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A survey of the business and management functions found in modern organizational environs. Course objectives are to provide a career orientation for students and a content foundation for future courses.

The course emphasizes arithmetic computations and informal geometry. Some of the topics included are elementary number theory, operations with fractions, decimals, ratios, proportions, percents, signed numbers, data interpretation, an introduction and preparation for algebra. Credits for this course do not fulfill degree requirements. Minimum grade of C, not C-, or higher to go on to the next course. Prerequisite: Appropriate score on the math and reading placement test.

This course is intended to help first year business management students clarify their business education and career goals. Basic concepts of management, marketing, operations, finance, and human resource management will be surveyed. Classroom lectures will be supplemented by field trips to local businesses and lectures by guest speakers.

Organizational behavior is a field of study that seeks to understand, explain, and improve human behavior in organizations at the individual, interpersonal, team and organizational levels. Students will gain an awareness and knowledge of contemporary issues and approaches to organizational communication and change facing organizations.

Further study of exposition and argument, as employed in various academic disciplines. Systematic instruction in academic writing and thinking beyond the level expected in College Composition, including summary and response to texts, generation and evaluation of arguments, synthesis of different sources, and research methods.

Provides a general introduction to psychology, the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. The course presents major theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and key findings in physiological, cognitive, motivation, learning, developmental, personality, abnormal, and social psychology.

Topics in Psychology is a course designed to enable an instructor to periodically explore a topic of mutual interest between students and a designated instructor. Course may be repeated for a total of nine credits provided the topics are different.

Provides multicultural and global examinations of the relationship of the self to society. Introduces students to the systematic study of human society through sociological perspective and method. Emphasizes analysis of problems of social order and change. Includes socialization, social class and inequality, race and ethnicity, gender, social movements, social institutions, community, globilization, and deviance. General Education Core option.