The University of Chicago Booth School of Business announced earlier this month the addition of several new MBA courses that will be available to students when the 2009-10 academic year gets underway on September 24th.
The new courses come in addition to previously announced curriculum changes that took effect in the summer quarter for all new students, changes designed to provide even greater flexibility within an MBA program already considered one of the most flexible of top-tier schools.
New courses added for the fall include Analytics of Financial Crises, an advanced course that uses the tools of corporate finance to analyze financial crises; the Firm and the Non-Market Environment, which will examine business lobbying, regulation, environmental issues, corporate social responsibility and other topics; and Introductory Finance, a hybrid class that will cover both corporate finance and investments.
A fourth new course, Business, Politics and Ethics, will help students learn to better analyze business situations that raise moral dilemmas or appear to call for unpopular actions. Also new this fall will be Advanced Microeconomic Theory and Game Theory courses.
Meanwhile, the curriculum changes that took effect this summer at Chicago Booth give students even greater ability to design a curriculum to meet individual career goals. Graduation requirements for students in the full-time MBA program remain the same – nine required courses, 11 electives and a leadership course – but more approved substitute classes have been added to satisfy the nine required courses.
Finally, Chicago Booth also has added a new academic concentration in analytical management and will now require all students in the evening MBA program and weekend MBA program to take a leadership development course similar to the one required of full-time students.
For more on these additions and changes to the Chicago Booth curriculum, click here.
