Course Descriptions footnotes to assess a company’s performance within the industry and management’s performance within a particular company. New government regulations have made the integrity and quality of financial accounting information everyone’s responsibility. This course will help future business leaders conduct better internal audits, improve forecasts and valuations, and make better management decisions. Note: If MBA 503 is assessed by admissions to be satisfied based on previous undergraduate course work, students may not take this course for credit.
tion. During the second semester students also prepare to do a substantial critical analysis in their genre through a series of brief critical papers in addition to developing creative manuscripts. Students will submit to the instructor every four weeks 30 pages of manuscript, double-spaced, 12 point font, with pagination. In addition, and on a schedule established with the instructor, students will submit a reading journal on the two assigned books and brief critical papers on selected stories and novels they are reading during the semester. Prerequisite: MFA 510.
MBA 610 Business Law (3 credits) This course focuses on the theory and application of business regulations and the laws of contracts, agency, property and business organizations.
MFA 512 Graduate Fiction Workshop III (12 credits) Fiction Writing Workshop III builds on the foundations laid in the previous year (two writers’ residencies and two sixmonth faculty-mentored courses, MFA 510 and 511). In this course, students will write an extended critical essay on a contemporary author or authors, continue work on their book-length thesis project in fiction, and develop critical literacy by continuing to read in prose fiction genres. Prerequisite: MFA 511.
MBA 700 Strategic Management (3 credits) This capstone course includes the application of learned skills and the testing, distillation and integration of insights gained from previous courses and other sources. Prerequisites: FIN 500, IT 500, QSO 510 and OL 500. MBA 710 Internship (3 credits) Internships are available for full-time students to enhance their educational experiences through appropriate, work-oriented activities in selected environments. Prerequisites: minimum grade-point average of 3.0, completion of at least 18 credits and permission of a sponsoring full-time faculty member. MBA 740 Thesis Option (6 credits) Students may substitute 6 hours of thesis credits for two elective courses in the M.B.A., Master of Finance, Master of Information Technology or Master of Business Education Programs. A thesis must be completed within nine months of its approval. Prerequisites: approval from a full-time supervising faculty member and the school dean. MBA 750 Independent Study (3 credits) The school dean may approve an independent study arrangement, in exceptional circumstances. The arrangement requires a written request and justification by the student, identification of a supervising faculty member and the dean’s approval.
M.F.A. Graduate Courses MFA 510 MFA Workshop: Fiction Writing I (12 credits) Fiction Writing I is a course designed to provide the student entering the MFA program in fiction a grasp of the central principles of writing professional quality fiction. Students will submit to the instructor every four weeks 30 pages of manuscript, double-spaced, 12 point font, with pagination. In addition, and on a schedule established with the instructor, students will submit on a bi-weekly basis a reading journal covering the reading assignments accomplished during the period. By the end of the course the student should have completed between 60 and 120 pages of polished fictional prose (prose well beyond the first or second draft). MFA 511 MFA Workshop: Fiction Writing II (12 credits) Fiction Writing II is designed to extend a student's grasp of the essential principles of writing professional-quality fic-
MFA 513 Graduate Fiction Workshop IV (12 credits) Fiction Writing Workshop IV completes the sequence of four residencies and four mentored semesters of reading, critical analysis, writing, and participation in workshops, lectures, and public readings. By the end of the course students should have a manuscript of prose polished to a level of professional quality to be suitable for submission to agents and editors. Prerequisite: MFA 512. MFA 520 MFA Workshop: Nonfiction Writing I (12 credits) Nonfiction Writing I is a course designed to provide the student entering the MFA program in nonfiction a grasp of the central principles of writing professional-quality nonfiction. Students will submit to the instructor every four weeks 30 pages of manuscript, double-spaced, 12 point font, with pagination. In addition, and on a schedule established with the instructor, students will submit on a bi-weekly basis a reading journal covering the reading assignments accomplished during that period. MFA 521 MFA Workshop: Nonfiction Writing II (12 credits) Nonfiction Writing II is designed to extend a student's grasp of the essential principles of writing professional quality nonfiction. During the second semester students also prepare to do a substantial critical analysis in their genre through a series of brief critical papers in addition to developing creative manuscripts. By the end of the course the student should have completed a series of short critical essays and between 60 and 120 additional pages of polished nonfiction prose. Prerequisite: MFA 520. MFA 522 Graduate Nonfiction Workshop III (12 credits) Nonfiction Writing Workshop III builds on the foundations laid in the previous year. In this course, students will research and write an extended critical essay (suitable for publication) on a contemporary author or authors, continue working on a book-length thesis project in nonfiction, and develop critical literacy by continuing to read in prose nonfiction genres. Prerequisite: MFA 521. 117