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Nearly all of Albers' graduate classes throughout Summer 2021 are online. These are either synchronous or asynchronous:
Below are current classes open to prospective students. All require arrangements made in advance.
Simply click on the button below your desired class to get information if the class is synchronous or asynchronous, as well as availabilities that will fit your schedule.
This course provides an introduction to fraud examination from an accounting viewpoint and is designed to promote the development of analytical skills that can be utilized by professionals responsible for the prevention, detection, and investigation of fraud.
This course is designed to analyze the legal environment applicable to accounting and finance. Cases, text material, and class discussion emphasize contracts, agency, limited liability companies, business formations (partnerships & corporations), employment law, bankruptcy, secured transactions and accountant legal cases within a business context.
Observations applicable for weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7 only. Weeks 4 and 8 are mid-term and final exams, respectively.
Learn more about our STEM-designated Master's in Accounting and Analytics and our Master's in Professional Accounting for non-accounting undergrads.
This course is the study of general management and the tasks of strategy formulation and implementation. It builds on and integrates material from all functional areas.. Critical thinking and analysis are engaged as students make decisions, set goals, and act on information from real business situations. The business situations reflect today's multicultural and international environment.
Meet with the instructor at 5:15 pm PDT to chat a bit before class starts.
Learn more about our one-year Bridge MBA designed for individuals with a non-business undergraduate degree and limited work experience.
Process of change in organizations, its impact on the individuals and organizations. Problems in technology and culture, managerial philosophy, lifestyles, and attitudes toward work.
Meet with the instructor at 5:15 pm PDT for a brief course introduction.
This course introduces a range of approaches to bargaining and conflict resolution. Through interactive exercises students develop negotiation skills for use in a professional context or any interpersonal activity.
Observations applicable for weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7 only. Weeks 4 and 8 are mid-term and final exams, respectively.
GBUS 5310 nvestigates the role of management in developing and executing international and global business strategy. Emphasis is on theories of organizational roles in society; how culture shapes both organizational and individual behaviors; how firm-specific and country-specific elements relate to competitive advantages. (Formerly INBU 5310)
MBA 5500 addresses general management and the tasks of strategy formulation and implementation. It builds on and integrates material from all functional areas.
This course introduces the modern concepts of application architecture and programming for business, including data types, expressions, control structures, functional abstraction, object-oriented programming, data management, application programming interfaces (APls), service-oriented architecture, and Microservices architecture. No prior programming experience assumed.
Find out more about our Professional MBA which can be taken part-time or full-time.
The aim of this course is to provide both women and men insights regarding women and leadership within and beyond the sport context. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of how gender affects leadership and what specific issues women face with respect to leadership.
Learn more about our MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management, the first program of its kind to build on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a core philosophy.
This course will examine the opportunities and challenges introduced by business analytics through the perspectives of the law and ethics. Rapidly evolving technologies that permit the collection, storage, aggregation, analysis, and use of data create opportunities for financial benefit and the common good, but also create challenges to legal rights such as privacy, equality, and dignity, and to ethical values, such as autonomy, trust, and virtue. The course will be framed as a contextual examination of business analytics to facilitate learning about legal and ethical standards for private organizations using data analytics techniques in various stages of the data life-cycle.
This is a dynamic course which presents a rich basis for student learning and contemplation of central questions for “big data”, including:
The following are examples of legal and ethical issues that may be included, subject to time constraints:
Learn more about our STEM-designated Master's in Business Analytics program which tackles the complex business challenges of today's data-driven corporate environment.
FINC 100 is an introduction to the theory of investment valuation, including expected rates of return and risk in the financial markets; review of empirical research on the risk/return relationship, and the behavior of securities prices (e.g., stocks, bonds, futures, and options).
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FINC 5345's objective is to expose students to the various elements involved in formulating a comprehensive financial plan. Topics included will be personal investing, education planning, retirement planning, risk management, and consumer finance.
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Learn more about our STEM-designated Master's in Finance program which develops your knowledge of corporate finance, investment, and financial instituions and markets.