• Identify major business functions of accounting, finance, information systems, management, and marketing.
• Describe the relationships of social responsibility, ethics, and law in business.
• Explain forms of ownership, including their advantages and disadvantages.
• Identify and explain the domestic and international considerations for today’s business environment: social, economic, legal, ethical, technological, competitive, and international.
• Identify and explain the role and effect of government on business.
• Describe the importance and effects of ethical practices in business and be able to analyze business situations to identify ethical dilemmas and    ethical lapses.
• Describe basic financial statements and show how they reflect the activity and financial condition of a business.
• Explain the banking and financial systems, including the securities markets, business financing, and basic concepts of accounting.
• Explain integrity, ethics, and social responsibility as they relate to leadership and management.
• Explain the nature and functions of management.
• Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of information technology for businesses.

• Critical Thinking Skills: Students will engage in creative and/or innovative thinking, and/or inquiry, analysis, evaluation, synthesis of information, organizing concepts and constructing solutions.

• Communication skills: Students will demonstrate effective written, oral and visual communication.

• Empirical and Quantitative Skills - Applies the manipulation and/or analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions.

• Social Responsibility Skills - Expresses intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.

• Understanding Economic Systems and Business
• Making Ethical Decisions and Managing a Socially Responsible Business
• Competing in the Global Marketplace
• Forms of Business Ownership
• Entrepreneurship: Starting and Managing Your Own Business
• Management and Leadership in Today's Organizations
• Designing Organizational Structures
• Managing Human Resources and Labor Relations
• Achieving World-Class Operations Management
• Creating Products and Pricing Strategies to Meet Customers' Needs
• Distributing and Promoting Products and Services
• Using Technology to Manage Information
• Using Financial Information and Accounting
• Understanding Money and Financial Institutions
• Understanding Financial Management and Securities Markets
• Your Career in Business

DETERMINATION OF GRADE - IN-PERSON CLASSES

Assignments 50%  
Exams 50%

No Assignments Accepted Late:   Assignments for each week are due at the beginning of the next scheduled class day.   New assignments will be given every class day.  All assignments, quizzes, and exams must be completed. Because you have ample time to complete assignments, late work will not be accepted. You should start early enough so that if/when you experience problems, we can work them out prior to the due date. If you wait until the due date, you risk not completing your work on time.  

Resubmitting Assignments:  For most assignments, you will have one opportunity to correct your class/homework.  

Missed Exams:  If you are absent and miss an exam, you will receive a grade of zero.  If you have special circumstances which require you to miss an exam, you may contact the me to see if other arrangements can be made.  Requests for makeup exams or other arrangements are granted only if you have an exceptional reason for missing an exam, such as a medical emergency.   It is your responsibility to initiate arrangements for a makeup or other arrangements.  Approval should be cleared with me prior to the date of absence.  If it is not possible to contact me prior to the exam, within 24 hours after missing the exam, you must email me and explain the reason you missed the exam.   The format of a makeup exam may differ substantially from that of the regularly scheduled exam.

Academic Honesty: Academic honesty is expected from all students, and dishonesty in any form will not be tolerated. Please consult the LSC-PA policies (Section IX, subsection A, in the Faculty Handbook) for consequences of academic dishonesty. You are expected to complete all assignments yourself. All exams must be completed on your own, with no assistance from anyone else and without the use of notes or textbook or any other materials, unless specifically expressed in the exam instructions. This includes, but is not limited to, accessing previous homework, accessing websites, or communicating with others when taking the exam. You are also NOT allowed to share information about exams with others. Some exams may be password protected. You are NOT allowed to share passwords with anyone else for any reason.

Accommodations:   If you have accommodations from the Office for Disability,  talk to your instructor about these during the first week of the semester.  

Exam Information:   You will be required to take your  exams in the classroom, during the regular class time.   You will be observed while you complete your exam.  You will have 1 hour to complete each exam.

Additional Policies (for in-person, campus classes)

• No food or tobacco products are allowed in the classroom.
• Only students enrolled in the course are allowed in the classroom, except by special instructor permission.
• Unless specifically designated otherwise by your instructor, exams must be taken in the classroom, during class time, and without access to any outside resources and without communication with anyone other than the instructor. 
• If you are tardy for any exam or quiz, you will be allowed to take the exam or quiz only with the instructor’s approval.   If you are allowed to take the exam, you will only have the timeframe allocated to the class to complete the exam. You will not be allowed additional time for the time you missed by being tardy.
• Missed quizzes and missed in-class assignments (assignments to be completed during  a class period) will each be recorded as a zero.  No makeup quizzes or in-class assignments will be given. Quizzes and In-class assignments  are considered Assignment grades.
• You are responsible for completing and submitting all assigned homework when due, and for being prepared for each class meeting.  This applies even if you were absent for the previous class meeting.
• Respectful behavior:  Be respectful of instructors, fellow students and the academic environment.  Instructors have NO obligation to tolerate disruptive behaviors of any kind.  This includes excessive/disruptive talking.  Problematic behavior may result in you being asked to exit the classroom and/or dismissal from the course.
• Sleeping in class:  Please be aware that attendance requires not just your presence but your attention.  If you sleep in class you will be asked to leave and counted absent for the day.  NOTE:  In accordance with the attendance policy, five (5) absences can result in administrative removal from the course.
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The instructor reserves the right to drop you from the class if you do not submit course work regularly.   Submitting course work regularly means you submit coursework weekly.  If you are inactive for more than one week and/or if you do not submit assignments for a week, and if you do not email the instructor with an explanation, the instructor reserves the right drop you from the class. To be successful in the class, you are expected to exert sufficient effort.   

If at any time you have failed to complete at least 50% of the weekly assignments, you may be dropped from the class.  

Some material in this course may be copyrighted. These materials  may be used only for instructional purposes this semester, by students enrolled in this course. These materials are being used fairly and legally. No one may distribute or share these copyrighted materials in any medium or format with anyone outside this class, including publishing essays with copyrighted material, uploading copyrighted material to Facebook or YouTube, or painting or performing copyrighted material for public display.

Copyright violation is not the same thing as plagiarism. Plagiarism is intellectual dishonesty. Offenses of plagiarism result in lower grades or failing scores, and professors and the college strictly enforce plagiarism rules. There is never any acceptable use of plagiarism. Copyright violation is a legal offense, punishable by large fines and penalties.

Copyrighted material can be used if permission from the material’s creator is obtained, or if its use meets the standards of fair use in an educational setting. For example, a student can quote a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a report without violating copyright but still be guilty of plagiarism if the quotation is not properly documented.

If you are in doubt about what material can be freely used, ask your professor.