Learning Goals
Program
Learning Goals' number
Description of Learning Goals
Zicklin School of Business
Graduate
1
2
3
MBA
4
Students will be effective oral and
written communicators as leadership
and teamwork in business is
dependent on developing shared
meaning and commitment to action
fostered through communication.
Students should understand the role
of information technology in
organizational decision making and
strategy.
Students will be sensitive to ethical
issues in business, understand the
importance of behavior and their
responsibilities as business people to
uphold ethical principles in their
dealings.
Students will be sensitive to
differences in perspectives,
institutions, and practices among
business people from around the
world as our global economy puts a
premium on global business
relationships.
5
Students will effectively use
quantitative techniques to describe
and analyze business phenomena and
help develop solutions to business
problems.
6
Students will gain conceptual
knowledge and analytical skills helpful
to functioning effectively in teams.
Students will experience opportunities
to understand and develop leadership
competencies.
7
Students will have working knowledge
off all functional areas in business and
apply them in a holistic, analytical, and
integrative manner to effectively
understand and recommend solutions
to business problems.
1.1
Students will develop the skills needed
to operate successfully in modern
financial markets.
1.2
In particular, students will learn how
to value projects, companies, and
securities.
1.3
In addition, they will evaluate and
manage innovations in advanced and
new areas of financial markets and
derivatives.
2
Students will be effective oral and
written communicators as leadership
and teamwork in business depends on
developing shared meaning and
commitment to action fostered
through communication.
3
Students will develop skills that
enhance their ability to function
effectively in teams and will have
opportunities to experience,
understand, and develop their
competencies as leaders.
4
Students will be aware of differences
in the perspectives and practices
among business people and
institutions from around the world as
our global economy puts a premium
on global business relationships.
5
Students will be aware of ethical
issues in finance, understand the
importance of ethical behavior and
their responsibilities as business
people to uphold ethical principles in
their dealings.
EMS in Finance
MBA Healthcare Program
1
Students will be effective oral
communicators as leadership and
teamwork in business in dependent on
developing shared meaning and
commitment to action fostered
through communication.
2
Students will be effective written
communicators as leadership and
teamwork in business in dependent on
developing shared meaning and
commitment to action fostered
through communication.
3
Students will develop skills that permit
them to function effectively in teams
and be given opportunities to
experience, understand, and develop
their competencies as leaders.
4
Students will develop effective
information literacy skills and
understand how information
technology is used to support
organizational decision-making.
5
6
7
Students will effectively use
accounting concepts to assess markets
and manage revenues and costs and
to oversee budgets in health care
organizations.
Students will effectively use economic
concepts to assess market
competition, to evaluate the impact of
changes on the supply and demand for
particular goods and to assess the
effect of macro-economic forces or
general trends in output, prices and
interest rates.
Students will effectively use economic,
accounting and financial concepts to
assess markets, to manage revenues
and costs, and to oversee budgets in
health care organizations.
MS Accountancy
8
Students will know the health
insurance system in the US, its major
payers and its myriad incentives, so as
to best adapt business skills to the
efficient provision of health care
services to diverse populations and
their multiple needs
9
Students will effectively apply
quantitative techniques to describe
and analyze business phenomena and
help develop solutions to business
problems.
10
Students will have the opportunity to
develop a specialized intellectual
competence in at least one business
discipline to support post degree
employment aims.
11
Students will be sensitive to ethical
issues in health care settings,
understand the importance of
behavior and their responsibilities as
managers to uphold ethical principles
in their dealings.
1
Awareness of profession
responsibilities: understand the
professional role played by
accountants in society in providing and
ensuring the integrity of financial and
other information
2
Be able to recognize and evaluate
ethical issues arising in a broad
spectrum of accounting and general
business contexts
3
Develop the competency in
researching the accounting, tax, and
business related research sources as
well as other financial literature
independently to solve problems that
are beyond the scope of fundamental
accounting and tax knowledge
4
Be able to demonstrate a thorough
command of general and technical
accounting knowledge. Identify and
exemplify attributes and professional
skills necessary for successful careers
in accounting
4.1
Be able to record, analyze, and
interpret historical and prospective
financial and non-financial information
with appreciation of the relevant
theoretical background and
accounting alternatives
4.2
Demonstrate the ability to design
systems and apply technology to
financial and non-financial information
management
4.3
Be able to develop risk assessment
systems and analyze risk
4.4
Be able to develop and analyze key
accounting and business processes
4.5
Be able to work with key concepts in
taxation and develop effective tax
minimization strategies
4.6
4.7
Be able to successfully apply project
and engagement management
concepts
Be able to integrate technical
accounting knowledge with other
functional areas of business to analyze
and recommend solutions to business
problems
5
Develop advanced knowledge and
expertise in complicated accounting is
6
Develop effective oral and written
communication skills when
communicating accounting-related
information
7
Be able to perform accounting and
management functions effectively in a
global environment
1
1.1
2
3
3.1
MS in Business Analytics
4
5
6
1.1
MS Entrepreneurship
1.2
1.3
Students will be able to apply
methods, tools, and software for
acquiring, managing/storing, and
accessing structured and unstructured
data.
Students will also gain a vision of the
strategic uses of data.
Students will be able to prepare data
for statistical analysis, perform basic
exploratory and descriptive analysis as
well as acquire foundational statistical
techniques needed to analyze data
Students will be able to build and
interpret advanced predictive models.
Students will be able to combine
business rules and mathematical
models to optimize business decisions
from data.
Students will develop an
understanding of ethical issues in all
phases of business analytics with
particular emphasis on the new
possibilities afforded by the
emergence big data. . Students will be able to explain
complex analytical models and their
results orally and in writing to
technical and non-technical/lay
audiences.
Students will be able to apply the
three key types of analytics
(descriptive, predictive, and
prescriptive) in a business domain to
add value to business decision-making.
Understands operational issues of
entrepreneurial ventures.
Understands venture start-up and
growth strategy issues.
Identifies and explains operational
issues via case analyses and real life
examples.
1.4
1.5
1
MS Financial Risk
Management
Analyzes various business
opportunities by applying systematic
theoretical frameworks such as a
SWOT analysis; identifies family and
social networks and community
linkages, among others, and
articulates the venture's source of
sustainable competitive advantage.
Constructs a business plan.
Students will master the core
elements of risk management,
including concepts of market, credit,
and operational risk, and regulatory
requirements. They will also master
concepts of statistics, financial
securities, and the management of
financial institutions that form the
foundation of risk management needs
and processes.
1.1
Identify the underlying sources of
financial and business risks
1.2
Formulate procedures to monitor and
manage these risks
1.3
Evaluate a firm’s compliance with
regulatory requirements, in particular,
Basel III and Dodd-Frank
2
Students will develop technical and
analytical skills needed to manage
risks in large, complex financial
institutions.
2.1
Students will formulate quantitative
tools, models, and strategies to
manage and control these risks in
large financial institutions
3
Students will be able to implement
appropriate risk management
strategies that take into account a
comprehensive evaluation of the
overall risk exposures of the
enterprise.
3.1
Formulate appropriate risk
management strategies that take into
account a comprehensive evaluation
of the overall risk exposures of the
enterprise.
3.2
Communicate risk management
strategies clearly and persuasively to a
firm’s top management, both orally
and in writing.
4
MS in Finance
Students will develop a deep
understanding of ethical issues in all
phases of risk management.
4.1
Identify circumstances in which the
firm’s managers are most likely to face
ethical challenges.
4.2
Evaluate how professional codes of
conduct in financial risk management
are designed to guide managers’
actions in the presence of ethical
challenges
1.1
Students will develop the skills needed
to operate successfully in modern
financial markets.
1.2
In particular, students will learn how
to value projects, companies, and
securities.
1.3
In addition, they will evaluate and
manage innovations in advanced and
new areas of financial markets and
derivatives.
2
3
MS Industrial and Labor
Relations
Students will be effective oral and
written communicators as leadership
and teamwork in business depends on
developing shared meaning and
commitment to action fostered
through communication.
Students will develop skills that
enhance their ability to function
effectively in teams and will have
opportunities to experience,
understand, and develop their
competencies as leaders.
4
Students will be aware of differences
in the perspectives and practices
among business people and
institutions from around the world as
our global economy puts a premium
on global business relationships.
5
Students will be aware of ethical
issues in finance, understand the
importance of ethical behavior and
their responsibilities as business
people to uphold ethical principles in
their dealings.
1
Students will develop a
comprehensive, in-depth and current
subject matter expertise with respect
to Compensation, Training and
Development, and Employment Law.
2
Students will develop a
comprehensive, in-depth and current
subject matter expertise with respect
to Labor Relations, Collective
Bargaining and Dispute Resolution.
3
Students will acquire knowledge and
develop skills that permit them to
function effectively in teams and be
given opportunities to acquire
competencies as team members and
leaders.
4
Students will be effective in oral
communication and negotiation by
incorporating multiple interests with
regard to issues and using persuasive
expression that reflects a balanced
perspective
1
Students will be able to analyze or
develop an organization’s information
systems strategy and align it with that
organization’s overall business
strategy.
2
Students will be able to assess the role
of information systems in
organizational structure and
processes.
3
Students will understand and apply
general Information Systems
development principles.
4
Students will gain conceptual
knowledge and analytical skills helpful
to functioning effectively in teams and
experience opportunities to
understand and develop leadership
competencies
1
Students will be able to analyze an
ethical problem or situation and
develop a marketing response which
considers all relevant ethical issues.
2
Students will be able to prepare a
written document or presentation
which addresses key marketing issues
in a thorough and persuasive manner.
3
Students will be able to explain how
consumer behavior influences key
marketing decisions.
4
Students will be able to fully integrate
the above by creating a
comprehensive marketing plan.
MS Information Systems
MS Marketing
1
Students will be able to effectively
model, evaluate, and solve
quantitative (business) problems using
quantitative modeling methods (e.g.
deterministic and probabilistic
operations research techniques).
2
Students will be able to correctly apply
appropriate statistical methods when
defining, solving, and analyzing
problems.
3
Students will be able to use current
technological tools, including
spreadsheets and specialized
software, when solving problems.
4
Students will be able to effectively
communicate their problem solving
methods and solutions to technical
and non-technical audiences.
MS Quant Methods and
Modeling
1. Quantitative Literacy: Students will identify appropriate trade-offs
involved in a given problem and use suitable quantitative methods and
tools to analyze the situation and recommend appropriate solutions.
1.1
Mortgage structure – Students will
identify and describe components of a
mortgage and promissory note, and
produce an amortization schedule
with a clear understanding of the time
value of money
1.2
Underwriting – Students will perform
a simple risk analysis, both of various
mortgage products and within the
context of the underwriting process
MS Real Estate
1.3
2
Residential analysis – Students will
make a refinancing decision, can
describe special financing and
understands concepts in, and simple
quantitative analysis of, a rent versus
own decision
Written Component – Students will
identify core arguments and insights,
have an essentially error free, good
composition; have clear, concise and
convincing reasoning and analysis, and
well-structured arguments
3. Teamwork and Leadership: Students will function effectively in teams
and experience opportunities to understand and develop leadership
competencies.
3.1
Teamwork – Students will gain
conceptual knowledge and analytical
skills helpful to functioning effectively
in teams
3.2
Leadership – Students will experience
opportunities to understand and
develop leadership competencies
4. Ethical Awareness: Students will be able to identify ethical issues
arising in a variety of functional areas of real estate decision making.
1
Students will apply mathematical and
probability theory to analyze business
and/or behavioral issues processes
2
Students will apply various theories of
statistical inference in basic analytical
and decision directed analytics
3
Students will apply principles of
statistical model development in basic
business and/or behavioral analytics
4
Students will successfully apply the
analytical software packages, R
MS Statistics
1
Students will develop a general
intellectual competence in tax policy
and the rule making process.
2
Students will develop an intellectual
competence in more than one tax
specialization area.
3
Students will locate valid tax
information and evaluate it for the
purpose of solving a tax problem or
making a tax planning decision.
4
Students will be aware of the ethical
issues pertinent to tax practice and
understand their responsibilities as tax
practitioners to uphold ethical
principles in their dealings.
MS Taxation