Course Descriptions

Foundation Courses

BU5100 – Foundations of Accounting – 4.5 quarter credits
This course is an introduction to financial and managerial accounting providing a survey of basic accounting principles. Emphasis is placed on the content, interpretation, and uses of accounting reports. This course is designed to provide students with a background necessary for graduate studies and may not be applied towards meeting degree requirements.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the graduate program

BU5300 – Foundations of Business Statistics – 4.5 quarter credits
This course engages students in learning to convert data into information through the use statistical methods including probability, descriptive and inferential statistical procedures, exploratory data analysis, and forecasting. This course is designed to provide students with a background necessary for graduate studies and may not be applied towards meeting degree requirements.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the graduate program

BU5500 – Foundations of Finance – 4.5 quarter credits
This course introduces students to basic finance concepts and how they are used in decision-making. Topics include evaluation of financial performance, capital budgeting, management of assets and liabilities and evaluation of financing alternatives. This course is designed to provide students with a background necessary for graduate studies and may not be applied towards meeting degree requirements.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the graduate program

BU5610 – Foundations of Management – 4.5 quarter credits
This course is an introduction to fundamental theories associated with the management of organizations.   Emphasis is placed on the managerial process and the application of management theory in organizational settings. This course is designed to provide students with a background necessary for graduate studies and may not be applied towards meeting degree requirements.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the graduate program

BU5620 – Foundations of Marketing – 4.5 quarter credits
This course provides an overview of marketing terminology, concepts and principles. Students will study the role of marketing in an organization and developing, planning and assessing marketing strategies. This course is designed to provide students with a background necessary for graduate studies and may not be applied towards meeting degree requirements.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the graduate program

 BU5700 – Business Research and Writing for Graduate Study – 4.5 quarter credits
This course familiarizes students with the tools and techniques to do acceptable graduate work. Emphasis will be given to critical thinking, research methods, study skills, and graduate level writing. Students will also review the American Psychological Association’s guidelines for properly formatting and citing research papers. This course is designed to provide students with a background necessary for graduate studies and may not be applied towards meeting degree requirements.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the graduate program

Graduate Courses

AC6550 - Managerial Accounting - 4.5 quarter credits
This course emphasizes the use of accounting information in formulating management decisions. Special emphasis is placed on accounting information needs for planning, controlling, decision making and performance assessment
Prerequisites: BU5100 or equivalent

CI6400 - Information Technology for Strategic Advantage - 4.5 quarter credits
This course focuses on the meaning and role of information technology within a business setting and offers a broad perspective of the relationship between organizational goals, information technology and strategic advantage. The student will examine the design and implementation of various information systems in order to integrate current technologies and configurations into the management decision-making and evaluation process.
Prerequisite: computer proficiency

CI6500 - System and Network Analysis and Design - 4.5 quarter credits
This course is a survey of system and network analysis and design.  The development process of information systems will be detailed, as well as a survey of programming languages, techniques and databases.  Additionally, basic concepts of networking technologies and structures will be presented.  Students will develop the necessary foundational knowledge of IT development to effectively work as a part of a business/IT team.

EC6150 - Managerial Economics - 4.5 quarter credits
This course emphasizes applied decision-making using economic principles. It examines both internal and external economic environmental factors (such as production costs, competition, government regulation, and international concerns) and applies them to business and economic forecasting as well as to price and output determination.
Prerequisite: BU5400 or equivalent

FN6200 – Finance for Managers – 4.5 credits
This course provides students with a framework for understanding and interpreting accounting and financial information. Topics include reading and interpreting financial statement information, developing budgets, and using financial information to make informed managerial decisions.
Prerequisite: None

FN6350 - Financial Management - 4.5 quarter credits
This course emphasizes the use of financial analysis as a tool in management decision making. The student will learn to identify and interpret financial information as it relates to the decision making process and to communicate this information to a variety of audiences.
Prerequisite: BU5100 and BU5500 or equivalent

FN6370 - Investment Management - 4.5 quarter credits
This course is an analysis of various investment media such as preferred and common stock and corporate and government bonds. Methods of appraisal of securities and management of investment accounts are also covered.
Prerequisite: BU5500, FN6350 or consent of instructor

HA6500 – Fiscal and Regulatory Issues in Health Services – 4.5 credits
This course focuses on fiscal and regulatory issues in the health care industry. Students will focus on the management implications of current economic issues, funding streams, expenditures, legal and regulatory issues, and ethical issues.
Prerequisite: None

HA6510 – Global Issues in Health Care
This course covers global issues commonly encountered in modern health care systems. Topics will include issues common to all systems as well as specifics of the U.S. market. Students will research current issues of interest from other countries in order to assess the transportability and applicability of best practices across international systems.
Prerequisite: None

HA6520 – Health Care Administration and Policy
This course establishes a conceptual framework for understanding the interconnections between health care administration and health care policy. This understanding is critical to the success of senior managers in our nation's health industry.
Prerequisite: None

LA6100 - Legal Environment for Global Organizations – 4.5 quarter credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the complexities of the legal environment for organization’s doing business globally. Students will consider the law as it apples throughout the United States and in other countries. In addition, students will study international legal issues and legal and ethical decision-making across cultures.

LA6570 - Employment Law - 4.5 quarter credits
This course is a survey of the legal and institutional framework that businesses and organizations work within from the standpoint of human resources. An examination of the substantive regulation of the employee/employer relationship, especially through common law and statutes is covered.

MA6600 - Quantitative Methods for Management Decisions - 4.5 quarter credits
This course explores the use of applied quantitative tools for managerial decision making. These tools include Bayesian decision theory, programming algorithms and special deterministic models, such as queuing models. Students will utilize computer applications to analyze data and to assist in the decision making process.
Prerequisite: BU5300 or equivalent and computer proficiency

MG6200 – Marketing and Sales Management – 4.5 credits
This course provides students with an understanding of the marketing and sales process and how it impacts the operation of the organization. Students will learn to evaluate marketing and sales decisions using a variety of information sources to gather information in both a departmental and organizational context.
Prerequisite: None

MG6500 - Marketing Administration - 4.5 quarter credits
This course emphasizes the application of marketing concepts and tools in the decision making process. Students will discuss the manager’s role in administering marketing programs and in ensuring that marketing is appropriate to the organization’s goals. The course also includes a study of the behavioral, functional, societal, international, and institutional foundations of marketing.
Prerequisite: BU5620 or equivalent

MT6010 - Executive Seminar I and MT6020 - Executive Seminar II – 0 quarter credits
This seminar provides students with exposure to current business and management issues through discussions with peers and business leaders. Students will have the opportunity to work in teams and to develop leadership and team building skills that are key in developing successful careers. REQUIRED FOR ONLINE STUDENTS ONLY.
Prerequisite: completion of one or more MBA program courses

MT6100 – Research Design – 4.5 credits
This course provides students with a framework for research design. Students will conduct a literature review, create research questions and hypotheses, design a research plan, construct and administer a questionnaire interpret research findings, and create a management report with recommendations. Students will also discuss ethical issues in research.Prerequisite: Statistics or research design coursework

MT6200 - Leading the Organization I: Communication, Culture and Change - 4.5 quarter credits
This course emphasizes the leader’s role in communication, culture, and change. Students will investigate how leaders utilize effective communication, build culture and encourage change to create a successful organization.
Prerequisite: BU5610 or equivalent

MT6250 - Leadingthe Organization II: Productivity, Process, and Programs - 4.5 quarter credits
This course emphasizes the leader’s role in productivity, processes, and programs in a competitive global environment. Students will investigate the leadership and decision making role of managers in the operations functions of an organization.
Prerequisite: computer proficiency

MT6270 - Independent Research - 4.5 quarter credits
This course is designed to provide the student with the opportunity for independent applied research. Students who are enrolled will produce a research document pertaining to a topic of personal, professional or academic interest. The course is intended for students who have completed the majority of their program so that previous course work can provide the foundation for the research. The course encourages independent student research with a minimal amount of faculty direction.

MT6300 – Managing Human Resources – 4.5 quarter credits
This course is an in-depth examination of selected human resource management issues from a contemporary manager's viewpoint. Topics examined include: personnel planning; employee selection; performance appraisal, training, and development; compensation; legal issues; discipline; and labor relations. The course examines these topics as they relate primarily to operational activities in organizations.
Prerequisite: BU5610

MT6310 – Training and Development in Human Resource Management – 4.5 credits
This course is a detailed examination of training and development issues from a contemporary manager’s viewpoint. Topics examined include: identification of training and development needs, implementation of programs, and assessment of program effectiveness.
Prerequisite: None

MT6320 – Employee Evaluation and Compensation – 4.5 credits
This course is a detailed examination of employee evaluation and compensation. Topics include performance assessment, compensation/benefits philosophy, role of compensation/benefits in recruiting and retention, design of compensation plans, and assessment of the effectiveness of evaluation and compensation plans.
Prerequisite: None

MT6570 - International Business - 4.5 quarter credits
This course is a study of the nature of international business and the environment in which an international businessperson functions. Monetary and organizational conditions are examined. Controllable and uncontrollable forces in the international economic arena are also discussed.

MT6600 - Enterprise E-Business Strategy - 4.5 quarter credits
This course discusses emerging trends and details industry best practices in the use of e-business technologies to integrate and streamline the operational effectiveness of the firm.  Technologies discussed will include business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce, business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce, portals, web-based system integration, wireless devices, knowledge management and security.  Students will research and use applications and systems in class.

MT6610 - IT Project and Change Management - 4.5 quarter credits
This course consists of a study of the techniques and management principles in information system maintain and the deployment of new systems. The course relies heavily on quantitative methods in resource-allocation, scheduling, and capacity planning. The stages of new system analysis, cost-justification, selection, development and implementation are covered. Aspects of organizational change resulting for the use of information technology and technology change are also considered. Project management software is used extensively in the course.

MT6650 – Strategy and Policy - 4.5 quarter credits
This is a capstone course designed to integrate concepts, theories, and skills learned in other graduate core courses. The student will learn to view business challenges from the perspective of senior level management in order to develop, implement, and assess strategic planning options. The student will also learn to develop creative responses to challenges and opportunities that the organization may face.
Prerequisites: Six graduate core courses

MT6700 - Managerial Communication - 4.5 quarter credits
This course addresses communication techniques in contemporary organizations. Students learn about the challenges that middle managers face in employing appropriate communication to resolve conflict, promote workplace efficiency, and achieve organizational goals. Students also learn how to be more effective communicators in a variety of organizational settings.

MT6800-Thesis I and MT6810-Thesis II– 4.5 quarter credits each
The thesis project will entail research in a pertinent field of studies chosen by the student in conjunction with a university graduate faculty member and will be supervised by a graduate faculty member. The course may require, but is not limited to conferences, electronic reports, presentations and papers as evidence of work progress and project completion. The thesis project must provide evidence of originality, appropriate organization, clarity of purpose, critical analysis, and accuracy and completeness of documentation. It should be noted that the quality of work accomplished is a major consideration in judging acceptability of the final presentation and paper. Students who select the thesis option must satisfactorily complete both Thesis I and II.
Prerequisite: Approval of dean of graduate studies

MT6990 - Special Problems in Business- 1 to 4.5 quarter credits
This course allows students to pursue special topics in contemporary business and management and in other related fields.