The objectives of financial management and financial decision making are explored in this course. The approach is practical in nature with an emphasis on cash flow analysis, working capital management, and financial planning.

The course focuses on the formulation, implementation and evaluation of advertising and sales promotion programs. Highlighted are the practicalities of media selection, local resource availability, budgets, and measures of effectiveness.

Through a seminar approach, this course explores the many ethical dimensions of business and includes a major group project for which class time is allotted.

The course provides further examination of accounting procedures and their underlying concepts and principles. Additional standards and problems of valuation, income measurement, and disclosure in financial statements are introduced.

This course provides an introduction to accounting procedures and statements and their underlying concepts and principles. Within this framework, accounting practice is integrated with the development of accounting information for effective decision-making.

This course provides an introduction to the field of marketing. The principles of product, price, promotion, and place along with understanding customer's needs are covered.

This course emphasizes a range of mathematical calculations used in business. Students will be introduced to simple interest, compound interest, annuities, amortization and sinking funds. Practical applications will be emphasized in the course.

This course focuses on principles of effective business communications, both written and spoken, including mechanics, style, tone, organization and APA style referencing. Specific topics include composing business letters, memoranda and emails; writing formal reports; principles of graphic design; and conducting effective business meetings.

Discusses the major features of the evolutionary process, including the fossil record, basic population genetics, variation, natural selection, adaptation and speciation.

Ecology is the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environment in a hierarchy of levels of individuals, organizations, populations, communities and ecosystems. This course is designed to provide a comprehensive survey of general concepts that can stand alone or serve as preparation for advanced courses in ecology. Labs emphasize the collection, analysis and interpretation of data from ecological experiments to illustrate and complement the lecture material. Examples will be drawn from a broad range of organisms and systems.