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  • 1.00 Credits

    As the first course in the Business Scholars Experience, MGT 1000 provides support in your transition to college. Through a cohort experience, you will begin your leadership journey and explore how it can support your academic, personal, and professional development. You will gain awareness of many campus and school resources to support your development, build professional skills (communication, teamwork, networking), and begin charting your path from first semester through to graduation and beyond.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This immersive course surveys the ethical and inclusive leadership skills necessary in our changing global business environment. Delve into topics such as ethical decision-making, sustainable innovation, cultural competency, stakeholder management, employee-wellbeing, and fostering an inclusive work environment. Attendance and participation is a core component of this course, as students will engage in real-world case discussions, group simulations, and constructive debates. Students will practice navigating complex ethical dilemmas, understanding and appreciating diverse viewpoints, and strategizing solutions for a wide variety of stakeholders. Develop the skills to become a principled and effective leader of tomorrow.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A liberal-education distribution course focusing on the nature of business and its historical, philosophical, and current role in today's world. Key issues include what a business is and how profit sustains that existence. Personal and organizational values and ethics are discussed in an environment of competing and complementary rights and monetary goals. Course addresses specific activities of a business (i.e., accounting, finance, marketing, production, and human resource management). Readings of a classical nature are presented to underscore the timeless nature of business and the relevancy of great works to today's business environment. Approach is pragmatic, with an emphasis on self discovery complimenting occasional lectures. Course is designed for students considering an undergraduate degree in business, for those pursuing the business minor, and for those who wish to use the course to satisfy a liberal-education distribution requirement.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An undergraduate honors course combining the writings of classical authors from philosophy, economics, history, literature, business, religion, science, etc. with a student's own experience and knowledge of business. This discussion format course will emphasize the conceptual and human value based nature of business thought as seen through the eyes of the classical authors and as applied to the fields of accounting, finance, management, marketing, and production. Vigorous in class discussions will be complemented by student written papers focused on specific business cases applying the conceptual notions discussed in class. Students will be challenged to reexamine their own preconceptions of business, learn how others view business, and form a firm foundation on which future academic studies of business can be built. Prerequisites: Member of Business Scholars program OR Member of Honors College.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is an introductory course designed to familiarize students with the fundamental concepts regarding management in organizations. The course addresses the central question of how a person can be a good manager. Principles of Management is organized around three pillars of management -- the strategic perspective, organization, and personal leadership. Major topics include ethics, the strategic management process, change management, performance measurement, managing human capital, motivation, power and influence, and managing teams. The course emphasizes learning management theory and applying it in a business context. Management majors may not use this course to satisfy a departmental elective.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines behavioral theories and research focused on the individual in the context of groups and organizations as a whole. These theories and research are applied toward understanding the actions, events, and phenomena in organizations, as well as solving problems within organizations. The course content includes such topics as attitudes, personality, emotions, communication, motivation, decision-making, groups and teams, power, conflict and negotiation, leadership, organizational culture, and human resources. Prerequisites: (Intermediate OR Full Major or Minor status in David Eccles School of Business) OR Minor status in Leadership OR Full Major status in (QAMO OR Chemical Engineering OR (Chemistry with Business Emphasis)) OR Instructor Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course focuses on the examination of behavioral theories and research and focuses on the individual in the context of groups and organizations as a whole in such areas as leadership, socialization, motivation, communications, leadership, decision-making, conflict resolution, and adaptation to change. Application of these constructs is demonstrated through the consideration of the impact of the individual on the overall performance of the organization across a wide variety of contexts. In addition to the textbook, students read an assortment of research articles to expand on important theories. Prerequisites: Member of Honors College AND (Intermediate or Full Major or Minor status in the School of Business OR Full Major status in QAMO OR (Full Major status in CHEM with BUS Emphasis) OR Leadership Minor) OR Instructor Consent
  • 3.00 Credits

    In this course, students learn how to be more effective participants in groups and teams as both members and leaders using a mix of exercises, cases, and lectures to focus attention on common problems in groups and on effective approaches to overcome them. Students learn to create effective group collaborations by focusing on challenges and opportunities. The class is open to all majors, and is well suited for students in business, engineering, and those interested in project management, entrepreneurial activity, as well as psychology and sociology.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will help students develop an understanding of environmental sustainability, both historically and in modern organizations. Students will study how organizational leaders incorporate sustainability into their planning as a response to environmental crises, shifting market conditions, threatened supply chains, and evolving human resource demands. Class discussions, readings, and assignments will enable critical appraisal of the possibilities and constraints around sustainability in the interwoven living systems of business and the environment. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in (BCOR 3030 OR MGT 3000 OR MGT 3030) AND (Intermediate or Full Major or Minor status in the School of Business OR Full Major status in Quantitative Analysis of Markets & Organizations OR Instructor Consent)