MBA Assumption
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Foundation & Functional Core Course Descriptions
MBA Elective Course DescriptionsNOTE: For the current schedule, click Course Schedules.
FOUNDATION COURSE TITLES
MBA550 - Language of Business I
MBA550A - Accounting
MBA550B - Management
MBA551 - Language of Business II
MBA551A - Economics
MBA551B - Marketing
MBA552 - Tools of Business I
MBA552A - Statistics
MBA552B - Finance
MBA553 - Tools of Business II
MBA553A - Quantitative Methods
MBA553B - Simulation
FUNCTIONAL MBA CORE COURSE TITLES
MBA600 - Business Ethics
MBA601 - Human & Organization Behavior
MBA602 - Marketing Strategy Development
MBA603 - Financial Strategy Development
MBA604 - Operations Strategy Development
MBA605 - Accounting Decisions for Managers
MBA800 - Business Strategy
MBA550A - Accounting
The Accounting module will provide students with an overview of financial accounting. It will introduce accounting concepts and terminology, with a focus on the creation of financial statements. Students will learn how to analyze corporate annual reports as well as ethical issues.
Prerequisites: None
MBA550B - Management
The goal of the Management module is to familiarize the student with what we know about how organizations function and how people behave in them; and to encourage application of this knoweldge to management challenges. Prerequisites: None
MBA551A - Economics
The Economics module will provide an overview of micro and macro economics with an emphasis on the practical application of economic thought and theory to current national and international economic activities. Prerequisites: None
MBA551B - Marketing
The Marketing module is designed to develop the knowledge and skills needed to understand the role of marketing within the framework of an organization. Using an analytical and decision-making approach, students will learn to apply the concepts of marketing segmentation, and marketing mix, to the marketing of products and services within the dynamics of the business environment.
Prerequisites: None
MBA552A - Statistics
The Statistics module is designed to familiarize students with basic concepts in statistics that will enable them to understand material they read and research that is stated in the terminology of statistics. In doing so, students will learn the basic underlying concepts associated with descriptive statistics, data arrays, measures of variability, and the inferential statistics most commonly used in business and found in business literature.
Prerequisites: None
MBA552B - Finance
The module in Finance is designed to provide students with a review of key financial management concepts so that they are fully prepared for more advanced topics in the MBA program. The objective is to ensure each student's familiarity with the language and resources of financial management so that they have a solid understanding of financial management's role in the business environment.
Prerequisites: MBA550A, MBA551A
MBA553A - Quantitative Methods
This course provides an overview of essential and practical techniques that have been used to solve management problems. It offers the opportunity to apply mathematical models and tools to the analysis of business problems and management decision-making. The course focuses on optimization models.
MBA553B - Simulation - The simulation (capstone) module provides an opportunity for students to apply business theory and principles in an actual, competitive environment created through computer simulation. Students will operate a business through seven business periods, making all business decisions in competition with other students in the class. Students will prepare business plans and annual reports, and analyze business results. A final audit report will assess the business performance and student learning. Prerequisites: MBA550, MBA551, MBA552
FUNCTIONAL MBA CORE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
MBA600 - Business Ethics
This course combines a theoretical analysis of moral principles and models for ethical decision making with a discussion of their practical application to business life in the 21st century. Guest lecturers, case studies, class discussion, and group projects and presentations all contribute to an examination of the relevant issues. This course recognizes Assumption College’s commitment to teaching ethics across the MBA curriculum and is designed to provide a framework for the further discussion of ethical issues that will arise in subsequent courses.
Prerequisites: None
3 Credits
MBA601 - Human & Organizational Behavior
This course utilizes a systems approach to human and organizational behavior. It focuses on the following types of behavior: individual, small group, inter-group, and total organization. Special emphasis is placed on personnel systems, group cohesiveness, leadership, and the change process as relevant to the socio-technical system on any organization. This course also examines selected issues in managerial behavior.
Prerequisites: None
3 Credits
MBA602 - Marketing Strategy Development
This course is designed to help students integrate their knowledge of marketing into applied strategy for the firm as a whole. It requires creative thinking and problem-solving applied to analysis of situations as presented in cases and contemporary articles. The course covers such areas as marketing concept, target market identification, market research, consumer behavior and psychographics, product development, pricing, sales, promotion, distribution, international marketing, and comprehensive strategy development.
Prerequisites: MBA551B
3 Credits
MBA603 - Financial Strategy Development
This course examines the financial strategy of the organization in terms of both external environmental factors such as inflation and taxation and internal constraints and events. It explores issues and practices in working-capital management, current-asset management, capital budgeting, long-term financing, and dividend policy, using the case method to emphasize key concepts.
Prerequisites: MBA552B
3 Credits
MBA604 - Operations Strategy Development
This course examines the tools used and problems encountered in the development of strategy for the operations system in a profit-seeking or not-for-profit enterprise. Emphasis is placed on the operations of both service and manufacturing organizations. Topics include design/planning of the conversion system as well as the management and control of operations. It discusses the full range of quantitative methods used the the decision-making process, utilizing the case method of instruction to enhance the learning objectives. Computer approaches increase the effectiveness of decision making. Prerequisites: MBA553A
3 Credits
MBA605 - Accounting Decisions for Managers
This course will focus on corporate decision-making skills for managers. It
will involve the concepts and practices of managerial accounting, such as
cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, contribution margin reporting, profit planning, budgeting, performance analysis, and relevant costs for decision making.
Prerequisites: MBA550A
3 Credits
MBA800 - Business Strategy
This course covers the practical tools and theoretical concepts that companies use to arrive at effective business strategies. The course is integrative, and builds on students' understanding of the functional areas of the firm including operations, finance, marketing, human resource management and organizational design. Through readings, case analysis, real world company strategy analysis, simulation and discussion, course participants will learn the processes, tactics and schemes for specific action that firms use to achieve their intended business objectives.
Prerequisites: All Functional Core Courses and 3 Electives
3 Credits