BSAD 231 Business Law

The law of contracts, agency, and business structures; sales contracts, negotiable intruments and secured transactions. Analysis of selected real property, tort, and bankruptcy problems.

One semester, 3 credits.


This course is part two of the introductory accounting sequence. This course is designed to build on what you have learned in the first course, in addition to adding new concepts. This course deals with managing entities that are producing, manufacturing or selling a product. It teaches you how to compute, analyze, and interpret financial information in the manufacturing environment. The course has invaluable managerial concepts. It is guaranteed that you will come across these concepts in your business career. The course is set up to provide you with a well-balanced presentation of the measurement, reporting, and analysis of financial and managerial activity for the various business entities. See below for course topics to be covered.

This course provides students with an overview of the field of Management Information Systems (MIS). All businesses, from start-up businesses to F100 firms, across this nation and the world are undergoing tremendous growth in the use of information to support all business functions, from product and service development to sales, marketing and customer service. MIS refers to the collection of tools and management strategies that make it easier to use, create, manage, and exchange information. This course will explore the current trends in Information Technology (IT) and its implications on management and business strategy. Students will use various IT resources during this course, including a custom developed text, the Internet, the WC Library, and other resources.
Welcome to Operations 342 for Fall 2008 and the first thing you should know is that I have retooled this course to focus on assessing and improving operations for both traditional/for-profit businesses as well as for the social services and not-for-profit services and programs provided via government and non-for-profit enterprises.

Hence we will focus both on adding value and improving the performance for both the profit and not-for-profit sectors.

In today's flat word, operations managers are the champions of firms and organizations who develop and lead initiatives to revamp and improve goods and services to stay competitive, make a return, and satisfy clients. Operations management looks for ways to solve problems that firms (profit and nor-for-profit) encounter in the process of manufacturing goods, rendering services, or conducting transactions.

Operations Managers, in pursuing continuous improvements on their jobs, constantly use innovative ways to operate more efficiently, produce more goods/services with fewer resources, and provide better output, including better service, for their customers. In short, OM’s look for ways to make the world go round a bit better by increasing efficiencies, improving profits, and sometimes, even improving service to the customer/patron.
This course in International Marketing is paired this year with Dr. Hill's Psych 354 "Diverse Identities" course. It is designed to expose students to global business and its marketing environment with a particular emphasis on the role and impact of diversity. While International Marketing is a global phenomena we will focus primarily on the developing/industrializing nations in the Pacific Rim.