Curriculum

WPC 591

Foundations of Business

Students learn about the different core functions in business such as accounting, economics, finance, information systems, marketing, management and supply chain management as well as how each makes decisions that impact our society.

* Fall 2024 starts and after

MGT 588

Sources of Competitive Advantage

Explores the general manager as organizational leader. Focuses on competitive advantage and how each functional area contributes to it.

* Fall 2024 starts and after

WPC 501

Managerial Statistics

Fundamentals of quantitative analysis to aid managerial decision–making under uncertainty.

MGT 591

Entrepreneurial Mindset

Awakening Your Entrepreneurial Mindset takes you through a series of individual and collaborative experiences to build a dynamic set of soft and hard skills as well as attitudes for you to innovatively thrive in any environment. Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset isn’t about launching businesses, but about building skills for opportunity recognition, resilience, collaboration and communication, and innovation and growth. Awakening Your Entrepreneurial Mindset emphasizes learning by doing. Following design-thinking principles, the material is divided into 3 phases: (1) Taking stock of foundational entrepreneurial mindset skills (EMS), (2) Building resilience and spotting opportunities, and (3) Entrepreneurial Mindset at work. Students will take six total sections of the course, MGT 591a through MGT 591f.

MGT 552

Professional Development and Engagement Program (PDEP)

This course provides customized individual feedback on personal characteristics, leadership behaviors and effectiveness, and team functioning and performance. Through feedback and reflection, students enhance awareness of their own leadership competencies and areas requiring further leadership development.

* Summer 2024 starts and prior

MKT 502

Marketing Management

Managing the marketing function; market and environmental analysis; marketing planning, strategy, and control concepts. Development and management of marketing programs.

ACC 502

Financial Accounting

Financial accounting concepts and procedures for external reporting

SCM 502

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Conceptual foundations of operational and logistic functions for all types of organizations. Application of analytical methods to production problems.

CIS 503

Decision Making with Business Analytics

To learn how to be more effective analytical leaders in a data-rich world, the focus of this course is on enabling students to be better at identifying opportunities created by data, including Big Data, and making strategic use of Business Analytics to dramatically improve business performance.

MGT 502

Organizational Theory and Behavior

Analysis of various business problems and situations and development of appropriate communications strategies.

FIN 502

Managerial Finance

Theory and practice of financial decision-making, including risk analysis, valuation, capital, budgeting, cost of capital and working capital management.

ECN 502

Managerial Economics

Application of microeconomic analysis to managerial decision–making at the firm level in areas of supply and demand, production, cost and pricing. Evaluation of competitive strategies.

ACC 503

Managerial Accounting

Managerial accounting concepts and procedures for internal reporting.

LES 582

Ethical Issues for Business

Study of ethical components of business decisions; the role of business in society.

WPC 502

Career Coaching

Focuses on a system designed to help students take an active role in their career development through self-reflection, skills and values assessment, market research and identifying potential roadblocks to obtaining an internship or full-time role after graduation. Also introduces the concept of a personal narrative and provides experiential learning opportunities to refine their own personal narrative and understand how to fine-tune and tailor it for a variety of career applications.

* Fall 2024 starts and after

MGT 589

Strategic Management (Capstone Course)

Formulation of strategy and policy in the organization, emphasizing the integration of decisions in the functional areas.