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53:135:500 Managerial Economics (3) Micro- and macroeconomic analysis topics utilized in subsequent M.B.A. courses. Supply, demand, and market equilibrium; elasticity, revenue, and marginal revenue; fixed, variable, average, and marginal cost; perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly; employment, inflation, monetary policy, and determinants of interest rates.

53:135:501 Managerial Skills (3) This course will provide opportunities to strengthen managerial skills in three core areas: personal, interpersonal, and group. Students will forge relationships classwide and within their assigned learning teams, and will gain a greater sense of their individual strengths and opportunities for personal development. The hallmark of this course is experiential learning. Expect each session to be highly interactive and participative, involving a combination of lectures, videos, individual and team projects, discussions, and hands-on activities. We recommend that this course be taken during the first year in the program.

53:135:502 Quantitative Skills (3) This course provides the mathematical and statistical foundation that will help students in understanding topics presented in courses offered by different functional areas such as finance, accounting, marketing, and management. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, probability, discrete and continuous random variables, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and linear regression analysis. The course also includes the use of statistical software programs.