MBA COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Below is a comprehensive listing of all MBA courses offered and their full descriptions. The MBA program requires 39 credit hours. Accelerated, Full-Time students complete 30 credit hours of core coursework, including 1 hour of required professional development each of three semesters, and 9 hours of electives. All other MBA students are required to take 27 credit hours of core classes and 12 credit hours of elective coursework. Students may use 9 of their elective credit hours to complete a specialization.
CORE CLASSES
ACG 5026 Financial Reporting and Managerial Control
Provides a basic understanding of accounting systems and the financial statements to lay a foundation for financial statement analysis. The course also provides a basic understanding of cost systems and controls to lay a foundation for organizational control. (Take before FIN 5425.) 3 credit hours, on campus and online
BUL 5810 The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
An introduction to the legal, political and social institutions which affect business activity, with an emphasis on public law and governmental regulation. Landmark legislation and judicial decisions will be examined. 3 credit hours, on campus and online
FIN 5425 Problems in Financial Management
An advanced case course including an in-depth study into selected topics such as valuation theory and the investment, financing, and dividend decisions of the firm. (Prerequisite: ACG 5026.) 3 credit hours, on campus and online
GEB 5932 Professional Development
1 credit hour, each semester, on campus
ISM 5021 Information and Technology Management
Through readings, cases, and projects, students will confront issues associated with technology strategy (what to pursue and how to pursue it) and implementation (how to make it happen). The underlying theme of this course is that effective information and technology management requires an understanding of the technology involved, the organizational and commercial environment in which it will be used, and the encompassing society's overall technology flow processes. 3 credit hours, on campus and online
MAN 5245 Organizational Behavior
A dynamic examination of managerial concepts of human behavior in work organizations. Topics include motivation, leadership, reward systems, training, recruiting, selection, and job design. 3 credit hours, on campus and online
MAN 5501 Production and Operations Management
Develops a conceptual framework which is useful in describing the nature of the operations function, with emphasis on identifying basic problems in managing the operations of an organization. 3 credit hours, on campus and online
MAN 5716 Economics and Business Conditions
A combination of statistics and managerial economics designed to illustrate statistical methods and techniques by applying them to basic managerial issues using elementary calculus and basic statistical programs (Excel and SAS) for regressions, testing hypotheses, and applying other statistical methods to important issues in managerial economics. Also, problems of managing the firm in relation to the changing economic environment; analysis of major business fluctuations and development of forecasting techniques. 3 credit hours, on campus and online
MAN 5721 Strategy and Business Policy
The relation between theories and practices of management, utilizing theories in policy decision making and including a methodology for policy decision making. (Capstone course. Prerequisites: all other MBA core courses) 3 credit hours, on campus and online
MAR 5125 Marketing Strategy in the Global Environment
Examines the business-level marketing strategy in the context of global markets and uses the marketing-planning process as a framework for understanding how global environments, markets, and institutions affect the strategic marketing operations of the global business enterprise. 3 credit hours, on campus and online
ELECTIVE COURSES
BUL 5605 Healthcare Law and Ethics
This course exposes students to the basic concepts of law as applied to health care. The focus is on the application and analysis of legal and ethical principles. (Available for Healthcare Management specialization) 3 credit hours, online
FIN 5515 Investment Management and Analysis
Analysis of financial assets with emphasis on the securities market, the valuation of individual securities, and portfolio management. (Prerequisite: FIN 5425.) (Available for Finance specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus
FIN 5545 Fixed Income Securities
The goals of this course are to describe important fixed income securities and markets, and develop tools for valuing fixed income securities and managing interest rate risk. The course covers traditional bonds and term structure concepts as well as fixed income derivatives and interest rate modeling. (Available for Finance specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus
FIN 5605 Multinational Financial Management
This course focuses on the environment of international markets and institutions, with emphasis on implications of international business on capital budgeting, working capital management, and capital procurement. (Available for Finance specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus
GEB 5944 Graduate Internship
(This internship offers a working and learning experience in the business industry. S/U grade only) 3 credit hours, on campus
ISM 5123 Systems Analysis and Design
In this course, students learn about the particular MIS perspective on systems development and its life cycle, from the birth of a new information system to its death and replacement. In addition, students learn about the tools, techniques, and methodologies used by systems analysts to develop information systems in organizations. (Available for MIS specialization.) 3 credit hours, online
ISM 5206 Database Development and Management
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the major issues underlying the organizational utilization of databases and database management systems. Theoretical, conceptual and practical concerns in the design and implementation of database systems are discussed. Organizational concerns in database use are highlighted through the use of case studies. (Available for Business Analytics specialization.) 3 credit hours, online
ISM 5315 Project Management
Designed to be relevant for all professionals confronting project-related tasks, with particular attention given to the information systems context. Course content includes an overview of technology, an introduction to software development approaches, facets of project management, and organizational issues related to successful project management. (Available for MIS specialization.) 3 credit hours, online
ISM 5327 Corporate Information Security
Examines corporate information security from several perspectives. Topics include differences in security of physical versus digital assets; sources of security threats; solutions involving technology, people, and policy; and proper responses to attacks on digital assets. (Available for MIS specialization.) 3 credit hours, online
ISM 5404 Business Intelligence
This course will introduce state-of-the-art Business Intelligence and Analytics techniques to discover knowledge from massive data sets using a hands-on approach. Students will have a chance to apply such techniques on real-world data sets in various domains, including finance, healthcare, commerce and sports in order to produce actionable intelligence for enhanced managerial decision making. (Available for Business Analytics specialization.) 3 credit hours, online
ISM 5428 Knowledge Management
Examines knowledge management from an organizational perspective. Topics include principles; strategic issues; systems design and development; as well as knowledge creation, capture, capture, sharing, and application. (Available for Business Analytics specialization.) 3 credit hours, online
ISM 5560 Data Management
This course will discuss various data-related issues in business analytics and introduce the best practices, underlying principles, and emerging technologies in data management. Specifically, the course will cover 1) foundational data management concepts, 2) best practices in managing big data, and 3) unstructured data management. (Available for Business Analytics specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAN 5099 Healthcare Staffing
This course focuses on key issues associated with staffing healthcare organizations, including theoretical and practical issues in areas such as workforce planning, job analysis, clinical and non-clinical recruitment/assessment/selection, succession and career planning, and legal issues specific to healthcare organizations. Discussion of these areas will be framed in the context of an evidence-based approach to workforce planning and talent management. (Available for Healthcare Management specialization) 3 credit hours, online
MAN 5305 Personnel and Human Resource Management
This course covers strategic practices and problems in human resource management. Topics include job analysis, selection, training, compensation and other employee rights.
MAN 5331 Compensation Management
This course exposes students to the conceptual elements, application of, and nature of organizational compensation programs. Students learn how compensation programs are designed and administered. Students gain practical knowledge of and skills in the field as well as an understanding of how the discipline connects to the broader field of organizational management. (Available for Human Resources specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAN 5351 Training and Development
This course focuses on the important role that training and development plays in today's organizations. The course will explore numerous strategies and methods used by organizations in a variety of industries and sectors to improve employee and organizational performance. (Available for Human Resources specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAN 5365 Staffing
The course focuses on key issues in staffing employees in organizations. Students will gain an understanding of the relevance of staffing to today's organizations. The course covers theoretical and practical issues in areas such as job analysis, applicant recruitment/assessment/selection, and legal issues related to staffing. (Available for Human Resources specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAN 5375 HR Analytics
The course focuses on the analysis and application of a company's HR data to uncover insights that inform HR strategies, process changes, and investments – with the goal of improving organizational performance (i.e., driving business outcomes). Students will learn about theory and research regarding drivers of employee performance, retention, and engagement, as well as the critical HR metrics that are important for business outcomes. (Available for Human Resources specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAR 5409 Business-to-Business Sales and Marketing
Focuses on building and managing relationships with business customers. It will cover business-to-business management issues, with an emphasis on topics at the mid-to-upper management level. Specific strategic marketing issues include problems and opportunities that leverage an understanding of the entire supply chain. Sales will deal primarily with complex, large/key account management and customer relations. Sales management issues will concentrate on managing a sales force focused on complex accounts. (Available for Marketing specialization) 3 credit hours, online
MAR 5465 Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Provides an understanding of the ideas and concepts of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management function in organizational settings. Focus is placed on the development and management of relationships with world class suppliers in an e-business environment. Covers the importance of developing sourcing strategies through a global supply base. Specific concepts covered include: supplier selection & development; management of a strategic supply base; electronic commerce applications; logistics and inventory issues. (Available for Supply Chain Management specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAR 5466 Logistics and Supply Chain Management
This course examines the downstream portion of the supply chain and the strategic marketing implications related to managing customer relationships. Focus is on the management of the processes necessary to stimulate and meet customer demand, as well as on the development of long-term customer relationships. (Available for Supply Chain Management specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAR 5625 Marketing Research
This course focuses on the tools, techniques, and procedures involved in the marketing research process, as well as the critical thinking skills necessary to interpret marketing research findings. In addition, the course covers major analytical techniques that are used in a variety of research settings in both marketing and general business. (Available for Marketing specialization) 3 credit hours, online.
MAR 5668 Big Data – Marketing Analytics
This course examines the abundance and diversity of data available to firms for understanding their target markets, such as freeform text gathered from social media, transactional data in CRM systems, and location data. It exposes students to data sets featuring vastly different forms of data. The course demonstrates techniques for identifying interesting research questions based on the available data, managing large sets of both qualitative and quantitative data, and analyzing these data sets to inform important customer-focused research questions, such as capturing customer sentiment, market segmentation, targeting, and positioning. The course involves a combination of hands on data analysis, cases, and readings. (Available for Marketing specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus.
MAR 5675 Marketing Analytics
This course will serve as a survey of the Marketing Analytics field, reducing your startup cost to using the techniques needed by the practicing marketing scientist, and to show how marketing analytic techniques feed into the strategic marketing process and business decision‐making in general. (Available for Marketing specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAR 5726 Electronic Business in Supply Chain Marketing
Focuses on information technology and how it affects marketing within the supply chain. These include logistical issues and the flow of goods, services, and funds within the supply chain to the final consumer. Specific elements covered include: electronic commerce, Internet, intranets, extranets, marketing information systems and logistics information systems. (Available for Supply Chain Management specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAR 5839 Product Innovation Management
This course is a structured way of thinking about product and process development. Students are provided with an up‐to‐date toolbox for developing and managing new products and processes. The course will focus on hands‐on individual assignments, creating aura to stimulate consumer awareness, and a group project to simulate the development process of a new and original products or services. In addition, students will work with an existing company to consult them on ways to be more innovative in their product development to meet consumer needs or develop process that create efficiencies, thus lowering costs and increasing profits. (Available for Marketing specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus
MAR 5849 Services Marketing
In this class, you will be exposed to a new way of thinking about marketing. No longer are manufacturing processes, defects per one‐thousand, or logistics paramount. Services are different. We will discuss how they are different, why they are different, and what strategies result from these distinctions. We will cover why people are essential to service success, why expectations are important to service consumers, how the physical environment influences service delivery, and how services firms should recover from failure. You will also learn how quality is evaluated in service firms, why value is an essential deliverable, and what role loyalty has on the bottom line. (Available for Marketing specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus and online
MAR 5861 Customer Relationship Management
Focuses on strategies to develop and maintain continuing customer relationships. Customers are arguably the single most important stakeholder of any modern corporation. Firms must employ strategies to create, promote and retain customers over the long term. Customer relationships also are key to any corporation's overall reputation and must be managed in concert with other key stakeholder relationships. (Available for Marketing specialization) 3 credit hours, online.
MAR 5957 Global Business Seminar
Consists of on-campus class meetings and an international trip to an overseas destination. On campus meetings help students understand the related international business theories as well as the inhibiting and opportunity-offering roles of local cultures in international business. The international trip is to gain access to the best business practices of world-class multinational firms in the destination city. Seminar course typically offered in spring and summer. This elective course (3 credit hours, on campus and online) can be taken twice and is subject to additional fees.
QMB 5755 Quantitative Methods in Business Analytics I
This course focuses on deterministic methods of perspective analytics. (Available for Business Analytics specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
QMB 5616 Probabilistic Optimization for Analytics
This course teaches students techniques to address problems in regression, discriminant analysis, principal component analysis, logistic regression, SEM, etc. Students will utilize methods such as calculus and linear algebra. (Available for Business Analytics specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
REE 5105 Real Estate Valuation
Provides an advanced treatment of real estate valuation analysis. This includes a description of valuation procedures, identification of highest and best use, application of real property valuation methods, and emerging topics of special interest. (Available for Real Estate specialization.) 3 credit hours, online
REE 5205 Real Estate Finance
This course provides an advanced treatment of topics fundamental to real estate finance. The course topics are presented in units that range from pricing mortgages to the lending process to the secondary mortgage. Topics include a discussion of primary and secondary mortgage markets, mortgage market operations, mortgage instruments and mortgage-related securities. Emerging topics of special interest are also discussed. (Available for Real Estate specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus and online (Available for Real Estate specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus and online
REE 5209 Advanced Real Estate Finance and Investment
This course addresses advanced topics in real estate finance and investment. Attention is given to the role of institutional investors, advisors, and real estate investment trusts (REITs). The course provides an in-depth treatment of financing income-producing properties, including coverage of the commercial mortgage underwriting process. Students are introduced to real estate investment analysis at the property portfolio level. The topics covered are of importance to real estate analysts, lenders, asset managers, appraisers, and brokers involved with income-producing real estate. (Available for Real Estate specialization.) 3 credit hours, on campus
RMI 5### Essentials of Risk and Insurance
Develops concepts such as time value of money, statistical analysis, information technology, and management of risk exposure. Topics include the fundamentals of risk and the analysis of insurance contracts. (Available for RMI specialization, Property/Casualty track) 3 credit hours, online
REE 5305 Real Estate Investment
Focused on the topic of real estate investment analysis primarily from the private investor's (equity) perspective, this course introduces students to the analytical tools and procedures used to evaluate real estate investment opportunities. (Available for Real Estate specialization) 3 credit hours, on campus and online
RMI 5136 Employee Benefit Plans
Prerequisite: RMI 5017 Managerial approach to employee benefit plans such as group insurance and pensions with in-depth consideration given to funding instruments and variety among plans. (Available for RMI specialization, Life/Health track) 3 credit hours, online
RMI 5257 Data Analytics in Risk Management and Insurance
This course focuses on the use of data and analytical tools in the insurance industry. A set of tools is developed for analyzing the types of data used by insurers across various functions including loss estimation, loss reserving, underwriting, and claims. (Available for RMI specialization, Property/Casualty or Life/Health tracks) 3 credit hours, online
RMI 5345 Risk Management in the Business Enterprise
Application of the risk management process, including risk control and risk financing techniques, to business risk management problems. (Available for RMI specialization, Property/Casualty track) 3 credit hours, online
RMI 5710 Insurance Company Operations
Covers the fundamentals of risk, the management of pure risk, insurance mechanisms, insurer operations and the evolution of risk management. Additional focus will be giving the market trends, regulation, and new trends in risk financing.(Available for RMI specialization, Property/Casualty track) 3 credit hours, online
RMI 5745 Healthcare Financing
An introduction to public and private health insurance and benefits plans. Students will learn about private insurance plans and federal and state financing programs (e.g., Medicare Medicaid/SCHIP, FEHBP). The course will cover forms of employer-sponsored coverage, including self-funded and fully insured, managed care plans, and understanding the implications of private vs. public forms of insurance coverage. (Available for Healthcare Management specialization or RMI specialization, Life/Health track) 3 credit hours, online
RMI 5810 Personal Financial Planning
Prerequisite: RMI 5017. Analyzes loss exposures facing individuals and families, basic personal-lines property-liability insurance (auto and homeowners), individual life, health and disability insurance, and individual/family financial planning. (Available for RMI specialization, Life/Health track) 3 credit hours, online
NOTE: For more information on which elective courses add up to a specific specialization and permissions required, visit each format's specialization page.
