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MBA Course Descriptions

Core 1: Foundational Skills

MBAC‐6300: Accounting for Decision Making (3 hours) 

Provides students with an understanding of accounting information critical in planning, control and decision‐making to achieve stated goals within an organization. Incorporates the use of cases that focus on accounting data in directing the decisions and strategy of businesses. Identifies skills to analyze financial information through the use of appropriate accounting software in order to make sound managerial decisions. Prerequisite: Passing score on Common Professional Component (CPC) based comprehensive exam in the Accounting section, passing score on academic leveling course (ALC), or a 3‐credit undergraduate course in accounting.

MBAC‐6450: Financial Management (3 hours) 

Develops the financial skills and critical thinking necessary to understand and discuss financial policy decisions in a global economy. Topics covered include: financial statement analysis for decision making; developing an understanding of the time value of money; the cost of capital, valuation of stocks and bonds, management of short‐term assets, short‐term and long‐term financing, capital markets, and multinational financial management. Also addresses the impact of legal, social, technological and ethical considerations on efficient economic outcomes. Prerequisite: Passing score on the Finance section of the Peregrine inbound test.

MBAC‐6040: Business Analytics: Data, Models and Decisions (3 hours) 

The covers managerial statistical tools in descriptive analytics and predictive analytics, including regression. Other topics covered include forecasting, risk analysis, simulation, and data mining, and decision analysis. This course provides students with the fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics in organizations and shows students how to apply basic business analytics tools in a spreadsheet environment, and how to communicate with analytics professionals and to effectively interpret analytic models for making better business decisions.

MBAC‐6200: Economics for Managers (3 hours) 

Examines key economic concepts critical to managerial decision‐making within today’s business environment with an emphasis on national and global real‐world applications. Incorporates both microeconomic and macroeconomic principles. Prerequisite: Passing score on Common Professional Component (CPC) based comprehensive exam in the Economics section, passing score on academic leveling course (ALC), or a 3‐credit undergraduate course in economics.

MBAC‐6100: Global Marketing in a Digital Era (3 hours) 

Provides students with the knowledge and understanding of the global marketing environment through key marketing concepts, digital marketing tools and global marketing strategy. Challenges students to think critically about the global marketplace. Students will hone their approach to global marketing decisions, policies and strategies and learn to formulate and evaluate a global marketing plan through the use of digital marketing tools and techniques.

Core 2: Thinking and Applied Artificial Intelligence

MBAC‐6060: Design Thinking (3 hours) 

Through the study of Design Thinking Methods, students will cultivate creative thinking, innovation, and problem-solving skills. Students will research and collaborate on complicated human-centered design problems to develop the skills needed to begin the process of solving complex problems and challenges. Students will study methods developed by Design Thinking and Design Research.

MBAC‐6070: Applied Artificial Intelligence (3 hours) 

This course examines the full range of AI/ML applications across all industries. The course examines specific use cases in real estate, banking, finance, agriculture, automotive, consumer, education, energy, fashion, finance, food, healthcare, insurance, law, manufacturing, media, retail, technology, transportation, and telecommunications industries as they tackle problems in sales, marketing, R&D, operations, HR, customer service, maintenance, and manufacturing, among other vertical industries and business functions. The course is a tour-de-force of how AI is used today to solve simple and complex business problems.

Core 3: Strategy, Integration, and Leadership

MBAC‐6080: Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making (3 hours) 

This course will explore how leaders make good ethical decisions in environments that often have conflicting goals, influences, positions, and practices. The course will look at a variety of moral frameworks and what the critical steps are to follow and evaluate how ethical decisions are made based on these frameworks. Students will learn to offer justifications and moral reasoning for decision-making. The course will also explore the role that human behavior and psychology play in ethical and unethical behaviors.

MBAC‐6990: Capstone (3 hours) 

The capstone course is a culmination of your MBA coursework and is taken in the final term of your program. Gives students the opportunity to utilize the knowledge and skills developed through the MBA program. Through the MBA course portfolio signature assignments, students will demonstrate how knowledge learned impacts their business leadership. Prerequisite: 30 hours of MBA coursework or permission from department chair.8

The Concordia-Chicago MBA

Students enrolled in the online MBA program at Concordia University Chicago General MBA will take all of the courses above in addition to one course from a chosen specialization. 

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