MBA Program Course Offerings: Spring 2024
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Spring 2024
Session 1: 01/16/24 – 03/08/24
Session 2: 03/11/24 – 05/03/24
Full Semester: 01/16/24 – 05/03/24
Online: asynchronous online class
Online-Live: synchronous online class
Live: synchronous in-person class
MBA Core Courses
BUA 601 – Strategic Data Analysis
To inform organizational decisions, students will learn to identify business problems, differentiate types of big data, propose a research question, and think critically about which statistical processes and applications will yield insights from the data.
Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
BUA 680 – Foundations of Business Intelligence and Analytics
This course presents the philosophical and technical foundations of business intelligence and analytics. The philosophical principles of business intelligence and analytics are discussed. Important fundamental concepts and tools in business intelligence and analytics are introduced using a structured and integrated approach that moves from initial data collection to final decision outcome assessment. Throughout the course, conditional reasoning and logical thinking in terms of process and systems are emphasized.
Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
MBA 609 – Financial Statement Analysis
This course builds on foundational accounting coursework by focusing on the understanding and interpretation of corporate financial statements. Topics typically include analysis of the primary statements via horizontal, vertical, and ratio analysis, DuPont analysis, and financial statement forecasting.
Offered: Session 1 Online; Session 2 Online – Waitlist; Session 2 Live – Waitlist
Credits: 3
MBA 626 – Management of Contemporary Organizations
Explores analytical perspectives to understand how individuals organize themselves in accomplishing organizational goals. Topics include organizational structure, culture, teamwork and diversity, the organization and the global environment.
Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
MBA 637 – Global Supply Chain Networks
An introduction to managing the flow of material, products, services, information, and cash via the processes, technologies, and facilities that link primary suppliers through to ultimate customers. Attention is given to the functions of forecasting, production planning, supply management, production, transportation, inventory, warehousing, packaging, materials handling, and customer service.
Offered: Session 2 Online – Waitlist
Credits: 3
MBA 651 – Financial Management
Provides a foundation in financial management by integrating topics such as measurement of risk, portfolio theory, interest rate determination, valuation, capital budgeting and cost of capital.
Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
MBA 670 – Managerial Marketing
BUA 670 Managerial Marketing is designed to explore both the theory and application of marketing concepts from a managerial perspective. The course emphasizes marketing decision-making and marketing strategy development through case studies and marketing planning activities.
Offered: Session 1 Online, Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
MBA 649 – Strategic Decision Making
This capstone course studies administrative practices at the strategic level of business management. Develops administrative competence in the formulation of business policy at the decision-making level through case study or practicums.
Prerequisites & Notes: MBA students only. Completion of all MBA core courses or permission.
Offered: Session 1 Online; Session 2 MBA Academy*
*The course will meet asynchronously from March 11 through April 26. Students are required to attend in person from April 29 – May 3 at 300 Fore Street in Portland, Maine.
Credits: 3
General Electives
MBA 645-0190 – Selected Advanced Topics: Digital Marketing (Rusty Stough)
The purpose of digital marketing is to prepare students with a foundational understanding of digital marketing channels and how successful marketing campaign use online and mobile platforms. This course covers the fundamentals of digital marketing including internet marketing strategies, user-generated content, search engine optimization, website design and management, inbound marketing, email marketing, social media campaigns, mobile apps, content strategy and paid advertising.
Offered: Session 1, Online
Credits: 3
MBA 545 – Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship is a critical factor for regional community and economic development. Emerging scientific and practitioner-based literature focuses on investments in the social and economic environment that build “entrepreneurial ecosystems” – the set of networks and factors that support the creation and scaling of successful, innovative ventures. Students in this course will develop knowledge around assessing, building, coordinating, and enhancing entrepreneurial support infrastructure. They will examine how different actors, institutions, regulation, trends, and resources may impact innovation and entrepreneurship within a region. Using engaged scholarship and a community-based approach, students will apply learning from the classroom to conduct an assessment of one or more communities’ entrepreneurial ecosystems and present findings to stakeholders.
Graduate students will develop additional skills in leading and implementing participatory research practices through a mentorship model.
Offered: Live, Full Semester (Tu 1:00pm – 3:50pm)
Credits: 3
MBA 695 – Internship
Field experience in business relevant to the student’s educational development and career goals. (Neither past work experience or field experience courses taken at other campuses or universities will be permitted as substitutes.) Only open to MBA students. Course may be repeated, but student may not earn more than 3 internship credits.
Prerequisites & Notes: Permission of Business School Graduate Director or designated appointee.
Credits: 1-3
MBA 698 – Independent Study
Provides an opportunity for well-qualified students to pursue a selected topic in great depth under the supervision of an individual faculty member. The topic is to be determined in consultation with the faculty instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes: Permission of Business School Graduate Director or designated appointee.
Credits: 3
Concentration Electives
Accounting
MBA 645 – Topics in Accounting: Accounting Data Analytics
This course will prepare learners to analyze big accounting-related data for the purpose of making strategic business decisions. The analytic mindset will be introduced and potentially reinforced as the conceptual framework to help learners apply the steps required to make strategic data-driven decisions and provide appropriate insights. Hands-on assignments and projects will be provided to help learners apply the concepts to various focus areas, including audit, financial reporting, managerial, and tax.
Prerequisites & Notes: Graduate School of Business degree program students, or permission from Graduate School of Business. This course can be repeated for credit as long as topics differ.
Offered: Session 1 Online
Credits: 3
ACC 608 – Topics in Accounting: Managerial Decision Making
Course coverage varies. Recent courses have included readings in accounting history and theory, accounting research using the FASB’s Codification to answer complex accounting issues presented in case studies and discussions of contemporary national and international accounting issues. Course may be repeated for credit as long as topics differ.
Prerequisites & Notes: Graduate School of Business degree program students, or permission from Graduate School of Business. This course can be repeated for credit as long as topics differ.
Offered: Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
ACC 697 – Field Experience in Accounting
Field experience in accounting relevant to the student’s educational development and career goals. Neither past work experience nor field experience courses taken at other campuses or universities will be permitted as substitutes.
Prerequisites & Notes: Only open to MBA in Accounting students.
Offered: Full Semester
Credits: 1-3
Blue Economy
SMS 544 – Oceanography and Natural History of the Gulf of Maine
Class examines the basic workings of the Gulf of Maine: its geological history, basic marine biology and oceanography, nutrient dynamics, and various biological processes, from phytoplankton blooms to commercial fisheries and associated management issues. Class will also explore the impacts of human interactions in the Gulf, especially those related to fisheries, pollution, coastal processes and other recent global warming-related changes.
Offered: Full Semester Live (W 8:00 – 10:50am)
Credits: 3
SMS 683 – Internship in Marine Policy
Professional experience with a marine resource management organization. Students must submit a plan approved by the graduate coordinator of the Marine Policy Program and the sponsoring organization. Reports and readings will be required.
Offered: TBA
Credits: 1-6
Business Analytics
BUA 686 – Predictive Analytics and Business Forecasting
This course presents a set of topics in developing analytical methodologies that make prediction and forecasting about future events of interest to individual business and industry in general. Students are introduced to managerial techniques and analytical models that reveal valuable relationships in economic and business data for supporting short-term and long-term planning. Students will learn how to build the models, how to interpret the predictions and forecasts produced from the models, and how to evaluate the reliability of the model results.
Prerequisites & Notes: BUA 601 or equivalent, or permission from Graduate School of Business.
Offered: Session 1 Online
Credits: 3
BUA 684 – Business Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
This course introduces students to a variety of cutting-edge data mining methods for the purpose of supervised learning and unsupervised learning. Students will apply these methods to analyze data in different business functional areas such as marketing, accounting/finance, operation, and management across industry sectors. The course emphasis is on learning valuable data information from the data analysis results and discovery interpretable and meaningful knowledge that can support better business decision making. Mainstream analytical software is used intensively to analyze real business datasets.
Prerequisites & Notes: BUA 601 or equivalent, or permission from Graduate School of Business.
Offered: Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
Engineering Management
ENM 586 – Engineering Management
This course covers a wide range of projects management topics including project planning, controlling, scheduling, and risk analysis. Through lecture and case studies, students will be prepared to become project management professionals and will learn to bring projects to successful completion. The course also emphasizes the human relations aspects of project management such as team theory and personnel conflict.
Offered: Full Semester Online Live (Tu 5:00pm-7:50pm)
Credits: 3
Finance
MBA 645-0192 – Financial Modeling (Jeffrey DiBartolomeo)
Approaches management of financial institutions through readings, cases and guest speakers. Emphasizes recognition, analysis and management of major risks faced by financial intermediaries in a global environment.
Prerequisites & Notes: Graduate School of Business degree program students, or permission from GSB. May be repeated for credit as long as topics differ.
Offered: Session 1 Online
Credits: 3
Food Technology Industry Management: courses only open to MBA students in this concentration
FSN 555 – Organic & Natural Foods
Introduces organic and natural foods from an industry perspective. Discussion of food production and processing, legal issues, ingredient functionality, and controversies.
Offered: Full semester, Online
Credits: 3
Geospatial Technologies
GEOP 508 – GIS Applications I
Students are introduced to vector-based geographical information systems (GIS). Topics include overviews of geospatial technologies, spatial analysis, GIS data, system operation, the interpretation of results, and professional practices. The course comprises a weekly lecture and laboratory. Students are evaluated with tests, laboratory assignments, and on the basis of a substantial project.
Offered: Full Semester, Online
Credits: 3
SIE 510 – Geographic Information Systems Applications
Introduces both the conceptual and practical aspects of developing GIS applications. Covers application areas from natural resource planning through transportation, cadastral and land information systems and their spatial modeling requirements, and application development from requirement analysis to database design and implementation.
Prerequisites & Notes: SIE 509 or permission
Offered: Full Semester Live (Tu/Th 9:30 – 10:45am), or Full Semester Online
Credits: 3
Global Policy (Orono Only)
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Healthcare Systems
MPHP 565 – Social and Behavioral Health
The goal of this course is to encourage students to critically think about the multiple factors that influence population health. The course focuses on social and behavioral determinants and the use of theory and planning frameworks to address public health problems. Students will have the opportunity to apply theory, asses the needs and assets of a community, design a program using a planning framework, and develop a program theory of change or, logic model to conceptualize a public health intervention.
Offered: Full Semester Online Live (Th 5:00pm-7:30pm)
Credits: 3
MPHP 670 – Quality Improvement
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the principles and practice of quality improvement as implemented by providers of health care, systems of care, community health and public health agencies. Course content focuses on describing, measuring, improving, and evaluating the quality and safety of health services for consumers and populations. Students develop competencies in identifying opportunities for quality improvement, selecting and using quality improvement tools and methods, and presenting their work in a professional context.
Prerequisites & Notes: MPHP 525 or permission
Offered: Full semester, Online
Credits: 3
Human Nutrition: courses only open to MBA students in this concentration
FSN 506 – Nutritional Assessment
Covers methods of evaluating the nutritional status of individuals or groups of people by dietary assessment and nutrition-related health indicators.
Offered: Full semester Online
Credits: 3
FSN 530 – Integrative and Functional Nutrition
Review of alternative practices such as traditional Chines medicine, Ayurvedics, homeopathy, naturopathy, herbal medicine, and dietary supplements and how these practices can be integrated with conventional dietic practice. Special needs of different life stages and disease conditions are addressed. Online class with scheduled discussions. Prior classes in medical nutrition therapy recommended.
Prerequisites & Notes: FSN 410 or FSN 501 or instructor permission.
Offered: Full semester Online
Credits: 3
Outdoor Industry Management
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Public and Non-Profit Management
PPMP 510 – Democracy, Governance/Public Policy
This foundational course explores democracy as not only a form of governance but as a way of living that touches every aspect of society. Students consider the constitutional foundations, institutions, and the formal and informal processes through which states protect and serve their people, and advance their interests as well as contemporary perspectives regarding the nature of democracy, the concept of governance, and the application of governing in an increasingly complex society. The course offers students the opportunity to explore current policy issues that present challenges for democratic governance in American society such as populism and the rise of authoritarian leaders, money in politics, equality, voting issues, and social media. Through readings, class exercises and case studies students consider how the modern state fulfills traditional core functions (such as security, basic welfare, opportunity for enrichment) when the range of issues and problems requiring action has increased, competition for resources has accelerated and as confidence in government is declining.
Prerequisites & Notes: Student must be in Public & Non Profit Management Concentration
Offered: Session 1, Online
Credits: 3
PPMP 531 – Measuring Performance in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors
This course is an introduction to performance measurement, monitoring, and reporting and related activities such as benchmarking for consumer and citizen use, and service efforts and accomplishments reporting. Students who complete the course will be prepared to develop basic performance indicators for public and nonprofit agencies in a variety of policy and management arenas. Specific attention is given to reviewing a variety of performance indicator systems. An emphasis will be placed on “hands-on” learning so that students gain confidence in using measurement techniques and learn how to apply practical measurement strategies in real world settings.
Offered: Full Semester Online Live (W 7:00pm – 9:30pm)
Credits: 3
PPMP 630 – Leading Resiliency in Times of Change
This course offers students a conceptual framework for understanding the role of public and nonprofit organizations in a market economy and democratic society and the challenges in times of change. Public and nonprofit leaders make decisions in increasingly networked environments that are characterized by uncertainty, resource constraints, competition for human resources, barriers to coordination as well as political, policy and community challenges. Recent world events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and social unrest, and threats from climate change have all brought into focus the need for greater resiliency at many different levels. Students will consider the unique social, economic and policy environment in which public and nonprofit organizations reside in Maine and nationally, and identify innovative, strategic, governance, and management approaches in supporting resiliency, preparedness, mitigation measures, response capabilities and recovery mechanisms.
Offered: Full Semester Online Live (Th 7:00pm – 9:30pm)
Credits: 3
Sustainability
PPMP 612 – Sustainable Communities
The course will introduce the student to one current approach to community planning, known as sustainable communities, which embraces a holistic approach to community development as a goal to be pursued in the complex interplay among natural, economic, and social systems. The course aims to establish command of the basic concepts, principles, policies, and obstacles associated with sustainable development, sustainable communities, and, as a practical example, smart growth.
Offered: Full Semester Online
Credits: 3
PPMP 564 – Planning Design & Studio
This course addresses a range of community design and site design issues at the local level. It requires a student to become familiar with literature on town design, conduct field observations and measurements, perform limited land use ordinance research, and communicate design observations and ideas in writing, through drawing, by using photographs, newspaper research, as well as in class discussions.
Prerequisites & Notes: Student must be in Sustainability Concentration
Offered: Full Semester, Online Live M 7:00 – 9:30pm
Credits: 3
GEOP 505 – Remote Sensing
Theory and techniques of image processing and analysis for remotely sensed digital data acquired from airplane and satellite platforms. Topics include image enhancement and classifications, spectral analysis, and landscape change detection techniques. Practical applications of natural and built landscapes are considered using remotely sensed datasets and techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes: Student must be in Sustainability Concentration
Offered: Full Semester, Online
Credits: 3