3 Credits

1 – 3 Credits

Supervised work experience in an approved position related to the student’s career interests or objectives. Number of credits depends on type of position and time worked. No student can count more than eight internship credits towards a degree. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: Approval of program or department head. (1 – 3+1 – 3)

3 Credits

Emphasis on personal investments and financial management. Special fees apply. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered As Demand Warrants

Provides leadership theory and develop leadership skills for application internal and external to their sport. Focus on the identification and development of leadership skills/abilities and application within the classroom, a sport and for an on-campus project. Special fees apply. (3+0)

3 credits     Offered Fall or Spring, As Demand Warrants

Provide a basic understanding of managing amateur and professional sports organizations and the legal issues involved. Topics such as stadium financing, risk management contracts and human resource management, public versus private sector labor laws, collective bargaining and drug testing will be examined. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. (3+0)

3 Credits

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Basic personnel and human resource management law, including labor law and current management practices in administering collective bargaining agreements. Emphasis on the major federal and Alaska state laws affecting personnel management. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F307 or concurrent enrollment; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Time value of money, bond and stock valuation, capital budgeting, risk-return trade-offs and option pricing. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: ACCT F261; ECON F200; MATH F262X; STAT F200X. (3+0

4 Credits

The judicial system, legal processes, administrative procedures, law of torts, contract and agency government regulation of business, business ethics, corporate social responsibility and the uniform commercial code. Also available via Independent Learning. Special fees apply. (4+0)

3 Credits

Management of a firm’s marketing effort focusing on products, distribution, pricing and promotion to targeted consumers. Practices appropriate to domestic or international, small or large, goods or services, and for-profit or nonprofit organizations included. Also available via Independent Learning. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: AIS F101 or equivalent; STAT F200X or equivalent. (3+0)

3 Credits

Operations management with an emphasis on systematic planning, design and operation of the processes that produce goods and deliver services that customers recognize to be of superior quality. Topics include operations strategy, process design, quality control, statistical process control, project scheduling, material requirements planning and just-in-time systems. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: AIS F101; STAT F200X. (3+0)

3 Credits

Understanding how and why organizations behave as they do, assessing whether the behavior is functional or dysfunctional, and learning to understand and change motivation, leadership, communications, group dynamics, conflict management, layout, technology, structure and policies to create high-functioning organizations. Special fees apply. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Spring

Introduction to investment analysis. Presents an understanding of the investment environment and analytical tools in investing. Intended for undergraduate students. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F325; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Spring

Develop skills required to value and finance residential and commercial real estate. Financing instruments, markets and taxation issues specific to real estate are covered in the first half; alternative investments such as REITs will be presented in the second half of the course. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F325. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Effects of nationality, culture, social class, family, personality, symbolism and persuasion on consumptive behavior. Qualitative methodologies such as focus groups covered. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F343. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Advertising, publicity, sales management, sales promotion, direct marketing and the interrelationships necessary for effective promotions in domestic or international, small or large, goods or services, and for-profit or nonprofit organizations. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F343. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Basic processes and tools of marketing research with emphasis on utilization of research findings as an integral part of the managerial decision-making process. Techniques of quantitative data-gathering and analysis to solve a marketing problem. Practices appropriate to domestic or international, small or large, goods or services, and for-profit or nonprofit organizations. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F343; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X; upper division BBA standing; or permission of the SOM advisor. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Theory and practice of wage and salary, benefits and risk management. Planning, administration, auditing, adjusting and budgeting for compensation and risk. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F307; COMM F131X or COMM F141X; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered As Demand Warrants

A supervised practical work experience to enable students to apply their course work in a fire department or closely related field of emergency services. Admission dependent upon approved sponsorship arrangements. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X; B.E.M. degree major; upper division standing; permission of instructor. Recommended: Four semesters of bachelor core; business administration courses. (0+6)

1 – 3 Credits     Offered As Demand Warrants

A supervised practical work experience to enable students to apply their coursework in a business environment. Admission dependent upon approved sponsorship arrangements. Repeated for a maximum of six credits. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: Accumulative 3.0 GPA in ACCT and BA courses. (0+2 – 9)

3 Credits

Hands-on experience in portfolio management. Students will be making investment and diversification decisions affecting the $500,000 Student Investment Fund. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: COMM F131X or COMM F141X; BA F325 or equivalent; upper division BBA standing; permission of the SOM advisor or instructor. (3+0)

3 Credits

The second course involved with the hands-on management of the $500,000 Student Investment Fund. Students will carry out the duties of officers of the fund and will be responsible for portfolio diversification and management decisions affecting the fund. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F454; upper division BBA standing and permission of the SOM advisor or instructor. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Operations and special problems of the small business with emphasis on both existing firms and new ventures. Starting new businesses, buying going concerns, acquiring and operating franchises, establishing lines of credit, management, legal matters, profit planning, pricing, inventory levels, record systems, tax regulations and employee supervision. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: ACCT F261; ACCT F262; ENGL F111X; ENGL F211X or ENGL F213X. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Theory and practice of employee training programs, needs assessments, learning theories, instructional design, training techniques and evaluation, management development and career development techniques and practices. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F307. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Relationships among nations with particular emphasis on the business, economic, and sociocultural institutions that influence the performance of managers. Formulation of objectives, strategies and organizational structures within the context of international diversity. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: COMM F131X or COMM F141X. Recommended: Senior standing. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Development of analytical skills, logical thought processes and information literacy necessary to make and implement investment decisions in a global setting. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F325. (3+0)

3 Credits

An integrative approach to strategy formation and implementation to achieve organization goals. Students will be introduced to theoretical perspectives and associated methodologies directed toward resolving the unstructured problems and opportunities which confront general managers at the highest levels of an organization. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: COMM F131X or COMM F141X; ACCT F352 or ACCT F342; BA F325; BA F343; BA F360; BA F390; ECON F321 or ECON F322 or ECON F324 or ECON F350; upper division B.B.A. standing; or permission of the SOM advisor. Exception: B.B.A. economics majors do not need ACCT F352 or ACCT F342. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Marketing principles in the service sector with special emphasis on such service industries as financial, retailing and tourism. Includes practices appropriate to domestic or international, small or large, and for-profit organizations. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F343. (3+0)

3 Credits     Offered Fall or Spring

Examines current marketing trends with regard to production, distribution, promotion, pricing and target markets. Focus on trends in Alaska, the U.S. and worldwide. Special fees apply. Prerequisites: BA F343. (3+0)