Foundations of Doctoral Studies
DBA 600 | 3 Credits
Course Desc: Prerequisite: Department approval. Prepare for doctoral studies by developing foundational skills in evidence-based research and analytical writing. Engage in critical thinking, in-depth analysis, and research synthesis. Evaluate published scholarship. Assess personal readiness for doctoral study. (DBA 600 is a prerequisite for full admission to the Doctor of Business Administration program.)
Interpreting and Translating Management Theory in Practice
DBA 800 | 6 Credits
Course Desc: Prerequisite: DBA 600 and full admission to the DBA program. Evaluate management theories to explain organizational operations in relation to forces that act at the level of the individual, group, and society. Connect these explanations within practitioner systems and analyze and associate management theories with practical management strategies.
Research as a Tool for Management Decision Making
DBA 810 | 6 Credits
Course Desc: Develop the capability to review, evaluate, and perform management research for decision making, and critically interpret both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. Apply tools of business research to advise an organization in decision making. Refine skills to effectively communicate management research findings to practitioners.
Evidence-Based Research Methods
DBA 820 | 6 Credits
Course Desc: Acquire and appraise evidence using sophisticated bibliographic search strategies to inform management decision making. Defend qualitative data analysis research choices. Apply evidence-based solutions to an organization, and assess their effectiveness. Develop a plan to use assessments to iteratively improve solutions.
Data Analytics in Practice
DBA 830 | 6 Credits
Course Desc: Review and refine quantitative skills essential for analytical leadership. Explore methods of data mining, forecasting, and predictive models to inform and enable evidence-based decision making, and investigate the data environment in an organization. Assess an enterprise's current capabilities to develop recommendations for a stronger business intelligence climate.
Designing Evidence-Based Management Solutions
DBA 840 | 6 Credits
Course Desc: Prepare advice for an organization seeking management solutions to a specific problem. Analyze and evaluate organizational context, select appropriate management tools, and develop solutions. Employ project management methods, and collaborate effectively with the team face-to-face and online. Produce written and oral presentations of results and recommendations to organizational stakeholders.
Producing Original Management Ideas That Influence: Publishing and Conferencing
DBA 850 | 6 Credits
Course Desc: Identify a management problem, create an evidence-based research approach to solve the problem, and execute it. Present results at a scholarly or practice conference, and submit written results in the form of a professional quality article to a scholarly or practice journal.
Producing Actionable Knowledge: Dissertation Problem Statement and Literature Review
DBA 860 | 4 Credits
Course Desc: Construct a framework for investigating a relevant management problem. Identify the scope of the problem, construct a suitable research question, and examine the scholarly literature that provides a credible and insightful explanation of the primary concepts and relationships surrounding the problem. Produce the dissertation problem statement and literature review chapter.
Producing Actionable Knowledge: Dissertation Methodology and Analysis
DBA 870 | 4 Credits
Course Desc: Design an evidence-based research approach to investigate the dissertation management problem. Collect relevant data to answer the research question, and analyze and interpret the data to consider how they inform the research question. Produce the dissertation methods and results chapters.
Producing Actionable Knowledge: Management Implications from Dissertation Research
DBA 880 | 4 Credits
Course Desc: Complete the dissertation process. Formulate and explain the implications and value of the research findings for management practice, and make specific recommendations to improve management practice. Present and defend the dissertation research successfully, and publish it.
Continuing Doctoral Matriculation
DBA 899 | 1 Credit
Course Desc: Continue Dissertation work.