This branding course focuses on branding YOU. It will be delivered in an experiential seminar format that uses directed discussion and cooperative learning to define a student's personal brand and develop clarity for those who do not have college or career objectives. It is a skills based course that includes topics such as identifying strengths, networking skills, learning to be a good mentee, communication skills, dressing for success, personal health, and managing your career.

This course will examine the strategies and tools that human resource professionals use to achieve an organization's strategic objectives by identifying and retaining a high quality, diverse talent pool. It will look at strategies to recruit talent, develop a talent pipeline through succession planning, and build leadership bench strength through a professional development system. This course will also explore promotion and cross-functional systems that will strengthen the organization as well as retention strategies to promote and reward high quality talent.

This course provides an overview of the management practices and styles unique to small businesses. This includes the impact of the entrepreneur and small businesses on the economy, new business formation, financing the new venture, e-commerce startups, and managing growth of the new firm. It will discuss intrapreneurship as well as entrepreneurship.

This course addresses project management from a management perspective. Focus is placed on the problems of selecting, initiating, operating, and controlling projects. Learners will be introduced to proven project-management processes, broadly-tested techniques, and solid approaches to the successful management of projects in varying sizes and degrees of complexity. Upon completion of the course, learners will understand fundamental project management concepts that will remain foundational.

This course incorporates skill building in written communication and information literacy. Assignments cover many aspects of business writing, including constructing clear, concise emails and memos to the writing and research processes for a formal business report. Prerequisites: C or higher in ENG 104 or 105 or 195. WCII, IL.

Individual and independent reading, research, and writing under the guidance of a School of Business faculty member. Refer to the academic policy section for independent study policy. A written learning contract must be on file in the Office of the Registrar by the end of the first week of classes in the semester in which the course is taken. The contract must provide details of the topic, learning objectives, methods to be used, works to be completed, completion dates, grading criteria, and a prospective bibliography.

Experiential Learning: Internship (12 Credits) Non-classroom experiences in the field of business. Placements are generally off-campus, and may be full-or part-time, and with or without pay. Credit for experiences must be sought prior to occurrence, and learning contracts must be submitted before the end of the first week of the semester. A maximum of 15 credits of 287/487 can be used to meet graduation requirements. See the experiential learning: internship section of this catalog for details. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. May be repeated for credit. Graded CR/NC.

Courses on topics of interest to business students offered on the basis of need, interest, or timeliness. Prerequisites as determined by instructor. Restricted to students with freshman or sophomore standing. May be repeated for credit. For specific section description, click on the Section Details in VitNet.

This course focuses on reflection, contemplation, and development of your unique brand. It will be delivered in an experimental seminar format that uses directed discussion and cooperative learning to define a student's personal brand and develop clarity for those who do not have college or career objectives. It is a skills-based course that includes topics such as identifying strengths, networking skills, communication skills, dressing for success, personal health, and managing your career.

This course demonstrates the use of application of statistics in business environments to inform decision-making. The course focuses primarily on statistical approaches to summarize data and make inferences about a population based on sample data. Specific topics include graphical descriptions of data, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing about means and proportions, hypothesis testing for differences in means among groups and simple and multiple linear regression. Course emphasis is on real world application, drawing examples from multiple business settings and sectors.