Online Business Courses

Students in Husson University's College of Business are now able to take a number of business classes online, thus creating a hybrid program with some classes taken online and some taken on campus. Please consult with your advisor before enrolling in online classes.

The following courses are offered at least once a year online, in addition to traditional classroom settings. Click here to see specific course offerings by semester.

AC 211 Managerial Accounting I

Managerial accounting involves the use of accounting information to make business decisions. Topics covered include cost concepts, cost-volume-profit relationships, capital budgeting, master budgets, cost variances and present value analysis, as well as financial statement analysis.

Prerequisite: AC121

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 201 Business Law I

This course provides students with a basic knowledge of the law of contracts, personal property and real property.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 202 Business Law I I

This course is intended to augment Ba 201 with in depth analysis of the law in Contracts, UCC, Corporations, Principal Agency Law, Advanced Tort Law, Environmental Law, Real Property Law, Securities Law and Employment Law.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 224 Public Relations

This course is designed to introduce students to concepts and fundamental principles of public relations. Public Relations focus on the practical application of these concepts and principles through class presentation. This course is designed around the various ways an organization communicates with its publics, the types of communication used, the creating of and various strategies available to effectively communicate organizational messages.

Prerequisites: EH123 AND EH124

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 271 Risk Management

A study is made of the risks encountered by individuals and business firms. A presentation is made of the basic principles and institutions, which have been developed in risk management. This material is treated primarily from the consumer point of view.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 302 Business Ethics

This course is designed to raise a moral consciousness and sensitivity within the various disciplines of the business curriculum. The disciplines focused on here are business, accounting, marketing, multinational corporations, and those areas of human resource management inclusive of diversity in the workplace within the context of environmental and social responsibility.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 310 Organization and Management

This course focuses on how to design organization systems and effectively manage them. Students completing the course should understand the universal process of management and key terminology in the language of management. Students are encouraged conceptually to blend contributions from the various schools of management thought into an integrated perspective of what managers do and why.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 321 Marketing

The components of the marketing structure are covered, together with the development of the modern concepts of marketing. Among the topics included are: the legal environment, channels of distribution, segmentation, the international market, consumer behavior, retailing and advertising.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 411 Organizational Behavior

This course is highly experiential in its approach to helping students understand and appreciate why people behave the way they do in an organizational context. Students learn how to manage employee behavior by analysis of real world phenomena and by application of principles in the areas of human perception and communication, leadership and motivation, small group dynamics, organizational culture, and organizational change.

Prerequisite: BA310

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 413 Operations Management

Quantitative model building and manipulation are a means of analyzing and synthesizing the elements of productions management. Both deterministic and stochastic modeling are emphasized in the areas of work systems design, queuing, PERT, SQC, inventory control, forecasting, and linear and nonlinear programming.

Prerequisites: BA310 and MS132

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 414 Business Policy

This Business Administration senior seminar focuses on decision making at the executive management level, the formulation of strategy, and its implementation in the organization. The course will employ case studies, laboratory simulation techniques, and computer spreadsheet analysis.

Prerequisites: College Level=Senior

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 422 Sales and Sales Management

This course provides students with the fundamentals of good salesmanship and sales management. Prior to studying management principles students practice sales techniques in simulations. Cases are used to illustrate and evaluate principles of sales management.

Prerequisites: BA321

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 441 Entrepreneurship

The essential concepts of starting and operating small businesses, include environment and management of small business enterprise, problems in starting small businesses, financial and administrative control, and management of business operations. Particular emphasis is placed on the interrelated nature of the components, particularly as they affect the financial picture of the firm.

Prerequisites: College Level=Senior

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 471 Life and Health Insurance

This course is intended to provide background knowledge for personal application and for those responsible for administering benefit plans for employees; it provides the necessary information required to pass the State of Maine license examination.

Prerequisite: BA271

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 464 Bank & Financial Services Management

This course will introduce students to the specific issues in the financial management of a banking firm and, to a smaller degree, of other financial intermediaries. Emphasis will be on products, roles, regulatory framework, and risk management.

Prerequisites: BA362

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

BA 490 International Business

This course covers the international dimensions of managerial decision-making including: world economies, international trade theories, tariffs, quotas and other trade issues, global strategic planning, cross-cultural management, international market entry, international human resource management, international organization strategy, international logistics, import/export operations, currency exchange, international financial management. Current developments in global economic and business are emphasized; students participate in a computerized simulation throughout the semester.

Prerequisites: BA310 AND BA321

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

EC 201 Microeconomics

This is an introduction to American capitalism and microeconomic concepts including the mechanics of supply and demand, elasticity, consumer demand, and price and output determination of purely and impurely competitive firms.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

EC 202 Macroeconomics

This is an introduction to macroeconomics in the American economy: national income accounts, unemployment, inflation, government fiscal policy, monetary policy and economic growth.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

EC 321 Managerial Economics

This course is designed to close the gap between economic theory and business application. It reviews traditional analysis and shows its application to the understanding and solution of economic problems of the firm and industry.

Prerequisites: EC201 AND EC202

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

MI 111 Introduction to Microcomputing

The elements of hardware, software and the uses of the microcomputer in today’s society. Hands-on experience includes word processing, spreadsheet, database management, and presentation software.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.

MI 214 Microcomputer Spreadsheet Applications

This course covers microcomputer spreadsheet software. Topics include: functions, decision making, macros, custom menus, importing and exporting.

Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.