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Graduate Management Education @ UCM - Curriculum

Overview

To complete the Management of Complex Systems (M.S.) program, students must:

  • Complete at least two semesters full-time academic residence at UC Merced (12 units mini-mum per semester)
  • Complete a minimum of 24 units of courses at the upper division and graduate levels, with at least 20 units of graded graduate (200-level) courses in the major subject, including Fundamentals I and II (MIST 252 & 253) and at least two Methods courses. (with letter grade B or better).
  • Enroll in the Management of Complex Systems seminar (MIST 251) twice for credit (S/U)
  • Either pass a comprehensive exam, or give a public oral presentation and successfully defend a master's thesis containing original research.

Courses 

The following is a non-exhaustive list of MIST courses that have been approved. See the Registrar's Course Descriptions webpage for a more up-to-date list (note that MCS MA/PhD courses are those numbered 215 and above).

Required

  • MIST 251 - Graduate Seminar
  • MIST 252 - Foundations I
  • MIST 253 - Foundations II

Electives

  • MIST 201 - Leadership, Organizations, and Communications
  • MIST 202 - Managerial Finance and Accounting
  • MIST 203 - Quantitative Tools for Management
  • MIST 204 - Spatial Analytics
  • MIST 205 - Technology-Enabled Service
  • MIST 206 - Entrepreneruship and Innovation
  • MIST 207 - Project and Operations Management
  • MIST 208 - Law, Policy, and Risk Management
  • MIST 215/ES 241 - Political Ecology
  • MIST 218 - Social Reality
  • MIST 220 - Service Science
  • MIST 230 - Strategy & Innovation
  • MIST 231 - Organizational Behavior
  • MIST 240 - Operations Management
  • MIST 241 - Information Systems
  • MIST 260 - Game Theory
  • MIST 261 - Qualitative Methods in Studying Innovation 
  • MIST 270 - Data Science
  • MIST 271 - Network Science
  • MIST 272/ES 232 - Stochastic Modeling
  • ES 292 - Special Topics
  • ES 232 - Applied Climatology

M.S. Program Sample Plan of Study

Year 1
    Fall        MIST 251 (1), MIST 252 (4), Methods I (4), Elective I (4)
    Spring    MIST 251 (1), MIST 253 (4), Methods II (4), Elective II (4), thesis or exam