Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Business Administration for Behavior Analysts
The certificate in Business Administration is a 12-credit certificate program for graduate students not enrolled in the Caldwell University School of Business & Computer Science. Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) often start their own consulting businesses or are expected to fulfill business administration responsibilities as part of their positions. The Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Business Administration for Behavior Analysts is intended to provide behavior analysis students with essential business knowledge across areas of accounting, marketing, law, and organizational behavior management.
Courses
Students without a business degree must take this course prior to taking classes toward the certificate. This is undergraduate content and may not be counted toward a graduate degree. Students pay undergraduate tuition for these 3 credits.
Students without a business degree must take this course prior to taking classes toward the certificate. This is undergraduate content and may not be counted toward a graduate degree. Students pay undergraduate tuition for these 3 credits. Prerequisite Course for Students without an Undergraduate Business Degree:
Course Code : BU 095
Course Description :
This three-credit non-graduation credit course is offered to applicants of the Caldwell University MBA Program who have an undergraduate degree in a field other than business to assess whether prerequisite requirements have been met and to provide course work to address gaps in business foundational topics. The course provides modules in 15 substantive content areas known as the “common professional component” of business, with each module consisting of a pre-test, instructional content, and a post-test. Students who earn a score of 80% in each module are considered to have achieved sufficient substantive content knowledge to prepare for the MBA program. Institutional, non-graduation bearing credit (3 IC credits)
Credit : 3
Accounting Course
Course Code : BU 625
Course Description :
Overview of accounting as a management tool. Utilizes business data for decision making andfinancial planning. Provides overview of manufacturing accounting control systems and costsystems. Topics include valuation of assets, distribution costs, and effective methods ofprofitability analysis and control.
Credit : 3
Marketing Course (choose one 3-credit course)
Course Code : BU 650
Course Description :
This course examines how the potential of the Internet is used to generate profits for companiesby enhancing their ability to communicate with and create value for customers. The coursediscusses the Internet as an alternative platform for communicating with the customer. Emphasisis placed on the eMarketing Communications Mix for business-2-business and business-2-consumers. Moreover, by approaching Internet Marketing within the more general framework ofe-Business, the course is also intended to familiarize students with various emerging businessconcepts like customer management, blogging/personalized communications and onlinerelationship marketing as well as some of the basics like social networking and Web sites.
Credit : 3
Course Code : BU 638
Course Description :
Explains the marketing management process: identifying marketing opportunities, researchingand selecting target markets, designing the marketing mix (product or service, price, distribution,and promotional strategies), and planning, implementing, and controlling the marketing effort.Strategic managerial decision making that harmonizes the firm’s objectives and resources withneeds and opportunities in the marketplace. Emphasis on ethics and the utilization of new mediaand information technologies in strategic marketing.
Credit : 3
Law Course (choose one 3-credit course)
Course Code : BU 649
Course Description :
Examines, in a global context, the relevant issues surfacing in today’s business environment such as employee rights and contracts, equal rights, the social-legal-political context of workforce diversity, antitrust, negotiations, labor and management relations, the legal environment, dealing with internal and external interest groups, etc. Examines from a global perspective, cases of unethical and socially irresponsible behavior displayed by business people and corporations, and deduces a methodology that promotes an ethical and socially responsible sensitivity in the student. Issues such as environmental pollution, exploitation of workers, value erosion, accounting theft and the morality of cost benefit analysis, whistle blowing, philanthropy, and the evaluation of corporate social performance will be studied.
Credit : 3
OR
Course Code : BU 652
Course Description :
This course reviews and analyzes the essential aspects of the myriad laws governing theemployer-employee relationship, including current federal laws applying to selecting, testing,compensating, promoting, and terminating employees, employment discrimination, employeebenefits, and employee workplace issues. Particular emphasis will be placed on the New Jerseylaws impacting the workplace, including the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.
Credit : 3
Course Code : ABA 624
Course Description :
This advanced course will provide an overview of contemporary research and practice in the field of OBM, also referred to as Perofrmance Management. OBM is seen by some as a behaviorally based area of specialization within the broad field of Industrial-Organizational Psychology.OBM is most closely aligned with the area of organizational behavior and personnel/ human resource management. When ABA is applied to organizational problems such as training, afety, productivity, and quality deficits, the collective set of procedures is term "OBM". The purpose of this course is to introduce students to practice and research in OBM and provide students with the skills needed to apply the fundamental principles of ABA to a variety of performance problems in organizational settings.
Prerequisites :
ABA 534 and ABA 537
This course double counts toward the Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Business Administration and as a required course in the Post-Master, MA, or Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis.
ABA 624 double counts toward the Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Business Administration and as a required course in the Post-Master, MA, or Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis.
For doctoral students in Applied Behavior Analysis
For doctoral students in Applied Behavior Analysis, the accounting course (BU 625), marketing course (BU 650 or BU 638), or law course (BU 649 or BU 652) may be double counted as an elective course toward the Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis (see Ph.D. in ABA Program Requirements, Elective Courses).