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CJ 492T - Criminal Justice Internship (3 units)
Internship with various criminal justice agencies. Affords students the opportunity to gain practical experience and exposure to various aspects of the criminal justice system.
Prerequisites: Junior standing, CJ 200T, PA 373T, and approval of the program director and Career Services
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CJM 6210T - Constitutional Issues in Criminal Justice (3 units)
This course examines some of the more important current and timely constitutional issues facing police and law enforcement mangers and officials, such as: 1st amendment issues, including restrictions on workplace speech and activities; current and changing 4th amendment issues; 5th amendment issues, including adversarial employee investigations; and current 6th Amendment issues and concerns (rights to counsel, etc.) for the law enforcement professional.
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CJM 6220T - Legal and Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice (3 units)
This course provides students with the opportunity to explore some of the most important legal issues facing the criminal justice professional in today’s criminal justice organizations. Focusing primarily on managerial problems, real-world scenarios and cases will be analyzed and discussed
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CJM 6230T - Statistical Research and Applications in the Criminal Justice Field (3 units)
This course is designed to improve the research skills of law enforcement professionals. The course will examine the nature of criminal justice research and the different approaches and concepts available to conduct this research. Specific quantitative data-gathering techniques will be studied.
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CJM 6235T - Grant Writing (3 units)
Developing effective grant-writing skills are essential to acquire competitive funding from government agencies and private foundations. Writing a successful grant proposal is a blend of art and science. Successful grant proposals require a combination of content knowledge, writing proficiency, strong research skills, creativity, organizational ability, patience, and luck. This course will provide students with the background necessary to develop a competitive funding proposal.
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CJM 6240T - Criminal Justice Capstone (3 units)
This course will expose students to the ideas of noted speakers and leaders in the criminal justice field course, as they discuss current problematic issues facing law enforcement managers. The course will also students to apply what they have learned, through preparation of a research document on a selected topic.
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CU 101T - Student Success (3 units)
This course will orient students to strategies and resources that maximize academic performance. Students will understand University policies and procedures, and discover personal learning styles to apply to fundamental collegiate practices. Students will participate in exercises that promote self-discovery, a successful student experience, and best practices conducive to lifelong learning.
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EC 201T - Macroeconomics (3 units)
An introduction to the scope and method of economics with emphasis on the structure and operation of the United States economy: scarcity and resource allocation, the price system, national income and related problems, the role of government in the economic sphere, and theories of economic growth.
Prerequisites: SC 120T, MS 182T
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EC 202T - Microeconomics (3 units)
A further introduction to the scope and method of economics with emphasis on the theory of the firm, supply and cost of production, pricing and employment of resources, and theory of international trade.
Prerequisites: EC 201T
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EC 220T - Money and Banking (3 units)
History of money and monetary standards, commercial banking in the U.S., evolution and functions of the Federal Reserve System, operation of credit and monetary controls, the development of specialized banking institutions, foreign exchange, and international finance.
Prerequisites: EC 202T
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EC 245T - History of Economic Thought (3 units)
Survey of the development of economic thought from the mercantilists through Lord Keynes.
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EC 303T - Seminar in Economics and Finance (3 units)
Designed for students majoring in economics and finance. Supervised and independent reading, written reports, analysis of current issues. Will enable the student to do independent research on topics of individual interest.
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EC 317T - Public Finance (3 units)
This course focuses on public financial administration, taxation, expenditure of public funds, and problems of the public debt as applied to federal, state, and local government.
Prerequisites: EC 202T
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EC 318T - Economic Analysis of Health Services (3 units)
The focus of the course is on the applications of economic analysis to health services with emphasis on the microeconomic behavior of decision units in the health sector.
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EN 090T - Review of English (3 units)
This course is a review of grammar and punctuation of written English, while developing the student’s reading comprehension. Students will learn how to develop organized, cohesive, and unified paragraphs. This is a foundation course that cannot be used to fulfill degree requirements. Students must earn a minimum grade of “C” to proceed into upper level English course. Grades lower than a C require that the course be retaken.
Prerequisites: Placement testing
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EN 100T - English Fundamentals (3 units)
Students review the writing process that will enable them to write brief essays. The course will emphasize the importance of revision and the method used. Students learn the concepts necessary to write an essay for a specific purpose. Punctuation and sentence grammar are also reviewed. Must pass with a grade of C or better.
Prerequisites: Placement testing
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EN 115T - Written and Oral Communications I (3 units)
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EN 125T - Written and Oral Communications II (3 units)
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EN 150T - Written Communication Foundations (3 units)
This course acquaints the student with the nature of the writing/speaking process, stressing the importance of the interrelationship among author/speaker, audience, and message in any communication act. Student will learn the elements of rhetoric and logic. The course focuses on developing the student’s ability to research to explore a topic, develop a significant thesis, and properly cite research material that supports the thesis.
Prerequisites: Demonstrated proficiency. A webcam is required for all online sections of this course as students are required to submit speeches as a part of the course curriculum.
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EN 230T - Written and Oral Communication III (3 units)
Gives students a more sophisticated sense of academic and professional writing by stressing the demands of writing in various disciplines. The course helps students develop elementary approaches to exploring subjects in the major academic fields and to framing their discourse for the demands of those fields. Students will develop a facility for using technology in oral presentations.
Prerequisites: EN 150T, MS 182T or demonstration of computer literacy
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EN 235T - Survey of Literature (3 units)
A survey course providing an intensive study of literary forms and function, stressing an examination of various genres, including the short story, poetry, drama, and the novel. Emphasis is placed on structural elements leading to perceptive criticism of literature. Students will read literature from various time periods and cultures.
Prerequisites: EN 150T
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EN 330T - Management Communication (3 units)
Develops students’ abilities to communicate in business situations. Students will generate various documents including memos, letters, reports, and a resume.
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EN 334T - Film Studies (3 units)
The focus of the course is on developing students’ appreciation of the artistic qualities of film. It examines the various elements of film production and demonstrates how those elements combine to form an artistic whole. (In addition to purchasing a textbook, students will be required to acquire the films to watch for this course through video rentals, libraries, or purchase. The films or access to the films are not provided by the university.)
Prerequisites: EN 230T
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EN 339T - Diversity Literature (3 units)
This course explores issues of gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability in contemporary American literature in order to engage students in dialogue on the diversity of cultural experiences in America and their artistic expression in literature, resulting in an increased awareness of and respect for the diverse voices that make up contemporary society.
Prerequisites: EN 230T
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EN 440T - Technical Report Writing (3 units)
Develops students’ abilities to create technical documents for business, industry, and government and to use technology to present the results of their studies in polished oral presentations using presentation software. Students will learn the structure and format of various technical reports, including object description, procedures manuals, proposals, progress reports, and feasibility studies. The course will also emphasize professional page setup, creation of quality graphics, and integration of graphics into text.
Prerequisites: EN 330T
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ES 180T - Geographic Information Systems Fundamentals (3 units)
This is a foundation course in map essentials, map scale, projection systems, map reading, and interpretation. Students will learn about vector and raster system of representation and integration of non-spatial data with spatial data.
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ES 200T - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (3 units)
This introductory course will focus on collection, use, and display of readily available digital geographic data. This course will help develop students’ hands-on skills in collection, input, manipulation, query of data, conversion of data into usable databases, data analysis, and generation of map output and reports.
Prerequisites: ES 180T or MS 182T or instructor’s consent with demonstrated computer competence
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ES 340T - Upper Level Geographic Information Systems (3 units)
This course builds further on the skilled developed in introduction to GIS and exposes students to developing methodology for problem solving.
Prerequisites: ES 200T
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ES 360T - Environmental Change and Sustainability Management (3 units)
The course focuses on sustainable future including overview of present problems, conservation as wise use and stewardship of resources. Students will analyze case studies comparing natural versus impacted systems. Students are exposed to techniques of taking stock of present, past and creatively planning for future desired condition in relation to environmental resources, processes and their interrelationships with solar energy, biological diversity, cycling of water, nutrients and pollutants and population pressure. In view of social, economic and environmental context and human impact on the environment, integrated approaches combining preventive, curative, and participatory approach to managing environmental change and sustainability is emphasized at different scales ranging from local to global level.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor consent
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ES 370T - Global Warming and Climate Change Adaptation (3 units)
This course focuses on the natural vs. human impacted process of global warming. Students will learn to apply scientific method to evolving problems and apply techniques of ascertaining risks, dealing with uncertainty and adaptive management of impact of global warming. The course emphasizes use of interdisciplinary approach combining progressive science and creative management. Role of communication, extension, and public participation to unlock the human and cultural power to managing global warming and climate change adaption at local, national and international level is emphasized. Students will produce a project and develop a portfolio of climate change adaptation is a sector of their interest as a course output.
Prerequisites: Senior standing or instructor consent
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ES 480T - GIS Capstone Project in a Professional Field (3 units)
In this course students utilize skills learned in GIS to complete an independent GIS problem-solving project in their professional field with guidance and supervision of the faculty supervisor.
Prerequisites: ES 340T
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FN 211T - Introduction to Investments (3 units)
Analysis of common and preferred stocks, government and municipal bonds, corporate bonds, and other financial instruments. Also covered is securities analysis, including ratios and percentages useful in analysis, and sources of investment information.
Prerequisites: AC 201T, EC 201T, MS 182T
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FN 312T - Financial Management (3 units)
Management and acquisition of resources for firms with regard to pricing in external markets. Topics include analysis of financial statements, risk and required rate of return, time value of money, financial asset valuation, capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend policy, and financial forecasting.
Prerequisites: FN 211T
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FN 350T - Techniques of Financial Analysis (3 units)
Provides students with foundational knowledge and skills required to analyze financial statements. A central focus of the course is application of theory to practice in the business world. Topics covered also include ratio analysis, cash flow, and prediction.
Prerequisites: FN 312T
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FN 360T - Capital Budgeting and Evaluation of Projects (3 units)
Primary focus of this course is the study of a corporation’s fixed assets and investment decisions. Students will analyze projects, examine various investment strategies, and apply analytical skills to various financial problems.
Prerequisites: FN 312T
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FN 370T - Financial Markets (3 units)
This course focuses on the primary characteristics of financial markets. Key components of this course include regulations of financial markets, the impact of special interests on financial markets, and primary instruments of financial markets.
Prerequisites: FN 312T
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FN 380T - Security Analysis (3 units)
Focuses on an in-depth analysis of specific aspects of financial markets. This course enables students to analyze the following: common stocks, bonds, options, investment portfolios, and securities. Students also study institutional investors and apply both quantitative and qualitative analysis to investment problems.
Prerequisites: FN 350T, FN 370T
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FN 400T - Commercial Bank Management (3 units)
Examines organizational and operational structures of commercial banking. The course covers, among other topics, the following primary areas: liquidity, bank investments, loans, liabilities, capital, market conditions, market performance, bank regulatory agencies, and international banking principles.
Prerequisites: FN 350T, FN 370T
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FN 410T - Risk Management (3 units)
This course offers a comprehensive view of risk management and covers skills and knowledge required to manage efficiently corporate funds. It also introduces students to basic principles of managing business risks and several quantitative and qualitative analytical models in a corporate environment.
Prerequisites: FN 400T
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FN 498T - Senior Project (3 units)
An independent study course for senior students. This course provides intensive study of relevant financial topics with the department head’s approval. It is conducted under the direction of a faculty member approved by the academic chair. A written report is required for credit.
Prerequisites: Finance concentration, senior standing, minimum 2.5 overall GPA, and approval of the program director
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GRD 6110T - Communications (3 units)
This course introduces students to the critical role of effective communications in the business environment. The course provides students with useful information about how to understand your audience, create well-defined messages, and deliver them clearly and powerfully. Students will develop written and oral presentation assignments that provide practical tools to construct persuasive communications. The course will also examine various issues related to communication in business, with particular focus on the importance of social media technology.
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GRD 6120T - Leadership (3 units)
This course employs a variety of experiential experiences, cases, and group presentations to give students the practical skills, tools, and information they need to be effective leaders of teams and individuals in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Students will learn from research, theory, and best practices about effective leadership styles and behaviors, problem-solving skills, inspiring individuals, developing teams, and managing cultural and social diversity in a global environment.
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GRD 6122T - Situational Leadership, Delegation, and Empowerment (3 units)
Based on seventy years of leadership research, this course presents a number of powerful, easy to implement frameworks and pointers concerning how to effectively lead small teams and large organizations. Particular emphasis is placed upon the effective adaptation of a leader’s style to various situational factors. The course identifies the uses and misuses of decisive leadership, delegation, and empowerment, describes the fundamental principles of delegation and empowerment, and explains when, and how to use each of these styles to maximum advantage
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GRD 6124T - Leadership Capstone (3 units)
In this course, students will participate in a project that will permit them to integrate and apply the practical skills, tools, and information they have acquired about leadership in their prior courses.
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GRD 6210T - Strategy (3 units)
This course explores various approaches to setting and implementing an organizational strategy designed to achieve long-term goals. Students will learn how to analyze the various stages in a strategic planning process, assess organizational effectiveness as well as environmental threats and opportunities, develop overall strategies, and implement both strategic and tactical objectives. The course also identifies the determinants and consequences of successful mergers and acquisitions, and of profitable strategies for organic growth.
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GRD 6220T - Managing People (3 units)
This course provides students with useful information and practical tools for recruiting, assessing, motivating and retaining talented employees. The course will expose students to a variety of best management practices when people are working independently, are co-located, or are working in virtual teams. Students will also learn how to give effective performance feedback, and to make effective use of both financial and non-financial rewards.
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GRD 6222T - Best HR Practices, Procedures, and Processes (3 units)
This course identifies a number of key success factors that are pertinent to effective people management, and describes practices and procedures that are typically used by outstanding human resource professionals to achieve desired outcomes. Students will be provided with the tools and knowledge to make use of these practices in their own organizations, and will have the opportunity to practice them as part of the class assignments. The course will focus on HR practices in such areas as organizational governance; communications; on-boarding and energizing new employees; leadership development; succession planning systems; and managing your boss.
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GRD 6223T - Strategic HR Alignment (3 units)
This course focuses on one of the most important keys to an organization’s success, namely, the establishment of seamless and mutually supportive collaboration between its human resource professionals and its leadership. For an organization to be effective, it is essential that its vision, mission, values and priorities be communicated to all organization members, and to important external constituencies. Equally essential is that the mission, values and priorities be compatible and aligned with the organization’s structure, processes and practices. This course presents a number of practical things that both HR and organizational leaders need to do, and can easily do, to effectively develop and maintain this critical relationship.
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GRD 6224T - HR/People Management Capstone (3 units)
In this course, students will participate in a project that will permit them to integrate and apply the practical skills, tools, and information they have acquired about HR/people management in their prior courses
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GRD 6310T - Entrepreneurship (3 units)
This course familiarizes students with the basic information they need to start and grow a successful business. Students will learn how to create a viable business plan that will gain stakeholder support for a successful launch. Other topics include: The nature of entrepreneurship, strategic positioning, how to do market research and analysis, legal requirements for developing a new business, and best practices for funding, marketing, and managing a new business.
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GRD 6312T - Entrepreneurial Thinking and Innovation (3 units)
The course focuses on practical strategies and tools to develop entrepreneurial thinking and ignite innovation. In this course students will learn to identify problems and develop marketable business solutions using a variety of practical, easy to master frameworks and processes. Students will learn how to employ analytical experimentation and creative problem solving to develop their ideas into real-world market opportunities.
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GRD 6313T - Starting a Business (3 units)
This course picks up where the first entrepreneurship course leaves off, focusing on the practical tools that can be used to transform a business plan into a viable business. Students will learn how to evaluate, develop and pitch their ideas to investors and executives to successfully acquire the necessary financial and other resources for market entry. The course presents a number of useful business models and market strategies for successfully launching ideas and positioning them for growth and market acceptance. Topics include market analysis, segmentation, and positioning and differentiation strategies.
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GRD 6318T - Entrepreneurship and Innovation Capstone (3 units)
In this course, students will participate in a project that will permit them to integrate and apply the practical skills, tools, and information they have acquired in their prior courses.
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GRD 6330T - Analytical Decision Making (3 units)
This course acquaints students with useful, practical statistics that will enhance their capacity for critical thinking and assist them in making evidence-based decisions. Students will become familiar with a variety of descriptive statistics and modeling tools that will enable them to analyze business data and evaluate alternative business decisions.
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GRD 6340T - Accounting for Decision Makers (3 units)
This course familiarizes students with essential accounting principles and concepts, and teaches them how to use accounting information to make decisions. The course will cover such topics as the construction and use of financial statements; how to measure assets, liabilities, equities, and income; financial statement analysis, cost behavior and measurement; profitability analysis; relevant costs for special decisions; budgeting; and responsibility accounting. Consideration will be given to the role of information technology in developing and using accounting information.
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GRD 6342T - International Accounting (3 units)
Because accounting principles and reporting practices vary significantly throughout the world, it can be very difficult to assess the relative strength of companies that operate in different countries, or to determine which merger, acquisition or investment opportunity is most attractive. This course provides an in-depth discussion and comparative coverage of international financial accounting and reporting. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are compared and contrasted with the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The course provides examples and examines the causes of these international differences, explains how they impact financial reporting and business decisions, and describes the movement toward harmonization of international accounting standards.
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GRD 6343T - Financial Forensics and Fraud (3 units)
Financial frauds plague the global markets. This course provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of various types of corporate frauds. The course also provides a firm grounding in current forensic techniques on how to detect accounting frauds, so that students may be better able to prevent and/or detect these frauds in the future.
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GRD 6344T - Advanced Accounting Information Systems (3 units)
Accounting and technology have an interrelationship that promotes the efficient and effective use of accounting information systems. This course provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of how technology supports the accounting process. Topics include various accounting systems, security risks and controls, and emerging trends in accounting technology.
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GRD 6411T - Leading Change (3 units)
This course will provide students with practical, useful information about how to lead both small scale and large-scale organizational change. In particular, students will learn how to create a shared need for change; how to transform their organization’s mission or vision into actual behaviors; how to mobilize commitment; how to measure progress, and how to systematically analyze, and make changes if necessary, to their organizations systems and structures to better support the change. Many real world examples will be offered, and students will have a number of opportunities to practice what they are learning.
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GRD 6413T - Leading and Managing Across National Boundaries (3 units)
This course describes the leadership and management challenges organizations face when their employees work and live in different countries, cultures, and time zones. The course discusses, and provides answers to, such questions as: How can leaders give their people performance feedback, and generally know what’s going on when they can’t “manage by walking around?” How do employee compensation requirements and preferences vary in different countries, and what are the most effective motivational tools? How do employee expectations regarding autocratic vs. participative leadership vary in different countries, and what are the keys to selecting the most effective leadership style? Moreover, how do labor laws differ across national boundaries with respect to employee selection, discipline, termination, unionization, etc.
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GRD 6414T - International Business Risk Management (3 units)
This course introduces students to the unique legal, political, competitive, currency, and other risks involved in operating an international business. The course will help students develop a general understanding of the field of global risk analysis and management. As a result of the course, students will be able to identify the different risks that are present in an international business; evaluate the level of risk involved in different global businesses; and create plans and strategies to minimize the organizational risks attendant to operating in the international arena.
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GRD 6415T - International Business Capstone (3 units)
In this course, students will participate in a project that will permit them to integrate and apply the practical skills, tools, and information they have acquired about international business in their prior courses.
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GRD 6420T - Financial Analysis and Economics (3 units)
This course examines a number of basic financial and economic theories, techniques, and practices. Topics include: time value of money; valuation; capital asset pricing; risk and diversification; cost of capital; capital budgeting techniques; and micro- and macro-economics. Where applicable, the implications of course content for international finance and economic considerations will also be discussed.
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GRD 6510T - Marketing Foundations (3 units)
This course examines the marketplace and the marketing functions necessary to manage the relationship between suppliers and customers. Students will become familiar with such topics as the marketing mix, marketing strategy, and various psychological and sociological approaches to the marketing discipline. Further consideration will be given to social media marketing, consumer behavior, advertising, research, information technology, and international marketing.
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GRD 6511T - Managing Operations (3 units)
This course focuses on the central role operations plays in a company’s success, and the analytic tools that are required for strong managerial decision-making. The course emphasizes the strategic advantages provided by the operations function to strong organizations. Students will be exposed to such topics as operations strategies, supply chains, process design and analysis, lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other approaches to managing quality.
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GRD 6513T - Operations Strategy (3 units)
Operations strategy can be distinguished from business strategy by its focus executing the business strategy and delivering the value proposition. This course provides frameworks to analyze strategic issues in manufacturing and service operations and to study the relationships between companies and their suppliers, customers, and competitors. Students will develop skills to optimize the operational processes used to design, produce, distribute, and deliver goods and services
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GRD 6514T - Supply Chain Management (3 units)
Supply management requires a careful matching of supply to demand, and is most successful when a company has flexible designs and processes. This course looks at supply chain management at both the tactical and strategic level and provides practical tools for maximizing the effectiveness of supply chains and enhancing their competitiveness. Topics include the role of distributors; process design; flow and storage of goods and information; inventory and production planning; and managing supplier relationships.
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GRD 6515T - Operations Management Capstone (3 units)
In this course, students will participate in a project that will permit them to integrate and apply the practical skills, tools, and information they have acquired about operation management in their prior courses
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GRD 6530T - Strategy of Social Media (3 units)
This course familiarizes students with marketing frameworks, concepts, and methods their organizations can use to make effective strategic social media choices. Students will learn how to create, capture, and sustain customer and stakeholder value through social media processes.
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GRD 6540T - Social Media Analytics (3 units)
This course focuses on the economy of social media technology. Students will learn a variety of techniques and strategies for monitoring user behavior on social media applications, with an emphasis on applying the analytical concepts and tools of marketing to such decisions as segmentation and targeting, branding, pricing, distribution, and promotion. Students will also learn how to monetize emerging social media platforms, and how to create e-business marketing models.
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GRD 6550T - Social Media Capstone (3 units)
This course provides students with a hands-on experience through an experiential project by using emerging social media paradigms. The project prepares students to face a dynamic environment with empowered consumers. Students will design and launch projects by using non-linear, online, and interactive methods to support new product and/or service development and distribution.
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GRD 6575T - International Marketing (3 units)
This course focuses on the application of marketing concepts, skills, and tools in a global setting. Specifically, students will evaluate three main categories of decisions: foreign entry, adaptation to local markets, and strategic coordination across multiple countries. Students will identify the different stages of globalization for organizations and analyze the various marketing strategies needed for each stages. Topics include the role of management in established and targeted international markets, and examining how business develop and manage products for global markets.
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GRD 6576T - Cross-cultural Consumer Analysis (3 units)
This course focuses on consumer behavior from a global marketing strategy perspective. Using a cross-cultural approach, a variety of useful frameworks are used to identify how cultural and national identify and environmental factors influence consumer behavior and choice. Class assignments emphasize the application of marketing concepts, skills, and tools to real marketing problems.
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GRD 6580T - International Marketing Capstone (3 units)
In this course, students will participate in a project that will permit them to integrate and apply the practical skills, tools, and information they have acquired in their prior international marketing courses.
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GRD 6620T - Capstone (3 units)
The capstone is the culmination of the program and allows students to fully integrate what they have learned. Students will apply their operational, strategy, financial and people management skills in an immersive business simulation. The course requires students to analyze and develop a successful response to a variety of business challenges that will require them to utilize all the concepts, principles and tools presented in previous courses
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GRD 6630T - Information Assurance I (3 units)
The course (and specialization) offers an in-depth investigation in information security. It will explore the fundamentals of computer security as applied to the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) requirements. Students will be exposed to five of the ten domains in the Information Security Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) as presented by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2). The course covers: 1) security management practices, 2) access control systems and methodology, 3) telecommunications and networking security, 4) cryptography, and 5) security architecture and models.
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GRD 6631T - Information Assurance II (3 units)
The course will allow the student to perform a rich analysis of the last five domains in the Information Security Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) as presented by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2). This course builds upon the first course in that it completes the analysis of the last five domains as follows (sequential numbering from course one intentional): 6) operations security, 7) application and systems development security, 8) physical security, 9) business continuity and disaster recovery planning, and 10) laws, investigation, and ethics.
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GRD 6632T - Information Assurance Practicum (3 units)
The course will prepare the student for taking the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) examination by integrating previous course material into understanding and applying the material via CISSP preparatory questions and answers. The course is a fully engaged interplay with the instructor for the students to be most prepared to take the CISSP examination. The course covers questions in each of the ten domains: 1) security management practices, 2) access control systems and methodology, 3) telecommunications and networking security, 4) cryptography, 5) security architecture and models, 6) operations security, 7) application and systems development security, 8) physical security, 9) business continuity and disaster recovery planning, and 10) laws, investigation, and ethics.
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GRD 6710T - Principles of System Analysis and Design (3 units)
Since systems development is firmly rooted in an organizational context, successful systems analysis requires a broad understanding of an organization’ culture, goals, processes, and operations. This course presents an introduction to systems analysis and design, and provides both an explanation of traditional techniques such as interviewing and forms design and an in-depth presentation of the latest tools of structured analysis. Key topics include: various approaches to systems development; modeling, analyzing and evaluating requirements; object-oriented approaches; database design; designing user and system interfaces; management of time, resources, and risks; the systems development lifecycle (SDLC), and the role of the information analyst.
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GRD 6711T - Enterprise Project Management (3 units)
This course examines the effective management of IT projects and the impact of these activities on organization structure and strategy, along with practical suggestions on how to manage IT projects. The course is organized as a management audit of information services activities, allowing student to determine if a firm is properly using and managing IT. Students will acquire an understanding of Gantt and Pert Charts, Data Flow Diagrams, Resource Planning; and project scope, time, and cost and risk management, and how to utilize these tools to assess and implement projects. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to independently scope, develop and manage complex multilayered projects.
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GRD 6713T - Technology Management Capstone (3 units)
This course focuses on the practical applications of project manage professional (PMP) and systems development life cycle (SDLC) knowledge, with a concrete and clearly defined project. Students will form project teams (if applicable) and apply what they have learned to solve a real-world business problem. Specifically, with guidance from the teaching staff, students will research, analyze, design, develop, test and produce a solution based on skills acquired in their studies, and will present their solution to the project sponsor.
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HI 221T - History of the United States I (3 units)
Study of the United States from its colonial origins to the rise of sectionalism and slavery.
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HI 239T - African-American History (3 units)
History of the African-American people. Topics include the heritage of African culture, the institution of slavery, African- Americans in the Civil War and Reconstruction, migration to Northern cities, the rise of the ghetto, African-American protest movements, and the contributions of African- Americans to American society.
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HI 329T - History of American Business (3 units)
Traces the growth of the Industrial Revolution in the United States and evolution of the American businessman. Emphasis is placed on the growth of railroads and large-scale capitalist firms of the Gilded Age, on its principal figures: Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan, and on the Populist-Progressive response to big business. The course concludes with an analysis of the New Capitalism of the 20th century and business’s response to its social responsibility.
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HI 345T - The Age of Globalization (3 units)
Study of the globalization as an evolving international system from an historical perspective. Emphasis will be placed on major characteristics and the effects of globalization on the economic, political, and social trajectory of various regions and peoples. The course will also include an examination of how globalization continues to generate concern and opportunity in the developing world.
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LA 200T - Contracts, Agency, Partnerships, Corporations (3 units)
A study of the legal aspects involved in the making of contracts and the enforcement thereof, both under the general law and under the Uniform Commercial Code. Also covers the legal aspects of the relationships of principal and agent and of the responsibilities resulting therefrom; and of the legal aspects involved in the formation, operation, and dissolution of partnerships and of corporations.
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LA 201T - Negotiable Instruments, Sales (3 units)
This course comprises a study of the legal problems involved in the use of promissory notes, drafts, and checks, both under the general law and under the Uniform Commercial Code. Also studied are the legal problems involved in the possession of ownership of personal property and in the transfer of such ownership.
Prerequisites: LA 200T
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LA 202T - Legal Environment of Health Care (3 units)
Includes hospital/patient/doctor relationships, labor law and collective bargaining, constitutional law and administrative regulations pertaining to prepayment and planning.
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LA 210T - Law for Public Administration (3 units)
The historical basis of administrative process, delegation of powers, power of investigation, powers of regulatory rules and local laws, and adjudications are covered in this course.
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MG 200T - Administrative Management (3 units)
This introductory course provides a global view of management. Comprehensive understanding is gained through a concentrated focus on the management functions and activities. Also covered are the implications, applications, and integration of management concepts with the objectives and policies of a business in a dynamic environment from a global perspective through analyzing and creating innovative solutions for business cases, situations, and problems. Significant computer interaction and use of the Internet is incorporated throughout the course’s learning and application activities.
Prerequisites: EN 150T or equivalent, MS 182T
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MG 210T - Entrepreneurship (3 units)
This is a survey course which provides an overview of managerial decision making in the small business environment. Topics covered include the nature of entrepreneurship, ownership opportunities, elements of a business plan, marketing and managing the small business, and current ethical and legal considerations.
Prerequisites: MG 200T
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MG 211T - Entrepreneurial Finance (3 units)
An overview of the financial aspects of a small business. Topics include analysis of financial statements, profitability analysis, forecasting and pro forma, working capital management, and capital budgeting.
Prerequisites: MG 210T and AC 201T
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MG 218T - Managed Care Administration (3 units)
This course presents management tools for health care professionals in managed care and group practice. It also provides history of organizational theory development and overviews of legal, financial, administrative, marketing, and planning needs. Contrasts functions handled by health care administrators with those handled by managers of industrial enterprises.
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MG 250T - Human Resource Management (3 units)
This course is a study of the staff work of a personnel department and of the specific techniques used in performing major personnel functions. Topics covered will include job analysis, employee selection and placement, wage and salary administration, merit rating, collective bargaining, and the day to day administration of personnel relations. Also covered will be the management of global human resource practices.
Prerequisites: MG 200T
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MG 265T - Talent Management (3 units)
This course will provide students with an introduction to the knowledge, skills, responsibilities, roles, activities, and attitudes required of present day managers. Through the text, discussion, research and case studies, the student will reinforce their understanding of supervisory concepts including planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling. Covered in this course is managerial decision making relating to the following areas: establishing goals, designing and implementing controls, problem solving, staffing effective departments, appraising employee performance, motivating employees, developing effective leadership and communication skills, conflict resolution and employee discipline. The material covered is relevant to the student regardless of personal career objectives or corporate level of functioning.
Prerequisites: MG 250T
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MG 272T - Health Care Financial Management (3 units)
The relationship between reimbursement mechanisms, techniques of financial management, and patient service provisions is studied in this course. It also fosters a basic understanding of the relationship between management of financial assets, working capital, and patient care. Rate setting and capital investment decision processes are also covered.
Prerequisites: AC 201T or AC 273T
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MG 278T - Health Care Budgeting (3 units)
Focuses on the unique methods required for the qualifications of a health care department’s services. Topics include the role of the department manager in developing budgets and in determining production units, costs, or volume forecasting data. Students will learn methods pertinent to cash-flow forecasting, master budgets, control budgets, and variance analysis.
Prerequisites: AC 273T
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MG 285T - Principles of Management and Leadership (3 units)
The primary focus of this course is on effective managerial leadership and decision making. Theories of leadership will be examined and critiqued. Case analysis and experiential analysis will provide opportunity to apply theory to managerial situations.
Prerequisites: MG 200T
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MG 290T - Labor Relations Management (3 units)
Examines the underlying elements in a unionized and a non- unionized organization. The course will address the NLRA, accompanying regulations, and legal precedents which provide the framework for the organized labor movement. Included will be the process of union organizing, elections, collective bargaining, managing with a union contract, and conflict resolution through the grievance process and arbitration. Also covered will be the role of the manager in a non-union environment as compared to managers in an organized company. The development of a problem-solving process for employees, the role of benefits and compensation, as well as the training of managers in the positive management of employee relations will be reviewed.
Prerequisites: MG 250T
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MG 301T - Departmental Management in Health Care Service Organizations (3 units)
An analysis of departmental and institutional objectives, management functions, and inter-departmental relationships in health services organizations.
Prerequisites: MG 200T
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