Isenberg Online | MBA Suggested First Class

Suggested First Classes

Not sure where to start? Based on feedback from past graduate students and the advice of our faculty, we’ve come up with a list of suggested first classes that will apply to your MBA:

Business and Its Environment

Relationship between business firms and various environments in which they operate; examines environmental impact of business decisions, issues related to social accountability of firms, and concepts of cost-benefit analysis. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 783.

Business Data Analysis

Statistical methods employed in collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. Business applications of sampling, analysis of variance, experimental design, regression analysis, and forecasting models. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 650.

Human Resource Management

Overview of human resource management theory and practice in organizations. HR activities include: strategy, recruitment, selection, separation; training and career development; health and safety; compensation; EEO issues, labor relations, performance evaluations, and international human resource management. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 770.

Information Management

The management of information technology resources to successfully integrate into an organization electronic commerce, network computing, supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, transaction processing systems, customer relationship management, information security and other relevant topics. This 3 credit course is referred to as SCH-MGMT 632.

Marketing Management

Marketing concepts of planning, organization, control, and decision making from viewpoint of the business executive. Stress on tools available for analysis and control of marketing activities. This 3 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 660.

Organizational Behavior and Theory

Addresses questions of organization design and human behavior. Presents perspectives for understanding and analyzing processes of managing complex organizations and the interpersonal dynamics within them. This 4 credit course is listed as SCH-MGMT 680.

Services Marketing Management

This course can be taken in place of SCH-MGMT 660 Marketing Management in the core curriculum or as an elective. This course covers the essentials of marketing management as they apply to service industries, including health care, hospitality and financial services. A strategic marketing planning approach is used to identify and resolve marketing issues and problems facing firms and organizations in the service sector. Such topics as service quality, segmentation, positioning, consumer expectations, the consumer decision process, service recovery, internal marketing and relationship marketing are presented. This 3 credit elective course is listed as SCH-MGMT 713.