Courses

• SMG FE 449: Corporate Financial Management
  Required for Finance concentrators. The financial manager’s role in obtaining and allocating funds. Debt and dividend policies, obtaining financing to expand a business, valuation of companies, mergers and acquisitions, and capital investment analysis. Emphasizes constructing and using financial models, and using spreadsheets. Applications to current events and everyday business finance problems.
• SMG FE 450: Private Equity: Leveraged Buyouts
  Private Equity (PE) has become a major force in the capital markets. This course will expose students to, and demystify, the world of PE. The focus will be centered on LBOs and their position in the “alternative asset” class. Students will learn about the activities of a PE firm including formation, fund-raising, investing (including deal structure, terms, due diligence, and governance), and exiting. We will also discuss what other industry sectors serve or are affected by PE and who the players are. Case study and class participation will be the primary modes of learning.
• SMG FE 454: Investment Banking
  Prereq: SMG FE 449 or consent of instructor. This course provides an overview of the economic functions provided by investment banks including a history of the industry, current events, public policy issues and the difference between large, full service investment banks and smaller, boutique firms. Topics include: What do investment bankers do? What are the different types of analyses performed by investment bankers? What are the various types of financial securities? What is the underwriting process and how are securities priced? The course will focus on the issuing process and pricing for equity, fixed income, and equity-linked securities. The course will also focus on the role of investment banks in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other restructuring. Additional topics include equity research, capital markets, institutional sales, trading, asset management, securitization, industry regulations, as well as typical career paths and opportunities. 4 cr. (Pilot course for Spring 2011.)
• SMG FE 469: Real Estate Finance
  Introduces methods of evaluating real estate investment properties. Reviews major topics relevant to the real estate development and financing process.
• SMG FE 498: Directed Study: Finance
  Directed study in Finance
• SMG IM 345: International Management Environment
  Required for International Management concentrators. Deals with international economic theories and explores the intersection between theory and practice. Determinants of international trade and payments: international trade theory and policy and balance-of-payments accounting. Explores the implications of trade-promoting and trade-inhibiting institutions and practices: WTO, NAFTA, European Union, etc. Introduces cultural, political, and demographic issues for international managers.
• SMG IM 445: International Management Policy
  Analysis of the strategic and operational issues that arise from the international nature of multinational corporations’ activities. Issues covered include alternative internationalization strategies, interaction between firms and governments, dealing with global competitors, and staffing and organizational implications of cross-border operations.
• SMG IM 498: Directed Study: International Management
  
• SMG IS 323: Introduction to Information Systems
  Junior requirement—component of SMG SM 323, The Cross Functional Core. An introduction to computer-based information systems. Surveys the hardware, software, and systems used to solve business-related problems. Overviews the role of information systems in new product development, innovation, and competitive performance in a global environment. Develops skills for managerial use of decision support systems and systems development. Team project.
• SMG IS 428: Managing Information Securit
  This course will combine technical and business approaches to the management of information. It will address technical issues such as cryptography, intrusion detection, and firewalls along with managerial ideas such as overall security policies, managing uncertainty and risk, and organization factors. We will examine different aspects of computer security such as password, virus protection, and managing computer security in dynamic environments. Topics will also include network security and how to secure wireless application and services. These technical details will be placed in a business context. The class will have a practical focus as we examine current “best practices” in area. There well be several guest speakers in the security area. This will be a project-oriented class and students will present their research projects during the last several classes.
• SMG IS 465: Managing Data Resources
  Required for Management Information Systems concentrators. Provides a practical and theoretical introduction to data management focusing on the use of relational database technology and SQL to manage an organization’s data and information. Introduces recent topics such as data warehouses and Web databases. Includes a project to design and implement a relational database to manage an organization’s data.
• SMG IS 467: Networking and Data Communications
  Required for Management Information Systems concentrators. Introduces technologies, policies, and management and organizational concepts critical to understanding the role of data communications in a rapidly changing business and social environment. The materials focus on: the data communications industry; core technologies including mobile technology and the wireless Internet; management and use of communications technologies; policies; and organizational issues.
• SMG IS 469: Designing Information Systems
  Required for Management Information Systems concentrators. Studies the process of designing and implementing management information systems. Students will learn to analyze organizational information requirements, develop specifications for information systems, manage systems development projects, and understand implementation issues. Design support tools will be used to support the design process. Includes a project to design an information system.
• SMG IS 472: Electronic Commerce
  The Internet and more specifically, the World Wide Web has brought about significant change in the way business is conducted. The rules and business models, however, for the new economy are still in their infancy. This course provides a grounding in the concepts of electronic commerce, and then moves to an examination of the emergent and emerging business models. The IT/IS infrastructure that supports these various business models is addressed, particularly architecting systems including privacy and security issues.
• SMG IS 479: Innovating with Information Technology
  Surveys the organizational implementation, uses, and impacts of advanced information technology including decision support systems, management support systems, and expert systems. Includes a group project to design and develop a decision support system.
• SMG IS 498: Directed Study: Management Information Systems
  
• SMG LA 245: Introduction to Law
  Sophomore requirement. The course is designed to provide a broad overview of the American judicial system and fundamental legal issues. The course examines dispute resolution, torts, contracts, criminal law, business organizations, employment law, intellectual property, and international law. The goal is to understand not only the basic rules of law but also the underlying social policies and ethical dilemmas.
• SMG LA 346: Law and Ethics
  This course explores ideas of right and wrong, and how the law interacts with our morality. The class examines contemporary social problems, such as whistle-blowing, business liability for crime, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, and capital punishment, from the perspective of the law. The class also focuses on ethical issues facing businesses, such as leadership in a crisis, prosecution of corporations, and current events. The class reads Supreme Court decisions, nonfiction accounts of litigation, and case studies, as well as watches films, in an effort to understand the law and analyze our ethical response to contemporary social issues. 4 cr.
• SMG LA 349: Law of the Internet
  E-commerce and the Internet are shaking up the law, highlighting its inherent tension between stability and change. What challenges does online business pose to traditional legal rights and principles? How is law coping with those challenges? This course examines and discusses a number of topics: governmental regulation, taxation, and censorship of the Internet; how e-commerce does — or does not— change the rules of contract formation; the impact of online publishing on copyright law; cyberpiracy and trademark protection; online stock offerings and the Securities and Exchange Commission; the relationship between hyperlinking and claims of unfair competition; and how courts determine jurisdiction for claims that arise in cyberspace. The course will focus on why the law has evolved as it has, and whether the law’s current evolution adequately addresses the needs of e-commerce, for both businesses and consumers.
• SMG LA 355: Employment Law
  An in-depth look at the legal issues involved in the employer/employee relationship. Such topics include: discrimination, affirmative action, harassment, the hiring process, employee testing, and terminating employees (for cause, layoffs). Discussions will focus on the duties and rights of both parties through the stages of employment, from hiring and managing your workforce, to benefits, conditions of employment, and downsizing. c

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