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Next classes start
Feb 13th
Program Length: 42 months
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Available Online: This program is delivered fully online.
Degree Overview
The Business program prepares graduates for a variety of responsible managerial positions in both domestic and international firms. The objectives of the program are to provide a foundation in accounting, sales and marketing, operations management, human resource management, and banking and finance and to provide the graduate with an integrated understanding of business and economic concepts and how they relate to the global economy. Business graduates can be employed in entry-level to midlevel positions as an office manager, an account manager, a small business developer, a human resource assistant, or a sales manager.
| Program Information | Bachelor of Science in Business |
|---|---|
| Occupations Degree Prepares For (and SOC code of occupation) |
Administrative Services Managers - 11-3011.00 |
| Business Teachers, Post-secondary - 25-1011.00 | |
| General and Operations Managers - 11-1021.00 | |
| Management Analysts - 13.1111.00 | |
| Managers, All other - 11-9199.00 | |
| Sales Managers - 11-2022.00 | |
| Social and Community Service Managers - 11-9151.00 | |
| Storage and Distribution Managers - 11-3071.02 | |
| Transportation Managers - 11-3071.01 | |
| Transportation, Storage and Distribution Managers - 11-3071.00 | |
| Tuition and Fees | $49,500 |
| Cost of Books | Included |
| Room and Board | N/A |
| Job Placement Rate * | N/A% |
| On-Time Completion Rate | N/A |
| Median Title IV Debt | N/A |
| Median Non-Title IV Debt | N/A |
| Median Loan Debt | N/A |
Course Descriptions
CourseCourse NameCredits
Course Description
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Accounting I
This course provides an introduction to business accounting. Topics include accounting concepts and principles, financial statements, internal control design, and accounting for partnerships.
Credits: 4.5
Accounting II
This course is a continuation of Accounting I. Topics include corporate accounting and financial statements, long-term liabilities, cash flow and financial statement analysis, managerial accounting, budgeting, and using financial data to make business decisions.
Credits: 4.5
Tax - Individual
This is an introduction to the basic concepts of individual income taxation. Emphasis is placed on the basic forms, allowable deductions and adjustments to income, and tax credits. Other topics covered include self-employment income and expenses; capital gains; income from rental properties, royalties, flow-through entities; special property transactions; payroll taxes; retirement plans; at-risk rules; passive activity loss rules; and the alternative minimum tax.
Credits: 4.5
Managerial Accounting
This course focuses on the identification, the gathering, and the interpretation of information for planning, controlling, and evaluating the performance of a business. Emphasis is placed on measuring the costs of producing goods or services and how to analyze and control these costs. Additional managerial accounting topics include cost behavior, cost-volume profit analysis, budgeting and standard cost systems, decentralized operations, and product pricing.
Credits: 4.5
Tax - Corporate
This course focuses on how corporations and other business entities are taxed with the emphasis primarily on federal income tax. Topics covered include tax policy issues, tax planning, tax research, property acquisitions and dispositions, nontaxable exchanges, sole proprietorships, partnerships, S corporations, tax compliance, and jurisdictional issues.
Credits: 4.5
Introduction to Business
This course introduces students to the field of business. Topics include economics, ethics, small business, global business, marketing, and accounting.
Credits: 4.5
Business Ethics
This course provides an introduction to business ethics. Part philosophy and part business, the course covers a wide array of ethical issues arising in contemporary business life. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts are presented, including ethical relativism, utilitarianism, and deontology. The lessons explore employee issues and responsibilities, leadership and decision making, morality, diversity, discrimination, and ethics in marketing and advertising. Corporate social responsibility is also examined, as are the topics of environmental responsibilities, global ethics, and regulation concerns in an era of increasing globalization.
Credits: 4.5
Business Communications
This course develops effective communication skills for success in the workplace. Emphasis is on building students? skills in all types of business communication, including letters, memos, electronic communication, written reports, oral presentations, and interpersonal communication. The course also includes coverage of resumes, interviewing tips, and employment follow-up documents.
Credits: 4.5
Business Law
This course introduces the multiple facets of business law including online commerce. Emphasis is placed on the basic concepts of how businesses are organized and operate within a legal environment.
Credits: 4.5
Entrepreneurship
This course introduces students to the challenges and opportunities of free enterprise. Course content includes sound academic theory, streetsmart success stories, inspirational references, case studies, and exercises in critical thinking to help student entrepreneurs start a small business.
Credits: 4.5
Organizational Behavior
This course examines organizational theory and application. It provides a comprehensive review of individual, group, and organizational performance in relation to organizational structures in contemporary business settings.
Credits: 4.5
Leadership
This course explores the concept of leadership with a focus on the skills, the knowledge, and the abilities of successful leaders. Students will be encouraged to evaluate their own readiness to become leaders and create their own plans for further development and improvement. The challenges of being an effective leader in the face of globalization, economic instability, a diversified workforce, and rapidly changing technology will be examined.
Credits: 4.5
Employment Law
This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of federal legislation and regulations affecting employers. Emphasis is placed on employer awareness of protected classes and employee and employer rights and responsibilities from the hiring and the recruiting process through the termination of the employment agreement.
Credits: 4.5
Computer Fundamentals
This course provides students with a foundation in the skills and the knowledge needed for today?s technology-based careers. Students study the CPU and memory, input devises and peripherals and how these components interact with an operating system to perform critical tasks. Emphasis is placed on what can go wrong and how to recover. Learners also explore how computers connect to the Internet, what services can be found online, how they can be used, and what dangers exist in the form of viruses, Trojans, and other malware. Students prepare to work with different types of applications, including spreadsheets, word processors, presentation creation tools, and more.
Credits: 4.5
Business Information Systems
This course introduces the various information and communication technologies and explains how information systems are used to solve problems and to make better business decisions.
Credits: 4.5
Consumer Critical Thinking
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to critical thinking. Students gain knowledge of deductive and inductive arguments, evaluate the strength of premises, and analyze arguments. The role of language in critical thinking is emphasized. Other topics include categorical statements and syllogisms, compound statements and syllogisms, fallacies of relevance, and fallacies of insufficient evidence. Students explore the basics of critical thinking in research and discover how to construct and write arguments. The course concludes with practical advice on how to be a critical consumer of media messages, in addition to identifying pseudoscientific claims.
Credits: 4.5
Introduction to Economics
This course introduces students to basic economic principles and elements of business from an economic viewpoint. Emphasis is placed on how events and developments in the economy can affect the market and the financial decisions of business.
Credits: 4.5
English Composition
This course focuses on the principles of effective English composition with a comprehensive review and reinforcement of language arts skills. Emphasis is placed on the four essentials of writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. Practice in proofreading, editing, revision, and clear thinking is incorporated throughout the course.
Credits: 4.0
Communication Arts
This course focuses on developing critical thinking and communication skills in both verbal and nonverbal areas. Emphasis is placed on debate, panel discussions, committee work, conflict resolution, interviews, and editorial writing.
Credits: 4.0
Advanced Interpersonal Communication
This course is designed to provide students with the skills they need to be effective communicators. Students will apply interpersonal communication skills theory to various situations in order to understand the clear connection among theory, skills, and the life situations they will encounter.
Credits: 4.0
Principles of Finance
Emphasizes money and capital markets, investments, corporate finance, and the universal application of each for a more micro-oriented realistic approach to finance. Money, capital markets, and financial instruments begin the course study with investment theory developed to guide the student's choice of financial instruments. Concluding the course are the special finance problems of the large investor.
Credits: 4.0
Personal Finance
This course focuses on the development of the practical methods of organizing personal financial information, interpreting personal financial position and cash flow, developing achievable and worthwhile goals, and implementing actionable plans and risk management techniques to meet those goals. Topics include money management, insurance, and investing.
Credits: 4.5
Corporate Finance
This course offers a broad overview of corporate finance, including the goals of financial management. Emphasis is placed on how the information contained in financial statements is used in analysis and forecasting. The topic of valuations is introduced, with a focus on valuing stocks and bonds. Students review the financial manager’s role in estimating risk and return, computing the cost of capital, evaluating capital structure policies, making investment decisions, raising capital, financial securities and derivatives, long-term and short-term planning, and innovations in corporate finance.
Credits: 4.5
American Civilization
This course focuses on the history of the United States from the American Revolution to the present. Emphasis is on the economic, the political, and the social development of our country.
Credits: 4.0
U.S. History Since the Civil War
This course offers students an overview of how America transformed itself, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. The student will learn how dominant and subordinate groups have affected the shifting balance of power in America since 1863. Major topics include: reconstruction, the frontier, the 1890s, America?s transition to an industrial society, Progressivism, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, economic and social change in the late 20th century, and power and politics since 1974.
Credits: 4.0
Business Math
This course focuses on the basic mathematical concepts that can be applied to specific business contexts. Emphasis is placed on developing the skills necessary to analyze business situations critically and to identify the mathematical questions underlying them. Step-by-step methodologies for interpreting business issues and for solving their related mathematical problems are demonstrated.
Credits: 4.5
College Algebra
Designed to improve skills in numbers and algebraic expressions, solving equations, graphing, sets, exponents, radicals, inequalities, formulas, and applications.
Credits: 4.0
Business Statistics
This course focuses on modern business statistical techniques including basic descriptive statistics, index numbers, correlation, basic probability, and elementary statistical inference.
Credits: 4.5
Principles of Management
This course introduces students to management philosophies in today's changing world. Topics include globalization, ethics, diversity, customer service, and innovation from a managerial perspective.
Credits: 4.5
Human Resource Management
This course focuses on human resource management skills used by business managers in day-today operations. Emphasis is placed on the different aspects of human resource management and practices. Problem-solving and critical-thinking skills are applied to assignments.
Credits: 4.5
Project Management
In this course, students examine the essential aspects of project management. Emphasis will be placed on project management topics such as modern practices in project management, project planning, project communication, project monitoring, project budgeting, project scheduling, project termination, continuous improvement, and project management information systems.
Credits: 4.5
Supervision
This course introduces students to the field of business. Topics include economics, ethics, small business, global business, marketing, and accounting.
Credits: 4.5
Introduction to Marketing
This course introduces students to the concepts, the analyses, and the activities that surround marketing a product. Emphasis is placed on providing practice in assessing and in solving marketing problems.
Credits: 4.5
Marketing Management
This course introduces students to the basic principles and concepts of marketing management. Students explore how marketing adds value by working to support organizational strategy. Topics covered include the 4Ps, different types of markets, marketing research, market segmentation and differentiation, global aspects of marketing, and the implementation and control of marketing plans.
Credits: 4.5
Consumer Behavior
This course is designed to familiarize students with the basic principles of consumer behavior. Emphasis is placed on an analysis of behaviors and perceptions, motivation and values, and personality lifestyles. Additional topics include consumer decision making and problem solving, organizations, households, diversity, age, and cultural influences.
Credits: 4.5
Strategic Marketing
This course focuses on the strategies for building and for sustaining a competitive advantage in the global market. Strategic marketing is examined from a decision-making approach. Emphasis is placed on defining an organization's mission and goals, identifying and framing organizational opportunities, formulating product market strategies, budgeting, and controlling the marketing effort. This course also investigates opportunity analysis, market segmentation, target marketing, product and service strategy, marketing channel strategies, brand management, integrated marketing communication, and identification and evaluation of domestic and global marketing opportunities.
Credits: 4.5
Introduction to Logic
This course focuses on the techniques for determining the validity of arguments and for analyzing problems in the world. Topics include a discussion of informal fallacies, Aristotelian logic, and symbolic logic.
Credits: 4.0
Critical Thinking
This course is designed to provide an interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking and challenges the student to question his/her own assumptions through analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The course explains fundamental concepts, describes the most common barriers to critical thinking, and offers strategies for overcoming those barriers.
Credits: 4.0
Psychology of Motivation
This course focuses on the skills necessary to be successful in college including note taking, study skills, writing, finding and using information on the Internet, and reading/understanding collegelevel text. Students are exposed to basic motivation theories, values clarification, and philosophic principles.
Credits: 4.0
Biological Psychology
This course introduces the student to the intricate relationship between biology and psychology. The student is exposed to the emerging field of biopsychology in which fascinating new discoveries are constantly being made. Major topics include: anatomy of the nervous system, plasticity of the brain, sensory systems and attention, wakefulness and sleeping, emotional behaviors, the biology of learning and memory, and psychological disorders.
Credits: 4.0
Sociology of Aging
This course focuses on an interdisciplinary approach that provides the concepts, the information and the examples students need to achieve a basic understanding of aging as a social process. The course addresses a broad range of societal issues and covers concepts associated with an aging population. It examines the concept of aging on both an individual and a societal level. Major topics include the history of aging in America; physical aging; psychological aspects of aging; personal adaptation to aging; death and dying; community social services; how aging affects personal needs and resources; and government responses to the needs of the aging.
Credits: 4.0
Statistics
This course focuses on the practical skills needed in statistics analysis. Topics covered include distributions, relationships, randomness, inference, proportions, regression, and variance. Emphasis is placed on understanding the use of statistical methods and the demands of statistical practice. (Prerequisite: MAT101)
Credits: 4.0
Total Courses: 42Total Credits: 182.5
Admissions Information
Applicants for admission to Independence University must have graduated from an accredited high school, private secondary school, or have completed the equivalent (GED). All students who graduate after January 2006 must provide a high school transcript to check eligibility for the new Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG). In addition, applicants must have Internet access and successfully complete the online readiness test.
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