Bachelor of Science Degree - Professional Studies Major

Concentration in Business

Oklahoma City University, through its School of Adult & Continuing Education offers the B.S. in Professional Studies with a Concentration in Business. Designed for students who desire a degree that provides exposure to all major fields of business (accounting, economics, finance, IT management, marketing and management). The 30 hours of business courses are all taught by faculty from Oklahoma City University’s Meinders School of Business and fulfill the prerequisites for entry into the Master of Business Administration offered by the Meinders School of Business.


Program Structure
The required business courses are offered in an accelerated format. Classes typically meet one evening a week for eight weeks during the spring and fall terms and for six weeks during the Summer I and Summer II sessions and begin every January, March, May, June, August and October. Students may begin course work in any session.


CURRICULUM

Major and Concentration Requirements (30 hrs.)

Accounting I (Financial) (3 hrs.)
Procedures and principles of financial accounting for soleproprietorship, partnerships, and corporations, as well asfinancial statements and journal/ledger techniques.

Accounting II (Managerial) (3 hrs.)
Procedures and principles of managerial accounting for analysis and decision-making within an enterprise;introduction to cost accounting [prerequisite –Accounting I (Financial)].

Principles of Management and Organizations (3 hrs.)
An in-depth study of the role of management in the business setting, as well as a study of the concepts and factors of human behavior in the organizational environment,stressing motivation and leadership; included are consideration of concepts of individual and group psychology and social psychology as applicable to industrial organizations.

Economics I (3 hrs.)
A study of the basic concepts of supply and demand analysis, the foundation of Gross Domestic Product and its measurements and theories of aggregate demand and aggregate supply, as well as the monetary and banking systems and international trade and finance.

Economics II (3 hrs.)
Explains contemporary economic theory and its uses,including how to apply economic logic to many different business and government decisions, especially involving pricing policies, market structure, welfare analysis and the workings of the modern market system.

Business Statistics (3 hrs.)
Collection and presentation of statistical data, studies of various statistical distribution methods and their application in business, introduction to probability theory, sampling hypotheses testing and regression analysis and forecasting through the use of computerized statistical packages to manage real data bases.

Marketing Principles (3 hrs.)
A survey of business activities and institutions involved in providing goods and services to consumers, including an emphasis on planning, product development, pricing, distribution, promotion and management of these activities.

Business Finance (3 hrs.)
Theoretical and procedural considerations in the administration of finances in the firm: discounted cash flow analysis,sources and uses of funds, working capital, capital budgeting, capital structure and costs of capital.Primary emphasis is on guiding principles and techniques of financial analysis.

Entrepreneurial Environment (3 hrs.)
This course examines the general issues related to starting a new business, introducing a new product or service, and creating a new market. The course focuses on how opportunities for accomplishing these objectives can be discovered and exploited. Topics covered during the course include sources of funding, organizational issues and new venture strategy. The course consists of combination of lectures,guest speakers, student presentations and in-class exercises.

Management Information Systems (3 hrs.)
This course seeks to expand students’ working knowledge,gained in previous courses, of computer hardware. Computer software categories and applications are covered as are the use of tools such as management support systems (expert systems, decision support systems, executive information systems, and groupware) and Web browsers. Finally,the course examines the effects of computer systems upon humans with respect to information systems management [prerequisites: IT 1003 and IT 2213 or another computer language approved by the instructor].