Undergraduate Foundational Program Course Registration
Business and Economics Foundation Courses
Course prerequisite enforced in UAccess: MATH 112 (College Algebra) or a higher math course or direct placement into MATH 116
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to financial accounting that concentrates on concepts, relationships, and the procedures involved in preparing and analyzing financial statements of for-profit business organizations. Concepts in this class include accounting for assets, liabilities, and owners' equity.
Registration Information: Foundational Business Management majors meeting the course prerequisites of ACCT 200 can enroll themselves in UAccess until section capacity is reached. Once all sections are full, a Request List will open in eSMS under the Requests option for all main campus sections. In the eSMS request, you will have the ability to preference between the offered sections.
Please note that some sections are designed to be a smaller class experience and provide a close-knit learning community for students identifying as first generation. First Generation students can email their advisor to request a seat in one of these two sections.
Course prerequisite is MATH 112 (College Algebra) or a higher math course or direct placement into MATH 116. Students who are not currently enrolled or have have not already completed the prerequisite will not be eligible to register for ACCT 200 through UAccess. If you have transfer credit for MATH 112, please email your advisor with proof of your enrollment at least 1 week prior to your Priority Registration Enrollment time. The advisor will then approve your eligibility in UAccess so you will have access to the available seats in ACCT 200 during your Priority Registration time.
Course prerequisite enforced in UAccess: ACCT 200
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to managerial accounting that concentrates on concepts, relationships, and the procedures involved in understanding the strategic decision making process of managers in for-profit business organizations. Concepts in this class include the use of accounting data in the managerial process, cost allocation systems, and budgeting.
Registration Information: Foundational Business Management majors meeting the course prerequisites of ACCT 210 can enroll themselves in UAccess until section capacity is reached. Once full in UAccess, a Request List will open in eSMS under the Requests option. In the eSMS request, you will have the ability to preference between the offered sections.
Students who are not currently enrolled or have have not already completed ACCT 200 will not be eligible to register for ACCT 210 through UAccess. If you have transfer credit for ACCT 200, please email your advisor with proof of your enrollment at least 1 week prior to your Priority Registration Enrollment time. The advisor will then approve your eligibility in UAccess so you will have access to the available seats in ACCT 210 during your Priority Registration time.
Course prerequisite enforced in UAccess: both ENGL 102, 108 or 109H and ECON 200
Course Description: Business professionals spend 70% of their time communicating. According to NACE's Job Outlook 2017 survey, the top three skills employers seek are the abilities to lead effectively, work collaboratively, and write cogently. Employers' chief criteria for promotion are communication skills. Your ability to communicate effectively will set you apart from your peers and broaden your leadership potential.
Focusing on messaging in the workplace, this course introduces the fundamentals of written business communication strategies. This series of tasks takes you purposefully through the process of analyzing, strategizing and executing professional communication strategies, both individually and as part of a team. The assignments will assist you in developing the credibility and agility you will need to compete in the workplace.
Registration Information: BA Economics students meeting the course prerequisites can enroll themselves using UAccess until all course sections show as full. Once full in UAccess, a Request List will open in eSMS under the Requests option. In the eSMS request, you will have the ability to preference between the offered sections.
Students who are not currently enrolled or have not already completed their ENGL 102, 108 or 109H and ECON 200 courses at the University of Arizona will not be eligible to register for BCOM 212 through UAccess. If you have transfer credit or are planning on taking ECON 200 over Summer/Winter, please email your advisor with proof of your enrollment at least 1 week prior to your Priority Registration Enrollment time. The advisor will then approve your eligibility in UAccess so you will have access to the available seats in BCOM 212 during your Priority Registration time.
Course prerequisite enforced in UAccess: both ACCT 200 and BNAN 276
Course Description: Introduce students to successful business communication strategies and practices and to help them improve and develop their business communication skills for increased success in future coursework and the workplace.
Registration Information: Foundational Business Management majors meeting the course prerequisites for BCOM 214 can enroll themselves on UAccess until all course sections show as full. Once full in UAccess, a Request List will open in eSMS under the Requests option. In the eSMS request, you will have the ability to preference between the offered sections.
Course prerequisites are both ACCT 200 and BNAD/BNAN 276 . Students who are not currently enrolled or have not already completed ACCT 200 and BNAD/BNAN 276 at the UA will not be eligible to register for BCOM 214 through UAccess. If you have transfer credit or are planning on taking ACCT 200 and/or BNAD/BNAN 276 over Summer/Winter, please email your advisor with proof of your enrollment at least 1 week prior to your Priority Registration Enrollment time. The advisor will then approve your eligibility in UAccess so you will have access to the available seats in BCOM 214 during your Priority Registration time.
Course prerequisite enforced in UAccess: BNAN 276, MIS 111, and MIS 112
Course Description: In this course you will be introduced to and required to build programming skills in Excel, Python, and R as they are the necessary programming tools in the realm of business analytics. You will get hands on experience using the tools to explore, clean, and analyze data to extract key insights and present them in a professional manner. We will explore the synergy between these tools and understand how they empower business analysts to navigate through vast datasets, uncover patterns, and make informed decisions that contribute to the overall success and competitiveness of a business in today's data-driven landscape
Registration Information: Foundational Business Management majors intending to pursue the Business Analytics major who are meeting the course prerequisites for BNAN 225 can enroll themselves on UAccess until all course section show as full. Once full in UAccess, a Request List will open in eSMS under the Requests option.
Course prerequisite enforced in UAccess: MATH 116 or an acceptable alternative Calculus course
Course Description: This is a first course in business statistics, with an emphasis on techniques for data analysis and inference in management. Students are assumed to be familiar with basic descriptive statistics, probability theory, and probability distributions. Presentation of technical material is combined with hands-on analysis of data to aid managerial decision making. Meeting will be a mix of lecture and problem-solving. There are two objectives for the course. First, to develop a conceptual understanding of statistics and the role of data analysis in management. Second, to master the mechanics of applied statistics.
Registration Information: Students who meet the course prerequisites for BNAN 276 can enroll themselves on UAccess until all course sections show as full. Once full in UAccess, a Request List will open in eSMS under the Requests option. In the eSMS request, you will have the ability to preference between the offered sections.
Course prerequisite is MATH 116 or an acceptable alternative Calculus course. Students who are not currently enrolled or have not already completed a Calculus course will not be eligible to register for BNAN 276 through UAccess. If you have transfer credit for Calculus, please email your advisor with proof of your enrollment at least 1 week prior to your Priority Registration Enrollment time. The advisor will then approve your eligibility in UAccess so you will have access to the available seats in BNAN 276 during your Priority Registration time.
Course prerequisite enforced in UAccess: both MATH 116 and BNAN 276
Course Description: Corporations today are said to be data rich but information poor. For example, retailers can easily process and capture millions of transactions every day. In addition, the widespread proliferation of social and economic activity on the Internet leaves behind a rich trail of micro-level data on consumers, their purchases, interactions, retailers and their offerings, auction bidding, music sharing, so on and so forth. The business press, recruiters, and the companies that hire our students constantly tell us of the need for business people to manage very large data sets and use analytical modeling to achieve business results. This course will provide foundations of quantitative analyses to equip students with the necessary background to further develop their analytical skills in their business majors. It will focus on analysis of real business datasets in the context of business-related decision making.
This course introduces and reinforces the concepts, methods, and applications of quantitative and statistical tools that are used by business decision makers. It will be taught as a sequel to BNAD 276, reviewing Statistics concepts and Single Linear Regression and moving to Multiple Linear Regression and other concepts that are useful to business analytics, such as visualization techniques and software. The course will have a heavy focus on hands-on analysis of real business datasets. It will use Excel for data management, cleaning, and statistical analysis and Tableau for data visualization. Students will be required to work with large data sets to perform statistical analysis, extract valuable insights, and communicate their findings in professional manner that can be understood by someone not versed in statistics.
Registration Information: Foundational Business Management majors who meet the course prerequisites for BNAN 277 can enroll themselves on UAccess until all course sections show as full. Once full in UAccess, a Request List will open in eSMS under the Requests option. In the eSMS request, you will have the ability to preference between the offered sections.
Course prerequisites are both MATH 116 and BNAN 276. Students who are not currently enrolled or have not already completed BNAN 276 at the University of Arizona will not be eligible to register for BNAN 277 through UAccess. If you have transfer credit or are planning on taking BNAN 276 over Summer, please email your advisor with proof of your enrollment at least 1 week prior to your Priority Registration Enrollment time. The advisor will then approve your eligibility in UAccess so you will have access to the available seats in BNAN 277 during your Priority Registration time.
Course Description: This course explains how economists see the world. Students learn about basic concepts such as opportunity cost, marginal analysis, supply and demand, and some notions from game theory. We explore how individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies deal with the fundamental problem of scarcity, and how people achieve gains-from-trade or handle conflict. Students will also be exposed to economy-wide statistics and models that help us understand business cycles.
Registration Information: UAccess registration is available to all majors until the sections are full in UAccess. If the course reaches maximum enrollment, students should continue to check UAccess in case enrolled students drop prior to the start of the semester. No Request List will be held.
Section 004 is for students active in the Honors College and is co-convened with another section.
Course prerequisite enforced in UAccess: both MIS 111 and placement into Math 116 or Math 112 (with C or higher)
Course Description: Introductory topics in differential and integral calculus, with particular emphasis on understanding the principal concepts and their applications to business. Microsoft Excel and graphing calculators will be used as tools for further understanding these concepts. Except as per University policy on repeating a course, credit will not be given for this course if the student has credit in a higher level math course. Such students may be dropped from the course.
Registration Information: Open for registration in UAccess to students meeting the prerequisite requirements until the classes are full. Students should contact the Math Department for information about registration if it is not available via UAccess. The Math Department number is (520) 621-6892.
The Math Department will audit MATH 116 prior to the start of a semester and drop any student no longer eligible, that did not pass prerequisites.
Course Description: This course introduces students to concepts of computer technology and the impacts of Internet on social, organizational, personal and ethical issues. Students develop a sufficient understanding of computers and other issues to form critical opinions about them, as well as acquire and hone skills to recognize and evaluate their role in interacting with the Internet.
Registration Information: For Fall semesters, all seats in MIS 111 are reserved for incoming First Year and Transfer students majoring in Foundational Business Management or BA Economics. We do not anticipate having many seats for continuing students in Fall, but a Request List for falls will open in eSMS under the Requests option each spring. Students will be enrolled from the request list in the unlikely event that we have open seats.
For Spring semesters, the course is open until full on UAccess to all majors. No request list will be maintained in Spring semesters.
Note: Minor students are encouraged to take MIS 111 in a Spring semester, since enrollment is restricted to incoming Foundational Eller First Year and Transfer students in Fall semesters.
Course Description: This is an integrated lecture-lab course designed to introduce students to the analytical methods and tools used for business problem solving with an emphasis on analysis techniques, algorithmic design, and implementation.
Registration Information: For Fall semesters, all seats in MIS 112 are reserved for incoming First Year and Transfer students majoring in Foundational Business Management or BA Economics. We do not anticipate having many seats for continuing students in Fall, but a Request List will open in eSMS under the Requests option. Students will be enrolled from the request list in the unlikely event that we have open seats.
For Spring semesters, the course is open until full on UAccess to all majors. No request list will be maintained in Spring semesters.
Note: Minor students are not required to take MIS 112.
Business Emphasis and Professional Development Courses
Course Description: Language and Context of Business will provide students with exposure into business at the macro level. Students will explore the functional areas of business and industrial organization, and how these areas map to financial statements. Through the course, students will engage in the language and acumen of business. This course will provide an introduction to global business concepts.
Registration Information: This class is offered in Spring semesters when all Foundational Business Management first-year students are registered for this class. If a Foundational Business Management student major was not enrolled in this course, perhaps due to a hold, they can either enroll themselves on UAccess or connect with your Eller Academic Advisor.
The class is typically not offered in Fall semesters.
Course Description: Career Management in Business is a course based on the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory for career problem solving and decision-making. The course is designed to inform students about career planning and management interventions and to accommodate students at difference levels of career decidedness. Career management involves more than just choosing and entering an occupation. It also includes a self-assessment of values, interests, and skills; an understanding of the steps in the career decision-making process; and knowledge of the necessary employable skills to obtain and retain a job. This purpose may be broken down into the following outcomes for the course.
Registration Information: This class is most commonly offered in Fall semesters when all Foundational Business Management first-year students are registered for this class in late-March.
In Spring semesters, one section of this course is offered. It is best designed for Business foundational students intending to apply for Professional Admission the Fall semester after taking BNAD 200. If you would like to request entry to a Spring semester BNAD 200 section, please connect with your Eller Academic Advisor.
Course Description: This course will focus on exploring morality, ethics, and decision-making by looking at contemporary practices in business. Students will discover theoretical and practical ways to approach moral and ethical dilemmas in organizational life and improve their skills in moral reasoning and ethical decision-making.
Registration Information: Open to all students until full. If the course reaches maximum enrollment, please attend the first day of class and continue to check UAccess in case seats become available prior to the start of the semester. Honors students seeking enrollment to the honors section of MGMT 202 can enroll through UAccess. Please note that there are other course options to fulfill the Eller BSBA Ethics requirement. These options can be viewed in your Advisement Report on UAccess.