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Do
you want to sharpen your management skills? Are you interested in
working toward your MBA? Do you have a technical, liberal arts,
education, or other non-management degree?
If
your answer is "yes" to one or all of these questions, then
UMass Lowell has the perfect program to get you started on the road that
leads to a Master's Degree in Business Administration.
This
program offers
an excellent opportunity for people with non-business backgrounds to
obtain a graduate-level certificate. If you are subsequently accepted
into our master's degree program, your certificate courses with grades B
or better can be applied to the MBA to reduce the overall credit
requirement.
This
12-credit, graduate-level certificate program consists of the following six courses.
Courses taken online meet over a period of 8 weeks.
60.501 Financial Accounting (2cr)
61.501 Business Financial
Analysis (2cr)
62.501 Marketing Fundamentals (2cr)
63.501
Operations Fundamentals (2cr)
66.501 Organizational Behavior (2cr)
66.511 Global Enterprise and Competition (2cr)
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate courses in
Microeconomics and Statistics
Admission Requirements:
Bachelor's degree; GMAT not required
Apply Online for the
Foundations of Business Certificate Program!
Program
Coordinator: Kathleen Rourke
Call
(978) 934-2848 or
email Kathleen_Rourke@uml.edu
Visit these links for information on UMass Lowell's
Master's
of Business Administration Program (MBA) and the
College
of Management at UMass Lowell.
Course Descriptions
60.501
Financial Accounting
An introduction to financial accounting within the context of business
transactions and business decisions. The course is a broad introduction
to using accounting information from the user's perspective with
little emphasis on traditional debits, credits, journal entries and
ledgers. Emphasis is placed on preparing and understanding financial
statements. 2cr.
61.501
Business Financial Analysis
Introduces students to the finance function in a firm. Students are
exposed to a variety of analytical techniques and to theory applied to
financial decision-making. Study will include effects of major financial
decisions such as investment, financing and dividends on the value of a
firm, in the light of their risk-return relationship under the
assumption that the maximization of shareholder wealth is the goal of
management. Prerequisite: 60.501 (see above) 2cr.
62.501
Marketing Fundamentals
Describes how marketing strategies and plans of a competitive enterprise
are formulated, implemented, and adjusted over time. Behavioral,
quantitative, and environmental aspects of forces affecting marketing
decisions are examined. 2cr.
63.501
Operations Fundamentals
Provides students with an introduction to operations management and operations analysis.
The latter furnishes the student with a set of quantitative tools that
are useful in designing and operating the former. These techniques are
also generally applicable to other functional areas/courses within the
MBA program. 2cr.
66.501
Organizational Behavior
Introduces students to management and organizational behavior. Its
general purpose is to study and understand the behavior of individuals
and groups in organizations. It is directed toward behavioral action
components and emphasizes the close relationship between the study of
organizational behavior and the practice of management. 2cr.
66.511
Global Enterprise and Competition
An integrated investigation of global competitive issues to help
students understand the processes of organization and technological
innovation that permit businesses to achieve competitive advantages in
a global environment. The course also deals with the nature and
techniques of industry analysis necessary to the formulation of
effective global strategy for the firm. 2cr. Prerequisites: 60.501, 61.501,
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