Master of Business Administration Requirements

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)

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.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

*Easily add a Post Baccalaureate Certificate: This course can be applied toward the embedded post bacc certificate in Entrepreneurship.

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the business, legal, political, and social aspects surrounding the phenomenon called Intellectual Property. In particular, this course is predicated on two fundamental questions, "What is Intellectual Property, and does my company have it?" This simple yet powerful inquiry---and the subsequent responses---guides the course over four days of intensive readings, discussions, and writings.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Easily add a Post Baccalaureate Certificate: This course can be applied toward the embedded post bacc certificate in Strategic Leadership.

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon. 

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students will apply the entrepreneurial concepts that they have learned throughout this course to create a detailed entrepreneurial business plan. The Kauffmann Program will continue to be utilized to review the multitude of issues related to the process, including marketing planning and financial planning.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students develop the ability to analyze and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness of organizations through the use of appropriate information technologies. Technologies that influence organizational strategies, structures, risks and processes are emphasized. Ethical global and security issues are also covered.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: ACC 0101 Financial Accounting II

A course that focuses on providing information to managers through the use of internal applications of accounting. Topics include job-order costing, process costing, cost-volume-profit relationships, variable costing, profit planning, standard costing, flexible budgets, and overhead analysis.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

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.

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 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. 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 as well.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the ways in which entrepreneurs use social media to influence a brand. Using a mix of discussion, lecture, analytical writing, and engagement with social media products, this course allows students to practice positioning a business, reaching the public via the web, using social media activity to help shape a brand, using social media and brand-related terms, identifying the factors affecting a business’s choice in social media use, and connecting real-world networking to social media activity and branding. Course work includes analyzing the social media activities of other brands, identifying ideas from experts in the field, and using evidence to make intelligent decisions about social media and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

The organization and structure of healthcare in the United States will be examined. Principles of the administration of healthcare organizations will be explored with emphasis on resources, system organization, and technology. Students will analyze the interaction between differing healthcare organizations and social-environmental issues and the design implementation of healthcare delivery systems.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Students will undertake an examination of the legislative, regulatory, and political processes and their effect on the delivery of healthcare. This course discusses the role of healthcare communities in public policy issues and the analysis of emerging socioeconomic factors in medical markets and healthcare regulation.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course provides students with a survey of the major legal issues impacting the administration of healthcare. Guest lectures will cover liability, licensure, malpractice, patient rights, JCAHO compliance, and regulatory factors. Students will also examine informed consent, confidentiality, liability exposure, and tort reform issues.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students will survey psychological, social, and behavioral theories as they relate to health issues such as chronic illness, mental illness, and disability. Students will examine the changing role of the healthcare provider in contemporary society.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Reviews theory and practice related to long-term care administration and policy. Legal and ethical aspects of long-term care facilities and alternatives to nursing home care will be explored. The course examines the emerging external forces that impact the operation and management of long-term care facilities, including government payors, state regulatory bodies, and national accreditation bodies.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course provides an overview of the essential ideas that constitute the emerging discipline of homeland security. The course's objectives are to expand students’ abilities to think critically, analyze, and communicate the central tenets of homeland security from a social justice perspective. Students will examine the evolution of terrorist movements, strategies to combat terrorism, crisis management, response to conventional and non-conventional threats, and the impact of heightened security and surveillance on individual rights and civil liberties.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course will provide students with the skills to learn from global best practices and successful tactics in combatting terrorism and apply those lessons to current threats in the United States. Students will learn to apply best practices within the scope of U.S. law while protecting individual human rights. Students will better understand the threats, policies, and strategies democratic countries use to cope with terrorism.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course aims to provide an introduction to the operational and organizational dynamics of terrorism. Specific topics addressed in this course include terrorism by suicide, the role of the media, innovation and technology acquisition, the decline of terrorism, and methods of measuring the effect of counterterrorism policies, strategies, and sabotage. Emphasis on designing effective measures for countering and responding to terrorism based upon understanding organizational and operational dynamics in Homeland Security are integrated within the course to provide students with a real-world approach to unconventional thinking to counter unconventional threats.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course analyses principles of critical infrastructure, in both the private and public sectors, vital to our community on a local, state, and federal level while demonstrating how critical infrastructure protection is one of the cornerstones of homeland security. This course evaluates risk reduction techniques to determine the optimal strategy for protection of each sector of critical infrastructure. This will include risk assessments for hard and soft targets that address risk mitigation plans and appropriate countermeasures in an all-hazards approach. Students will also apply vulnerability analysis techniques to critical infrastructure within their multi-jurisdictional region, and derive optimal strategies and draft policies for prevention of future terrorist attacks.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course serves as an introduction for homeland security professionals to terrorism as a psychological phenomenon. Government agencies involved in homeland security need to understand the psychological consequences of mass-casualty terrorist attacks and other disasters. This course provides a broad overview of the psychological effects of terrorism, the status of and fallacies related to the interventions applied to victims of terrorism, and the generalized fear and anxiety experienced by the public at large. Current government strategies used to disseminate information to terrorist groups; psychological phenomena related to media coverage of terrorism; misconceptions and inaccuracies about the socio-political and religious motivations of terrorist groups; “profiling” and the typical psychological and cultural makeup of modern terrorists; and the social and cultural psychology of public conceptions of terrorists and acts of terror will be examined.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines key questions and issues facing the U.S. intelligence community and its role in homeland security and homeland defense, including terrorism, emergency management, and cyber security. Intelligence community operations at the state and local levels, with federal cooperation through the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 are examined. This will afford students the opportunity to address, analyze, and critique policy, oversight, intelligence support, organizational protection of civil liberties and substantive issues regarding homeland defense/security and national decision-making.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to highlight important topics pertinent to the protection of human rights during a time of national security concerns. Protecting individual rights is an inseparable part of a democratic society, the rule of law and a government dedicated to the advancement of the common good. The aim of this course is to create a clear understanding among students how respect for human rights can positively impact human security and promote civil societies.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

The purpose of this course is to provide students with insight into the structural, conceptual, intellectual foundations and implications of a multi-disciplinary approach to homeland security. Students will examine how the perceptions of homeland security varies among professionals in the field, the general public and differing ethnic, racial, religious and socio-economic groups.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course prepares students to understand the complexities of creating and implementing Human Resources Strategy that aligns with an organization’s mission and overall long-term strategy. Students will learn strategic application and data driven decision making of human resource theories to realistic scenarios. The course will specifically address different types and methods of analysis in order to establish short and long-term measurable objectives. It will also provide how technology supports human resources role as a strategic partner.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course covers the lifecycle of employees and prepares students to facilitate staffing decisions and apply the most relevant and effective recruiting tactics. Students will learn how to avoid legal risks inherent in the recruiting process. The course will specifically address strategic talent management, workforce planning, compensation and benefits. It also includes recruiting, developing existing employees, employee retention and succession planning. Discussions will include the return on investment (ROI) with leadership training and succession planning as well as how key performance metrics support overall business strategy.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Organizational culture can have a major impact on organizational performance, either positive or negative. This course prepares students to create organizational cultural programs that drive performance. The course will specifically provide the tools that will help organizations build excellent workplace culture, positive culture and influence organizational behavior. The course covers diversity, change management and coaching for success. Participants will learn how organizational development and company dynamics tie into the organization’s culture. It also includes elements of persuasion, effective communication and taking employees through change.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the laws and professional codes of ethics pertaining to the practice of Human Resources to ensure an organization is in compliance. Students will learn how legal and ethical issues impact Human Capital Management and an organization overall. It also includes 599 employee relations, labor relations, and ethics in the workplace. Participants will learn various aspects of collective bargaining agreements, the immigration process and how to stay compliant.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course prepares students to effectively use the most relevant tools in the modern practice of Human Capital Management. It covers the ethical and social determinants that shape today’s workplace (e.g., gender, racial inequality, changing family structures, new healthcare laws, poverty, immigration, and privacy. Participants will learn how to address social media concerns that may affect your organization. It will also address the talent life-cycle with a focus on multinational recruitment strategies.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

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. 

(3 Credits)

Organizational Psychology and Behavior concentrate on employee behavior and processes in organizations. The focus of this course is on individual, group, inter-group and organizational wide behavior and its impact on employee satisfaction and productivity. The course attempts to add to each student’s understanding of life in complex organizations by covering topics which span the micro or individual level of analysis (motivation, decision making) and the macro or organizational level of analysis (culture, structure). Attention is given to group dynamics, change and development.

(3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

A leader’s ability to understand and follow the change management process collaboratively is vital to master. A proactive mindset is critical to a successful business or personal change. Students will learn the various change management models and problem-solve to find the best ways to leverage change agents and how best to manage ethical change. Students will create a model of change for workplace application.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students in this course will learn forward thinking concepts of coaching, mentoring, and succession planning to promote a learning organization. Students will learn how to leverage the Human Capital Management model to foster knowledge transfer between employees. The focus of the course will be the elevation of learning to a strategic organizational imperative.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Today’s business success requires intercultural awareness as well as effective cross cultural and cross generational communication skills. This course demonstrates the importance of cross cultural and cross generational communication and the benefits of being sensitive to the differences in organizational settings. Concepts of negotiating styles, cultural differences, proper etiquette, and conflict analysis/resolution will be discussed at length.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the business, legal, political, and social aspects surrounding the phenomenon called Intellectual Property. In particular, this course is predicated on two fundamental questions, “What is Intellectual Property, and does my company have it?” This simple yet powerful inquiry—and the subsequent responses—guides the course over four days of intensive readings, discussions, and writings.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.