In this 1-credit seminar experience, you will develop valuable professional, leadership, advocacy, interpersonal, and organizational skills and apply them to your work as a RISE Fellow, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion across SBS and helping first-generation, low-income, and BIPOC students to navigate their undergraduate experience. This course is designed to foster your own personal, intellectual, and professional development as much as it is to prepare you to provide a valuable service for minoritized students, your departments, and the College in general.

This course provides an introduction to Business Intelligence, including the processes, methodologies, infrastructure, and current practices used to transform business data into useful information and support business decision-making. Business Intelligence requires foundation knowledge in data storage and retrieval, thus this course will review logical data models for both database management systems and data warehouses. Students will learn to extract and manipulate data from these systems and assess security-related issues.

This course will cover foundational texts and core debates in the study of development. What is development? How have conceptualizations of "development" and theories of "development" changed over the past century? The course will focus on both domestic and international processes to illuminate a range of development challenges using examples from around the world.

Overview of organizational behavior, operations management, and strategy/entrepreneurship. Topics include: Behavioral background of formal organizational life, organizational design, integrating factors in collective behavior, organizational change, systems analysis, techniques of decision making and control, the organization and its environment, and the nature of management theory. Topics grouped in modules of organizational behavior, operations management, and strategy/entrepreneurship. Prerequisite: junior standing.