Business Core Courses
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Department of Finance |
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Location: CBA 6.222 |
FIN 357 - Business Finance
Principles of finance, with application to all aspects of the business firm; particular attention to cost of capital, investment decisions, management of assets, and procurement of funds.
prerequisites: admission to a business major, ECO 304K and ECO 304L, ACC 312, STA 309, and credit or registration for BA 324.
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Department of Management |
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Location: CBA 4.202 |
MAN 336 - Organizational Behavior
The purpose of this course is to provide a basic knowledge of the management of organizations. The course will emphasize the considerations involved in the management process and the functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling as well as managerial and organizational decision making.
prerequisites: admission to a business major, credit or registration for BA 324, and credit or registration for 3 hours of PSY, SOC, or ANT.
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Department of IROM |
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Location: CBA 5.202 |
O M 335 - Operations Management
This course provides an introduction to Operations Management and covers the concepts, processes and skills needed to manage operations and convert broad policy directives into specific actions.
prerequisites: admission to a business major, credit or registration for STA 309, and credit or registration for BA 324.
LEB 323 - Business Law
Role of law in society; introduction to legal reasoning, dispute resolution, judicial process, constitutional law, agency, torts, government regulations; business ethics; study of contracts.
prerequisites: admission to a business major, and credit or registration for BA 324.
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Department of Marketing |
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Location: CBA 7.202 |
MKT 337 - Principles of Marketing
Designed to expand the student's understanding of the marketing system and basic marketing activities and to provide a framework for marketing strategy development and implementation of marketing tools and tactics.
prerequisites: admission to a business major; credit or registration for ACC 312, STA 309, and BA 324.
STA 371G - Statistics and Modeling
This course will provide you the statistical tools used in analyzing financial data. The focus will be on the financial applications. We will estimate and interpret models from the financial literature, emphasizing intuition rather than formulas. Some of the applications we will cover include the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Factor Models and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT), performance of mutual fund managers, real estate valuation, sovereign credit ratings, interest rate modeling, modeling of financial time series, ARCH/GARCH modeling of volatility and pricing of financial options. The course will serve as the first of a series of courses in a new Quantitative Finance track which will prepare students for jobs in the financial services industry.
prerequisites: aThe only formal prerequisite is STA 309 or STA 309H. Prior knowledge of multivariate calculus and linear algebra will be useful but not necessary. Please contact the instructor for more information.
- The classical linear regression model, assumptions and diagnostic tests: CAPM, APT, interest rate modeling, performance of mutual fund managers, real estate valuation, sovereign credit ratings.
- Time series modeling and forecasting of financial time
- Modeling volatility and correlation: ARCH/GARCH models
- Panel data
- Limited dependent variable models: logit/probit/tobit regressions
- Simulation methods: option pricing
