Core Curriculum

Core One
Strategic Leadership & Management

Leadership and Teams – BADM 508

Illinois Component: Develops and integrates fundamental behavioral concepts and theory having administrative applications; initially focuses on the individual decision maker and ultimately includes interpersonal, organizational, and social structures and influences; and develops strategies and methods of research on behavioral applications in business
Coursera Components: Foundations of Everyday Leadership and Applications of Everyday Leadership
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Managing Organizations – BADM 509

Illinois Component: Examines and analyzes the organization as a social system and the impact of its various components on work attitudes and behavior; topics include the development of organizational structures, organizational effectiveness, decision making and policy formulation, leadership, and change.
Coursera Components: Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organization Structure and Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Strategic Management – BADM 544

Illinois Component: Introduces concepts useful in understanding marketing systems and buyer behavior in addition to developing skills in making marketing decisions; the orientation is primarily managerial and uses examples from both business and non-business contexts.
Coursera Components: Business Strategy and Corporate Strategy
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Core 1 Capstone – MBA 590

Statistics Management Decision Making – BADM 572

Illinois Component: The application of classical and modern statistics for business decision making. The level of the course assumes some prior knowledge of basic statistics as well as facility with elementary calculus.
Coursera Components: Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making and Inferential and Predictive Statistics for Business
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Microeconomics for Business – ECON 528

Illinois Component: Microeconomics for professional business students. Shows relevance of value and distribution theories for business managers. Includes demand and supply theory, consumer choice, production and cost theory, industrial structure, and was and capital theory.
Coursera Components: Firm Level Economics: Consumer and Producer Behavior and Firm Level Economics: Markets and Allocations
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Money and Banking – FIN 571

This course provides a framework which allows you to assess how new developments in finance and public policy may influence the macroeconomic and business environment.
Illinois Component: This course provides a framework which allows you to assess how new developments in finance and public policy may influence the macroeconomic and business environment.
Coursera Components: The MOOCs for this course are currently being revised.
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Capstone – MBA 590

Marketing Management – BADM 520

Illinois Component: Introduces concepts useful in understanding marketing systems and buyer behavior in addition to developing skills in making marketing decisions; the orientation is primarily managerial and uses examples from both business and non-business contexts.
Coursera Components: Marketing Management I and Marketing Management II
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Process Management – BADM 567

Illinois Component: Introductory course in decision-making problems in production; includes the theoretical foundations for production management as well as the applications of decision-making techniques to production problems in the firm; and considers production processes, plant layout, maintenance, scheduling, quality control, and production control in particular.
Coursera Components: Operations Management and Process Improvement
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Managerial Accounting – ACCY 503

Illinois Component: Introduction to management accounting as part of the firm’s information system, in terms of modern cost accounting and budgetary systems for planning and controlling business operations.
Coursera Components: Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis and Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Core 3 Capstone – MBA 590

Accounting Measurement, Reporting, and Control (Financial Accounting) – ACCY 500

Illinois Component: A managerial perspective of the nature and role of accounting in organizational measurement, reporting and control processes.
Coursera Components: Financial Accounting: Foundations and Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Investment Finance I and II – FIN 511

Illinois Component: Introduction to investment analysis, including the theory and implementation of portfolio theory; empirical evidence on the performance of financial assets; evaluation of portfolio investment strategies; and the extension of diversification to international markets.
Coursera Components: Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation and Investments II: Lessons and Applications for Investors
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Corporate Finance I and II – FIN 584

Illinois Component: Provides an understanding of the rich diversity of challenges that confront those creating new enterprises. Students will learn about managing growth while considering business models and cash issues, building the team with organizational and managerial issues
Coursera Components: Corporate Finance I: Measuring and Promoting Value Creation and Corporate Finance II: Financing Investments and Managing Risks
4 Credit Hours; 8 Weeks in Length

Core 4 Capstone – MBA 590