Master of Integrated Studies Requirements

Prerequisite: None

The Master of Integrated Studies Capstone is the culminating course for students in the Master of Integrated Studies (MIS) program. Students synthesize and apply the interdisciplinary knowledge gained throughout their program to a significant research project or practical initiative that addresses a real-world problem.

Under the guidance of a faculty advisor, students will design and execute a capstone project that integrates insights from the two academic disciplines they have focused on, demonstrating their ability to analyze complex issues from multiple perspectives and offer innovative solutions. The capstone experience is an opportunity for students to showcase their expertise, creativity, and professional readiness as they prepare for career advancement or further academic pursuits.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

The Master of Integrated Studies Thesis course is an advanced research-based component of the Master of Integrated Studies (MIS) program, where students undertake a substantial, original research project that draws on their interdisciplinary academic training. Under the supervision of a faculty advisor, students will develop a thesis that integrates theories, methodologies, and insights from the two disciplines studied in their program.

The thesis course serves as a capstone academic experience, allowing students to demonstrate their research capabilities, scholarly rigor, and ability to integrate knowledge across disciplines, setting the stage for further academic or professional advancement. This course challenges students to conduct in-depth research, critically analyze complex issues, and present their findings in a well-organized, scholarly thesis. The final product reflects the student’s ability to synthesize interdisciplinary knowledge and contribute to the academic or professional discourse in their chosen fields.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course will define and identify community and problem-oriented policing and strategies including partnerships. Students will apply principles of criminal activity, criminal behavior analysis, and crime prevention to address crime and disorder issues while establishing strong community partnerships. The evolution of Community Oriented Policing and Problem solving (COPPS) philosophy and its applications for law enforcement and society are explored. Other topics include problem solving models, crime prevention, prosecutorial partnerships, mediation, and the future of law enforcement in modern society.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the concept of balanced and restorative justice and the basic principles and values that form its foundation as a relationship-based offense against society. With a focus on the victim, offender, and the community, students will apply restorative justice theories and public policy practices to present day issues in the American Legal system by stepping into the roles of restorative justice stakeholders in the common models of practice. Students will learn methods for administrating implementing equitable justice strategies that a) repair harm to victims while providing opportunities for accountability, responsibility, and restoration by offenders, b) alleviates any suffering by the victim and c) restores a sense of balance and safety within the community.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to highlight important topics pertinent to the protection of human rights during a time of national security concerns. Protecting individual rights is an inseparable part of a democratic society, the rule of law and a government dedicated to the advancement of the common good. The aim of this course is to create a clear understanding among students how respect for human rights can positively impact human security and promote civil societies.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Easily add a Graduate Certificate: This course can be applied toward the embedded certificate in Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

This course provides an overview of forensic psychology to include a comprehensive history of the field and how the field has changed to impact today’s world. Forensic psychology will be examined as a profession, field of study and participant in the legal system. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship between psychology and law and the varying and expansive roles forensic counselors play in navigating both the mental health and the legal system.

(3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course introduces students to central questions and research in the field of victimology. Emphasis is placed on the role of victims in the criminal process, problems of adjustment to victimization, offender relationships, victim compensation, restorative justice, and victim’s rights. Several victim typologies will also be addressed. Students will be given the tools necessary for critical evaluation an understanding of the often-neglected role of the victim before, during, and after the criminal event.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the juvenile justice system. Major topics to be covered include normal juvenile development, juvenile delinquency, and the juvenile justice process including prevention, intervention and treatment methods and juvenile justice codes and case law.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of counseling techniques and the relationships with adult offenders in our society. Major topics to be covered include mental health issues common with adult offenders, assessment and diagnosis of adult offenders, role of counselors working with adult offenders, and current treatment approaches. The role of political ideology and social context in generating and supporting different correctional strategies will be reviewed.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course focuses on differentiating the conceptual and theoretical aspects and models of leadership and leadership studies in order for students to apply leadership skills and principles in their places of business. The fundamentals of leadership are taught with an emphasis on how to live out these fundamentals in an ethical manner.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course develops competence and judgmental skills in using quantitative models for planning and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on recognizing situations where models can be used advantageously, when to work effectively with them, and how to make good use of them once they have been developed. Topics include, decision making under conditions of uncertainty, decision and risk analysis, forecasting, linear programming, modeling applications in marketing, manufacturing, finance and scheduling, and project management methods.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Easily add a Post Baccalaureate Certificate: This course can be applied toward the embedded post bacc certificate in Entrepreneurship.

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the basic concepts and fundamentals of marketing and data analysis. It applies these concepts toward improving the prospects of companies faced with opportunities and challenges of doing business today. Focus is on implementation of strategies through pricing, distribution channels, promotion, and new product decisions. Qualitative research techniques are addressed. To make the study of marketing realistic, exciting, and dynamic, the case analysis approach is used to illustrate how concepts and tools presented can be applied in marketing decision-making. Cases allow the student to work on real marketing problems, to develop an appreciation for the types of problems that exist, and to develop skills of analysis and decision-making necessary for success in marketing and other areas of business.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course develops competence and judgmental skills in using quantitative models for planning and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on recognizing situations where models can be used advantageously, when to work effectively with them, and how to make good use of them once they have been developed. Topics include, decision making under conditions of uncertainty, decision and risk analysis, forecasting, linear programming, modeling applications in marketing, manufacturing, finance and scheduling, and project management methods.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

 
*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.

Prerequisite: None

This course provides students with a broad perspective of the important issues in the 21st century global marketplace. Students will engage in readings and discussions on issues related to global markets, interrelated global economics, the impact of government mandates, and the shift to a knowledge-based economy. An examination of analysis of demand, cost and output, market structure, and pricing policy is included.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the theoretical framework and practical concepts of financial principles and policies. Particular attention will be given to understanding financial statement analysis from a business decision-making perspective. Learning components integrate standard accounting and financial analysis with an emphasis on business activities of day-to-day operations. Students will learn to analyze cost flow and construct cost flow statements.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the interactive nature of the everchanging marketplace locally, regionally, nationally and internationally is the focus of this course. Learners consider how the dynamics of these relationships provide inherent risks and opportunities, and most likely on unprecedented business opportunities for the future. The underlying current of this course is the question of how economics and political globalization affects culture and vice versa.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the interactive nature of the ever-changing marketplace locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally is the focus of this course. Learners consider how the dynamics of these relationships provide inherent risks and opportunities and, most likely, unprecedented business opportunities for the future. The underlying current of this course is the question of how economics and political globalization affect culture and vice versa. Because there is a tendency to view globalization only within the process of economic advancement, this course intends to move beyond that singular conception and encourage learners to identify the cultural, political, and social dimensions.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

*This course fulfills the MBA Master Courses as well as the Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate requirements.

Prerequisite: None

In this course, students will closely examine organizations that have experienced significant or functional disruptions to their business practices and assess their organizational responses. The primary focus will be developing strategic foresight in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) environment. Students will also develop and apply resilience, agility, adaptability, and critical thinking skills.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students will produce an action research project that examines a real-world problem in the context of global, industrial, and organizational impact. Students will integrate and apply various theories, methodologies, and practices acquired throughout the program and develop an original solution to the stated problem through this culminating project.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students will apply the entrepreneurial concepts that they have learned throughout this course to create a detailed entrepreneurial business plan. The Kauffmann Program will continue to be utilized to review the multitude of issues related to the process, including marketing planning and financial planning.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students develop the ability to analyze and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness of organizations through the use of appropriate information technologies. Technologies that influence organizational strategies, structures, risks and processes are emphasized. Ethical global and security issues are also covered.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: ACC 0101 Financial Accounting II

A course that focuses on providing information to managers through the use of internal applications of accounting. Topics include job-order costing, process costing, cost-volume-profit relationships, variable costing, profit planning, standard costing, flexible budgets, and overhead analysis.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course develops competence and judgmental skills in using quantitative models for planning and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on recognizing situations where models can be used advantageously, when to work effectively with them, and how to make good use of them once they have been developed. Topics include, decision making under conditions of uncertainty, decision and risk analysis, forecasting, linear programming, modeling applications in marketing, manufacturing, finance and scheduling, and project management methods.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

 
*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the interactive nature of the ever-changing marketplace locally, regionally, nationally and internationally is the focus of this course. Learners consider how the dynamics of these relationships provide inherent risks and opportunities, and most likely on unprecedented business opportunities for the future. The underlying current of this course is the question of how economics and political globalization affects culture and vice versa. Because there is a tendency to view globalization only within the process of economic advancement, this course intends to move beyond that singular conception and encourage learners to identify the cultural, political and social dimensions as well.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the ways in which entrepreneurs use social media to influence a brand. Using a mix of discussion, lecture, analytical writing, and engagement with social media products, this course allows students to practice positioning a business, reaching the public via the web, using social media activity to help shape a brand, using social media and brand-related terms, identifying the factors affecting a business’s choice in social media use, and connecting real-world networking to social media activity and branding. Course work includes analyzing the social media activities of other brands, identifying ideas from experts in the field, and using evidence to make intelligent decisions about social media and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course provides an overview of forensic psychology to include a comprehensive history of the field and how the field has changed to impact today’s world. Forensic psychology will be examined as a profession, field of study and participant in the legal system. Emphasis will be placed on the relationship between psychology and law and the varying and expansive roles forensic counselors play in navigating both the mental health and the legal system.

(3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Information security is all about people. People are the first, last, and best line of defense. Attackers regularly make use of this understanding, spending a lot of time thinking about how to best manipulate people into performing actions against their best interests. Too often, security practitioners believe they can require people to behave in certain, tightly circumscribed ways. They miss that humans will continue to be humans, so it is best to work with them rather than against them. Understanding not only the attacker mindset but also the diverse mindsets of the people within the organization can help identify the best controls to implement.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course introduces students to central questions and research in the field of victimology. Emphasis is placed on the role of victims in the criminal process, problems of adjustment to victimization, offender relationships, victim compensation, restorative justice, and victim’s rights. Several victim typologies will also be addressed. Students will be given the tools necessary for critical evaluation an understanding of the often-neglected role of the victim before, during, and after the criminal event.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the juvenile justice system. Major topics to be covered include normal juvenile development, juvenile delinquency, and the juvenile justice process including prevention, intervention and treatment methods and juvenile justice codes and case law.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of counseling techniques and the relationships with adult offenders in our society. Major topics to be covered include mental health issues common with adult offenders, assessment and diagnosis of adult offenders, role of counselors working with adult offenders, and current treatment approaches. The role of political ideology and social context in generating and supporting different correctional strategies will be reviewed.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course provides the framework and language to understand what is considered an information security problem. This includes understanding the essential properties of information security -- confidentiality, integrity, and availability -- as well as ways to implement controls that ensure the application of those properties. There are several control frameworks in use around the world that provide easy starting places to ensure protections are in place. This course will help students evaluate those control frameworks for applicability in their environments.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

The threat landscape in the world today is poorly understood, often being diluted to easy and pithy words and phrases that do not adequately explain what is happening or who the attackers are. This course is about clearly identifying threat actors and their motivations, including the geopolitical and economic reasons for their actions. Misunderstanding the adversary can lead to missing the best approaches to circumventing attacks, as well as opportunities to think more broadly about how to address security-related issues globally rather than using only local controls at each individual business.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Easily Stack Graduate Cybersecurity Certificates: This course can be applied toward the requirements for each of the three Post Baccalaureate Cybersecurity Certificates when stacked into the MS Global Cybersecurity degree.

Information security is all about people. People are the first, last, and best line of defense. Attackers regularly make use of this understanding, spending a lot of time thinking about how to best manipulate people into performing actions against their best interests. Too often, security practitioners believe they can require people to behave in certain, tightly circumscribed ways. They miss that humans will continue to be humans, so it is best to work with them rather than against them. Understanding not only the attacker mindset but also the diverse mindsets of the people within the organization can help identify the best controls to implement.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Appropriate security must start with business needs, since the business defines what essential resources they can invest in that effort. This begins with policies but continues through standards and processes. None of these can be developed in isolation, however, nor can they remain stagnant since attacker techniques are continuing to evolve to counter controls in place. This is why threat intelligence and effective communication with staff and external stakeholders are both essential.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

A common approach to identifying defensive strategies is to go on the offensive. The theory is, if a friendly entity identifies vulnerabilities, they can be remediated before an attacker can identify them. However, some of these practices simply result in a false sense of security for organizations. Students will come away from this course with an understanding of what types of offensive security practices would be best for their organization.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

The threat landscape in the world today is poorly understood, often being diluted to easy and pithy words and phrases that do not adequately explain what is happening or who the attackers are. This course is about clearly identifying threat actors and their motivations, including the geopolitical and economic reasons for their actions. Misunderstanding the adversary can lead to missing the best approaches to circumventing attacks, as well as opportunities to think more broadly about how to address security-related issues globally rather than using only local controls at each individual business.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Easily Stack Gradaute Cybersecurity Certificates: This course can be applied toward the requirements for each of the three Post Baccalaureate Cybersecurity Certificates when stacked into the MS Global Cybersecurity degree.

Offensive security can be helpful to identify vulnerabilities that need to be addressed, but you can’t protect against everything. Organizations need to be vigilant and have the necessary visibility to notice when attackers are attempting to compromise systems. This requires appropriate architectures that enable extensive logging and the ability to consume and act on those logs. Again, this requires threat intelligence to know what is happening in the world with respect to threat groups and their activities, as well as an understanding of business requirements to identify attempts to compromise critical information assets.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Logging and alerting are important to get visibility into activities within the business systems but as soon as an alert happens, the organization needs to be able to respond. Often, there is a focus on the purely technical investigation when people look at incident response. This entirely misses the planning that is required when building the incident response plan and framework, since there are a variety of legal, management, regulatory, and communications considerations. These are not the types of considerations that should be considered in the middle of a crisis when an attacker is in the environment, as that is a luxury of time that no organization has at that moment.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Learning to program is an essential practice, since it forces a structured, logical way of thinking, while also encouraging a level of creativity in problem solving. Languages like C have been used to teach programming for decades, but C has been enabling very bad programming practices since the late 1960s. Newer languages like Rust encourage better programming practices, focusing on solid exception handling, in addition to good memory management techniques. This course is a primer on programming in Rust, without the expectation of anyone coming out an expert in programming but having had an understanding of the approach to problem solving necessary for programming tasks.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

The threat landscape in the world today is poorly understood, often being diluted to easy and pithy words and phrases that do not adequately explain what is happening or who the attackers are. This course is about clearly identifying threat actors and their motivations, including the geopolitical and economic reasons for their actions. Misunderstanding the adversary can lead to missing the best approaches to circumventing attacks, as well as opportunities to think more broadly about how to address security-related issues globally rather than using only local controls at each individual business.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Easily Stack Graduate Cybersecurity Certificates: This course can be applied toward the requirements for each of the three Post Baccalaureate Cybersecurity Certificates when stacked into the MS Global Cybersecurity degree.

Vulnerabilities often start in software. This is not entirely true, since the biggest source of vulnerabilities is the human element, but to the extent possible, vulnerabilities can be controlled with solid software testing and validation. This course will build on the programming skills from the Programming in Rust course, introducing testing practices and principles used against software, including native as well as web-based applications.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

The software industry is undergoing a major shift in the delivery of functionality to the end user. Many traditional native applications (applications that run on a local system) are moving to a web-based delivery model, where a uniform interface is used regardless of the application - - the web browser. This shift has put a lot more control back in the hands of the company developing the software and has the potential to enhance security, by reducing vulnerabilities and enabling better resilience in a more cost-effective way. This course introduces security early in the software development lifecycle, identifying ways to inject security practices in the requirements, development, testing and deployment phases. Understanding how to protect information from the start of the development process all the way through deployment of software will go a long way to making it harder to get to information assets.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

The organization and structure of healthcare in the United States will be examined. Principles of the administration of healthcare organizations will be explored with emphasis on resources, system organization, and technology. Students will analyze the interaction between differing healthcare organizations and social-environmental issues and the design implementation of healthcare delivery systems.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Students will undertake an examination of the legislative, regulatory, and political processes and their effect on the delivery of healthcare. This course discusses the role of healthcare communities in public policy issues and the analysis of emerging socioeconomic factors in medical markets and healthcare regulation.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course provides students with a survey of the major legal issues impacting the administration of healthcare. Guest lectures will cover liability, licensure, malpractice, patient rights, JCAHO compliance, and regulatory factors. Students will also examine informed consent, confidentiality, liability exposure, and tort reform issues.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students will survey psychological, social, and behavioral theories as they relate to health issues such as chronic illness, mental illness, and disability. Students will examine the changing role of the healthcare provider in contemporary society.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Reviews theory and practice related to long-term care administration and policy. Legal and ethical aspects of long-term care facilities and alternatives to nursing home care will be explored. The course examines the emerging external forces that impact the operation and management of long-term care facilities, including government payors, state regulatory bodies, and national accreditation bodies.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course provides an overview of the essential ideas that constitute the emerging discipline of homeland security. The course's objectives are to expand students’ abilities to think critically, analyze, and communicate the central tenets of homeland security from a social justice perspective. Students will examine the evolution of terrorist movements, strategies to combat terrorism, crisis management, response to conventional and non-conventional threats, and the impact of heightened security and surveillance on individual rights and civil liberties.

Offered fall and spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course will provide students with the skills to learn from global best practices and successful tactics in combatting terrorism and apply those lessons to current threats in the United States. Students will learn to apply best practices within the scope of U.S. law while protecting individual human rights. Students will better understand the threats, policies, and strategies democratic countries use to cope with terrorism.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course aims to provide an introduction to the operational and organizational dynamics of terrorism. Specific topics addressed in this course include terrorism by suicide, the role of the media, innovation and technology acquisition, the decline of terrorism, and methods of measuring the effect of counterterrorism policies, strategies, and sabotage. Emphasis on designing effective measures for countering and responding to terrorism based upon understanding organizational and operational dynamics in Homeland Security are integrated within the course to provide students with a real-world approach to unconventional thinking to counter unconventional threats.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course analyses principles of critical infrastructure, in both the private and public sectors, vital to our community on a local, state, and federal level while demonstrating how critical infrastructure protection is one of the cornerstones of homeland security. This course evaluates risk reduction techniques to determine the optimal strategy for protection of each sector of critical infrastructure. This will include risk assessments for hard and soft targets that address risk mitigation plans and appropriate countermeasures in an all-hazards approach. Students will also apply vulnerability analysis techniques to critical infrastructure within their multi-jurisdictional region, and derive optimal strategies and draft policies for prevention of future terrorist attacks.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course serves as an introduction for homeland security professionals to terrorism as a psychological phenomenon. Government agencies involved in homeland security need to understand the psychological consequences of mass-casualty terrorist attacks and other disasters. This course provides a broad overview of the psychological effects of terrorism, the status of and fallacies related to the interventions applied to victims of terrorism, and the generalized fear and anxiety experienced by the public at large. Current government strategies used to disseminate information to terrorist groups; psychological phenomena related to media coverage of terrorism; misconceptions and inaccuracies about the socio-political and religious motivations of terrorist groups; “profiling” and the typical psychological and cultural makeup of modern terrorists; and the social and cultural psychology of public conceptions of terrorists and acts of terror will be examined.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines key questions and issues facing the U.S. intelligence community and its role in homeland security and homeland defense, including terrorism, emergency management, and cyber security. Intelligence community operations at the state and local levels, with federal cooperation through the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 are examined. This will afford students the opportunity to address, analyze, and critique policy, oversight, intelligence support, organizational protection of civil liberties and substantive issues regarding homeland defense/security and national decision-making.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course is designed to highlight important topics pertinent to the protection of human rights during a time of national security concerns. Protecting individual rights is an inseparable part of a democratic society, the rule of law and a government dedicated to the advancement of the common good. The aim of this course is to create a clear understanding among students how respect for human rights can positively impact human security and promote civil societies.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

The purpose of this course is to provide students with insight into the structural, conceptual, intellectual foundations and implications of a multi-disciplinary approach to homeland security. Students will examine how the perceptions of homeland security varies among professionals in the field, the general public and differing ethnic, racial, religious and socio-economic groups.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course prepares students to understand the complexities of creating and implementing Human Resources Strategy that aligns with an organization’s mission and overall long-term strategy. Students will learn strategic application and data driven decision making of human resource theories to realistic scenarios. The course will specifically address different types and methods of analysis in order to establish short and long-term measurable objectives. It will also provide how technology supports human resources role as a strategic partner.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course covers the lifecycle of employees and prepares students to facilitate staffing decisions and apply the most relevant and effective recruiting tactics. Students will learn how to avoid legal risks inherent in the recruiting process. The course will specifically address strategic talent management, workforce planning, compensation and benefits. It also includes recruiting, developing existing employees, employee retention and succession planning. Discussions will include the return on investment (ROI) with leadership training and succession planning as well as how key performance metrics support overall business strategy.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Organizational culture can have a major impact on organizational performance, either positive or negative. This course prepares students to create organizational cultural programs that drive performance. The course will specifically provide the tools that will help organizations build excellent workplace culture, positive culture and influence organizational behavior. The course covers diversity, change management and coaching for success. Participants will learn how organizational development and company dynamics tie into the organization’s culture. It also includes elements of persuasion, effective communication and taking employees through change.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course examines the laws and professional codes of ethics pertaining to the practice of Human Resources to ensure an organization is in compliance. Students will learn how legal and ethical issues impact Human Capital Management and an organization overall. It also includes 599 employee relations, labor relations, and ethics in the workplace. Participants will learn various aspects of collective bargaining agreements, the immigration process and how to stay compliant.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course prepares students to effectively use the most relevant tools in the modern practice of Human Capital Management. It covers the ethical and social determinants that shape today’s workplace (e.g., gender, racial inequality, changing family structures, new healthcare laws, poverty, immigration, and privacy. Participants will learn how to address social media concerns that may affect your organization. It will also address the talent life-cycle with a focus on multinational recruitment strategies.

Offered spring/fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Following the example of National Novel Writing Month, students draft a complete novel of at least 50,000 words over the course of a semester. The emphasis is on generating new material and not on revising or workshopping chapters. By the end of the semester, the draft must be complete in the sense that it has a structural beginning, middle, and end. Students read several small novels and use them as models for assessing and developing craft.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Applies toward Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts degree

Prerequisites: None

Students evaluate their own work and the work of their peers in an intense, but supportive, atmosphere that is focused on addressing the particular issues inherent in writing novels. Students develop plans for revision and strategies for publication. The course culminates in a public reading. To enroll in this course, students must have completed a novel draft and have permission from the program director.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Applies toward Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts degree

Prerequisites: None

A semester of individual mentorship where the candidate works one-on-one with a mentor revising their novel manuscript.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Applies toward Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts degree

Prerequisites: None

Students analyze, evaluate, and develop craft exercises and research strategies necessary for writers of book length fiction manuscripts. Narrative and prose theory along with hands-on exercises provide the basis for the instruction in developing a knowledge of and facility with the craft of writing novels. Students assess and design a collection of research that forms the foundation from which to draft a novel. A variety of novels are read, evaluated, and critiqued for elements of craft by students who then synthesize what they’ve learned and apply it to their own work.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Applies toward Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts degree

Prerequisites: None

Students working on the Rosemont Literary Magazine, Rathalla Review, are eligible to register for three credits of independent study once during their course of study. Students work together to create the editorial and managerial processes involved in publishing a literary journal both online and in print. Students work with the directors of the MFA and Publishing programs and solicit, evaluate, and select submissions for publication, communicate with contributors about editorial decisions, determine the layout and design of the journal, and make decisions about distribution. Students are also responsible for assisting in fundraising and working within the constraints of a budget.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

A weekend and week-long writing seminar during which students attend intense daily workshops in the genre of their choice such as poetry, fiction, novel writing, or creative nonfiction. The noontime Writers and Readers series allows students to experience their 567 instructors' work and to engage in conversation about that work. Nightly readings and panels provide students with the opportunity to learn more about the business of being a writer and to share their own work in a public forum. Students submit a final project (either a substantive revision of a workshop submission or a new piece) that directly incorporates the work covered during the seminar as well as a substantial reflection paper.

Offered summer semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered summer semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered summer semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered summer semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

This intensive 10-day course of study concentrates on generative writing workshops in a variety of writing styles (such as poetry, fiction, novel writing, or creative nonfiction) while traveling abroad. Workshops are balanced with cultural and academic enrichment activities that form the foundation for the writing prompts. Opportunities for feedback and critique are part of the scheduled workshop time. Students analyze and evaluate selected works by published authors native to the countries visited and write a paper that synthesizes their own travel experiences and that of the work. Students also submit original creative work generated during the trip and a substantial reflection paper.

Offered winter semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered winter semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisites: None

Students break down and assess ways to earn a living writing and/or teaching, as well as, how to protect and nurture their craft after graduation. Students also develop plans for applying for grants, entering contests, attending writers' conferences, and going to artists' colonies, and 569 how, through careful consideration, networking, and tenacity, they can expand those opportunities and push through to publication.

Offered summer semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Course description coming soon.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

This course focuses on differentiating the conceptual and theoretical aspects and models of leadership and leadership studies in order for students to apply leadership skills and principles in their places of business. The fundamentals of leadership are taught with an emphasis on how to live out these fundamentals in an ethical manner. 

(3 Credits)

Organizational Psychology and Behavior concentrate on employee behavior and processes in organizations. The focus of this course is on individual, group, inter-group and organizational wide behavior and its impact on employee satisfaction and productivity. The course attempts to add to each student’s understanding of life in complex organizations by covering topics which span the micro or individual level of analysis (motivation, decision making) and the macro or organizational level of analysis (culture, structure). Attention is given to group dynamics, change and development.

(3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

A leader’s ability to understand and follow the change management process collaboratively is vital to master. A proactive mindset is critical to a successful business or personal change. Students will learn the various change management models and problem-solve to find the best ways to leverage change agents and how best to manage ethical change. Students will create a model of change for workplace application.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Students in this course will learn forward thinking concepts of coaching, mentoring, and succession planning to promote a learning organization. Students will learn how to leverage the Human Capital Management model to foster knowledge transfer between employees. The focus of the course will be the elevation of learning to a strategic organizational imperative.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Today’s business success requires intercultural awareness as well as effective cross cultural and cross generational communication skills. This course demonstrates the importance of cross cultural and cross generational communication and the benefits of being sensitive to the differences in organizational settings. Concepts of negotiating styles, cultural differences, proper etiquette, and conflict analysis/resolution will be discussed at length.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

This course explores the business, legal, political, and social aspects surrounding the phenomenon called Intellectual Property. In particular, this course is predicated on two fundamental questions, “What is Intellectual Property, and does my company have it?” This simple yet powerful inquiry—and the subsequent responses—guides the course over four days of intensive readings, discussions, and writings.

Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)

*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.