Provides an understanding of accounting concepts, assumptions, and principles. Progresses to evaluation of accounting data for plant assets, current liabilities, deferrals and accruals, intangibles, payables, and payroll. Introduces accounting for corporations as related to stocks, bonds, and corporate earnings. Introduces partnership accounting and, in addition, introduces the statement of cash flows.

1. Apply accounting concepts related to plant assets and re-associated expense items.
2. Discuss current liabilities, long-term liabilities, and their amortization.
3. Prepare transactions related to partnerships and corporations’ stockholder equity, and issue the related financial statements.
4. Analyze the accounting concepts and journal entries required for long-term liabilities.
5. Determine the concepts for investments and the related accounting transactions.
6. Prepare a statement of cash flows and report on investments in international operations.
7. Compute ratios used in analyzing a firm’s liquidity, profitability, and solvency.
8. Review the use of ratio analysis for evaluating business performance.
8.  Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial accounting.
9. Write clearly and concisely about financial accounting using proper writing mechanics.

Presents a detailed study of lodging management and front-office management systems by detailing the flow of operational procedures for the total hotel organization. The student will examine the various elements of effective front-office management, paying particular attention to the planning and evaluation of front-office operations, human resources management, and guest services. Course content will include interdepartmental communications, computer applications, managerial reporting, and a review of the current and future trends in technology. The student will be able to interpret statistical analyses in areas of price structure, occupancy patterns, and income. These analyses will serve as the bases for improving decision making, and for policy and procedure implementation.

1. Describe the characteristics of the hotel industry, ownership patterns, and market dynamics.
2. Develop an organizational chart detailing the relationship of hotel departments with the front-office and discuss responsibilities of each front-office position.
3. Develop a strategy to forecast and manage customer reservations and set room rates that ensure a hotel’s profitability.
4. Explain the function and operation of the various systems and automation applications that support hotel operations, including the property management systems, communications, room locking systems and security, and reservation systems.
5. Design the guest services and processing of arrivals / rooming to improve the quality of hotel operations and enhance customer satisfaction.
6. Develop procedures for handling guest complaints.
7. Explain how to effectively manage the billing and guest folio process in a hotel.
8. Establish night audit procedures to effectively managing hotel operations.
9. Use technology and information resources to research issues in lodging operations management.
10. Write clearly and concisely about issues in lodging operations management using proper writing mechanics.

Examines the considerations for human resource management in support of global business operations. Analyzes the sources of labor, business strategy, corporate culture, and cultural differences as elements of global human resource planning. Reviews fundamental human resource issues such as compensation, productivity, and training.

1. Describe the nature of globalization, cultures, and labor markets, and assess the impact on human resource management (HRM). 
2. Analyze international business strategy to identify human resource requirements and formulate supporting HRM plans that can improve productivity and contribute to the firm’s competitiveness.
3. Analyze staffing alternatives for foreign operations and address the considerations for the use of expatriates versus localization or third-country nationals.
4. Analyze recruiting and selection strategies that can be used to effectively meet organizational requirements for operating in multiple countries.
5. Examine training programs to improve performance throughout a multinational corporation and address the considerations for effective learning in a diverse workforce of expatriates, host country nationals, and third-country nationals.
6. Analyze performance management processes to assess and improve performance throughout a multinational corporation.
7. Examine compensation strategies to support international operations and balance global operational efficiencies with responsiveness to local labor conditions.
8. Analyze effective approaches to the broad spectrum of employee relations issues, including fostering ethical behavior, labor relations, and work conditions.
9. Use technology and information resources to research issues in global HRM.
10. Write clearly and concisely about global HRM issues using proper writing mechanics.

This course provides an in-depth study of accounting theory and a review of the accounting cycle. It concentrates on the conceptual framework underlying financial accounting, the preparation of financial statements, the time value of money, and the valuation of cash, temporary investments and receivables. The course refers to pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards (FASB) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

1. Describe and analyze the reasons for the basic procedures of the financial accounting cycle including the use of the journal and ledger, creation of a trial balance, and preparation of adjusting and closing entries.
2. Describe and evaluate the importance of the professional environment of financial accounting, the functions of related organizations such as the SEC, the AICPA, the FASB and its predecessors, and the creation of Financial Accounting Standards, the conceptual framework, and other sources of GAAP.
3. Analyze the functions and the main sections of the four primary financial accounting statements: the income statement, the statement of retained earnings, the balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows.
4. Prepare the main sections of the four primary financial accounting statements: the income statement, the statement of retained earnings, the balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows.
5. Describe and evaluate the importance of the functions of International financial standard-setting organizations such as the IASB, IFRIC, IASCF and the IFRIC, the hierarchy of IFRS, and international accounting convergence.
6. Analyze and explain the reasons for using the basic time value concepts and present value measurement.
7. Calculate basic time value concepts and present value measurement.
8. State the financial accounting practices and prepare typical journal entries related to cash, accounts receivable, and notes receivable.
9. Use technology and information resources to research issues in intermediate accounting.
10. Write clearly and concisely about intermediate accounting using proper writing mechanics.

Examines the role of staffing to support an organization’s strategy and improve productivity. Reviews the key legal compliance issues associated with staffing organizations. Emphasis is placed on HRM planning, job analysis, effective recruitment strategies, developing selection processes, and formulation of staffing plans. Provides considerations for employee retention.

1. Explain the role of staffing to support an organization’s strategy and improve productivity.
2. Develop a model for staffing an organization that supports the firm’s Human Resources Management strategy and sustains productive operations.
3. Summarize the key legal compliance issues associated with staffing organizations.
4. Explain the planning considerations for staffing organizations, the use of job analysis, and the components of a staffing plan.
5. Develop recruitment plans using both internal and external recruitment.
6. Design a selection process that incorporates a variety of assessment methods and a supporting decision method for candidate selection.
7. Identify the factors affecting employee retention and develop a workforce retention program for an organization.
8. Use technology and information resources to research issues in staffing organizations.
9. Write clearly and concisely about staffing organizations using proper writing mechanics.

This course involves extensive work in the development of the logic required in the development of application programs. The course applies the methods of program design and development, using a structured approach. Included in the course will be the learning of the following concepts: proper documentation techniques, sequence, selection, iteration, modules, and arrays. The student will demonstrate a fundamental understanding of these concepts by writing pseudocode and drawing flowcharts as a precursor to the writing of the programs. The demonstration will be made in examinations and in laboratory work.

1. Demonstrate the use of algorithms and pseudocoding to the problem-solving process.
2. Distinguish among the basic types, steps, and properties of programming.
3. Apply the techniques of functional decomposition, modularization techniques, and debugging strategies into program design.
4. Describe the features and fundamental data structures of programming design.
5. Select and create the appropriate conditional and iteration constructs for a given programming task.
6. Design and write programs using the appropriate data structure and fundamental programming constructs for a given problem.
7. Select and describe relational comparison operators, AND / OR logic and their precedence for a given problem.
8. Describe the use of arrays and subscripts and the steps involved in declaring, initializing, loading, and searching arrays.
9. Demonstrate an understanding of the data hierarchy for files, basic file operations, and sequential file processing.
10. Explain the types and uses of files on permanent storage devices.
11. Describe the process of sorting records and the bubble sort technique.
12. Explain and identify object-oriented concepts.
13. Identify object-oriented classes and also the attributes and methods they contain.
14. Explain the use and benefits of object-oriented programming and event-driven programming.
15. Develop design documents for an interactive event-driven program.
16. Use technology and information resources to research issues in computer programming design.
17. Write clearly and concisely about computer programming design topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course presents students with user-centered methodologies in the development, evaluation, and deployment of information technology applications and systems. Students are exposed to evolving technologies and devices, and how to design interactive products that enhance the way people communicate, interact, and work with computers. Topics include human-computer interaction, user and task analysis, human factors, ergonomics, accessibility standards, and cognitive psychology.

1. Describe the relationship between the cognitive principles and their application to interfaces and products.
2. Explain the conceptual terms for analyzing human interaction with affordance, conceptual models, and feedback.
3. Construct evaluation techniques to the user experience and system usability in the design process.
4. Explain the importance of user abilities and characteristics in the usability of products.
5. Compare and contrast the different types of interactive environments.
6. Describe the differences in developing user interfaces for different application environments.
7. Compare and contrast the various cognitive models.
8. List the general principles used in the heuristic evaluation of a user interface design.
9. Create a simple usability evaluation for an existing software application or product.
10. Describe common usability guidelines and standards.
11. Define the different types of interaction styles.
12. Demonstrate the ability to select an appropriate user interface interaction style for a particular task.
13. Explain the characteristics of human-centered design methods.
14. Create a product evaluation through a formal framework.
15. Describe, in scenario form, a problem situation to be addressed by a new or redesigned product.
16. Evaluate the ethical concerns inherent in human-computer interaction and how these concerns affect organizational policies.
17. Explain the different usability data-gathering techniques.
18. Use technology and information resources to research issues in human-computer interaction.
19. Write clearly and concisely about human-computer interaction topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course offers a comparative perspective on crime and on the practice of criminal justice. The role of increased globalization in transnational crime and justice are explored, to include: trafficking in persons, transnational crime, narcoterrorism, international cybercrime and cyberscams, the relationships between international terrorist organizations, and the functioning and organization of international crime fighting agencies.

1. Describe the nature of globalization and assess the aims and methods of comparative criminal justice and criminology.
2. Illustrate the nature and extent of various types of transnational crime.
3. Compare and contrast American perspectives on criminal law with those of other countries.
4. Understand the principles of the four major legal traditions and types of legal systems around the world.
5. Appraise the role of procedural law in the four major legal traditions.
6. Appraise the nature of comparative policing and global law enforcement cooperation.
7. Differentiate the role of courts in various societies and in international context.
8. Compare international perspectives on corrections and criminal punishment, including comparative sentencing typologies.
9. Compare various international perspectives on juvenile justice.
10. Use technology and information resources to research comparative perspectives of criminal justice.

This course provides fundamental database concepts to develop students’ knowledge of database management. It also addresses the most current database issues such as database design, data integrity, concurrent updates, and data security. Special features include detailed coverage of the relational model, Structured Query Language (SQL), and views, database design, database administration and management. Finally, the course introduces advanced topics including distributed databases, data warehouses, stored procedures, and triggers fostering an introductory understanding of database management.

1. Describe the role of databases and database management systems in managing organizational data and information.
2. Recognize the historical development of database management systems and logical data models.
3. Explain how data is physically stored and accessed.
4. Recognize the basic file organization techniques.
5. Compose conceptual data modeling techniques to capture the information requirements.
6. Recognize the purpose and principles of normalizing a relational database structure.
7. Design a relational database so that it is at least in 3NF.
8. Prepare database design documents using the data definition, data manipulation, and data control language components of the SQL language.
9. Demonstrate the basic mechanisms for accessing relational databases from various types of application development environments.
10. Distinguish the role of databases and database management systems in the context of enterprise systems.
11. Analyze the key principles of data security and identify data security risk and violations in data management system design.
12. Describe the core concepts of data quality and their application in an organizational context.
13. Summarize the difference between on-line transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytic processing (OLAP), and their relationship among business intelligence, data warehousing and data mining.
14. Summarize how database systems support enterprise and web-based applications.
15. Evaluate the ethical concerns inherent in database management systems and how these concerns effect legislation or organizational policies.
16. Use technology and information resources to research issues in database systems.
17. Write clearly and concisely about relational database management systems using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This is a lab-based course that prepares students with advanced server administration concepts to plan, deploy, secure, monitor, backup, and manage enterprise network server environments. Topics also include storage solutions, high availability, file and printer services, and security.

1. Explain and plan server deployments.
2. Describe and plan the implementation of infrastructure services.
3. Design and plan for the deployment of Active Directory.
4. Compare and contrast deployment strategies among different application servers.
5. Compare and contrast among different types of high availability solutions.
6. Design and plan the implementation of application and file and print services.
7. Design and plan the implementation of storage solutions and high availability.
8. Demonstrate the ability to develop server and network security designs for a large enterprise.
9. Demonstrate the ability to develop strategies that manage, monitor, and backup enterprise server environments.
10. Develop a migration plan to address and solve a proposed business problem.
11. Use technology and information resources to research issues in the administration of server environments.
12. Write clearly and concisely about advanced network server implementation topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the field of corrections. It explores agencies, practices, and polices relevant to prisons, jails, and probation and parole. Students examine both historic and contemporary punishment policies in the United States, sentencing structures; socio-political economic conditions that influence disparate sentencing and confinement; facility designs and how they correlate with inmate management philosophies; the legal aspects of the care, custody and control of inmates; the constitutional rights and civil liberties of inmates; security operations, and inmate treatment services.

1. Describe the U.S. Constitutional amendments that apply to correctional management and operations.
2. Recommend improvements to selected areas of corrections.
3. Explain the purposes of corrections.
4. Describe the reform of American criminal justice beginning with 15th century Europe.
5. Analyze various issues in corrections, including effective community corrections programs, probation and parole, and reentry strategies.
6. Analyze the operational components of prisons, jails, and alternative correctional placements.
7. Propose specific components of an institutional facility model based on effective management policies and procedures for a specified group of inmates.
8. Analyze key issues involved with the correctional staff.
9. Classify inmate types, explaining the issues involved and the purposes served within prison society by various types.
10. Analyze gender issues involved in corrections. 
11. Examine the administration of correctional institutions and programs that involve the rights of inmates and those convicted of crimes.
12. Analyze important issues facing the correctional enterprise today, including privatization, special needs populations, and disparities pertaining to race, religion, and economics.
13. Analyze the history of and key issues involving the death penalty.
14. Explain how juvenile corrections differ from adult corrections.
15. Analyze key issues pertinent to victims of crime.
16. Use technology and information resources to research correctional facility policies.
17. Write clearly and concisely about correctional facility policies using proper writing mechanics.