Department: Business

Code Name Description
AC201 Principles of Accounting I Accounting is often called the language of business. This course introduces students to the accounting cycle and the terminology of accounting through application of procedures used to classify, record, and interpret business transactions and pr...
AC202 Principles of Accounting II This course is a continuation of AC 201, completing an introduction to financial accounting and providing the fundamentals of managerial accounting. Topics include financial statement analysis, product costing, cost-volume-profit analysis, capit...
AC301 Intermediate Accounting I This course and AC 302 provide in-depth coverage of financial accounting theory and practice for accounting majors and those who need more than basic knowledge. Topics include accounting processes and the application of GAAP to preparation of the fin...
AC302 Intermediate Accounting II This course is a continuation of AC 301. Topics include the application of GAAP to recognition and measurement of plant assets and intangibles, debt securities, stockholder's equity, pensions, leases, and income taxes. Service-Learning. Offered sprin...
AC303 Managerial Accounting No Description Set
AC306 Tax Concepts No Description Set
AC362 Legal & Ethical Issues in Business No Description Set
AC404 Auditing I No Description Set
AC405 Auditing II No Description Set
AC408 Governmental Accounting No Description Set
AC416 Career Development No Description Set
BU200 Introduction to Business This course provides a survey of business functions, principles, and practices; managerial tools for analysis; people’s behavior in organizations; practical applications in problem solving and decision-making. The course is designed for students inte...
BU201 Intro to Sport and Event Management This course provides a survey of sport and event management business functions, principles, practices. Students study behavior in sports organizations and learn basic tools for analysis. The course is designed for students interested in career...
BU224 Applied Business Statistics The course introduces students to the use of statistical information for business decision-making. Topics include summary measures, frequency distributions, probability, sampling, statistical inference and simple regression. Emphasis is given to the...
BU254 Personal Finance No Description Set
BU308 Professional Writing & Presentation Letters, proposals, reports, and presentations are often the vehicles through which professionals get their ideas accepted and their contributions valued. This course teaches students the rhetorical principles and writing and presentation practices r...
BU324 Quantitative Methods in Business Each of the business disciplines uses quantitative information in its planning, operations, and performance evaluation. This course introduces students to a variety of methods and tools for using quantitative data effectively: linear programming, Bay...
BU362 Legal & Ethical Issues in Business This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal and ethical issues business decision makers face in determining appropriate policies and actions. Focus is given to the effect of decisions on stakeholders including emplo...
BU402 International Business This course is designed to provide students an understanding of the global environment in which international business takes place, as well as the role and behavior of the multinational firm in responding to the environment. The course seeks to equip...
BU416 Career Development Starting one’s career is often both an exciting goal and a mystifying, overwhelming challenge. This course provides students with the knowledge and tools needed for successful career planning and entry. The course covers developmental issues, theorie...
BU469 Business Strategy This capstone course for business majors provides students the opportunity to integrate the knowledge gained in their business course work to better understand and engage the work of organizations. Topics include organizational assessment; organizati...
BU470 Senior Field Experience This course is designed to connect students’ course work in business to the operations of a real-world organization and to facilitate their transition from student to professional. Student teams function as consultants, with the guidance of a Faculty...
BU471 Becoming a Data Jedi: Info Analytics BU-471 Becoming a Data Jedi: Info Analytics (3) This course is a capstone course for the Chaminade University of Honolulu General Education Program. In this course, students will present mastery of foundational skills, Marianist and Native Hawaiian...
BU480 Special Topics: Special topics in business that are presented as announced. Prerequisites vary according to course.
BU487 Business Internship This course involves the student engaging in a minimum of 150 hours of professional work experience that is related to the student’s career goals and approved by the instructor. The student meets regularly with the instructor during the term and comp...
BU499 Directed Study Individualized study on a student-selected topic arranged through the program advisor. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and consent of program advisor.
EC201 Principles of Macroeconomics Analysis of structure and operation of American economy; business cycles, fiscal and monetary institutions, and policies; GDP unemployment and inflation, and economic growth; and other public issues. Offered every semester.
EC202 Principles of Microeconomics Analysis of the functioning of firms within a market economy and how the market system allocates scarce resources; basics of supply and demand; theory of pricing under competition, monopoly, and imperfect competition; government interference in the m...
EC313 Contemporary Economic Issues This course provides students an opportunity to develop skills at using economic analysis to understand and consider current issues and challenges facing our society. The focus of the course is on the environmental impact of economic decisions,...
EC314 Games and Economic Behavior This course examines the competitive and cooperative behaviors that occur when parties with conflicting interests must work together. The course also introduces students to individual and group behaviors, and their consequences that happen when the s...
EC315 Environmental Economics This course focuses on natural resource economics and environmental issues. Topics include air and water pollution, toxic waste, deforestation, soil erosion, biodiversity, global warming and sustainable development. The course provides students the o...
EC320 Econ Systems in the Age of Globalization This course examines how representative economic systems function within the global economy. Emphasis is given to the study of individual features of economic systems and their impact on the performance and development of the respective economies. Of...
EC420 International Economics This course examines international trade and financial relations and international economic institutions. Offered spring semester of alternate years. Prerequisites: EC 201.
EC490 Advanced Seminar in Economics This seminar serves as the capstone course for the economics minor. Current issues and applications in areas such as behavioral, experimental, urban, public, labor and health economics will be introduced. In addition, students will draw on topics and...
EC700 Econ & Personal Finance: K-12 Educators This course prepares K-12 educators for teaching economics and personal finance at their grade levels. Participants will gain a better understanding of economics and personal finance and learn ways to effectively implement the Hawaii K-12 Social Stud...
ENV315 Environmental Economics This course focuses on natural resource economics and environmental issues. Topics include air and water pollution, toxic waste, deforestation, soil erosion, biodiversity, global warming and sustainable development. The course provides students the o...
FIN301 Principles of Finance This course introduces the role of financial management in the operation of a business. The focus of the course is on understanding the issues and choices involved in maximizing the results of financial decisions. Topics include time value of money,...
MGT301 Organizational Behavior This course introduces students to the fundamental issues in managing individuals and groups in organizations. Students will explore opportunities to apply course learning in their own organizational settings and to understand their personal theories...
MGT305 Management of Information Resources This course introduces students to the development and use of information resources for organizational decision making. Topics include systems analysis, data communications, internet research, decision support systems, planning and implementing manag...
MGT306 Management of Human Resources This course provides an introduction to the field of human resource management. Students learn the implications of organizational behavior theory for the design of HR practices that facilitate employee performance and success. Topics include recruitm...
MGT311 Organizational Design This course examines the macro aspects of organizational effectiveness and the internal and environmental factors which shape organizational structures. Organizational design options and determinants are considered in the framework of systems theory....
MGT312 Organization Leadership This course explores traditional and transformational perspectives on leadership and identifies the tasks of leadership in complex organizations. The course provides and understanding of the challenges leaders face in successfully guiding people and...
MGT407 Operations Management This course examines how organizations manage the transformation of resources and materials into the goods and services they provide. Topics include operations strategies and procedures; production; quality management; productivity; location, layout,...
MGT420 Team Building & Process Management Effective teamwork depends on groups managing their work and members’ interactions successfully. This course focuses on constructing and managing “great groups” at work. The course provides an understanding of group composition and member diversity,...
MGT421 Negotiation & Conflict Resolution Managers and professionals in all fields benefit from having the skills and perspective to respond to situations where the people involved have different goals, different strategies, or different styles. This course identifies methods and techniques...
MGT422 Professional. Development for Managers Charting a management career presents many challenges. New skills are needed, personal demands are heightened, and work/life balance can seem impossible. This course provides a laboratory for examining the abilities, perspectives, and self-knowledge...
MGT425 Strategic Project Management This capstone course for management majors provides students the opportunity to integrate the knowledge gained in their management course work to effectively engage the tasks of project management. The course provides hands-on learning that prepares...
MKT301 Principles of Marketing This course addresses the broad and diverse nature of the marketing function in organizations. The terminology that marketers use is covered, as well as the theories, models, and research activities that guide marketing decision making. The challenge...
MKT431 Integrated Marketing Communications Public relations and advertising promotions as integrated marketing communications. Topics include theory, budgeting, communication, media forms, creativity, coordination and evaluation of campaigns. Cross-listed with COM 431. Offered fall semester....
MKT436 Marketing Globally This course revisits basic marketing principles, considering the context of the global marketplace rather than domestic markets. Central issues and controversies surrounding global marketing will be discussed, as well as the adjustments that need to...
MKT440 Strategic Marketing This course addresses the organization and coordination of the total marketing program, including the marketing mix elements, market research, market segmentation and positioning in a case analysis format. Students will understand the interrelationsh...