Business Administration Core Courses
Course Title:
Introduction to Business
Minimum Credits:
4
This course will introduce students to business organizations, the business disciplines and critical issues in contemporary business. The priority will be in having students develop strong intellectual foundations in business, knowledge of core disciplines of business, and an awareness of businesses' role in the economy and in the larger society. The course will include once a week lectures and also small group discussion sessions. The lectures will be organized by the lead Whittemore School faculty person and include visits and discussions with executives from New Hampshire companies. Writing intensive.
Course Title:
Computing Essentials for Business
Minimum Credits:
1
Self-paced course covering the fundamental skills and proficiency of general business software applications. Topics will include word processing and spreadsheet applications. Cr/F.
Course Title:
Management Information Systems
Minimum Credits:
4
This course provides an introduction to computer literacy, basic computer hardware and software concepts, business applications of information technology and computer ethics. Hands-on exercises include spreadsheets, databases and web pages. Prereq: ADMN 403.
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Course Title:
Business Statistics
Minimum Credits:
4
Introductory coverage of statistical methods for managerial decision-making: probability, descriptive and inferential statistics, and regression. Quantitative techniques common to many introductory statistics courses are covered, but the emphasis is on understanding concepts such as uncertainty, inferences from sample data, and model formulation, and on utilizing these techniques as aids in decision-making. No credit for students who have had ADM 430; BIOL 528; EREC 525; HHS 540; MATH 644; PYSC 402; SOC 502. Prereq: ADMN 403; MATH 420 or 424A.
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Course Title:
Financial Accounting
Minimum Credits:
4
Fundamentals of financial accounting concepts and procedures for analyzing economic events and the preparation and use of financial statements. No credit for students who have had ACFI 501 or ADM 532.
Course Title:
Managerial Accounting
Minimum Credits:
4
The use of information by managers to (1) determine the cost and profitability of the organization's products or services; (2) plan, control, and evaluate routine operations; and (3) make special non-routine decisions. The demand for managerial accounting information is derived from an integrated treatment of organizational objectives, an orientation to customers, and a focus on activities as the unit of analysis for measurement of cost, quality, and time. No credit for students who have had ADM 533. Prereq: ADMN 502.
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Course Title:
Introduction to Financial Management
Minimum Credits:
4
The investments, financing, and dividend decisions of the firm in a global setting. Topics include capital budgeting, designing and issuing securities, manager performance evaluation, resolution of agency problems, and working capital management. Open to Whittemore School majors only. Prereq: ECON 401. Pre- or Coreq: ADMN 420, ADMN 502; ECON 402.
Course Title:
Behavior in Organizations
Minimum Credits:
4
Behavioral science concepts applied to work settings. Focus on understanding and analyzing individual beliefs, values, goals, perceptions, motivation, commitment, and decision making; group structures and processes (interpersonal skills, communication, conflict resolution, leadership, and team work); organizational control systems (rewards, task design, performance appraisal); outcomes (satisfaction and development of the person as well as the organization); and organizational change. Open to Whittemore School majors only. No credit for students who have had MGT 580. Prereq: ADMN 400; ADMN 410. Pre- or Coreq: ADMN 503. Writing intensive.
Course Title:
Quantitative Decision Making
Minimum Credits:
4
Introduction to the use of quantitative tools in the decision-making process of an organization. Planning and operational problems in the manufacturing and services sectors are emphasized. Topics include forecasting, capacity planning, optimization, project scheduling, simulation and risk analysis, quality, inventory management, and waiting lines. Open to Whittemore School majors only. Prereq: ADMN 420; ADMN 503.
Course Title:
Marketing
Minimum Credits:
4
Covers marketing as the process of planning and developing goods and services to satisfy the needs of target customers: consumers, other businesses, institutions. Focus on how marketing contributes to the firm's goals through product planning, pricing, promotion, and distribution policies. Open to Whittemore School majors only. No credit for students who have had MKTG 550 or HMGT 600. Prereq: ADMN 400; ECON 401.
Course Title:
Strategic Management: Decision Making
Minimum Credits:
4
Capstone course: Problem-solving, decision-making, and strategic thinking relative to managerial, economic, ethical, legal, political, social, and technological aspects of an organization's environment. Integrates the functional discipline skills within the role of the general manager as leader and chief strategist, organizational builder and doer. Case discussion and analysis, industry and competitive analysis, environmental scanning, industry simulation, strategic audit, stakeholder analysis, values, ethics and social issues management within the public policy process are important course components. Open to Whittemore School majors only. Prereq: ADMN 601; ADMN 611; ADMN 640; ADMN 651 and senior standing.
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SR
Course Title:
Principles of Economics (Macro)
Minimum Credits:
4
Basic functions of the United States economy viewed as a whole; policies designed to affect its performance. Economic scarcity, supply and demand, the causes of unemployment and inflation, the nature of money and monetary policy, the impact of government taxation and spending, the federal debt, and international money matters. No credit for students who have had ECN 411.
Course Title:
Principles of Economics (Micro)
Minimum Credits:
4
Functions of the component units of the economy and their interrelations. Units of analysis are the individual consumer, the firm, and the industry. Theory of consumer demand and elasticity, supply and costs of production, theory of the firm under conditions of perfect and imperfect competition, demand for and allocation of economic resources, general equilibrium, and basic principles and institutions of international trade. Not open to students who have had EREC 411. No credit for students who have had ECN 412.
Course Title:
Finite Math
Minimum Credits:
4
See Math Department Course Description
Course Title:
Calculus for Social Sciences
Minimum Credits:
4
See Math Department Course Description