BUS 195 - Selected Topics in Business Administration

Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Credits: 3 credits in Fall or Winter; 4 credits in Spring

Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Topical coverage of areas in management, based on the interests of the instructor and students. Topics vary from year to year and are announced prior to registration. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Winter 2017, BUS 195-01: Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (3). Open only to students who have not taken a 200-level business administration course and to majors other than those in business administration, accounting and business administration, or public accounting. This introduction to the business world is intended to give non-business majors a sense for how a business operates by providing an overview of entrepreneurship, marketing, accounting, leadership, information systems, and finance, while emphasizing the integrated role these functions have in a business. In the future, this course will be a prerequisite for non-business majors wanting to take either BUS 381: Social Entrepreneurship or BUS 383: Technology and Entrepreneurship. Pirkle.

Fall 2016, BUS 195A-01: Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (3). Open only to students who have not taken a 200-level business administration course and to majors other than those in business administration, accounting and business administration, or public accounting. This introduction to the business world is intended to give non-business majors a sense for how a business operates by providing an overview of entrepreneurship, marketing, accounting, leadership, information systems, and finance, while emphasizing the integrated role these functions have in a business. In the future, this course will be a prerequisite for non-business majors wanting to take either BUS 381: Social Entrepreneurship or BUS 383: Technology and Entrepreneurship. Pirkle.