| Course ID: | BUSN 1990. 1 hour. | Course Title: | Introduction to Markets and Enterprises | Course Description: | Discussion of different industries and case studies presented throughout the semester. Introduction to Mergers and Acquisitions and the institutions involved in those financial transactions. The course will highlight management consultants’ roles in advising and solving problems for companies. Leadership and business ethics and corporate social responsibility will also be presented and discussed. | Athena Title: | Markets and Enterprises | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 3000. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Applied Statistics and Data Analysis for Business | Course Description: | Analysis of business data through appropriate statistical techniques and software. Develop aptitude for data modeling through data exploration and visualization. Apply proper sampling methods to minimize bias associated with sampling. Employ statistical inference as a tool for decision making. Utilize linear regression models and time series models to analyze and inform business decisions. | Athena Title: | App Stat and Data Analy Bus | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 3000E, BUSN 3000H, BUSN 3001 | Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 3000H. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Applied Statistics and Data Analysis for Business (Honors) | Course Description: | Analysis of business data through appropriate statistical techniques and software. Develop aptitude for data modeling through data exploration and visualization. Apply proper sampling methods to minimize bias associated with sampling. Employ statistical inference as a tool for decision making. Utilize linear regression models and time series models to analyze and inform business decisions. | Athena Title: | App Stat and Data Analy Bus H | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 3000, BUSN 3000E, BUSN 3001 | Nontraditional Format: | Honors Program students meet for additional break-out sessions. | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 3000E. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Applied Statistics and Data Analysis for Business | Course Description: | Analysis of business data through appropriate statistical techniques and software. Develop aptitude for data modeling through data exploration and visualization. Apply proper sampling methods to minimize bias associated with sampling. Employ statistical inference as a tool for decision making. Utilize linear regression models and time series models to analyze and inform business decisions. | Athena Title: | App Stat and Data Analy Bus | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 3000, BUSN 3000H, BUSN 3001 | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 3020E. 1.5 hours. | Course Title: | Structured Query Language (SQL) Skills for Business Analytics | Course Description: | Introduces students to the language of databases, SQL. Covers the querying of data from databases and manipulating the results of those queries to perform quick and easy analytics. Students will learn how to query multiple tables in a single SQL query. A variety of operations that can be performed on the data retrieved from the tables are also covered. The course will conclude with an exercise to evaluate learning and synthesizing concepts covered in the course. | Athena Title: | SQL for Bus Analytics | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 3030E. 1.5 hours. | Course Title: | Python Programming Skills for Business Analytics I | Course Description: | Introduces students to data analytics with the Python programming language. Covers programming fundamentals and focuses on built-in data structures in Python for storing and manipulating data and statistical analysis and data visualization. Concludes with a data exercise to put knowledge and skills across topics into practice. | Athena Title: | Python Prog Bus Analytics I | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 3040E. 1.5 hours. | Course Title: | R Programming Skills for Business Analytics I | Course Description: | Introduces students to data analytics with the R programming language. Covers programming fundamentals and focuses on storing and manipulating data. Concludes with a data exercise to put knowledge and skills across topics into practice. | Athena Title: | R Prog Bus Analytics I | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 3700. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Principles of FinTech | Course Description: | An operational and strategic examination of financial
institutions, intermediaries, and innovative startups in payments,
digital and mobile banking, alternative lending ("alt-finance"),
wealth management, and insurance ("insur-tech"). Also examines the
practices, business and revenue models, regulatory issues, and
competitive opportunities as well as the challenges and threats
FinTech firms must address. | Athena Title: | Principles of FinTech | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 6700 | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4000E. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Predictive Modeling and Optimization | Course Description: | Focuses on calculus, statistical inference, predictive
modeling, and optimization. Special attention will be given to
the foundations of these topics and also to the modeling and
application of these tools within all the functional areas of
business. | Athena Title: | Predictive Model Optimization | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 4000, BUSN 4000H | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Prerequisite: | MSIT 3000 or MSIT 3000E or MSIT 3000H or BUSN 3000 or BUSN 3000E or BUSN 3000H | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4000. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Predictive Modeling and Optimization | Course Description: | Focuses on calculus, statistical inference, predictive
modeling, and optimization. Special attention will be given to
the foundations of these topics and also to the modeling and
application of these tools within all the functional areas of
business. | Athena Title: | Predictive Model Optimization | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 4000E, BUSN 4000H | Prerequisite: | MSIT 3000 or MSIT 3000E or MSIT 3000H or BUSN 3000 or BUSN 3000E or BUSN 3000H | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4000H. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Predictive Modeling and Optimization (Honors) | Course Description: | Focuses on calculus, statistical inference, predictive modeling, and optimization. Special attention will be given to the foundations of these topics and also to the modeling and application of these tools within all the functional areas of business. | Athena Title: | Predictive Model Optimiz Hon | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 4000, BUSN 4000E | Nontraditional Format: | Honors students complete additional case studies. | Prerequisite: | (MSIT 3000 or MSIT 3000E or MSIT 3000H or BUSN 3000 or BUSN 3000E or BUSN 3000H) and permission of Honors | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4030E. 1.5 hours. | Course Title: | Python Programming Skills for Business Analytics II | Course Description: | Introduces students to advanced data operations using the Pandas package in Python. Several data-related topics are covered including data transformation and data wrangling with a focus on ETL (extract, transform, load) operations. Introduces students to structured data analytics and machine learning. | Athena Title: | Python Prog Bus Analytics II | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Pre or Corequisite: | BUSN 3030E | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4040E. 1.5 hours. | Course Title: | R Programming Skills for Business Analytics II | Course Description: | Introduces students to advanced data operations and analytics with the R programming language. Major concepts include advanced transformation operations, programming operations, such as functions and loops, model construction, and evaluation. | Athena Title: | R Prog Bus Analytics II | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Pre or Corequisite: | BUSN 3040E | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4400. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Business, Systems, and Technology Innovation | Course Description: | The three main types of innovation that raise capital productivity are business models, systems, and technology. Students will learn how these innovations interact and co-evolve as each participant in an industry seeks to find a combination that raises its capital productivity above its peers. | Athena Title: | Bus Sys Tech Innovation | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4650. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Diversity in a Global Environment | Course Description: | How to recognize, evaluate, and manage workplace diversity in a
global environment. Students will examine how the complexities
of primary dimensions of diversity operate within an
organizational framework and understand what it means to manage
diversity within organizations and in global business practices. | Athena Title: | Diversity in a Global Environ | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4800. 1 hour. | Course Title: | Business Internship | Course Description: | Practical and applied experience in business activities. | Athena Title: | Business Internship | Nontraditional Format: | This course does not meet formally and is focused on gaining
practical and applied business experience. The course is
intended for Terry College of Business majors whose business
experiences do not meet the formal requirements of a department-
level internship. Student experiences must be approved, via
application, prior to the semester in which the student is
enrolled in the course. The application requires the student to
submit a job description which lists substantial
responsibilities. Student must work at least 50 verifiable hours
during the semester in which the student is enrolled. | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4900. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Communicating for Business Effectiveness | Course Description: | Focuses on the practice of communication for students' success
in their academic and professional careers. Specific
communication skills will be practiced within the following
contexts: public speaking/presentations, managing conflict, and
business writing. | Athena Title: | Comm for Business Effective | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 4900E | Nontraditional Format: | Students will attend class to practice oral presentation skills;
to analyze interpersonal/team conflict scenarios in order to
develop and deliver optimal response strategies; and to
strengthen business writing skills for clarity, tone, impact,
and brevity. Approximately 30% lecture/discussion and 70% in-
class presentations, writing and interpersonal role-plays. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4900E. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Communicating for Business Effectiveness | Course Description: | Focuses on the practice of communication for students' success in their academic and professional careers. Specific communication skills will be practiced within the following contexts: public speaking/presentations, managing conflict, and business writing. | Athena Title: | Comm for Business Effective | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 4900 | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4910E. 1 hour. | Course Title: | Business Writing | Course Description: | Provides students opportunities to obtain skills that lead to growth and success in business scenarios and beyond, including emails, application documents, memos, reports, and data stories. The hallmark of this course will be a skill-based learning environment focused on the practice of skills and content. | Athena Title: | Business Writing | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4920E. 1 hour. | Course Title: | Digital Literacies in Business | Course Description: | Provides students opportunities to obtain skills that lead to growth and success in business scenarios and beyond, including evaluating and utilizing sources, leading business publications, online research, online conflict, creating a personal/professional brand, social media presence, and visual impact. The hallmark of this course will be a skill-based learning environment focused on the practice of skills and content. | Athena Title: | Digital Literacies in Business | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 4930E. 1 hour. | Course Title: | Career Building Communication Strategies | Course Description: | Provides students opportunities to obtain communication skills that lead to growth and success in business scenarios and beyond, including setting expectations and defining responsibilities; communication with mentors/supervisors; maintaining activity logs/learning journals; writing an internship report or year-end review; and ending well—changing jobs and relationship maintenance. The hallmark of this course will be a skill-based learning environment focused on the practice of skills and content. | Athena Title: | Career Build Comm Strat | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 5000. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Introduction to Data Science for Business and Economics | Course Description: | The modern world is awash in a seemingly unlimited amount of data. Harnessing this data for decisions starts with acquiring the raw information and ends with a report describing the outcome of some analysis. At each step, the analyst combines data with some ideas about how the world works to produce an output. A hands-on approach, with a focus on techniques of data preparation; descriptive, explanatory, and predictive analyses; and scientific communication. | Athena Title: | Intro to Data Science for Busn | Prerequisite: | BUSN 3000 or BUSN 3000E or BUSN 3000H | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 5001. 1-3 hours. | Course Title: | Special Topics in Business | Course Description: | Group study of selected topics from the field of business, such
as leadership, ethics, diversity, or other areas of general
business. | Athena Title: | Special Topics in Business | Nontraditional Format: | Group study. | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 6700. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Strategic Principles in Financial Services Technology | Course Description: | A strategic and operational examination of financial institutions, intermediaries, and central banks, along with innovative startups in payments, digital and mobile banking, alternative lending, wealth management, risk management, insurance (insurtech), and the rapidly changing regulatory market that operates around this industry (regtech). | Athena Title: | Fintech Strategic Principles | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 3700 | Semester Course Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 7100. 2-3 hours. | Course Title: | Applied Business Statistics | Course Description: | Fundamental statistical tools and their use in business and economics. Goal of course is to ensure that students can select appropriate statistical tools and apply them correctly. Topics include sampling distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, inferences on two populations, and simple and multiple regression. | Athena Title: | Applied Business Statistics | Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 7500. 1.5-3 hours. | Course Title: | Business Ethics | Course Description: | An investigation of processes to resolve moral conflicts in business. Normative guidelines to be applied toward attaining common ground among those operating from different levels of moral reasoning. | Athena Title: | BUS ETHICS | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in MARK 8500 | Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 7600. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Business, Government, and the International Economy | Course Description: | Examination of the tensions and interactions between politics and the economy on an international scale. While cases typically focus on one nation-state and its development, the overall aim is to better understand how business leaders operate within the larger context of international political economy. Thus, the course analyzes the roles of states, policymakers, corporations, managers, and international institutions in order to evaluate decision-making within certain sets of constraints. | Athena Title: | Busn Govt and Intl Economy | Semester Course Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 7800. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | Course Title: | Business Internship | Course Description: | Students are permitted to enter businesses, governmental agencies, or other organizations for the purposes of obtaining practical and applied managerial experience. A paper describing and analyzing this experience is required. | Athena Title: | BUSINESS INTERNSHIP | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in BUSN 8800 | Nontraditional Format: | This course is designed for graduate internship and does not meet formally. | Semester Course Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 7830S. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Social Innovation Community Leadership – Service Learning Projects | Course Description: | How to scope and manage a meaningful, business-related service leadership project for a local nonprofit community organization using MBA skillsets. The projects are designed to impact areas critical to the greater Athens community, situated in any of the following areas: education, health and well-being, arts and culture, economic development, and policy. | Athena Title: | Social Innov Leadership Projct | Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives. The course uses service-learning as the primary pedagogical tool for teaching course objectives. Students will work on a comprehensive project(s) and may be required to send considerable time outside the classroom. Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for approximately 75-100% of overall instructional time. | Grading System: | A/S (A-F or S/U) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 7850. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | Course Title: | B Corporations and Social Impact Consulting | Course Description: | Enable students to apply MBA coursework to a real-world consulting engagement, guiding businesses in measuring and scaling their impact across all stakeholders. To learn hands-on what a B Corp is, how they apply “business as a force for good” principles to their foundation, day-to-day decision making, and overall company DNA. | Athena Title: | B Corp Consulting | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 7900. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | Course Title: | Strategy Execution and Career Success | Course Description: | Focuses on the practice of communication for first-year MBA
students’ success in their academic and professional careers.
Specific communication skills will be practiced within the
following contexts: public speaking/presentations, managing
conflict, and business writing. Instructor and peer coaching
will be extensively utilized. | Athena Title: | Strategy Ex and Career Success | Nontraditional Format: | The course may be taught half semester or full semester. | Semester Course Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 7950. 2 hours. | Course Title: | MBA Career Progression | Course Description: | The MBA Career Progression course is designed to help students take charge of their career development and build the skills to manage their careers as the workplace evolves. Understand, identify, and fine-tune the skills needed to maximize your effectiveness in the workplace and manage your personal career development over time. | Athena Title: | MBA Career Progression | Prerequisite: | BUSN 7900 | Semester Course Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course ID: | BUSN 7990. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | Course Title: | Directed Study in Business | Course Description: | Directed study in special topics that are not available in
scheduled courses. | Athena Title: | Directed Study in Business | Nontraditional Format: | Course schedule and meetings are arranged by student and faculty sponsor. | Semester Course Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | Grading System: | A/S (A-F or S/U) |
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