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R. / i School of Business O cuixuiAAniiria/ vuncuuro. ifosimalixwv\jMuvcJLixvl\ d^uxaticuujLV xiaAAAMJZA^l XVXXVi nva/uLoXuxi "ft liAMJJUrUlily uvxxvtLcwi trut RADUATE COURSE C Applications and Information Forapplicationsandadditionalinformation,pleasewriteorcall: School of Business CommitteeonGraduateAdmissions SchoolofBusiness, Room 100 FairfieldUniversity Fairfield,CT06430-5195 Telephone: (203)254-4070; Fax:(203)254-4105; E-Mail: [email protected] Fairfield University admits students of any sex, race, color, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, age, national origin or ancestry,disabilityorhandicaptoalltherights,privileges,programsandactivitiesgenerallyaccordedormadeavailabletostudents oftheUniversity. Itdoesnotdiscriminateonthebasisofsex.race,color,maritalstatus,sexualorientation,religion,age,national origin orancestry, disabilityorhandicap in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, employment policies, scholarshipand loan programs, athleticprogramsorotherUniversity-administered programs. — STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES It is Fairfield University's policy that no qualified disabled student shall, on the basis of disability,bediscriminatedagainst,excludedfromparticipationin,ordeniedthebenefitsofanyacademicprogram,activities,or services.TheUniversityprovidessupportservicesandarrangesreasonableaccommodationsfordisabledstudents.However,the Universitywillnotaltertheessentialacademicelementsofcoursesorprograms.Studentswhorequiresupportservicesorother accommodationsshouldcontacttheDirectorofStudentSupportServices, Dolan210.Arrangementsforappropriateaccommo- dationsmaybemadeinacooperativeeffortbetweenthestudent,thefacultymember,andstudentsupportservices.TheUniversity may requiredocumentationoflearningdisability. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Master of Business Administration Master of Science in Financial Management Certificate for Advanced Study in Accounting Finance Human Resource Management Information Technology International Business Marketing Taxation Table of Contents Calendar 4 A Message from the Dean 5 The Mission ofFairfield University 6 The University 8 Accreditation 9 The School ofBusiness 10 Mission Statement ofthe School ofBusiness 10 Admission, Expenses and Financial Aid 12 Student Services 16 The M.B.A. Program 20 The M.S. in Financial Management Program 23 Certificate Programs for Advanced Study 24 Course Descriptions 24 Educational Policies and General Regulations 32 Faculty 35 School ofBusiness Administration and Executive Advisory Council 37 University Administration 39 Undergraduate Institutions Represented by Graduate Business Students 40 Campus Map Inside Back Cover Calendar School of Business Graduate Programs Calendar 1998-99 Classes are offered on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Saturdayto accommodate those in the program employed full time. Referto schedules distributed each semesterfor possible changes. Fall Semester 1998 August 28 Registration deadline (by mail) September 2 Fall classes begin October 12 Columbus Day, University holiday October23 Degree cards due forJanuary graduation November25-29 Thanksgiving Recess Spring Semester 1999 January8 Registration deadline (by mail) January 18 Martin Luther King Jr. Day, University holiday January 19 Spring classes begin February 12 Degree cards duefor May graduation February 15 Holiday- President's Day, no classes March 8-12 Spring Recess April 2-4 Easter Recess May 23 Commencement Summer Session 1999 July 9 Degree cards due forAugust graduation Schedule of classes to be distributed in the spring. A Message From The Dean A Message from the Dean itflTl1 \W ' |Y | The Fairfield University School of Business received national recognition in March 1997 when the AACSB - The International Association for Management Educa- tion(formerlyAmericanAssemblyofCollegiateSchools of Business) - granted accreditation forits undergraduate (B.S.) and graduate degree (M.B.A., M.S.) programs. This award highlights ourongoing commitment to create a competitive advantage for all the students, faculty, alumni, corporations, and governmental and nonprofit organizations that have a relationship with the School of Business. We have received this recognition because we are the leader in business curriculum innovation in this country. In our graduate programs we commit to the creation of a competitive advantage by providing not only the latest theoretical approaches to the solution of business problems, but also current best practices forthe application ofthose concepts in the business environments of our stakeholder organizations. We have adopted an action learning philosophy which brings actual organization problems into the classroom and puts the classroom in actual organizational settings. In doing so, we have created a seamless learning organization and have capitalized on the factthat ourfaculty are not only experts in the theories and concepts oftheirdisciplines, but also they have an average of 10 years of business experience in their fields. Thus, we practice what we teach and we will continue to do so. Inadditiontoourtopqualityprogramsandfaculty,webeginthe 1998-99academicyearatournew School of Business building. Nowthe home ofgraduate and undergraduate business education, the former CFS is a first-rate educational facility in a setting second to none. We hope you will join us in ourexciting business learning environment, which places us in touch with the 48 Fortune 500 headquarters within 50 miles of Fairfield and the more than 90 Fortune 500 headquarters in New York City and lower Westchester County. In addition, we benefit from FairfieldCounty'shostingthelargestconcentrationofU.S. headquartersofforeign multinationals. Ifyou wantto meetthe challenges ofthe 21stCentury, then there is no betterplaceto beforyour graduate business education than Fairfield University. Walter G. Ryba, Jr., J.D. Dean UniversityMission The Mission of Fairfield University FairfieldUniversity,foundedbytheSocietyofJesus, is a coeducational institution of higher learning whose primary objectives are to develop the cre- ative intellectual potential of its students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Jesuit education, which began in 1547, is committed today to the service offaith, ofwhich the promotion ofjustice is an absolute requirement. Fairfield is Catholic in both tradition and spirit. It celebrates the God-given dignity of every human person. Asa Catholic university itwelcomesthose of all beliefs and traditions who share its concerns for scholarship, justice, truth, and freedom, and it valuesthediversitywhichtheirmembership brings to the university community. Fairfield educates its students through a varietyof scholarly and professional disciplines. All of its schoolssharea liberaland humanisticperspective and acommitmentto excellence. Fa—irfield encour- agesarespectforallthedisciplines theirsimilari- ties, their differences, and their interrelationships. In particular, in its undergraduate schools it provides all students with a broadly based general education curriculum with a special emphasis on the traditional humanities as a complement to the more specialized preparation in disciplines and professions provided bythe major programs. Fair- field is also committed to the needs of society for liberallyeducatedprofessionals. Itmeetstheneeds of its students to assume positions in this society through its undergraduate and graduate professional schools and programs. A Fairfield education isaliberal education, charac- terizedbyitsbreadthanddepth. Itoffersopportuni- ties for individual and common reflection, and it provides training in such essential human skills as analysis, synthesis, andcommunication.The liber- ally educated person is able to assimilate and organize facts, to evaluate knowledge, to identify issues, to use appropriate methods of reasoning, and to convey conclusions persuasively in written and spoken word. Equally essential to liberal edu- 7 University Mission cation is the development of the aesthetic dimen- Fairfield has a further obligation to the widercom- sion of human nature, the power to imagine, to munity of which it is a part, to share with its neigh- intuit, to create, and to appreciate. In its fullest bors its resources and its special expertise forthe sense liberal education initiates students at a ma- betterment of the community as a whole. Faculty ture level intotheirculture, itspast, itspresent, and and students are encouraged to participate in the its future. larger community through service and academic activities. But mostofall, Fairfield servesthewider Fairfield recognizes that learning is a lifelong pro- community by educating its studentsto be socially cessandseestheeducation which itprovidesasa aware and morally responsible persons. foundation uponwhich itsstudentsmaycontinueto buildwithintheirchosenareasofscholarlystudyor FairfieldUniversityvalueseachofitsstudentsasan professionaldevelopment. Italsoseekstofosterin individualwith uniqueabilitiesandpotentials,andit itsstudentsacontinuing intellectualcuriosityanda respectsthe personal and academicfreedom ofall desire for self-education which will extend to the its members. Atthe same time it seeks to develop broad range of areas to which they have been agreatersenseofcommunitywithin itself, asense introduced in their studies. thatallofitsmembersbelongtoandareinvolved in the University, sharing common goals and a com- Asacommunityofscholars, Fairfieldgladlyjoinsin moncommitmenttotruthandjustice,andmanifest- tahnedbdreoeapdeenritnagskhuofmaenxpuannddeirnsgtahnudimnagn, aknndowtloedthgies winhgicihn tihseitrhelivoebslitghaeticonomomfoanll ceodnucceartnedf,ormoatthuerres end it encourages and supports the scholarly re- human beings. search and artistic production of its faculty and students. O Fairfield University The University ThemajorityofFairfield'sfacultyarelaypeoplewho represent many faiths and many creeds, and students are selected without regard to sex, race, color, maritalstatus, religion,age, nationaloriginor FairfieldUniversity,founded in 1942, becamethe amnocnesttriey,—disaabicloitmymoirthmaenndtictaop.moTrhaelreainsdonsepirciotuma-l 26th institution of higher learning—operated by the values. This is the—cornerstone of Fairfield's aca- Jesuitorderin the United States the inheritorof demic philosophy the search for truth through a tradition of learning and scholarship that dates learning. backto 1540,whenSt. IgnatiusLoyolafoundedthe SocietyofJesusontheprincipleofactiveservicein Fairfield University is includes the College of Arts the world. andSciences,theSchoolofBusiness,theSchoolof Nursing, the Graduate School of Education and Many Jesuits chose education as their field of Allied Professions, SchoolofContinuing Education service. A basic Jesuit principle, the striving for and the BEI School of Engineering. excellence, led them to create schools that have — become renownedfortheiracademicquality. Over Located in America's "academic corridor," thecenturies,aJesuiteducationhascometomean that short expanse from New York City to Boston a high standard of academic and intellectual disci- that contains the world's—largest concentration of pline within Judeo-Christian values. colleges and universities Fairfield provides ac- cesstomanycultural, recreational,socialandintel- TAhmhoeemreiCcoao'nfsfteChroeemnSmccuehnoiCotelyntoBefarn,Bkuefsroisrn,meesisrslt.yheTohnceecwubpcuiiaelmddipnubgsy, YaleboclrtekuaCtlihtpeyrreoa,gnrdtahmaelsl.itmhIemnearddeidciartetiaeotniaotrnoealaitspoopfsrfsoeixrbisimliimttaiyenstyoavNfaeiinlwe- among the most outstanding educational facilities local theaters and cinemas, restaurants, botanical in the state, contains 70,000 square feet, an am- andzoologicalgardens,andmanyexcellentbeaches phitheater that seats 150, 12 classrooms, eight and boating facilities. workrooms for team projects, two computer labs and 45 faculty offices. Fairfield's 200-acre campus is among the most beautiful in the country. Created from two large privateestates, itretainsagracious,tranquil atmo- sphere. There are many wooded areas, lawns, gardens and pleasant walks, and, from several vantage points, a broad view ofthe blue waters of Long Island Sound. Because the University was foundedjust 50years ago, all of its buildings are modern and well-suited tothe needsof itsstudents. Someoftheoutstand- ing buildings are the Bannow Science Center; Ny- selius Library; a new 51,000 square foot Athletic Center; the Recreational Complex; Donnarumma Hall; Canisius Hall; the ReginaA. QuickCenterfor the Arts, with a 750-seattheater, a smallerexperi- mental theater, and art gallery; the PepsiCo The- atre,witha75-seatstudiotheatre;theEganChapel ofSt. Ignatius Loyola; andthe new 70,000 square foot home ofthe School of Business.