Almost every job in management uses computers in some capacity. Your ability to effectively use computers in day-to-day tasks can be the difference between getting work done on time or being overwhelmed with your workload. Computers make many tasks much more efficient. You may have to invest a little time up front to learn the skills, but once you gain some computer literacy you will find many tasks much easier and faster to accomplish.

Introductory course on basic research concepts and techniques, including ways to build academic research into effective writing processes.

Detailed introduction to the planning and operation of the small business, covering critical business planning strategies for both the manager-employee as well as the budding entrepreneur. Topics include: how to write a business plan, launch a new venture, identify market opportunities, create a marketing plan, and finance a business. 

Introduction to the fundamentals of modern management as practiced today, particularly the ways in which the management practices evolved with the rise of large corporations in the late 1800s and into the twentieth century. 

Introductory course on composition, developing the ability to write clear, grammatically-sound expository and persuasive prose pieces.

This course provides an overview of macroeconomic issues: the determination of output, employment, unemployment, interest rates, and inflation. Monetary and fiscal policies are discussed. Important policy debates such as, the sub-prime crisis, social security, the public debt, and international economic issues are critically explored. The course introduces basic models of macroeconomics and illustrates principles with the experience of the U.S. and foreign economies.

Microeconomic study deals with what choices people make, what factors influence their choices and how their decisions affect the goods markets by affecting the price, the supply and demand.