I. Foundation Courses (4 Credits)

• Notes:

  The foundation course offers students whose undergraduate degrees are in non-business areas or who have been out of school for long periods of time, an opportunity to study the subjects that will enable them speak the same language as students who have degrees in one of the business areas.

• FIN 493 Statistical Concepts & Terminology Credits: 1 View Info Required for graduate students who have had no previous statistics courses. It presents concepts that are essential for the student to have in order to complete a research course. It also enables business managers to understand the research reports of others.
  
  
• MGMT 493 Business Concepts & Terminology Credits: 3 View Info Required for students whose bachelor's degrees are in nonbusiness disciplines. It presents concepts in economics, finance, management and marketing that comprise a necessary body of knowledge for students who receive the Master of Business Administration degree.
  
  

II. Required Courses (24 Credits)

• Notes:

  Every student in the program is required to take the following required courses:

• MBA 606 Accounting for Managers Credits: 3 View Info Will introduce the design, development and use of accounting systems; development and analysis of accounting data for managerial planning, control, and decision-making; and discussion of current trends and issues of managerial accounting. This will be presented as a course for non-accounting professionals and executives.
  
  
• MBA 607 Strategic Mktg Managemen Credits: 3 View Info This course is designed for the graduate student that either has some elementary exposure to marketing as an undergraduate or has no foundational exposure to the subject. The class content will briefly review basic marketing principles as they relate to solving case studies. Teams will be assigned and given approximately four preliminary cases and one final strategic case. The feedback gained from each case presentation is designed to enhance the student's understanding of the subject and prepare them for the next case that increases in difficulty with each progressive round during the term. At the conclusion of the course, the student should be better prepared to understand how marketing is a fundamental gruiding principle to business decisions in today's globally competititive marketplace.
  
  
• MBA 609 Management of Production and Operations Credits: 3 View Info This course is devoted to an organization's conversion of resources into products and services. Both long-term (strategic) and day-to-day operations (tactical) level decision-making will be studied. Topics will include operations strategy, process/service development, aggregate planning, theory of constraints, JIT, TQM, and related topics.
  
  
• MBA 670 Financial Analysis Credits: 3 View Info Analyzes the financial strengths and weaknesses of companies both qualitatively and quantitatively. Analysis includes evaluation of financial statements, national and international economic conditions, industry trends, strategies of the firms as well as accounting principles and procedures underlying financial statements. Includes both assessment of existing problems and opportunities as well as development of alternative courses of action.
  
  
• MBA 681 Int'l Bus & Leadership Credits: 3 View Info Examines the international business climate and the success of American firms in the global marketplace; different modes of penetrating foreign markets; international finance and the international banking system. Factors affecting American competitiveness in the global economy will be reviewed. Students will successfully complete a term project involving a simulated negotiation to set up an operation in another country.
  
  
• MBA 684 Managerial Economics Credits: 3 View Info This course will prepare the student in the area of economic reasoning, a capability that is an important element in the tool kit of all successful executives in business, government, and nonprofit enterprise. Much of the work will be grounded in microeconomic theory, although some applications of macroeconomic thinking will be employed. Microeconomic decision models are robust, used in a wide spectrum of applications to help think through the likely behaviors and outcomes. Powerful economic models will be utilized to analyze business scenarios, predict market outcomes, and recommend policies and decisions. Topics include operations strategy, process/service outcome, aggregate planning, theory of constraints, JIT, TQM, and related concepts.
  
  
• MBA 685 Strategic Mgmt & Policy Credits: 3 View Info Studies the pursuit of the organization's mission while integrating the organization into its environment. This course examines techniques of long-range organizational planning, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation. The purpose of the course is to develop insights and a working knowledge of major strategic management processes.
  
  

III. Concentrations: (12 Credits) A. General MBA Concentration Courses: (12 Credits)

• Notes:

  Choose four electives from the list of elective courses.

• MBA 603 Organ & Managerial Behav Credits: 3 View Info Focuses on human behavior in organizations. A micro to macro approach is employed, progressively studying behavior from the individual, to the group, to the organizational level. The goal of the course is to discover ways to understand and improve behavior at each level, and thereby increase the efficiency of the organization.
  
  
• MBA 610 Interpersonal and Managerial Skills in Organizations Credits: 3 View Info This course is designed to increase students' self-awareness and how it relates to interpersonal and managerial effectiveness. This course improves advanced managerial skills such as goal-setting, time management, running effective meetings, team facilitation, feedback, networking, coaching, mentoring, and empowerment. It includes current research on optimism, resilience, self-efficacy, work and emotions, cooperation vs. competition, and work design.
  
  
• MBA 630 App Mgmt Decision Instru Credits: 3 View Info Provides an exposure to management decision paradigms that are most widely used in the business sector of the economy. The topics extend the range of decision tools beyond those used in other coursework in the program.
  
  
• MBA 651 Leadership & Team Mgmt Credits: 3 View Info Provides selected models and practices in effective leadership and team management. The methods and practices are derived from applied research and will provide the student with hands-on management skills that can be applied immediately to the work environment.
  
  
• MBA 652 Organization Development & Change Management Credits: 3 View Info Organization development (OD) is concerned with planning, researching, and implementing interventions aimed at organizational change and renewal. The course focuses on understanding and developing process consulting skills. The course will also engage in in-depth exploration of various intervention strategies, including human process, technostructural, systemwide, and strategic change.
  
  
• MBA 653 Human Resource Management Credits: 3 View Info The course explores the various functions and roles involved in strategic human resouce (HR) management. Emphasis will be on the strategic nature of HR while also providing an overview of the more operational aspects of the field. Focus will be on emerging business and demographic trends and their impact on HR.
  
  
• MBA 680 Technology Management Credits: 3 View Info Focuses on the role of technology in organizations. A top-down approach is used which will range from considering technology as a strategic variable for competitive advantage to applying technology as a means of improving operational efficiency and customer service. The course considers the challenges of innovation as well as the potential conflicts and resistance resulting from technological change.
  
  
• MBA 682 Diversity Management Credits: 3 View Info Covers trends and behaviors in various recognized minority and ethnic groups in the United States as well as cross-cultural interaction. Students will develop an awareness and sensitivity to the needs and conditions of diverse groups; as well as specific skills in interacting with people from other cultures, ethnicities, and orientations.
  
  
• MBA 686 Seminar in Mgmt Issues Credits: 3 View Info This course will provide a general management perspective of current and emerging issues facing organizations. Students will be required to address and analyze the many dilemmas and problems managers encounter in fashioning short-and long-term solutions and in taking action. The focus of the seminar will be "Management of the Future."
  
  
• PHIL 500 Organizational Values Credits: 3 View Info This course provides a selected yet comprehensive examination of ethical issues. It takes personal values, conventional morality, and pragmatism into account. It deals with the theories and techniques of reasoning and argumentation that are needed to analyze and articulate ethical issues in business.
  
  

B. Leadership Concentration Courses: (12 Credits)

• Notes:

  The leadership concentration within the MBA degree provides students with knowledge of the key theories and concepts in this discipline, as well as hands-on applications and skills. This concentration prepares students to become leaders and facilitate teams within an organizational setting. Students will gain skills in understanding, predicting, and managing human behavior in organizations. The use of case studies and simulations, in particular, in the leadership concentration courses provides students with experience working in small groups and teams to accomplish a common goal.

  Take the following three courses:

• MBA 603 Organ & Managerial Behav Credits: 3 View Info Focuses on human behavior in organizations. A micro to macro approach is employed, progressively studying behavior from the individual, to the group, to the organizational level. The goal of the course is to discover ways to understand and improve behavior at each level, and thereby increase the efficiency of the organization.
  
  
• MBA 651 Leadership & Team Mgmt Credits: 3 View Info Provides selected models and practices in effective leadership and team management. The methods and practices are derived from applied research and will provide the student with hands-on management skills that can be applied immediately to the work environment.
  
  
• MBA 652 Organization Development & Change Management Credits: 3 View Info Organization development (OD) is concerned with planning, researching, and implementing interventions aimed at organizational change and renewal. The course focuses on understanding and developing process consulting skills. The course will also engage in in-depth exploration of various intervention strategies, including human process, technostructural, systemwide, and strategic change.
  
  

Select one course from the following:

• MBA 610 Interpersonal and Managerial Skills in Organizations Credits: 3 View Info This course is designed to increase students' self-awareness and how it relates to interpersonal and managerial effectiveness. This course improves advanced managerial skills such as goal-setting, time management, running effective meetings, team facilitation, feedback, networking, coaching, mentoring, and empowerment. It includes current research on optimism, resilience, self-efficacy, work and emotions, cooperation vs. competition, and work design.
  
  
• MBA 653 Human Resource Management Credits: 3 View Info The course explores the various functions and roles involved in strategic human resouce (HR) management. Emphasis will be on the strategic nature of HR while also providing an overview of the more operational aspects of the field. Focus will be on emerging business and demographic trends and their impact on HR.
  
  
• MBA 680 Technology Management Credits: 3 View Info Focuses on the role of technology in organizations. A top-down approach is used which will range from considering technology as a strategic variable for competitive advantage to applying technology as a means of improving operational efficiency and customer service. The course considers the challenges of innovation as well as the potential conflicts and resistance resulting from technological change.
  
  
• MBA 682 Diversity Management Credits: 3 View Info Covers trends and behaviors in various recognized minority and ethnic groups in the United States as well as cross-cultural interaction. Students will develop an awareness and sensitivity to the needs and conditions of diverse groups; as well as specific skills in interacting with people from other cultures, ethnicities, and orientations.
  
  
• MBA 686 Seminar in Mgmt Issues Credits: 3 View Info This course will provide a general management perspective of current and emerging issues facing organizations. Students will be required to address and analyze the many dilemmas and problems managers encounter in fashioning short-and long-term solutions and in taking action. The focus of the seminar will be "Management of the Future."
  
  
• PHIL 500 Organizational Values Credits: 3 View Info This course provides a selected yet comprehensive examination of ethical issues. It takes personal values, conventional morality, and pragmatism into account. It deals with the theories and techniques of reasoning and argumentation that are needed to analyze and articulate ethical issues in business.
  
  

C. Marketing Concentration Courses: (12 Credits)

• Notes:

  The field of marketing impacts all aspects of business in the global economy today. Success or failure of a product or service in today’s highly competitive marketplace depends on a well-executed marketing program. SMSU MBA with concentration in Marketing would provide the needed tools to succeed in the highly competitive global marketplace.

  Take the following two courses:

• MBA 511 Integrated Marketing Communications Credits: 3

Select two courses from the following:

• MBA 541 Marketing Research Credits: 3 View Info The marketing concept has always focused on meeting the customer's needs. Those needs, in order to be properly fulfilled, must be predicted on an unbiased understanding of the consumer's attitudes and perceptions. To develop that unbiased method of sampling the target population in a manner that will be reassuring as being valid, correct research principles must be implemented. This course will offer actual hands-on experience in developing an understanding of research principles. Specific organizations will be targeted and research projects will be completed in their behalf as part of the course offering. The critical issues of ethical procedures coupled with sound statistical processes will be included in the course content.
  
  
• PHIL 500 Organizational Values Credits: 3 View Info This course provides a selected yet comprehensive examination of ethical issues. It takes personal values, conventional morality, and pragmatism into account. It deals with the theories and techniques of reasoning and argumentation that are needed to analyze and articulate ethical issues in business.