Master of Business Administration

MBA Course Descriptions

MBA 501 Marketing for Managers
MBA 501 Marketing for Managers provides a high-level overview of marketing’s role in an organization. Students learn to assess the way an organization’s marketing strategy guides its tactical decisions. Students also learn how to evaluate a marketing plan’s design, communication, and value proposition and ethical considerations while applying marketing theory. 

MBA 502 Accounting for Managers
MBA 502 addresses the fundamentals of reading, analyzing, and interpreting accounting data to make informed business decisions. Topics include accounting for assets and liabilities, analysis of financial statements, ethical and legal responsibilities, cost-volume-profit analysis, forecasting, and budgeting. This course. Pre-requisites: ACCT 201 or equivalent Peregrine Course and Assessment 

MBA 503 Economics for Managers
MBA 503 This course is designed to assist managers in applying principles of microeconomics to their organizations including basic economic theory, market economies, demand and production, competitive and monopolistic market structures, and behavioral economics, and the ethical consecrations of economics.  Pre-requisites: ECON 215 or equivalent Peregrine Course and Assessment 

MBA 504 Finance for Managers
MBA 504 Finance for Managers covers topics such as analyzing financial statements, valuation techniques, budgeting and investing in capital, managing risk, financial modeling, corporate financing, and ethical considerations of finance and corporate governance. Pre-requisites: BUSI 318 or equivalent Peregrine Course and Assessment 

MBA 505 Strategic Management
Students analyze strategic options, develop a strategic plan, monitor the plan, and analyze their performance using a simulated business scenario. Concepts covered include: planning and analysis; SWOT and PESTEL analysis; and the integration of an organization’s functions to achieve a strategic vision.  

Prerequisites for MBA 505: MBA 501, MBA 502, MBA 503, MBA, 504, MALP 783, MALP 787, MALP 788, MALP 789 or Approval by the Executive Director of Graduate Business and Applied Leadership. 

MALP 781 Leadership Literacy
MALP 781 is grounded in theories and models of applied leadership. This course examines the various components of the leadership process, including leaders, followers, goals, contexts, and cultural values and norms. The course also explores the dynamic relationship between leaders and followers, the means used by leaders and followers to achieve their goals, and the ethical implications of those means and the goals themselves. Focus is placed on how the concepts explored in class translate to application, as well as the importance of continuing to develop one’s understanding and practice of leadership throughout one’s lifetime.  

MALP 783 High-Impact Communication
MALP 783 explores the communication between leaders and followers. Attention is given to how leaders and followers send and receive messages as well as how they may create and manage meaning. The course (1) presents major concepts of communication as they relate to the practice of leadership, (2) emphasizes the importance of understanding communication as it relates to the leadership process, (3) demonstrates the way communication affects the leadership process, and (4) builds professional communication skills that help leaders better communicate with their followers and diverse stakeholders. Major communication concepts addressed

MALP 787 Design Thinking
MALP 787 endeavors to inspire and support students to approach problem solving as a cooperative and iterative process that includes: empathizing with those experiencing a problem, accurately defining a problem and its root cause, ideating fixes to the problem, prototyping potential solutions to the problem, and testing the potential solution’s effectiveness.   

MALP 788 Work Teams
MALP 788 explores ways of organizing people in organizations to solve problems and facilitate positive systemic change. In particular, functional, cross-functional, and self-directed work teams will be investigated. The benefits of having multiple people engage together in a collaborative and cooperative environment to develop and deliver an organization’s products and/or services will be studied, as well as the roles leaders play in facilitating work teams.  

MALP 789 Project Management
Project managers are responsible for leading teams, defining goals, communicating with stakeholders, and seeing a project through to its closure; thus, MALP 789 explores the roles and attributes of project management - the organization, planning, implementation, and navigation of project plans while managing financial, human, and temporal resources within restraints such as supply chains, budgets, and schedules.