ACCT 6003: Accounting for Decision Making
Prerequisites: ACCT 2003 and ACCT 2103. The application of accounting to firms in manufacturing, retailing, and service industries. The course emphasizes using accounting information to make management decisions and includes analyzing financial statements, cost analysis, budgeting, and capital investment decisions. This course also covers corporate governance, accountability, and ethical decision making. Fall, Spring semesters.
ACCT 6063: Special Topics in Accounting
Prerequisites: Admission to the MBA program, ACCT 2003, ACCT 2103 and ACCT 6003. A course introducing graduate students to timely accounting topics that can enhance their jobs or professional development. This course includes readings, cases and research on current issues in accounting. As needed.
AGBS 6003: Agricultural Markets/Prices
Prerequisite: ECON 2103. Provides an overview of microeconomic theory and relevant applications used in the business decision-making process. As needed.
AGBS 6013: International Trade of Agricultural Products
This course examines trade theories such as Ricardian Comparative Advantage and the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem, as well as open and protectionist trade policies and their welfare implications. Global integration is discussed in detail using case studies to apply the theories and test their applicability. As needed.
AGBS 6023: Agricultural Policies
This course exposes students to economic analysis and welfare implications of domestic and international policies affecting agriculture, agri-business, and rural economics. Policy alternatives aimed at solving economic and environmental problems of the food and agricultural sector are identified and evaluated. As needed.
AGBS 6033: Management of Agriculture Production
Prerequisites: AGEC 3043 or equivalent; ACCT 2103 or equivalent. This course applies managerial concepts, procedures and techniques, as well as economic theory to successful operations of farms and ranches. Students develop enhanced skills to combine and manage land, labor, and capital resources for an optimal return as well as techniques of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling functions of management as they relate to the farms and ranches. As needed.
ECON 6003: Managerial Economics
Prerequisites: ECON 2203. A working knowledge of the analytical tools that bear most directly on the economic decisions of firms. Our focus will be on market structure and the theory of economic decision making under market conditions ranging from perfect competition to monopoly. The behavior of individual markets will be analyzed, with our concentration on cost analysis, the determinants of market demand, pricing strategy, market power, and the implications of government policies. Fall, Spring semesters.
ECON 6063: Special Topics in Economics
Prerequisites: Admission to the MBA program, ECON 2203, ECON 6003. A course introducing graduate students to timely economics topics that can enhance their jobs or professional development. The course includes readings, cases, and research into current issues in economics. As needed.
FIN 6003: Managerial Finance
Prerequisites: FIN 3003. To examine and apply the theories, tools, and techniques utilized in the financial management of the firm. An emphasis is placed on developing the financial knowledge and skills necessary to make decisions in a business setting. Fall, Spring semesters.
FIN 6063: Special Topics in Finance
Prerequisites: Admission to the MBA program and FIN 3003. A course introducing graduate students to timely finance topics that can enhance their jobs or professional development. The course includes readings, cases, and research into current issues in finance. As needed.
MGMT 6003: Strategic Planning and Analysis
Prerequisites: Must have completed 18 hours of MBA coursework. This is a course designed to prepare students to be senior managers for the increasingly competitive business world. The emphasis of this course will be on the strategic analyses, decisions, and actions that organizations take to create sustainable competitive advantages, with the consideration of both the internal condition and the external environment. Through chapters, readings, and case analyses, we will also discuss issues related to ethical decision making, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder theory, and the relationship of business and government. Fall, Spring semesters.
MGMT 6013: Human Behavior in Organizations
Prerequisites: MGMT 3023 Management Theory and Behavior. A theoretical and application-based survey of the human factors in organization management. The course utilizes a combination of textbook readings, exercises, and research studies of actual organizations to provide MBA students with a working knowledge of the personal and interpersonal processes involved in the management and leadership of organizations. Fall, Spring semesters.
MGMT 6033: Creativity, Innovations, and Entrepreneurship
A comprehensive study of practical creativity in an organizational setting. Creativity will be studied at both the macro and micro levels as both entrepreneurship (the start-up of new venture) and writing company ceativity is investigated. Organizational structures, programs, and company creativity are investigated. Organizational structures, programs, and reward systems designed to foster creativity will be analyzed and discussed. Students will develop a written project proposal and a multimedia presentation to introduce it. As needed.
MGMT 6043: Quantitative Methods
Prerequisites: GBUS 3183 Quantitative Analysis II. Statistical concepts and methodology useful in understanding, assessing, and controlling operations of business statistics. The major objectives are both an understanding of the statistical methods and the application coverage of topics including collection and presentation of data, probability theory, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, regression, and non-parametric statistics. SPSS will be highly utilized throughout the semester. In addition to understanding the basic concepts of statistics, this course will focus mainly on the applications of statistics in helping managers make better decisions. Fall, Spring semesters.
MGMT 6053: International Business
The global environment of business is explored with emphasis on cultural diversity, international institutions, government-business interface, and global competition. Case studies will be used to emphasize issues. Country studies (both written and oral) will be developed and presented. As needed.
MGMT 6063: Special Topics in Management
A course introducing graduate students to timely management topics that can enhance their jobs or professional development. The course includes readings, cases, and research into current issues in management. As needed.
MGMT 6073: Special Topics in Management
A course introducing graduate students to timely management topics that can enhance their jobs or professional development. The course includes readings, cases, and research into current issues in management. As needed.
MIS 6063: Special Topics in MIS
Prerequisites: Admission to the MBA program, MIS 6003. A course introducing graduate students to timely MIS topics that can enhance their jobs or professional development. The course includes readings, cases, and research into current issues in MIS. As needed.
MKTG 6023: Strategic Marketing
Prerequisite: MKTG 3033 Principles of Marketing. The study of elements that affect managerial decisions in marketing. Emphasis is placed on analysis, planning, implementation, and control of marketing programs in a competitive environment utilizing the case method and/or computer simulations. Fall, Spring semesters.
MKTG 6063: Special Topics in Marketing
Prerequisites: Admission to the MBA program and MKTG 3003. A course introducing graduate students to timely marketing topics that can enhance their jobs or professional development. The course includes readings, cases and research into current issues in marketing. As needed.
