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BusinessBUS 161—Computer Applications for Business3 lect., 3 cr. (Fall/Spring)(Formerly CIT 101 Microcomputer Applications)This course focuses on how communication, decisionmakingand critical thinking can be facilitated by theuse of Microsoft Office Software. Students learn touse the computer as a tool using Microsoft Officeapplications–Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access.Concentration is on Excel and Word. The Internet isused as a research and communication tool. Studentscreate and use a variety of spreadsheets, wordprocessing documents, mail merge documents,databases, electronic presentations and reports as partof a simulated business environment. This coursesupports the concepts needed in other requiredbusiness courses. This course requires compuer useoutside the classroom.Prerequisite: MAT 020 or placement into MAT 101or higherBUS 201—Business Law 13 cr. (Fall/Spring)Emphasis is placed on the principles and thelanguage of the law governing business transactions.Topics include the background of law, the law ofcontracts, the law of agency and the law of sales.Prerequisite: MAT 010 or math placement into MAT020 or higherBUS 202—Business Law 23 cr. (Fall/Spring)This course deals with negotiable instruments,partnerships and corporations, and real and personalproperty, bailments and carriers.Prerequisite: BUS 201testing of hypotheses. Regression and correlationanalysis are also examined.Prerequisite: Two years of college preparatory mathor MAT 101BUS 207—Introduction to International Business3 cr. (Fall/Spring)This course will introduce students to the challengesand problems involved in conducting business inglobal markets. Initial emphasis will be on conceptsand theories of international trade, foreign investmentand economic development. After an overview ofinternational agencies and the international monetarysystem, students will consider the effects of financialeconomic, socio cultural, legal and political forces onthe foreign business environment. Course concludeswith an examination of international managementpractices in various areas, including marketing andlabor relations.Prerequisite: MAT 020 or placement into MAT 101or higherBUS 203—Business Communications3 cr. (Fall/Spring)This course provides a managerial approach towardpractice in solving business and professionalcommunication problems, in making decisionsinvolving selection and organization of content and inchoosing an appropriate method for presentation ofinformation. The use of technology and collaborationto enhance the effectiveness of businesscommunications is explored. An oral presentation,written business report or proposal, and numerousletters are required.BUS 205—Business Statistics3 cr. (Fall/Spring)This course is required for various AS degrees inbusiness. The course concentrates on three majorsections. Part one is descriptive statistics which studiesmeasures of central tendency and measures ofdispersion. The second part includes probabilitytheory, binomial probability distribution, and thenormal curve. The third concentration is in inferentialstatistics which includes determining the sample sizefor a given sample, creating a confidence interval forthe universe mean and universe proportion, and theSpring 2011www.sunyorange.edu173