Curriculum Requirements

• BUS 601 MBA Math Module

  0 - 3

  This course provides the student with the necessary mathematical skills to progress toward an MBA degree. The course begins with a review of algebra and continues with the fundamentals of differential and integral calculus. The focus is on applying these concepts in solving business problems.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer
  

• MGT 651 Behavioral and Organizational Systems

  3

  Exploration of relevant concepts, research findings, and pragmatic implications of the behavioral sciences for the management of complex socio-technical systems.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
  

• MGT 681 Essentials of Health Care Management and Policy

  3

  This course develops an understanding of the basic elements of the health Servi ces industry in the United States. A systems approach will be used utilizing a historical perspective as a basis and moving on to current and potential futur e system dynamics. The various components of the health care system will be ex amined, including physician services, hospital and hospital systems, long-term care providers, mental health services, and pharmaceutical services. Various e lements associated with the financing of health services will be examined as we ll as indemnity insurance, capitation, and the role of managed care and consume r driven health care in theory and practice. The role of government and its im pact on our health care system will be explored as well.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Offered By Announcement Only
  

• ACC 602 Analysis of Financial Statements

  1 - 3

  Course emphasizes the fundamental techniques of financial statement analysis. Building upon core accounting and investment concepts, the course covers the analysis (including ratio analysis) and interpretation of financial accounting information including the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows. The course also examines the use of accounting information in investment and credit decisions.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
  

• MGT 684 Analysis of Health Care Delivery and Policy

  3

  This course examines theoretical and operational incentive structures which gui de health care consumers, providers and health care organization toward decisio ns both efficient and inefficient.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Summer
  

• MAS 610 Statistical Analysis for Managerial Decision Making

  3

  Data analysis, probability concepts, distributions, sampling, estimation,hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression and correlation analysis.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer
  

• MKT 660 Foundations of Marketing Management

  3

  Marketing problems experienced by top executives are examined and fundamental problem-solving concepts are developed. Students consider problems of consumer needs, product planning, promotion, distribution and pricing. The discovery and application of marketing management skills are developed through the use of cases and a major planning project.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
  

• MAS 641 Operations Research Models in Management

  3

  The application of Operations Research techniques in Management. Topics include linear programming, PERT/CPM, queuing theory, forecasting, inventory models, statistical quality control, decision theory, and Simulation.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer
  

• HSM 687 Health Care Organization, Economics & Ethics

  3

  The course will allow understanding and analysis of issues associated with scarce resource allocation and the evolutionary movement from patient focused to population focused to patient centered care including Accountable Care Organizations and the concept of value vs. volume. Students will understand and analyze the organizational structure, behavior, interactions between structure and behavior, and the resultant performance of the various sectors of the health care industry, including models of hospital management behavior, operations of alternative services markets, physicians as small businesses, group practices and employees, the market for physician services, the market for nurses, the issue of risk and risk sharing, and the impact of government on organization, behavior and performance in the market place. Principles of medical ethics will be learned and understood and application, analysis and creative resolution of ethical dilemmas will be undertaken. The relationships between organization, incentives, and ethical performance will be analyzed using modern issues and cases that health care managers, policy makers and providers face in the industry today. The interrelationships between managerial and system goals, economic parameters, and moral and ethical considerations will be applied and analyzed as well.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall
  

• FIN 602 Fundamentals of Finance

  3

  This is a core MBA course in our executive MBA program, devoted primarily to the area of finance. No prior background in finances is assumed. The course objective is to provide students with a conceptual framework for appreciating and understanding the problems facing the financial manager.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, & Summer
  

• MGT 653 Operations Management

  3

  Introduction to major managerial problems and decision processes of operations management. Topics include the design of operations, planning, scheduling, quality control, systems analysis and evaluation, resource allocation, materials requirement planning, and integration of operations management with the other functional areas.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
  

• MGT 602 Human Resource Management

  3

  Modern personnel administration: job analysis and design, evaluation and appraisal, recruitment and interviewing, training and development, wages and benefits, and health and safety. Unionization, regulation of wages, hours and working conditions, financial security for workers, job anti-discrimination legislation, and manpower planning is also discussed.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
  

• BUS 655 Public Policy and Health

  3

  Development of public policy at the federal, state and local level. Policy process, models of policy analysis, policy development in several government service areas, and plans for policy change. Special emphasis on health policy formulation, implementation and the use of epidemiological tools in health policy analysis.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Summer
  

• ACC 660 Managerial Accounting in Healthcare Organizational

  3

  This course covers Managerial Accounting concepts applied to healthcare organizations. Topics include cost allocation and management control systems.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Offered By Announcement Only
  

• BTE 621 Management Information Systems

  3

  Course is designed to give prospective managers a foundation in MIS sufficient to understand and effectively use information systems. Topics include types of information systems, role of MIS in organizations, CIO issues, ERP systems, and electronic commerce.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Offered By Announcement Only
  

• MGT 658 Strategic Management

  3

  The formulation and implementation of strategy, from a domestic and international perspective, is explored through cases, readings, and decision simulation. An integration of all the core areas of business is emphasized. This core course is required of all MBA students.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
  

• BSL 685 Legal Aspects of Health Administration

  2 - 3

  Derivation of rule of law governing health providers, vicarious liability of administrative and medical personnel, informed consent, and other related problems are discussed.

  Components: LEC
  Grading: GRD
  Typically Offered: Fall