MBA Course Sequences

This course is designed to give new MBA students a common foundation in management concepts, analysis, and technologies. Students will improve their skills in self-awareness, reflection, listening, and making sound judgments. Students will learn how to research and write at the graduate level, prepare and analyze case studies, improve their speaking and presentation skills, along with working in teams. Students will also develop skills necessary to evaluate the assumptions, evidence, and inferences of what one thinks, reads and hears, and to present ideas in a logical, thorough, and persuasive manner.

Leadership Seminars are designed to provide a space for students to integrate course content, personal commitments, and real world experience to transform themselves as leaders. The Seminars enable students to do this with the support and input of their cohort peers. Each seminar covers an essential aspect or “site” of leadership and consists of relevant assessment and discovery tools, discussion, self-reflection, and integration of course material. Pre-Requisites: None

This course focuses on the marketing decisions made by businesses and organizations, covering the strategic role of marketing, marketing problems typically encountered in business, and the analytical concepts and techniques used in marketing. Students will understand marketing planning and strategy in the context of organizational plans as well as how to integrate the functional areas of business administration into a realistic approach to solving complex problems at the executive level. Pre-Requisites: None

This course is designed to equip managers and leaders with the knowledge to understand, manage, and visualize the data, and apply the appropriate analysis tools to translate managerial, financial, or economics problems into timely business applications. This course will also examine data management, exploratory data analysis and visualization, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, regression analysis, and data mining in the decision-making process of solving complex business problems. Pre-Requisites: Students may be required to take Peregrine Software before the course begins per admission criteria.

This course covers the economic forces that have a fundamental influence on a business’ profitability, growth, and sustainability. It provides the core economic concepts that guide managerial decision-making. Topics include Supply/Demand, Capital Markets, Consumer Theory, Structures of Markets, Trade-offs, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Forecasting and Budgeting. Prerequisites: Peregrine Software module may be required depending upon admission requirements. Pre-Requisites: None

This course covers the ethical interconnection of worldviews, values, and behavior in an organization. The course analyzes the impact of ethical decisions on organizational stakeholders, as well as tools for creating and sustaining an ethical culture in understanding theoretical models and interplay of moral, legal, and social issues in managing one’s self, individuals, groups, and organizations in a complex environment where stakeholders often have competing interests. Topics include Leadership, Collaboration/Groups, Change, Culture, Resilience, and Organizational Learning. Pre-Requisites: None

This course examines current political, legal, and social forces acting on business and the ways in which business influences these forces. It focuses in particular on legislative and regulatory actions, policy making and implementation, and the interaction of the political-economic systems, public policy, and business. The course also examines the evolving relationship of business, government, and nonprofit organizations in America today, especially the rise of business-public-private-nonprofit collaborations. Pre-Requisites: None

This course covers the use of accounting data and processes in managing a business or an organization. In particular, it focuses on the concepts, processes, and models that provide information and control for managers, as well as the ways in which accounting supports and enables marketing and strategy decisions, performance, and operations management. Prerequisites: Peregrine Software module may be required depending upon admission requirements. Pre-Requisites: None

Leadership Seminars are designed to provide a space for students to integrate course content, personal commitments, and real-world experience to transform themselves as leaders. The Seminars enable students to do this with the support and input of their cohort peers. Each seminar covers an essential aspect or “site” of leadership and consists of relevant assessment and discovery tools, discussion, self-reflection, and integration of course material. Pre-Requisites: None

Leadership Seminars are designed to provide a space for students to integrate course content, personal commitments, and real-world experience to transform themselves as leaders. The Seminars enable students to do this with the support and input of their cohort peers. Each seminar covers an essential aspect or “site” of leadership and consists of relevant assessment and discovery tools, discussion, self-reflection, and integration of course material. Leadership Seminar III will help students understand the needs of their local community and explore how they can personally make an impact for the common good within their community. Pre-Requisites: None

This course covers key operational aspects of a business: tactical and strategic decision-making, project management, lean operations, Six Sigma, TQM, and change management. Supply chain management topics include business continuity planning, inbound logistics planning for environmental sustainability and corporate responsibility, and IT solutions for agile supply chain management. Course emphasizes the use of IT, social media, and the Internet for business processes and communication. Pre-Requisites: None

This course focuses on finance concepts and tools necessary for successfully running a business and making effective decisions. Emphasis placed on preparing students with the practical tools necessary for running a business. Topics include Debt/Equity mix, Cash Flow, Opportunity Cost, Risk-Return, Valuation of Assets/Projects. Students will participate in the investment stock market simulation StockTrak global trading software throughout the semester. Pre-Requisites: Peregrine Software module may be required depending upon admission requirements. MBA 5207.

Principles and techniques of opportunity identification, new venture creation, innovation and sustainability. This course considers entrepreneurial innovation from concept to market. The course emphasizes social innovation and social entrepreneurship, including how principles of each benefit traditional businesses. Designed to support students’ venture creation in MBA Capstone. Pre-Requisites: Students must have completed the majority of the MBA program and successfully complete MBA 5207 and MBA 5312 before enrolling in this course.

This course allows students to establish a link between their academic knowledge and practical applications by partnering with business and industry in their community. Students will plan, develop, and propose a capstone project with emphasis on management consulting or integrate their learning experiences throughout the program in the creation of a venture or project they might pursue once they have left the program. Designed to build off concepts and techniques taught in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Course. Pre-Requisites: Students must have completed the majority of the MBA program and successfully complete MBA 5207 and MBA 5312 before enrolling in this course.

(12 credit hours) (fully online only)

(12 credit hours) (fully online only)