Merchandising Electives
The Great Plains IDEA Merchandising master’s degree program has six credit hours of electives for students to
determine. These six hours can be taken from among the courses listed below or approved classes offered at a
campus near the student’s home or by distance from another institution.
Search K-State Distance classes: https://eis.dce.ksu.edu/CreditReg/CourseSearch/
Through K-State Distance Education:
EDCEP 851 Multicultural Aspects of Academic Advising This course introduces students to the various cultural, ethnic, racial,
and linguistic issues associated with advising practice.
EDCEP 863 Trends in Career Development Trends in Career Development is a foundation course that addresses career
development theory, practice, and resources. The course is designed to provide academic advising students with the knowledge
to understand and address the career development and planning needs of the students with whom they work.
EDCEP 829 Learning Principles Exploration of learning theories and an overview of research on factors that enhance academic
performance, including psychosocial variables, learning styles, and learning strategies. The course covers strategies for
enhancing student academic performance, ranging from assessment to implementation.
MANGT 541 Management of Quality Development of quality as a management philosophy through the study of ideas from
contemporary quality philosophies of Deming, Juran, and Taguchi. Statistical process control charting as a process and quality
improvement tool and product and process design as important components of quality. Prerequisite: MANGT 421
MANGT 810 Operations Management and Analysis The study of the role of operations systems in the provision of value for the
customer. Operations systems design, capacity determination, resource requirements planning and control, theory of
constraints, supply chain management, quality management and control and project management are discussed and analyzed.
Pr.: STAT 351 or STAT 702.
MANGT 820 Behavioral Management Theory An in-depth analysis of the development of the behavioral bases of individual and
group behavior in business, governmental, educational, and other organizations with emphasis on current research literature
and applications.
MKTG 810 Marketing Concepts and Research Presents marketing concepts and marketing research concepts at the graduate
level. Emphasis is directed toward managerial strategy development using marketing theories and applied marketing research
techniques. Pr.: Three hours of economics, three hours of statistics, and MATH 205 or 220.
FINAN 815 Managerial Finance I Introduction to the process of value creation. Development of an understanding of the
environment in which firms operate, including a discussion of financial markets and institutions and valuation of financial
assets. Provides a working knowledge of the financial system and analytical tools for decision making. Pr.: ACCTG 810.
EDCEP 816 Research Methods (Offered in Spring) Surveys quantitative and qualitative social science research methods applied
to educational topics. Includes critical analysis of published research to foster research-enlightened decision-making in
professional practice. Provides a foundation in a wide spectrum of educational research methods. Offered only via videotape
for home study with exams on campus.
STAT 703 Statistical Methods for Natural Scientists (Offered in Fall, Summer and Spring) Statistical concepts and methods
basic to experimental research in the natural sciences: hypothetical populations; estimations of parameters; confidence
intervals; parametric and nonparametric tests of hypotheses; linear regression; correlation; one-way analysis of variance; t-test;
chi square test. Prerequisites: College Algebra