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GI651 Systems Analysis and Design This course highlights the emerging organizational, technical, and human skills needed by professionals in the information systems field. Students select their own development projects. Topics include: traditional and object oriented approaches to systems analysis and design. This capstone course also provides the framework for completion and evaluation of the leadership portfolio. Note: This course may not be transferred into the program. Prerequisites: Completion of all required GM and GI500-level courses GM510 Seminar in Leadership This course examines effective approaches to leadership. This includes examination of leadership models, problem solving, ethics, strategic styles of interaction, decision-making techniques and effective strategies for implementing goals. Students may not transfer a course in substitution for Seminar in Leadership. GM520 Legal and Ethical Issues in Organizations This course examines legal and ethical dimensions of decision making and impact on corporate and public policy. It places emphasis on exerting effective leadership as related to ethical behavior. The course examines contract and agency law, property, business organization and fair pricing from a legal and ethical perspective in business. GM525 Management Information Systems This course provides the fundamental concepts necessary to understand, develop, and manage information systems in organizations. Students will examine the operational, managerial, and strategic issues of managing information technologies to support business operations. Topics include the role of information technology in organizations, hardware, software, ethical issues, and the control of information technology. GM535 Managerial Communications The purpose of this course is to develop the ability to communicate effectively as managers. The course uses communication theories, techniques and strategies to present a functional communication model. Topics include communication strategy and analysis, managerial presentation skills, managerial writing, and corporate communication. GM540 Organizational Behavior This course focuses on organizational analysis through the “four-frame approach�: structure, people, power/politics, and perception. It includes methods of evaluation, change, and development-influencing behavior through motivation, short-term/long-term behavioral factors and satisfaction through job design. GM541 Managerial Accounting This course takes the student beyond the preparation of financial statements to budgeting, recording, reporting and analyzing both financial and nonfinancial accounting information to be used by managers within organizations. This analysis provides the basis for managers to make informed business decisions. Prerequisite: Competency in Accounting GM542 Quantitative and Research Techniques for Leaders This course examines the role of quantitative research methods in leadership and decisionmaking. It requires students to take an analytical view of decision-making by quantifying trade-offs, specifying constraints and allowing for uncertainty. Students explore the development of models and the role of managerial judgment in assessing the appropriateness of these applications as a basis for leadership decisions. Prerequisite: Competency in Statistics GM543 Economics for Managers This course deals with the application of fiscal and monetary policy tools. The framework for achieving the goal is threefold: 1) understand economic analysis, 2) use economic analysis to evaluate current developments and the financial news, and 3) use economic tools and principles to predict future events.
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