Course Descriptions - MBA
BBA301 Quantitative & Statistical Analysis (3)
This course provides a comprehensive overview on data collection process and related issues. It explores numerical descriptive measures and evaluates basic probability and discrete probability distributions. It also demonstrates impacts of normal distribution and other continuous distributions.
BBA310 Operation Management (3)
This course presents a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and techniques of operations management. Managing operations in a global environment, planning the strategic use of resources, managing operations in the supply chain, and maintaining effective and efficient operations are studied. A background in operation management is established through the study of the history and development of operations management, the current status of operations management and what the future holds for operation management. Topics investigated include forecasting, product and process design, technology, and quality management.
MBA501 General Management (3)
This course is designed for students to get a broad understanding of contemporary management issues and provide necessary skills to deal with those issues. It allows students to look at the relationship between theoretical aspects and the practical usage.
MBA502 Entrepreneurship (3)
This course identifies the characteristics of entrepreneur and how these can contribute to individual or organizational success or failure. It focuses on entrepreneurship in new venture creation identifying opportunities, business planning, obtaining venture capital, growth projection, technological innovation, and coping with failure and bankruptcy.
MBA503 Financial Management (3)
This course provides an overview on the managerial aspects of financial decision making. Emphasis is on capital budgeting and time value money. It discusses financial markets and interest rates, as wells as techniques used in the analysis of financial statements and its implication to business and a company’s overall financial policies.
MBA505 International Business Management (3)
This course explores the environmental relationships and the influence on business and trade in the context of a global economy. It critically examines the social, economic, political and legal environments of international business and the differences between domestic and global operations. The course critically evaluates classical and modern trade theory, current trade issues and the roles of the international institutions of world business. Financial environment and operations of international business through the functions of foreign exchange and investments are also discussed.
MBA506 Strategic Management (3)
This course seeks to develop a critical approach to theoretical and practical aspects of strategic management, particularly focusing on the process, content and context of strategy. The wide-ranging debate on the variety of approaches to strategic management is investigated. Students are encouraged to tackle challenging issues, understand the inter-related aspects of organizational change, and develop solutions to multi-faceted problems.
MBA507 Managerial Economics (3)
This course explores the global and the economic basis for business. It introduces students the market in which a business organization operates. It identifies the impact of government policy, current issues on the strategy, behavior and management of business.
MBA508 Marketing Management (3)
This course helps students appreciate the role of marketing within the context of an organization. The course discusses a working knowledge of the foundations of marketing and the fundamental marketing philosophies, especially related to communication with customers. It also helps students to build the collection of skills required to apply these fundamental concepts to case study and other scenarios in order to produce basic marketing, sales and advertising solutions.
MBA509 Project Management (3)
This course introduces the role of a project manager and its responsibilities to lifecycle of a project. It discusses the basic project management concepts and the stages of a project. It evaluates how to prepare winning proposals and the various contents of a proposal. It also include topics on the different usage of resource allocations to a project and synthesis overall project management related literature.
MBA511 Business Research Methods (3)
This course provides 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 the role and importance of research, problem selection, sampling, measurement, data collection, descriptive and inferential statistics, experimental and non-experimental 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 paper and subsequently, submitting it for publication to a refereed journal.
MBA512 Master Thesis (3)
This course requires a postgraduate research on a business-related topic chosen by student in consultation with course instructor.
MBA513 Managerial Accounting (3)
The prime focus of the course is to help students understand management accounting although some other aspects of accounting are also covered. Topics include merchandising operations and inventory management systems, the direct write-off methods for uncollectibles. The course explains the use of quality costs to make decisions and the calculations of the breakeven point for multiple product lines or services.
MBA514 Organizational Research and Theory (3)
This course provides students with the opportunity to explore the ability of organizations to manage change from both an analytical and practical perspective. It offers a problem centered-approach to tackle issues of change including that of implementation, crisis management and leading change. The course compares and contrasts the different organizational theories and discusses the usage of different designs and their effectiveness to different organizations. Current literatures, the social processes involved and the politically dimensions to organizational change are critically examined.
MBA621 Management of Information Systems (3)
This course is an in-depth study of the basic concepts of management information systems and e-business for business professionals. Students completing this course should be able to visualize and implement computerized and non-computerized systems for the integration of e-business and e-commerce for any organization.
MBA622 E-Commerce (3)
This course provides current and emerging issues in business transactions over the electronic medium. Topics include e-commerce: business models and concepts, infrastructure, marketing, security and encryption, retailing, supply chain, ethical, social, and political issues. This course also examines issues and topics in the functional areas of business as they relate to electronic commerce.
MBA623 E-Business Management (3)
This course provides an overview of the theories and techniques for e-business and e-commerce management and operation. It covers the full range of topics necessary for understanding and undertaking e-business activities including the history of the Internet, about the hardware and software aspect as well as the management and marketing of an Internet business. How to decide to bring a business on-line, how to choose a business model, how to manage transactions and market the business are all necessary skills for the e-business managers and are covered in this course.
MBA624 E-Commerce Marketing (3)
This course explores the Internet's impact on business models and marketing strategies. It discusses how the Internet creates value for customers and profits for companies, and explores important online marketing possibilities and implementation strategies.
MBA631 Corporate Finance (3)
This course introduces the role of the finance function in relations with the corporate enterprise and focuses on the managerial implications of financial analysis.
MBA632 International Economics (3)
This course takes an in depth look at economics in the international context. Trade and international economics are examined. Trade restrictions and the effect of trade on environmental and political policies are explored.
MBA633 International Finance (3)
This course focuses on finance in the international context in the areas of foreign exchange and currency markets are explored for their impact on international economics, and the interrelationship of exchange rates and economics factors are discussed.
MBA634 Public Budgeting (3)
This course compares operating budgets with capital budgets and discusses the practical execution of each. It also introduces how revenue is estimated.
MBA661 Strategic Marketing (3)
This course is dedicated to the development of decision-making skills in marketing. The course discusses the development of a strategic marketing plan and the financial aspects of marketing management. Topics include opportunity analysis, market targeting, product and service strategy, brand management, integrated marketing communication strategy and management, marketing channel strategy and management, pricing strategy management, interactive marketing and e-Commerce, as well as the control process of marketing strategy reformulation.
MBA662 Marketing Research (3)
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".
MBA663 Business-to-Business Marketing (3)
The course introduces the relevant issues involved in the management functions associated with Marketing B2B and other issues involved in electronic commerce. The course discusses how strategic marketing and business policies are formed and generated using different models and theories. Concepts included in the course include the foundations of e-commerce, retailing and advertising, market research, various marketing strategies and implementation of such strategies, and the management of business marketing channels.
MBA691 Planning & Control (3)
This course explores the process from a systems perspective, overviewing the processing of planning, controlling and performing projects within the modern workplace. Topics covered in the course include the systematic approach, conception phase, study phase, design phase, implementation phase, management functions as they pertain to projects, the project plan, and specifications and reporting.
MBA692 Quality Management (3)
This course is designed to help students understand and implement the concepts of a Total Quality Management System. The course introduces the key concepts of quality, clarifies significant quality theories, and highlights major global quality and international quality awards. After elaborating on the basic quality management concepts, students will critique, design and assess quality management systems that form the basis of a quality assurance system.
MBA693 Project Management Strategies (3)
This course provides the tools to understand, design, and apply systematic project management strategies. It introduces methodologies and technologies that assist project managers direct a project from inception through completion. This course presents projects as a definitional component to complex project sequencing, and includes discussion of project management in modern organizations. It examines various tools and techniques for defining, developing, executing, managing, and evaluating a project plan, and the steps necessary to align all projects with an organization's business strategy. Additionally, it discusses how to effectively lead and manage a project team; how to develop inter-organizational relations through partnering; and how to audit and manage domestic and international projects.
MHR504 Human Resources Management (3)
This course introduces the major functional areas in the field of Human Resources. These areas include employment law, job analysis, planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management and appraisal, career management, compensation and incentive pay, benefits, health and safety, ethics and fair treatment, collective bargaining and labor relations, and global HR management. The course also discusses how to assess, develop, implement, and evaluate a training program and reviews basic concepts of training such as motivation and learning theory, needs assessment, and the evaluation of training.
MHR654 Training and Development (3)
The objective of this course is to learn how to assess, develop, carry out, and evaluate a training program. Basic concepts of training/HRD, such as motivation and learning theory, needs assessment, and the evaluation of training will be reviewed.
MHR655 Industrial Relations (3)
This course provides a practical working knowledge of labor relations and collective bargaining terms, practices, and law.
MHR656 Compensation Management (3)
This course explores the development and use of various compensation strategies and systems in today's highly competitive business environment. 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.
MOH671 Occupational Safety & Health (3)
This course covers the regulations and the basic principles involved in Occupational Safety and Health. The mandatory standards enforced by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are introduced. The underlying causes of health and safety hazards, record keeping standards, analysis of injury and illness statistics are covered.
MOH672 Advanced Studies in Occupational Safety and Health (3)
This course presents the latest approaches pertaining to art and science of management in health care organizations. The course discusses the latest developments in organizational and managerial thinking. It is also intended to focus on an extensive overview of the managerial responsibilities that many managers may assume in their daily assignments.
MOH673 Health Resources and Policy Analysis (3)
This course presents key concepts, principles and practices of human resource management for health care organizations. It provides samples and guides to the day-to-day practice of HR in health care organizations. It also covers conflict, stress management, legal issues, regulatory issues and other essential aspects of personnel management.