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MGT 5002 CORPORATE FINANCE (3 credits).
Covers concepts and tools of corporate financial
management including corporate financial
planning, forecasting, budgeting, quantitative
techniques and practices. Considers the importance
of ethics and the international aspects in financial
decision-making. Prerequisites: MGT 5000.
MGT 5003 PUBLIC FINANCE (3 credits). Covers
concepts and methods of financial management
in federal, state and local governments including
the analysis of the theory and practice of public
finance through taxation, debt instruments, intergovernmental
funds and other revenue sources.
Reviews financial planning, forecasting, budgeting
and financial management practices. Prerequisites:
MGT 5000.
MGT 5006 INTRODUCTORY MANAGERIAL
STATISTICS (3 credits). Studies methods of collecting,
analyzing and interpreting data for managerial
decision making. Includes data presentation,
measures of central tendency, dispersion and skewness;
discrete and continuous probability distributions;
sampling methods and sampling distributions;
and confidence interval estimation of parameters
and tests of hypotheses.
MGT 5007 INTERMEDIATE MANAGERIAL
STATISTICS (3 credits). Applies statistical theory
to managerial problems, particularly methods of statistical
inference for management decision-making.
Includes F- and Chi-square distributions, nonparametric
tests, analysis of variance, regression and
correlation analysis. Prerequisites: MGT 5006.
MGT 5008 FINANCE SEMINAR (3 credits).
Discusses advanced topics in finance including
current activity, and financial tools and strategy.
Blends financial theory with current practices in
finance. Prerequisites: MGT 5002.
MGT 5010 SEMINAR IN RESEARCH METH-
ODOLOGY (3 credits). Reviews research methods
in managerial disciplines. Includes nature and
sources of secondary data, primary data collection
techniques, design of research projects, sample
selection, model building, etc. Requires a research
proposal and presentation of a fully documented
research report on the results of the study.
MGT 5011 MANAGEMENT THEORY AND
THOUGHT (3 credits). Overviews classical and
contemporary management philosophies and theories.
Focuses on managing enterprises in a rapidly
changing global economy. Includes developing
strategic vision, planning, organizing, directing
and controlling, social responsibility and international
management.
MGT 5013 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (3
credits). Covers the contributions to management
theory made by the behavioral sciences. Gives a better
understanding of the human being and why
he acts as he does. Studies individual and group
behavior. Extensively uses current periodicals and
case materials.
MGT 5014 INFORMATION SYSTEMS (3 credits).
Studies information systems design associated
with business organizations. Includes development
life cycles, requirements analysis, systems design
and performance considerations. Views information
systems as strategic tools to provide competitive
advantage.
MGT 5015 ORGANIZATIONAL PLANNING
AND DEVELOPMENT (3 credits). Studies the
concepts, theory, research and operational problems
of modern organizations. Includes classical
and modern organizational theory, emphasizing
the latter. Covers recent research findings and the
theory of human relations in industry. Involves
students in case studies.
MGT 5016 EMPLOYEE RELATIONS (3 credits).
Analyzes, synthesizes and evaluates the major
federal and state laws that impinge on the modern
work environment. Draws on new insights in
the human resources management discipline to
abstract, summarize and evaluate the impact of legislation
and laws regulating the employee/employer
relationship.
MGT 5017 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (3
credits). Addresses responsibility and authority of
a program manager and the integration of program
functions in complex organizational structures.
Discusses interpersonal relationships within matrix
organizations, as well as program conflict resolution
and organizational priorities.
MGT 5018 POLICY AND STRATEGY FOR BUSI-
NESS (3 credits). Covers formulation and implementation
of competitive strategies and the role of
top management, using case analyses to expose the
multifunctional nature of decision-making. As program
capstone, requires significant research activity
or project to demonstrate mastery. Recommended
for the graduating semester. Prerequisites: MGT
5002, MGT 5019.
MGT 5019 MARKETING (3 credits). Approaches
the marketing function from the point of view of the
marketing manager. Examines the role of marketing
in the firm, the economy and society. Introduces
marketing concepts and operational approaches
for marketing decision-making. Employs the case
method to apply theory to the development of a
marketing mix.
MGT 5020 APPLIED MANAGEMENT PROJ-
ECT (3 credits). Covers concepts, tools and techniques
for evaluation of research proposals and
studies. Involves designing, conducting, evaluating
and presenting oral and written forms of research.
As program capstone, requires significant research
activity or project to demonstrate mastery. Recommended
for the graduating semester.
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