Strategic Management synthesizes accounting, economics, finance, and other fields to examine corporate and business-level strategy, top management problems, and actual business cases.
Students develop and refine Lean Start-Up business models for customer/market discovery, presenting to the WAVE Board for feedback on investment potential.
Explores organizational strategies for talent management, including attraction, acquisition, development, motivation, and retention, to support business strategy.
People Analytics builds hands-on skills to integrate data analytics into human resource management, focusing on developing and evaluating human capital policies through experiential learning with organizational data.
Diversity in Organizations explores workplace diversity advantages, challenges, and management techniques for demographic groups like race, sex, and age.
Theory and practice of negotiations, covering game theory approaches, distributive and integrative bargaining, tactical application, and analysis of negotiation processes and settlements.
Creative Destruction Lab II uses action learning where teams engage with a real-world technology venture in a knowledge-intensive industry to negotiate, plan, implement, and present a support project.
Manages behavior in organizations by applying leadership and work motivation theories, emphasizing performance management and managerial skill building.
CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS IN BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY provides knowledge and skills to tackle challenges at the intersection of business and sustainability.
Explores how leaders enact, foster, and implement change in organizations and individuals, covering managing organizational transformations, responding to crises, and performance improvement.
Entrepreneurial Management covers activities and skills to start and manage an enterprise, including decisions on domain, purchase vs. start-up, market, financing, legal form, staffing, organization, location, and legal requirements.
Business Strategy covers strategic management formulation and implementation at business unit and corporate levels, emphasizing unique analysis tools for companies and industries applied to business problems.
The coursework was considered too heavy for the three-hour weekly commitment, with tests described as incredibly difficult and group projects lacking direction.
Examines growth strategies extending firm scope into new businesses and geographies, analyzing portfolio complementarities, vertical integration, and external alliances.
Bargaining, Negotiating and Dispute Settlement for Managers covers bargaining theories and applies them through exercises and role-playing to improve negotiating skills.
WAVE course where students develop, refine, and present business models using the Lean Start-Up approach, culminating in a presentation to the WAVE Board.
Seminar in Arts Administration continuing MHR 773, focusing on assessing financial management strategies and program evaluation methods for arts and cultural organizations.
Applied Learning in Human Resource Management explores emerging HR topics through personal assessments, case studies, industry meetings, and workshops to enhance leadership and communication.
Strategic Human Resource Management Capstone involves conducting research and completing a project for a local client to address an HR business challenge.
Past students reported that Timothy Paustian required them to buy his own textbook; one called his exams extremely hard, while another called quizzes a guessing game with deliberately vague wording.
Introductory survey of microorganisms covering structure, function, ecology, nutrition, physiology, and genetics, plus applied areas including medical, agricultural, food, and industrial microbiology.
Past student reviews · Michelle Rondon, Katrina Forest
Assessment structures ranged from noncumulative exams without a textbook to challenging tests that required heavy textbook reading and covered material not discussed in lecture.
General Microbiology Laboratory covers techniques and procedures in general microbiology, including cultivation, enumeration, aseptic techniques, physiology, and selected applications.
Quizzes were worth five points each, and students advised aiming for a perfect score to help their grade. Exams focused on listing characteristics and grouping, with study guide questions appearing directly on tests.
Independent Study in Microbiology involves research work under direct faculty guidance, where students arrange specific projects and credits with their supervisor.
Lectures moved extremely fast, making it hard to take notes while comprehending the material. Exams were described as hyperspecific, while lecture slides were often vague and unhelpful for understanding.