Ph.D. Coursework in Management & Leadership
Core Courses in Management
The following are core Management & Leadership courses that all management doctoral students take during the program. More detailed information can be found in the Management & Leadership Ph.D policy guide.
Management & Leadership Program
| Course | Course ID | Most recent instructor |
|---|---|---|
| Seminar in Organizational Theory | MANA 8331 | Robert Keller |
| Seminar in Organizational Behavior and Management Theory | MANA 8336 | Juan Madera |
| Seminar in Human Resource Management | MANA 8340 | Leanne Atwater |
| Seminar in Strategic Management | MANA 8380 | Curtis Wesley |
| Seminar in Management Research | MANA 8330 | Dusya Vera |
| Design and Implementation of Research Methodologies | MANA 8345 | Steve Werner |
Major- and Supporting Area-related Courses Outside of Management
Below are some of the courses outside of Management & Leadership that students may take depending on their specialty area. Approval of each students' advisory committee is required to include these courses in the students' degree plan.
| Course | Course ID | Most recent instructor |
|---|---|---|
| Foundations of Industrial-Organizational Psychology | PSYC 6370 | Alan Witt |
| Seminar in Personnel Psychology | PSYC 6371 | Christiane Spitzmuller |
| Selected Topics in Psychology: Applied Psychological Measurement | PSYC 7397 | Lynne Steinberg |
| Organizational Psychology | PSYC 7363 | Robert Eisenberger |
| Selected Topics in Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Applied Research in Organizational Psychology | PSYC 8393 | Robert Eisenberger |
| Selected Topics in Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Job Attitudes: Theory and Measurement | PSYC 8393 | Robert Eisenberger |
| Selected Topics in Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Research in Industrial/Organizational Psychology | PSYC 8393 | Christiane Spitzmuller |
| Selected Topics in Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Theory Building in Industrial-Organizational Psychology | PSYC 8393 | Robert Eisenberger |
| Marketing Management and Strategy | PSYC 8338 | Michael Ahearne |
General Research Requirements
Four courses devoted to research methods or statistics (each of which is a 3 credit hour course) must be taken by all Management & Leadership majors. Three of these hours will be satisfied by MANA 8345. In addition, the remaining hours consist of the first three courses listed in the table below. Additional courses in research and statistics may be taken as specialty courses from offerings in the BCB or from other appropriate academic units at the University of Houston, such as the other courses listed below.
| Course | Course ID | Most recent instructor |
|---|---|---|
| Multivariate Methods | PSYC 6313 | David Francis |
| Structural Equations | PSYC 7305 | Paras Mehta |
| Advanced Statistics: Multilevel Modeling | PSYC 7306 | Paras Mehta |
| Social Psychology Methodology | PSYC 6301 | Clifford Knee |
| Experimental Design | PSYC 6302 | Christopher Barr |
| Selected Topics in Psychology: Applied Methods in Social Psychology | PSYC 6397 | Clayton Neighbors |
| Psychological Methods | PSYC 7345 | Matthew Gallagher |
| Topics in Quantitative Psychology | PSYC 7396 | David Francis |
| Marketing Models | MARK 8335 | Kachuen Sam Huei |
| Marketing Research Methods | MARK 8336 | Edward Blair, Parthasarthy Krishnamurthy |
| Multivariate Methods in Marketing | MARK 8349 | James Hess |
| Econometrics I | ECON 7331 | Christian Murray |
| Econometrics II | ECON 8331 | Christian Murray |
| Microeconomics 1 | ECON 7341 | Janet Kohlhase |
| Microeconomics Theory II | ECON 7342 | Gergely Ujhelyi |
| Price Theory 1 | FINA 8397 | Natalia Piqueira |
| Qualitative Sociological Methods | SOC 6311 | Samantha Kwan |
| Research Methods III: Qualitative Research for Evidence-Based Social Work | SOCW 8323 | McClain Sampson |