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26:010:557Social Science and Research Methods (3) |
26:010:651Advanced Topics in Financial Accounting (3) Analysis of selected major concepts and issues in financial accounting theory and practice and their managerial implications. Topics include methodological issues. |
26:010:652Advanced Topics in Managerial Accounting (3) Topics include information economics and its application to incentive contracting and performance evaluation under moral hazard and/or information asymmetry; cost management principles using activity-based analysis, queuing models, and other analytical procedures. |
26:010:653Current Topics in Auditing (3) Topics include development of modern auditing theory, disclosure problems, principles of managerial control, and operational auditing. |
26:010:670Multivariate Analysis (3) |
26:010:680Current Topics in Accounting Research (3) Discussion and review of selected topics in accounting research implementation, and empirical testing in major fields of accounting. |
26:010:685Special Topics in Accounting (BA) |
26:010:686First Early Research Seminar in Accounting (3) |
26:010:687Second Early Research Seminar in Accounting (3) |
26:010:688Independent Study in Accounting (BA) |
26:010:689Rutgers Accounting Research Forum (3) |
26:010:799Dissertation Research in Accounting (BA) |
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26:198:685Special Topics in Information Systems (BA) |
26:198:686First Early Research Seminar in Information Systems (3) |
26:198:687Second Early Research Seminar in Information Systems (3) |
26:198:688Independent Study in Information Systems (BA) |
26:198:721Electronic Commerce (3) Theoretical foundations, implementation problems, and research issues of the emerging area of electronic commerce. Technological, conceptual, and methodological aspects of electronic commerce. Fundamentals of Internet technology, pricing of and accounting for Internet transport; security problems of the Internet; electronic payment systems; online financial reporting and auditing; intelligent agents; web measurements; electronic markets; and value chain over the Internet. |
26:198:722Expert Systems (3) Basic theory of rule-based systems and Bayes networks. Alternative architectures for managing uncertainty. Use of probabilistic logic to model causality. Related ideas from machine learning, neural networks, and genetic algorithms. Applications to auditing, marketing, and production. |
26:198:731Applications of Database Systems (3) Emphasizes functions of database administrator. Includes survey of physical and logical organization of data and their methods of accessing; the characteristics of different models of generalized database management systems. |
26:198:732Multimedia Information Systems (3) Principal topics related to multimedia information systems, including organizing multimedia content, physical storage and retrieval of multimedia data, content-based search and retrieval, creating and delivering networked and multimedia presentations, and current research directions in this area. |
26:198:799Dissertation Research in Information Systems (BA) |
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26:223:552Microeconomic Theory (3) Surveys and applies elements of marginal analysis, capital theory, utility, and risk analysis to problems in demand analysis, production, cost and distribution, market structure and pricing, and capital budgeting. |
26:223:553Macroeconomic Theory (3) Models, with attention to empirical work, of aggregate demand and supply and their components (i.e., investments and consumption, supply and demand for money and other financial assets, capital and labor markets). Determinants of the price level and of inflation; rates of interest, employment, and income; and international macroeconomic relations. Reviews major issues in the evaluation of monetary policy. |
26:223:554Econometrics (3) Statistical techniques for the analysis of models applicable to economic data and their application to management problems. |
26:223:655Advanced Econometrics (3) Simultaneous equation models, seemingly unrelated regressions, autocorrelation, ARIMA models, and nonlinear estimation. Appli-cations of such techniques to theoretical and empirical problems. |
26:223:657Advanced Microeconomics (3) Advanced theoretical treatment of major topics in microeconomics, including alternative models of consumer demand and the demand for the factors of production; the theory of market equilibria, their existence, and stability; and the concepts of perfect competition, monopoly, and other market imperfections. |
26:223:685Special Topics in Applied Economics (BA) |
26:223:686First Early Research Seminar in Applied Economics (3) |
26:223:687Second Early Research Seminar in Applied Economics (3) |
26:223:688Independent Study in Applied Economics (BA) |
26:223:799Dissertation Research in Applied Economics (BA) |
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26:390:571Survey of Financial Theory I (3) Surveys the fundamental assumptions and the analytical techniques of the modern theory of finance. Choices involving risk using utility theory and state preference, portfolio selection, capital market equilibrium and its implications for corporate finance and portfolio selections, and option theory. Prerequisites: 26:223:552 and 26:960:577. |
26:390:572Survey of Financial Theory II (3) Basic knowledge of theoretical and empirical model building in the area of corporate finance. Prerequisite: 26:390:571. |
26:390:600Analysis of Financial Markets and Institutions (3) Examines the financial markets and institutions of the U.S. financial system from an institution`s point of view. Covers the Treasury, Federal Reserve, banks, thrifts, insurance companies, and securities exchanges. Includes guest lectures and daytime field trips. Offered in conjunction with 22:390:648. Check the M.B.A. schedule for offerings. |
26:390:661Corporate Finance (3) In-depth study of theoretical and empirical research on financial decision making by companies and firms. Covers capital budgeting and corporate finance, including dividend and capital structure decisions and the impact of alternative tax policies. Prerequisite: 26:390:571. |
26:390:662Investment Analysis and Portfolio Theory (3) The parallel development of portfolio theory and empirical research on investments. Topics include the development, testing, and application of mean-variance portfolio efficiency, market efficiency, the various forms of the capital asset pricing model, estimation of risk, option theory, portfolio immunization, and asset pricing theory. Prerequisite: 26:390:571. |
26:390:668Empirical Finance (3) Application of econometric techniques to the empirical study of finance and financial economics, especially the examination of weak effects with very large samples. Measurement problems in event studies and effects of anomalies in reported prices on computed returns and dealing with those effects. After completing this course and 26:223:655, the student should be able to evaluate critically both proposed and published studies. In addition, class participants become adept at designing their own studies. Prerequisites: 26:390:571 and 572. |
26:390:685Special Topics in Finance (BA) |
26:390:686First Early Research Seminar in Finance (3) |
26:390:687Second Early Research Seminar in Finance (3) |
26:390:688Independent Study in Finance (BA) |
26:390:799Dissertation Research in Finance (BA) |
International Business 553
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26:553:501Global Strategic Management (3) Analyzes the collective knowledge about multinational enterprises, their strategy, design, and organization. Reviews the literature in international management and identifies gaps for possible research questions and dissertation topics. Topics include definitions of multinational corporations, diversification, the ownership and organizational strategies of firms, and the globalization of production markets. |
26:553:601Theory of International Business (3) Critically appraises the main economic and behavioral theories of the determinants of international business activity over the past 30 years. |
26:553:602History of International Business (3) |
26:553:604Corporate Innovation and International Business (3) |
26:553:605National Innovation Policies and International Business (3) Examines the role of technology in economic development and national innovation systems as they evolve in the globalizing economy. |
26:553:607Global Political Economy (3) Examines the forces determining the competitiveness of corporations and countries and how these factors have changed as markets and production have become increasingly globalized. |
26:553:685Special Topics in International Business (BA) |
26:553:686First Early Research Seminar in International Business (3) |
26:553:687Second Early Research Seminar in International Business (3) |
26:553:688Independent Study in International Business (BA) |
26:553:799Dissertation Research in International Business (BA) |
Organization Management 620
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26:620:555Seminar in Organizational Behavior (3) Survey of theory and empirical research about the behavior of individuals and groups in organizations. Typical topics include motivation, socialization, job design, satisfaction, performance, leadership, group norms, and decision-making processes. |
26:620:556Seminar in Organization Theory (3) Survey of theory and empirical research about the behavior of individuals and groups in organizations. Typical topics include models or organizations (e.g., theories of bureaucracy and closed, open, and natural systems); effects of technology, environment, power, and decision making; and organizational culture. |
26:620:557Social Science Research Methods (3) Surveys methods used in the study of organizations, including experimental design, survey research, case methods, questionnaire and interview construction, and scaling techniques. Students expected to design feasible research projects that are later carried out. Prerequisite: 26:960:577. |
26:620:558Seminar in Strategic Management (3) Introduces the field of strategy at the Ph.D. level. Critically reviews a wide variety of approaches to strategy research, including both behavioral and economic approaches, and the relation of other areas of research to strategy formulation and implementation. |
26:620:604Seminar in Leadership and Group Processes (3) Important theories and empirical studies of leadership and group process. Key theoretical and methodological issues in transformational leadership, empowerment, and self-managing teams. |
26:620:660Qualitative Research Methods (3) |
26:620:670Multivariate Analysis (3) |
26:620:671Management of Innovation and Technology (3) Examines individual, structural, and contextual factors that facilitate and inhibit the generation and implementation of new technology. Emphasizes the management of innovation in organizations. |
26:620:677Culture and Organizations (3) Explores theory and research on cultural differences among people at the group, organization, and national levels. Draws on research literature from social and behavioral sciences on cultural and cross- cultural phenomena. Topics include the content and manifestations of culture, cultural similarities and differences, the transmission of culture, culture and subcultures, culture change, and organizational culture. |
26:620:685Special Topics in Organization Management (BA) |
26:620:686First Early Research Seminar in Organization Management (3) |
26:620:687Second Early Research Seminar in Organization Management (3) |
26:620:688Independent Study in Organization Management (BA) |
26:620:799Dissertation Research in Organization Management (BA) |
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26:630:660Qualitative Research Methods (3) Emphasizes issues of eliciting, analyzing, and representing verbal data in qualitative research. Topics considered are definition and evaluation of qualitative research; methods of eliciting data from individuals and groups; methods of analyzing verbal data; issues of representing narratives; and new research directions using feminist, historical, and aesthetic methods. |
26:630:670Multivariate Analysis (3) Multivariate normal distributions, principal components, factor analysis, canonical correlation, and discrimination and classification. Prerequisite: 26:960:577. |
26:630:685Special Topics in Marketing (BA) |
26:630:686First Early Research Seminar in Marketing (3) |
26:630:687Second Early Research Seminar in Marketing (3) |
26:630:688Independent Study in Marketing (BA) |
26:630:799Dissertation Research in Marketing (BA) |
Supply Chain Management 711
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26:711:561Introduction to Mathematical Economics (3) The quantitative tools and principles used to model operational procedures in economic and business systems-types of variables, mathematical sets, and functional forms in constrained and unconstrained optimization. Other topics include tractability, duality, Kuhn-Tucker theory, algorithms, and computation. Prerequisite: Differential calculus. |
26:711:651Linear Programming (3) Survey of linear programming and its applications. Topics include linear programming models, basic simplex method, duality theory and complementary slackness, sensitivity analysis, degeneracy, matrix notation and revised simplex method, and special linear programs (such as transportation and network flow theory; applications in statistics, economics, and finance models of linear programming; game theory; and introduction to interior point methods). Prerequisite: Undergraduate linear algebra. |
26:711:652Nonlinear Programming (3) Fundamentals of nonlinear optimization, with an emphasis on convex problems. Gradient, Newton, and other methods for unconstrained problems. Projection, linearization, penalty, barrier, and augmented Lagrangian methods for constrained problems. Lagrangian functions and duality theory. Assignments include computer programming and mathematical proofs. Prerequisite: 26:711:651. |
26:711:660Supply Chain Modeling and Algorithms (3) |
26:711:661Stochastic Methods in Supply Chain Management (3) |
26:711:685Special Topics in Management Science (BA) |
26:711:686First Early Research Seminar in Management Science (3) |
26:711:687Second Early Research Seminar in Management Science (3) |
26:711:688Independent Study in Management Science (BA) |
26:711:799Dissertation Research in Management Science (BA) |
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26:960:575Introduction to Probability (3) Foundations of probability. Discrete and continuous simple and multivariate probability distributions; random walks; generating functions; linear functions of random variable; approximate means and variances; exact methods of finding moments; limit theorems; stochastic processes, including immigration-emigration, simple queuing, renewal theory, and Markov chains. Prerequisite: Undergraduate or master`s-level course in statistics. |
26:960:577Introduction to Statistical Linear Models (3) Linear models and their application to empirical data. The general linear model; ordinary-least-squares estimation; diagnostics, including departures from underlying assumptions, detection of outliners, effects of influential observations, and leverage; analysis of variance, including one-way layouts, two way, and higher dimensional layouts, partitioning sums of squares, and incomplete layouts (Latin squares, incomplete blocks, and nested or repeated measures). Emphasizes computational aspects and use of standard computer packages, such as SPSS. Prerequisite: Undergraduate or master`s-level course in statistics. |
26:960:580Stochastic Processes (3) Review of probability theory with emphasis on conditional expectations; Markov chains; the Poisson process; continuous-time Markov chains; renewal theory; queuing theory; introduction to stochastic calculus (e.g., Ito`s Lemma). Prerequisite: 26:960:575. |
Doctoral Courses in Information Systems in the NJIT Departments of Computer Science and Information Systems
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CIS 675Evaluation of Information Systems (3) Exploration of the techniques, methodologies, and approaches to the evaluation of information systems within the context of the user and organizational environment. Subjects covered include automatic activity monitoring, controlled experimentation, survey and interview design, models of human performance and flow, and network models of information transfer in the organizational environment. Analysis of data gathered by the above approaches by such methods as analysis of variance and covariance, regression, and factor analysis. Emphasis on the application of these techniques in assessing information systems and their performance for users and organizations. |
CIS 677Information System Principles (3) Reviews the role of information systems in organizations and how they relate to organizational objectives and organizational structure. Identifies basic concepts, such as the systems point of view, the organization of a system, the nature of information and information flows, the impact of systems upon management and organizations, human information processing, and related cognitive concepts. Introduces various types of applications that are part of information systems. |
CIS 679Management of Computer and Information Systems (3) Management policies and practices associated with the acquisition, development, implementation, system testing, and acceptance of computer and information systems. Emphasis on factors and considerations for the successful operation of computer and information systems within an organizational context. Motivating and organizing technical personnel, planning and managing the software development process, acquisition of hardware and software, planning of a facility, evaluation of the operation, charging policies, organizational objectives, and strategic applications of information systems. |
CIS 732Design of Interactive Systems (3) Covers the current professional literature on the design of interactive systems and human computer interfaces, including the "knowns, unknowns, and unk unks" of design. Three design projects will be completed. Emphasizes application areas that have a great deal of cognitive variability and diverse user populations. Student is responsible for a final project dealing with the current professional literature in a specific area of interface design. Prerequisite: CIS 675. |
CIS 776Independent Study (for the CIS State-of-the-Art Paper) (3) |
CIS 790Doctoral Dissertation and Research (6-12) In addition to the above offerings, the CIS department has a wide range
of master`s and doctoral courses in computer science, many of them
available every term. See http://www.njit.edu for more
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