Business Master's Course Descriptions
Master's Degree in Business Administration
MGT 503 Management Theory and Application
Apply theories of management to guide and direct people toward the attainment of organizational goals.
3 credits
MGT 645 Organizational Communication and Change Management
Relate communication theories to management theories, analyze the flow and effectiveness of communication in organizations, and develop effective change management plans.
3 credits
MGT 580 Managerial Finance II
This course is an extension of concepts presented in the first Managerial Finance class. This course includes topics such as financing of business operations, capital structure, profit maximization, yield curves, risk, and insurance and an introduction to futures and options.
3 credits
MGT 570 Advanced Economic Analysis
This course presents analytical tools used in economics and illustrates how to apply them in explaining or predicting real world events.
3 credits
PHI 572 Ethics
Perceive, analyze, and assess systems of values. Maintain ethical standards in a professional environment.
3 credits
MGT 575 Information Systems for Managers
This course addresses the analysis of organizational information systems, the application of a system approach to problem solving, and learning about computerized management support tools. This class may be a prerequisite to the IS concentration. Consult with your advisor.
3 credits
MGT 635 Law in the Management Environment
The judicial process with an emphasis on the court system, jurisdiction, constitutional and statutory law, as well as alternative dispute resolution techniques.
3 credits
MGT 605 Managerial Accounting
Analyze financial data and use the results to make wise business decisions. Enables managers to better control valuable resources and more accurately predict the cost of future business ventures.
3 credits
MGT 610 Marketing
Analyze activities that satisfy customer needs through production, placement, promotion, packaging, and pricing of goods, services, and ideas. Enables managers to explore target markets, product and service mixes, and marketing environments.
3 credits
MGT 565 Statistics
Apply descriptive and inferential statistical techniques to the decision-making process.
3 credits
MGT 700 Seminar
Students work as a consulting team with an organization, preparing and presenting a project including an analysis of strengths and opportunities for improvements.
3 credits
Students can earn an emphasis in information systems or management by taking additional courses.
Master's Degree in Management
MGT 503 Management Theory and Application
Apply theories of management to guide and direct people toward the attainment of organizational goals.
3 credits
MGT 505 Human Resources Management
Analyze and describe jobs, develop effective recruiting and selection programs, and appraise performance.
3 credits
MGT 535 Economics
Analyze such data as unemployment, inflation, the GNP and its components, and other economic indications.
3 credits
PSY 542 Group Dynamics
Develop skills in negotiation, conflict resolution, and group leadership.
3 credits
MGT 555 Managerial Finance
Analyze the relationship of the financial manager, the manager’s organization, the financial markets, and the tax environment.
3 credits
MGT 565 Statistics
Apply descriptive and inferential statistical techniques to the decision-making process.
3 credits
MGT 575 Information Systems for Managers
This course addresses the analysis of organizational information systems, the application of a system approach to problem solving, and learning about computerized management support tools. This class may be a prerequisite to the IS concentration. Consult with your advisor.
3 credits
MGT 605 Managerial Accounting
Analyze financial data and use the results to make wise business decisions. Enables managers to better control valuable resources and more accurately predicts the cost of future business ventures.
3 credits
MGT 610 Marketing
Analyze activities that satisfy customer needs through production, placement, promotion, packaging, and pricing of goods, services, and ideas. Enables managers to explore target markets, product, and service mixes, and marketing environments.
3 credits
MGT 618 Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations
Examines the principles and laws of collective bargaining and labor relations, as well as the foundational theory for the collective bargaining process. Includes practical applications of the process. Designed to enhance the student's knowledge, skill, and analytic ability in contract negotiations, administration, interpretation, and arbitration.
3 credits
MGT 621 Strategic Compensation – A Human Resources Management Approach
Provides a solid understanding of the art of compensation practice and its role in promoting an organization’s competitive advantage.
3 credits
MGT 625 Special Topics
Designed to meet special requirements that the individual student may encounter in his or her career.
3 credits
MGT 645 Organizational Communication and Change Management
Relate communication theories to management theories. Analyze the flow and effectiveness of communication and develop effective change management plans.
3 credits
PHI 572 Ethics
Perceive, analyze, and assess systems of values. Maintain ethical standards in a professional environment.
3 credits
MGT 635 Law in the Management Environment
The judicial process, with an emphasis on the court system, jurisdiction, constitutional, and statutory law, as well as alternative dispute resolution techniques.
3 credits
CIS 640 Information System Planning, Project Management, and Auditing
Planning, organizing, controlling user services, and managing the system development process are addressed in this course. You will develop basic information system specifications and requirements. Application of IS plans to organizational needs will be expanded through case studies and exercises.
3 credits
CIS 641 Information System Development
This course focuses on the essential elements of information systems development, including technological, organizational, and interpersonal environments that impact an IS project. Emphasis is on the importance of IS supporting the vision, mission, strategic plan, goals, and objectives of an organization.
3 credits
CIS 642 Network Management
This course will address the fundamental concepts of the network environment, technological strengths and weaknesses of various networking solutions, and future directions of the network environment. Infrastructure (fiscal, physical, and personnel) elements will be examined in establishing, supporting, and extending a network environment.
3 credits
CIS 643 Management of a Database Environment
Data modeling, systems development, data administration, and security will be studied as necessary components of database management. System analysis techniques will be applied to the database environment. Application of this discipline to meet organizational needs will be done through case studies.
3 credits
MGT 644 Management of an Office/Intranet Environment
The opportunities and threats occurring in an office environment, including the use of word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, presentations, and scheduling, as well as confidentiality and security issues will be addressed. Future trends and directions will be examined.
3 credits
CIS 645 Strategic Directions in Information Technology
Strategic planning is a management tool that provides a disciplined approach to identify mission, vision, values, goals, and roles for an organization. It is the first step in the process of bringing about change in an organization. This course will address strategic planning with a special emphasis on the problems and complexities faced in the rapidly changing world of information technology. During this course, you will survey new technologies and assess their impact on business opportunities.
3 credits
CIS 646 Enterprise Architecture and Planning
This course discusses enterprise architectures as they relate to the broad decisions that must be made by an organization as it creates its organizational information support system. The course focuses on identifying the organization’s vision, analyzing the current position, defining future capabilities, and planning the migration from the current to the future. Included will be discussions of information architecture, systems architecture, data architecture, client server computing, and distributed databases. You also will look at how to design LANs, WANs, and directory services to support the strategic plan of the organization.
3 credits
CIS 647 Business Process Re-Engineering
Business process re-engineering means not only change, but dramatic change. This course will examine the project management tools and methodologies needed to successfully accomplish the overhaul of organizational structures, management systems, employee responsibilities and performance measurements, incentive systems, skills development, and the use of information technology.
3 credits
MGT 648 Health Care Policy
Analysis of current trends in health care policy, with a focus on health care financing, state and federal health policy and strategies for influencing systems change.
3 credits
MGT 653 Managed Care Organizations and Finance
An analysis of managed care with emphasis on organizational models and financing mechanisms. The evolution of corporate health care and managed care is traced and contrasted with traditional health care models and indemnity insurance. Managed care infrastructure and networks are analyzed with relationships among access, cost, and quality explicated.
3 credits
MGT 670 Community-Focused Health Systems
Analyzes the need for and the methods required to achieve an integrated, community-focused health care system. Examines the characteristics of the challenges to emerging community health systems and the elements of successful alliances in community-based integrated health programs.
3 credits
MGT 682 Health Care Law
Explores the major laws affecting health care in the United States. The systems from which laws flow are studied, and the interaction of professional standards and legal prescriptions are examined. The case study approach is used to examine situations that emphasize definitions, assessments, and behaviors that affect quality improvement and minimize risk of liability.
3 credits
MGT 700 Seminar
Students work as a consulting team with an organization preparing and presenting a project including an analysis of strengths and opportunities for improvements.
3 credits
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