Master of Business Administration
Course descriptions
MBA 610 Government And Not-For-Profit Accounting (3)
Governmental and not-for-profit entities utilize special accounting rules and procedures. MBA 610 involves the study and research of these special accounting rules and reporting practices set forth by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and other professional accounting organizations. Prerequisite: Advanced undergraduate accounting course or equivalent.
MBA 611 Accounting For Executive Action (3)
Systems and procedures for budgeting and control, including cost and profit planning, responsibility accounting, cost behavior patterns, operating and capital budgeting, and accounting data for decision making. Prerequisite: Introductory course(s) in accounting or equivalent.
MBA 616 Fundamentals Of Financial Instruments & Institutions (1)
This course will familiarize students with the fundamental concepts, models and theories of financial markets, instruments and institutions. Students will be provided a basic survey of (a) the nature and forms of financial markets; (b) the financial instruments available for investing, financing operations and managing various kinds of financial risk and the markets which trade these instruments; and (c) the role and operation of financial institutions and regulatory bodies.
MBA 618 Accounting For Decision Making (3)
This course will introduce students to the accounting concepts and use of accounting information in decision making. Topics include basics of financial statements, measurement of assets, equities and income, financial statement analysis, cost behavior and measurement, cost and profitability analyses, long-term investment analysis, relevant cost, and performance measures.
MBA 621 Organizational Behavior (3)
Focus on individuals and groups within organizational systems including organizational dynamics, behavior, design, and other factors impacting organizational success.
MBA 624 Managerial Economics (3)
This course will familiarize students with the fundamental concepts, models and theories of economics with a focus on their relevance to business decision making. The interaction of information, economic incentives and market competition and how these interact to determine prices, products available, profits, and patterns of trade and organization will be explored. At the end of this course, students should be able to understand how basic economic reasoning can lead to improved managerial decisions.
MBA 627 Entrepreneurship: Venture Management (3)
This course immerses students in the dynamic, cash driven environment of the entrepreneur by studying case histories of lifestyle ventures, smaller profitable ventures, and fast-growth ventures. This comprehensive course focuses on new venture management and the process of developing strategies and plans for successful entrepreneurial operations.
MBA 628 E-Business (3)
The subject of E-Business is an exciting and cutting edge component of entrepreneurial studies. This course is designed to educate the student to the level whereby he or she will be able to plan for and implement an e-business start-up or be able to lead the transition team of a traditional bricks and mortar business that is expanding to include e-business solutions in its business strategy.
MBA 630 Entrepreneurship: Venture Funding (3)
Explore the many tools, tactics, and strategies available to the successful small business for obtaining cash to finance fast-growth, such as private placement exemptions, uniform limited offerings and public offerings. Special emphasis is placed on the emerging trends of Direct Public Offerings and navigating SEC regulations. Upon completion, students should be able to determine effective funding strategies and be able to complete funding plans or simple prospectuses that would be successful in raising capital in today’s marketplace. Prerequisite: MBA 618.
MBA 631 Human Resource Management (3)
Strategic planning, development, and management of human resource capital focusing on both human and regulatory issues within the organization. Title VII, labor relations, task and work analysis, performance management, compensation, and other HRM topics examined as they affect supervisors and managers.
MBA 636 Health Care Systems (3)
Examines the structures, functioning, and financing of the U.S. health services system. Emphasizes foundational concepts for understanding and analyzing patterns of health and illness; health care cost, quality, access, and utilization; workforce; competition in health care markets; and supplier, provider, and payer effectiveness and efficiency.
MBA 637 Health Care Policy And Economics (3)
Topics include consumer behavior, determinants of demand for health services, determinants of costs in health care organizations, production theory, the role of competition and regulation in the health care industry, health risks and their economic impact, insurance and alternative financing mechanisms, cost-benefit analysis of health programs, and theories of health care cost inflation. Also examines international alternative health policies. Prerequisite: MBA 636.
MBA 638 Informatics: Health Information Systems And Technology (3)
Analyzes current information and management systems including workforce planning and productivity, financial planning and monitoring, quality assurance, staffing and scheduling, administrative information systems, patient care systems, and legal/regulatory requirements for security and confidentiality. Evaluates alternative uses of computer technology in health care, including tele-health technologies.
MBA 639 Program Evaluation And Outcome Assessment (3)
This course considers health data sources and program evaluation methods, and the means to incorporate the findings into effective health care service delivery. Topics include: cost-benefit analysis, activity analysis, outcome assessment, design of program evaluations, and reporting of results. Students learn to measure the magnitude of problems posed by different diseases, determine who is affected by the problems, identify causes, and evaluate the efficacy of prevention and treatment intervention. Prerequisite: MBA 652.
MBA 640 Quality Management Practices (3)
Practical applications of major quality management systems and models focusing on the integration of a number of models and approaches in order to ensure successful implementation.
MBA 642 Marketing Management (3)
Techniques and strategies for management of marketing in a global environment. The course guides the student through the changing role of marketing management from planning, pricing, promotions, and product and brand management in the domestic environment to distribution and channel strategies in international marketing. The course focuses on developing the correct marketing strategy to match the market opportunity.
MBA 643 Internet Marketing (3)
Covers the various impacts of the expanded use of the Internet on marketing. Includes the effects of Internet characteristics (connectivity, interactivity, and essentially unlimited information capacity, together with non-geographically contained reach) on the function of current marketing media, evaluation of web page design criteria, and the relation of the Internet to other aspects of the Marketing Mix, that is, to physical distribution, product development, and pricing. Prerequisite: MBA 642 or permission of instructor.
MBA 644 Ethical And Legal Issues In Health Care (3)
This course explores the health care delivery system in the United States, the laws that govern that system, and the inherent ethical issues involved with the delivery of health care services. Students can expect to gain a broad sense of the relationship between the structure of the health care system and the law of health care. The course covers private insurance and state and federal law, including ERISA, COBRA, the ADA and HIPAA; basic Medicare and Medicaid law; antitrust law; federal fraud and abuse law; and basic law of managed care. The course will also explore emerging issues of biotechnology, services rationing, and collection and disclosure of patient information.
MBA 645 Health Care Marketing (3)
Fundamental theories, concepts, and techniques of marketing applied to the distinctive properties of health care services. Emphasizes the role of marketing in aligning organizational capacity and health care needs; market analysis and planning; strategic marketing management; tactical marketing mix design; developing and managing new services and systems of delivery.
MBA 646 Informatics: Integration And Application (3)
Informatics – the intersection of technology, information, and health care – impacts health care on national and local levels. Health care personnel are developing ehrs (electronic health records), electronic billing systems, patient and practitioner portals, and other manifestations of the information age universally – yet few systems communicate with one another. As informatics continues its consumption of resources both human and monetary, all in the field of health care need to understand what it is, how it affects their services, and how to direct its efforts to improvement of health care delivery. Prerequisite: MBA 638.
MBA 647 Practice Management (3)
Provides a practical overview of management skills and tools necessary to assist a physician group with an efficient delivery organization. Discusses issues in larger healthcare business environment that affect physician professional practice, and the operational factors that define a successful organization now and in the future. Prerequisite: MBA 636.
MBA 648 Reimbursement Systems (3)
An examination of the challenges associated with organizing and managing health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other types of managed care systems. The course places special emphasis on the organization and management of physician practices. Other topics include: contractual relationships with hospitals, utilization review and quality assurance systems, and marketing.
MBA 652 Intermediate Statistics For Management (3)
An intermediate level course in statistics covering a review of point and interval estimation type I and II errors and hypothesis testing, with an extension to the analysis of simple survey designs, followed by a rigorous development of simple and multiple regression, elementary ANOVA, discrete data analysis, and nonparametric methods. Students will learn to work with the MINITAB statistical package and other spreadsheet programs.
MBA 653 Spreadsheet Modeling And Simulation (3)
This is a spreadsheet-based course in building decision models and simulating the uncertainty inherent in decision-making. It will build on basic statistical concepts in developing random simulations. Spreadsheet tools for conducting simulation analyses will be covered. Integration of data, modeling, and presentation of results will be stressed.
MBA 654 Systems Thinking And Computer Simulation (3)
Systems dynamics is a perspective and a set of conceptual tools that enable you to understand the structure and dynamics of complex systems. Systems dynamics is also a rigorous modeling method that enables you to build formal computer simulations of complex systems and use them to design more effective policies and organizations. The goal of this course is to develop your intuition and conceptual understanding of business processes.
MBA 662 Law And Corporate Leadership (3)
Focus on understanding the legal environment in which managers and executives operate, including broad legal principles involving corporate legal issues.
MBA 663 Business Ethics (3)
This course explores the ethical traditions of business including: the relationship between capitalism, corporations, and ethics; issues of justice and economic distribution; the relationship between business ethics and the environment; and ethical issues and current challenges in the workplace. Students will learn how to spot potential ethical issues before they become problems.
MBA 664 Leadership (3)
An experiential course that enables the student to examine several leadership styles, traits, and behaviors. The student will also discover a variety of group creative problem-solving techniques and processes. The students will examine their leadership role within a team-building environment. Students participate in class exercises and in an outdoor experiential lab environment.
MBA 669 Health Care Finance (3)
Examines theory and techniques of corporate financial management as applied to health services providers and insurers including time value of money, capital budgeting techniques, cost flow analysis, capital structures planning, mergers and acquisitions, managed care financing, contract negotiation, and capital acquisition and investment analysis. Prerequisite: MBA 618.
MBA 670 Corporate Finance (3)
Students will gain knowledge of financial and economic needs and processes within the organization, including financial needs and sources of funds, behavior of the economy, institutional structures and markets, internal financial decision making, performance and risk management and measurement. Prerequisite: MBA 616
MBA 674 Domestic/Global Securities And Ffinancial Markets (3)
A survey introducing students to domestic and global financial markets, how they developed and how they are likely to change in the near future. An overview that examines variety and differences among financial instruments and a review of how they are valued and traded.
MBA 675 Investment Theory And Practice (with lab) (4)
Course will cover return concepts, policy statements, investment alternatives and historic returns, efficient markets theory, Markowitz mean/variance portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model and extensions, asset pricing theory, portfolio strategies, and performance evaluation. Management of the student fund is an integral part of the class. Prerequisite: MBA 652 or permission of instructor.
MBA 677 Financial Securities And Derivatives (4)
Course will cover three step decision process, theory of valuation, dividend discount model, relative valuation, analyzing the entire market, industry, and sector analysis, specific stock selection models, and technical analysis. Management of the student fund is an integral part of the class. Prerequisite: MBA 675.
MBA 680 Directed Study (1-3)
Individual study in a given field under the guidance of a faculty member.
MBA 681 Thesis (3-6)
Compilation, evaluation, interpretation, writing, and oral presentation of significant research in a business or management area. Research proposal and final product must be approved by the thesis committee. Prerequisite: Recommend course in design and principles of research.
MBA 683 Fund Management Practicum (1)
This is a 100% practical, lab-based course offered in summer to help students gain hands-on experience in applying the basic concepts of equity securities selection and modern portfolio theory by managing a real-life, institutional caliber equity portfolio.
MBA 685 Internship (1-6)
Practical work experience or experiential opportunity in a given area of concentration under the guidance of a faculty member and onsite supervisor. Completion of a written report or document.
MBA 690 Seminar (1-3)
Small group meets with faculty member for in-depth study and discussion of particular topics. Appropriate course descriptions published when offered.
MBA 692 Special Topics (1-3)
Examination or study of a special topic or area. Offered as needed. Course description published when offered.
MBA 693 Special Finance Topics (3-4)
Special topics offered depending on demand and program development, these topics will include: The Art of Trading, Options, Derivatives and Futures, Pensions, Commodities, and Managing the Student Fund. Prerequisite: MBA 652.
MBA 695 Research Project (3)
Undertaking of major research project under guidance of a faculty member. Involves in-depth study of a specific area. Quantitative or qualitative research methods are used in the completion of the project. Prerequisite: Recommend course in design and principles of research
MBA 697 Capstone Course (3)
Integration and application of the skills learned in competitive strategy, finance, human resource management, marketing, accounting, operations management, and other functional areas through an interactive management simulation conducted in teams. This course is normally taken in the last semester of the student’s enrollment in the MBA, MBAICT or MGF program. Prerequisites: Completion of at least nine (9) MBA, MCT or MGF courses representing a cross section of functional management disciplines or instructor permission.
