This introductory course offers a look at the major areas of the business curriculum. It gives an overview of business terms, concepts, and theories. Subjects covered include management, marketing, and finance, with reference to other business topics. Three class hours per week. Credit: Three semester hours.
 

Personal financial planning and management of consumer problems, including: cash budgets, living expenses, major asset acquisitions, credit, insurance, checking and savings accounts, investments, taxes, retirement, wills and estates. Three class hours per week. Credit: Three semester hours.
 

Topics presented are: general principles of law including concepts of law; origin and functions of the legal process and the court systems, including civil and criminal aspects within a constitutional framework; common law contracts and commercial sales contracts including bailments and carrier liabilities; legal aspects of basic business associations including agency law, employer-employee relationships, and tort liability; commercial paper, negotiable instruments, and secured business transactions; debtor-creditor rights; and bankruptcy. Three class hours per week. Credit: Three semester hours.
 

Role of law in business and society; government regulations of business; legal reasoning; sources of law; social policy and legal institutions; antitrust; security regulations; consumer protection; environmental laws; worker health and safety; employment discrimination and other laws affecting business. Three class hours per week. Credit: Three semester hours.
 

An introduction to the use of quantitative business techniques. Topics include: organizing and presenting data, descriptive statistics, probability, discrete and continuous distributions, systems of equations, modeling, optimization procedures, and statistical inference. Prerequisites: MATH 1324 and ENGL 1301. Three class hours per week. Credit: Three semester hours.