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Master
of Business Administration
MBA Course Descriptions
Each course is 3 credit hours, consisting of 45 contact hours.
Mgt 201. Communications and Soft
Skills. Communications model: sender, receiver,
encoding, decoding, feedback, the medium, the message.
Barriers to communications. Verbal vs. nonverbal
communications. Formal vs. informal communications. Writing
reports. Making presentations. Conducting meetings. Practical
exercises in effective communication. Dealing effectively with
colleagues, supervisors, team members, and customers.
Mgt 202. Business Law and Ethics.
Commercial law at the national, state (provincial), and
municipal levels. Forms of organizational structure (e.g.,
sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation). Taxes.
Occupational safety and health. Labor regulations. Ethics.
Mgt 210. Quantitative Methods for
Decision-making. An overview of basic quantitative
skills needed to make effective management decisions. Topics
covered include displaying and summarizing data, random
variables and probability distributions, sampling, statistical
inference, regression analysis, forecasting, statistical
quality control, risk analysis, Monte Carlo simulation,
decision trees, and linear and integer optimization modeling.
Requires Microsoft Excel®.
Mgt 215. Operations, Logistics, and
Supply Chain Management. This course covers the set
of activities that creates goods and services through the
transformation of inputs into outputs. OM is one of the three
major functions of any organization (manufacturing or
service), the other two being financing/accounting and
marketing.
Mgt 220. Information Technology.
An introduction to the role of information technology in
contemporary organizations. A review of the history of
computers, the evolution of management information systems,
the employment of computers in contemporary organizations, and
basic information on software development. Hands-on exercises
in using the Internet and creating web pages.
Mgt 230. Leadership and
Organization. A review of the history of management
thought. The role of vision, leadership, and values in
organizations. Teams and team-building. Conflict management.
Organizational design.
Mgt 240. Marketing and Sales.
An overview of the key functions of marketing: pricing,
promotion, distribution channels, and product definition. The
market research function. An understanding of who customers
are (both internal and external) and how to define their needs
and wants. Sales strategies.
Mgt 250. Project Management.
This course addresses the central role of project management
today. Topics include a review of the project life-cycle;
techniques in the areas of cost management, scheduling, and
resource allocation; identifying and managing project
requirements; and an overview of project management software.
Mgt 251. Planning and Control*.
An in-depth examination of scheduling and cost management
issues. Work breakdown structure construction. Scheduling with
PERT/CPM, Gantt charts, milestone charts. Parametric and
bottom-up cost estimation. Use of the S-curve for cost
control. Life-cycle cost estimating. Integrated cost/schedule
control using the earned value technique. *Prerequisite:
Mgt 250.
Mgt 252. Project Finance and
Budgeting*. Projects as businesses and project
managers as CEOs. Finance and investment tools for selecting
projects. Developing charts of accounts for organizing
financial data. Using financial metrics to improve project
decision making. Creating, implementing, and monitoring
project budgets. Capital budgeting techniques. Real option
approach to making go/no go decisions on projects. *Prerequisite:
Mgt 250.
Mgt 253. Risk and Quality
Management. Risk identification, risk impact
analysis, risk response planning. Mitigating risk. Risk
management techniques, such as Monte Carlo simulation.
Defining quality. Total quality management (TQM). Quality
control. The ISO 9000 perspective on quality.
Mgt 254. Contracts and Procurement.
Pre-award and post-award phases. Contracting modalities: firm
fixed-price, cost plus, cost plus fixed fee, cost plus award
fee, cost plus incentive fee, time and materials. The bid
process. RFPs, RFQs, and IFBs. The statement of work (SOW).
Resolving disputes.
Mgt 280. Finance.
Capital budgeting techniques: present value analysis, internal
rate of return, pay back period analysis. Raising capital.
Venture capital. Capital markets. Financial decision-making.
CAPM vs. APT. Financial risk.
Mgt 281.
Accounting.
Bookkeeping basics. Financial statement analysis: balance
sheets, income statements, cash flow statements. Depreciation
of capital. Taxes. Role of the Financial Accounting Standards
Board. Auditing. Managerial accounting. Hands-on examples
of
employing accounting techniques with spreadsheets.
Mgt 285. Economics. An
overview of micro-economic and macro-economic principles,
including: law of scarcity, competition, division of labor,
fiscal policy, government intervention, and international
trade.
Mgt 299. Seminar: Business Policy.
The MBA capstone course, conducted as a seminar. Students
apply their business knowledge by analyzing a series of case
studies. Students make public presentations of their findings.
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