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Curriculum

The Fully Employed Master of Business Administration program is designed for working professionals who have a minimum 3 years of work experience and are either preparing to enter management or have moderate management experience.

The program requires 41 units (13 three-unit courses and 2 one-unit courses) offered over five terms and can be completed in 18 months. The curriculum integrates basic business education with advanced MBA-level material. Additionally, the program features a meet the leaders series that provides a unique opportunity for students to learn contemporary business ideas in an informal setting by those who are currently or have recently been on the frontlines as leaders of their organizations. Our program includes a series of critical-skills workshops and an elective course. All students enrolled in the program also have access to our list of Coursera certificates.

Full-time and Part-Time students must enroll in Meet the Leaders three semesters to fulfill the degree requirement – twice in BA 73 and once in BA 673. In each semester of BA 73/673, there are three (3) sessions, nine (9) overall. Of the nine (9) sessions, students must attend seven (7) and may miss two (2). Additionally, students may take three (3) sessions virtually.

• BA 611 Financial Accounting (3 UNITS)

  Introduces a set of financial statements used by stakeholders for decision-making. The course examines procedures developed by accountants in the preparation of the income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Building on the basic understanding of financial reporting, the course presents a framework for corporate managers to analyze a firm’s performance and its financial position. Use of accounting information for firm valuation will also be emphasized.

• BA 615 Statistics for Management (3 UNITS)

  Methods of statistical inference emphasizing applications to administrative and management decision problems. Topics include classical estimation and hypotheses testing, regression, correlation, analysis of variance, nonparametric methods and statistical probability.

• BA 616 Organizational Behavior & HR Management Concepts (3 UNITS)

  An expansive inquiry into human resources issues from both the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources perspectives. Incorporates many practical applications, as well as an understanding of employment practices and policies from a strategic standpoint.

• BA 617 Leadership and Business Ethics (3 UNITS)

  Focuses on aspects of leader-follower interaction including ethical decision-making, effective use of power, politics, and influence; understanding what motivates followers both individually and in teams and managing diversity and business ethics.

• BA 621 Managerial Accounting (3 UNITS)
  Focuses on how corporate managers use managerial accounting as a tool for internal decision-making and control. Examines concepts and techniques of cost allocation, performance evaluation, and compensation to support corporate strategies. Topics discussed include capital budgeting for long-term projects, contracting,  transfer pricing, performance evaluation for corporate executives, and control issues in business organizations based on managerial accounting information.
• BA 625 Business Analytics (3 UNITS)

  Provides students with insights and improving of business performance based on data and optimization techniques. Makes extensive use of quantitative analysis, predictive modeling, and fact-based management to drive decision making. Examines modeling issues and uses state-of-the-art software packages. The main focus is on decision-making applications in Finance, Marketing and Operations.

• BA 626 Financial Decision Making (3 UNITS)
  Introduces the theory and practice of corporate finance. Provides students with understanding of essential risk and return relationships. Presents concepts and information on which sound financial decisions are based.
• BA 630 Marketing Management (3 UNITS)

  Introduces students to the issues and challenges of successfully marketing  products, services or intangibles within the context of changing environments.

• BA 635 Information Technologies & Management (3 UNITS)

  This course offers future business managers a rigorous study of information technologies that support the operational, administrative, and strategic needs of the organization, its business units, and individual employees. Topics include fundamental concepts of information technology, major types of business information systems and their roles in organizations and, current issues in identifying, acquiring and implementing new technology applications. Primary focuses are on the managerial aspects of information technologies for improving productivity and gaining competitive advantage in the global e-commerce environment. The societal and ethical impact of information technologies on organizations and human behavior will be analyzed. Future trends of new information technologies will also be discussed.

• BA 645 Operations and Supply Chain Management (3 UNITS)

  This course provides a multi-industry study of operations, with an emphasis on integrated design of the supply. We view operations through the framework of business processes at various levels, from an individual process to an entire supply chain and discuss process improvement through the management of capacity, throughput, inventory, lead-time and quality. Focus will be on analytical decision support tools that allow companies to develop, implement and sustain collaborative strategies and coordinate supply chain players and strategic partnership.

• BA 650 Strategic Management in the Global Environment (3 UNITS)

  Capstone course taught from a global strategic manager's perspective. Focuses on the diagnosis of problems and the implementation of solutions. 

• BA 671 Essential Knowledge and Critical Skills Workshops (1 UNIT)

  Covers essential knowledge and critical skills in business such as business writing, business calculus, managerial ethics, cross cultural negotiation, external environment and globalization, entrepreneurship, and cohort-specific topics.

• BA 673 Meet the Leaders (1 UNIT)
  This is an executive seminar for the Fully Employed MBA (FEMBA) students. Guest speakers include executives of local and global companies, successful entrepreneurs, and leaders in government and not-for-profit organizations. The leaders share insights about their career, what worked, what didn't, challenges, opportunities, successes and failures. The seminar is held twice a month for a total of 24 during the five terms of Program. Full-time and Part-Time students must enroll in Meet the Leaders three semesters to fulfill the degree requirement – twice in BA 73 and once in BA 673. In each semester of BA 73/673, there are three (3) sessions, nine (9) overall. Of the nine (9) sessions, students must attend seven (7) and may miss two (2). Additionally, students may take three (3) sessions virtually.
• BA 680 Master’s Project (3 UNITS)
  Practical applications of management theories and methods will be implemented to investigate a wide range of organizational issues. Subject matter may include development of a new venture, product, or process, or improvement of an existing organization’s operations with the intent of achieving significant cost reduction, service enhancement, etc. Each project is proposed, researched and reported culminating in a written report that includes problem identification, evaluation of potential solution, discussion of the selected implementation, and evaluation of the results.
  

Elective Courses

• BA 600 Managerial Economics (3 UNITS)

  This course teaches us how to use microeconomic analysis to understand the economic environment in which a firm operates and how to make optimal decisions within the firm.  Topics may include: demand and supply analysis; production and cost theory; the impact of market setting; price discrimination; moral hazard and incentives; strategic interactions among firms using game theory; and transaction cost economics. 

• BA 643 Consumer and Customer Insight (3 UNITS)

  Introduces contemporary methods for generating consumer and customer insight for decision making.  Applies popular techniques used to collect and analyze information. These include attitude measurement, questionnaire design, online survey methods, online focus groups and online experimentation.  SPSS software used consumer and customer insight research analysis. 

• BA 649 Forecasting for Managers (3 UNITS)

  This course is concerned with techniques used to predict the uncertain nature of the future events and conditions with forecasts, which help managers, make better decisions and plans.  We study the historical data in search for patterns that can be used to produce a forecast.  Today's business problems tend to be very complex, approaches such as business experience, intuition, and thoughtful guesswork can no longer be applied to resolve managerial situations.  The methods discussed in this course are implemented in a user-friendly computer software package and are them applied to complex problems. 

• BA 690 Selected Topics in Business Management (3 UNITS)

  A course of selected topics in business management.

• GBM 685 International Experience (4 UNITS)

  This culminating experience last ten weeks.  Students spend the first five weeks at ´ó·¢ preparing for the international experience.  The second five weeks has two different tracks.  International students remain in Southern California and engage in company visits and projects.  Domestic students travel to one of the locations where the College has relationships (Denmark, Taiwan, China, Ecuador, India, etc.).  There will be in-class lectures by local faculty and business leaders as well as visits to local Businesses.