This course is for SBS who want to learn to teach their peers to be successful in college. Students assist a primary instructor in the teaching of a First Year Seminar that meets weekly throughout the semester. In addition, some assignments will occasionally require working with the FY students outside of class. Students in this class meet weekly in their own seminar where they discuss issues around classroom management, teaching techniques, and organizational skills, such as working with Moodle.

There are many pathways to success in college and we encourage students to map out their own way to get there. This class will help incoming students define their individual goals and connect them to the resources needed to achieve them. It will also help students understand the vital nature of the fields within social and behavioral sciences and how SBS majors, and a range of other options at UMass, can open many doors.

There are many pathways to success in college and we encourage students to map out their own way to get there. This class will help incoming students define their individual goals and connect them to the resources needed to achieve them. It will also help students understand the vital nature of the fields within social and behavioral sciences and how SBS majors, and a range of other options at UMass, can open many doors.

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An overview of the concepts and language of financial and managerial accounting that covers how accounting information can be used as an effective tool for communication, monitoring, and resource allocation. Topics include the principles and methodologies underlying financial statements and the inherent limitations of that information. Additional topics include behavior, cost analysis, and tools used to motivate and coordinate business activities.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the area of corporate finance and investments. Students will learn about the basic concerns and responsibilities of financial managers, and gain an appreciation of the methods of analysis employed by them. Students will learn both theory and practice of corporate finance and investments.

This course surveys the practical frictions managers encounter when solving problems and getting organizations to do things. These frictions include ambiguity, imperfect information, politics, and flawed human beings. In working through a series of difficult cases, drawn from both academic and popular sources, students learn a set of techniques for overcoming these frictions. Students emerge with a broader appreciation for the general manager?s job, and with the ability to avoid getting stuck on issues which can otherwise fluster junior executives.

This course is a two-part honors seminar that occurs over the course of the academic year and students must complete both to use the completion of this seminar to fulfill the honors research /thesis or project requirement. The first part of the honors seminar in fall semester is designed to introduce the methods and approaches utilized to conduct research. In the spring semester, the students who successfully completed the first part of the honors seminar will carry out the proposed research projects under the supervision of the faculty member teaching the seminar.