May 20, 2024  
2014-2015 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2014-2015 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Latin

  
  • LATN 2010 - Intermediate Latin

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 1020 
    Description: Further study of Classical Latin with emphasis on increasing mastery of grammar and vocabulary. Readings are in prose in LATN 2010 and from Vergils’ Aeneid in LATN2020.
  
  • LATN 2020 - Intermediate Latin

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2010 
    Description: Further study of Classical Latin with emphasis on increasing mastery of grammar and vocabulary. Readings are in prose in LATN 2010 and from Vergils’ Aeneid in LATN2020.
  
  • LATN 3410 - Roman Religion

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: An introduction to the religious practices of Ancient Romans, from the late Republic through the first several centuries of the Roman Empire. We will study the major deities, rituals, festivals, and temples of the Roman people, including the cult of the emperor and the emergence of Eastern cults. No knowledge of Latin is required.
  
  • LATN 3510 - Latin Historians

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020 
    Description: Selections from Sallust, Caesar, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius or any other of the Latin historians. Some discussion of the history of historical writing in Rome, stylistic peculiarities of the various authors, and the place of historical writing in the broader literary context of ancient Rome.
  
  • LATN 3610 - Latin Drama

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020  
    Description: Selected readings from the plays of Plautus, Terence or Seneca. Discussion of the drama as a literary form, conventions of the Roman theatre, Greek predecessors, and the practical side of play production.
  
  • LATN 3620 - Latin Letters

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020 
    Description: Selected readings from the letters of Cicero and/or Pliny the Younger. Some discussion of the letter as a literary form, epistolary style and syntax. Greek predecessors, and the practical side of letter writing in antiquity.
  
  • LATN 3710 - Latin Lyric Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020 
    Description: Readings from Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and other Latin lyric poets. Discussion of the history of the development of lyric poetry, including Greek precedents, and its place in the larger Latin literary tradition.
  
  • LATN 3720 - Later Latin Epic

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020 
    Description: Selected readings from the poems of Ovid, Statius, or Lucan. Discussion of the development of epic poetry in the first century A.D. with reference to the epic tradition.
  
  • LATN 3810 - Latin Rhetoric

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020  
    Description: Readings from Roman orators, primarily Cicero. Readings may include selections from rhetorical works such as the de oratore and the Rhetorica and Herrenium as well. Discussion of the history of rhetoric, rhetorical devices, and the place of rhetoric in the larger Latin literary tradition.
  
  • LATN 4110 - Independent Study in Latin

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: Students study independently in Latin under instructor’s guidance. Studies are planned to satisfy special individual needs and interests. May be repeated for up to a total of 12 hours.
  
  • LATN 4120 - Independent Study in Latin

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: Students study independently in Latin under instructor’s guidance. Studies are planned to satisfy special individual needs and interests. May be repeated for up to a total of 12 hours.
  
  • LATN 4210 - Latin Prose Composition

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020 
    Description: Practice in composing connected prose in Latin of the Classical period. Topics may include grammar review, the developmental of Latin prose, the use of rhetorical devices; there may be brief readings from a variety of prose authors in addition to the composition assignments.
  
  • LATN 4300 - The Roman Novel

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020 
    Description: Selected readings from Petronius or Apuleius. Discussion of the ancient novel tradition, including Greek predecessors and such later authors as Dictys Cretensis and lulius Valerius.
  
  • LATN 4310 - Medieval Latin

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020 
    Description: Selected readings of Latin authors from c. 500 to 1500 A.D. Readings may include both prose and poetry. Study of the development of Latin throughout this period, including some discussion of the breakdown into the vernacular Romance languages.
  
  • LATN 4410 - Latin Satire

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LATN 2020 
    Description: Selected readings from the poems of Horace, Martial or Juvenal. Discussion of the development of satire and its place in the Latin literary tradition.

Leadership Science

  
  • LDSP 1000 - Intro to Study of Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: President’s Emerging Leaders Program (PELP)  students only
    Description: Introduce students to the basic concepts in the area of leadership, followership, volunteerism, and group dynamics, and assist students to develop a heightened self-awareness of their leadership potential.
  
  • LDSP 1005 - Community Organizations

    Credit Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: President’s Emerging Leaders Program (PELP)  students only
    Description: Examine the structures of community corporations, governmental agencies, and other institutions as they relate to community activities. Included will be discussions of leadership in community organizations for change, utilizing community resources. Students will be expected to spend some time in the field learning about community organizations.
  
  • LDSP 2000 - Ethics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: President’s Emerging Leaders Program (PELP)  students only
    Description: From Plato to the present, it has been argued that good leaders are good persons and individuals of good character who are able to apply sound reasoning to issues of private and public morality. Topics included will be ethical issues confronted by great leaders, the principles used in their decision-making, and application of ethical principles to community situations.
  
  • LDSP 2100 - Foundations of Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: This course examines basic concepts of leadership and explores current thought in the field of study.  Topics covered include leader emergence, leader behaviors and ethics, leader characteristics and individual differences, cross-cultural leadership, leading diverse teams, substitutes for leadership, followership, decision-making, and measurement/methods for studying leadership.
  
  • LDSP 3000 - Leadership Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: This junior level course, open to all junior or senior students, is designed to expose leadership students to the basic concepts in leadership theory and group dynamics. To assist students in developing and improving skills in communication, group dynamics, goal setting, decision-making/problem solving, conflict resolution, and leading effective meetings; to enhance the student’s understanding of the characteristics of past and present successful leaders and to apply this understanding to their own leadership development.
  
  • LDSP 3001 - Leadership Issues I

    Credit Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: President’s Emerging Leaders Program (PELP)  students only
    Description: Students will be assigned to a community committee and meet with the group on a regular basis as a participating member. In addition, students will attend at least two 2-hour workshops addressing practical application of leadership concepts and will participate in a group project. Readings related to the topic will be required.
  
  
  • LDSP 3100 - Organizational Dynamics, Politics, and Change

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: This course (open to all APSU students) takes an interdisciplinary look at leadership and change in organizations and groups. Students are exposed to structural, cultural, and political challenges that leaders face. Designed to help one understand sources of power and authority, various theories of organizational development and leadership strategies are explored for uses in dealing with complex situations and setting.
  
  • LDSP 3110 - Innovation and creativity

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Leadership can facilitate or inhibit change, creativity and innovation.  Circumstances can require balancing competing interests including organizations, people, culture, and technology.  This course explores the role of leadership in advancing and applying innovation.
  
  • LDSP 3120 - Developing Leaders in Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: This course focuses on the process and structure of developing others as leaders.  Topics include learning theory, models of training and development, mentorship, and the structuring experiences for leadership development.
  
  • LDSP 3130 - Judgment and Decision Making

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: This course explores decision-making and problem-solving at the individual and group (organizational) level. Contrasting viewpoints and approaches to decision-making and problem-solving are examined via readings and cases. Topics covered include decision ethics, impact on stakeholders, game theory, and framing.
  
  • LDSP 3140 - Leadership as Social Influence

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Examines leadership as a process in which leaders influence others for the common good through the use of a variety of tactics and strategies.  Topics include impression negotiation, impression management, self-presentation processes, framing, attitude formation, grouplink, self-monitoring, self and collective identity, interpersonal influence, persuasion, followership, power, and organizational politics.
  
  • LDSP 3150 - Leadership and Power

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Examines the basic concepts and uses of leadership power and influence in the organization.  Topics include the use, misuse, creation, and dispersion of power, ethical implications in the use of power and influence, and the interplay of power and related ideas including critical thinking.

     

  
  • LDSP 3160 - Strategic Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Examines the strategic nature of leadership:  how leaders create form and focus out of chaos to achieve goals.  Drawing from diverse academic disciplines, topics include the evolution of strategic thinking, the application of strategy in various settings, and the relationship of strategy to systems, information, and execution.
  
  • LDSP 3200 - Community Leadership, Strategy, and Social Change

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: This course (open to all APSU students) explores basic concepts of strategic leadership in civic and social organizations. Topics include social and civic entrepreneurship, civil society, community visioning and grass roots strategic planning. Course participants will pursue strategies for building healthy and sustainable communities through asset building, collaboration, social capital development, fundraising, and grant writing.
  
  • LDSP 3900 - Advances in Leadership Science

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite:   or  
    Description: This course combines theory, research methodology, and application to provide the student with a deeper understanding of the relationship between theory and practice in the realm of leadership.  Included are topics such as transformational/charismatic leadership, contingent/situational leadership, and leadership styles.
  
  • LDSP 4000 - Internship in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Appropriate preparation courses and permission of the director.
    Description: Students will complete 100 clock hours of supervised work in an approved setting and will be expected to meet at regular intervals with the Director to discuss work in the field. Application for internship should be made with the Director the semester prior to planned enrollment.
  
  • LDSP 4001 - Great Leaders

    Credit Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: President’s Emerging Leaders Program (PELP)  students only
    Description: Studies of biographies of models of greatness will help students discover the characteristics of individuals which contributed to their outstanding accomplishments. Students will draw implications from these studies about their own abilities and skills.
  
  • LDSP 4200 - Leadership, Technology and Change

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: This course (open to all APSU students) examines how the leader of any type of organization deals with technology as an agent of change. Students investigate how technology changes organizations and their environments, and they formulate strategies for leading diverse groups through technological change.
  
  • LDSP 4511 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4511, 4512, 4513, - 4514, 4515, 4516, 4517, 4518, 4519, 4520 - Vital Topics in Leadership (1 credit hour each)

    Credit Hours: 1 hour each
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4511-4520 - Vital Topics in Leadership (1 hour each)

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4512 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4513 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4514 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4515 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4516 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4517 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4518 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4519 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4520 - Vital Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4610 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4610, 4620, 4630, - 4640, 4650, 4660, 4670, 4680, 4690, 4700 - Emerging Issues in Leadership (3 hours each)

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4620 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4630 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4660 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4670 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4680 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4690 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4700 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4810 - Leadership Seminar - Experiential Emphasis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite:  
    Description: This course ties together the key learning objectives from courses in the leadership studies program.  A major component of this course will be application of leadership theories.  Experiential learning and case study analyses will be the primary teaching tools for the course.
  
  • LDSP 4820 - Leadership Seminar - Investigative Emphasis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite:  
    Description: This course ties together the key learning objectives from courses in the leadership studies program.  Taking an investigative emphasis, students examine issues in leadership and draw upon their knowledge from their leadership and related courses in a research project.

Leadership Studies

  
  • LDEV 2000 - Ethics in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: From Plato to the present, it has been argued that good leaders are good persons/individuals of good character who are able to apply sound reasoning to issues of private and public morality. Topics included will be ethical issues confronted by great leaders, the principles used in their decision-making, and application of ethical principles to community situations.

     
  
  • LDEV 3001 - Leadership Issues I

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Students will choose a community mentor and meet with the mentor on a regular basis.  Students will spend at least 20 hours with their mentor addressing practical application of leadership concepts.  Readings related to the topic will be required.
  
  • LDEV 3002 - Leadership Issues II

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Continuation of LDSP 3001.
  
  • LDEV 3200 - Community, Leadership, Strategy and Social Change

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: This course (open to all APSU students) explores basic concepts of strategic leadership in civic and social organizations. Topics include social and civic entrepreneurship, civil society, community visioning and grass roots strategic planning. Course participants will pursue strategies for building healthy and sustainable communities through asset building, collaboration, social capital development, fundraising, and grant writing.
  
  • LDEV 4000 - Internship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Appropriate preparation courses and permission of the director.
    Description: Students will complete 100 clock hours of supervised work in an approved setting and will be expected to meet at regular intervals with the Director to discuss work in the field. Application for internship should be made with the Director the semester prior to planned enrollment.
  
  • LDEV 4001 - Great Leaders

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Studies of biographies of models of greatness will help students discover the characteristics of individuals which contributed to their outstanding accomplishments. Students will draw implications from these studies about their own abilities and skills.
  
  • LDSP 2001 - Communication Skills

    Credit Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: President’s Emerging Leaders Program (PELP)  students only
    Description: Methods of communication (verbal, non-verbal, and written), barriers to communication, perceptions, styles of communication, conflict prevention and resolution, and skills for leading an effective meeting. The course will include theory and application of ideas presented in a variety of didactic and experiential activities.
  
  • LDSP 4640 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
  
  • LDSP 4650 - Emerging Issues in Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Advanced readings and research in a selected area of leadership studies.  Topics to be chosen by the instructor.

Linguistics

  
  • LING 3010 - Greek and Latin Etymology

    Credit Hours: 1
    Description: Origin and derivation of words from Greek and Latin stems most frequently found in the English language. Exercises and drills to increase vocabulary. No foreign language prerequisite.
  
  • LING 3030 - International Learning Community

    Credit Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: Students must be housed in the International Learning Community Residence Hall
    Description: Students will engage in cross-cultural and linguistic activities with other students in the classroom. Activities are related to language learning, study abroad and other international experiences. Pass/Fail grading. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • LING 4010 - History of the English Language

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Study of the origins and historical development of the English language, including internal (sounds, syntax, inflections, vocabulary, semantics) and external (political, social, cultural, intellectual, language contact) forces that helped shape the course of development at different periods.
  
  • LING 4020 - History of American English

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Study of the history and development of American English from the early colonial period to the present day. Attention will also be given to geographical dialects, social and ethnic dialects, variation within individual speakers, and attitudes about varieties of American English.
  
  • LING 4030 - Introduction to Historical Linguistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: LING 4040 
    Description: Study of how and why languages change over time, particularly changes in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics.  Introduction to methods used to investigate these changes, particularly the comparative method and internal reconstruction.  Additional topics:  effects of language contact; genetic/genealogical and internal reconstruction.  Additional topics: effects of language contact; genetic/genealogical classification of languages; insights historical linguistics brings to understanding prehistory.
  
  • LING 4040 - How Language Works

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Introduction to how language works with emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, including consideration of their application to the teaching of English.  Additional topics include phonemic transcription, word formation strategies, language and the brain, language acquisition, language variation, and language change.
  
  • LING 4050 - English Grammar and Usage

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 , 1020 , 2030 
    Description: Study of the major syntactic structures of standard English, the function of syntactic structures, terminology, and the basic techniques of syntactic analysis. Attention is also given to usage issues associated with prescriptive contemporary grammar in both speech and writing.
  
  • LING 4060 - Survey of Early Germanic Languages

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Introduction to characteristic linguistic features of Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Low Franconian, Old High German; examination of relationships between members of the early Germanic language family; overview of cultural/historical backgrounds of speakers of these early languages.
  
  • LING 4400 - Teaching Foreign Languages in Secondary School

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 , 1020 , 2030 
    Description: Surveys research-based instructional strategies in secondary foreign language education including contextualizing language instruction, addressing and assessing standards-based language instruction, integrating culture and technology, developing oral and written interpersonal communication, and adapting instruction to diverse learners.  This course requires 5 weeks in Residency I with specific performance assessment requirements.
  
  • LING 4510 - Capstone Seminar in Foreign Languages

    Credit Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: FREN 2020  or SPAN 2020  or GERM 2020  or LATN 2020  or GREK 2020  
    Description: The capstone course is needed for all foreign language majors, including those seeking licensure, so that they might polish their skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in the target language.  Students will review their studies, and select and edit written coursework for a portfolio.
  
  • LING 4600 - Special Topics in Linguistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: Study of a selected topic in linguistics as determined by the instructor.  May be taken twice for credit for maximum of six hours.

Management

  
  • MGT 481L - Strategic Management Lab

    Credit Hours: 0
    Corequisite: MGT 4810 
    Description: The lab is a corequisite for all students enrolled in MGT 4810 .  The lab consists of reviews of all core business concepts.  The Major Field Test will be given in this lab.  The lab is Pass/Fail.
  
  • MGT 490A,B,C - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1,2,3
    Prerequisite: MGT 3010 , BB 1  and permission of Chair
    Description: Application of the scientific method to business problems which are of interest to both faculty and students, and are academically relevant.
  
  • MGT 1100 - Computers In Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: An introduction to the use of computers in business. Course highlights computer hardware, software, and concepts and stresses the use of computer systems to solve business problems. Course provides hands-on experience with microcomputer systems and business software.
  
  • MGT 1200 - Business Information Technology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description:  Use of computers to solve business problems and hands-on experience with computer hardware and system and analytical software applications.
  
  • MGT 2110 - Business and Economic Statistics I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: An introduction to basic statistical concepts and techniques applied to business decision- making.
  
  • MGT 3010 - Principles of Management and Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: The basic concepts and principles of management and organizational behavior are considered. Within the framework of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, human aspects of management are explored. Some of these aspects are interpersonal relations, group dynamics, power and conflict, motivation, leadership, corporate culture and organizational change.
  
  • MGT 3110 - Organization Behavior and Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , MGT 3010 
    Description: An analysis of individual, interpersonal, and group behavior within organizations, as well as the interplay of human, technological, structural, cultural, and environmental factors for the purpose of relating them to the practice of management.
  
  • MGT 3210 - Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: MGT 3010 BB 1 
    Description: The staffing function of the organization, including the processes and legal issues of recruitment, selection, training, development, compensation, safety, health, performance appraisal, and retention of personnel.
  
  • MGT 3300 - Social, Legal, and Political Environment of Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Presentation of law of an expanding social, legal, and political institution, the development and nature of the legal system; business crimes; the law of torts, constitutional limitations of regulatory powers; legislative, judicial, and administrative control of business activity through tax laws, antitrust laws, laws of employment, labor laws, and consumer and debtor protection laws.
  
  • MGT 3310 - Data Analytics and Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: The acquisition, organization, and use of data in decision making in business.
  
  • MGT 3320 - Business Law I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , Junior standing, CGPA 2.1
    Description: A study of the legal right and potential liabilities of business people. Included is an introduction to the nature of the legal system, the basic law contracts, the uniform commercial code (sales, commercial paper, secured, transactions), bankruptcy, and agency.
  
  • MGT 3330 - Business Law II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: A study of the legal rights and potential liabilities of business people. Included are the basic legal principles of agency, partnerships, corporations, securities, personal property and bailment, real property, environmental controls, and estates and trusts.
  
  • MGT 3410 - Production Operations Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Cross Listed ENGT 3610 
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , MGT 3310 
    Description: Methods of efficient plant management including production scheduling, inventory control, forecasting, linear programming, transportation, statistical analysis, CPM, PERT, simulation, quality control, work management and maintenance.
  
  • MGT 3610 - Entrepreneurship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: MGT 3010 BB 1 
    Description: An in-depth study of the entrepreneurial process. Through the development of a business plan and financial projections, the student will gain an understanding of the entrepreneurial process which is critical to success in the small business sector. Emphasis will be placed upon the start-up and the knowledge required in management, finance, and marketing to insure success in a new venture. The impact of technology and the global and diverse workforce will be examined.
  
  • MGT 3630 - Creativity and Ideation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Description: This course will examine the role of creativity and innovation in business with a particular focus on the management of the creative and innovative process to solve problems and develop new ideas.  Students will explore personal creativity, management practices that enhance or suppress creativity, the relationship between creativity and innovation, and the process of innovation in a business setting.
  
  • MGT 3640 - Business Modeling

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: MGT 3610 
    Description: Students are exposed to the process of business model design in this course.  Activities will provide students with opportunities to examine business models enabling them to have a deeper understanding of the mechanics behind successful business ventures.  Students will design business models for new ventures.
  
  • MGT 3900 - Management Internship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , GPA of 3.0, and permission of Internship Coordinator
    Description: Designed to provide academic credit for relevant and meaningful experience in preparation for management positions.  Weekly updates, term paper, and satisfactory evaluation by employer/supervisor required for credit.  Grading on a pass/fail basis.
  
  • MGT 4000 - Issues in Free Enterprise

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MGT 3010 
    Description: Special topics in the area of free enterprise; topics may vary from time to time according to the specialty of the Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise.
  
  • MGT 4010 - Evolution of Management Thought

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , MGT 3010 
    Description: The development of management theories and practices during the twentieth century. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the primary management schools of thought and their impact upon the modern workplace. The influence of societal forces and world events on the evolution of management thought and principles will also be examined.
  
  • MGT 4090 - Corporate Citizenship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MGT 3010 
    Description: Explores corporate citizenship and how organizations implement strategies to fulfill social responsibility and financial goals.
  
  • MGT 4100 - Management Information System

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Course focuses on the management and effective use of information resources by organizations and individuals in support of decision making. Topics include data communications, system specification and purchase, system development and documentation, and the effects of technological change on individuals and organizations.
  
  • MGT 4110 - International Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MGT 3010 
    Description: A critical investigation of cultural aspects of living and engaging in business in non-U.S. locations. Major topics include individual and group behavior within the cultures, environments, and infrastructures of various countries in which the increasing globalization of business enterprise requires sensitivity and adaptation of Americans in business. Term paper required.
  
  • MGT 4500 - Business and Economic Forecasting

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: MGT 3410 
    Description: Factors contributing to business fluctuations and description of the features of U. S. cycles, alternative models of business cycles, basic economic indices and indicators, and economitrics models and forecasting techniques.
 

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