You must successfully complete the requirements for 18 courses to qualify for your MBA. There are four types of courses, listed below. The course descriptions provide more detailed information about specific courses, as well as a link to the upcoming class schedule.

Foundation Courses: You will gain the basic knowledge and skills needed to be successful in advanced graduate business courses. You must meet the requirements for all seven foundation courses; however, you may qualify to have these courses waived based on previous academic work or by taking a challenge exam.

• Financial Accounting
• Managerial Accounting
• Managerial Economics
• Quantitative Methods
• Operations Management
• Management Communication
• Legal Aspects of Business

Core Courses: You will develop your ability to analyze business information, understand business functional areas, and be a responsible leader. You must meet the requirements for all eight courses. However, if you have taken similar post-graduate courses in another MBA program, you may qualify for transfer credits equaling up to eight quarter-units (typically two courses).

• Organizational Behavior and Management
• Managerial Finance
• Marketing Management
• International Business
• Ethical and Social Aspects of Business
• Industry Analysis
• Business Strategy
• New Business Development

Foundation Courses:

GMAN 301 - Financial Accounting
This course focuses on the concepts and principles that underlie corporate financial statements prepared for external users, including the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement.

GMAN 302 - Managerial Accounting
This course examines the internal use of accounting as a management tool. Emphasis is on cost concepts and analysis of cost variances. Topics include cost-volume-profit analysis, process and activity-based costing, cost allocation, budgeting and performance measures.

GMAN 303 - Managerial Economics
You will learn micro- and macro-economics concepts and analytical techniques used in managing businesses. Topics include consumer behavior, production and cost, market structures and market failure, fiscal and monetary policy, and international trade and finance.

GMAN 304 - Quantitative Methods
This course introduces analytical methods for data analysis to support managerial decisions. Topics include basic statistics, sampling and statistical inference, and linear regression models.

GMAN 305 - Operations Management
This course focuses on quantitative and qualitative models for managing operations. Topics include decision models, forecasting techniques and time series analysis, process analysis, waiting line management, linear programming, statistical control, aggregate planning, supply chain management and project management.

GMAN 306 - Management Communication
This course is designed to evaluate and sharpen your business writing and speaking skills. You will be introduced to argumentation as an advanced form of communication that is crucial for effective managerial performance. The emphasis is on the manager’s use of language as a tool to identify issues, solve problems and communicate policy.

GMAN 307 - Legal Aspects of Business
You will be introduced to the legal framework for business and to significant legal issues involved in the conduct of business. Topics include the legal system, forms of business, corporation in law, shareholders’ rights and liabilities, intellectual property, competitive torts and unfair competition, antitrust law, contract law and negotiation, and areas of conduct in which law shapes managerial behavior.

Core Courses:

GMAN 311 - Organizational Behavior and Management
You will gain an understanding of how managerial and organizational processes work based on the behavioral sciences. You will use this information to analyze workplace behavior to improve motivation and commitment, leadership, job satisfaction, group and team dynamics, and organizational design.

GMAN 312 - Managerial Finance
You will learn basic corporate finance concepts that influence decision-making strategies in areas of investment, financing and dividend policy. Topics include asset valuation, risk analysis, financial statement analysis, financial planning, capital budgeting, asset management, short- and long-term financing, cost of capital, and capital structure.

GMAN 313 - Marketing Management
This course provides an overview of the issues, concepts, and models used in analyzing marketing choices and managing marketing activities. Topics include market measurement and segmentation, consumer and organizational buying behavior, marketing mix analysis and management, marketing research, product management, marketing strategy, and public policy and ethical considerations in marketing.

GMAN 314 - International Business
This course focuses on the international business environment and the strategic choices facing companies with international business operations. Topics include the structure and competitive dynamics of international industries, trade and trade theory, forms of transnational and multinational business, global competition and global strategies, balance of local demands and global integration, culture and government roles in international business, international financial and currency markets, and management issues in multinational firms.

GMAN 315 - Ethical and Social Aspects of Business
This course examines the relationship between business and its social setting. Topics include non-market environments of business, issues of ethics and social responsibility in market systems, relation between social trends and politics, comparative market systems, regulation and externalities, and corporate governance issues.

GMAN 316 - Industry Analysis
You will learn how to analyze competitive environments and gain an understanding of how industry competition impacts corporate strategy, including businesses in e-commerce and hypercompetitive markets. Topics include structural industry analysis, competitor analysis, industry evolution and industry types, impact of technological change on industries, and government's role in shaping industry structure and outcomes.

GMAN 317 - Business Strategy
This integrative course provides a framework for formulating corporate objectives, assessing market opportunities, developing long-range strategies, and coordinating the activities of the total business enterprise. You will apply this framework—as well as the knowledge and skills gained from previous courses—as you develop, analyze, and implement business unit and corporation strategy.

GMAN 318 - New Business Development
You will study the entrepreneurial process including assessment and development of a business model, market assessment, funding strategies, legal aspects of new enterprise development, and organizational issues in new business development. You will apply what you learn by developing a business plan for a new enterprise.

Concentration Courses:

Finance Concentration
GMAN 321 - Advanced Financial Management
You will continue your study of corporate finance topics that were introduced in Managerial Finance. Special attention will be placed on leasing and mergers and acquisitions, with an emphasis on techniques of valuation.

GMAN 322 - Investments and Financial Markets
This course is designed to provide an overview of the financial markets and investment vehicles available to the financial manager. Topics include the banking system, bank and non-bank financial institutions, and the market behavior of financial intermediaries. The emphasis of the course is on portfolio optimization and the analysis of a variety of financial instruments, including equity, debt and options.

GMAN 323 - International Finance
This course explores the issues and financial techniques that are important for firms with international operations. Topics include the foreign exchange markets, and the management of transaction, operating, interest rate and translation exposures. The course also focuses on international sources of capital, the cost of capital and capital budgeting in an international context, political risk, and import/export financing.

Marketing Concentration
GMAN 341 - Marketing Research
This course explores both quantitative and qualitative approaches to understanding markets and customers. Topics include the use of secondary information and databases, interviews and focus groups, and survey research and test marketing. The course emphasizes using marketing research in new product development.

GMAN 342 - Strategic Marketing Planning
This course explores the key issues of marketing management and planning with an emphasis on formulating and implementing marketing strategy. Topics include situation analysis, setting marketing objectives, target marketing, marketing strategy and implementation. The development of a marketing plan is central to the course.

GMAN 343 - International Marketing
This course deals with the distinctive issues and problems involved in the marketing of goods and services in foreign or international markets. Topics include the evaluation of foreign market opportunities; market entry strategies; social, political and cultural considerations in international marketing; international product design issues; and marketing mix strategies.

International Management Concentration
Note: To concentrate in international management, you must take International Management (GMAN 353, below) plus any two of these courses: Marketing Research (GMAN 341), International Finance (GMAN 323) or International Marketing (GMAN 343).

GMAN 353 - International Management
This course provides an overview of managing an international business, including international business operations and strategic issues faced in international markets. Topics include: regulatory framework (local, state, nation, international); interaction between business and government; structure and competitive dynamics of international industries or companies; global competition and global strategies; and social and cultural differences among regions. This two-part class is held in two locations: 1) Saint Mary’s campus with international students with a focus on doing business in the U.S. business, and 2) International university campus or other overseas location with a focus on doing business in that country. Click here for more information about the upcoming course in CHINA.