I went to Montgomery College to earn my two Associates’ Degree in Business and General Studies. In fall of 2009, I transferred to the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, I am a double-major senior in Accounting and Information Systems. Here are the courses that I took to fulfill my requirement for both majors with 150 college credits at University of Maryland.
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Here are the core requirement courses for all students at Robert H. Smith School of Business. (Please click on the professors' names to view their faculty profiles)
BMGT 301 – Introduction to Information Systems By Xiaoqing Wang
BMGT 340 – Business Finance By Susan White
BMGT 350 – Marketing Principles By Henry Boyd
BMGT 364 – Management and organization
BMGT 367 – Career Search Strategies in Business
BMGT 380 – Business Law By William McClenahan
BMGT 495 – Business Policies By Jonathan Aberman
ECON 330 – Money and Banking (Upper Level Economics requirements)
Of all the core requirement courses, BMGT 367 was one of my favorite classes. I highly recommend students to take it as soon as they admit to the Smith Business School. This is because the course provided me the opportunity to practice my job search skills critical to obtaining internships and full-time positions ahead of time. Furthermore, this course covered strategies for exploring career options, preparing job search materials, development of job search skills such as interviewing and networking. I was able to practice my interview skills by going to one of the mock interviews, one of the assignments from BMGT 367. Other interesting assignments, such as created a professional resume, practiced writing a cover letter, thank you letter and letter of declination for job offer have helped me to be better prepared for landing internship full-time employment and being successful in my career.
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Here are the Accounting major requirement courses that I took:
BMGT 310 – Intermediate Accounting I
BMGT 311 – Intermediate Accounting II
BMGT 321 – Managerial Accounting
BMGT 323 – Taxation of Individuals
BMGT 326 – Accounting Systems
BMGT 411 – Accounting Ethics By Stephen Loeb
BMGT 422 – Auditing Theory and Practice
Upper level elective:
BMGT 417 – Taxation of Corporations, Partnerships and Estates
BMGT 423 – Fraud Examination
I personally like BMGT 311 and BMGT 326 the most of all the accounting courses that I took at the Smith School. BMGT 311 was a continuation of BMGT310, Intermediate Accounting One, but it covered a different comprehensive analysis of financial accounting topics related to financial statement preparation and external reporting. BMGT310 to me was a replication of Principle Accounting. In contrast, BMGT 311 introduced other accounting topics, such as pension and rent. Consequently, I felt so fresh to learn those new financial accounting topic. BMGT 326 is a requirement course for Accounting major, but also is considered an upper level elective course for Information Systems major. For these accounting students who are also interested to major in Information Systems, but just want to have a feel on how the field operates, BMGT 326 is a perfect class to join. I had the passion in learning and studied of accounting systems & computer and communications technology in BMGT 326.
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Here are the Information Systems major requirement coureses that I have taken:
BMGT 402 – Database Systems
BMGT 403 – Systems Analysis and Design By Hassan Ibrahim
BMGT 407 – Information Systems Projects Hassan Ibrahim
Upper level elective:
BMGT 484 – Electronic Marketing By William Rand
(Here is the link of the midterm study guide that have created by all BMGT 484 fellows for this semester.)
(Here is the link of the midterm study guide that have created by all BMGT 484 fellows for this semester.)
BMGT 322 – Operation Research For management Decisions By Kazim Ruhi
With these seven Information Systems courses that I have taken at the Smith Business, I enjoyed taking BMGT 302 the most. This course was basely provides a structured approach to business application development and programs. I did lots of the class assignments in Visual Basic Application (VBA), the hands-on exercises that I participated in designing and developing cross-disciplinary business applications. Additionally, I had the VBA experience from high school; as a result, I loved to work on problem solving techniques, program design and logic with the hands-on exercises. Unfortunately, this course was the least favorite class for most of the information Systems major students because most of the assignments required a sizeable amount of coding knowledge. I greatly recommend students to take BMGT 302 only if they are Information Systems major since this course has involved a plenty of time at the computer lab and coding.
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