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Master of Business Administration - Course Descriptions |
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| Background Courses
(Required only of students without prior business education) |
| ACCT 500 |
Foundations
of Accounting |
3 credit hours |
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This course introduces
the fundamental accounting principles and tools for financial
analysis necessary for effective managerial decision making.
Included are an exploration of basic accounting principles
and practices, financial statement analysis, budgeting and
planning, and the role of financial data in the operation
of the enterprise. |
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| MGMT 500 |
Foundations
of Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course introduces
the fundamental practices of the manager in the operation
of an enterprise. Included are the role of planning and anticipating
market and technological change; organizing the enterprise
in response to its supply chain and customer base; leading
people and operations to achieve organizational objectives;
and controlling staff, finances, operations, and outcomes
to assure organizational success. |
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| ECON 500 |
Foundations
of Economics |
3 credit hours |
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This course introduces
the basic theories and institutions of economics. The role
of supply and demand; the functioning of the market; the interaction
of business and government; and the social, political, and
international environments facing the enterprise are included. |
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| Foundation Courses |
| MGMT 510 |
Management in the Global Perspective |
3 credit hours |
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This course provides
an overview of the global environment facing organizations
today. A major focus is on the pervasiveness of globalization
and its impacts on all aspects of a business. Included are
topics such as global trade policy; international political
actions including diplomacy and conflict; institutional, ethical,
and legal variations among societies; and capital, human,
and technology transfers across national boundaries. |
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| TECH 510 |
Technology in the Global Perspective |
3 credit hours |
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This course focuses
on the nature of technology as a uniting and separating resource
available to the organization. Included are an evaluation
of the differing abilities of nations to utilize and integrate
technology, an assessment of piracy and security issues, an
evaluation of vulnerabilities facing the manager reliant on
technology, and an evaluation of the role of outsourcing as
a tool for efficiency. The varying political, cultural, and
legal barriers managers face with regard to the use of technology
in the international environment are addressed. |
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| Core Courses |
| ACCT 520 |
Accounting for
Decision Making |
3 credit hours |
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This course introduces
the basic principles and analytical techniques relating to
corporate financial management. Topics include overall financial
analysis, planning, and control; sources and uses of funds;
capital; operational and financial leverages; working capital
management; inventory and portfolio management; long-term
investment decisions; and the timing of financial policy in
order to make sound managerial decisions. |
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| MGMT 520 |
Principles of
Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course provides
an overview of modern management theories. The development
of organizations and the problems of leadership posed by organizational
structures are evaluated. Included are the dynamics of organizational
behavior and their relationship to effective administration.
Models of communication, motivation, and leadership are assessed.
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| COMM 520 |
Managerial Communication |
3 credit hours |
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This course presents
the basic theories and practices of organizational and interpersonal
communication. Included are the relationship of human behavior
to problems of organizational life and development. Cases
and experimental exercises in organizational socialization,
motivation, dynamics of power, and interpersonal perception
are a part of the course. |
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| QANT 520 |
Quantitative
Methods for Managers |
3 credit hours |
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This course provides
an introduction to the fundamentals of statistics and quantitative
methods for decision making. Quantitative approaches used
in management such as CPM/PERT network analysis, forecasting
techniques, linear program approaches, and inventory analysis
are introduced. Special emphasis is placed of effective presentation
of quantitative information for decision making. |
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| Elective Courses (Select
four) |
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ACCT 525
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Advanced Accounting Procedures |
3 credit hours |
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This course builds an understanding of the issues of the provision of
relevant operational information to all of an organization’s
constituents – management, shareholders, auditors, and the
public. Strategic cost analysis, firm valuation, and mergers
and acquisitions will be discussed. |
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ACCT 530
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Taxation and Financial Planning |
3 credit hours |
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This course focuses on issues
of taxation management for the firm. Included are
inter-period allocations, multi-jurisdictional tax strategies,
and reorganizations and spin-offs as a means of tax
management. Tax audit and negotiation strategies are
discussed. |
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ACCT 540
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Comparative International Accounting Systems and
Standards |
3 credit hours |
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This course focuses on the two major accounting standards in widespread
use (International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS] and
U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Practices [US-GAAP]) and
assesses the effect of each on firms doing business
internationally.
Students will understand the similarities and differences in
the two systems and will assess the impact of each standard on
a firm’s financial statements. |
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ACCT 582
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Corp. Structure, Purpose, and Accounting Methodologies |
3 credit hours |
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This course utilizes a case study approach to provide an understanding
of how corporate structure and purpose affect and are affected
by accounting practices.
Similarities and differences in for-profit and
not-for-profit approaches are included.
A section on forensic accounting provides an
understanding of the issues of fraud detection and prevention. |
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| FINS 530 |
Financial Institutions
and Markets |
3 credit hours |
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This course focuses
on the various types of financial institutions available to
business and its suppliers and customers. The relationship
of markets to these financial institutions is discussed. Examined
are issues such as managing return and risk in financial institutions
such as commercial banks, savings and loan associations, investment
banks and insurance companies and the methods and markets
through which these risks are managed. |
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FINNS 535
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Financial Analysis and Firm Valuation |
3 credit hours |
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This course
is designed to provide managers with the tools necessary to
determine the true value of a firm. Issues considered
include the impact of macroeconomic changes, “bubble” and herd
mentality, changing tax rates, and the problem of asymmetric
information in the market place. |
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FINNS 557
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Corporate Financial Risk Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course is designed to provide students with a thorough
understanding of the issues involved in risk management for
the firm. The
impact of commodity and currency markets as well as changing
interest rates is included.
The determination of an acceptable level of risk for
the organization is a central focus of the course. |
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FINNS 559
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Health Care Finance |
3 credit hours |
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This
course is designed to provide the health care administrator
with a basic understanding of the health care finance arena.
The course is designed for users of financial
information. Included
are issues of third-party payer systems, reimbursement models,
cost containment, sources and uses of capital financing,
private vs. public financing, and ethics. |
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INST 522
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Database Design and Processing |
3 credit hours |
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This
course is designed to provide the student with a solid
understanding of data base system concepts and architecture;
data models, schema, and instances; data independence and data
base language and interface; data definition languages; and
overall data base structures. A study of relational data
model concepts, integrity constraints, data manipulation,
functional dependencies, transaction processing concepts and
concurrency control techniques is included. |
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INST 534
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Computer and Information Processing |
3 credit hours |
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This
course provides a
systematic examination of computer networking including an
overview of the history and development of computer network,
network topologies, analog and digital transmission, switching
multiplexing, and protocols and algorithms. A review of
transmission media including connection management, flow
control, and buffering is included. |
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| ECON 530 |
Economics for
Managerial Decision Making |
3 credit hours |
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This course introduces
economic concepts for management in order to form a basis
for decision making in business and industrial environments.
Supply and demand, competition, labor and capital markets,
as well as economic, social, political, legal, and technical
factors that influence business and industrial service and
profitability are discussed. Special emphasis is placed on
the nature of the markets facing the business enterprise. |
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TECH 580
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Technology in
the Business Enterprise |
3 credit hours |
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This course provides
a basic understanding of the value and uses of information
systems and technology for business operations, management
decision making, and strategic operations. Included is an
assessment of how managers can utilize information systems
to facilitate planning, operations, and growth. Also included
is the role that technology plays currently and will increasingly
play in enterprise operations. |
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TECH 582
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Information Systems in Health Care Management |
3 credit hours |
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This
course is designed to guide the student through the legal,
ethical, technical, and cost issues surrounding information
management in health care. Included are issues of
privacy, short and long-term record storage and access, secure
communication between the client and the institution and among
public and private institutions, information needs at the
several levels of medical care, and broad system design and
integration. An exploration into telemedicine and
medical care at a distance are included. |
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TECH 585
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Information Technology for
Hospitality |
3 credit hours |
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This course
is designed to provide an understanding of how information
systems can facilitate the management decision making to
assure the efficient, effective operation of a hospitality
enterprise. Included are issues in purchasing/supply
chain management; point-of-sale; inventory control; human
resource management; intranet, extranet, voicemail, and
videoconferencing; reservations management; customer service;
and accounting. |
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MGMT 523
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Serving God and
Caesar: The Management of Church/State Issues |
3 credit hours |
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The
religious community is called to operate within the public
forum and has too frequently been found to be wanting.
Moral indiscretions, financial improprieties, and
inappropriate political involvement on the part of religious
institutions have been matched by the increasing requirements
imposed on religious organizations by governments.
This course assists students in maintaining
institutional integrity while meeting appropriate governmental
regulations. |
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MGMT 524
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Volunteer Program
Development and Management |
3 credit hours |
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Religious organizations rely strongly for their human
resources on volunteers.
This course equips the student with the ability to
develop volunteer programs and to recruit, equip, manage, and
evaluate individual volunteers within the system. |
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MGMT 525
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Conflict Resolution |
3 credit hours |
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The
religious community is supposed to be one of peace, yet
conflict often seems to be a way of life.
Conflict among members within a community and conflict
with external groups can diminish an organization’s
effectiveness and witness.
This course equips students to anticipate conflict; to
recognize types, uses, and abuses of power; to understand
their own and other’s conflict resolution styles among the
variety of styles that exist; and to be able to serve as
mediators in conflictual situations. |
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MGMT 526
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Organizational and
Personal Integrity in a Pluralistic Environment |
3 credit hours |
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Contemporary individuals and organizations function in a world
that is religiously pluralistic.
Maintaining one’s theological integrity while
participating in interfaith operations requires a special kind
of balance. Beginning
with an understanding of one’s own spiritual grounding, this
course examines the nature of religious pluralism in the world
today and provides the student with tools to forge interfaith
alliances – to compromise – for specific purposes while
maintaining their core beliefs. |
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MGMT 555
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Issues in Health Care Administration |
3 credit hours |
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This
course is designed to provide the student with an
understanding of the institutional arrangements for health
care in the United States.
Issues of prevention as well as amelioration, types of
delivery systems and points of access, and client and health
care professional responsibilities will be discussed.
Cross-county analyses will be used to expand understanding and
to allow the student to translate learnings into other-country
systems. |
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MGMT 558
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Health Care Policy |
3 credit hours |
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This
course is designed to provide the student with an
understanding of the economic, historical, political, and
social context of the health care system.
In particular, the course will focus on the political
roles of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of
government at both the national and state levels and will
assist the student in learning how to work within th system to
effect positive outcomes for their institutions and patients. |
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MGMT 569
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Recruiting, Compensation, and Evaluation |
3 credit hours |
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This course is designed to provide the manager with
a grounded understanding of the key issues in human resource
management as it serves the broader strategic goals of the
enterprise. The
focus is the development, implementation, and operation of
human resource management from a strategic business
perspective. Legal
and ethical issues of working with personnel at all levels of
the organization are included as are appropriate quantitative
and qualitative reporting of operations and outcomes. |
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MGMT 584
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Operations and Facilities Management |
3 credit hours |
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This
course is designed to provide managers with the tools needed
to coordinate the functions of the physical plant in a
hospitality operation to assure a high level of customer
service and satisfaction.
Included are the issues of health and safety;
procurement, storage; and distribution of materials and
supplies; space usage and environmental management; and
personnel management.
Through the use of case studies and computer modeling,
students will develop the ability undertake the management of
a complex hospitality operation. |
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| MGMT 530 |
The Legal Environment
of Business |
3 credit hours |
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This course serves
to familiarize students with how legal principles affect management
in business. Students learn the theoretical foundations of
the legal systems governing business and are introduced to
key substantive areas of law affecting business decisions.
A special focus is in the competing interests of the various
stakeholders of business and the ethical ramifications of
business decisions. |
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| MGMT 541 |
International
Business |
3 credit hours |
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This course provides
an overview of international commerce, trade, and business
and the worldwide cultural and economic influences that affect
it. Differing business structures and legal systems are assessed.
Included is a review of the major world trade agreements such
as The World Trade Organization (WTO), The European Union
(EU), and The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Varying national approaches to the management of risk and
to importing and exporting goods and services, competition,
investments, licensing, franchising, and the availability
of global venture capital are studied |
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| MGMT 542 |
Principles of
Global Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course provides
a comparative study of the business and social environments
facing managers of a multinational corporation (MNC). Included
is an assessment of the impacts factors such as religion,
language, family structure, and hierarchy on employees and
the enterprise. A review of the varying political and legal
institutions, the allocation of authority, the resolution
of disputes, and the concepts of ownership and property rights
and responsibilities of individuals and corporations is included. |
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| MGMT 551 |
Quantitative
Methods for Business |
3 credit hours |
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This course provides
an understanding of the role that quantitative methods play
in the decision making process. Included are topics such as
the principles for collecting, summarizing, and displaying
business data; elementary probability concepts, the normal
distribution and its business applications, and elementary
hypothesis testing; the time value of money and net present
value calculations; and the situations in which quantitative
methods are useful in decision making. |
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| MGMT 560 |
Human Resource
Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course focuses
on the understanding and management of human behavior in organizations
through an assessment of the principles, policies, and practices
related to procurement, development, maintenance, and, utilization
of human resources. The need to integrate employee and organizational
goals is included, and a special focus addresses intercultural
and international aspects of human resource management. |
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| MGMT 561 |
Organizational
Behavior and Ethics |
3 credit hours |
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This course addresses
the crucial issue of ethics in business. The concepts of ethics
and social responsibility are discussed in depth in the context
of the many stakeholders involved in business today. Included
are the responsibilities of a business organization and the
constituencies to which it is responsible. The legal environment
facing ethical issues is addressed with a focus on major legislative
initiatives such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, (ADA),
The Family and Medical Leave Act, and civil rights laws, and
a review of the regulatory agencies such as FDA and OSHA with
workplace responsibilities is included. |
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| MGMT 563 |
Ethics
of Managerial Leadership
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3 credit hours |
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This course is designed to provide a foundation for making
ethical decisions in both personal and organizational contexts. Building from both religious and
non-religious perspectives, the course addresses the twin issues of personal
integrity and the stewardship of organizational resources. The idea of ethics as derived from an
underlying concept of justice is included as is the need for an awareness of
intercultural differences in addressing ethical issues.
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| MGMT 566 |
Organizational
Conflict Management
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3 credit hours |
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This course is
designed to address the issues of intraorganizational and interpersonal
conflict as faced by a manager. The
course examines the destructive effects of unmanaged conflict and demonstrates
the power of conflict resolution through discussion, negotiation, and
mediation. Included is the issue of
conflict resolution within the voluntary organization. Emphasized is the role of preventative action
to mitigate personal and organizational conflict.
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| MGMT 571 |
Operations Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course introduces
the concepts, principles, and techniques of operations management
for continuous improvement. Included are quantitative and
qualitative techniques to improve operations profitability,
process selection, quality management, inventory systems,
constraint management, facility management, and workforce
management. |
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| MGMT 572 |
Strategic Planning
and Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course addresses
the unique issues involved in strategic management. The tools
of planning and operational management are introduced and
the use of technology to facilitate strategic thinking is
emphasized. The development, implementation, and evaluation
of plans to address the long-term needs of the organization
are included. A special focus of the course is on the nature
of strategic leadership and leaders including their development
and support. |
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| MGMT 573 |
Fundamentals
of Project Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course provides
an introduction to the use of project management technology
to accomplish organizational objectives. Included are project
selection, organization, planning, budgeting, scheduling,
management, control, and termination. The role of conflict
and negotiation in successful project operation is a particular
focus. The use of project management software is a part of
the course. |
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| MGMT 580 |
Leadership in Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course is designed to provide an understanding of the
manager as a leader. Current models of
leadership will be examined for their applicability in both business and
voluntary organizations. The student’s
personal leadership style will be assessed for areas of strength and areas for
future development. The role of the
manager as a leader of individual and organizational change is emphasized.
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| MGMT 591 |
Small Business
Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course introduces
small business management and the varied management skills
required for successful enterprise operation. The unique requirements
of the manager who must oversee a broad spectrum of operations
and planning are included. Managing risk and planning for
growth receive special attention. |
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| MGMT 598 |
Directed Research |
3 credit hours |
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This course provides
the opportunity to conduct an in-depth study of an area of
interest that enhances the student's understanding of an emerging
topic or issue in business and technology management. (Prior
approval of a faculty member and the Dean is required.) |
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| MKTG 571 |
Marketing Management |
3 credit hours |
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This course develops
an understanding of the marketing resources, activities and
personnel required to identify customer requirements for products
and services. Included is an analysis of marketing opportunities
through new product or service development, strategic planning,
electronic commerce, product strategies, and product mix.
The relationship of marketing to overall organization planning
is included. |
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MKTG 575
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Marketing for the Hospitality Industry |
3 credit hours |
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This course
is designed to provide the student with an understanding of
the unique issues involved in marketing in the hospitality
industry. Included are an understanding of the
similarities and differences between hospitality marketing and
marketing in other industries, market segmentation, value
proposition, relationship marketing, positioning for local and
international audiences, and understanding and anticipating
consumer behavior particularly with reference to economic and
global trends. |
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| MKTG 580 |
Electronic Commerce |
3 credit hours |
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E-Commerce is an
essential part of business. This course is designed from an
interdisciplinary managerial approach, which means the course
will provide the Learner with exposure to E-Commerce applications
in accounting, finance, information systems, computer science,
engineering, and the legal issues. The course has been constructed
to provide a global real world orientation, but not at the
expense of learning the theoretical aspects of ECommerce.
Learners in this course will be continually using the Internet
for assignments and will exploring new and practical websites. |
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| Capstone Course (6
credits) |
| MGMT 599 |
Capstone Management
Project |
6 credit hours |
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This course provides the student with the opportunity to
integrate the broad spectrum of what has been learned in
previous courses into a final project of direct relevance
to the student's academic and career objectives. Under the
guidance of a Capstone Advisor, the student selects an applied
project, conducts relevant research, and prepares a formal
project report. An oral presentation of the project approach
and findings is required.
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