Graduate Certificate Requirements: Business Administration
Business Administration Graduate Certificate Requirements
The School of Professional Studies: Graduate, Online
The accelerated 7 week semester online Professional Studies graduate Business Administration program offers a Graduate Certificate that requires 15 credits (5 courses) including:
Graduate Courses: 15 credits (5 courses).
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Transfer Credits: Our generous transfer policy allows students to transfer up to 90 credits required for a Bachelor degree, or up to 45 credits required for an Associate level degree as well as 6 credits of related graduate study. Credits presented for transfer must be from an accredited institution and a final course grade of a C or higher is required for undergraduate and a B or higher on the graduate level. Discuss with your advisor.
Prior Learning Assessments: Receive college credit for learning acquired through life experience. By evaluating a portfolio, we determine whether your experience qualifies as college level learning. Pay for one credit and receive three credits per course successfully challenged. You may challenge up to fifteen courses.
Credit by Examination: After enrolling in the School of Professional Studies, you may seek approval from your program to receive credit by examination. Contact your program's director or the Office of the Registrar for more information.
Transfer credit or credit by examination is acceptable in lieu of all Core Curriculum requirements except College Writing I (ENG-0160) and College Writing II (ENG-0170). These two courses are required of all students enrolled in the School of Professional Studies.
Business Administration Graduadate Certificate (15 Credits)
MBA 6600: Leadership Fundamentals - Ethical Leadership and Values Driven Organizations
Prerequisite: None
This course focuses on differentiating the conceptual and theoretical aspects and models of leadership and leadership studies in order for students to apply leadership skills and principles in their places of business. The fundamentals of leadership are taught with an emphasis on how to live out these fundamentals in an ethical manner.
Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)
MBA 6620: Decision Making Models and Strategies*
Prerequisite: None
This course develops competence and judgmental skills in using quantitative models for planning and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on recognizing situations where models can be used advantageously, when to work effectively with them, and how to make good use of them once they have been developed. Topics include, decision making under conditions of uncertainty, decision and risk analysis, forecasting, linear programming, modeling applications in marketing, manufacturing, finance and scheduling, and project management methods.
Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)
*Easily add a Post Baccalaureate Certificate: This course can be applied toward the embedded post bacc certificate in Entrepreneurship.
MBA 6651: Marketing Theory and Data Analysis
Prerequisite: None
This course explores the basic concepts and fundamentals of marketing and data analysis. It applies these concepts toward improving the prospects of companies faced with opportunities and challenges of doing business today. Focus is on implementation of strategies through pricing, distribution channels, promotion, and new product decisions. Qualitative research techniques are addressed. To make the study of marketing realistic, exciting, and dynamic, the case analysis approach is used to illustrate how concepts and tools presented can be applied in marketing decision-making. Cases allow the student to work on real marketing problems, to develop an appreciation for the types of problems that exist, and to develop skills of analysis and decision-making necessary for success in marketing and other areas of business.
Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)
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MBA 6620: Decision Making Models and Strategies*
Prerequisite: None
This course develops competence and judgmental skills in using quantitative models for planning and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on recognizing situations where models can be used advantageously, when to work effectively with them, and how to make good use of them once they have been developed. Topics include, decision making under conditions of uncertainty, decision and risk analysis, forecasting, linear programming, modeling applications in marketing, manufacturing, finance and scheduling, and project management methods.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.
MBA 6653: Managerial Economics in the Workplace
Prerequisite: None
This course provides students with a broad perspective of the important issues in the 21st century global marketplace. Students will engage in readings and discussions on issues related to global markets, interrelated global economics, the impact of government mandates, and the shift to a knowledge-based economy. An examination of analysis of demand, cost and output, market structure, and pricing policy is included.
Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)
MBA 6666: Financial Principles and Policies Management
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the theoretical framework and practical concepts of financial principles and policies. Particular attention will be given to understanding financial statement analysis from a business decision-making perspective. Learning components integrate standard accounting and financial analysis with an emphasis on business activities of day-to-day operations. Students will learn to analyze cost flow and construct cost flow statements.
Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)
MBA 6700: Competing in a Global Market
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the interactive nature of the everchanging marketplace locally, regionally, nationally and internationally is the focus of this course. Learners consider how the dynamics of these relationships provide inherent risks and opportunities, and most likely on unprecedented business opportunities for the future. The underlying current of this course is the question of how economics and political globalization affects culture and vice versa.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
MBA 6705: Markets, Globalization and Culture*
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the interactive nature of the ever-changing marketplace locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally is the focus of this course. Learners consider how the dynamics of these relationships provide inherent risks and opportunities and, most likely, unprecedented business opportunities for the future. The underlying current of this course is the question of how economics and political globalization affect culture and vice versa. Because there is a tendency to view globalization only within the process of economic advancement, this course intends to move beyond that singular conception and encourage learners to identify the cultural, political, and social dimensions.
Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)
*This course fulfills the MBA Master Courses as well as the Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate requirements.
MBA 6750: The Resilient and Responsive Organization
Prerequisite: None
In this course, students will closely examine organizations that have experienced significant or functional disruptions to their business practices and assess their organizational responses. The primary focus will be developing strategic foresight in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) environment. Students will also develop and apply resilience, agility, adaptability, and critical thinking skills.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
MBA 6800: Synthesis of 21st Century Business Practices – Capstone
Prerequisite: None
Students will produce an action research project that examines a real-world problem in the context of global, industrial, and organizational impact. Students will integrate and apply various theories, methodologies, and practices acquired throughout the program and develop an original solution to the stated problem through this culminating project.
Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)
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Graduate Certificates
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