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LEAD 699 - Applied Practical Learning
Credit(s): 1 hour
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Accounting |
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BACC 531 - Managerial Accounting
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on managerial accounting concepts, including costing, budgeting, forecasting, planning, and control. Emphasis is on preparing and using financial statements as well as various managerial reports for decisionmaking.
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BACC 532 - Strategic Management Accounting
Credit(s): 3 hours
In this course, students will learn to use a range of analytic tools for costing, decision making, planning and control and consider their applicability within the context of strategic management. Topics for discussion will include: the role of accounting information in management decision making; workflow and process analysis; measuring and reporting sustainability; an introduction to cost terms and inventory costing; product and service costing; cost behavior; activity-based costing and activity-based management; pricing decisions and customer-profitability analysis; budgeting; direct cost variances and management control; balanced scorecard; and strategic profitability analysis.
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BACC 537 - Taxation of Business Entities
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on a study of business entity taxation and the tax laws governing corporate taxpayers and their shareholders (who may or may not be individuals). Transactions and issues associated with taxation of entities such as regular C corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and others.
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BACC 539 - Advanced Accounting Information Systems & Analytics
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on advanced study topics in accounting information systems. Within the course, there will be a comprehensive discussion and analysis of how technology supports the accounting process. By the end of this course, students will be able to incorporate modeling technologies in making decisions within the accounting profession and utilize information technologies to analyze, design and implement accounting information systems. They will also develop an understanding of security risks, internal controls, emerging accounting technology, and data analytics with visualizations within an Accounting Information System (AIS).
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BACC 632 - Advanced Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course provides for an advanced, intensive study of the accounting and financial reporting procedures for governmental and not-for-profit entities.
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BACC 635 - Advanced Accounting Theory
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is an intensive study of recent developments, research, and literature in accounting theory. A focus of this course is critical analysis of current and emerging issues in accounting practice and theory as reflected in accounting literature.
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BACC 637 - Tax Research and Practice
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course expands on concepts related to the federal income tax system as it applies to individuals, corporations, S corporations, partnerships, limited liability organizations, estates/trusts, and not-for-profit organizations. Research of tax issues is an emphasis of the course.
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BACC 638 - Advanced Assurance Services
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on advanced study of selected topics in auditing and assurance services. Internal/external auditing, the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and risk assessment will be addressed. This course will include an examination of current academic literature relevant to auditing and assurance services.
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BACC 661 - Healthcare Accounting
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on the application of accounting and financial management concepts to healthcare organizations. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Healthcare Administration Emphasis.
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BACC 681 - Financial Accounting and Analysis
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the primary financial statements - balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flow, and statement of changes in equity - and a thorough framework for analyzing and interpreting reported financial information from the perspective of financial statement users. Upon completion of this course, students will develop a sufficient understanding of corporate financial statements and the technical skills needed to research, analyze, and interpret financial statements. This course is recommended for students and professionals who want to gain an in-depth understanding of corporate financial performance and results and students planning a career in the financial industry or general management.
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BACC 690 - Special Projects in Accounting and Related Subjects
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to allow students to conduct in depth investigation, research, and analysis of current topics or specialized study in accounting. The course may be retaken under different subtopics for a cumulative total of 6 hours.
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BACC 731 - Advanced Managerial Accounting
Credit(s): 3 hours
This advanced accounting research seminar course will provide students with principles and core concepts of managerial accounting. Students will conduct a study of various managerial accounting processes and systems used by managers to ensure organizational goals and strategies are implemented as intended. Topics include job and process costing, activity- based costing, cost- volume profit relationships, operating budget planning and control, capital budgeting, and pricing decisions among others. The final project in the seminar will be the development of a scholarly research paper analyzing a contemporary managerial accounting problem.
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Addiction Studies |
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HSRV 531 - Motivation, Change, and Treatment in Addictions
Credit(s): 3 hours
The course will focus on the theory and evidence-based practice of Motivational Interviewing (MI) by engaging resistant individuals in the process of change. The student will learn to help their clients explore and resolve their ambivalence by enhancing intrinsic motivation for change. Motivational Interviewing will be explored as a standalone intervention, as a method of increasing client adherence to other intervention approach’s or as a general counseling approach underlying all client interactions. Given the wide variety of applications, this class is appropriate for those who are interested in substance abuse and addiction practice or in adapting these methods and theory to guide counseling for other behaviors and populations.
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HSRV 532 - Psychopharmacology & Addictions
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course provides a broad understanding of psychopharmacology theories of drug abuse, addiction, and treatment. The student is introduced to the basic principles of pharmacology, anatomy, and physiology as applied to the major classes of drugs of addiction. The course will also examine the effects of various drugs on human behavior. The course introduces medications that have been developed to support drug treatment such as methadone, suboxone, naloxone and others. Emphasis is placed on basic principles of drug ingestion, distribution, elimination, dose response relationships, neurotransmitter chemicals, and synaptic activity.
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HSRV 533 - Family Therapy in Addiction Treatment
Credit(s): 3 hours
This Addiction specialization course involves an exploration of family issues in abuse and addiction. Topics include system theory and family dynamics, codependency, abuse issues, the family life-cycle, developmental issues in families, the role of culture in families, co-occurring disorders including medical and psychological disorders, and models of family therapy.
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HSRV 534 - Clinical Management of Addictions
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course will prepare students to manage clinical documentation and understand policies used in addictions treatment. This course will prepare students to understand the methodology behind: biopsychosocial case conceptualization, treatment planning, psychopharmacological medications used in treating addictions, and co-occurring disorders. This course will also prepare students in screening and assessment procedures, forming diagnostic impressions, referral processes, and client advocacy.
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HSRV 535 - Co-occuring Disorders
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course will provide an introduction to co-occurring psychiatric disorders and substance use disorders. This course will explore co-occurring assessment and treatment from a biopsychosocial, integrated framework.
Prerequisite(s): COUN 533 , HSRV 531
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HSRV 536 - Advanced Topics: Street Drugs
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course will prepare students to assess and treat current and developing street drugs. This course will provide an in-depth exploration of heroin, marijuana (both natural and lab-created), psychedelics, stimulants, etc. Community resource information will be a focus of this course in terms of understanding the importance of collateral treatment providers.
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Applied Learning Practicum |
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INTR 599 - Applied Learning Practicum
Credit(s): 1 hour
This course provides students enrolled in a master’s program an opportunity to apply professional applications to their respective academic coursework. The Applied Learning Practicum can be either a practicum or internship in an area directly related to the student’s course of study, or a project conducted in collaboration with program faculty applying coursework to a professional setting. Through this course, the University will have a Collaborative/Cooperative Agreement with all practicum or internship sites before the student is permitted to begin the field placement work. Department approval is required to determine if the placement aligns with the program of study. The course will be repeated in each semester of student enrollment. As an integral part of the executive formatted programs, this course is required every semester in which a student is taking courses.
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INTR 799 - Applied Learning Practicum
Credit(s): 1 hour
This course provides students enrolled in a doctorate program an opportunity to apply professional applications to their respective academic coursework. The Applied Learning Practicum can be either a practicum or internship in an area directly related to the student’s course of study, or a project conducted in collaboration with program faculty applying coursework to a professional setting. Through this course, the University will have a Collaborative/Cooperative Agreement with all practicum or internship sites before the student is permitted to begin the field placement work. Department approval is required to determine if the placement aligns with the program of study. The course will be repeated in each semester of student enrollment. As an integral part of the executive formatted programs, this course is required every semester in which a student is taking courses.
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INTR 899 - Applied Learning Practicum, Dissertation Phase
Credit(s): 3 hours
INTR 899 is designed to enhance the educational experience of the dissertation phase for doctoral students. Students will utilize the course to maintain dissertation progress and ensure alignment of research topic with a professional setting within the student’s academic discipline and professional experience/interests. Through this course, the University will have a Collaborative/Cooperative Agreement with all practicum or internship sites before the student is permitted to begin the field placement work. Department approval is required to determine if the placement aligns with the program of study. As an integral part of the executive formatted programs, this course must be taken every semester during the dissertation phase for executive-format students.
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Art |
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ART 530 - Studio Problems
Credit(s): 3 hours
A study concentrated on creative projects in a selective media. Six (6) hours conference and laboratory per week. A strong background in art or instructor permission required. May be repeated.
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ART 531 - Methods and Materials for Teaching Art
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on the basic techniques and methods for planning, teaching and assessing art P-12. National, state, and visual arts guidelines of a comprehensive art education program will be reviewed. The course emphasizes various hands-on activities for use of tools, materials, and methods for creating a variety of P-12 art studio projects.
Five Field Experience Hours Required.
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ART 532 - Topics in Art & Music
Credit(s): 3 hours
An examination in philosophical aesthetics; analysis/reflective understanding of the aims, nature, and value of art and music. Topics will include: art and representation; art and the emotions; beauty, form, and aesthetic experience; the definition of art and music.
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Artificial Intelligence |
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MSAI 511 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is an introduction to Artificial Intelligence for business leaders. The course will teach the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence from a managerial perspective. It will provide examples of the potential AI offers to a company.
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MSAI 531 - Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course explores the principles of neural networks, starting from the basic building blocks and progressing to complex architectures. The course topics include activation functions, feed-forward networks, backpropagation, gradient descent optimization, regularization techniques, and model evaluation. In addition, this course covers deep learning, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image analysis and recognition, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for sequential data modeling, and attention mechanisms for tasks like language processing and machine translation.
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MSAI 532 - Natural Language Processing
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course explores the fundamental principles, advanced techniques, and practical applications of Natural Language Processing. Students will progress from foundational concepts to hands-on implementation, addressing real-world challenges in various domains such as information retrieval, sentiment analysis, and machine translation.
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MSAI 544 - Application of AI in Healthcare
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course presents practical applications of how AI can transform the way healthcare is delivered. Deep learning examples from AI will be used to demonstrate how healthcare organizations can use algorithms to help them make better business and clinical decisions, improve patient experiences, and attract and retain employees.
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MSAI 578 - Data Visualization
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course analyzes techniques and algorithms for creating effective visualizations based on principles from graphic design, visual art, perceptual psychology, and cognitive science. The course is targeted towards students interested in using visualization in their work and students interested in building better visualization tools and systems.
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MSAI 599 - Transforming Business with Artificial Intelligence
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course requires students to apply the skills and knowledge developed during the program to create an Artificial Intelligence transformation strategy for an organization.
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MSAI 630 - Generative AI with Large Language Models
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course examines the evolving landscape of generative artificial intelligence technology. Generative AI, powered by Large Language Models, has emerged as a transformative technology with many applications. This class explores the theory, techniques, and practical applications of Generative AI using Large Language Models and their associated applications. Students will explore the intricacies of large language models (e.g., ChatGPT), developing a comprehensive understanding of their underlying mechanisms. Students will harness the power of these models to create text, media, and other forms of content that emulate human-like creativity and problem solving.
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MSAI 631 - Artificial Intelligence for Human-Computer Interaction
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course examines the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and how they have revolutionized the ways we interact with machines and systems. The class emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between AI and HCI, equipping students with the knowledge and skills to design, develop, and optimize intelligent interactive systems.
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MSAI 632 - Application of AI in Risk Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course assesses how AI can be used to identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks. The course also demonstrates how AI can be used to quantify risks and strengthen risk management strategies.
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MSAI 633 - Ethics in Artificial Intelligence
Credit(s): 3 Credit Hours
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Blockchain |
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BLCN 531 - Introduction to Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course explores the fundamentals of the public, transparent, secure, immutable and distributed database called Blockchain. Blockchains can be used to record and transfer any digital asset not just currency. This course will introduce students to the workings and applications of this new technology. Its potential impact on financial services, government, banking, contracting, and identity management will be discussed. This course provides the background necessary to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Presents conceptual foundations required to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. Integrates ideas from Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in applied learning projects.
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BLCN 532 - Blockchain Development
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course introduces blockchain on the practical level. The student will get a detailed picture of the components and structures of blockchain business networks, such as ledgers, smart contracts, consensus, certificate authorities, security, roles, transaction processes, participants, and fabrics. The student will also receive experience working with a blockchain to model, build, and test a business network that can query a ledger through programming. Finally, the student will learn how to create a blockchain network.
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BLCN 533 - Finance and Blockchain
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course covers digital currencies, Blockchains, cryptographic tokens, and related topics in the FinTech (Financial/Technical) area, perhaps the most significant innovation in the financial world since the advent of doubleentry bookkeeping centuries ago. The technology appears to represent an existential challenge for major parts of the finance industry. It is now commonly suggested by experts that commercial banks and stock exchanges may no longer exist, or may become much smaller, within the next 10 to 20 years, with increasing volumes of payments and exchange taking place on a peer to peer basis. New financing channels such as initial coin offerings have the potential to upend segments of entrepreneurial finance.
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BLCN 534 - Fundamentals of Database Systems
Credit(s): 3 hours
Emphasis on the concepts and structures necessary to design and implement a database management system. Topics covered will include data models, normalization, query facilities, file and index organization, security, and database programming.
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BLCN 535 - Cryptography
Credit(s): 3 hours
The course examines methods and techniques for concealing data for security purposes. Cryptography plays a major role in securing blockchain technologies. Topics covered will include cryptographic techniques, approaches and technologies. (Course currently taught as ISOL 535 )
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BLCN 631 - Blockchain Implementation
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course will provide an overview of the structure and mechanism of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger and multichain blockchain platforms. The student will learn to setup his/her own private blockchain and deploy smart contracts on Ethereum. The student will also learn to deploy the business network using Hyperledger Composer and be able to setup a private multi-chain environment.
Prerequisite(s): BLCN 531
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BLCN 632 - Data Mining
Credit(s): 3 hours
The goal of the course is to introduce students to the current theories, practices, tools and techniques in data mining. Because many topics and concepts in data mining are learned most efficiently through hands-on work with data sets, we will spend time with software analyzing and mining data. The goal is to gain a better understanding of how data mining is applied and what is involved in data mining projects. (Course currently taught as ITS 632 )
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BLCN 633 - Global Marketing and Blockchain Technology
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course will research how leveraging high “Velocity” data - such as data from mobile devices - has unearthed knowledge that has helped firms better understand their customers. The significant potential of high “Variety” data - data that is unstructured in the form of text, images, videos, and so on - to make better predictions has been documented in numerous academic studies. Blockchain technology will be used to address the limitation of issues related to the accuracy, reliability, and transparency of the data itself.
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BLCN 634 - Human Resource Management and Blockchain
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course will explore how HR will be disrupted by Blockchain technologies. Current disruptions include HR solutions moving to subscription-based models on cloud platforms; organizations emphasizing mobile-first strategies; and employees expect consumer-grade digital services.
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BLCN 635 - New Technologies for Business Leaders
Credit(s): 3 hours
This introductory course is developed for high level business people (and those on their way) who want a broad understanding of new Information Technologies and understand their potential for business functions (e.g. marketing, supply change management, finance). From Blockchain over Artificial Intelligence to Virtual Reality technologies: This course will empower business leaders to embrace the concepts and bring the state of the art information technologies into their organizations to improve client and customer engagement and ultimately the bottom line of their businesses. Instead of digital disruption, the new technologies and management methods will become the foundation of a Digital Transformation journey for better customer relationship management and client satisfaction. This course is not a deep technical curriculum, but rather is focused on helping executive grasp the technologies’ potential in their own area of expertise.
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BLCN 636 - Legal & Regulatory Framework of Blockchain
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is developed for high level business people (and those on their way) who want a broad understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks being developed around blockchain technology. This course will empower business leaders to understand how governments are approaching and potentially regulating the usage of blockchain technology. Students will gain an understanding of how the US Federal government/regulatory agencies, state governments and the governments of foreign nations are treating the implementation of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. This course is not a deep legal curriculum, but rather is focused on helping executives grasp the basics of the legislative and regulatory processes specific to the emerging technology.
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Business Administration |
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BADM 511 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is an introduction to Artificial Intelligence for business leaders. The course will teach the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence from a managerial perspective. It will provide examples of the potential AI offers to a company.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None
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BADM 522 - Application of AI in Manufacturing
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course provides an in-depth look at how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the manufacturing sector by optimizing digital operations and driving efficiencies, enabling new products and services, and allowing for safer work environments.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None
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BADM 530 - Specialized Studies in Accounting, Business Administration, and Secretarial Practice
Credit(s): 3 hours
Directed study in the areas of accounting, business administration, and/or secretarial practice. May be repeated.
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BADM 532 - Organizational Behavior
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is the study of individual and group behavior within diverse organizations. Examination of organizational structure, processes, norms and values is included. Emphasis is given on the topics of leadership, management styles, organizational fit and change, motivation, group dynamics, and business process efficiency.
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BADM 533 - Marketing Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course acquaints the student with the seminal concepts and models appropriate for marketing management. Course content and experiences will allow students to develop the knowledge base and skills necessary for devising and implementing strategic marketing plans which complement organizational goals.
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BADM 534 - Managerial Finance
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on the advanced study of financial topics, including capital budgeting, risk and cost of capital, capital structure of the firm, financial analysis, leverage, and time value of money. It provides students practical decision‐making and problem solving using real world examples.
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BADM 535 - Managerial Economics
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on case analysis using microeconomic theory and statistical techniques to aid in decision‐making processes. Topics include demand and cost analysis, pricing in different market and risk conditions, forecasting methods and constrained optimality.
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BADM 536 - Application of AI in Sales and Marketing
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course will identify use cases of AI across the customer journey. In addition, you will learn how AI is being used to create demand, enable sales, and drive customer service. This course also offers insights into analyzing customer segments, conversion rate optimization, and customer churn across the customer journey. Finally, this course will identify how AI can create demand, enable sales, and drive customer service.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None
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BADM 537 - Legal, Ethical, and Social Environment
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is a study of the appropriate roles of business in society, the constraints placed on business by the legal system and government regulation, and the ethical responsibilities of managers. It provides students with an understanding of how the law and the political process affect business strategy and decision making, including the various means and procedures for resolving legal disputes in business matters. The course highlights ethical conflicts and dilemmas, and provides plausible frameworks for dealing with those conflicts.
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BADM 538 - Management of Investments
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on the study of the principles of investments, including the supply of and demand for investment funds; types of stocks, bonds, and other investments; the functions of securities markets; the analysis of different types of securities; and the government regulation of the securities market. The course focuses on investment management decisions and their impact on other functional business elements.
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BADM 539 - Research and Report Writing
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on developing skills to identify grant opportunities, engage in research, and to write persuasive, informative and effective grant proposals. Students will understand how to read grant announcements and format proposals to ensure greater success of selection for award and administration of grants when awarded.
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BADM 544 - Application of AI in Healthcare
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course presents practical applications of how AI can transform the way healthcare is delivered. Deep learning examples from AI will be used to demonstrate how healthcare organizations can use algorithms to help them make better business and clinical decisions, improve patient experiences, and attract and retain employees.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None.
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BADM 555 - Application of AI in Financial Services
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course illustrates how AI will play a vital role in the future of banking. It demonstrates how AI brings the power of advanced data analytics to combat fraudulent transactions and improve compliance. This course also examines how AI enables banks to manage large volumes of data at record speed to derive valuable insights from it. Finally, the course demonstrates how features from AI lead to a higher quality of services to a broader customer base, increased revenue, and reduced costs.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None
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BADM 566 - Application of AI in Risk Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course assesses how AI can be used to identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks. The course also demonstrates how AI can be used to quantify risks and strengthen risk management strategies.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None
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BADM 577 - Business Sustainability, Corporate Governance, and Organizational Ethics
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course explores corporate governance and the ethical issues at an organizational level that are relevant to the development of sustainable business practices. The course covers drivers and sources of business Sustainability, emerging issues in sustainability performance, reporting, and assurance, fundamentals of corporate governance, and emerging business ethics issues.
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BADM 578 - Data Visualization
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course analyzes techniques and algorithms for creating effective visualizations based on principles from graphic design, visual art, perceptual psychology, and cognitive science. The course is targeted towards students interested in using visualization in their work and students interested in building better visualization tools and systems.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None
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BADM 582 - Business Analytics for strategic and Organizational Performance
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to provide the fundamental concepts and broad-based foundation needed to understand the role of business analytics in organizations. By the end of this course, students will develop a sufficient understanding of processes, methodologies, and tools needed to apply business analytics to solve business problems and inform business decisions and actions. Emphasis is placed on applications and interpretation of results, rather than the taxonomy of models and their statistical properties.
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BADM 588 - AI and Operations Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course demonstrates how AI can optimize business processes and assets to make a business more adaptable, reduce expenses, and increase quality. It also analyzes how AI is utilized across the five stages of operations: sourcing, making, storing, routing, and delivering products and services.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None
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BADM 598 - AI in Human Resources
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course applies the integration process of AI into human resources (HR) practices by applying AI to analyze, predict and diagnose to help HR teams make better decisions.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None
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BADM 599 - Transforming Business with Artificial Intelligence
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course requires students to apply the skills and knowledge developed during the program to create an Artificial Intelligence transformation strategy for an organization.
Pre-/Co-requisite(s): None
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BADM 623 - Project Management Processes
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course provides for a scholarly study of project management and is a foundational overview of the discipline through the processes of the “project life cycle”. Students will learn about project management in its entirety from the initiation of the project to its closing, and will examine all “knowledge areas” as noted in PMBOK, a leading source in the field of project management. This course serves as one of the requirements for students pursuing the MBA with a concentration in project management or the M.S. in Project Management. This course will also serve as an informational guide for students seeking professional certification in project management areas as offered by PMI (Project Management Institute).
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BADM 624 - Competitive Strategy
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to provide the core concepts and frameworks for competitive strategy. The course is designed around two main questions: (1) Why are some companies more successful than others; and (2) what can we learn from their experiences to identify key drivers of superior performance?
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BADM 625 - Mergers and Acquisitions
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course explores mergers and acquisitions as a viable mode of corporate development. The emphasis of this course is the comprehensive framework for executing mergers and acquisitions from initiation to implementation.
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BADM 626 - Management Consulting
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to provide a framework for the management consulting profession. Emphasis is placed on developing proficiencies in a range of skills required to practice consulting. In this course, students will become familiar with the typical phases in a consulting project.
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BADM 627 - Project Risk and Quality Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to provide students with a study of two vital areas of knowledge within project management (PM): Project Risk Management and Project Quality Management. Students will learn how to assess, address, and manage risk in order to attain project success and avoid project failure. Students will also learn the importance of project quality through the utilization of project quality tools and quality management planning. This study involves applicable quality concepts that aid in the planning, managing, and controlling of processes. This course is essential for aspiring project managers and will provide the risk management and quality management tools that are needed for effective project management.
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BADM 628 - Project Human Resource and Stakeholder Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to address the management of human resources and stakeholders within the framework of projects and their life cycles. While other knowledge areas within project management may often times provide concrete solutions and predictable outcomes, nothing can be more elusive to a project manager than the ability to plan projects where human resource capital and stakeholders are to be identified, selected, analyzed, communicated with, assigned roles, and managed. Project success depends on appropriate human resource allocation and full stakeholder engagement. This course will provide students with the processes and mechanisms to accomplish those same goals.
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BADM 631 - Managing in a Global Environment
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course provides a study of the involvement of American firms in the international community with special emphasis on the impact of foreign competition on domestic markets, management of multinational enterprises and decision-making in the international environment.
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BADM 632 - Advanced Human Resource Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is the study of contemporary topics related to effective management of human resources, and emphasizes in- depth research and analysis of the interrelationship of the human resource function in a dynamic business environment.
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BADM 633 - Planning the Project
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course examines topics in project management with specific attention to issues and skills of project planning.
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BADM 634 - Initiating the Project
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course examines topics in project management with specific attention to issues and skills of project initiation.
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BADM 635 - Executing the Project
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course examines topics in project management with specific attention to issues and skills of project execution.
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BADM 636 - Monitoring/Controlling and Closing the Project
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course examines topics in project management with specific attention to issues and skills of project monitoring, controlling, and closing.
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BADM 637 - Strategic Application in Project Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course examines topics in project management with specific attention to issues and skills that managers needs to effectively manage multiple projects. The course overviews/reviews key concepts of project management through the case study method.
Prerequisite(s): BADM 633 , BADM 634 , BADM 635 , BADM 636
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BADM 638 - Strategic Decision-Making
Credit(s): 3 hours
This capstone course integrates the knowledge learned from all functional areas in business into a strategic plan. In addition to reviewing key concepts of business and corporate strategy, the course addresses traditional approaches to industry and competitor analysis and competitive advantage, and contemporary extensions and refinements of these concepts. Analytical tools and techniques are demonstrated through case studies focusing on the relationship between an organization and its environment, competition, market entry, vertical integration, diversification, global competition, and strategic alliances.
Prerequisite(s): BACC 531 , BADM 533 , BADM 534 , BADM 535 , BADM 577 , and BADM 582
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BADM 643 - Sales and Customer Relationship Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course provides for an advanced study of sales force issues and the management of the overall customer relationship effort in an organization. Emphasis is placed on identifying approaches for making decisions that lead to a more customer-centric business model. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Entrepreneurship Emphasis.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MBA Program or permission of MBA Director or Chair of the Graduate School of Business
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BADM 644 - New Venture Development
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to launch a business or social venture. There are three components of the course: (1) Feasibility
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MBA Program or permission of MBA Director or Chair of Graduate School of Business
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BADM 645 - Strategic Leadership
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course provides for the study of leadership issues and constructs required for managers. Emphasis is placed on negotiation, conflict resolution, mediation, communication, ethical reasoning, problem-solving, and decisionmaking.
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BADM 648 - Entrepreneurial Strategy
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course provides for an advanced study of entrepreneurial strategy formulation. Emphasis in the course is the development of a comprehensive business plan. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Entrepreneurship Emphasis.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MBA Program or permission of MBA Director or Chair of Graduate School of Business
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BADM 652 - Strategic Organizational Design
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on organizational strategy and the competitive advantage of organizational design. Special emphasis will be placed on contemporary organizations and the concepts, strategy, and design driving their success.
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BADM 655 - Advanced Brand Management
Credit(s): 3 hours
As products, pricing, promotion, and distribution increasingly become commodities, the new competitive arena is brand value, which creates long-term profitable brand relationships. Building brand equity involves managing brands within the context of other brands, as well as managing brands over multiple categories, over time, and across multiple market segments. This course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to build, measure, and manage a brand. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Marketing Emphasis.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MBA Program or permission of MBA Director or Chair of the Graduate School of Business
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BADM 656 - Business-to-Business (B2B) Marketing
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to provide in-depth study of issues related to industrial or business-to-business marketing. Many B2B marketing executives indicate that many traditional marketing concepts and principles do not apply in B2B. B2B marketing requires a unique set of marketing concepts and principles versus consumer marketing. Another focus of the course will address a major difference between consumer and business-to-business marketing, namely the amount of people involved in the sale: from both the seller’s firm and the purchasing firm. In consumer selling, the user is generally the purchaser. In B2B marketing, both the selling firm and the buying firm includes members of other disciplines (engineering, transportation, warehousing, finance, and others) from the beginning of the process to the time of actual purchase. The addition of these people fosters strong ties between the two firms but also lengthens the time and complexity of the sale.
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BADM 657 - Logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Credit(s): 3 hours
In this course, students will understand that successful Supply Chain Management (SCM) requires cross-functional integration of key business processes within the firm and across the network of firms that comprise the supply chain. The challenge is to determine how to successfully accomplish this integration. In this course, the distinction between logistics and supply chain management is identified and a framework for SCM is presented. Class time is also devoted to each of the eight supply chain processes. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Marketing Emphasis.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MBA Program or permission of MBA Director or Chair of the Graduate School of Business
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BADM 658 - Marketing Decision-Making & Analytics
Credit(s): 3 hours
The overarching purpose of this course is to orient students to the systematic use of data and state-of-the-art marketing analytics tools to solve real-world marketing problems that add value to an organization’s marketing and growth efforts. By the end of this course, students will develop a sufficient understanding of the framework, processes, methodologies, and analytical tools used to transform marketing data into useful information to make strategic marketing decisions. Students will also gain hands-on experience in data-driven approaches to make datadriven marketing decisions.
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BADM 662 - Customer Satisfaction Measurement
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course provides for a comprehensive study in determining how to measure customer satisfaction. In this course, students will present customer satisfaction strategies which are consistent with an organization’s broader goals. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Healthcare Administration and Marketing Emphases.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MBA Program or permission of MBA Director or Chair of the Graduate School of Business
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BADM 663 - Healthcare Marketing
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to provide knowledge of the following issues relevant to healthcare marketing: 1) Nature of healthcare markets; 2) Concept of strategic marketing of healthcare organizations; 3) Marketing strategy and planning tools in the healthcare setting; 4) Healthcare customers and consumer behavior; 5) Application of 4Ps of marketing to healthcare marketing; and 6) Research in healthcare marketing. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Healthcare Administration and Marketing Emphases.
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BADM 664 - Healthcare Finance
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on the application of finance theory, principles, and concepts to healthcare organizations. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Healthcare Administration Emphasis.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MBA Program or permission of MBA Director or Chair of Graduate School of Business
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BADM 665 - Healthcare Policy and Economics
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course applies general theoretical principles of economics to the healthcare sector. The basic approach is to recognize the importance of scarcity and incentives, allowing for differences particular to healthcare. The demand and the supply for health and medical care are examined theoretically and practically. In addition, the competitiveness of these markets, the relationship with health insurance and the role of government are explored. A focus of the course is decisions made by consumers, providers (physicians, hospitals), insurers, or the government in the area of healthcare. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Healthcare Administration Emphasis.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MBA Program or permission of MBA Director or Chair of Graduate School of Business
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BADM 667 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare Administration
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course addresses the legal aspects, code of ethics and policy issues relevant to healthcare. Emphases of the course include confidential communications, advanced directives, consents, professional liability, medical malpractice, release of information, case studies, and the professional code of ethics for medical professionals. The course includes discussion relevant to concepts of professional credentialing and responsibility, liability, and working within legal/ethical boundaries. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Healthcare Administration Emphasis.
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BADM 668 - Strategic Issues in Healthcare Administration
Credit(s): 3 hours
In this capstone course, students will synthesize and apply concepts learned in the Healthcare Administration concentration. The focus of this course requires case analysis to integrate the components of organizational strategy development and execution. Using the provided healthcare case study, students will assess the situation, identify the problem, and develop strategic alternatives in order to recommend a proposed solution. This course serves as an elective for students pursuing the MBA Healthcare Administration Emphasis.
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BADM 670 - Digital Health and Analytics
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course introduces students to digital health and analytics aimed to improve patient care outcomes and enhance health delivery system performance. Specific topics will include: an overview of the digital health concepts and related terminologies, data standards, health data security and confidentiality, clinical decision support systems, population health analytics, big data analytics, consumer health informatics, emerging digital health innovations and applications, and other topics related to digital health and analytics. Course learning objectives and critical core competency skills are achieved using various learning methods, including lectures, discussion questions, participation, written assignments such as experiential-based case studies, and a comprehensive final project.
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BADM 677 - Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, and Social Responsibility
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course focuses on corporate governance and covers the complex environment in which managers confront ethical decision-making. It draws heavily on examples of high-profile organizations and uses cases to illustrate the integration of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and ethics into key strategic business decisions. Upon completion of this course, students will learn how to develop an ethical corporate culture and make decisions that reflect organizational values and the expectations of stakeholders.
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BADM 682 - Quantitative Methods for Finance
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the quantitative methods and techniques used in financial analysis and investment decision making. This course explores in greater depth the key quantitative techniques and their application to problems in the finance and investment environment. Upon completion of this course, students will gain hands-on experience in quantitative analysis and develop the skills necessary to use quantitative methods in financial decision making. Considerable attention is paid to the quantitative topics covered in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) exam.
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BADM 683 - Financial Services, Regulation, and Ethics
Credit(s): 3 hours
This course explores the ethical issues in the financial services industry and the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern the financial system. It provides students with a critical understanding of the ethical issues confronting financial professionals and a broad and in-depth knowledge of the legal and regulatory issues in the financial services industry. Students will leave this course with the relevant knowledge of the legal and regulatory environment in which business operates and the ability to develop the framework necessary to make proper ethical decisions. Particular attention is paid to the knowledge areas covered in the Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) exam offered by the American Bankers Association.
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BADM 684 - Financial Modeling and Valuation
Credit(s): 3 hours
The objective of this course is to develop the financial modeling skills necessary to build interactive valuation models for firms. This course explores in greater depth the appropriate valuation concepts, techniques, and models used in typical finance and investment practice. This course will involve extensive use of spreadsheets and other computerbased models to analyze the impacts of investment and financial decisions related to financial statement analysis in the finance and investment context. Ultimately, students who complete this course develop financial modeling skills for performing financial analyses and understand how various financial decisions may impact firm and shareholder value.
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