MBA Course of Study
M 1: BUSM 511 Management and LeadershipThis course focuses on competencies that research has identified as essential to effective leadership. The course challenges students to identify successful leadership competencies and to examine and develop their own leadership skills.
M 2: BUSM 513 Biblical/Worldview Principles of Management
Within the context of scripture, biblical/worldview principles are identified, discussed, and applied to business problems and situations, including the organization’s responsibility to the organization.
M 3: BUSM 515 Research Methods and Statistical Analysis
This course is designed to help improve skills in analyzing data and presenting results in a case analysis framework. The skills that will be in focus include data collection, the presentation of data in tables and charts, numerical descriptive measures (with emphasis on standard deviation and coefficient of variation), the normal and t-distribution, confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression, time-series forecasting, and statistical applications in quality and productivity management.
M 4: BUSM 517 Legal Frameworks of Decisions
This course examines the legal framework of business by focusing on the legal foundation of business activity, government regulation and public policy, social issues and business ethics. Contracts and sales, product liability, and employment arrangements are surveyed.
M 5: BUSM 521 Accounting Information for Management Decisions
The objective of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to understand the complex accounting and financial data they will receive as operating managers. Students will learn how to use the data as an effective management tool for coordinating managerial and organizational activities.
M 6: BUSM 523 Effective Managerial Communications
By participating in informative and persuasive oral presentations and small group deliberations, students are prepared to become more effective speakers and writers in the field of business management.
M 7: BUSM 525 Managerial Economics
This course deals with the economic models and the decision-making process as they affect business firms. The theories of the firm and market structures are studied: the firm in pure competition, production decisions and resource utilization, entry and exit decisions, the process of general equilibrium, and the firm in other market situations such as monopolistic competition and imperfect factor markets.
M 8: BUSM 527 Ethical Issues of Business
This course raises a student’s moral recognition level, provides them with the apparatus to make moral decisions in a business context, and considers ethical problems in business according to the three dominant theories of ethics; eternal law, utilitarianism, and universalism. Emphasis is place on the role of the leader in organizations.
M 9: BUSM 531 Strategic Marketing
The impact of globalization and technological changes on a dynamic marketplace is considered as this course examines a wide range of marketing principles including customer/client satisfaction and advanced marketing strategies both for profit and non-profit enterprises.
M 10: BUSM 533 Managing Human Resources
The topics in this course are designed to enhance organizational effectiveness by managing human resources appropriately. Topics include, but are not limited to, creation of change, performance evaluation, motivation, and intervention systems.
M 11: BUSM 535 Corporate Finance
This course is designed to enhance financial decisions by improving skills in analyzing financial issues and presenting results in a case analysis framework. The areas reviewed include the fundamental concepts of corporate finance, securities and valuation, projects and their valuation, corporate valuation, distributions to shareholders, and working capital management.
M12: BUSM 537 Business in a Global Environment
Students learn about economic, legal, and global issues, and how analysis of them can be used in managerial decision-making. The impact of international trade theory, taxation, legal structures, and resource allocations will be considered as they affect the organization.