BUS 170H Introduction to Business: Honors

3 Credit(s)

This introductory course provides the student with a basic understanding of the field of business. It introduces the student to the major functional areas of business: marketing, management, accounting/finance, and management information systems. The course also presents the topics of entrepreneurship, forms of business organizations, the legal environment, and the free market system. Introduction to Business provides a basic foundation for the student who may want to specialize in some aspect of business in college, and it also provides the opportunity for non-business majors to learn about the business world in which they will someday be both producers and consumers. Not open to students who have received credit for BUS 170. Open to all honors students of any major, and non-honors business students with express permission from the Chairperson of the Management Department. Three lecture hours per week.