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 ACCT 500 - Managerial Accounting
Provides students with an understanding of management information systems which are used in the decision making process. The class is designed with a "hands on" approach. It will encourage student participation and interaction through the use of computer projects, case studies, and classroom discussion. Topics covered include basic cost accounting concepts and terminology, product costing and pricing, planning and controlling a business operation through budgets and variance analysis, and managerial decision making using such techniques as cost-volume-profit analysis and variable costing. (Fall)
BUGB 500 - Advanced Business Law and Ethics
Emphasizes the regulations, statutes and cases that impact business on a daily basis. Topics covered include contract law, negotiations, labor law, the Uniform Commercial Code, and the law of business organizations to include limited liability companies. (Spring)
FINA 500 - Financial Strategy
Introduction and development of analysis of the financial aspects of a corporation using both theory and application. Topics include capital markets, global economic factors that affect the corporation, capital asset pricing model, portfolio analysis, and capital structure policy. (Fall)
MANG 500 - Advanced Management Theory
Designed to advance the student´s understanding of management theories and the application of these theories to the business world. Contemporary issues will be discussed. (Fall)
MANG 501 - Production and Operations Management
Competitive strategies and strategic impact of the transformation process in global economy. Operations management issues including quality, inventory management, management of technology, manufacturing planning and control, just-in-time manufacturing and optimized production technology. Impact of business system on productivity and profits. (Spring)
MANG 510 - Organizational Theory and Behavior
Designed to encourage the application of diverse conceptual and theoretical perspectives to the analysis and control of behavior in organizations. Practice in diagnosing organizational problems is gained by combining the use of theories, texts, readings, cases, and exercises. The course focuses on problems related to perception, motivation, leadership, cultural diversity, interpersonal and group conflict, stress, work-family conflict, influence, decision making, ethics, international management issues and change. (Spring)
MANG 590 - Strategy
The capstone course in the MBA program. The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of strategic management and the "how" and "why" of strategic decisions. Emphasis is also placed on how the manager goes about translating strategy into action and achieves integration in the organization. Integration involves the functional areas of management and how to balance the trade offs from the perspective of strategic decision making at the top management level. (Spring)
MARK 500 - Marketing Strategy
Examines the state-of-the-art in marketing strategy from both a practical and theoretical perspective. Focusing on integrating a broad range of marketing concepts, the emphasis is on setting realistic marketing objectives, understanding marketing research concepts, demographic market segmentation, and current marketing topics. (Fall)
General Business Electives (must be approved by student´s committee prior to taking)
BUGB 510 - Global Business
Explores international management concepts and procedures and their importance to modern managers. Operating in a multi-national, multi-cultural managerial environment, the modern manager must understand business and management from a global perspective. Emphasis is placed on comparing and contrasting management practices in different nation/states and how this might affect decisions concerning risk, investment, human resources, finances, operations, manufacturing and production in a multinational business. (On Demand)
BUGB 520 -Seminar in Current Business Topics
Develops topics of current interest in the business world. Areas included are effective communication strategies, ethics, and the global dimension of business. (On Demand)
BUGB 530 - Research Design
Examines the design of research projects. Topics will include selection of the problem, secondary data, historical research, descriptive research, experimental research, the tools of research, and interpretation of data. Prerequisite MANG 540. (On Demand)
BUGB 590 - Thesis (Prerequisite MANG 540 and BUGB 530)
A comprehensive research project of original design. (On Demand)
BUGB 595 - Cooperative Education
The cooperative education course provides the student with the opportunity to apply classroom theory to on-the-job experiences related to classroom instruction. During the cooperative education course, the students work off campus at professional business positions. The student will be required to write his/her own course objectives with the approval of the cooperative education graduate advisor. Prerequisites: ACCT 500, BUGB 500, FINA 500, MANG 500, MANG 501, MANG 510, MARK 500. (Fall/Spring)
The graduate Cooperative Education Division of Mesa State College does not guarantee that every student in the MBA program will have an appropriate job assignment. Even well qualified students may not obtain a position because of job market conditions or other related factors. Students have another way of completing the MBA via the thesis option.
CISB 500 - Management Information Systems
Reviews the development of an overall framework for analyzing the use of information by organizations along with examples of different types of information systems. The conceptual foundations of information systems and the development, operation, management, uses, parties, control, structure, and impact of these systems will be addressed. The analysis and design of information systems is stressed through case study and projects, emphasizing the role of computing in information systems and design of computer-based systems, expert systems, decision support systems, and executive information systems. (On Demand)
ECON 530 - Managerial Economics
The focus of this course is the application of economic theory and its tools to everyday business activities. Topics to be covered include the analytical tools of economics, macro and micro economic theory, and the factors that influence demand. (On Demand)
MANG 520 - Human Resource Management
Provides an in-depth study of the effective use and adaptation to the human resources of an organization through the management of people related activities. The focus is on the core responsibilities and activities of the HR manager. Also included is a detailed review of current statutes and regulations affecting the HR field. (On Demand)
MANG 540 - Advanced Quantitative Methods
Analytical models to support decision making. Topics include linear optimization, sensitivity analysis, linear regression, decision making under uncertainty, decision making under risk, project management, transportation and assignment methods, and forecasting. (On Demand)
MANG 550 - Entrepreneurship
Takes the student through activities that an entrepreneur would encounter in the small business start up process. Topics will center around the marketing, managerial, legal, financial and informational needs of the new venture. The use of cases, real life projects and Internet resources will be used exclusively during the course. (On Demand) |
