Prerequisite: None
This course is an introduction to accounting concepts and procedures for an organization. The emphasis is upon the
accounting cycle as well as the recording, summarizing, and interpretation of accounting information.

Prerequisite: ACCT 201 Principles of Financial Accounting
This course focuses on the design and analysis of automated accounting systems for businesses. It includes the
examination of payroll, receivables and payables, charts of accounts, and accounting reports as well as internal
control and security issues.

Prerequisite: None

This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of biology. It includes cell structure, chemistry and function,
adaptation, and ecology.

Prerequisite: None
This course is an introduction to the functions of business and management strategies in the areas of marketing,
human resources, finance, and technology. Real-world cases are discussed to highlight business practices of
organizations that students can relate to. Course activities involve students in writing, investigating, problemsolving, demonstrating, and reporting. The emphasis is upon the basic principles and practices of businesses. This
course is interactive and includes hands-on activities and group discussions

Prerequisite: None
This course helps students in examining the theory, techniques, and applications of management systems. Planning,
organizing, leading, and controlling are issues addressed. Topics include environmental influences, organization
design and structure, motivation, total quality management, ethics, production and international Management.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students understand and appreciate the marketing concepts; how to identify, understand and satisfy
the needs of customers and markets; identify the marketing mix components; explain the environmental factors
which influence consumer and organizational decision-making processes; outline a marketing plan; and interpret
marketing research data to forecast industry trends and meet customer demands.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces personal skills, talents and abilities, study habits, research methodology, and other soft skills
to help students go through their undergraduate studies with more success. Students will also be assisted to review
the fundamental courses they have taken so far to determine which specialization they are deciding to choose in their
degree program.

Prerequisite: None
The legal system and business policies and practices are closely related. In order to succeed in business, it is
essential to understand the application of the legal environment. This course is intended to introduce students to a
broad range of legal issues that impact business, including the sources of United States law, and the key areas of law
relevant to business. The course teaches students to think broadly about business and the rule of law.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students understand the business philosophy which stresses in not engaging in activities that cause
environmental pollution and / or exhausting finite world resources; the moral principles and standards that guide
behavior in business environment; focus on wider social issues rather than merely focusing on the company’s profit
margins and exploring the ethical considerations that guide and inform business decisions and strategies. Students
will also learn the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to understand and apply ethics from social,
economic, and environmental perspectives.

Prerequisite: ECON 101 and ACCT 101
This course provides an introductory survey of the field of finance. This course examines the agents, instruments,
and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market,
derivatives, and the money market. Additionally, common concepts and tools of financial analysis are introduced
which include: present discounted value, option value, and the efficient markets hypothesis. The recent application
of psychology to financial markets (called behavioral finance) is also discussed. Students are equipped with the
background and tools they need to make their own financial decisions with greater skill and confidence. We will
learn how insights from academic finance can inform and improve students’ individual investing decisions.

Prerequisite: None
BUSS 280 is an introductory course in statistics designed to provide students with the basic concepts of data
analysis and statistical computing. Topics discussed include displaying and describing data, the normal curve,
regression, probability, statistical inference, confidence intervals, and hypothesis tests with applications in the real
world. The main objective is to provide students with pragmatic tools for assessing statistical claims and conducting
their own statistical analyses.

Prerequisite: BUSS 280
In today’s competitive world, quantitative analysis is essential tool for business decision making. The objective of
this course is to introduce students with basic statistical and mathematical methods and models for solving business
problems and make decisions. The course will provide students with hands on skills in the application of various
data analytical tools.

Prerequisite: None
This course will introduce students with individual, group, and organizational issues that affect business
organizations and more importantly focusing on issues that influence job performance and organizational
commitment. Topics, such as motivation, organizational justice, individual differences, team dynamics, leadership,
and organizational culture, will be discussed.

Prerequisite: None
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a collection of individuals who share a deep passion and drive for a particular
problem, topic, or concern to then combine and further their collective knowledge to cultivate and foster their work.
While CoPs are specifically not organizations, the need for businesses and organizations to further their internal
learning and development is clearly a benefit to the organization. This course examines CoPs within organizational
contexts as a means of helping the institution to become stronger as a learning organization. Students will develop a
project over the semester analyzing the community/communities of practice within an organization with a focus on
improving the organization’s capacities.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of project management practice from the standpoint
of the manager who must organize, plan, implement, and control non-routine activities to achieve schedule, budget,
and performance objectives. Topics include project life cycles, project organization, project charters, work
breakdown structures, responsibility matrixes, as well as basic planning, budgeting, and scheduling systems.
Planning and control methods such as PERT/CPM, Gantt charts and the Earned Value management system.

Prerequisite: None
Students who enroll in this course must possess and demonstrate appreciable pre-knowledge of the fundamental
concepts, and principles of project management. This course therefore proceeds with intermediate levels of work
conducted in the practice of project management. Students will explore the strategic decision-making processes for
the creation of a project charter or work order. All lectures, discussions, and student assignments shall be directed to
reinforce how a project is conducted and applied to create the value proposition desired by organizational
stakeholders.

Prerequisite: None
Students who enroll in this course must possess and demonstrate appreciable pre-knowledge of the fundamental
concepts, and principles of project management. This course therefore proceeds with intermediate levels of work
conducted in the practice of project management. Students will explore the strategic decision-making processes for
the creation of a project charter or work order. All lectures, discussions, and student assignments shall be directed to
reinforce how a project is conducted and applied to create the value proposition desired by organizational stakeholders

Prerequisite: None
This course help students understand and appreciate human behavior in organizational settings; interface between
human behavior and organization; study the ways people act within groups and apply them to make businessesoperate more effectively. This course focuses on improving productivity, quality, and assisting managers to design
more positive organizations.

Prerequisite: BUSS 290
The course provides students with foundations of key concepts for establishing a comprehensive data management
system and strategy for a large organization, ensuring that its operational and financial needs are efficiently,
effectively, and securely addressed. The course will have an emphasis on real-case scenarios that companies face
when addressing global operational and analytical data challenges. This course will also address current trends in
managing business structured data as organizations move to the cloud-based computing services.

Prerequisite: None
This course focuses on how people behave in organizations and groups and how managers are using concepts and
principles of organizational behaviors for an effective management. Topics include leadership, motivation,
organizational culture, and roles within groups.

Prerequisite: BUSS 330
In this course students will be able to design and create data visualization by using available or their own data
derived from primary or secondary sources. The learning process includes data collection, organizing, modeling,
creating various forms of data visualizations graphics and dashboard. Students will also learn, evaluate and
demonstrate the effectiveness of visualization in business decision. Students will also be challenged to think
critically through reading current and past published papers and real business visualization works. Students will
create their own data visualizations and presentations.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines various principles, best practices, and current challenges businesses are facing as related to
attracting, selecting, motivating, and keeping the most talented organizational members in today’s competitive environment. Focuses on human resource management strategy, organizational staffing, employee and labor
relations, and organizational safety and security. Emphasizes current legal considerations and issues.

Prerequisite: None
Credit Hour Breakdown: 135 hours of internship
This course helps student’s understandings of the key concepts of organizational development theories such as
organizational climate; organizational culture and organizational strategies.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of project management practice from the standpoint
of the manager who must organize, plan, implement, and control non-routine activities to achieve schedule, budget,
and performance objectives. Topics include project life cycles, project organization, project charters, work
breakdown structures, responsibility matrixes, as well as basic planning, budgeting, and scheduling systems.
Planning and control methods such as PERT/CPM, Gantt charts and the Earned Value management system.

Prerequisite: BUSS 110 
This course is designed to provide initial overview of the consulting profession with a subsequent emphasis on
organization consulting issues. Effort will be placed on developing proficiencies in a range of skills required to
practice consulting. The course is relevant to those who are specifically interested in consulting careers and whose
current or future jobs involve staff consulting or line management using consultants.

Prerequisite: None
This course creatively utilizes cases, role plays, and scenarios to help build skills and understanding of negotiations
and organizational conflict. Students will work individually and in team negotiations, engaging in discussions, and
accessing resources to enhance the ability to navigate through complex situations. Students will experience active
learning through the use of case analyses and readings as well as experiencing real world negotiations from a wide
range of contexts. These scenarios range some simple two-party negotiations to complex multi-party negotiations
and will support the development of skills, strategies, and tactics that are applicable in work environments as well as
in all facets of life. Students will learn to communicate more effectively, recognize and develop alternatives as well
as overcome barriers, and utilize existing strengths in each class.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students understand the practices and processes that is used to manage innovation effectively;
understand innovation issues from the entrepreneur and manager’s perspective; understand the management of
innovation from a strategic perspective and the relationship between processes and structures for innovation in
firms, the strategies for exploitation and the environment in which these must be designed e.g., competition, rate of
technological change, sources of innovation.

Prerequisite: None
In this course students will learn the practical concepts, entrepreneurial insights, and comprehensive resources that is
essential both now and in the future. It also provides the background one need to create, manage and analyze a
business plan.

Prerequisite: None
This course offers an opportunity to discuss and apply principles, tools, and methods to successfully implement
growth and sustainability for an organization.  The objective of this course is to deliver the appropriate knowledge
on the process of change management. Topics discussed in this course will include: strategies to design, implement,
communicate, and sustain change; techniques for mapping and assessing when and where change is needed in an
organization; organizational development techniques; as well as barriers and enablers to fostering an environment
conducive to change and innovation.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to provide students with practical information on the growing frontier of innovation
and entrepreneurial activity at the nexus of business and natural systems. The term sustainable business refers to
competitively advantageous strategies and practices that firms adopt to grow revenues, cut costs, improve market
share, enhance brands, and redesign products and processes to reduce or eliminate adverse environmental and health
impacts. Students will study the trends and science driving growing demand for clean technology and lifecycle
product designs. Students will look at the drivers of corporate innovation, strategic shifts, and new markets; learn
skills to identify market opportunities; and understand the tools, concepts, and frameworks used by companies
currently pursuing sustainable business opportunities.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students practical, real-world understandings of several dimensions of leadership such as the nature
of new realities and how one can improve insights into them and how one can identify and overcome resistance to
change. As the world changes, our leadership styles and abilities also need to adapt and change. In this course we
will examine the change environment and why organizations often fail at implementing change, because
understanding the pathologies of change will provide the foundation that we will build upon to learn about the
strategies and forces we need to understand to help us drive successful change.

Prerequisite: None
This course helps students with a fundamental understanding of the theories of social capital; social structure and
societal transformation. It also shed light in the areas of impacts of social capital on investment opportunities and
growth.

Prerequisite: None
This course helps students with a fundamental understanding of the principles and analytics of asset management.
Students who are interested to a career in asset, portfolio, private wealth, endowment, or pension fund management
will find this course very useful. A fundamental understanding of the issues in asset management, will also be
helpful in other areas of finance such as investment banking, insurance, accounting and personal finance.

Prerequisite: None
This course helps student’s understandings of learning organizations; its importance and the emerging need for
learning organizations.

Prerequisite: None
This course explores the legal and regulatory structure involving the protection of the environment. Successful
completion of this course is a crucial element in achieving basic competency in environmental science, policy, and
planning. By its nature, the environmental compliance field is based on jargon, specialized definitions, seemingly
illogical structures, and rote memorization. Nevertheless, understanding the process by which to find, interpret, and
apply regulations will provide you with a valuable professional skill. In this course, students will go beyond mere
factual recall of definitions and regulations. Students are expected to understand the requirements sufficiently to
apply them to specific applicable-based circumstances.

Prerequisite: None
Environmental problems are now at the forefront of political discussions. This course examines the law, politics and
policy of global environmental issues including energy, climate, biodiversity, food and water. The course aims to
provide a broad view of the key concepts, actors and issues in global environmental politics. It demonstrates the
complexities of both of the nature of the problems as well as the solutions. The proliferation of global institutions
and international actors and the absence of central enforcement mechanisms are hallmarks of addressing
environmental problems. We consider the roles of government, the private sector, NGOs, the community and
consumers and other actors in environmental governance. At the end of the program students give an oral
presentation and submit a medium length paper communicating their research findings and analysis.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines the production and consumption of energy from a systems perspective. Sustainability is
examined by studying global and regional environmental impacts, economics, energy efficiency, consumption
patterns and energy policy. First, the physics of energy and energy accounting methods are introduced. Next, the
current energy system that encompasses resource extraction, conversion processes and end-uses are covered.
Responses to current challenges such as declining fossil fuels and climate change are then explored: unconventional
fossil fuels, carbon sequestration, emerging technologies (e.g., renewable sources: biomass, wind, and photovoltaics;
fuel cells) and end-use efficiency and conservation.

Prerequisite: None
This seminar course seeks to deepen the understanding of the impact of rapid technological change on sustainable
development, especially the consequences for the central principle of the 2030 Agenda of “leaving no one behind”,
and the implications for the science, technology and innovation community. It gives students the opportunities, to
look at the role of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy vis-à-vis sustainability. It helps to identify
strategies, policies and immediate actions to take to use science, technology and innovation to empower people,
especially those who are vulnerable, and ensure inclusiveness and equality.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines the enduring and changing nature of governance from both theoretical and practical
perspectives. It employs classic texts and extensive case studies to demonstrate how policy-makers seek to formulate
policy and implement public policy effectively and legitimately, in the face of domestic skepticism, evolving state
structures and a fast-shifting global context so as to serve the public good. How does the modern state try to fulfill
traditional functions of the state and what are some of the challenges to its traditional roles? How can a state
governance best work with and mobilize civil society, non-governmental organizations and institutions of global
governance? In short, what does it mean to govern well in the 21st century- and how does that translate into practical
advice for policy-makers.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces international economics and politics to understand how the world works politically and
economically and aims to teach comprehensive international relations. The course explains the interactions between
markets and politics, the influence of markets on politics, and the influence of policy on markets. It helps analyze
contemporary issues from both political and economic points of view. By the end of the course, students should
have a fundamental understanding of the major theoretical approaches and key conceptual and substantive issues.
The course covers popular topics such as territorial disputes, democracy, economic growth, national security, the
politics of trade, monetary relations, finance, economic development, and globalization in international economics
and politics.

Prerequisite: BUSS 155
This course provides an opportunity for students to utilize their academic experience either through a research paper
or a project with their main focus on continuing their graduate studies or applying their skills in real world cases
through an employment. Students will present their research findings in a seminar.

Prerequisite: BUSS 350
In this course, students will learn how to evaluate data in context, developing decision models, interpret data trends,
and receive an overview of decision support management techniques such as predictive modeling, risk assessment
and optimization, and analytics algorithms, which will set the stage for more advanced study in subsequent courses.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines processes through which goods and services are acquired in the project management
environment. Topics include contract and procurement strategies, legal issues, contract pricing alternatives,
technical, management and commercial requirements, RFP development, source selection, invitations to bid, bid
evaluation, risk assessment, and contract negotiation and administration. By the end of the course, students will have
a broad overview and understanding of the procurement cycle and how it relates to contracts, projects and
management

Prerequisite: None
This course exposes students to a variety of ways to identify, analyze, and to mitigate the full range of project risks.
The course also explores the six risk management processes as outlined in the PMBOK Guide: Risk Management
planning, Risk Identification, Qualitative Risk Analysis, Quantitative Risk Analysis, Risk Response Planning, and
Risk Monitoring & Controlling. Using a practitioner approach, students learn risk management techniques by
applying them to problems raised in case studies.

Prerequisite: None
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the analytical and real-world tools necessary for effective
evaluation and implementation of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) process and implementation.

Prerequisite: BUSS 360
This course helps students to understand the entire venture capital cycle; that is to say; financial and operational
activities of venture capital; assessing opportunities; valuing ventures; negotiating and structuring investments;
managing investments and exiting. Overall, students will gain skills, confidence and strategies to maximize venture
capitalists’ investment return in emerging businesses and minimize potential financial risks.

Prerequisite: None
Credit Hour Breakdown: 135 hours of internship
This course is a major field experience for the student candidate of project management education. As a practicum
therefore, the goal of this course is to provide opportunity for the student to be exposed to project management work
at the ground level. Presumably the student comes to this course having thoroughly understood all pertinent
information of the knowledge domain, and so on,  the project management framework, processes, theories,
techniques, etc., this course therefore allows the student to observe, participate in, and test out how a project work is
initiated, planned, implemented, validated for quality and performance, and eventually closed.

Prerequisite: None
This course helps student’s understandings of process-oriented view of the flow of materials, information, products
and services through and across organizational functions. It also helps to enhance their knowledge on how to
carefully analyze, document and continuously assess the efficiency and effectiveness of business process to
minimize cost and maximize value creation.

Prerequisite: None
This course helps student’s understandings of the method of using emergence to elicit local knowledge and use the
integrated knowledge to manage projects more effectively. It also helps students to appreciate and value planning
and implementation of project interface management program.

Prerequisite: None
In this course students will learn the professional leadership qualities that deliver personal, interpersonal, and
organizational success. They will also learn positive subjective experiences and traits in the work place and positive
organizations, and its application to improve the effectiveness and quality of life in organizations.

Prerequisite: None
This course focuses on the fundamentals of organization performance measurement. Students in this course will gain
knowledge in how to select appropriate measures and implement a performance management system and use
performance measures in managing towards excellence in an organization. In addition, the course will highlight the
need for leadership and management acumen to ensure success in achieving meaningful, significant and lasting
results.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines ethical leadership in organizations and how it’s impact on the business creates and sustains an
ethical culture.

Prerequisite: None
This course will introduce the core processes of human resource planning, recruitment and selection. Students will
debate about the necessity of fair, just and legally compliant raised during the selection processes. Students will also
get knowledge about the best practices in which talent acquisition can help a firm gain a competitive advantage.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students to understand the new digital economy; economic value of digital economy; manage to
deliver in the digital world; quantitative reasoning; information technology and SMAC (social media, mobile,
analytics and cloud computing) revolution. This course also helps students to apply the knowledge and run business
better in today’s environment and transform the nature of business in the future.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides students with key methods of predictive analytics and advanced BI concepts for business
decision-making context. And using real business cases and data, it illustrates to students the application and
interpretation of these methods. The course will cover R Programming, trends in predictive analytics, and
understanding available application programs that can be deployed within the business enterprise.

Prerequisite: None
In this course, students will be introduced with knowledge why and how analytics are important in HR, learn and
apply an analytic and process model using excel and Power BI to drive the most important data methods and
techniques for organizing, analyzing and presenting for business decisions.

Prerequisite: Minimum of 90 credits
This course will introduce students with new practices and issues emerging in organizational development (OD) and
the way those changes contribute to the effective practice of OD. Student will read and discuss on various cases
studies to practically understand various contemporary OD issues related to business.

Prerequisite: None
In this course students will study various tools for generating marketing insights from data in market segmentation,
targeting and positioning, satisfaction management, customer lifetime analysis, customer choice, product and price
decisions using conjoint analysis and search analytics. This is a hands-on course based on the Marketing
Engineering (Enginius) approach and Excel software that will be applied to actual business situations. Students will
develop a market analytics project by collecting and analyzing primary or secondary data.

Prerequisite: None
The legal and regulatory environment of business, emphasizing why legal duties are placed on the business
community and how managers should appropriately respond to them. The course covers legal institutions,
constitutional law, common law, and public law.

Prerequisite: None
This course help students understand and apply research and analytical skills in collecting, analyzing and
interpreting data in order to make sound business decisions. Students will gain insight relative to quantitative,
qualitative and mixed model research methods.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines processes of globalization and development by highlighting various debates over the positive
and negative impact of globalization on political, economic, social development. Throughout the semester, we will
grapple with a number of questions. First, who are the winners and losers of globalization? Who shapes the
dominant values of and rationale for development and globalization? We will consider these ‘who’ questions in terms
of individual, society, and country levels. Second, how do globalization and development affect each other? Does
globalization promote development? If so, which countries are beneficiaries in what way? Not only will we explore
the approaches to development and their outcomes, but we will also talk about how this has impacted the
environment and global health. These discussions will be accompanied by comparative perspectives on the development experiences of countries in different regions of the world. In order to produce more comprehensive and
compelling explanations, we will have to go up and down levels of aggregation in our readings, class discussion, and
debates, from the local to the global and back again.

Prerequisite: None
This course covers macro and micro development models and issues. The course the larger array of development
theories, models and the different aspects of economic development. It tries to cover topics related inequality,
development models, and the different dimensions related to economic development like institutions, trade,
education, agriculture and international aid. By doing so, the course indicates how development efforts bring
adequate nutrition, health services and education.

Prerequisite: None
Sustainability in international business is more than simply adopting sustainable practices–it has the potential to
help companies gain competitive advantage. With the growing globalization of social and economic activities
worldwide, environmentalism has become a fundamental component of business practices. Many international
companies now out-compete their business rivals by implementing robust environmental stewardship and corporate
social responsibility programs, engaging stakeholders and by making these efforts both measurable and visible. This
course examines the global business environment in the context of sustainability and explores the challenges and
opportunities that the new movement toward sustainability offers multinational enterprises and the countries in
which they do business.

Prerequisite: None
Credit Hour Breakdown: 135 hours of internship
This course intends to provide students with an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills from a planned work
experience in the student’s chosen career field. The entire course outcome is designed in cooperation with the
student, the supervisor and the internship office. Internship placements are directly related to the student’s program
of study and provide learning experiences not available in the classroom setting. Internships provide entry-level,
career-related experience, and workplace competencies that employers value when hiring new employees.
Internships may also be used as an opportunity to explore career fields.

Prerequisite: None
The course will give students a comprehensive understanding of sustainability in organizations from an accounting
perspective. It walks student through the steps for doing a sustainability assessment and aims to develop them into
financial analysts and enable them to understand sustainability reports and are able to create or audit them.

Prerequisite: Minimum of 90 credits
This course introduces the students to current thinking and research on contemporary issues in business and provides
an opportunity to develop a foundation for their future major by researching a contemporary business issue in a
major business sector. Students will be expected to read, understand, and evaluate research and analysis on this
issue, and demonstrate an understanding of how research and analysis affect proposed solutions or responses to the
issue.

Prerequisite: None
In the competitive business world, using data to its best advantage becomes very essential. In this course, students
will learn how to utilize internal and external data to measure, analyze and predict operational risks business are
encountering beside financial, market and credit risks. In this course students develop their ability to identify macro
and micro level risk and evaluate risk management programs, policies, and strategies.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides students with analytical methods in predicting outcomes and future trends from existing data to
help discover new relationships; to evaluate outcomes for business optimization (e.g., revenues, profits, market
share, probability of making a sale, probability of losing a client, etc.) based on other historical data predictors (e.g.,
marketing expenditures, quality assurance investments, sales force size, etc.).

Prerequisite: Minimum of 90 credits
This course will introduce students with new changes, new practices and issues emerging in Business Analytics
(BA) and the way those changes contribute to the effective practice of BA. Student will read and discuss on various
cases studies to practically understand various contemporary BA issues related to business.

Prerequisite: None
Credit Hour Breakdown: 135 hours of internship
This course intends to provide students with an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills from a planned work
experience in the Data analytics specialization. In this course student will be exposed to a real-life business problem
and apply the theoretical and quantitative analytical skills to recommend solutions to the decision makers. The entire
course outcome is designed in cooperation with the student, the professor, the program chair and career service of
the university. Internships provide entry-level, career-related experience, and marketable skills and competencies
that are highly demanded by the future employers.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides students with a hands-on understanding and experience related to their degree. The objective is
to let students access information that will help them complete a semester-wide individual project that produces a
applies skills and concepts used throughout their program. Students develop their project under the direct
supervision of the faculty advisor of the course. Students are required to attend as many meetings/seminars as
needed as specified by the faculty advisor.

Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the fundamentals of chemistry including atomic and molecular structure, thermo-chemical
changes, and conservation of energy.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides the skills needed to prepare and deliver informative and persuasive speeches. Students will focus
on adapting communication styles and content to diverse speakers and audiences. This course emphasizes how to
compose meaningful and coherent messages, conduct research, and develop effective presentation skills. Students will
be required to deliver several oral presentations in front of the class during the semester.

Prerequisite: None
Microeconomics mainly studies the economic choices facing the individual entities, including consumers and
business firms. This course covers the basic topics of economic tradeoffs, supply and demand model, concept of
elasticity, consumer choice model, theories of cost and production, and the firm’s behavior and performance under
different market structures. The course also introduces the students to the problems of market failure and public choice,
and the impacts of public policy on consumers and business firms.

Prerequisite: None
Macroeconomics is primarily concerned with economic analysis and policy making at the national level. This course
introduces the students to the basics of national income determination, measurements of inflation and unemployment
rates, economic fluctuations, and economic growth. The course also covers the foundations of aggregate demand and
aggregate supply, the basics of the classical and Keynesian models, the tools of fiscal and monetary policies, and an
introduction to macroeconomic policy debates.

Prerequisite: None
Academic Writing focuses on reviewing the fundamentals ofstandard written English for academic purposes. Students
will practice writing common forms of academic documents and demonstrate the ability to successfully use APA
formatting. This interactive class provides students with an opportunity to improve their academic writing skills
necessary for success in college and beyond.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides a survey of physical, cultural, and economic aspects of world regions. It serves as an introduction
to how constituent parts of the world differ from one another in their associated resources, cultures, and economics.
Attention is given to the interrelationships, interdependencies, and associations that bind together the diverse
communities of the world.

Prerequisite: None
This course provides an introduction to the dynamics of the earth –volcanoes, earthquakes, plate tectonics, rivers and
streams, groundwater, glaciers, waves, wind, and landslides –with an emphasis on the environment applications of
these processes. This course also covers tools of the geologist, for example maps and aerial photographs.

Prerequisite: None
This course compares political processes and governing structures in European nations, the former Soviet Union,
China, and the United States.

Prerequisite: None
This course compares political processes and governing structures in European nations, the former Soviet Union,
China, and the United States.

Prerequisite: None
The class is designed to provide students with a core understanding of American politics and society and inspire their
interest and possibly involvement in the American political system. It is comprised of three main modules. The first
part of the course explores the historic, cultural and religious origins of the American state and focuses on the issues
of American exceptionalism, national identity, religious roots and early political development. The second module
centers on the key principles, institutions, and decision-making processes of the American political system, and
evaluates the basis strengths and weaknesses of American modern governance. Finally, module three, examines some
of the most current and prominent dilemmas in modern American life, including the politics of race, social security,
health care and gender issues.

Prerequisite: None
World History is the only course offering students an overview of the entire history of humankind. The major emphasis
is on the study of significant people, events, and issues from the earliest times to the present. Traditional historical
points of reference in world history are identified as students analyze important events and issues in western
civilization as well as in civilizations in other parts of the world.

Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to provide a conceptual understanding and overview of the major disciplines of the humanities
including music, theatre, cinema, visual arts, philosophy, and literature. This course will help students hone their
critical thinking, interpretation, and discussion skills.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to develop each student’s capacity to learn in order to apply that capacity to selffulfillment and social performance throughout life. Since life’s conditions are always changing and requiring new
knowledge and skills, we often find ourselves in the role of beginner. As a beginner, we can allow ourselves to live
with wonder, to give ourselves permission to make mistakes, and learn from those mistakes. We can learn to trust
those who can teach us as we advance from beginner through competence, proficiency, and expertise to eventual
mastery in those areas of life to which we dedicate ourselves. Students will explore learning styles and learning design
principles to support learning and the capacity to learn. Students will explore the language of being though speech
acts and practices of presence. Students will become observers of their own speaking and listening, and through
language and learning, students will understand and develop new worldviews and possibilities in life.

Prerequisite: None
We commonly speak of thinking patterns in one of two models. Some begin with the general or big picture and move
to the specifics in an effort to find a solution to the challenge or opportunity each situation presents. Others use the
pattern of moving from the specific to the general pattern by focusing on the details and aligning them so a big picture
view can emerge. This course is designed to allow us to integrate both types of thinking into a holistic approach for
developing our worldview. It introduces a cohesive and comprehensive system of thinking that provides a
methodology for looking at the macro and micro issues simultaneously. The course introduces us to a practical and
usable change technology that helps us align and connect all the variables, stakeholders, cultures, sub-cultures, and
other interests of a complete system.

We begin by exploring the holistic model of worldviews developed by Clare Graves and Don Beck and conclude with
an emphasis on the application of the model to real-world issues. Students will be able to incorporate these practices
into the assessment and development of their particular worldview and take effective action in developing solutions
at macro and micro levels across multiple domains of human concerns.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to broaden the student’s worldview in the context of global citizenship. Being a global
citizen requires an understanding and awareness of the context of that citizenship through an exploration of the
conditions shaping our future from a global perspective. The first part of this course defines the meaning and
practices of global citizenship. In subsequent weeks, students will explore the nature of globalization through lenses
of power, interdependence, issues of sustainability, conflict at international and regional levels, and corporate
responsibility. In later weeks of the course, possible actions for addressing global issues are introduced.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to broaden the student’s worldview and engender pro-social values and practices.
Being a global citizen includes cultural awareness, embracing diversity, promoting social justice, and
responsibilities to act. This course explores the concept of citizenship, what constitutes meaningful citizenship, and
the global dimensions of citizenship. Students will explore worldviews and values aligned with being a global
citizen. Furthermore, students will explore the commitments and practices of being a global citizen and the
differences it can make.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
This course is intended to prepare students for the study of calculus. It includes a review of algebra; arithmetic
operations, fractions, factoring, the quadratic formula, radicals, and exponents. This course also serves as an
introduction to linear, polynomial, trigonometric, rational, and logarithmic functions. Graphs of functions are also
covered throughout the course.

Prerequisite: MATH 160
This course covers functions, limits, the derivative, maximum and minimum problems, the integral and transcendental
functions.

Prerequisite: None
This course introducesthe study of philosophy through the history of philosophical thought and texts. It also introduces
a broad spectrum of philosophical problems and perspectives with an emphasis on the systematic questioning of basic
assumptions about knowledge, meaning, reality, and values.

Prerequisite: None
This course covers the principles of mechanics, heat, electricity, magnetism, optics, and atomic and nuclear physics.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines human and animal behavior, relating experimental studies to practical problems. It includes
topics such as learning, memory, motivation, stress, emotion, intelligence, development, personality, therapy,
psychopathology, and social psychology.

Prerequisite: None
This purpose of this course is to introduce students to the diversity in religions of the world and to provide an overview
of select religious traditions from around the globe. Students will learn to compare and contrast the various religions
to be covered including some of the following: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism,
Taoism, and new religious traditions. Students will be able to make cross-cultural connections through an
understanding of historical facts, religious institutions, and an understanding of the basic tenets and texts surrounding
the religious traditions covered in the course. The course will help students develop an understanding of the influence
of religion on culture, social and political systems, and personal action.

Prerequisite: None
This course examines patterns in political institutions, public policy, and conflict within and between communities
and interest groups.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to pursue the practices of learning and being. The content of this course includes concepts
and practices of observation, awareness of cognitive bias, brainstorming, critical thinking, problem-solving, decisionmaking, and priority-setting. The central goal of this course is to empower students to think more clearly and
analytically about what they believe and be more effective in social performance.
Human beings bring a wide range of cognitive biases to our worldview and these biases can lead us to reach invalid
conclusions and make decisions that make subsequent action both ineffective and inefficient. This course begins with
building capacity to observe with an emphasis on openness to a “world to word” way of being as opposed to projecting
our beliefs onto the world or living a “word to world” approach.
Tools and processes for exploring possibilities through brainstorming, critical thinking, problem-solving, decisionmaking, and priority-setting are introduced and practiced in a variety of situations inside and outside the classroom.
Throughout the semester, we will emphasize the application of course material to real-world issues. Students will be
able to incorporate these practices into the assessment and development of their particular worldview.

Prerequisite: None
Self-fulfillment is the combination of the hopes we have for our lives, as well as the plans we create to achieve them.
When you know what fulfills you, you can make a conscious effort to design your life around it. This course is about
discovery – exploring our livesfor what we find fulfilling and meaningful, declaring our commitments, and developing
plans and practices that move us forward in fulfilling our commitments and creating a meaningful life. We will focus
on learning and practicing how to live a meaningful and fulfilling life, cultivate what is best within yourself, and apply
principles of design thinking to enhancing your experiences of life across all domains of action including work, family,
community, personal development, and play.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and contribute
actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to explore possibilities and build your capacities for career success – regardless of what
you choose to do or the organizations you join. Over the next fifteen weeks, we will explore ideas, tools, and processes
for designing a career where you can find purpose and meaning, and develop those capabilities that are critical for
career success regardless of your work. As with the recommended (but not required) prerequisites, this course is built
on the foundations of self-awareness and reflection as essential conditions for realizing your full potential in all
domains of action and being. We urge you to focus on both conditions as you engage in each week’s assigned activities.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and contribute
actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to explore possibilities and build your capacity to have social impact through career
activities – regardless of what you choose to do or the organizations you join. Over the next fifteen weeks, we will
explore ideas, tools, and processes for creating social impact, help you find purpose and additional meaning for your
career through social impact, and help develop those capabilities that make social impact possible. As with the
recommended (but not required) prerequisites, this course is built on the foundations of self-awareness and
reflection as essential conditions for realizing your full potential in all domains of action and being. We urge you to
focus on both conditions as you engage in each week’s assigned activities.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
We spend a good part of our waking hours in the act of thinking, which could be described as private conversations
with ourselves. Some are of value in leading us to effective action and well-being. Others become barriers to action
and well-being. The purpose of this course is to introduce concepts, tools, and processes of thinking to help you take
effective action and find your way forward without being overwhelmed by life’s challenges. We will explore
approaches to thinking developed by philosophers over many centuries and discuss lessons learned from everyday
life in applying those approaches. This course will help you be more effective and efficient in finding solutions to
the challenges and opportunities you encounter throughout life.
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.

Prerequisite: None
The purpose of this course is to provide concepts, tools, and processes to help you engage in career planning
throughout your lifetime and prepare you for being a leader regardless of your roles and career path. The focus is on
generating career options, determining priorities, setting goals, developing plans, and taking action – always keeping
in mind that we live in a dynamic, complex, and evolving world. This ever-changing context of our lives requires us
to continue to learn and redesign throughout our lives in support of our evolving values, beliefs, worldviews, and
commitments as reflected in this quote:
“A well-designed life is a life that is generative – it is constantly creative, productive, changing, evolving, and there
is always the possibility of surprise.” – Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Designing Your Life
This course is a participatory seminar. We will discuss assigned readings, audiovisual materials, and discoveries
gleaned from experiential exercises. Participants are expected to carefully review readings before class and
contribute actively in seminar discussions.