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*IAI (Illinois Articulation Agreement) - An agreement among participating Illinois colleges and universities to help Illinois college students transfer credit as easily as possible. See an advisor in the Advising and Counseling Center for additional information, or read about the IAI at www.iTransfer.org.

Business

BUS101 - Introduction to Business
Course presents language and concepts of American business enterprise. Content includes historical development of our modern economic system, relationships among business, government, unions, consumers and the citizenry. Focus is on functions performed within firm, such as line functions of production, finance and marketing; staff activities furnished by industrial relations, engineering, purchasing, quality control, office services, etc. Role of the manager and nature of management process integrated throughout course.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)

BUS110 - Personal Finance
Course presents overview of personal and family financial planning. Topics focus on financial record-keeping, planning ones spending, consumer credit, tax planning, making buying decisions, purchasing insurance, selecting investments, and retirement and estate planning.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)

BUS221 - Business Law
Course introduces business law. Content includes the basic law of contracts, sales and bailments; case method and problems illustrate legal problems affecting business contracts; development of common law as modified by the Uniform Commercial Code.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)

BUS222 - Business Law
(offered spring semester only) Course studies law of negotiable instruments under the Uniform Commercial Code. Content includes agencies, partnerships and corporations, with focus on case method and problem solving techniques. Recommended: BUS 221.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)

BUS225 - The Legal Environment of Business
Course presents deeper understanding of current business organization. Topic focus is on role of the federal government in balancing rights of the individual and business in a free enterprise system within framework of the U. S. Constitution.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)

BUS230 - Principles of Finance
Course examines financial principles. Content includes proper buying, saving, investing and borrowing of monetary funds and financial assets to maximize the enterprises profit, while minimizing the risk of insolvency; fixed and working capital requirements, and the source of such funds.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)

BUS290 - Introduction to Japanese Business Practices
Course explores contemporary Japanese economy and business practices. Content includes industrial structure of post World War II Japan, corporate organization, employment characteristics, human relations and communications. Focus is on implications of Japanese business for American business practices.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)

BUS292 - Topics in Business
Course is designed to meet special interest needs of Business students and local business organizations. Special topics offered for variable credit, from one to four semester credit hours. BUS 292 may be repeated up to three times on different topics for a maximum of nine semester credit hours. Prerequisite may vary by topic.
1-4 Credit Hours (lecture: 1-4; lab: 1-4)


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2009-10
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