Curriculum

2022-23 Academic Year

UMD Smith’s curriculum is interactive, data-informed and regularly adjusted to reflect the trends of the modern business world. The courses you’ll take are taught by knowledgeable scholars and experts with years of experience leading others in their field.

Each program's curriculum map is a guide to help you understand which courses can help you become more proficient in specialized skill areas and to what extent. Essential Courses provide you with advanced abilities in a skill area. Helpful Courses provide you with working proficiency or a strong foundation in a skill area. Other Courses to Consider give you a basic understanding or reinforcement in a skill area.

Curriculum and skill categories are subject to changes.

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Core Courses

Financial Statement Analysis for Accountants and Auditors
2 credits | BUAC707

Advanced Managerial Accounting and Control Systems
2 credits | BUAC710

Business Ethics for Accountants and Auditors
2 credits | BUAC706

Data-Driven Decision Making
2 credits | BUAC740

Forensic Accounting
2 credits | BUAC714

Business Communications
2 credits | BUAC712

Public Accounting Track

Intermediate Accounting I
2 credits | BUAC731

Intermediate Accounting II
2 credits | BUAC732

External Auditing
2 credits | BUAC735

Advanced Accounting
2 credits | BUAC758U

Business Law I
2 credits | BUAC721

Taxation of Individuals & Forecasting Analytics
2 credits | BUAC 762

Systems for Data Analysis
2 credits | BUAC758S

Taxation Track

Taxation for Corporations
2 credits | BUAC764

Valuation for Accounting
2 credits | BUAC744

Visual Analytics and International Taxation
2 credits | BUAC770

Real Estate Tax and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
2 credits | BUAC767

Data Security and Tax-Exempt Organizations
2 credits | BUAC766

Accounting for Income Tax and Database Management
2 credits | BUAC758A

Database Management for State and Local Income Tax
2 credits | BUAC772

Audit Analytics Track

Accounting Analytics
2 credits | BUAC742

Valuation for Accounting
2 credits | BUAC744

Internal Auditing
2 credits | BUAC752

Applied Research for Accounting
2 credits | BUAC722

Auditing Automation and Analytics
2 credits | BUAC716

Information Security, Audit and Control
2 credits | BUAC756

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Core Courses

Data, Models and Decisions
3 credits | BUDT730

Database Management Systems
3 credits | BUDT703

Data Processing and Analytics in Python
3 credits | BUDT704

Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Business
3 credits | BUDT737

Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
3 credits | BUDT758T

Data Visualization and Web Analytics
3 credits | BUDT785D

Electives

Operations Analytics
2 credits | BUDT758V

Computer Simulation for Business Applications
2 credits | BUDT758Z

Price Optimization and Revenue Management
3 credits | BUDT758L

Decision Analytics
2 credits | BUSI751

Capstone Project in Business Analytics
3 credits| BUDT758W

Business Communication
1 credit | BUDT758A

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Core Courses

Introduction to Financial Accounting
2 credit | BMGT602

Data-Driven Decision Making
3 credits | BMGT606

Your Purposeful Career Journey
2 credits | BMGT758I

Leadership and Teamwork
2 credits | BGMT600

Marketing Management
2 credits | BMGT612

Financial Management
3 credits | BMGT610

Managerial Economics and Public Policy
2 credits | BMGT604

Strategic Management
2 credits | BMGT614

Negotiation and Conflict Management
2 credits | BMGT758N

Business Ethics
2 credits | BMGT758E

Experiential Learning Part 1
1 credit | BMGT758X

Experiential Learning Part 2
1 credit | BMGT758Y

Elective Courses

Business Consulting I – Term C

Consumer Behavior – Term C

Marketing Research Methods – Term C

Valuation in Corporate Finance – Term C

Name Image Likeness – Term C

Brand Management – Term D

Navigating Organizational Networks – Term D

AI: Implications for Business Strategy – Term D

Global Sports Entrepreneurship – Term D

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Core Courses

Financial Management
2 credits | BUFN610

Financial Data Analytics
2 credits | BUFN640

Capital Markets
2 credits | BUFN620

Machine Learning in Finance
2 credits | BUFN650

Valuation in Corporate Finance
2 credits | BUFN630

Derivative Securities
2 credits | BUFN660

Asset Management Track

Institutional Asset Management
2 credits | BUFN726

Portfolio Management
2 credits | BUFN734

Quantitative Investment Strategies
2 credits | BUFN736

Fixed Income Derivatives
2 credits | BUFN744

Financial Engineering
2 credits | BUFN742

Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
2 credits | BUFN717

Big Data in Finance
2 credits | BUFN758D

Hedge Fund Management
2 credits | BUFN758M

Market Microstructure
2 credits | BUFN758X

Financial Analysis and Risk Management Track

Financial Strategy For Corporations
2 credits | BUFN710

Financial Restructuring
2 credits | BUFN712

Institutional Asset Management
2 credits | BUFN726

International Investment
2 credits | BUFN721

Applied Equity Analysis (Advanced Financial Modeling and Equity Analysis)
2 credits | BUFN730

Enterprise and Credit Risk Management
2 credits | BUFN746

Climate Finance Track

Climate Modeling and Analytic Tools
2 credits | Term C

Carbon Accounting and Financial Disclosures
2 credits | Term C

Experiential Learning Project
2 credits | Term D

Portfolio Analysis, Investment Strategies and Climate
2 credits | Term D

Electives

International Corporate and Project Finance
2 credits | BUFN723

Bank Management
2 credits | BUFN724

Special Topics in Finance
2 credits | BUFN75

Focus Areas Courses

First Semester Core Courses

Database Management
2 credits | BUDT702

Data, Models, and Decisions Using R
2 credits | BUDT731

Data Processing and Analysis in Python
3 credits | BUDT704

Technology and Strategy
2 credits | BUDT721

Project Management
2 credits | BUDT724

Industry Seminar
Required for Industry Practicum

Second Semester Core Courses

Business Process Analysis for IS
2 credits | BUDT723

Data Science and Predictive Analytics
2 credits | BUDT733

Big Data and Cloud Computing
2 credits | BUDT737

Harnessing AI for Business
2 credits | BUDT751

Choose between:

  • Emerging Technology (Blockchain and Smart Contracts)
    2 credits | BUDT753
  • IoT Applications for Business
    2 credits | BUDT754

Industry Seminar
Required for Industry Practicum

Third Semester Core Courses

Choose between:

  • Advanced Topics in Data Science
    2 credits | BUDT756
  • Social Media & Unstructured Data Analytics
    2 credits | BUDT706
  • Data Visualization for Business
    2 credits | BUDT705

Choose between:

  • Topics in Technology Management
    2 credits | BUT757
  • Digital Health
    2 credits | BUDT741
  • Machine Learning & Blockchain for FinTech
    2 credits | BUDT742

Industry Practicum
3 credits | BUDT748

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Core Courses

Marketing Strategy (Market-Based Management)
3 credits | BUMK720

Introduces students to the fundamentals of marketing. This course combines lectures, readings, case analyses and a competitive simulation. A significant part of the course involves a competitive computer-based simulation in which student teams leverage marketing data and metrics to make marketing decisions for an organization that is competing in a market against other student teams in the class.

Customer Analytics
3 credits | BUMK724

Focuses on the analysis of customer decision-making and how marketing strategy can be used to influence those decisions. The framework used is the buyer behavior model, in which concepts from psychology, sociology, and economics are applied to individual and organizational purchase decisions. Marketing strategies of leading firms in consumer products, technology, and services (including internet services) are analyzed using a variety of case study formats.

Marketing Analytics for Consulting
3 credits | BUMK742

The analysis of marketing data needed for profitable marketing decisions. Advanced methods of marketing analysis for marketing decisions, including choice and count data models, joint analysis of consumers choice, quantity and timing decisions, mixture and mixture regression models, and conjoint analysis, all using data-based cases and SAS software. Applications are in the areas of strategic marketing, marketing segmentation, eye tracking for advertising effectiveness, new product development, sales promotion analysis, pricing, design of marketing mix, and direct marketing.

Statistical Programming for Customer Analytics
3 credits | BUMK726

Provides students with a foundation in probability and statistics with a focus on marketing and business applications. It also gives students a foundation for thinking in both likelihood and Bayesian frameworks. The course teaches students the basics of programming and its use in statistical analyses (e.g., hypothesis testing, linear regression). Additional topics covered include data structure, data management, and data visualization.

Business Policies and Ethics
2 credits | BUMK760

The standards of business conduct, morals and values as well as the role of business in society. Students will consider the sometimes conflicting interests of and claims on the firm and its objectives.

Business Communications
1 credit | BUMK758G

Teaches students how to communicate quantitative information effectively. Focuses on developing written, spoken and presentation skills.

Marketing Research and Analytics
3 credits | BUMK744

Provides a review of primary data collection methods for marketing data. Students will learn how to design and implement effective confirmatory research. Both direct methods such as surveys and indirect methods such as experiments will be covered. In this hands-on course, students will design and conduct research with target customers, analyze the data, and then present their results to decision makers.

Data Science for Customer Analytics
3 credits | BUMK746

An introduction to data science and the basic concepts of database management. The course also provides an overview of the various sources of in-house data that are available to many organizations. Students will learn how to work with click stream, scanner panel and social media data. Geo-demographic datasets will be discussed and explored, and techniques for data-fusion will receive ample attention.

Electives

CRM Analytics
2 credits | BUMK758R

Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) Analytics focuses on selective acquisition, development and retention of customers aided by developments in information technology and analytics - databases, online channels, social media, mobile technologies, and marketing analytics - with the objective of increasing a firm's customer equity (firm's value). This course will focus on the conceptual foundations of customer equity and relationship management, their strategic implications, and implementations in both B-2-B and B-2-C contexts, especially in the emerging era of big data. The course will provide insights into the role of measuring and managing customer equity and customer loyalty using online and offline media and channels. The objective of the course is to examine the strategic and analytical aspects in equal measure so that participants will have a deeper understanding of the power of customer equity and customer analytics, and how to put it to work effectively using data, big or small.

Digital Analytics
2 credits | BUMK766

Examines the process of developing, implementing and analyzing strategies for successfully marketing a variety of existing and potential products and services on the Internet. Special attention is devoted to the tools and techniques unique to the electronic media.

Pricing Analytics and Strategies
2 credits | BUMK773

The economic and behavioral aspects of pricing and the evaluation of innovative pricing practices such as price matching, customized pricing, bundle pricing and product line pricing. The course will cover both B2B, B2C, online and offline markets. Instruction will be through a mix of case studies, pricing simulation games, hands-on exercises, practitioner guest lectures and discussions.

Action Learning Project
2 credits| BUMK776

Students work with data sets from companies on actual problems being faced by those firms.  Students analyze marketing data, interpret the results, report their findings and provide appropriate recommendations.

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Core Courses

Financial Management
2 credits | BUFN610

Financial Data Analytics
2 credits | BUFN640

Machine Learning in Finance
2 credits | BUFN650

Financial Mathematics
2 credits | BUFN670

Advanced Capital Markets
2 credits | BUFN741

Financial Programming
2 credits | BUFN745

Valuation in Corporate Finance
2 credits | BUFN630

Derivative Securities
2 credits | BUFN660

Climate Finance Track

Climate Modeling and Analytic Tools
2 credits | Term C

Carbon Accounting and Financial Disclosures
2 credits | Term C

Experiential Learning Project
2 credits | Term D

Portfolio Analysis, Investment Strategies and Climate
2 credits | Term D

General Elective Courses

Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity
2 credits | BUFN717 | Prerequisite: Corporate Finance

International Investment
2 credits | BUFN721

Bank Management
2 credits | BUFN724

Fixed Income Analysis
2 credits | BUFN732

Portfolio Management
2 credits | BUFN734

Fixed Income Derivatives
2 credits | BUFN744

Financial Engineering
2 credits | BUFN742

Financial Risk Management
2 credits | BUFN747

Institutional Asset Management
2 credits | BUFN726

Asset-Liability and Non-Financial Risk Management
2 credits | BUFN747

Market Microstructure
2 credits | BUFN758X

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First Semester Core Courses

Business Fundamentals for Supply Chain Managers I
2 credits | BULM700

Data Driven Decision Making I
2 credits | BULM710

Global Supply Chain Management
2 credits | BULM721

Business Fundamentals for Supply Chain Managers II
2 credits | BULM701

Data Driven Decision Making II
2 credits | BULM711

Global Supply Chain Resources Planning
2 credits | BULM742

Second Semester Core Courses

Global Transportation Management
2 credits | BULM754

Technology Applications in Supply Chain Management
2 credits | BULM731

Intro to Supply Chain Sustainability
2 credits

Project Management
2 credits | BULM735

Buyer-Supplier Relations (Negotiations in Supply Chain Management)
2 credits | BULM724

Third Semester Track-Specific Courses

Process Improvement Track

Lean Six Sigma for the Supply Chain Managers I
2 credits | BULM750

Supply Chain Risk Management (Assessing and Managing Supply Chain Risks)
2 credits | BULM734

Lean Six Sigma for the Supply Chain II
2 credits | BULM751

Supply Chain Strategy
2 credits | BULM756

Sustainability Track

Sustainability Economy and Strategy
2 credits

Policy and Legal Context for Sustainability Management
2 credits

Regenerative Business Practices
2 credits

Supply Chain Strategy
2 credits

0 Credits | BMGT099 | Download Sample Syllabus

This online course allows you to gain academic recognition for completing an internship in your area of study. This course is offered through Maryland Smith’s Office of Career Services (OCS).

  • The course is offered in fall, winter, spring and summer semesters.
  • You’ll apply the business concepts you learn in class to the real world. Gain more industry insight, clarify your career goals, and develop your professional and technical skills.
  • Assignments include completing a work log, reflection activity, LinkedIn post and employer survey. All are completed virtually using Canvas.

Prerequisites and Guidelines

Prior approval from OCS is required to register for the course. More information on this process can be found in the Registration ProcessProcess Map and Registration Approval Checklist documents. To be approved, you must:

  • Be in good academic standing. 
    You must be a current student enrolled in a specialty master’s program for at least two consecutive semesters. You must also have a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
  • Meet the working hours requirement and location guidelines. 
    You must work at least 75 hours at your internship during that semester. Depending on which semester you enroll, workplace location guidelines may also apply.
  • Update your Internship putcome and complete an Experiential Learning profile.
    Submit your information on HireSmith and upload the following forms to your Experiential Learning profile:

Special Guidelines for International Students

Registration in this course does not guarantee Curricular Practical Training (CPT). However, this course does fulfill the academic requirement for CPT. Authorization is granted by the Office of International Student and Scholars and Services (ISSS). Once you are enrolled in this course, see ISSS for more details on CPT authorization.

For questions about the course and receiving internship credit, email Neta Moye, assistant dean and executive director of the Office of Career Services, at SmithBMGT099@umd.edu.

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