Course Descriptions
Master of Business Administration
COM6900 Grants and Proposals Lab (3)
This course explores the process of grants and proposal development for non-profit organizations. It examines the principles of grant writing including the development of proposals for funding, membership drives, identification of various sources for grants, contact development, direct mail or solicitation, use of the telephone, radio, or television, and profit-making ventures in non-profit organizations. Case studies and small group assignments reinforce the learning process.
DEV6101 Enterprise Development (3)
A study of major strategies used to improve income in poor families and communities. Economic development that is sustainable, generates income, supports community infrastructure, and contributes to local capacity is studied. Issues include microenterprise needs, organizational services, role of community participation, sustainability and organizational needs.
DEV6201 Food and Agriculture (3)
An examination of the causes and effects of insufficient quantities and quality of food intake in poor communities as well as the causes and effects of poverty. Studies include the relationships between food and income with other community problems, experience and lessons learned from decades of humanitarian assistance, and the effects of malnutrition in poor communities.
DEV6301 Water Development Programs (3)
An introduction and exploration of the causes and effects of unsafe or insufficient water in poor communities with special reference to the use of appropriate technology in developing countries. Various strategies for improving water supply in poor communities, the issue of sustainability in water programs, and the usage of water in community infrastructure will help build skills useful in water management programs.
DEV6401 Primary Health Care (3)
An exploration of the most important health problems in developing countries, their effects as well as preventive and corrective strategies, and how holistic health development can be a change agent. The experience and lessons learned that promote sustainable primary health care in poor communities are discussed along with leadership, planning and development concepts of healing ministries.
ICS5102 Management Communication and Conflict Resolution (3)
Communication as a component of the leadership function in management requires managers to explore the basic and contemporary principles and processes of communication that achieve clarity between various persons, cultures and backgrounds. This course is designed to relate these principles and processes to managerial communication and conflict resolution in support of the pursuit of organizational mission, goals and objectives.
MGT5012 Accounting and Finance (3)
This course explores the basic concepts of accounting and finance. The use of accounting information as an aid in the analysis and decision making process is discussed. Topics covered include product costing, budgets, financial analysis and time value of money to support management planning and control decisions. Prerequisite for MGT5310.
MGT5030 Principles of Economics (3)
This course studies the scope and method of economic analysis. Included is an examination of the macro economic topics areas of resources, monetary systems, income determination, as well as global economic growth and stability. The course also covers the micro economic topic areas of price systems, market structures, public economic policy, income distribution, theory of the firm, forms of competition, as well as national economic growth and stability. Prerequisite for MGT5310.
MGT5101 Management Concepts (3)
This course explores advanced concepts in management including review of boardroom fads in recent corporate histories, while focusing on such fundamentals as planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Attention shall also be given to hazard, vulnerability and capacity assessment (combining goods and services as well as community development).
MGT5102 Marketing (3)
This course focuses on marketing principles and methods used for influencing consumer behavior in small and medium sized companies and organizations. It provides insights into the consumer and how these insights can be used to develop powerful marketing strategies and methods. It includes marketing strategies and problems in companies that market across cultural boundaries and examines the cultural environment of the global marketplace.
MGT5104 Organizations (3)
This course examines the significant similarities and difference in the management of companies, multi-national corporations, international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), private voluntary organizations (PVOs), and more traditional domestic nonprofit organizations such as churches, schools and colleges, foundations, hospitals, community service and other grassroots organizations.
MGT5151 Organizational Behavior (3)
This course investigates how individuals and groups within the organization – individually and collectively – affect the pursuit of mission, goals and objectives. The areas of structure and framework, as well as the dynamics of communication, conflict resolution, leadership, motivation and relationships are analyzed with the goal of improving the human aspect of organizational performance.
MGT5301 Financial Management (3)
This course explores various issues related to financial decision-making used by modern businesses. This includes analytical tools and techniques and advanced financial concepts necessary for an evaluation of decisions such as long term investment, valuation, and working capital.
MGT5310 Macro/Global Economics (3)
The concepts and principles of macro/global economics are critical for managers in business enterprises. Issues of scale, import and export balances and the microeconomics of both domestic and international microlocales are examined especially from a values perspective, exploring the impacts of microeconomic decisions and activity on village, neighborhood and community life.
MGT5312 Applied Quantitative Analysis (3)
This course provides a knowledge of statistical tools used for decision making within the business arena. Included are descriptive statistics (i.e. mean, median, mode, standard deviation) and inferential concepts. Quantitative decision making techniques are used for forecasting, inventory management and optimization of management resources.
MGT5412 Information Resource Management (3)
The course teaches the latest methodologies to manage information resources for a modern enterprise. Topics covered are data administration (i.e. data modeling, data architecture) and database administration, which includes technical issues with regard to managing data. This course also includes topics such as business system planning and the role of the information technology steering committees for modern organizations.
MGT5414 Information and Research Management (3)
Introduction to business research design and the use of associated information technology. Focus is on answering topical questions and solving management problems. Approach is multi-disciplinary and geared to help students learn and apply qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry and analysis.
MGT5550 Public Policy (3)
This class will examine the historical development, definition, issues, players, politics, economics, legal theory, problems, perspectives, challenges, and current status of public policy in the United States, especially as it applies to the use of land. Taking land-use as our area of focus will give us a specific sphere of attention and application to explore how public policy functions – both effectively and ineffectively. As time allows, we will introduce some of the economic issues that influence local, national, and even international public policy. Educational institutions, or other specific areas, will be brought into the discussion, as class interest dictates.
MGT6103 Human Resource Management (3)
This course is designed to explore the issues of human resource management with non-profit organizations. The issues of political, social, legal, regulatory, environmental and technological climate as they affect the decisions of business activities are explored.
MGT6110 Operations Management (3)
This course explores various issues related to operations management in modern organizations. Includes design and control for customer satisfaction, translating demand into orders, management of continuous and repetitive operations, productivity, facilities positioning and managing quality for physical resources.
MGT6201 International Operations (3)
Explores the issues of developing relationships with international governmental agencies, handling international transactions between NGO’s, internal governments and donor organizations, and the movement of people resources.
MGT6202 Legal and Risk Management (3)
This course explores laws and government regulations that affect the management and operations of non-profit organizations. It includes issues such as contracts, liability, labor law, taxation and the tax exemption process, incorporation and bylaws issues. It examines the roles of specific government agencies in relation to support services, coordination, and regulation of non-profit agencies.
MGT6203 Recovery and Rehabilitation (3)
This course gleans the experiences and lessons learned by relief and development organizations responding to disaster situations. Exploration will include the different kinds of disaster situations and effects of various strategies used in providing assistance along with the needs of disaster victims and ways in which to respond to those needs.
MGT6210 Boards, Committees and Leadership (3)
Students will learn the model of how responsibility should be maintained between the board of directors, committees, officers, and staff of a mature non-profit organization. The course overviews the legal framework that makes boards necessary, patterns of board and staff relationships, how to diagnose challenges, understanding stakeholder behavior, and optimizing board performance. We will study smaller, start-up, or founder-led non-profit organizations.
MGT6220 Contemporary Issues for Non-Profit Managers (3)
Designed to give non-profit managers the specialized training needed to face short-term challenges, and long-range trends. To maintain the usefulness of this course, topics covered will be identified through survey of CEOs of representative non-profit organizations. A course might contain information and outside speakers on: capital campaigns, Board of Directors, retaining staff, the most recent federal and state level regulations impacting non-profits.
MGT6302 Fundraising (3)
The course explores the use of marketing principles and methods for increasing the use of services or products of non-profit organizations and how these principles can influence client behavior in social service agencies. It explores the marketing principles in fundraising and studies various methods of fundraising including the development of proposals for funding, membership drives, and other strategies.
MGT6410 Strategic Planning (3)
This course provides the knowledge and skills to develop effective short, immediate and long-range strategic information systems plans. Course topics include the need for and responsibilities of an Information Management Steering Committee, the relationship of information systems planning to the overall organizational goals, assessment of the organization’s current state, determination of information technology project and management requirements, and means of prioritizing and selecting information technology projects.
MGT6415 Strategic Management and Planning (3)
This capstone course fulfills the requirement for the MBA degree program. Students will study the science of strategic management and learn to design a functionally integrated strategic plan to achieve the organization’s mission, goals and objectives in turbulent, change resistant environments. Each student will author and present a functionally integrated strategic business plan that results from internal and external environmental assessment.
MGT6910 Introduction to Research Design and Evaluation (2)
This course is designed with particular emphasis on producing thesis proposal. The approach is multidisciplinary to help students in the International Development, Non-profit, and Management majors how to conduct research using qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry.
MGT6990 Research Project (1)
This course focuses on the creation, implementation, monitoring and assessing of a field based intervention to improve skills in local, international, and non-profit management. The purpose of the project/thesis is to help student become active investigator in development, non-profit, and management areas.
THE5101 Managerial Ethics: Spiritual and Philosophical Foundations (3)
Designed to raise the student’s moral recognition of ethical issues that relate to the leadership and decision-making situations regularly encountered in the conduct of organizational business. Emphasis is placed on ethical decision-making as illustrated by Christian principles through the teaching of essential truths of the Gospel and Bible. The ethical teachings of historic and contemporary philosophers are also surveyed.
THE5102 Holistic Mission (3)
This course supplies the Biblical mandate, principles, and approaches related to helping poor communities and people in need. Application is made to current real life situations in the world. It defines holistic ministry and the rationale for its application in relief and development work in world missions. The course traces the history, explores trends and lessons learned from centuries and decades of humanitarian aid in relief and development and in missions on various continents.
