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Business Administration Curriculum
The following courses that are part of the Business Administration Curriculum are offered as FASTNET Online Courses. For complete descriptions of individual courses, go to Course Outlines, select the area of study and then the individual course from the drop down list.
	BUS 101 Introduction to Business Prerequisites: ENG 025, ENG 032, MAT044, or demonstrated competencies. Examines the U.S. business system in relation to the nation's economy. Studies business ownership, organization principles and problems, management, and administration and development practices of American business enterprises.	BUS 105 Principles of Management Prerequisites: ENG025, ENG032, MAT044, or demonstrated competencies. Describes the functions of managers, including the management of activities and personnel. Focuses on application of guidance principles in management.
	BUS106 Customer Service Prerequisites: ENG 025, ENG 032, MAT 044, or demonstrated competencies. Course focuses on the importance of providing superior customer service to the organization as well as the customer service representative. Fundamental customer service techniques applicable to a variety of situations are presented.	BUS 108 Personal Finance Prerequisites: ENG 025, ENG 032, MAT 044, or demonstrated competencies. Emphasizes management of individual financial resources for growth and maintenance of personal wealth. Covers home buying and mortgage financing, installment financing, life and health insurance, securities, commodities, and other investment opportunities.
	BUS 202 Human Resource Management Prerequisites: BUS 105 Focuses on the activities of human resource management, with emphasis on employer-employee relations, job analysis and evaluation, salary administration, work measurement and standards, performance appraisal, and legal compliance.	BUS 209 Introduction to e-Business Prerequisites: BUS101, CIS101 Focuses on how e-business is being conducted and managed, its major opportunities, limitations, issues and risks. E-business applications to be discussed include those of business to consumer, business to business, and intra business. Because e-business is interdisciplinary, subject matter will be directed at managers, professionals, and students who wish an overview of the e-business potential.
	BUS227 Logistics/Supply Chain Management Prerequisites: BUS101 A study of the basic concepts included in the field of logistics and supply chain management. Topics covered include: supply chain strategy, planning and design, customer service, transportation, purchasing, forecasting, inventory and warehouse management, and financial control of logistics performance.	BUS228 Principles of Purchasing Prerequisites: BUS101 This course is designed to teach the basics of purchasing management. Topics covered include: the challenge of purchasing and materials management, objectives and organization, function, specification, quality control and inspection, supplier evaluation, selection, and measurement, supplier development, strategic cost management, contracts and negotiation, purchasing relationships, purchasing transportation, purchasing laws and ethics, and global sourcing.
	BUS229 Transportation Systems Prerequisites: BUS101 Transportation Systems examines the structure and importance of the commercial transportation industry in the logistics sector of business. Topics covered include an in-depth examination of the various modes of transportation including discussions of regulations, economics, characteristics, and development in major transportation modes. Also discussed are costing and pricing issues in transportation and relationship management between buyers and sellers of transportation.	MKT 101 Principles of Marketing Prerequisites: BUS101 Introduces the marketing role in society and how it affects the marketing strategy. Emphasizes the marketing mix, product planning, and the effects of the demographic dimension on the consumer market
	MKT240 Internet Marketing Prerequisites: CIS101, MKT101 Provides an introduction to the Internet as a marketing strategy including product, pricing, communications, and distribution considerations. Profiles Internet users and market segments and reviews the Internet as a primary and secondary marketing research tool as well as a relationship-marketing tool.

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