Computing Skill Prerequisites (CSP) Statements

CSP1. Basic Microcomputing Skills. Includes understanding of the PC and its components, turning on the PC, using command-oriented, windows-based, and LAN operating environments to accomplish basic tasks such as formfitting floppy disks, creating and navigating through directory and subdirectory structures, creating and deleting files, using available help screens when needed, loading application software, exiting from application programs and operating environments in an orderly manner, and using appropriate measures to check for and prevent the spread of computer viruses.
CSP2. Basic Microcomputing Spreadsheet Skills. Loading the spreadsheet software; creating, organizing, and navigating through spreadsheets; formatting the entire spreadsheet or a specified block of cells; entering and editing formulas, values, and text; copying, moving, and printing spreadsheets. Basic skills also include using financial, statistical, and mathematical functions such as totaling and averaging of rows and columns; creating and printing charts and graphs, creating data tables, invoking existing macros, and using available help screens needed.
CSP3. Basic Microcomputer Database Skills. Loading the database software, creating database; entering data; adding and deleting records; listing, querying, and generating reports using the database; using available help screens when needed.
CSP4. Word Processing Skills. Loading the word processing software; creating, formatting, editing, and saving documents; copying and moving text; adjusting margins, indents, and line spacing; adjusting fonts and styles; importation of tables and graphs from spreadsheet applications; using spell-checking, and using available help screens when needed.

MBA Program Orientation. Prerequisites: none.

This course is designed to assist MBA students beginning their graduate studies by providing constructive suggestions. Students will receive relevant information about the MBA Program framework and curriculum to assist in understanding the total process and reasons for courses. Students will receive assistance in developing effective learning strategies, including an introduction to case analysis, understanding the benefits of diversity in decision making, learning how to be a member of a productive study team, and initiating the career planning process. There are also opportunities for networking with other students.

College Algebra. Prerequisites: high school algebra.

Algebraic techniques; coordinate geometry; algebraic and rational functions; relations; linear systems; complex numbers.

MBA 02. Accounting for Financial Decisions. Prerequisites: none. CSP1.

This course covers the accounting information needed by the business manager in the day-to-day and strategic management of the organization. Specific coverage includes the accounting cycle, balance sheet and income statement accounts, the cash flow statements, analysis of financial statements, proforma statements, and short-term decision making models.

MBA 03.Business Statistics (Statistical Analysis for Managers). Prerequisites: Math 01. CSP1, 2.

This course provides the basic background in statistical analysis necessary for an understanding of various aspects of organizational planning, problem identification and problem solving and decision making. The course presents descriptive tools essential to running a business, and provides a foundation in statistical inference, model building for forecasting, and quality assurance. Computer exercises and cases reinforce the principles.

MBA 11. Principles of Micro- and Macroeconomics. Prerequisites: Math 01 or Math 02.

The Principles of Microeconomics course analyzes the overall performance of economics systems including output and employment levels, inflation, economic growth, international finance, and the effects of monetary and fiscal policies.

The Principles of Macroeconomics course is a systematic study of the functions of markets and prices in the production and distribution of goods and includes economic of international trade, public finance, labor markets, monopoly, and poverty.

MBA 8412. Organizational Behavior. Prerequisites: none.

This course is devoted to a study of the empirically derived knowledge about the behavior of individuals and groups in goal-seeking organizations.

MBA 8622. Corporation Finance. Prerequisites: MBA 03, MBA 02, MBA 11. CSP: 01 02, 06.

This course embraces the practical and conceptual problems associated with financial management of the nonfinancial corporation. Topics considered are, in brief, domestic and forecasting, commitments to current assets, short-term financing, evaluation and choice of capital assets, long-term financing strategies, and dividend policy as these issues influence the attainment of the maximum market value of corporate claims. Selected readings are utilized to present a conceptual frame for financial management. Case analysis, a group research project, and class presentations are employed to join theory with decision making in the real world. Emphasis throughout is upon the recurring problems of corporate finance rather than upon any specific situation and its solution.

MBA 8642. Marketing Management. Prerequisites: MBA 03, MBA 02, MBA 11.

A study of managerial aspects of the marketing function. Emphasis is placed on the criteria, both quantitative and qualitative, utilized in evaluating marketing alternatives and in choosing among these alternatives. The course includes topics related to the decision-making process such as: marketing research, product development, advertising and promotion, sales management, cost and demand analysis, competition, pricing, packaging, and channels of distribution.

MBA 8452. Production/Operations Management. Prerequisites: MBA 03.

This course is an introduction to the concepts, principles, problems, and practices of operations management. Emphasis is on managerial processes for achieving effective operations in both goods-producing and service-rendering organizations. Topics include operations strategy, process design, capacity planning, facilities location and design, forecasting for operations, production scheduling, inventory control, quality assurance, and project management. The topics are integrated using a systems model of the operations of an organization.

MBA 8403. Managerial Economics. Prerequisites: none.

This course uses the basic tools of microeconomics and macroeconomics to analyze management decisions and the competitive strategies of firms in a market economy. Microeconomic concepts of supply and demand, production, cost, and market structure are combined with the macroeconomic issues of aggregate demand and supply and national income determination to develop an analysis of the overall economic environment in which firms operate.

MBA 8683. Managerial Accounting and Control. Prerequisites: MBA 03, MBA 02, MBA 21, MBA 11, MBA 27. CSP 01, 02, 03, 06.

This course is concerned with accounting and administrative control and with costing and management accounting data as elements is decision making. Managerial accounting as a major general instrument of managerial control is examined extensively.

MBA 8069. Information Technology for Management Support. Prerequisites: none. CSP 1, 2, 4, 6.

An examination of the nature of computer-based information systems and their implementation in the business environment/ Topics covered include the role of information systems in business organizations, planning, organizing and controlling the implementation of computer-based information systems and the strategic impact of computer-based information systems.

MBA 8423. Legal and Ethical Environment Business. Prerequisites: none.

This course provides the MBA student with a study of the interrelationship of law, ethics and business. The course covers the American legal system, the role of government in regulating business, ethical responsibilities and the influence of global issues. The course equips the student to recognize legal and ethical issues and to manage legal risks in business decision making.

IB 8090 . International Business Environment. Prerequisites: none.

The course is divided into two parts. The first part provides the student with an intensive study of the changing economic, political, and cultural environment. The second part of the course encompasses the specific problems with which the international businessman must deal, such as marketing, community relationships, labor relations, organization, financial management, and operating policies, and the ways in which these problems may be approached.

MBA 8993. Strategic Management and International Strategy. Prerequisites: MBA 03, MBA 02, MBA 21, MBA 22, MBA 23.

This course is designed to give the student an opportunity to develop conceptual skills as needed by higher level managers. Emphasis is given to the integration of subject matter from all business courses and other disciplines in the discussion and analysis of organizational problems. Subject matter stressed includes: