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Course Number	Course Title	Hours	Course Length	Tuition	Other Cost	Total Cost
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE DEGREE - Core Courses (10 Courses - 30 Hours); General Education Required Courses (10 Courses - 30 Hours); Total for Associate Degree (20 Courses - 60 Hours)
ASBA	Overview of Associate of Science Degree in Business Administration	0 Semester	0(W)	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Associate of Science Degree in Business Administration - Core Courses (10 Courses - 30 Hours)
ACC 1202	Principles of Accounting I	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: An introduction to accounting information on financial reports, including accounting concepts, analysis & interpretation & the preparation of financial reports with an emphasis on the operating activities. The course includes the measurement of income & expense, working capital, investments and financial statements. It presents an overview on corporations, fund-flow, business transactions, & interpretation of financial statements.
Notes: Prerequisite: Basic College Math, BUS 2150 or equivalent
BUS 1010	Business Communications	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course embodies the fundamentals of theory and practice of effective oral and written communication unique to businesses and organizations. It teaches the skills necessary for effective business communication, including the writing of business memos, letters and reports, oral, and global communications. Also included are legal pitfalls, ethical situations and exposure to today's communication technologies.
BUS 1015	Computer Essentials	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This introductory level course covers personal computers and applications. It is designed to present the fundamentals of personal computers and current application software in a very basic and hands-on environment. The course provides an overview of personal computers and their components and navigating the Internet. It also provides a clear picture of how computers and networks can be used as practical tools to solve a wide variety of daily problems in the office environment.
BUS 1150	Business Mathematics	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Designed to provide the student with basic understanding of the various ways in which mathematics is used in a modern business.The true beginning of business-related math begins with an examination of statistics & their role in business. Students will be exposed to the mathematics involved with taxes, business & life insurance, the maintenance of checking accounts & cash records, wages & payroll, & depreciation. The course concludes with an examination of the computation of simple interest.
Notes:
BUS 2951	Principles of Business	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course offers a summary of the basic concepts and tools of business. Coverage of every functional aspect of business is included. Topics covered are management, organization, human resource management, purchasing, production/operations, accounting, finance, marketing and quantitative methods. It provides an overview of managerial functions and responsibilities, leadership practices and business management.
BUS 3151	Business Statistics	3 Clock	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Provides an application of probability theory to managerial decision-making within uncertain business environments & also provides extensive coverage of statistics. A variety of descriptive & inferential statistics are presented. The importance of tables & graphic presentations of results is emphasized. Case studies & scholarly journal articles are reviewed & analyzed for statistical content.
LED 3665	Leadership	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course reviews important findings relating to leadership. Leadership affects the lives of people within the business or organization. Leadership affects the achievement of collective purpose, the quality of the purpose, and the moral aspirations of an organization. The course provides the tools to assess leadership style in both social and work situations.
MGT 1602	Principles of Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides the undergraduate student with a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the dynamics involved in managing in the modern organization. The history of management and its impact on the modern manager will be explored. In addition, the functions and elements of management will be examined, along with such issues as motivation, diversity, quality, ethics and the global environment.
MIS 2351	Management Information Systems	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides guidance for the management of information technology in today's complex business environment. The planning and development of systems that use and deliver information technology is a major focus. Jargon, issues, tactics and strategies concerning information technology are examined. Case studies and the WEB are utilized to study corporate usage of information technology and information management.
Notes: Prerequisite: MIS 1015 or equivalent
MKT 1201	Principles of Marketing	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and techniques of modern-day marketing. It explores the importance of marketing in the economy and in business management as the student is introduced to key elements of marketing such as product, place, price and promotion.
Associate of Science Degrees: General Education - Basic Requirements (4 Courses - 12 Hours)
ENG 1010	English Composition I	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students the ability to implement effective communication skills via the written word. This course also provides instruction on the use of standard written English, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and sentence/paragraph structure. It provides students with the skills necessary for successful communication.
HIS 1010	American History	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This undergraduate course provides students with a survey of the political, economic, social, and cultural history of American life from the discovery of America to the present time. It focuses on the complexity of American history and synthesizes that complexity into informed interpretation of significant historical events.
MTH 1150	Algebra	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course covers methods of simplifying formulas and expressions, solving equations and inequalities. Topics include rational expressions, polynomials, and linear equations, solutions, factoring and operating with exponents. Calculator use is highly recommended.
Notes: Prerequisite: Basic College Math or equivalent.
PS 1010	American Government	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents to students an in-depth study of American government and politics. The course focuses on presenting a balanced, unbiased, and up-to-date introduction to constitutional, governmental, political, social, and economic structures and processes, beginning with the historical events leading to the formation of the American Constitution and continuing through to current politics of domestic and economic policymaking and foreign and defense policy.
Associate of Science Degrees: General Education - Behavioral/Social Sciences (2 Courses - 6 Hours)
PSY 1010	General Psychology	3 Semester		$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This undergraduate introductory course presents psychology as a science, a diverse discipline with a concern for research, theory, gender, and cross-cultural issues. It focuses on inspiring critical thought and analysis of psychological issues. The biological basis for behavior, cognition and mental abilities, motivation and emotion, life span development, personality, psychological disorders, and social psychology are also included.
SOC 1010	Introduction to Sociology	3 Semester		$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides a comprehensive introductory overview of sociology, the systematic and objective study of human society, and social interaction. The course provides a comprehensive and balanced coverage of theoretical perspectives that help the students to better understand the working of their own lives as well as that of their society and other cultures.
Associate of Science Degrees: General Education - Science (2 Courses - 6 Hours)
BIO 1010	Biology	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to focus on all major areas of general biology. The goal of this course is to lay the foundation for scientific understanding, and to assist students to view general biology as a continuously evolving field of study. This course highlights the relevance and contribution of this discipline to business, health care, policy creation, and other sciences.
BIO 1020	Environmental Science	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course is designed to give the student an introductory overview to environmental science. It provides insight into the relationship between human beings with the environment and its effects. The course examines plant and animal community structure focusing on possible solutions for a nourishing society.
Associate of Science Degrees: General Education - Humanities/Fine Arts (2 Courses - 6 Hours)
ART 1010	Art History	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course explores the history of art with an emphasis on Western civilizations. It provides an understanding of the contexts within which artists work, modern and historical, the technical processes they use, and the means by which art is evaluated. The understanding of art is a focus of this course.
HUM 1010	Introduction to Humanities	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents an overview of the origins of humanities, a discussion of the major forms and types of artistic expression from early civilizations to the present day. This course will explore, compare and analyze sculpture, architecture, painting, philosophy, literature, drama, and music in their historical and cultural contexts from pre-history, through the centuries to recent events in the last decade.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Course Breakdown: Core (19 ); Degree Emphasis (5); General Education (13 ); General Elective (3)Total for Bachelor Degree (40 Courses - 120 Hours)
BSBA	Overview of Bachelor of Business Administration Degree Program	0 Semester	0(W)	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Bachelor of Science Degrees: General Education Courses - Basic Requirements (5 Courses – 15 Hours)
ENG 1010	English Composition I	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students the ability to implement effective communication skills via the written word. This course also provides instruction on the use of standard written English, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and sentence/paragraph structure. It provides students with the skills necessary for successful communication.
ENG 3010	English Composition II	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course integrates writing instruction, readings, and grammar skills. It also promotes the fundamentals of effective expression via writing paragraphs and essays. Mastering of paragraphs and short essays, complete with effective introductions, support paragraphs, strong conclusions, and correct use of Standard English grammar is a primary focus.
Notes: Prerequisite: ENG 1010 or equivalent
HIS 1010	American History	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This undergraduate course provides students with a survey of the political, economic, social, and cultural history of American life from the discovery of America to the present time. It focuses on the complexity of American history and synthesizes that complexity into informed interpretation of significant historical events
MTH 150	Algebra	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course covers methods of simplifying formulas and expressions, solving equations and inequalities. Topics include rational expressions, polynomials, and linear equations, solutions, factoring and operating with exponents. Calculator use is highly recommended.
Notes: Prerequisite: Basic College Math or equivalent
PS 1010	American Government	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents to students an in-depth study of American government and politics. The course focuses on presenting a balanced, unbiased, and up-to-date introduction to constitutional, governmental, political, social, and economic structures and processes, beginning with the historical events leading to the formation of the American Constitution and continuing through to current politics of domestic and economic policymaking and foreign and defense policy.
Bachelor of Science Degrees: General Education Courses - Behavioral/Social Sciences (2 Courses - 6 Hours)
PSY 1010	General Psychology	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This undergraduate introductory course presents psychology as a science, a diverse discipline with a concern for research, theory, gender, and cross-cultural issues. It focuses on inspiring critical thought and analysis of psychological issues. The biological basis for behavior, cognition and mental abilities, motivation and emotion, life span development, personality, psychological disorders, and social psychology are also included.
SOC 1010	Introduction to Sociology	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides a comprehensive introductory overview of sociology, the systematic and objective study of human society, and social interaction. This course, like the discipline of sociology, looks beyond a limited view of the world to see society as a whole--the values and ideas shared by its members, the groups and institutions that compose it, and the forces that change it. The course provides a comprehensive and balanced coverage of theoretical perspectives that help the students to bet
Bachelor of Science Degrees: General Education Courses - Humanities/Fine Arts (4 Courses - 12 Hours)
ART 1010	Art History	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course explores the history of art with an emphasis on Western civilizations. It provides an understanding of the contexts within which artists work, modern and historical, the technical processes they use, and the means by which art is evaluated. The understanding of art is a focus of this course.
HUM 1010	Introduction to Humanities	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents an overview of the origins of humanities, a discussion of the major forms and types of artistic expression from early civilizations to the present day. This course will explore, compare and analyze sculpture, architecture, painting, philosophy, literature, drama, and music in their historical and cultural contexts from pre-history, through the centuries to recent events in the last decade.
LIT 3010	American Literature	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces an overview of the emergence and progress of American literature from colonial America through the literature of reason and revolution to the age of romanticism in the mid-nineteenth century. This course is designed to study American literary works and analyze their literary significance
PHL 3010	Critical Thinking	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces the major fields, problems, theories, and personalities of philosophy through the biographies and writings of leading thinkers. It emphasizes a solid background in the core fields of critical thinking and philosophy, exploring how ethics, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of science related to important issues of current concern. This course focuses on philosophy as an activity whose guiding principle is reason an
Bachelor of Science Degrees: General Education Courses - Science (2 Courses - 6 Hours)
BIO 1010	Biology	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to focus on all major areas of general biology. The goal of this course is to lay the foundation for scientific understanding, and to assist students to view general biology as a continuously evolving field of study. This course highlights the relevance and contribution of this discipline to business, health care, policy creation, and other sciences. Upon completion of this two-part course, students should gain an understanding of the relevance and usefulness of bio
BIO 1020	Environmental Science	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course is designed to give the student an introductory overview to environmental science. It provides insight into the relationship between human beings with the environment and its effects. The course examines plant and animal community structure focusing on possible solutions for a nourishing society.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Core Courses (19 Courses - 57 Hours)
ACC 1202	Principles of Accounting I	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: An introduction to accounting information on financial reports, including accounting concepts, analysis and interpretation and the preparation of financial reports with an emphasis on the operating activities. The course includes the measurement of income and expense, working capital, investments and financial statements. It presents an overview on corporations, fund-flow, business transactions, and interpretation of financial statements. The course is designed to present clearly and understand
Notes: Prerequisite: Basic College Math, MTH 1150 or equivalent
ACC 2302	Principles of Accounting II	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Principles of Accounting II, is an in-depth continuation of Principles of Accounting I. This course covers the material necessary to interpret financial reporting and make useful lending and investment decisions. Accounting for inventory, plant, property and equipment, intangible assets, tangible assets, investments, cash flow statements, cost accounting, and cost-volume analysis are included.
Notes: Prerequisites: ACC 1202 or equivalent
BUS 1010	Business Communications	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course embodies the fundamentals of theory and practice of effective oral and written communication unique to businesses and organizations. It teaches the skills necessary for effective business communication, including the writing of business memos, letters and reports, oral, and global communications. Also included are legal pitfalls, ethical situations and exposure to today's communication technologies.
BUS 1015	Computer Essentials	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This introductory level course covers personal computers and applications. It is designed to present the fundamentals of personal computers and current application software in a very basic and hands-on environment. The course provides an overview of personal computers and their components and navigating the Internet. It also provides a clear picture of how computers and networks can be used as practical tools to solve a wide variety of daily problems in the office environment.
BUS 1150	Business Mathematics	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The course is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the various ways in which mathematics is used in a modern business. During this course of study, students will revisit general mathematics and then move on to business-related math. The true beginning of business-related mathematics begins with an examination of statistics and their role in business. Students will be exposed to the mathematics involved with taxes, business and life insurance, the maintenance of checking
BUS 2951	Principles of Business	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course offers a summary of the basic concepts and tools of business. Coverage of every functional aspect of business is included. Topics covered are management, organization, human resource management, purchasing, production/operations, accounting, finance, marketing and quantitative methods. It provides an overview of managerial functions and responsibilities, leadership practices and business management.
BUS 3151	Business Statistics	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides an application of probability theory to managerial decision-making within uncertain business environments and also provides extensive coverage of statistics a variety of descriptive and inferential statistics are presented. The importance of tables and graphic presentations of results is emphasized. Case studies and scholarly journal articles are reviewed and analyzed for statistical content. Topics include hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, time-series analysis, bus
Notes: Prerequisite: BUS 1015 or equivalent
BUS 3210	Principles of Business Law	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course studies laws that affect business operations. It explores the development and current overview of the legal system in the United States. The courts and their functions, how our legal system handles lawsuits, contracts and property issues are included.
BUS 3331	E-Commerce	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course is designed to provide the student, as either a current or future e-commerce practitioner, with a basic understanding of the so-called “networked economy” and its associated infrastructures such as strategy, technology, capital, media, and policy. The course will introduce students to what each infrastructure consists of and how each works to enable e-commerce today. It emphasizes two components of e-commerce; business and technology.
BUS 4751	Business Ethics	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides an overview of values and business ethics. The student will explore the essential nature of ethics and the role that ethics play in the decision process. Individual decision-making and corporate organizational culture are also explored.
ECO 3401	Principles of Macroeconomics	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces economic theory and practice, specifically the economic system affecting the economy as a whole. It includes international and national policy and decision-making. It also introduces the foundations of economic reasoning and central key terms, income, trade, laws and concepts of economic analysis and understanding.
Notes: Prerequisite: MTH 1150 or equivalent
ECO 3501	Principles of Microeconomics	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents the economic system of supply and demand. The course also introduces the student to the effect this system has on business and individuals, especially in the making of decisions. The foundations of economic reasoning and central key terms, laws and concepts of economic analysis and understanding are components of this course.
Notes: Prerequisites: MTH 1150 or equivalent)
FIN 4310	Financial Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Financial Management is designed to give students a basic understanding of financial planning in the business world. This course provides an analytical understanding of financial management. It builds upon the fundamental principles of elementary accounting and economic principles. Topics covered include financial analysis and planning, working capital management, capital budgeting process and long-term financing.
Notes: Prerequisite: Basic College Math, MTH 1150, ACC 1202, or equivalent
LED 3665	Leadership	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course reviews important findings relating to leadership. Leadership affects the lives of people within the business or organization. Leadership affects the achievement of collective purpose, the quality of the purpose, and the moral aspirations of an organization. The course provides the tools to assess leadership style in both social and work situations. Topics include communication styles, the power of leaders, situational leadership, creativity and leadership, teamwork, motivation, coac
MGT 1602	Principles of Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides the undergraduate student with a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the dynamics involved in managing in the modern organization. The history of management and its impact on the modern manager will be explored. In addition, the functions and elements of management will be examined, along with such issues as motivation, diversity, quality, ethics and the global environment.
MGT 4851	Operations Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and techniques of operations management. Operations strategy, quantitative techniques and managerial issues are studied. Topics investigated include manufacturing and service, production technology, competitive priorities, quality management, statistic process control, process design, new technology, capacity planning, facility layout, supply chain management, quality control and maintenance management.
MIS 2351	Management Information Systems	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides guidance for the management of information technology in today's complex business environment. The planning and development of systems that use and deliver information technology is a major focus. Jargon, issues, tactics and strategies concerning information technology are examined. Case studies and the WEB are utilized to study corporate usage of information technology and information management.
Notes: Prerequisite: BUS 1015 or equivalent
MKT 1201	Principles of Marketing	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and techniques of modern-day marketing. It explores the importance of marketing in the economy and in business management as the student is introduced to key elements of marketing such as product, place, price and promotion.
ORG 4451	Organizational Theory and Behaviors	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces the concept of the business entity as an environment serving organization with economic and social responsibilities. It provides the principles of managing organizations, systems, staffing and management processes. It also stresses the development of job-relevant skills. The material covers a wide range of organizations. Topic areas apply to daily life including organizational change and development.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Concentration in Business Administration (5 Courses - 15 Hours)
HRM 4352	Fundamentals of Human Resource Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces human resource management and its many facets. It covers employment processes including recruitment, selection, training, evaluation and benefits. Legislation affecting human resource management is studied. Topics stressed include equal employment opportunity, employee benefits, compensation, unionization and sexual harassment.
MGT 3626	Supply Chain Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents an overview of the strategic role of the supply chain, key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and the tools and techniques for supply chain analysis. The course also examines the techniques that enable the management of an organization to create sustainable profitable growth by managing the entire supply chain. Designing the supply chain network, planning demand and supply, inventories and transportation networks are also explored in this course.
MGT 3826	Managerial Decision Making	3 Semester		$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides a new perspective for making decisions. The perspective is of an integrated and interdisciplinary decision-making process in which rational decision makers pursue strategic choices that will provide successful outcomes within discernible boundaries. It focuses on decision making at the top of the organization in a multidisciplinary context.
MGT 4126	Project Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents an overview of the detailed process to be followed during the conduct of a project. The project plan is used in analyzing the feasibility of the project and in guiding the effort. Topics include the design and application of systematic processes in managing projects. This course will introduce students to methodologies and technologies that can help a project manager carry out a project from its inception through its completion.
MGT 4426	International Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course will examine the growing number of entrepreneurial ventures that exist worldwide. The role of the multinational enterprise is explored, including emerging trends and issues related to international management.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Concentration in Finance (5 Courses - 15 Hours)
FIN 4001	Financial Institutions and Markets	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The course explores the structure and functions of the money and capital markets; the saving investment process and financial intermediaries; supply and demand for loanable funds and the level and structure of interest rates. Particular attention will be paid to the embedded risks in financial markets and institutions and the appropriate role of regulation and public policy.
Notes: Prerequisites: FIN 4310 or equivalent
FIN 4002	Financial Analysis and Valuation	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course focuses on the financial analysis and valuation of publicly traded equity securities. The course will also introduce students to the tools and techniques include fundamental analysis, business and financial analysis, preparation of pro forma financial statements, estimation of free cash flows and application of valuation models.
Notes: Prerequisites: FIN 4310 or equivalent
FIN 4003	Derivatives Markets	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course will focus on the use and pricing of forwards and futures, swaps and options. These instruments have become extremely popular investment tools over the past 30 years, as they allow one to tailor the amount and kind of risk one takes, be it risk associated with changes in interest rates, exchange rates, stock prices, commodity prices, inflation, etc. The Course will cover strategies for speculation and risk management such as no-arbitrage pricing for forward contracts, the binomial a
Notes: Prerequisites: FIN 4310 or equivalent
FIN 4005	Financial Modeling	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course explores the financial theories through building financial models. This course covers standard financial models in the areas of corporate finance, financial statement simulation, security valuation, cost of capital, time value of money, portfolio theory, and capital budgeting, options, portfolio insurance, duration, and immunization.
Notes: Prerequisites: FIN 4310 or equivalent
FIN 4301	International Finance	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course describes international financial instruments and their role in providing a cohesive financial integrated market. It investigates arbitrage and arbitrage-like transactions and how they bind together distinguishable financial instruments and play key roles in financial contracts. The finance methodologies of multinational corporations, foreign exchange and bankers acceptances are also included.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Concentration in Health Care Management (5 Courses - 15 Hours)
HCM 4001	4001Healthcare Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The course is designed to introduce the student to the practices and theories of health care management. An overview of management techniques and the process of human resource management will be addressed.
HCM 4002	Strategic Leadership Planning and Evaluation	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces students to concepts, principles and practices of strategic management in health care settings. The primary focus of the course is on the strategy of the business unit, which is the foundational level for competitive analysis, and an analysis of the issues central to the firm's short-term and long-term competitive success. Topics include: negotiation, leadership, organizational design, organizational culture, strategic plan development and stakeholder and SWOT analyses.
HCM 4003	Health Care Operations	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Health Care Operations will address, in detail, the operations within health care institutions from the macro to the micro levels of management. This course will address the following aspects of management: Productivity and Performance Management, Change Management, Planning for Operational Excellence, Return on Investment Models, Supply Chain Management Strategy, and Inventory Management.
HCM 4004	Health Care Finance, Budget and Cost Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course focuses on financial management concepts and operating decisions in the health care industry. Valuation methods covered include: net present value of free cash flows, decision tree analysis, real options, accounting and financial statement interpretation; risk, return, time value of money; capital decision making; operational and capital budgeting; risk analysis; tactical alternative analysis; and forecasting.
HCM 4005	Health Care and Information Technology	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: With increasing cost constraints and demands for improved quality of care, information technology has become essential to manage health care organizations and systems. This course is intended to provide students with knowledge of extant health care information systems for operations management, financial management, performance appraisal, and strategic planning. It will also investigate analytical frameworks and methods that can be used to evaluate information systems, determine information syst
HCM 4009	Health Care Law	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides overview of recently enacted legislation requiring health care institutions' compliance programs. Coursework introduces regulations and compliance including anti-trust, controlled substances, Americans with Disabilities Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, Department of Health jurisdiction over hospitals and licensure requirements.
HCM 4010	Principles of Managed Care and Contracting	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course is designed to provide the student with an in-depth understanding of what managed care means in the context of the United States health care system. The history, components, and various organizational forms of managed care systems will be reviewed. Potential benefits, inherent limitations, along with the legal, social, and ethical implications of managed care as a health care delivery system will be discussed.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Concentration in International Business (5 Courses - 15 Hours)
ECO 4351	International Economics	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Study and analysis of contemporary topics in international economics involving international trade, international finance and open market macroeconomics, international trade blocks, labor migration, international balance of payments, foreign exchange rate determination, and capital flows including those resulting from operations of multinational firms.
FIN 4301	International Finance	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course describes international financial instruments and their role in providing a cohesive financial integrated market. It investigates arbitrage and arbitrage-like transactions and how they bind together distinguishable financial instruments and play key roles in financial contracts. The finance methodologies of multinational corporations, foreign exchange and bankers acceptances are also included.
Notes: Prerequisites: FIN 4310 or equivalent
HRM 4501	International Human Resource Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the implications of the global business activity on the management function labeled personnel management or human resource management (HRM). The focus of the course is on understanding functions such as compensation, benefits, training, recruitment and selection, health and safety, career development, labor relations, job requirements, and employee rights. Attention is directed to both the expatriate and the foreign manager as part of the
MGT 4426	International Business Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course will examine the growing number of entrepreneurial ventures that exist worldwide. The role of the multinational enterprise is explored, including emerging trends and issues related to international management. Discussion will include various methods of managing entrepreneurial organizations in the domestic market with international marketing capabilities, managing a new and/or small venture in a non-domestic market, and developing alliances trans-nationally to facilitate internationa
MKT 4426	International Marketing	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces the student to the international (global) dimension of marketing. The material will develop the student’s understanding of market assessment and market entry issues at the international level. This course will equip the student with an appreciation of the idiosyncrasies involved in the planning and implementation of marketing, cultural differences, country attractiveness, licensing along with marketing mix strategies.
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 1201 or equivalent
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Concentration in Marketing (5 Courses - 15 Hours)
MKT 4001	Marketing Research	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course focuses on methods employed in market research to understand consumer behavior to enable better marketing decision-making. Topics include focus groups, understanding different sources of secondary data, questionnaire design; design of experiments, sampling plans, and data analysis using statistical techniques.
Notes: Prerequisites: MKT 1201 or equivalent
MKT 4002	Marketing Communications	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course focuses on the major marketing communication decisions made by brand managers. These decisions include mass media advertising, public relations, sales promotion, direct response marketing, sponsorship and events, packaging, and personal selling.
Notes: Prerequisites: MKT 1201 or equivalent
MKT 4003	Marketing Strategy	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This focuses on the development and application of value-enhancing strategies utilized by marketing managers. Topics include strategic marketing analysis and marketing planning, integration of marketing communications, radical changes in the selling function and sales force, customer relationship management, the impact of e-commerce, and the broadening role of marketing throughout organizations.
Notes: Prerequisites: MKT 1201 or equivalent
MKT 4005	Principles of Electronic Marketing	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces students to the principles and practices of electronic marketing. It explores strategies and techniques unique to electronic marketing in pricing, product, promotion and distribution as well as integrating e-marketing with business processes. Topics covered include the unique issues pertaining to consumer behavior, ethics and public policy in electronic marketing.
Notes: Prerequisites: MKT 1201 or equivalent
MKT 4301	Consumer Behavior	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course analyzes how socio-psychological factors such as personality, small groups, demographic variables, social class and culture on the formation of consumers' attitudes, consumption, and purchasing behavior influence the decision-making process of consumers.
Notes: Prerequisites: MKT 1201 or equivalent
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration General Elective Courses (3 Courses - 9 Hours)
BUS 2361	Business and Technology	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Business and Technology is designed to educate, train, and provide guidance for the student to develop the knowledge, skills, and behavioral characteristics necessary for successful entry level employment in office occupations for the 21st century. It provides an in-depth study of how modern society and organizations uses the World Wide Web as a communication tool, and how communication has evolved, especially in the business world. The topics covered in the course will include models for onli
HIS 350	World Civilization	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents an extensive comparative analysis of the development and change of many world civilizations and cultures. The course offers a balanced history of each culture and its major traditions from beginnings to the present day, while tracing common threads of universals and making cross-cultural comparisons. The course exposes the student to history, religion, culture, and the relationships among the civilizations, while analyzing the complex and diverse political, social, intellect
HRM 3302	Employee Benefits	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course offers a study of the administration and maintenance of benefits through the perspective of the human resources professional. The framework of the course is based on a logical, rational, orderly, and systematic journey through the field of benefits and how and why there is an important link to compensation. Topics include the economics of benefits, regulating benefits, retirement, health and life insurance, government mandated benefits, paid time off, accommodations, and managing the
HRM 4601	Staffing Organizations	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides students with the skills and knowledge to make effective staffing decisions. This focused human resource function is studied with regard to external influences, support activities, staffing specific activities, and the staffing system management process. Topics include staffing models, labor market unions, employment law, job analysis, recruitment, writing effective advertising copy, selection (including interviewing techniques), orientation, and voluntary and involuntary t
LED 2525	Leadership Communication	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Demonstrates communication techniques used by effective leaders in developing the communication capabilities needed to lead organizations effectively. It brings together managerial communication and concepts of emotional intelligence to create a new model of communication skills and strategies for corporate leaders. It covers core communication skills of developing strategy, analyzing an audience, writing all types of business documents and correspondence, and designing and delivering effective
LED 4547	Human Relations and Interpersonal Skills	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Success in any position involves interaction with people which requires the leader to have both functional and generic skills. In order to be effective, leaders should have the necessary interpersonal skills in order to fully utilize the capabilities of those working under them for the overall benefit of both the organization and the individual. This course emphasizes interpersonal skills rather than leadership theories and research.
MGT 2552	Inter-cultural Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course focuses on the value systems, thinking patterns and models of reality that are inherent in different cultures and cultural issues, challenges, and opportunities among people and organizations. Emphasis is placed on business and social cultures in the workplace and issues related to employee diversity in terms of gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and cultural background.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: Breakdown of Courses: Core (10 ); Degree Emphasis (14); General Education (13 ); General Electives (3) Total for Bachelor Degree (40 Courses - 120 Hours)
BSPA	Overview of Bachelor of Public Administration Degree Program	0 Semester	0(W)	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Bachelor of Science Public Administration - Core Courses (10 Courses – 30 Hours)
ACC 1202	Principles of Accounting I	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: An introduction to accounting information on financial reports, including accounting concepts, analysis and interpretation and the preparation of financial reports with an emphasis on the operating activities. The course includes the measurement of income and expense, working capital, investments and financial statements. It presents an overview on corporations, fund-flow, business transactions, and interpretation of financial statements. The course is designed to present clearly and understand
Notes: Prerequisite: Basic College Math, BUS 2150 or equivalent
BUS 1010	Business Communications	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course embodies the fundamentals of theory and practice of effective oral and written communication unique to businesses and organizations. It teaches the skills necessary for effective business communication, including the writing of business memos, letters and reports, oral, and global communications. Also included are legal pitfalls, ethical situations and exposure to today's communication technologies.
BUS 1015	Computer Essentials	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This introductory level course covers personal computers and applications. It is designed to present the fundamentals of personal computers and current application software in a very basic and hands-on environment. The course provides an overview of personal computers and their components and navigating the Internet. It also provides a clear picture of how computers and networks can be used as practical tools to solve a wide variety of daily problems in the office environment.
BUS 1150	Business Mathematics	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The course is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the various ways in which mathematics is used in a modern business. During this course of study, students will revisit general mathematics and then move on to business-related math. The true beginning of business-related mathematics begins with an examination of statistics and their role in business. Students will be exposed to the mathematics involved with taxes, business and life insurance, the maintenance of checking
BUS 2951	Principles of Business	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course offers a summary of the basic concepts and tools of business. Coverage of every functional aspect of business is included. Topics covered are management, organization, human resource management, purchasing, production/operations, accounting, finance, marketing and quantitative methods. It provides an overview of managerial functions and responsibilities, leadership practices and business management.
BUS 3151	Business Statistics	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides an application of probability theory to managerial decision-making within uncertain business environments and also provides extensive coverage of statistics A variety of descriptive and inferential statistics are presented. The importance of tables and graphic presentations of results is emphasized. Case studies and scholarly journal articles are reviewed and analyzed for statistical content. Topics include hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, time-series analysis, bus
LED 3665	Leadership	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course reviews important findings relating to leadership. Leadership affects the lives of people within the business or organization. Leadership affects the achievement of collective purpose, the quality of the purpose, and the moral aspirations of an organization. The course provides the tools to assess leadership style in both social and work situations. Topics include communication styles, the power of leaders, situational leadership, creativity and leadership, teamwork, motivation, coac
MGT 1602	Principles of Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides the undergraduate student with a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the dynamics involved in managing modern organizations. The history of management and its impact on the modern manager will be explored. In addition, the functions and elements of management will be examined, along with such issues as motivation, diversity, quality, ethics and the global environment.
MIS 2351	Management Information Systems	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides guidance for the management of information technology in today's complex business environment. The planning and development of systems that use and deliver information technology is a major focus. Jargon, issues, tactics and strategies concerning information technology are examined. Case studies and the WEB are utilized to study corporate usage of information technology and information management.
Notes: Prerequisite: BUS 1015 or equivalent
MKT 1201	Principles of Marketing	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course presents a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and techniques of modern-day marketing. It explores the importance of marketing in the economy and in business management as the student is introduced to key elements of marketing such as product, place, price and promotion.
Bachelor of Science Public Administration – Degree Emphasis Courses (14 Courses – 42 Hours)
FIN 4310	Financial Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Financial Management is designed to give students a basic understanding of financial planning in the business world. This course provides an analytical understanding of financial management. It builds upon the fundamental principles of elementary accounting and economic principles. Topics covered include financial analysis and planning, working capital management, capital budgeting process and long-term financing.
Notes: Prerequisite: Basic College Math, MTH 1150, ACC 1202, or equivalent
HRM 3302	Employee Benefits	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course offers a study of the administration and maintenance of benefits through the perspective of the human resources professional. The framework of the course is based on a logical, rational, orderly, and systematic journey through the field of benefits and how and why there is an important link to compensation. Topics include the economics of benefits, regulating benefits, retirement, health and life insurance, government mandated benefits, paid time off, accommodations, and managing the
HRM 4601	Staffing Organizations	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides students with the skills and knowledge to make effective staffing decisions. This focused human resource function is studied with regard to external influences, support activities, staffing specific activities, and the staffing system management process. Topics include staffing models, labor market unions, employment law, job analysis, recruitment, writing effective advertising copy, selection (including interviewing techniques), orientation, and voluntary and involuntary t
LED 4547	Human Relations and Interpersonal Skills	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Success in any position involves interaction with people which requires the leader to have both functional and generic skills. In order to be effective, leaders should have the necessary interpersonal skills in order to fully utilize the capabilities of those working under them for the overall benefit of both the organization and the individual. This course emphasizes interpersonal skills rather than leadership theories and research. It blends current and traditional topics dealing with inter
MGT 4352	Fundamentals of Human Resource Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces human resource management and its many facets. It covers employment processes including recruitment, selection, training, evaluation and benefits. Legislation affecting human resource management is studied. Topics stressed include equal employment opportunity, employee benefits, compensation, unionization and sexual harassment.
ORG 4451	Organizational Theory and Behavior	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces the concept of the business entity as an environment serving organization with economic and social responsibilities. It provides the principles of managing organizations, systems, staffing and management processes. It also stresses the development of job-relevant skills. The material covers a wide range of organizations. Topic areas apply to daily life including organizational change and development.
PUB 2150	Fundamentals of Public Administration	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course provides an overview of public administration. Emphasis is on practice as well as theory in personnel administration, financial administration, problems of management, administrative organization, and intergovernmental relations.
PUB 2190	Theories of Public Organization	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: Managing in the public sector poses unique challenges, including: constraints in managing personnel, difficulty in measuring outputs, serving multiple masters, and operating in a fishbowl of public and media scrutiny. This course explores the dynamics which govern public organizations, and tools you can use to manage in this challenging environment.
PUB 2200	Government Agencies	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course is designed to provide students with a legal and practical perspective on the functions of local government. The focus will be on local government agencies and applicable State and Federal law. This course will provide students with an opportunity to gain practical, first-hand knowledge about legal procedures and practices of local government agencies. Topics will include police power authority, judicial review, conflicts of interest, nuisance abatement, fiscal considerations, int
PUB 2600	Public Policy, Formation, and Process	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The course focuses on the processes and institutions that are involved in the formation of public policy in a democratic society, with emphasis on American experience. The course also offers tools for policy process research and analysis, including accessing appropriate information resources, analytical modeling, and cost/benefit.
PUB 3900	Current Issues in Public Administration	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This course introduces students to the current issues in public administration, research, and current practices of public agencies at the federal, state and local levels. Emphasis is placed on the impact on the administrative process and the creation of policy.
PUB 4001	Grant Writing	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The overall objective for this course is to give the student the tools to assist organizations, colleges/universities, non-profit agencies, community service groups, and businesses to successfully compete for grant funds. Individuals working on professional development proposals will also gain the skills and knowledge to successfully propose research and study plans.
PUB 4600	Law and Ethics in Public Administration	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: The course focuses on issues faced by public managers and administrators, related to ethical dilemmas and often having to weigh personal and professional values against current public opinion and the law. This course examines some of these inherent conflicts through the use of case studies to help provide a framework and process for resolving ethical issues in the public sector.
PUB 4800	Managing in Public Organizations	3 Semester	8(W)	$705.00	$0.00	$705.00
Course Description: This introductory course presents the concepts and relationships involved in the execution of public policy. The relationship of the administrative process to clientele groups, the public, legislative bodies, the executive, and the courts. It also includes discussion on theory and description of administrative organizations.
GRADUATE PREREQUISITE COURSES
BUS 5210	Survey of Accounting	1 Semester	4(W)	$295.00	$0.00	$295.00
Course Description: This course covers the material necessary to interpret financial reporting and make useful lending and investment decisions. Accounting for inventory, plant, property and equipment, intangible assets, tangible assets, investments, cash flow statements, cost accounting, and cost-volume analysis are included.
BUS 5211	Survey of Finance	1 Semester	4(W)	$295.00	$0.00	$295.00
Course Description: Financial Management is designed to give students a basic understanding of financial planning in the business world. This course provides an analytical understanding of financial management. It builds upon the fundamental principles of elementary accounting and economic principles. Topics covered include financial analysis and planning, working capital management, capital budgeting process and long-term financing. Prerequisite BUS 5210.
BUS 5212	Survey of Marketing	1 Semester	4(W)	$295.00	$0.00	$295.00
Course Description: This course presents a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and techniques of modern-day marketing. It explores the importance of marketing in the economy and in business management as the student is introduced to key elements of marketing such as product, place, price and promotion.
BUS 5213	Survey of Economics	1 Semester	4(W)	$295.00	$0.00	$295.00
Course Description: This course introduces economic theory and practice, specifically the economic system affecting the economy as a whole. It includes international and national policy and decision-making. The course also introduces the student to the effect this system has on business and individuals, especially in the making of decisions. The foundations of economic reasoning and central key terms, laws and concepts of economic analysis and understanding are components of this course.
BUS 5214	Survey of Management	1 Semester	4(W)	$295.00	$0.00	$295.00
Course Description: This course provides students with a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the dynamics involved in managing in the modern organization. The history of management and its impact on the modern manager will be explored. In addition, the functions and elements of management will be examined, along with such issues as motivation, diversity, quality, ethics and the global environment.
MBA Master of Business Administration - Core Courses (9 Courses - 27 Hours)
ACC 6140	Managerial Accounting	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course introduces economic theory and practice, specifically the economic system affecting the economy as a whole. It includes international and national policy and decision-making. It also introduces the foundations of economic reasoning and central key terms, income, trade, laws and concepts of economic analysis and understanding. This course offers financial accounting as an essential part of the decision making process in the business organization.
Notes: Prerequisites: ACC 1202 and ACC 2302 or equivalent
BUS 6190	Business Strategy Capstone	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is designed to provide a deeper understanding of strategic management principles, theories, and concepts. During this course, students will examine the basic concepts in problem analysis and decision making in corporate strategy. Students will learn how to develop mission statements, and assess both the external and internal environments to determine organizational strengths and weaknesses. This course will include analyses of various methods for formulating and implementing strat
Notes: The MBA capstone course is broad in scope and integrative of all other required courses. The focus is on the strategic analysis, formulation, and implementation issues facing top management. The project will include topics such as competition, core competencies, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage at the business, corporate, and international levels, and corporate governance, structure, and entrepreneurship.
ECO 6150	Managerial Economics	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on the problem of business decisions, making extensive use of cases. Topics include basic supply-demand theory and marginal analysis, the structure of decision problems, the impact of the market setting (i.e., competitive, oligopolistic or monopolistic structures), and strategic interactions among firms using Game Theory. The emphasis throughout is on the use of economic reasoning to solve actual business decision problems.
Notes: Prerequisites: ECO 3401 and 3501 or equivalent
FIN 6160	Managerial Finance	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course introduces the theory of corporate finance and the application of this theory to realistic problems in corporate financial management. The course integrates the various aspects of corporate finance including production, marketing, management, accounting and finance. This course also presents an overview of the finance and legal perspectives as the student learns from the efficient capital markets hypothesis, capital structure, and dividends.
Notes: Prerequisites: ACC 1202 ACC 2302 and FIN 4310 or equivalent
HRM 6180	Human Resource Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course provides a management-oriented exploration of human resource management, structure, functional applications, & labor management relations. Based upon classical & contemporary theory & empirical research, this course forms a humanistic & legal analysis of organizations, focusing on the role of human resource management in the creation of organizational strategy.
MGT 6170	Operations Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course presents an introduction to the scientific methods used to investigate problems concerned with the designing, planning and conducting of operations within an organization. Mathematical methods of operations research are stressed. Topics studied include linear programming, decision analysis, mathematical programming, inventory theory, forecasting, and Markov decision processes.
MIS 6110	Management Information Systems	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on providing the student with an understanding of the nature of the digital firm and the key issues in organizing and managing the firm. Managers of digital firms need to identify the challenges facing their firms; understand the technologies that will help them meet these challenges; design business processes to take advantage of the technologies; and create management procedures and policies to implement the required changes.
MKT 6120	Marketing Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course provides a strategic framework for organizational marketing decisions. From this managerial perspective, the student will explore the marketing process, concepts and customer focused processes. The course will also analyze marketing tools and understand their importance to managers. These tools include including market research, competitor analysis and the consumer analysis.
Notes: (Prerequisites: MKT 1201 or equivalent)
ORG 6130	Organizational Behavior	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: Organization behavior is the study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. This course allows the student to systematically study individual, team, & structural characteristics that influence behavior in organizations. The topics covered in this course enlighten the student on the complex relationships that are present among individuals, groups, organizations, & society.
MBA: Business Administration Emphasis Courses (4 Courses - 12 Hours)
BUS 6590	Business Ethics	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is intended to help students make ethical choices in a business context. It investigates ethical issues and decision-making problems facing contemporary leaders. Emphasis is on ethical approaches to problem solving, communication, and managing people. The impact that various leadership styles have on organizations and communities will also be presented.
ENT 6431	Entrepreneurship	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is a primer for aspiring small business owners. Students will explore step-by-step procedures necessary to set up and manage a small business. Topics include the development of the business plan, market entry strategies, organization and financing, and critical factors for small business owners and entrepreneurs. The course provides students with the skills to build, work for, invest in, advice, or consult to social ventures at any point in their career path.
LED 5531	Leadership Theories and Concepts	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course examines leadership from a holistic practical point of view by looking at different ways to help the leader become more effective in different leadership situations. The concepts and theories covered in this course shed light into the complexity of the challenges that face leaders today. In order to become effective, leaders need the skills to build high-performing work teams and to assure that these teams are outcome focused and integrated into organi-zational goals.
Notes: This course explores leadership development, the use of power and influence, leadership values, behavior, and traits, situational characteristics, methods of team building, leadership skills, and organizational change.
MGT 6601	International Business Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course explores the world of international business. International or transnational business involves factors and forces such as exchange rates, cultural differences and political risks. International business also raises issues related to controlling and staffing enterprises that are physically remote from a business' primary location and fashioning business relationships with people and entities that have unfamiliar ways of conducting their business.
ORG 6011	Organizational Development and Change	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is about organization development (OD), a process that applies behavioral science knowledge and practices to help organizations build the capacity to change and to achieve greater effectiveness, including increased financial performance and improved quality of work life.
TEC 6951	Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course provides students with requisite knowledge needed to manage technological innovation and change in organizations, especially in increasingly complex environments. The focus is to enhance students’understanding of innovation processes in organization and how to manage such processes effectively.
MBA: Finance Emphasis Courses (4 Courses - 12 Hours)
FIN 6001	Security Markets and Investments	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on securities markets; risk-return characteristics of investment; concepts of security analysis; investment and portfolio strategies of individual and institutional investors and other financial instruments.
Notes: Prerequisite: FIN 6160 or equivalent
FIN 6002	Financial Institutions and Markets	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on the management of financial institutions, such as banks and structure and functions of the money in capital markets. Topics include risk management; deposits and deposit insurance; liquidity, reserve requirements, and capital adequacy; liability management; investment interest rate risk; and current issues connected with financial institutions.
Notes: Prerequisite: FIN 6160 or equivalent
FIN 6003	Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course examines advanced topics in corporate finance with an emphasis on valuation, the central concept in finance. This course also examines theory and evidence on techniques of valuation and the corporate decisions that affect value. These decisions include the areas of financial analysis, ownership structure, acquisitions, dividends, compensation, agency theory, and other related issues.
Notes: Prerequisite: FIN 6160 or equivalent
FIN 6005	Advanced Corporate Finance	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course uses intensive analysis of case studies to develop the student's ability to make financial decisions. Variety of topics in corporate financial decisions, including performance evaluation, working capital management, dividend policy, capital structure policy, use and valuation of derivatives, capital budgeting and mergers and acquisitions.
Notes: Prerequisite: FIN 6160 or equivalent
FIN 6651	International Finance	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course explores balance of payments, adjustment mechanisms, international monetary system and international interdependence. Topics also include determinants of exchange rate policy, the relationship between domestic monetary and exchange rate policies, and international policy coordination. The course presents arbitrage and arbitrage like transactions, and how these bind together distinguishable financial instruments to play a key role in financial contracts.
Notes: Prerequisite: FIN 6160 or equivalent
MBA: Health Care Management Emphasis Courses (4 Courses - 12 Hours)
FIN 6110	Financial Management in Health Care	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on the financial analysis that informs the strategic and operating decisions of health care firms, including health insurers, integrated health systems, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
HCM 6001	Health Care Policy Analysis and Decision Making	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course surveys theory and practice in the management and policy sciences applied to the field of public health care. Students will gain an understanding on public health in the US health system; legal bases of public health care; public policy institutions and decision-making processes; methods of policy analysis, public sector institutions, management and decision-making; and private sector health care institutions, management and decision making.
HCM 6002	Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course offers an overview on the ethical principles that are used to address and understand complex health care issues. Legal concepts and regulatory agency and other public policies influence the direction and financing of health care are also presented. Students will also identify the various ethical theories and belief systems; will analyze own ethical belief system; and critique the ethical relationships between risk management, quality assurance, and resource allocation.
HCM 6003	Advanced Community Health Care Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on theories, principles, and strategies of population-based and population-focused health care that are used to design, implement, and evaluate services and plans of care to promote, maintain, and restore health in communities. Students will focus on population aggregates in structured or unstructured settings across care environments as well as strategies to evaluate health outcomes and costs of care are emphasized.
HCM 6004	Information Technology in the Integrated Health Care System	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course offers an overview of the strategic role of health care information technology and its uses in the management of health plans and delivery systems. Students will focus on learning how to link information tools to the business mission of the health care organization. This course will introduce key health care technologies, demonstrate how advances in other industries can be beneficial to health care, explain cost-benefit analysis of information technology.
HCM 6005	Operations in Health Care Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course reviews the field of operations management as it relates to the management of integrated Health Care delivery systems. It demonstrates the important relationship between operations research and the management of complex health care delivery organizations. It will focus on the formulation of competitive strategy in operations management decision areas, including strategic planning, system design, quality measurement, and productivity analysis.
MBA: International Business Emphasis Courses (4 Courses - 12 Hours)
BUS 6671	International Business Law	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course examines laws regulating international activities including managerial issues, trade, licensing and investment from an international managerial perspective. Students will study the function and importance of public international law, as well as the role of public and private international organizations in setting standards and guidelines for international business. This course also examines the legal aspects of establishing an overseas operation; joint venturing abroad; using a forei
FIN 6651	International Finance	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course explores balance of payments, adjustment mechanisms, international monetary system and international interdependence. Topics also include determinants of exchange rate policy, the relationship between domestic monetary and exchange rate policies, and international policy coordination. The course presents arbitrage and arbitrage like transactions, and how these bind together distinguishable financial instruments to play a key role in financial contracts. The finance methodologies of m
Notes: Prerequisite: FIN 6160 or equivalent
MGT 6641	International Economics	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course examines trade and international economics, considers comparative advantage and the factors of production. This course also considers how growth is influenced by trade and various alternative trade theories. The course places an emphasis on the general equilibrium approach to modeling over the more convenient partial equilibrium approach, to create a more accurate picture of how international trade affects the global welfare of people and events impacting the economy. Relationships b
Notes: Prerequisite: ECO 6150 or equivalent
MKT 6003	International Marketing	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course will provide thorough coverage of international marketing, with a strong subject emphasis on the planning and strategic problems confronting companies that market across cultural boundaries. The use of the Internet will be stressed throughout the entire course because if its importance to global marketers when penetrating and exploring new markets. Finally, the course will discuss international marketing from a global perspective, with real-life examples to illustrate salient issue
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 6120 or equivalent
MKT 6601	International Business Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course explores the world of international business. International or transnational business involves factors and forces such as exchange rates, cultural differences and political risks. International business also raises issues related to controlling and staffing enterprises that are physically remote from a business' primary location and fashioning business relationships with people and entities that have unfamiliar ways of conducting their business. This course considers the factors and
MBA: Marketing Emphasis Courses (4 Courses - 12 Hours)
MKT 6001	Consumer Behavior and Decision Models	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course describes how socio-psychological factors influence the decision-making process of consumers. Course will describe and compare the major decision models in consumer behavior and the major decision models used in developing social marketing communications and interventions.
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 6120 or equivalent
MKT 6003	International Marketing	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course will provide thorough coverage of international marketing, with a strong subject emphasis on the planning and strategic problems confronting companies that market across cultural boundaries. The use of the Internet will be stressed throughout the entire course because if its importance to global marketers when penetrating and exploring new markets. The course will discuss international marketing from a global perspective, with real-life examples to illustrate salient issues.
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 6120 or equivalent
MKT 6003	Product Management Strategy	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on development and introduction of new products, concept testing, product-life cycle, portfolio analysis, targeting and positioning, branding issues, product-line extension, pricing policies and the management of existing products. Topics include product positioning, screening, concept development, test marketing, and branding strategies.
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 6120 or equivalent
MKT 6005	Internet Marketing/Bridge Gap Marketing	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on integrating Internet marketing activities into overall organizational marketing strategies. Topics include: market opportunity and environmental assessment, Web presence and value propositions, and special issues concerning marketing mix design, implementation and capabilities that allow businesses to develop unique Internet marketing strategy.
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 6120 or equivalent
MKT 6006	Strategic Brand Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on analysis of marketing strategies for consumer products and services. Topics include: consumer satisfaction and brand management including product line and brand developments, pricing strategies, channel and retail relationships, and marketing communication strategies for consumer goods and services.
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 6120 or equivalent
MKT 6007	Service Marketing	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course explores the nature of service organizations and principles which guide the marketing of their products. Topics include: customer expectations of the services and opinion of the service, customer relationship management, the design and execution of the service delivery process, the development and implementation of employee customer service skills, and the role of emerging technology in customer service.
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 6120 or equivalent
MKT f6004	Pricing Strategy	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on analytic tools, theories, and conceptual tools for formulating pricing strategy. The course also covers pricing tactics, and some new economy pricing models. Topics include: perceived value pricing, bundling, price discrimination, product-line pricing, dynamic pricing over the products’ life-cycle, pricing through the marketing channel, and competitive pricing. In addition to microeconomic approaches to pricing, behavioral approaches to pricing will also be covered.
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 6120 or equivalent
MBA: Technology Management Emphasis Courses (4 Courses - 12 Hours)
MGT 6981	New Product Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: The emphasis on this course is on managing the process of new product development. The term “product” will be understood in its most general sense in which service may be an important component. The focus will be on products that have an important element of service associated with them. In this course the perspective is that of the senior-level general manager with primary responsibility for managing this process.
Notes: Prerequisite: MKT 6120 or equivalent
MIS 6961	IT Project Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course covers the fundamental project management principles and methodologies for managing the software development life-cycle and process models. Topics include: process metrics; software project planning; monitoring, control, and schedule mechanisms; budget estimates; risk assessment; and leadership, motivation, and team building.
Notes: Prerequisite: MIS 6110 or equivalent
MIS 6991	Internet Technology and Strategy	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: The first course focuses on introducing the students to the main aspects of managing technology in today's global business environment. Topics include major current aspects of doing business around the world and the national, political, social and economic characteristics of various areas and countries and how they relate to American business and how they relate to the growth of technology. The course will also explore technology transfer, cooperation, sourcing, quality control, and management.
TEC 6951	Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course provides students with requisite knowledge needed to manage technological innovation and change in organizations, especially in increasingly complex environments. The focus is to enhance students’ understanding of innovation processes in organization and how to manage such processes effectively.
TEC 6971	Commercialization of Research and Development	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course presents an overview of the relationship between research and development opportunities; university and industry research, and research commercialization and management. This course will offer a variety of perspectives on understanding the dynamics of organizations, including for-profit, non-profit and public organizations that are in the field of research and development. The changing roles for managers and workers will be explored through the chapters.
MSSL Master of Science in Strategic Leadership (13 Courses – 39 Hours)
BUS 5581	Coaching and Mentoring	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course offers an introduction to the necessary tools that a leader or manager needs to become an effective coach and/or mentor. Topics include building trust, showing empathy, active listening, using influence tactics, helping others set goals, monitoring performance, giving feedback, encouraging positive actions, discouraging negative actions, training team members, helping others solve problems, helping difficult people, and developing protégés.
BUS 6190	Strategy Capstone	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is designed to provide a deeper understanding of strategic management principles, theories, and concepts. During this course, students will examine the basic concepts in problem analysis and decision making in corporate strategy. Students will learn how to develop mission statements, and assess both the external and internal environments to determine organizational strengths and weaknesses.
BUS 6190	Strategy Capstone	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is designed to provide a deeper understanding of strategic management principles, theories, and concepts. During this course, students will examine the basic concepts in problem analysis and decision making in corporate strategy. Students will learn how to develop mission statements, and assess both the external and internal environments to determine organizational strengths and weaknesses.
ENT 6431	Entrepreneurship	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is a primer for aspiring small business owners. Students will explore step-by-step procedures necessary to set up and manage a small business. Topics include the development of the business plan, market entry strategies, organization and financing, and critical factors for small business owners and entrepreneurs. The course provides students with the skills to build, work for, invest in, advise, or consult to social ventures at any point in their career path.
HRM 6180	Human Resource Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course provides a management-oriented exploration of human resource management, structure, functional applications, and labor management relations. Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this course forms a humanistic and legal analysis of organizations, focusing on the role of human resource management in the creation of organizational strategy.
LED 5531	Leadership Theories and Concepts	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course examines leadership from a holistic practical point of view by looking at different ways to help the leader become more effective in different leadership situations. The concepts and theories covered in this course shed light into the complexity of the challenges that face leaders today.
LED 5541	Leader and the Leadership Process	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is designed to serve as a catalyst to the students of leadership’s thinking and dialogue about leaders and the leadership process. Students of leadership should look at themselves within the context of leadership in order to understand the phenomenon and the complexity associated with organizational leadership. By understanding the leadership process, the student will be able to connect all the key components involved in the process.
LED 5545	Leadership in Organizations	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is about leadership in organizations. Its primary focus is on managerial leadership as opposed to parliamentary leadership, leadership in social movements, or emergent leadership in informal groups. The course represents a broad survey of theory and research on leadership in formal organizations. The topic of leadership effectiveness is of special interest, and the discussion keeps returning to the question of what makes a person an effective leader.
LED 6851	Conflict Resolution	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course introduces students to the foundation and theories of conflict management. The course includes an interdisciplinary introduction to conflict, sources of conflict, and conflict theory and integrates an overview of how to deal with interpersonal and inter-group, organizational, community, international, and intercultural conflict. Students will gain critical skills in multi-party and public facilitation and mediation, as well as skills in mediation.
LED 6900	Negotiation/Deal Making	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course discusses the nature of negotiations that are difficult to resolve. We examine the nature of impasses—what makes negotiations intractable—and discuss four elements that make negotiations difficult to resolve: the parties, the negotiation setting, the types of issues, and the conflict management process. We explore fundamental mistakes that negotiators make that cause negotiation impasses. Finally, we discuss strategies that negotiators can use to resolve impasses and get negotiations
LED 6910	Team and Group Dynamics	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course provides the student with a step-by-step introduction of the principles and practice of small group communication, and teaches students to develop and apply critical thinking in group problem solving. Group participation is an uplifting and energizing experience. Students are given the tools to help them move towards this outcome. Research and theory is also presented that gives students an understanding that communication behaviors create the overall group experience, and that worki
LED 6920	Change Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course provides new tools and skills for understanding and managing the impact of a rapidly changing environment. Today's organizations are faced with increasingly complex and dynamic changes. The vast majority of newly formulated business strategies, no matter how well crafted or ingenious they are, fail in their implementation. In some cases, they end up as faint, half-hearted replicas of the original plans; in other cases, they simply never materialize altogether.
MIS 6110	Management Information Systems	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: Managing information systems has become a task for all levels of managers and all functional areas of the business. In today’s digital firm there is no escaping the opportunities (as well as the challenges) that technology brings.
ORG 6130	Organizational Behavior	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: Organization behavior is the study of what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. This course allows the student to systematically study individual, team, and structural characteristics that influence behavior in organizations. The topics covered in this course enlighten the student on the complex relationships that are present among individuals, groups, organizations, and society.
MST Master of Science in Telecommunication Management (13 Courses – 39 Hours)
TCO 6100	Telecommunications Seminar	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This seminar course will introduce the student to current telecommunications technologies including transmission technologies and systems, switching technologies and systems, signaling, synchronization, and control programs and communications standards.
TCO 6110	Principles of Telecommunications	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on fundamental concepts that play a key role in the study of telecommunications systems. The course covers topics such as signals and linear systems theory, stationary and ergodicity, correlation and covariance functions, power spectral density, Gaussian, Poisson and Markov processes and the behavior of linear systems driven by random processes. The course will also discuss estimation theory, linear least mean-square error and maximum a posteriori estimation.
TCO 6120	Industry Overview and Telecommunications Applications	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course will overview the telecommunications industry, technology, regulatory environment and current topics in telephone service (wireless and wireline), business data services, CATV and Internet services and providers (including JAVA and HTML). Managerial and strategic aspects of telecommunications technologies will also be addressed.
TCO 6130	International Telecommunications Policy and Regulation	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course will introduce participants to the economics of international telecommunications policy, including the simple analytics of the demand for services, the nature of production conditions in the telecommunications and the feasibility of competition, optimal pricing and alternative approaches to regulating carriers. The course will begin by reviewing the microeconomic theory and its application to resource allocation. The scale and scope of services will be discussed using current literat
TCO 6140	Management and Organizational Behavior in the Telecommunications Industry	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course covers two primary areas: First, management and organizational behavior and, second, strategic management as it relates to organizations involved in telecommunications. Topics will include principles of leadership and personnel management, staffing and training, and organizational structure. Introduction to the concept of strategy, industry analysis and competitive dynamics as well as cost analysis will be including in this course.
TCO 6150	Design and Analysis of Telecommunications Systems	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course takes the material presented in TCO 5100 course (Principles of Telecommunications) and concentrates on design and analysis of various components of real-world communication systems. The course begins with analog communications where AM and FM modulation systems are discussed, including time/frequency representation of these signals, signal demodulation methods and performance in the presence of noise. Other topics include: A/D and D/A conversion, baseband pulse shaping, digital modul
TCO 6160	Telecommunications Networks	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: The main design issues associated with ordinary, single user, point-to-point communication systems and their position to those involved in multi-user systems, satellite systems, radio networks and general communications networks will be discussed. Applications of the analytical method of queuing theory to network design problems will also be treated. Proposed architectures and protocols for advanced networks will be presented as well as open systems interconnection (OSI), architecture, protocols
TCO 6170	Telecommunications Protocols	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is design to follow the TCO 5210 course (Telecommunications Networks). It introduces approaches used in the specification, design, analysis, verification, and testing of communication protocols. The components of protocol structure and architecture will be described and some practical protocol descriptions will be given. Various service requirements, techniques for error control, failure recovery, and protocol conversion issues will be introduced including protocol verification, desi
TCO 6180	Network Security	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course reviews topics related to the assurance of security and integrity in communication networks of various types. Topics include the design and analysis of message integrity assurance techniques, the detection of unauthorized message creation and modification, message stream modification, request/response modification, practical solutions such as message replay, user authentication, message-origin authentication, and encryption.
TCO 6190	Network Planning and Design	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: Telecommunications networks have been growing in complexity and size at a phenomenal rate over the past several years. Along with these developments come more challenging problems in design and planning of networks to suit particular business and technology settings. This course focuses on the tools and techniques for the economic design of networks that meet the requirement goals of an organization.
TCO 6200	Cellular and Satellite Communications Systems	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course discusses the major concepts and techniques revolving around cellular and satellite communication. It includes topics such as, mobile radio channels, inter-symbol interference, multi-path, fading effects, orbital mechanics, constellations, and choice of orbital parameters, propagation, link budgets, and other obstacles. The course will further evaluate the economic considerations associated with both technologies including the benefits and limitations of each.
TCO 6210	Telecommunications Marketing Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course concentrates on the strategic marketing, sales, and customer service challenges facing the telecommunications industry. Marketing concepts, case studies and problems will focus on building organizational networks of suppliers, strategic partners, and customers. Emphasis will be placed on the impacts of cost and price pressured, rapid technology shifts and regulatory uncertainty as key features of the telecommunications environment.
TCO 6220	Telecommunications Operations Management	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: Operations managers are concerned with the production of goods or the delivery of services. Their role in the organization is the design, management and control of the systems that deliver services or produce products. This course introduces students to problems related to the design, planning, control and implementation of telecommunications manufacturing and service operations. This analysis can be used in decisions ranging from tactical planning to strategic planning.
TCO 6300	Strategy Capstone	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course is designed to provide a deeper understanding of strategic management principles, theories, and concepts. During this course, students will examine the basic concepts in problem analysis and decision making in corporate strategy. This course will include analyses of various methods for formulating and implementing strategy, as well as the numerous issues associated with technology and innovation, entrepreneurial ventures and small businesses, and not-for-profit organizations.
Notes: Prerequisites: Successful completion of all other Telecommunications Management Graduate Courses.
MTTE Master of Taxation and Trade For Executives (13 Courses – 39 Hours)
ECO 6150	Managerial Economics	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on the problem of business decisions, making extensive use of cases. Topics include basic supply-demand theory and marginal analysis, the structure of decision problems, the impact of the market setting (i.e., competitive, oligopolistic or monopolistic structures), and strategic interactions among firms using Game Theory. The emphasis throughout is on the use of economic reasoning to solve actual business decision problems.
Notes: Prerequisites: ECO 3401 and ECO 3501 or equivalent
FIN 6160	Corporate Finance	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course introduces the theory of corporate finance and the application of this theory to realistic problems in corporate financial management. The course integrates the various aspects of corporate finance including production, marketing, management, accounting and finance. This course also presents an overview of the finance and legal perspectives as the student learns from the efficient capital markets hypothesis, capital structure, and dividends.
Notes: Prerequisites: ACC 1202, ACC 2302, FIN 4310 or equivalent
HRM 6005	Compensation Benefits and Retirement Planning	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: This course focuses on the development of equitable compensation and benefit programs in order to retain a productive workforce. Course provides students with a broad understanding of compensation systems, and how organizations use them to attract, retain and motivate employees. Topics covered include: : job analysis and evaluation, pay structures, salary survey, individual compensation, incentive systems, and benefits, legal constraints, performance appraisal, setting and administrating pay st
TTE 6110	Taxation Concepts and Individual Taxation	3 Semester	8(W)	$885.00	$0.00	$885.00
Course Description: Analysis of fundamental concepts of income taxation pertaining to individuals, partnerships, corporations, estates and trusts, exemptions, and deductions. This course offers the latest techniques and methods for understanding and computing the tax, return filing, filing status, exemptions, personal deductions, community property, business related expenses and alternative minimum tax.
Notes: Prerequisites: ACC 1202 ACC 2302 or equivalent
TTE 6120	Partnership Taxation	3 Semester	8(W)