Business Administration

Faculty: Professor Lunkenheimer (co-coordinator), Associate Professors Chelminska (co-coordinator) and Ogren, and Assistant Professor Bruce 

A core of basic business courses provides the foundation for students entering a number of fields, such as accounting, business administration, economics, finance, human resource management, international business, management, and marketing. Students are assisted in planning schedules to fit as closely as possible the needs of their particular fields of study. Cottey offers all the typical business course pre-requisites required if a student is planning to transfer for a different business major. Cottey offers two bachelor degrees in business: Business Administration-Management, as well as International Business with a semester-long study abroad  component, with the choice depending on the student’s preference.

Degrees and Certificates

Courses

BUS/MAT 270: Data Analytics & Visualization

Credits 3
Data Analytics & Visualization course will prepare students to clean, process, and visualize data. They will also learn software programs such as advanced excel and Tableau. Students will learn skills to use data to solve problems and support business decisions. Communication skills include verbal communication through story-telling applications related to data.

BUS 101: Intro to Business

Credits 3
Introduces students to the study of business enterprises. Special focus on all the typical college majors relating to business such as: accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, management, marketing, human resource management, and international business. Students typically take this course to learn more about the business field and to help decide on a specific business major.

BUS 103: Personal Finance

Credits 3
Explore your wealth potential in Personal Finance. Learn the basics of investing by examining stocks, mutual funds, dividends, and capital appreciation. Learn about financial planning for one’s current and future needs including bank accounts, cash management, and uses of credit. Research new cars and houses and determine the effect on one’s budget. Learn about life, health, auto, and house insurance. Lastly, students will examine retirement planning and taxes.

BUS 105: Business Communication

Credits 3
Business Communication course will prepare students to communicate effectively in a professional way. Students will learn communication concepts and techniques that will prepare them to be a successful communicator in oral, written, and nonverbal form.

BUS 150: Entrepreneurial Lab

Credits 0 3
Hands on experience for all majors interested in starting, owning, or managing a business someday. Gain real-life entrepreneurial skills necessary to succeed through planning daily operations, managing finances/budgeting, marketing a product/service, developing efficient processes, and evaluating results/customer feedback to adjust with the real-time marketplace, real challenges, and real opportunities. May be repeated for credit up to 12 hours

BUS 211: Principles of Accounting 1: Financial Accounting

Credits 3
Study of generally accepted accounting principles and methods of preparing and analyzing financial statements. Use and interpretation of balance sheet, income statement, statement of owner’s equity, and statement of cash flow. Ethical and global issues in accounting.

BUS 212: Principles of Accounting 2: Managerial Acct.

Credits 3
Study of methods used in preparing, interpreting, analyzing, and understanding accounting data for the purposes of goalsetting, planning, controlling, and evaluating decisions involving business enterprises. Also, examines ethical and global issues in accounting.

BUS 220: Personal Investing - Stocks & Bonds

Credits 3
This course will cover the fundamentals of investing in capital markets focusing primarily on ownership of stocks and bonds. We will discuss corporate capital structure and the advantages and disadvantages of each as an investor. Students will learn how and where to research information about investments. We will discuss the risk return trade off as well as the various kinds of risks to be considered when investing. We will discuss the importance of having clearly defined investment objectives and how to create a portfolio based on those objectives.

BUS 230: Intro to Business Sustainability

Credits 3
This course will serve as an introduction to the fields of corporate social responsibility and business sustainable practices. It will explore topics such as anthropogenic interference and how to counteract it, multi-stakeholders’ approach, environmental stewardship, and social impact. Students will learn about business sustainable practices and their social responsibility.

BUS 310: Management Information Systems

Credits 3
This course provides an understanding of the information needs of management, elements of information technology, various information systems, and how technology can be utilized for competitive advantage.

BUS 315: Operations Management

Credits 3
This course identifies and solves managerial problems relating to the production and delivery of goods and services. It examines project management, job design, factory capacity, layout planning, forecasting, inventory, and quality control through mathematical models and case studies.

BUS 320: Principles of Management

Credits 3
This course introduces the functions of management that apply to any organization, including overviews of concepts, theories, and practices, the processes of developing plans and corporate strategy, structuring work relationships, coordinating activities, directing and motivating subordinates, and controlling functions that lead to organizational success. Roles and responsibilities of managers, effective decision making, productivity, and theories of human behavior will also be explored. This is a writing-intensive course.

BUS 325: Principles of Marketing

Credits 3
The smartest people work in the field of marketing, convincing us that this particular brand of jeans is much better than all of the others. This course introduces the functions and activities of marketing including marketing concepts, role in society, target marketing, marketing mix, and factors that influence marketing decision making. Students will examine current marketing promotions, determine which brands are more valuable, and learn the steps in the selling process.

BUS 335: Principles of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

Credits 3
Fosters the idea of starting, operating, and managing a business. Students assess individual skills and abilities, identify possible business opportunities, conduct feasibility analysis, research profit possibilities, explore market needs, find resources, and learn traits and characteristics of effective entrepreneurs. Students begin to develop skills necessary to organize, create, and manage a business.

BUS 340: Principles of Finance

Credits 3
This course examines the financial needs of corporations, including asset investment, debt, and equity financing, and introduces decision making models for capital budgeting under uncertainty, taxation, and inflation. Other corporate finance issues include risk and return analysis, cost of capital, dividend policy, and capital structure.

BUS 350: Organizational Behavior

Credits 3
Provides an overview of theories and concepts regarding human behavior at work. Students will obtain a comprehensive knowledge of factors and forces that shape individuals’ actions and how they respond to their working environments. Subjects include different leadership styles, ways to increase employees’ motivation and satisfaction, teamwork and team-building, job enrichment and employee empowerment.

BUS 355: Human Resource Management

Credits 3
Study of principles and practices in major human resource management functions including legal concerns, planning, staffing, training and development, performance management, compensation, health and safety and employee and labor relations.

BUS 420: Implementing Business Education Programs

Credits 3
Students will develop an understanding of the nature, organization, and administration of business programs in the middle and secondary schools. Students will learn how business education prepares students for a changing work world and will examine how advertising and public relations are used in marketing business education. Students will develop an awareness of the issues, trends, and problems in developing an effective rapport with counselors and administrators, as well as an awareness of a culturally diverse workplace.

BUS 425: Topics in Business

Credits 3
The course focuses on current events concerning business that are occurring throughout the United States and world. Students will perform industry analysis related to her chosen career field and examine issues, concerns, and opportunities in that career field.

BUS 430: Coordination of Cooperative Education

Credits 3
Students will learn how to establish and manage cooperative and specialized programs for business and marketing. Emphasis will be placed on promotion of school, community, and employment relationshjips.

BUS 480: Strategic Management

Credits 3
This course attempts to summarize student’s wide-range understanding and knowledge of business operations. It focuses on corporate strategic analysis of company’s internal and external environments, and on strategic formulation of corporate and departmental policies. It provides a direction into effective strategic decision-making and taking proper actions. Subjects covered are SWOT analysis, competitive environment, and corporate-level and business-level strategies.

MAT/BUS 270: Data Analytics & Visualization

Credits 3
Data Analytics & Visualization course will prepare students to clean, process, and visualize data. They will also learn software programs such as advanced excel and Tableau. Students will learn skills to use data to solve problems and support business decisions. Communication skills include verbal communication through story-telling applications related to data.