MBA Program Course Offerings: Summer 2024
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Helpful Dates & Definitions:
Session 1: 05/06/2024 – 06/28/2024
Session 2: 07/08/2024 – 08/30/2024
Full Semester: 05/06/2024 – 08/30/2024
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
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
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
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 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 1 Online, Session 2 Online
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
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
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 2 Online
Credits: 3
General Electives
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 645-0992 – Fraud Investigation
This course covers the nature and types of fraud and techniques to identify, detect, investigate and prevent all types of fraud in organizations. The course explores the basic areas of fraud examination: Financial Transactions and Fraud Schemes, Law, Investigation, and Fraud Prevention and Deterrence.
Offered: Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
Blue Economy
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: Summer
Credits: 3
Business Analytics
BUA 683 – Information Visualization
This course presents a variety of data visualization techniques to graphically summarize business data information. Students will learn to create charts, maps, and other visualizations to create effective graphical displays of business data that tell meaningful business stories. Students will also learn to critically evaluate examples from print media and the Internet after learning the foundations of information visualization.
Prerequisites & Notes: BUA 601 or equivalent, or permission from Graduate School of Business.
Offered: Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
Engineering Management
EET 584 – Engineering Economics
A study of economic theory and applications in engineering and industrial organizations including capitalization, amortization, time value of money, cost comparison analysis, and breakeven value, and the ethics of engineering economic decision making. Also included are personal finance topics as applied to engineering situations and case study.
Offered: 06/03/2024 – 07/12/2024, Online
Credits: 3
Finance
MBA 645-0991 – Financial Engineering
This course explores the markets and valuation for options, futures, and swap contracts. Hedging and speculating strategies using derivatives are covered. Financial engineering techniques are developed that can adjust the risk and return offered by traditional assets. Topics include cash and carry, option pricing models, forward contracts, stock futures, interest rate futures, stock index futures, stock options, interest rate options, and various swap contracts.
Prerequisites & Notes: MBA student and successful completion of MBA 651.
Offered: Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
Food Technology Industry Management: courses only open to MBA students in this concentration
FSN 538 – Food Fermentation
An overview of fermentation of various categories of foods by applying principles of microbiology. Includes discussion of microbial metabolic pathways of importance in microbial inoculants and the physicochemical changes that occur within the substrate matrix during the fermentation process. Previous coursework in general microbiology recommended.
Offered: Online, 05/06/2024 – 06/14/2024
Credits: 3
Geospatial Technologies
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Global Policy (Orono Only)
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Healthcare Systems
MPHP 655 – Public Health Practice
The goal of this course is to introduce students to fundamental skills used in everyday public health practice. The course focuses on public health core competencies that have been defined by the field.
Offered: Online, 05/13/2024 – 06/07/2024
Credits: 3
MPHP 683 – Patient Safety
Preventable medical error is believed to be one of the leading causes of death and serious harm in the United States. This online course provides an interdisciplinary, cross-setting overview of patient safety principles, techniques, and best practices. Topics addressed in the online course include the epidemiology of medical error, human factors engineering, common types of errors in various healthcare settings, and the applied practice of error mitigation and patient safety strategies. Students also explore patient safety improvement techniques most appropriate to their profession or setting of care.
Offered: Online, 07/01/2024 – 08/16/2024
Credits: 3
Human Nutrition: courses only open to MBA students in this concentration
FSN 501 – Advanced Human Nutrition
Basic nutrition science with emphasis on carbohydrate, lipid, protein, vitamin, mineral functions, and metabolism. Genetic influences on nutrient needs and metabolism. Two courses in chemistry and a nutrition course are recommended. Online class with some synchronous discussions.
Offered: Online, 06/24/2024 – 08/16/2024 Online
Credits: 3
Outdoor Industry Management
INT 500 – Climate Resilience
This course begins with the unavoidable reality of a changing climate. As the IPCC has acknowledged, there is no longer a path to full mitigation of global temperature rise over the course of the twenty-first century. Entities of all sizes – public and private – must confront the challenges posed by the effects of climate change, some of which have already materialized. This course will examine the physical, financial, social, and regulatory risks presented from two overarching perspectives – that of the private company and that of the public municipal government.
Offered: Online 05/06/2024 – 06/14/2024
Credits: 3
MBA 645-0990 – Triple Bottom Line Business
This course will introduce you to the triple bottom line and frameworks that are key to making effective and responsible social, environmental, and financial decisions. Visionary business leaders, eyeing the end of the fossil-fuel era and other global sustainability trends, recognize the need to re-think business practice and strategy. You will explore the relationship between business strategies and the marketing environment as part of the decision-making process that involves balancing socially, environmentally, and financially responsible business behavior. You will learn to identify market needs as they relate to fair trade, buy local, organic, and carbon neutral, and then integrate these trends into a company’s positioning and value proposition. You will examine the role of the customer and community in determining what and how firms market products and services. You will examine triple bottom line and understand how managing it can directly impact business success and profitability.
Offered: Session 1, Online
Credits: 3
Public and Non-Profit Management
PPMP 534 – Managing Cities, Towns and Counties
Overview of the key responsibilities and activities associated with the administration of local and county government. Appreciation of the dynamics and politics of the administration of local government entities. An emphasis is placed upon the actions of managers interacting with department managers, the public, and volunteer committees.
Offered: Online Synchronous, Th 5:30 – 8:15pm, 05/13/2024 – 08/16/2024
Credits: 3
PPMP 545 – Grant Writing and Development
Concentrates on the process of securing the resources to support effective nonprofit projects. The goal of the course is to prepare students to identify sources of funding, write proposals that will attract grant awards, and develop an understanding of what it takes to build an organization, which foundations, public entities, and individual donors are confident in supporting. The course will begin with an examination of current trends in this post-industrial economy in which money is available to the voluntary and private sector. It will also focus on the importance of understanding the “ways of money” and knowing how to develop and administer a budget that will inspire trust in the organization’s reputation for effectively managing its programs and its fiscal resources
Offered: Online Synchronous, T/Th 4:00pm – 6:45pm, 05/13/2024 – 06/28/2024 (currently waitlisted)
Credits: 3
Sustainability
MBA 645-0990 – Triple Bottom Line Business
This course will introduce you to the triple bottom line and frameworks that are key to making effective and responsible social, environmental, and financial decisions. Visionary business leaders, eyeing the end of the fossil-fuel era and other global sustainability trends, recognize the need to re-think business practice and strategy. You will explore the relationship between business strategies and the marketing environment as part of the decision-making process that involves balancing socially, environmentally, and financially responsible business behavior. You will learn to identify market needs as they relate to fair trade, buy local, organic, and carbon neutral, and then integrate these trends into a company’s positioning and value proposition. You will examine the role of the customer and community in determining what and how firms market products and services. You will examine triple bottom line and understand how managing it can directly impact business success and profitability.
Offered: Session 1, Online
Credits: 3