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Undergraduate Course Descriptions for the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Degree Program BAM 105 INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS 3 Semester Units A basic overview of the business world and the functions of management. The environment in which business operates. BAM 110 INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING 3 Semester Units A basic approach to accounting emphasizing recording, measuring, and communicating the accounting data of business. BAM 116 INTRODUCTION TO DATA PROCESSING 3 Semester Units This course clearly explains what a computer is and what it can do. Also, just as importantly, what it cannot do. It will lead you to the understanding of how people and organizations use and abuse computer technology. It elucidates the basics of information technology, from multimedia PC's to the Internet and beyond. This course illustrates how computers and networks can be used as practical tools to solve a wide variety of problems. It will help you to comprehend the trends that will change the way we work with computers and the way computers work for you. The course puts computers into human context, illustrating how information technology affects our lives, our world, and our future. BAM 223 PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS 3 Semester Units An introduction to Macroeconomics. Presents unemployment and inflation measures of national output, the Simple Keynesian Model, and the More Complete Keynesian Model and fiscal policy. Also, the banking system, the New Quantity Theory, monetary policy, poverty and the distribution of income, international trade and finance, economic growth and development, and a Macro summary. BAM 225 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 3 Semester Units Introductory course designed to provide in-depth coverage of essential concepts and important terminologies. Course material covers cache memory, OS/2 and Macintosh OS, CD-ROM, CAD/CAM, desktop publishing, computer viruses and graphics. Topics include robotics, decision support systems, fifth-generation computers, expert systems, and artificial intelligence. BAM 306 PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING 3 Semester Units Examines modern marketing: the market, product and price systems; distribution structure, promotional activities; specifically, field marketing; planning and evaluation of the marketing effort. BAM 312 BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS 3 Semester Units Theory and practice of business communications. Covers fundamental dimensions of communication: language and behavior. Alternatives for conveying messages are discussed. Various channels and media are covered in detail with guidelines for effective use. BAM 313 INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 3 Semester Units Covers principles and motives of financial management, time value of money, risk and value, cost, capital budgeting, forecasting and planning capital structure, current asset management, short-term financing. BAM 315 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT 3 Semester Units The basic management functions are analyzed to provide a basic conceptual approach to management concentration on organizational decision making activities as they lead to and promote efficient and effective management. Integration of the proven, traditional. functional approach to managing with current developments in the contingency approach, systems theory, and the behavioral sciences. BAM 317 BUSINESS LAW 3 Semester Units The concept of preventive law is central to a law course designed for business students. Discusses law in business context, rather than in the abstract. Using the law to make it easier to reach business objectives. BAM 401 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 3 Semester Units Basic principles of foreign trade and finance. Analysis of character and importance to the United States. Theory of comparative costs. Balance of trade, tariffs. BAM 406 BUSINESS AND SOCIETY 3 Semester Units How business functions in, reacts to, and affects its social environment. Socioeconomic model, power responsibility model, pluralistic social system model, cost benefit model, and government regulatory model. BAM 410 ORGANIZATION THEORY AND BEHAVIOR 3 Semester Units A study of organization, focus and purpose. Individuals and organizations. Coalition formation and organizational objectives. Formal organizations. Bureaucracy: elements and functions. Administrative theory. Classical theory. Scientific management. The Human Relations Movement. Modern theory. Systems Analysis of organizations. The nature of power. Dynamics of power organizations. Decision making, etc. BAM 450 PSYCHOLOGY AND WORK 3 Semester Units An introductory course in industrial organizational (1-O) psychology, which stresses the practical application of the psychology of work in modern society. Topics include human resources development; the workplace, and psychology related to the organization, engineering, and the consumer. |
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