BACHELOR OF SCIENCE: BUSINESS

PLUS offers a professional studies major with a concentration in business.To earn this Bachelor of Science degree, students must complete their general education requirements and 36 credit hours of business course work. Additional hours of elective study may be required to complete the minimum of 124 credit hours needed to graduate.The business concentration is designed to meet the pre-requisites required by Oklahoma City University’s M.B.A. program, as well as M.B.A. programs of other universities.


Program Structure
The required business courses will be offered in an accelerated format.Classes will meet one evening per week for eight weeks during the spring and fall terms and during the summer I and summer II sessions, beginning every January,March,May, June,August,and October. Students may begin course work in any session. A minimum of 15 credit hours in the area of concentration must be earned through Oklahoma City University.


Track Requirements
36 total credit hours

Accounting (Financial)
Procedures and principles of financial accounting for sole proprietorship, partnerships, and corporations, as well as
financial statements and journal/ledger techniques

Accounting (Managerial)
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
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 is consideration of concepts of individual and group psychology and social psychology as applicable to industrial organizations.

Economics I
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
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
Collection and presentation of statistical data, studies of various statistical distribution 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
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
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.

Business Law
This study of jurisprudence focuses on basic law concepts (court systems, the constitution, criminal law, and administrative law) and introduces contract law, as well as the law of sales. A distinction is made between law, sovereignty and unwritten law.

Entrepreneurial Environment
This course examines the general issues related to starting a new business, introducinga 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 coverd during the course include sources of funding, organizational issues, and new venture strategy. The course consists of combination of lectures, gues speakers, student presentations, and in-class exercises.

Business Research and Communications
This course covers internal, external, oral and written communication common to the workplace. It requires an analysis of communication situations and strategies, design of messages and evaluation of feedback. Written and presentation skills are emphasized.

Management Information System
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.