This course focuses on the strategic use of human resource practices to reinforce and support the core capabilities of the organization. The course reviews the functions of human resource management, organizational behaviour, and organizational theory within a business and a non-profit setting, with a special emphasis on doing business in the global marketplace. The course examines how organizations plan for, attract, retain, and manage employees for a sustained competitive advantage.

The course provides an opportunity for the manager to develop good understanding in the areas of capital investment and financing. The capital investment decision allocates scarce resources to projects in the organization and involves asset valuation, capital budgeting, risk management, working capital management, and performance assessment. The financing decision chooses sources of cash to finance the investment decisions and involves capital structure, financial instruments, the risk-return trade-off, financial planning, and the cost of capital.

The course applies economic theories and quantitative methods to management decision-making. Solutions for many important management decision problems in the areas of product selection, pricing, investment, and organization design can be found in managerial economics using relevant economic theories and quantitative methods. Topics include theory of the firm, theory of consumer demand, industrial organization, game theory, forecasting, statistical estimation, decision-making under uncertainty, and capital budgeting.

Managerial Accounting provides managers with an understanding of internal reporting of operating results, including the tools they need to interpret key financial information and improve overall performance. Management accounting plays a vital decision-making role in today's lean organization. Topics include cost concepts and applications, cost-volume-profit relationships, product costing, budgeting, and standard costing.

The course explores the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline of marketing in order to develop a conceptual framework to critique the practice of marketing in the early 21st century. The course utilizes extensive case analysis techniques to enhance the manager's ability to develop and critique marketing plans in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors.

A study of advanced topics in mathematics that are not considered in depth in other courses.

Student-led inquiry into a chosen area of mathematics with a final written report on the research.

In consultation with a faculty advisor students choose a mathematics topic for experiential inquiry that will develop into a senior thesis (MATH 410). Through student exploration and advisor feedback a selection of relevant readings and references are examined. A final written report is presented consisting of a detailed thesis proposal and a review of the literature.

This course includes a study of the ideas of classical number theory, their historical development, and modern applications. Topics include divisibility and prime numbers, modular arithmetic, primality tests, primitive roots, quadratic reciprocity, Diophantine equations, continued fractions, and applications such as cryptography.

The development of ideas from topology to manipulate and analyze datasets. Several topics from algebraic topology, geometry, linear algebra, abstract algebra, algorithms, and statistics will be utilized to understand recent results in data analysis. Students will use software for calculations such as persistent homology and Reeb graphs. Applications in fields such as image analysis, sensor networks, clustering, time series analysis, and genetics are discussed.