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G100 is designed to provide beginning students with an introductory but
comprehensive survey of business practices and information. Managers,
consumers, investors, and government regulators rely on a variety of
information sources in making their decisions. In this course, the student
learns what these sources are, where their information comes from, what it
means, and how to use it. A large part of the course will also be devoted
to business basics, which will further illustrate the importance of
information. The course will provide a foundation for continued studies in
business, but will also be useful for studies in other areas, as it
provides experience in reading, discussing, and the critical skills needed
to interpret possibly biased information.

G100 will be of interest to students already admitted to the School of
Business, to those considering a business major, and to those who intend
for this to be their only business course. It can be taken concurrently
with E201 and E202, or before them. There are no prerequisites or
co-requisites. It will be good preparation both for the I-Core courses in
the business major and for courses outside the School of Business which
make use of economic and business information sources.

Topics:
Evaluating a Nation's Economic Performance, Legal Organization of
Business, Booms and Recessions Library sources of Information, Reading The
Wall Street Journal, The International Economy, Business and Government,
Accounting, Annual Reports, Marketing, Thinking, Presenting Data, Money
and Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Government Data on the Internet, Business
Use of the Internet, Legal Information, Morality and Promotion to Partner,
Banking, the Ethics of Smoothing Accounting Earnings.