MBA 525
Leadership And Organizational Behavior
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course is designed to increase students’ effectiveness and skill in analyzing and understanding organizations and their attendant processes. Behavioral science concepts and theories are studied. Individual, group and structural behavior and concepts arepresented. Special emphasis will be placed on the importance of leadership and communications. |
MBA 531
Effective Decision-Making and Communication
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course enables students to understand the theories and processes by which people construct and interpret messages that influence attitudes and events. Individual and group interactions will explore the decision-making process within organizations. Students will reflect about the purpose and effects of decisions made in business, and examine the proper way to communicate these decisions. |
MBA 690
Strategic Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course is a culminating MBA degree course. Managers in today’s business environment must adapt and evolve to meet the technological and global pace of business. This course will provide the manager with the tools to successfully evaluate the internal and external environment and develop a strategic plan that is aligned with the goals of the organization and the needs of the market. Focus will be placed on the formation, implementation, and evaluation of strategic plans through a balance of readings, class discussion, case analysis and simulations. Students’ achievement of the MBA Program Goals will be measured. |
MBA 610
Human Resources Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course introduces and examines the major functions and processes of managing human resources. Theoretical and current issues will be addressed through class discussion and case analysis utilizing organization and managerial examples. Topics will include assessment of resource need, job description development, hiring practices, training program development, compensation, and benefit plan structure, and termination procedures. |
MBA 530
Corporate Finance
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course studies the function of finance and the flow of funds within the corporation. This course emphasizes financial analysis, decision-making, planning and controlling, capital acquisition and use, and strategic planning. |
MBA 550
Strategic Marketing
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course will focus on the development of decision-making skills for both effective and efficient marketing. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of marketing in strategic planning and the critical process components in the development of effective marketing strategies. Topics will include market segmentation, use of marketing research in decision-making, use of media and promotion, budgeting, and marketing program evaluation. |
MBA 513
Accounting: Financial Analysis for Decision-Making
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course studies the use of internal accounting systems for decision-making and control. Topics include the nature of costs, organizational architecture, responsibility accounting, budgeting, cost allocation theory and practices, and management accounting in a changing environment. |
MBA 660
Entrepreneur Development
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
In this course, an entrepreneur, small business owner or nonprofit organization leader who needs assistance in marketing plan development, operations analysis or other planning areas will meet with students during the first week of the course to discuss the organization and work needed for a solution. The instructor will facilitate a timeline and delegate tasks to each student who will then spend documented hours working for the client under the guidance of the instructor and the client. In the final week of the course, students will assemble a written document for the client that addresses the objectives provided, as well as conducting an oral presentation to the client highlighting the class's recommendations. |
MBA 505
Ethical and Legal Environment of Business
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course equips business leaders to understand their own ethics, analyze the ethics of others in a diverse and global business environment, and apply their ethics in solving ethical problems and creating proactive ethics programs in their organizations. Included in the course is a study of different ethical models being applied in the modern business environment of the global community and the challenges faced by Christians in this morally diverse environment. This course also introduces students to important legal challenges they will face in leadership roles in business organizations and how they should analyze relevant variables in those areas to make wise decisions. Areas such as the civil litigation process, contract law, torts, and employment law will be discussed to aid in the analysis of the ethical and legal environment of businesses. |
MBA 642
Nonprofit Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course is designed to increase students’ effectiveness and skills in understanding and managing today’s nonprofit organizations. This course provides students a strategic approach to nonprofit management. Students will review areas essential to effective leadership of nonprofit organizations, including the context of the nonprofit sector, governance, ethics, leadership, fund development, social entrepreneurship, financial accountability, human resource and volunteer management. |
MBA 644
Organizational Resource Development
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course is designed to provide students with a foundation of how to acquire financial, material, and human resources for an organization. Topics of resource stewardship, individual and corporate motivation of support, fundraising, social entrepreneurship, grant writing, and budgeting will be explored. |
MBA 646
Public Program Evaluation
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
A foundation will be established in the creation and evaluation of public programs that serve individuals, communities, networks, and other organizations. Students will utilize quantitative and qualitative means to conduct a needs assessment, evaluate operational efficiency and effectiveness, and analyze data to measure the progress of public programs, to stay aligned with their respective missions and achieve financial and service goals. |
