Master of Arts in Business Administration (MBA) - College of Business and Organizational Leadership
Program Objective
Our student-centered application-based learning environment will help you gain the business tools and skills necessary to succeed in your professional business career. We examine contemporary, real world, business problems as part of a partnership with the Wall Street Journal and apply foundational business knowledge when exploring business solutions. We balance that up-to-the-minute context with an exclusive academic partnership with world renowned futurist Joel Barker and the Institute for Strategic Exploration. Our unique Management Application Portfolio (MAP) will provide you with a personalized business text that will be references throughout your career. It's a powerful combination.
Course Descriptions
MBA 500 Organizational Leadership and Development - 3 credits
This course introduces leadership in dynamic, changing organizations where customers change, technologies shift, and work processes evolve. In this course students will examine how leaders develop themselves and others and create alignment as an organization changes to meet the needs of the future.
MBA 505 Global Economics - 3 credits
The course will apply economic theory to develop a framework to analyze and predict trade, exchange rate, environmental, health, labor and other policies. Strategies will encompass the interaction of American and global economic institutions and policy making entities such as the United States Trade Representative, Congress, Federal Reserve, WTO, and the European Union.
MBA 510 Managerial Research Methods and Design - 3 credits
This course examines the various research methodologies used in organizational settings. It provides an overview of quantitative and qualitative methodologies including research design, data collection and analysis, interviewing, case studies, and action science. The philosophy, ethics, and politics of management research are introduced. Students will critique published research, write a literature review, and design research studies.
MBA 515 Applied Business Ethics - 3 credits
This course will review and analyze popular models of ethical decision making. Readings, case studies, and special presenters will provide opportunities to investigate current ethical issues facing leaders and managers in business and organizational settings as well as critically apply various ethical theories and decision-making frameworks. Literature relative to Christian vocation, applied ethics, and value-centered leadership will be explored. Student papers and presentations will demonstrate the integration of a personal and vocational ethic.
MBA 520 Integrated Marketing Communication - 3 credits
This course will develop marketing strategy and executing diverse communication tactics critical to all enterprises. Consistency in both processes and messages is important. Students will analyze business scenarios and determine strategic objectives, target markets and messages, as well as demonstrate to use and how to apply multiple marketing tactics.
MBA 525 Strategic Human Resource Management - 3 credits
This course looks at human resources management from an operating manager's perspective and focuses on the key role strategic human resource management plays in the development and execution of organizational strategy. Emphasis will be placed on the cultural, behavioral, and the legal issues faced by companies as they attempt to compete in an increasingly expanding global economy. Students will work collaboratively to analyze and compare the complexities and challenges of doing business abroad as well as in the United States and discuss approaches, plans, and programs to address those issues strategically.
MBA 530 Managerial Finance and Accounting - 3 credits
This course will examine the framework and systems of current accounting and finance principles including preparation of financial statements, accounting cycles and balance sheet classifications. Students will apply these principles along with ethical responsibility and critical thinking skills to management practices of business decision making and strategic planning.
MBA 535 Legal Environment for Managers - 3 credits
This course integrates the treatment of law and management. It helps managers and leaders spot legal issues before they become legal problems and emphasizes developing the legal astuteness to craft solutions that attain core organizational objectives without incurring undue legal risk. Traditional legal concepts are discussed as well as current topics in developing areas of the law. An emphasis on ethical concerns stimulates understanding of how managers must incorporate considerations of ethics and social responsibility into their managerial actions.
OLC 605 Operations and Technology Management - 3 credits
This course will examine value-chain functions such as product-process design, quality management, supply chain management and workforce management in order to understand the resource-based view of strategic advantage for the organization. Students will examine strategic management of operations utilizing to support the value-chain functions of operations management.
OLC 610 Managerial Decision Analysis - 3 credits
This course will focus on how managers think clearly and make effective decisions. Students will examine and apply several models of decision-making. Innovative, critical, emotional and futuristic thinking will all be explored by the students in this course.
OLC 615 Topics in Organizational Management - 3 credits
This course will provide an overview of contemporary topics related to organization effectiveness. Students will be required to leverage application, theory and research as they develop skills in talent management, organization learning, and strategy formation and implementation. Students will obtain skills in identifying and developing high potential talent for the purpose of competitive advantage.
OLC 620 Strategic Leadership - 3 credits
The strategy process represents an essential opportunity for organizational leaders to establish, implement, and guide the organization's direction. This course introduces students to the principal theorists and practices of contemporary strategic thinking. Students will focus on strategic analysis of case materials and the strategic practices of students' organizations.
MBA 700 Managerial Application Portfolio - 3 credits
MAP is a process in which students summarize, synthesize, and demonstrate knowledge, skills, and competencies as organizational managers and leaders. Students will draw from their MBA course work, career experiences, and synthesizing activities to build a portfolio. Course activities include critical thinking papers, action research, case analysis, and self-appraisal.
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