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Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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BUS 648 - Accounting for Managers
Introduces financial and managerial accounting as tools for responsible managers. Students learn to read, understand, and interpret financial statements as they evaluate organizations¿ liquidity, profitability, and leverage. Students learn to use internal reports, budgets, and other accounting information to plan and control operations and make both tactical and strategic decisions.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 651 - Venture Formation & Fin Strat
Prepares students from Business Administration or other academic programs to pursue technology-based new venture opportunities. Includes opportunity recognition and evaluation; new venture strategies and formation; marketing; stakeholder management; financial management; entrepreneurial finance; and the process of sustaining organizational vision. Students prepare and defend a business plan, and identify sources of financing. If they have a promising opportunity, students receive assistance in approaching potential sources of capital and other resources.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 652 - Financial Management
Students will learn about the time value of money, project and security valuation. They will develop both the skills necessary to make financial decisions, and the ability to understand their impact on a responsible business and its stakeholders. This course will introduce and reinforce high-level financial concepts and principles that will serve as a foundation for financial management decisions.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 660 - Org Behav in Knowl-Based Firms
Explores individual and organizational behavior in the context of the knowledge-based company environment, including structures, processes, and systems. Includes communication, group dynamics, organization change and development, conflict and conflict resolution, multicultural diversity, ethics, leadership, and decision making. Abilities to apply include communication skills, decision making, problem solving, and teamwork, including understanding of cross-cultural differences.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 661 - Innovation and Technology Management
Students study the importance of innovation for business success. Innovation is analyzed from three perspectives: products, processes, and organizations. Students understand the intricacies of developing new products, processes, and organizations. Students explore how information-based systems are used to address the challenges of adding value to organizations. Principles of operations management are examined to improve strategies, processes, and decision making to meet customer needs.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 6
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BUS 662 - Marketing Management
Students apply marketing frameworks to develop integrated marketing strategies that leverage market opportunities or address identified problems. Students make responsible marketing decisions based on analyses of target markets, while considering contexts and elements of the marketing mix to offer value to customers.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 670 - Database Management
Examines database design and implementation using relational database management system tools. Discusses data management concepts and terminology currently in practice in the business world, including data and database administration, fundamentals of database management systems and models (network, hierarchical and relational), data sharing, retrieval, data dictionaries, data proliferation, data integrity, and queries using SQL.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 671 - Operations and Supply Chain Management
This course reviews operations strategies in a global environment for optimal allocation of resources (material and personnel) by firms to gain competitive advantage in the delivery of products (goods and services). Students will develop the ability to forecast demand; manage projects, inventory, revenue, supply chain risks, capacity planning, procurement, and customer relationship management.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 680 - Info Tech Strategic Mgmt
Assesses strategic implications of adopting new technologies and enabling transformational change at the enterprise level in our knowledge-based economy. Covers creating business value through IT, assessing and managing risk, measuring financial value and risk of IT adoption, managing disruptive technologies, managing technology innovation, positioning the CIO in enterprise leadership and strategy management, marketing innovative products in a global economy, and assessing enterprise implications of technology trends.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 681 - MBA Accounting
Course examines accounting concepts, the accounting model, measurement processes, financial statements, financial analysis, the accounting cycle, monetary and fixed assets, inventory, current and long-term liabilities and equity structure. Students investigate internal reporting for use in planning and control, in making non-routine decisions and in formulating major plans and policies. Course covers cost-profit relationships, budgets, and standard variance analysis.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 682 - Global Responsible Business
In this course, you will gain an understanding of today’s global economy and the people, institutions, and environmental elements that underlie international and global commerce. You will expand your ability to manage diversity and national differences. You will learn how to manage a responsible firm¿s quintuple bottom line (Profit, People, Planet, Ethics, and Equity) in a global context of interconnectedness.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 684 - Doing Business in World Regions
This is a faculty-supervised project to enhance global awareness and cultural sensitivity by applying business knowledge acquired in previous courses to an international responsible business issue. The requirement can be fulfilled either through a short study trip abroad (when available) or through a written assignment.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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BUS 687 - Accounting and Finance
Students: read, understand, & use corp. financial statements & published accounting reports; examine alternative costing methods & how cost information can be used for decision making; explore both financial & non-financial performance measures for evaluating business strategies & business unit success; prepare & analyze financial statements & projections for an investment; create a corporation, and/or a proposed project; and evaluate resources of financing for new & existing ventures.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 6
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BUS 691 - Business Strategy
As the culminating experience of the MBA program, students integrate the knowledge from earlier courses and apply it in the same manner demanded of business, government, and non-profit general managers. As an experiential learning exercise, students plan, organize, implement, and control a business in a competitive, simulated market. Simulated internal and external data are analyzed to formulate the vision, mission, objectives, strategies, and policies needed to implement a business strategy.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 6
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BUS 692 - Professional Development Seminar
Students will prepare to use the MBA to promote their career by working on value clarification, goal setting, networking, resume and LinkedIn profiles, impression management, and interviewing. Students will create clear and meaningful goals for post-MBA graduation and have a plan to successfully execute them.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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BUS 694 - Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship
This course addresses the formulation and implementation of a responsible business strategy to create, sustain and renew competitive advantage for both established firms and startups. As an application of the concepts, students will design and validate innovative entrepreneurial and corporate business models.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 695 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in the major; must have a research component. May be repeated for credit when topics vary (Offered classroom-based, hybrid, or online.)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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BUS 696 - Hybrid EMBA Study Sessions
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 0
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BUS 697 - Independent Study
Graduate independent study under the direction of a tenure track faculty member. The student must prepare a study proposal approved by the appropriate faculty member and graduate adviser prior to registration. Must have a research component. (Offered classroom-based, hybrid, or online.)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4-6
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BUS 698 - Applied Business Strategy Capstone
Through an experiential learning exercise, students will integrate knowledge gained in earlier courses and apply it to run a virtual company in a simulated market competition. Students will conduct environmental analysis, business planning, manage corporate performance and consider ethical implications of business decisions.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 699 - Graduate Capstone
A capstone contributes to the disciplines or the professions by adding to technical/professional knowledge or by providing an original application of technical/professional knowledge in both management and information technology disciplines. Examples include a field study, a project, applied research, or a professional article of publishable quality. Students also master basic principles of strategic planning, including stakeholder management. Cross-listed as CST 699 .
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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