GS 500 Graduate Management Orientation
In this online orientation, students are introduced to the courses within the MSM program, the faculty, and fellow students. Students are also oriented to The College and the educational resources available to them.
GS 502 Foundations of Management
This introductory course includes nine online learning modules designed to equip students for success in the MS in Management program. The modules are: Foundations of Communication; Foundations of Business Integration & Strategic Management; Foundations of Organizational Behavior; Foundations of Human Resource Management; Foundations of Finance; Foundations of Marketing; Foundations of Statistics; Foundations of Ethics; and Foundations of Academic Writing.
The online Foundations course is largely self-paced. An instructor provides assistance as needed. Students complete a pre-test for each module to assess their strengths and weaknesses. Our learning management system Brightspace then produces a customized learning module appropriate for their individual needs. Students use the module to master key concepts and skills. They then demonstrate mastery through post-tests. Students may repeat each post-test an unlimited number of times during the 5-week session to earn a passing grade. Students must pass every assigned module in the Foundation courses with a score of 70% in order to proceed to later courses in the MSM program.
GS 505 Communication in Management
Students are introduced to constructive and collaborative ways of communicating effectively across different modes and platforms. Topics equip students to influence or persuade stakeholders, successfully communicate messages, and emphasize key communication skills needed by managers.
GS 512 Strategic Management
This course approaches strategic management from a practical perspective. Students develop an understanding of business strategies, formulation and implementation of major goals to better identify organizational initiatives. Case studies along with real world examples communicate important stages, components, and major roles of exceptional managers to gain and sustain a competitive advantage.
GS 517 Organizational Behavior & Management
This course addresses the most current theories, research, and organizational applications in the field of organizational behavior (OB). Students explore concerns of all managers, including managing the behavior of individuals and groups, demographic changes, globalization, ethics, social responsibility, organizational processes, and innovation relevant in today’s business environment.
GS 522 Strategic Human Resource Management
Students are introduced to the concept of Human Resource Management (HRM) and the evolving strategic nature of this field. The course addresses management of human capital to meet the strategy, mission, and vision of the organization. It promotes the understanding of employees as an investment in the success of an organization and as the framework for HRM. Students can then concentrate on the practice and implementation of strategic issues, including resource development, talent management, employee relations, knowledge management, business ethics, corporate responsibility and sustainability, change management, and global context.
GS 528 (MSMT 528) Conflict Management (3 credits)
All managers to some degree are conflict managers and must apply prevention, conflict resolution, management techniques, and collaboration skills. Students apply principles and techniques for preventing, negotiating, and minimizing conflict. Topics include communication, decision-making, resolving conflict, dispute resolution, and the different types of conflict styles.
MSFS 530 Financial Statement Analysis
Students extract information from multiple types of financial statements, including note disclosures, and use that data to view a business and assess value generated. In doing so, they quantitatively assess the business’s strategies and apply sound statistical and analytical techniques. Case studies, along with data analytics assignments, questions, critical thinking problems, analysis decisions, and mini-exercises enable students to practice multiple techniques.
GS 535 Marketing Management
This course introduces students to a broad spectrum of marketing management topics including marketing strategy, marketing research, and ethical issues affecting the marketplace. Marketing managers are tasked with delivering the right mix of offerings in pursuit of marketing objectives and to satisfy unmet consumer needs. Students create and execute a marketing plan to reach target customers and drive them to act.
GS 540 Managerial Decision-Making
The ability to gather and analyze data to form a strategy is essential in management. This course examines two levels of analytics from a descriptive and predictive viewpoint. Using spreadsheets, visualizations, and research, students develop a working knowledge of analytics as it applies to business decisions within the field of management. Topics include database analytics, data visualization, forecasting techniques, and data mining.
GS 555 Operational Risk Management
This course explores operational risk management practices in the financial services industry. A distinction exists between risk and uncertainty—namely, knowledge and data gathering. Students analyze current methods and best practices applied in financial companies to include risk identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and rising operational risk within the industry.
GS 600 Capstone: Ethical Decision-Making in Management*
This capstone course for the Master of Science in Management degree program focuses exclusively on ethics, ethical theories and principles, personal integrity in the workplace, and corporate responsibility and values, as well as organizational culture. Students analyze and examine ethical decisions from a managerial perspective, guided by a best-practices framework. Students further explore formal and informal control mechanisms of perceived ethics with appropriate guidance. Moral issues and dilemmas to stimulate critical analysis within a variety of organizational settings and a variety of contexts and cultures are examined. As part of the capstone, students complete an independent or group project demonstrating their conceptual, analytical, and practical ethical decision-making management skills.
*Prerequisites: Completion of all courses in the GS program.
