This course creates an awareness of the many resources at USM and in the School of Business to ensure students' academic and personal successes, and to assist each student to develop effective study habits and a positive outlook on college life from the very start. Students will develop skills in written communication, oral communication, and critical thinking. Though in-class work, students will develop an appreciation of the dynamics of diversity and learning from people's different perspectives. This course explores the dynamics of consumption.
Emphasis is placed on cultural, sociological, and psychological forces affecting consumers.
Students with credit for BUS 365 may not enroll. When taken by baccalaureate accounting or business majors, this course gives general elective credit. In dealing with the problems of managing personal finances, primary emphasis is placed on methods of measuring and evaluating expenditures to assure optimal benefit from the income. The coursework will be a series of readings with brief case problems in each of the major areas. It covers all standard control and logic structures, arrays, functions, subroutines, and data files.