13 courses with the subject MBA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MBA 5208Strategic Planning for Leaders3
This course explores the leader’s role in facilitating effective strategic planning at the critical intersection of strategic direction, organizational governance, and risk management in dynamic, complex, and fast-changing business environments and scenarios. Students examine how governing boards and executive leaders provide oversight, exercise accountability, and offer wise counsel to ensure ethical and sustainable strategic decision-making. Emphasis is placed on developing vision, values, and strategies that prioritize customer-centered approaches, product-driven roadmaps, and long-term value creation. Core topics include governance structures, enterprise risk management, and the alignment of organizational purpose with biblical stewardship and Christian ethical principles. Through case analysis and applied frameworks, students are equipped to provide informed oversight and foster resilient organizations capable of thriving amid volatility, uncertainty, and change. This course cannot be taken in addition to GRD 5012 or SCA 5208 . (Cross-listed as GRD 5208 )
SUMMER This course provides a strategic understanding of business law and its intersection with ethics and compliance in a global and digital marketplace. It equips leaders to foster accountable cultures that mitigate legal and ethical risks, while promoting sustainable value creation. Beginning with core legal frameworks ranging from corporate formation and organization, governing structures, legal contracts and contractual obligations, this course focuses on how organizations successfully navigate ethical, legal and compliance issues and dilemmas in a global context while maintaining integrity, accountability, and Christian virtues. This includes topics such as data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA), cyber law, and global compliance requirements.
FALL This course advances executive communication skills for effective and persuasive vision casting, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, messaging, and crisis communication - both internal and external to an organization. Focus areas include digital communication tools, cross-cultural interactions, professional writing skills, and leadership storytelling to drive product-driven roadmaps and value creation in business contexts.
The Graduate Business Internship provides the student with a professional work experience in an organizational environment. The internship is an extension of the curriculum and provides meaningful experience related to the student’s area of interest. The internship responsibilities must be approved in advance by a program director. The student is supervised within the work setting and also by a faculty member. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. (Cross-listed as ORG 5996 )
FALL and SPRING This course examines operations and project management as strategic drivers of organizational performance and value creation. Students learn to optimize processes, improve supply chain efficiency, and leverage technological advances in operations and logistics. Emphasis is placed on agile methodologies, quality control, lean operations, risk assessment, and disciplined project execution. Grounded in biblical principles of integrity, accountability, and stewardship, the course equips students to deliver collaborative value through effective operations leadership.
SPRING This course emphasizes the strategic management of talent by recognizing individuals as uniquely gifted contributors whose skills and abilities drive organizational success. Students explore advanced practices in talent acquisition, development, retention, and optimization, while cultivating cultures of trust rooted in stewardship, integrity, accountability, and transparency. Key topics include workforce planning, leadership development, team formation, development and dynamics, organizational change, and performance management systems that align people’s talents with organizational goals. Integrating Christian principles, the course equips leaders to steward human potential responsibly, fostering environments where both individuals and organizations can flourish in service, purpose, and impact.
Course focuses on relationships between nonprofit organizations and supporters. Topics include basic terminology, fundraising methods and strategies, relationship building, solicitation, formatting for writing professional documentation including mission statements, acknowledgement correspondence, grant proposals and brief overview of laws and Christian principles regulating fundraising activities.
MBA 6231Managerial Finance, Accounting and Economics3
FALL and SPRING This course integrates managerial finance, accounting, and economics with business analytics and technology applications to prepare leaders for strategic decision-making that will support the optimization of business execution. Students learn to analyze financial statements, interpret economic trends, allocate resources, and apply capital budgeting techniques to evaluate return on investment. The course emphasizes the role of data and technology tools in enhancing financial analysis, improving resource allocation, and optimizing execution. By combining financial acumen, economic insight, and analytical capabilities, students are equipped to align resources with strategy, strengthen organizational performance, and create sustainable value.
SPRING and SUMMER This course explores strategic marketing and sales management in today’s digital and globally connected business environment, with a focus on product management and value creation. Students learn to develop integrated strategies for market analysis, customer engagement, sales optimization, and product lifecycle management. A distinctive emphasis is placed on ethical branding-ensuring that marketing practices reflect integrity, authenticity, and transparency in alignment with Christian values. Topics include digital marketing trends, sales techniques, product development strategies, ethical brand positioning, customer journey mapping, and continuous improvement practices to achieve business-led outcomes in global markets.
FALL This course exploring the data discipline modernizes business analytics. Students learn tools for data management, analytics techniques, and AI-driven insights, focusing on data-centric readiness and self-service enablement. The healthcare track will include case studies that focus on applications in patient data management and predictive health analytics while the general track case studies focus on broad business intelligence tools for strategic decision-making.
SUMMER This course explores the management of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in business, innovating with AI/ML ethically, and applying AI-generated value aligned with Christian wisdom and discernment. Topics include AI governance, bias mitigation, and deployment strategies and AI’s impact on the leadership, governance, and management of an organization. The healthcare track will include case studies that focus on clinical AI applications like diagnostic tools and personalized medicine, while the general track case studies will focus on enterprise AI for automation and predictive modeling.
SUMMER This course addresses the evolving digital business and technology ecosystem. Students will explore the business benefits and strategic approaches to digital technology, cybersecurity, and business transformation. The healthcare track will include case studies that focus on health IT systems like EHRs and telehealth, while the general track case studies focus on cloud computing, DevOps, and emerging tech for organizational agility.
MBA 6286Strategic Leadership, Governance, and Management Capstone3
FALL and SUMMER This capstone course is the culmination of the student’s MBA coursework and provides students with an experiential opportunity to examine strategic processes and collaborate with professionals in the field. Students will identify, analyze and develop a solution to a real-world business problem, exploring the critical spiritual and practical intersection, interrelationship and dependencies of the leadership, governance, and management disciplines for kingdom-centered value creation.
All courses in the MBA sequence must be completed prior to taking this course: GRD 5017 , MBA 5208 , MBA 5230 , MBA 5234 , MBA 6212 , MBA 6216 , MBA 6231 , MBA 6242 , MBA 6253 , MBA 6264 , MBA 6275
