MANAGEMENT ONLINE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS


Human Resources Administration (OAD 32563) 4 Credits
Focuses on process and management of personnel function including task specialization, selection and placement, development and training, collective bargaining, appraisal, and compensation.

Management (OAD 30563) 4 Credits
Discusses process for managing organizations including planning, organizing, leading, and evaluating. Examines administrative role in organizations and concepts relevant to its function and historical development of administrative thought.

Business Ethics (OAD 31664) 4 Credits
Introduces development of personal and group norms required for work places. Topics include moral reasoning in business, employee rights and responsibilities of corporations.

Behavior in Organizations (OAD 30063) 4 Credits
Study of human behavior in work organizations. Focuses on individual satisfaction and motivation as related to organizational structure, nature of task and focus of power. Topics include small group formation, maintenance, organizational conflict, communications, and leadership.

Managerial Accounting (ACC 30664) 4 Credits
Evaluation of financial performance for managerial planning and forecasting. Covers cost-volume profit analysis, break-even analysis, return on investment, and responsibility reporting.

Planning and Budgeting (OAD 40264) 4 Credits
Overview of basic financial systems used in business settings. Includes business planning and budgeting tools and models such as balance sheets, income statements, cash flow analysis, time value of money concepts, and project planning techniques.

Seminar in Applied Management (OAD 49300) 4 Credits
Capstone course that guides student in the integration of functional content areas in the field of professional management. Addresses management issues and applying management theories and techniques to problems and cases through a process of decision-making.  Prerequisite: Completion by management majors of all required core courses in management.

Proseminar (LAS 30012) 4 Credits
Proseminar is the first course in Ottawa University's degree program. In addition to introducing students to the four breadth areas (Value/Meaning, Social/Civic, Science/Description, and Art/Expression - intended to represent the richness of the liberal arts tradition), this course will address the task of educational planning.  The course stresses self-examination, in which students develop a "learning autobiography" and reflect on the history of their learning experiences (formal and informal).  Finally, the course will serve as an introduction to the Ottawa University program, allowing students to get a sense of the nature and level of the University's expectations.  The course will reintroduce the character and rhythms of the academic enterprise. (This course is for New Students.)

Individual in Society (LAS 39014) 4 Credits
Reflects on the Social/Civic and Value/Meaning breadth areas. Begins to view these areas and places within society in critical vein. Relationships are made between values and ways one acts upon these values in society. Questions rights and responsibilities of individuals and how these conflict with rights and responsibilities to society.

Graduation Review:
The Individual in Reality  (LAS 45012) 4 Credits
As the final course in the LAS sequence, Graduation Review asks students to revisit the breadth areas first introduced in Proseminar exploring them this time in the context of globalization and cross-cultural concerns. As in Proseminar, students will respond in discussions and reflective papers to issues raised by readings and/or other media selected for their quality and relevance to the areas in question. Close attention will be paid to the students' communication skills as well as their mastery of course content.  As a culminating experience, Graduation Review will also ask students to assess their Ottawa program (both the major and the liberal arts components) in terms of the process of their education and in terms of their achievement of the Ottawa University LAS program outcomes.

Electives 
Elective Courses are college courses that are in various disciplines.  These courses may be taken at anytime to help students complete the required 128 credit hours that necessary for graduation.  Elective courses are outside of the major and are scheduled each session.  Please ask your advisor about Elective courses prior to registration.