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BUS 410. Finance Management 3 credits Students discuss the financial manager's role within a company, including financing decisions, investing decisions and risk/return tradeoffs. Additional topics include stock valuation, cash flow valuation and project evaluation criteria. BUS 420. Business Law 3 credits The course provides the student with foundational information about the U.S. legal system and dispute resolution, and their impact on business. The major content areas will include general principles of law, the relationship of business and the U.S. Constitution, state and federal legal systems, the relationship between law and ethics, contracts, sales, torts, agency law, intellectual property, and business law in the global context. BUS 430. Business Statistics 3 credits The course covers descriptive statistics, probability, discrete and continuous random variables, estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis. The course emphasizes statistics to solve management problems. BUS 465. Leadership in Business Management 3 credits This course provides students with experience in decision - making, conflict resolution and management. Students will focus on effective business strategies, diversity, and the power of influence, leadership opportunities and ethics. BUS 499. Business Capstone 5 credits Students will create a small business from ideation to creation, creating a functional business plan and docket along the way. All work will be done with real world data and scenarios. CIS 100. Computer Information Systems 3 credits This course provides the essentials of computer software applications including e-mail, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and word processing software. Students will also learn to use electronic library resources to perform research and format research papers. CIS 300. Management information Systems 3 credits Learn about the components of business information systems, with an emphasis on data transmission, management information software, and the ways that businesses manage data. COM 100. Human Communication 3 credits This course is to help students to understand the principles of communication theory and to begin to put them into practice. Students will learn skills and techniques essential to effective communication in settings that include: intrapersonal (with oneself), interpersonal (face-to-face), small -group (Face-to-face with a few), and public speaking (one to many). Students will apply these skills and techniques through practical exercises that can be incorporated into daily life. Communication develops maturity and experience relationships that run more smoothly, and become more meaningful. Students will learn to function more effectively and assertively in public and work environments and develop a newfound ability to speak effectively. ECN 200. Principles of Economics 3 credits This course provides an introduction to macro and micro economic analysis. This course will focus on the structure and operation of the American economy, as well as, the basic structure of the United States economic system, and interrelationships within this structure. This course includes national income accounting, employment theory, business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy and economic growth, study of supply and demand and resource pricing and allocation. ECN 320. Macroeconomics 3 credits Macroeconomics applies the basic principles of economics to whole economic systems and the relationships among sectors of the economy and internationally. Topics include unemployment, inflation, national income and employment theory, government expenditures and taxation, the role of the banking system, and monetary and fiscal policies. Pacific College 2022-2023 Catalog 85