Executive MBA Program Curriculum
Curriculum
The EMBA program requires 54 credit hours of work. The program's challenging curriculum approaches management with six core areas of study: finance, operations, international business, accounting, organizational behavior, and marketing. The program is designed to provide broad management training. The curriculum is supplemented with hands-on work experience and the opportunity to immediately apply and test management theories and newly acquired skills. The course schedule is structured to help students maintain a balance while juggling work, school, and family commitments.
Current Courses
Introduction to Management-EMBA 500 (Five-day on-campus "Residency Week") is designed to emphasize and consider broad ranges of managerial issues and decisions. It is followed by Management Fundamentals courses that teach core management principles. These include major business concepts and tools of finance, organizational behavior, marketing, operations, information systems, communications, and micro/macroeconomics.
Also included in the first-year curriculum are Management Integration courses, focused on application and integration of management tools and correlating functional concepts to each other and the business environment.
The second year begins with Strategic Simulation - EMBA 601 - a course that concentrates on tools and concepts for strategic management and includes the second on-campus Residency Week.
During the second year, EMBA students complete six elective courses concurrent with their regular core classes. (Refer to list of Previously Offered Electives posted below)
Strategy II - EMBA 681 - introduces top management approaches to the problems of determining corporate strategies.
Business Negotiations - EMBA 606 - completed during winter semester of the second year, concentrates functions of negotiations in professional and personal lives to develop skills and patterns of professional negotiations, clients' perspective, etc.
Global Management - MBA 584 - taught during spring of year two, focuses on the global economic, political and social environment in which businesses operate. Policy initiatives of firms, nations, and international communities as addressed.
Foreign Business Excursion (FBE) - EMBA 692 - International Business Trip, where companies in several different countries are visited and observed. This two week trip is held in the spring, usually around Memorial weekend.
First Year Curriculum
Summer I |
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| EMBA 500 | Introduction to Management | 3.0 |
Fall I |
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| EMBA 504 | Corporate Financial Reporting | 3.0 |
| EMBA 505 | Leadership 1 | 1.5 |
| MBA 550 | Marketing | 3.0 |
| MBA 615 | Spreadsheet Analysis | 1.0 |
Winter I |
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| MBA 502 | Managerial Accounting | 1.5 |
| MBA 520 | Finance | 3.0 |
| MBA 545 | OB – Human Resource Management | 1.5 |
Spring I |
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| MBA 510 | Management and Technology | 1.5 |
| EMBA 609 | Quantitative Methods | 2.0 |
Second Year Curriculum
Summer II | ||
| MBA 530 | Operations Management | 3.0 |
| MBA 580 | Introduction to Strategy | 1.5 |
| EMBA 601 | Strategic Simulation | 2.0 |
Fall II | ||
| MBA 591R | Integrative Exercise | 1.0 |
| EMBA 606 | Business Negotiations | 2.0 |
| EMBA 681 | Strategy II | 2.5 |
| Elective 1 | TBA | 1.5 |
| Elective 2 | TBA | 1.5 |
Winter II | ||
| MBA 682 | Ethics, Business, and Society | 3.0 |
| Elective 3 | TBA | 1.5 |
| Elective 4 | TBA | 1.5 |
Spring II |
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| MBA 584 | Global Management | 1.5 |
| EMBA 692 | Foreign Business Excursion (FBE) | 6.0 |
| Elective 5 | TBA | 1.5 |
Summer III |
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| Elective 6 | TBA | 1.5 |
| Total credit hours: | 53.0 | |
Previously Offered Electives
Advanced Corporate FinanceAdvertising and Promotion Management
Business Analysis and Valuation
Business Judgment
Business Negotiations
Corporate Intrapreneurship and Innovation
Customer Loyalty
Direction, Delegation, and Execution: What Managers Really Do (or Should Do)
Effective Managerial Judgment and Decision Making
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Entrepreneurial Perspective
Financial Statement Analysis
Individual and Entrepreneurial Tax and Planning
Leadership Performance
Managing Information Technology
Money, Financial Institutions, and Economic Activity
Personal Finance
Professional Selling and Sales Management
Project Management
Selected Topics in Management
Strategic Issues in Operations
Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology
