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BA 18. Business and the Legal Environment

Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Introduction to legal system; relation of ethics to law; administrative, criminal, tort, and labor law; and legal aspects of international trade. A more extensive study of the law of contracts and agency. Case studies; discussion and analysis.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

BA 88. Public Law Environment of Business

Required of students seeking transfer credit for a 3-unit business law course in lieu of BA 18. Not open to students who completed BA 18 at California State University, Fresno. Relationship of ethics to law. Administrative law and government regulation framework, labor and employment law framework, and legal aspects of international trade.

Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall

BA 101. Business Ethics

Traditional and contemporary ethical principles and their historic context and relevance to business practice. Identifying the ethical beliefs and values of self and others. Examining contemporary business problems from an ethical perspective.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Summer

BA 104. Global Business

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area D. Studies globalization of business; role of trade, investment liberalization, and economic integration; technology; multinational enterprises. Examines influence of cultural, social, economic, political, geographic, philosophical, and environmental forces on individual and institutional competitiveness at regional, national and global levels; appropriate strategies. Multicultural/International M/I.*

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

BA 105W. Business Communication

Prerequisites: satisfactory completion (C or better) of the ENGL 5B or ENGL 10 graduation requirement or approved equivalent, and junior standing. Business communication theory; analysis of communication alternatives; effective business writing and speaking; case studies. Meets the upper-division writing skills requirement for graduation.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

BA 150. Law and Business Activity

Prerequisite: BA 18. Examination of the law of bailments, shipments, sales, commercial paper, and secured transactions. Nature of property; and the relation of the legal, ethical, and regulatory environment to commercial transactions. Case studies; discussion and analysis.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

BA 152E. Law for Entrepreneurs

Prerequisite: BA 18 or permission of the instructor. Special legal problems of entrepreneurs. Topics include hiring legal counsel; selecting a business form; operating small corporations; obtaining capital; using employees to foster organizational goals; and protecting intellectual property, Focus will be on preventative law. (Formerly BA 189T)

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring

BA 154. Real Estate Law

Meets California statutory course requirement for real estate broker's license. Prerequisite: BA 18. Legal aspects of acquisition and ownership of real estate; conveyances, mortgages, evidences of title; planning and zoning.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring

BA 174. Introduction to International Business

Competing in global markets. Accommodating to differing cultural, legal, and political systems. Role of start-up and medium-sized firms, importing, exporting, international contracts, and investment, multi-country production and distribution. Forecasting and compensating for changing government policies, market conditions affecting profitability.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

BA 175. Tools and Techniques of International Business

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in BA 174 and FIN 120. Organizing international operations, entering foreign markets using global communications, finding business connections and potential imports or exports. Selling abroad, government support services, pricing, shipping, documentation, taxes, duties, quotas, trade licenses. International personnel strategies, accounting systems, travel, international business control.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall

BA 176. The International Business Environment

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in BA 174. Evolution of international business. Political regimes, economic success and failure, identifying prosperity, picking winners. Dealing with changing cultures, variations within cultures. Doing business in unstable regions. Implications of global downsizing. Trading blocks and their effects. Forecasting and international business opportunities.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring

BA 177. Legal Environment of World Commerce

Prerequisites: BA 18; junior standing; BA 150 recommended. Seminar on international sales, documents, credits, dispute resolution; trade law, including GATT/WTO customs, tariff laws; regulatory ethical environment of international marketplace, intellectual property transfers, political risk, exploitation of labor and environment.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall

BA 179. Legal & Ethical Aspects of Sports Marketing

Study and application of agency, franchise, government regulation, antitrust, contract and tort law principles as they affect the business of sports marketing. Review of ethical aspects of the sports marketing business.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring

BA 189T. Topics in Business Administration

Studies in business administration.

Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 9 units

BA 189T. Work-Integrated-Learning (WIL)

This course will allow enrolled students to integrate professional skills into their current paid/unpaid, part-time/full-time position. Students will participate in experiential learning activities that will enhance communication, time-management, and professionalism while strengthening effective work habits. Various reflective activities will reinforce transferable skills. Students will also be exposed to individualized professional development assignments to help prepare them for post-graduation recruitment success in their chosen career path. This topic may not be repeated for credit. (Offered Fall 2022 and Spring 2023)

Units: 3

BA 189T. CSB Student Store Spring

This course is designed to prepare students with real-life business experiences and offers a high-impact practice, project based learning opportunity for business majors. Students will participate in formation, management and daily operation of the store (physical store, online and special events). Activities include: product development, assortment planning, buying, inventory control, pricing, display, cashiering, sales, customer service, budget and financial management. Students are the owners of the SME. Products will be focused on Craig School of Business logo apparel and accessories. The store is operated with ASI oversight. This topic may not be repeated for credit. (Offered Spring 2023)

Units: 3

BA 190. Independent Study

See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.

Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

BA 195I. Internship

Prerequisite: permission of internship coordinator. Requires 150 hours of work at a pre-qualified, academically-related work station (business, government or nonprofit agency). Reflective journal, final report, and work station evaluation. As a course substitution, prior department approval required. Only one internship may count towards option requirements. CR/NC grading only.

Units: 3, Repeatable up to 6 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

CI 161. Mth Mtl Bus

Units: 3, Repeatable up to 999 units

EHD 154B. Final Student Teaching Seminar - Business

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in EHD 155B. Seminar to accompany final student teaching that provides opportunities for candidates to investigate and discuss variety of topics and strategies and to reflect on issues that surface during their student teaching experience.

Units: 1

EHD 155B. Studt Tchg Typ

Prerequisites: admission to student teaching, EHD 155A, CI 161 (or concurrently, depending on major departmental policy); senior or post baccalaureate standing; approval of major department including subject matter competency approval; completion of the subject matter preparation program or passing the subject matter examination(s) designated by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Supervised teaching in single subject classroom; assignment is for the full day; five days per week. CR/NC grading only.

Units: 5-10, Repeatable up to 20 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

EHD 155B. Studt Tchg Bus

Units: 5-10, Repeatable up to 20 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 30. Personal Financial Planning

Personal financial analysis, planning, and management for lifelong decision making. Topics include financial planning strategies; money and credit management; home ownership; home, health, and auto insurance needs; savings and investment strategies; and retirement and estate planning. G.E. Breadth E.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: E

FIN 120. Principles of Finance

Prerequisites: ACCT 4A; DS 71; BA 105W or ENGL 160W (BA or ENGL course may be taken concurrently). Introduction to corporate financial management, investments, and financial institutions. Focus on financial policy, analysis, and valuation in a global environment. Topics include capital markets, risk and return, financial planning, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and working capital management.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 121. Intermediate Financial Management

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120. Modern theories of corporate finance; financial decision making under uncertainty; efficient allocation of financial resources; advanced financial planning and control strategies.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 122. Financial Institutions and Financial Markets

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120. Role of the Federal Reserve in monetary policy; interaction of fiscal and monetary policy; analysis of depository and nondepository financial institutions; regulatory issues in financial markets; public policy toward financial institutions.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 123. Business Forecasting

Prerequisite: DS 123; grade of C or better in FIN 120. Business activity analysis; methods of forecasting; general and specific forecasts; analysis of trends in product groups, sectors, regions, and other areas of the world economy; mathematical models and statistical decisions; analysis of case problems.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 128. Investments

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120. Basics of investing; analysis of financial securities including debt and equity instruments, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds; theories and techniques of asset allocation, active and passive portfolio management, and portfolio performance evaluations; fundamental analysis; technical analysis.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 129A. Student-Managed Investment Funds I

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120. Analysis of investment strategies; analysis of investment vehicles; fundamental and technical analyses; assessing market and portfolio risks; evaluation of portfolio performance and business valuation. (Formerly FIN 129)

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 129B. Student-Managed Investment Funds II

Prerequisite: Grade of B or better in Fin 129A and permission of instructor. Management of endowment funds; analysis of investment policy statements; analysis of investment styles; analysis of investment strategies; active vs. passive investing; portfolio protection and hedging; evaluation and reporting of portfolio performance.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 131E. Entrepreneurial Finance

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120. Using financial and entrepreneurial perspectives to make better decisions at each stage of the entrepreneurial process, from identification of opportunity to harvest. Issues: venture capital markets, deal structuring, valuations, later stage financing, going public and other harvesting methods.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 133. Futures Markets

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120. Use of futures contracts as speculative investments and as hedging devices to reduce risk in securities portfolios and in domestic and international business operations. Topics: financial futures, commodity futures, futures markets, fundamental and technical analyses, hedging strategies.

Units: 3

FIN 138. Derivatives

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120. Introduction to the use and pricing of derivative assets such as options, futures, swaps, and option-like features embedded in corporate/treasury securities; mathematical concepts underlying derivative markets and contracts and basic pricing models; derivative strategies for hedging and arbitrage.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 139. Financial Policy and Strategy

Prerequisite: Last-semester senior standing. Integration and application of financial analysis, policy, strategy, and theory across business functional areas in a globally competitive environment. Case analysis/computer simulations included.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 143. Risk and Insurance

Fundamentals of insurance and risk management. Covers the basic areas of property, liability, auto, life, health, and social insurance. Other areas including marketing, underwriting, claims, investments, and loss control.

Units: 3

FIN 147. Retirement Planning

Fundamentals of retirement planning; qualified and nonqualified plans. Course will cover material required to prepare for the Certified Financial Planning designation. Topics include retirement needs and objectives, government regulations, various business and individual retirement plans, plan funding and investing, plan installation, admininstration, and termination, and social security.

Units: 3

FIN 150. Financial Planning

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. The concept of a total coordinated system of personal financial planning; evaluate existing programs, design improved plans and coordinate execution to achieve stated objectives. Includes data gathering, the psychology of financial counseling, and the counselor's fiduciary responsibilities. Case studies.

Units: 3

FIN 178. International Finance

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120. Evolution of international monetary system; balance of payment accounting; foreign exchange; forecasting exchange rates; management of foreign exchange risk; political risk analysis; foreign direct investment; international money and capital markets. Eurocurrency markets; international banking; international monetary and banking organizations.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 180. Real Estate Principles

Introductory survey to fundamentals of real estate law, appraisal, brokerage, finance and investment. This course fulfills one of the statutory educational requirements for a real estate salesperson or broker license in the state of California.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall

FIN 181. Real Estate Appraisal

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120 and FIN 180. Theory and determinants of real property value. Methods used in urban and rural property appraisals. Statistical techniques and the appraisal process; special purpose appraisals. Fieldwork required.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring

FIN 182. Real Estate Practices

Meets California statutory course requirement for real estate broker's license. Relationship between public and private organizations active in real estate; company formation; selling and marketing techniques; financing; advertising; aspects of taxation; escrow procedure; property insurance; computer analysis and case studies.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall

FIN 183. Real Estate Finance

Prerequisite: grade of C or better in FIN 120 and FIN 180. Characteristics and underwriting standards of institutions furnishing funds for real estate investment and development. Alternative financial instruments and their effect on property economics and value.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring

FIN 185. Housing Market Analysis

Prerequisite: junior standing. This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of real estate market analysis. The course covers a wide range of topics, including selection and evaluation of potential development sites, supply and demand analysis, demographic data collection and analysis, as well as market trends in various real estate sectors.

Units: 3

FIN 186. Business and Real Estate Economics

Prerequisites: ECON 40, ECON 50. Applications of economic principles in business and real estate management; measure of profit, analysis of demand, cost analysis; price, wage, and public policies; case studies, analysis.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring

FIN 189T. Topics in Finance

Topics covered in this course include money and credit management, savings and investment strategies, analysis of financial securities including debt and equity instruments, mutual funds and exchange traded funds, fundamental and technical analysis, and retirement and estate planning.

Units: 3

FIN 190. Independent Study

See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.

Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

FIN 195I. Internship

Units: 3, Repeatable up to 6 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring