2000 Survey of Accounting (3) Credit will not be given
for both this course and ACCT 2001. Students in nonbusiness
curricula are advised to enroll in ACCT 2000 if
they are given the option of ACCT 2000 or ACCT 2001,
unless they plan to pursue a business degree at a subsequent
date. All students in the E. J. Ourso College of
Business are required to take ACCT 2001. Introduction to
the meaning of the values presented in financial statements;
management accounting concepts and internal decision
making; fundamentals of individual income taxes.
2001 Introductory Financial Accounting (3) Prereq.:
MATH 1021 or equivalent. Credit will not be given for
both this course and ACCT 2000. Required of all students
in the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Students in
nonbusiness curricula are advised to enroll in ACCT 2000
if they are given the option of ACCT 2000 or ACCT 2001,
unless they plan to pursue a business degree at a
subsequent date. Financial accounting with emphasis on
knowledge required for completion of the accounting
cycle, including income measurement and financial
statement preparation; accounting for current and plant
assets, current and long-term liabilities, stockholders'
equity, and cash flows.
2002 HONORS: Introductory Financial Accounting (3)
Same as ACCT 2001, with special honors emphasis for
qualified students. Credit will not be given for this course
and ACCT 2001.
2101 Introductory Managerial Accounting (3) Prereq.:
ACCT 2000 or 2001 or equivalent. Not for students
majoring in Accounting or Finance. Principles and
methods of accounting primarily concerned with data
gathering and presentation for purposes of internal
management evaluation and decision making.
2102 HONORS: Introductory Managerial Accounting
(3) Same as ACCT 2101, with special honors emphasis for
qualified students. Credit will not be given for this course
and ACCT 2101.
3001 Intermediate Accounting—Part I (3) Prereq.:
grade of “C” or above in ACCT 2001 or equivalent;
MATH 1431. College of Business students or permission
of department. Credit will not be given for both this
course and ACCT 2021. Accounting principles underlying
preparation of financial statements; their application in
measurement and reporting of selected balance-sheet items
and related revenue and expense recognition.
3002 HONORS: Intermediate Accounting–-Part I (3)
Same as ACCT 3001, with special honors emphasis for
qualified students. Credit will not be given for this course
and ACCT 3001.
3021 Intermediate Accounting—Part II (3) Prereq.:
grade of “C” or above in ACCT 3001. Continuation of
ACCT 3001. Accounting for liabilities, income taxes, pensions,
leases, stockholders' equity, earnings per share,
accounting changes and corrections of errors, and income
and balance sheet presentations.
3121 Cost Analysis and Control (3) Prereq.: ACCT
3001. Nature, objectives, basic systems, and procedures of
cost accounting and control for manufacturing firms; cost volume-
profit relationships; standard costs and variance
analysis; direct costing; relevant costs; activity-based
costing.
3122 Accounting Information Systems (3) Prereq.:
ACCT 3001 and ISDS 1100. Majors only or permission of
department. Analysis and design of standard accounting
systems; emphasis on computerized systems and internal
control issues.
3201 Fundamental Tax Problems and Tax Planning for
Individuals (3) Not open to accounting majors. Not
intended to satisfy the requirements to sit for the CPA
exam. For students with little or no previous work in
accounting. Credit will not be given for both this course
and ACCT 3221. General course in taxation; emphasis on
aspects of taxation affecting the individual; federal and
state income, estate, inheritance, gift, excise, and payroll
taxes.
3221 Income Tax Accounting I (3) Prereq.: credit or
registration in ACCT 3001. Credit will not be given for
both this course and ACCT 3201. Fundamentals of federal
income taxation with respect to individuals and other
entities, income inclusions and exclusions, and statutory
deductions in arriving at tax liability.
3222 Auditing (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3021 and 3122. Theoretical and practical development of the independent
audit function; generally accepted auditing standards;
collection and evaluation of audit evidence; understanding
internal control; risk assessment; transaction cycles; and
reporting.
3233 Internal Auditing I (3) Internal auditing standards,
ethics, concepts, audit techniques, and reporting practices.
4021 Cases in Accounting Policy (3) Prereq.: accounting
major with senior standing. Case approach; integrates
financial accounting, systems, auditing, income tax, and
management uses of accounting information; emphasis on
financial reporting to owners, the financial community,
regulatory agencies, and the general public; relationship of
accounting to the law.
4022 Advanced Accounting (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3021; MS
in accounting students or permission of department. Completion of the core financial accounting sequence;
business combinations, consolidated financial statements,
segment reporting, foreign operations, and Securities and
Exchange Commission procedures.
4121 Advanced Cost Analysis (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3121. Measurement, interpretation, planning, and control of
manufacturing and distribution costs; budgets and budgetary
control; comparison of costs of business alternatives.
4221 Income Tax Accounting II (1-3) Prereq.: ACCT
3221; MS in accounting students or permission of
department. Credit will not be given for both this course
and ACCT 7203. Fundamentals of federal income taxation,
with respect to partners, partnerships, corporations, and
shareholders.
4225 Research in Federal Income Taxation (3) Prereq.:
credit or registration in ACCT 3221. MS in accounting
students or permission of department. Credit will not be
given for this course and ACCT 7210. Techniques and
procedures involved in tax planning and research.
4231 Internship in Accounting (3) Prereq.: permission of
instructor and department chair required. Grade of “C”
or above in ACCT 3021. Credit will not be given for this
course and ACCT 4333 or 7231 or 7333. Pass-fail grading.
At least 20 hours per week (3 credits) of learning
experience in accounting under the general supervision of
a faculty member and direct supervision of a professional
in accounting. Grading based on the faculty member's
evaluation, a written report by the professional
supervisor, and a written report by the student.
4232 Advanced Auditing (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3222; MS in
accounting students or permission of department. Independent
auditor's legal and ethical obligations to society;
responsibility for the detection and reporting of fraud;
statistical sampling concepts and applications; extensions
of the auditor's function including operational auditing,
compliance auditing, and reporting on other types of
financial and nonfinancial information.
4233 Case Studies in Auditing (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3233. Case studies in operational, compliance, and financial
audits.
4234 Internal Auditing II (3) Prereq.: grade of “C” or
above in ACCT 3233. Operation, organization, and quality
control audits; organization theory.
4235 Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3001; MS in accounting students or
permission of department. Credit will not be given for this
course and ACCT 7235. Proactive and reactive fraud
auditing including audit committee and liability related
issues; investigative decision making for prevention,
detection, investigation, and reporting of fraud.
4236 Environmental and Safety Auditing (3) Prereq.:
ACCT 3233. Compliance and legal issues relative to
environmental laws and safety regulations; emphasis on
current laws and compliance auditing methodology.
4244 EDP Auditing (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3222 or 3233;
MS in accounting students or permission of department.
Credit will not be given for this course and ACCT 7244. Electronic data processing (EDP) control, audit
applications, and generalized audit software systems.
4333 Internship in Internal Auditing (3) Prereq.:
Permission of instructor and department chair required.
Credit will not be given for this course and ACCT 4231 or
7231 or 7333. Pass-fail grading. At least 20 hrs. per week
of learning experience in internal auditing under the
general supervision of a faculty member and direct
supervision of a professional in internal auditing. Grading
based on the faculty member’s evaluation, a written
report by the professional supervisor, and a written report
by the student.
4421 Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3001. Credit will not be given for this
course and ACCT 7421. Accounting, budgeting, fiscal processes,
and financial records of local, state, and federal
governmental bodies and of private nonprofit institutions.
4501 Petroleum Accounting (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3021 and
3121; MS in accounting students or permission of
department. Accounting for oil and gas exploration and
production; accounting for oil and gas leases, exploration
costs, undeveloped properties, drilling and development
operations, production, and oil and gas revenues.
7021 Advanced Theory of Accounts (3) Prereq.: ACCT
3021 and consent of instructor; or ACCT 4022. MS in
accounting students or permission of instructor. Corporate
reporting strategies and practices by managers; preparation
of financial statements; interpretation of corporate financial
reports.
7122 Budgeting, Cost Analysis, and Control (3) Prereq.:
ACCT 3121. Use of external accounting systems for
decision-making and control.
7201 Tax Aspects of Business Entities (3) Prereq.:
ACCT 3021 or equivalent. Basic concepts of business
entities, including corporations, partnerships, and S corporations;
tax consequences of the formation and operation of
a business entity, and distributions to the owners.
7202 Income Taxation of Equity Exchanges and
Redemptions (3) Prereq.: ACCT 7201. Income tax
consequences of the sales and exchanges of equity interests,
the redemptions of equity interests, and business
divisions and liquidations.
7203 Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3221 or equivalent. Credit will not be
given for both this course and ACCT 4221. Basic tax
concepts of corporations, including creation, operation,
ownership changes, acquisitions, liquidations,
reorganizations, and consolidated tax returns.
7210 Tax Research, Planning and Business Decision
Making (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3221 or equivalent. Credit
will not be given for both this course and ACCT 4225. Fundamental tax research methodology based on the
Internal Revenue Code, regulations and rulings, judicial
interpretations, annotated and topical tax services,
computerized tax research methods, and techniques of
communicating research results.
7222 Auditing Theory and Standards (3) Prereq.: ACCT
3222; MS in accounting students or permission of
instructor. A comprehensive analysis of the theory and
practice of independent auditing.
7231 Internship in Accounting (3) Prereq.: Permission
of instructor and department chair required. Credit will
not be given for this course and ACCT 4231 or 4333 or
7333. Pass-fail grading. At least 20 hours per week (3
credits) of learning experience in accounting under the
general supervision of a faculty member and direct
supervision of a professional in accounting. Grading
based on the faculty member's evaluation, a written report
by the professional supervisor, and a written report by the
student.
7232 Case Studies in Internal Auditing (3) Prereq.:
ACCT 7233. Primarily for MBA and MS students. Performance,
compliance, prudence, and fraud audits.
7233 Graduate Internal Auditing (3) Prereq.: consent of
instructor. Primarily for MBA and MS students. Theory
of internal auditing; efficiency, effectiveness, and economy
audits.
7234 Operational Auditing (3) Prereq.: ACCT 7233.
Primarily for MBA and MS students. Operational audit
methodology for management audits, functional audits, risk
analysis, and auditable unit analysis.
7235 Fraud Auditing (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3001 or
equivalent. MS in accounting students or permission of
department. Credit will not be given for this course and
ACCT 4235. Study of risk and controls relative to the
deterrence, prevention, and detection of beneficial and
detrimental fraud.
7244 Systems Auditing (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3222 or 3233,
or permission of instructor. Credit will not be given for
this course and ACCT 4244. Selected topics in the control
and audit of computer systems.
7250 Current Topics in Federal Income Taxation (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3221 or equivalent. May be taken for a
max. of 6 hrs. of credit. Tax research and planning in
current major interest areas of tax law.
7255 Fundamentals of Federal Income Tax (3) Prereq.:
ACCT 3221 or equivalent. Relationship among statutes,
case law, congressional committee reports, and administrative
pronouncements.
7256 Internal Revenue Service Practice and Procedure
(3) MS in accounting students or permission of
department. Practices and procedures of the Internal
Revenue Service; client representation.
7270 Statement and Report Presentation and Analysis
(3) MS in accounting students or permission of
department.
7301 Financial Information Systems (3) Prereq.: ACCT
3122 or equivalent. MS in accounting students or
permission of department. Basic knowledge of computers
and databases. Financial information systems, with emphasis
on the analysis and design of a system and its use in
financial planning, control, and reporting.
7310 Tax Aspects of Personal Financial Planning (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3221. Basic concepts of estate and gift
taxation and income taxes as they affect personal tax
planning; emphasis on wealth accumulation.
7333 Internship in Internal Auditing (3) Prereq.:
Permission of instructor and department chair required.
Credit will not be given for this course and ACCT 4231 or
4333 or 7231. Pass-fail grading. At least 20 hrs per week of learning experience in internal auditing under the
general supervision of a faculty member and direct
supervision of a professional in internal auditing. Grading based on the faculty member’s evaluation and a
written report by the professional supervisor, and a
written report by the student.
7401 Ethics for Professional Accountants (3) Prereq.:
MS in accounting students or permission of department.
Case approach to understanding the ethical and regulatory
environment of the practice of professional accounting.
7421 Public Sector Accounting and Reporting (3) Prereq.: ACCT 3001. MS in accounting students or
permission department. Credit will not be given for this
course and ACCT 4421. Public sector management
competencies for executive directors, managers,
accountants, and consultants for government and nonprofit
organizations; topics include financial reporting,
regulation, managerial, auditing, taxation, and information
systems issues in governmental and nonprofit entities.
7601 International Accounting (3) MS in accounting
students or permission of department. Accounting
principles, auditing environments, managerial objectives,
and financial reporting requirements applicable to
multinational corporations; causes of international
accounting problems.
8900 Pre-dissertation Research (1-9) May be repeated
for credit. Pass-fail grading. Permission of instructor and
department chair required.
9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.) “S”/“U”
grading.
9001 Accounting Research I (3) For doctoral students
only. Research methodologies in accounting and a survey
of the accounting research literature.
9002 Accounting Research II (3) For doctoral students
only. Theory and evidence relating to internal decision
making and control, financial accounting, and auditing.
9003 Accounting Research III (3) For doctoral students
only. Continuation of ACCT 9002. Theory and evidence
relating to internal decision making and control, financial
accounting, and auditing.
9004 Accounting Research IV (3) For doctoral students
only. May be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit. Seminar
in current accounting research topics.
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1000 Introduction to the Study of Business (1) F Enrollment in this course is limited to students admitted to
the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Introduction to the E.
J. Ourso College of Business policies and resources
including academic advising, majors, career alternatives,
college technology, and student organizations.
1001 Introduction to Business (3) May not be taken by
students in the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Operation
of the business firm; function of the businessman; nature of
economic system and private enterprise.
4000 Innovation and Creativity (3) Prereq.: ACCT 2001,
2101; ECON 2000, 2010; ISDS 1100; MKT 3401. Role of
creativity and innovation in product, service, or idea
generation that may eventually lead to business formation
and commercialization; barriers to creativity and
innovation; alternative problem-solving approaches.
4020 Internship in Entrepreneurship (3) Prereq.:
approval of department. May be repeated for a max. of 6
sem. hrs. when topics vary. Gaining first-hand knowledge
of the business start-up process; practical hands-on
experience in business-plan formation.
4030 Independent Study in Entrepreneurship (3) Prereq.: approval of department. May be repeated for a
max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit when topics vary. Detailed study
of a specific aspect of entrepreneurship.
4040 Entrepreneurship in China (3) Characteristics of
Chinese: entrepreneurs, new venture financing, innovation
and creativity, franchising, family businesses, technological
entrepreneurs, technological intrapreneurs,
entrepreneurship education, and incubators.
7000 Internship in Business Administration (3) Prereq.:
prior approval of MBA director. Open only to full-time
MBA students. May be taken once for credit. 10 hrs. of
learning experience (fall/spring); 20 hrs. (summer).
General supervision by a faculty member; direct
supervision by a business professional. Pass-fail grading
based on a written evaluation by the professional supervisor,
a written report by the student, and the faculty
member's evaluation.
7010 The Practice of Business (1) F,S Open only to
students in the MBA program. Taken each semester of the
MBA program. Course must be successfully completed
four times prior to graduation. Exposure to the practice of
business; a series of visits to area businesses, in
conjunction with classroom experiences, to learn how
managers and operations specialists in various industries
cultivate, shape, and exploit their companies' resources to
meet current and future market needs.
7020 Managerial Statistics (3) Open only to students in
the MBA program. An introduction to statistical thinking
and overview of statistical methods used to analyze and
interpret data, draw inferences, and make decisions; topics
include descriptive statistics, probability, sampling and
sampling distributions, estimation, confidence intervals,
hypothesis testing, linear regression, forecasting, and control
charting; emphasis on how to use spreadsheets to
analyze data and how to interpret the results.
7030 Understanding Financial Information (3) Composition
of financial statements; information processing and
reporting for the purpose of understanding accounting
information; legal and ethical obligations of the accounting
profession.
7040 Managerial Economics (3) Practical applications of
microeconomic theory; demand forecasting techniques,
cost estimation, and analysis of market structures.
7050 Information Systems (3) Prereq.: ISDS 1100 or
equivalent. Open only to students in the MBA program. Contemporary topics in information systems; a survey of
information system analysis and design; introduction to
business data communication, database management
systems, and knowledge based systems; enterprise-wide
systems and information systems control.
7060 Elements of Cost Management (3) Prereq.: BADM
7030. Open only to students in the MBA program. Understanding and applying cost management practices
used in business today; development of costing and
budgeting systems used for cost management; applications
of analysis used in management decision making and
control; cost-profit-volume analysis; analysis of variances
between budgeted and actual cost; methods of evaluating
responsibility centers based upon profitability measures.
7070 Understanding Behavior in Organizations (3) F Open only to students in the MBA program. Broad
understanding of factors influencing the behavior of
individuals in organizations; topics include the individual
and contextual determinants of behavior and the tools
managers use to influence and direct employee behavior;
emphasis on managerial applications of behavioral science
theories.
7080 Macroeconomic Analysis & Issues (3) Open only
to students in the MBA program. Examining forces
determining the magnitude of such variables as the
aggregate volume of an economy's output, the volume of
resource employment, the size of national income, and the
general price level; international variables of trade and
financial flows; international trade agreements and other
foreign variables that affect exchange rates, domestic
income, output, prices, and employment,
7090 Financial Management (3) Prereq.: BADM 7030.
Credit will not be given for this course and FIN 7717. Investment and financing decisions within the firm; role of
capital markets; usefulness and limitations of financial
data; cash flow projections; working capital management.
7100 Marketing Administration (3) Marketing decision
making and planning, including marketing research,
product development and management, distribution,
demand estimation, market structure analysis, pricing,
promotion, advertising, and direct marketing.
7120 Operations Management (3) Prereq.: BADM 7020.
Open only to students in the MBA program. Major
problems and decision processes of operations
management; operations strategy; process and capacity
planning; facilities planning; aggregate planning; materials
planning; quality planning.
7140 Legal Environment of Business (3) Open only to
students in the MBA program. The structure of the legal
environment of business; sources of law affecting business;
constitutional issues in the legal environment of business;
contracts and sales; torts; products liability; corporations;
securities; bankruptcy; antitrust; discrimination; labor
relations; environmental law; criminal law; its impact
negotiation strategies; associated ethical and international
issues.
7160 Negotiation, Persuasion, and Influence (1.5) F Experiential-based course designed to provide managers
with the basic concepts and techniques necessary for
effective negotiation and conflict resolution in a variety of
business contexts.
7170 Understanding International Management Challenges
(3) F Open only to students in the MBA program. Theories and management of international operations;
development of environmental, operational, strategic, and
decision making perspectives.
7190 Managing Sources of Competitive Advantage (3)
S Contemporary approaches to developing and sustaining a
competitive advantage in global competition; topics
include: competition for competence, strategy and
technology, managing home and host government relations,
cooperative strategy, strategic alliances, organizational
innovation, and managing global strategic change.
7200 Economic Environment of the Firm (3) National
and global issues that affect the firm; an introduction to
theoretical concepts and policy issues associated mainly
with macroeconomics and to a lesser degree with
managerial economics.
7210 Understanding Ethical Issues in Business (1.5) S Designed to help future managers confront and successfully
manage ethical issues and their economic, legal,
political, social, and cultural aspects.
7270 Seminar in New Developments in Business Administration
(3)
7420 Financing New Ventures I (1.5) Insight into
financing new ventures and investing in companies in early
stages; sourcing, qualifying, and analyzing deals;
negotiating, structuring, and pricing; creating value;
realizing value through various kinds of exit from the
business.
7310 Systems Audit (3) Introduction to IT audit and
security concepts.
7421 Financing New Ventures II (1.5) Prereq.: BADM
7420. Focus on cases and projects taken from actual
financing situations; structuring of venture capital; the
process of making investments in emerging companies.
7430 Family Business Management (1.5) Key issues and
conflicts facing individuals and families involved in
business relationships; family business culture;
entrepreneurial influences; career planning; professional
support relationship; survival skills as a son or daughter in
a family business.
7432 Innovation and Creativity (1.5) Role of creativity
and innovation in product, service, or idea generation that
may eventually lead to business formation and
commercialization; barriers to creativity and innovation;
alternative problem-solving approaches.
7440 Franchise Development (1.5) Important factors in
starting and managing a new franchise; characteristics of
franchiser and franchisee; evaluation of franchising
opportunities; legal concerns of franchising; development
of appropriate strategies.
7441 Franchise Planning (1.5) Prereq.: BADM 7440. Development of franchising business plan to include
marketing, management, financial projections, and
operations manual outline.
7460 Special Topics in Entrepreneurship (1.5) May be
repeated for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit when topics vary. In-depth coverage in special topics such as women-owned
business, home-based business, exporting for small
business, and team-building for start-ups.
7470 Internship in Entrepreneurship (1.5) May be
repeated for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics
vary. Understanding actual entrepreneurial situations;
creating an integrated, cross-functional strategy;
implementing and managing projects.
7480 Independent Study in Entrepreneurship (1.5) Prereq.: departmental approval. May be repeated for a
max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit when topics vary. Detailed study
of a specific aspect of entrepreneurship.
7600 Consulting Field Project (3) Prereq.:
Entrepreneurship Specialization or permission of
instructor. Strategic focused field based project learning
experiences and opportunities in public and private
organizations. Team-based approach to offering consulting
advice to organizations with the goal of improving their
performance. Emphasis on experiential approaches that
provide a participative type of learning about the crucial
issues faced by organizations.
7900 Human Factors in Business and Industry: Current
Problems (3) May be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of
credit when topics vary. Human factors related to business
problems.
8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U" grading.
8900 Pre-dissertation Research (1-9) May be repeated
for credit.
9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U"
grading.
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2000 Principles of Microeconomics (3) Credit will
not be given for both this course and ECON 2020 or
2030. Study of how households and firms make decisions
and how they interact in specific markets; theories of
production price determination, trade, externalities, and
public goods.
2001 HONORS Principles of Microeconomics (3) Same
as ECON 2000, with special honors emphasis for
qualified students. Credit will not be given for this course
and ECON 2000.
2010 Principles of Macroeconomics (3) Prereq.:
ECON 2000. Credit will not be given for both this course
and ECON 2030. Study of economy-wide phenomena,
including inflation, unemployment, the monetary system,
economic growth, international trade and finance.
2011 HONORS: Principles of M acroeconomics (3)
Same as ECON 2010, with special honors emphasis for
qualified students. Credit will not be given for this course
and ECON 2010.
2030 Economic Principles (3) An honors course,
ECON 2031, is also available. Credit will not be given for
both this course and ECON 2000 or 2010 or 2020. Economic understanding of both micro- and
macroeconomic principles; problems associated with
monetary policy, fiscal policy, public finance, government
and business, labor, international trade, economic growth,
and comparative economic systems.
2031 HONORS: Economic Principles (3) Same as
ECON 2030, with special honors emphasis for qualified
students.
2035 Money, Banking, and Macroeconomic Activity (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030. Credit will not be given for both this course and ECON 2036. Role of commercial
banks, other financial institutions, and the central bank
in affecting the performance of the economy; relationships
of money and fiscal policy to prices, production, and employment;
internal and external effects of U.S. fiscal and
monetary policy.
2036 HONORS: M oney, Banking, and M acroeconomic
Activity (3) Same as ECON 2035, with special honors
emphasis for qualified students. Credit will not be given
for this course and ECON 2035.
3999 Independent Study: Economic Problems (1-3) May be taken for credit for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. For
undergraduate students with a onlinepoint average of 3.00
or above. Independent economic research and study under
the direction of a faculty member.
4010 The United States-Its Economic Growth (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030; or equivalent. The American economy; modern problems dealing with
money and banking, taxation, labor, international trade,
and American position in world affairs.
4020 Comparative Economic Systems (3) Prereq.:
ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030. Theory and practice of
economic systems: capitalism, socialism, and centrally
planned economies.
4025 The Russian Economy in the 20th Century (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030. Also offered as
HIST 4126. Operation, growth, and performance of the
Russian economy under the tsarist and Soviet regimes;
perestroika (restructuring) under Gorbachev; current economic
trends.
4030 Development Economics (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000
and 2010; or 2030. Political, social, and technological
factors affecting development of the third world.
4040 Economic Development Policy (3) Prereq.: ECON
2000 and 2010; or 2030. Role of U.S. and other advanced
industrialized countries in the economic development of
Third World countries.
4050 Economic Development of Europe (3) Prereq.:
ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030; or equivalent. Major
elements in the economic development of resources, transportation,
marketing, finance, labor, and economic policy.
4070 Economic Growth (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and
2010; or 2030. Analysis of the determinants of economic
growth through development of theoretical and empirical
models of economic growth; discussion of both old and
new growth theory and convergence of income levels
across countries.
4075 American Economic History to 1860 (3) See HIST
4075.
4076 American Economic History, 1860 to the Present
(3) See HIST 4076.
4110 Public Finance (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and 2010;
or 2030. Economic theory applied to the private market
and to the public sector; public goods, efficiency, voting,
externalities, principles of taxation, benefit-cost analysis,
and policy analyses of current issues.
4120 Federal, State, and Local Taxation (3) Prereq.:
ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030. Administration, fiscal
importance, and economic effects of federal, state, and
local taxes; emphasis on recent trends in taxation at each
level of government and on significance of these trends for
individuals and the nation.
4130 Urban and Regional Economics (3) Prereq.:
ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030. Economic analysis of the
location and growth of urban and regional areas; emphasis
on public policy issues; land-use patterns, measurement
and change in regional economic activity, and urban
problems such as transportation, housing, and poverty.
4210 Labor Economics (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and
2010; or 2030. Causes of economic problems of American
wage earners; attempts of wage earners and society to
alleviate and solve these problems through organization
and legislation.
4220 Wage and Employment Analysis (3) Prereq.:
ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030. The labor market; labor
supply and demand, human capital, racial and sex discrimination,
effects of minimum wage laws, causes of various
wage and employment differentials.
4230 Economics of Human Resources (3) Prereq.:
ECON 2000 or 2030. Application of empirical research
and economic theory to human resource management and
internal labor market; topics include hiring, training, pay,
promotion, evaluation, layoffs, and termination from an
economic perspective.
4320 Environmental Economics (3) Prereq.: ECON
2000 and 2010; or 2030. Market failure and government
failure, benefit cost analysis, the economics of energy, the
efficient allocation of pollution, stationary, and mobile
source air pollution, water pollution, and toxic wastes.
4325 Applied Resource Economics (3) Prereq.: ECON
2000 and 2010; or 2030. Analysis of environmental and
resource problems; cost-benefit and other empirical techniques
used to examine these problems.
4400 Industrial Organization and Public Policy (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030. Theory of the
firm, perfect competition, monopoly, collusion and collusive
strategies, strategic interaction, auctions, durable
goods, predation, antitrust, and experimental economics.
4421 Health Care Economics (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000
and 2010; or 2030. Economics of health care with particular
emphasis on hospitals, physicians, and other health care
providers, as well as government programs.
4440 The Economics of Government Regulations (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030. Economic bases,
policies, and consequences of government regulation of
economic activity.
4445 Internship in Economics (3) Prereq.: consent of
instructor. Pass-fail grading. On-the-job experience in
approved positions with economic content.
4520 International Economics (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000
and 2010; or 2030. Introduction to the basic theories of
international trade including classical, neoclassical, and
post-neoclassical theories; discussion on how these
theories relate to current economic events and policies;
brief overview of major U.S. trade law; overview and
analysis of major bilateral and multilateral trading
agreements including the North American Free Trade
Agreement, the European Union, and the World Trade
Organization.
4530 The Chinese Economy (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000
and 2010, or 2030. Review of the history of the economy
in China; major governmental policies in China that have
shaped the growth and development of the Chinese
economy; the development of the manufacturing and
industrial sectors; China’s role in the international trade
and financial markets.
4540 Economic Forecasting (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000
and 2010, or 2030; and ISDS 2000; or equivalent. Applications of methods used in business and economic
forecasting; trend analysis, time-series modeling,
regression analysis and combination forecasting.
4550 International Finance (3) Prereq.: ECON 2035 or
equivalent. Exchange rates and the foreign exchange
market; exchange rate determination in the short run and in
the long run; alternative international currency systems,
macroeconomic policy coordination under fixed and
floating exchange rates.
4560 Central Banking and Monetary Policy (3) Prereq.:
ECON 2035. History, economic functions, operating
techniques, and policies of central banks; the role of monetary
policy in promoting economic stability and growth; the
Federal Reserve System and current problems of monetary
policy and control.
4610 Introduction to Mathematical Economics (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and 2010, or 2030; and college
algebra; or equivalent. Not normally open to students who
have had differential calculus. Mathematical techniques
used by economists; their application to economic analysis.
4620 Game Theory and Applications (3) Prereq.: ECON
2000 and ECON 2010 or ECON 2030. Methods to
analyze optimal or strategic behavior in situations with
multiple interactive decision makers. Topics range from
the formal analysis of parlor games, cold war, auctions,
voting behavior to pricing decisions of firms.
4630 Introduction to Econometrics (3) Prereq.: ECON
2000 and 2010, or 2030; MATH 1431 or equivalent; and
ISDS 2000 or equivalent. Not open to students with credit
in ECON 7630. For students interested in a basic knowledge
of econometrics. Techniques of econometrics; estimating
the basic linear model and hypothesis testing;
empirical illustrations by reference to contemporary economic
questions.
4632 Financial Econometrics (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000
and 2010; or 2030; ISDS 2000 or equivalent. Econometric
methods used to examine financial data; tests of market
efficiency, forecasting volatility of financial markets,
estimating value at risk.
4710 Aggregate Economic Analysis (3) Prereq.: ECON
2035 or equivalent. Factors determining aggregate level of
national income, employment, and prices; static Keynesian,
monetarist, and supply-side models developed and
compared, and the macroeconomic effects of monetary and fiscal policy are analyzed.
4720 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (3) Prereq.:
ECON 2000 and 2010; or 2030. Price determination,
resource allocation, and pricing in a market economy.
4730 The Evolution of Economic Thought (3) Cultural
and historical factors influencing different types of economic
thought from the ancient world to the present.
4900 Selected Topics in Economics (3) Prereq.: ECON
2000 and 2010 or 2030. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem.
hrs. when topics vary.
5600 Microeconomic Theory for Policy Analysis (3) Also offered as PADM 5600.
7070 Theory of Economic Growth (3) Prereq: ECON 7715. Theories of economic
growth and their development.
7130 Public Finance Theory (3) Foundations of welfare
economics for evaluating efficiency and equity of taxation
and public spending policies; incidence and optimality of
taxation.
7135 Advanced Topics in Public Finance (3) May be
taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Special issues in taxation, public expenditures, and political
economy.
7240 Seminar in Labor Economics (3) Theoretical and
empirical effects of trade unions and other labor organizations
on individuals, firms, government policies, and the
economy.
7250 Wage and Employment Analysis (3) Neoclassical
wage and employment theory and its application to the
labor market; labor force participation rates; discrimination;
labor markets, human capital, the inflation-unemployment
trade-off.
7320 Seminar in Environmental and Resource Economics
(3) Neoclassical and bio-economic tradition of resource
utilization; emphasis on biophysical underpinnings of
economics drawing from thermodynamics, ecology,
geology, and demography; ethical issues of stewardship in
resource management; topical policy issues in energy,
materials, food, and air and water pollution.
7325 Applied Resource Economics (3) Application of
property rights, externalities, and benefit-cost analysis to
resource management; measurement problems; intertemporal
allocation, technical changes and resources substitution;
and utilization of environmental resources.
7420 Health Care Economics (3) Prereq.: ECON 4720
or equivalent. Economics of health care with particular
emphasis on demand and supply of health care services;
roles of insurance and government in provision of health
care services.
7470 Economics of Regulated Enterprise (3) Economic
analysis of problems and policies of regulated enterprises,
with emphasis on philosophy of regulation, rate theories,
earnings control, coordination, and national policy.
7480 Seminar in Industrial Organization (3) Organization
of industry in the American economy; empirical and
analytical techniques used to investigate structure and
performance in the manufacturing sector of the economy.
7570 Seminar in International Finance (3)
7575 Seminar in International Trade (3) Prereq.: ECON
4520 or equivalent. Topics in pure theory of international
trade; causes and effects of international trade, gains from
trade, theory of tariff and effective protection, economic
growth and trade, intermediate products, optimal trade
policies, factor market imperfections, theory of integration,
and effects of uncertainty.
7580 Seminar in Economic Development (3) Prereq.:
consent of instructor. Third World development from
neoclassical, neomarxist, and neomalthusian perspectives.
7585 Advanced Topics in Financial Economics (3) See
FIN 7585.
7590 Seminar in Monetary and Fiscal Policy (3) Prereq: ECON 7710 and 7630. Determining,
implementing, and evaluating monetary and fiscal
policy; effect on the economy, monetary targets and indicators;
role of interest rates in understanding monetary policy,
sectoral impacts of monetary policy; role of fiscal
policy in the economy.
7595 Seminar in Monetary Theory (3) Contemporary
monetary theory; theories of supply and demand; integration
of monetary and value theory; monetary equilibrium.
7610 Mathematics for Economists (3) Mathematical
principles with frequent applications to economics; functions,
derivatives, differentials, integrals, Taylor's series,
matrix algebra, determinants, roots, quadratic forms, constrained
and unconstrained optimizations, and principles of
linear and nonlinear equation systems.
7615 Dynamic Analysis (3) Prereq.: ECON 7610 or
calculus and linear algebra. Mathematical analysis of
dynamic systems with applications to economics; integral
calculus, differential equations, difference equations and
optimal control theory.
7630 Econometric Methods (3) Prereq.: calculus and
linear algebra, or concurrent enrollment in economics
7610. For students interested in developing research skills
in econometrics. Empirical research methods in economics;
statistical inference; regression techniques applied to a
general linear model; problems involved in regression
analysis; extensions of the general linear model.
7631 Econometric Methods II (3) Prereq.: Econ 7630 or
equivalent. Econometric techniques for heteroskedasticity,
autocorrelation, simultaneous equations, pooling time
series and cross-sectional data; model specification techniques.
7632 Econometric Theory III (3) Prereq.: ECON 7631
and either ECON 7610 or differential calculus and linear
algebra. Emphasis on the pure theory of econometrics;
properties of estimators, small sample properties of ordinary
least squares, asymptotic distribution theory, generalized
least squares and simultaneous equations.
7633 Dynamic Econometric Theory (3) Prereq.: ECON
7631. Time-series analysis; testing and model selection;
distributed lags; dynamic properties of simultaneous equation
model; autoregressive and moving average process;
nonstationarity; autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity;
causality and exogeneity; unit root, co-integration,
and error correction.
7700 Price Theory I (3) Development of microeconomic
models of the individual firm, including a nonmathematical
approach.
7710 Macroeconomics I (3) Prereq.: ECON 7610 or
equivalent. Static models of income, employment, and
prices; models include classical, neo-Keynesian, and monetarist;
models focus on demand and supply sectors.
7715 Macroeconomics II (3) Prereq.: ECON 7710. Dynamic models of the economy; includes growth models,
business cycle dynamics, and wage-price dynamics.
7720 Price Theory II (3) Prereq.: ECON 7610 or equivalent. Theories of utility, demand, cost, production, factor
pricing, and welfare using an advanced mathematical
approach.
7725 Advanced Microeconomic Theory (3) Prereq.:
ECON 7610, 7700, and 7720; or equivalent. Advanced
price theory; capital theory, general equilibrium, distribution
theory, market structures.
7735 Macroeconomics III (3) Prereq: ECON 7715 and 7630. Advanced dynamic general
equilibrium models; includes recursive methods, real
business cycle models, new-Keynesian economics, asset
pricing models, endogenous growth theories, and empirical
tests of these models.
7740 History of Economic Thought: The Classical Period
(3) Development of economics as an autonomous science;
Greek, Judeo-Christian, and enlightenment approaches
to economic phenomena; special attention to Adam
Smith.
7750 History of Economic Thought: Modern Period (3) Development of economics from 1800 to 1900; emphasis
on classical followers of Smith, Marx, 19th century positivism
and socialism, the marginal revolution.
7799 Seminar in Advanced Economic Problems (3) May be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit.
8900 Pre-dissertation Research (1-9) May be repeated
for credit. Pass-fail grading.
9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U"
grading.
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In the Department of Finance, the second digit of the
course number denotes the subject area of the course, as
follows: 2-business law; 3-real estate; 4-risk and
insurance; 6-finance (capital markets and financial
institutions); 7-finance (financial management);
8-finance (investment analysis/portfolio theory);
9-general courses.
Prerequisites for any finance course may be waived in
exceptional cases with consent of the instructor and
approval of the department chair.
3115 Financing and Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
(3) Prereq.: MGT 3111 and FIN 3716 and BLAW 3201,
and Entrepreneurship Concentration or Entrepreneurship
Minor or permission of instructor. Also offered as MGT
3115. Financing and legal issues affecting entrepreneurs;
acquisition of resources through debt, equity, research
grant models (SBIR, NIH, etc.), and venture capital.
3351 Principles of Real Estate (3) Prereq.: BLAW 3201
or FIN 3716. Purchasing, owning, and operating real estate
relative to interest in realty, liens, contracts, deeds, titles,
leases, brokerage, management.
3352 Real Estate Valuation and Investment (3) Prereq.:
FIN 3351 or 3715, or equivalent. Principles of valuation
applied to single-family and income-producing real
property; techniques for making investment decisions in
alternative types of real property; cash flow analysis
considering income tax effects, financial leverage,
risk-return trade-offs, and alternative methods of
disposition.
3353 Real Estate Finance (3) Prereq.: FIN 3351 or 3715
or equivalent. Real estate financing decisions for
residential and income-producing properties; risk-return
analysis for varying conditions of financial leverage;
decision making related to pricing, alternative financing
methods, refinancing, mortgage portfolio management;
financing methods; government involvement in mortgage
market and housing finance.
3354 Topics in Real Estate (3) Prereq.: FIN 3352 or
3353 or consent of instructor. Topics vary.
3355 Real Property Law (3) Prereq.: BLAW 3201. Rights and obligations that attach to various types of
ownership of immovable property both in Louisiana and
Anglo-American jurisdictions.
3440 Risk and Insurance (3) Prereq.: BLAW 3201. Nature of nonspeculative risks and possible alternative
methods of treating them; specific application of these
methods to personal and business risks arising from life,
health, property, and liability contingencies; influence of
public policy on risk treatment.
3441 Life and Health Insurance (3) Prereq.: FIN 3440. Analysis of insurance protecting against economic loss
caused by termination of earning capacity through
premature death, disability, or old age; derivation of
premiums, reserves, benefits; legal aspects; operational
features; use of contracts and provisions; disability income
protection.
3442 Property and Liability Insurance (3) Prereq.: FIN
3440. Property and liability risks; insurance coverages
available to meet these risks; basic insurance principles
that apply in various property and liability insurance
contracts; functional aspects of insurance company
operations.
3460 Risk Management (3) Prereq.: FIN 3716. Risk
management from the business manager's viewpoint;
insurance and financial market methods of pooling and
managing risk; identification and evaluation of risk;
hedging, self insurance, re-contracting and organizational
design.
3632 Bank Administration (3) Prereq.: FIN 3716. For
students interested in commercial banking careers or in
the role of banks within the American enterprise system. Economic role and evolution of banks; structure of
banking; lending and investment techniques; bank
organization and regulation; asset and liability
management; credit risk management; bank performance
analysis.
3636 Financial Markets and Institutions (3) Prereq.:
FIN 3716 or equivalent. Characteristics and functions of
financial markets and institutions; process of financial
intermediation and allocation of financial resources;
analysis of current developments in financial institutions
and in money and capital markets; factors in interest rate
determination; management of credit risk, interest rate risk,
and operating risk.
3715 Business Finance (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and
2010, or 2030; and ACCT 2000 or 2001. Also offered as
ECON 3715. For Non-Business Majors Finance function within the business
enterprise; techniques of financial management, concepts
of capital structure and dividend policy, working capital
management, capital budgeting, institutional and
international environment of the firm.
3716 Business Finance (3) Prereq.: ECON 2000 and
2010, or 2030; and ACCT 2000 or 2001. Also offered as
ECON 3715. For All Business Majors Finance function within the business
enterprise; techniques of financial management, concepts
of capital structure and dividend policy, working capital
management, capital budgeting, institutional and
international environment of the firm.
3717 Advanced Business Finance (3) Prereq.: FIN 3716. Material presented in real-world cases. Hands on
applications of financial tools introduced in FIN 3716;
financial analysis, forecasting, capital budgeting, and
business evaluation.
3718 Multinational Managerial Finance (3) Prereq.:
FIN 3716. Multinational financial management; nature of
international finance system; financing, investment, and
risk management of the multinational corporation.
3826 Investments (3) Prereq.: FIN 3716. Open only to
finance majors; open to others with permission of the
department. Characteristics and valuation of common
stocks, bonds, options, function and efficiency of U.S.
securities markets; theory and practice of portfolio
selection.
3840 Fixed Income Securities (3) Prereq.: FIN 3826. Mechanics of fixed-income markets and securities;
valuation of fixed income securities and contingent claims;
interest rate risk, term structure, product fundamentals, and
bond portfolio strategies.
3845 Student Managed Investment Fund (3) Prereq.:
FIN 3716 or equivalent and permission of instructor.
Course may be repeated for a max. of 9 sem. hrs. of
credit. Analysis of equity investment opportunities in
conjunction with the management of the Student Managed
Investment Fund; emphasis on valuation techniques and
fundamental analysis; operation of investment reporting
systems.
3900 Directed Study and Research (1-6) Prereq.:
consent of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem.
hrs. of credit. Research under direction of faculty
member; written proposal must be approved by faculty
member and department chair prior to registration.
3910 Topics in Finance (1-3) Prereq.: FIN 3716 and
3826, or consent of instructor. May be taken for a max. of
6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary. Topics of current
interest.
3930 Undergraduate Internship in Finance (3) Prereq.:
FIN 3716, junior or senior standing, and consent of
department. Pass/fail grading based on a written
evaluation by the professional supervisor, a written report
by the student, and the faculty member’s evaluation. At least 20 hours per week in regular semester or 35 hours
per week in summer session of learning experience in
finance under the general supervision of a faculty member
and the direct supervision of a professional in finance.
May not be repeated for credit. On-the-job experience in
an approved finance or business law position.
4240 Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property (3) Prereq.:
BLAW 3201 or BADM 7140, and consent of instructor. Fundamentals of patent, trademark and copyright law; legal
principles applied to the regulation of the Internet and
electronic commerce, including intellectual property, torts,
contracts, constitutional principles, and crimes.
4440 Group Insurance and Pensions (3) Prereq.: FIN
3440. Life and health insurance in various areas involving
mortality and morbidity contingencies; types of health risk
bearers and contracts offered; employee benefit plans with
emphasis on the private pension function, including
contractual arrangements, benefit formulas, and
approaches to financing.
4828 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management (3) Prereq.: FIN 3826 or equivalent. Security selection and
portfolio diversification in an efficient market; portfolio
theory and management; portfolio building and selection;
portfolio performance evaluations.
4830 Analysis of Corporate Financial Statements (3) Prereq.: FIN 3716 or equivalent. Evaluation of financial
statements; emphasis on their use in credit analysis and in
evaluation of security risks and returns; recent research in
accounting and finance; predictive ability of financial
statement data.
4850 Financial Derivatives (3) Prereq.: FIN 3636, 3717,
or 3826. Options, forwards, futures, swaps, and other
derivative instruments; principles of pricing, valuation
models, trading strategies, and managing risk in domestic
and global financial markets.
7300 Seminar in Real Estate (3) Questions facing
participants in the real estate market, including equity
investors, lenders, tenants, and government; purchasing,
owning, and operating real estate relative to interest in
realty contracts; deeds, title, leases, brokerage, and
management.
7310 Real Estate Financial Decisions (3) Questions
concerning real estate finance and valuation; risk-return
trade-offs under varying conditions of financial leverage;
refinancing; selecting between alternative financing
methods; mortgage design, sale-leaseback, construction
lending, secondary mortgage markets, and the pricing of
financing instruments.
7320 Advanced Topics in Real Estate (3) Prereq.: FIN
7300 or 7310 or consent of instructor. May be taken for a
max. of 6 hrs. of credit if topics vary.
7350 Theory of Real Estate Markets (3) Prereq.: FIN
7750. Primarily for doctoral students. Emphasis on
theoretical treatment of real estate equity and mortgage
markets; real estate as a security; pricing of fixed- and
adjustable-rate mortgages; secondary mortgage markets
and the securitization of mortgages; development of
derivative securities; models of housing markets.
7400 Financial Risk Management (3) Prereq.: BADM
7090 or equivalent. Risk management of corporations,
financial institutions, governments, and non-profit
organizations; characteristics of financial contracts and
markets and applications of these contracts to risk
management problems; the value of risk management,
measuring exposures, financial contracts for managing risk,
the enterprise risk management industry, and the
accounting and regulatory framework; market and credit
risks are the primary focus, but some attention is also given
to operational and other sources of risk.
7520 Seminar in Financial Research Methods (3) Primarily for doctoral students. Financial economics;
empirical behavior of financial markets; topics including
trading rules and the efficient market hypothesis; market
microstructure; event studies.
7550 Theory of Finance (3) Prereq.: ECON 7610 or
equivalent. Theory of choice under certainty and
uncertainty; time-state preference models of risk allocation;
mean-variance asset pricing models; arbitrage pricing
models; option pricing models; discrete and continuous
time models.
7585 Advanced Topics in Financial Economics (3) Prereq.: consent of instructor. May be taken for a max. of
9 sem. hrs. of credit. Also offered as ECON 7585. Specific
areas in finance and financial economics; emphasis on
rigorous empirical methodologies and theory.
7632 Seminar in Commercial Banking (3) Commercial
banking theory and history, quantitative techniques applied
to bank asset and liability management, banking structure,
markets and competition, capital adequacy and
profitability.
7633 Financial Markets (3) Prereq.: BADM 7020 and
7080. Theoretical and empirical exposition of financial
markets and institutions; their role in the economy;
determination of the general level, risk structure, and the
transaction structure of security returns; emphasis on U.S.
financial markets.
7650 Seminar in Financial Markets and Intermediaries
(3) Prereq.: FIN 7550. Primarily for doctoral students. Markets and intermediaries as alternative institutional
mechanisms for structuring financial transactions;
transaction services provided by these institutions; benefits
and costs of these transaction services as determinants of
the structure and extent of the financial sector.
7710 Public Financial Management (3) Cross-listed as
PADM 7710.
7718 Multinational Financial Management (3) Prereq.:
BADM 7090 or equivalent. Cross border investment,
investment analysis, capital planning, foreign currency
exposure, and cash management; concepts of political risk
assessment; techniques in transactional trade; alternative
financial sources; issues in international financial controls.
7719 Advanced Financial Management (3) Prereq.:
BADM 7090. Theory of business finance and evaluation of
its usefulness to financial managers; capital expenditure,
capital structure, and dividend decisions; legitimacy of
alternative decision criteria; implications of uncertainty and
imperfect capital markets on firm financial decisions.
7720 Topics in Business Finance (3) Prereq.: BADM
7090 or equivalent. Detailed treatment of topics not
covered in depth in BADM 7090 or FIN 7719; prospectus
usually available before registration.
7740 Venture Capital and Investment Banking (3) Prereq.: BADM 7090 or equivalent. The role of venture
capitalists and investment banks in financing, advising, and
influencing companies through the initial public offering;
the structure of venture capital funds; staging of
investments; compensation; valuation; interactions between
venture capital and economic activity, the legal
environment, and social and ethical norms.
7750 Seminar in Corporate Finance (3) Prereq.: FIN
7550. Primarily for doctoral students. Theory of choice
under certainty and uncertainty; investment and financing
decisions of the firm; the agency problem and agency
costs; capital structure and dividend models related to
corporate control.
7826 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Theory (3) Prereq.: BADM 7020 and 7030. Institutional elements of
capital markets, mechanics of securities trading; analytic
techniques for evaluating investment management;
behavior of security prices, efficient diversification,
techniques for measuring performance of securities and
portfolios, security valuation, portfolio selection.
7845 Student Managed Investment Fund (3) Prereq.:
BADM 7090 or equivalent and permission of instructor. Course may be repeated for max. of 9 sem. hrs. of credit. Management and operation of the Student Managed
Investment Fund; calculation and monitoring of
performance in an institutional equity portfolio;
establishment of investment objectives, including asset
allocation and selection, and assessment and management
of risk; settlement, accounting, and reporting of results.
7849 Normative Portfolio Analysis Theory (3) Prereq.:
FIN 7719 and FIN 7550 or equivalent. Theoretical and
practical problems of normative portfolio selection
techniques and analysis; positive implications of normative
models; their contribution to understanding operation of
capital markets and market participants.
7850 Seminar in Investments (3) Prereq.: FIN 7550.
Primarily for doctoral students. Speculative price as a
stochastic process; information revelation in and through
speculative price; normative and positive models of
investment theory; applications of
contingent-claims/derivative securities pricing; theory and
empiricism of fixed income securities.
7855 Seminar in Options, Futures, and Other
Derivatives (3) Prereq.: FIN 7826 and ECON 7610 or
equivalent; consent of instructor; mathematical maturity
required. Arbitrage and equilibrium models of derivative
pricing; models derived via continuous time Ito processes;
binomial, finite difference, Monte Carlo and other
numerical approaches; review of mathematical statistics,
stochastic processes, and Ito calculus.
7900 Individual Study in Finance (3) Masters and
doctoral students may take the course for credit 3 and 6
times, respectively. For students who wish in-depth study
of a selected finance problem. Proposal outlining nature
and objectives of a research project must be approved by
department faculty prior to registration; written report of
semester's activities and findings required for credit.
7930 Graduate Internship in Finance (3) Prereq.:
consent of department. Pass/fail grading based on a
written evaluation by the professional supervisor; a
written report by the student, and the faculty member's
evaluation. At least 20 hrs. per week in regular semester
or 35 hrs. per week in summer session of learning
experience in finance under the general supervision of a
faculty member and the direct supervision of a
professional in finance. On-the-job experience in an
approved finance position.
7950 Seminar in Research (1) Required of all doctoral
students in business administration concentrating in
finance during each semester of full-time residence; only
3 sem. hrs. may be applied toward the degree. Advanced
research in finance; current research of doctoral
candidates, faculty, and invited guests.
8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U" grading.
8900 Pre-dissertation Research (1-9) May be repeated
for credit. Pass-fail grading.
9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U"
grading.
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3200 Introduction to Law (3) Not open to students in the
E. J. Ourso College of Business. Credit will not be given
for both this course and BLAW 3201 and 4203. Fundamentals
of the American legal system; basic principles of
the law of contracts, commercial paper, agency, partnerships,
corporations, torts, and crimes; case materials used
to demonstrate legal analysis and reasoning.
3201 Business Law (3) Credit will not be given for this
course and BLAW 3200, FIN 3200, or 3201. Development of Anglo-American common law, the
American constitutional system, and the Louisiana civil
law system; law of contracts, torts, and agency; business
aspects of criminal law; ethical facets of the legal
environment; case materials used to demonstrate problem
analysis.
3202 Commercial Transactions (3) Prereq.: BLAW
3201. Credit will not be given for this course and BLAW
3200, or 4203 or FIN 3200, or 3202, or 3203. Louisiana
law and Federal legislation in the following areas:
employment law, workers' compensation, business
entities, intellectual property, agency, insurance, sales,
donations, leases, security devices, bankruptcy, and
commercial paper.
3230 Sports Law (3) Credit will not be given for both this
course and FIN 3230. Business and legal sports aspects,
particularly professional and collegiate level; antitrust
laws; labor law and collective bargaining; contract law and
player agents; professional franchise location; college
athletics and the NCAA; equal opportunities and Title IX;
licensing and trademark rights; tort issues.
4203 Commercial Transactions for Accountants (3) Prereq.: BLAW 3201. Credit will not be given for this
course and BLAW 3200, 3202, FIN 3202, 3203.
Specifically for accounting majors. Legal concepts
underlying sale of goods; commercial paper; security
interests, securities regulation, accountants' malpractice,
negotiable instruments, and bankruptcy; application of the
Uniform Commercial Code and preparation for the CPA
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1100 Introduction to Management Information
Systems (3) Management of information, computers, and
systems; utilization of management information systems to
improve managerial decision making.
2000 Introduction to Business Statistics (3) Prereq.:
MATH 1431. Statistical description and inference;
descriptive statistics, sampling, basic probability theory;
probability distributions, including normal and binomial;
sampling distributions; inferential statistics including
estimation, one- and two-sample hypothesis tests for
means, and chi-square test of independence.
2001 Statistical Methods and Models (3) Prereq.: ISDS
2000. Continuation of ISDS 2000. Advanced statistical
methods and decision models including ANOVA and
linear regression analysis; management science models
such as utility functions, decision analysis, math
programming, waiting line models and simulation.
3000 Statistical Methods and Models III (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 2001. Continuation of ISDS 2001. Statistical inference;
additional applications of sampling distribution; the
chi-square, student's t, and F distributions; estimation;
hypothesis testing; survey sampling; linear regression;
simple correlation; analysis of variance; nonparametric
tests.
3001 Conceptual Foundation for Statistical Analysis (3) Prereq.: MATH 1021 or equivalent. Foundations for advanced
work in statistical inference; probability, probability
distributions, expected value, sampling distributions;
application of sampling distributions to problems of
estimation and control.
3002 Conceptual Foundations for Operations Research
(3) Prereq.: MATH 1021 or equivalent. Not open to
undergraduate students in the E. J. Ourso College of
Business. Foundations for work in operations research;
fundamentals of analysis, systems of linear equations,
selected topics from matrix algebra.
3070 Independent Reading and Research in Information
Systems and Decision Sciences (1-6) Prereq.: ISDS
3100 and consent of instructor. May be taken for a max.
of 6 sem. hrs. of credit. Student is responsible for
registering with a faculty member and selecting an area of
reading and/or research.
3075 Internship in Information Systems and Decision
Sciences (3) Prereq.: permission of instructor and
department chair required. Pass/fail grading. At least the
equivalent of 144 hours per semester (3 credits) of
learning experience in information systems under the
general supervision of an ISDS faculty member and direct
supervision of an information systems or decision
sciences professional. Grading based on the faculty
member's evaluation, a written report by the professional
supervisor, and a written report by the student.
3100 Management of Information Resources (3) Prereq.: ISDS 1100. Information as a resource; issues in
information resource management; elements of information
systems; development and maintenance of information
systems; controlling information resources.
3105 Internet Development Tools (3) Prereq.: ISDS
1100 or equivalent. Understanding of the Internet and its
structure for use in business; technologies employed to
develop Internet applications; development of business
applications for the Internet.
3107 Beginning Programming (3) Prereq.: ISDS 1100 or ISDS 1102 or ISDS 1101. Fundamentals of programming, program design, application development interfaces, debugging, testing, and implementation.
3110 Database Processing for Management (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 1100. Structure and function of managerial
databases; design options and implementation of database
management systems in the firm; laboratory practice
includes use of a particular software system.
3115 Introduction to Operations Management (3) Prereq.: ISDS 2001. Principles and methodologies
concerning productivity and quality of manufacturing and
service organizations; production and service systems
design; process and capacity design; total quality
management; systems for just-in-time and purchasing
management; inventory and materials management.
3120 Management of the IT Function (3) Issues in
managing the Information Technology (IT) function,
including the discussion of how technology has
underpinned the "new Economy," formulating an IT
strategy, structuring and managing the It function, and
emerging trends in IT.
3200 Advanced Business Programming (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 3105 and credit or registration in ISDS 3110. Computer
programming methods for business systems emphasizing
contemporary programming environments and applications
development interfaces.
4000 Introduction to Statistical Theory (3) Prereq.:
proficiency in basic statistical methods and MATH 1552;
or consent of instructor. Concepts of probability distribution
and statistical inference; theoretical foundations for
estimating and testing hypotheses about means, proportions,
and variances; chi-square and F tests.
4010 Basic Forecasting Models (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3000
or equivalent. Single-equation multiple regression and time
series modeling procedures for business and economic
forecasting; using time series data in regression models;
time series modeling, including classical decomposition
procedures and exponential smoothing; use of computer
programs for regression and time series modeling and
forecasting.
4011 Sample Survey Methods (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3000 or
equivalent. Designing sampling systems; alternative
sample designs; problems of bias; techniques of inference
from alternative designs; criteria for selecting optimal
sampling plans; methods and applications of sample
surveys.
4012 Applied Nonparametric Statistics (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 3000 or equivalent. Applied nonparametric statistics
including techniques for one-sample problems, comparison
of two treatments, paired comparisons, randomized complete
blocks, comparison of more than two treatments,
tests of randomness and independence, and measures of
correlation.
4013 Bayesian Probability and Statistical Methods (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3000 or equivalent. Assessment of subjective
probability distributions; Bayesian estimation and
inference; application of Bayesian techniques to business
problems.
4020 Operations Research for Managerial Decisions (3) Prereq.: ISDS 2001 or equivalent. Managerial decision
making, including decision analysis, linear programming,
transportation models, integer programming, project scheduling,
and waiting line models; basic understanding and
evaluation of operations research techniques.
4021 Foundations of Mathematical Programming (3) Prereq.: credit or registration in ISDS 4020. Theoretical
foundations of linear programming in single and multiple
objectives; classical nonlinear optimization of
unconstrained and constrained functions; Kuhn-Tucker
conditions and quadratic programming.
4031 Applied Linear Models (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3000 or
equivalent. Development of a unified approach to estimation
and hypothesis testing in linear statistical models;
emphasis on appropriate specification and interpretation of
models and statistical hypothesis; use of available
computer routines and interpretation of results; unbalanced
analysis of variance models, linear regression models, and
analysis of covariance models.
4110 Business Decision Support and Expert Systems (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3110 or equivalent. Laboratory practice
includes use of a particular software system. Business
decision modeling; constructing a decision support system
(DSS); DSS development tools; executive information
systems; expert systems (ES) in business; building ES;
process, tools, and strategy; integration of DSS and ES.
4111 Enterprise Systems (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3100. Overview of key enterprise systems concepts from
functional, technical, and implementation perspective;
emphasis on the process-centered organization and how
integrated systems are designed to support cross-functional
business; hands-on computer based exercises involving a
hypothetical global company.
4112 Data Warehousing (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3100. Date
Warehouses for business; topics include: top-down design,
bottom-up design, data charts, multidimensional data, data
mining, W eb-enabled data warehouse, knowledge
management.
4113 Information Technology Project Management (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3100 or equivalent. Topics on effectively
managing information technology projects including:
setting goals and objectives; work breakdown structures;
project scheduling; managing project resources; evaluation
and review; incentives and qualitative analysis; project
accounting; extensive use of cases involving hands-on
computer analyses with state-of-the-art project
management software.
4114 Software Quality Assurance (3) Prereq.: ISDS
3100. Modern practices of software quality management;
topics include: software development process models,
software quality metrics, basic quality tools, software
reliability models, customer satisfaction measures, and the
ISO 9000 quality system standard.
4117 Management of E-Commerce and Internet
Information Systems (3) Management of e-commerce and
internet systems including: business models and strategies;
performance and evaluation; navigation and content;
security, trust, and legal issues; integration of managerial,
technical, and legal perspectives for intra-business
systems, B2B systems, e-supply chains, portals, B2C
systems, electronic markets, and e-government.
4120 Business Data Communications (3) Prereq.: ISDS
3100 or CSC 1350. Telecommunications in business,
including both voice and data communication, technical
details (hardware, software, protocols, network
configurations), network management, and security issues.
4123 Computer and Networking Security (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 4120. Security management, corporate risk
assessment, access control, authentication, transmission
control protocol and internet protocol packet content
analysis, firewall hardware and software, types of
encryption, cryptographic systems, application security
issues, and laws governing security and privacy.
4125 Analysis and Design of Management Information
Systems (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3110, 3200. Design
philosophies and techniques for the creation of information
systems for management decision making; conceptual
design of actual information systems.
4141 Introduction to Data Mining (3) Prereq.: ISDS
3100. Fundamental methodology and techniques used in
data mining, with particular emphasis on business
applications; topics include market basket analysis,
memory-based reasoning, cluster detection, link analysis,
decision trees and rule induction, neural networks, and
genetic algorithms.
4165 Operation of Service and Distribution Systems (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3115. Application of operations
management concepts and techniques in service and
distribution organizations; service system design and
control, including location, layout, capacity expansion,
staffing and scheduling; special attention to structure
design and operational control of distribution systems and
interfaces with other functional areas.
4167 Operations Planning and Control (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 3115 or equivalent. Planning and control of
operations in manufacturing and service organizations;
aggregate planning, master scheduling, requirements
planning, and activity control; emphasis on developing
skills through case studies and computer models.
4168 Supply Chain Management (3) Prereq.: ISDS
4165. Planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient,
cost-effective flow and storage of raw material, in-process
products, finished products, and related information in a
supply channel; resource/material management; supplier
strategy; inventory planning and control; just-in-time
systems; customer service; logistics and interfaces with
other functional areas; emphasis on concepts, model
development, and analysis.
4180 Business Analysis in Practice (3) Prereq.: Senior
standing or permission of instructor. Contemporary
problems encountered by the business analysis
professional; emphasis on case analysis and use of
business analysis skills and computer technology to solve
business problems.
4200 Quality Management (3) Prereq.: ISDS 3115.
Credit will not be given for both this course and IE 4453. Principles and practices of statistical quality control in
industry; control charts for variables and for attributes;
process capability analysis; acceptance sampling for
variables and for attributes; design of experiments; Taguchi
methods; and ISO 9000 standards.
4501 Systems Modeling and Analysis I (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 2001. Final project involves the application of
discrete-event simulation to a real-world problem. Modeling and analysis of production and service systems
using discrete-event computer simulation; discrete-event
simulation mechanics; model structure, model building,
modeling of complex systems; verification and validation;
arrival processes; design of simulation experiments;
statistical analysis of terminating and steady-state systems.
4502 Systems Modeling and Analysis II (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 4501. Final project involves the application of
simulation to solve an operations problem in business or
government. Advanced application of computer simulation
concepts to dynamic systems; alternative approaches to
simulation modeling; discrete-event, hybrid
discrete/continuous, system dynamics, simulators, and
template approach; further development of modeling and
analysis skills; advanced analysis concepts including
variance-reduction, simulation meta-models and simulation
optimization.
4511 Industrial Simulation (3) Prereq.: IE 3510, 2060,
credit or registration in IE 4362, or equivalents. See IE
4511.
5010 Statistical Methods for Public Administration (3) Prereq.: college algebra. 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Open
only to students in the MPA program. Also offered as
PADM 5010.
7000 Statistical Theory (3) Prereq.: ISDS 4000 or
equivalent; and consent of instructor. Continuation of
ISDS 4000. Theoretical basis for topics in statistical
inference including tests of hypotheses, experimental
design, regression analysis, general linear models,
nonparametric statistics; sequential tests of hypotheses;
and complex sample designs.
7009 Simulation of Stochastic Processes (3) Prereq.:
fundamental knowledge of computer programming,
statistics, and operations research; and consent of
instructor. Simulation models, methodologies, and
languages; development of complex models; validation of
results; completion of several large-scale projects involving
extensive use of digital computer required.
7010 Decision Models for Public Administration (3) Open only to students in the MPA program. See PADM
7010.
7020 Theory of Stochastic Processes (3) Prereq.: ISDS
4000 or equivalent. Joint, marginal, and conditional
probability distributions treated in detail; stochastic
processes, including random walks, Markov processes,
birth-death processes, stationary stochastic processes, and
renewal processes; statistical inference based on stochastic
processes.
7021 Sample Design and Analysis (3) Prereq.: ISDS
7024 or equivalent. Methodology for sampling and survey
design; alternative methods for email and internet survey
samples; analysis of survey data; evaluation criteria
including efficiency and bias; emphasis on applications
with theoretical foundations.
7022 Multivariate Data Analysis (3) Prereq.: BADM
7020 or equivalent. Multivariate methods, including
principal components, canonical correlation, factor
analysis, discriminate analysis, classification procedures.
7024 Advanced Statistical Analysis for Research I (3) Prereq.: proficiency in calculus, linear algebra, basic
statistical methods, and computer programming. Methods
of statistical inference; statistical estimation; testing
hypotheses about single and multiple means and
proportions; simple and multiple linear regression; design
of simple random, stratified, and cluster samples; extensive
use of statistical computer programs.
7025 Advanced Statistical Analysis for Research II (3) Prereq.: ISDS 7024 or equivalent. Continuation of ISDS
7024. Advanced regression analysis; experimental design
and analysis of variance; nonparametric methods;
multivariate techniques; extensive use of statistical
computer programs.
7027 Advanced Forecasting Models (3) Prereq.: BADM
7020 or equivalent. Advanced topics in forecasting; timeseries
analysis; emphasis on stochastic parameter models
and autocorrelated error structures; univariate
autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA)
models; multivariate models and transfer functions;
extensive use of computer programs.
7070 Seminar in Advanced Business Problems (3) May
be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Special topics in statistics and quantitative methods.
7080 Survey of Information Systems Research (3) Prereq.: advanced PhD standing or consent of instructor. Exploration of current research streams in information
systems; relationships of IS to other disciplines; historical
overview of the field.
7081 Critical Analysis of Information Systems
Research (3) Prereq.: advanced PhD standing or consent
of instructor. Development of skills in theory building,
research design, writing research papers, and evaluating
research in the field of information systems.
7101 Introduction to Operations Research Methods
(1.5) Prereq.: BADM 7020 or equivalent. Topics cover
models that support managerial decision-making including
decision analysis, simulation, risk analysis, linear
programming, and integer programming; Excel spreadsheet
is used extensively.
7102 Survey of Operations Research: Deterministic
Models (3) Prereq.: ISDS 7101. Integer and mixed-integer
programming, extensions of classical optimization, quadric
programming, separable programming, and dynamic
programming; applications of more advanced mathematical
programming; techniques with some theory.
7103 Survey of Operations Research: Stochastic
Methods (3) Prereq.: ISDS 7101 or 4021. Extensions of
decision theory, game theory, dynamic programming,
Markovian decision processes, reliability models, and
queuing models; probabilistic methods in operations
research.
7105 Digital Methods (3) Prereq.: ISDS 7102 and
working knowledge of FORTRAN. Numerical problem
solving in operations research and statistics; Monte Carlo
methods, numerical solution of systems of equations,
search techniques, and heuristics.
7106 Multiple Criteria Decision Making (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 7103. Theory of the displaced ideal, linear multiobjective
programming, goal programming, compromise
programming, and multi-attribute utility measurement.
7107 Dynamic Programming (3) Prereq.: ISDS 7102. Theory and computational techniques of dynamic
programming; single and multidimensional problems;
relationship to classical optimization techniques.
7111 Theoretical Foundations of Operations Research
(3) Prereq.: ISDS 7101 and 7102. Properties and
theoretical foundations for operations research methods.
7200 Quality and Productivity Management (3) Contemporary topics in total quality management; quality
in software and system design and implementation;
problem solving tools; process control; quality deployment
and FMEA; team building and quality standards and
awards; control charts for variables and for attributes;
process capability analysis; acceptance sampling plans;
design of experiments; Taguchi methods and ISO 9000
standards.
7210 Process and Planning Control (3) Prereq.: BADM
7050. Integration of operations planning and control with
other business functions of an enterprise; enterprise
resource planning (ERP); cases and managerial techniques
to plan and schedule business processes in industrial and
service areas; decision problems and appropriate tools;
hands-on experience with ERP software; cross-functional
case projects.
7211 Process and Planning Control II (1.5) Prereq.:
ISDS 7210. Cases and management techniques to control
business processes in industrial and service areas; material
requirements planning, manufacturing resource planning,
operations control; overview of computerized packages,
enterprise management systems, decision problems, and
case projects.
7220 Supply Chain Management (3) Prereq.: BADM
7120 or equivalent. Supply chain process analysis and
control; critical issues in revolutionizing management of
the entire supply chain; system productivity analysis,
demand management, inventory management, distribution
planning, integration in supply chain; emphasis on case
study, spreadsheets, and software applications; network
design, warehouse location, outsourcing, global supply
chain, and information, EDI and DSS technologies in
supply chain management; case study and SCM software.
7230 Project Management (3) Prereq.: BADM 7120 or
equivalent. Topics of effectively managing projects
including setting goals and objectives, project planning,
evaluation and review; incentives and qualitative analysis,
and project accounting; extensive use of cases involving
hands-on computer analyses with state-of-the-art project
management software.
7272 Operations Strategy (3) Prereq.: BADM 7120 or
equivalent. Perspective for managers to integrate
operations strategy into an overall business strategy; issues
in selection of the capabilities, characteristics, and
configuration of facilities; process/technologies; aggregate
capacity; vertical integration; operations infrastructure;
organizational structure and jobs; extensive use of case
analyses drawn from service and manufacturing industries.
7275 Advanced Operations Management (3) Prereq.:
BADM 7120. May be taken for a max. of 9 hrs. of credit
when topics vary. Topics such as material requirements
planning, inventory control, scheduling, facilities location
and layout, quality control, job design, industrial design,
network analysis; emphasis on application of techniques.
7501 Information Systems (3) Prereq.: ISDS 1100 or
equivalent. Contemporary topics in information systems;
survey of information system analysis and design;
introduction to business data communication; database
management systems and knowledge based systems;
enterprise-wide systems and information systems control.
7505 Information Technology and Entrepreneurship
(3) Prereq.: BADM 7050 or equivalent. Information
economy, globalization and outsourcing, information
technology-based business opportunities, technological
entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial process, entrepreneurial
thinking, process of discovering, effectuation, causation,
knowledge management, technological entrepreneurship.
7510 Database Management (3) Prereq.: BADM 7050. Analysis, design, and implementation of databases based
on the relational database model; data modeling using
entity-relationship (E-R) diagramming; logical and physical
database design; SQL; hardware/software architecture
considerations; data and database administration; emerging
database technologies and advanced database applications.
7511 Advanced Database Management (3) Prereq.:
ISDS 7510 or equivalent. Decision support systems, online
analytical processing, multidimensional data modeling,
web-enabled data warehousing, data marts, data mining,
knowledge management, Internet business intelligence.
7520 Network Information Systems (3) Prereq.: BADM
7050. Broad overview of network technologies including
protocols, network operating systems, and network
management; LAN, WAN design; Internet technology;
network security.
7522 Internet Systems Development (3) Prereq.: ISDS
7520. In-depth look at Internet applications architecture,
server-side programming, web-database connectivity,
integration of Web and other business applications, and
Web development methods; emphasis on self management,
cross-project coordination, technology and
time management; construct Internet based systems and
manage Internet based systems development.
7530 Information Systems Analysis and Design (3) Prereq.: BADM 7050; ISDS 7510. Both courses may be
taken concurrently. Analysis and design of information
systems from a management perspective; software
development methodology; topics include requirements
determination; feasibility determination; project
management; evaluation of a software development
strategy and application design; modeling using ER
diagrams, and DFDs; systems implementation.
7535 Information Technology Management (3) Prereq.:
BADM 7050. Management of the organization's
information technology (IT) resources; planning and
management of IT strategy, applications;
hardware/software infrastructure, information resources,
and IT professionals; organization and governance of the
IT function, IT policies and standards, measurement of IT
investments and returns, and deployment of new
information technologies.
7540 Electronic Commerce (3) Prereq.: BADM 7050. Use of information technology and the Internet in creating
new forms of business organization; creating a
marketspace; disintermediation/reintermediation; and
virtual organization.
7543 Electronic Commerce II (1.5) Prereq.: ISDS 7540.
Continuation of ISDS 7540. Advanced management issues,
organizing principles and technologies; working in
electronic communities; newsgroups, virtual communities,
extranet and intranet.
7545 Collaborative Computing (1.5) Prereq.: BADM
7050. Foundation of collaborative computing; issues of
motivation, synchronicity, anonymity, group size, group
proximity, and group tasks.
7550 Enterprise Systems (3) Prereq.: BADM 7050. Study of the broad area of Integrated Enterprise-wide
Systems; emphasis on features and capabilities of
enterprise systems and their related technologies, the
methodologies used to implement these systems in
organizations, and the implications of their deployment in
organizations.
7553 Business and Systems Change (3) Prereq.: ISDS
7550. Foundation of critical issues in the design and
implementation of business and information systems
change including business process reengineering, project
and change management, and information systems design
and management; emphasis on the systems perspective of
business, and the change that these enabling emerging and
disruptive technologies and systems permit that have the
greatest impact on business and industries.
7555 Auditing Enterprise Systems (1.5) Prereq.: ISDS
7550 and ACCT 7233. Principles of auditing enterprise
wide information systems in business; audit plans; controls
and security issues.
7560 Social and Organizational Issues in MIS (3) Prereq.: BADM 7050. Impact of electronic communities
on organizations; implications of design choices on
business; ethical considerations.
7565 Global Information Technology Management (3) Prereq.: BADM 7050. National IT policies; IT and
national culture; IT management in multinational
companies; IT diffusion in developed versus developing
countries; IT and national development; global electronic
commerce; global telecommunications infrastructure; and
competitive advantage through global IT management.
7900 Contemporary Issues in Statistics and Management
Science (3) Prereq.: advanced PhD study and consent
of instructor. Philosophical foundations of science and
their implications for contemporary management science.
7910 Contemporary Issues in Production/Operations
Management (3) Prereq.: advanced PhD standing or
consent of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 9 hrs. of
credit when topics vary. Philosophical foundations and
contemporary issues in production/operations management.
7920 Contemporary Issues in Management
Information Systems (3) Prereq.: advanced PhD
standing or consent of instructor. May be taken for a max.
of 9 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Philosophical
foundations and contemporary issues in management
information systems.
7950 Research Seminar in Information Systems Topics
(3) Required for all PhD students. May be taken for a
max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary. Contemporary research and critical issues in information
systems.
7990 Project (3-6) Prereq.: permission of instructor. May
be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit. Pass-fail grading.
8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U" grading.
8900 Pre-dissertation Research (1-9) May be repeated
for credit.
9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U"
grading.
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2000 Innovation and Creativity (3) Prereq.: Admitted
into the College of Business and Entrepreneurship
Concentration or permission of instructor. The course
focuses on the role of creativity and innovation in product,
service, or idea generation that may eventually lead to
business formation and commercialization; barriers to
creativity and innovation; alternative problem-solving
approaches.
3000 Petroleum Land Management Practice (1) V Open only to petroleum land management majors.
Required of petroleum land management majors; waived
only by consent of department. Pass-fail grading. A
minimum of 6 weeks of full-time employment by a firm
participating in the program.
3001 Petroleum Land Management (3) V Practical and
evidentiary aspects of petroleum land management;
principles, and techniques derived from a synthesis of legal
and geographical sciences; legal effects of various
procedures of boundary locations for petroleum properties;
petroleum land practices concerning utilization, a real
association, and environmental impacts of drilling activity;
use of topographical and historic maps, map compilations,
historical cartography, air photos, archival records, and
field techniques; some focus on coastal Louisiana and the
Gulf South.
3010 Family Business Management (3)
Prereq.: ACCT 2001 and 2101 or 3001; ECON 2000, 2010; ISDS 1100, MKT 3401.
Family business culture; entrepreneurial influences; key issues and conflicts; career planning; counseling and consulting; professional support relationships; survival skills as a son or daughter in a family business.
3111 Entrepreneurship (3) S Prereq.: ISDS 2000, FIN 3716, MKT 3401 (credit or current enrollment) or permission of instructor.
Principles of entrepreneurship; feasibility studies; financial
and location analysis; marketing; promotion; management;
venture capitalism; legal considerations.
3115 Financing and Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
(3) See FIN 3115.
3120 Social Entrepreneurship (3) Prereq.: MGT 3111 or
permission of instructor. The course provides a broad
theoretical perspective and practical framework for
understanding social entrepreneurs and the social ventures
they create ranging from local social organizations to large
international social ventures leading global change. The
course introduces students to the possibilities of social
entrepreneurship and an introduction to the entire social
venture creation process and life cycle.
3200 Principles of Management (3) Management
functions, including planning, organizing, staffing/human
resource management, leading/interpersonal influence, and
controlling in both domestic and international spheres.
3203 Independent Study: Advanced Management
Topics (1-6) Prereq.: consent of instructor. May be taken
for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit. Independent research
under direction of a faculty member.
3211 Business and Society (3) Prereq.: senior standing. Social roles of organizations whose primary function is the
accumulation of profits; emphasis on current issues;
historical development of business-society relationships.
3280 Management Internship (3) Prereq.: junior or
senior standing. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of
credit. Students, supervised by a management faculty
member and an approved business executive, will follow a
predetermined schedule of activities while working for a
business firm. Hands-on experience in the fields of management, human resource management, organizational
behavior, small business management, entrepreneurship,
and administrative practices.
3320 Human Resource Management (3) Prereq.: MGT
3200. Human resource unctions, including planning,
recruitment, selection, development, maintenance, and
reward of employees; relationships with environment and
employee associations.
3500 Introduction to Labor Relations (3) F,S Management's response to organized labor in the
workplace; emphasis on U.S. unionization development;
government regulation of labor-management relations;
union structure, political activity, collective bargaining, and
contract administration.
3512 Public Sector Labor Relations (3) S Prereq.: MGT
3500. Labor-management relations in government
employment; variations in labor regulations in federal,
state, and local government; role of third-party neutrals in
public sector bargaining.
3513 Labor-Management Conflict and Cooperation (3)
F In-depth examination of issues important to workplace
conflict resolution; topics include, but are not limited to,
negotiation strategies and tactics, alternative dispute
resolution procedures, employee-management cooperation,
and/or collective bargaining.
3830 Strategically Managing Organizations (3) Prereq.:
FIN 3716, MGT 3200, and MKT 3401 or 3402. An honors course, MGT 3831, is also available.
Credit will not be given for both this course and MGT 3831. May be taken only
during the final semester of course work. Analyzing
strategic situations and decision making based on these
analyses to ensure the success of for-profit and non-profit
organizations.
3831 HONORS: Strategically Managing Organizations
(3) Same as MGT 3830, with special honors emphasis for
qualified students. Credit will not be given for this course
and MGT 3830.
4010 Special Topics in Entrepreneurship (3) Prereq.:
MGT 3111 or permission of instructor. May be taken for a
max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary. In-depth
coverage of special topics.
4020 Internship in Entrepreneurship (3) Prereq.: MGT
3111 or permission of instructor. May be repeated for a
max. of 6 sem. hrs. Gaining first-hand knowledge of the
business start-up process: practical hands-on experience in
business-plan formation.
4030 Independent Study in Entrepreneurship (3) Prereq.: MGT 3111 or permission of instructor. May be
repeated for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit when topics vary.
Detailed study of a specific aspect of entrepreneurship.
4100 Consulting Field Project (3) Prereq.: MGT 3111;
Senior standing, or permission of instructor. Strategic
focused field based project learning experiences and
opportunities in public and private organizations. Teambased
approach to offering consulting advice to
organizations with the goal of improving their
performance. Emphasis on experiential approaches that
provide a participative type of learning about the crucial
issues faced by organizations.
4113 Small Business Management (3) F Prereq.: senior
standing. A multidisciplinary approach to small business;
business start-ups, accounting, finance, marketing,
management, promotion, layout, retail management,
location analysis, and international small business.
4114 Franchising Management (3) S Prereq.: senior
standing. Understanding the franchising process; becoming
a franchiser or franchisee; franchiser start-up, venture
capital, finance, legal compliance, disclosure documents,
franchise agreements, franchisee start-ups,
franchiser-franchisee relationships, anti-trust laws, and
international franchising.
4322 Employee Selection and Placement (3) S Prereq.:
ISDS 2000; or equivalent and MGT 3320. Staffing
requirements, recruitment strategies, development and
validation of selection procedures, classification and
placement of employees; problems associated with
person-job matching; socialization of new employees.
4323 Compensation Administration (3) F Prereq.: MGT
3320. Quantitative and nonquantitative methods of job
evaluation; wage level, wage structure, incentive plans;
issues of employee compensation.
4420 Multinational Management (3) Prereq.: MGT 3200
or equivalent. Management concepts and philosophical
bases for international management operations;
environmental dynamics, multinational business
organizations, cultural constraints, organizational structures
and processes, and conceptual systems of international
operations.
4523 Legal Issues in Human Resource Management (3)
S Prereq.: MGT 3320. An examination of the most
significant laws and court rulings influencing companies'
employment practices; topics include: anti-discrimination
statutes, affirmative action, commonly committed
workplace torts, occupational safety and health laws,
workers' compensation, and wrongful termination.
4600 Crisis M anagement (3) See DSM 4600.
4620 Human Behavior in Organizations (3) Prereq.:
MGT 3200. Behavioral sciences applied to understanding
human dynamics in organizations; focus on individual,
interpersonal, group, and intergroup behavior; impact of
human behavior on organizational effectiveness.
4701 Technological Entrepreneurship (3)See ISDS 4701.
4702 Managing Technology Transfer (3) V Models of
technological transfer; mechanisms and barriers to
technological transfer; technological transfer and industrial
innovation; domestic and international aspects of
technology transfer.
7001 Management of Technology (3) See IE 7645.
7111 Entrepreneurship Management (3) F Investigation, analysis, and development of entrepreneurial
feasibility studies and business plans.
7202 Business and Society (3) F Role of business in a
broad societal context; changes occurring in business and
resulting modifications of the relationship of business to
society; roles of business viewed by business and society.
7203 Development of Management Thought (3) F-O Origin and growth of managerial concepts; contributions of
leaders associated with major schools of management
thought, including: scientific management, management
process, empirical, human behavior, social system,
decision theory, and quantitative methods.
7212 Seminar in Contemporary Management Topics
(3) V Prereq.: consent of instructor. May be taken for a
max. of 6 hrs. of credit when topics vary.
7301 Seminar in Human Resources (3) S Role of human
resource managers; their relationships with employees,
the external environment, and top management.
7302 Reward Systems in Organizations (3) V Theories
of motivation, reward, performance and behavior; their
application to major issues regarding human resources
allocation, development and utilization.
7401 International Business Management (3) F Theories
and management of international operations; development
of environmental, operational, strategic, and decision
making perspectives.
7402 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Management (3)
V Organizing, operating, and managing in other cultures
and countries; multicultural environments and
cross-cultural issues concerning multinational corporations;
technological, economic, political, and societal issues; their
influence on multinational management.
7500 Labor-Management Relations (3) F Primarily for
master's level students. An examination of union-employer
interactions in all phases of the industrial relations process
including union certification elections, contract negotiation,
and grievance administration; emphasis on application of
course concepts through the completion of experiential
learning exercises.
7600 Organizational Behavior (3) F-E Behavior of
people within organizations; the environment within which
organizations function; components of the behavioral unit;
processes, interactions, and outputs of organizational
behavior.
7620 Strategic Management of Health Care
Organizations (3) Cross-listed with PADM 7620.
7700 Organization Theory (3) S-O Macro aspects of
organizations; processes by which organizations are
formed, structures used in their elaboration; internal processes; environmental considerations; organizational
viability and renewal.
7800 Current Issues in Strategic Management (3) S Contemporary issues in strategic management theory and
practice; emphasis on field projects that provide
top-management problem-solving experience.
7811 Research Issues in Strategic Management (3) F-E Prereq.: MGT 7800 or equivalent. Strategic planning;
issues including environmental scanning, goal formulation,
strategic implementation, control, and evaluation in
successful organizations.
8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U" grading.
9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U"
grading.
9201 Research Methods in Management (3) S-O Theory
building; measurement reliability and validity; significance
testing and statistical power; sampling strategies and
missing data; multi-level and cross-level issues; research
ethics.
9202 Pre-dissertation Research (1-9) May be repeated
for credit. Pass-fail grading.
9204 Proseminar in Management (1) Required of all
inresident PhD students. Pass-fail grading. May be taken
for a max. of 3 sem. hrs. when topics vary. Contemporary
research and critical issues in management.
9800 Seminar in Advanced Business Problems (3) May
be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Directed work in advanced topics.
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2000 Marketing and Society (3) Not open to students in
the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Marketing aspects of
contemporary social issues; emphasis on methods for
dealing with societal issues and their impact on marketing
activities.
3401 Principles of Marketing (3) Prereq.: ACCT 2000
or 2001, and either ECON 2030 or ECON 2000 and 2010. Lecture-discussion, case analysis, marketing-simulation
game; the field of marketing; marketing environment,
functions, and institutional structure at a macro level;
marketing strategy and policies at a micro level; problems
of cost and productivity; view points of society, consumer,
and marketing manager.
3402 HONORS: Principles of Marketing (3) Same as
MKT 3401, with special honors emphasis for qualified
students. Credit will not be given for this course and MKT
3401.
3410 Sports Marketing (3) Application of marketing
concepts to sports and leisure activities; emphasis on
planning and strategy development.
3411 Consumer Analysis and Behavior (3) Prereq.:
MKT 3401 and permission of department. Dynamics of
consumer markets; their significance to marketing
executives; identification and measurement of market
segments; analysis of their behavioral patterns as a basis
for marketing strategy.
3413 Marketing Research (3) Prereq.: MKT 3411 and
ISDS 2000. Formulation of marketing policies; theories,
concepts, and methodology involved in applying research
to marketing problems.
3421 Marketing Communication: Promotion (3) Prereq.: MKT 3401. Nature and contributions of personal
selling and advertising to the firm's problems of demand
stimulation; concepts related to integration and
organization of promotional effort to facilitate
communication programs for products and/or services.
3427 Buyer-Seller Communication (3) Prereq.: MKT
3401. Communication theory and sales principles needed
for successful sales career; buyer behavior and sales
tactics; sales strategies; communication in buyer-seller
relationships.
3431 Retailing Management (3) Prereq.: MKT 3411. Store organization, operation, and management; retail
method of inventory; problems connected with retail
buying and selling.
3433 Distribution Channels, Structure, and
Management (3) Prereq.: MKT 3401. Distribution
channel's functions, structures, and processes; the channel
as an economic and behavioral system; relationship
between channel members; marketing manager's
viewpoint; vertical marketing systems including franchises;
channel design; communication information systems;
management by different channel members; evaluation of
channel performance.
3441 Business Marketing (3) Prereq.: MKT 3401. Strategies developed by manufacturers to compete for
markets; differences between industrial and final consumer
markets; function of industrial purchasing with regard to
selection of sources of supply and development of
purchasing policies; strategic overview of marketing; how
companies buy and sell from each other; not confined to
industrial companies.
3500 Marketing Tools Fundamentals (3) Prereq.: credit
or registration in MKT 3401 and permission of
department. Coverage of current and emerging
computer-based and other tools used by marketing
practitioners.
4414 Marketing Research Field Project (3) Prereq.:
MKT 3401 and permission of the department. Advanced
marketing research problems and theory.
4423 Sales Management (3) Prereq.: MKT 3401. Principles of sales planning and control; organizing sales
departments, developing territories, motivating sales
persons, and controlling sales operations.
4437 Direct Marketing (3) Principles of direct marketing
process; planning and implementation of direct marketing
campaigns; direct marketing through direct mail, catalogs,
publications, telephone, and electronic media; list
management and data base marketing; direct marketing
campaigns for consumers, business customers, and
international markets.
4440 Marketing on the Internet (3) Prereq.: MKT 3401
and permission of department. Appreciation of marketing
principles and practices pertaining to the use of the Internet
by organizations.
4442 Strategic Marketing (3) Prereq.: MKT 4440 or
consent of instructor. Study of the concepts, principles,
and practices concerning the development and
implementation of a strategic plan for use in electronic
commerce on the Internet with emphasis on the Internet as
an alternative marketing delivery system.
4443 International Marketing (3) Prereq.: MKT 3401. Global marketing environment and analytical processes;
global marketing as all-encompassing (import-export, joint
ventures, foreign subsidiaries, licensing, management
contracts); marketing systems in various countries;
strategies for international and multinational operations.
4445 Internship in Marketing (1-6) Prereq.: Senior
standing or consent of instructor. Primarily for seniors in
marketing. May be repeated for a max. of 6 sem. hrs.
credit. Pass-fail grading. On-the-job experience in
approved marketing positions.
4451 Marketing Management (3) Prereq.: MKT 3413,
senior standing or consent of instructor. Analytical
principles used in development of strategies for solving
marketing problems; policy areas of product, price,
channels, and promotion integrated in development of the
firm's total marketing effort.
4477 Independent Study: Advanced Marketing
Problems (1-6) For undergraduate students in the E. J.
Ourso College of Business with a gpa of 3.00 or above.
May be repeated for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit. Pass-fail
grading. Independent research under direction of a faculty
member.
4488 Advanced Topics in Retailing Management (3) Prereq.: MKT 3431. Application of retailing theory and
management techniques in areas of strategic planning and
its interfaces with retailing operations; market area
analysis, locational strategies and site selection;
merchandising policies and instore operations; store
management, product distribution, and departmental
layout.
4490 Services Marketing (3) Prereq.: MKT 3401. Developing, pricing, distributing, and promoting the
service; control of quality of customer encounters through
service automation and/or employee selection and training;
place of marketing in service organization structure;
strategic implications of structure of service industries.
4500 Entrepreneurial M arketing and Sales (3) Prereq.:
MGT 3111 and MKT 3401 and Entrepreneurship Minor,
or Entrepreneurship Concentration, or permission of
instructor. This course w ill look at the role of marketing
in entrepreneurial ventures, and the role of
entrepreneurship in marketing efforts of all firms.
Attention will be devoted to understanding the common
mistakes entrepreneurs make w hen it comes to marketing
and how to sell an idea/product in an entrepreneurship
environment.
7110 Marketing Tools Foundations and Applications
(3) Prereq.: credit or registration in BADM 7100 or
equivalent. Coverage of current and emerging tools used
by marketing practitioners, including customer tracking
systems, market segmentation tools, market share analysis,
competitive intelligence, applications to real and/or
simulated market situations.
7120 Customer Decision Making and Brand Marketing
Strategy (3) Prereq.: BADM 7100 or equivalent. Treatment of key elements of consumer decision making
with emphasis on formulation of brand marketing strategy
based on consumer behavior models, constructs, and
information.
7130 Marketing Research and Brand Analysis (3) Applications of marketing research methods such as
qualitative research techniques, marketing surveys,
marketing experiments, and brand analysis techniques.
7140 Promotion Management and Strategy (3) Prereq.:
BADM 7100 or equivalent. Examines the techniques and
methods used by marketing communicators with emphasis
on theory and best practices; including development of a
marketing promotions strategy for a present or emerging
marketing organization.
7150 Global Marketing Issues and Strategies (1.5) Prereq.: BADM 7100 or equivalent. Examination of
marketing strategies and tactics available to organizations
seeking to compete with with global markets.
7160 Services and Professional Services Marketing (3) Prereq.: BADM 7100 or equivalent. Introduction to
services marketing with emphasis on issued involved in
planning, implementing, and controlling professional
services marketing.
7300 Brand Marketing Strategy (3) Prereq.: MKT
7120,and 7130. Coverage of brand marketing strategy
formulation, including market and competitor analysis, plus
resource allocation; emphasis on issues involved in
marketing strategy formulation and implementation.
7443 Advanced Seminar in International Marketing (3) Prereq.: MKT 4451 or BADM 7100 or equivalent. Marketing management decision processes and marketing
systems in the global environment; application to
multinational business operations and strategy
development; marketing techniques of foreign market
entry; product, pricing, promotion, and distribution
decisions.
7450 Topics in Advanced Marketing Management (3) Prereq.: BADM 7100 or permission of instructor. May be
taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Survey of marketing management areas such as distribution
channels, pricing, and product management.
7471 Marketing Strategy (3) Design, implementation,
and evaluation; corporate marketing models; demand
forecasting; marketing programming; product, price,
promotion, and distribution policies; information systems;
marketing audit; application of economic, quantitative, and
behavioral tools as strategic aids to marketing
management; model-building approach used to
demonstrate tool applications in product, price, promotion,
and distribution strategies.
7476 Marketing Theory and Thought (3) Evolution of
marketing concepts, terminology, principles, and theory;
development of a frame of reference for understanding the
meaning and consequences of theory; prediction of future
theoretical development.
7477 Seminar in Advanced Marketing Problems (3) May be taken for a max. of 9 hrs. of credit.
7486 Applications of Marketing Theory (3) Prereq.:
MKT 7476 and 7713. Marketing theory development and
testing; theory operationalization and refinement.
7488 Marketing Models (3) Prereq.: BADM 7100 or
consent of instructor. Synthesis of theory, content area,
and methodology in marketing through the study of
modeling; modeling phenomena, functional forms, and
analytical techniques of path analysis, simultaneous
equation systems, and structural equation modeling.
7713 Marketing Construct Analysis (3) Prereq.: MKT
4451 or BADM 7100 or permission of instructor and ISDS
7024 or equivalent. Open to doctoral students. Treatment
of the theory, conceptualization, and measurement of
constructs used in marketing research with emphasis on the
development and refinement of marketing construct
measures.
7716 Advanced Marketing Research Techniques (3) Prereq.: BADM 7100. Advanced designs and techniques
applied to marketing research; theory and assumptions of
analytical methods; marketing applications; use of
computer programs; marketing strategy; interpretations of
empirical results.
7717 Advanced Seminar in Consumer Behavior (3) Prereq.: MKT 4451 or BADM 7100. Open only to doctoral
students. Theoretical, conceptual, and methodological
issues for selected topics in this area.
7720 Seminar in Marketing Theory and Experimental
Methods (3) Prereq.: BADM 7100 or equivalent. Nature
and importance of theory in marketing, interplay of theory
and research methods; validity and implications in
marketing and consumer research; experimental and
quasi-experimental design; pluralism in marketing and
consumer research.
8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U" grading.
8900 Pre-dissertation Research (1-9) May be repeated
for credit.
9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.) "S"/"U"
grading.
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5010 Statistical Methods for Public Administration (3) Prereq.: college algebra. 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Open
only to students in the MPA program. Also offered as
ISDS 5010. Descriptive measures for populations and samples;
basic probability theory; distributions of discrete and
continuous random variables; hypothesis testing and estimation
for means, variances, and proportions; measures of
association; regression analysis; index numbers; applications
in public administration.
5600 Microeconomic Theory for Policy Analysis (3) Open only to students in the MPA program or by consent
of instructor. Also offered as ECON 5600. Concepts
and analytical tools of microeconomics; their relevance for
decision and policy making in public and nonprofit sectors;
theories of demand, production, cost, market structures,
and distribution; analysis of economic problems and policies,
efficiency criteria, social impacts, and limitations of
the market system.
7010 Decision Models for Public Administration (3) Open only to students in the MPA program. Also offered
as ISDS 7010. Models for decision making under
conditions of certainty, risk, and uncertainty; statistical
decision making with and without sample information;
linear programming using graphical and simplex methods;
transportation and assignment problems; project management
using PERT and CPM; forecasting models; cost
benefit analysis; current topics in public administration.
7610 Healthcare Organization and Finance (3) Overview of effective management of healthcare
organizations, including understanding of their historical
development and future opportunities; current issues
relating to financing, regulation, reimbursement, managed
care systems, and system integration.
7620 Strategic Management of Healthcare
Organizations (3) Cross-listed with MGT 7620. Strategic
planning and development of healthcare organizations
focusing on long-term viability; integration of financial
decisions with organizational goals and consumer health.
7640 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care
Management (3) Legal and ethical issues in the delivery
of health care including patients' rights, organizational
responsibilities, malpractice issues, relationships among
patient, providers and insurers, governmental influence in
health care management, patient-provider relationships,
advancing technology and medical alternatives, working
with limited resources, and organizational efforts to deal
with ethical issues.
7710 Public Financial Management (3) Cross-listed as
FIN 7710. Financial management of public agencies,
including sources of financing for different levels of
governments, debt financing, and capital budgeting, as well
as other related topics.
7800 Independent Study in Public Administration (3) Prereq.: at least 15 credit hours of graduate work; prior
written approval of faculty supervising work. May be
taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit. Independent study by
MPA student.
7850 Public Administration Internship (3) Prereq.: at
least 15 credit hours of graduate work completed and
approval of the Director of the MPA program. Required
of all pre-service MPA students. Work within a federal,
state, or local government unit, nonprofit or private
concern interfacing with the public sector; regular meetings
with faculty; submission of a research report to the faculty
member; internship is designed to connect academic and
professional training to actual work experience.
7851 Public Administration Practicum (3) Prereq.: at
least 15 sem. hrs. of graduate course work completed and
approval of the Director of the MPA Program. Required
of all MPA students. In-service students will be
determined by the MPA Director. Related academic and
professional training to work experience associated with
the student's present employment; regular meetings with
faculty and preparation of research paper indicating
relationship between principles of public management and
work activities.
7900 Public Administration Colloquium (3) Required of
all MPA students in final semester of program; research
project required. Legal, ethical, economic, political, and
management principles used in assessing public administration
topics; policy and administration issues.
7902 Seminar in Public Policy (3) Also offered as POLI
7902.
7910 Public Administration Theory and Practice (3) Contents and boundaries of public administration as
discipline; topics include historical development of public
administration as a field of study; organizational theory;
professional ethics; policy development; management
techniques to enhance productivity and performance;
leadership; diversity; and other relevant issues for public
managers; case studies used intensively.
7911 Organizational Analysis for Public and Nonprofit
Organizations (3) Analyzing elements of effective
organizational functioning in the public and nonprofit
sectors, and the development of diagnostic skills to
improve performance; incorporates organizational behavior
and theory in the study of achieving effectiveness,
efficiency, and growth.
7912 Public Personnel Policy Explores human resource
policy, including procedures and principles of personnel
administration; traditional aspects of personnel
administration including recruiting, job classification,
evaluation, and compensation and dynamic topics include
workforce diversity, drug abuse, whistle blowing, sexual
discrimination, labor relations, and other relevant issues.
7914 Public Budgeting (3) Introduction to public
budgeting; study of budget techniques; importance of
budgeting in policymaking; and understanding the budget
process.
7915 Technology and Innovation in Public Sector (3) Evaluation of influence and role of public policies on
formulation and implementation of technology and
innovation strategy.
7916 State and Local Government Administration (3) Examination and analysis of how state and local
governments are structured and how they are managed;
case studies will be used to illustrate state and local
administration; current issues relating to financing,
regulation, zoning, delivery systems of local.
7917 Program Evaluation (3) Prereq.: PADM 5010 or
equivalent course in statistics. Also offered as POLI 7917. Assessing whether programs designed to advance the
public good are reaching their goals; examining program
objectives, social context in which program operates,
developing research designs to assess particular programs;
use of statistical analysis in measuring program elements;
and developing indicators to monitor public program.
7920 Ethics in the Public Service (3) Examination and
analysis of role that ethical behavior and moral reasoning
play in the practice of public administration; overview of
dominant schools of classical ethical thought, including
works of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Rawls, and
Bentham, and leading ethical theories such as
consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, and ethical
relativism; readings, case studies, and experiential
exercises will be used to explore the role of ethics in public
service.
7925 Seminar in Nonprofit Management (3) Overview
of principal management functions as applied to nonprofit
organizations.
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