Course Descriptions
Foundation AC 320A Principles of Accounting I(3 credits)
Introduces basic accounting principles and procedures for sole proprietorship, partnerships and corporations.
AC 320B Principles of Accounting II(3 credits)
A continuation of AC 320A. Prerequisite(s): AC 320A.
AC 325 Accounting Principles & Management Concepts(4 credits)
Introduces accounting principles, procedures and reports used in business decision-making. Focuses on tools to determine cost, profitability, and equity; manage cash; assess business performance; plan for future operations; and examine key ethics issues. Non-majors only.
FIN 400 Business Finance(3 credits)
Introduces major topics in managerial finance essential for understanding how financial managers acquire and manage a firm's assets and how they finance these assets through debt and equity sources. Prerequisite(s): AC 320B AC 325
MKT 325 Marketing Principles(3 credits)
Focuses on the development of product price, place and promotion tactics in a marketing plan. The plan is based on a well-defined target market, sound situational analysis and clear definition of objectives, goals and strategies.
MT 270 Introduction to Statistics(3 credits)
Presents standard topics in introductory statistics for students whose major is not mathematics. Topics include descriptive statistic, probability distributions, estimations, hypothesis testing, linear regression and correlation and other topics.
MBAP 520A - Essentials of Business Development I(3 credits)
Introduces students to basic concepts and principles of macro and micro economics, financial statement preparation and management information, key components of business and federal government environment. Topics include finance, financial statement analysis, capital budgeting fundamentals, asset management techniques, the basics of cash management, statistical modeling, probability theory, estimation and regression, principles of marketing, analysis of markets, and pricing and distribution decisions.
Please contact your advisor to determine which classes are most appropriate for you.
MBAP 520B - Essentials of Business Development II(3 credits)
A continuation of MBAP 520A.
Please contact your advisor to determine which classes are most appropriate for you.
Core (MBAC) Top MBAC 600 - The Economics of Management(3 credits)
Applies qualitative and quantitative microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics to business and the federal government operations from the perspective of the manager including the importance of regionalism and the global economy.
MBAC 601 - The Ethical & Legal Environment of Business(3 credits)
Examines the social and governmental structure within which business operates. Focuses on effective and ethical strategies for addressing issues of public concern including labor and employment law; administrative agency procedures; public issues management; product liability; and social contract, agency and stake-holder models of corporate responsibility. Cross listing(s): MSAC 601.
MBAC 602 - Developing Effective Organizations(3 credits)
Effective organizations converge adaptable leadership, engaged workforces, and aligned processes. This course explores concepts from organizational behavior (OB), organizational development (OD), and human resource development (HRD), and case studies of current organizations.
MBAC 603 - Decision Points in Marketing and Operations(3 credits)
Marketing and operations are two key elements of any business organization. This class will focus on the intersect of these business elements and key concepts in this intersect, both from a marketing and operations perspective.
MBAC 604 - Accounting and Finance Concepts for Managers(3 credits)
Examines accounting and finance concepts managers use in making decisions, including: uses of cost information; analysis, limitations and ethical dimensions of financial reporting; capital investment analysis; financing strategy; working capital management; and projected financial statements.
MBAC 610 - Enterprise Management in a Global Environment(3 credits)
Provides a practical management exercise in international strategies, operations, finance and marketing, and ethics using a computer simulation. The simulation requires students to manage a global business from a system's perspective.
Accounting (MBAA) Top MBAA 602 - Interpreting Accounting Information(3 credits)
Focuses on the understanding of financial statement analysis from a managerial perspective. Presents standard accounting analysis and modern developments in a practical, intuitively accessible fashion. Emphasizes cash flow analysis and the cash flow consequences of business activity. Cross listing: MSAA 602.
MBAA 603 - Intermediate Accounting Applications(3 credits)
Studies the theory and practice of advanced financial accounting. Emphasizes recent developments in accounting valuation and reporting practices. Cross listing: MSAA 603.
MBAA 604 - Energy Accounting & Taxation(3 credits)
Includes identification, understanding and interpretation of the accounting directives appropriate to oil and gas accounting as promulgated by the various regulatory agencies. Addresses United States tax rules pertaining to the energy industry. Prerequisite(s): MBAA 602 or permission of instructor.
MBAA 605 - Advanced Auditing(3 credits)
Stresses the theory and practice of auditing manual and computerized accounting systems. Covers audit principles and standards, the process of determining audit objectives and the design procedures to accomplish them. Cross listing: MSAA 605.
MBAA 606 - Financial Accounting Theory(3 credits)
Studies the underlying concepts of contemporary accounting theory. Addresses all of the major areas of accounting from this perspective.
MBAA 607 - Accounting for Non-Profit Organizations(3 credits)
Provides insight into the special problems posed to management of the not-for-profit organization. Emphasizes the use of accounting information to help identify and solve problems frequently encountered in the management of these organizations. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Cross listing: MSAA 607.
MBAA 608 - International Accounting(3 credits)
Examines the enterprise operating internationally. Emphasizes the uses of accounting information, techniques and theories to identify and solve management and operational problems for the multinational firm. Cross listing: MSAA 608.
MBAA 609 - Case Studies in Management Accounting(3 credits)
Develops students' management accounting techniques and skills needed to make ethical profit-maximizing decisions. Emphasizes data selection, analysis, decision making and evaluation of results in complex, realistic situations.
MBAA 609 - Case Studies in Management Accounting(3 credits)
Develops students' management accounting techniques and skills needed to make ethical profit-maximizing decisions. Emphasizes data selection, analysis, decision making and evaluation of results in complex, realistic situations. Cross listing: MSAA 609.
MBAA 610 - Controllership(3 credits)
Examines the function, role and responsibilities of the chief accounting officer of a business organization. Considers both financial and nonfinancial aspects of the controllership function. Cross listing: MSAA 610.
MBAA 611 - Tax Influence on Business Decision-Making(3 credits)
Studies the structure of the tax code, principles underlying it and impact on business transactions. Emphasizes tax planning. Cross listing MSAA 611.
MBAA 612E-W - Seminar in Finance/Accounting(3 credits)
Addresses current topics relevant to managers in the areas of finance and accounting. Content varies by term according to the changing concerns of managers in these areas and the shifting conditions in the business environment. Cross listing: MBAF 612E-W.
MBAA 614 - IT Auditing(3 credits)
Combines accounting, regulation and IT security practices to educate students to protect organizational assets through establishment of auditing best practices, current governmental reporting standards, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and secure management techniques. Cross listing: MSIA 684 and MSAA 614.
MBAA 615 - Income Tax Research(3 credits)
Develops the ability to research complex income tax questions. Examines the basis of tax law, research materials and research strategies. Research is completed using both manual and automated research systems.
MBAA 617 - Accounting Systems(3 credits)
Identifies and defines the manual and automated systems necessary to provide accounting information. Studies and compares systems to prepare financial accounting, cost accounting and tax documents. Develops efficient, controlled systems that provide both required and management information.
MBAA 618 - Advanced Cost Accounting(3 credits)
Examines current topics in accounting for the cost of delivering goods and services. Focuses on methods required by government contracts, tax regulations, traditional cost accounting and activity based accounting.
MBAA 619 - Forensic Accounting(3 credits)
Provides an opportunity to study contemporary financial statement fraud cases using a five-part fraud taxonomy: fraud perpetration, fraud detection, fraud investigation, fraud prosecution and fraud prevention and the accountant's role. Cross listing: MSAA 619.
MBAA 620 - Derivatives(3 credits)
Examines the characteristics, risk management, and accounting for modern financial instruments. Cross listing: MBAF 620 and MSAA 620.
Finance (MBAF) Top MBAF 602 - Financial Decision Making(3 credits)
Examines the use of financial theories and techniques in making financial decisions under conditions of uncertainty. Emphasizes the critical evaluation of concepts to assess their usefulness in practical business situations. Uses computer applications to solve practical problems. Cross listing: MSAF 602.
MBAF 603 - Investments & Portfolio Management(3 credits)
Provides an understanding of the kinds of analysis and techniques used by individual investors and professional money managers to decide on investment objectives and select possible investment alternatives.
MBAF 604 - Money & Banking(3 credits)
Provides a framework for understanding financial institutions and markets, and the effects of government policy on financial institutions, interest rates and levels of economic activity.
MBAF 605 - International Financial Management(3 credits)
Introduces financial management issues confronting multinational firms. Includes foreign exchange risk management, positioning of funds and cash management, and capital budgeting in the international setting.
MBAF 606 - Case Studies in Financial Management(3 credits)
Students apply the principles of business finance to business decision-making using the case method of instruction.
MBAF 612E-W - Seminar in Finance/Accounting(3 credits)
Addresses current topics relevant to managers in the areas of finance and accounting. Content varies by term according to the changing concerns of managers in these areas and the shifting conditions in the business environment. Cross listing: MBAA 612E-W.
MBAF 617 - Product Management(3 credits)
Focuses on management of new and existing products from a multifunctional point of view, i.e. marketing, operations and finance. Utilizes a large-scale, computer-based simulation package to underscore the importance of multifunctional teams in product management, as well as to provide a hands-on learning format. Cross listing: MBAK 617 and MBAO 617.
MBAF 620 - Derivatives(3 credits)
Examines the characteristics, risk management, and accounting for modern financial instruments. Cross listing: MBAA 620 and MSAA 620.
General (MBAG, MBAI, MBAS) Top MBAI 602 - Issues in International Business(3 credits)
Examines issues essential to an understanding of international business activity. Includes the nature of international business, international economic institutions and issues, international monetary issues, government activity affecting international trade, social and cultural effects on international business, human resource management and other related issues.
MBAG 608E-W - Seminar in Current Business Topics(3 credits)
Concentrates on contemporary literature in selected areas of interest to managers. Content varies by term, based on topic's relevance to current business conditions. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
MBAI 617 Global Management(3 credits)
Explores management and leadership issues associated with contract manufacturing agreements, joint ventures, and strategic alliances in a global environment. Considers the communication and performance skills necessary for managers responsible for associates located at considerable distances.
MBAS 619 - Internet Marketing(3 credits)
Identifies issues and models for developing successful strategies for marketing on the Internet and/or integrating Internet marketing functions into traditional marketing planning. Cross Listing: MBAK 619
MBAG 690E-W - Independent Study(1-3 credits)
Covers any field or topic in business not addressed in an existing course. Prerequisite(s): Approval of Degree Chair.
MBAG 698E-W - Internship(3 credits)
Under the supervision of a qualified MBA faculty member, provides an intensive internship appropriate for the Master of Business Administration program.
Health Care (MBAH, HCE, HSA) Top MBAH 602 - Health Care Policy(3 credits)
Explores the health care system in the United States focusing on analysis and critique of for‐profit and not‐for‐profit organizations, commercial vs. government payment mechanisms, national health planning, and use of DRG systems. Contrasts and compares the US system with health care systems in other key countries. Health care insurance, reimbursement methodology, and the economics of the health care industry are also analyzed and critiqued.
MBAH 603 - Issues in Health Care Management(3 credits)
Analyzes the effects of the following on the health care industry: venues for health care delivery, the pharmaceutical industry, legal issues unique to the health care industry, the medical device industry and its effect on health care. Discusses the future of health care in the US. Explores iatrogenic medicine and alternatives to allopathic care.
MBAH 604 - Information Management in Health Care(3 credits)
Emphasizes interpretation, evaluation, and use of information management systems and outputs. Examines several models of information management, stressing their use as tools in business operations and health care management while enhancing students' skills in using computer tools to develop, manage, and analyze information and data.
MBAH 605 - Health Care Marketing(3 credits)
Using case analysis, this course explores how marketing principles apply to management decisions. It covers product development, pricing and distribution, consumer behavior analysis, market definition and forecasting and development of marketing plans focusing on application of these concepts to health care organizations.
MBAH 606 - Health Care Finance(3 credits)
This course develops financial theories and techniques of financial analysis used to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and capital constraints. Emphasizing critical analytical skills in assessing business problems and opportunities, the course also considers the financial analysis of third party payer programs and government reimbursement plans using computer simulations and models to analyze health care management and general business problems.
HCE 600 - Organizational Ethics & Health Care Compliance(3 credits)
Addresses advanced concepts in organizational ethics and health care compliance including the dynamics of personal and professional values in relation to organizational behavior, and the integration of mission, organizational ethics, and corporate regulatory compliance. Explores contemporary ethical issues in organizational ethics and health care compliance through applied case presentation, theory-based ethical analysis and ethical decision making in both individual and group contexts.
HSA 601 - Leadership and Organization Development in Health Care Settings(3 credits)
Explores individual leadership qualities and organizational dynamics with emphasis on various elements of organization development including communication, culture, values, process redesigns, re-engineering, knowledge management, and methods of assessing and diagnosing organizational effectiveness. Examines current leadership and organization theories and approaches used in dealing with organizational problem solving and assessment.
HSA 602 - Strategic Planning and Development in Health Services(3 credits)
Addresses the business planning process emphasizing strategic planning, business plan development and evaluation, advanced project management, and marketing research and strategy. Focuses on financial analysis, market projection, risk assessment, and implementation planning principles as applied to new or expanded services and/or other business opportunities.
HSA 623 - Legal Aspects of Health Services(3 credits)
Studies the legal and ethical issues involved in the management and delivery of health care services and the interrelations between hospital, physician, and patient. Emphasizes law as it pertains to negligence, contracts, consents, confidentiality, risk management and current medical/legal issues. Explores the use of the health record as a legal document, privacy rights, corporate compliance, and peer review. Examines release of information, quality of documentation, and retention of records issues. The graduate component extends foundational knowledge through additional readings, case analysis and/or applied project work.
HSA 624 - Quality Improvement in Health Care Settings(3 credits)
Provides a basic understanding of the history and theory of Quality Management in health care settings. TQM principles as applied in ambulatory clinics, hospital departments, medical staff organizations, and the utilization management function are explored and practiced. The interpretation and analysis of health care data as it relates to capitation and managed care is examined and practiced. Emphasizes the ongoing use of objective data and feedback to improve processes, systems and patient outcomes. The graduate component extends foundational knowledge through additional readings, case analysis and/or applied project work.
HSA 625 - Advanced Concepts in Quality & Outcomes Management(3 credits)
Examines concepts related to the application of outcomes data to clinical decision making, patient management and quality initiatives. Explores concepts and strategies used in epidemiological studies. Emphasizes outcome research and design, bench marking, cost analysis, regulatory reporting and other practical uses for outcomes data. Additional prerequisite(s) or equivalent. Graduate standing required.
HSA 649 – Health Care Information Systems(3 credits)
Introduces foundational knowledge and skills to participate in the design, selection, implementation, and use of clinical and administrative information systems. Familiarizes the student with new and emerging technologies in the health care field. The graduate component extends foundational knowledge through additional readings, case analysis, and/or applied project work.
HSA 652 - Human Resource Management in Health Care Settings(3 credits)
Provides an understanding of the principles of human resource management in the health care environment. Emphasizes management techniques such as interviewing, training, career development, job analysis and design, performance evaluation, compensation and benefits, and employment law. Addresses trends in human resource management in health care. The graduate component extends foundational knowledge through additional readings, case analysis and/or applied project work.
HSA 663 - Advanced Concepts of Health Care Finance(3 credits)
Provides application based case studies for cost utilization, financial forecasting, budgeting and analysis, cash management techniques, and planning models and applies these concepts to management practice in the health care industry. Includes financial management and forecasting, statement preparation and analysis, cost analysis and control and case management. Prerequsite(s): Approval of academic advisor required. NOTE: Basic skills in use of electronic spreadsheets required. Prerequisite(s): HSA 604; Cross listing(s): HCA 465.
HSA 674 - Current and Emerging Theories in Quality and Patient Safety(3 credits)
Marketing (MBAK) Top MBAK 602 - Marketing Management(3 credits)
Uses case analysis to explore the application of marketing principles to the basic product and service decisions of the firm. Includes product development; pricing and distribution; changing attitudes and habits of buyers; market definition and forecasting and the impact of such forces as product technology, advertising and computer behavior on the product life cycle.
MBAK 603 - Marketing Strategy(3 credits)
Examines the relationship of marketing to corporate strategy and the strategic positioning of individual product or service lines. Emphasizes an understanding of current tools in strategic market planning and the planning and decision-making process itself.
MBAK 604 - International Marketing(3 credits)
Examines the impact of conditions unique to international business on the marketing of goods and services. Includes government policies and regulations; cultural differences in advertising, consumer preferences and buying patterns; distribution and pricing differences; exchange rates and other financial concerns.
MBAK 605 - Market Research(3 credits)
Provides a foundation in market research techniques for students interested in a marketing concentration in the MBA. Covers a repertoire of sampling and survey techniques, use of available data relevant to marketing concerns and other fundamentals of this discipline. Focuses on how to design a valid research project in the marketing area including applied exercises and projects in students' present career fields.
MBAK 606E-W - Seminar in Marketing(3 credits)
Addresses current topics relevant to marketing managers. Content varies by term, based on student needs and changes in the marketing environment. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
MBAK 607 - Advertising & Promotion(3 credits)
Examines the development of advertising and promotional strategies, emphasizing linkage with overall corporate and marketing strategies, including campaign execution and evaluation.
MBAK 608 - Marketing Plans Development(3 credits)
Focuses on marketing skills, tools, and frameworks necessary to develop a complete marketing plan. Emphasizes understanding and development of an environmental audit, competitive analysis, marketing strategies and goals, and tactics for implementation and evaluation.
MBAK 609 - Consumer Behavior(3 credits)
Examines tools and models for developing and understanding consumer behavior, including processes by which individuals, groups and organizations evaluate and select various products and services.
MBAK 610 - Marketing Tools Practicum(3 credits)
Examines tools, skills and framework necessary for developing and implementing marketing strategies. Students will work directly with a client firm to conduct a marketing audit, competitive intelligence report, industry analysis, media plan, sales forecasting/pipeline report, and formal marketing plan.
MBAK 617 - Product Management(3 credits)
Focuses on management of new and existing products from a multifunctional point of view, i.e. marketing, operations and finance. Utilizes a large-scale, computer-based simulation package to underscore the importance of multifunctional teams in product management, as well as to provide a hands-on learning format. Cross listing: MBAF 617 and MBAO 617.
MBAK 619 - Internet Marketing(3 credits)
Identifies issues and models for developing successful strategies for marketing on the Internet and/or integrating Internet marketing functions into traditional marketing planning. Cross listing: MBAS 619.
Management (MBAM) Top MBAM 604 - Leadership: Explored & Applied(3 credits)
Explores important leadership theories by applying knowledge and skills that enhance individual and organizational performance. Cross listing: MSM 602.
MBAM 609 - Professional Communications(3 credits)
Refines existing skills in written and oral communication as effective business managers. Emphasizes an interactive approach to the fundamentals of communication, including the preparation of memoranda, letters and reports. Examines oral presentation tools and methods, and persuasive public presentations.
MBAM 611 - Strategy Formulation(3 credits)
Defines and describes strategy and its formulation within business contexts and situations. Examines combining theory with a practical viewpoint using Porters strategy model. Emphasizes ethics and social responsibility.
MBAM 612 - Strategy Implementation and Management(3 credits)
Identifies the process of strategic management from a systems viewpoint. Stratagems and tactics are defined and used to illustrate Mintzberg's pattern in a stream of decisions. Emphasizes ethics and social responsibility.
MBAM 614 - Information Systems Management(3 credits)
Provides a managerial overview of information systems technology and examines how business functions are supported by information technology. Presents resource evaluation and purchasing methodologies.
MBAM 615 - Managing Change(3 credits)
Focuses on business and industrial change and control management. Explores change in industry standards through technology innovations, markets and opportunities, corporate skill portfolios, and products and services. Identifies methods available to plan, initiate and direct change for facilitating positive benefits for future forecasts. Emphasizes methods for dealing with rapid and unplanned change.
MBAM 695E-W Seminar in Strategic Management(3 credits)
Seminar course exploring current issues in Strategic Management.
MBAM 69G Problem Solving in a Corporate Environment(3 credits)
Examines critical problem solving skills. Allows students the opportunity to solve real world problems in the corporate environment. Students present findings, recommendations, and implementation strategies to the executives/owners or senior management of those corporations.
Operations (MBAO)Top MBAO 602 - Operations Management
(3 credits)
Provides practical course studies in Operations Management fundamentals including quality management, forecasting, capacity planning, and geolocation inventory and production control, distribution systems, and planning and scheduling. Provides overviews and interrelationships of general Operations Management subject areas.
MBAO 603 - Leading Projects in Contemporary Organizations(3 credits)
Explores project management from a strategic perspective, focusing on development of leadership skills in the management of project teams. Examines the roles of the manager and management team; project selection, organization, and planning process; communications and negotiations; and the tactical and strategic implications in a project environment. Reviews management of business/computer information technology projects including development approaches, technical aspects of project estimation, and manual and automated project management tools. Cross listing: MSM 657.
MBAO 605 - Applied Operations Management(3 credits)
Applies the concepts and theories defining business operations. Applies real world scenarios/ problems in the areas of product development, capacity planning, inventory and supply-chain management, quality control and the application of emerging technologies.
MBAO 611 - Innovation in Operations Management(3 credits)
Presents concepts that will help identify and manage research and development (specifically the technology) as a strategic competitive weapon. Focuses on management of technology and the means to acquire it as it is connected to a firm's overall vision and management philosophy. Examines the relationship between product and process innovation as nonlinear events, and attempts to reconcile innovative discovery with the desire to fit technology into the orderly management of business.
MBAO 615 - Management of Project Performance(3 credits)
Examines aspects of project risk, cost and schedule management. Identifies the management processes required to ensure the project is completed within budget and on schedule. Provides knowledge required to cost a project, develop a project plan, and allocate the necessary resources to manage a project; analyze risks and opportunities within projects, identify methods for reducing and mitigating risks, manage project performance, including quality, human resources, communications and procurement. Cross listing: MSM 658.
MBAO 616 - International Operations(3 credits)
Introduces the many permutations in operations that are present when a company begins to utilize the full capacity of globalizing economy and the operational parameters of international business including resource planning and utilization, technology, production, marketing, finance and staffing.
MBAO 617 - Product Management(3 credits)
Focuses on management of new and existing products from a multifunctional point of view, i.e. marketing, operations and finance. Utilizes a large-scale, computer-based simulation package to underscore the importance of multifunctional teams in product management, as well as to provide a hands-on learning format. Cross listing: MBAF 617 and MBAK 617.
MBAO 619 - Emerging Technologies(3 credits)
Examines emerging technologies which are changing the business landscape in the areas of speed, information, and ethics. Emerging technologies include virtual reality, synthetic systems, wisdom systems, intelligent agents, simulation modeling, robotics, biotech, and nanotechnology.
MBAO 620 - Business Improvement Techniques(3 credits)
Focuses on the techniques companies need to be financially solvent and competitive. The theory and practical implementation techniques explored include: strategic planning/management, quality, Supply Chain Management, process assessment/design, SWOT analysis, technology road-mapping, and resource assessment.
MBAO 695E-W - Seminar in Operations Management(3 credits)
Presents current topics of major concern to operations management. Topics vary by term but may include such areas as management of research and development projects, product and quality assurance management, team building, leadership, organizational transformation and management.
MBAS 619 - Internet Marketing(3 credits)
Identifies issues and models for developing successful strategies for marketing on the Internet and/or integrating Internet marketing functions into traditional marketing planning.
