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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
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Graduate level program for career adults, line managers and support staff, genearlly who run business organizations.
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REQUIREMENTS:
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- 32 semester/48 quarter credits
- Minimum of 26 semester /39 quarter credits, with at least 25% in business subjects
- Critical analysis, Annotated Bibliography, Proposal and Thesis
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PREREQUISITES:
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A bachelor degree or the equivalent in the same, or in a related area, plus definitive work experience in the field.
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM:
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(CORE REQUIREMENTS)
Cost accounting
Theories of Business
Principles of Administaration
Banking
Legal Environment of Business
Social Aspects of Business
Macroeconomics
Computer Technology
Research Methodology
Microeconomics |
COURSE OUTLINES / syllabi
1. Course Designation:409;
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 409
Title: Cost Accounting
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Cost Accounting, 8th ed., 1994, Horngren
- Cost Accounting, 4th ed, Michael W. Maher, Edward B. Deakin (Hardbound)
- Cost Accounting: Using a Cost Management Approach, 5th ed., L. Gayle Raybourn (Hardbound)
- Cost Accounting, Lane K. Anderson, Donald K. Clancy (Hardbound)
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- Course Objectives: Student will know current methods of research and data analyses.
- Course Description: The nature, objectives and prodecure of cost accounting adn control; job costing and process costing; joint product costing, standard costs; theories of cost allocation and absorption; uses of cost accounting data for management decision making.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 417
Title: Theories of Business
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Business, 4th ed., William M. Pride, Robert J. Hughes, Jack R. Kapoor
- Business Ethics; Ethical Decision Making Nd Cases, O.C. Ferrell, John Fraedrich
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- Course Objectives: Student will acquire a thorough knowledge of the theories of business.
- Course Description: Understanding the basic functions of business, organization and management, purchasing transportation, banking and finance, risk reduction, and insurance, budgeting and coordination wth government.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 419
Title: Principles of Administration
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Effective Human Relations in Organizations, 5th ed., Barry L. Reece, Rhonda Brandt
- Company Administration Handbook, 7th ed., Derek Beattie Gower
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- Course Objectives: Student will exhibit knowledge and understanding of the principles of administration.
- Course Description: The managerial application of human relation practices to a wide variety of problems in a similarly wide variety of organizations. All levels of organizations structure are stressed. Topics covered include authority, communications, attitude and research pertaining to the individual and his/her rleationship with others.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 414
Title: Personnel Administration
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Human REsource Management, 7th ed., Robert L. Mathis, John H. Jackson
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- Course Objectives: Student will articulate knowledge and abilities in public personnel administration.
- Course Description: Personnel problems, policies, pracitces, personnel selection, placement and training, personnel department organization and functions; interviewing; civil service testing; management of human resources within the context of private enterprise, regulations, policies and practices.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 413
Title: Banking
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Commercial Bank Finacial Management, 4th ed., 1992, McMill-Sinkey
- Economics of $, Bankiing and Finance Markets, 3rd ed., Mishkin
- City Bankers, 1890-1914, Y. Cassis
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- Course Objectives: Student will be able to exhibit knowledge and understanding of banking.
- Course Description: Readings, cases, balance sheet management, structure, markets competition, capital adequacy, profitability, qualitative techniques of analysis and computers simulation.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 415
Title: Legal Environment of Business
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Essentials Business Law and Legal Environmental, 4th ed., Smith, Richard A. Mann, Barry S. Roberts
- Before the Law: An Introduction to the Legal Process, 4th ed., John J. Bonsignore, Ethan Katsh, Peter d'Errico, Ronald M. Pipkin, Stephen Arons, Janet Rifkin
- Introduction to Law; the Legal System, 5h ed., Harold J. Grilliot, Frank H. Schubert
- Business Law, Principles and Practices, 3rd ed., Arnold Goldman, William Signismond
- West's Business Law: Text, Cases, Legal and REgulatory Environment, 5th ed, Kenneth W. Clarkson, Roger LeRoy Miller, Gaylodrd A. Jentz and Frank B. Cross
- The Legal Environment of Business, 5th ed., Roger E. Meiners, Al H. Ringleb, Frances L. Edwards
- Introduction to Business, 5th ed., Joseph T. Straub, Raymond F. Attner
- Business Law, 1st ed., Cheeseman
- Business- #23 The Legal Environment of Business, O.C. Ferrel, G. Hirt-Houghton/Mifflin.
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- Course Objectives: Student will show reasonable efficiency in handling legal environment issues.
- Course Description: Survey of legal and quasi-legal institutions, with emphasis ont he administrative agencies which have particular significance to the businessman; examiner government regulation of business; explains basic legal notions and principles that pertain to businessmen. Special attention to subject prompted by class response, contracts, occupational health laws, products liability, environment law, securities.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 416
Title: Social Aspects of Business
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Business, #2 Ethics and Social Responsibility; 3rd ed., William M. Pride, Robert Hughes, Jack Kapoor.
- Business, #2 Social Responsibility and Business Ethics, 2nd ed., Robert Kreitner, Barry L. Reece, James P. O'Grady
- Business, #3 Ethics and Social Responsibility, O.C. Ferrell, Geoffrey Hirt
- Business Ethics - Ethical Decision Makign and Cases, O>C> Ferrell, John Fraedrich
- Business for the 21st Century, Steven J. Skinner/John Mivancevich, Irwin.
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- Course Objectives: Student will have a thorough knowledge of social aspects of business.
- Course Description: Stresses case analysis of behavioral knowledge applied to management problems. Typical topics include analysis of modes for introductin change; group versus organizational goals, organizational barriers, to personal growth; the relationship between technology and social structure.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 411
Title: Macroeconomics
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Lectures on Macroeconomics, 1st ed., Blanchard
- Macroeconomics, 4th ed., Hall
- Macroeconomics, 6th ed., Baumol
- Macroeconomics, 6th ed., Grodon
- Macroeconomics, Theory and Policy, 4th ed., Branson
- Macroeconomics, 1st ed., Abel
- Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market, George A. Akerlof, Janet Yellen
- External Constraints ofn Macroeconomic Policy, George Alogsokoufis, Richard Partes, Papademos LucaS
- Macroeconomic Policy Analysis, Michael P. Amos
- $ In the Macroeconomy - Martin Prachowny
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- Course Objectives: Student will have a thorough knowledge and understanding of macroeconomics.
- Course Description: The key aggregate economic relationships which constitute the total economic environment in which business decisions are formulated. Topics for consideration are macroeconomic measurement, determination of national income and output contemporary fiscal and monetary policy objectives and practice.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 418
Title: Computer Technology
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Computers and Information Processing: Concepts and Applications, 6th ed., Steven L. Mandell
- The Science of Database Management - Paul Helman - Irwin
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- Course Objectives: Student will deomonstrate his/her abilities to manipulate data through computer technology.
- Course Description: Advanced analysis of monitor and executive system; concepts of database management systems; formal theories of human information processing (artificial intelligence) discrete simulation models; construction and accessing of large databases.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 420
Title: Research Methodology
1.4 Recommended Text:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will know current methods of research and data analyses.
- Course Description: Different methods of analyzing research data and presentation of the results with respect to specific objectives in question.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Business
1.3 Course Number: BUS 412
Title: Microeconomics
1.4 Recommended Text:
- Microeconomic Theory, 3rd ed., Henderson
- Microeconomics and Behavior, 2nd ed., Frank
- Microeconomics, 6th ed., Baumol
- Economics: Principles in Action, 5th ed., Philip Starr
- Microeconomics: Select Readings, 5th ed., 1985, Mansfield
- Microeconomic Analysis, 3rd ed., 1992, Varian
- Course in Microeconomic Theory, 1st ed., Kreps
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Course Objectives: Student will have a thorough knowledge and understanding of microeconomics
- Course Description: A basic theoretical studyu of demand production, input-rewards that give rise to equilibrium under the price system as well as its limitations that give rise to governmental intervention.
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