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Master of Science in Management
Foundation Courses |
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The Foundation courses for the MSM program are:
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| 3250:600 |
Foundations of Economic Analysis |
| 6200:601 |
Financial Accounting |
| 6400:602 |
Managerial Finance |
| 6400:655 |
Government and Business |
| 6500:600 |
Management and Organizational Behavior |
| 6500:601 |
Quantitative Decision Making |
| 6500:602 |
Computer Techniques for Management |
| 6600:600 |
Marketing Concepts |
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These foundation or Bridge-Up courses form the platform upon which the rest of the MSM program is built. They establish a common background for students in the program in terms of skills and nomenclature. But since students come with many different backgrounds and experiences, we have established a set of ‘waiver exams’ or ‘proficiency tests’ for those students who feel that 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 and thus reduces their program of study. To learn more about the waiver exams, click on the “Waiver Exam” link on the left side of this page.
We also waive a foundation course based on prior academic work and based on 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 and has obtained good grades in that coursework and the coursework was completed within the prior six years of being accepted into the program, then we will also waive that course for the student. We can only make this determination after a complete review of all you transcripts and mark sheets from the places where you did your undergraduate work.
A student who recently graduate from an AACSB Accredited Business School and had all grades above a “C” could reasonably expect to have all the foundation courses waived. We will give you all the credit we can, but, if there is a doubt in our mind with regard to work experience or academic equivalence, we will make you take the waiver exam to prove yourself and to protect the quality of our program and graduates.
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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