MBA Course List

Core Classes

BUSN 5000 MBA Orientation (0). Orientation provides students with valuable information to assist in their transition to the online M.B.A. program. Students gain an understanding of program requirements, process, and policies; who to call for assistance; technology and library use; and student services and support.

LDRS 5013 Leadership (3). This course examines theories of leadership and the practical application of leadership practices in organizations. The purpose is to optimize the student’s leadership effectiveness.

BUSN 5023 Advanced Business Analytics (3). The purpose of this course is to teach students how to make optimum decisions as a result of analyzing data. Additionally, students will be able to effectively communicate the results of the data analysis in a clear and concise manner.

BUSN 5033 Marketing Management (3). Students explore the strategies of how a company decides what to sell and how it identifies its target market(s), and the best method(s) of reaching them. An emphasis will be placed on developing a Marketing Plan for a profit or nonprofit organization.

BUSN 5013 Advanced Operations Management (3). Students examine approaches to managing the design, operation, and improvement of systems and processes, as well as the delivery of a firm’s products and services.

BUSN 5113 Accounting for Strategic Decision Making (3). Students gain enhanced knowledge, analytical tools, and interpretation skills to help leaders make better operating, investing, and financing decisions. Topics include GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) financial statement presentation and reporting, underlying accounting principles and conventions, and cost accounting language and topics, such as cost-volume-profit analysis, resource allocation, budgeting and variance analysis, and relevant costs.

BUSN 5123 Business Law (3). Students explore the legal and ethical issues of business. Since the law is the foundation to societal ethics, students study and discuss basic business law concepts such as business organizations, real property, contracts, employment, sales & warranties, personal property, risk devises, governmental regulation, and the court system. The course enables students to understand and articulate the development of ethical and moral frameworks by which operational decisions can be made and professional moral conduct enhanced. Students use a variety of ethical models and perspectives that shed light on ethical operational issues.

BUSN 5223 Managerial Economics (3). This course examines micro and macro economic forces in organizations and throughout the economy. The student gains insight into how the markets function, including an understanding of how individual managers and consumers generate the fundamentals of market supply and demand, governing the prices and quantities sold in all economic transactions.

Leadership Concentration

LDRS 6013 Leadership Communication (3). This course develops the student’s leadership abilities in a variety of business communications, including public speaking, presentation, and oral and written communication.

LDRS 6023 Leadership & Team Building (3). This course focuses on developing the skills needed to successfully create and lead teams in organizations. Skills examined and practiced in this course include team building, conflict management, decision making, and strategic thinking.

LDRS 6033 Organizational Leadership (3). Students explore organizational theories related to structure and leadership, team dynamics and communication, and change management. Topics include pluralist contexts; conflict management; power, politics, and stakeholder management; resistance to change; and the importance of dialogue and listening.

LDRS 6113 Project Design Management (3). Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is integration of process management processes in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

LDRS 6123 Capstone Project: Leadership (3). Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with a profit or nonprofit organization to develop an actionable business plan or thesis.

Management Concentration

MGMT 6013 Strategic Human Resource Management (3). Students leverage the broad content areas specific to the field of human resources (compensation/ benefits, HRIS, employee wellness and safety, employee assistance, employee relations, training and development, selection and staffing, organizational development, performance management systems, job design, career development, and human resources planning) in identifying, recruiting, developing, renewing, and retaining human assets that add maximum value to the strategic imperatives of the organization.

MGMT 6213 Advanced Corporate Finance (3). Students focus on the functions of corporate finance, which includes evaluating financial statements and ratios, asset utilization, and working capital models.

MGMT 6033 International Business (3). This course examines business from a multinational perspective concerning local, regional, and global issues affecting organizational planning and implementation, including cross-cultural differences of individuals, dynamics of international work groups, and motivation.

MGMT 6113 Project Design Management (3). Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is integration of management processes in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

MGMT 6123 Capstone Project: Management (3). Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with a profit or nonprofit organization to develop an actionable business plan or thesis.

Nonprofit Management Concentration

NPMG 6303 The Nonprofit Sector (3). This course evaluates the nonprofit sector, with particular emphasis on charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. Students explore the scope and context of the sector, historical developments, management and leadership challenges, community-building roles, ethics, legal issues, social justice, and emerging issues such as information technology. In addition, students examine board and volunteer management in terms of legal responsibilities of boards, the role of boards in nonprofits, volunteer organization and management, and the dynamics of board and staff relations.

NPMG 6306 Social Entrepreneurship (3). This course innovatively establishes the fundamental concepts, principles, and tools necessary for social entrepreneurship. Combining development, business, and missiological theory in order to respond to the needs of a community, this course moves beyond business as mission and examines criteria for starting, building, and running a project that makes an impact for Christ and is a developmental asset to the local community. Cross-Listed Course: ICST 6306.

NPMG 6323 Nonprofit Resource Development (3). Students explore principles of philanthropy and fundraising applicable to private nonprofit and governmental agencies.

NPMG 6333 Project Design Management (3). Students gain practical knowledge and apply project management processes from project inception through closeout, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing. A major focus is integration of process management processes in scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, human resources, and procurement.

NPMG 6123 Capstone Project: Nonprofit Management (3). Students are required to successfully demonstrate their ability to research, synthesize, analyze, and communicate information at a graduate level. As a final demonstration of the knowledge gained throughout the MBA program, students will collaborate with a profit or nonprofit organization to develop an actionable business plan or thesis.