BA501 Marketing Theory and Buyer Behavior
A study of marketing topics such as strategic market planning, time-based competition, customer satisfaction, innovation, creativity, and research are studied. Emphasis is on competitive marketing, and contemporary buying behavior. (3 credits, 7 weeks)

BA502 Business Statistics
A course including descriptive statistics, sampling procedures, hypotheses testing, statistical quality control charting, confidence limits, analysis of variance, chi-square tests, and simple and multiple regressions. These concepts are related to business decisions and form the basis for data analysis and model building encountered in other MBA courses. (3 credits, 6 weeks)

BA503 Advanced Financial Management
Financial planning and control for the financial and non-financial executive including decisions of investment, growth, and expansion strategies, dividend policy and capital structure. Analysis of principles leads to decisions about current assets, capital assets, debt, and equity. Emphasis is on decision-making based on quantitative analysis. (3 credits, 6 weeks)

BA504 Social Forces in Business
A study of the ethical, moral, and legal responsibilities of the manager in the business world. National, state, and local laws and customs will be stressed as they relate to the business enterprise and the rights of workers. (3 credits, 6 weeks)

BA505 Managerial Economics
The integration of principles and ideas from various fields of economics for management decision-making and policy formation within the firm. Included are demand and cost analysis, pricing policies, budgeting, and topics of economic analysis. (3 credits, 6 weeks)

BA506 Advanced Managerial Accounting
An emphasis of various cost concepts, cost behavior, cost accounting systems, and budgeting. The effects of costs and how they are reported in management control systems are studied as well as the interpretation and use of cost data in decision-making. (3 credits, 6 weeks)

BA507 Operations Management
A study of concepts relating to the operations function in both manufacturing and service organizations as they relate to planning, organizing, and controlling resources. Included is a study of efficient and effective production of goods and provision of services in order to meet the goals of the organization. Case analysis will be employed to relate theory to practice. (3 credits, 7 weeks)

BA508 Organizational Development
An application of organizational theory to managerial problems. Topics covered include learning, perception, job attitude, work motivation, leadership, decision-making, and group dynamics. The course seeks to enhance student knowledge concerning the behavior of students and groups in an organization. (3 credits, 6 weeks)

BA512 Legal Options in Business
A study of law governing commercial transactions, relationships of parties-of-interest and organizations involved. Emphasis is on applications and options in decision-making. (3 credits, 6 weeks)

BA513 International Management
A study of international business, integrating theory, policy, and application in a global setting. Topics include theories of international trade, types of investment, exchange rates, international finance, government intervention in trade and investment, and the role of global institutions in promoting world trade and trade blocs. (3 credits, 6 weeks)

BA515 Strategic Planning and Analysis
A capstone course in business policy that stresses a synthesis of the functional business fields. The course develops student ability to see the organization as a whole and to understand how and why the functions of a business are interdependent and must be carefully managed for the organization to perform well. Students are encouraged to relate the operation of their own firms to the course content. (3 credits, 6 weeks)

BA516 Executive Leadership
A graduate course in "leadership." It is not presumed that the student will emerge from the course as a "leader." Rather, the student will be immersed in studies of leadership and various models of leadership. These studies and models may enable the student to assess, understand, and improve his or her own approach to leading, as well as to select and evaluate leaders. (3 credits, 7 weeks)