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31 courses
Ranked courses have at least 100 recorded letter grades.
An introductory course for non-business majors covering basic concepts, practices, and analytical methods in the market enterprise system, with a focus on accounting, finance, and business law.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Mark Laplante
Students found exams challenging, with some noting they were harder than provided preparation materials. Grading relied heavily on exams and a few response paragraphs.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Business Law covers the history of legal development, contracts, agency, sale of goods, and insurance. It describes the American legal system and applies rules on negligence, IP, and employment.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Bruce Harms
Exams were demanding and required significant memorization, with students finding past essays and case studies essential for preparation.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Business Analytics I develops quantitative intuition via database management, visualization, probability, and regression analysis using Excel and business cases.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Richard Crabb
Students described the exam as long and difficult, while case studies required significant time. One student noted the absence of graded homework, quizzes, or a textbook in their term.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Business Analytics II focuses on predictive and prescriptive analytics, using historical data for forecasting and decision models to identify optimal managerial actions.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Michael Hernke
Students emphasized the need to practice Excel skills before exams. One review noted that earning every point outside the final was necessary to have a good chance at an A.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026High-level introduction to business concepts for non-business majors, covering management, marketing, strategy, entrepreneurship, ethics, supply chain, and international business.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Milt Hwang
Students completed a midterm and a final exam, both of which were open-note assessments.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Intermediate Data Analysis for Business emphasizes predictive and prescriptive analytics, using historical data to forecast outcomes and formulate optimal decision models.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Calculus-based introduction to statistical inference and modeling (regression, time series) applied to business data for decision-making under uncertainty.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026Examines how firms, governments, and civil society shape free market capitalism and its tradeoffs, then applies that analysis to reimagining capitalism for prosperous societies and planetary health.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026Data to Decisions explores statistical inference and data analytics tools, reviewing foundations of statistics, machine learning, and probability theory applied to business examples using Excel and R.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Economics for Managers applies economic principles to examine how firm, industry, and global market conditions affect day-to-day managerial decisions and long-term strategic planning.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2026–Spring 2026Develops workplace writing, speaking, and listening skills through audience analysis, varied written genres, formal presentations, and professional research.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Dominique Hacker, Amanda Kenny, Liam Kane-Grade
The course demands significantly more time than a standard 3-credit class, with multiple weekly assignments and readings. Students reported that the workload often felt like busy work that was difficult to manage alongside other classes.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Foundation course on managing business analytics consulting projects, covering client engagement, consulting tools, and traditional versus agile project management.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2025–Spring 2026Consulting Practicum integrates the MBA core curriculum to analyze a strategic problem posed by a sponsor company and make recommendations.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Consulting Skills Bootcamp introduces consulting tools and models, focusing on applying the SCQ framework to business cases and preparing persuasive presentations.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Covers data analytics technologies including extracting structured/unstructured data, using Python for web scraping and social network mining, and leveraging libraries for advanced analysis.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Human-Centered Design and Business teaches design thinking's iterative process—empathy, systems thinking, ideation, prototyping, and testing—plus balancing desirability, feasibility, and viability to bring projects to market.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026Consulting Project Capstone synthesizes program material through an applied consulting project where students identify business challenges, apply analytic methods, develop recommendations, and communicate findings.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Applies statistics and data literacy to business problems using cloud-based analytics and AI tools.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Bipin Karunakaran
Some students described the class as easy and noted that Professor Karunakaran’s lectures were not test-heavy, though others found the material challenging to follow.
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Spring 2024–Spring 2026Introduction to machine learning and AI models for business analytics, covering supervised learning, additive models, CARTs, bagging/boosting, deep learning, and unsupervised techniques like clustering.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2025–Spring 2026Explores using AI to automate business processes, covering common use cases, popular tools, and providing hands-on opportunities to implement automation solutions.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Advanced SQL & Data Warehousing teaches constructing advanced SQL statements and building cloud data warehouses in various software vendor platforms.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Business Statistics Using Python is a compact primer covering probability, estimation, inference, correlation, and regression for data-driven business analysis.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2023–Spring 2026Data Exploration with SQL and AI teaches students to analyze data using SQL and integrate AI to generate and audit SQL code for accuracy.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2023–Spring 2026Introduction for new business students covering academic planning, career development, self-assessment, leadership, and diversity and inclusion.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Michael Hernke
One student rated the course difficulty as moderate, though they did not specify particular workload demands in their review.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Data Visualization & Cloud Technologies provides experience in data visualization and cloud technologies to support business analytics, including building scalable data warehouses and deploying machine learning models.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2023–Spring 2026Prepares students for ethical challenges outside academia by focusing on the role of personal values in decision making, from personal to professional contexts.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Current Topics in Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence covers emerging industry topics via applied learning experiences including case studies, industry meetings, and workshops.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026Introduction to agentic analytics for business, covering text data preparation for AI-assisted analytics, business context, and AI governance.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2025–Spring 2026Case Interview Analysis teaches students to prepare for case interviews, analyze problems with limited information, consider alternatives, and present solutions effectively using systematic approaches and analytical frameworks.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Tom Burkard
Students faced cold calling and were required to present a case in front of the class.
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026InterCultural Communication in Business develops awareness of cultural influences on business, focusing on attitudes toward work, time, and possessions across global social and religious contexts.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Dominique Hacker
The midterm relied heavily on personal experiences, which could be difficult for students with limited background. Additionally, grades took a long time to return, and the provided feedback was often not very helpful.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026