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The accounting process, financial statement preparation, and analysis. Includes the accounting cycle, asset, liability, and equity accounting. Emphasis on the use of accounting data.

Prerequisites:

MATH 112 or MATH 115or MATH 121 or MATH 130 or MATH 181

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accounting (BS)
• Accounting Minor
• Actuarial Science Minor
• Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS)
• Applied Health Science (BS) Pre-Healthcare Administration
• Aviation (BS) Aviation Management
• Bus Ad: General Minor
• Business Administration (BBA)
• Construction Management (BS)
• Economics (BS)
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor
• Finance (BS) Financial Planning and Insurance
• Finance (BS) General Finance
• Finance (BS) Quantitative Finance
• Integrated Business Experience (CERT)
• International Business (BS)
• Management (BS) Business Management
• Management (BS) Human Resource Management
• Manufacturing Engineering (BS)
• Marketing (BS)
• Sport Management (BS)
• Statistics (BS) Actuarial Track

Preparation and analysis of cost-based management reports: use of cost information to make short-term operating decisions and long-term capital decisions.

Prerequisites:

ACCT 200

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accounting Minor
• Applied Health Science (BS) Pre-Healthcare Administration
• Bus Ad: General Minor
• Business Administration (BBA)
• Construction Management (BS)
• Economics (BS)
• Management (BS) Business Management
• Management (BS) Human Resource Management
• Management Information Systems (BS)
• Manufacturing Engineering (BS)

This course provides extensive hands-on practice applying all steps in the accounting cycle. Emphasis will be placed on completion of journal entries, adjusting entries, closing entries, and preparation of financial statements.

Prerequisites:

ACCT 200

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accelerated Accounting (CERT)
• Accounting (BS)

An in-depth analysis of financial accounting concepts and procedures, and includes coverage of the income statement, balance sheet, time value of money, receivables and inventories.

Prerequisites:

ACCT 200

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accelerated Accounting (CERT)
• Accounting (BS)
• Accounting Minor
• Bus Ad: General Minor
• Finance (BS) General Finance
• Finance (BS) Quantitative Finance

A continuation of Accounting 300. An in-depth analysis of long term liabilities, stockholders equity, leases, pensions, deferred taxes and the statement of cash flows.

Prerequisites:

ACCT 300

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accelerated Accounting (CERT)
• Accounting (BS)
• Accounting Minor
• Finance (BS) General Finance
• Finance (BS) Quantitative Finance

Emphasizes product and service costing, including job order and process costing systems. Other related topics are budgeting, pricing, cost-volume-profit analysis, standards and variance analysis.

Prerequisites:

ACCT 200, ACCT 210

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accounting (BS)
• Accounting Minor
• Bus Ad: General Minor
• Finance (BS) General Finance
• Management (BS) Business Management
• Management (BS) Human Resource Management

A discussion of various accounting information systems. Topics include documentation, internal control, system design, knowledge structures, database design, software evaluation, systems applications and current developments.

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accounting (BS)
• Accounting Minor

The course examines the principles and procedures relating to the determination and computation of federal income taxes for an individual. Federal estate tax, gift tax, and income taxation of estates and trusts are also examined.

Prerequisites:

ACCT 200, ACCT 210

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accelerated Accounting (CERT)
• Accounting (BS)
• Accounting Minor
• Bus Ad: General Minor
• Finance (BS) Financial Planning and Insurance
• Financial Planning Minor

Curricular Practical Training: Co-Operative Experience is a zero-credit full-time practical training experience for one summer and an adjacent fall or spring term. Special rules apply to preserve full-time student status. Please contact an advisor in your program for complete information.

Prerequisites:

Permission of the Chairperson of the department; co-op contract; other prerequisites may also apply.

Areas of Interest:

Finance

A study of accounting principles and concepts for mergers, acquisitions, consolidated statements, foreign currency translation, partnerships, and governmental/not for profit.

Prerequisites:

ACCT 301

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accounting (BS)
• Accounting Minor

The course examines the principles and procedures relating to the determination and computation of federal income taxes for various business entities including sole proprietorships, corporations, partnerships and tax-exempt entities. The course also covers tax research procedures.

Prerequisites:

ACCT 300, ACCT 330

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accelerated Accounting (CERT)
• Accounting (BS)
• Accounting Minor

An overview of the external audit process, the issues facing the auditing profession today, and assurance services. Includes detailed coverage of the AICPA Code of Conduct, audit planning, substantive testing, auditors' responsibilities for detecting fraud, and audit reports.

Prerequisites:

ACCT 300

Areas of Interest:

Finance

Programs:

• Accelerated Accounting (CERT)
• Accounting (BS)
• Accounting Minor

Study tours are led by Minnesota State University, Mankato faculty and provide students with opportunities to visit companies and attend lectures by renowned experts from key sectors of economy, government, and business.

Supervised experience in public, industrial or governmental accounting. Students must meet standards established by the employer and the Department of Accounting.

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This course covers the basic and advanced principles and techniques used in selling agricultural merchandise and services. Agricultural Sales has taken on increased importance in recent years. The introduction of new products and services has magnified the need for technically competent knowledgeable sales personnel. Roleplaying and advanced, in-depth sales presentations will be done in class. Students will also be required to make an industry visit and write appropriate letters. THIS COURSE IS FOR BAS AGRONOMY MAJORS ONLY.The course does not apply toward any College of Business majors, certificates, or minors. The course serves as a counterpart to a South Central College course for ease of transfer.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

• Agronomy (BAS)

This course is an introduction to agricultural economics. Economic concepts of the food, fiber, and fuel industry will be explored though problem solving exercises and graphical analysis. Consumer and business behavior will be analyzed under various market and regulatory conditions, with major focus spent on determining changes to equilibrium of aggregate supply and demand curves. Both microeconomic and macroeconomic factors will be defined and discussed in relation to global and local agribusiness value chains, including many factors affecting farmers in the American Midwest. THIS COURSE IS FOR BAS AGRONOMY MAJORS ONLY. The course does not apply toward any College of Business majors, certificates, or minors. The course serves as a counterpart to a South Central College course for ease of transfer.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

• Agronomy (BAS)

This course covers major aspects of agribusiness from financial managementthrough financial problem solving, analysis, and planning. Students will applyeconomic and financial concepts by creating balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, inventory controls, and budgets. Students will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned in a computerized farm supply business simulation. Students will also develop management skills needed to be an effective agribusiness manager. THIS COURSE IS FOR BAS AGRONOMY MAJORS ONLY. The course does not apply toward any College of Business majors, certificates, or minors. The course serves as a counterpart to a South Central College course for ease of transfer.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

• Agronomy (BAS)

This course examines supply chain concepts and principles, theoretical concepts and their application to modern and future agriculture industries. This course will have an emphasis on regional agriculture and food commodities as well as processed food production and manufacturing. Professionals in the agriculture industry will be brought into class to explain how agribusiness supply chain knowledge and skills are essential to various sectors. Students will have an opportunity to broaden their thinking, understanding, and professional potential as related to the agribusiness and food industry while interacting with professionals and facility tours.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

• Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS)

This course covers the principles of agricultural commodity marketing, includingcash, forward, futures, and options contracts. Economic impacts on supply, demand, and equilibrium pricing for commodities will be explored. Students will participate in simulated marketing transactions and track local and terminal market pricing. THIS COURSE IS FOR BAS AGRONOMY MAJORS ONLY.The course does not apply toward any College of Business majors, certificates, or minors. The course serves as a counterpart to a South Central College course for ease of transfer.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

• Agronomy (BAS)

This course covers strategies of commodity marketing of agricultural products. Students will apply marketing principles in various market situations. Students will work with forward contracts, basis contracts, futures contracts, and option strategies in agriculture commodities. Students will develop market plans for agribusiness marketing and input needs. THIS COURSE IS FOR BAS AGRONOMY MAJORS ONLY. The course does not apply toward any College of Business majors, certificates, or minors. The course serves as a counterpart to a South Central College course for ease of transfer.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

• Agronomy (BAS)

This course covers farm estate planning and law topics with direct application toproduction agriculture. Topics include federal and state estate tax laws and theirimpact on the transfer of agriculture property. Estate planning options such as wills, life insurance and trusts will be explored. Other topics include farm partnerships and corporations, agricultural legal case studies, basic contracts, legal land descriptions, fence regulations, animal legalities, water rights, bankruptcy, gifting, and liability issues. THIS COURSE IS FOR BAS AGRONOMY MAJORS ONLY. The course does not apply toward any College of Business majors, certificates, or minors. The course serves as a counterpart to a South Central College course for ease of transfer.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

• Agronomy (BAS)

The goal of this course is to provide a basic understanding of finance for students entering agribusiness profession. The primary objective of this course is to cover all basic topics, including time value of money, agricultural lending, financial statement analysis following Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the Farm Credit System, risk in agribusiness, legal matter in agribusiness, national and international trend in agribusiness finance.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

• Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS)

This seminar will provide students the opportunity to self-direct studies in agricultural technology in their areas of interest. Technologies to be considered could include but are not limited to, plant protection, precision farming, application industries, livestock equipment, biotechnologies, financial resource management, sustainable agriculture, environmental impacts of agriculture, agricultural workforce, and agricultural production. Some organized events will be part of this course. The major emphasis will be self-directed learning.THIS COURSE IS FOR BAS AGRONOMY MAJORS ONLY. The course does not apply toward any College of Business majors, certificates, or minors. The course serves as a counterpart to a South Central College course for ease of transfer.

Areas of Interest:

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources

Programs:

• Agronomy (BAS)

This course is designed to give students an opportunity to study abroad while learning basic business principles. The course focuses on building business knowledge in agriculture, food and trade while experiencing these concepts in another country. The course also focuses on cultural competency and understanding and experiencing a different culture. An interactive activity will also take place with a company. The course does not apply toward any College of Business majors or minors. The course serves as a counterpart to a South Central College course for ease of transfer.

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This lecture course provides the student with advanced knowledge regarding dental anatomy, occlusion, and biomaterials.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This lecture and simulation laboratory-based course provides the student with initial operative dentistry learning opportunities for the permanent dentition. This course focuses on the principles of operative dentistry cavity preparation and restoration design, as well as the appropriate selection and application of direct restorative materials. Special topics include techniques which restore form, function, and esthetics to permanent teeth in the simulation lab setting in preparation for patient care. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and judgment, psychomotor skills, and self-evaluation.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This didactic course prepares the student with the knowledge, skills and judgments to collect and analyze patient health data relevant to advanced dental therapy practice. This course focuses on the development of critical thinking skills and the use of sound clinical judgment to develop individualized treatment plans. Regulations and rules that guide judgments and actions of all dental team members are also emphasized.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This lecture and simulation-lab based course emphasizes restorative and preventive strategies specific to the primary and mixed dentitions in advanced dental therapy practice. Course focus includes child and adolescent behavior and trauma management; data gathering, analysis, and treatment planning; and management of the developing occlusion. Consultations and referrals are also emphasized.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This laboratory and clinical course prepares the student with the knowledge, skills and judgments to collect and analyze patient health data relevant to advanced dental therapy practice. This course builds upon the critical thinking skills learned in ADT 510 and allows students to develop and apply sound clinical judgment when creating individualized treatment plans and while working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course consists of lecture, laboratory, and clinical components. The lecture and laboratory components address the basic principles of complex tooth preparations and restorations, interim restorations, uncomplicated permanent tooth exodontia, and suturing techniques. The clinical component of this course provides the student with initial clinical experiences in the delivery of advanced dental therapy services and patient management.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course prepares the student with the pharmacological knowledge and skills necessary to think critically and make sound judgments when providing patient-centered care within their scope of practice. Effective patient care begins with sorting through the patient¿s medical/dental health status and pharmacological report. Based on a comprehensive initial analysis, the student will discern appropriate modifications and necessary drug prescriptions/interventions to ensure overall safe and optimal care. Drug classes, pharmacological effects, adverse reactions, drug contraindications and interactions will be addressed practically and reinforced through case-based learning.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course reviews common medical and dental emergencies that may be encountered in Advanced Dental Therapy practice, as well as management protocols and prevention strategies for emergencies. This course illustrates the relationship between accurate data collection and achieving successful outcomes in the management of dental and medical emergencies. Emphasis is placed on gathering, analyzing, and processing information to develop appropriate action plans.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This lecture and clinically-based course provides the Master of Science in Advanced Dental Therapy student with the opportunity to address their scope of practice dealing with prosthodontics. Students develop and refine their knowledge, skills, and judgments in providing advanced dental therapy scope of practice to underserved patients across the lifespan.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course advances the competency of Master of Science in Advanced Dental Therapy students. The oral healthcare of special needs and underserved patients are addressed in non-traditional and university dental settings. Critical thinking, clinical judgment, ethics, and professional responsibility are emphasized, in addition to health equity.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course requires capstone topic identification in an area related to Advanced Dental Therapy. The student composes a scholarly reading list, an abstract for the capstone paper and an outline of paper contents.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

This course is the zenith of advanced dental therapy student educational experiences. Knowledge, skills, clinical judgments, and critical thinking appropriate for successful advanced dental therapy practice are demonstrated in clinical practice.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

Students complete their capstone project and present their conclusions to faculty and/or colleagues in the oral and allied health professions.

Areas of Interest:

Health Science

Programs:

• Advanced Dental Therapy (MS)

In this course students examine Indigenous perspectives of education, knowledge, and learning. Students will gain an understanding of the present-day and historical relationships between educational institutions, policies, practices, and Indigenous communities. By engaging with present day efforts of educators, programs, and institutions that incorporate and employ traditional knowledges in educational pedagogy, students will be able to analyze how policy, practice, and lived-experience impact Indigenous education. Students will also develop a deeper understanding and practical skills in supporting and promoting teaching practices and pedagogies that value and support a diverse educational community.

Introduces students to museum science and how historic constructs, practices and contemporary issues of the museum as an institution relate to the representation of the other.

Programs:

• Museum Studies (GC)

A brief intensive or hands on experience based in Indigenous knowledge and methods. Variable topics.

In this course students examine Indigenous perspectives of education, knowledge, and learning. Students will gain an understanding of the present-day and historical relationships between educational institutions, policies, practices, and Indigenous communities. By engaging with present day efforts of educators, programs, and institutions that incorporate and employ traditional knowledges in educational pedagogy, students will be able to analyze how policy, practice, and lived-experience impact Indigenous education. Students will also develop a deeper understanding and practical skills in supporting and promoting teaching practices and pedagogies that value and support a diverse educational community. Students should take either AIS 530 or AIS 630 but not both.

A detailed study of Minnesota archaeology from ca. 12,000 years ago to ca. 1900, with a focus on diverse and changing Native American populations.

A survey of current knowledge about the prehistoric Native American inhabitants of North America from ca. 15,000 years ago until ca. 1900. Topics will focus on the processes of cultural development, change, and disruption by Euro-American influences.

A detailed study of Latin American archaeology from ca. 12,000 years ago to ca. 1900, with a focus on diverse and changing Native American populations.

A review of the history and philosophy of museums, the legal and ethical issues impacting museums, the nature and treatment of collections, creation, exhibition and exhibit design, the role of museums in education, museum personnel and management, and museums in the technological/electronic age.

Areas of Interest:

People and Cultures

Programs:

• Museum Studies (GC)

Review of how cultural resources are being preserved and managed under current laws and regulations. Emphasis on examination of conservation, preservation and rescue methods in modern archaeology, and problems and issues in historic preservation and resource management.

Areas of Interest:

People and Cultures

Programs:

• Museum Studies (GC)

An intensive exploration of how to identify, catalogue, and curate archeological materials in a laboratory setting. Topics will include lithics, pottery, faunal, floral, metal, and other materials as well as data structure and recordation.

An interdisciplinary investigation into Quaternary environmental/climatic change and the impact of change on the behavior and evolution of humans. This course has three segments: 1) an examination of natural systems responsible for climatic change, the impact climatic fluctuations have on Earth systems, timing of Quaternary changes, evidence of climatic/environmental change from spatially distant, climatically distinct environments; 2) investigation into worldwide evidence of human evolution, global dispersion, and adaptation to environmental systems; introduction to various methodological approaches in Quaternary archeologic, geomorphic, and climatic studies. Focus is on proxy records used for climate/environmental reconstruction, archeolgic/geomorphologic field methods, geochronologic dating methods.