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EDAD 951 - Dissertation Advisement 1 Credits
771 Prerequisite(s): Completion of all program requirements, except the Dissertation and Oral Defense Student will continue working on the dissertation to completion and meeting all expected requirements for a quality research paper.
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EDAD 848 - Dissertation Advisement Continuum 3 Credits
Formally #951
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EDAD 950 - Dissertation IIA 3 Credits
770 Prerequisite(s): Completion of all course requirements, including electives, and the Passing of the comprehensive Examination This course should be a review of the mini-proposal and the completion of a full dissertation proposal including Chapters 1, 2, and 3. Each student should defend the dissertation proposal while taking EDAD 950 Dissertation llA. The dissertation proposal should be written in the future verb tense for chapters 1 and 3.
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EDAD 950 - Dissertation IIB 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Dissertation 950 llA in an accepted manner. The final full dissertation for EDAD 950 Dissertation llB should include Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The full dissertation should include chapters (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), at this time, and should be written in the past verb tense except for the section in chapter 5 that addresses future recommendations. The recommendation section in chapter 5 should be written using future verb tenses only. The recommendation section of the dissertation should be the voice of the student who has written the dissertation. In the recommendation section, the student should use such words as “the researcher recommends that ….etc.”
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EDAD 842 - Dissertation One 3 Credits
Formally #910
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EDAD 910 - Dissertation One 3 Credits
703 Prerequisite(s): Requirement: All students are to use the Writing Center at BSU to improve their knowledge of the APA Manual and Scholarly Writing Resources. This course serves as an introductory course in preparation for the development of a researchable topic for the first three chapters for the mini dissertation proposal. Second, the review of the IRB process, and thoughts about a dissertation committee will be discussed. This course deals with both the theoretical and practical aspects of designing dissertation research proposal and successfully defending the design in a proposal hearing. The purpose of this course is to assist students through the proposal and dissertation writing processes. This mini proposal will now be expanded into a full dissertation proposal during the student ‘s time working with the dissertation chair while researching and writing the proposal in the next course (EDAD 950 llA).
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EDAD 844 - Dissertation Two 3 Credits
Fornally #950
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EDAD 846 - Dissertation Two B 3 Credits
Formally #950
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EDAD 815 - Education Planning and Evaluation 3 Credits
711 Prerequisite(s): None This course is a comprehensive examination of planning practices and procedures in selected educational settings and will include the development of a model plan as a related research project. Advanced study of topics related to the design and development of educational policies and operations in support of organizational planning including appropriate research needs and methods are also included. Also, an introduction to evaluation of the effectiveness of educational programs and policies in relation to systems theory and analysis of organizations.
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EDAD 830 - Educational Governance and Policy Studies 3 Credits
713 Prerequisite(s): None Educators operate in a complex web of political relationships within schools and universities between educational institutions and communities, and across levels of government. This course is designed to enable educators to become more effective and responsible actors within this web of political relationships. The course engages students in 1) developing systematic knowledge about political environments; 2) developing skills and strategies necessary to act on that knowledge; and, 3) exploring and acquiring principles that shape responsible political action.
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EDAD 716 - Educational Government and Political Studies 3 Credits
Formally #830
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EDAD 899 - Educational Leadership Comprehensive Examination 0 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Advancement to Candidacy, Completion of all prerequisites, resolution of all Incomplete grades The comprehensive examination is a comprehensive test on the core concepts and issues within the discipline. The examination is a three hour test administered by the Graduate School.
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EDAD 850 - Educational Leadership Interdisciplinary Seminar 3 Credits
761 Prerequisite(s): None This course will address leadership ideas, values, cultures, and contemporary issues that are affecting society generally and education particularly. Also, the seminar will serve to enhance students’ knowledge of multiculturalism, racial, ethnic, and gender diversity, and individuals with handicaps. Additionally, it will address school-community relation’s issues, principles and recommended practices for dealing with those publics with whom school leaders regularly interact. The seminar may be repeated for credit.
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EDAD 712 - Educational Planning and Evaluation 3 Credits
formally # 815
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EDAD 920 - Externship in Educational Leadership 3 Credits
741 Prerequisite(s): Completion of all required courses except 950 and Passing the comprehensive Examination This course is a special interdisciplinary problem-solving activity for experienced educational practitioners. An interdisciplinary team of faculty will work with small groups of experienced administrators, supervisors, or instructors in an analysis of current educational problems or in an evaluation of educational practices. Students are judged on the quality of their investigations, individual reports and discussion.
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EDAD 736 - Formally #851
Counseling Courses
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EDAD 738 - Formally #853
Counseling Course
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EDAD 740 - Formally #854
Counseling Course
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EDAD 742 - Formally #855
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EDAD 744 - Formally #901
Technology Course
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EDAD 746 - Formally #902
Technology Course
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EDAD 748 - Formally #903
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EDAD 750 - Formally #904
Technology Course
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EDAD 820 - Human Resource Administration 3 Credits
715 Prerequisite(s): None This course includes analysis and discussion of personnel administration in educational institutions. Special attention will be given to those functions and responsibilities related to the administration of personnel at the school district level. This course will address the personnel function and its contribution to the overall management and operation of a school system.
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EDAD 720 - Human Resource Development and Administration 3 Credits
Formally 820
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EDAD 724 - Interdisciplinary Seminar 3 Credits
Formally #850
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EDAD 722 - Leadership and Technology in Global Information Age 3 Credits
Formally #840
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EDAD 840 - Leadership with Technology in a Global Information 3 Credits
716 Prerequisite(s): None This course will equip students with information, skills and strategies to make efficient use of technology including computer, communications and instructional to lead twenty first American schools.
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EDAD 718 - Managing Financial Resources in Urban Education 3 Credits
Formally 845
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EDAD 845 - Managing Financial Resources in Urban Education 3 Credits
714 Prerequisite(s): None This course includes analysis and discussion of current public and private local, state, and national sources of revenue for the support of public education. In addition, the students study school finances practice including detailed analysis of budgetary processes. Principles of sound management of income and expenditures bonding procedures, accounting, and auditing are also examined.
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EDAD 801 - Philosophy and Historical Foundations of Urban 3 Credits
710 Prerequisite(s): None The purpose of the course is to analyze and study the philosophical and historical foundations that underline leadership concepts and practices in contemporary urban schools. Students explore the political, social, and economic context in which urban schools operate. Students also examine effective leadership and management strategies for urban schools in eight key policy/management areas: finance, personnel/employee relations, students performance, program definition (curriculum and student services), facilities and security, media (communications and community relations), and education law.
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EDAD 710 - Philosophy and Historical Foundations of Urban Education 3 Credits
Formally #801
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EDAD 726 - Research Design and Methods 3 Credits
Fornally #835
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EDAD 835 - Research Design and Methods 3 Credits
702 Prerequisite(s): EDAD 810 The purpose of this course is to provide doctoral students with the skill necessary to design empirical research studies in the field of education. Survey, correlation and experimental research methods and practices are emphasized in the course. Course topics include: purposes and types of educational research; steps in conducting research and preparing a research proposal; selection of research questions for investigation and literature reviews; basic statistical methods and an introduction to statistical packages; development and validation of instrumentation; principles of sampling; research designs; data collection techniques; interpreting results, drawing conclusions, and reporting results. Survey and experimental research methods and practices are emphasized in the course.
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ENGL 545 - Advanced Grammar 3 Credits
445 Prerequisite(s): None This course is a practical focus on language form and use. It is an intensive study of American English grammar, drawing upon contributions from traditional language scholarship and from more recent communicative approaches to grammar study.
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ENGL 737 - Criticism And Theory 3 Credits
537 Prerequisite(s): None This course examines literary practice and theory from Plato to the present. Particular attention will be paid to trends in contemporary criticism and theory from Historical Biographical Criticism to Formalism (New Criticism) to Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, Feminist Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Psychological Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism and Multiculturalism, Narratology, and Cultural Criticism.
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ENGL 799 - English Comprehensive Examination 0 Credits
699 Prerequisite(s): Advancement to Candidacy, Completion of all prerequisites, resolution of all Incomplete grades The comprehensive examination is a comprehensive test on the core concepts and issues within the discipline. The examination is a three hour test administered by the Graduate School.
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ENGL 502 - Methods and Humanities Computing II 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course prepares students for graduate study in English with training in Humanities Computing. Students will apply their knowledge of resources (traditional and electronic) and methodologies. Students will obtain an overview of contemporary literature theory to explore resulting issues and conflicts. Students will advance their knowledge of Humanities Computing by learning about available Humanities Computing resources; by studying TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), HTML (HyperText Markup Language), and SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language); by writing web pages and hypertext applications with HTML, and by analyzing and preparing electronic texts (including SGM-L Standard General Markup Language.
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ENGL 600 - Practicum in Teaching College Composition 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This practicum provides supervised teaching experience in the freshman composition program (English 100, 101, or 102) as preparation for teaching at the community college, college, or university levels. Students will teach one course under the direction of the Director of Freshman Composition; develop specific instructional units that meet the goals of the relevant syllabus; grade student essays; keep a journal of their classroom teaching experiences, focusing on the application of the theory and research learned in 503 and 504; and write a final evaluative paper.
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ENGL 501 - Research Methods and Humanities Computing I 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course prepares students for graduate study in English with training in Humanities Computing. Students will examine research sources, methodologies, and related topics; current scholarship in modern languages and literature; and the history of academic literary studies. Students will also study searching techniques for Public Access Catalogs, electronic databases, and the Internet. Students will work with electronic media: CD-ROMs and text analysis software. Students will be introduced to a wide variety of electronic resources, including newsgroups, LISTSERVs, and web sites.
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ENGL 601 - Rhetorical Theories and Practices I 3 Credits
503 Prerequisite(s): None This course will trace the historical influence of the rhetorical tradition on today’s discourse as it is used in various contexts and communities. Students will study the language of rhetorical analysis and apply its principles to various texts, including essays, letters, and speeches. Students will experience the principles of rhetorical theory first-hand through a series of assignments (described on the syllabus). With its emphasis on argument and the relationship between writer, text, and audience, the course could be useful for practicing classroom teachers as well as those intending to enter the classroom.
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ENGL 602 - Rhetorical Theories and Practices II 3 Credits
504 Prerequisite(s): None This course focuses on modern/contemporary rhetorical theories and how to use these theories to analyze examples of modern/contemporary discourse. The goal is to determine how an argument is built or meaning created for the reader or writer of a piece of discourse.
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ENGL 757 - Seminar in African American Literature 3 Credits
557 Prerequisite(s): None An in-depth exploration of the major genres, themes, styles and traditions that link literary voices of contemporary African American writers with their historical literary ancestors. Using representative works in fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, oratory, criticism, and film, the course will examine the African American experience from the cultural, historical, and socio-political perspective of the African American writer.
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ENGL 758 - Seminar in African Literature 3 Credits
558 Prerequisite(s): None
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ENGL 755 - Seminar in American Literature 3 Credits
555 Prerequisite(s): None An intensive study of American literature, this seminar will focus on one of the following areas of exploration: (1) a literary movement or period, (2) a major writer, (3) a theme that runs through literary works by a number of American writers, (4) the influence of one major writer on another major writer.
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ENGL 756 - Seminar in British Literature 3 Credits
556 Prerequisite(s): None This course is a seminar in a topic or topics in English literature. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the history of the English novel; Gothic and horror literature; Romanticism and revolution; pastoral poetry; the epic and romance tradition; Victorian decadent writers; the stream of consciousness novel; utopian/dystopian literature, and etc. This course is designed to enhance the ability of students to apply various trends in critical theory (such as feminism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, reader-response criticism, cultural criticism, multiculturalism, etc.) to a particular aspect of or approach to English literature, which falls under the rubric of a particular genre, mode, period, movement, or theme.
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ENGL 733 - Seminar in Literature of the Caribbean 3 Credits
533 Prerequisite(s): None
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ENGL 734 - Seminar in Literature of the East 3 Credits
534 Prerequisite(s): None An intensive study of the literary tradition of China or India or Japan. Representative works- in non-fiction prose, fiction, poetry, and drama–will be studied in the cultural, historical, social contexts in which they were written. And, where appropriate, the theories of literature of each tradition will be explored.
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ENGL 759 - Seminar in World Literature 3 Credits
559 Prerequisite(s): None This seminar will explore in depth a theme common to the literature of one or more countries or geographical regions of the world.
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ENGL 715 - Special Topics in Autobiographical Literature 3 Credits
515 Prerequisite(s): None An intensive study of American autobiography primarily from a historical perspective. This course will explore various forms of the genre, including the diary and journals, letters, slave narratives, essay, and memoir. Topics to be addressed include the ways autobiographies reveal or reflect the social history of the United States, the relationship of literacy to freedom in the African American community, and the reasons for the autobiography being the preferred form of first-generation immigrants. Larger theoretical issues include the nature of “truth” in autobiographical texts and the boundaries between fiction and autobiography.
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ENGL 712 - Special Topics in Drama 3 Credits
512 Prerequisite(s): None This course provides an intensive study of drama. The course investigates the formal techniques of drama as they reflect both aesthetic and cultural ideologies. Additionally, an understanding of the literary and historical traditions of drama provides contexts for the works.
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ENGL 714 - Special Topics in Ethnic/Multicultural Literature 3 Credits
514 Prerequisite(s): None This course is an in-depth study of literary works written in English by contemporary ethnic minority writers in North America. Students will explore representative works– in fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, drama, and criticism in the context of minority discourse. Past offerings of this course focused on Asian American literature-encompassing Chinese American literature, Filipino American literature, Japanese American literature, South Asian American literature, and Vietnamese American literature.
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ENGL 710 - Special Topics in Fiction 3 Credits
510 Prerequisite(s): None
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ENGL 763 - Special Topics in Linguistics 3 Credits
563 Prerequisite(s): None This course will examine a range of contemporary issues in linguistics that relate to how people acquire or learn language and how they use language to accomplish various purposes. The focus of the course may vary from one semester to another. The students will appreciate the central role of language in people’s lives. The readings will highlight how people’s attitudes affect language and language use, and how language affects people and their attitudes. Other issues such as the role of age in language learning and acquisition will be covered on occasion.
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ENGL 711 - Special Topics in Poetry 3 Credits
511 Prerequisite(s): None An intensive study of poetry, including the literary traditions of America and/or Great Britain and prosody. The course will investigate the formal techniques of poetry as they reflect both aesthetic and cultural ideologies. Additionally, an understanding of the literary and historical traditions of the poetry will provide context for the work.
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ENGL 713 - Special Topics in Women Literature 3 Credits
513 Prerequisite(s): None An in-depth, cross-cultural study of selected women’s literary expression and representation encompassing the genres of fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, orature, and film. These works will be grouped under the topics: early Western feminist thought; women’s autobiographical writing; the literature of women in migration; post-colonial and post-slavery women’s writing; women’s orature and women’s representation in film. Current feminist critical theory will be studied and applied where appropriate with the respective social, political, cultural and historical contexts of the works being taken into accounts.
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FINA 621 - Corporate Finance 3 Credits
521 Prerequisite(s): None Applies the theory of corporation finance. Market efficiency, capital structure, capital budgeting, dividend policy are explored.
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FINA 622 - Financial Institutions 3 Credits
522 Prerequisite(s): None Applies the theory of financial intermediation. The behavior of commercial banks, mutual saving banks, credit union, insurance companies is explored. Topics to be covered include government regulations, the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Corporation, interest rates, money supply, and insurance.
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FINA 520 - Financial Management 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Presents the graduate-level overview of the essential concepts of financial management. The orientation is managerial, with emphasis on the recognition and solution of financial problems as they confront the financial manager in a business environment.
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FINA 623 - International Finance 3 Credits
523 Prerequisite(s): None Provides the concepts and techniques of the operations of business in international environments. Multi-national corporations, ethical issues facing the multinational corporations, exchange rates and their effects, managing cultural and political risk, international trade agreements are important topics to be covered.
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FINA 721 - Investment Banking and Capital Markets 3 Credits
621 Prerequisite(s): None Provides the concepts of international banking and capital markets. Integrates the modes of financing international transactions by means of deposits, bonds, stocks, and other financial instruments. Evaluates the roles of credit, interest rates, and foreign exchange in international banking and capital markets.
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FINA 722 - Security Analysis and Portfolio Management 3 Credits
622 Prerequisite(s): None Evaluates a wide range of short-term and long-term vehicles. Treasury bills, commercial papers Euro-dollars, bankers’ acceptances, common stocks, preferred stocks, and commercial bonds, the effects of interest rates on short-term and long-term vehicles are examined.
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FINA 723 - Speculative Markets 3 Credits
623 Prerequisite(s): None The course analyzes the concept of speculation. Day trading puts and call options, speculative stocks, and junk bonds and their impact on financial markets
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HURD 789 - Advanced Project Management in HRD 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): HURD 783, 785, and 787 This course essentially provides management with a global perspective of the implications of project management theory and practice. It focuses on advanced problems in organization structure, behavior, and leadership. It is a detailed exploration of the application concepts and themes within project management milieu.
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HURD 608 - Career Development & Occupational Assessments 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course provides students with an overview of the application of career development management principles in organizations. The major thrust of the course will focus on developing counseling and human resources skills of the human resource practitioner. Attention will be given to the HRD practitioner’s role in the design, development, and implementation of organization programs to ensure maximum utilization of a diverse work force. Counseling strategies, theories of career development, and individual assessment will be a major part of the course work.
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HURD 730 - Consulting in Human Resource Development 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): HURD 732 This course explores the role of the HRD consultant from the perspective of a resource person for internal and external consulting. This course is designed to enable learners to understand and apply theories and methodologies to real life situations. Learners will be exposed to field experiences, which will assist in the development of their practitioner skills. Knowledge and skills will be further enhanced through critical analysis, group discussions and instructive conversation.
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HURD 690 - Fundamentals of Adult Learning 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None The thrust of the course will focus on the theory, techniques, and practices of the adult learners. The goal is to understand the inroads to motivating, coaching, instructing, developing plans and projects, and evaluating the desires and efforts of the adult learner to learn. The course will explore the Andragogy Model for its applications in business, industry.
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HURD 783 - Fundamentals of Project Management 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course explores the administration of a temporary organization of human and material resources within a permanent organization to achieve a specific objective. It considers both operational and conceptual issues within the organization. Additionally, it focuses on the essential elements of planning, implementation, control, and evaluation from an operational perspective. This course will conceptually study matrix organization, project authority, motivation and morale, and explore the differences and similarities between project and hierarchical management will be addressed. This course is strongly based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Project management professionals not certified must take this course to qualify for the PMP examination.
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HURD 774 - Human Resource Development: A Strategic Approach 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course develops the ability to recognize, analyze and define problems within and outside of the organization, to identify management choices and to implement appropriate action. The course stresses assessment of the short- and long-term implications of taking certain actions.
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HURD 880 - Integrative Seminar: Critical Engagement in HRD 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): HURD 806 This course has dual foci: (1) to provide an academic framework in which human resource practitioners can synthesize their knowledge, and (2) guidance in the application of the knowledge and skills obtained as seminar topic proposals developed during the planning stage (HURD 806) are completed. Topics include current issues in adult learning, training and education; design of training programs; consultant-client relationships; management strategies for change; organizational behavior issues, analysis of social forces; and special topics based on student interests.
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HURD 601 - Introduction to Human Resource Development 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This basic course is designed to provide an overview of the principles and philosophy associated with the field of Human Resource Development. The course will explore the major thrust of HRD, its activities, roles, and functions in the organization. Training, education, and development are major areas of examination with regard to their impact on human performance and productivity. The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) publication, Models for Excellence, will be used as a major reference for this course.
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HURD 748 - Leadership Development 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to allow opportunities for persons to examine various questions about leadership including: What is it? What is the process? What makes for effective leadership and why? What influences can an individual really have on an organization? Is there something really different needed in leadership in the 21st century? Does leadership really make a difference? It is also designed to assist participants in gaining deeper insights about themselves in both the leadership and followership roles. It is designed with the intent of having both students and instructor collaborate in the learning process toward mutual growth and development. Emphasis is also placed on assisting the participants in gaining the knowledge, skills and insights necessary for developing leadership development systems within a variety of organizational types.
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HURD 741 - Organization Development (OD) 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to provide an understanding of the underlying theory of organization change and intervention; to explore how various change strategies can be applied to problems involving people in intact systems; and to analyze successful approaches and techniques in organization development, to include materials, techniques, designs, current issues and practices in organization development. Other learning interventions are applied to enhance students’ skills, knowledge and abilities include: understanding of the organization as a system, organization assessment, team building and intergroup work as OD intervention, entry strategies, internal/external change agent, and third-party consultation.
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HURD 732 - Organizational Behavior Modes and Small Group 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course analyzes concepts of formal organizations, conceptual models which purport to depict organizational behavior, and focuses on change for accomplishment of established goals and objectives. The dynamics of small group behavior, self-awareness, interpersonal communications and interaction, membership roles, decision-making processes and group assessment will be emphasized with regard to their impact on the organizational structure.
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HURD 736 - Practicum in Human Resource Development 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): 30 hours in the program, including HURD 732, 741, and 764 The practicum is designed to provide practical applications of human resource development skills in a business and industry, governmental agency, or nonprofit setting. Each student will plan and implement a field project under the supervision of a faculty member in advance of registration. The student arranges a working relationship with a faculty member and prepares a learning experience in an appropriate business setting that must be submitted to the Human Resource Development program coordinator prior to registration.
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HURD 668 - Presentation & Facilitation Skills 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course combines practical application and theory in developing dynamic trainers and powerful presenters. The course will focus on facilitation and presentation skills, and competencies needed to compete as an effective trainer in a diverse workforce.
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HURD 620 - Principles of Management/Human Resource 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course presents an analysis of problems, issues, and opportunities in managing human resources and developing and utilizing an effective, productive and satisfied workforce. The course focuses on the evaluation of application of HRD principles to business, industry, government, and non-educational settings. Basic concepts of employee training, education, and development are examined as well as the major roles of the human resource development practitioner. Emphasis is placed on the effective integration of human resources development into organization systems.
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HURD 791 - Project Planning & Control Concepts 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): HURD 789 This course is designed as an experience for personal growth in acquiring essential knowledge of procedures, tools, and techniques needed to conceptualize work requirements and make detailed project plans. It provides an integrative perspective in the organization of structuring projects to improve accuracy of forecasts and to assess project cost and duration.
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HURD 881 - Research Advisement 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): HURD This advisement course is offered to participants who need extended time to complete practicum or seminar requirements. It does not count toward academic credit.
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HURD 806 - Research Planning: Analysis, Interpretation, and Proposal Writing 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to 1) provide the human resource development practitioner with an understanding of the various kinds of educational and business research. The focus will be given to business research, design strategies, evaluation and report writing. Provides an understanding and interpretation of the use of basic statistical techniques appropriate to research designs and includes; 2) the identification, design and implementation of organizational interventions designed to satisfy a need, alleviate a problem, or serve as new initiatives will be critiqued as students develop proposals for a critical analysis of a specific topic related to the HRD field of study. These proposals are to represents a highly sophisticated understanding of the application of principles learned through experience in the HRD program and existing research.
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HURD 700 - Special Topics in HRD 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course addresses the special trends, issues and challenges in the field of human resource development. The goal is to promote student understanding and application of processes within the specific area of instruction.
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HURD 787 - Strategic Viewpoints on Project Management 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course provides a theoretical perspective and implications of the establishment of project management in modern organizations. It focuses on managerial styles and attitudes relevant to the development and implementation of specific tools used for strategic planning and control. Practical guidelines are given for developing conceptual thinking skills that directly impact the process of long-term project success.
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HURD 656 - Technology Use in Human Resource Development 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to enable participants to develop a comprehensive and integrated approach to the utilization of computer-based applications in the development of human resources. Participants will explore current concepts, examine a variety of CBT applications, conduct a computer-based learning exercise and/or study, become acquainted with authoring systems, and learn to perform cost-effective analysis of CBT systems.
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HURD 785 - The Human Development Side of Project Leadership 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is the introduction to theory and practice of leading project workers and teams. It addresses core skills in motivating workers, organizing and leading teams, communicating and sharing information, and conflict resolution. It is designed to develop awareness of the manager’s role in project success outcomes. The course will address the clear distinction between management and leadership roles with emphasis on theoretical frameworks in discerning management and leadership effectiveness in project management.
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HURD 764 - Training I: Process and Practice 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None The roles and responsibilities of training and development and their impact on organizational structure are analyzed. The course focuses on the development of knowledge, skills, and awareness needed to design and deliver effective training programs/curriculum. Students examine adult learning concepts and principles for the purpose of developing training programs that reflect participants’ needs and emphasize achieving well-defined objectives. Strategies and techniques are exploited for systematic development of training, beginning with needs analysis and ending with program evaluation.
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HURD 765 - Training II: Process and Practice 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): HURD 764 The course focuses on the specialization of knowledge, skills, and awareness needed for the training specialist or manager of human resource development programs. Emphasis is placed on the role of the expert internal or external trainer. Mastery of all aspects of the training and development process is expected. Technology and training strategies and techniques are explored for the systematic development of the training process. The course builds on adult learning concepts and principles for the purpose of developing training programs presented in HURD 764.
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MGMT 572 - Conflict Management 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to acquaint the student with the nature of and the problems associated with human conflicts in the context of domestic and international organizations. It explains conflict situations, explores the competitive and cooperative conflict styles, and identifies and describes conflict resolution techniques. This course also discusses the elements of effective negotiations and explains the advantages of added value negotiating.
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MGMT 541 - Entrepreneurship 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None Explores the role of entrepreneurs in a free enterprise system and assesses their contributions to economic progress and national prosperity. Emphasis is placed on types of entrepreneurs, reasons for individuals becoming entrepreneurs, conditions that encourage opportunities for entrepreneurs, and the personality traits that typically characterize entrepreneurs. Moreover, the course examines the process of starting a new venture and explains how organizations promote entrepreneurship.
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MGMT 571 - Human Resource Management 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course provides an analysis of problems, issues, and opportunities in managing the procurement, development, utilization, and maintenance of an effective, productive, and a satisfied work force.
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MGMT 772 - Human Resources Management Seminar 3 Credits
672 Prerequisite(s): All background courses Problems in industrial relations and manpower involving the public interest, the work force and management; labor relations, compensation, and wage administration; job analysis development and evaluation; work force development and appraisal.
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MGMT 652 - International Business 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None The course introduces international business as an integrative field that cuts across multinational operations based on the movement of goods, human resources, technology, finance, and markets. Topics include foreign investments, the monetary system, financial forces, socio-cultural forces, political and legal forces, strategic planning and control systems, as well as trends and directions affecting competition.
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MGMT 650 - International Management 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course will focus on managerial process of leading, planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, and controlling in a global context. Topics emphasized in this course include the role of the international manager, cross-national ethics, the global environment, international organizational structure, and international strategy. In addition, subjects such as cross-cultural business practices, cross cultural communication, and cross-cultural leadership are emphasized.
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MGMT 677 - Labor Management Relations 3 Credits
577 Prerequisite(s): None
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MGMT 550 - Legal Environment of Business 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to provide a general examination of the legal implications of the economic exchange process. A major focus will be directed to the uniform commercial code and its various applications as well as statutory and administrative regulatory requirements operative in the business environment.
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MGMT 584 - Management Statistics 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None
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MGMT 501 - Managing Public and Private Organizations 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None The focus of the course is on management responsibilities, functions and requirements common to all complex organizations. In addition, students will study the legal, political and economic environments that contribute to similarities and differences between public and private sector endeavors, the problems with which they are concerned, and the values that influence their decision-making.
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MGMT 544 - Organization Theory & Behavior 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course is designed to have students understand the clear distinctions between organization behavior and organization theory. The intent is to explain how organizations are structured around critical topics that are relevant for analyzing how employees are led and motivated to perform work. Students learn organizational theories that define the relationships between structure and job design, technology and performance. Employee work behaviors are tied to the socio-technical systems, techno-structural systems, and the job tasks that help to define how work is to be performed. Taken together these topics examine and define how the total organization operates under ideal circumstances.
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MGMT 511 - Organizational Behavior 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course will examine the nature of human behavior in organizations. Coursework will focus primarily on theories related to individual and group behavior in organizations. Incorporated into the course content will be an overview of classical, neoclassical and modern organization theories - to set the stage for studying behavior in organizations. Distinctions will be made among the domains of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development and Human Resource Management.
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MGMT 741 - Organizational Development 3 Credits
641 Prerequisite(s): MGMT 511 and MGMT 772 This course is designed to provide an understanding of the underlying theory of organization change and intervention; to explore how various change strategies can be applied to problems involving people in intact systems; and to analyze successful approaches and techniques in organization development, to include materials, techniques, designs, current issues and practices in organization development. Other topics covered in the course will understand the organization as a system, organization assessment, team building and intergroup work as OD intervention, entry strategies, internal/external change agent, and third-party consultation.
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MGMT 503 - Planning, Budgeting and Evaluation 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): None This course deals with systematic, policy/project formulation and evaluation, which takes place in formal organizations. It presents the processes and techniques for strategic planning, resource allocation, and an introduction to capital facilities planning.
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