Master of Business Administration (Competency Based)

3 Credits

This course covers the skills and techniques managers need to provide leadership and direction within a changing organizational environment. Students will examine fast-paced changes including evolving demographics and emerging technologies and how they relate to innovative talent management, leadership, and managerial responses to addressing future organizational challenges.

3 Credits

This course provides students with the interpersonal skills and self-awareness needed to motivate people in the workplace and to manage group dynamics to create synergy among group members. The course will focus on the development of the skill sets necessary to elicit high commitment and productivity from people and groups through awareness of one's own values, behaviors, and decision-making tendencies.

3 Credits

This course applies leadership concepts to create organizational change that increases value for stakeholders. Topics include leadership theories, organizational development approaches, servant leadership, and transformational leadership. Students will create a plan to lead an organizational change in which they have no direct authority.

3 Credits

This course emphasizes the importance of economic theories in the context of digital transformation. Students will gain a fundamental understanding of how to approach business problems related to digitalization within the world economy. Students will apply and discuss economic theories and how they can help to analyze, understand, and solve business problems.

3 Credits

In this course, students examine managerial accounting as part of the business's accounting information system and legal aspects of the business enterprise. Topics include managerial accounting and capital budgeting, cost analysis; management planning and control, negotiable instruments, secured transactions, debtor/creditor relationships, property and insurance, and legal aspects of employment and environment.

3 Credits

This course covers the skills and techniques managers need to provide leadership and direction within a changing organizational environment. Students will examine fast-paced changes including evolving demographics and emerging technologies and how they relate to innovative talent management, leadership, and managerial responses to addressing future organizational challenges.

3 Credits

3 Credits

This course introduces students to a variety of data analytic solutions. Students will learn how to retrieve real business data and create reports, support business decisions with visual representations of data, manage and improve a business process based on quantitative analysis, analyze long-term trends and patterns in the data, and develop actionable results that drive the business decision-making process.

3 Credits

This course examines the importance of effectiveness and efficiency and evaluates the potential trade-offs between them to create value within an organization. Students will learn to apply process analysis, process improvement, supply chain management, and strategic operations decision-making to solve business challenges. Students will understand the entire value chain and how these decisions integrate for efficient and effective performance across a network of organizations.

3 Credits

This course examines the processes of identifying, exploring, and exploiting opportunities for value. You will learn how to create value within a large organization or entrepreneurial venture. This is a critical skill enabling entrepreneurial thinking. You will be exposed to different types of strategic thinking, creation of competitive advantage, monitoring of entrepreneurial opportunities, alliances, acquisitions, and restructurings.

3 Credits

This course integrates concepts from all prior courses in the program. Students apply the concepts of strategic planning and implementation to create sustainable competitive advantage for an organization. Other topics include environmental scanning, strategic analysis, corporate social responsibility, implementation, evaluation, and risk management.