (TCH)
• Teaching and Learning (T&L)
• Telecommunications (TDC)
• Theatre Studies (THE)
• Theatre Technology (TEC)
• University Internship Program (UIP)
• Value-Creating Education (VCE)
• Visual Effects (VFX)
• Women's and Gender Studies (WGS)
• World Language Education (WLE)
• Writing Rhetoric and Discourse (WRD)

Business Administration (BADM) Courses

The Business Administration program at DePaul University offers a variety of courses, including:

• BADM 101: The Art of Negotiation: Realizing Opportunity - This course provides students with the tools for achieving their personal and professional goals by implementing effective negotiation strategies and techniques.
• BADM 105: Essentials of Compensation Management - This course examines the strategic use of compensation systems by management to attract, motivate, retain, and reward employee performance.
• BADM 110: Essentials of Training - This course introduces students to the basic processes of employee training and development, including needs assessment, theories of learning and behavior change, training design, delivery of training, issues of transfer, and assessment of results.
• BADM 113: Managing Change for Organizational Leadership - This course provides an introduction into the management and leadership skills change agents use on a regular basis as they implement organizational change.
• BADM 120: Essentials of Coaching - This course explores the theories, concepts, and techniques of personal life and business coaching.
• BADM 153: The Art of Speechmaking - This course helps students use tools based in the imagination, principles of design, and standard dramatic practice to create a unique, personal experience for an audience.
• BADM 178: Gender at Work - This course explores how gender can influence communication patterns, leadership styles, negotiation skills, conflict styles, work/life balance expectations, relationships, and a multitude of other aspects of life at work and at home.
• BADM 208: Sales and Marketing Management for Business Today - This course presents a practical, contemporary framework for Sales Management, including sales analysis techniques, modern sales techniques, and Sales Management job functions.
• BADM 209: The Heart of the Entrepreneur - This course takes a detailed look at the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs, enabling students to acquire a personal understanding of what it takes to start a new business venture.
• BADM 214: Entrepreneurial Accounting - This course provides a thorough coverage of financial and management accounting topics in an economically challenging business environment.
• BADM 220: Developing Consulting Skills - This course helps students learn how to start and operate a consulting business enterprise, including consulting purposes, skills, and techniques.
• BADM 223: Accounting and Finance Principles - This course examines the role of accounting and financial management in the preparation, reporting, and analysis of financial information.
• BADM 224: Money, Finance, and Crises - This course provides a working understanding of many issues through the study of money, banking, and financial markets.
• BADM 231: Financial Planning - This course helps students organize their financial lives by learning and implementing selected principles of accounting, finance, and management.
• BADM 239: Business, Technology, and Our Global Future - This course combines hard science with cutting-edge organizational research-based case studies in today's trans-cultural global corporations.
• BADM 244: Statistical Reasoning: Understanding and Using Statistics - This course teaches students the basic concepts of statistics, including descriptive statistics, correlation, normal distributions, probability, sampling distributions, and hypothesis testing.
• BADM 247: Applying Economics: A Practical Approach - This course introduces students to economic issues without employing complex graphical and mathematical models, using a student-friendly online interactive learning platform.
• BADM 260: Essentials of Project Management - This course provides an overview of the fundamentals of Project Management for non-Project Managers, including the four phases of the project management process.
• BADM 261: The Journey of Leadership through Ancient Greek Literature - This course provides an opportunity to read, reflect, and discuss the many lessons that can be found in classic literature, aligning current leadership practices with ideas formed by Homer.
• BADM 267: Workplace Law: Harassment, Discrimination, and Civil Rights - This course focuses on laws affecting relationships between employers and employees and within the workplace, including the Civil Rights Act and various other legislation regulating harassment and discrimination.
• BADM 270: Starting Up and Running Your Own Business - This course helps students learn how to start and operate an independent business enterprise, including entrepreneurship, defining markets, accounting basics, business plans, financing, and marketing.
• BADM 288: Marketing for the Social Good - This course develops an appreciation for the principles of social marketing and teaches techniques for conducting social marketing programs.
• BADM 310: Gender in Business and Leadership - This course studies the lives and contributions of various important women from business, politics, and social action, assessing equality in management and leadership.
• BADM 313: Change Management Principles & Practice - This course provides an introduction into the leadership and management skills that change agents use on a regular basis as they implement organizational change.
• BADM 315: Economics for Decision-Making - This course provides the modern consumer with basic notions to understand the path that has led to sustained prosperity, focusing on endowing students with conceptual tools to make optimal financial and consumer decisions.
• BADM 318: Understanding Financial Statements - This course teaches students the essential elements of financial statements, their interpretation, and their impact on investors and society.
• BADM 329: Database Development for Managing Information - This course takes students through the entire process for building a database system, including database concepts, designs, reports, and SQL queries.
• BADM 334: Human Resource and Talent Development Fundamentals for Managers - This course is designed as an introduction to the practices of human resources (HR) in a corporate environment, targeting the practices that managers need to know.
• BADM 335: Risk Management in the Workplace - This course introduces managers to the various types of risk that need to be managed in the workplace, including operational risk, market risk, global risk, and customer risk.
• BADM 340: Implementing Corporate Training Programs - This course teaches students about the strategic process of effectively and efficiently implementing a corporate training program based on business drivers.
• BADM 359: Ethical Business Behavior - This course explores the ethical issues that business decision-makers face and examines the moral principles that are used to help resolve these issues.
• BADM 368: Stress Reduction in the Workforce - This course studies another worldview to develop survival skills that reduce stress, using the Yogic tradition from India called Kundalini Yoga.
• BADM 386: Exploring the Nonprofit Workplace - This course provides students with an overview of what ingredients make a non-profit successful, including the basic operational components of an effective non-profit and best practices.