Applied Business and Technology Solutions (BA)

Introduces financial accounting concepts related to operating, financing, investing, and ethical decisions.

Introduces business information systems from a business intelligence perspective and the uses of application software with emphasis on database and spreadsheet packages for efficient and effective problem solving.

Introductory course in macroeconomics. Topics include the measurement and modeling of output, national income, inflation and unemployment; the determinants of cross-country differences in income; the functions of money and the banking system; the causes of and policy responses to recessions; the effect of monetary and fiscal policy on interest rates and national income.

Introductory course in microeconomics. Topics include marginal analysis; international trade; supply and demand analysis; market efficiency; basic welfare analysis of market interactions and government intervention; the theory of firm production and costs; profit maximization in different market structures; consumer choice.

Introduces methods of statistical description, inference, probability, sampling, hypothesis testing and regression analysis with focus on business application.

Advanced interdisciplinary writing course designed to improve the workplace writing competence of W. P. Carey School of Business professional and preprofessional students. Lecture, discussion, case studies, cooperative learning, interactive, Internet, student presentations.

Dynamic analysis of personal financial planning, including time value of money, stock and bond investment, and retirement and estate planning.

Introduces the functions and applications of management in organizations, including controlling, decision making, leadership, motivation, planning, and social responsibility.

Focuses on the nature and processes of marketing with an emphasis on practical application.

Explores how organizations effectively and efficiently buy things, make things and move things. Topics include procurement, inventory management, manufacturing and operations, as well as logistics and transportation. Students learn about the primary supply chain challenges organizations face and the strategies used to meet customer expectations. Also addresses supply chain issues related to sustainability, ethics, global business and analytics.

Management and agribusiness issues in the transition of developing countries from subsistence to global operations and competition.

Multidisciplinary analysis of international economic and financial environment. Operations of multinational firms and their interaction with home and host societies.