Business Administration - UG (BAUG)

Maximizing Mendoza is a course designed to introduce students to curricular options and experiential opportunities that are offered to Notre Dame business students. You will explore self-awareness, academic pathways, business industry expectations, and ways for Mendoza students make a value-added impact on their own lives, community, and world. In this class, emphasis will be placed on personal connection, building relationships and exposure to Mendoza College leaders.

Students taking this course will gain an understanding of the American legal system and learn fundamental rules of law, particularly of torts, contracts, sales, and agency. Students will develop an appreciation of how law affects business decision-making, of competing policy concerns underlying the law, and of ethical dimensions of legal issues and business situations. Required for all BA students. Course cannot be taken Pass/Fail.

This course provides students a high-level introduction to (i) the academic research process, from idea generation and hypothesis development to data collection, research design, and inference assessment, (ii) the purpose and value of research to the University and society as a whole, (iii) how to read and assess academic research papers, (iv) the types of academic research conducted both within and across Mendoza departments, (v) life as a researcher across each department, including career possibilities and expectations, and (vi) various opportunities, paths, and resources available for students interested in engaging in research at Mendoza. The course will be heavily discussion-based, and is intended for a small group of highly curious students to engage in dialogue with faculty and students from across (and even a few outside) Mendoza regarding academic research. This is an elective course that is open to all Mendoza sophomores, juniors, and seniors. As a discussion-based curriculum, the course will have no exams, and will be graded on a pass/fail basis. Assessment will be based on participation and several required written assignments given throughout the semester. The course was developed to provide interested students a better understanding of the academic research function to determine to what extent they would like to engage in research in the future, whether it be to better prepare for an academic career, enhance their critical thinking skills, or just become better consumers of research in their profession. For those interested in the Mendoza Research Honors Program, this course serves as an initial required course for admittance. This course will be graded satisfactory/unsatisfactory.

The Business Honors Program colloquium brings together students, faculty, and business leaders to discuss concrete ways in which students can contribute to the understanding and practice of business as an honorable enterprise as well as a school of virtue. Seven meetings of the colloquium will take place during the course of the entire semester. Enrolled students are expected to attend at least five of these meetings, but are encouraged to attend all colloquia.

In today’s interconnected world, technology is a powerful force shaping the direction of commerce, society, and human flourishing. How can future business leaders and technologists engage critically and constructively with this evolving landscape? This seminar invites students to explore key questions at the intersection of business and technology through meaningful dialogue with leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. This course is the first in a series of three seminars designed for students in the CSBA program.

In today’s interconnected world, technology is a powerful force shaping the direction of commerce, society, and human flourishing. How can future business leaders and technologists engage critically and constructively with this evolving landscape? This seminar invites students to explore key questions at the intersection of business and technology through meaningful dialogue with leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. This course is the second in a series of three seminars designed for students in the CSBA program.

In today’s interconnected world, technology is a powerful force shaping the direction of commerce, society, and human flourishing. How can future business leaders and technologists engage critically and constructively with this evolving landscape? This seminar invites students to explore key questions at the intersection of business and technology through meaningful dialogue with leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. This course is the third in a series of three seminars designed for students in the CSBA program.

Whether you own or are employed by a business, you must understand your rights and obligations under the American legal system. This course touches on some of the most important aspects of the legal system as it affects business and employment, including the courts and legal proceedings, the law of contracts, agency, torts, and intellectual property. Students will develop an appreciation of how law affects business decision-making, of competing policy concerns underlying the law, and of ethical dimensions of legal issues and business situations.

This course will explore issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. A series of lectures on selected days throughout the semester will feature a wide range of experts on economic demography, biotechnology, religious fundamentalism, oil and peace, futurism and work, natural resources, and more. No examinations or graded assignments. Students must attend all lectures; no unexcused absences. ***This course can be taken more than once, but business students are advised that it can only count once toward the BBA degree.***

The course will meet on ten Thursdays during the semester from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. and will present several films including "Wall Street," "Margin Call," and "The Insider." Most classes will involve viewing a fraud-related movie, although some will deal with issues related to economics and our capitalistic economy, law, and ethics. In addition, most sessions will include introductory comments and discussion of background readings. The course grade will be based on attendance, participation, quizzes and critical essays that students write in response to assigned questions about the movies. Among other things, the course seeks to help students understand the many dimensions of fraud including who commits fraud, why, and how fraud can be prevented.

This is a Catholicism and the Disciplines (CAD) course that can fulfill a core curriculum requirement, or can be taken as an elective. Work has long been a subject of Catholic thought, with the first chapter of Genesis regarded as "the first gospel of work" (Laborem Exercens, para. 25). This course focuses on the interior spiritual aspects of work, and does so via the Catholic intellectual and social traditions. A person's interior spiritual life, or "interior life" for short, has been described as the intimate conversation that the person carries on with God during the daily moments and seasons of life. When it comes to the subject of work, the interior life involves one's internal disposition toward his or her work, how one understands his or her work, and one's intentions for work. The Church's proposition is that all have the ability to envelope their work in the interior life. In this discussion-based course, we will seek to understand what that means for your intended profession or discipline.

The Mendoza College of Business allows undergraduate business majors to earn academic credits for internship opportunities during the summer or outside of the normal schedule of classes during the fall or spring semesters. The internship should be a professional business experience related to the student's major and can be paid or unpaid. To register for this class students must first fill out the Internship Application for Academic Credit found at https://mendozaugrad.nd.edu/advising/internship-credit/. Requirements for the class include a Journal Entry and a Final Reflection Paper. This course is graded S/U and may be taken three times.

This course consists of research and writing on an approved subject under the direction of a faculty member.

This course is the final course for the Research Honors Program in the Mendoza College of Business.