MGSC 1990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
MGSC 2301. Business Statistics. (4 Hours)
Offers students an opportunity to obtain the necessary skills to collect, summarize, analyze, and interpret business-related data. Covers descriptive statistics, sampling and sampling distributions, statistical inference, relationships between variables, formulating and testing hypotheses, and regression analysis in the context of business. Use of the SPSS statistical programming package is an integral part of the course.
Attribute(s): NUpath Analyzing/Using Data
MGSC 2990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
MGSC 3990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
MGSC 4990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
MGSC 6201. Information Systems and Technology. (3 Hours)
Provides students with a fundamental understanding of the impact of technology on the organization and its financial systems. In particular, students are exposed to the new business models that technology enables and the control issues that these business models create. Discusses emerging technologies, digital business, supply chain, customer relationship management, and other technology subjects. Requires admission to MS/MBA program.
MGSC 6221. Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems. (3 Hours)
Introduces the history and current status of information systems in healthcare: information architectures, administrative and clinical applications, evidence-based medicine, information retrieval, decision support systems, security and confidentiality, bioinformatics, information system cycles, the electronic health record, key health information systems and standards, and medical devices.
MGSC 6400. Information Analysis. (2 Hours)
Introduces basic information analysis skills and tools needed to manage effectively in today’s information-intensive business climate. Exposes students to analytical problems from different areas of business and the quantitative concepts and techniques used to analyze them. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to evaluate, analyze, and interpret data and to present their most useful findings and conclusions for managerial decision making through the use of business applications and analytical software.
MGSC 6404. Managing Information Resources. (2 Hours)
Focuses on the strategic acquisition and use of information systems for ongoing enterprise performance improvement and digital transformation. Analyzes information systems from the People, Process, and Technology perspective and puts strategy before technology. Presents the frameworks and practice to understand that high-quality information adds value to existing products and services; facilitates the creation of new products; changes the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes; and affects relationships with customers, suppliers, and competitors. Offers students an opportunity to assess the appropriate and ethical use of emerging technologies.
MGSC 6962. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
MGSC 7976. Directed Study. (1-4 Hours)
Offers independent work under the direction of members of the department on chosen topics. May be repeated without limit.