Students
Courses
Graduate/MBA Courses
Accounting and Management Information Systems
ACCT&MIS 838: Emerging Technologies and Electronic Commerce
Provide an understanding of the opportunities, potential threats and important issues surrounding electronic commerce and emerging technologies.
Business Administration: Finance
BUS-FIN 846: Venture Capital and Private Equity
Designed to challenge MBA students to critically think about international finance and how it is likely to change during their professional careers.
Business Administration: Management and Human Resources
BUS-MHR 802: Managerial Negotiations
Exploration of the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflicts and their resolution.
BUS-MHR 825: Entrepreneurship and Business Plan Development *
Provides student experiences in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial concepts and provides the opportunity to develop entrepreneurial skills.
BUS-MHR 894.61: Technology Commercialization
BUS-MHR 894.62: Advanced Strategic Analysis
BUS-MHR 894.68: Technology Strategy & Innovation Management
* Required course for MBA Entrepreneurship Track
Undergraduate Courses
Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
AED ECON 402: Principles of Agribusiness Marketing (4)
Study of specific problems of marketing food and fiber products with emphasis on structures and institutions facing agribusinesses in domestic and international markets. Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
AED ECON 460: Human Resource Management in Small Businesses (3)
Human resource planning, job analysis, organizational structure, recruitment and selection, training, motivation, leadership, communication, compensation, and evaluating employee performance in context of small businesses. Prereq: Jr. standing. Offered: Winter, Spring
Business Administration: Finance
BUS-FIN 590: Entrepreneurial Finance (4)
Explores the financial needs of entrepreneurial ventures. Considers financial challenges facing entrepreneurs, framing the issues, evaluating the needs, developing financial strategies and structuring deals. Offered: Winter
Business Administration: Management and Human Resources
BUS-MHR 290: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Modern Business (5)**
Assesses economical, sociological, and psychological foundations of entrepreneurship and its impact on society. Examines perspectives, characteristics of entrepreneurs, and the role of personal creativity in entrepreneurship. Offered: Autumn, Winter
BUS-MHR 390: Personal Creativity and Innovation (4)
Explores how people, places and practices foster human creativity. Students will discuss: What is creativity? How can I become more creative? How can we lead others to greater creativity? Offered: Spring
BUS-MHR 490: New Venture Creation (4) **
Examines the creation of businesses in the face of uncertainty. Analyzes market opportunities, entrepreneurial strategies, innovative business concepts, business plans and financing new ventures. Offered: Winter, Spring
BUS-MHR 590: Leading High Performance Ventures (4)
Explores key managerial practices for leading successful growing businesses. Examines issues in human resourses managment, business law, financial management, competitive strategy and organizational design. Offered: Winter
BUS-MHR 694.52: Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise (4)
Offered: Spring 2010
Business Administration: Marketing & Logistics
BUS-M&L 490: Entrepreneurial Martketing (4)
Focuses on marketing concepts of entrepreneurs leading growth="oriented" companies.Typically these are small, young companies with ambitions to become major enterprises. Offered: Winter, Spring
BUS-M&L 694: New Product Design and Development (3)
Business Administration: Operations Management
BUS-MGT 494: Foundations of Operations for Entrepreneurs (4)
Group study projects in selected areas of management sciences. Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Family Resource Management
CS FMRES M 567: Families in Business (3)
Explore family business topics, including family dynamics, conflicts and relationships relative to business formation and growth, strategic management, professionalization, and succession. Offered: Autumn, Spring
Industrial and Systems Engineering
ISE ME 682: Fundamentals of Product Design (4)
Principles of concurrent engineering, design for manufacture and assembly, and lean manufacturing; integration of design and manufacturing; design prototyping.
Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Psychology
PSYCH 662: Psychology of Creativity (3)
A critical examination of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological problems related to the systematic study of creativity; special attention to background factors related to creative behavior. Offered: Winter, Summer
Sociology
SOCIOL 464: Work, Employment, and Society (5)
Analysis of work organization; control and authority relationships in the workplace; comparative studies of work and labor movements; industrial decline; automation. Offered: Winter
SOCIOL 597.01: Contemporary World Societies: Social Institutions and Social Change (5)
Sociological analysis of contemporary world societies-non-industrialized, industrializing, and industrialized-with special attention to major social institutions and patterns of social change. Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer
** Required course for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Minor
