Curriculum: Undergraduate Courses

BMGT198: Freshman Fellows Colloquium in Corporate Social Responsibility
This course utilizes case studies and group discussion in the classroom as well as co-curricular events to introduce undergraduate business students to the increasingly important aspects of business ethics and corporate social responsibility.
Faculty: Richard Hutchins, Hugh Turner, Gary Cohen

BMGT298A: Social Enterprise – Changing the World through Innovation and Transformative Action
Thousands of individuals are inventing creative new approaches to social change, the tools of business to build lasting solutions. Where do social entrepreneurs come from? How do they develop their passion for changing the world? Can anyone become a social entrepreneur? This course looks at the history and theory of social change, reviews the skills, strategies, and ideas of effective change agents and gives students the tools to create a blueprint for their ideas for social transformation.
Faculty: Melissa Carrier

BMGT411: Ethics and Professionalism in Accounting
This course discusses and analyzes issues relating to professionalism and ethics in accounting. Among the various topics covered are truth, corporate social responsibility, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the PCAOB, corporate governance, accounting and the environment, and international accounting ethics.
Faculty: Steve Loeb

BMGT438Q: Special Topics in Operations Management: Non-Profit Consulting Practicum
This course will allow students to engage in action learning with non-profit organizations in a consulting capacity to address the organization’s process improvement issues. Students will work in multidisciplinary teams and will be paired up with a non-profit organization. Each team will help define the issue(s) facing the organization, choose an appropriate process improvement methodology to address these issues, and suggest recommendations to the organization on how they might improve the process. The instructors will work closely with the student teams and the non-profit organizations and tailor the learning experience to the specific context. Additionally,
student will learn about the unique challenge facing non-profit organizations—including fundraising, volunteerism, and operations—and how this setting shapes the application of process improvement methodologies.
Faculty: Melissa Carrier, Joe Bailey

BMGT482: Business and Government
By focusing on the complex interrelationships between business and government, this course explores areas in which business and government are allies (cooperative research and financing program) and adversaries (regulation). Emphasis is placed on a strategic management approach by business to government involvement in economic affairs.

**BMGT488V: Transformative Action – Effective Methods for Social Change
This course introduces students to the most effective methods of social change by looking at the social entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries who are coming up with new methods of solving society’s problems. Students examine traditional methods of activism as well as a new theory of nonviolent social change called “transformative action.” The first few weeks of the course introduce the students to many case studies, then the course reviews the skills, strategies, and ideas of effective social change advocates in the 21st century. Each student develops an original blueprint for social innovation: a creative proposal for solving a societal problem based on their interest.
Faculty: Melissa Carrier

**BMGT488W: Social Innovation Practicum
Working in teams of 4 or 5, students immerse themselves in a social issue of common concern through a service practicum with a nonprofit organization or social enterprise. Student projects are developed in partnership with the organizations but the goal of the practicum is two-fold: 1) help the organizations develop a new entrepreneurial service or program to address a specific pressing social need in the community, and 2) provide students with a deep understanding of the root causes of a particular social issue and how such issues can be best addressed through entrepreneurial action.
Faculty: Melissa Carrier

BMGT496: Business Ethics and Society
This course emphasizes a strategic approach by business to the management of its external environment. Students engage in a study of the standards of business conduct, morals and values as well as the role of business in society with consideration of the sometimes conflicting interests of and claims on the firm and its objectives.
Faculty: Brian Nelson

**Denotes the course is a part of the Social Innovation Fellows program.