B.S. in Marketing

Provides a comprehensive presentation of financial accounting principles and practices. Emphasis is placed on the preparation of financial statements, the basic framework and contents of these reports, and the preparation process.

Exploration of principles and activities in the commercial enterprise including topics such as product, price, promotion, place/channel, competition, company, and communication.

Explores the financial function of the commercial enterprise including topics on working capital management, procurement of resources from financial markets, and financial decision making in the firm.  Prerequisite: ECON 120 or ECON 260.

Examines the current and emerging legal principles that impact business transactions, topics include contracts, business organizations and structure, sale of goods, commercial paper, personal and real estate property, intellectual property and international business law.

Surveys the opportunities and challenges associated with planning, conducting and implementing international business transactions in the international marketplace.  Prerequisite: BUSN 240.

Study of strategy development and deployment in the business enterprise and examines the overarching application of the role of a biblical worldview in the business enterprise. Prerequisites: BUSN 220, BUSN 240, and BUSN 320.

The various modes for packaging and presenting communication content for public relations, advertising, social media and interactive marketing with a targeted audience.  Integrates cross-cultural communication strategies.  Cross-listed with JRNU 330.

Examines macroeconomic theories, comparative economics, econometrics, macro-economic models, fiscal and monetary policy formation and analysis.  Prerequisite: ECON 120 or ECON 260.

The nature of ethical leadership through a consideration of the ethical foundations of leadership principles evident in the lives of great leaders; the effect of leader’s values and beliefs on decision-making.  Cross-listed with MGMT 330.

Students learn about marketing communication campaigns, media choice, develop a selling strategy, creative development, and media analysis. Prerequisite: BUSN 240.

Investigation of how public relations serves as a strategic support for the overall marketing strategy. The course examines how events and collateral marketing activity aid in creating a public image of the commercial firm.

Examination of stock planning, inventory control, markup and pricing, retail accounting, merchandising, retail promotion, human resources management, store location, design and layout, legal and ethical issues, information systems. Prerequisite: BUSN 240.

Examines the planning and design of the market research effort, collecting and analyzing data, and drawing inference from the results. The focus of the course is on making accurate marketing decisions based on data. Prerequisite: MATH 201.

Investigates the organizing, recruiting, training, measuring, and promoting of the sales force in addition to forecasting sales. Prerequisite: BUSN 240.

Explores e-commerce issues such as Internet infrastructure, strategy formulation and implementation, technology concepts, public policy issues, and capital infrastructure and their effect on business decisions. Prerequisite: BUSN 240.

An overview of consumer behavior providing insights on marketing tools and approaches seeking to understand the factors that influence consumer choice, balanced with a moral and ethical framework for how this is done.

Examining the strategies, tools and practices behind using social media for effective marketing.  Students will consider various viral marketing channels and the principles for optimizing their effect usage.  A capstone project will be the development of an integrated multichannel approach to increase brand awareness and achieve marketing objectives.