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MBA - Traditional
Foundation Courses |
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The Foundation courses for the MBA program are:
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| 3250:600 |
Foundations of Economic Analysis |
| 6200:601 |
Financial Accounting
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| 6400:602 |
Managerial Finance
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| 6400:655 |
Government and Business
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| 6500:600 |
Management and Organizational Behavior |
| 6500:601 |
Quantitative Decision Making |
| 6500:602 |
Computer Techniques for Management
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| 6600:600 |
Marketing Concepts
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These foundation or Bridge-Up courses form the platform upon which the rest of the MBA program is built. They establish a common background for students in the program in terms of skills and nomenclature. At the same time, we know that not everyone in the traditional MBA will progress through the program at the same pace, and that students can schedule their classes according to their personal needs and are not in a lock-step cohort. So we have established a set of ‘waiver exams’ or ‘proficiency tests’ for those students who feel they do not need to take the full course. If a student can pass the waiver exam for the course, then the student is released from the obligation to take that particular class, thus reducing their program of study. To learn more about the waiver exams, click on the “MBA Waiver Exam” link on the left side of this page.
We also waive a foundation course based on prior academic work and/or business experience. For example, we are not going to make an individual who is a CPA sit through an elementary accounting course. That is a waste of their time and our resources. For that person, we would clearly waive the foundation accounting course. If a student has had the equivalent coursework at the undergraduate level, has obtained good grades in that coursework, and the coursework was completed within the prior six years of being accepted into the MBA program, then we will waive that course for the student. We can only make this determination after a complete review of all transcripts and mark sheets from the places where the student did undergraduate work.
StudentS who recently graduated from an AACSB International Accredited Business School and had all grades above a “C” could reasonably expect to have all the foundation courses waived. We will give all the credit we can. However, if there is a doubt in our mind with regard to work experience or academic equivalence, we will require the waiver exam to allow the students to prove themselves and to protect the quality of our program and graduates.
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3250:600 FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 3 credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Determination of national income, employment and price level; aggregate consumption, investment and asset holding; decision problems faced by household and firm. Partial equilibrium and analysis of competition and monopoly and general equilibrium analysis. May not be substituted for 602, 603, 611, or applied toward the 30 graduate credits required for M.A. in economics.
6200:601 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 3 credits
Introductory course for student with no accounting background. Examines accounting principles as applied to financial problems of firm.
6400:602 MANAGERIAL FINANCE 3 credits
Prerequisite: 6200:601 or equivalent. 6400:602 may be taken concurrently with 6200:601. Emphasis on financial decision making related to goal of firm; specifically, the investment decision, the financial decision and the dividend decision.
6400:655 GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS 3 credits
Public policy with regard to business institutions and issues are considered from an economic, legal, ethical, political framework.
6500:600 MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 3 credits
Course examines management principles, concepts, functions and process, as well as human behavior in organizations.
6500:601 QUANTITATIVE DECISION MAKING 3 credits
Applies quantitative techniques to business decision making. Topics covered include probability estimation and hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression and correlation analysis, analysis of variance and nonparametric statistics.
6500:602 COMPUTER TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGEMENT 3 credits
Introduction to the use of integrated spreadsheet software, database management software and the analysis and design of management information systems.
6600:600 MARKETING CONCEPTS 3 credits
Introductory course examining buyer behavior, environmental influences, target marketing, product development, distribution, promotion, and pricing for business firms and nonprofit organizations within a global context. |
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