Elective Courses

Electives let you explore topics relevant to your needs and interests. You can choose to take courses from a variety of areas to get a general overview. If you choose to focus in a specific area or two, you do not need to officially designate an emphasis/concentration.
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Elective Courses

MBA 742   Introduction to Financial Fraud

Fraudulent financial reporting and misappropriation of assets are major problems for businesses of all sizes. Knowledge about how fraud is committed and how to spot the potential for fraud are valuable for managers at all levels. View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Finance, Ethics, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 746   Mutual Fund Investing

Students will learn criteria for selecting mutual funds, how to develop investment portfolios composed of multiple mutual funds consisten with demographic characteristics of the investor, and how to assess mutual fund and portfolio performance. View course description.

1 Credit  •  Duration: 3 Weeks
Subject Area: Finance
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Winterim 2024, Summer 2024

MBA 747   Financial Statement Analysis

Analysis and interpretation of financial statements. Skills taught include: how to interpret financial statements, analyze cash flows, evaluate earnings quality, uncover hidden assets and liabilities, and forecasting financial statements. View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Accounting, Finance, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Fall 2023

MBA 749   Incorporation of Exchange Rates in Strategic Decision-Making

Students will acquire competency with the terminology, strategies, and practices needed to interact with confidence in business settings that require working within the global currency market. View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Economics, International Business

MBA 753   Corporate Venturing

This course examines how organizations effectively create new businesses and foster innovation. It focuses on the process through which organizations turn a good idea into a viable business. Students will learn how to encourage entrepreneurship, identify opportunities, locate potential new business within the firm, select the right managers, and set up planning processes. View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Entrepreneurship, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 754   Fundamental Methods of Forecasting

The ability to forecast data which becomes available at regular intervals is very important in the business environment. With the power of modern computers it is possible to carry out effective short term (one or two periods ahead) forecasts using methods studied in the context of a short course. The course will be very heavily weighted toward applied work rather than the mathematical theory… View course description.

1 Credit  •  Duration: 3 Weeks
Subject Areas: Accounting, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Winterim 2024, Summer 2024

MBA 755   Consumer Behavior

This class will help you to understand how and why consumers behave as they do. We will delve into our own attitudes, motivations and purchase behavior to derive insight. We will learn about the pervasive consumer behavior theories developed primarily in marketing and psychology. Using these theories, we will attempt to predict how consumers (both in B2C and in B2B settings) will respond to a… View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Marketing, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 757   Managing Workplace Stress

Workplace stress costs organizations millions of dollars annually in lost productivity and turnover.  In this course, we will examine the major theories of stress, causes of stress, and consequences of stress.  We will take a hands-on approach to developing action plans to address stress in your workplace. View course description.

1 Credit  •  Duration: 3 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Winterim 2024, Summer 2024

MBA 758   Strategies and Tactics of Pricing

This course presents a framework for evaluating pricing decisions. Pricing is examined from the perspective of customers, competitors and costs; in a variety of contexts, including business-to-business markets, consumer goods markets, services, and not-for profit companies. View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Marketing, Non-Profit
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 759   Selling Ideas at Work

This course provides students with an understanding of how business people make decisions. It teaches students to utilize developed skills to sell ideas at work to both individuals and to groups. View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Marketing, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024

MBA 760   Employee Training and Development

This course focuses on: (1) Human resource development's role in maintaining an organization's competitive position, (2) Identification of training needs, (3) Transferring training to the workplace, (4) Training assessment. View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Human Resources, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 761   Project Management

The course examines project identification, selection, and planning. It will be organized along two major phases of the project management process: 1) Project Selection and Definition; and 2) Project Planning. View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Project Management, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 762   Organizational Leadership and Change

This course examines how change can be accomplished within organizations–who is responsible for change and how people can be helped to change. View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Leadership, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 763   Business and Ethics

Does a company have any obligation to help solve social problems? What about a manufacturer's obligation to the consumer with respect to product defects and safety? This course examines economic activity in an ethical framework. View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Ethics, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Spring 2024

MBA 764   Work-Family Issues in Contemporary Times

This course will critically examine and analyze issues of work and family life from both employee and employer perspectives. View course description.

1 Credit  •  Duration: 3 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Human Resources, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Winterim 2024, Summer 2024

MBA 766   Contract Law for Managers

This course emphasizes using the law in ethical managerial decision making.  It examines contract law, sales law, and law in e-commerce. View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Ethics, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Spring 2024

MBA 770   E-Business Fundamentals for Managers

This course provides an overview of the fast-growing Internet-based economy and asks, from a management point of view, How may e-business contribute to the operational, tactical and strategic goals of an organization? View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Entrepreneurship
Upcoming Class Offerings: Fall 2023

MBA 771   Introduction to Enterprise Resource Planning

This course describes the principal functions of ERP software and emphasizes the business impacts of such. View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Area: Information Technology

MBA 773   Communicating for Success: Writing for Results

The purpose of this course is to enhance students' workplace communication skills. Students and their organizations will benefit as students apply practical strategies to writing effective routine, negative-news, and persuasive messages and creating PowerPoints for any audience. Using their current organizations (or organization of their choice) as a reference, students will engage… View course description.

1 Credit  •  Duration: 3 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Communication, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Winterim 2024, Summer 2024

MBA 774   Sustainability and Organizational Management

This course is designed to introduce students to the interrelationship between business and the natural environment; specifically, it examines the impact of the environment on business and the consequences of daily and long-term business decisions on the environment.  View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Sustainability, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023

MBA 778   Managing Technology in Turbulent Times

The intent of this course it to show the synergy that exists between the introduction of technologies into an organization and the shift in management strategy and decision making that is essential to receive full value from the technology investment. View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Information Technology, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 780   Leading the Healthcare Workforce

This course explores challenges and opportunities that leaders in healthcare face. Students will learn how to maximize human resources and other organizational resources to improve organizational efficiencies and the quality of healthcare. Topics include motivation, EDIB (equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging), managing change, and other concepts related to leadership. View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Health Care Administration, Human Resources, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Fall 2023

MBA 781   Fundamentals of Health Information Technology Management

This course provides an introduction to the dynamic world of management of information technology in health care. A description of information processing, the content and evolution of healthcare information systems and the current and future methodologies being employed to acquire and manage information are discussed. View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Health Care Administration, Information Technology, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2024

MBA 782   Health Care Finance and Economics

Health Economics focuses on several issues related to health and the health care sector, including topics such as government intervention in health and health care, the impetus, design, and organization of health insurance markets, and the related impacts of both on health care reform, health outcomes, and decision making in the health arena. Because the U.S. does not have unlimited resources to… View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Health Care Administration, Finance, Economics, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 783   Informing Healthcare Decisions with Data Analytics

In this course students discover ways to gather, analyze, interpret, communicate, and use data for organizational decision making. Students learn concepts regarding data analytics, methodologies for gathering data, and strategies for managing data for analysis and use. Students will also discuss ways to communicate data clearly and accurately for the variety of internal and external audiences in… View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Area: Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Spring 2024

MBA 784   Supply Chain Management

This course covers terminologies, concepts, and tools involved in managing supply chain operations, emphasizing qualitative and quantitative tools used in managerial decision making. Topics include Supply Chain Strategy, Supplier Management, Inventory Management, Distribution, and Logistics. View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Supply Chain, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 786   Addressing Contemporary Issues and Trends in Healthcare

Students will examine current topics in healthcare in the United States. Topics may include, but are not limited to, healthcare costs; impacts of technology such as electronic records management, telehealth, and artificial intelligence; insurance and reimbursement; staffing; government and other regulatory requirements; equity and access to care; and burnout and stress management. Students will… View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Area: Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2024

MBA 787   Quantitative Business Analysis

This course focuses on applied quantitative business analysis and uses Microsoft Excel. The course covers problem solving concepts and techniques, plus effective presentation of analysis results. Critical thinking and analytical problem solving will be stressed throughout the course. Exercises for the course reflect a variety of business disciplines.While students will learn to use Excel, this is… View course description.

1.5 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Summer 2024

MBA 789   Health Care Organization and Delivery

This course provides a foundational understanding of our complex health system, from basic organization and management of the system to an exploration of the relationships between cost, quality, and access in the context of system improvement and health care reform.    We will take a policy perspective as we explore influential factors on health care resource challenges such as… View course description.

2 Credits  •  Duration: 7 Weeks
Subject Areas: Health Care Administration, Concentration: Healthcare Management
Upcoming Class Offerings: Summer 2023, Spring 2024

MBA 791   Intro to the Management and Marketing of Non-Profits

This course will provide a substantive introduction to the key principles and practical challenges in the law, management, and marketing of non-profit organizations (NPSs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). View course description.

1 Credit  •  Duration: 3 Weeks
Subject Areas: Management, Marketing, Non-Profit
Upcoming Class Offerings: Winterim 2024