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| BUS 3420 | Commercial Law II (3) |
| Reviews basic legal principles applicable to formation and operation of business organizations including corporate and non-corporate entities. Also covers significant areas of legal regulation of business and property transactions. Prerequisite: BUS 3410. Course was offered Spring 2010 | |
| BUS 3430 | Survey of Commercial Law (3) |
| Covers basic legal principles of American law related to commercial transactions. Emphasizes contract law, sales, secured transactions, negotiable instruments, business associations, real and personal property, and the regulation of business. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| BUS 3610 | Money and the Financial System (3) |
| Introduce students to the United States financial system using accounting, economic, and legal principles. Includes exchange transactions, payment systems, financial instruments, interest rates, financial markets, and financial intermediaries. Explores the money supply and how the financial system relates to the macro-economy. Prerequisites: ACCT 2010 Introductory Accounting I | |
| BUS 3710 | Managerial Finance I (3) |
| Emphasizes the development of managerial theory and decision methodology in evaluating the financial function of the firm. Analyzes working capital management, the concepts and techniques employed in the procurement of resources from financial markets, and their allocation to productive investments. Prerequisites: ACCT 2020. | |
| BUS 5010 | Cybersecurity Management (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Provides managers with the essential framework needed to design and develop an effective cybersecurity program. Explores methods used to raise general security awareness, review current industry practices, and develop expertise needed to adapt policies to achieve confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational assets and data. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2010 |
| BUS 5020 | Security Policy Development and Assessment (3) |
| Examines the steps required in policy development including password protection, acceptable use of organization information technology assets, risk acceptance, identification of threats, countermeasures, intellectual property, proprietary info and privacy issues, compliance reporting, and escalation procedures. Discusses access controls, security standards, and policy implementation. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| BUS 5030 | Designing Dynamic Security Architecture (3) |
| Explores the building blocks needed to implement security within the System Development Life-Cycle (SDLC). Focuses on how to analyze internal applications, computing platforms/network infrastructure, and corporate objectives with an eye toward designing flexible security architecture that is best suited for the enterprise. Studies in-depth defense techniques and how they are applied to optimize security architecture. Course was offered Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| BUS 5040 | Creating and Conducting a Security Assessment (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Reviews the essential components of a security assessment and explores how to integrate methodology with company needs. Covers the pitfalls connected with conducting a security assessment. Addresses how to create security assessment reports, identifying threats and vulnerabilities and managing organizational audits and compliance metrics. Case studies are used to illustrate course concepts. |
| BUS 5060 | Understanding Technology Used in an Open Access Environment (3) |
| Covers the technologies enabling the migration of computing applications, communications, and information to the cloud environment. Explores the technologies that facilitated back-end integration and front-end deployment. Reviews the information assurance challenges and popular solutions of cloud computing. Discusses communications concepts such as TCP/IP, ISP delivery channels, and wireless technology. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Fall 2009 | |
| BUS 5070 | ISC2 Commong Body of Knowledge and C I S S P Exam Preparation (3) |
| Explores the 10 Domains comprising the ISC2 Common Body of Knowledge in preparation for the Certified Information Systems Security professional (CISSP) examination (the preferred industry standard for cyber-security professionals). | |
| BUS 5090 | Converged Networks: Design, Security and Simulation (3) |
| Examines Internet security concerning two key network design issues: securely integrating and converging network applications; and transport technologies. Explores the technical tools that protect information from internal and external threats including various network security technologies and protection systems. | |
| BUS 5100 | Cyber Law, Regulation, and Ethics (3) |
| An overview of the ethical challenges in the information age - introduces the complex and dynamic state of the law as it applies to behavior in cyberspace. Topics include the legal pitfalls of doing business in an interconnected world and an intro to the various organizations and materials that can be turned to for assistance in understanding how to ethically and legally provide services and operate modern computer-based systems and networks. | |
| BUS 5340 | Employee Recruitment and Development (3) |
| Topics include recruitment in a tight labor market, employee selection and incentives, performance assessment, mentoring and career planning, workforce diversity, understanding organizational change, and developing a learning organization. | |
| BUS 5360 | Introduction to E-Commerce (3) |
| Explores the principal components and driving forces behind electronic commerce. Develops an understanding of Internet business practices including key terms and concepts related to emerging technologies and network architecture. Discussions analyze the socio-economic and technical impact that e-commerce has on conducting business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions in the global marketplace. | |
| BUS 5370 | Managing and Maintaining an E-Commerce Website (3) |
| Develops skills needed to manage and maintain a Web Site in this hands-on course that takes one from the design stage through online implementation. Teaches basic site architecture, standards and protocols, the role of databases, methods for capturing and tracking customer data, how to register a domain name, and writing content for the Web. | |
| BUS 5380 | Web Marketing: Building Awareness on the Internet (3) |
| Examines the application of marketing principles and practices in an Internet environment. Identifies principles of marketing with a Web-based focus. Topics include changing marketing environments in an Internet society, marketing communications, management, company image, product/brand awareness, promotion and service information, e-retail and online catalogs, and pre- and-post-sales support. | |
| BUS 5390 | E-Commerce Law (3) |
| Focuses on maintaining organizational and consumer privacy, locating vulnerabilities, encryption methods, management of intellectual property, and procedures for secure web transactions | |
| BUS 5400 | Financial Management for Web-based Businesses (3) |
| Examines basic financial management and accounting techniques such as review of e-business P & L statements and balance sheets, cash flow analysis, supply-chain management, and other rules of thumb. Topics include a review of stock options and their role as a tool for recruitment and retention of employees, as well as a conceptual understanding of accounting and financial reporting for stock options. | |
| BUS 5410 | Strategic Management of E-Commerce Technology (3) |
| Expands on strategic management principles in the context of e-commerce and the global marketplace. Through discussions, analysis, and case studies, students sharpen the skills needed to manage innovation within their companies by learning to develop and protect e-business infrastructure, identify lucrative business opportunities, execute implementation plans, and evaluate key success factors. | |
| BUS 5420 | Emerging Business Models in E-Commerce (1) |
| This capstone course examines e-commerce start-up success stories, effective business models, and the innovative use of Internet communications in business. Participants plan, organize, coordinate, and evaluate e-commerce initiatives and make informed decisions when implementing new strategies. | |
| BUS 5993 | Independent Study (3) |
| Explores material on an independent basis under the guidance of a faculty member. | |
| BUS 6000 | Applied Wireless Network Security (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Provides students with practical, real-world experience with the various wireless network security core competencies. Specifically, the course provides the most popular hacking, cracking, and wireless security network analysis tools on a CD ROM and trains students to use them to assess and secure wireless networks. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2012 |