Program Description
The Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration is designed to nurture
tomorrow's business innovators, the BABA is a broad-ranging undergraduate
program that addresses each of the key business disciplines, including
corporate management, accounting, finance, marketing, quantitative methods,
human resource management, operations, and logistics.
As part of the curriculum, Trinity is dedicated to developing the
interpersonal skills and communicative qualities needed to excel in today's
dynamic business environment, and forming imaginative citizens who question
and discern. The program seeks to provide a fundamental understanding of the
corporate world from economic, environmental, and personal perspectives.
Students enrolled in the online business program will:
1. Develop analytical and interpersonal skills
necessary for problem solving.
2. Integrate business theory with business
practice, bridging the gap between the classroom and the workplace.
3. Learn how to manage business information,
blending technological expertise with written and oral communication skills.
4. Appreciate the impact of the liberal arts on social
activity and business enterprise.
5. Become academically prepared for graduate and further
study.
Upon graduation, students can pursue rewarding careers in many fields,
including management, human resources, marketing, entrepreneurship, and
health care administration.
Course Descriptions
Undergraduate Level 1
HUM
101 Humanities (10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Homer,
Iliad and Odyssey, Plato, Ion, Republic, and Symposium, Aeschylus,
Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides,
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus,and Antigone, Herodotus, Histories, Aristotle,
Poetics and Rhetoric, Plutarch Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Alcibiades, Aristides,
Alexander), Euripides, Hippolytus, Thucydides, History of the
Peloponnesian War, and Aristophanes,
The Birds
and The Clouds.
MAT 101 Mathematics (3 Credit Hours)
The review of
literature for this subject area includes an in-depth analysis of:
Euclid,
Elements.
SCI 101 Science (7 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Aristotle,
Parts of Animals,
Fabre, The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects,
Galen,
On the
Natural Faculties,
Harvey,
On
the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals,
Pascal,
Pensees,
Archimedes, Geometrical Solutions Derived From Mechanics: A Treaties of Archimedes,
and Mendel,
Experiments in Plant Hybridization.
PHI 101 Philosophy (10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Plato, Meno,
Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, Aristotle, Prior Analytics, and
Posterior Analytics, and Aquinas,
On Being
and Essence.
THE 101 Theology (10 Credit Hours)
The review of
literature for this subject area includes an in-depth analysis of:
The Holy Bible.
Undergraduate Level
2
HUM 201 Humanities
(10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Lucretius,
On the
Nature of Things,
Cicero,
De Inventione,
Plutarch, Lives (Marcellus, Timoleon & Caius Marius, Sylla,
Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Brutus), Tacitus, Annals,
Epictetus, Discourses, Augustine,
Confessions,
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, Dante,
Divine
Comedy, Chaucer,
Canterbury
Tales, and Spenser,
Faerie Queen.
MAT
201 Mathematics (5 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Plato,
Timaeus
and
Archimedes, Geometrical Solutions Derived From Mechanics: A Treaties of
Archimedes.
SCI 201 Science (5
Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Aristotle,
On
Generation and Corruption,
Aquinas, On the Principles of Nature, Lavoisier,
Theory of Combustion,
Avogadro,
Distinction
between Molecules and Atoms,
Dalton,
A
New System of Chemical Philosophy,
Gay-Lussac,
Relationship between Temperature and Volume, Bethollet, (Review
of science contribution), Couper,
(Review of
science contribution) Lavoisier,
(Review of science
contribution), Mendeleev,
(Review of science
contribution), Wollaston,
(Review of science
contribution), and
Cannizzaro,
(Review of
science contribution).
PHI 201 Philosophy (10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of literature for this subject area includes:
Aristotle,
Physics, On
the Soul
and Descartes, Meditations on the First Philosophy.
THE 201 Theology (10 Credit Hours)
Listed by author
and then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area
includes: Augustine,
On
Christian Doctrine
and Luther, Concerning Christian Liberty.
Undergraduate Level
3
ACC 304 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting (3 Credit Hours)
This is a
one-semester course in financial accounting theory and practice. The primary
emphasis is on the corporate financial statements of income, financial
position and cash flow—their content and interpretation; and the impact of
financial transactions upon them.
ACC 305 Managerial Accounting (3 Credit Hours)
The
development, interpretation, and use of relevant cost behavior, control, and
traceability concepts for management planning, controlling, and decision
making are emphasized. Topics include: an introduction to product costing,
the contribution concept, direct costing, performance standards and variance
analysis, responsibility accounting, segment profitability, alternative
choice decisions, and capital budgeting.
ACC 306 International Finance (5 Credit Hours)
The study of
international financial markets, instruments, portfolio strategies and
international financial management. Topics will include international risks,
foreign diversification, foreign investment, foreign exchange determination
and international working capital management issues. Derivatives are
explored as instruments to hedge foreign exchange risk exposure, and special
markets are evaluated in the international corporate/investments setting.
Cases and/or outside readings may be used to emphasize inter-related issues.
ECO
310 Managerial Economics (3
Credit Hours)
A survey of
microeconomic theories and analysis methods with applications in business
problems for managerial decision making. Topics include demand analysis and
estimation, cost, market structures and pricing.
ECO 315 Principles of Macroeconomics (3
Credit Hours)
Economic
principles, aggregate income, output, and employment; money, fiscal and
monetary policy
COM 321 Contemporary Business Communication (5 Credit Hours)
A forum
wherein business writing and speaking skills are addressed. Communication
unique to business organizations is critiqued. Emphasis is placed on writing
and verbal communication skills necessary to succeed in the business
environment.
HRM 331 Human Resource Management (3 Credit Hours)
An in-depth
examination of selected human resources management issues from a
contemporary manager’s viewpoint. Topics examined include: employee
selection, performance appraisal, training and development, compensation,
legal issues and labor relations.
MGT 341 Consumer Behavior (3 Credit Hours)
A study of
such consumer functions as decision making, attitude formation and change,
cognition, perception, and learning. The marketing concepts of product
positioning, segmentation, brand loyalty, shopping preference and diffusion
of innovations are considered in context with the environmental, ethical,
multicultural and social influences on an increasingly diverse American
consumer.
MGT 342 Management and Organizational Behavior (3 Credit Hours)
This course
involves the study of the behavior of individuals and groups in an
organizational setting. Specific topics examined include: motivation,
leadership, organizational design, and conflict resolution, as well as basic
coverage of management principles. In covering these topics, both at classic
and current perspectives are provided.
MGT 343 International Management (3 Credit Hours)
A study of
international business and management practices. Topics covered include an
introduction to international management and the multinational enterprise,
the cultural environment of international management, planning in an
international setting, organizing for international operations, directing
international operations, international staffing, preparing employees for
international assignments, and the control process in an international
context.
OPR 351 Business Statistics (3 Credit Hours)
The
construction and use of statistical models for business management. Students
will learn techniques used for relational analysis and business forecasting
and how to apply them in a business context. Tools include CHI-Square tests
of statistical independence; analysis of variance; simple linear regression
and correlation; multiple linear regression; and extrapolative techniques
such as moving averages and exponential smoothing. Emphasis is placed on
problem definition, construction of statistical models, analysis of data,
and interpretation of results. Computers are used for extensive analyses of
case data.
OPR 352 Introduction to Operations Management (3 Credit Hours)
An examination
of the concepts, processes, and institutions, which are fundamental to an
understanding of manufacturing and service operations within organizations.
Emphasis is on the management and organization of operations and upon the
application of quantitative methods to the solution of strategic, tactical
and operational problems.
