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USC Catalogue 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation
  

  • ACAD 174 Innovators Forum

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 04
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Leaders in diverse disciplines, industries, and the arts present and discuss problems facing society, and critique real-world projects that challenge the concept of innovation.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Technology and the Business of Innovation majors
    Duplicates Credit in former ACAD 175
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 176 Rapid Visualization

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Basic techniques, methods, concepts, tools, and materials that are used to quickly communicate ideas and concepts in a visual manner.
    Recommended Preparation: Photoshop; iPad and/or laptop skills; iPad drawing apps such as Sketchbook or iDraw.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 177 Digital Toolbox for Design

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Eight-week session covering the basics of industry-standard creative, analytical and presentation software. Applications include: design, presentation, publishing and business management.
    Registration Restriction: Open only Arts, technology and the Business of Innovation students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 178 Digital Toolbox: Motion Graphics

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Eight-week course covering the basics of industry-standard digital video and motion graphics software used for visual effects, non-linear video production and editing.
    Registration Restriction: Open only Arts, technology and the Business of Innovation students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 179 Digital Toolbox: Excel for Business Management

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Eight-week course designed to provide a spreadsheet format to analyze information and build Microsoft Excel-based models for business management and creative data visualization.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 180 Digital Toolbox: Sound and Audio

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An eight-week course covering the basics of industry-standard hardware and software used for designing, creating, processing, and distributing sound and audio.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 181g Disruptive Innovation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Critical approaches to social and cultural changes stemming from disruptive innovations in the arts, science, technology, communications, new media, politics and business.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 182 Case Studies in Innovation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Employing a case-study methodology, students analyze the artistic, technological, and entrepreneurial factors and address the conceptual, ethical, and logistical issues that lead to disruptive innovation.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 181 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 187 Digital Toolbox: 3D Design

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An eight-week course covering the basics of industry-standard 3D modeling, rendering, and capturing software used for product, packaging, industrial and environmental design. Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation majors.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 200 Advanced Sound and Audio

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An in-depth study of sound, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and the standard components of the audio signal chain, including microphones, mixers, interfaces, signal processors, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and audio-distribution systems.
    Recommended Preparation: ACAD 180 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 202 Modeling Physical Systems

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    The physics of mechanics and motion is integrated with differential and integral calculus. The concepts are linked through a computational, problem-solving, methodology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 203 Statics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in AME 201 )
  

  • ACAD 206 Communication and Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in COMM 206 )
  

  • ACAD 207 Multimedia for Designers and Entrepreneurs I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Basics of industry-standard hardware and software specific to creating effective and compelling multimedia experiences.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 177  and ACAD 178  and ACAD 180 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 230 3D Design: Materials and Tools

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in DES 230 )
  

  • ACAD 240 Materials: Denim to Nanotubes

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Covers the fundamentals of materials science and introduce students to the principles of designing with specific materials in mind.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 245 Product Design I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    A wide investigation of techniques specific to dimensional design as they apply to package, product and spatial design, in analog and digital environments.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 240  and ACAD 323g 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 275 Dev I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Web page design and creation, web objects, scripting and interactivity. Includes developing skills to design and build interactive websites.
    Duplicates Credit in former ITP 204
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 276 Dev II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Fundamentals of server-side scripting and web templates. Design and creation of data structures and databases. Visualize analytics and data.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 275 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 277 Dev III

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An accelerated approach to object-oriented programming, including foundations of mobile application development. Focus on user interface design.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 276 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 280 Designing for Experiences

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Designing effective and elegant interfaces and experiences for the ways people interact with data, devices, systems, and environments.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 178  and ACAD 275  and ACAD 276 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 300x Database Web Development

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in ITP 300 )
  

  • ACAD 302 The Hacker Imagination: from Ancient Greece to Cupertino

    Units: 4
    Exploring issues in innovation, design and invention from the perspective of the hacker imagination.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 303 Web Design

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in DES 303 )
  

  • ACAD 306 Innovation, Entertainment, and the Arts

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in COMM 306 )
  

  • ACAD 308 Computer-Aided Design for Bio-Mechanical Systems

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in ITP 308 )
  

  • ACAD 310 Launching Disruptive Ventures

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in BAEP 310 )
  

  • ACAD 312 Materials Behavior and Processing

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in MASC 310 )
  

  • ACAD 315x Basics of Project and Operations Management for Non-Majors

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in BUAD 315x )
  

  • ACAD 323g Design Theory

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in DES 323g )
  

  • ACAD 330 3D Design: Objects and Space

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in DES 330 )
  

  • ACAD 331x Influence and Collaboration

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in MOR 331x )
  

  • ACAD 332a Typography

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in DES 332a )
  

  • ACAD 332b Typography

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in DES 332b )
  

  • ACAD 342 Mobile Application Development

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in ITP 342 )
  

  • ACAD 343 Mobile Development for Content and Media

    Units: 1
    (Enroll in ITP 343 )
  

  • ACAD 344 Advanced Topics in Mobile App Development

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in ITP 344 )
  

  • ACAD 350 International Experience

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An international study experience and trip focusing on a primary subject area of the USC Iovine and Young Academy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 352 Digital Audio Recording and Processing

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The principles, techniques, and aesthetics of digital audio recording and processing with an emphasis on mastering for multimedia integration.
    Recommended Preparation: ACAD 200 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 354 Synthesis and Sound Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A comprehensive study of the elements of electronic synthesis and sampling, as well as the use of “live” and “found” audio recordings for creative sound design purposes.
    Recommended Preparation: ACAD 200  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 356 Audio and Media Integration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Methods and techniques for integrating audio into various media and applications including: film and video, Internet streaming, mobile devices, and other digital and computer applications.
    Recommended Preparation: ACAD 200  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 360 Design Consulting: Problem Solving for Organizations

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    A professional, collaborative and multidisciplinary consulting approach to diagnosing problems and applying design-based solutions on behalf of organizations.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 181g  and ACAD 182 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 365 Managing Data in C++

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in ITP 365 )
  

  • ACAD 366 Designing Media and Communication Projects for Social Change

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in COMM 366 )
  

  • ACAD 367x Advanced Coding

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in ITP 367x )
  

  • ACAD 375 Business and Professional Communication

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in COMM 375 )
  

  • ACAD 376 Discerning and Making I: Concept and Feasibility

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    A broad look at innovation from the perspectives of designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs as applied to concept/feasibility of art, design, products, services and experiences.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 177 , ACAD 178 , ACAD 179 , ACAD 180 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 377 Discerning and Making II: Creation and Implementation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Students create and implement – from conception through prototype – new ventures, products, services, and processes; building upon the innovations of designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 376 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 382 Mobile Game Programming

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in ITP 382 )
  

  • ACAD 385x Marketing of Creative Disruption and Innovation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in MKT 385x )
  

  • ACAD 387x Cloud Architecture and Applications

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in ITP 387 )
  

  • ACAD 404 Modern Technologies of Web Development

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in ITP 404 )
  

  • ACAD 405 Professional Applications and Frameworks in Web Development

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in ITP 405 )
  

  • ACAD 419 Professional Internship

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    An experiential/academic opportunity in an arts, technology and business related facility. Written analysis, evaluation, and working internship.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 423 Management of Small Businesses

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in BAEP 423 )
  

  • ACAD 425 Web Application Security

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in ITP 425 )
  

  • ACAD 435 Professional C++

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in ITP 435 )
  

  • ACAD 442 Mobile App Project

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in ITP 442 )
  

  • ACAD 460 Web Application Project

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in ITP 460 )
  

  • ACAD 467 Strategic Management of Innovation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in MOR 467 )
  

  • ACAD 475a The Garage Experience

    Units: 4, 8
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Academy capstone experience, innovative projects leading to operational prototypes and viable enterprises, mentored by faculty and industry experts.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 377 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 475b The Garage Experience

    Units: 4, 8
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Academy capstone experience, innovative projects leading to operational prototypes and viable enterprises, mentored by faculty and industry experts.
    Prerequisite: ACAD 475a 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Arts, Technology and the Business of innovation students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 480 Information Technology Internship

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: max 8
    (Enroll in ITP 480 )
  

  • ACAD 490 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Comprehensive exploration of particular aspects of art, technology and the business of innovation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACAD 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to graduate degree. Maximum units which may be applied to degree determined by department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACAD 599 Special Topics

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 8.0
    Comprehensive exploration of particular aspects of art, technology and the business of innovation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Accounting

Major Restrictions

Enrollment in most 500-level business courses by non-business graduate students requires special permission. For information about the registration application process for non-business students, visit the Schedule of Classes.
  

  • ACCT 370 External Financial Reporting Issues

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Understanding of decision-making, problem solving, and research skills as a supplement to financial accounting knowledge for accounting professionals.
    Prerequisite: BUAD 281  or BUAD 285b  or BUAD 286b  or BUAD 305 .
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 370ab.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 371 Introduction to Accounting Systems

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Understanding of technology and controls needed to capture data used by professionals in financial and managerial accounting, auditing and taxation.
    Prerequisite: BUAD 281  or BUAD 285b  or BUAD 286b  or BUAD 305 .
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 371ab.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 372 Internal Reporting Issues

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Understanding of decision-making, problem solving, and research skills as a supplement to managerial accounting knowledge for accounting professionals.
    Prerequisite: BUAD 281  or BUAD 285b  or BUAD 286b  or BUAD 305 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 373 Introduction to Auditing and Assurance Services

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Exploration of the requisite skills and knowledge needed to offer services in assurance, attestation or auditing engagements.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 370  and ACCT 371 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 374 Introduction to Tax Issues

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Basic tax principles, introduction to U.S. federal, state and local tax systems, income and expense definitions, property transactions, and fundamentals of individual taxation.
    Prerequisite: BUAD 281  or BUAD 285b  or BUAD 286b  or BUAD 305 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 377 Valuation for Financial Statement Purposes

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Explores Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 820 “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” and reviews the historical background of US GAAP fair value guidance.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 370 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 410x Foundations of Accounting

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Non-technical presentation of accounting for users of accounting information; introduction to financial and managerial accounting. Not open to students with course credits in accounting. Not available for unit or course credit toward a degree in Accounting or Business Administration.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 415x Intermediate Financial Accounting for Non-Accounting Majors

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    In-depth study of balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement issued from the perspective of a user (not preparer) of corporate financial reports.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 410x  or BUAD 281  or BUAD 285b  or BUAD 286b  or BUAD 305 .
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 411x and ACCT 412x.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 416 Financial Reporting and Analysis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examination of the role of financial statement analysis in the prediction of a firm’s future financial performance.
    Prerequisite: BUAD 215  or BUAD 306 ; ACCT 370  or ACCT 415 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 430 Accounting Ethics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Theoretical knowledge and practical application accountants need to identify ethical issues and reconcile conflicts among competing stakeholders’ interests in all major areas of accounting practice.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 372  and ACCT 373  and ACCT 374  and ACCT 377 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 442 The Ethics of Financial and Political Accountability

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in HIST 442 )
  

  • ACCT 462 Detecting Fraudulent Financial Reporting

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Understanding/identifying methods of fraudulent financial reporting, and signals that financial statements were fictitiously prepared; major frameworks for analyzing ethical dilemmas; reforms in corporate reporting environment.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 370  or ACCT 415x .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 463 Internal Audit

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examination of internal audit/auditors and their relationship to management, the investors, the regulators, and the external auditors.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 370 , ACCT 373 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 470 Advanced External Financial Reporting Issues

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Develop capabilities to identify and resolve advanced external financial reporting challenges, focusing primarily on operating, financing, and investing activities of business enterprises.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 370 ;
    Corequisite: ACCT 377 .
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 470ab.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 471 Accounting Information Systems

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Issues related to the design, control, and implementation of accounting information systems.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 371 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 472 Managerial Accounting

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Understanding of systems providing cost information useful in management decision-making and problem solving.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 372 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 473 Financial Statement Auditing

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Course builds on the background developed in ACCT 373 , specifically the process used by external auditors to conduct financial statement audits.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 373 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 474 Tax Issues for Business

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Capabilities to identify and articulate tax issues related to a business entity’s life: formation, investing, financing and operations, and change of form.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 374 .
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 451.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 475 Systems Security and Audit

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Issues related to the security, control, and auditing of accounting information systems.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 371 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 476 Performance Measurement Issues

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to understanding how management control systems can enhance achievement of the organization’s objectives and strategies.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 410x  or BUAD 281  or BUAD 285b  or BUAD 286b  or BUAD 305 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 477 Intermediate Fair Value Issues in Accounting

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Develops the ability to identify and understand new areas of emerging guidance involving fair value issues and to recognize and demonstrate appropriate application of methodologies.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 377 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 478 Accounting Systems Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Explores the design of accounting systems. Introduction to tools and techniques for analyzing and designing accounting systems with an emphasis on system controls and reporting.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 371 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 479 Accounting Systems Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examines the fundamentals of accounting systems development. Introduction to the concepts of implementation and support, with emphasis on system quality assurance, evaluation and attestation.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 478 .
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 454.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 493 Leventhal Honors Research Seminar

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Provides the methodological tools to identify research problems, develop researchable hypotheses, apply appropriate methodologies, conduct research, derive meaningful conclusions from data, write a research proposal.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Accounting and Business Majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 494 Marshall Honors Research and Thesis

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 04
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Experience in conducting research and writing a thesis under supervision of a faculty adviser.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 493  or BUAD 493 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Leventhal and Marshall Honors students
    Duplicates Credit in BUAD 494 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 495 Accounting Internship: Work, Ethics and Communication

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Provides insights and tools for the work environment specifically integrating technical, communication and ethical decision-making; bridging classroom learning and “real world” experience.
    Recommended Preparation: ACCT 370 , BUAD 302T .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to accounting majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Examination of current literature relevant to the total and changing environment in which business operates.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 509 Concepts of Financial and Management Accounting

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to the concepts of financial and managerial accounting. The course will provide coverage of key concepts needed by managers of businesses in order to communicate information important in decision-making.
    Registration Restriction: Not open to business or accounting majors
    Duplicates Credit in GSBA 510  and GSBA 518.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 525x Intensive Accounting Principles and Practices

    Units: 15
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Technical accounting theory and principles necessary for graduate work. Satisfies the prerequisite requirements for intermediate and advanced accounting, auditing, and tax.
    Recommended Preparation: introductory accounting courses.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 526 Global Accounting Experience

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Cross-border transactions in the global economy examining accounting, legal, and tax environments, economic and political systems, and cultural differences. Includes international travel to selected region.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 528 Fair Value Accounting: GAAP, IFRS and Emerging Issues

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Case study approach to explore fair value issues in accounting; research and analysis of causes of valuation differences.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to business and accounting majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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