Curriculum

The Evening MBA program provides the academic foundation to your career. The curriculum strives to deliver time-tested business skills, principles, and knowledge that managers need to function successfully in their organizations. This content is also infused with current issues and theory to take you to the cutting edge of managerial practice. This combination of the basics and emerging knowledge means that not only is your MBA immediately relevant to you in your work, it informs you throughout your career.

The curriculum is subject to change.

 

Year 1
Fall Semester		Winter Session	Spring Semester	Summer Session
Financial Accounting	Risk Management	Managerial Communication	Managing Behavior in Organizations	Data Analysis & Decision Making
Values Based Leadership			Economics for Managers

Year 2
Fall Semester	Winter Session	Spring Semester	Summer Session
Introduction to Financial Management	International Trip	Business Strategy	Managerial Accounting
Marketing Management		Operations Management

Year 3
Fall Semester	Winter Session	Spring Semester
Advanced Finance Topics	NegotiationsAdvanced Man	Capstone Seminar: Strategys
Advanced Operations Topics		Advanced Marketing Topics

 

Core Curriculum Course Descriptions

Financial Accounting: Principles, concepts and procedures of financial accounting essential to the proper preparation, understanding and interpretation of accounting information.

Values Based Leadership: This course provides students with a frame work in which to develop their own leadership style according to their personal value propositions.

Managerial Communication: Focuses on strategic aspects of communication goals for managers and practice in skills needed to carry out writing and speaking objectives.

Risk Management: The course will take a pragmatic approach to introducing students to the principles of risk management and insurance.  The course will emphasize the material in the context of seeking to maximize financial results of a business.  While most students will not practice specifically in the fields of risk management or insurance, it is important for students to gain knowledge on the subject, have a framework to think about the impact of risk on a business, and to understand methods to manage risk---all to more effectively and comprehensively manage a business.  In addition, the subject serves as an effective vehicle to discuss general business topics and decision-making in business.

Marketing Management: The institutional, behavioral, and functional foundations of marketing, and the management of the marketing mix.

Economics for Managers: This course develops and applies economic principles to examine the effect of firm, industry, domestic and global market conditions on both day-to-day managerial decision making and long-term strategic planning.

Managerial Accounting: Interpretation and use of accounting data for management planning, decision making and control. Consideration of cost-volume-profit relationships, relevant costs, variable (direct) costing, activity-based costing, transfer pricing and performance evaluation of segments of the firm.

Data Analysis & Decision Making: Students will advance their analytical and decision making skills by developing practical spreadsheet models to evaluate business situations. Fundamental topics in probability, statistics, and constrained optimization will be introduced and used as modeling tools via active learning exercises.

Introduction to Financial Management: Introduction to financial management of firms and investment decision making; both theory and practice are emphasized. Topics covered include the financial environment and securities markets, financial statements and analysis, working capital management and capital budgeting, cost of capital, dividend policy, asset valuation, investments, decision making under uncertainty and selected topics such as mergers, options, futures.

Managing Behavior in Organizations: Examines the effective management of behavior in organizations. Focuses on the application of theories of leadership and work motivation. Includes critical conceptual and analytical assessment of these theories. Emphasizes the management of work performance, managerial skill building, and enabling followers.

Operations Management: Management of the operations function in manufacturing and service organizations. Emphasizes the coordination of resources to improve cost, quality, and customer service. Topics include materials, capacity, and project management, operations strategy, forecasting, and process design.

Business Strategy: Integrative approach to strategic management, including strategy formulation/implementation at business unit, corporate levels. Cases, discussion, lecture, simulation are used to communicate concepts. Emphasizes development of unique tools for analysis of companies and industries, application of knowledge to business problems.