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Nov 23, 2024
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2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Master of Science in Management
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Minimum number of credits required to graduate: 32
Minimum Cumulative GPA required to graduate: 3.0
The Master of Science in Management (MSM) Program provides a pathway for students who wish to acquire advanced management and leadership skills to either enter or advance their careers within the broad field of management. Courses are delivered 100% online or hybrid where a percentage of courses can be taken on campus.
The program is designed for business and non-business majors as well as skilled professionals looking to enhance and expand their business insight and expertise. The curriculum combines an overview of key management concepts, approaches and techniques and integrates industry specific elective courses in the business areas of Organizational Leadership, Business Analytics, Marketing Management, Strategic HR Management, and Quantitative & Digital Finance critical to today’s business environment. The overall goal of the program is to equip students with creative problem-solving skills, integrity and responsibility and a global perspective essential for personal and professional success. For students interested in an internship experience, a full-semester internship with a career management course is available.
Core Business Skills:
- Interpret the complexities of the business environment.
- Develop advanced skills in interpreting and utilizing information to make informed managerial decisions.
- Acquire a macro and global perspective of the interconnections related to economies and business.
- Construct a personalized communication plan in verbal and written communication formats.
Learning Goals and Objectives
1. Business Proficiency
- 1.1 Business Literacy - The ability to comprehend and communicate key business terms.
- 1.2 Cross-Functional Interconnectivity - The ability to understand and apply how decisions in one functional area of a business may impact the performance in other functional areas.
- 1.3 Global Interconnectivity - The ability to understand the interconnectivity between business decisions and the global economy.
2. Professional Skills
- 2.1 Communication, Oral and Written - The ability to articulate and deliver a business proposal, recommendation, or analysis for a particular purpose in both a written document and in a presentation format.
- 2.2 Leadership - The ability to engage in the process of influencing others and facilitating their individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives.
- 2.3 Teamwork - The ability to collaborate effectively with other team members to enhance the quality of the interaction, interdependencies, cooperation, and coordination of teams.
3. Knowledge Application
- 3.1 Problem Definition - The ability to identify a key problem in a business context.
- 3.2 Analyses - The ability to interpret and synthesize information and to draw reasoned conclusions.
- 3.3 Decision-Making - The ability to make choices among one or more alternatives with the intention of moving toward some desired state of affairs.
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Business Undergraduate Degree Curriculum
The Master of Science in Management for students with a Business undergraduate degree, is composed of 12 credit hours of core and 20 credit hours of electives for a total of 32 credit hours.
Elective Requirements
20 credits of electives or 12 credits of a concentration and 8 credits of electives from the following:
(concentrations are listed at end of the page)
Non Business Undergraduate Degree Curriculum
The Master of Science in Management for students with a Non Business undergraduate degree, is composed of 20 credit hours of core and 12 credit hours of electives for a total of 32 credit hours.
Elective Requirements
12 credits of electives or 12 credits of a concentration from the following:
(concentrations are listed at end of the page)
Concentrations
Students pursuing the MSM program may pursue a 12 credit concentration in one of the follow areas:
- Business Analytics
- Quantitative and Digital Finance
- Organizational Leadership*
- Marketing Management
- Strategic Human Resource Management
Business Analytics
The Business Analytics concentration equips students with introductory knowledge and skills in extracting decision-guiding insights out of data, and synthesizing the resultant insights with related theoretical and experiential knowledge. Students are introduced to core elements of data management, preparation, analysis, visualization, and result interpretation and communication, in a theory and application context. This Business Analytics concentration is intended to serve as an immersive first step for students interested in developing general business analytics capabilities.
Marketing Management
The Marketing Management concentration provides students with a comprehensive and analytical understanding of how marketing impacts business decisions. Students will gain insight into the marketing function and will be exposed to core elements such as digital and social media marketing, marketing analytics and strategy and how aspects of marketing contribute to practices of management.
Organizational Leadership
The Organizational Leadership concentration offers a dual focused management approach that combines theories and strategies around managing individuals while encompassing what is best for an organization as a whole. Through the concentration in organizational leadership, students are exposed to core elements of leadership such as ethics, motivation, creativity, vision, teamwork, managing teams, leading organizations through change, and understanding and managing stakeholders. Students develop a strong foundation in strategic business practices that keep organizations moving forward, and learn how to integrate best practices to increase employee engagement, retention and productivity.
Quantitative and Digital Finance
Understanding and comprehending the language of finance and business performance is essential for professionals at any level within an organization. By completing the Quantitative & Digital Finance concentration, students are introduced to topics such as quant and factor investing, corporate finance and other innovative trends in the finance industry. The skills acquired will equip students to make sound financial decisions that affect individual organizations and society as a whole.
Strategic Human Resource Management
With a Strategic Human Resource Management concentration, students will examine the critical role of achieving an organization’s strategic objectives as they relate to human capital. Students will gain deep knowledge of topics related to negotiations, conflict resolution, maximizing organizational performance, and using analytics to make informed decisions in a diverse workplace. This concentration is excellent preparation for a career in human resources.
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