4/24/2024 1:26:04 PM	BAD 63 Course Outline as of Spring 2011	Inactive Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  BAD 63	Title:  INTERNATIONAL BUS
Full Title:  International Business
Last Reviewed:3/27/2000

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		15 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade Only
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
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Catalog Description:

Introduction to the essentials of international business and the environmental forces that impact on the managerial decision process. Course examines the physical, financial, political, legal, competitive, labor, marketing, economic and sociocultural constraints and opportunities of foreign market analysis and trade management.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Intro to environmental, economic, political & social constraints of doing business abroad; foreign market analysis and operational strategy of a firm; essentials of international management and functions.

(Grade Only)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

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IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
UC Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Certificate Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

The students will:

1.  Identify the differences between domestic, foreign and international

   business.

2.  Evaluate the opportunities and risks presented by international

   trade, competition, and foreign investment.

3.  Compare and describe the functions of international organizations

   and monetary systems.

4.  Evaluate the controllable and uncontrollable forces in a foreign

   environment.

5.  Perform and develop successfully as a manager in international

   business by understanding and using foreign market assessment and

   analysis.

6.  Identify the importance of crosscultural understanding and develop

   a global perspective towards doing business.

Topics and Scope

1.  The nature of international business. Its history, growth and

   development, why international business is different, how it has

   developed as a separate field of study, international trade and

   foreign investment, theories of international trade and economic

   development.

2.  The international environment. International organizations i.e., the

   United Nations, the World Bank group, international monetary fund,

   General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the European Community,

   Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The

   international monetary system and balance of payments.

3.  Foreign environments. The physical, financial, political, legal,

   competitive, labor, marketing, economic and sociocultural forces

   present in a foreign environment.

4.  How management deals with foreign environmental forces by utilizing

   market assessment and analysis, export practices and procedures,

   international marketing, East-West trade, financial management,

   production systems, and labor relations policies.

5.  Management tools. The strategic planning process, planning,

   implementation, the global planning process. Organizing. International

   division or global corporation? Characteristics of the "right"

   organization. Controlling and staffing. Management evaluation,

   subsidiary reporting. Selection, training, compensation and

   retention of foreign employees and managers. Women in international

   business.

6.  Comparisons of multinational and global corporations. American

   multinational enterprises (MNE), foreign MNE's, the MNE and its

   impact on foreign trade. Industrial espionage. Joint ventures.

   Sources of international economic and financial information.

Assignments:

1.  Weekly oral/written assignments consisting of selected text

   chapter questions and/or case studies, reinforced by selected

   assignments in the student Study Guide for the text.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 0 - 10%
Written homework
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 10 - 30%
Homework problems, Quizzes, Exams
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 0 - 10%
Class performances
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 20 - 40%
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 20 - 40%
COMPREHENSIVE CASE STUDY (FINAL EXAM)

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: INTRODUCTION AND ESSENTIALS, 4th ed. by

Donald A. Ball and Wendell H. McCulloch, Jr., Homewood, IL: Irwin.

1990.

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