Course Descriptions

ACCT 201 Principles of Financial Accounting (3)
Accounting and financial reporting concepts and the significance of financial accounting information in decision-making. Includes the effects of accounting events on business financial statements; planning and decision-making tools in the operating cycle; and the process of recording and communicating information.

ACCT 202 Principles of Managerial Accounting (3)
Managerial accounting concepts and the significance of accounting information for managerial decision-making. How managers use information to carry out three essential functions in an organization: to plan operations, to control activities, and to make managerial decisions.

ACCT 211 Honors Accounting Principles I (3)
Similar to ACCT 201 except it emphasizes more conceptual approaches to accounting and requires completion of a research paper, case studies, and practice sets. Also requires a considerable amount of computer based instruction. Honors College course. Students who have successfully completed the non-honors version of this course will not receive additional credit for this course. 

ACCT 212 Honors Accounting Principles II (3)
Similar to ACCT 202 except it emphasizes more conceptual approaches to accounting and requires completion of a research paper, case studies, and practice sets. Also requires a considerable amount of computer based instruction. Honors College course. Students who have successfully completed the non-honors version of this course will not receive additional credit for this course.

BUSX 301 Business Communications (4)
Seminar designed to enable students to gain the written and oral communication skills needed in professional business situations and to develop and practice important skills for workplace success.

BUSX 460 Professional Experience (3)
Application of business knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA's) through professional responsibilities in employment, internship, or comparable experience.

EBTM 250 Problem Solving in Business I (1)
Focus on analytic and technology skills needed to utilize spreadsheets to solve business problems. Topics covered include: managing and sharing workbooks, custom formats and layouts, creating advanced formulas, and creating advanced chart elements. To earn a satisfactory grade, students are required to pass the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Excel Core exam and earn a MOS certification. The course can be waived if students have already obtained the Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Expert level certification.

EBTM 251 Problem Solving in Business II (1)
Focus on analytic and technology skills needed to utilize spreadsheets to solve business problems. Topics covered include: work with data and information in data tables, visualize data with charts, predict outcomes, and what-if analysis. 

EBTM 320 Data Visualization and Dashboards (3)
Introduces business-driven and friendly tools such as Tableau to create visualizations using a hands-on approach. Explores how to select appropriate KPIs and apply visualization techniques to create dashboards to reduce information overload and help with decision making. Incorporates communication through storytelling. Includes data prepping, data analyzing, data modeling and dashboards. Covers data sources from different functional areas. 

EBTM 337 Enterprise Information Systems (3)
Strategic, tactical, and operational applications of enterprise information systems, e-business, and enterprise use of social media. Topics include data and knowledge management and networked computing, future trends using intelligent systems, and important enterprise resource planning systems used to integrate functional areas within organizations, collaborating with external partners, and integrating stakeholders across the value chain.

EBTM 350 Business Analytics (3)
Focuses on using standard business analytic models to summarize and analyze data, build models, and drive impact through quantitative decision-making. Explores methods to create and frame problems, use of descriptive and prescriptive analytics and using data to discover patterns and trends.

EBTM 365 Principles of Operations Management (3)
Strategies and techniques for service and manufacturing operations. A number of quantitative techniques are presented. Practical business applications and international competitiveness are stressed throughout the course. Students will use industry relevant software in the course.

EBTM 400 Applied Data Analytics (3)
Gives students an understanding of the importance and applications of data analytics in organizations. Its focus is on the analytical and business process uses of BI. The course will provide a high-level overview of the technical infrastructure of applied data analytics, and will focus on the use of reporting and analysis tools used to extract information needed to address specific business questions and problems.

EBTM 446 Business Intelligence (3)
Classifications of business decision problems and methods of analysis to identify the best solutions using business records for business intelligence. Methods of managing large storage of business records and related information and the discovery of knowledge to support managerial decision making.

EBTM 455 Business Data Warehousing (3)
Covers theories and applications of business data warehousing, including data warehousing principles, designs, implementation, ETL tools, and business big data technologies. Discusses topics pertaining to data warehouse design, data warehouses for enterprises, and applications of data warehousing using an Enterprise Resource Planning system.

EBTM 456 Business Decision Modeling (3)
Introduces basic concepts, principles, methods, implementation techniques, and applications of decision modeling. Topics include theory of linear and integer programming, decision making under uncertainty, risk analysis, simulation, multi-criteria decision analysis and a variety of business applications with decision models. Software packages are introduced for hands-on exercises.

EBTM 457 Data Mining for Business Analytics (3)
Introduces basic concepts, principles, methods, implementation techniques, and applications of data mining. Topics include prediction and classification methods, logistic regression, discriminant analysis, association and pattern discovery, cluster analysis, time series forecasting, and text mining. A software package is introduced for hands-on exercises. 

ECON 201 Microeconomic Principles (3)
Economic reasoning of individual choice in household and market decisions. Behavior of firms in competitive and noncompetitive markets, functioning of labor and capital markets, role of the entrepreneur and effects of government policies.

ECON 203 Honors Microeconomic Principles (3)
How private enterprise determines what is produced, prices, wages, profits. Supply and demand. Competition and monopoly. Labor unions, income distribution. Farm policy. The role of government in our economy. 

ECON 202 Macroeconomic Principles (3)
Inflation and unemployment--causes and remedies. Money and banking, government spending and taxation.

ECON 205 Statistics for Business and Economics I (3)
Analysis and presentation of business and economic data; descriptive statistics and statistical inference; measures of central tendency and variability; probability theory; estimation; testing of hypothesis; linear regression analysis. 

FIN 331 Principles of Financial Management (3)
Introductory course designed to provide students with the fundamental concepts underlying the theory of finance. Financial markets, security valuation, analysis of financial condition, forecasting, working capital management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, leverage, optimal capital structure, dividend policy.

LEGL 225 Legal Environment of Business (3)
Examines the nature and sources of law, the U.S. legal system with emphasis on court jurisdiction, procedure, constitutional law, torts, criminal law, and contracts in general and as they relate to business.

MATH 211 Calculus for Applications (3)
Intended primarily for students in biology, business, economics, psychology and the social sciences. Elements of differential and integral calculus from an intuitive standpoint with emphasis on the use of calculus in the above fields. Exponential and logarithmic functions, partial derivatives included.

MATH 231 Basic Statistics (3)
A non-calculus based introduction to statistics with emphasis on applications. Topics include categorical and quantitative data collection through sampling and experimental design, data description and displays, confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for one- and two-samples, and matched-pairs design; normal and t-distributions; correlation and simple linear regression. Emphasis on interpretations of results throughout. Substantial use of a computer package as a learning and computational tool. 

MKTG 341 Principles of Marketing (3)
Design, distribution, pricing and promotion of goods, services, places, people and causes of both national and international markets. Included is an introduction to strategic and tactical applications of marketing. 

MNGT 361 Leadership and Management (3)
Experience how leadership impacts organizational culture, strategy, and performance. Topics include making strategic decisions; leading and motivating; building and managing teams; managing communication, conflict, and power dynamics; human resource management; entrepreneurship; international business.

MNGT 481 Strategic Management (3) Business Policy and Strategy Capstone. Develops strategic thinking skills that integrate and build on the concepts and practices from functional business courses. Students will practice in-depth analysis of industries and competitors, and work to understand how managers must develop and implement strategies that generate sustainable value for all stakeholders by positioning the organization successfully in its competitive environment. Features a signature CBE experiential Live Strategy Case Competition with corporate partners. Must be taken at TU.

MNGT 482 Business Ethics and Sustainability (3)
Intended to help students understand different perspectives on ethical problems and to introduce students to different processes and techniques that will be helpful in reaching sound judgments. Course topics will include ethical reasoning, stakeholder analysis, corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability.