For 3rd year subjects
1.00 – 1.25 Excellent 1.50 – 1.75 Superior 1.00 – 1.25 Excellent 1.50 – 1.75 Superior 2.00 – 2.25 Good 2.5 Passing 3.00 Failed
COURSES OFFERED
Second Year – Summer
MGT 203 Decision Analysis and Quantita-tive Techniques I
Third Year – First Semester
MGT 303 Decision Analysis and Quantita-tive Techniques II
MGT 311 Principles of Accounting I Third Year – Second Semester
MGT 210 Introduction to Management I MGT 310 Introduction to Management II MGT 312 Principles of Accounting II Third Year – Summer
MGT 302 Business IT with Financial Mod-elling
PHL 104M Work and Society (MScM) Fourth Year – First Semester
ECO 426 Managerial Economics (MScM) MGT 420 Managing People in
Organiza-tion with Human Behavior in Organizations
MGT 430 Marketing Management MGT 440 Operations Management MGT 450 Finance I
MGT 460 Management Information Sys-tems and Technology
MGT 480 Organization and Leadership Fourth Year – Second Semester
ECO 311 Intermediate Macroeconomics ECO 429 Economic History and
Develop-ment
MGT 300 Business Writing and Presenta-tion
MGT 400A Personal and Professional De-velopment 1A
MGT 421 Human Resource Management (MScM)
MGT 451 Finance II
MGT 470 Competitive Strategy Analysis Fourth Year – Summer
MGT 400B Personal and Professional De-velopment 1B
Fifth Year – First Semester
MGT 510 Corporate Planning and Busi-ness Policy
MGT 511 Management Research Seminar I MGT 516 Organizational Development
and Corporate Culture
MGT 530 International Business and Inter-national Economics
MGT 540 Project Management (MScM) MGT 571 Entrepreneurship and
Innova-tion
Fifth Year – Second Semester
MGT 500 Business Academe Partnership (Internship 2)
MGT 512 Management Research Seminar II MGT 515 Strategic Thinking and
Manage-ment Electives
ELEC 432 Brand Management
ELEC 535 Advanced Market Research ELEC 536 Retail and Franchise
Manage-ment
ELEC 550 Marketing Research: A Tool for Brand Management
ELEC 555 Investment Management ELEC 560 Applied Finance
ELEC 581 Business Law
ELEC 599 Internet Sales and Marketing ELEC 600 Credit Risk Analysis and Fixed
Income Investments
ELEC 601 Analysis of Equity Investments and the Fundamentals of Merg-ers and Acquisitions
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECO 311) This course equips students with a frame-work to analyze the effects and relationships of the broad macroeconomy to the internal affairs of a business or fi rm. The framework makes use of both qualitative and quantita-tive techniques, although focus is on qualita-tive analysis.
Managerial Economics (MScM) (ECO 426)
This course on managerial economics aims to equip students with the basic concepts and tools of economic analysis used in address-ing business decision-makaddress-ing problems.
Economic History and Development (ECO 429) The course focuses on providing the frame-works for understanding economic history and economic development and in relating them to management problems and concerns. The course is divided into two parts: economic his-tory and economic development.
Decision Analysis and Quantitative Techniques I (MGT 203)
This course introduces the basic mathemati-cal and statistimathemati-cal techniques for solving management problems and issues.
Introduction to Management I (MGT 210) This course gives students a background of the management process, management functions, skills, tasks, and roles. It also gives an overview of management as a science and an art and its application to both busi-ness and non-busibusi-ness enterprise.
Business Writing and Presentation (MGT 300) This is a workshop designed to sharpen the skills of students in preparing reports and other written requirements in their fourth and fi fth year in the course. The emphasis is on skill development and exercises involving research, writing, and revising drafts.
Business IT with Financial Modelling (MGT 302) This course addresses the four main activi-ties of a knowledge worker: fi nding informa-tion, organizing informainforma-tion, creating knowl-edge, and sharing knowledge. The second part of the course (Financial Modelling) uses a very practical approach combining lectures and hands-on exercises on the computer.
Decision Analysis and Quantitative Techniques II (MGT 303)
This course introduces the principal concepts and applications of quantitative techniques (operations research) to solve management problems. The course highlights statistical calculations, decision-making tools, sensitiv-ity analysis, linear programming, forecasting, and project management.
Introduction to Management II (MGT 310)
The course introduces students to key con-cepts in business management and the evo-lution of management theory.
Principles of Accounting I (MGT 311)
This course is designed as an accounting introductory course for students who intend to become professional managers with an
entrepreneurial mindset. The typical trans-actions and accounting problems of single proprietorships engaged in service and mer-chandising businesses provide the frame-work for discussion.
Principles of Accounting II (MGT 312)
The course covers the following key topics:
accounting for partnerships, the corpora-tion’s balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash fl ows, and fi nancial state-ment analysis.
Personal and Professional Development 1 (MGT 400) This is a six-unit course whose main require-ments are attendance in personal and profes-sional activities and internship in an organiza-tion. The internship program exposes students to private, government, or non-governmental organizations in and out of the Philippines.
Managing People in Organization with Human Be-havior in Organizations (MGT 420)
The course focuses on, among others, the content of the managerial processes, the abilities and skills required of managers in order for them to carry out their manage-ment activities, and the evaluation of mana-gerial decisions.
Human Resource Management (MScM) (MGT 421) The course focuses on the effective structur-ing of the organization: the plannstructur-ing, acqui-sition, training and development, retention, satisfaction and renewal of the organization’s human resources. It also repositions the hu-man resources function as a strategic partner of top management, thus assuming a proac-tive role in enhancing the competency and capability build-up of an organization.
Marketing Management (MGT 430)
This course is designed to provide students with a formal training on the concepts and basic principles of marketing. It also aims to enable students to understand the dynamics of marketing as a basic function of management.
Operations Management (MGT 440)
The course covers the concepts and applica-tion techniques of operaapplica-tions management (OM). It focuses on recent trends, develop-ments, and applications of OM principles in managing business and non-business opera-tions.
Finance I (MGT 450)
This course covers basic fi nancial
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ment as the body of fundamental concepts, principles, and techniques applicable to decision making with an eye toward creating economic value or wealth.
Finance II (MGT 451)
The course is concerned with the mainte-nance and creation of economic value or wealth. It is designed to prepare students to make a business plan for their project-based internship in summer.
Management Information Systems and Technology (MGT 460)
This course focuses on the ways information systems affect the management of business entities, particularly in personal productivity, business operations and integration, and de-cision making. The discussion is supported by laboratory exposures on modeling and databases.
Competitive Strategy Analysis (MGT 470)
This is a research seminar course that focus-es on the analysis of a subsector that com-prises the economy: industries.
Organization and Leadership (MGT 480)
This course addresses the challenge of using an ethical framework to manage organiza-tions and business activity. It is concerned with developing a new management phi-losophy where personal, ethical, and organi-zational criteria are central to management policy, alongside business and fi nancial issues.
Business Academe Partnership (Internship 2) (MGT 500)
The Business Academe Partnership is the second of the two internships of the MScM program. It is a seven-month project-based and research-based internship program where the interns are assigned to projects that address their employers’ specifi c man-agement or business issues through specifi c outcomes.
Corporate Planning and Business Policy (MGT 510) Competitive Strategy Analysis (CSA) II (Cor-porate Planning and Business Policy) empha-sizes the holistic application of the concepts that graduate students learned in the fourth year to the different functional areas of management and the tools and methods of external analysis, including Industry Analysis (CSA I).
Management Research Seminar I (MGT 511) This is an introductory research seminar course that seeks to assist fi fth-year MScM students in deeply appreciating and apply-ing the attitudes, principles, and skills of management research needed to address the management dilemma faced by the client company.
Management Research Seminar II (MGT 512) Second of two parts of the research seminar course, this course is intended to enrich stu-dents on the dynamic nature of the triad re-lationship among the mentor-mentee-client in the successful completion of the project deemed to add value to the respective target organization.
Strategic Thinking and Management (MGT 515) Strategy making is considered the high point of managerial activity. This course seeks to cover both the literature and the fi eld prac-tice in strategy formation and management to set out its different angles, orientations, and tendencies.
Organizational Development and Corporate Culture (MGT 516)
Offered to fi fth-year MScM students who are being molded to gain a general management perspective with preferred areas of practice, this course aims to contribute toward the process whereby individual managers ac-quire the knowledge and understanding that will lead to effective behaviors in implement-ing change.
International Business and International Economics (MGT 530)
The course consists of two parts: (1) the in-ternational environment analysis that covers various trade theories, trade policies, eco-nomic integration, and exchange rate issues;
and (2) a more practical understanding of international business. Ethics is the founda-tion of the course as nafounda-tions continue to look beyond their boundaries.
Project Management (MScM) (MGT 540)
The course covers the latest planning and control techniques of project management.
It covers nine project management bodies of knowledge that are now used outside the traditional project industries and adopted by many large companies in an effort to keep their work small and manageable.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MGT 571) This is an integrative course that allows stu-dents to apply their knowledge of (a) the four functional areas of management: marketing, production, human resource, and fi nance;
(b) industry and regional analysis; and (c) quantitative decision analysis tools. The main output is an actual feasibility study and a business plan.
Work and Society (MScM) (PHL 104M)
A philosophical study of work, the worker, and his multi-dimensional realities, this course focuses on an analysis of man and his interactions, examining his personal and social signifi cance as an economic agent in society relative to its given institutions.
Electives
Brand Management (ELEC 432)
This project-based workshop involves a se-ries of lectures prior to a supervised market-ing project. The lectures establish the con-cepts and fundamental principles involved in brand management activities, which include competitive analysis, marketing research, strategic planning, and marketing plan for-mulation.
Advanced Market Research (ELEC 535)
This course introduces students to market-ing research as a process and a basic tool in marketing and business management. It is also intended to provide a description of the underlying principles and applications of marketing research both from the user and doer perspectives.
Retail and Franchise Management (ELEC 536) This course is designed for graduate stu-dents to acquire skills and knowledge on the various roles and responsibilities of retail and franchise professionals.
Marketing Research: A Tool for Brand Management (ELEC 550)
This course focuses on the ABC’s of market-ing research. Although students may not choose market research as a career, they would most likely be dealing with market researchers either on their own company’s internal research department or with outside research suppliers. Consequently, familiarity with and internalization of theories, process-es, and applications would be important.
Investment Management (ELEC 555)
The course introduces and orients students
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to the basic concepts, theories, and strate-gies of investments. Focus is on domestic versus international investments, and fi nan-cial versus real investment opportunities.
Applied Finance (ELEC 560)
This course is an introduction to investment analysis and portfolio management. Topics revolve around the concept of risk and return as presented in portfolio theory and the absolute and relative valuation techniques and technical analysis as applied to equity portfolio management. It also aims to com-bine theory and practice by letting students compete with each other in a stock market trading game.
Business Law (ELEC 581)
This course provides a basic review of Philip-pine laws and principles that govern or affect business or commercial transactions. By the end of the course, students are expected to gain a general knowledge of these laws and be able to apply these to situations they en-counter in their business environment.
Internet Sales and Marketing (ELEC 599) This course teaches sales and marketing through experience using the Internet. Stu-dents handle web marketing and sales for real businesses. Topics include ROI or con-version-driven web design and optimization, web advertising (primarily Google Adwords), and decision making through web analytics.
Credit Risk Analysis and Fixed Income Investments (ELEC 600)
The course covers the basic principles of analyzing credit risk, the types of corporate funding, the various credit facilities and in-struments, and the application of the general principles of credit risk analysis. It also deals with tradable fi xed income investments including corporate notes, bonds, and other treasury instruments.
Analysis of Equity Investments and the Fundamentals of Mergers and Acquisitions (ELEC 601)
The course includes discussions on the pur-pose and function of the stock market and an overview of equity securities and markets. It also deals with the valuation of equity invest-ments and the fundamental principles of mergers and acquisitions.
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
The awarding of a degree from the Univer-sity is premised on the satisfactory comple-tion of the curriculum requirements of the program of study by the student.
Students who make it to the 5th year need only pass all their subjects, with a grade not lower than 2.5, in order to receive their Mas-ter’s degree. Candidates for graduation must complete all academic and non-academic requirements of the graduate program and clear all academic defi ciencies.