1. Organizational leadership and Corporate Ethical Citizenship
2. System Thinking and Sustainable Business Environment
3. Global and Domestic Business Environment
4. Decision Making and Value Creation
5. Marketing and Global Supply Chain Management

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Curriculum

Excluding PROFICIENCY courses, students are required to take 36 credit hours in the program. There are 27 credit hours of core courses, including the CAPSTONE, Applied Strategic Management, course and 9 credit hours of elective courses

MBA Proficiency Courses

Note: students who enter the program without undergraduate business courses will be advised about the necessary foundation courses they are required to take prior to taking the core classes. Upon transcript reviews, some or all foundation courses may be waived based on previous study

MBA Elective Courses (9 Hours)

Students must complete elective courses to achieve the required 36 hours of graduate work. The electives may be selected to achieve a concentration (see options below), or a range of general business electives that interest the student may be chosen to earn a general MBA without an area of concentration.

Accounting (three of the following courses)                          

• ACCT 5333 – Auditing
• ACCT 5353 – Federal Tax Concepts for Individuals
• ACCT 5360 – Governmental/ Not-for-Profit Accounting
• ACCT 5362 – Taxation of Business Entities
• ACCT 5366 – Comparative Accounting Practices
• ACCT 5393 – Accounting Information Systems

Ethics

• MBA 5393 – Independent Study
• MBA 5351 -  International Management
• ACCT 5399 - Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility

Finance (two of the following courses)

• MBA 5319 – Investment Theory
• MBA 5331 – Financial Institutions and Markets
• MBA 5330 -  International Finance 
• MBA 5341 – Futures, Swaps, and Options

(Students pursuing a finance concentration must take one additional elective of their choice in order to meet the number of total credit hours required for the degree)

Health Care Concentration (TWU)

NOTE: Because of course sequencing and scheduling, applicants for the Concentration are advised to begin the Program in the Fall semester, taking HCA 5001 and HCA 5103.  They can then complete the sequence in the Spring semester with HCA 5193, HCA 5483, or HCA 5633.  Because of course scheduling, if a student begins the Concentration Program in the Spring semester, they will not be able to complete the sequence until the following Fall semester

HCA 5103 Foundations of Health Services (plus two of the following courses)

• HCA 5001 Health and Disease (prerequisite for those students without a life-sciences background)
• HCA 5483 Epidemiology Methods (HCA 5001 and HCA 5103 are prerequisites for this course)
• HCA 5193 Health Law or HCA 5633 Health Policy Analysis

International Business (three of the following courses)

• MBA 5330 – International Finance
• MBA 5351 – International Management
• MBA 5355 – Global Marketing
• MBA 5366 – Sourcing Management
• MBA 5367 – Managing and Working in Virtual Teams
• MBA 5393 – Special Topics (Study Abroad)

Marketing (three of the following courses)                                                                         

• MBA 5321 – Marketing Applications and Research
• MBA 5333 – Seminar in Marketing
• MBA 5355 – Global Marketing
• MBA 5360 – E-Business Strategies
• MBA 5362 – Entrepreneurship
• MBA 5366 – Sourcing Management

Management Information Systems (three of the following courses)

• MBA 5358 – Systems Project Management
• MBA 5359 – Selected Topics in Management Information Systems                             
• MBA 5360 – E-Business Strategies                                                                 
• MBA 5366 – Sourcing Management
• MBA 5367 – Managing and Working in Virtual Teams
• MBA 5368 – Systems Analysis and Design