MBA Program Course Offerings
Summer 2023
Session 1: 05/08/23 – 06/30/23
Session 2: 07/03/23 – 08/18/23
Full Semester: 05/08/23 – 08/18/23
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 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 645 – Advanced Topics in Business Administration
Topic: Digital Marketing
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 2 Online
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.
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. Independent study must be approved by the Business School Graduate Curriculum and Learning Committee.
Credits: 3
Concentration Electives
Accounting
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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.
Prerequisites: Permission
Credits: 3
Business Analytics
BUA 683 – Information Visualization
This course presents a variety of data visualization techniques to graphically summerize 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: MBA Student or permission; BUA 601 or equivalent, or permission
Offered: Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
Engineering Management
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Finance
MBA 653 – Investment Management
Analysis and valuation procedures to determine the investment quality of specific securities. Sets criteria for formulation of a sound investment policy and selection of investment media to implement it. Develops techniques of portfolio management and periodic reappraisal.
Offered: Session 2, Online
Credits: 3
Food Technology Industry Management
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Geospatial Technologies
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Global Policy (Orono Only)
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Healthcare Systems
MPHP 525 – American Health Systems
Health-related activities represent more than one-sixth of the U.S. economy and include substantial investment of public and private resources. The goal of this course is for students to develop a critical understanding of the organization and financing of the American health care and public health systems. The course examines the factors that influence the health of individuals and populations; how health care services and health/public health systems are organized, financed, and governed; how these systems function; the relationships among consumers, public and private purchasers/payers, and providers; the market and policy environments affecting systems’ performance; and the outcomes of these activities including the health and well-being of citizens.
Offered: Session 1 Online
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: Session 2 Online
Credits: 3
Human Nutrition
FSN 508 – Nutrition and Aging
Roles of nutrients, foods and supplements in maintaining health during aging. Online class with some live discussions. FSN 501 recommended but not required.
Offered: Online, 5/30/23-7/7/23. Please note that this asynchronous class does have a weekly synchronous discussion requirement, but the scheduling is based on student input with multiple options designed to accommodate students.
Credits: 3
Outdoor Industry Management
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Public and Nonprofit Management
PPMP 535 – 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: 06/01/23-08/18/23 Online
Credits: 3
PPMP 633 – Strategic Planning in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors
Examines how public organizations can utilize strategic planning in responding to environmental change and the future. Approaches to and techniques of strategic planning are covered, including goal setting, environmental scanning, resource audits, and the formulation of strategy and its implementation. Examples are drawn from Maine state and local government and the nonprofit sector.
Offered: Full Semester, Live-Online
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: Session 2 Online-Live
Credits: 3
Sustainability
MBA 645 – Advanced Topics in Business Administration
Topic: 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 the triple bottom line and understand how managing it can directly impact business success and profitability.
Offered: Session 1 Online
Credits: 3