Online Bachelor’s in Business Administration Degree| CTU

ACCT201

This course introduces accounting concepts. Emphasis is on understanding, summarizing, , and interpreting financial information. Upon successful completion, students should be able to recognize and use financial statements, understand the role of financial information in decision‐making, and discuss ethical considerations specific to accounting.

Accounting I
4

BADM440

This course is designed to provide the basics of research needed to successfully complete the business capstone courses. It covers the full cycle of research starting with a qualitative examination of an organizational phenomenon and then addresses how to measure it via survey, experiments, or other designs. It concludes with issues of verification and implementation based on the outcome of the quantitative phase. It also includes the topics of scale development, reliability, validity, confirmatory factor analysis, and issues of survey development and implementation.

Research Design Methods and Applications
4

BUS270

This course introduces the student to concepts of leadership and responsibilities to stakeholders. This course explores a variety of ethical issues in today’s business community. Additionally, this course examines work place code of conduct and issues relating to conflicts of interest. Lastly, this course integrates case study scenarios for student understanding and engagement.

Business Ethics and Leadership
4

FIN205

This course examines issues pertaining to basic personal and professional financial strategies. Students examine the components of managing money effectively, constructing a personal budget, making financial goals, saving, and investing.

Finance Literacy in Today’s World
4

FINC225

This course is a basic introduction to the concepts of finance. It presents an overview of financial statements and financial statement analysis Specific topics include ratio analysis, trend analysis, ethics, and financial proformas.

Financial Statement Analysis
4

HRMT215

This course examines the role and function of the Human Resource Department in the organization and provides an overview of human resource management activities covering the essential employment and managerial tasks required. Topics include, but are not limited to job analysis, performance management, staffing, career development, and diversity and labor relations.

Management of Human Resources
4

HRMT440

This course focuses on the theories, stages, practices, and implications of the organizational change process. Some topics discussed include preparing to manage change, articulating choices, envisioning the future, and implementing change programs. Students study organizational development models to apply the change process. The major objective of this course is to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed to address the continuous changes in the organization.

Managing Organizational Change
4

IT254

This course introduces students to spreadsheet applications. There is an emphasis on the design, format, functions, and formulas of spreadsheet operations in solving real-world problems. Special attention is paid to data literacy skills, including using spreadsheets to read, interpret, organize, and present data.

Spreadsheet Applications
4

MGM255

This course introduces the student to business management structures. It covers how the structures can act as a competitive advantage. Emphasis is on how the organization’s management structure and leadership styles can impact businesses and how an organization must adapt or respond to the changes.

Management Fundamentals
4

MGM316

This course is designed to enhance students’ knowledge of cultures, traditions, and value systems as they apply in international, multinational, and global business settings. Students explore topics such as language and other forms of communication, traditions, values, norms, cultural diversity, cultural influences on communication and the negotiation process, and ways to improve communications with people whose first language is something other than English.

International Business Communications
4

MGM335

In this course students examine individual and group behavior within the context of organizational design and culture. This course teaches theoretical and practical knowledge for understanding topics such as motivation, leadership, managerial decision-making, group processes, and conflict resolution.

Organizational Behavior Principles
4

MGM355

In this course students examine the international business environment and how it influences management. The course examines the issues and implications involved in the application of modern management practices and principles within the global business environment.

International Business Practices
4

MGM365

This course examines the nature of the legal system in which society functions, including business agreements, business entities, and government regulations. Using frameworks for ethical decision-making, students will explore the ethical issues that confront business organizations and individuals.

The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
4

MGMT235

This course focuses on tools for understanding the principles underlying the legal environment of business. The course identifies the current legal rules and regulations affecting businesses and students will study new developments and trends that may greatly affect future transactions. This course also includes a component dealing with the legal aspects of intellectual property, especially as it relates to e‐business.

Business Law I
4

MGMT345

This course examines the principles and techniques of managing operations processes in manufacturing and service industries. Students will explore the interrelationships between operations concepts, such as forecasting, planning products, technologies, facilities, demand, inventory, productivity, quality, and reliability.

Operations Management
4

MGMT455

This course focuses on identifying external opportunities and determining the value-creating potential of a firm’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies to achieve a strategic competitive advantage.

Business Policies and Strategies
4

MGMT495

This course is the capstone course for business students and is designed to help students develop awareness of current and relevant business events using current business articles and case studies. Students will apply concepts they have learned throughout the business program to current events and relevant case studies.

Business Capstone
4

MKTG225

This course examines the basic concepts of marketing. Students explore various aspects of the analysis of the marketing process. This includes learning about creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers. Students examine the fundamentals of marketing, then progress to the application of those fundamentals within an organization and the contemporary market environment.

Introduction to Marketing
4

MPM210

This course is designed to provide an overview and introduction to the discipline of project management, coupled with an examination of the techniques that project managers use to complete their projects on schedule, within budgeted cost, and according to specified scope and quality. Using materials from the PMBOK® Guide, students study the operational framework of project management relating to the four phases of the project lifecycle (starting the project, organizing and preparing, carrying out the work, and ending the project) and the five project management process groups (initiating processes, planning processes, executing processes, monitoring and controlling processes, and closing processes). This course provides the basis for the development of project management skills in subsequent project management courses.

Introduction to Project Management
6

SCM210

This course introduces logistics and supply chain management as an integrated discipline practiced in the private and public sectors. This course is designed to provide an overview of logistics functions and their application to supply chain management. Emphasis is on the total integration of the supply chain from raw material production through end customer support and final disposal.

Introduction to Logistics/Supply Chain Management
4

 

UNIV201

This course is designed to provide the knowledge and application of effective career management strategies for career development and transition; through student self-assessment and research into potential career fields.  Students pursue the knowledge and skills to identify and communicate themselves as a brand.

Career Planning and Management
4

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MGMT115

This survey course is designed to provide students with a general introduction to business activity and how it relates to our economic society. Students will explore how businesses are owned, organized, managed, and controlled.

Introductory Business Practices
4

Total Credit Hours:
86