Also includes discussion of international, legal, and ethics issues that arise in conducting electronic business. Teaching methods are lecture, demonstrations, group exercises, and student presentations of in-progress and completed projects. This course examines the systematic processes of business problem solving. Topics include collecting and processing information, statistical inference, regression analysis, risk analysis, and information technology. Common business processes and business skills practiced are gathering and organizing data, quantitative data analysis, forecasting, decision making under uncertainty, and communicating or presenting results.
Teaching methods are lecture, computer assignments, case studies, and projects.
This course explores the concepts and practices involved in business data communications and computer networks. Topics include local area networks, wide area networks, enterprise networks and the Internet, network security and management of computer network environments. Developing an understanding of various networking protocols and management decisions to improve the efficiency of computer networking environments are emphasized throughout the course. Effective communication of concepts and analysis in written format and oral presentations is stressed. Teaching methods include class lecture, case studies and research projects.