MSM Curriculum

1 Credit Hour

The course is designed to provide MSM students with the tools to manage their careers throughout their lifetime. It not only addresses the planning process necessary to start the job search but also incorporates specific assistance in such areas as resume writing, interview preparation and skills, networking, and other tactics.

3 Credit Hours

This course addresses the accounting process used to measure and report economic events to outside stakeholders. It focuses on fundamental concepts, required financial statements and key relationships. The course emphasizes the role of accounting in contracts and in decision-making by investors, creditors and regulators.

Additionally, it discusses budget preparation, cost-volume-profit analysis, variable costing, contribution margins, relevant costing, performance evaluation of business units, transfer pricing and responsibility accounting for the planning, decision making and management control inside an organization.

2 Credit Hours

Decision-making in business is increasingly based on the analysis of quantitative data. This course covers techniques commonly used in all business disciplines. In particular, students review basic mathematics and use spreadsheets to structure and solve business problems using techniques such as what-if scenarios and optimization. The course provides a foundation for other courses in the program as well as a set of skills widely used in the business world.

3 Credit Hours

This course addresses the accounting process used to measure and report economic events to outside stakeholders. It focuses on fundamental concepts, required financial statements, and key relationships. The course emphasizes the role of accounting in contracts and in decision-making by investors, creditors, and regulators.

3 Credit Hours

This course provides an in depth and quantitative examination of the principles of financial decision-making. Students learn the concept of value maximization, mathematics of finance, valuation of financial securities, capital investment evaluation, the estimation of required rates of return, and the theory of capital structure.

3 Credit Hours

A study of markets, institutions, and the environment in which business firms operate with attention to the effect these facets, forces, and issues have on the firm’s overall marketing strategy.

3 Credit Hours

The goal of this course is to study the management process, which includes planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. The related topics of executive leadership, organizational behavior and management theory will be covered. By applying theories of human behavior, this course will help students solve day-to-day problems of organizational administration and become more effective managers.

3 Credit Hours

Strategic Communication occupies a space between the writing and speaking done day-to-day by unit managers and the stratospheric communication expected of senior-level executives as they deal with various stakeholder groups. This is communication that senior managers and executives of all levels engage in as they employ specific strategies to achieve agreed-upon business goals. This is high-level communication that rises above basic tactics used to manage the company. In particular, this involves a different kind of thinking when complex or difficult objectives are involved.

3 Credit Hours

Current research on leadership indicates that self-awareness is a key competency for leaders. As aspiring business leaders, students need to know who they are, what they value, and how they are prepared to contribute productively to an organization, business, or nonprofit enterprise. Students will create a digital portfolio that describes, documents and integrates their values, leadership experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

1.5 Credit Hours

The course objective is to explore the ethical dimensions in the study and practice of business. Students study and apply the major normative ethical theories to business situations. The course helps students to understand the relevance of stakeholders to business decisions and improve their moral reasoning and ethical decision-making skills. Students analyze and discuss case situations presenting ethical dilemmas. Throughout these exercises, analytical and communication (oral and written) skills are sharpened. This course is intended to encourage ethical behavior and professionalism in all activities.

1.5 Credit Hours

Often, international business is conducted with and through people from various cultural backgrounds. Cultural differences, if not understood and bridged, can be significant barriers to the implementation and success of a business venture. This course focuses on the management of the multinational corporation (MNC). The objective of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of how to conduct business across cultures and borders. Examples of specific topics include: managerial challenges and opportunities faced by MNCs; knowledge and conceptual frameworks necessary to understand and manage MNCs; the political, economic and legal environments in which MNCs operate; the effect of national cultures on international management; the strategy and organization of MNCs including entry strategies, strategic alliances and joint ventures as well as organization structures and issues of control and coordination; topics related to individual behavior within MNCs, such as motivation and leadership in a global context, and international business careers.

1.5 Credit Hours

Processes describe the flow of materials and information, both inside a business and between businesses. Such processes occur in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in both service and manufacturing organizations, and in virtually all functional areas and industries. The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the problems and issues within business processes and to provide students with language, concepts, insights, and tools to make such processes more efficient and effective.

1.5 Credit Hours

The scope and role of strategic management encompass a general management perspective that involves internal and external analysis, complex decision-making, and implementation of these decisions. The course has four goals: (1) to develop an awareness of the strategic decisions that organizations must make and the factors on which they depend; (2) to provide a conceptual framework for identifying, evaluating, and formulating strategies; (3) to integrate material learned in the basic functional courses; (4) to convey an understanding of the formal and informal processes involved in formulating and implementing strategies.

1 Credit Hour

This course explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. The series of lectures features a wide range of experts on economic demography, biotechnology, religious fundamentalism, oil and peace, futurism and work, natural resources, and more.