MBA Courses

Below are the following courses that will be completed during the MBA program as a full-time student (10 units=10 courses):

Summer (3 units)

• BUAD 500 Leadership & Ethics
• BUAD 548 Supply Chain Management & Logistics
• BUAD 554 Organization Behavior & HRM

Fall (3 units)

• BUAD 533 Strategic Marketing
• BUAD 525 Accounting
• BUAD 560 Special Topics

Spring (3 units)

• BUAD 542 Finance
• BUAD 521 Managerial Economics
• BUAD 570 Research & Analysis

Summer (1 unit)

• BUAD 599 Community/Corporate Project

BUAD 500 – Leadership and Ethics

This course provides an examination of theoretical principles and applications as they relate to ethical leadership.  The course will also include the fundamentals of team dynamics and team leadership. (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499

BUAD 521 – Managerial Economics

Applies economic analysis to managerial decision-making in market contexts shaped by domestic and international developments.  Topics covered include cost-benefit analysis, pricing and profit maximization, market structures, foreign exchange markets, and uncertainty. (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499

BUAD 525 – Managerial Accounting

This course provides an overview of managerial accounting with support to management decision-making.  The course emphasizes the methods available to measure and evaluate costs for decision-making and performance evaluation purposes. (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499

BUAD 533 – Strategic Marketing

This course offers an advanced view of marketing with focus on a systematic process for developing, planning, and evaluating strategic marketing decisions. While the course builds on the function and the tactics of marketing, considerable attention is given to enhancing capacity to thinking strategically.  The combined roles of social media and analytics will be examined for their prominence in marketing strategy and practice.  (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499

BUAD 542 – Managerial Finance

This course will explore the financial management of an organization. The scope of the course includes historical, theoretical, and procedural analysis of the firm’s finance function with specific emphasis on maximizing shareholder value. Focus areas include capital structure, dividend policy, working capital management, and valuation. Through analyzing cases, as well as completing assigned exercises and problems, you will further develop and strengthen your financial management skills required to meet the challenges facing today's complex organizations.  (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499 

BUAD 548 – Supply Chain Management & Logistics

Develop a strategic understanding of supply chain management through end-to-end analysis of the supply chain by building knowledge and experience across the areas of procurement, operations, modeling, analytics, and logistics.  Giving individuals the skills to identify and manage supply chain issues, as well as recommend strategies for improved supply chains. (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499

BUAD 554 – Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

Organizational behavior and human resource management is concerned with managerial decisions focused on the principles of managing people, teams, and organizations. This course introduces the strategic role of human resource management through organizational behavior theories in attaining a competitive advantage for organizations. (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499

BUAD 560 – Global Special Topics in Business Administration

A course offered on various topics, designed to educate students on topics not regularly offered with a global impact.  Topics are selected on the basis of faculty and student interest.

Lecture 3hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499

1^st topic - Global Investing & Portfolio Management

This course is designed to help students to manage financial securities to derive the maximum benefit from earnings through the use of global capital markets.  (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499

BUAD 570 - Business Research & Data Analysis

The course is designed to give a detailed examination of the research process as applied to business decision making.  Experience is gained in defining research problems, collecting data, analyzing data, interpreting data, and writing a report based on the data.  There will also be case studies and analysis in the course.  This course is designed to work in conjunction with the final project for the RC MBA Program.  The initial stages of research for the corporate/community project will be conducted in this course.  (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499

BUAD 599 – Corporate/Community Team Project

The course is designed for students to create the business plans for a corporate or community project synthesizing the knowledge gained from all previous courses in the program.  The business plan will include strategy, marketing, human resources, production/operations, and finance aspects.  The course will include numerous presentations on the component parts and a final presentation on the comprehensive plans. (1)

Lecture: 3 hrs/week

Pre-requisites: BUAD 499, BUAD 500, BUAD 521, BUAD 525, BUAD 533, BUAD 542, BUAD 548, BUAD 554, BUAD 560, BUAD 570

Mr. Tyler Wertman '20
Transfer & Graduate Student Recruitment Coordinator
wertman@roanoke.edu
540-375-2270

Mrs. Sharon Gibbs
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Student Engagement
Associate Professor
MBA Program Coordinator
sgibbs@roanoke.edu
540-375-2429