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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course covers the theory and practice of management with an emphasis on individual and small group behavior, design and structure of organizations, relationship between an organization and its environment. Applications to both the public and private sectors will be covered along with ethics and interpersonal skills. Qualitative and quantitative techniques are emphasized in the decision making and the solving of decision problems involving alternatives.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines the importance of human capital in organizational decision making. It considers how to effectively plan, evaluate, and manage a workforce, and how to manage individuals using evidence-based techniques. Emphasis is on concepts and procedures of EEO, diversity, job analysis, evaluation, wage and salary administration, performance evaluation, safety, employee services, and fringe benefits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to provide the student with the range of communication issues a manager may face in the future. Issues on how to write and speak effectively and devise a successful communications strategy as well as how to make the best use of telecommunications technology will be explored in this course. Through readings, case studies and application, the student will study such areas as handling feedback, managing meetings, communicating change, communicating with diverse populations and external audiences. Special focus on how to use communications to achieve organizational goals, how to adapt their communications to the specific needs of their audiences, and how to prepare for intercultural communications challenges.
  • 3.00 Credits

    In Human Resource Management, training employees in the latest technical and managerial skills and helping them gain developmental experiences helps drive organizational success. Students will learn how to recognize training and developmental needs, how to develop employee training systems, and how to implement these training systems. Additionally, students will learn about career and leader development.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides an overview of business-related legal topics including the U.S. court systems, constitutional law, tort law, contract law, bankruptcy, mortgages, creditors' rights and remedies, security interests, agency and employment law, and business forms.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is an integrative capstone course in which students will demonstrate and apply business management concepts strategically within a simulated industry. The interconnectivity of business functions and the causes of an organization's success or failure will be addressed within the simulation. This course will require students to integrate and apply learning from their academic career in a comprehensive manner to identify deficiencies within management and strategic decision making. Core concepts and business techniques will be used to address key challenges facing businesses and to propose plausible solutions involving multiple business functional areas.
  • 3.00 Credits

    No matter the type of organization, one battle they all share is change. This class will arm you with the content, expertise and hands-on learning to successfully enact an organizational change. Capacity-building change initiatives take time, and short-term productivity sometimes suffers when the organization explores new organizational values, norms, systems, and routines. Capacity building requires trial, experimentation, and learning. In this course, you will learn the foundations of organization design and how to enact design changes.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces the student or prospective underground and surface miner to general orientation to mining, safety and operator rights and responsibilities. State and federal laws, first aid, mine gases, fire prevention, ventilation and mine mapping, roof and rib control, haulage and equipment safety and general mine safety. CREDIT CHANGED FROM 2 TO 3 F97
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is a preparatory course for the Wyoming Mine Foreman exam that is given by the Wyoming Mine Examining Board each year. All phases of underground mining that may appear on the state exam will be addressed during the course. Successful completion of this course should prepare the student for the state exam, but does not guarantee state certification as a mine foreman or examiner. Please note that three years of mining experience are required to take the Wyoming Mine Foreman Exam.
  • 0.50 Credits

    This course provides 24 hours of the mandatory Mine Safety and Health Administration training for surface mine workers. Onsite training must be completed at an actual mine site.