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The core curriculum consists of 30 credit hours that cover the general concepts and common body of
knowledge all MBA’s need. The material covered by these courses forms the basis for decision-making
in the basic functional areas of management. Students, who have recently completed an undergraduate
degree in business at this University, or in a comparable program, may request waivers for some
core courses.
Management 501 - Statistical Analysis for Management
Apply inferential statistics, using numerical and graphical summaries of data, to make informed
business decisions. Tools include spreadsheet applications to analyze real world decision-making
situations. Course includes supplemental lab.
Management 502 - Financial Accounting I
An examination of the basic concepts, principles, and postulates of financial accounting theory
and their relation to the objectives of income determination and asset valuation. Emphasis is on
financial statements as a source of economic data and investor information. Topics include
the financial accounting model, theories of valuation, data accumulation and analysis, and
funds flow.
Management 504 - Microeconomics for Managers
Microeconomic analysis and its applications, including demand analysis estimation and forecasting,
cost analysis and estimation, market structures, production functions and estimations, output
and price determination, value and distribution theory, and externalities and public goods. A
review of college algebra and calculus is strongly recommended.
Management 506 - Organizational Behavior and Diversity
Intensive examination of behavioral science research and theory, as well as contemporary organizational
and decision theory, as a basis for understanding, managing, and changing organizations. Relevant
concepts drawn from humanistic psychology, industrial sociology, cultural anthropology, and
political science are employed as analytical tools which help explain individual behavior,
small-group behavior, and behavior of the total organization as a large-scale system. Emphasis
is on a comparative organizational approach which views every organization, public or private, as
a sociotechnical system.
Management 508 - Ethical, Political, Social and Legal Environment of Business
The influence of the external environmental on management decisions and organizational welfare
and how organizations affect the external environment and society will be studied. Impacts of
ethical, social, political, legal and technological systems and trends on management and how
managers can deal with external issues will be examined.
Management 511 - Technology Commercialization and the Global Environment
Fundamentals of technological commercialization and international management are covered along
with the interconnectivity of the two topics. The course will cover the nature of international
competitive markets and how technology commercialization impacts these markets.
Management 520 - Operations Research and Production Management
Introduction to the design, planning, and control of the manufacturing and service systems required
to transform an organization's inputs into useful goods and services. Managerial challenges in
productivity, quality, and just-in-time systems are considered. Prerequisites: 501
Management 522 - Marketing Management
Analysis of the marketing effort and decision-making process in private, not-for-profit, and
public institutions; normative models for decision making in different marketing situations;
analytical tools available to the marketing executive for appraising, diagnosing, organizing,
planning, and implementing marketing programs. Analyses of economic, social, and political
forces leading to change in the market place; development of concepts useful in evaluating
marketing situations, including the international setting.
Management 526 - Financial Management
The finance function and its relation to other functions and to the general policy of the firm.
Topics include: the finance function; analysis and budgeting of funds; management of current assets;
financing short-term and intermediate-term needs; planning long-term debt policy and capital
structure, capital costs, and capital budgeting, dividend policy, valuation, mergers, and
acquisition. Prerequisites: 501, 502 and 504 as corequisite
Management 598 - Strategic Management
Systems-oriented, interfunctional planning and administration. Case studies and projects are
used in a variety of types of organizations to develop the capacity for administrative decision
making employing strategic and operational planning and control. Prerequisites: all other core
courses. Enrollment normally is limited to students in their final semester of the MBA program,
or is one of the students’ last five classes. See the MBA Program Office for all exceptions.
Each MBA concentration has separate required courses. To access the latest for each concentration's curriculum, use the links below.