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Course Descriptions
Administration of Justice
ADJ 500: Research Methods
Students explore various research techniques and then apply that knowledge to an analysis of existing research and to designing and implementing their own research projects. The course includes preparation of a literature review, qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation methods, research designs, threats to internal and external validity, sampling techniques, data collection methods, and ethical considerations. Note: This course must be taken in the first year of graduate studies.
ADJ 505: Constitutional Issues in Law Enforcement
Students undertake an in-depth study of decisions by the US Supreme Court and other appellate courts that affect rights of criminal suspects from the time of investigation to trial.
ADJ 521: Management Issues in Law Enforcement
Students examine issues facing law enforcement from a management perspective, with an emphasis on structure, policies, discipline, budgetary problems, public relations, and civil liabilities.
ADJ 552: Terrorism and Transnational Crime
Examines the sources, activities and legal implications of international terrorism and globalized crime. It analyzes strategies and processes of responding and combating criminal networks and activities across borders and evaluates the impact such strategies and processes have on human and civil rights.
ADJ 571: International Human Rights
Examines the conceptual evolution of human rights and evaluates existing systems and instruments for the protection and promotion of human rights in the world. It also explores the fundamental relation between state and cultural sovereignty and the application of rights worldwide.
ADJ 572: Complex Humanitarian Emergencies - Prevention and Responses
Focusing on complex humanitarian emergencies (CHEs), this course addresses the capacity to govern in the face of violence, turmoil, and conflict. The course will examine public policy challenges of developing and implementing the necessary systems to monitor, anticipate, and react to critical response incidents and natural disasters. As such, the course will evaluate early warning methodologies and review the scientific research and competing approaches to preventing and mitigating complex humanitarian emergencies.
Healthcare Administration & Management
HSA 500: Research Methods
Students explore various research techniques and then apply that knowledge to an analysis of existing research and to designing and implementing their own research projects. The course includes preparation of a literature review, qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation methods, research designs, threats to internal and external validity, sampling techniques, data collection methods, and ethical considerations. Note: This course must be taken in the first year of graduate studies.
HSA 501: Introduction to Health Services
This course will explore the historical development, current state and possible future trends of health care financing and delivery in the United States. Course components include a general overview of the size and scope of the health care system, issues related to the underlying need for health care, different modalities for financing and reimbursement and will conclude with evaluation and policy issues. Note: R.N. students take HSA542: Nursing Administration in lieu of this course.
HSA 509: Human Resources Management
This course will assist students in understanding the effective use of human resources to achieve organizational goals within the constraints imposed by ethical considerations and legal obligations. The processes used to determine human resource requirements, recruitment, selection, development, utilization and accommodation of human resources in contemporary organizations will be explored.
HCA542: Nursing Administration
Students who are registered nurses investigate advanced concepts of management and apply them to the administration of a nursing department in a variety of health care settings. An in-depth discussion of the goals, structures, processes, resources, and controls as they pertain to nursing administration is included. Current issues, such as mandatory staffing levels, patient outcomes and evidence based practice are also discussed. Prerequisite: Status as a registered nurse.
HCA543: Public Health Administration
The dawn of the 21st century provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the current health of the public, what we have accomplished as a nation and as a society and the challenges that we face as a nation in the future years. This course examines the historical development of public health, the organization and responsibilities of public health in the United States, health promotion and disease prevention, health status and risk factors. The final section of this course looks to emergency preparedness and response roles of public health. It concludes with a discussion of the future of public health as we enter this new century. Available online.
Holistic Counseling
HLC 500: Research Methods
Students explore various research techniques and then apply that knowledge to an analysis of existing research and to designing and implementing their own research projects. The course includes preparation of a literature review, qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation methods, research designs, threats to internal and external validity, sampling techniques, data collection methods, and ethical considerations. Note: This course must be taken in the first year of graduate studies.
HLC 509: Toward SynthesisOn the Level of Mind/Emotions
This course begins with an explanation of the theoretical underpinnings of current principal psychotherapeutic approaches. It surveys the theories of Freud, Jung and Adler, extending to behaviorism, person-centered therapy, existential therapy, transactional analysis, rational emotive, Gestalt, reality and cognitive-behavioral therapies. The course explores the psychology of imagination and creativity, and challenges students to deepen their awareness of their own cognitive-emotional lives as related to their physical existence, creativity, and sense of meaning and purpose.
Humanities
HUM 500: Research Methods
Students explore various research techniques and then apply that knowledge to an analysis of existing research and to designing and implementing their own research projects. The course includes preparation of a literature review, qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation methods, research designs, threats to internal and external validity, sampling techniques, data collection methods, and ethical considerations. Note: This course must be taken in the first year of graduate studies.
HUM 501: Social and Ethical Issues: a Global Perspective
With the explosion of worldwide communications, the globalization of the economy, and the increase of international conflicts, this course takes a global perspective on major ethical issues impacting our daily lives as members of a world community. From business to world politics, students will examine enduring ethical concepts. Case studies will be used to explore contemporary applications to such issues as armed conflict, overpopulation, global degradation, and education/literacy. This course will encourage students to seek solutions to improve the world in which we live.
HUM 503: Great Writers I
Classic authors of major influence in world literature are discussed in relation to the humanities. Emphasis is directed to timeless themes in drama, fiction, and poetry that can enrich contemporary appreciation of universal human values as they have been expressed through the ages.
HUM 504: Great Writers II
In this study of such major authors as Plato, Racine, Shakespeare, Goethe, Flaubert and Tolstoy, students continue to read and discuss classic works of major significance. Emphasis is placed on the critical analysis of the works with a view toward understanding and appreciating them not just in their own time period and culture, but also in an attempt to discover how they both reflect and illuminate contemporary experience.
HUM 505: World Civilizations I
This course focuses on the distinctive cultural achievements that characterize the seminal Western civilizations. Students examine growth and decline of national aspirations and how the humanities shape cultural identity.
HUM 506: World Civilizations II
This course proposes that through the humanities, students can effectively learn to appreciate the ancient cultures of the Eastern world. The arts, wisdom, and ways of life in historic civilizations are the theme of a cross-cultural survey from the Middle East to Asia.
International Relations
INR 500: Research Methods
Students explore various research techniques and then apply that knowledge to an analysis of existing research and to designing and implementing their own research projects. The course includes preparation of a literature review, qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation methods, research designs, threats to internal and external validity, sampling techniques, data collection methods, and ethical considerations. Note: This course must be taken in the first year of graduate studies.
INR 511: Philosophical Foundations of Politics
Examines and evaluates the intellectual contributions to the foundations of political order and justice of the main political thinkers since Socrates. The course analyzes and evaluates the key questions and answers regarding human nature and its direct relation to the construction and maintenance of political systems. Its purpose is to lay the groundwork for the study of comparative and international politics.
INR 512: Justice and Order in International Relations
Examines in theoretical and practical terms the relationship of justice and order at different levels of human interaction, such as that between people as members of different state organizations and as part of the world community. Its objective is to find a balance not only in the way political order relates to justice, but also in the way that people can balance their state citizenship with world citizenship, i.e., national identity and human identity.
INR 513: Comparative Political Development
Analyzes and compares different roads to establishing political order, taking into consideration the specific circumstances prevailing in different parts of the world. In the context of the concept of justice, the course relates the establishment and maintenance of political order to economic development, and by extension, the way economic development relates to the maintenance of political order.
INR 516: Identity, Harmony, and Conflict
Examines the role that social and religious identity plays in the interaction of people within an established political order as well as between different political orders. For example, is religious and social identity a factor for harmonious relations between people or is it a source of conflict between individuals and groups?
INR 521: Social and Ethical Issues: a Global Perspective
With the explosion of worldwide communications, the globalization of the economy, and the increase of international conflicts, this course takes a global perspective on major ethical issues impacting our daily lives as members of a world community. From business to world politics, students will examine enduring ethical concepts. Case studies will be used to explore contemporary applications to such issues as armed conflict, overpopulation, global degradation, and education/literacy. This course will encourage students to seek solutions to improve the world in which we live.
INR 522: Integration and Globalization Politics
Examines the ways by which the international system is being transformed and the effects such a transformation has on established political and orders as well as on the lives and identities of people.
INR 531: Just and Unjust Wars
Examines the concept of the just war theory from the point of view of different religions in regards to the declaration and conduct of conventional war. It also examines the ethical implications of contemplating nuclear, biological or chemical warfare.
INR 542: Dispute and conflict Resolution
Examines sources of conflict at different levels of human interaction and explores negotiation, mediation, and arbitration strategies to managing crises and resolving disputes between groups and individuals.
INR 552: Terrorism and Transnational Crime
Examines the sources, activities and legal implications of international terrorism and globalized crime. It analyzes strategies and processes of responding and combating criminal networks and activities across borders and evaluates the impact such strategies and processes have on human and civil rights.
INR 561: Contemporary Problems in Central and South America
This course focuses on the major political, social, and economic problems of the late twentieth century Latin America as well as United States-Latin American foreign relations and issues of common hemispheric interest. Historical background is provided as a framework for understanding current problems, and select countries are examined in depth.
INR 571: International Human Rights
Examines the conceptual evolution of human rights and evaluates existing systems and instruments for the protection and promotion of human rights in the world. It also explores the fundamental relation between state and cultural sovereignty and the application of rights worldwide.
INR 572: Complex Humanitarian Emergencies - Prevention and Responses
Focusing on complex humanitarian emergencies (CHEs), this course addresses the capacity to govern in the face of violence, turmoil, and conflict. The course will examine public policy challenges of developing and implementing the necessary systems to monitor, anticipate, and react to critical response incidents and natural disasters. As such, the course will evaluate early warning methodologies and review the scientific research and competing approaches to preventing and mitigating complex humanitarian emergencies.
INR 586: Politics of the Middle East
This course analyzes contemporary issues facing the Middle East and their influence on global politics. Issues examined will include fundamentalism, cultural identities, economic pressures, and threat of political instability as well as prospects for prosperity and political development at both the national and regional levels.
Information Systems Science
ISS 501: Structured Systems Analysis
This course examines the structured systems development life cycle and rapid prototyping alternatives that may be applied to applications development process. Topics in this course include information systems planning in support of the organization's objectives, determination of requirements, an introduction to software project management, modern structured analysis, and preliminary design. Additional topics include: event-driven design, object-oriented methodologies, conversion of legacy systems to a distributed environment, and application maintenance. Appropriate case tools, project management and development software will be used to support these activities.
Management
MGT 500: Research Methods
Students explore various research techniques and then apply that knowledge to an analysis of existing research and to designing and implementing their own research projects. The course includes preparation of a literature review, qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation methods, research designs, threats to internal and external validity, sampling techniques, data collection methods, and ethical considerations. Note: This course must be taken in the first year of graduate studies.
MGT 501: Management and Organizational Theory
Students will explore classic management and organizational theories as they apply to contemporary business organizations. Integration of the individual into the organization, an examination of the human factor in organizational dynamics and the processes of team.
MGT 503: Business Law
This course concentrates on the legal aspects of business organizations. The law controlling agency, partnerships, and corporations is examined. Emphasis is on the rights, duties and liabilities surrounding principal, agent, partner, shareholder, officer and director. Students are also exposed to a survey of the law of contracts, personal property, bailments, bankruptcy, commercial paper and secured transactions.
MGT 509: Human Resources Management
This course will assist students in understanding the effective use of human resources to achieve organizational goals within the constraints imposed by ethical considerations and legal obligations. The processes used to determine human resource requirements, recruitment, selection, development, utilization and accommodation of human resources in contemporary organizations will be explored.
MGT 510: Operations Management
This course introduces tools and techniques necessary to assure effective and efficient operations in both service and manufacturing settings. Managerial decision making, forecasting, queuing and inventory control are enhanced by use of techniques such as total quality management (TQM), statistical process control (SPC), supply-chain management, and quantitative evaluation of capacity, location, layout and resource planning.
Prerequisite: PRE510 Quantitative Analysis, Calculus and/or Statistics or equivalent or permission of instructor.
MGT 518: Managerial Economics
This course provides a survey of micro- and macro-economic theory with an emphasis on material vital to managerial decision-making. Students will explore the economic behavior of business organizations with a focus on price theory, production theory and economic analysis. The determination of national income, monetary and fiscal policy and international trade are addressed.
Prerequisite: PRE518 Microeconomics and Macroeconomics or equivalent or permission of instructor.
MGT 530: Marketing Management
Students survey the role of marketing in business and in society. They explore consumer behavior, market segments, product positioning, new product development and policy, pricing, distributing, advertising and sales management. Case studies will be utilized to enhance critical thinking and analytical decision-making.
MGT 538: Global Business
This course presents the backgrounds, patterns and practical operations of global, multinational businesses. Topics include transnational corporations, global trade, global financial flows and international human resources management. The interactions between business policies and the host country's sociopolitical and economic environment are investigated. Use of case studies and business simulation models provide practical application of theories to enhance learning.
MGT 540: Social and Ethical Issues: a Global Perspective
With the explosion of worldwide communications, the globalization of the economy, and the increase of international conflicts, this course takes a global perspective on major ethical issues impacting our daily lives as members of a world community. From business to world politics, students will examine enduring ethical concepts. Case studies will be used to explore contemporary applications to such issues as armed conflict, overpopulation, global degradation, and education/literacy. This course will encourage students to seek solutions to improve the world in which we live.
MGT 555: Organizational Development
This course provides an overview of the field of organizational behavior with a focus on organizational culture, group behavior, interpersonal influence and organizational design, change and innovation. This course is centered on effective change management within organizations. Students will have the opportunity to improve skills in areas such as process consultation, managing change, team building and measuring organizational effectiveness.
MGT 560: Labor Relations
Students study collective bargaining as an ongoing dynamic process and develop a process model of collaborative bargaining. Special attention is given to resolution of negotiation impasses unfair labor practices and employee grievances. Unique features of public and private sector bargaining are highlighted.
Prerequisite: MGT509 Human Resources Management or permission of instructor.
MGT 561: Financial Management
Students become acquainted with the tools and instruments that allow financial managers to successfully manage current operations and predict long-term needs. Emphasis is placed on current industry practices with investigations of the investment, financing, and evaluation decisions necessary for organizations to meet their fiduciary responsibilities. The course is designed to show the application of finance theory to current management issues.
MGT 562: Financial Accounting
Students explore and analyze real-world issues in financial planning and analysis with emphasis on preparation of business plans and financial forecasts. Students use accounting software to record, summarize, report and analyze financial information.
Prerequisite: Accounting I & II or equivalent or permission of instructor.
MGT 567: Creative Problem Solving
This course provides students with both the theoretical and practical applications of creatively solving problems in a wide range of organizational settings including, for example, healthcare, law enforcement, manufacturing, educational institutions, public sector, private sector, for-profit and not-for-profit entities. Students will work collaboratively and cooperatively to learn the connections between innovation, creativity, visualization, memory, thinking, overcoming mental barriers, problem definition, idea generation, idea evaluation, solution implementation and improved communication.
MGT 572: Complex Humanitarian Emergencies - Prevention and Responses
Focusing on complex humanitarian emergencies (CHEs), this course addresses the capacity to govern in the face of violence, turmoil, and conflict. The course will examine public policy challenges of developing and implementing the necessary systems to monitor, anticipate, and react to critical response incidents and natural disasters. As such, the course will evaluate early warning methodologies and review the scientific research and competing approaches to preventing and mitigating complex humanitarian emergencies.
MGT 575: Strategic Management and Business Policy
The capstone course enables students to concentrate on the determination and implementation of organizational strategy. The student takes the point of view of an administrative leader who must integrate organizational activities such as human resources management, public relations, operations, marketing, finance, production disaster planning and critical incident management. Major topics are the determination of organizational strategy and the relationship between an organization's economic strategy and the personal values of senior administrators. This capstone course should be taken as one of the last 2 courses in the degree program.
Rehabilitation Counseling
RHB 500: Research Methods
Students explore various research techniques and then apply that knowledge to an analysis of existing research and to designing and implementing their own research projects. The course includes preparation of a literature review, qualitative and quantitative approaches, triangulation methods, research designs, threats to internal and external validity, sampling techniques, data collection methods, and ethical considerations. Note: This course must be taken in the first year of graduate studies.
RHB 510: Counseling and Personality Theory
The student will study the major counseling theories and the related theories of personality development. This course provides the opportunity to examine the following theoretical perspectives to human development: psychodynamic, developmental, existential, person-centered, behavioral, rational-emotive, cognitive-behavioral, reality based, gestalt, transactional analysis, and systems theories.
RHB 523: Cultural and Psychosocial Aspects of Disability
Effective practice requires an understanding of the cultural, psychological and social factors that affect individuals with disability. The concept that the social structure and the cultural background of an individual significantly contributes to the perceived disability is examined. Attitudes towards disability can influence the rehabilitation process.
RHB 535: Career Development - Work and disability Issues
The student will study the major career development theories and discuss the implications of these theories toward understanding functional capacity. Students will learn the importance of the concept of career ladders as it fits into job placement and career interests of the individual. Topics for discussion include reasonable accommodations, informed choice, information technology, assistive technology, functional capacity, benefits analysis and work incentives.
RHB 540: Medical and Psychological Aspects of Disability
Students learn significant medical and functional components of disabilities with particular attention to the implications for work and independent living. the major categories of disabilities are discussed. Students acquire working knowledge of the use of resources and the terminology to assist in the development of appropriate individualized rehabilitation plans. The student will develop an understanding of the bases for the diagnostic and prognostic judgments in assessing the individual's functional capacity.
RHB 542: Evaluation and Assessment
Specific evaluative tools will be examined including intelligence, ability, achievement, interests, attitudinal, and personality instruments along with situational assessment and observation procedures. Students will approach evaluation within the perspective of a holistic assessment of the individual. Cultural and social factors will be considered with emphasis on a comprehensive understanding of the functional capacity of the individual.
RHB 550: Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment
Students acquire knowledge for job development and appropriate job placement taking into account the interests and functional capacities of individuals with disabilities. As part of the process, students develop the skills for building partnerships with the consumer to support the principles of independent living. Topics related to job placement include reasonable accommodation, facilities design, job analysis and modification, identification of transferable skills, supported employment, job skill training, and job clubs. Students will learn how to do labor market surveys. Students also will acquire the knowledge for developing individualized employment plans.
