Business Management

This course provides an overview of the fundamental practices and issues involved in managing and operating a business in today’s marketplace. Areas of business explored in this course include various management theories, economic concepts, management and organization, human resources, sales and marketing, and operations. The course also examines the challenges of operating in both domestic and global markets, business ethics and business strategy.

Course Hours: 3

This course will involve the study and application of the science and theory behind particular cognitions, attitudes, and techniques that are used to predict and manage human behavior within an organizational setting. The core methodologies covered include theories of motivation, cognitive psychology, leadership theories, ethics, performance management, team management, and organizational development.

Course Hours: 3

This course is an introduction to the study of economics and its impact upon society. Key historical economic theories are introduced along with fundamental economic concepts. Key microeconomic topics covered include the concept of scarcity, supply and demand function, production, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and perfect competition market structures. Macroeconomic topics include classical macroeconomic theories, basic fiscal and monetary policy and the instruments used to implement them, the economic cycle, inflation, and unemployment.

Course Hours: 3

Accounting Methods will provide learners the opportunity to learn basic managerial accounting processes such as product and service costing, profit planning, capital investment analysis, flexible budgeting and financial statement analysis.  Special attention will be given to the use of computer applications to perform analysis and make decisions.

Course Hours: 3

This course will provide opportunity to learn basic finance principles linking financial markets, institutions and investors. An overview of the flow of capital will be explored from the corporate perspective, including topics such as interest rates, stocks, bonds, risk and return, the time value of money, and the cost of capital.

Course Hours: 3

This course is designed to provide students with a general background in marketing concepts using business. Concepts include identifying consumer needs and positioning the right marketing mix to address them. 

Course Hours: 3

This course familiarizes students with important considerations in conducting business in an increasingly global economy. It will help prepare students for positions in organizations engaged in global business.  Students will be exposed to some of the issues encountered in global business.  Key topics will include cultural issues, ethical issues, and political and economic issues.

Course Hours: 3

This course requires the student to utilize much of what he or she has already learned in previous courses and gives them the opportunity to apply that knowledge to the solution of an actual business issue in an organization of his or her choice.  The student will identify a significant business problem or issue in an organization that they know well.  The student will examine the issue using the knowledge they gained in previous courses and examine the related business literature to identify and make appropriate recommendations to address the problem or issue.  This course will culminate in a written case study exploring the identified problem, the relevant literature, and the proposed recommendations.

Course Hours: 3

This course empowers adult learners to make the transition back into education in the college environment. Learners will be introduced to communication, self-motivation, and critical thinking skills necessary for academic success at Trevecca Nazarene University.

This course encourages adult learners to use technology as an effective communication avenue to research and present information for life and learning. Learners will gain experience with technology tools, including Microsoft® Word and PowerPoint, that can be used throughout the student’s coursework to create documents and presentations and communicate those appropriately to academic and professional audiences.

This course emphasizes the tasks and skills involved in writing formal essays. The essay writing process is deconstructed into achievable milestones in order to increase writing proficiency. Grammar mechanics will be consistently practiced based on each student’s identified strengths and weaknesses.  The course will conclude with an examination of types of writing found in the Bible.

This course builds upon existing knowledge of basic constructs and research skills for academic writing.  Intellectual and analytical reasoning will be emphasized in continual research practices and writing throughout this course. Grammar mechanics will be consistently practiced through peer review methods. The course will conclude with strategies for research and reasoning applied to the Bible. (Prerequisite: EGL-1100 or equivalent)

This course serves as an overview of the fundamental concepts of psychology. The perspective will be a biblical worldview in the areas of human development, intelligence, consciousness, and personality. Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Understand the basic history of psychology
2. Know the basics of the research process and how psychology is studied
3. Evaluate conflicting ideas in psychology and accepted “truths” in our society, as well as personal beliefs.
4. Describe and apply primary psychological theories to your own life and the world in general.

Examines a Christ-centered biblical worldview as the basis for living a distinctly Christian life. Students will focus on evaluating ideas, values, and processes in personal and professional situations and developing the belief structure to orient themselves within their time and place in history and eternity.

Examines principles of leadership and service as a basis for living a meaningful life. Students will focus on evaluating their opportunities and responsibilities to influence and serve in personal, professional, and community situations and developing the foundational skills to enact change for good within their sphere of life.

Designed for students who seek to develop their personal career development for the purpose of job seeking and advancement. Students will work on resumes, mock interviewing, social media, networking and professionalism as it relates to their personal and professional goals.

Designed to engage students in dialogue with a variety of Western and Non-Western world literature, past and present.

An introductory course to basic personal financial principles. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, the following: budgeting, managing personal debt, insurance, taxes, and investments.