Focuses on financial decision making to maximize shareholder value. Course concepts are integrated into the standard theories of risk and return, valuation of assets and market efficiency and risk management. Students are expected to develop dexterity with financial decision tools and models, the quantitative elements of this course. Prereq: ADMN 919. Pre or Coreq: ADMN 970.

Serves as the core marketing course in the MBA program. Provides an introduction and overview to the theory and practice of marketing. Explores the theory and applications of marketing concepts through a mix of cases, discussions, lectures, guest speakers, individual assignments, simulations, and group projects. Focuses on understanding and building customer value in consumer, business-to-business, and services settings. Examines strategic marketing elements (segmentation, targeting, positioning), as well as executional elements (pricing, channels, promotion, and value proposition).

This course introduces students to the core concepts, methods, and research of contemporary cultural anthropology, as well as to the ways in which the discipline is relevant to their daily lives. Students will learn how anthropology approaches the study of culture, language and communication, family and kinship, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, economic relationships, political systems, religion, social change and globalization. Ethnographic material from both the U.S. and cross-culturally, as well as a series of hands-on, experiential and interactive activities, will demonstrate anthropological concepts and questions.

Analysis of the central forms and meanings of art history through intensive study of selected artists and monuments. Includes works of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the graphic arts. Topics will vary but might include the Parthenon, Chartres Cathedral, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling. Rembrandt's self-portraits, Monet's landscapes, Picasso's Guernica, Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling water, Georgia O'Keeffe's abstractions, ukiyo-e prints, and Benin sculpture.