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2019 Siena Heights University Catalog 
    
2019 Siena Heights University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


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Master of Business Administration

  
  • MBA 650 Business Strategy And Planning


    3 credit hours

    This course is designed to develop competence in strategic planning, which encompasses analyzing external and internal environments to leverage the organization’s core competencies to better position itself for vision, mission, and goal accomplishment. Organizational complexity and market uncertainty challenge assumptions of rationality. Topics include strategic implications of disruptive innovation, transformation and renewal, and strategic resilience. Rational, intuitive, and ethical decision-making models will be applied toward developing well-rounded strategic planning proficiency.

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  • MBA 651 Managing Global Business And Cultural Diversity


    3 credit hours

    The course integrates both personal and organizational perspectives in managing global business and embracing cultural diversity. The course highlights teamwork, communication, leadership, conflict resolution, social networking with all stakeholders in the organization and in the communities in which the organization conducts business. An emphasis is placed on the implementation of the Dominican values of being more competent, purposeful, and ethical when working with diverse populations.

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  • MBA 655 Ethics In A Global Environment


    3 credit hours

    This course describes the complexities involved with ethical issues in the dynamic global business environment today. The focus is the development of analytical skills to formulate a moral and ethical decision making framework. An emphasis is placed on value-based decision-making that is used in all aspects of an organization. The course encapsulates the importance of business leaders being purposeful, competent and ethical.

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  • MBA 657 Project Management


    3 credit hours

    The course examines and applies concepts, techniques, and methods to execute projects that meet the objectives of stakeholders. Key topics include ethics and professionalism, an overview of current project management, risk analysis, project selection through organizational strategy, and the leadership of projects. The primary output for the course is the formulation and design of a project.

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  • MBA 664 Marketing Strategy


    3 credit hours

    This course familiarizes students with the principles of effective marketing management. An emphasis is placed on branding, target markets, market research, market segmentation, differentiation, positioning, life cycle, and the development of strategic marketing plans. An importance will be placed on marketing ethics, which respects the dignity of all.

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  • MBA 670 Advanced Auditing


    3 credit hours

    This MBA specialization course will focus on auditing of financial statements from the lens of an auditor, accountant or another financial manager. This course will highlight how to detect accounting and financial errors and fraud as well as the importance of auditing to ensure fiscal responsibility.

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  • MBA 671 Sustainable Business Management: Triple Bottom Line Strategy


    3 credit hours

    Sustainable business management embodies the Dominican vision as the practice focuses on increasing both social and shareholder value while decreasing negative environmental impact thereby resulting in enhancing and protecting resources for future generations. The courses focuses on a triple bottom line framework of three parts to evaluate organizational performance: social (people), the environment (planet), and financial (profit).

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  • MBA 672 Advanced Financial Accounting


    3 credit hours

    This MBA specialization course will provide an overview of acquisitions, investments and consolidations that takes place in corporate, intercorporate, nonprofits, multinational and governmental entities. The focus will also address partnerships, liquidations and other financial accounting behaviors of corporations in financial hardship.

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  • MBA 673 Advanced Managerial Cost Accounting


    3 credit hours

    This MBA specialization course will focus on the basis and steps accountants and financial managers utilize in reporting essential cost data. This course will explore how inventory accumulation and valuation is assessed and analyzed for external reporting. Emphasis is on how to cost materials, labor and overhead.  

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  • MBA 674 Professional and Ethical Issues for Accountants


    3 credit hours

    Looking at past and present ethical dilemmas in business cases, this course will emphasize the duty accountants and financial managers hold in having high ethical morality. This course will explore conflicts of interest, accountability and legal ramifications for violations of integrity and liabilities for organizations.

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  • MBA 680 Computer Networking


    3 credit hours

    This MBA specialization course will introduce students to computers showing how they are linked together and to other devices as part of their network. This course will also help students understand how computers and other devices understand each other to share information. Emphasis is on Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN).

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  • MBA 682 Cyber Ethics


    3 credit hours

    This MBA specialization course will focus on the study of ethics in computer behavior and its impact on society. Looking at ethics from a programmer’s perspective, this course will show examples of unethical computer programming and its harmful effects on stolen identity and intrusion on personal and organizational networks.

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  • MBA 684 Cyber Defense


    3 credit hours

    This MBA specialization course will focus on the process of defending cyber-attacks of networks and data. The course will take a deep dive into understanding cyber threats and attacks in an effort to develop, manage and plan for them with defense mechanisms in firewalls. The course will also emphasize the importance of educating the public and organizations on how to be vigilant and on high alert of suspicious activity in email, social media, and wireless devices and on websites.

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  • MBA 686 Cyber Threat and Risk Analysis


    3 credit hours

    This course will demonstrate best practices for assessing risk in organizational networks. It will focus on quantitative and qualitative approaches for analyzing Risk. Students will develop a timeline for risk assessment activities, and budgeting and planning resources needed to implement an effective cyber security plan.

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