There are a total of 12 (3-credit hour) courses; 3 (0-credit hour) seminars; and 1 (3-credit hour) internship.

MBAC 5000 Introduction to Graduate Study

This course provides an orientation to graduate study at LeTourneau University, including learning expectations and policies, an introduction to learning teams, and information concerning library resources and research techniques.

MBAC 5203 Organizational Behavior

An examination of the theory and practice of organizational behavior management from the line manager’s perspective. The class examines the role of individual differences, perception, learning, motivation, group dynamics, teams, conflict, stress, communication, power, politics, leadership and other factors having an impact on individual job and overall organizational performance in contemporary organizations.

MBAC 5223 Managerial Economics

This course is a detailed study of how economic principles affect the internal and external environment. Market structure and alternative forms of organizational architecture are explored. The roles of bounded rationality are transaction costs in determining organizational effectiveness are examined. Prerequisite: BUSI 5020

MBAC 6103 Human Resource Management

This course challenges graduate learners to examine and manipulate, via experiential and role-playing exercises, the major activities and subject areas necessary for the successful strategic management of an organization’s people. Topic areas include human resource planning, job analysis, law, recruitment, and selection, development, performance appraisal, and compensation and benefits.

MBAC 6153 Organizational Development and Change

This course prepares graduate learners for the hyper-turbulent environment of the twenty-first century by introducing behavioral science techniques and methodologies to systematically bring about high-performing organizations. The course uses the “learning by doing” technique to help graduate students improve organizational effectiveness by means of behavior modification and individual self-actualization.

MBAC 6303 Marketing Management

A study of advanced marketing management, especially product, price, promotion, and distribution problem solving. The legal and social environment within which marketing problems occur is also discussed.

MBAC 6503 Strategic Management

This course is designed to integrate and summarize M.B.A. course work and provides students with interrelated cases for study and analysis. In this course, graduate learners examine strategic processes that influence the direction of an organization. In addition, those students not having the prerequisite accounting, economics, and finance courses must take the following two intensive seminars:

BUSI 5010 Financial Analysis Seminar

This workshop is designed to sharpen the graduate learner’s financial analysis skills. The key financial statements are reviewed, as well as important accounting conventions and relationships between various accounts. The focus is on learning to use financial information to improve the effectiveness of managerial decision-making. A case serves as the basis for analysis and discussion.

BUSI 5020 Economics Tools Seminar

This workshop is designed to familiarize the graduate learner with critical microeconomic concepts. Topics reviewed include demand determination and estimation, returns to scale, cost estimation, profit maximization, market structure, and pricing. The focus is on providing the microeconomic tools necessary to improve the effectiveness of managerial decision-making.

MEDU 5013 Introduction to Educational Administration

This introductory course deals with the basic activities of educational management including economic, political, and societal influences. It is the initial course in the program.

MEDU 5023 Public School Law

An overview course of school law for educators, this course provides a study of the legal basis for school control; the relation of the federal and state governments to public education, the district as the unit of local school control, and legal duties and responsibilities of the state and local boards of education.

MEDU 5033 Administration of the K-12 Curriculum

This course provides a study of the various factors which influence curriculum change, the roles and responsibilities of different personnel and agencies in curriculum planning; procedures in implementing curriculum change; and current programs in public school curriculum.

MEDU 5103 School Finance

This course will focus on the role school finance serves in the education of pupils. School districts receive funding from a variety of sources (federal, state, and local) and must allocate funds for effective education of pupils, maintenance of facilities, and the overall operation of the school. Prerequisite: BUSI 5010.

MEDU 5113 Administration of Special Programs

Study of the special programs offered in public schools including special and compensatory education, bilingual and ESL, adult and continuing education and vocational and technical education.

MEDU 5123 Leadership at the Campus Level

An examination of the roles and responsibilities of the principal as the facilitator of campus leadership. Consideration is given to organization, program curriculum, plant supervision and evaluation for the principal functioning at the elementary, middle, and/ or secondary school. This course will also focus on an educational leader as an ethical role model, decision-maker, and teacher.

MEDU 5183 Internship (Campus Leader)

This course is designed to provide intensive study and field experience in problems relating to a specific job at the elementary, middle or senior high level. Students must register for this course for one semester. Prerequisite: Completion of minimum of 30 hours required for master’s course work. Required for certification. Prerequisite: MEDU 5023.