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Semester 1
CIS 520: Information Management - This course focuses on the management of information technology assets within an organization. The role of the manager in assessing, implementing, and controlling information technology and the handling of information is emphasized. Three semester hours.
BADM 541: Business Ethics from a Christian Perspective - This course examines the moral, ethical, social, and spiritual aspects of the practice of business. Students will explore the relationship between Christianity and commerce and the role of character in leadership and ethical decision making. Three semester hours.
ACCT 530: Seminar in Managerial Accounting - Accounting and Financial Reporting - This course is intended to cover the organizational development of financial and nonfinancial budgets, interaction among performance measurement systems and human behavior, and advanced topics in uses of information for decision making. Three semester hours.
Semester 2
ECON 514: Managerial Finance - This course explores the role of the corporate finance function within an organization. The course begins with fundamental concepts and progresses to more specific decision rules designed to maximize the value of a firm. Topics include: capital markets, free cash flows, capital budgeting, cost flow estimation, risk and return, pricing models, valuation, cost of capital and capital structure. Three semester hours.
BADM 530: Management and Leadership - This course examines current issues in leadership and appropriate strategies for implementing planned change. The course integrates materials from both micro and macro approaches to leadership and looks at the differences between managers and leaders, the leader-member exchange process, the leader’s role in setting the strategic direction of an organization, and the ethical, moral and professional issues of leadership with emphasis on developing a biblical foundation of leadership. Three semester hours.
BADM 524: Analytical Decision Making - This course focuses on the analysis of information gathered both internally and addressed include both the statistical analysis used in the decision-making processes at the managerial level as well as the constrained optimization techniques required in managerial economics. Three semester hours.
Semester 3
ECON 524: Managerial Economics - This course addresses microeconomic issues affecting the firm. The course emphasizes the application of constrained optimization techniques to common problems faced in the management of the typical business enterprise such as price determination, output level, and the use of alternative productive resources. Three semester hours.
BADM 535: Managing Human Resources - This course studies human resource management in depth and a strategic overview of the essential knowledge required to manage a firm’s human resources effectively including both interpersonal and quantitative skills. It explores human resources within various structures and with different job, skill, and behavioral requirements. Emphasis is given to the ethical behavior by managers as they enforce standards throughout the organization and the strategic integration of human resource functions within the context of a firm’s task environment. Three semester hours.
BADM 517: Marketing Strategy - This course examines the development of marketing strategy at the business unit level and its connection with corporate strategy. Emphasis is given to opportunity analysis, competitive evaluation, and marketing strategy design and revision. Three semester hours.
Semester 4
BADM 544: Strategic Management - This course examines policymaking and strategic management in organizations while integrating and applying the work of the core curriculum. Students will develop a mastery of a body of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools with which to analyze industries and competitors, identify and predict competitive behavior, develop and sustain competitive advantage, and make ethical strategic decisions. Students will participate in a simulation that will allow them to apply this body of knowledge while making strategic decisions for a simulated company. The deliverable for this course will be a presentation that demonstrates integration, application, and mastery of the Master of Business Administration program content. Five semester hours.
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