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ENG 591 - English for Academic and Professional Purposes 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the first semester Bridge Program courses in the regular track or admission through the Fast Track of the Program.
This course offers further support to international students' academic and professional literacy skills development during the first semester of their graduate studies. The course will address academic and professional discourse conventions and integrity practices. The students will develop the skills necessary to compose various texts based on research as well as skills for effective written and oral communication.
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ENG 592 - Working with Academic Texts 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Meeting the requirements for Bridge Program admission for graduate students.
Entry Proficiency Level: Common European Framework - B2
Goal Exit Level: Common European Framework - C1
This course aims to support the development of academic reading and writing skills of international students of high-intermediate proficiency. It assumes an integrated approach to reading and writing. During the course, students will be involved in active reading of academic texts and their analysis. They will engage in writing and presenting about the topics discussed in the course readings.
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Business Administration
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MBA 525 - Applied Business & Management Strategies 3 credit hours
This course is designed to give MBA students a tangible head start in acquiring and honing numerous core skills essential for success in the MBA program and the business world. The emphasis will be on the development of professional skills and perspectives, such as business writing, coaching and counseling, conflict resolution, effective business protocol, interviewing, intercultural awareness and sensitivity, negotiating agreement, and public speaking.
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MBA 527 - Successful Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA ORI
This course is designed so students can discover their base level of emotional intelligence (EQ) and provide them with specific techniques to develop their emotional intelligence skills. The first portion of the class will be an in-depth examination of leadership, with a focus on understanding the seven dimensions of emotionally intelligent leaders. Next, the class will turn to emotional intelligence, with the focus of getting the students to actively practice and apply techniques to improve their EQ. Finally, this class will turn to contemporary issues faced by today's organizational leaders and will examine those issues by applying emotional intelligence techniques.
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MBA 530 - Organizational Behavior 3 credit hours
Corequisites: MBA ORI .
This course is an advanced introduction to the major theories and issues in the study of human behavior in work organizations. Included are the topics of perception, motivation, leadership, job satisfaction, group dynamics, stress, organizational climate, and communication processes. Organization theory and design concepts are also incorporated to give the student a more complex framework for managerial decision making.
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MBA 531 - Human Capital for Organizational Performance 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525
This course is an advanced introduction to the major theories and issues in the study of human behavior in work organizations. This course will provide students with a strategic and analytical approach to complex behavioral problems within organizations. In addition, the design and implementation of management practices for aligning human resource practices and the strategic intent of the organization are also incorporated to give the student a more complex framework for managerial decision making. The course also integrates an overview of commercial law as it affects day-to-day business decisions. Topics include: perception, motivation, leadership, job satisfaction, group dynamics, stress, organizational climate, and communication processes, staffing, employee training and development, compensation and benefits, legal issues, union versus non-union issues, safety and health issues, and cross-cultural and expatriate issues.
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MBA 533 - Human Resource in Management 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 .
Corequisites: MBA ORI
This course is designed to focus on an in-depth analysis of the major functions of a manager dealing with human resource issues. Issues to be covered include, but are not specifically limited to, staffing, employee training and development, compensation and benefits, legal issues, union versus non-union issues, safety and health issues, and cross-cultural and expatriate issues.
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MBA 535 - The Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA ORI
This course is a comprehensive study of commercial law as it affects day-to-day business management. Emphasis is placed on development of a manager's ability to recognize the circumstances under which a legal professional should be contacted for advice and/or assistance.
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MBA 540 - Managerial Economics 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 - Professional Development . Undergraduate course in microeconomics strongly recommended.
This course explores the concepts of economic optimization, the estimation of demand, and cost and pricing analysis. An introduction to economic forecasting and decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty is also included.
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MBA 550 - Decision Support Systems 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA ORI and undergraduate course in microcomputer applications or equivalent skills. Basic literacy regarding Windows and Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) is expected.
This course considers the study of decision science and its application in the business environment through the use of computers. This course is designed to provide the student with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to understand and use computerized decision support methodology in support of business requirements. The student will use commercial software packages (Microsoft Excel) to develop and use graphical and numerical outputs in business presentations for enhanced decision making.
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MBA 551 - Business Analytics 3 credit hours
This course will utilize data analysis techniques and software tools to model and solve business related problems. Students will solve problems related to a variety of functional areas in business that include, but are not limited to forecasting, waiting line analysis, linear programming, inventory management, and decision analysis.
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MBA 560 - Financial and Managerial Accounting 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 . An undergraduate course in financial and managerial accounting is strongly recommended.
This course focuses on the study of accounting concepts and standards applicable to presentation of financial information to interested users, structure, uses and limitations of financial statements, and measurement systems related to income determination and asset valuation. The course also considers the discussion of internal and external influences on accounting decisions.
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MBA 565 - Marketing 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 .
This course considers the operational and strategic planning issues confronting managers in marketing. Topics include buyer behavior, market segmentation, product selection and development, pricing, distribution, promotion, market research, and international and multicultural marketing. Additional fee applies for marketing computer simulation.
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MBA 570 - Corporate Finance 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 540 and MBA 560 or ACC 504 .
This course considers the financial management decision-making role within the organization. Subjects include valuation concepts, including financial ratio analysis; short-term financial management, including the management of current assets and liabilities; management of long-term investments, including capital budgeting techniques; a discussion of leverage and its relationship to the capital structure; and an introduction to financial markets and financial institutions.
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MBA 575 - Global Business Management 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 .
The student will develop an understanding of international/multinational management by examining the challenges and opportunities of operating globally. Emphasis will be on developing an understanding of the complexities of dealing with diverse social, cultural, economic, and legal systems. The role of business in this dynamic world environment will be analyzed.
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MBA 594 - Enterprise Resource Planning 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 531 - Human Capital for Organizational Performance , MBA 560 - Financial and Managerial Accounting and MBA 565 - Marketing
The primary objective of the course is to analyze, design and propose IT solutions for the integration of business process throughout the enterprise. The emphasis will be on re-engineering, integration, standardization, and methodologies of ERP systems. The course will cover fundamentals of ERP systems, business functions, processes, data requirements, development, and management of ERP systems for sales, marketing, accounting, finance, production, supply chain, and customer relationship management.
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MBA 595 - Current Issues in Leadership 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 .
This course is an advanced overview of more traditional approaches to understanding the leadership process and an in-depth look at recently developed perspectives on leadership of the future. Ethical issues pertaining to leadership are also incorporated.
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MBA 597 - Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 540 - Managerial Economics , MBA 560 - Financial and Managerial Accounting , MBA 565 - Marketing , and MBA 570 - Corporate Finance
Entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process are now, and will continue to be, the major economic force driving the national economies around the world. At the heart of this movement are men and women who demonstrate the courage to undertake the creation and management of new business ventures. Across the globe millions of new businesses are formed each year. Those individuals who possess the spirit of entrepreneurial leadership will lead the economic revolution that has proven to repeatedly raise the standard of living for people everywhere. In this class, students will be introduced to the essential components of entrepreneurship and the critical knowledge needed to start and manage a new business venture.
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MBA 598 - Statistics 3 credit hours
Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques are applied to practical business problems, while understanding the theoretical underpinning and real-world application of these techniques. Techniques include: central tendency, variability, correlation, hypothesis testing, probability, discrete and continuous distributions, two-sample analysis, sampling, ANOVA, and Linear Regression. SPSS or Excel will be used for analysis.
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MBA 599 - Strategic Management 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Complete MBA 525 , MBA 540 and MBA 575 ; Complete MBA 531 or HRA 545 ;
Complete MBA 560 or ACC 504 ; Complete MBA 565 or SPB 565
This capstone course integrates knowledge gained in previous graduate business courses. It centers on the theme that organizations achieve sustained success when their managers have astute, timely strategic game plans and they implement these plans with proficiency. Strategic management theory is used in the analysis of case studies of companies operating in the domestic and global marketplace. This course is to be taken in the student's last term, unless otherwise approved by the Director of the MBA Program.
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MBA 625 - Internship 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 , successful completion of 12 credit hours in the MBA program with minimum 3.0 GPA.
This three-credit elective course allows students to arrange full- or part-time employment in fields related to their MBA curriculum to give them an experiential learning opportunity at the graduate level. Students are responsible for choosing a faculty member ("faculty supervisor") to coordinate the academic portion of the internship and a supervisor at the employment site ("site supervisor") to oversee the job duties and responsibilities. One hour of internship experience is granted for every 40 hours of documented employment. Students must complete a minimum of 120 work hours to earn three academic credits for the internship. Prior to registering for this course, students must arrange both supervisors, and secure an affiliation agreement from the organization.
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Business Administration: Accounting
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ACC 504 - Government and Not-For-Profit Accounting 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Undergraduate courses in Principles of Accounting I and II and ACC 505
A study of financial and management accounting principles as they apply to governments and not for-profit organizations and health care organizations. Also, an overview of the characteristics of generally accepted government auditing standards and the single audit.
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ACC 505 - Fraud Examination 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Undergraduate courses in Principles of Accounting I and II.
Students will learn how and why occupational fraud is committed, how fraudulent conduct can be deterred, and how allegations of fraud should be investigated and resolved. Emphasis will be on fraudulent financial reporting, litigation support, and investigative auditing. Students will work through cases, developing investigative strategies and seeking to prove how fraud was committed.
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ACC 522 - Federal Taxation for Business Entities 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in taxation and ACC 505
A study of income tax situations involving corporation and partnership taxation, including the tax effects on the different forms of businesses, taxable and tax-free reorganization, and an overview of the estate and gift taxes. Emphasis is on tax planning and research.
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ACC 532 - Advanced Cost Accounting 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in Cost Accounting and ACC 505 .
Emphasis is placed on measurements for decision making and strategic planning, including cost analysis, capital budgeting, activity-based costing, and other advanced cost accounting and managerial decision topics.
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ACC 538 - Law and the Accountant 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in business law and ACC 505
The purpose of the course is to provide the accountant and aspiring accountant a general understanding of U.S. jurisprudence and the application of U.S. law to the business sector. The course content was developed in consultation with members of the accounting profession, and it focuses on matters pertinent to the practitioner. It takes as a "given" the fact that most accountants will spend their professional time working with or for various types of business organizations, most often corporations.
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ACC 549 - Using Financial Accounting Information 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Undergraduate courses in Intermediate Accounting I and II.
ACC 504 , ACC 505 , ACC 532 , ACC 535 ,MBA 540 , MBA 570
A study of financial statement analysis using accounting principles, measurement, and reporting practices. Also included are insights into income determination and methods for evaluating the firm through the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows, and statement of changes in stockholders' equity.
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Business Administration: Data Analytics
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MBA 581 - Data Analytics 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 598
This course will examine core statistical and data analysis techniques that can be used for decision making. Upon completion of this course students will understand data retrieval, analysis, and mining; and decision modeling to
effectively persuade in the project-oriented world of data-driven decisions.
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MBA 582 - Advanced Data Analytics 3 credits credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 581
This course will examine advanced data analytics that can be used for decision making. Upon completion of this course, students will understand data analysis and decision making modeling using methods such as time series analysis, predictive data mining, optimization models, and Monte Carlo simulation.
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MBA 586 - Business Intelligence 3 credits credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 582
This course provides an overview to the field of business intelligence, which has been defined as the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, exploratory and predictive models and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions. The development and use of data warehouses and data marts to support business analytics is discussed. The use of key performance indicators, dashboards ans scorecards for performance management and opportunity assessment are addressed. Text and web mining are discussed, and the application of selected data mining techniques to business decision making situations is illustrated.
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Business Administration: Finance
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FIN 510 - Investment and Portfolio Management 3 credit hours
This graduate-level course provides an in-depth exploration of investment theory and portfolio management strategies. Students will learn the principles of asset allocation, risk management, and financial analysis necessary for effective investment decision-making. The course combines theory and practical applications to prepare students for careers in finance, asset management, and investment analysis.
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FIN 520 - Risk Analysis 3 credit hours
This course is designed to help students learn quantitative models for estimating risk in various financial settings for different types of financial institutions (banks, hedge funds, and others). It is a very hands-on course where students will become familiar with several state-of-the-art quantitative risk models as well as their detailed implementation procedure in the real world. The course uses several in-class Excel exercises to illustrate the models as well as their practical implementation using real financial data.
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FIN 530 - Fintech - Shaping the Financial World 3 credit hours
This graduate-level course explores the intersection of finance and technology, focusing on the evolution and impact of financial technology (Fintech) on the financial services industry. Students will gain insights into Fintech trends, innovations, and their applications in various areas of finance, including banking, payments, lending, and investments.
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Business Administration: Health Care Management
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HCM 520 - Health Care Organization/Managed Care 3 credit hours
This is an overview of the contemporary health care system. It examines the historical antecedents, patients, providers, payers, and current health policies. It also provides an overview of the mission, environment, and organizational design of today's health services organizations. Finally, it describes and analyzes U.S. health insurance programs, including private and public insurers, health insurance demand, health plan types, premiums, and reimbursement systems.
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HCM 530 - Community Health Evaluation/Epidemiology 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: HCM 520 .
This course provides an overview of the various health reporting systems that are in use and required by the federal government. It stresses the importance of accurate reporting and the role that these reporting systems play in disease and death prevention and containment. It also examines the business costs of such approaches.
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HCM 540 - Critical Issues in Health Care 3 credit hours
This is a course that explores the most significant issues in health care today. It considers corporate theory from a health care perspective as well as consent to care, malpractice in contemporary America, health care negligence, and liability. Special attention is given to an examination of health care and taxation, legal problems facing providers and patients, and ethical issues in human reproduction, genetics, and death.
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HCM 550 - Health Care Management 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: HCM 520 .
In this course, students will study the critical elements of contemporary health care management beginning with strategic planning, marketing, and information systems. The course will also examine other aspects of management as they relate to health care quality improvement methods and allied health professions such as human resource management for health care, communication management for health care, and process improvement techniques related to health care practice behavior in various settings.
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HCM 560 - Consumer Health Care 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: HCM 520 .
In this course, students will study the critical elements of contemporary consumer health care management beginning with an understanding of JCAHO's interest in and support for patient, client, customer, and employee satisfaction through communication. The course will also examine the role of communication as it relates to health care quality improvement methods and allied health professions such as communication as a central feature of customer satisfaction, communication management to support health care consumerism, process improvement techniques related to health care practice behavior, and the way these techniques are communicated to practitioners, agents, and patients.
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HCM 590 - Health Policy and Evaluation 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: HCM 520 .
This course is a survey and a critical analysis of federal and state health policy processes. It focuses on the evaluation of health care outcomes and the effectiveness and efficiency of contemporary health services. Students analyze cases dealing with administrative and policy issues in health services including problem solving in ill-defined, multifaceted situations, operational health program evaluation models, and health planning documentation models.
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Business Administration: Human Resource Management
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HRA 539 - HR Strategic Training and Development 3 credit hours
Organizations today are turning to training and development as an option to meet today's workplace challenges because of complex technologies, a more diverse workforce, industry globalization, and a tight labor market. This course will provide advanced education into the concepts, processes, and issues associated with training and development. Myriad training and development content will be emphasized such as planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating training programs. Attention will also be devoted to broader issues such as employee development and training for specific needs.
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HRA 545 - Administrative and Personnel Law 3 credit hours
This course is intended to provide an overview of the basic laws governing the employment relationship. The goals of the course are twofold: first, to familiarize students with the many issues and problems confronting employees, employers, supervisors, and human resources professionals; second, to help students in identifying the legal implications of personnel situations that may arise in the business and corporate environment.
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HRA 549 - Recruitment, Selection, and Placement 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: HRA 545 .
Focuses on processes and conceptual issues related to staffing organizations. Topics include recruitment and staffing models, policies, and legal compliance as well as practices related to attraction, selection, development, retention, and employment decision making for the most effective use of human resources.
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HRA 562 - Total Compensation 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 531
This course is designed to enhance the student's knowledge of a strategically oriented comprehensive compensation system that would explore both direct and indirect compensation strategic design, development, implementation, administration, and evaluation. This will also include the effects of compensation system design on other HR functional areas, including but not limited to internal and external equity, pay for performance, and benefit administration.
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HRA 596 - Strategic Issues in Human Resources 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: HRA 545 and HRA 539 or HRA 549 or HRA 562 .
This course is designed as the MBA HR concentration capstone course, to integrate previous HR core best practices into a business partnership by analyzing real-world strategic issues in a cohesive framework that leads to the achievement of organizational effectiveness through enlightened HR management and leadership.
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Business Administration: Information Security Management
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COM 545 - Web Services Security 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: COM 510 .
Access to the World Wide Web and Internet for multiple purposes is one of the major components of most business operations. Many businesses also use the same protocols and processes to provide internal communications. Security of these assets is imperative for a successful business. This course provides the concepts and procedures of assessing and managing security for Web activities.
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COM 590 - Strategic Planning for Cybersecurity 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: COM 520 and COM 530 .
This course describes and demonstrates the application of information security forecasting methods, their implementation within organizations, and the development of a competitive strategic plan.
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Business Administration: Marketing
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MKT 562 - Brand Management 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 565 .
This course covers the basics of how to manage a brand and create brand equity. The purpose of the course is to provide detailed information regarding the design and implementation of marketing activities to create, enhance, sustain, measure, and leverage brand equity. In addition, the course links the process of creating and managing brand equity to the firm's other marketing activities and to the overall marketing strategy. Additional fee applies for marketing computer simulation.
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MKT 564 - Global Marketing 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 565 .
This course focuses on the marketing of goods, services, and ideas including planning, pricing, promotion, and distribution. Attention is directed to international marketing, marketing ethics, and managing the marketing function. Additional fee applies for marketing computer simulation.
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MKT 566 - Sales Management 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 565 .
The course is designed to teach students the basic functions, techniques, and methods of sales force management and the ability to manage the sales force in such a way as to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the firm's resources invested in this critical function. Key topics include sales force effectiveness, deployment, motivation, organizational design, compensation, and evaluation. Special emphasis is given in linking sales management decisions to the overall marketing strategy as well as to the legal and ethical issues that exist in the practice of sales management.
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MKT 567 - Marketing Research 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 565 .
Marketing research is the way companies obtain critical information about their customers, competitors, and the environment. This course provides a rigorous experience in the key marketing research methods with the purpose of helping students to ask relevant marketing questions, search for the appropriate methodology, and make effective decisions based on the research output. Techniques of data collection, evaluation of alternative sources of information, methods for analyzing data and being aware of its limitations, and presenting the results are covered.
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MKT 568 - Advertising and Promotion 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 565 .
The course is designed to provide the student with the tools to apply the latest techniques in advertising and promotional activities to maximize the effectiveness and leverage of the firm's communication strategy. The objective is to make students aware of the variety of communication management problems, and to generate the necessary knowledge and experience to select the best possible methods to deal with them. Special emphasis is given to linking advertising and promotion decisions to the overall marketing strategy as well as to the legal and ethical issues that have risen due to the new media and communication technologies.
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Business Administration: Social Media Marketing
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MKT 570 - Gamification Applications in Marketing 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 565 - Marketing and COM 515 - Data Mining
The course provides a comprehensive training into gamification, a technique based on insights from games to make marketing exchanges more efficient. The students will learn how to use gamification concepts to increase customer involvement, purchases and loyalty. They will also be able to apply gamification concepts to increase salespeople and employee motivation, performance, and job satisfaction, as well as to increase employee involvement and learning.
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MKT 571 - Digital Storytelling and Crisis Management 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 565
The course focuses on how storytelling using social media can enhance and maintain brand image and support marketing strategies. The course also explores the best techniques using social media communications for reputation and crisis management online.
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MKT 575 - Web Analytics 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 565 - Marketing
The course explains what web analytics is, and provides key instructions on how to design a comprehensive web analytics strategy. It focuses on how to apply analytical techniques correctly, how to assess the effectiveness of social media and multichannel campaigns, how to optimize success by leveraging experimentation, and how to employ the proper tools and tactics for listening to your customers.
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MKT 580 - Social Media Marketing 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 565 - Marketing , MKT 570 - Gamification Applications in Marketing and MKT 575 - Web Analytics
This course covers the key techniques and methods on how to design and manage marketing operations online. It focuses on presenting cutting-edge business strategies that generate value by applying and adjusting marketing techniques in the online environment and utilizing social media. Besides traditional social media, the course incorporates web analytic techniques as well as ideas from gamification as key components of the student skill set. The purpose of the course is to prepare the students to design, implement, and assess comprehensive social media marketing strategies in a way that maximizes a company's long-term competitive advantage.
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Business Administration: Project Management
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PRM 516 - Project Process Groups and Project/Product Life Cycles 3 credit hours
This course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the five process groups of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing a project. Students will participate in activities associated with project selection and initiation principally. In addition, students will learn how the project life cycle (established phases to move a project from start to completion) can intersect with a product lifecycle at various stages of development from concept to retirement.
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PRM 518 - Initiating, Planning and Executing a Project 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: PRM 516 - Project Process Groups and Project/Product Life Cycles
This course builds upon prior student development in initiating and planning a project by concentrating on project execution/control. Students will acquire skills necessary to execute the planned project tasks/procedures aimed at producing the deliverable: a product or service. In addition, students will employ procedures to manage, measure, and control project performance associated with risks/changes to cost, scope, schedule, and quality.
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PRM 520 - Monitoring, Controlling and Closing Projects 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: PRM 518 - Initiating, Planning and Executing a Project
Students learn how to monitor, control, and close a project. Students are taught how to use tools and techniques to oversee the successful implementation and follow-through of the project management plan and its sub-plans, which include the communications plan, risk management plan, quality management plan, human resources plan, and procurement plan. In addition, students will learn how to effectively monitor and control the "triple constraint" which is measured in the scope, costs, and time/schedule baselines.
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PRM 522 - Best Practices in Project Management 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: PRM 520 - Monitoring, Controlling and Closing Projects
This course introduces the nine project management knowledge areas which include integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement. Students will apply the nine knowledge areas within a best practices project framework to manage the project and product life cycle. Students will attain a thorough understanding in how to use the various tools to manage the "triple constraint" for effective and efficient project completion. Lastly, the student will learn to apply a global perspective during the project's initiation, implementation, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closing activities.
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PRM 524 - Applied Project Management Case 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: PRM 522 - Best Practices in Project Management
A project management capstone course which requires that students use the project management skills and abilities acquired in their previous courses to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control, and close a successful project with the use of the project management information system (PMIS) called Microsoft Project. Project information is supplied to students throughout the course based on real-world scenarios in which the student must deal with all aspects of project management. The student is given a specific project with specified stakeholders and faces problematic issues including schedule delays, costs increases, human resource shortages, and equipment failure to name a few. The student must demonstrate his or her competency by using the skills and abilities attained throughout the course to lead the project to a successful completion. Upon completion of this course, the student will be prepared to successfully manage a complete project.
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PRM 625 - Project Management Internship 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 , PRM 516 , successful completion of 12 credit hours in the MBA program with minimum 3.0 GPA, and faculty supervisor approval.
This three-credit elective course allows students to arrange full- or part-time employment in fields related to the Project Management curriculum to give them an experiential learning opportunity at the graduate level. Students are responsible for choosing a faculty member ("faculty supervisor") to coordinate the academic portion of the internship and a supervisor at the employment site ("site supervisor") to oversee the job duties and responsibilities. One hour of internship experience is granted for every 40 hours of documented employment. Students must complete a minimum of 120 work hours to earn three academic credits for the internship. Prior to registering for this course, students must arrange both supervisors, and secure an affiliation agreement from the organization. At least two site contacts will be completed by the faculty member to ensure that the outlined competency requirements are completed.
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Business Administration: Sport Business
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SPB 510 - Foundations of Sport 3 credit hours
Introduces the student to the broad concept of sport business and provides an overview of professional, collegiate, interscholastic, recreational, Olympic, Paralympic, and international sport. Searching for professional positions in sport will also be discussed.
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SPB 535 - Risk Management and Legal Concepts in Sport 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: SPB 510 .
This course provides students with an opportunity to examine the most significant areas of risk management and law relevant to the various segments of the sport industry. Specific sport law concepts will focus on developments in negligence law, contract law, and constitutional law. Legal and risk considerations will be explored as related to managing operations including facilities and events, transportation, crowd control, and crisis situations, which create the framework for developing risk management strategies that will assist sport managers in setting guidelines, policies, plans, and procedures.
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SPB 545 - Facility Planning and Management in Sport 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: SPB 510 .
This course examines the various types of indoor and outdoor facilities for sport venues and related activities; examines the planning, scheduling, organizing, and controlling of sport facilities for sport related venues and their ancillary areas; and explores the connection between facility/venue management and event management, event operations and logistics, facility and event programming and scheduling, and facility and event marketing. Specific topics also include the development of strategic sport facility management plans, preparing and controlling facility logistics, and risk and crisis management issues.
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SPB 565 - Sport Marketing 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 and SPB 510 .
This course develops knowledge and skill in the marketing process as it relates to understanding the sport consumer, logistics, promotions, and public relations activities in traditional and specialized areas of the sport industry. Primary focus will be on the application of marketing principles to specific sport scenarios.
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SPB 570 - Financial Aspects of Sport 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: SPB 510 and MBA 560 .
The course is intended to provide an overview of the sport industry and is divided into sections reflective of the major issues surrounding the financial management of sport organization in both nonprofit and profit contexts, with the emphasis on the latter. The first aspect of the course focuses on an analysis of the major professional and collegiate sport organizations in North America, with an emphasis on how economic factors have altered the face of sports and will continue to influence how leagues and collegiate conferences develop and evolve. The second unit examines ticket operations, pricing strategies and tactics, and revenues from broadcast rights, licensing, and concessions. The final unit covers fund raising and introduces corporate sponsorship in sport organizations with an emphasis on the evaluation of the sponsorship partnership as a lucrative revenue stream.
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Business Administration: Supply Chain Management
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SCM 510 - Strategic Supply Chain Integration 3 credit hours
Alignment of the supply chain strategy with the business strategy and the maintenance of close working relationships with managers in other functional areas including manufacturing, sales and marketing, and international operations. Emphasizes the importance of transportation planning, inventory control, warehouse management, development of customer service, and procurement in the design and operation of supply and distribution systems. Emphasis is on the importance of information systems in supporting such activities and developing a Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) framework within the organization.
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SCM 515 - Dynamic Risk Modeling & Quality Initiatives 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 and SCM 510
This course introduces cultures and leading to continuous improvement (TQM, Six Sigma) and limiting risk within the organizations supply chain. This course will cover the fundamentals of Lean and Six Sigma and will equip students with other important tools and strategies to improve the performance of business processes. Students will practice solving business problems and improving processes through case studies, team exercises and simulations. Students will gain an understanding of: the causes and methods for limiting risk, the need for fact-based management, and demonstrate how to utilize these tools within parts of the supply and value chain. Course will be designed to meet the Six Sigma Green Belt certification requirements including the completion of a LSS student project.
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SCM 520 - Integrated Global Systems & Sustainability Initiatives 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 and SCM 510
Managing global operations and the supply chain requires an understanding of culture, customs, and business processes. This course looks at all three areas while also helping students demonstrate how to balance conflicting objectives, choose and leverage global procurement, and negotiate the export and import processes. This course examines international trade, state and federal resources provided, and sustainability initiatives including ISO 2600.
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SCM 530 - Building Competitive Advantages through Strategic Relationships & Reverse Logistics 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 and SCM 510
This course introduces Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) techniques, its integration into ERP systems, and its strategic advantages. It will focus on the fundamentals of Relationship Management while also looking at how extending the supply chain to include Third-Party Logistics (3PL) and Fourth-Party Logistics (4PL) can be used to further strengthen the organization.
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SCM 535 - Best Practices for Supply Chain Integration 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 and SCM 510
This is a case-driven course in which students perform an in-depth study of elite global supply chains of the top Fortune 100 Companies and learn to how to implement world-class best practices in global supply chain management. Students are required to analyze, synthesize, and incorporate proved knowledge, skills, and techniques in developing an effective and efficient supply chain for a newly founded company seeking entry into the global marketplace.
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SCM 625 - Global Supply Chain Management Internship 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: MBA 525 , SCM 510 , successful completion of 12 credit hours in the MBA program with minimum 3.0 GPA, and faculty supervisor approval.
This three-credit elective course allows students to arrange full- or part-time employment in fields related to the Global Supply Chain Management curriculum to give them an experiential learning opportunity at the graduate level. Students are responsible for choosing a faculty member ("faculty supervisor") to coordinate the academic portion of the internship and a supervisor at the employment site ("site supervisor") to oversee the job duties and responsibilities. One hour of internship experience is granted for every 40 hours of documented employment. Students must complete a minimum of 120 work hours to earn three academic credits for the internship. Prior to registering for this course, students must arrange both supervisors, and secure an affiliation agreement from the organization. At least two site contacts will be completed by the faculty member to ensure that the outlined competency requirements are completed.
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Computer Science
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COM 501 - Computation Structures 3 credit hours
This course introduces architecture of digital systems, emphasizing structural principles common to a wide range of computer systems. The course provides students a solid grounding in foundational issues of computational structures, covering the following areas: algorithms, abstraction, hardware, computer organization, system software, language models, and the social and ethical issues of computing.
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COM 502 - Cybersecurity Engineering 3 credit hours
The advent of global networks has provided communication capabilities for businesses and individuals unparalleled in the history of the world. Attacks on information systems that deny service, destroy systems, and purloin information through the use of worms, viruses, and other criminal attacks make it imperative that information security be a significant part of any business plan and that individuals working in that or allied fields become knowledgeable in the principles of information security.
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COM 542 - Advanced Computer Architecture 3 credit hours
This course explores the design and evaluation of modern uniprocessor computing systems. Students will be introduced to developments in Evaluation methodology, metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), memory hierarchy design, I/O, and recent trends in architecture (e.g., low-power architectures, application-specific processors). Several case studies examine the application of these architectural ideas in modern commercial processors.
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COM 562 - Advanced Operating Systems 3 credit hours
This is a graduate course that covers key concepts in modern operating systems. Specific topics include process management, synchronization mechanisms, scheduling strategies, deadlock detection/avoidance, memory management, file systems, protection and security, and distributed systems. Concepts will be reinforced through programming projects using a realistic operating system.
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COM 566 - Database Systems 3 credit hours
The primary goal of this course is to learn principles and practices of database management and database design. The course covers fundamentals for the logical design of database systems, the entity-relationship model, semantic model, relational model, hierarchical model, network model, and implementations of these models. Other topics include the design theory for relational databases, design of query languages and the use of semantics for query optimization, design and verification of integrity assertions, and issues on database security.
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COM 571 - Intro to Artificial Intelligence 3 credit hours
This course provides an introduction to the field of artificial intelligence. The major topics covered will include reasoning and representation, search, constraint satisfaction problems, planning, logic, reasoning under uncertainty, and planning under uncertainty.
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COM 575 - Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems 3 credit hours
The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the fundamental concepts, algorithms, and theories in machine learning. The course will cover perceptrons, linear models, nonlinear embedding methods, neural networks/deep learning, parametric/non-parametric methods, kernel machines, mixture models and graphical models. Various examples and applications will also be discussed.
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COM 583 - Applied AI and Deep Learning 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: For Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence degree program only.
Deep learning is a sub-field of machine learning that focuses on learning complex, hierarchical feature representations from raw data. In this course, students will learn the fundamental principles and implementation details of deep learning. This includes the concepts and methods used to optimize these highly parameterized models, the modules that make them up, and common neural network architectures (convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, etc.).
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COM 593 - Current issues in AI 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: For students in the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligency program.
This course is an advanced overview of more traditional approaches to understanding AI techniques and an in-depth look at recently developed perspectives on AI applications of the future.
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COM 625 - Internship 3 - 6 credit hours
This is a pass/fail course. This course is an optional elective course designed for students pursuing a Masters degree in Computing. It will provide the students the opportunity to integrate and apply the knowledge and skills learned in the degree program in a real life situation while working under the supervision of an expert preceptor. The students, along with their designated faculty member and preceptor, will develop a program related to their curriculum including specific learning outcomes, specific competency requirements and the associated learning activities. At least two site contacts will be completed by the faculty member to ensure that the agreed upon learning outcomes and skills are achieved satisfactorily.
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Creative Writing
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CRW 601 - Preparing the Master's Thesis 3 credit hours
Prerequisites: CRW 5011 - 5012 and 5013 - Theory and Practice of Creative Writing I and CRW 5012 Theory and Practice of Creating Writing II
24 hours of graduate credit; to be taken in second semester of second year only.
Students in this course prepare a draft final thesis, a book-length collection of original creative work that is part of the capstone experience of the Master's program. An acceptable thesis is defined as 48-64 pages of original poetry, or a substantially complete work of prose (regardless of genre) ranging from 80-150 pages. The course will also focus on the thesis as a marketable work product; students will research markets for publication in their genre of concentration and prepare excerpts for submission and possible publication. Students compile a draft version of the thesis at the end of the term; the revised thesis will be submitted during their final on-campus residency, and a public reading from the thesis will be given.
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Criminal Justice
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CRJ 500 - Special Topics 3 credit hours
This course will focus on special topics that would be of educational interest for students in the graduate program. Topics for this course will vary and, if popular, will be submitted as a permanent addition to the program.
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CRJ 501 - Terrorism in Israel 3 credit hours
This course provides a comprehensive overview of international and domestic terrorism, arising from either religious or secular roots. It will examine the historical and philosophical underpinnings of terrorism in general, and specifically in Israel. Terrorist organizations in Israel will be studied, and a special emphasis will be placed on that government's preventive and investigative techniques in dealing with terrorist attacks. In addition, the student will be exposed to the rationale used by terrorist groups in an attempt to justify their attacks on Israel.
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CRJ 505 - Intro to Behavioral Science in Criminal Justice 3 credit hours
This course is an examination of behavioral issues in criminal justice for the criminal justice professional. The course addresses law enforcement, court, criminal and victim behaviors that impact the criminal justice system. The learner will examine the role and effect of different behavioral and psychological issues related to participants in court room settings including defendant, witnesses and jurors in criminal courts, police and correctional settings including investigative tools, criminal behavior including sexual assault and Victimology. The learner will examine behavioral issues in juveniles and adults as applicable to each area. In addition, the course will examine the behavioral science assessment tools used by criminal justice professionals in working with courts, criminals, victims and law enforcement as modeled by the Federal Bureau of Investigations Behavioral Science Unit and other best practices.
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