This course focuses on the basics of financial reporting, to include key vocabulary & concepts, emphasis on understanding direct impact of recording transactions on financial statements. Students will gain an understanding of how to read, interpret, & analyze the balance sheet, income statement, & statement of cash flows. Students will also be introduced to managerial decision making (fixed vs. variable costs).

In this course, students will gain exposure to and practice with the concepts and tools used to leverage data at scale and create value. The concepts and tools covered include data visualization, machine learning, and cloud computing. Through materials designed for the novice, students will be introduced to coding in Python and learn to develop predictive models from large datasets. Students will also learn data visualization in Tableau.

Conduct of Inquiry courses introduce students to major methodologies, content areas and contributions in the humanistic traditions of various world cultures.

Covers end-to-end processes relating to the capture, organization, use, and protection of data for analytical purposes. You will learn how to build an optimized relational database and use SQL to extract data to support an organization's analytics strategy and provide important managerial insights from raw data. Extraction, transformation, load (ETL) and data privacy/security will also be discussed in the context of modern organizations.

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics with the subject of Spanish in Translation.

In this course, you will build a more accurate and up-to-date understanding of what drives human behavior, understand the nature and complexity of moral issues that digital technology and analytics raise, and practice making decisions that balance your ability to use analytics and benefit people.

This course presents the simplest economic models explaining how individuals and organizations respond to changes in their circumstances and how they interact in markets, and it applies these models to predict the effects of a wide range of government programs. It also analyzes justifications that have been offered for government actions.

In this course, students will learn the fundamental building blocks of valuing streams of cash flows whether from a financial asset or investment project. Topics to be covered may include the time value of money, discounting, compounding, investment rules including estimating the net present value of a project, and the basics of capital budgeting.

The 9-11 attacks ushered in a new era of international terrorism. Over the course of the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, experts have grappled to employ an effective strategy for countering Al Qaeda, ISIS, and their affiliates. This course explores the lessons of this long, troubled chapter, especially through our engagement in Afghanistan, and seeks to apply those lessons to countering future terrorist threats at home and abroad.

In this course, we will explore approaches for structuring, quantifying, and analyzing common business decisions. We will also explore the various uses of data and statistical inference to drive better decision making. This course aims, in part, to improve your analytical skills by gaining insight into risk and uncertainty. Tools and techniques to support this objective will include decision trees, simulation, hypothesis testing, and regression.