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College of Business
New course: Page 72, 2011-12 Undergraduate Catalog
CIP: 52.99
UBUS 200. PASSPORT INTRODUCTION (0). Designed to introduce the Passport program to
students at the end of their sophomore year or beginning of their junior year. The Passport
program helps students identify experiences that are important to be successful in today’s
business world. This workshop explains the requirements of the program for business students
and the reporting process. To be taken before or concurrent with UBUS 310. S/U grading.
New course: Page 72, 2011-12 Undergraduate Catalog
CIP: 52.99
UBUS 201. PASSPORT CULMINATION (0). Involves an individual meeting with an advisor to
confirm successful completion of the Passport program introduced in UBUS 200. Satisfactory
completion of UBUS 201 is a graduation requirement for all business majors. S/U grading.
Rationale: UBUS 200 and UBUS 201 help students become aware of the variety of co-curricular options the
College of Business has to offer outside the classroom as well as course electives that particularly strengthen the
likelihood of a student’s eventual success in the “real world.” Both courses are requirements of all business
majors.
Note on duplication: These two courses were created and designed specifically for business students and do not
duplicate any NIU courses.
Course revision: Page 72, 2011-12 Undergraduate Catalog
UBUS 310. BUSINESS CORE: LECTURE (9). … CRQ: UBUS 200.
Rationale: Adding UBUS 200 as a corequisite to UBUS 310 assures business students have completed the course or
are currently in the course prior to enrollment in their upper-division business courses.
Other catalog change: Page 70, 2011-12 Undergraduate Catalog
Career Compass
↓
Passport to the Business World
Passport is a non-credit program following the completion of the Career Compass program and is
required for all sophomore, junior, and senior students who are pursuing a major in business.
Passport helps students become aware of the variety of co-curricular options the College of
Business has to offer outside the classroom as well as course electives that particularly strengthen
the likelihood of a student’s eventual success in the “real world.” Before graduation, students are
required to participate in activities in each of these areas: Business Communications, Career
Development, Ethics, Experiential Learning, Global, Leadership, and Service.
Limited Retention Requirements
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100- and 200-Level Courses
ACCY206 - Introductory Financial Accounting (3)
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UBUS 1002 - Career Compass: A, B, C, and D (0)
UBUS 200 - Passport Introduction (0)
UBUS 201 - Passport Culmination (0)
UBUS 223 - Introduction to Business Statistics (3)
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Rationale: The Passport program is an initiative of the College of Business Board of Executive Advisors created to
help students become aware of the variety of co-curricular options the College of Business has to offer outside the
classroom as well as course electives that particularly strengthen the likelihood of a student’s eventual success in
the “real world.”
Other catalog change: Page 54, 2011-12 Graduate Catalog
Certificates of Graduate Study
Entrepreneurship (12)
This certificate will provide graduate students with a set of courses focused on entrepreneurship,
and it is designed to help students develop insights and abilities to enhance business ventures’
competitiveness through creation and renewal.
Students must achieve an average GPA of 3.0 in the courses applied toward the certificate and
complete all certificate course work within six years immediately preceding awarding of the
certificate. Some courses may have prerequisites that are not part of the certificate curriculum.
Applications are available in the College of Business Office of MBA Programs. Students must be
in good academic standing to be eligible.
Requirements:
MGMT 627 – Entrepreneurial Creativity and Innovation (3)
MGMT 635 – Organizational Behavior (3)
MGMT 637 – Entrepreneurship and Venture Management (3)
MGMT 657 – Corporate Entrepreneurship (3)
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Managerial Leadership (12)
Rationale: The certificate is a response to feedback received in the Office of MBA Programs, from MBA students,
and the companies who sponsor MBA students to provide more opportunities to develop innovative, fresh
approaches that can be applied in management and leadership roles in the workplace and in the development of
new ventures. The certificate provides College of Business students with transcript notation of focused work in
entrepreneurship.
Department of Management
New course: Page 62, 2011-12 Graduate Catalog
CIP: 52.01
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627. ENTREPRENEURIAL CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION (3). Identifying, understanding
and developing the methods and skills used to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities and
develop innovative solutions. Topics include theories of creativity, enterprise idea generation and
evaluation, and other concepts, models, and techniques used to identify and evaluate new venture
opportunities, innovations, and entrepreneurial solutions. PRQ: All Phase One courses or consent
of department.
Rationale: The course will provide business students with the critical skills necessary to develop their creativity in
order to identify new venture opportunities and create innovative, “breakthrough” solutions to business problems.
Enhancing creativity is the key focus, with the intent to develop capitalist creativity, in which the ideas and solutions
generated must be profitable and reflect bottom-line practicality. With an in-depth understanding of the techniques
and methods of creativity, opportunity identification, and idea generation, students will be able to strengthen their
creativity, identify and critically assess potential opportunities, and produce and evaluate innovative ideas and
solutions around which a new venture can be based.
Duplication Note: Feedback from the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations and the
Division of Public Administration was that there was no significant duplication of their courses.
New course: Page 63, 2011-12 Graduate Catalog
CIP: 52.01
657. CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP (3). Recognize, understand, and apply
entrepreneurial processes and principles in the context of established organizations. Topics
include environmental dynamics that drive entrepreneurship, venture motives and response
options, and patterns and approaches to support entrepreneurial ventures. PRQ: All Phase One
courses and MGMT 635, or consent of department.
Rationale: This course is designed to improve students’ ability to develop, select, and implement entrepreneurial
practices, processes and structures within organizations to meet challenges effectively in the context of established
organizations. The course presents the practices to initiate and the challenges that result when established
organizations change a major business domain or model. The creation of a new business unit or division is
explored. This course will review the ways in which firms rely on entrepreneurial thinking and actions to reenergize and renew themselves, their markets or their industrial sectors.
Duplication Note: A review of the catalog found no potential for duplication.
Department of Operations Management and Information Systems
Course revision: Page 90, 2011-12 Undergraduate Catalog
485. BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS CURRENT TOPICS IN OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (3). Instruction focused on supervised
student team projects conducted current topics within the operations, logistics, or information
systems area. of selected business organizations. PRQ: Consent of department.
Rationale: The current course title and description focus on current topics explored in a single student team setting.
The proposed title and description changes reflect the learning of current topics in operations management and
information systems in a classroom setting.