170 Capstone (3 credit hours) MBA 6180 Strategic Management (3) Fast-Track MBA Program Requirements for Students with an Undergraduate Business Degree The Fast-Track MBA program is open only to students who have completed an undergraduate business degree from an AACSB-accredited business school within the past 10 years. Required Courses (24 credit hours) MBA 6110 Tools for the Effective Manager (3) MBA 6210 Management Accounting and Control (3) MBA 6120 Organizational Behavior (3) MBA 6130 Financial Management (3) MBA 6140 Marketing Management (3) MBA 6150 Logistics/Operations Management (3) MBA 6310 Information Technology in the Enterprise (3) MBA 6410 Global Macroeconomic Conditions (3) Electives (select 9 credit hours) MBA 6160 Applications of Decision Modeling (3) MBA 6170 Corporate Communications (3) MBA 6420 The Economics of Industry (3) MBA 6510 Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management (3) MBA 6520 International Business Field Study (3) MBA 6530 E-Business (3) MBA 6540 Negotiations (3) MBA 6550 Managing and Improving Quality (3) MBA 6560 Business/Market Planning Using Online Resources (3) MBA 6570 Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability (3) MBA 6580 Project Management (3) MBA 6630 Networking and Information Systems (3) MBA 6640 Information Assurance in the Enterprise (3) MBA 6680 Graduate Consulting Project (3) MBA 6800 Directed Study (1-3) Capstone (3 credit hours) MBA 6180 Strategic Management (3) Please refer online to goddard.weber.edu/dp/mba for a suggested course sequence. MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION COURSES - MBA Prerequisite for all MBA courses: Admission to the MBA Program MBA 6010. Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business (3) This course is an introduction to business law, emphasizing basic legal principles and the broad application of domestic and international public and private law. Its overriding objective is to provide a working understanding of the legal environment of business for MBA students. Its focus is on regulatory law, business organizations, and other legal topics of special importance to managers of businesses. MBA 6020. Financial and Managerial Accounting (3) A general study of the use of accounting information by internal and external decision makers with emphasis on the use of accounting information by managers of an entity. Topics covered include the accounting cycle, the basic financial statements, inventories, long-term liabilities, cost concepts and behaviors, cost-volume- profit analysis, and financial statement analysis. MBA 6040. Managerial Economics (3) This course develops the basic concepts and analytical tools of economics which include opportunity cost, marginal analysis, constraints, and optimizing behavior. Applications include theories of the firm, its organizational architecture, transactions costs, markets, pricing, and other managerial issues. MBA 6050. Quantitative Methods I (3) This class will give students the opportunity to learn how to write, read, and analyze statistical data as it pertains to business and society. The basic premise of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of statistics as it is used in business and economics. This course will give special emphasis to understanding, interpreting and communicating statistics. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, sampling distributions and hypothesis testing. Prerequisite: Math QL1050 or Instmctor Approval. MBA 6051. Quantitative Methods II (3) This course will build on the first foundation course on descriptive statistics by emphasizing inferential statistics. This course will be application oriented and will focus on hypothesis testing and regression analysis. Students will leam how to design a survey and evaluate the data in order to test theories learned in other MBA classes. Students will also leam basic concepts and methods of optimization using elementary concepts in differential calculus. Prerequisite: MBA 6050 Quantitative Methods I or Instmctor Approval. MBA 6110. Tools for the Effective Manager (3) This course is designed to be taken at the beginning of formal course work in the MBA program. Students will explore various aspects of moral reasoning and apply these concepts to common ethical issues faced in business. Students will work individually and in groups to explore issues of personal values, self-awareness, teamwork, communication, managing differences, and career management. Students in this course will be introduced to analytical, communication, and technological tools used throughout the program. MBA 6120. Organizational Behavior (3) This is a course for graduate students who have already been exposed to the principles of management and organizational behavior and who are now seeking a more advanced preparation for the behavioral role of the manager. It offers a critical review of the factors that influence behavior within the organizational setting. Behavioral concepts are emphasized which particularly relate to group dynamics, interpersonal relations, and ultimately, organizational effectiveness. In short, this course deals with the human aspects of management-the kinds of problems most frequently experienced in day-to-day interaction with others. The format will include discussions, group and individual exercises, case studies, and student reports. MBA 6130. Financial Management (3) Financial Management is a detailed presentation of the practices, techniques, and applications of theory in corporate finance. The focus is an understanding of how companies operate and acquire the tools necessary to analyze and evaluate corporate financial policies. Cases and applied research in the form of outside readings will assist students to focus on key issues. The purpose of the course is to assist current and prospective managers in making better investment and financing decisions. The course addresses (1) the investment decision (capital budgeting) as well as (2) the financing decision. Class discussion and cases will focus on capital budgeting and specifically on the establishment of goals, development of strategy, identification of investment opportunities, evaluation of projects, implementation of projects, and the monitoring processes. Shareholder wealth maximization is the standard for determining why one decision is "better" than another. The ethical considerations of wealth maximization will also be addressed. Prerequisite: MBA 6020 and 6041; or equivalent course work in accounting and statistics. Weber State University 2007 - 2008 Catalog