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NSIS 5500 - National Security and Intelligence
Credit Hours: 3
Dissect intelligence structures within the national security and intelligence community. Examine foreign and domestic agencies including civilian and military missions, roles and functions. Explore how intelligence services set priorities, objectives, define national interests, develop tactical intelligence, and craft timely assessments for domestic and foreign partners. Examine global national security and intelligence issues.
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NSIS 5510 - Intelligence Research and Analysis
Credit Hours: 3
Focuses on developing and integrating analysis concepts and techniques in order to provide effective estimates of opportunities and threats to US national interests. Strengthens analytic trade-craft to foster critical thinking and the opportunity to develop and implement innovative approaches to analyzing complex national security and intelligence problem sets. Uses analytic methodologies and techniques to develop estimative analyses depicting specific threats and/or vulnerabilities. Key challenges in the national security environment will be used as practical frameworks to apply and assess estimative analysis methods, explore issues associated with analytic processes, and develop estimative skills.
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NSIS 5520 - Espionage, Counterintelligence and Strategic Deception
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the role that espionage, counterintelligence, and strategic deception “trade-craft” plays in national security and intelligence. Explores the forces and events that have shaped U.S. intelligence as well as why people commit treason, the psychological relationship between the Case Officer and Asset, and the moral implications of using these tools to advance US national security.
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NSIS 5530 - National Security Law
Credit Hours: 3
Explore the distribution of national security powers among the three coordinate branches of government - Legislative, Executive and Judicial. Determine laws and policies governing important critical issues in the national security arena, and examine the U.S. Intelligence Community and legal framework governing the actions taken by the US government. Analyze and evaluate the Constitution and a range of national security-related statutes, case law, treaties, and commentaries, in light of their own experiences (both past and potential) as national security and intelligence professionals. Post-9/11 legislation, and subsequent court challenges form the basis for an examination of how national security law is developing.
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NSIS 5540 - Ethics and Leadership in National Security and Intelligence
Credit Hours: 3
Examines how moral standards apply to leadership and human conduct when related to national security and intelligence. Students critically analyze assumptions and alternatives, and address issues of social, political, and environmental perspectives in support of national security objectives consistent with American law and values. Facilitates lifelong learning by introducing students to the complex interaction of ethics and leadership issues and concepts facing national security and intelligence professionals.
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NSIS 5550 - International Security
Credit Hours: 3
Dynamics of globalization have resulted in the development of new challenges shaping the national security and intelligence mission. These challenges include the impact of the global migration of people, rapid spread of information, environmental degradation, natural resource scarcities, disease, financial crises, terrorism, organized crime, and WMD proliferation. The information revolution and advances in science and technology provide both threats and opportunities. Students will explore the nature and dynamics of the emerging global environment in the context of US national security and challenges for intelligence analysis and collection, both now and in the future. Students will examine globalization’s impact on transnational issues that affect regional stability, such as demographic shifts and migration movements, the environment and health, competition over natural resources, ethnic and other forms of internal conflict, terrorism, WMD proliferation, and organized crime.
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NSIS 5560 - Information Operations: Principles, Policies and Challenges
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the global information environment and its effects on US national security strategy and military operations. Essential paradigms and concepts, policies, doctrines, and practices of information operations are viewed from a strategic intelligence perspective in support of US information operations planning and strategy US, coalition, and adversarial information operations are analyzed, and the exploitation of the global information environment in conducting national security operations at the strategic and operational levels of conflict is examined. Intelligence-related aspects of theater, interagency, and international planning and execution of information operations across the physical, informational, and cognitive dimensions of the information environment are explored.
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NSIS 5570 - Homeland Security and Infrastructure
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the U.S. national homeland security framework including organization and policies to include fear management, crisis communication, conventional and unconventional threats, network leadership, weapons of mass destruction, intelligence and information, homeland security technology, and analytics. Introduces a range of issues concerning critical infrastructure. The concept of “critical infrastructure” is defined from a variety of perspectives: economic, military, national, and local.
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NSIS 5580 - Terrorism Analysis
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the terrorism phenomenon within the context of the social sciences. Emphasis is placed on techniques for analyzing the causes, strengths, and weaknesses of key forms of terrorism, with a view toward facilitating national security and intelligence capabilities to develop preemptive and countervailing strategies.
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NSIS 5585 - Defense Intelligence Analysis
Credit Hours: 3
Examines defense intelligence within the larger U.S. intelligence community. Analyzes the intelligence cycle including planning, collection, processing, analysis, production and dissemination. Explores multiple collection disciplines that support U.S. military operations, as well as how the defense intelligence apparatus supports national strategic, operational and tactical level decision-making by everyone from the President down to the company commander.
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NSIS 5590 - Intelligence, Covert Action and Low-Intensity Conflict
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the role of covert action and the execution of low intensity conflict in shaping national security policy. Determine how events since the end of the Cold War, 9/11, and the Iraq War have blurred the lines between analysis, operations, and policymaking. Examines the role of the Intelligence Analyst, and how decision makers use and sometimes misuse Intelligence Community analysis - specifically addressing the issues of politicization of intelligence and policy prescriptive analysis. Explores how the changing nature of intelligence operations (both collection and covert action) has given the Intelligence Community a more direct role in national security policymaking.
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NSIS 5595 - Law of Armed Conflict/International Humanitarian Law
Credit Hours: 3
International Humanitarian Law (IHL), also known as the Law of Armed Conflict, is a set of rules that seeks to balance military priorities when engaging in armed conflict with humanitarian concern for those impacted by such operations. Examines both substantive IHL and the emerging principles of international criminal law that seeks to criminalize behavior on the battlefield. Specific topics include (a) rules of distinction and proportionality, (b) the intersection with international human rights law, (c) the role of ethical/moral values when advising military command on the application of law on the battlefield and principles of international criminal law relating to individual, (d) and command responsibility.
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NSIS 5599 - Special Topics in National Security and Intelligence
Credit Hours: 3
Graduate course designation used to explore new curriculum topics in National Security and Intelligence. Course may take advantage of special expertise of visiting faculty or meet the needs of a timely National Security and Intelligence topic.
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NSIS 6690 - National Security and Intelligence Practicum
Credit Hours: 1-12
A supervised professional study conducted in the National Security and Intelligence fieldsetting. Instructor approval required. Repeatable up to 12 credit hours.
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Architecture |
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ARCH 5500 - Community Design Studio
Credit Hours: 6
Advanced studio problems in architecture with emphasis on the built environment of the small city; topics include: regional culture, community connectedness, revitalization, development.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the M. Arch program
Corequisite(s): ARCH 5510 - Designing in a Small Urban Context Seminar
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ARCH 5501 - Community Design Assistance Center-Leadership
Credit Hours: 3
The Community Design Assistance Center is the outreach arm of the Architecture program. Focusing on projects within the small city context, student interns take on leadership roles in design and planning assistance for non-profit community organizations and groups.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the M. Arch program
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ARCH 5502 - Community Design Assistance Center-Leadership
Credit Hours: 3
This Course is a continuation of ARCH 5501 . The Community Design Assistance Center is the outreach arm of the Architecture program. Focusing on projects within the small city context, student interns take on leadership roles in design and planning assistance for non-profit community organizations and groups.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the M. Arch program
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ARCH 5510 - Designing in a Small Urban Context Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
This course explores architectural concepts within the context of cities of less than 50,000. Topics Include urban design, historic preservation, and social and cultural implications for the community.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the M. Arch program
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ARCH 5540 - Professional Practice
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces the business of architecture, and the architect’s legal and ethical responsibility for the public good; also, the collaborative nature of contemporary practice.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the M Arch Program
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ARCH 5580 - Architectural Practice Program
Credit Hours: 3
This course offers students the opportunity for selected practical experience intermingled with an academic background. Students participate in the NCARB intern development program (IDP), working in a professional setting. Students meet with faculty to develop and assess progress toward completing the established learning goals.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the M. Arch program
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ARCH 5585 - Architecture Study + Travel
Credit Hours: 3
Study + Travel to a significant architectural site(s) across the globe. The course’s main objective is to facilitate a student’s interconnections with architecture, art, and history that have contributed to the life and culture of humankind. This course will allow students to better understand the influence of the past on the present, and ponder the evolving future. In the classroom, students will study the history and culture of the site(s) to be visited. In the field, students will visit important architecture, museums and historic sites, and learn to navigate through an environment that is foreign to them. This course seeks to develop skills students will need in order to explore cultures and civilizations outside their own and encourage teamwork as they explore.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the M. Arch program
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ARCH 5599 - Special Topics in Architecture
Credit Hours: 1-6
This course provides students with further opportunities to study principles and concepts in selected areas of specialization, to be determined by the instructor and to be approved by the department chair. Credits earned will be applicable as free electives in degree and certificate programs. Repeatable
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ARCH 6601 - Community Design Assistance Center-Leadership
Credit Hours: 3
This Course is a continuation of ARCH 5501 /ARCH 5502 , with additional concentration on project management. The Community Design Assistance Center is the outreach arm of the Architecture program. Focusing on projects within the small city context, student interns take on leadership roles in design and planning assistance for non-profit community organizations and groups.
Prerequisite(s): ARCH 5502 - Community Design Assistance Center-Leadership
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ARCH 6610 - Advanced Study Proposal
Credit Hours: 3
Study and research toward an individual research area culminating in a proposal that includes a plan for research, research methods to be employed, preliminary research, a defined focus, and a preliminary schedule for the Advanced Studio Design Project in the final semester in the Master of Architecture program.
Prerequisite(s): ARCH 5540 - Professional Practice
Corequisite(s): ARCH 5500 - Community Design Studio
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ARCH 6650 - Advanced Architectural Design Studio
Credit Hours: 6
Advanced architecture projects are pursued through integration of research, critical thinking, design and representation. This is the terminal requirement for the Master of Architecture degree.
Prerequisite(s): ARCH 6610 - Advanced Study Proposal
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ARCH 6670 - Architectural History/Theory Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of architectural thought from pre-classical times to the present. Humankind’s relation to the world via the approach to the making of structures and artifacts will be examined through readings of selected architectural treatises, manifestoes, and other philosophical texts. Emphasis will be given to the trajectory of Western thought while potentially comparing the diverse thought of other cultures from across the globe, and across time.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the M. Arch program and consent of Instructor
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ARCH 6680 - Architectural Practice Program
Credit Hours: 3
This course offers students the opportunity for selected practical experience intermingled with an academic background. Students participate in the NCARB intern development program (IDP), working in a professional setting. Students meet with faculty to develop and assess progress toward completing the established learning goals.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the M. Arch program
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Business Administration |
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MSBA 5000 - MBA Essentials
Credit Hours: 3
The MBA Essentials is designed as an efficient method to convey core business concepts and to begin a team-building process among the MBA students that will continue throughout the program. Essentials will be an intensive, one-semester, three credit-hour experience that mixes internet and in-class learning of core business concepts and terminology. Students will use knowledge from the core areas to integrate their prior learning and business experience, and develop the cross functional approach to business problem solving that is required for the 21st century. Course Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis
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MSBA 5100 - Personal Development Workshop
Credit Hours: 3
The course will focus on self-assessment, development and actualization issues. Autobiography and biographic exercises will be used to explore the self. Also, topics such as work-life balance, personal financial management, career planning will be discussed.
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MSBA 5110 - Leadership Workshop
Credit Hours: 3
The class will examine human behavior in organizations at the individual, interpersonal and group levels. The interplay of human, technological, and structural factors in organizations will be examined. Important issues to be considered will also involve motivation theories, communication, and group decision theories for managerial applications. The class will look at how we can design jobs and organizational structures and techniques to be used for evaluating and rewarding performance. Similarly, the class will look at techniques for the development of team building, leadership and conflict resolution skills. Focus is given to leadership approaches, job enrichment, quality of work life and employee attitudes and achievement.
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MSBA 5120 - Tactical Human Resources Practices
Credit Hours: 3
Students will learn about the four primary functions of HRM staffing, training and development, motivation and maintenance. Students will also learn how to apply the tactics in each of these functions in a legal, practical and ethical manner in the workplace. This course will combine lecture and case study methodology.
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MSBA 5130 - Labor Relations and Dispute Resolution
Credit Hours: 3
This course will focus on labor-management relations in the U. S., particularly in a unionized environment. The course will begin by covering the history of labor-management relations as well as the major legislation and court precedents that govern labor relations in the U.S. The main emphasis of the course will be on understanding dispute resolution processes and emerging issues in dispute resolution through a heavy reliance on case study analysis.
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MSBA 5140 - Strategic Human Resources Management
Credit Hours: 3
Students will learn to apply Human Resource practices in a strategic manner and also to balance their role as strategic business partner and employee advocate in today’s dynamic business environment. This course will be delivered primarily in a case study method.
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MSBA 5200 - Management Information Systems
Credit Hours: 3
This course addresses three major computer issues. First, this course examines the business aspects of computer information systems, with a focus on hardware, software, and computer systems management. Second, it introduces business productivity software. In particular, it explores presentation and spreadsheet programs providing the students with considerable hands-on experience. Third, the course offers a case-oriented study of statistical data analysis for business decision making. Here, topics include: data summary measure, methods, population and sample characteristics, and linear regression, all implemented using the spreadsheet technology.
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MSBA 5300 - Managerial Economics
Credit Hours: 3
Managerial Economics deals with a diversity of issues. For instance, the class will discuss ways of directing scarce resources in an efficient manner so as to attain managerial goals defined by the firm. To this end, students will learn to apply economic ideas, theories, and methodologies in a strategic manner to enhance corporate performance. Students will also analyze organizational structures in order to maximize corporate behavior in the multitude of industrial and service sectors in which firms operate. Discussion of additional pertinent topics will provide students with further ways of using managerial economics, tools and procedures in the modern business environment.
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MSBA 5400 - Business Environments
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to introduce current developments involving societal and ethical challenges modern society presents to the corporate environment. Emphasis will be placed on areas such as stakeholders, corporate citizenship, social responsibility, globalization, and ethics.
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MSBA 5550 - Financial Reporting and Analysis
Credit Hours: 3
Through the concentration on the accounting side of financial statements, students gain a basic understanding of GAAP and the accounting model in order to recognize the limits of financial reports while evaluating liquidity, debt, and profitability. The course will combine ethics, financial theory, case studies and internet based projects.
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MSBA 5599 - Special Topics in Business Administration
Credit Hours: 1-6
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MSBA 5600 - Marketing for Managers
Credit Hours: 3
The course will introduce marketing research and consumer behavior to the students. Topics such as product policy, pricing, promotion and distribution will be discussed. Case studies will be used to apply the concepts of marketing in the class.
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MSBA 5700 - Quantitative Analysis
Credit Hours: 3
This class will cover descriptive and inferential statistics. Concepts such as probability, distribution, estimation, hypothesis tests, correlation and regression, Chi-square tests as well as nonparametric methods will be stressed. Emphasis will be on quantitative analysis for managerial decision-making.
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MSBA 5710 - Operations Management
Credit Hours: 3
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a sound conceptual understanding of the role that management science plays in the decision-making process. The focus is on the part of management science referred to as quantitative approaches to decision making. This course will cover several quantitative techniques that are used in decision making processes such as linear programming, transporting problems, project management, inventory models, waiting line modes, decision analysis, and forecasting.
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MSBA 5800 - Knowledge Management
Credit Hours: 3
This online course will provide students with a background in the development of Knowledge Management, KM models, how to capture, codify, and share knowledge within the organizational culture, various strategies and metrics, the KM Team, and future challenges for KM. It is a course based on not merely learning concepts, but also applying those concepts to facilitate business processes in a team effort.
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MSBA 5810 - Project Management
Credit Hours: 3
The course introduces the concepts of operations research, scheduling, optimization and network techniques. The course will also cover on contract management especially with a focus on the government sector. Contract bidding, specifications compliance and other topics related to the industrial and government projects will be discussed.
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MSBA 5820 - Advanced Project Management
Credit Hours: 3
Students will learn the how to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close projects. This course builds on the foundation knowledge gained in the Introduction to Project Management course. This is an in-depth focus on the practical application of project management skills. The course format will combine lecture and case study methodology.
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MSBA 5850 - Project Management Capstone
Credit Hours: 3
This course allows students to gain comprehensive project management knowledge. The content addresses detailed coverage of the nine Knowledge Area and five Process Groups identified by the Project Management Institute and contained in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide). It also exposes students to best practices required to pass national certifications in project management and offers tips for passing the exam. Course time and material aligns with the area of emphasis of the PMP exam in five process groups: Project Initiation, Project Planning, Project Execution, Project Monitoring and Control, Project Closure, Professional Responsibility.
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MSBA 5900 - Cybersecurity and Risk Management
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces information assurance and cyber security, providing a breadth of knowledge and skills that covers a wide domain. The intent is to introduce a wide-variety of topics relative to information assurance and cyber security as well as to drill down into one specific topic. This specific topic will to provide a basic understanding of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) as it pertains to the systems development life cycle (SDLC). Additionally, it will provide guidance on how to use this understanding during the development, management, assessment and continuous monitoring of information systems.
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MSBA 5910 - Security Operations, Assessments, and Testing
Credit Hours: 3
This course will introduce the students to concepts of security operations center and what it takes to monitor and secure an organization’s digital infrastructure. Topics covered will include threat detection techniques, intrusion detection and recovery, malware analysis and reverse engineering concepts, and digital forensics. To supplement the course work, students will participate in a semester project working in Security Operations Center, where students will apply the concepts they have learned in class to real world projects in the Center.
Prerequisite(s): MSBA 5900
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MSBA 5920 - Big Data Analytics
Credit Hours: 3
This course will introduce the students to concepts of security operations center and what it takes to monitor and secure an organization’s digital infrastructure. Topics covered will include threat detection techniques, intrusion detection and recovery, malware analysis and reverse engineering concepts, and digital forensics. To supplement the course work, students will participate in a semester project working in Security Operations Center, where students will apply the concepts they have learned in class to real world projects in the Center.
Prerequisite(s): MSBA 5910
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MSBA 5930 - Secure Information Systems Development
Credit Hours: 3
This course infuses the concepts of building security into the system development process. Leaders and managers involved with the development of systems will learn topics such as secure system development approach, protection strategies, secure architectures, web application testing, static and dynamic security analysis.
Prerequisite(s): MSBA 5910
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MSBA 6000 - Strategic Management
Credit Hours: 3
This course will enable students to identify, comprehend and appraise an organizations strategies and policies. Topic will include industry and competitive analysis, corporate and competitive strategies, competing in global, fragmented and integrated industries. The course provides students with the methodology to formulate and implement strategy, and to analyze possible consequences of strategic and policy actions. This course is designed to offer a capstone experience in which students will assimilate the various methods, concepts, and leadership tools offered throughout the MBA program.
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MSBA 6010 - Managerial Practicum
Credit Hours: 3
Students will work with a regional organization (i.e. business, non-profit, health care, etc) to solve real world problems in the role of an independent consultant. Students will work with the employer to identify the managerial issues and will apply learning from their coursework to solve these issues. Students will make a presentation to the local employer and will submit a written case analysis of their project. Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis
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MSBA 6020 - Global Experience
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to expose students to international markets. It is intended to provide students with an understanding of the short-run and long-run decisions that managers of multinational business must make in the course of formulating and implementing specific business plans, along with an in-depth exposure to the techniques and tools that are available for use by international managers. This course may involve an international study tour abroad.
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GRST 5099 - Graduate Studies
Credit Hours: 1-4
This is a special topics course which engages non-degree seeking graduate students with credit for professional development workshops, continuing education credits, or credit for engaging in a grant related experience. While these credits may be used for education re-certification or “plus hours” toward a salary increase, these credits are not designed to be used toward a degree program.
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Criminal Justice |
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CRIM 5504 - Constitutional Law
Credit Hours: 3
This course will deal with constitutional law relating to the function of the police and other government agents in our society, as well as the relationship between citizens and the government in the context of the Constitutional rights of citizens of the United States.
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CRIM 5505 - Terrorism
Credit Hours: 3
A course designed to give the student an in-depth understanding of the problem of terrorism and political violence. The student will define terrorism, examine its origins, characteristics, nature and trends, analyze in detail various terrorist organizations, and address selected problems in response to terrorism.
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CRIM 5525 - White Collar Crime
Credit Hours: 3
Employs both the social science and legal approaches to examine crime committed by corporations as well as by individuals who wear “white collars”; covers how such crimes are socially defined, who commits them, who is victimized by them, which social contexts promote them and how society responds to them.
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CRIM 5599 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice
Credit Hours: 1-6
Special topics courses are offered at the discretion of the department in a wide area of subjects directly related to law enforcement, courts, corrections or security. Special topics courses permit innovative new courses on an experimental basis that addresses new developments in the field of criminal justice. (Students may enroll in no more than 6 hours of Special Topics courses.)
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CRIM 6601 - Advanced Criminal Justice Studies
Credit Hours: 3
This course will analyze of individual elements of the criminal justice process, including police, courts, corrections, and juvenile justice and the analysis of interactions among these elements. The design of the course includes theoretical perspectives on criminal justice and the examination of empirical research. Students will explore the application of planning and other administrative processes to criminal justice.
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CRIM 6602 - Advanced Criminal Law
Credit Hours: 3
Considers selected issues in substantive criminal law including the bases of culpability, burdens of proof, evidentiary standards, rationales for punishment, and defenses such as justification, insanity, and duress.
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CRIM 6610 - Advanced Penology
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the development of ideologies pertaining to the punishment of offenders. Explores the rationales for punishment and imprisonment, including deterrence, retribution, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. Delves into alternatives to incarceration and evaluates recommendations for penal reform.
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CRIM 6611 - Internship
Credit Hours: 3
A supervised professional study conducted in the criminal justice field setting. It is designed to enhance the student’s academic experience through a planned program of observation, study and participation in a selected criminal justice agency.
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CRIM 6615 - Comparative Analysis of Criminal Justice Systems
Credit Hours: 3
Compares and contrasts the criminal justice system in the United States with those of selected countries. The course will cover similarities and differences in the administration, organization, functions, and objectives of the criminal justice process.
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CRIM 6620 - Advances Theoretical Criminology
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the historical development of criminological theories. Considers biological, psychological and sociological explanations for the criminal behavior. Reviews key themes of classical, positivist, and critical criminology. This course is required of all graduate students in the criminal justice program.
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CRIM 6625 - Victimology
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the role of the victim in the crime process along with patterns and trends in victimization. Identifies the categories of people facing the greatest risks and assesses victim-blaming arguments invoking facilitation, precipitation and provocation. Analyzes the handling of street crime victims by the criminal justice system and explores the victims’ rights movement.
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CRIM 6630 - Seminar in Law Enforcement
Credit Hours: 3
An analysis of the strategies and programs utilized in modern police work. Previous research studies and contemporary methods for assessing the effectiveness of current practices are examined.
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CRIM 6635 - Seminar in Offender Rehabilitation
Credit Hours: 3
An analysis of the strategies and programs utilized in modern offender rehabilitation. Previous research studies and contemporary methods for assessing the effectiveness of current practices in treatment and rehabilitation are examined.
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CRIM 6640 - Seminar in Corrections
Credit Hours: 3
An analysis of the strategies and programs utilized in modern penology. Previous research studies and contemporary methods for assessing the effectiveness of current practices in corrections are examined.
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CRIM 6645 - Independent Study
Credit Hours: 3
Research of a significant issue or problem in criminal justice. Students involved in this course will conduct surveys and applied research projects as approved and supervised by a criminal justice faculty member. Instructor and graduate program coordinator approval required
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CRIM 6650 - Seminar in Criminal Justice Planning and Evaluation
Credit Hours: 3
A systematic review of procedures to plan and evaluate criminal justice organizations and their operations with a focus on solutions to particular administrative problems associated with bureaucracy and complex organizations. This course is required of all graduate students in the criminal justice program.
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CRIM 6655 - Applied Research Methods
Credit Hours: 3
Examines the empirical and scientific perspectives in criminal justice. Explores current research methods as they relate to criminal justice, application and interpretation of data from research problems, and the evaluation of research designs and their implementation in criminal justice. A unique feature of this course is that students will actually conduct research. This course is required of all graduate students in the criminal justice program.
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CRIM 6656 - Applied Statistics
Credit Hours: 3
Presents the nature of the research process and guidelines for formulating research questions and testable hypotheses. Reviews the methods of operationalizing variables and indicators, collecting data, data analysis and fundamentals of statistical procedures commonly used in criminal justice research. This course is required of all graduate students in the criminal justice program.
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CRIM 6695 - Capstone
Credit Hours: 3
The Capstone course is a test of knowledge of the required courses of the program, in alignment with program outcomes. This is a team-taught, credit/no credit (i.e., pass/fail) course taught in four modules spanning the entire semester. Students must be in their final semester, with no incomplete grades in order to register for the Capstone.
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CRIM 6696 - Thesis I
Credit Hours: 3
During the first thesis course, students will identify a Chair and committee, plan their study, successfully defend their prospectus, and begin their IRB application. This is a credit/no credit (i.e., pass/fail) course.
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CRIM 6697 - Thesis II
Credit Hours: 3
During the second thesis course students will secure IRB approval, collect and analyze data, and successfully defend their thesis. This is a credit/no credit (i.e., pass/fail) course
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Education |
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EDUC 5000 - Principal as a Leader
Credit Hours: 3
Through data-driven decision making, students will examine the significance of their role as leader in establishing a direction for continued improvement and student achievement.
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EDUC 5005 - Organizational Leadership
Credit Hours: 3
Students will examine components of building or reconfiguring new school, fiscal and personnel management, staff safety, and the internal and external implications of decisions made by principals.
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EDUC 5010 - Ethics and School Law
Credit Hours: 3
Students will investigate laws, policies, and ethical challenges governing Pre-K through 12 education; and examine how policies can help or hinder a principal when resolving conflict; impact of those decisions and rulings in the school setting; federal and state laws that protect the students identified with special needs.
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EDUC 5015 - Community Relationships
Credit Hours: 3
Students will gain insight into the value of appropriating funds from the community; development of community and business partnerships; develop strategies when dealing with difficult situations that may occur with the school or parents; and the use of social media and the role it plays regarding communicating between the community, parents, students and school.
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EDUC 5020 - Transformational Leadership
Credit Hours: 3
Students will examine the skills and characteristics of transformative leaders and how the principal as a leader empowers all members of the learning community to improve form within. Course topics include the impact of curriculum and instruction on addressing student needs, school culture, teacher/staff/student accountability.
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EDUC 5025 - Current School Issues
Credit Hours: 3
Students will examine educational issues that impact the student learning, the classroom and management of the school. Students also research local issues of the educational setting (e.g., disgruntled employee, parent, student, or community member) and the impact of these issues on the school.
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EDUC 5030 - Superintendent Role Regarding Board, Community and Curriculum
Credit Hours: 3
Candidates will examine different ways a superintendent and board of education can create a positive and productive working relationship; strategies for reporting data to the community that build trust and respect; and how to set high expectations with the principal and staff.
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EDUC 5030 - Superintendents Role Board and Community
Credit Hours: 3
Students will examine different ways a superintendent and board of education can create a positive and productive working relationship; strategies for reporting data to the community that build trust and respect; and how to set high expectations with the principal and staff.
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EDUC 5035 - Superintendent as Leader/Manager
Credit Hours: 3
Students will examine the role of the superintendent to build and foster collaboration within the community, how to addresses conflict, monitoring fiscal accounting and management systems using technology to enhance system operations, utilizing district demographics to make informed decisions, and collaborations between community agencies and post-secondary institutions.
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EDUC 5099 - Special Topics in Education
Credit Hours: 1-6
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EDUC 6195 - Field Experience II
Credit Hours: 1
Candidates in the Master of Arts in Teaching complete a 30-hour supervised clinical placement in a public-school classroom.
Corequisite(s): EDUC 6306
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EDUC 6295 - Field Experience II
Credit Hours: 1
Candidates in the Master of Arts in Teaching complete a 75-hour supervised clinical placement in a public-school classroom.
Corequisite(s): EDUC 6307
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EDUC 6300 - Foundations of American Education
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides the teacher candidate with an overview of the profession. Its primary purpose is to provide students with information prerequisite for formulating an informed career decision and a professional commitment to teaching. It also includes an analysis of the historical, philosophical, and sociological bases for instructional programs, instructional strategies and teaching behaviors in American education.
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EDUC 6301 - Research in Education
Credit Hours: 3
Provides candidates with the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to understand and design research as applied to teaching and learning and other applied contexts with an emphasis on methodology; including quantitative, qualitative, and action research methods.
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EDUC 6302 - Advanced Studies in Human Development
Credit Hours: 3
Advanced study of the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children and adults utilizing current theories of development and research implications.
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EDUC 6303 - Advanced Studies in Educational Psych
Credit Hours: 3
Study of the development and behavior of the school-aged child with attention to current research and theories of classroom learning and curriculum innovation.
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EDUC 6304 - Diversity and Disability
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of the legal foundations, etiologies, characteristics, learning styles, and learning problems of individuals with exceptionalities. State and Federal definitions, policies and guidelines for individuals with exceptionalities will be examined.
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EDUC 6305 - Advanced Educational Technology and Media
Credit Hours: 3
Advanced study of the design, development and integration of educational technology and media for teaching, learning and personal productivity, including principles of multi-media design and production and web-based formats.
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EDUC 6306 - Instructional Design I and Education Evaluation
Credit Hours: 3
The point of assessment initially is to validate and confirm student achievement, i.e., to determine that students learned and performed what was expected of them; and then subsequently to determine if the teacher’s instruction had the overall intended impact. Consequently, assessment and evaluation must always be in harmony with instructional goals and activities. Assessment today implies a wide range of evaluative tools and activities from performance assessments to traditional pencil and paper measures. Critics of testing deem that schools should deemphasize and even replace knowledge-level testing with a greater use of “authentic” or “real world” assessments. The reality is that performance-based learning and/or any kind of learning has a “cognitive” base requiring some sort of knowledge and understanding. Throughout the course, the emphasis will be given to principles and practices appropriate to testing and performance assessment for complete and comprehensive evaluation at the student, classroom and school level. In all cases, the emphasis will be on the dynamic relationship of achievement assessment, instruction and student learning
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EDUC 6307 - Instructional Design II - Methods
Credit Hours: 3
In this course teacher candidates/students will demonstrate their ability to synthesize components/elements of effective teaching which include but are not limited to: planning/objectives, assessment/measurement/grading, instructional strategies, curriculum, and classroom management.
Corequisite(s): EDUC 6295
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EDUC 6350 - Introduction to Trauma Informed Care and Resiliency
Credit Hours: 3
The course provides participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop, implement, and evaluate the impact of trauma on students. The focus will be on the systemic supports required to address the needs of all students from Pre-K to 12, including those with disabilities. Emphasis will be placed on using a problem-solving, data-based decision-making method to facilitate the development and implementation of a comprehensive approach that leads students towards resiliency.
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EDUC 6351 - Trauma Informed and Resilience-Focused Interventions
Credit Hours: 3
This course takes participants deeper into the brain science of trauma and toxic stress, exploring the polyvagal theory, epigenetics, and the science of resilience. The content emphasizes the importance of hope when working with at-risk students. Participants will learn about the SITCAP® model (Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized Children, Adolescents, and Parents) and practice sensory-based interventions. Experiential activities will showcase how to process trauma to nurture and restore resilience in students of all ages.
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EDUC 6395 - Capstone Research Project
Credit Hours: 3
Action Research in Education focuses on the development and implementation of a research design using action research or basic applied research methodology. Through this course, students will demonstrate competence in research; teacher candidates focus on improving teaching and learning, other candidates focus on contributing to the research base in their fields. The course prepares graduate students in the M.Ed. programs to design, implement and disseminate the results of research project in a school or other professional setting.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 6301
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EDUC 6494 - Action Research and Portfolio (on-line) Development
Credit Hours: 2
In this series of courses Master of Arts in Teaching candidates will complete two capstone experiences. Candidates apply action research methodology to design, implement and disseminate a classroom-based study focused on student learning in the context of student teaching. This course also supports the development and presentation of candidates’ reflective showcase portfolios.
Corequisite(s): EDUC 6495
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