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Albers' graduate classes throughout Fall Quarter 2022 are face-to-face or online. Online classes 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 learn more.
This course presents basic principles of corporate finance and develops tools for financial decisions and valuation in the presence of uncertainty, imperfect information and conflicting incentives among stakeholders. A series of spreadsheet-based valuation exercises are used to develop firm values using basic financial data for local companies.
Peter Brous earned a PhD in finance from the University of Oregon in 1989. Before joining Seattle University in 1992, he was an assistant professor for four years at Pennsylvania State University. He has published many articles in the top finance and accounting journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Accounting Research.
These intermediate financial accounting courses are designed to prepare the student for a career in professional accounting. Upon conclusion of the sequence the student should: (1) understand the issues involved in accounting policy choice; (2) understand the process and the conceptual framework according to which accounting standards are set in the United States; (3) have in-depth knowledge of accounting for transaction, events, and adjustment affecting assets, liabilities, shareholders equity, revenues, expenses, gains, and losses.
Dennis Applegate has taught accounting, auditing, and finance courses for Seattle University since 2014 and, before then, taught similar courses, part time, at local colleges and universities in the Seattle area for more than thirty years. His primary teaching interests include audit planning, risk assessment, and internal controls.
The study of the accounting principles and practices of governmental and not-for-profit organizations. Examines the reporting, tax, and auditing issues important to entities operating as not-for-profits, such as government entities, social agencies, churches, schools, etc.
Dennis Applegate has taught accounting, auditing, and finance courses for Seattle University since 2014 and, before then, taught similar courses, part time, at local colleges and universities in the Seattle area for more than thirty years. His primary teaching interests include audit planning, risk assessment, and internal controls.
Learn more about our Master's in Accounting and Analytics or our Master's in Professional Accounting.
This course is the study of formal and informal organizations, the individual, group dynamics, communication, leadership, motivation, and organizational design.
Liesl Bohan is an Executive Business Coach and Organizational Behavior and Leadership Consultant. She delivers leadership development, teambuilding and emotional intelligence trainings and provides executive coaching, assessment and project management services to organizations. She also serves as Adjunct Instructor of Management in the MBA Program at the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University.
Learn more about our early career Bridge MBA designed for individuals with a non-business undergraduate degree and limited work experience.
Introduces computer programming for data extraction, cleaning, transformation, integration, data mining, statistical analysis, data visualization, and others. Class projects will be drawn from real world examples. Designed for students who have prior experience with computer programming.
James Lee is a Genevieve Albers Visiting Professor of Albers School of Business and Economics. Prior to that, he had served as an assistant professor at State University of New York at Binghamton. He teaches primarily in the areas of Business Analytics, Information Systems, Internet and Web Strategies, and IT Management. His current research interests are Business Analytics on Cloud Computing, and Service Oriented Architecture.
This course teaches the essential and practical skills necessary to communicate information about data clearly and effectively through written, oral and graphical means. Students will learn and practice with advanced visualization tools to effectively communicate. The course will build from the understanding of data to the presentation of the analysis. Data visualization “storytelling” will provide tools to effectively: communicate ideas, summarize, influence, explain, persuade and provide evidence to an audience. Visualization can convey patterns, meaning, and results extracted from: multivariate, geospatial, textual, temporal, hierarchical, and network data. During the course students will deliver presentations using these techniques and they will also learn to critically evaluate other presentations.
Nick Huntington-Klein is an economist who focuses on econometrics and higher education. His work has been published in the Economics of Education Review, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. His educational econometric materials have also received wide attention.
Learn more about our STEM-designated Master's in Business Analytics.
This course presents basic principles of corporate finance and develops tools for financial decisions and valuation in the presence of uncertainty, imperfect information and conflicting incentives among stakeholders. A series of spreadsheet-based valuation exercises are used to develop firm values using basic financial data for local companies.
Peter Brous earned a PhD in finance from the University of Oregon in 1989. Before joining Seattle University in 1992, he was an assistant professor for four years at Pennsylvania State University. He has published many articles in the top finance and accounting journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Accounting Research.
Course examines financing options available to an entrepreneurial venture as well as the financial management of the small business. Financing sources follow the life cycle of the business from start-up through angel investors, venture capital, bank lending, leasing, asset based lending, and franchising to the IPO. Focus is on methods of valuation used in entrepreneurial finance.
Bo Han joins Albers as a visiting instructor in 2016. He teaches in the area of introductory corporate finance, intermediate financial management and entrepreneurial finance at undergraduate and graduate level. His research interests lie in at the intersection of international finance and corporate finance and recently focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international bond market, and corporate hedging practice.
Learn more about Albers' Master's in Finance, a STEM-designated program that develops your knowledge of corporate finance, investments, and financial institutions and markets.
This course introduces the basic concepts of programming for data analytics, including data types, expressions, control structures, functional abstractions, object-oriented programming, application programming interfaces (APls), and the libraries for data analysis, manipulation, multi-dimensional arrays, visualization, and others.
James Lee is a Genevieve Albers Visiting Professor. His teaching areas are business analytics, internet and web strategies, and information systems.
Examines environments in which diversity initiatives operate. Dominant work values are explored to understand how they define desired work behaviors and to understand ways in which diversity challenges some dominant work values. Challenges students to acquire information about diversity via studies of organizational culture and subcultures.
Maylon Hanold is Director of the Master in Sport Business Leadership program at Seattle University. She has taught courses in research methods for sport, sport sociology, sport leadership, women and sport leadership, human resources, sport events, and organizational effectiveness. Her research interests lie at the intersections of sport sociology, gender, and leadership. She has written about lived experiences in sport including ultrarunning, long distance running, and transgender recreational sport experiences.
Interdisciplinary course designed to give students a solid understanding of the field and potential opportunities of entrepreneurship from micro-enterprise and family businesses to high growth ventures and corporate entrepreneurship. Guest speakers, business plans, and activities will be utilized to deepen the students' insight into values-based entrepreneurship in for profit and nonprofit endeavors and how it is relevant in their professional career.
Peter Rowan is the Executive Director of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center at Albers School of Business & Economics and a Professor of Entrepreneurship. Previously, he was Executive Director, Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship, and a Senior Lecturer at the Shidler College of Business at UH Manoa. Peter was Corporate Vice President, New Ventures at Coinstar from 2001-2010. He has a BA in Russian History from Cornell University, an MA in International Policy Studies and an MBA from Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Develops essential knowledge and skills for effectively planning, implementing, and controlling marketing activities of an organization. Focus is on the application of basic marketing concepts and principles as well as strategic decision making for achieving and sustaining competitive advantages in the marketplace. Students who have taken MBA 5170 cannot take this class.
Ajay Abraham obtained a PhD in Marketing from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to his PhD, he worked at multiple organizations including Microsoft and Wipro, in roles spanning marketing, program management, pre-sales, research, content development, technology, and technology evangelism. At Albers, Dr. Abraham teaches MBA Marketing Management and undergraduate Personal Selling and Introduction to Marketing.
This course fosters leadership skills and team development through a combination of traditional learning activities (readings, classroom experiences) and an experiential learning laboratory. In experiential activities, participants will be asked to practice various roles necessary to be an effective, high-performing manager and team member.
William Weis is Professor of Management in the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University. His teaching currently focuses on leadership, team development and emotional intelligence. He served as Director of the MBA program from 1995 to 2009.
Learn more about our customizable, flexible, part-time MBA. Designed with the working professional in mind, you can earn your MBA in as little as 2.5 years or 1.5 if done full-time.