Program Overview

University Program Information

The university offers a comprehensive range of courses in Business Administration, catering to the needs of undergraduate and graduate students. The program is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the functional business disciplines, including accounting, finance, information systems, law, logistics, operations management, management, and marketing.

Undergraduate Courses

• BUSAD1000 Introduction to Business: This course provides an overview of the functional business disciplines, including principles of accounting, finance, information systems, law, logistics, and operations management, management, and marketing.
• BUSAD1107 Quantitative Methods for Business: This course covers a broad range of quantitative methods across various business applications, including data collection, cleaning, description, visualization, and communication.
• BUSAD1900 Introduction to Personal Law: This course introduces students to the American legal system and the basic issues every individual must deal with in society.
• BUSAD2000 Topics in Business Administration: This course involves the study of selected special problems in business and administration, which may be repeated for credit with different topics.
• BUSAD2900 Legal Environment of Business: This course provides an introduction to the nature and meaning of law, sources of law, legal process, and institutions, with an emphasis on understanding and applying basic legal principles in an ethical context.
• BUSAD3090 Internship in Business Administration: This course allows students to apply the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to a real-world setting, with the primary goals of professional development and obtaining specialized work experience.
• BUSAD3099 Independent Study in Business Administration: This course involves special individual study in business under the supervision of a full-time faculty member.
• BUSAD3990 Internship in Business Law: This course provides students with the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to a real-world setting in the field of Business Law.
• BUSAD4325 Environmental Sustainability in Business Operations: This course studies the environmental impacts of business operations, focusing on the principles and methods of 'lean and green' operations.
• BUSAD5000 Economics for Managers: This course applies the concepts and tools of economic analysis to the production and distribution functions of organizations.
• BUSAD5001 Managerial Economic Analysis: This course involves microeconomic analysis of consumers, firms, and government, applying the concepts and mathematical tools of economic analysis to the production and distribution functions of organizations.
• BUSAD5002 Analysis of National Economic Environment: This course examines the character and functioning of the national economic system, analyzing and forecasting fluctuations in national income and product, employment, and prices.
• BUSAD5100 Managerial Communication: This course analyzes business writing and speaking, and the communication conventions common in organizations, with an emphasis on developing skills critical to career advancement.
• BUSAD5198 Seminar in Business Administration: This course involves an intensive study of a specific area of business administration, with several different courses offered under this course number.
• BUSAD5299 Individual Research: This course involves special individual research topics under the guidance of a specific professor.
• BUSAD5325 Environmental Analysis and Sustainability in Business Operations: This course studies the environmental impacts of business operations, focusing on the principles and methods of 'lean and green' operations.
• BUSAD5450 Governmental Budgeting and Financial Control: This course studies municipal and federal financial control and budgeting procedures, with an emphasis on public policy.
• BUSAD5900 Law, Ethics and Business: This course analyzes the relationship between law and business, with an emphasis on the ability of governments to regulate business activities.
• BUSAD6990 Strategy Formulation and Implementation: This course examines concepts and methods that integrate functional areas of business, with a perspective of general management directing the total enterprise.
• BUSAD6991 Graduate Business Assessment Testing: This course involves a one-time lab during which a major field exam in business is administered, with a satisfactory grade required for graduation.

Graduate Courses

• BUSAD7001 Doctoral Research: This course involves investigation of an advanced nature, culminating in preparation for comprehensive examinations and/or development of a dissertation proposal.
• BUSAD7002 Dissertation Research: This course involves investigation of an advanced nature, culminating in preparation of a doctoral dissertation.
• BUSAD7100 Scientific Inquiry in Business: This course provides an overview of research methods for studying business problems, including extraction of information from secondary sources and primary data collection.
• BUSAD7101 Quantitative Research Methods I in Business Administration: This course provides an understanding of the application of quantitative analytical techniques to problems in the planning and management of business enterprises and service operations.
• BUSAD7102 Qualitative Research Methods I in Business Administration: This course involves designing and executing a qualitative research project using interviews or direct observations.
• BUSAD7103 Quantitative Research Methods II in Business Administration: This course provides an advanced understanding of quantitative research, with special attention to prescriptive analytics.
• BUSAD7104 Qualitative Research Methods II in Business Administration: This course involves designing and executing a qualitative research study using a case study method or action research.
• BUSAD7105 Special Topics in Business Administration: This course introduces special topics from the business administration perspective, with topics varying by semester based on students' research interests.
• BUSAD7106 Strategic Business Analysis: This course synthesizes theoretical and empirical research to provide new insights for public policy and managerial practice.
• BUSAD7107 Capstone Project Research in Business Administration: This course involves developing a formal proposal for a capstone research project, including research questions or hypotheses, methodology, and a draft of all parts of the project preceding data collection.
• BUSAD7108 Dissertation Research: This course involves conducting research for a dissertation project under the guidance of a chair, committee members, and a dissertation community.
• BUSAD7109 Doctoral Foundations Seminar: This course covers the foundation necessary to succeed in the DBA Program, providing an understanding of the culture of research.
• BUSAD7300 Management of Supply Chains: This course provides a comprehensive overview of supply chain management, including procurement, sourcing, operations, production, and logistics, with special attention to international issues.
• BUSAD7301 Statistical Modeling: This course involves the study of multivariate analytical techniques and their application to the analysis of business systems.
• BUSAD7400 The Role of Accounting Information in Firms and Markets: This course provides insights into various accounting theories and practices, including financial analysis to identify opportunities and archival and behavioral inquiry in accounting.
• BUSAD7500 Finance Theory and Applications Seminar: This course addresses contemporary issues in corporate finance, investment, financial institutions, and financial markets, with extensive reviews of the literature in different finance fields.
• BUSAD7600 Managing Talent for Strategic Advantage: This course provides insight into research on topics that explore how organizational behavior and human resource management practices contribute to developing and sustaining effective and satisfying workplaces.
• BUSAD7700 Contemporary Marketing Intelligence and Decision Making: This course examines how firms generate valuable marketing intelligence for critical decisions in pursuit of marketing objectives, studying marketing strategies and consumer behavior through literature reviews and examination of case studies.
• BUSAD7800 Management of Sustaining and Disruptive Information Technologies: This course provides insights into contemporary sustaining and disruptive information technologies and their strategic and supporting roles in organizations and society.