May 19, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Integrative Studies

  
  • IST 797 Applied Research: Capstone Thesis (3-6 credits)

    Hours: 1-6 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Student will work closely with a faculty advisor on a culminating thesis that integrates methods and approaches from two or more of the academic disciplines explored through the MAIS program’s coursework.
  
  • IST 798 Continued Thesis/Project Enrollment (1 credit)

    Hours: 1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of IST 793  or IST 797  and consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Continued enrollment for candidates needing more than two semesters to complete the capstone experience (IST 793  or IST 797 ). Graded pass/fail, this course may be repeated for two semesters until the project or thesis is complete. NOTE: all coursework that is applied to the degree must be no older than six years by the time the program is completed.

Japanese

  
  • JPN 520 Readings in Japanese (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): JPN 380 or equivalent.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Various literary, linguistic, cultural, and pedagogical topics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Law

  
  • LAW 899 UCC Basics (4 credits)



Kinesiology

  
  • KIN 501 Lab Techniques in Exercise Science (1 credit)

    0 classroom + 1 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program or permission of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This course must be taken during the student’s first semester of enrollment. The laboratory techniques in exercise science online class will provide students with detailed and up-to-date information regarding performance-based technology and laboratory techniques currently used in the field today.
  
  • KIN 502 Research Methods and Analytics in Ex Sci (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program or permission of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This online class will provide students with an in-depth learning experience regarding research design, data evaluation and proper analysis based on research methods, designs, and types of data. Students will learn how to set up and use statistical software for their analyses.   
  
  • KIN 503 Advanced Exercise Physiology (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program or permission of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This course will cover the body’s acute and chronic responses to various forms of exercise from biochemical changes within the muscle to long-term adaptations that improve performance. Additionally, these changes will be looked at under extreme conditions such as high temperature and high altitude environments.
  
  • KIN 603 Strength and Conditioning Programming (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to MSES program.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This online class will provide students with an in-depth learning experience regarding current methods in strength and conditioning programming. Students will learn how to develop and implement programs for athlete, youth, adults and geriatric populations based on one’s health, fitness level and testing results.
  
  • KIN 604 Cardiorespiratory Physiology and ECGs (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This course will cover the function of the cardiovascular/respiratory systems, comparing rest to exercise. Focus will include management of hemodynamics and respiratory function, looking at diseased and athletic populations for insight. Cardiovascular function will include cardiac muscle function, electrophysiology, electrocardiogram interpretation with comparisons of normal, and athletic and diseased populations.
  
  • KIN 605 Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This online class will provide students with an in-depth learning experience regarding common and even less common injuries and ailments in an athletic and general population. Students will learn how to develop and implement rehabilitation and injury prevention programs for athletes, youth, adults and geriatric populations.
  
  • KIN 681 Exercise Energy Metabolism (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The exercise and energy metabolism online class will provide students with in-depth content regarding the physiology of metabolism, energy utilization and advanced nutritional strategies to optimize human performance.
  
  • KIN 682 Advanced Clinical Physiology (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission into MSES program.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The clinical exercise physiology course will teach students how to assess patients with chronic diseases, complete exercise testing while making special considerations based on disease diagnosis, and prescribe exercise to help manage disease and improve activities of daily living.
  
  • KIN 683 Analytics in Sport Science (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSES program.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This class will teach students to manage, interpret and apply information collected from sport and exercise related fields. Students will understand how technology is utilized in the field of exercise science and how big data sets should be analyzed to improve decision making regarding athlete/patient health.
  
  • KIN 696 Internship (6 credits)

    6 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The Internship Option will require students to seek and obtain a qualified internship in the field of exercise science. Internships must be related to exercise or clinically-based.
  
  • KIN 697 Thesis (6 credits)

    6 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The Thesis Option will require students to design, complete IRB, implement, collect data and report findings for an approved topic related to exercise science.
  
  • KIN 698 Continued Thesis (1 credit)

    1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): KIN 697  and consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This course is only for students needing additional time to complete the thesis project (KIN 697 ) in exercise science. This course is graded pass/fail and may be repeated for a maximum of two semesters or until the thesis is complete.

Management

  
  • MGT 605 Managing in Organizations (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    Managing people is a challenge in an increasingly complex and interdependent work context. This course helps prospective managers develop the skills necessary to assess, analyze, and act upon the challenges of managing with people. For 3-credit option, see MGT 606 .
  
  • MGT 606 Managing in Organizations - Applied (1 credit)

    1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Co-requisite(s): MGT 605 .
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    In this course, students will explore and apply topics of managing, motivating, collaborating with, influencing, and leading people in organizations. This course provides a 3-credit option for MGT 605 , Managing in Organizations.
  
  • MGT 607 Strategies for High Performing Orgs (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    Looks at the issues of analysis, implementation and evaluation of an organizational strategy.  Students are exposed to issues involved in creating and managing the sustainable, high performance enterprise including operational activities such as financing, human resources, R&D, marketing, distribution and customer service. For 3-credit option, see MGT 608 .
  
  • MGT 608 Strategies for High Perf. Orgs. - Applied (1 credit)

    1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Co-requisite(s): MGT 607 .
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    In this course, students will explore and apply issues of analysis, implementation and evaluation of an organizational strategy. This course provides a 3-credit option for MGT 607 , Strategies for High Performing Organizations.
  
  • MGT 610 Operations Management (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    Introduces concepts and techniques of modern operations and supply chain management.  Topics include design and structuring of operating systems, production planning, inventory control, materials requirements planning, project management, facilities layout, quality control, process and job design. For 3-credit option, see MGT 611 .
  
  • MGT 611 Operations Management - Applied (1 credit)

    1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
    Co-requisite(s): MGT 610 .
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    In this course, students will explore and apply issues of modern operations and supply chain management. This course provides a 3-credit option MGT 610 , Operations Management.
  
  • MGT 612 Managing People and Organizations (3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Organizational, situational, and human factors defining the context of managerial work in complex organizations; interactive business cases and readings from organizational and human behavior literatures are used to facilitate student interaction and group development.
  
  • MGT 620 Leading Organizational Change (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MGT 605  or department approval.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Application of theories of leadership and organizational change to a variety of business organizations; personal assessment and reflection on leadership; planning and implementing of organizational change; use of simulations, cases, and/or projects to blend theory and practice. Component course in MBA Leadership Stack.
  
  • MGT 621 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (2 credits)

    Hours: 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MGT 620  or department approval.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Provides a conceptual and practical understanding of the concepts, legal framework, theory, and practice of negotiation and conflict resolution. Includes the research and framing of issues, bargaining strategies, successful tactics, and methods of reaching a settlement. Component course in MBA Leadership Stack.
  
  • MGT 622 Essentials of Project Management (2 credits)

    Hours: 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MGT 620  or department approval.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Qualitative and quantitative approaches to structuring projects in multi- functional organizational settings; planning, team development, software, quality improvement, completion; case analysis, internships, and/or term projects to blend theory with practice. Component course in MBA Leadership Stack.
  
  • MGT 625 Operations Management and Decision Analysis (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall and spring
    Structure and behavior of productive systems in organizations that produce goods and services; managerial viewpoint, using quantitative analysis to enhance quality of decisions; operations planning, productivity, quality improvement, production information systems, use of computer programs, and case simulations.
  
  • MGT 640 Total Quality Management (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MGT 612  or consent of MBA director.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Managerial focus on quality in diverse organizations, encompassing customer focus, employee involvement, measurement, continuous improvement, and performance management within a Baldrige Award framework. Case analysis and/or term projects blend theory with practice.
  
  • MGT 650 Project Management Implementation (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBA 612 or consent of MBA director.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Approaches to applying project management; behavioral/organizational management, cost analysis, or project control techniques. Repeatable for a maximum of 6 semester hours if topics differ. Case analysis and/or term projects possible.
  
  • MGT 660 International Management (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Management concepts in international settings; strategic and operational planning, organization design, motivation, leadership, quality, management systems, and control; case analysis, projects, and/or study tours abroad to blend theory with practice.
  
  • MGT 675 Mediation and Conflict Resolution (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Spring only
    Effective problem solving and conflict resolution skills are essential for to-day’s managers and administrators. In line with the trend toward cooperative problem solving, students study the use of interest based problem-solving to facilitate business disputes and to their preparation and participation as a party in a mediation and/or arbitration process. Classes will include lectures, active discussion and application of reading assignments, and role-plays.
  
  • MGT 685 Business Strategy, Implementation, and Control (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall and spring
    Strategic planning in the business department; social, political, economic, and ethical forces to which managers must respond; implementation of strategy and control process; use of cases and computers to develop and analyze strategic decisions.
  
  • MGT 694 Topics: Management (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MGT 605  or departmental approval.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Various advanced graduate topics in Management. Repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits if topics differ.
  
  • MGT 699 Independent Study: Management (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Specialized aspect or topic in management chosen by student and appropriate faculty member.

Marketing

  
  • MKT 605 Marketing in Organizations (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to a graduate program or consent of program director.
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    This course prepares students to solve problems faced by mid- and top-level marketing decision-makers, and to understand the consequences of their decisions. A variety of contemporary marketing issues will be studied in depth. May use case methodology and/or client-based projects. For 3-credit option, see MKT 606 .
  
  • MKT 606 Marketing in Organizations - Applied (1 credit)

    1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Co-requisite(s): MKT 605 .
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    In this course, students will explore and apply solutions to problems faced by mid- and top-level marketing decision-makers and understand the consequences of their decisions. This course provides a 3-credit option for MKT 605 , Marketing in Organizations.
  
  • MKT 625 Marketing Management (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of Chair.
    Taught: Fall and spring
    Problems faced by mid- and top-level marketing decision makers and the consequences of their decisions; case study and/or simulation. A variety of marketing areas will be considered in depth.
  
  • MKT 630 Customer Behavior and Marketing Communication (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Household and business customers; customer decision-making processes and the cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and inter- and intra-personal factors that influence it; principles of marketing communications planning and of conventional and emerging media and their interface with diverse customer response behaviors.
  
  • MKT 640 Services Marketing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Service marketing processes and service delivery systems; managing the seven P’s of services - product, price, place, promotion, people, processes, and physical facilities; role of technology in service delivery; managing service quality and recovery from service failures.
  
  • MKT 650 Marketing Strategy and Planning (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Factors and concepts in decisions about a firm’s long-term strategy to build, maintain, and grow its market position; skills and hands-on experience (through project work) in developing a long-term strategy, and a five-year annualized marketing plan implementing that strategy.
  
  • MKT 660 International Marketing (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Concepts, perspectives, and analytical tools to assess opportunity and pre-pare marketing plans for a firm’s multi-country operations; researching cultures and customer behaviors in markets around the world; market analysis and planning in mature, growth, and emerging markets of the world; global marketing strategy and programs.
  
  • MKT 694 Selected Topics in Marketing (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MKT 605  or department approval.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Various advanced graduate topics in Marketing. Repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits if topics differ.
  
  • MKT 699 Independent Study: Marketing (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MKT 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Specialized aspect or topic in marketing chosen by student and appropriate faculty member. Subject to academic regulations pertaining to independent study as given in the MBA catalog.

Master of Business Administration

  
  • MBA 610 MBA Practicum - Preparation (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MGT 605 , ACC 610 , FIN 605 , MGT 607 , MGT 610 , MBI 600 , MKT 605 , BUS 605 .
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    This MBA Capstone gives students an opportunity to improve management skills, put theory into practice, and develop recommendations into implementable solutions. The preparation course is for students to form teams, design projects, get proposals approved, and begin data collection.
  
  • MBA 611 MBA Practicum (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBA 610 .
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    In the MBA Capstone student teams, directed by a faculty leader, will work on a wide range of potential projects. The end product of each project will be a written report summarizing key insights and detailing specific recommendations and next steps for implementation.
  
  • MBA 620 Ideation to Innovation (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Department approval
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Develops a context for ideation through the formulation of new opportunities and the process and identification of strategic options leading to viable strategies. Experiential application of strategies is applied to real problems. Component course in MBA Innovation through Competitive Intelligence Stack.
  
  • MBA 621 Competitive Intelligence (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBA 620  or department approval
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Moving ideas into action requires gathering data on the market, industry and competitors. Focuses on competitive intelligence data capture, analysis and translation techniques to identify a viable set of strategic options. Experiential application of content knowledge is applied to real problems. Component course in MBA Innovation through Competitive Intelligence Stack.
  
  • MBA 622 Ideation to Value (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBA 621  or department approval
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Validation and refinement of business outcomes through gap analysis, design of critical operating models, sustainable implementation mapping. Covers clearly defined approaches for taking new ideas to successful strategic launches no matter the construct (people, process, product) or level of volatility. Component course in MBA Innovation through Competitive Intelligence Stack.
  
  • MBA 694 Topics in Business (1-3 credits)

    1-3 classroom hours + 0 lab/studio hours
    Prerequisite(s): Department approval.
    Taught: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Various advanced graduate topics in Business. The credit hours will vary, based on the topic, from 1-3. Repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits if topics differ.

Master of Business Informatics

  
  • MBI 599 Independent Study (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Independent project or intensive study/research with faculty guidance. Open only by consent of advisor/instructor. Meeting times arranged with instructor.
  
  • MBI 600 Intro to Info Systems in Organizations (2 credits)

    2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MBA program or consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    Fundamental concepts of management information systems, managerial and organizational principles, and other concepts relevant to MIS.  This includes the use of information for decision making, organizational structure of MIS, information resource management, and managing end-user computing. This course is open only to students in the MBA program.
  
  • MBI 601 Information Systems in Practice (1 credit)

    1 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Co-requisite(s): MBI 600 .
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    This course explores and applies concepts of management information systems, including the use of information for decision making, organizational structure of MIS, information resource management, and managing end-user computer. This course is a complement to MBI 600 , Introduction to Information Systems in Organizations.
  
  • MBI 605 Application Development for Business Analysis (3 credits)

    3 classroom hours + 0 lab/studio hours
    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate program.
    Taught: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
    This course will introduce students to computer software design and programming in a workplace applications development environment. Students develop computer programs with a business problem context. The course includes a survey of systems design, programming techniques, and language syntax for developing for computer-based business systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: event programming, arrays, decision making, data types (classes, records, etc.), error handling, developing user forms, reading from and writing to the web.
  
  • MBI 615 Analytical Tools in Business Informatics (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall only
    This course exposes students to an integrated set of computer-based analytical tools in business. These tools are foundational for an Informatics professional’s ability to assess business operations and more effectively manage projects, departments, and organizations. The course emphasizes the analysis and understanding of business data.
  
  • MBI 620 Strategic Leadership for Informatics (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Spring only
    This course exposes students to an integrated set of skills needed in the areas of organizational leadership, communication, marketing and strategy. These skills are foundational to an Informatics professional’s understanding of and ability to formulate and communicate business needs and thereby more effectively manage projects, departments and organizations. Subject matter will include, but not be limited to, leadership skills, managing teams and groups of professionals, market segmentation, product positioning, external and internal analysis of the firm, long-range planning, and managing by objectives.
  
  • MBI 625 Information Systems in Organizations (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall, spring, and summer
    Introduction to the core concepts and fundamental principles of information systems in the context of business decision making. This will include a sur-vey of the information systems discipline and an explanation of its importance in modern organizations. The key objective of the course is to give the student a good understanding of how managers can manage and exploit the potential of information technology for their own career and for the organization.
  
  • MBI 630 Systems Analysis and Design (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall and Spring
    Develops an understanding of tools, techniques and methods for analysis, design and implementation of information systems. Uses theory and applied projects to build effective interpersonal and communication skills that are essential to interact with clients, users and other team members involved with development, operation and maintenance of information systems. Approaches to systems development such as Rapid application Development (RAD), Joint Application Development (JAD) and other techniques to create quality systems are explored.
  
  • MBI 635 Database Management Systems (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall and Spring
    In depth investigation of intelligent database management systems in sup-port of business decision making. This course includes an investigation of all aspects of data modeling, database design and implementation of relation-al, object-oriented and semantic databases.
  
  • MBI 640 Data Communication and Network Security (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall only
    This course provides students with a balanced understanding of the technical and managerial issues associated with the effective development and use of telecommunications by organizations. Through hands-on labs and a group project, the course also incorporates network security concepts and explores emerging technologies as related to telecommunications.
  
  • MBI 645 E-Business (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This course includes looking at commercial transactions in an electronic age, technology underpinnings, transactions marketing and exchange, business, managerial and technical implementations of electronic commerce.
  
  • MBI 647 ERP Business Process Analysis (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    teaches “the fundamentals needed to understand data integration across different departments” in every organization.
  
  • MBI 650 Information Technology Project Management (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Fall and spring
    This course is an overview of software development project management practices, context and processes of software development projects, project risks and failures, managing technical personnel, and issues relating to project outsourcing.
  
  • MBI 655 Advanced Business Application Programming (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 605 , or CSC 500 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Modern techniques for business application design, object-orientation in business application systems, interfacing with web-enabled technologies and databases, introduction to component programming and transaction servers.
  
  • MBI 657 ERP Business Process Integration (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Business Process Integration (BPI) is defined as the controlled sharing of data and business processes among any connected applications and data sources within an enterprise and between trading partners. This course uses SAP R-3 environments to illustrate how various business processes of an enterprise relate to each other.
  
  • MBI 660 Business Intelligence Development (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 635 , and MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The course covers the design and development of business intelligence systems (data warehouses and data marts, for example). Dimensional models will be developed and implemented in an enterprise system. Students gain a working knowledge of business intelligence systems with hands on labs and an applied project.
  
  • MBI 662 Decision Analysis (3 credits)

    3 classroom hours + 0 lab/studio hours
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 635  
    Taught: Spring Only
    This course will show students how to analyze a wide array of business planning and decision problems with models and application software. We assess the essential structure of a decision problem in terms of objectives, decision variables, uncertainties, outcomes, choice criteria, and feasibility. Students will examine the complexity of decision making process and attempt to make optimum decisions with modeling and application software.
  
  • MBI 664 Data Visualization and Analytics (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This course surveys core concepts and methods for the design, analysis and visualization of organizational data for business planning and decision making purposes. Through applied projects, students will be exposed to an integrated set of computer-based business data analytical and visualization tools.
  
  • MBI 665 Knowledge Management and Decision Support (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This course introduces students to knowledge management practices and the technologies collectively called decision support systems. It covers the most current topics affecting how individuals and organizations use computerized support in making decisions. Business applications of data ware-houses, online analytical processing, group support systems, knowledge acquisition and representation, knowledge management, knowledge-based decision support and intelligent systems will be explored.
  
  • MBI 668 Text Mining Analytics (3 credits)

    3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 684 .
    Taught: Variable, check w/ department
    This course will teach students concepts, methods and applications of text mining in many disciplines and covers document presentation, text categorization, text clustering, topic modeling and document summarization. Students will learn techniques used in machine learning and natural language processing and apply these techniques to analyze text data.
  
  • MBI 673 Collaboration Software and Systems (3 credits)

    3 classroom hours + 0 lab/studio hours
    Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in a graduate program or permission of MBI director.
    Taught: Variable-check w/department
    Groups and teams are used in today’s business environment to implement and accomplish most if not all business activities. The business environment uses groupware tools and techniques to organize and accomplish these activities. This course is designed to introduce students to those tools and techniques at the graduate level; and further, to have students demonstrate the ability to analyze and automate a team based workflow process.
  
  • MBI 675 Enterprise Workflow Design and Reengineering (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Internet, mobile, global-positioning and other technologies and applications are transforming the manner in which business transactions and work-flow processes are carried out. Much of the innovation and value-add has come not from the technologies per se but from the way in which newer business processes and supply chains have been conceptualized, designed and implemented to take advantage of the newer technological functionality.
  
  • MBI 677 ERP Programming for SAP (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The objective of this class is to provide students a basic understanding of the concepts surrounding Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERPs) and the basic understanding of accessing data across the ERP for reporting purposes. This is done through the various programming languages of SAP including NetWeaver.
  
  • MBI 680 Global Information Technology and Systems (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    This course reviews issues relating to information systems that will serve global markets and facilitate expansion and entry of business into global markets; Using IS resources across national boundaries as in offshore development of IS and outsourcing IS across countries is emphasized.
  
  • MBI 682 Information Security and Governance (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The course provides an overview of the field of Information Security and Assurance in various technical and administrative aspects including audit and controls. Students will be exposed to a spectrum of security activities, methods, methodologies, and procedures.
  
  • MBI 684 Business Analytics (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Fall only
    Business decisions require the basic skills of analyzing data to understand the problem more completely and to produce better answers. Information systems automate these tools and techniques allowing decision makers to get better information quicker. Through hands-on labs and a group project, this course will introduce students to the business analytics process, including problem modeling, tools and techniques for analysis, and effectively communicating insights.
  
  • MBI 685 Corporate IS Management (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 630 , MBI 635 , and MBI 650 .
    Taught: Spring only
    An overview of contemporary information technology (IT) computer, telecommunications, and office systems-management issues and principles with specific emphasis on setting the direction of IT resources and managing IT policy and strategy.
  
  • MBI 692 Information Systems Research (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625 , MBI 630 , MBI 635  and MBI 645  or with the permission of the Director of the MBI program.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    The course focuses on the investigation of contemporary research in information systems. It provides exposure to a diverse set of research methodologies used in information systems research and explores both competing and complementary research paradigms.
  
  • MBI 694 Topics in Information Systems (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): MBI 625  or MHI 625 .
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Topics may vary and may include advanced and evolving technologies in information systems and methodologies for information systems development. Repeatable for a maximum of 6 semester hours when topics vary.
  
  • MBI 699 Independent Study: Information Systems (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Independent Study.

Master’s Education

  
  • EDMT 543 Method and Pedagogy in Middle School/Secondary Science (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall only
    Theories, methods, techniques and technologies in designing, delivering and evaluating instruction in middle school and high school science.
  
  • EDMT 544 Method and Pedagogy in Middle School/Secondary Math (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Co-requisite(s): EDMT 696 .
    Taught: Fall only
    Theories, methods/techniques and technologies in designing, delivering and evaluating instruction in middle school and high school mathematics.
  
  • EDMT 545 Method and Pedagogy in Middle School/Secondary Social Studies (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Co-requisite(s): EDMT 696 .
    Taught: Fall only
    Theories, methods/techniques and technologies in designing, delivering and evaluating instruction in middle school and high school social studies.
  
  • EDMT 546 Method & Pedagogy in Middle Grades LA (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): 12 semester hours of language arts content course with a grade of C or better chosen from English, Speech, or Journalism and admission to the Teacher Education program.
    Taught: Fall and spring
    Theory, content and instructional strategies for teaching language arts in the middle grades; including national and state standards.
  
  • EDMT 594 Topics in Education (3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Department permission.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Individual or group in depth study. May be repeated as topics vary. Repeatable up to 6 hours.
  
  • EDMT 610 Foundation of American Schooling (2 credits)

    Hours: 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Examination of teaching as a profession and of schooling as it currently functions in the U.S.; inquiry into contemporary educational theory and practice.
  
  • EDMT 611 Studies of the Learners (2 credits)

    Hours: 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Life-span development: physical, cognitive, social and personal development, especially as these relate to children in school and to adults who influence them; individual study focusing on student development at specific levels of instruction.
  
  • EDMT 612 Classroom Management (2 credits)

    Hours: 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Recent research and theory related to planning, organizing and managing student learning and behavior in the classroom.
  
  • EDMT 621 Students with Exceptionalities in Middle/Secondary Classrooms (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Characteristics of students with exceptional learning needs and legal issues; adaptations to the general curriculum, adaptive teaching strategies, behavior management and collaboration skills.
  
  • EDMT 622 Cultural Identity in Schooling (2 credits)

    Hours: 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Role cultural identity plays in students’ experiences in schools; how theories of prejudice assimilation, feminism and cultural reproduction explain pat-terns of behavior in schools; curricular changes to address the inclusion of all students in today’s schools.
  
  • EDMT 632 Curriculum Design and Assessment (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Principles and strategies for effective middle/secondary teaching; teaming for faculty and students, curriculum planning, general teaching methods, assessment strategies, and classroom management.
  
  • EDMT 641 Technology in Middle/Secondary Classrooms (2 credits)

    Hours: 2 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Introduce students to the utilization of computers in the educational process; focus on technological solutions necessary for a professional career as a teacher.
  
  • EDMT 692 Field Experience I (1 credit)

    Hours: 0 classroom + 1 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Application of instructional theory to middle/secondary grade classroom settings.
  
  • EDMT 693 Field Experience II (2 credits)

    Hours: 0 classroom + 2 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Practice in planning and implementing instructional strategies with middle/secondary grade school students.
  
  • EDMT 694 Field Experience III (2 credits)

    Hours: 0 classroom + 2 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Practice in planning and implementing instructional strategies with middle/secondary grade students.
  
  • EDMT 696 Clinical Experience (1-9 credits)

    Hours: 0 classroom + 9 lab/studio
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Classroom experiences through observation, planning, teaching, and assessing under supervision of an experienced teacher.
  
  • EDMT 699 Independent Study Education MAT (1-3 credits)

    1-3 classroom hours + 0 lab/studio hours
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor
    Taught: Variable-check w/department
    Various supervised readings and study of selected topics in education. May be repeated as topics vary. Repeatable up to 6 hours.

Master of Health Informatics

  
  • MHI 599 Independent Study (1-3 credits)

    Hours: 1-3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
    Taught: Variable, check with department
    Independent project or intensive study/research with faculty guidance. Open only by consent of advisor/instructor. Meeting times arranged with instructor.
  
  • MHI 600 Introduction to Healthcare Operations (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall and spring
    In order to prepare students to be competent informatics practitioners within the healthcare industry, this course introduces students to the fundamental terminology, practices, and procedures found in the interaction of clinical and business operations.
  
  • MHI 601 Technical Foundations of Health Informatics (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall and spring
    This core course provides an introduction to concepts and trends in the Health Informatics field both locally and nationally. The course provides an overview of networks, software, and computers in healthcare with a particular focus on their use in interoperable systems. Applications include electronic health records, computerized physician order entry, and digital imaging.
  
  • MHI 625 IS in Healthcare Organizations (3 credits)

    Hours: 3 classroom + 0 lab/studio
    Taught: Fall only
    Introduction to the core concepts and fundamental principles of information systems in the context of healthcare clinical and organizational decision making. This will include a survey of the information systems discipline and an explanation of its importance in healthcare organizations. The key objective of the course is to give the student a good understanding of how man-agers can manage and exploit the potential of information technology for their own career and for the benefit of their organizations.
 

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