Business Administration Department Learning Outcomes as 02-07-2012
MANAGEMENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Student learning outcome
1. To become familiar with the basic activities of managers in an
organizational setting.
2. To understand the influences the behavioral sciences on management
activities and the day-to-day performance of major business activities and
functions.
Data that will tell us the
extent to which this
outcome is being met
BSAD 3200: Strategic
management project and
presentation, and research
paper
Threshold at which we’ll
consider our students
successful in meeting the
outcome
BSAD 3200: Average class
score on strategic
management project and
presentations and research
paper 75% or higher
BSAD 4200: Team
presentation and written
assignments
BSAD 4200: Average class
score on team presentation
and written assignments
80% or higher
BSAD 4300: Real world
interview and research
project
BSAD 4300: Average class
score on real world
interview and research
project 80% or higher
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher
BSAD 3200: Research paper
BSAD 3200: Average class
score on research paper
75% or higher
BSAD 4200: Case studies
BSAD 4200: Average class
score on case studies 80%
or higher
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BSAD 4300: Real world
interview and research
project
3. To develop greater self-awareness and insight into personal strengths and
challenges.
BSAD 4200: Comparison of
pre self-assessment survey
and self assessment analysis
and paper
BSAD 4950: Final paper
4. To consider, explore, and demonstrate the personal skill set/inventory
necessary for the effective/successful performance of various managerial
roles and career options.
BSAD 1700: Microsoft 2007
literacy post-assessment
results
BSAD 4300: Average class
score on real world
interview and research
project 80% or higher
BSAD 4200: Average class
increased score of 25% or
higher
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper 80% or
higher
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on Microsoft 2007
literacy post-assessment 3
or higher (out of 1 – 4 scale)
BSAD 3200: Assessment of
communication skills during
final semester presentation
BSAD 3200: Average class
score on assessment of
communication skills during
final semester presentation
75% or higher
BSAD 4230: Three forecast
development assignments
that require the Naïve,
Moving Average, and
Multiple-Regression
forecasting models
BSAD 4230: Average class
score on three forecast
generation assignments
that require Naïve, Moving
Average, and MultipleRegression models 75% or
higher.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
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5. To develop a greater awareness/impact of the various social, legal,
political, economic, competitive, global and technological influences on
business organizations.
performance evaluations
performance evaluations
80% or higher
BSAD 1700: General
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on general
information technology
post-assessment results
75% or higher
BSAD 3200: Research paper
and final exam question
BSAD 3200: Average class
score on research paper
and final exam 75% or
higher
BSAD 4210: Case analysis
covering various
interdisciplinary aspects
including impact of social,
legal, political, economic,
competitive, global and
technological influences on
business organization
BSAD 4210: Average class
score on case analysis 80%
or higher
BSAD 4300: Real world
interview and research
project and final exam
question
BSAD 4300: Average class
score on research paper
and final exam question
80% or higher
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Business Administration Department Learning Outcomes as 02-07-2012
MARKETING LEARNING OUTCOMES
Student learning outcome
1. To explore the role of marketing as a fundamental social process and as an
organizational policy process.
Data that will tell us the
extent to which this
outcome is being met
BSAD3300: Situational
analysis section within term
project
Threshold at which we’ll
consider our students
successful in meeting the
outcome
BSAD 3300: Average class
score on situational analysis
section within term project
75% or higher
BSAD 4310: Real world
situational analysis section
within term project
BSAD 4310: Average class
score on real world
situational analysis section
within term project 80% or
higher
BSAD 4330: Situational
analysis section within term
project
BSAD 4330: Average class
score on situational analysis
section within term project
80% or higher
BSAD 4340: Real world
situational analysis section
within term project
and case study analysis
homework assignment
BSAD 4340: Average class
score on real world
situational analysis section
within term project and
case study analysis
homework 80% or higher
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2. To understand fundamental marketing concepts, theories and principles in
areas of marketing policy; of market and consumer behavior; of product,
distribution, promotion and pricing decisions.
3. To analyze the interaction of marketing and environmental forces - more
specifically, understand the interaction of marketing decisions and
practices with social, technological, economic, political and ecological
forces; with competitive and consumer forces; and with organizational
dynamics.
BSAD 3300: Overall
situational marketing plan
within term project
BSAD 3300: Average class
score on overall situational
marketing plan within term
project 75% or higher
BSAD 4310: Overall real
world marketing plan within
term project
BSAD 4310: Average class
score on overall real world
marketing plan within term
80% or higher
BSAD 4330: Overall
situational marketing plan
within term project
BSAD 4330: Average class
score on overall situational
marketing plan within term
project 80% or higher
BSAD 4340: Overall real
world marketing plan
within term project
BSAD 4340: Average class
score on overall real world
marketing plan within term
80% or higher
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
BSAD 1700: General
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on General
Information Technology
post-assessment results
75% or higher
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BSAD 3300: Situational
analysis section within term
project
BSAD 3300: Average class
score on situational analysis
section within term project
75% or higher
BSAD 4310: Real world
situational analysis within
term project
BSAD 4310: Average class
score on real world
situational analysis within
term project 80% or higher
BSAD 4330: Situational
analysis section within term
project
BSAD 4330: Average class
score on situational analysis
section within term project
80% or higher
BSAD 4340: Real world
situational analysis within
term project and case study
analysis assignment
BSAD 4340: Average class
score on real world
situational analysis within
term project and case study
analysis assignment 80% or
higher
4. To investigate the relationship between the marketing management and
the individual consumption processes.
BSAD 3310: Final exam
question
BSAD 3310: Average class
score on final exam
question 75% or higher
5. To demonstrate practical learning and intellectual growth.
BSAD 4310: Real world
situational analysis within
term project
BSAD 4310: Average class
score on real world
situational analysis within
term project 80% or higher
BSAD 4340: Real world
situational analysis within
term project
BSAD 4340: Average class
score on real world
situational analysis within
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term project 80% or higher
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
Data that will tell us the
extent to which this
outcome is being met
Threshold at which we’ll
consider our students
successful in meeting the
outcome
BSAD 2010: Average class
score on written ethics
case or situations
identifying and providing
solutions to unethical
behavior 75% or higher
FINANCIAL REPORTING LEARNING OUTCOMES
Student learning outcome
1. To understand the role of ethics in financial reporting.
2. To be able to record business transactions using debits and credits.
BSAD 2010: Written ethics
case or situations
identifying and providing
solutions to unethical
behavior.
BSAD 4140: First Exam.
Written analysis of ethical
situations in auditing of
financial statements.
BSAD 4140: Average class
score on written ethics case
questions on first exam
80% or higher
BSAD 2010: Final exam
question. Complete and
post journal entries and
prepare financial
statements.
BSAD 2010: Average class
score on final exam
question 75% or higher
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3. To understand GAAP - revenue recognition and the matching principle.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
BSAD 2010: Final exam
question. Prepare adjusting
entries. Complete
worksheet with adjusted
trial balance, income
statement, balance sheet,
and prepare closing entries.
BSAD 2010: Average class
score on final exam
question 75% or higher
BSAD 3010: First and final
exam questions. Prepare
income statements
converting from cash basis
to accrual basis and accrual
basis to cash basis. Final
Exam; from given situations
compute revenue by
examining and applying
learning and realization
elements of revenue
recognition methods.
BSAD 3010: Average class
score on first and final exam
questions 80% or higher.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
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4. To distinguish between Inventory costing methods.
5. To be able to perform bank reconciliation as an internal control function.
BSAD 2010: Second and
final exam questions.
Prepare inventory valuation
reports using LIFO, FIFO,
Average Cost, and Specific
Identification methods.
BSAD 2010: Average class
score on second and final
exam questions 75% or
higher.
BSAD 3020: First exam
question. Evaluation of
inventory using FIFO, LIFO,
Average Cost, and Dollar
Value LIFO methods.
BSAD 3020: Average class
score on first exam question
80% or higher.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
BSAD 2010: Second and
final exam questions,
prepare bank reconciliation
with errors and journal
entries.
BSAD 2010: Average class
score on second and final
exam questions 75% or
higher.
BSAD 3010: First and final
exam questions. Reconcile
bank and book balances
with various bank and/or
depositor errors, and
journalizing reconciling
entries to present corrected
cash balance.
BSAD 3010: Average class
score on first and final exam
questions 80% or higher.
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6. To perform valuation of accounts receivable.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
BSAD 2010: Second and
final exam questions, ageing
of accounts. Compute
estimates in bad debt
expense using (a)
percentage of sales and (b)
percentage of receivables
method. Financial
statement presentation of
receivables.
BSAD 2010: Average class
score on second and final
exam questions 75% or
higher.
BSAD 3010: First and final
exam questions. Calculate
valuation of accounts
receivable using methods of
accounting for uncollectible
accounts (1) Direct write-off
method (2) Allowance
method. Calculate
transactions involving Sale
of receivables (factoring)
with or without recourse.
BSAD 3010: Average class
score on first and final exam
questions 80% or higher.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
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7. To differentiate between capital and revenue expenditures.
8. To recognize contingent liabilities.
BSAD 3020: First exam
question. Prepare analysis
of changes in land and
building accounts for
inclusion in balance sheet.
Classification of acquisition
and other costs. Prepare
journal entries for
capitalized interest and
interest expense. Analysis
of subsequent expenditures
and required journal
entries.
BSAD 3020: Average class
score on first exam question
80% or higher.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
BSAD 3020: Second exam.
Analysis of independent
situations requiring written
disclosures and journal
entries of contingencies for
financial statement
purposes.
BSAD 3020: Average class
score on second exam
question 80% or higher.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
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MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING LEARNING OUTCOMES
Student learning outcome
1. To recognize the role of ethics in accounting.
2. To differentiate between job order cost systems and process cost systems.
Data that will tell us the
extent to which this
outcome is being met
Threshold at which we’ll
consider our students
successful in meeting the
outcome
BSAD 2020: First Exam, Case BSAD 2020: Average class
study analysis, or question
score on first exam
identifying and providing
question, case study
solutions to remedy
analysis, or question
unethical behavior.
identifying and providing
solutions to remedy
unethical behavior 75% or
higher.
BSAD2020: First Exam,
analysis of manufacturing
cost accounts and
preparation of cost of
production reports.
BSAD 2020: Average class
score on first exam question
75% or higher.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
3. To understand the relationship between cost behavior and cost volume
profit.
BSAD: 2020: First
Examination, perform
breakeven analysis on sales
and sales to realize income
from operations.
BSAD 2020: Average class
score on first exam question
75% or higher.
4. To perform contribution margin analysis and prepare static and flexible
BSAD 2020: Second
BSAD 2020: Average class
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budgets.
Examination. Prepare
business segment
contribution analysis, and
prepare flexible and static
budgets.
score on second exam
question 75% or higher
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final paper and
performance evaluations
80% or higher (if applicable
internship)
BSAD: 2020: Second and
final examination. Perform
direct materials and direct
labor variances and other
components of the master
budget analysis.
BSAD 2020: Average class
score on second and final
exam questions 75% or
higher.
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
6. To understand the relationships between costing methods and product
pricing.
BSAD 2020: Final
examination. Calculate total
product, and variable cost
concepts of product pricing.
BSAD 2020: Average class
score on final exam
question 75% or higher.
7. To perform capital investment valuation analysis.
BSAD 2020: Final
Examination. Use average
rate of return, cash payback
method, and net present
value methods to make
decisions on capital
BSAD 2020: Average class
score on final exam
question 75% or higher
5. To recognize relationships in standard costs and variances.
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investment projects.
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COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS LEARNING OUTCOMES
Student learning outcome
1. To demonstrate fundamental software application skills in MS Word, Excel,
PowerPoint and Access in support of basic business applications.
Data that will tell us the
extent to which this
outcome is being met
BSAD 1700: Microsoft 2007
literacy post-assessment
results
Threshold at which we’ll
consider our students
successful in meeting the
outcome
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on Microsoft 2007
literacy post-assessment 3
or higher (out of 1 – 4 scale)
BSAD 4950: Final paper and
performance evaluations (if
applicable internship)
BSAD 4950: Average class
score on final exam
question 75% or higher
2. To understand basic computer information technology hardware and
software terminology.
BSAD 1700: Basic IT
technology subset of
questions within general
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on basic IT technology
subset of questions within
general information
technology literacy postassessment results 75% or
higher
3. To become familiar with the components and implications of graphical
user interfaces within information technology.
BSAD 1700: Graphical User
Interfaces subset of
questions within general
information technology
literacy post-Assessment
results
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on graphical user
Interfaces subset of
questions within general
information technology
literacy post-Assessment
results 75% or higher
4. To comprehend the fundamental patterns on which all information
technology is built.
BSAD 1700: Fundamental
patterns of IT subset of
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on fundamental
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questions within general
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results
patterns of IT subset of
questions within general
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results 75% or higher
5. To be familiar with Web site organization, how search engines work, and
how to evaluate the accuracy of Web content.
BSAD 1700: Web Site
Organization subset of
questions within general
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on Web Site
Organization subset of
questions within general
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results 75% or higher
6. To explore basic computer software and hardware debugging strategies
and workarounds.
BSAD 1700: debugging
Strategies subset of
questions within general
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on debugging
strategies subset of
questions within general
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results 75% or higher
7. To have an understanding of basic privacy and digital security concepts and
consider their implications.
BSAD 1700: Privacy and
digital security subset of
questions within general
information technology
literacy post-assessment
results
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on privacy and digital
security subset on society
subset of questions within
general information
technology literacy postassessment results 75% or
higher
8. To recognize and discuss ethical issues and the impact of computers on
society.
BSAD 1700: Ethical issues
and impact of computers on
society subset of questions
BSAD 1700: Average class
score on ethical Issues and
impact of computers on
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within general information
technology literacy postassessment results
society subset of questions
within general information
technology literacy postassessment results 75% or
higher
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