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The purpose of the Dunham School of Business is to transform learners into developing professional leaders.
The MBA focuses on integrated learning experiences and is designed for those students desiring a broad understanding of business operations or one of four concentrations. Students may enter the program at the beginning of either the fall or spring semester. Students develop problem solving and team building skills and learn to create an environment in which they can comfortably and confidently learn from each other as well as from the faculty. All MBA courses incorporate written assignments (with a managerial focus), oral presentations and business ethics.
It is expected that students entering the program will have some work experience. The program is designed for the working professional. Classes are scheduled in the evening on week days and on Saturdays and students enroll for one or more courses per semester. Students entering the program who are not undergraduate business majors will be required to take a series of courses designed to provide them with the basic understanding of business necessary to pursue graduate level work in the field.
The general admission requirements are to be found in the section “Graduate Admission Requirements”. In addition to the requirements listed there, it is expected that applicants to the MBA program will have at least two years of some work experience.
Attendance is mandatory for all class sections. If a student is to be absent for any reason, he/she must discuss the expected absence with the course instructor before it occurs.
Grades will be assigned to each student at the conclusion of each course according to the procedures outlined in the section “Graduate Grading System”.
At the graduate level, a ‘C’ grade indicates less than complete mastery of the content of a course. Only two grades of ‘C’ are accepted at the graduate level in the MBA program and they must be balanced by two grades of ‘A’. If a ‘C’ is received within the first three courses, the student may be removed from the program by action of the program faculty.
A minimum of 30 semester hours of graduate credit must be earned at Aurora University in order to receive the MBA degree. A maximum of six semester hours of graduate credit may be transferred from an accredited college or university and applied to the requirements of this degree. Any course work submitted for transfer must be approved by the program faculty and the director. See the section “Transfer of Credit” for the conditions governing the transfer of credit.
The following courses are required for entry into the MBA program. Normally undergraduate business majors will have taken all of these courses and, if so, are eligible for entry directly into the program. Majors in other undergraduate fields may have had one or more of these courses and if so they need not be repeated. An interview with the prospective student will determine which prerequisite courses will be needed.
Prerequisite Courses for the Graduate Business Program
ACC2010 Foundations of Financial Accounting or MBA5120 Foundations of Accounting
ACC2020 Foundations of Management Accounting or MBA5120 Foundations of Accounting
BUS2010 Legal Environment of Business
BUS3200 Foundations of Management
BUS3300 Foundations of Marketing
ECN2010 Foundations of Microeconomics or MBA5140 Foundations of Economics
ECN2020 Foundations of Macroeconomics or MBA5140 Foundations of Economics
MTH1800 Business Quantitative Methods or ECN3300 Business Statistics or General Statistics
The MBA degree requires 36 semester hours: 24 hours of required core courses plus 12 semester hours from concentration courses and/or special topics courses. Three of the 12 semester hours may be earned in seminars.
MBA Required Core Courses
3 semester hours each; 24 semester hours required
MBA6010 Environmental Influences on Management
MBA6020 Marketing Management
MBA6030 Organizational Behavior and Leadership
MBA6140 Managerial Accounting
MBA6050 Financial Management
MBA6080 Managing Information Technology
MBA6110 Strategic Management
MBA6500 Global Business Immersion or
MBA5880 Travel Study: Global Business Experience
12 semester hours required from concentration courses and/or special topics courses
MBA Concentration in Accounting
3 semester
hours each
ACC5510 Accounting Information
Systems
ACC5520 Governmental and Nonprofit
Accounting
ACC6530 Special Topics in Accounting
ACC6550 AIS, Design, Application
and Evaluation
MBA Concentration Human Resource Management
3 semester hours each
MBA6200 Human Resource Management
MBA6210 The SHRM® Learning System Course
MBA6220 Human Resource Information Systems
MBA6230 Strategic Human Resource Management
MBA Concentration in Strategic Sales and Sales Management
3 semester hours each
MBA6320 The Strategic Sales Process
MBA6330 Customer Relationship Management
MBA6340 Strategic Sales Management
MBA Concentration in Technology and Operations Management
3 semester hours each
MBA6400 Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains
MBA6410 Operations Strategy
MBA6420 Innovation and Venture Initiation
MBA Special Topics
MBA6810 Special Topics: Project Leadership 3 semester hours
MBA6810 Seminar (1 semester hour courses, may be accumulated for a maximum of 3 semester hours)
MBA FACULTY
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Posted: 9 March 2005