This course provides key operational principles behind hospitality management with a focus on project management in the hotel business.
Students will explore the complexities of the hospitality business environment and the unique nature of the hotel sector in national and global contexts.
Topics include managing the physical plant of a hotel or restaurant, addressing energy, water, and waste demands, and ensuring environmentally conscious facilities management.
By the end of the course, students will be equipped to manage operational challenges effectively and sustainably.
Students will explore the complexities of the hospitality business environment and the unique nature of the hotel sector in national and global contexts.
Topics include managing the physical plant of a hotel or restaurant, addressing energy, water, and waste demands, and ensuring environmentally conscious facilities management.
By the end of the course, students will be equipped to manage operational challenges effectively and sustainably.
This course introduces graduate students to the application of data analytics as a key tool for decision-making in organizational environments. Through the use of practical tools such as Excel, analytical models, and simulations, students will develop the ability to transform data into strategic information, model scenarios, and evaluate alternatives under conditions of uncertainty.
The course emphasizes an applied approach, allowing students to integrate techniques in data visualization, data preparation, simulation, and basic optimization to support evidence-based decisions. By the end of the course, participants will be prepared to use analytics as a resource to improve organizational performance and decision quality in real-world contexts.- Teacher: Alex Lima
This course introduces students to the foundational
principles and practical applications of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and
web design. Students will explore how to design user-friendly, accessible, and
search-optimized websites that improve visibility and engagement. The course
emphasizes aligning SEO strategies with web design elements to enhance digital
marketing performance.
This course offers an introduction to the legal environment, which affects individuals, businesses, and business transactions. In addition to providing a general introduction to the American legal system, it focusses on specific legal topics such as contracts, maximizing purchasing power through credit, purchasing appropriate insurance, contracting, renting and owning real state.
This course focuses on getting across a practical basic understanding of international business, contracts, the internet and the pertinent legal issues that are raised in the real world.
This course focuses on getting across a practical basic understanding of international business, contracts, the internet and the pertinent legal issues that are raised in the real world.
- Teacher: Tracey Cabanis
In the business world, or particularly in the conduct of a business, the application of a strategy, the omission of relevant information or disinformation, can be beneficial economically and even more so in the international context. Indeed, you could say that a business has been good not only because both parties have benefited but because one has benefited more (from the point of view of the latter).
Therefore, organizations, whether multinational, transnational or global, assume that, in their principles, they consider the different types of characterizations that widely affect business, thus obtaining a greater range of information, in order to have a better finished idea about how companies are doing.
This subject has as a general objective to develop skills in future professionals to operate in the environment of International Business, capable of successfully facing the process of globalization, which is expansive, explosive and indefensible, based on an integrative, broad and creative vision of the different variables (Economic, Political, Social, Ecological, Cultural, among others) that today are paradigms in the society where it will develop in the business world.
Therefore, organizations, whether multinational, transnational or global, assume that, in their principles, they consider the different types of characterizations that widely affect business, thus obtaining a greater range of information, in order to have a better finished idea about how companies are doing.
This subject has as a general objective to develop skills in future professionals to operate in the environment of International Business, capable of successfully facing the process of globalization, which is expansive, explosive and indefensible, based on an integrative, broad and creative vision of the different variables (Economic, Political, Social, Ecological, Cultural, among others) that today are paradigms in the society where it will develop in the business world.
Business Technology Applications is designed to provide students with skills in computer technology and business applications in business. The emphasis is on understanding and using integrated software with basic business applications.
This course utilizes computers as a business tool through the use of database spreadsheets, word-processing, and presentation software, along with internet research.
The student will use computing tools to understand the requirements and learn the fundamental architecture and how to operate ae-commerce site. The final project will combine all the learning into a real case, and the students are expected to use Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and other tools as required/desired to produce the final document.
This course utilizes computers as a business tool through the use of database spreadsheets, word-processing, and presentation software, along with internet research.
The student will use computing tools to understand the requirements and learn the fundamental architecture and how to operate ae-commerce site. The final project will combine all the learning into a real case, and the students are expected to use Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and other tools as required/desired to produce the final document.
- Teacher: Dr. Kevin Bilberry
This course provides an overview and understanding of the current issues and challenges facing today’s businesses, both small and large.
The design of this course and its primary objective is to enable participants to improve their understanding of the basic mechanics of business operations; manufacturing, marketing and maintaining financial focus in a rapidly changing and competitive market.
You will engage in the assessment of individual organizational leadership skills and be able to more readily decide your choice of the career challenges and awards that management offers.
Upon completion of this course, you will recognize the fundamentals of current management practices, the changing roles of managers and the managed, future trends in worldwide management structures and activities in manufacturing and service organizations.
The design of this course and its primary objective is to enable participants to improve their understanding of the basic mechanics of business operations; manufacturing, marketing and maintaining financial focus in a rapidly changing and competitive market.
You will engage in the assessment of individual organizational leadership skills and be able to more readily decide your choice of the career challenges and awards that management offers.
Upon completion of this course, you will recognize the fundamentals of current management practices, the changing roles of managers and the managed, future trends in worldwide management structures and activities in manufacturing and service organizations.
- Teacher: Natasha S Hampton
This course provides you with insights on how a business is managed. There are many factors that determine a company’s success including marketing, operations, finance and leadership, to name a few.
This course will give you the basics for understanding how these different departments work independently yet are reliant on each other for a company to prosper.
This course will give you the basics for understanding how these different departments work independently yet are reliant on each other for a company to prosper.
- Teacher: Mariselly Rivero
This course provides you with insights on how a business is managed. There are many factors that determine a company’s success including marketing, operations, finance and leadership, to name a few.
This course will give you the basics for understanding how these different departments work independently yet are reliant on each other for a company to prosper.
This course will give you the basics for understanding how these different departments work independently yet are reliant on each other for a company to prosper.
- Teacher: Miya Burt-Stewart
- Teacher: Lisa Henry
This intensive eight-module course explores the strategies, tools, and technologies that define marketing in the digital age. Students will examine how businesses create value, build relationships, and drive sales in virtual marketplaces. Topics include digital consumer behavior, e-commerce platforms, social media marketing, data analytics, and ethical considerations in online marketing.