Curriculum Electives
Follow a link below for electives by department, or scroll down for all electives:
- Accounting
- Business Administration
- Economics
- Finance
- Management and Organizations
- Management Information Systems
- Marketing
- Public Administration
All electives are worth 3 units of credit, unless otherwise indicated.
Accounting
ACCT 500A - Intermediate Financial Accounting
Description: Theory and methodology involved in contemporary accounting for assets, liabilities, stockholders' equity, net income and funds, analysis and interpretation of financial statements.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit hours of introductory accounting. ACCT 500A is prerequisite to ACCT 500B.
ACCT 500B - Intermediate Financial Accounting
Description: Theory and methodology involved in contemporary accounting for assets, liabilities, stockholders' equity, net income and funds, analysis and interpretation of financial statements.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 500A is prerequisite to ACCT 500B.
ACCT 501 - Advanced Accounting
Description: Theory and methodology involved in the preparation of consolidated financial statements; accounting for mergers and acquisitions; translation of foreign currency financial statements; accounting for derivatives and hedging; accounting for partnerships; governmental accounting. Graduate-level requirements include a special project.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 500B.
ACCT 510 -- Principles of Profit Planning and Control
Description: Examination of the value of managerial accounting in organizational decision-making and control, addressing specific managerial accounting problems and their solutions.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 550; 6 credit hours of introductory accounting.
Description: Principles of federal income taxation, with emphasis on how individuals are taxed; additional topics. Graduate-level requirements include a special project and readings concerning current events and U.S. tax policy.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 550; 6 credit hours of introductory accounting.
ACCT 522 - Advanced Federal Taxation
Introduction to advanced topics: taxation of corporations and stockholders' transactions in stocks, taxation of partnerships and fiduciaries, gift and estate taxation. Graduation-level requirements include a special project.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 520.
ACCT 525 - Accounting Theory Institutions
Theoretical analysis of the role of accounting and taxation in society. Examines existing accounting and taxing institutions involved in policy making and standard setting. International issues are included.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 520.
ACCT 528 - Taxation of Partnerships
Description: Concepts and principles of partnership income taxation and the uses of partnerships for tax planning.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 420, ACCT 520.
ACCT 529 - International Accounting and Taxation
Description: Accounting and taxation viewed from an international perspective, including comparison of various national standards, laws, and business practices. Also includes examination of standards issued by worldwide accounting organizations.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 522 or consent of instructor.
ACCT 531 - Principles of Auditing
Description: Graduate-level requirements include a special project.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 500B; MBA candidates only.
ACCT 551 - Analysis FIN Statement
Description: Structured analysis of financial statements; forecasting of income and cash flows; pro-forma financial statements; firm valuation using discounted cash flows and discounted residual income methods; comparative valuation analysis; credit analysis. Graduate-level requirements include a special project.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 500B.
ACCT 552 - Taxes and Business Strategy
Description: This course gives students the tools to identify and evaluate tax planning opportunities, focusing on the effect of taxes on business decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, multinational tax planning, electronic commerce, investments, compensation strategies, and the choice of organizational form.
ACCT 553 - Tax Research
Description: Review of how tax law is created, the motivating forces behind the creation of these laws, and the relative significance of various authoritative tax sources that exist in addition to the law. Includes research of current tax issues and the implications to business operations as a result of these issues.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 520.
ACCT 572A - Accounting for Not-For-Profit Entities
Description: Accounting concepts and procedures for governmental and other not-for-profit entities, including financial analysis and reconciliation to for-profit accounting principles. Graduate-level requirements include leading presentations, participation in online platform, and contributing supplementary articles on current issues for class discussion.
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 550
Business Administration
Description: This course will expose students to a variety of international business perspectives, including, economic, social, political and cultural, through a 7-10 day trip to a particular world region. Students will be expected to pay their own travel expenses.
Grading: Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
May be repeated: for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Usually offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
BNAD 579B- MBA Advanced Field Projects (3 units)
Description: The goal of this course is to provide second year MBA students, along with M.S. and Ph.D. students from colleges of science and engineering, with an advanced, multi-disciplinary consulting experience that utilizes and builds upon the skills acquired in BNAD 597A. This advanced field project enriches the Eller MBA experiential learning component, providing students with the opportunity to engage in an advanced consulting project as part of the 2nd year curriculum. Course includes one or more field trips.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
Description: This course will examine policies that can be pursued to promote global economic development. While a particular focus will be placed on what the United States and other developed countries can do to support less developed countries in becoming more competitive and reducing poverty, we will also dedicate time to reviewing domestic economic reforms that can be taken by less developed countries. The US decision making process and its impact on the extent to which the US is able to trade with and provide foreign assistance to other countries will be closely examined throughout the course. Prerequisite(s): Must be MBA or Law Student
Economics
ECON 501A - Microeconomic Theory
Description: Value and distribution.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 361, ECON 521.
ECON 501B - Microeconomic Theory
Description: General equilibrium and welfare economics.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 501A.
ECON 501C - Microeconomic Theory
Description: Other selected topics.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 501B.
ECON 502A - Macroeconomic Theory
Description: National income analysis.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 332, ECON 521.
ECON 504 - Production Economics
Description: Theory of the firm and industry; single and multiple products; risk and uncertainty.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 300 or ECON 361; MATH 113.
May be repeated: for a total of 6 units of credit.
Identical to: AREC 504; AREC is home department.
ECON 508 - Applied Economic Analysis
Description: Uses economic history to show how research methods in economics are used to analyze data collected through empirical observation.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 501A; ECON 520.
ECON 512 - Economic Policy of Developing Countries
Description: The role of policies in economic growth and development. The impact of commodity, factor market and macroeconomic policies on economic incentives.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 361; MATH 113.
ECON 513 - Consumer Economics and Price Analysis
Description: Theory of the consumer, demand, and market equilibrium, and welfare analysis.
Description: This course covers the basic mathematical statistics topics necessary for a deep understanding of applied econometrics. Topics include random variables probability theory, probability and density functions, sampling hypothesis testing, and point and interval estimation.
Identical to: AREC 517; AREC is home department.
ECON 518 - Introduction to Econometrics
Description: Statistical methods in estimating and testing economic models; single and simultaneous equation estimation, identification, forecasting, and problems caused by violating classical regression model assumptions. Graduate-level requirements include a research project that involves applications of econometric methods to the estimating and testing of behavioral models or simulation studies of the statistical properties of an econometric estimation technique. Advanced degree credit available for non-majors only.
Description: Introduction to the theory and methods of mathematical economics and its applications. Designed primarily for entering graduate students majoring in economics.
Prerequisite(s): or Concurrent registration, ECON 520; consult department before enrolling.
ECON 520 - Theory of Quantitative Methods in Economics
Description: Introduction to the basic concepts of statistics and their application to the analysis of economic data. Designed primarily for entering graduate students majoring in economics.
Prerequisite(s): Consult department before enrolling.
ECON 522A - Econometrics
Description: The theory of econometric estimation of single and simultaneous equation models.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 520.
ECON 522B - Econometrics
Description: Additional topics in the theory of econometric estimation of single and simultaneous equation models.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 522A.
ECON 525 - Topics in Economic History of the U.S.
Description: Examines the economic history and development of the United States, including roles of legal and cultural institutions, changes in output mix, government regulation, income distribution, monetary policy, and demographic factors. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper or additional problem sets, depending on exact course content.
ECON 531 - Games and Decisions
Description: Introduction to decision theory and game theory and their application to various economic situations under conditions of complete and incomplete information. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper.
ECON 534 - Industrial Analysis and New Venture Development
Description: Value maximization; simulation of value distribution; sources of venture capital; timing of initial public offering; new venture ownership structuring.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 550, FIN 510, MKTG 500. Open to entrepreneurship program students only.
ECON 535 - Public Sector Economics
Description: The influence of governmental revenue and expenditure decisions on resource allocation, income distribution, and aggregate economic performance. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research project on a major current public sector issue.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 550.
ECON 543 - International Trade Theory
Description: General equilibrium analysis of product and input markets of international trade, tariffs, commercial policy, and growth and the welfare aspects of each. Graduate-level requirements include a research project and different tests.
ECON 549 - Applied Econometric Analysis
Description: Econometric model-building, estimation, forecasting and simulation for problems in agricultural and resource economics. Applications with actual data and models emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 518.
Description: Study of how new knowledge or new ideas can be transformed into commercial success.
Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 500, ECON 550, BNAD 510, consent of instructor.
Usually offered: Fall.
ECON 560 - Industrial Organization
Description: Structure, conduct, and performance of American industry; governmental institutions and policies affecting business. Graduate-level requirements include an applied research project that examines the impact of public policy on industry performance.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 550.
ECON 561 - Economics of Regulated Industry
Description: Economic analysis of the regulated sector of the American economy, including communications, transportation and energy industries; impact of existing and alternative public policies. Graduate-level requirements include a case of regulation/deregulation or other approved research project in regulatory theory or policy. Advanced credit available for non-majors only.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 550.
ECON 575 - Economic Evaluation of Water and Environmental Policy
Description: Theory and application of economic concepts needed to evaluate water and environmental laws and policies; including benefit cost analysis, externalities, public goods and valuation methodologies. Case studies include federal, state, tribal and international water and environmental policies.
ECON 576 - Natural Resource Law and Economics
Description: Advanced economic and legal analysis of environmental and natural resource policies.
ECON 577 - Advanced Topics In the Economics of Environmental Regulation
Description: Advanced economic theory of environmental policy. Topics include regulation of air and water pollution under imperfect competition, imperfect information, costly enforcement, uncertainty, and the use of alternative regulatory instruments.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 113, ECON 361.
Finance
FIN 512 - Advanced Corporate Finance
Description: Financial theory applied to capital structure; investment decisions; corporate valuation; and corporate financial policies.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510A/B or FIN 511.
FIN 513 - Fundamental Valuation Modeling
Description: This course is designed to provide students with a hands-on introduction to fundamental valuation, and financial decision making. The course objectives are to integrate and operationalize the various topics included in managerial finance, i.e., the financing and investment decisions. The course builds upon and reinforces the theoretical and institutional framework presented in the first semester core courses, primarily through the vehicle of case studies.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510A or FIN 511.
FIN 514 - Financial Management of Multinationals
Description: International finance markets and the financial management of the multinational firm.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510A/B or FIN 511.
FIN 515 - Venture Capital
Description: Topics include dynamics/complexities of venture capital (private equity), management of VC funds, the VC underwriting process/function, and risk/return management. Class is limited to 30 students.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510A/B or FIN 511 and consent of instructor.
FIN 518 - Investment Banking
Description: Examines the role of financial institutions and economic activities. In-depth evaluation analysis recognizing that the value of assets may depend on who controls them.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510 A/B or FIN 511.
FIN 521 - Investment Analysis
Description: Portfolio theory with applications to the markets for equities, fixed income securities, and options. Risk analysis and investment strategies.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510 A/B or FIN 511.
FIN 522 - Derivative Models
Description: Risk, return, and price behavior of securities in competitive markets. Financial futures, options, and other financial and real investments.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 521.
FIN 523A - Applied Investment Management
Description: To apply classroom learning to an active management of a student managed portfolio. Graduate-level requirements include structured management and leadership positions for the graduate students as the senior members of "investment firms."
FIN 523B - Applied Investment Management
Description: To apply classroom learning to an active management of a student managed portfolio. Graduate-level requirements include providing management and leadership positions for the graduate students as the senior members of "investment firms."
FIN 525 - Empirical Methods in Finance
Description: This course is to familiarize the students with the database and various statistical methods needed to undertake practitioner-type research in finance.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510 A/B or FIN 511.
FIN 528 - Public and Non-Profit Financial Management
Description: Advanced issues in public-sector financial management.
Prerequisite(s): PA 508, FIN 510 A/B or FIN 511.
Identical to: PA 528; PA is home department.
FIN 532 - Corporate Financial Strategy
Description: Financial decision-making in corporations. Case studies.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 513.
FIN 536 - New Venture Finance
Description: Role of entrepreneurship and innovation in economic growth. Development of new venture idea and assessment of financial requirements and potential.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 550, FIN 510A/B or FIN 511.
FIN 539 - Planning of New Ventures
Description: New venture development, financial projections, resource assessment, and long-range planning. Open only to students in the entrepreneurship program.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510A/B or FIN 511, MKTG 510.
FIN 541B - Fixed Income (2 units)
Description: This is the second semester of a two-semester course. It is designed to introduce students to fixed income portfolio management. The course objective is to provide students with a set of tools to analyze fixed income markets.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 541A.
Description: This course is designed to introduce students to fixed income markets and securities. The basic analytical tools of fixed income valuation are also presented.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510A/B or FIN 511.
FIN543 - High Yield and Distressed Debt
Description: To provide a broad overview and introduction to nontraditional fixed income asset classes. The asset classes covered will include (but are not limited to): high-yield debt, leveraged loans, convertible bonds, collateralized bond obligations, and credit derivative swaps, vulture investing, debtor-in-possession financing.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510A/B or FIN 511.
FIN 551 - International Markets and Institutions
Description: This course is designed to introduce students to international financial markets and institutions, focusing on banking, investments, and trade. An overview to these topics is provided through classroom lectures and readings in Tucson, prior to site visits in London, England. As a major centre for international financing, London offers an opportunity to experience the many dimensions of the international markets from a global perspective. Graduate-level requirements include a position paper.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 510A/B or FIN 511, FIN 512.
FIN 552 - Special Topics in Finance (see below)
Description: To address current issues in finance. Graduate-level requirements include participation in management and leadership positions for the graduate students as the senior members of "investment firms".
Prerequisites: FIN 510A/B or 511.
FIN 556 - Investment Research
Description: Provide an opportunity for students to prepare equity research reports for investment firms. Graduate-level requirements include supervisory responsibilities and will be required additional research in addition to expectations of undergraduate students.
Prerequisite: FIN 513.
FIN 560 - Real Property
Description: The focus of this course is on evaluating, financing, and managing investments in real property.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 513; open only to students admitted to an Eller graduate program.
FIN 561- Real Estate Development
Description: This course covers the five major types of real estate development—land development, residential properties, retail projects, office complexes, and industrial properties—with an emphasis on real estate development in the southwestern United States. The provides students with opportunities to interact with developers, investors, and land use planners, both in the classroom and during visits to projects in Southern Arizona and Phoenix.
Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Management and Organizations
Designed to provide an in-depth understanding of compensation policies. It will examine theoretical and practical aspects to compensation policies in organizations.
MGMT 512A - Management of Technology
Description: To provide practical experience and perspective in the challenging and complex world of technology management. The course content will include lectures, seminars, case analysis, shared personal experience from senior managers of technology-based enterprises, course specific academic literature, and guest speakers. Graduate-level requirements include two papers to be graded where indicated in the syllabus.
Typical structure: 1 hour individual studies, 1 hour lecture, 1 hour discussion.
Identical to: ENGR 512A; ENGR is home department.
To provide and practical and in depth understanding of management at the first and second levels, the integration of product to market requirements and synchronization of organizations in the challenging and complex world of technology management. The course will include team role playing, in depth (deep dive) analysis of product and organizational process which have insured the sustained and successful performance of technology companies. The content will include lectures, seminars, shared personal experience from senior managers of technology-based enterprises, course specific academic literature, and guest speakers.
Identical to ENGR 512B; ENGR is Home Department.
MGMT 521 - Business Law and the Search for Non-Obvious Liabilities
Description: General study of the law as it relates to business, specifically focusing on the types of situations where the wary entrepreneur, accountant or manager can identify potential liabilities.
Description: Survey course in the origins, development, and maturation of organizational analysis.
Identical to: SOC 525; SOC is home department.
Integrative, case-oriented course focusing on problems and policies in the procurement, development, compensation, and motivation of personnel.
Human resources issues when employees and customers interact in a services environment.
Description: Value maximization; simulation of value distribution; sources of venture capital; timing of initial public offering; new venture ownership structuring.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 500, FIN 511, MKTG 500. Open to entrepreneurship program students only.
Identical to: ECON 534; ECON is home department.
MGMT 535 - International Management
Description: Broaden perspectives on globalizing business and international integration. Enhance analytical and communication skills in approaching and resolving international issues. Course includes a visit to Guadalajara, Mexico. Travel expenses are additional.
MGMT 539 - Planning of New Ventures
Description: New venture development, financial projections, resource assessment, and long-range planning. Open only to students in the entrepreneurship program.
Prerequisite(s): FIN 511, MKTG 510.
MGMT 543 - White Collar and Organizational Crime
Description: The nature and distribution of white collar and organizational crime. Sociological and economic explanations for crime in organizational settings. Societal response and control mechanisms.
Identical to: PA 543; PA is home department.
MGMT 545 - Interactive Behavior in Small Groups
Description: Introduction and a critical survey of some of the essential ideas and concepts of n-person game theory and the experimental findings on strategic interaction in small groups. Attempts to combine theoretical, experimental, and applied perspectives. Graduate-level requirements include working independently on class assignments, mid-term paper, and class presentation.
MGMT 547 - Corporate Strategy
Description: This course provides a "real world" perspective into the generation of corporate strategies and the executive decision processes that facilitate the strategy's implementation. In addition to discussing and analyzing corporate strategic principles, we will review strategic issues inherent in the current state of the traditional and electronic marketplaces, identify barriers to success, and develop futuristic deployment strategies.
Examines employee training and development as a systematic planned strategy for continuous expansion of employee competence, broadly defined in order to meet organizational and individual goals.
MGMT 554 - Research Methodology
Description: Behavioral research techniques; bias, validity, reliability, and applicable statistical techniques; critiques of research articles and reports.
MGMT 558 - Conflict and Cooperation in the Dyad
Description: Designed to provide an introduction and a general survey of the major concepts and ideas of two-person game theory and the major findings of experimental research. Focuses on the interaction of theoretical concepts and experimental research. Graduate-level requirements include working independentyly on class assignments, a midterm paper and class presentation.
Issues in formulating and implementing technology strategy as organizations and industries grow, mature and stagnate. Topics include patterns of diffusion, role of licensing and joint ventures, and the divergence between leading edge and profitable science.
This course is designed to introduce you to the frameworks, competencies and skills required to lead change efforts within organizations.
Explore the major concepts and theories of psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution.
Description: Operational aspect of quality improvement. Topics include statistical process control, quality management programs.. Graduate-level requirements includes a report.
Identical to: MIS 565; MIS is home department.
Case method approach to problems and policies facing top management in making and effecting a strategic plan
This course is designed to provide you with the opportunity to integrate your learning from the spectrum of courses taken in the MBA program and relate them to a real world business environment.
Understanding the career opportunities available in pursuit of technical degrees and the need for managerial leadership skills. Graduate-level requirements include using your own experience with theory and research to develop a plan to move an organization to a high performing organization on the company's strategic direction.
Description: Analysis of behavior in organizational systems; review of classical, behavioral, and contingency theories of management with a focus on internal systems phenomena.
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 502.
MGMT 580B - Management and Organization Theory: Organizations in Their Environments
Description: Organizations in their environments; analysis of organizations in the context of their environmental interfaces.
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 502 or PA 501.
MGMT 582C - Univariate Analysis in Management
Description: This course focuses on analyzing data from experimental and empirical research. The techniques taught will be suitable for analyzing data with one (or few) dependent variables (and manyd independent), with a special emphasis on analysis of variance (ANOVA). The course will be a combination of theory and hands-on practice. Students are assumed to be familiar with undergraduate-level statistics, and statistical software (SPSS or SAS).
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 562.
Description: This course focuses on analyzing data from experimental and empirical research. The techniques taught will be suitable for analyzing data with one (or few) dependent variables (and many independent), with a special emphasis on analysis of variance (ANOVA). The course will be a combination of theory and hands-on practice. Students are assumed to be familiar with undergraduate-level statistics, and statistical software (SPSS or SAS).
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 562.
Description: Course material will include discussion of decision making processes in two forms: 1) descriptive: how decisions are actually made and the errors that sometimes occur, and 2) normative: how decisions should be made to optimize outcomes. Theoretical and applied concepts will be drawn from several fields: business, psychology, economics, statistics, etc. Examples will focus on managerial and personal decisions in order to gain a better understanding of our decision processes in the workplace and in our lives.
Description: Focusing your business and entrepreneurial skills on social and/or environmental problem solving. Graduate-level requirements include the experience to pitch the social entrepreneruship venture they have developed. Also the graduate students will have the experience to facilitate classes.
MGMT/ENTR 589 - Outsourcing of Professional Activities: Analysis of Strategic, Technical, Organizational, and Economic Aspects
Description: The objective of the course is to make students aware of Economical, Technological, Managerial and Organizational aspects associated with offshoring of knowledge-based professional services. The course will achieve this through case discussions of different delivery models (captive center, joint venture, 3rd party), value addition models (low-end, mid-range, high-end), and the impact of business and policy environments to each of these models.
Management Information Systems
Description: In today's ever changing technology environment, it is critical that organizations understand how to identify, acquire and implement new technology applications to sustain competitive advantage. This course will be divided into three modules to address each of these stages, even though some of the discussion on these may overlap the entire semester, depending on the availability of the resources (external speakers, research material, etc.)
Description: This course is intended to provide students exposure to the issues and challenges both users and systems professionals face within the IT management arena as a part of a firm's business and IT strategy. The specific goal is for the student to learn how to Plan IT/IS options to address competitive needs, analyze business systems, using process redesign and/or reengineering methods, Investigate IT options for acquisition, design and implementation; and develop change management strategies using innovation and learning based theories.
Description: The course will begin with a discussion of techniques and notations for object-oriented modeling. Building on the modeling techniques we develop, we will then discuss strategies for implementing reusable and extensible systems. You will learn a core set of skills including polymorphic code construction, the use of inheritance and composition and design patterns.
Prerequisite(s): MIS 531A, MIS 541A or consent of instructor.
Description: Comprehensive view of data and computer communications. Explores key issues in the field, in the general categories of principles (including basic concepts and terminology used in the field); design approaches and applications in business; standards such as the IEEE, OSI, TCP/IP and others.
Description: Broad survey of the individual, organizational, cultural, social and ethical issues provoked by current and projected uses of computers. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper.
Description: The course’s intent is to provide practical experience and perspective in the challenging and complex world of technology management. The course content will include lectures, case analysis, simulations, guest speakers, and shared personal experience from senior managers of technology-based enterprises. Major themes will include but not be limited to: strategy and tactics, market and technology driven product development, synchronization of organizations, creating real customer value, risk management, time to market, successful leadership models, and working in an international management environment. The course will include team role-playing, in depth (deep dive) analysis of product and organizational processes which have insured the sustained and successful performance of technology companies.
Typical structure: 1 hour individual studies, 1 hour lecture, 1 hour discussion.
Identical to: ENGR 512A; ENGR is home department.
Description: This course will integrate many business foundations in support of MIS students in the MS program. In today's environment, IT solutions have to support the competitive needs of organizations and recognize the inter-organizational nature of business processes. In addition, the IT solutions have to support the financial well-being of a firm as well as its responsibility to various stakeholders. This course uses five modules: business strategy in a global environment, process analysis and re-design in an ever expanding value chain; IT in support of these business processes, economic justification, and social implications.
Description: Topics include concepts of simulation software, model validation, selecting input, probability distribution, random variate generation, statistic analysis of output data. Graduate-level requirements include an additional project.
Description: The goal of this course is to help the student become a skilled builder and consumer of models for decision support. An introduction to the application of mathematical modeling to management decisions using spreadsheets is provided. Graduate-level requirement includes an additional modeling project.
Description: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems represents integrated strategy for management of information among organizations, suppliers and customers. Graduate-level requirements include completion of a group project on an advanced complementary or enabling technology using ERP. Students' projects include implementation or demonstration and presentation to class.
Description: This course introduces the latest advances in business process technologies and management such as business process planning, business process requirements analysis, business process modeling, workflow system design and implementation. The course will emphasize both theoretical issues and hands-on experiences in business process management. Graduate-level requirements include a term paper and more classroom participation in classroom discussion than the undergrads.
Prerequisite(s): MIS 531B or MIS 535 or consent of instructor
Description: This course deals with the fundamental concepts of data structures and algorithms. It will cover the design, implementation and analysis of data structures and algorithms from a practical and application perspective. The basic data structures to be examined include stacks, queues, lists, trees and graphs. The course will also cover various sorting and searching algorithms. These concepts will be explored in several business programming contexts. Object-oriented adaptations of data structures and algorithms as Java classes will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): A high-level programming language such as Java, C, orC++. (Java preferred)
Description: The course introduces the student to fundamentals of database analysis, design and implementation. Emphasis is on practical aspects of design and development. Topics covered include: conceptual design of databases using the entity relationship model, relational design and normalization. SQL and PL/SQL, web based database design, and implementation using Oracle or some other modern Database Management System. Students are required to work with a local client organization in designing and implementing a web based database application. Additional technology related to data warehouses, knowledge discovery and distributed databases is covered as well. Students will acquire hands-on-experience with a state-of-the-art database management system and web-based development tools as well as Java/C/C++.
Prerequis ite(s): MIS 531A and MIS 541A or consent of instructor.
Description: Introduction to fundamentals of database systems, design techniques and their use in organizations. Course covers relational database technology and focuses on design of database applications. Case studies will be used to illustrate the use of database systems for strategic and operational decision making. Emerging technologies and their applications will be covered. Students will get hands-on experience with state-of-the-art commercial relational and object-oriented database technology and learn to use SQL.
Prerequisite(s): basic working knowledge of computers. Not open to MS students in MIS.
Description: This course covers design, implementation, and anaylsis of software agents and multi-agent systems. It emphasizes theoretical foundations of agent-based computing and hands-on system building. Graduate-level requirements include an additional project, those taking MIS 538 are expected to work in small groups to implement a multi-agent system, turn in a substantial term project report, and present and demonstrate their implemented system in class.
MIS 540 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Description: This course is an introduction to the art and science of creating computer systems that think for themselves. We will cover techniques for representing knowledge, understanding language, building autonomous agents, computer vision and robotics. Graduate-level requirements include all undergraduate requirements, plus the completion of a substantial research project that must include a related program written by the student. There will also be separate graduate level exams.
Prerequisite(s): prior programming experience at the level of MIS 531A or C SC 318. Credit for MIS 540 or MIS 680 but not for both.
Identical to: C SC 540.
MIS 541A - Information Systems Analysis and Design
Description: Tools, techniques and methodologies for Business Process Re-Engineering, information systems analysis and design. Other topics to be discussed include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and supply chain management. Students are expected to undertake a project in a "real world" setting.
Identical to: C SC 541A.
MIS 565 - Managing for Quality Improvement
Description: Operational aspect of quality improvement. Topics include statistical process control, quality management programs.. Graduate-level requirements includes a report.
Identical to: MGMT 565.
MIS 570 - Management and Evaluation of Information Systems
Description: The methodologies of economics and management information systems are applied to the problem of designing and evaluating information systems for a profit-maximizing firm. An MBA integrative course.
Prerequisite(s): Open only to graduate students in BPA College.
MIS 573A and B - Production and Operations Management
*MIS 573A:
Description: Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling, and updating systems. Forecasting, aggregate planning, MRP, inventory models under uncertainty, scheduling. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program.
*MIS 573B:
Description: Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling, and updating systems. Topics include project management, quality control, reliability, facility layout and decision theory. Case studies, group projects and industry speakers give students an understanding of human problems and quantitative methods. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program.
MIS 577 - The Supply Chain and Logistics
Description: Organization, management and control of material flow processes; logistical strategies and relationships of procurement, handling, warehousing, transportation, and inventory control. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program.
MIS 578 - Project Management
Description: Projects are the preferred way to get things done today in business. Course focuses on the problems and methods of running projects; special attention to information technology and software projects. Students manage real projects, use scheduling software, study cases and analytical tools. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program.
MIS 597A - Collaborative Computing
Description: The practical application of theoretical learning within a group setting and involving an exchange of ideas and practical methods, skills, and principles.
Description: Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline that promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, sharing and evaluating an enterprise's information and knowledge assets. This course reviews and discusses existing enabling technologies in KM and new, emerging KM technologies and practices. Such technologies are presented in the context of emerging Internet, data mining, e-commerce, and enterprise computing applications. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper.
MIS 596A - Special Topics in MIS
Description: The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Marketing
This course presents marketing concepts and strategies for organizations whose core product is service. Topics include service quality, customer attraction and retention, service delivery, and service promotion.
MKTG 530 - Management of Marketing Communication
Description: Application of communications theory and research findings in advertising, sales promotion, publicity, personal selling; planning, conduct and administration of programs of information and persuasion.
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 510.
MKTG 550 - Consumer and Organizational Buyer Behavior
Description: Nature of the purchase decision process for goods and services. Theories, concepts and research methods and findings are examined for use in management and public policy decision making.
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 510.
MKTG 555 - Special Topics in Marketing-Brand Management
Description: Addresses many of the strategic areas of brand asset management in modern business entities. The basic objectives of this class are :increase awareness and understanding of major issues in building and managing brand assets and communicate effective frameworks for understanding brand strategy decisions, along with important streams of empirical evidence. Prerequisite(s): MKTG 510.
MKTG 559 - Product Strategy
Description: Formulating and implementing strategy for growth; analyzing and influencing market structure; developing, pricing, testing new entries; managing the portfolio.
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 510.
MKTG 572 - Marketing Research
Description: Specification of management information needs, evaluation of research proposals and findings, methods of gathering and analyzing data, administrative aspects of research and decisions.
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 510.
MKTG/ENTR 579 - Marketing of Innovation
This course focuses on how to bring cutting-edge technologies to the marketplace. It is designed to facilitate the hands-on application of marketing concepts and practices to the very difficult world of commercializing new discoveries in science and engineering. The goal is to provide an opportunity for a select group of students interested in technology commercialization to apply their skills in formulating an early stage market assessment and preliminary launch strategy for the "newest of the new" in the laboratory sciences. You do not need a technical background, although this can be an advantage; however, you do need to have a strong interest in applying your knowledge to help scientists move their discoveries into commercial application.
Public Administration
PPOL 501 - Public Organization Theory
Description: Course focuses on understanding and analyzing interactions, effectiveness and complexities of organization structures.
PPOL 502 - Management and Security: Public and Non-Profit Information Systems
Description: Blends the basics of networked information systems into broader public and nonprofit organizational and security management issues and experiences.
Prerequisite(s): PA 501.
PPOL 503 - Politics, Policy and Public Management
Description: Various theories of how public policy is formulated.
PPOL 504 - Public Policy and Economics
Description: Applications of economics to the analysis of public policy and planning problems.
PPOL 506 - Bureaucracy, Politics and Policy
Description: Description and analysis of the executive branch of government: how federal agencies capture policy-making; why bureaucracy develops; the rules of bureaucratic culture; who controls the administrative branch. Graduate-level requirements include an additional research paper.
PPOL 508 - Public and Non-Profit Financial Management
Description: Financial management and budgeting in the public and nonprofit sectors; techniques and organizational issues.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 550.
PPOL 512 - Local Government
Description: The study of counties and municipalities, with special emphasis on local governments in the Western United States.
PPOL 514 - Analytic Methods in Planning and Strategic Management
Description: Methods and models for program planning and policy analysis; forecasting, service demand, facility location in capital investment programming, task sequencing, program analysis and evaluation.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 557 or consent of instructor.
Identical to: CPH 514, GEOG 514, PLN 514.
PPOL 515 - State and Local Government Finance
Description: This course focuses on fiscal issues facing governments at the sub-national level. Included is a survey of state and local fiscal systems in the country ad detailed analysis of the major state and local revenue sources (such as income tax, sales tax) and expenditure categories (such as K-12, higher education and welfare), and economic and administrative issues in intergovernmental relations.
PPOL 516 - Health Ethics and Public Policy
Description: Dealing with ethical and public dimension of health care. Policy issues include who pays for health care, who can have assess to health care and the implications of for-profit health care provision will be discussed. Graduate-level requirements include individual presentations.
PPOL 517 - Public Policy Analysis
Description: Introduction to theory and practice of public policy analysis.
PPOL 521 - Community Services Policy
Description: With the devolution of public policy and programming to state and local governments, communities are increasingly responsible for delivery of public services through local government agencies or through the nonprofit and private sectors. This course analyzes the nature and causes of needs addressed by community service programs, reviews service delivery politics, the effects of changes in policies, funding sources and legislation on effectiveness of service delivery systems.
Identical to: SOC 521.
Description: Examines many of the critical and emerging issues facing health care managers and policy makers. The course is organized around a series of guest lectures presented by local and national leaders in health organization and policy. Typical topics include the “corporatization” of health care, quality and quality management, labor force and human resource issues, managing physician-hospital relationships, information systems, mental health, Medicare and Medicaid, and non-U.S. models.
Identical to: CPH 523.
PPOL 525 - Current Topics in Health Services and Managed Care
Description: Examines many of the critical issues currently facing health care managers and policy makers. There will be a strong emphasis on managed care and service delivery in a managed care environment. The course is organized around a series of guest lectures presented by local and national leaders in health administration and policy.
Prerequisite(s): PA 522.
PA 528/FIN 528 - Public and Non-Profit Debt and Investment Management
Description: Advanced issues in public-sector financial management.
Prerequisite(s): PA 508, FIN 511.
Identical to: FIN 528.
PPOL 533 - Nonprofit Management
Description: This class on nonprofit management will cover topics such as fund-raising, grant-writing, marketing, board relations, volunteer management, strategic management and leadership.
PPOL 540 - Correction Policy and Theory
Description: Theories of crime applied to public policy issues. The relationship between scientific analysis of crime and formation of public policy.
Identical to: LAW 540, SOC 540.
PPOL 543 - White Collar and Organizational Crime
Description: The nature and distribution of white collar and organizational crime. Sociological and economic explanations for crime in organizational settings. Societal response and control mechanisms.
Identical to: MGMT 543.
Description: A course in applied ethics that examines ethical responses from both individual and organizational perspectives; specifically, methods of preventing illegal and inappropriate conduct are presented.
PPOL 565 - Public Health Advocacy
Description: This course establishes a framework within which advocacy is understood to be an essential role of the public health professional in promoting, implementing and sustaining effective public health policy. Through case studies, readings, lectures, role plays, field research and action planning, students will develop the skills needed to be an effective advocate for public health
Prerequisite(s): CPH 574.
Identical to: CPH 565; CPH is home department.
PPOL 577 - Judicial Administration and Reform
Description: Explores the structure, administration, management, and reform of United States courts. Course is intended to prepare students for careers in the courts and court administration.
Identical to: LAW 577.
PPOL 580B - Management and Organization Theory: Organizations in Their Environments
Description: Organizations in their environments; analysis of organizations in the context of their environmental interfaces.
Prerequisite(s): MBA 310A and BAD 314R or equivalent; or MBA 502 or PA 501.
Identical to: MGMT 580B; MGMT is home department.
Description: Role of government in management of energy, natural resources and environment; process and policy alternatives; special attention to the Southwest. Graduate-level requirements include additional readings and a substantial research paper of at least 25 pages in length.
Identical to: POL 581, HWR 581, RNR 581.
PPOL 583 - History of US Intelligence: Organization and Policy
Description: The course is intended to provide students with a framework for understanding how the United States came to have the intelligence system that it possesses today. After briefly developing a concept of the basic functions of intelligence—the organized collection and analysis of information and conduct of covert action that support the formulation and execution of US national security policy—the course will look at the evolution of US intelligence activity as it increasingly embodied those functions. The largely chronological approach will begin with early intelligence organization during the Revolutionary War, then proceed through halting developmental steps during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It will finally look at the major organizational expansion of intelligence activity from the 1940s onward. An overarching theme will be the linkage between the growth of intelligence organizations and the growing need for information by US policymakers increasingly involved in the international environment. Each class meeting will include lecture and discussion. Particularly in covering 20th century developments, the course will involve reading of declassified intelligence documents. Graduate-level requirement include more extensive reading and a more extensive paper. Some of the readings that are optional for the undergraduates will be required for the graduate students.
PPOL 589 - US Intelligence: Management Challenges in a Changing World
Description: The course will address selected challenges facing the US Intelligence Community in the early 21st century, such as the post-Cold War international environment, the information revolution, and the effort to increase coordination among US intelligence organizations. In many respects it will involve a more detailed examination of issues covered more briefly in the US intelligence overview course, PA/POL 579.
PPOL 596F - Theory and Research on the Nonprofit Sector
Description: The seminar examines nonprofit organizations and philanthropic behavior from a sociological perspective. We apply neo-institutional, ecological, social movement, and global society theories to understand the role of nonprofits in markets, political arenas, and civil society.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Student in SBS, Law, Eller College of Management, or Education.
Identical to: SOC 596F; SOC is home department.
PPOL 596L - Government and Security Response to Terrorism
Description: Course integrates security issues into study of policy, public administration, and governance. Graduate-level requirements include a 20 minute presentation, a 10 page single spaced paper with a 10 page annotated bibiliography.
Identical to: LAW 596L, POL 596L.
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