MBA

Core Courses

MHR 6451 Human Resource Management Methods
This course provides a management-oriented exploration of human resource management, structure, functional applications, and labor management relations. Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this course forms a humanistic and legal analysis of organizations, focusing on the role of human resource management in the creation of organizational strategy. This course examines managers and leaders within organizations and their responsibility to optimize performance and make decisions based on ethical criteria. Human resource divisions are articulated in this course into six broad areas of thematic emphasis: introduction and strategy in human resource management; acquiring human resources, including job recruitment, planning and aligning human performance goals with organizational objectives; managing performance and compensation issues; training and workforce development; labor relations and collective bargaining; and promotion of workplace health and safety. (3 credit hours)

MBA 5501 Advanced Marketing
This course provides a strategic framework for organizational marketing decisions. From this managerial perspective, the student will explore the marketing process, the marketing concept and customer focused processes. The class will analyze marketing tools and understand their importance to marketing managers. These tools include including market research, competitor analysis and the consumer analysis. Finally, the course will include a study of the relationship between the marketing mix, the changing business environment and the overall corporate strategy. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6001 Organizational Research and Theory
This course provides a management-oriented exploration of organizational theory and the intricacies of organizational structure, design, and applications. Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this course forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society. Case studies are used to address and exemplify the many issues and problems that are involved in managing the process of organizational change and transformation. Providing direct and clear managerial implications, this course provides a strategic, applied approach to organization theory that emphasizes decision-making and leadership.

MBA 6601 International Business
This course explores the world of international business. International business is more than just domestic business on a broader scale. International business involves factors and forces that do not affect domestic business activities, like exchange rates and cultural differences and political risks. International business also raises issues related to controlling and staffing enterprises that are physically remote from a business' primary location and fashioning business relationships with people and entities that have unfamiliar ways of conducting their business. This course considers the factors and forces and issues that affect and arise in international business. (3 credit hours)

BA 5401 Management Information Systems
This course offers an overview of information systems (often called Management Information Systems). Information systems are at the heart of the modern organization. Within its purview are most, if not all, of the components that make the modern organization. This course examines information systems from a managerial perspective. This means that the focus is upon how the organization as a distinct whole has used and can use its information resources to best serve its needs. (3 credit hours)

MBA 5652 Research Methods
This capstone course is intended to provide an introduction to some of the important topics in the general area of research methods, and to do so in a non-intimidating and informative way. Topics include ethical research standards, role and importance of research, problem selection, sampling, measurement, data collection, descriptive and inferential statistics, experimental and nonexperimental research, quasi-experimental research, and writing and presenting research. This course of study will give the student a solid background of knowledge for developing a research proposal and using APA guidelines for submitting a publication to a refereed journal.

MBA 6301 Business Ethics
This course is designed to introduce ethical decision making in business. This course examines the individual, organizational, and macro level issues in business ethics. The course does not attempt to determine correct ethical action. Rather, it is designed to assist the potential businessperson to make more informed ethical decisions on a daily basis. The complex environment in which managers confront ethical decision-making is fraught with the knowledge that there are no absolute right or wrong solutions in most situations. Dilemmas, real life situations, and cases will provide you an opportunity to use concepts in the assignments and to resolve ethical issues. Since there is no universal agreement on the correct ethical business norms, critical thinking and informed decision making are emphasized. Through this managerial framework, the course will cover the overall concepts, processes, and best practices associated with successful business ethics programs. (3 credit hours)

MBA 5101 Strategic Management and Business Policy
This course is designed to provide a deeper understanding of strategic management principles, theories, and concepts. During this course, students will examine the basic concepts of strategic management, learn how to develop mission statements, and assess both the external and internal environments to determine organizational strengths and weaknesses. This course will include analysis of various methods for formulating and implementing strategy, as well as the numerous issues associated with technology and innovation, entrepreneurial ventures and small businesses, and not-for-profit organizations. Learning will take place through readings, case studies, and other learning strategies. (3 credit hours)

MBA Degree Program Courses

MBA Concentration Courses--General Program

The General Business Concentration provides students an opportunity to select any four MBA courses (12 hours). You may choose from the three MBA Electives listed here or any of the other MBA concentration courses below.

MBA 6053 Economics for Managers
This graduate course studies the role of economic issues in the managerial decision-making process. It covers the concept of microeconomics. It also provides an understanding of public policy formation and how a modern economy functions. Course stresses practical application of decision-making tools. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6081 Corporate Finance
This course introduces the theory of corporate finance and the application of this theory to realistic problems in corporate financial management. Case studies are utilized to integrate the various aspects of corporate finance including production, marketing, management, accounting and finance. Investments, corporate benefits, supply and demand, corporate reorganization and financial instruments are studied. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6151 Operations Research
An introduction to the scientific methods used to investigate problems concerned with the conducting of operations within an organization. Mathematical methods of operations research are stressed. Topics studied include linear programming, decision analysis, mathematical programming, inventory theory, forecasting, and Markov decision processes. (3 credit hours)

E-Business and Technology Concentration Courses

MBA 5531 E-Commerce
E-Commerce is designed to provide current or future e-commerce practitioners with an understanding of the networked economy and associated infrastructure including strategy, technology, capital, media, and policy. E-Commerce describes the manner in which transactions take place over networks, how business is conducted and managed, and the major opportunities, limitations, issues, and risks of electronically buying and selling goods, services, and information. Students will gain exposure and practical application tools to utilize e-business and e-commerce in professional practice. Although some of the effort will be devoted to hands-on work with business software, the major emphasis will be on the managerial and strategic aspects of online business. (3 credit hours)

MBA 5541 E-Commerce Marketing
This course provides an overview of business transactions. A central course focus is on electronic transactions and exchanges among businesses, and targets infrastructure providers as they converge for the purchase and sale of goods, services, ideas, and information over the Internet. This course also explores the Internet's impact on business models and marketing strategies, examines which marketing strategies work online and which do not, and discusses how the Internet creates value for customers and profits for companies. (3 credit hours)

MBA 5551 Management of E-Commerce
This course explores the theories and techniques for e-business and e-commerce management and operation, and investigates multiple topics used to understand e-business activities. Students will learn the history of the Internet, hardware and software aspects, as well as the management and marketing of an Internet business. Discussion topics include how to bring a business on-line, choosing a business model, and managing transactions and markets. (3 credit hours)

MBA 5581 E-Commerce Design and Development
This course explores current the emerging issues in business transactions over the electronic medium. Topics include uniform commercial codes, taxation, payment systems, security, technology/technical standards, infrastructure, content and intellectual protection of property, privacy, censorship, and legal issues and strategies from a business perspective. This course also examines issues and topics in the functional areas of business as they relate to electronic commerce. (3 credit hours)

Finance Concentration Courses

MBA 6053 Corporate Finance
This course in Corporate Finance is for executives and business students interested in the practice of financial management. It introduces standard techniques and recent advances in a practical, intuitive way. The course assumes no prior background beyond a rudimentary and perhaps rusty familiarity with financial statements, although a healthy curiosity about what makes business tick is also useful. Emphasis throughout is on the managerial implications of financial analysis. This course should prove valuable to individuals interested in sharpening their managerial skills and to participants in executive programs. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6641 International Economics
This course examines trade and international economics, and considers comparative advantage and the factors of production. This course also considers how growth is influenced by trade and various alternative trade theories. The course places an emphasis on the general equilibrium approach to modeling over the more convenient partial equilibrium approach, to create a more accurate picture of how international trade affects the global welfare of people and events impacting the economy. Relationships between trade and growth, effects of labor, capital movements between countries, and key factors that influence relative costs between countries are also examined. Trade restrictions and the effect of trade on environmental and political policies are also explored. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6651 International Finance
This course takes an in depth look at economics in the international context. Basic economic concepts apply, but certain factors in international transactions can change the economic outcomes of those basic concepts. The course investigates arbitrage and arbitrage like transactions, and how these bind together distinguishable financial instruments to play a key role in financial contracts. The finance methodologies of multinational corporations, foreign exchange, and bankers acceptances are also included. Foreign exchange and currency markets are explored for their impact on international economics, and the interrelationship of exchange rates and economics factors are also discussed in this course. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6841 Public Budgeting
Governmental and non-profit accounting, reporting, and auditing continue to evolve rapidly. Moreover, the ever-increasing scrutiny and accountability to which governments and non-profit organizations are being subjected by others, including Congress, practitioners, investors and creditors, standards setters, and academicians, clearly signal that their accounting, reporting, and auditing concepts, standards, and practices will probably continue to evolve rapidly. One result of this increased attention is that it is now virtually impossible to pass the Uniform CPA Examination without an understanding of governmental and non-profit accounting. This course prepares the student in all of the above topics, and ensures a solid foundation for engaging in the practice of governmental or non-profit accounting. (3 credit hours)

Health Care Management

MHA 5001 Health Care Financial Management
This course explores the selection, financing, and stewardship of organizational assets using financial data and other criteria to attain organizational goals. Assets must be maintained, replaced, abandoned, and reinvested, and are supervised by financial specialists including accountants, analysts, bookkeepers, treasurers, and planners who are specialists in financial management. Financial management is also a concern for non-specialists. Department directors must develop and manage budgets, and chief executive officers and trustees take leading roles in decisions regarding long-term financing and organizational acquisitions. This course examines these and other aspects of financial management within the health care context. (3 credit hours)

MHA 5101 Legal Foundations of Health Care
This course examines the diverse legal foundations of health care, and guides student understanding of the legal aspects of health care administration. It is intended to focus on an extensive overview of the major issues in health law as they relate to daily lives of health care professionals. With a strong foundation in health care law, this course will provide a clear understanding of common legal problems facing today's health care system. (3 credit hours)

MHA 5201 Health Resources and Policy Analysis
This course investigates the policy-making process in health care, and presents an examination of policy formulation and implementation, including modification and political competence. This course also explores the health care delivery environment and means by which leaders can effectively analyze the public policy environment of a health-related entity. This course, by utilizing two excellent texts available in health policy-making today, provides ample knowledge about health resources and policy analysis. (3 credit hours)

MHA 6501 Advanced Health Care Management
This course explores the organization, administration, and management of health care organizations. Special focus is placed on organizational and managerial decision making, with extensive examination of managerial responsibilities that many health care professions assume in their daily assignments. With a strong foundation in organizational design and behavior, this course will provide a clear understanding of comprehensive health care management in today's health care industry. (3 credit hours)

Hospitality and Tourism

MHM 5300 Hospitality and Tourism
This course is designed for hospitality management professionals, and provides a comprehensive examination of the fascinating and challenging fields of the hospitality industry: travel and tourism, lodging, food service, meetings, conventions and expositions, leisure and recreation. This course examines the hospitality industry and the various industry segments to include the restaurants, hotels, attractions, and other businesses and organizations that serve individuals as they meet, visit, or celebrate comprise the hospitality industry. In addition, basic management skills and concepts are introduced and applied to the hospitality and tourism context. Leadership, marketing, control, planning, and fundamentals of operation of all hospitality businesses are described and illustrated. (3 credit hours)

MHM 5680 Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism
This course examines core concepts and principles of hospitality and tourism marketing with an international perspective. Marketing management philosophies, customer service strategies, electronic and target marketing, consumer buying behavior, marketing research, product development, pricing approaches, publics relations, advertising, sales promotion, distribution systems, professional sales management and market plan development are covered with conceptual and case analysis. The course provides numerous practical examples for managerial decision making in the global marketplace. (3 credit hours)

MHM 5701 Legal Aspects of Hospitality and Tourism
This course provides an understanding of the basic foundations and principles of laws affecting the hospitality industry. The common and statutory law of the hospitality industry and the duties and responsibilities to guests, such as maintenance of property, and guest liability is examined. The course also identifies how hospitality managers prevent legal problems and avoid litigation. Staff legal liability is also stressed. (3 credit hours)

MHM 5780 Management Accounting for Hospitality and Tourism
This course is designed to provide students with an advantageous mix of accounting theory and practice, and is tailored to the special learning needs for professionals in the hospitality service industry. This course explores hotel and restaurant accounting concepts that are vital to decision making within an organization's internal environment. The course covers hospitality accounting for assets, payroll, preparation of income statements, and the balance sheet. In addition, the course covers the tools to handle the financial decisions with ratio analysis, budgeting, and forecasting. This course also provide information on budgeting expenses, forecasting sales, budgetary reporting and analysis, financial decision making, and discussion of such topics as open/close for the off-season, business acquisition, and vehicle leasing. (3 credit hours)

Human Resource Management

MHR 6401 Employment Law
This course examines legal issues involving employees and employers. This course is not a substitute for the formal study of law, rather, it is designed to introduce students to various aspects of the law, that they may identify potential problems and make informed decisions. Course materials contain excerpts from court decisions and highlight issues expanded upon within textbook chapters. Employment law issues include, interview, selection, hiring and termination, EEOC issues, and health and safety. Case studies provide students information on particular issue and provide broader understanding of the decision making process in the courts. (3 credit hours)

MHR 6451 Human Resource Management Methods
This course provides a management-oriented exploration of human resource management, structure, functional applications, and labor management relations. Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this course forms a humanistic and legal analysis of organizations, focusing on the role of human resource management in the creation of organizational strategy. This course examines managers and leaders within organizations and their responsibility to optimize performance and make decisions based on ethical criteria. Human resource divisions are articulated in this course into six broad areas of thematic emphasis: introduction and strategy in human resource management; acquiring human resources, including job recruitment, planning and aligning human performance goals with organizational objectives; managing performance and compensation issues; training and workforce development; labor relations and collective bargaining; and promotion of workplace health and safety.

MHR 6551 Training & Development
This course is designed to challenge master's level knowledge and skill in human resource development. During this course of study, students will gain an understanding of employee training, education and development, and their impact on the organization. The course will examine human resource management using a systems approach to the development and delivery of training in today's organization. Course topics of interest include needs assessments, design curriculum, support training, and evaluation of the effectiveness of training. (3 credit hours)

MHR 6751 Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining
This course presents a practical working knowledge of negotiations, labor law, labor relations, and collective bargaining. Students are introduced to collective bargaining and labor relations with an emphasis on the situations they will encounter on the job. The course will incorporate selections from actual labor agreements, arbitration cases, and decisions of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This course will also provide court illustrations to emphasize contemporary issues in collective bargaining and labor relations. In addition, experts in the fields of labor law and arbitration have contributed ?tips? on how these concepts can be applied in various employment contexts. (3 credit hours)

MHR 6901 Compensation Management
This course explores the development and use of various compensation strategies and systems in today's highly competitive business environment. Now, more than ever, employers, relying on human resource professionals, must develop compensation systems that align strategically with the mission and vision of the organization while providing the basis for the recruitment and retention of a qualified and satisfied employee base. Compensation management provides a proven format for leaders to make practical decisions necessary to balance financial options and restraints with the demands of the workforce. This course considers the factors, forces, and issues involved in collecting, organizing and analyzing of data in order to make better business decision. (3 credit hours)

International Management

MBA 6621 International Legal Environment
This course examines laws regulating international activities including managerial issues, trade, licensing and investment from a managerial perspective. Students will study the function and importance of public international law, as well as the role of public and private international organizations in setting standards and guidelines for international business. This course also examines the legal aspects of establishing an overseas operation; joint venturing abroad; using a foreign distributor and exporting technology. Emphasizing practical application and theory of international business law, this course examines how firms doing business between the more than 200 countries of the world are governed and regulated. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6631 Intercultural Management
This is an advanced graduate course focusing on intercultural issues related to work organizations and management. This course will attempt to build intercultural understanding, sensitivity, and interpersonal skills through textbook readings and case studies. The emphasis of the course is on intercultural awareness, effective work performance, and a global perspective of business and careers. Rather than utilizing the traditional approach of compartmentalizing the world into neat functional boxes where "international" becomes a weak qualifying adjective, this framework allows the cases and readings to present issues in the way managers receive them in complex packages, and in which managerial choices are shaped by strategy and information. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6641 International Economics
This course takes an in depth look at economics in the international context. This course examines trade and international economics, and considers comparative advantage and the factors of production. This course also considers how growth is influenced by trade and various alternative trade theories. The course places an emphasis on the general equilibrium approach to modeling over the more convenient partial equilibrium approach, to create a more accurate picture of how international trade affects the global welfare of people and events impacting the economy. Relationships between trade and growth, effects of labor and capital movements between countries, and the key factors that influence relative costs between countries are also examined. Trade restrictions and the effect of trade on environmental and political policies are also explored. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6651 International Finance
This course takes an in depth look at economics in the international context. Basic economic concepts apply, but certain factors in international transactions can change the economic outcomes of those basic concepts. The course investigates arbitrage and arbitrage like transactions, and how these bind together distinguishable financial instruments to play a key role in financial contracts. The finance methodologies of multinational corporations, foreign exchange, and bankers acceptances are also included. Foreign exchange and currency markets are explored for their impact on international economics, and the interrelationship of exchange rates and economics factors are also discussed in this course. (3 credit hours)

Marketing

MBA 5841 Strategic Marketing
This course is examines various decision-making tools in marketing which are useful in structuring and solving marketing problems. Case studies describing actual marketing problems provide an opportunity for those concepts and tools to be employed in practice. Integrated marketing communication strategy and management, marketing channel strategy, and marketing strategy reformulation in comprehensive marketing programs are examined through conceptual and case analysis. In every case study, the decision maker must develop a strategy consistent with the underlying factors existing in the situation presented and must consider the implications of that strategy for the organization and it's environment. (3 credit hours)

MBA 5851 Marketing Research
This course explores marketing research as the systematic and objective planning, obtaining, recording and analyzing of information to support the decisions of marketing managers. Topics include the "process" of marketing research, the use of technology to support the research function, types of relevant data, information collection methodology, measurement and statistical testing of results. In addition to the above, the course will involve the integration of business examples and applications that illustrate the importance of marketing research to support an organization's "marketing mix" and "marketing concepts." (3 credit hours)

MBA 5861 New Product Marketing
This course integrates several new products subject areas including marketing, technical, creative design, and management issues related to new product marketing. The course is designed for students interested in working in environments impacted by high technology innovations, both in the context of small entrepreneurial firms and large established companies. This course explores the challenges faced by marketers, business managers, and consultants in bringing a new technology to the market. This course will rely primarily upon cases taken from the fields of biotechnology, medical device industries, computer hardware and software, computer technologies, Internet infrastructure, and telecommunications. (3 credit hours)

MBA 5871 Business -- to Business Marketing
This course explores management functions associated with Marketing B2B and other types of mainstream electronic commerce. The purpose of this course is to focus on all major areas of strategic marketing B2B. This course will assist students understand how strategic marketing and business policies are formed and generated using different models and theories. The goal of this course is to lay the foundation for a better understanding of organizations, and to assist students in viewing organizations as a continuously evolving entity. This course highlights the relevance and contribution of this discipline to business, policy creation, and other management sciences. Concepts included in this course include foundations of e-commerce, retailing and advertising, market research, marketing strategies and implementation, and the management of business marketing channels. (3 credit hours)

Project Management

MBA 6931 Project Management Strategy and Tactics
This course provides the tools to understand, design, and apply systematic project management organization and administration. In addition to learning how to satisfy customer needs, this course will assist students learn how to apply budgeting concepts, manage production time, invest resources, and create performance specifications designed with defined requirements. The course introduces the methodologies and technologies that can assist project managers coordinate a project from inception through completion. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6941 Managing Project Teams
This course explores the diverse sectors of project management leadership and team activity. Project teams are comprised of multiple job sectors and divisions. This course trains students how to manage and lead project team members from project creation to completion, while managing team conflict, motivation, individual and group behavior, and strategic completion of work assignments. The material covers a wide range of organizations and topics related to project teams. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6951 Managing Complex Projects
Managing Complex Projects is an in-depth study of the project management process. The course examines the project process from a systems perspective, and prepares students for the processing of planning, controlling and performing projects within the modern workplace. Topics covered in the course include the systems theory, conception phase, study phase, design phase, implementation phase, management functions as they pertain to projects, the project plan, and project specifications and reporting modalities. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6961 Project Management
The skills of problem solving and decision-making are critical to effective project management. Topics in this course include program value, project definition, environmental considerations, time sensitivity, risk sensitivity, metrics gathering and cost reduction. Students will practice effective decision-making in the area of project risk management, including learning how to identify and quantify problems and potential solutions. Participants will also examine impact analysis and risk response control. The four basic elements of a contract to include the agreement, consideration, contractual capacity, and lawful object are examined in detail. (3 credit hours)

Public Administration

MBA 6841 Public Budgeting
Governmental and non-profit accounting, reporting, and auditing continue to evolve rapidly. Moreover, the ever-increasing scrutiny and accountability to which governments and non-profit organizations are being subjected by others, including Congress, practitioners, investors and creditors, standards setters, and academicians, clearly signal that their accounting, reporting, and auditing concepts, standards, and practices will probably continue to evolve rapidly. One result of this increased attention is that it is now virtually impossible to pass the Uniform CPA Examination without an understanding of governmental and non-profit accounting. This course prepares the student in all of the above topics, and ensures a solid foundation for engaging in the practice of governmental or non-profit accounting. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6861 Public Policies
This course explores public policy as part of the managerial decision-making process. It also provides an understanding of public policy formation, and the modern economic functions of non-market entities. It provides a structured and disciplinary approach to addressing management issues of growing importance in public policy and organizational performance from a global perspective. Finally, this course stresses the practical application of a number of decision-making tools available to the modern manager in the public policy arena. It does so by integrating the disciplines of economics, political science, law, and ethics to provide a deeper understanding of the environment of business. (3 credit hours)

MBA 6871 Public Finance and Legislative Procedures
This course examines government activities and the methods of financing government expenditures. The course includes the study of the economic basis for, and the impact of, government activity. Relevant topics include Federalism, cost-benefit analysis of government investment, budgeting, corporate taxation and the impact of personal income taxation on consumption. (3 credit hours)

Sport Management

MSM 5001 Sport Law and Risk Management
This course presents a comprehensive introduction to the areas of the law that impact sports. There is no field of sports law, but there are broad areas of the law that affect sports including tort law, criminal law, contract law, and constitutional law. This course explores tort law and the civil, private wrongful acts that can be redressed by legal action between private parties. The course also explores contract law, and how legal enforceable agreements form contracts and the remedies that are available when a party fails to perform the duties imposed by the contract. Constitutional law is also investigated in this course. (3 credit hours)

MSM 5501 Sport Public Relations and Fund Raising
This course presents detailed information on the theory and practice of promoting and selling sport in today's marketplace. Topics include direct and indirect sales techniques, the multicultural considerations affecting marketing communication, and the design and execution of multilingual advertising and sales campaigns. In addition to offering the theoretical underpinnings of sport promotion, this course offers the practical applications of theory and the experiential data necessary to compete in the expanding competitive markets of today. (3 credit hours)

MSM 5901 Sport Facilities
The objective of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the planning and design process, as well as the features of many different areas and types of recreation and sport facilities. Topics included are design and development, common facility components, recreational spaces, specialty spaces, and trends in stadium and arenas, and equipment and supplies. (3 credit hours)

MSM 6301 Sport Administration & Finance
This course examines the concepts relating to efficient management and leadership of the sport industry. Emphasis will be placed on principles and techniques of management relating to programs, facilities, special events, and personnel. Special course topics include: key personnel issues in sport management situations; ethics, law, and governance as they apply to sport management; the role of the marketing process in sport administration; and the economics, accounting and budgeting, and the importance of each for managers of sport. (3 credit hours)

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