Business Administration Courses

BUS 6020. Effective Communication for Leaders (3) To explore the various techniques, instruments, processes, and styles employed by leaders to communication effectively within organizations. Students write, give oral presentations, and learn to employ electronic media effectively. Exercises employ numerous real or simulated business situations that require communication in different styles, using a variety of forms and methods. This course is designed to provide an introductory experience and orientation to the MBA and establish common communication protocols, determine critical self-awareness profiles, and identify the Rockhurst themes that will be applied throughout the program. The course must be taken in the first six hours of the MBA program.

BUS 6091. Global Issues in Business and Culture (3) Course develops an understanding of the culture and business practices of other countries. The course involves a 7-10 day trip to another country. This trip integrates cultural and business activities with lectures by government officials, business managers, and university faculty. In addition, the students learn and explore the culture of the country through such activities as city tours and museum visits. The course involves pre- and post-trip studies of the countries' businesses, cultures and customs as well as specific research into the businesses visited.

BUS 6400. Corporate Law for Managers (3) Course focuses on law as it affects the corporation and other business enterprises. The topics include the formation of various business enterprises, the rules of agency, shareholder rights and liabilities, securities regulations, bankruptcy and an overview of government regulation. Where appropriate, the connections between ethics and law are explored.

BUS 7600. International Residency (3) Executive Fellows Program only. Course immerses students in an international learning experience. The students study the business, cultural and societal aspects of countries visited and the effect these factors have on international business markets. Additional areas of focus generally include factors effecting in-country foreign investments by U.S. firms; relationships between government regulators and industry; and the difference between the corporate governance models used in the countries visited and the United States. Other topics covered may include market entry; cultural, legal, and environmental factors; economics and financial risk; as well as international structure and strategy.

BUS 7740. Research in Management Topics (3) Executive Fellows Program only. Course includes the formulation of an approved research topic, which addresses a current, high-level issue within the student's sponsoring organization. Each student will work with a faculty advisor. The course is designed to allow the student maximum flexibility in addressing a specific and real business problem within one's organization, drawing on one's technical and managerial experience, as well as displaying an understanding of current business and government issues. This project culminates in a substantive written and oral presentation in the MG 7750 Seminar in Management Topics course. This course continues through Semesters 3 and 4 of the program.

BUS 7750. Seminar in Management Topics (3) Executive Fellows Program only. Course allows the students to analyze findings of their research projects in BUS 7740, Research in Management Topics, and to present, discuss, and defend to their peers their research projects. Each research project is formally presented to the class in a Board of Directors setting, thus allowing the students the opportunity to increase their critical thinking and oral presentation skills.