Subject: Accounting (ACCT)

CRN: 30004

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Blake Darsow

Financial accounting is an integral part of the planning, reporting and control functions of every business. It is a means to achieving insights about the firm's financial condition, operating results, cash flows and ownership and capital structure. This course covers the fundamental terminology and calculations of financial accounting and reporting, as well as the comprehension and interpretation of financial statements. Ethical aspects of accounting are included. Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Accounting (ACCT)

CRN: 30006

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA

  Drew Hoag

This course is designed to give students an introduction to managerial accounting concepts. Students will learn how financial data including, cost information, is used in planning, controlling and decision-making. Topics include, but are not limited to, cost classification, profit planning, cost allocation, activity-based costing, contribution margin analysis, cost-volume profit analysis, and relevant decision making analysis. Ethical aspects of decision making are included. Cannot be taken for credit if ACCT 605 has previously been completed. Prerequisite: ACCT 601.

1.5 Credits

Subject: Business Ethics (BETH)

CRN: 30009

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA

  Jason Skirry

This class explores the fundamentals of ethical decision making in the business context. It covers the psychology of ethical decision making, including individual and situational factors influencing the decision process, as well as the ethical theories needed to understand the dimensions of an ethically complex situation. The class introduces a framework for analyzing ethical situations and developing a managerially defensible solution. It also explores various strategies for dealing with ethical challenges in the workplace and ways to effectively communicate one’s decisions. Prerequisites: NONE.

1.5 Credits

Subject: Business Law (BLAW)

CRN: 30010

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Romain Lorentz

The course examines how the law impacts daily management decisions and business strategies and provide managers with tools to use principles of law to minimize risk, create value, attain core business objectives and to resolve legal issues before they become problems. The course uses exercises, simulations and business cases designed to provide hands-on skill development and practical application of key legal concepts. Because contracts are an essential element of business, much of the course is organized around negotiating and analyzing critical business agreements covering a range of topics, including sales of goods, intellectual property, employment, and dispute resolution with the goal of developing understanding of how to structure agreements to minimize legal and business risk, enhance economic value and relationships, and aid the organization in achieving its goals. Prerequisites: NONE.

1.5 Credits

Subject: Business Analytics (BUAN)

CRN: 30011

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     MS in Business Analytics
     Part-time MBA

  Jordan Barlow

This course teaches students how to perform data analysis using spreadsheet-based models and interactive data dashboarding tools, including PowerBI, to effectively and efficiently solve business problems. Students will learn how to both build and communicate about these models to drive managerial decision making. As part of this process, students will apply basic data cleansing and modeling, emerging technologies such as AI, and ethical concerns of working with data.

3 Credits

Subject: Business Analytics (BUAN)

CRN: 30012

Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture

Minneapolis: Schulze Hall 421

Online

Requirements Met:
     MS in Business Analytics
     Part-time MBA

  Dave Wehling

[This course will be delivered in a Prof + Prof model. For more information on the professional co-teaching the course, click here.] This course will focus on developing the ability to understand the business needs for data insights, crafting those into an analytics problem statement, and developing a coherent and persuasive narrative of any data findings. Students will learn to create well-crafted data narratives and dashboards for business leaders while being able to translate insights into managerial decisions. Students will also be able to prepare raw data sets for their data narratives, executive summaries and technical memos. The course focuses on mastering these fundamental data narrative and storytelling abilities while leveraging AI, Tableau, and other data visualization tools to assist in the process. 

3 Credits

Subject: Entrepreneurship (ENTR)

CRN: 30016

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA

  Jeanne Glass

This is a brief, introductory course designed to help the general manager understand what it takes to identify and evaluate new opportunities, and to transform innovations into profitable businesses. In this course, students will begin developing key skills and knowledge necessary for applying the entrepreneurial process within the corporate context. Prerequisites: NONE.

1.5 Credits

Subject: Finance (FINC)

CRN: 30019

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Lalith Samarakoon

This course will focus on the financial management of business. It will cover the following subject matter: risk, return, evaluation, cost of capital, capital budgeting, long-term financing, capital structure theory, financial analysis and planning, and working capital management. The international aspect of financial management will be covered as it applies to the subject matter outlined above. Prerequisites: OPMT 600 or BUAN 640, ACCT 601, and GBEC 600 or GBEC 625.

3 Credits

Subject: Economics (Grad) (GBEC)

CRN: 30021

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA

  Kathryn Combs

This course focuses on the application of microeconomic tools and concepts to business decision-making. Every organization faces numerous decisions. Every decision-maker faces limits of money, resources, technology, and information. Optimal decisions must balance the marginal benefits of a decision with the decision’s marginal costs. The tool of constrained optimization is applied to cost minimization, output maximization, and profit maximization. Concepts covered include: optimal output volume; demand analysis and estimation; production and cost; market structure and strategic positioning; and optimal pricing strategies. Prerequisite: OPMT 600.

1.5 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 30024

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Erica Diehn

Leadership is about insight, initiative, influence, impact, and integrity. You will explore principled leadership in this class, gaining a framework and skillset for developing your ability to make meaningful impact within dynamic and complicated organizations. Leading self and others incorporates insight into individual strengths and diversity, interpersonal and team dynamics, taking initiative and having influence both with and without formal authority, and examining the larger impact on organizational systems and the common good. This core MBA course, taken in the first year of the program, is designed to help students discern that leading is challenging and critical for success in both your career and the UST MBA program. Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 30026

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Jim Gifft

The field of project management is young and constantly changing. Companies seek to reduce development cycles while increasing the technological complexity of their products. Corporate downsizing has increased the average workload and reduced the resources available for project development. Sound familiar? This course will discuss the fundamental basis for scheduling and project scope difficulties, and provide tools for creating practical solutions. We will become more aware of why we encounter similar pitfalls with each new project. Discover that you are not alone in encountering a chaotic project life-cycle, the complexity people bring, and the reasons why our organizations are continuing to become more chaotic. This course will examine the new phase development of project management. We will use numerous disciplines to create a more dynamic and flexible project management methodology. These disciplines include Industrial Behavior, Psychology, Human Behavior, Chaos and Complexity, Organizational Behavior, and Systems Theory to name a few. As project managers, we face impossible schedules, unrealistic specifications, and limited budgets. As leaders we face personnel issues, motivation requirements and organizational issues. This course will provide insight and practical examples of the areas of knowledge needed to practice effective project management in today's dynamic work environment. Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 30027

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Jason Pattit

Competitive Strategy is designed to help students learn about the nature of business, and the principled leadership and governance of firms. This course focuses on the formulation of business-level strategy to help students gain a practical understanding of how the functions (finance, marketing, accounting, operations, human resources, etc.) are aligned with business-level strategy to support the mission, goals and objectives of a firm. Major questions explored in this course include: Why are some industries more profitable than others? Why do some firms consistently outperform others? How can a firm build and sustain a competitive advantage? A variety of industry contexts and firms will be used to illustrate the application of the analytical tools and frameworks covered in the course to any type of firm, including for-profits, non-profits and not-for-profits. Prerequisites: NONE.

1.5 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 30028

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Kelly Leiker

Change in organizations has become pervasive. This course will examine how change occurs in organizations so students can better understand the process and develop a framework for understanding and managing change more effectively. The course will look at major world and societal changes that contribute to the amount and pace of change in business organizations, review the major theories that try to explain change, and explore diagnostic tools and actions needed for facilitation and implementation of change. Students will also be challenged to become more successful managers by recognizing their personal capacities to direct and experience organizational change while dealing with competing demands on their energy, time and attention. Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Management (MGMT)

CRN: 30029

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Danielle Miller

This course explores the major concepts of negotiation inherent in any business or personal situation. The focus will be on interpersonal and inter-group conflict and its resolution. Through the analysis of bargaining and conflict situations, students will be able to learn their own individual "negotiating styles." Some of the major elements of the course include distributive (win-lose) negotiations, integrative (win-win) negotiations, the use of power in negotiations and negotiation ethics. Negotiation cases will be used extensively in the course to allow students to improve their negotiation skills through "hands on" scenarios. Beginning with relatively simple one-on-one negotiations, the course will progress to complex, multi-party negotiations where class members will assume different roles. Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Marketing (MKTG)

CRN: 30033

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Avinash Malshe

Marketing Frameworks is designed to build a practical understanding of the frameworks and tools that are frequently used to solve marketing problems. The course will examine strategy formulation and the marketing mix (product, price, place, and promotion) tied to a thorough assessment of the marketplace (company, competitors, customers, etc.). Students will develop essential skills related to using marketing research, performing quantitative and qualitative analysis, and critically thinking about marketing decisions related to strategy and tactics. Prerequisites: NONE.

1.5 Credits

Subject: Ops & Supply Chain Mgmt (OPMT)

CRN: 30034

Online: Asynchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     MS in Business Analytics
     Part-time MBA
     LLM/MSL Elective

  Kelly Canter

This course provides students with a basic understanding of the role of statistics in the gathering of data, the creation of information and its use in decision-making. Students will learn methods for summarizing data, both numerically and graphically, and for drawing conclusions from sample data. Statistical analyses will be carried out using the computer and statistical software. The focus of the course is on how statistical methods can be placed on the design of statistical studies, collection of data, and the interpretation of results (rather than the details of computation). Prerequisites: NONE.

3 Credits

Subject: Ops & Supply Chain Mgmt (OPMT)

CRN: 30035

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

Requirements Met:
     Part-time MBA

  Sanjeev Bordoloi

This course provides an introduction to the management of business operations. It focuses on the strategic role of the operations function in the survival and success of manufacturing and service organizations. The course will explore a variety of strategic issues related to the design of operational systems and their connection with other functional and business strategies. The course will provide a multi-functional perspective on challenges and opportunities in managing operations. The course will emphasize use of state-of-the-art concepts and quantitative methods for making critical choices in a dynamic business environment.  Prerequisite: OPMT 600 or BUAN 640

1.5 Credits