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MGMT 371 - History of American Business 3 hours

Analysis of American business from the colonial period to the present. The course traces the entrepreneurial adventures of small as well as large firms. It focuses upon economic trends that created a modern industrial order, wherein the corporation assumed a dominant position in the U.S. Significant attention is given to key leaders of the free enterprise system. Cross-listed as HIST 371 . Prerequisite: junior standing.