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Accounting
The concentration and major in accounting require students to have completed courses equivalent to the following with minimum grades of C. These courses are described in the "Course Descriptions" chapter of this catalog.
Acct 2102, Acct 4060, Acct 4070, Acct 4210, Acct 4310, Acct 4610. Graduate students who receive a grade lower than a grade of C in any undergraduate accounting course may repeat that course but may not enroll in any other accounting course until a grade of C or higher is earned in that course. Students with undergraduate accounting courses required who have financial aid should refer to "Courses Eligible to Count Toward Graduate Students' Financial Aid" in this chapter before registering for the first time with graduate status.
Courses required for an accounting concentration or major:
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Acct 8310 Seminar in Management Information Systems |
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Acct 8410 Seminar in Financial Reporting Policy |
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or Acct 8770 Financial Statement and Business Analysis |
To complete the concentration, six additional semester hours in an 8000-level Acct-prefixed course are required. To complete the major, 12 additional semester hours in 8000-level Acct-prefixed courses are required.
Actuarial Science
The MBA program provides the skills needed by future business leaders and future management consultants such as creative decision making, leadership, and the ability to work as a member of a team. The actuarial science concentration focuses on mathematical modeling. Very well-qualified students who wish to acquire both sets of skills should enroll in the MBA program with a concentration in actuarial science. Applicants will be required to meet the admission requirements for both the MBA and the MAS programs.
The concentration in actuarial science requires students to have completed courses equivalent to the following with a minimum grade of C. These courses are described in the "Course Descriptions" chapter of this catalog.
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AS 4120 Mathematical Statistics for Actuarial Science I |
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AS 4130 Mathematical Statistics for Actuarial Science II |
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AS 4230 Theory of Interest |
Students with undergraduate actuarial science courses required who have financial aid should refer to "Courses Eligible to Count Toward Graduate Students' Financial Aid" in this chapter before registering for the first time with graduate status.
The concentration in actuarial science requires 12 semester hours of courses selected from the following list:
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AS 8260 Financial Foundations of Actuarial Science |
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AS 8320 Introduction to Stochastic Actuarial Models |
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AS 8330 Survival Models and Ruin Theory |
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AS 8340 Life Contingencies I |
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AS 8350 Life Contingencies II |
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AS 8420 Statistical Models for Actuarial Science |
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AS 8430 Loss Distributions and Credibility Theory |
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AS 8510 Life Contingencies III |
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AS 8520 Principles of Property and Casualty Ratemaking |
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AS 8610 Actuarial Engineering I |
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AS 8620 Actuarial Engineering II |
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AS 8630 Asset/Liability Management for Actuarial Practice |
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AS 8810 Actuarial Science Graduate Seminar | |
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Decision Sciences
A concentration in decision sciences consists of any 12 semester hours chosen from the courses listed below:
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8000-level decision sciences courses |
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IB 8710 International Information Technology Issues and Policy |
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Mgt 8560 Principles of Quality Management |
Courses required for a major in decision sciences:
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DSc 8020 Decision Support and Business Intelligence |
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DSc 8130 Problem Solving and Decision Making Processes |
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DSc 8450 Statistical Modeling |
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or 8300 Applied Regression Analysis |
To complete the major, nine additional semester hours chosen from the 8000-level decision sciences courses, IB 8710, and Mgt 8560 are required.
Economics
Electives to constitute a concentration (12 semester hours) or a major (18 semester hours) in economics are chosen from any of the courses listed below for which prerequisites have been satisfied:
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Econ 8080 Economics of the Public Sector |
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Econ 8200 Business Fluctuations: Trends and Forecasting |
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Econ 8220 Human Resources and Labor Markets |
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Econ 8230 Experimental Economics |
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Econ 8300 Urban Economics |
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Econ 8430 Theory of the Firm and Business Strategy |
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Econ 8440 Industrial Organization and Antitrust Economics |
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Econ 8450 Issues in Public Programs and Tax Policy |
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Econ 8460 Economics of the State and Local Public Sector |
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Econ 8470 International Public Economics |
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Econ 8500 History of Economic Thought |
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Econ 8600 Economics of Development |
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Econ 8610 Quantitative Development Policy Analysis |
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Econ 8700 Economics and the Internet |
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Econ 8740 Applied Statistics and Economics |
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Econ 8850 International Trade |
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Econ 8860 Economics of Global Finance | |
