Required Core Courses for MBA Program

The core courses are introductory classes. They present a broad overview of material that is significant or unique to the particular discipline as it applies to business and to the MBA curriculum. Collectively, the core provides a foundation on which the more advanced courses and area of focus will build.

• ACTG 500, Introduction to Financial Accounting
  Concepts and principles of financial accounting for preparation and evaluation of external reports and financial statements.


• ECON 520, Microeconomics for Business Decisions
  Efficient allocation of resources by consumers, profit and non-profit firms and government, regulation of industry, monopoly and imperfect competition, business ethics and the marketplace, efficiency versus equity and social welfare.


• FIN 500, Introduction to Corporate Finance
  Theory of corporate finance: goal of the firm, time value of money, investment decisions (under certainty and uncertainty), net present value, capital markets and corporate financing decisions.


• IDS 532, Introduction to Operations Management
  The management of operations for the production and delivery of goods and services. Topics include project management, production, supply chain, inventory and quality.


• MGMT 541, Organizational Behavior
  Study of the organization as a social system. Topics include leadership, interpersonal effectiveness, group behavior, management change, conflict management, motivation and behavior and interpersonal communications.


• MKTG 500, Introduction to Marketing
  Client/consumer behavior and the way institutions respond to such behavior through planning, promotion and distribution of goods and services.