Advantage of CALMAT's weekend MBA and online MBA

You are a successful professional that understands the importance of information technology and management education,
and you want to know more. How can you attend college with balancing a hectic professional career and family commitments?

California University of Management and Technology is your answer. Join us and experience a convenient and flexible learning program where you will learn the state-of-the-art in business administration with an information technology enhancement! Our curriculum is designed to maximize learning: many courses are designed to leverage each other. For example, while your are learning how to start a business in our entrepreneurship class, you will also practice the latest e-commerce web design to implement a prototype website for the business. Our full-time intensive study MBA can be finished in 12 months, either in our Silicon Valley campus or via our award-winning online learning system.

You will learn from faculty that hold advanced degrees and have substantial experience in their fields of expertise. They bring years of knowledge and practical experience to every course, which means students receive relevant education that they will be able to apply in the real world.

Another advantage is that you are connected! You will have access to lectures and assignments online and be able to learn at your convenience.  When you complete your curriculum, CALMAT will connect you to many internships opportunities in many Silicon Valley businesses, including many world class corporations and high-tech startups. CALMAT's advisors will help you to sharpen your resume and interview skills in order to start a great career.

BUS 510 ~ Finance ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Emphasizes the entrepreneur/manager raising funds at minimal cost and risk, and the allocation of those funds to increase shareholders' wealth and company value. Encompasses financial statements, time value of money, bond/stock valuation, cost of capital, and related subjects. Reviews international aspects of financial management. Develops both the skills and ability to understand the impact of financial decision making to business and its stakeholders. Stresses ethical financial reporting.

Prerequisite(s): BUS 550

Co-requisite(s): -None

BUS 516 ~ Entrepreneurship ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Focuses on the entrepreneurial process, opportunity recognition, entry strategies, market opportunities and marketing, creation of a successful business plan, financial projections, venture capital, debt and other forms of financing, external assistance for startups and small businesses, legal, tax, and ethical issues, intellectual property, franchising, and entrepreneurship economics. Internet and e-Commerce examples are provided.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing

Co-requisite(s): - None

BUS 520 ~ Organizational Behavior ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Explores individual and organizational behavior in the context of the environment, including structures, processes, and systems. Includes communication, personality, group dynamics, organization change and development, conflict and conflict resolution, multiculturalism, ethics, leadership, decision making, and motivation. Applies communication, decision making, and problem solving skills, teamwork, handling ambiguity, taking initiative, and interpersonal sensitivity, including understanding of cross-cultural differences.

Prerequisite(s): None

Co-requisite(s): - None

BUS 521 ~ Operations Management ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Emphasizes the continuous interrelationships between operations, marketing, and finance. Major topics covered include decision making, strategy in a global environment, product/service design, capacity planning and production, Juran and Deming quality concepts (including impacts on stakeholders), statistical process control (SPC), human resources, J I T, inventory control, and MRP. Students organize into teams to write and present a semester case study on a contemporary topic.

Prerequisite(s): BUS 530

Co-requisite(s): -None-

BUS 522 ~ Human Resources Management ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Examines human resource management challenges confronting decision making in a rapidly challenging global environment. Focuses on motivation, cross-cultural communication, ethics, recruitment, selection, compensation, benefits, health and safety in the workplace, legal requirements and limitations, affirmative action, and career development.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing

Co-requisite(s): - None

BUS 523 ~ Strategic Management ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Explores business strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, tacit collusion, strategic alliances) and corporate strategies (vertical integration, diversification, merger and acquisition and globalization strategies.) Economic theories of competition and corporation. Includes case studies of firms which have successfully or unsuccessfully employed a variety of strategies.

Prerequisite(s): BUS 521, BUS 540

Co-requisite(s): - None

BUS 524 ~ Business Process Management and Improvement ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: This course provides graduate students with an understanding of and how to use Business Process Management and Improvement (BPM & I) to help their organization improve organization agility, employee satisfaction and bottom line performance. Course topics include establishing a work environment supportive of BPM & I defining business processes and related roles and responsibilities, establishing and utilizing process measures, the process of process improvement and understanding and improving an organization’s process network. Case examples and in-class working groups will be used to help to achieve the courses learning goals.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing

Co-requisite(s):- None

BUS 525 ~ Building High Performance organizations ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: This course provides knowledge that will enable graduate students to manage changes that will help achieve high performance levels.  Topics covered include establishing a strategic planning process that has wide organizational support, designing a systematic organizational change system, establishing an organizational performance measurement system, understanding organizational culture and the ways cultures change, barriers to performance improvement, improving human capabilities and organizational learning.  Case studies and in-class working groups will be used to help achieve the courses learning objectives.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing

Co-requisite(s):- None

BUS 526 ~ Business Law ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Examines aspects of domestic and international commercial law which include selection of a form of organization and legal creation of that type of organization; powers, responsibilities (including ethically and socially responsible governance), and potential liabilities of corporate shareholders, board directors, and officers; accounting requirements; contracts, joint ventures and other agreements; mergers and acquisitions; issuance of securities; and taxation. Aspects of international commercial law include international accounting standards, international tax planning and management, and legal aspects of international financial and capital markets.

Prerequisite(s): - Graduate Standing

Co-requisite(s): - None

BUS 528 ~ Project Management ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: This course is designed for graduate students major in Business or Engineering who wish to improve their project management skills. Project management and productivity are closely related from the industry practice and business environments. Project management processes are : Define, Organize, Execute, Control and Close. Topics covered are: Project management growth, organizational structures, staffing, management functions, conflicts, planning, scheduling, pricing and estimating, cost control, risk management, trade-off analysis and project close.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing

Co-requisite(s): - None

Decision Sciences Area

BUS 530 ~ Quantitative Methods ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: This course provides the students with the knowledge and skills of how to interpret the statistical results contained in the business articles and learn how to apply the skills and methods to the analysis of research data sets. Topics covered are survey design, experimental design, statistical analysis of business data, descriptive methods in regression and correlation, inferential methods in regression and correlation, multivariate statistical analysis such as analysis of variance, multiple regression, general linear model, factor analysis, time series analysis.

Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate Statistics

Co-requisite(s): - None
Marketing Area

BUS 540 ~ Marketing Principles ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Market opportunity identification, market and competitive analysis, consumer behavior measurement and analysis, usage of marketing tools, strategic market planning and program development, organization and management of marketing and the distribution value chain, product management, ethical and legal aspects of marketing in conjunction with corporate social responsibility, and applications of Internet marketing are studied.

Prerequisite(s): None

Co-requisite(s): None

BUS 541 ~ Negotiation ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: This course introduces principles and practices in business negotiations. Students will learn to become successful negotiators across marketing and professional contexts. Topics to be covered are bargaining models and strategies, communication skills, cultural influences and intervention. Different situations encountered which ranges from negotiation in sales, customer relationships, employee management and professional career growth and management will be discussed.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
Co-requisite(s): - None

BUS 542 ~ Business Communications ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Develops academic and business writing skills as well as presentation skills. Builds language competencies through multiple draft written assignments involving critical analysis, reasoning and research. Builds oral proficiency through self-critique and extensive instructor feedback. Includes formal debates, mini-case study analyses, interviewing/shadowing a professional in the community, news reporting, and class discussions of current business issues. Heavily integrates business ethics and etiquette.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing

Co-requisite(s): -None-

BUS 550 ~ Financial Accounting ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Accounting principles and concepts essential to an understanding of the role of accounting in the collection, interpretation, use, and reporting of business data. While attention is given to the uses of accounting data by investors, emphasis is on the needs of management and the limitations and usefulness of accounting data for purposes of planning and controlling business activities. Students reflect on the ethical and compliance requirements for financial reporting.

Prerequisite(s): None

Co-requisite(s): None

BUS 552 ~ Managerial Accounting ~4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Explores the uses of accounting data. Covers budgeting and profit planning, cost-volume-product relationships, principles and purpose of accounting information systems, designing and using internal cost control systems, identifying and tracking product costs, cost standards and variance analysis, and management reporting and decision making. Develops an understanding of both the creation and impact of accounting information systems on business decisions, ethics and strategy.

Prerequisite(s): BUS 550

Co-requisite(s): - None

BUS 595 ~ Special Topics in Business Management ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Studies a particular topic in the major. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

Prerequisite(s): - Graduate Standing

Co-requisite(s): - Graduate Standing

BUS 596 ~ Independent Study ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Graduate level independent study under the direction of a faculty member. The student must prepare a study proposal approved by the appropriate faculty member and graduate advisor prior to registration.

Prerequisite(s): -Graduate Standing -

Co-requisite(s): - None

BUS 597 ~ Internship and Project ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: Internship under the direction of a faculty member. Faculty members assist students in clarifying internship learning outcomes, identifying potential candidate organizations within which to conduct the internship, and structuring and negotiating internship agreements with the host organization. The faculty member also acts as hand-on mentor throughout the internship. The student must prepare an internship application and an approved learning outcomes proposal before registering.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing

Co-requisite(s): - None

BUS 699 ~ Graduate Capstone Research ~ 4.0 Credit Hours

Description: A capstone contributes to the disciplines or the professions by adding to technical/professional knowledge or by providing an original application of technical/professional knowledge in both management and information technology disciplines. Examples include a field study, a project, applied research, or a professional article of publishable quality. Students also master basic principles of strategic planning, including stakeholder management.

Prerequisite(s): -Graduate Standing
Co-requisite(s): - None