MBA Core Curriculum
At-A-Glance
Program Flow
The two-week summer session provides students with an overview of how
businesses operate, define their strategy, and utilize people.
The fall semester links customers and markets to the organizational processes
that provide customer value.
The spring semester concentrates on analytical techniques for managerial
decision making in the areas of analysis, planning, implementation, and control.
Classes Arranged by Skill-Set
Technical Tools
BA 587 Professional Development—Information Systems for Managers
(summer)
BA 687 Professional Development—Business Statistics (summer)
Ethics, Processes, and Organizations & Human Assets
BA 650 Systems Orientation and Training (summer)
BA 652 Managing People and Processes (fall)
BA 653 Individuals, Teams, and Careers (summer)
Analytical and Decision Tools for Managers
BA 654 Managerial Decision Making (spring)
BA 655 Control and Innovation (spring)
Marketing and Strategy
BA 650 Systems Orientation and Training (summer)
BA 651 Customers, Markets, and Organizations (fall)
Careers
BA 687 Professional Development—Career Management (fall/part-1;
spring/part-2)
Course Descriptions:
BA 587 Professional Development—Information Systems for Managers. PC
skills for professionals. (2 credits)
BA 687 Professional Development—Business Statistics. Basic business
statistics with an emphasis on decision-making tools. (1 credit)
BA 687 Professional Development—Career Management. Students will learn
and utilize career management skills and techniques to ensure career success,
now and into the future. (1 credit/fall; 1 credit/spring)
BA 650 Systems, Orientation, and Training. Role of the M.B.A. in work
groups, organizations, and society; systems view of the firm; ethics
perspectives; M.B.A. program expectations; group performance dynamics; customer
focus. (2 credits)
BA 651 Customers, Markets, and Organizations. Evaluates markets and
customers both nationally and internationally. Market structure, conduct, and
performance. Linking market orientation, customer satisfaction, and quality to
market success and financial performance; marketing strategy development. (3
credits)
BA 652 Managing People and Processes. Overview of the behavior and
motivation of individuals within an organizational framework; interactions among
organizational design, culture, and processes, emphasizing information
technology; process management; and improvement. (3 credits)
BA 653 Individuals, Teams, and Careers. Introduces human-asset issues
in organizations from personal, legal, and management perspectives, emphasizing
career management. (2 credits)
BA 654 Managerial Decision-Making. Analytical techniques for
managerial decision-making; relationships between financial markets and firm
goals, effects of cost evaluation on firm decision-making, and long-term
financial decisions both nationally and internationally. (4 credits)
BA 655 Control and Innovation . Analytical techniques for planning,
control, and performance evaluation. Matching control to innovation needs to
achieve organizational objectives; organizational change and effectiveness,
especially as they pertain to managing information technology. (3 credits)
In addition to the core-curriculum, all students will complete twelve (12)
credit hours of electives from one of the following career tracks:
Finance
Accounting
General Management
Marketing Analysis & Distribution Management
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)