Course Descriptions 

Schedule of Courses

Course Descriptions

BUS 600 (1) Learning Faithfully: Management History and Current Practice
This course explores the progression of management thought from a foundation found in the scriptures through its development to current practice. An understanding of the impact of historical management thought upon today's manager is explored. Students are also exposed to Wesleyan (Grace, Faith, and Holiness) thought as it relates to the curriculum of management. Students are introduced to seminal works through reading assignments prior to starting the class. Concepts such as classical management theory, behavioral theory, cohort learning, and the impact of faith in the marketplace are discussed.

BUS 601 (1.5) Financial Accounting
The theory and practice of accounting applicable to measuring, recording and reporting business transactions for external uses. Topics include short-term liquid assets, merchandizing operations, inventories, long-term assets, current and long-term liabilities, and corporate capital accounts.

BUS 602 (1.5) Cost Accounting
The study of information systems for management accounting, the analysis of accounting information for planning and management decision-making, and the use of various performance measurement and evaluation technique.

BUS 603 (1.5) Business Communications
The fundamental of business written and oral communication including informal communication skill assessment and improvement, crisis management, public speaking, formal business presentations, the presentation of complex information and the use of presentation software.

BUS 604 (1.5) Marketing
The role of marketing in society and in the organization; construction of a formal marketing plan, including choice of target market, product development, pricing, distribution, and promotion. Additional topics include the social, legal and ethical dimensions of marketing.

BUS 605 (1.5) Economic Survey
A survey of the fundamental principles of macro and micro economics. The course includes the basics of supply and demand economics including the production, distribution and exchange of wealth as well as national fiscal and monetary policy.

BUS 606 (1.5) Finance
The role of finance and functions of a financial manager. To integrate the techniques, concepts and analysis of finance. Topics include financial planning and cash budgeting, the role of financial markets and interest rates, discounted cash flow analysis and capital budget techniques, capital structure and leverage, and dividend policy.

BUS 607 (1.5) Business Law
This course provides a general introduction to law and business. It will do so using traditional legal analysis, supplemented by a substantial use of law and economics. Topics covered include: choice of corporate form; capital markets law, including venture capital and IPOs; antitrust; intellectual property; telecommunications and the regulation of natural monopoly; and e-Commerce.

BUS 608 (1.5) Business Math
This course is designed for the graduate student who wants to refresh their mathematical background for basic courses in finance, statistics, and economics. The main topics are as follows: a review of basic tools such as algebra, and exponents; solving word problems; linear systems (equations and matrices, etc.); exponential and logarithmic functions, mathematics of finance; and basic tools of calculus (limit, derivative, optimization, and integral).

BUS 609 (1.5) Business Golf
Learn swing fundamentals, golf etiquette, basic USGA rules, and "business golf rules". Use golf as a tool for networking, business deals and relationship building. How corporate golf events and tournaments work. The Golf Business: Retail, Manufacturing, Golf Courses, PGA Tour . . . Golf: Profit, Personal relationships and Philanthropy.

BUS 610 (3) Organizational Behavior and the Future
This course is about the study of how organizations behave and the impact of values, diversity, and technology upon organizational behavior. Students examine the process through which managers learn to apply concepts from the behavioral sciences to observe, understand, and influence behavior in the workplace. Concepts such as motivation, leadership and application of techniques for individual and organizational growth and decision-making in a global environment are discussed.

BUS 611  Leading with Integrity: Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
This course is the cornerstone of the MBA experience and is taught in a seminar format which brings in executives who have lead with integrity in their public and private life by integrating their faith and profession. The course challenges the MBA professional to integrate their academic knowledge, core values, and professional experience. It emphasizes the challenges executive face in balancing the needs of customers, community, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders with Biblical, ethical, and legal considerations. Seminar format.Graded Credit/ No credit.

BUS 615 (3) Managerial Accounting
Develops the concepts and techniques necessary to analyze financial statements and management accounting reports. In particular, participants will learn to use these statements and reports as effective management tools for decision making in the coordination of managerial and organizational activities. Prerequisite Bus 602 or equivalent.

BUS 620 (3) Managing Human Resources
Explores the management of human resource functions including employee selection, training, evaluating, and compensation. Stresses the importance of Human Resources in a rapidly changing global environment impacted by different sets of values and progressive technology. Examines the impact of the setting in which human resources takes place. It also addresses labor relations, collective bargaining and equal employment opportunity issues.

BUS 625 (3) Business Statistics and Quantitative Methods
This course covers statistical concepts and tools needed for business applications in the global economy. Also provides relevant quantitative tools necessary for more advanced electives in the curriculum, especially finance, marketing, managerial economics, and operations management. Prerequisite Bus 608, equivalent or consent of the instructor.

BUS 630 (3) Managerial Economics
The course is about the principles and techniques of managerial economics and its applications to every day business challenges. Topics include the theories of price, production, consumer behavior, cost, distribution, risk and uncertainty, and transaction costs. Prerequisite Bus 625 or equivalent.

BUS 635 (3) International Business
An overview of international business and the political economy of nations. The course may include an off-campus component. The course provides the theoretical background and appreciation for the international trade environment including economics and finance.

BUS 640 (3) Technological Innovation and Management Knowledge
This course will investigate and demonstrate the planning and implementation of strategies that help organizations improve productivity, satisfaction, and responsiveness to the environment. The course views management from the perspective of human systems and organizational development, technological innovation, and strategic management.

BUS 645 (3) Organizational Leadership
Students will explore the development of theoretical basis of what intrinsically and extrinsically motivates people to exceptional performance. The course will examine different leadership styles, personal leadership effectiveness, and contemporary leadership literature. Students will analyze the ways leadership and culture shape an organization’s environment and history.

BUS 650 (3) Operations Management
This course focuses on the delivery of high quality products and services in competitive environments. It addresses the issues of total quality management and continuous process improvement. The approach is quantitative in nature, exploring collection of relevant data, data analysis techniques and development of information systems to support management decision-making. In addition the course is designed to allow for the exploration of the use of the data generated by the tools used in this field.

BUS 655 (3) Marketing in an Entrepreneurial World
This course examines the issues involved in organizing and operating start-up businesses and new ventures as well as the role of marketing in today's organizations. Attention is given to the ethical, social, and economic problems faced by entrepreneurs and marketing managers.

BUS 660 (3) Contemporary Management in a Competitive World
This course explores how high performance in organizations is related to ones ability to adapt to changing internal and external needs and the impact of values upon the performance of the organization. It will examine the environmental, structural, and human dynamics of organizational change, including factors bearing on organizational rigidity or flexibility. The role of leaders in implementing collaborative change processes will be stressed along with a study of strategies for involving others in the designing and execution of change projects in a technologically and culturally changing world. The course will include an assessment of the student's own orientation to change and style of change leadership.

BUS 665 (3) Organizational Communication
Organizational Communication examines the role and function of communication in creating the dynamics of organizational life. Students will explore the impact of information technology on the dissemination, content, patterns and context of communication.

BUS 670 (3) Financial Management
This course explores the role of the financial manager in providing the financial resources necessary for the successful operation of the firm. It addresses the topics of evaluating financial performance, financial forecasting, asset valuation, capital budgeting, planning the firm’s capital structure, and corporate restructuring. Prerequisites include BUS 606 (or equivalent), BUS 615 and BUS 625.

BUS 672 (3) Entrepreneurship
Business start-ups, venture capital, planning, and the expansion of small or family run businesses. Course includes lectures by entrepreneurs, financial planning using spread sheets, and preparation of a formal business plan.

BUS 674 (3) Real Estate Investment
Investment in real estate markets, real estate property including deeds, mortgages, escrow, title insurance, leases, rentals, etc. This course satisfies the educational requirement for real estate broker’s license.

BUS 675 (3) Strategic Management
The aim of this course is to give the student a through understanding of the analytical techniques and skills necessary to identify and exploit strategies successfully. Students explore steps taken toward achieving the objective by understanding an overview of the main elements of the strategic management process, and examination of how they fit together, and a discussion of the factors that affect the quality of strategic decisions generated by the process.

BUS 680 (3) Managing Faithfully: Putting Faith to Work in the Marketplace
This course integrates the student's professional management analysis and decision making, with the academic knowledge gained throughout the graduate experience. It is intended to reemphasize to the student the challenges faced by managers who must balance the needs of customers, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders with Biblical, ethical, and legal considerations. Specifically how does being a Christian impact the application of management in general and at the student's place of employment and how does the student integrate his or her faith into the marketplace.

BUS 685 (3) Management of Nonprofit Organizations
This course covers the application of management principles to nonprofit organizations, including managing volunteers, advising board of directors, accounting, investment, financial management, marketing, fund raising, ethics and responsibility to society and donors.

BUS 690 (1-3 units) Special Studies in Business Administration
Selected studies in an area of Business Administration as determined by the School of Business . Permission is required from the Director for Graduate Programs and the course faculty. Students may repeat up to 9 units.

BUS 695 (3 units) Masters Applied Project
To finalize the graduation requirements for the MBA program, the student must complete and defend a project applying academic and professional experience in the development of a recommended solution of a specific complex situation found within an organization. The project is divided into the following parts: proposal, fact-finding, solution building, professional report, and formal presentation to a faculty committee. Three units of this project are to be completed within the two-year course of instruction as a self-directed study under the guidance of a selected faculty mentor. For those projects not completed during the two year course of study, students will be charged a BUS695 Extension Fee each semester until completed. Graded Credit/No Credit. Minimum of 3 units required for degree.

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