Honors College Courses
Business
- BUS-A 204 Introduction to Financial Accounting: Honors (3 cr.) P: A100; sophomore standing. The course covers the concepts and issues associated with corporate financial reporting. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the role of financial accounting in the economy and how different accounting methods affect the financial statement.
- BUS-F 304 Honors Financial Management (3 cr.) P: Students must meet the Option II admission criteria to take the Integrative Core courses, including course, GPA, and grade requirements. R: Business student of junior or senior standing. Section authorization is required. The course provides a conceptual framework of a firm’s investment, financing, and dividend decisions; includes working capital management, capital budgeting, and capital structure strategies.
- BUS-J 402 Administrative Policy: Honors (3 cr.) P: I-Core; senior standing. Administration of business organizations: policy formulation, organizations, methods, and executive control.
- BUS-K 204 The Computer in Business: Honors (3 cr.) Introduction to the role of computers in business, with emphasis on microcomputer applications. Experimental exercises include learning about Windows-based spreadsheets, database applications, electronic mail, and Internet navigation tools. The lectures focus on the use and application of technology (hardware, software, networks, databases) and integrates current management topics (business applications, systems development, data management, computer ethics).
- BUS-L 204 Commercial Law I: Honors (3 cr.) P: sophomore standing. Includes the nature of law, torts, contracts, the sale of goods, and the legal regulations of business competition.
- BUS-M 304 Honors Marketing Management (3 cr.) P: Students must meet the Option II admission criteria to take the Integrative Core courses, including course, GPA, and grade requirements. R: Section authorization required. Marketing planning and decision making examined from the firm’s and the consumer’s points of view; marketing concept and its company-wide implications; integration of marketing with other functions. Market structure and behavior and their relationship to marketing strategy and implementation.
- BUS-P 304 Honors Operations Management (3 cr.) P: Students must meet the Option II admission criteria to take the Integrative Core courses, including course, GPA, and grade requirements. R: Business student of junior or senior standing. Section authorization required. A survey course concerned with the production and distribution of goods and services. Part of the Integrative Core, along with F304 and M304. Examines how a firm produces and delivers its goods and services, with consistent and acceptable levels of quality, in a cost-effective manner. The discussion covers a wide range of interrelated issues including quality and process improvement, forecasting, planning, resource management, customer service, scheduling, and layout and process design. A semester-long, team project is the primary activity used to integrate the three core courses.
- BUS-X 105 Business Administration Introduction: Honors (3 cr.) Business administration from the standpoint of the manager of a business firm operating in the contemporary economic, political, and social environment. No credit for Kelley School of Business students when taken concurrently with or after the Integrative Core.
- BUS-X 293 Honors Seminar in Business (1-3 cr.) For students in Business Honors Program.
- BUS-X 393 Honors Seminar in Business (1-3 cr.) For students in the Business Honors Program.
- BUS-X 496 Honors Seminar in Business (1-5 cr.) P: senior standing. For students in Kelley School of Business Honors Program.
- BUS-X 496 Supervised Independent Honors Research in Business (1-5 cr.) P: senior standing. For students in Kelley School of Business Honors Program.
- BUS-Z 304 Managing and Behavior in Organizations: Honors (3 cr.) P: junior standing. Integration of behavior and organizational theories. Application of concepts and theories toward improving individual, group, and organizational performance. Builds from a behavioral foundation toward an understanding of managerial processes.
- BUS-Z 494 Herman B Wells Seminar in Leadership (3 cr.) P: I-Core; senior standing and consent of instructor. Open to Kelley School of Business seniors and selected seniors from other schools with high scholastic ability and promise of developing leadership qualities exemplified by Herman B Wells.