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This course will introduce the basic concepts of data analytics as applied in various business contexts. After introducing the basic concepts, students will build on these foundations to explain and explore data analytics techniques from the ground up to access, cleanse, and visualize data to construct models and predict outcomes.

This course will introduce the basic concepts of data analytics as applied in various business contexts. After introducing the basic concepts, students will build on these foundations to explain and explore data analytics techniques from the ground up to access, cleanse, and visualize data to construct models and predict outcomes.

Students will learn the fundamentals of data architecture for business decision making. Topics include fundamentals of data integration, data warehousing and data lakes, data visualization and business performance management. The course introduces contemporary tools such as Google fusion tables and Microfocus dashboards.

This course introduces students to core data analysis techniques using SAS. Students will learn to access data files, manipulate and transform data, combine data sets, and create basic detail and summary reports using SAS procedures. They will also conduct statistical estimations such as Chi-square tests, t-test, and multiple regressions. This course introduces basic concepts found in the SAS Certified Base Programming exam.

In this course, students will learn the basics of analysis of social media data, using R programming language. Students will use R for techniques such as sentiment analysis in order to gain behavioral insights from social media data utilizing various application programming interfaces (API), and will take a critical approach to the benefits and limits of such analysis. Pre-requisites: DATA 50 and DATA 102

In this course, students will learn and apply Python programming language as well as the basics of machine learning (ML), from basic classification to decision trees and clustering, and natural language processing (NLP), including sentiment analysis, summarization, dialogue state tracking. Pre-requisites: DATA 50 and DATA 102

This course provides a foundation in database essentials. Students will learn existing and emerging relational database designs and tools; data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL); and the use of Structured Query Language (SQL) for data access, manipulation and reporting.

This course introduces the students to the world beyond SQL and the concept of Big Data (structured and unstructured), its characteristics, and the existing and emerging ecosystems. Students will address the challenges of managing and handling big data in a business or organizational context, as well as the larger cultural and ethical implications. Students will learn about NoSQL databases, and how to use existing and emerging software tools such as Hadoop for data access, manipulation and reporting. Prerequisite: DATA 102 and DATA 115

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being viewed by a variety of businesses as a strategic value. This course introduces the students to the basics of AI and how different businesses view the role and strategic value of AI. Prerequisite: DATA 50 and DATA 101

This course provides the students an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills they have gained through the degree program to a hands-on project based on a case study using real data. Alternatively, students may choose, with the permission of their management, to work with an organization within their place of employment, conducting quantitative analysis on actual operational data, providing findings back to their organization. Prerequisite: DATA 104, DATA 110, DATA 115, and DATA 120.

A pre-requisite for the OLHS concentration courses.

This course develops the student’s understanding of the primary and secondary components of emotional and social intelligence and how they are applied in the workplace and in the context of professional relationships. Students explore the research behind emotional and social intelligence and the value and importance placed on exercising workplace emotional and social intelligence within and beyond organizational settings. Students identify their own levels of emotional and social intelligence and how they can further develop and apply both in a variety of business and non-business contexts. Specific applications are made to workplace relationships, communication, team collaboration, diversity, managing conflict, and leadership.

This course explores the importance of workplace engagement and how engagement is connected to and informs morale, the ability to thrive, and overall individual and team performance. Students identify the factors and conditions that are necessary to build and sustain engagement. The topics of applying strengths, making a contribution, professional development, autonomy and problem solving, recognition, and meaning and purpose with one’s work are explored. The meaning and significance of work and the workplace are explored as well as insights about the leadership and management practices that enhance and support engagement, thriving and the well being of people in organizations.

This course develops the student’s understanding of the process and components involved in building and sustaining team cohesiveness leading to team performance and results. Using an assessment that measures team performance, research, and practitioner-based practices students learn how critical stages such as trust building, mastering conflict, building commitment, peer-to-per accountability each contribute to the achieving of results. Students learn how to create the climate for the behaviors to be developed. Students build a familiarity with the importance of team membership and how cohesive teams benefit team membership and contribute to organizational performance.

This course explores the how conflict can be framed, understood, addressed, and managed within organizational settings. This includes building a perspective of conflict as an opportunity to build clarity, understanding, and alignment between people, within teams, and organizations. Students will also learn how to conduct or hold crucial conversations in a situation characterized by conflict, misunderstanding, and mistrust. Students will explore approaches to conflict that are relational, organizational, and ideological. This will include understanding how conflict is viewed and experienced within people, different organizational cultures, and across cultural boundaries.

Satisfies: PSYCH 343 (IO PYSCH)

This course explores the importance of leading others using influence and persuasion in a variety of settings and positions within organizations. Students will gain strategies, tools, and resources for how to influence others to move toward a common goal or shared objective. This course will examine selected leadership approaches as well as explore the importance of motivation, empowerment, credibility, building engagement, morale, and trust between leaders and followers and between and amongst followers. This course will provide an understanding of how to practice leading and leadership, in both formal and informal settings, that is based on the needs of those who are being lead and the needs of the larger team, department, organization, and community.

Satisfies: PSYCH 355 (IO PYSCH)

This course explores the meaning of diversity and inclusion and how both impact people, their sense of meaning and belonging, influences performance, and creates values and norms within organizational cultures. Students will gain an understanding of how current issues of diversity and inclusion are experienced within communities of diversity and how organizations leverage comprehensive diversity initiatives to build and sustain a competitive advantage. Special attention is directed toward understanding inclusivity and how it is experienced by members of communities of diversity. Diversity and inclusivity will be examined from both a national and global perspective.

In this course students will understand the value of innovating, creating, and design thinking in organizations and how to approach their work and the work of the organization using their own creative potential to design innovative solutions to the challenges they face. Students will explore specific innovation skills and learn new ways of perceiving and tackling challenges. They will gain tools to leverage new opportunities in collaboration with others and within the context of a business setting. Students will become familiar with the principals of design thinking and how to apply these principles into professional and personal situations and dilemmas inside of and beyond organizations.

This course explores how change, as experienced through volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, impacts employees, organizations, and the global community. Special focus will be on the impact of rapid and unpredictable change and the importance of building adaptive capacity to more effectively navigate that change within and beyond organizations. Students will understand how to approach complexity and how to be receptive and open to new, unpredictable, and evolving outcomes and connections that can impact organizations and those who work within them.

This course focuses on the integration and demonstration of what student’s have learned across the topics of leadership and the human skills explored in the degree through the completion of a culminating project. Using a consultative approach, students are asked to analyze specific organizational situations, make recommendations and apply solutions drawn from the knowledge and expertise acquired throughout their course of study in the degree. Students will work with a mentor or advisor to secure feedback and lessons learned on each of their consultative recommendations that can be carried forward into their respective organizations.

Examines current pronouncements and practical applications. Students will read, discuss and implement the most current accounting requirements as prescribed in the FASB statements and other current accounting pronouncements. Topics include statement presentation, required disclosures, in-depth study of current assets, the time value of money, inventories and revenue recognition.

Prerequisite: Undergraduate and MBA students, ACCTG 1A and MATH 20. Knowledge of spreadsheets is recommended.

Continues intermediate accounting with an emphasis on current pronouncements and practical applications. Students will read, discuss and implement the most current accounting requirements as prescribed in the FASB statements and other current accounting pronouncements, including IFRS. Topics include plant and equipment, intangible assets, current liabilities, long-term debt, stockholders’ equity, investments, and introduction to the cash flow statement.

Prerequisite: ACCTG 100A.

Continues intermediate accounting with an emphasis on current pronouncements and practical applications. Students will read, discuss and implement the most current accounting requirements as prescribed in the FASB statements and other current accounting pronouncements. Topics include earnings per share, leases, pensions, deferred taxes, accounting changes, statement of cash flows, financial statement analysis, full disclosure and problem solving using computer spreadsheets. Professional writing is emphasized through various assignments. This course is required for students in the BS in accounting and the MBA with a concentration in accounting degree programs. Master of accountancy students must take ACCTG 305.

Prerequisite: ACCTG 100B.

Presents advanced accounting topics related to partnerships; simple and complex business combinations; foreign operations including consolidation into US GAAP financial statements; and accounting issues related to the formation, consolidation and liquidation of corporations.

Prerequisite: ACCTG 100C

Surveys the methods and procedures used in determining cost for manufacturing, including cost-volume-profit relationships, costing systems in the manufacturing and merchandising sectors, process and job costing, master and flexible budgeting, variances and responsibility accounting, and allocation of overhead.

Prerequisite: ACCTG 1A or ACCTG 201, and MATH 20

Introduces federal taxation for individuals. Students will study taxable income, gross income exclusions and inclusions, capital gains, depreciation, business and itemized deductions, personal exemptions, passive activity losses, tax credits and methods of accounting. Students who have passed the Enrolled Agents Exam are not required to take this course; another upper-division accounting course must be substituted for those students in the bachelor’s degree program. Satisfies part of the educational requirements to sit for the CFP® Examination.

Prerequisite: ACCTG 1A

Examines auditing theory and practice, emphasizing audit standards, reports and professional ethics, sampling, accountants liability and audit programs.

Prerequisite: ACCTG 100B and MATH 40

Examines accounting systems as integral components of management information systems. Course work will introduce students to general systems and information theory, databases, and systems analysis. Students will be required to implement a computerized accounting system.

Prerequisite: ACCTG 100A

Focuses on business law and its effects on audit performance. Topics include the law of contracts, negotiable instruments, sales, bankruptcy, partnerships, corporations, secured transactions and accountants’ legal liability.

Presents the theory and methods of accounting research and applying technical literature to selected problems. Should be taken as part of the final twelve units in the degree program.

Prerequisite: ACCTG 100C, ENGL 1A and ENGL 1B

Introduces financial analysis and management in terms of its most important functions: raising funds at minimum cost and risk and allocating those funds among competing short- and long-term uses. Topics include financial statement analysis, discounted cash flow analysis, financial markets and interest rate determination, stock and bond valuation models, capital budgeting methodologies and working capital management. Concepts of risk and return, cost of capital calculation and capital structure are introduced.

Studies the managerial aspects of information systems in business organizations. Emphasis is placed on the planning, implementation, evaluation, budgeting and management of information systems. Emerging technological trends will be explored.

Seeks to improve communication skills in various management situations such as interviewing, oral presentation, group leadership and decision making. Emphasis will be placed on both oral and written professional communications. Students are encouraged to develop individual evaluative criteria with the aid of the instructor and fellow students.

Teaches the application in formal organizations of the principles of management, staffing, planning, organizing, controlling and leading as well as management concepts of motivation, morale and communications. Case studies are included.

Reviews law and legal theory relating to business; essentials of a binding contract; law of sales; nature and use of negotiable instruments; and Uniform Commercial Code.

Focuses on the development of company policy and strategy, examines the impact of a company’s internal and external environment on strategic decisions and assigns case practice in analyzing and formulating business policy and strategy. Lower-division requirements must be satisfied. To be taken in the last 12 units of the BSB degree.

Surveys the principles and practices in managing personnel: human resource planning, recruiting, selection and training; development of personnel policies; and government regulation including EEOC, OSHA and wage-and-hour laws. Introduces labor relations and collective bargaining.

Examines environmental, economic, political and social constraints on doing business abroad; effects of overseas business investments on domestic and foreign economies; foreign market analysis and operational strategy of a firm; management problems and development potential of international operations.

Provides an introduction to the theory and practice of marketing. Students will learn about price policies, channels of distribution, promotion techniques, the management of products and services and marketing research. The course also covers the impact of government regulations and competitive practices, integration of marketing with other activities of the business enterprise, and strategic implications of marketing actions.

Surveys the processes and techniques relating to both manufacturing and service systems. Emphasizes the systems approach to the efficient allocation of resources within the firm. Students will learn about the challenge of managing people, equipment and materials to jointly achieve organizational objectives. Students will have the opportunity to use relevant computer applications.

Seeks to improve communication skills in various management situations such as interviewing, oral presentation, group leadership and decision making. Emphasis will be placed on both oral and written professional communications. Students are encouraged to develop individual evaluative criteria with the aid of the instructor and fellow students.

Teaches the application in formal organizations of the principles of management, staffing, planning, organizing, controlling and leading as well as management concepts of motivation, morale and communications. Case studies are included.

Examines the role and presence of the leader and the work of leadership in influencing organizational performance. Topics include selected leadership theories, leadership character and ethics, aligning leadership with organizational goals, employee motivation and engagement, leadership and organizational diversity, the role of leadership in establishing vision, mission, and core values, leadership and organizational culture, the leader as entrepreneur, and leading in disruptive environments. Students will be able to work on projects individually, on teams, and collaborate with business leaders on approaches, practices, and key outcomes of organizational performance.

Surveys the principles and practices in managing personnel: human resource planning, recruiting, selection and training; development of personnel policies; and government regulation including EEOC, OSHA and wage-and-hour laws. Introduces labor relations and collective bargaining.

Provides an introduction to the theory and practice of marketing. Students will learn about price policies, channels of distribution, promotion techniques, the management of products and services and marketing research. The course also covers the impact of government regulations and competitive practices, integration of marketing with other activities of the business enterprise, and strategic implications of marketing actions.

Studies the managerial aspects of information systems in business organizations. Emphasis is placed on the planning, implementation, evaluation, budgeting and management of information systems. Emerging technological trends will be explored.

Focuses on the integration of learning across the business disciplines and general education program. Using skills, knowledge and abilities in the areas of critical thinking, communication, ethics and organizational behavior, this class will require the application of business theory and practice to real-world examples to demonstrate mastery of the program’s learning objectives. This course is to be taken in the last term of the bachelor of arts in management program.

Provides a basic introduction to the field of human psychology as it applies to personal and professional life. Applies psychological methods to investigate ways to improve our relationships, our workplaces, and our organizations. Students will learn how to use research-validated tools to create more effective and satisfying workplaces and to find ways to better align multiple organizational goals.

Examines the psychological, therapeutic and health implications that developmental issues have on individuals, couples and family relationships, and the biological, social, cognitive and psychological aspects of aging. Cultural understandings of human development will be covered along with the impact of financial and social stress on human development. Therapeutic implications including long-term care, end-of-life and grief issues will be covered.

Basic course in experimental psychology, including: research design and inferential statistics; introduction to scientific procedures and methods in psychology; and participation in research, data analysis, and report writing.

An introduction to the role of the nervous system in psychological processes, including the basis of nerve conduction, the role of neurotransmitters, and basic neuroanatomy. The course also addresses the neurophysiology underlying sensory processes, motivation, emotion, sleep and dreaming, language, learning and memory, addiction, and mental disorders. It also explores human cognition, including the evolution of mind, as well as sensation, perception, learning and memory. Language, concept formation, and decision-making will also be addressed.

This course examines the specialized communication skills used in the practice of counseling. Students will study basic counseling skills, interventions and the use of the psychological interviews as an assessment tool.

Studies the origins, symptoms, and treatments of behavioral and personality disturbances from childhood through senescence in the context and application of the current DSM V.

Studies the psychological problem of death anxiety, as well as various parts of the aging process, including physiological and sociological considerations. Adapting to loss, change, and bereavement are covered along with the experience of grief and features of mourning.

Explores the psychology of leadership as viewed through leadership identity, theory, self-awareness, and practice. The role of leadership theories is explored along with the importance of the role of personality and behavioral type in leadership. The topics of leadership and emotional intelligence are examined as well as the interactions between the leader and followers and how leaders, influence, motivate and engage human beings. The course concludes with an examination of the role of leadership in cultivating teleology and purpose within and beyond organizations.

Using a portfolio design which encompasses all the of the signature assignments the student has created in the major courses as a basis, the lead instructor works closely with the student to learn about his/her future goals, and how best to achieve them. The faculty then mentors the student in the direction of the chosen post-graduation destination, whether that be going on to graduate school, or finding work. There will be a final, summative project in the capstone, one which must demonstrate broad integrated learning, as well as an applied ethical lens to some aspect of psychology that spoke to the student. The final project then will be the crowning achievement to burgeoning portfolio. Alumni, outside mentors, adjunct faculty, and leaders from within the counseling community, in conjunction with the lead faculty member, can collaborate to help student placements in real-world occupational settings as well.

Lit 100 — 3 Units (If not taken as part of the Liberal Studies Core Literature Requirement)

Business, Psychology, and Modern Literature

Explores the psychosocial quest for community, broadly conceived, by reflecting on selected group narratives and their impact on individuals, using classics from modern literature. This course uses a systems theory orientation to elaborate ways certain individuals and groups psychologically affect and are psychologically affected by particular economic conditions, including relative personal/familial wealth, perceived status, and relative perceptions of “work.” The course implements psychological techniques from three popular schools of psychotherapy (Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive-Behavioral) to aid our character/group analyses, in an effort to understand more deeply why and how psychological distress arises in the characters, and how economic forces help shape such anxieties, malaise, and a relative sense of hopefulness.

Psych 113 – 3 Units

Psychology & Technology

Studies a wide range of subjects which focus on the relationship between people and technology, including how technology influences people, and how people might use technology to live more effectively and skillfully.

MGT 141 — 3 Units

Organizational Leadership

Examines the role and presence of the leader and the work of leadership in influencing organizational performance. Topics include selected leadership theories, leadership character and ethics, aligning leadership with organizational goals, employee motivation and engagement, leadership and organizational diversity, the role of leadership in establishing vision, mission, and core values, leadership and organizational culture, the leader as entrepreneur, and leading in disruptive environments. Students will be able to work on projects individually, on teams, and collaborate with business leaders on approaches, practices, and key outcomes of organizational performance.

OLHS 115 – 3 Units

Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations

This course explores the meaning of diversity and inclusion and how both impact people, their sense of meaning and belonging, influences performance, and creates values and norms within organizational cultures. Students will gain an understanding of how current issues of diversity and inclusion are experienced within communities of diversity and how organizations leverage comprehensive diversity initiatives to build and sustain a competitive advantage. Special attention is directed toward understanding inclusivity and how it is experienced by members of communities of diversity. Diversity and inclusivity will be examined from both a national and global perspective.

OLHS 110 – 3 Units

Emotional and Social Intelligence at Work

This course develops the student’s understanding of the primary and secondary components of emotional and social intelligence and how they are applied in the workplace and in the context of professional relationships. Students explore the research behind emotional and social intelligence and the value and importance placed on exercising workplace emotional and social intelligence within and beyond organizational settings. Students identify their own levels of emotional and social intelligence and how they can further develop and apply both in a variety of business and non-business contexts. Specific applications are made to workplace relationships, communication, team collaboration, diversity, managing conflict, and leadership.

OLHS 111 – 3 Units

Engagement, Thriving, and Well-Being in Organizations

This course explores the importance of workplace engagement and how engagement is connected to and informs morale, the ability to thrive, and overall individual and team performance. Students identify the factors and conditions that are necessary to build and sustain engagement. The topics of applying strengths, making a contribution, professional development, autonomy and problem solving, recognition, and meaning and purpose with one’s work are explored. The meaning and significance of work and the workplace are explored as well as insights about the leadership and management practices that enhance and support engagement, thriving and the well being of people in organizations.

Psych 198

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