SCU MBA Curriculum

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Can you provide me the curriculum/course structure of MBA (Master in Business Administration) Program offered by SCU (Santa Clara University)?

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The curriculum/course structure of MBA (Master in Business Administration) Program offered by SCU (Santa Clara University) is as follows:

Program Outline and Core Course Descriptions

Core (40 Units)

Accounting 3000, Financial Accounting (4 units)
Introduces the roles, concepts, principles, legal requirements, and impacts of external financial reporting Covers basic financial statements and the analysis and recording of transactions, with a focus towards interpretation of reported results Studies the more common and significant transactions impacting firms

OMIS 3250, Analysis, Design, and Management of Enterprise Platforms (2 units)
Introduces the information technology infrastructures that enable within and across firm operations, and the competitive advantages that information technology can offer various firms. Focuses on how firms effectively utilize information technology resources in their business models and operations.

ECON 3000, Managerial Economics (4 units)
This course will introduce economic foundation for managerial decisions. The course analyses the economic behavior of individuals and firms and explores how their interactions in markets affect managerial decisions. Basic concept of market, price elasticity, theory of consumer and theory of firm will be studied to incorporate economic theories in managerial decision making. How key managerial decisions are made in different industrial structures will be discussed.

OMIS 3000, Business Analytics (4 units)
Covers data categorization, newer statistical methods such as machine learning, and the current technological environments for programming, statistics, and data visualization Also conceptually introduces the data storage frameworks used to build modern Analytics solutions.

Management 3200, Business Ethics (2 units)
Covers the relationship between the firm and its external non-market environment and how firms can successfully navigate that environment. The non-market environment consists of the social, political, and ethical pressures and institutions that affect the activities of businesses.

Marketing 3200, Doing Business in Silicon Valley (2 units)
Introduces the Silicon Valley business ecosystem with a focus on how innovative new companies are launched, financed, and built into the next generation of market leaders. Includes the foundation for effective business communication

Finance 3000, Financial Management (4 units)
This course provides an introduction to finance. It addresses the theory and practice of financial management, the generation and allocation of financial resources. The main objective is to provide a foundation in the basic concepts of finance, including the time value of money, cash and working capital management, the role of financial markets, portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the risk-return tradeoff, and to expand awareness of institutions and practices in business and finance.

OMIS 3202, Analytical Decision Making (2 units)
This course teaches how to translate business decision scenarios into mathematical models, with explicit consideration of constraints and uncertainties. Students will use software tools to analyze and interpret these decision models.

Management 3000, Leading People and Organizations (4 units)
Provides students with theories, frameworks, and empirical research on the topic of leadership and team dynamics to help students enhance their own leadership capabilities Topics include empirically-grounded models of leadership, importance of self-awareness in leadership, effective group & team dynamics, group decision-making, conflict resolution, and design thinking.

Marketing 3000, Marketing is Everything (4 units)
Focuses on decisions faced by managers concerning market segmentation, targeting, and positioning Covers concepts such as new product development, pricing strategies, distribution channels, customer relationships, and performance metrics within a strategic planning framework Students apply these key concepts and frameworks to cases and to formulating a comprehensive marketing plan centered on sustainable profitability and capabilities. Cases cover various environments and industries, especially those of concern to Silicon Valley firms.

OMIS 3252, Operations Management (2 units)
This course illustrates how operational excellence contributes to a firm's financial and strategic success. Students will learn to manage different types of processes, and how to use data and analytics to choose and measure key process attributes such as capacity, lead time, inventory investments, and quality.

OMIS 3200, Quantitative Methods (2 units)
Introduces probability and statistical analysis, emphasizing applications to managerial decision problems Discusses descriptive statistics, probability theory, sampling distributions, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, and simple and multiple regressions. Additional topics may include exploratory data analysis, analysis of variance, and contingency tables

Management 3050, Strategy (4 units)
This course focuses on how managers position their businesses to create and sustain an advantage relative to rivals in the face of uncertainty, rapid change, and competition. Strategy involves understanding the utility of different choices and tradeoffs choosing what actions to avoid is as important as choosing what to do. As a result, the course covers a variety of tools, frameworks, theories and concepts for analyzing a firms strategic position and the environment in which it is operating. By uncovering the factors that make some strategic positions strong and viable, students develop the ability to evaluate the effects of changes in resources and capabilities, industry forces, macro environmental forces, and technology on industry structure and firm behavior and, in turn, on a firms opportunities for establishing and sustaining a superior position relative to rivals.