Online MBA
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Online MBA Classes
The University of Saint Mary Master of Business Administration requires a total of 36 credit hours of graduate-level courses, including 9 required core courses and 3 elective courses. Courses are taught in eight-week sessions. Students must hold a bachelor‘s degree from a regionally accredited institution, and have an undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.75 on a 4.0 scale to be admitted and begin taking online MBA classes.
Core Courses
MGT 701 Organizational Management (3 credits) This class explores the role of the manager in organizational settings. It also covers concepts that help students respond to the forces affecting the behavior of individuals in the work place. Through case studies, students examine motivation, self-concept, interpersonal dynamics, conflict and resolution, group dynamics, leadership, and change.
MGT 704 Marketing Management (3 credits) Learn to apply marketing concepts for identifying, developing, and meeting customer needs. Understand how marketing relates to other corporate functions, such as production, finance, and human resources.
MGT 708 Human Resource Management (3 credits) This class focuses on key Human Resources issues managers are likely to face—staffing, compensation, performance management, and employee voice. The course emphasizes the influence of business strategy, global competition, technological change, unionization, workforce characteristics, and government regulation on HR decisions.
MGT 709 Managerial Economics (3 credits) Students examine microeconomic principles that influence how consumers and businesses decide what to purchase and what to produce. The class covers how supply and demand in goods, labor and capital markets determines prices. Macroeconomic environments and the fiscal, monetary, and international trade policies of government are studied as well.
MGT 711 Managerial Accounting (3 credits) Students learn the relevance of accounting information in marketing, production, systems design, engineering, management, and other non-accounting activities. The class includes an overview of managerial accounting, cost methods and systems used, concepts and methods for managerial decision-making, managerial planning, control, and internal performance evaluation. Special topics—fraud, ethical issues, and more—are included.
MGT 712 Managerial Finance (3 credits) This class focuses on the importance of finance to the organization and the role of the manager in finance. Topics include the financial environment, goals of the firm, working capital management, the time value of money, valuation of securities, and capital budgeting. Prerequisite: MGT 711 Managerial Accounting
MGT 713 Operations Management (3 credits) Explore the decisions required to effectively manage production and operations. Examine the planning, coordination, and other activities required to create and distribute goods and services. This course develops and explores the concept of trade off analysis, linking it to manufacturing, operations, and corporate strategy.
MGT 714 Global Management (3 credits) Study the cultural, social, political, legal, ethi¬cal, and economic issues that affect global business and how they influence business structure, organization, and management processes. Through case studies, students develop diagnostic tools for exercising leadership and management. Prerequisites: MGT 704 Marketing Management, MGT 708 Human Resource Management, MGT 709 Managerial Economics, MGT 712 Managerial Finance.
MGT 795 Business, Policy, and Ethics (3 credits, 16-weeks) This course is an integrated examination of business management focusing on the application, analysis, and synthesis of business and management problems and issues at the executive level. Students will develop a perspective of the organization as a whole and explore the means by which overall direction and strategy is established and implemented. Emphasis is on the responsibilities, skills, and perspectives required of executives. The course also examines ethical and corporate social responsibility issues and the trade-offs that must be assessed and made to achieve strategic objectives. Most students will submit the required final assessment during this course. This course is the capstone course of the MBA program and is recommended to be taken at the end of your program.
MBA Concentrations
Specialize your University of Saint Mary online MBA with one of the program’s five areas of concentration: Finance Management, General Management, Health Care Management, Human Resource Management, Marketing and Advertising Management. Here’s a look at each concentration’s online MBA classes:
Finance:
MGT 760 Advanced Financial Topics Students will focus on major financial issues facing managers in an increasingly savvy marketplace. The course combines discussion, extensive reading and lecture with several projects suited to demonstrate mastery of the topics included in the course. Prerequisites: MGT 712 Managerial Finance, MGT 768 Financial and Capital Issues.
MGT 768 Financial and Capital Issues This class Integrates capital structure and corporate financial decisions with corporate strategy. Topics to be discussed include financial markets and instruments, valuing financial assets, valuing real assets, capital structure, incentives, information and corporate control and risk management. Within these broad topics, students will examine the allocation of capital for real investment, financing the firm, knowing whether and how to hedge risk, and allocating funds for financial investments. Prerequisite: MGT 712 Managerial Finance.
MGT 769 Financial Decisions This course focuses on the application of graduate level financial concepts through case studies to solve financial problems. The course will emphasize additional funds needed, future growth, appropriate capital structure, cash flow issues and others. Prerequisite: MGT 768 Financial and Capital Issues.
General Management (you may also choose courses from other concentrations):
MGT 731 Management Information Systems Students will learn to assess an organization’s information processing systems in the organization, with a focus on methods of integrating systems into daily operations for analyzing and representing data in forms useful for decision-making.
MGT 751 Project Management Project management, the process and skill required to manage complex, non-routine, one-time undertakings, is essential to fuel the process of change in an organization and meet strategic goals while continuing to serve clients. Important topics will include the process of selecting projects that best support organizational goals, and the technical and managerial processes to complete those goals. Students will study work structuring, budgeting, resource allocation and performance measurement and control. The course will also explore the organizational and behavioral issues involved in managing projects.
MGT 750 Leadership This course focuses on how leaders create the vision to change firm structures, motivate people, improve performance, and position the company for the challenges of the future. Students will learn to identify both good and poor leadership characteristics with an emphasis on cases, examples , and students’ experience. Participants will be challenged to envision themselves as leaders and to identify traits necessary to improve their skills. Leadership will be analyzed and reflected through problems, observation, readings, case analysis, and examples from culture.
Health Care Management:
HCMGT 717 Business Skills for Health Care Managers Students will examine key concepts of management including organizing, planning, directing human resources, and controlling systems to obtain desired results. Topics include budgeting, human resources administration, the use of technology in management, the role of strategic management in leading organizational growth and development.
HCMGT 718 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care The course introduces the major ethical theories and principles students need to evaluate current legal and ethical issues in the field of health care. Students explore issues such as patient rights, withdrawing life support, promoting client autonomy, business ethics and the legal responsibilities of health care organizations. Students evaluate varied perspectives and develop a reasoned analysis of current topics.
HCMGT 719 Topics in Health Care Management This course examines the professional, socio-cultural, economic, and political forces exerting pressure on the current health care system. Students study current issues in health care such as growing demand, the increased use of technology, the changing role of government, and the shortage of trained professionals in many health care fields.
Human Resource Management:
MGT 724 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business The course focuses on issues of concern in light of the law, administration of the law, and ethics, such as grievance and confidentiality, environmental regulation, internal financial controls, and human rights,. Students will study these issues in conjunction with managerial decision-making requirements. Application of theory is through case analysis.
MGT 753 Conflict Management and Negotiation This course is designed to explore the way that power is used in conflict situations. Students will examine ways to make conflict a creative rather than a negative experience and will practice methods of conflict resolution through role playing, case analysis and resolution, and assignments. This experience will give the students insights into human behavior and gain experience and confidence in negotiation, managing workplace conflict, leading group decision making and facilitating processes with teams and individuals. Conflict will be discussed, dissected, and analyzed in the one-one-one and group contexts.
MGT 774 Organizational Change and Development This course examines methods to improve organizational effectiveness. Students will study organizational change, including the concept of planning change; the basic roles and styles of the OD practitioner; and resistance to organizational change and how to overcome it.
Marketing and Advertising Management:
MGT 747 The Advertising Industry in the 21st Century This course will address the complex management challenges in advertising today, including the new client service model, working with contract services, campaign planning, modern media and media planning, how to develop a “creative brief,” working with creative staff, and basic advertising production techniques. Prerequisite MGT 704 Marketing Management.
MGT 748 Buyer Behavior and Marketing Research Understanding why and how a consumer decides to purchase a certain product, and what effect advertising has on the decision, is a key part of the marketing and advertising process. Students will gain insight into this process through the systematic collection of data through targeted marketing research on the consumer and his or her preferences. This course will explore both sides of the equation: what makes a consumer buy and how do we determine his or her buying style, likes and dislikes, and brand preference. Prerequisites: MGT 704 Marketing Management, MGT 747 The Advertising Industry in the 21st Century.
MGT 749 Advanced Marketing Strategy and Planning The advertising plan is usually a critical part of the overall marketing plan for products. Proper utilization of the 4 Ps of the marketing mix in the formulation of strategy will determine the future effectiveness of a campaign. This course will teach students how integrated marketing communication, through targeted strategic planning, will help insure success of all of the key elements of an advertising campaign. This course will also cover the use of social media. Prerequisites: MGT 704 Marketing Management, MGT 747 The Advertising Industry in the 21st Century, MGT 748 Buyer Behavior and Marketing Research.
Program Prerequisites
Students who do not have an academic business background may be required to take up to three on-line prerequisite courses:
Financial Accounting Primer (must be taken before MGT 711)
Finance Primer (must be taken before MGT 712)
Managerial Economics Primer (must be taken before MGT 709)
Learn more about the curriculum of the University of Saint Mary online MBA program: request more information or call us at 877-307-4915 to speak to an admissions advisor.