Biola_Catalog_19900101NA

43 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

425 Applied Software Development Project (3) A capstone systems course integrating the knowledge and abilities gained through other computer related courses, culminat­ ing in a comprehensive systems develop­ ment project. Prerequisites: 280, 402. Fee: $15. (See also Computer Science 425) ECONOMICS 201 Principles ofMacroeconomics (3) Macroeconomics: supply and demand analysis, fiscal and monetary policy, money and banking, international trade and the balance of payments. 202 Writings in Microeconomics (3) Integration of basic microeconomic theo­ ry with research and composition on issues related to market efficiency. The course in­ cludes an analysis of the firm in the various market structures as well as studies in the resource markets and regulatory activities. A paper will be a part of course requirement and double as pass/fail on writing compe­ tency requirement. May not be transferred without consent. Prerequisite: 201 and English 110A and 110B. 345 Current Economic Issues (3) Reading and analysis of articles in period­ icals and the daily press relating to econom­ ic problems. Utilizes principles developed in 201, 202. Offered on sufficient demand. 350 Money and Banking (3) Nature, functions and flow of money and credit in the American economy and the world; analysis of commercial banking and U.S. monetary system. Prerequisite: 201. 430 International Economics and Trade (3) Principles and theory of international trade; analysis of U.S. trade with leading in­ dustrial nations; trade and growth in devel­ oping countries; national policies affecting trade; economics of foreign exchange; bal­ ance of payments and monetary arrange­ ments. Prerequisite: 201, 330. FINANCE 229 Personal and Family Finances (3) Managing family finances; budgeting use of credit; borrowing money; saving meth­ ods; purchase of life, health, property and auto insurance; buying and renting proper­ ty; taxes; buying securities; wills and estates.

370 Business Finance (3) Problems and methods in securing funds for business firms; nature of securi­ ties markets, short- and long-term financ­ ing. Prerequisites: 190, 212. 437 Real Estate (3) Laws relating to rights and obligations inherent in ownership of real property; how title to real property is transferred; home­ steads, trust and deeds, liens; land descrip­ tions; escrow procedures; title insurance; the real estate broker. Prerequisite: 361. 462 Investments (3) Principles for the individual investor; tests of a sound investment, information sources; types of stocks and bonds; me­ chanics of purchase and sale. Prerequisite: 202,370. MANAGEMENT 111 Business Methods and Problems (3) An introduction to the various major areas of business activities, ways in which business are organized, operated and financed and types of problems they encounter. 318 Personnel Management (3) Organization and role of the personnel department in business; analyzing and solv­ ing case problems drawn from industry. Prerequisite: upper division standing. 319 Business Ethics (3) The foundations and theories of ethics as related to the market place and the mod­ ern corporation. Case studies in modern ethics and the assessment of individual strengths and weaknesses are discussed witha view to raising of the moral con­ sciousness of business professionals. (This course does not meet general education re­ quirements.). Prerequisite: upper division standing or consent. 361, 362 Business Law I and II (3,3) First semester: function of law in our so­ ciety, crimes, intentional torts, negligence, contracts. Uniform Commercial Code, sales, and negotiable instruments. Second semester: property, partnerships, corpora­ tions, agency, landlord and tenant, security agreements, bankruptcy and business regu­ lation. Prerequisite for 362 is 361; requires upper division standing. 415 Management and Organization (3) Principles of management; planning, controlling, organizing, organizational be-

vanced partnership and fund accounting concepts. Prerequisite: 312, 313.

412 Auditing (3) Introduction to standards and proce­ dures which comprise the contemporary audit environment. Topics include, ethics, legal liability, internal control, substantive evidence, and reporting. Coursework in­ cludes comprehensive practice audit. Two hours each week non-credit lab. Prerequisite: 312, 313. COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS 101 Introduction to Computer Science (3) Introduction to computer hardware and software. Problem solving methods. Elementary concepts of algorithm develop­ ment. PASCAL Programming. Fee: $15 (see also Computer Science 101) For com­ puter information systems majors only. 275 Applicatwns Program Devewpment (3) Elementary concepts of data structures, file organization and processing. Computer problem solving methods. COBOL language, PASCAL laboratory. Prerequisite: 101. Fee: $15. (See also Computer Science 102) 280 Systems Analysis & Data Organization (3) Business computing systems. Systems development life cycle, techniques and tools of systems documentation and logical sys­ tem specifications. Concepts and tech­ niques of structuring data on bulk storage devices. File processing techniques. COBOL programming. Prerequisite: 275. Fee: $15. (See also Computer Science 201) 302 Computer Organization (3) Organization and structuring of major hardware components of computers. Mechanics of information transfer and con­ trol within a digital computer system. Fundamentals of logic design. Prerequisite: 101, Computer Science 201. Fee: $15. (See also Computer Science 302) 402 Data Base Management (3) Integrated data base system, logical orga­ nization, data description language (DDL), data manipulation language (DML), hierar­ chical networks and relational data bases, overview of selected data base management systems (DBMS). Prerequisite: 280. Fee: $15. (See also Computer Science 402)

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