Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Study Plan

English 1101 is a college-level writing course that introduces students to the various forms of academic discourse. This course focuses primarily on the basic elements of college composition and writing as a process in both narrative and analytical forms. Students will investigate the importance and promise of effective written communication in various personal and professional contexts and identify effective strategies through critical analysis of written works as well as their own writing. Finally, this course prepares students for more advanced research analysis by connecting students to important avenues of research.

Course Outcomes:

1)     Identifies different academic writing styles. Students identify and apply different styles of academic writing, choosing the one that best fits their audience.

2)     Communicates effectively based on research. Using a specific academic style, students demonstrate their ability to effectively communicate their ideas based on extensive analysis and research.

3)     Influence others through effective communication.  Students demonstrate their ability to influence with clear and effective communication strategies based on critical analysis and logic.

Students should understand their role in society and be capable of interpreting the social phenomena surrounding them. This course provides students with a basic understanding of how the society functions, and specifically how groups work.

Course Outcomes:

1)     Student will be able to identify social facts and theories, explaining how they had an impact on the development of sociology.

2)     Students will be able to apply empirical observation, recognizing the importance of social facts for strategic analysis of sociological circumstances.

Students will be able to define and explain main characteristics of social institutions around world and its impact on the development of policies for social change.

This course provides a general introduction to college mathematics. Students learn the following mathematical concepts in a logical sequence that increases in difficulty as students gain command of a concept: polynomials, equations, inequalities, the straight line, Cartesian coordinates, functions and graphs, systems of linear equations, logarithms and exponentials, matrix algebra, limit of a function, and derivate of a function and integral.

Course Outcome:

Students will be able to apply mathematical concepts in a logical sequence that increases in difficulty as students gain command of basic algebra concepts, appreciating the importance of analytic and abstract thinking

This course provides writing instruction for students in the Bachelor of Science. Students practice and reflect on writing in professional, public, and academic genres, such as technical reports, progress reports, proposals, instructions, presentations, and technical reviews, relevant to technical professions and individual student goals. Students evaluate a wide variety of sources and develop expertise in audience analysis, critical research, peer review as well as practical skills in writing more sophisticated text and essays.

Course Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to apply the main techniques and procedures of descriptive statistics and the inferential statistics techniques to specific situations in business and social sciences.

Students will learn how to solve statistical problems by hand and using computer software.

This course provides students with the methodologies required to understand the role played by the inductive method in this field of Mathematics. Trigonometric functions, identities and conditional equations, solution of triangles, trigonometric forms of complex numbers are all taught.

Prerequisite(s): MAC 1005

Course Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to use and apply the inductive method through different exercises, analyze the role played by it in this field of Mathematics.

2)     Identify sequences and series.

3)     Solve series, both numerical and of functions

4)     Understand and solve the fundamental differential equations.

5)     Evaluate differential equations of the first and second order.

6)     Solve systems of differential equations

Apply the studied notions to the solution of problems and exercises.

This course places an emphasis on behavior and the factors that influence it, as well as on describing the cognitive, affective and personality factors that make up behavior. The knowledge acquired by the students in this course will provide them with a holistic view of man and serve as the basis for understanding other courses related to behavioral science.

Course Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to identify the psychological processes that shape personality and human behavior, recognizing the main theories of this field and analyze in a critical way the attitudes and conducts of the people in different environments.

2)     Students will be able to relate biological and social processes that impact the development and expression of Human behavior, recognizing the importance of both nature and nurturing.

English 1102 focuses students on the importance of research to advancing knowledge for various purposes. This course will build on the foundations of composition and introduce students to the research process and the analysis and evaluation of various sources. Students will investigate the writing process for research as well as appropriate research methods and skills. Additionally, this course offers multiple opportunities to engage in the important tasks of revision and editing and will ask students to incorporate feedback to improve their writing.
Prerequisite(s): ENC 1101

Course Outcomes:

1)      The student will be able to identify and elaborate personal writing through different expressions of literary forms.

Students will be able to structure a logic and analytical academic paper based on scientific research using the latest APA norms.

This course introduces students the necessary skills to become a better public speaker through theory and, most importantly, practice. Students will learn concepts, skills, and models of communication. Concepts include how to adapt a speech for different occasions and audiences, how to effectively support your ideas, how to select and organize materials in preparation for a speech, and how to utilize multimedia tools in presentations. This course is relevant in academic, business, and social settings in which the student will become a better public speaker and listener. Students will also be exposed to thinking about and maintaining ethical standards in public speaking.

Course Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to identify communication concepts that serve as a basis for effective speaking and apply this conceptual knowledge in practice to give effective and persuasive speeches.

2)     Students will be able analyze and evaluate presentations made by others using the main components of technical and organizational areas in a speech.

Students will be able to develop and demonstrate verbal, nonverbal, and research competencies through researching, preparing, and delivering presentations relevant to your audiences, demonstrating confidence to speak publicly in a variety of situations.

This course explores the way the overall levels of output, income, employment and prices are determined in a capitalist economy. The focus is on the forces that act to shape these factors and determine their fluctuations. The role of government fiscal and monetary policy in influencing the level of economic activity is also a major area of study. The impact of international transactions on the domestic economy also is discussed.

Course Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to define and identify how the overall levels of output, income, employment, and prices are determined in a capitalist economy.

Students will be able to recognize and value how government polity, credit market, banks and national and foreign currency works and shapes the fluctuations in the economy of a country.

This course examines the role of economic systems in allocating scarce resources to satisfy the needs and wants of individual members of a society. After a brief exposure to alternative economic systems, the focus becomes the nature and performance of American capitalism. Primary emphasis is placed upon the development of models that explain the behavior of consumers, producers and resource suppliers in various market structures.

Course Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to understand and identify development of models that explain the behavior of consumers, producers, and resource suppliers in various market structures.

2)     Students, through the analysis of different companies competing in a market, will be able to discern strategic behavior in business decision-making.

Students will be able to understand and comprehend the application scope of the application of the Dynamic Game Theory to different economic and business scenarios

This course provides students with a general understanding of the changes that have taken place in the world since the appearance of humankind. This course covers the breakup of the Old World, the events of the Middle Ages in Europe, the rise of industrialization, the growth of imperialism, the two world wars, the changes in the post war world, and globalization. This course also introduces students to the economic, political, and social processes in the world of today.

Course Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to identify and relate notable events, development of political and economic and their influence on historical stages.

Students will be able to analyze how historical events and its development can be apply to current world events.

This is a fundamental course in the application of statistics. In this course, students will learn to apply statistical techniques to a variety of applications in business and the social sciences. Students will learn how to solve statistical problems by hand and with the use of computer software. Topics include probability distribution functions, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing and linear regression.

Course Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to apply the main techniques and procedures of descriptive statistics and the inferential statistics techniques to specific situations in business and social sciences.

Students will learn how to solve statistical problems by hand and using computer software.

This course will deal with the different accounting issues related to current asset transactions, merchandise, customers, suppliers, expenses and income, non-financial fixed assets-tangible and intangible fixed assets-, financial instruments (assets and liabilities), and the main taxes that affect business activity (accounting tax base vs tax base).

Couse Outcomes:

1)     Students will learn the foundation of accounting and will be able to deal with the different accounting issues related to current asset transactions, merchandise, customers, suppliers, expenses and income, non-financial fixed assets-tangible and intangible fixed assets-, financial instruments (assets and liabilities), and the main taxes that affect business activity (accounting tax base vs tax base).

2)     Students will be able to analyze internally generated data and use it to create internal and external reports to make critical business decisions.

Students will be to use accounting information to generate reports which will facilitate analytical review of operations.

The course aims to lead the students through the field of business management, first introducing them to the basic concepts that will be handled throughout the syllabus, and subsequently approaching them to the different management philosophies and strategies, providing them with effective resources for proper decision-making in the company.

The concept of company – functions, objectives, and types – and of entrepreneurship is exposed, to focus the corporation from the General Theory of Systems. The general and specific environment of the business organization is presented aimed at: a) developing the ability to search, manage and analyze information of an economic and financial nature and b) promote the ability of students to analyze and synthesize in a business environment.

Students are introduced to the management function and decisions in order to help them: a) solve problems and make decisions in a business context and b) develop skills for strategic decision-making in the economic-financial field and in a global context.

Finally, there is a tour of the classic functions of business management (planning, control, organization and management of human resources) without forgetting to offer a general and introductory vision of the basic elements of Marketing and Finance.

Couse Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to identify the main components of a Business, considering external and internal factors into the definition and creation of a specific type of company.

Students will be able to choose a specific type of company and design a business plan with an organizational structure

The purpose of the first part (Principles of Corporate Finance) is to provide students an overview of the criteria and problems of financial management within a business organization. The lessons will illustrate the basic financial techniques used in investment decision-making process (capital budgeting), and in financing decision-making process (capital structure and dividend policy). The second part (International Corporate Finance) of the course aims to develop the students’ understanding of corporate financial management in an international context. It relates to the decision-making problems about planning, allocation, and control of sources of finance.

Couse Outcomes:

1)     Students will be able to identify, apply and value quantitative strategies to set business and financial objectives and make critical business decisions in different scenarios.

Students will be able to analyze the risk and reward relationship and put into practice in the decision-making process.

The course will illustrate the basic concepts of financial mathematics, as well as the foundational mathematic models used in financial management of banks other financial intermediaries.  The course will also portray the various modes for the simple and widely diffused implementation of such concepts and models in the IT sector, such as Microsoft Excel.

Couse Outcomes:

1)     Explain terms such as Compound Interest, Present Value, Future Value, Annuities, and Perpetuities.

2)     Demonstrate knowledge of the term structures of interest rates and its applications in different business scenarios.

Analyze in depth basic fixed interest transactions such as loan valuation and fixed interest securities.

The main objectives of this course are of offering students with knowledge on all commercial aspects of a legal discipline, and furthermore, of analyzing a commercial activity, either managed by single individuals, or managed by a corporation.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will be able to identify and understand the main legal commercial regulations imply in the creation of a business entrepreneurship.
2) Students will be able to review business cases applying main concepts of corporate law, labor law and corporate liability.
3) Students will be able to describe how the U.S court system works.

In this course, the fundamental aspects of marketing will be discussed, such as its concept, its functions and its scope, its relationship with the environment and with demand. Likewise, the consumer’s purchasing behavior, the basic ideas of segmentation and positioning in the market will be analyzed.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will be able to manage information systems in an organization.
2) Handle and manage skills associated with commercial distribution.
3) Students will make appropriate marketing decisions in specific environments or sectors.

The course deals with some of the main issues related to the corporate innovation processes, with reference to strategic, organizational and operative aspects. Attention will be paid to the organization of innovation processes and their corporate realization strategies. It will be described the strategic role-play by the innovation and development processes of new products to create and to maintain a durative competitive advantage. In particular, the course aim is to offer a management framework and a set of tools to better understand the “change” in the main corporate processes and functions. It will be explained how to develop a management model of innovative processes applicable to a company as well as to a network, within which several partners cooperate to the innovation.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will have a better understanding of the “change” in the main corporate processes and functions.
2) Students will develop skills for making strategic business decisions.
3) Identify and understand the factors that affect the optimal design of business strategies in a digital environment.

This course will analyze from a management perspective both the main technologies and their impacts on the economy, the company and society. We will study the technological foundations of these tools and the transformation that their integration causes, making new concepts such as smart cities or how the collaborative economy appear from the prism of management, artificial intelligence and blockchain from the prism of technology.
We will delve into information systems and their strategic impacts. Also, the course analyzes the legal aspects, as well as the future trends that any company must take into account to compete in the changing business environment.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will know how to analyze from a management perspective both the main technologies and their impacts on the economy, the company and society.
2) Delve into information systems and their strategic impacts.
3) Understand the legal aspects to different kind of companies

This course will provide an introduction to business writing and speaking with a particular emphasis on grammar, sentence structure, thought formation, and presentation skills. Class activities will emphasize communication in real-world business situations and enable students to begin developing their ability to write and speak effectively in the workplace.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will understand the difference between climate and culture, and between climate, motivation and satisfaction.
2) Students will know the main theories of motivation: Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland, Mc Gregor, Bandura…
3) Know the key variables in Business Communications: goals, structure, tasks, technological systems, prescriptive systems, and wage systems.

This course deals with an introduction to digital marketing. Identification and segmentation of audiences. Digital advertising. Search engine advertising (SEO and SEM). Digital Marketing tools (e-mail marketing, permission marketing, viral marketing, mobile marketing). Audience measurement tools.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will identify audiences and will be able to segment them properly.
2) Manage marketing tools e-mail marketing, permission marketing, viral marketing, mobile marketing).
3) Manage audience measurement tools.

The course of Operations Management has the objective of introducing concepts and instruments that allow understanding and analyzing the strategic and tactical decisions of a company’s production system.
To this end, the subject begins with the objectives and strategies of the Operations Management, the design process and the quality of goods and services. In addition, the role of the human factor and technology are analyzed, the different production processes are presented, and the decisions of location, capacity and distribution of the facilities are shown. The course concludes with the aspects of inventory management, the supply chain, and some basic notions of planning and control of projects and maintenance.
The concepts that will be developed throughout the course will try to explain, on one hand, the importance of a suitable design of the production system, and on the other the need for an ideal interrelation of the production area with the other areas of the organization, in order to favor the achievement of short and long-term objectives that contribute to a competitive positioning of the company.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will understand and analyze the strategic and tactical decisions of a company’s production system.
2) Understand the different production processes.
3) Students will be able to deal with the aspects of inventory management, the supply chain, as well as some basic notions of planning and control of projects and maintenance

This course is an introduction to International Economics. It is divided in two sections: international trade and international finance. The former will cover topics like comparative advantage, gains from trade, protectionism, and various issues of trade policy including, among the others, multilateral trade liberalization within the WTO and regional integration. The latter will focus on national income accounting and balance of payments, the determination of exchange rates and central bank intervention in foreign exchange markets, as well as the European Monetary Union and its ongoing crisis, and the 2007-09 global financial crisis.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Understand the effects of international trade and explain the international trade patterns.
2) Students will be able to examine trade policies, the impact of free trade as well as trade barriers such as tariffs, quotas, and voluntary export restraints on a nation’s and global welfare.
3) Examine trade arrangements and institutions such as the NAFTA and WTO.

This course will emphasize the individual as decision-maker and focus upon ethical issues and dilemmas facing managers in most business organizations. The specific objectives of the course are to raise students’ general awareness of ethical dilemmas at work, to place ethical issues within a management context subject to analysis and decision-making action, and to enhance and improve the ability of students to reason toward a satisfactory resolution of an ethical dilemma.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will have concrete knowledge about ethical theory and frameworks for analysis.
2) Integrate ethical concepts into business decision-making and management practices.
3) Students will be able to reason toward a satisfactory resolution of an ethical dilemma.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the international context has been changing rapidly and in multiple dimensions. Today, the concept of globalization is no longer a future, but a reality that presents challenges and opportunities in equal parts; Among the most urgent, the creation of a more balanced and sustainable economic model over time. Coupled with the above, the digitalization process of organizations not only favors this globalization process, but it is necessary within any company, even if its scope is local.
In the context described, this course was born with the following objective: that the student masters the basic concepts of the internationalization of companies from a digital perspective, to detect the adjustments that the company needs and anticipate those changes in a way that ensures its sustainable viability.
The digitization of organizations involves a series of business challenges that should be known in detail, as well as the different existing business models considered innovative. In this sense, the concept of the creation value comes into plaphi 3643y and, especially, that of appropriation: How to maintain the value generated in the company in a digitalized society? For all this, it is essential to know the interest groups, the different strategies and methods of development and internationalization, as well as the behavior of each of the industrial sectors from a digital perspective. In addition, the course provides the tools that allow the implementation of the strategies that contribute efficiently to the necessary organizational transformation.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will dominate the basic concepts of the internationalization of companies from a digital perspective.
2) Detect the adjustments that the company needs and anticipate these changes in a way that ensures its sustainable viability.
3) Students will be skillful managing tools that allow the implementation of the strategies that contribute efficiently to the necessary organizational transformation.

The course provides the necessary tools to create a digital company. The contents of this subject range from the theoretical foundations of digital entrepreneurship to its application with the focus on how to create a digital company.
The way of working is changing by leaps and bounds and many people who want to dedicate themselves to their own project are opting for digital entrepreneurship. Digital entrepreneurship has become an enabler for the digital transformation of companies and the economy of countries.
Digital companies with collaborative and non-traditional leaders are governed by the Least Viable Product (MPV) principle. It is about launching a product in beta phase on the market and its development and evolution is based on the opinion and demand of users / clients and the market. Digital tools are essential to carry out this transformation successfully. It is not only having an online presence, or developing a marketing strategy to publicize a product or improve the customer experience, but also the use of platforms that allow automating processes, but at the same time offer the possibility to connect employees and the company.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will manage the tools to create a digital company.
2) Understand the digital transformation of companies and the economy of countries.
3) Students will know how to develop a marketing strategy to publicize a product or improve the customer experience

This course emphasizes the fundamental techniques of financial statement analysis. Building upon core accounting and investment concepts, the course covers the analysis (including ratio analysis) and interpretation of financial accounting information including the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows. The course also examines the use of accounting information in investment and credit decisions. Prerequisite: Principles of Financial Accounting.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Learn basic methods to understand ratio and cash flow analysis.
2) Students will know how to interpret financial accounting information including the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows.
3) Argue about consolidated financial statements.

The course of “Banking Economy” proposes to provide the students the knowledge instruments and the keys to interpret the bank and finance phenomenon, with particular care for the operation mechanisms of banking activity. The acquired knowledge can be applied to understand the basic and actual topics related to the most significant matters of banking management: brokering, risk management, the normative framework and the financial policy. In particular, the course faces two milestones of banking, by distinguishing between the typical activity of the commercial bank and the investment bank, the main methods used to measure and manage the risks, the regulation, the surveillance activity and, at the end, the impact of financial policy on banking.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will have a comprehensive knowledge of the most relevant managerial aspects of Banks.
2) Interpret the significant banking and financial phenomena.
3) Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in order to critically understand the most relevant banking topics as well as the current financial issues: (banking intermediation, bank risk management, regulatory framework and monetary policy).

The course aims to provide a theoretical and practical knowledge from a statistical point of view of the instruments and the methods used in the analysis of economic and financial analysis. Furthermore, students will learn the ways to use the proposed models for the interpretation of internal and external business phenomena necessary for Management in the decision-making process.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will be able to identify statistic tools and methods used in the analysis of economic and financial phenomena.
2) Interpret the development/trends of the phenomena in order to estimate possible future scenarios.
3) Control some key aspects to evaluate alternatives and anticipate future criticalities.

Bankruptcy Law handles all business’ collapse, studying all processes and procedures, which occur after said bankruptcy. It links to all other laws (civil, private, commercial). It will take into consideration recent bankruptcy laws, and reforms, making a comparison between old and new discipline.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will understand the requirements and the scope of bankruptcy procedures, as well as know and apply the revocatory action in bankruptcy.
2) Know under which circumstances the settlement of bankruptcy proceedings and the pre-bankruptcy agreement with creditors can be applied.
3) Students will understand the institutions of mandatory administrative liquidation and of extraordinary administration

The course provides students with the acquisition of the necessary specialized knowledge to manage the comparative methods within Tax Law. Such a competence will be useful for businessmen, law operators, P.A. employees and international officers in order to: understand and apply in a concrete way a foreign fiscal system in an international context; shape the national fiscal system to the EU model; perform the so called “normative transplantation” (that means introducing in the national fiscal system foreign juridical institutions); acquire the basis of a global interpretation theory of the Tax Law.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will acquire the knowledge to manage the comparative methods within Tax Law, as well as apply in a in a concrete way a foreign fiscal system in an international context.
2) Perform the normative transplantation (introduce the national fiscal system foreign juridical institutions).
3) Acquire the basis of a global interpretation theory of the Tax Law.

The course is aimed at a systematic recognition of the administrative insolvency procedures, counterpointed and especially qualified by public intervention in times of crises: for those enterprises whose institutional task is subject to public administration vigilance due to its inherence to public interests (compulsory administration liquidation); for those large enterprises whose instability concerns meta-individual interests in order to postulate particular forms of protection in the procedural process of settling the crisis (special administration of large insolvent companies). The course aims to give students an adequate level of knowledge in logic structure, legal content and the teleological profile of the institutes.
Couse Outcomes:
1) To examine the laws for compulsory administrative liquidation.
2) Students will be able to know the logical structure, legal content and the teleological profile of the institutes.
3) Students will be able to identify and know the current framework and the designated organ for the compulsory liquidation of large enterprises in insolvency states.

This course delves into the structure, management, and practices of investment banking (IB)—from larger more universal players to boutique operations. It covers the business activities of mergers and acquisitions, financing and investment, and the creation of value through advisory services and the choices of client business models. It looks into the business practices of private equity, hedge funds and trading operations; and the role of each in facilitating investment, the deployment of capital and the changing face of risk-taking activities
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will learn basic methods to understand the role of the financial and economic systems.
2) Recognize the operation of the financial system and the characteristics of financial intermediaries.
3) Handle and manage skills associated with the practice of corporate investment banking.

The course desires to encourage the learning of concepts and of management techniques for business management in the contexts of international competition, and to analyze all management implications from an operative point of view.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will be able to identify the relevant scenarios for the companies.
2) Students will identify and explain the internationalization models and strategies of the companies.
3) Students should be able to manage the Multinational companies’ functions and evaluate the internationalization process of the SME

The analysis of the relationship between people and their jobs is a very important issue, because of its scientific, business and ethical. Human beings represent, in particular according to the organization needs, one of the main sources of competitive advantage and a successful strategic factor for business. Starting from the most recent technical and cultural orientations about human resources management, the course deeply analyzes the role of the person within the complex organizations, aiming to the acquisition of specific competences for the human resources management as strategic resource in the development and organization learning paths. The program is structured in two modules: the former deals with the management tools for the competences assessment; the latter deals with the analysis of the organization.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Handle and manage the people resources effectively within an organization and their assignation in a project.
2) Students will be able to identify both the role of individuals and groups within the organization.
3) Students should be able to recognize and communicate business decisions that affect human resources.

The course aims to describe the main legal issues that are connected to the Italian Charter and to the effective organization, structure and functioning of International Cooperation. This topic will be taken into consideration especially through the analysis of the International juridical system. A particular focus will be given to the United Nations Organization.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will know the organization, structure, and functioning of International Cooperation.
2) Students will distinguish the relationship between any organization in the international context.
3) Understand the International juridical system, particularly knowing the role of the United Nations Organizations.

This course provides an introduction to economic analysis of law and policy. For instance, the law against insider trading prohibits trading based on material, non-public information. In this course we examine what exactly is meant by “materiality”; we examine methods to determine whether information is public and to what degree it is reflected in the financial markets; and we analyze how this affects the legal liability of a trader in possession of the information.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will recognize a series of efficient legal rules and identify deeper the tort liabilities rules.
2) Students will appropriately identify efficient rules that any society can use.
3) To understand the concept of “efficiency” and of “homo economicus”

This course serves as the Capstone for the Business Administration major. The purpose of the course is to integrate all prior learning in business administration, related coursework, and workplace experiences to individually assess an organization. Three major components comprise the course: the strategic analysis of an organization; the development of a forward-looking strategy with competitive, ethical, and global considerations; and the development of an implementation plan.
Prerequisite(s): Students are required to complete all other program credits before registering for the capstone project course.
Couse Outcomes:
1) Students will integrate all prior learning in business administration, related coursework, and workplace experiences to individually assess an organization.
2) Students will manage the strategic an organization.
3) Students will be able to develop an implementation plan