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MATH 340 - Mathematical Modeling 3 Credit Hours
An introduction to the development and analysis of deterministic and probabilistic models. Includes curve fitting, simulations, difference and differential equations. Applications from ecology, environmental science, economics, and other fields.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 262 with C or better, and sophomore standing or higher.
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MATH 345 - Complex Analysis 3 Credit Hours
An introduction to the theory of functions of a single complex variable. Topics will include differentiation, power series expansions, path integrals in the complex plane, residues and poles, conformal mappings, and applications to fluid flow, electrostatic potential, and heat flow.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 245 and MATH 270.
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MATH 350 - Numerical Analysis 3 Credit Hours
Overview of algorithms used to implement common numerical problems from calculus and linear algebra. Analysis of suitability and complexity along with challenges in implementation of such algorithms. Topics may include iteration, interpolation, approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, and numerical solutions to linear systems.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 230 and MATH 262 ,and one of, CPSC 140 or CPSC 155 , or consent of instructor.
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MATH 360 - Operations Research 3 Credit Hours
Linear programming, simplex and Hungarian method, decision analysis, network analysis, and selected topics.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 170 or MATH 230 , or consent of instructor.
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MATH 365 - Financial Mathematics 3 Credit Hours
An introduction to mathematics of finance including interest rates, present, and future value; annuities, perpetuities and other cash flows; yield rates, spot rates and forward rates; cash flow matching and immunization; mathematics of loans, bonds, and other financial instruments.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 262
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MATH 370 - Number Theory 3 Credit Hours
Prime numbers and congruencies. Additional topics vary with instructor.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 245 .
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MATH 375 - Cryptography 3 Credit Hours
Cryptography is the study of how to protect information. Topics include modular arithmetic, divisibility, matrix algebra, private key cryptography, substitution ciphers, block ciphers, public key cryptography and digital signatures.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 230 or MATH 240
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MATH 380 - Partial Differential Equations 3 Credit Hours
An introductory course on partial differential equations, including the method of characteristics, separation of variables, and Fourier series. Special emphasis will be placed on the wave equation, heat equation, and Laplace’s equation, with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 280 .
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MATH 395 - Research/Creative Investigation 1-3 Credit Hours
Students collaborate with faculty mentors on an ongoing faculty research project or conduct an independent project under the guidance of a faculty member. This directed undergraduate research or creative investigation culminates in a conference presentation, journal article, or other creative/scholarly project
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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MATH 411 - Multivariate Probability Distributions 1 Lab Hours
Discrete and continuous multivariate probability distributions including joint probability functions and joint probability density functions, joint cumulative distribution functions, conditional and marginal probability distributions, means and variances for joint, conditional, and marginal probability distributions, covariance and correlation coefficients.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 270 with a B or better and MATH 311 with a B or better.
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MATH 421 - Abstract Algebra 3 Credit Hours
The study of groups, rings, fields, and other algebraic structures.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 230 , MATH 245 , and junior or senior standing.
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MATH 441 - Methods of Real Analysis 3 Credit Hours
Topology of the real number line, limits of sequences and functions, continuity and differentiation.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 245 and junior or senior standing.
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MATH 450 - Studies in Mathematics 3 Credit Hours
Independent reading and/or research on special topics.
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MATH 455 - Internship 3 Credit Hours
Experience in a mathematical field under the joint supervision of a college faculty member and an assigned field professional.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing and consent of instructor.
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MATH 460 - History of Mathematics 3 Credit Hours
A study of the history of mathematics from earliest recorded time through the 17th century. Selected topics in mathematics and its applications are included.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 230 and MATH 262 .
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MATH 480 - Senior Capstone Seminar 2 Credit Hours
Summary and extension of core mathematical ideas covered throughout the mathematics major.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 270 , MATH 311 , MATH 421 and MATH 441 ; senior standing. Open only to students majoring in mathematics
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MATH 495 - Research/Creative Investigation 1-3 Credit Hours
Students collaborate with faculty mentors on an ongoing faculty research project or conduct an independent project under the guidance of a faculty member. This directed undergraduate research or creative investigation culminates in a conference presentation, journal article, or other creative/scholarly project.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
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MATI 601 - Trauma-Informed Basics 3 Credit Hours
The course introduces students to the origin and central tenets of trauma-informed care, including understanding of the five guiding principles of trauma-informed care: safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness and empowerment.
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MATI 602 - Strategies for Assessing Trauma Informed Care 3 Credit Hours
The course provides a focused investigation of specific techniques utilized in trauma-informed care. Focus is given to understanding evidence-based strategies and programs, notably the resource needs to deliver such programs and the methods for evaluating strategies and programs.
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MATI 603 - Leadership: Personal Assessment and Evaluation 3 Credit Hours
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MATI 604 - Interprofessional Trauma-Informed Care 3 Credit Hours
This course will provide foundational knowledge about trauma-informed care in various environments. A primary goal is preparing students for inter-professional approaches to traumainformed strategies. A key focus will be on teachers, social workers, librarians, and mediators collaborating to use specific trauma-informed approaches for addressing people’s academic, social-emotional, behavioral, and health needs.
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MATI 605 - Creating and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Systems 3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on how professionals can build a safe, supportive, trauma-sensitive environments in their workplaces. This more macro course helps students understand how to assess, develop, and implement practices that are trauma-informed for the populations being served, as well as being trauma-informed for the employees serving.
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MATI 606 - Trauma-Informed Approaches to Self-Care 3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on how professionals can be mindful and effective in managing (identifying, navigating, and healing) their own trauma. This more micro course helps students understand the importance of self-care around their own trauma in order to lead trauma-informed practices at their workplace.
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MATI 607 - Trauma-Informed Leadership Seminar 3 Credit Hours
The goal of this course is to help students demonstrate knowledge, skills, and abilities in traumainformed leadership in their current or desired workplace. This capstone course provides students the opportunity to pursue application of knowledge and skills gained throughout the program. Students can pursue original research, program proposals for their workplace (or similar practicums), program evaluation, and more. Also addressed in the course are the key current and emerging issues in trauma-informed practice.
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MATI 611 - Leadership Ethics and Social Responsibility 3 Credit Hours
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MATI 627 - Strategic Organizational Planning and Leadership 3 Credit Hours
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MATI 650 - Organizational Assessment and Analysis 3 Credit Hours
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MAYL 810 - Book Reviewing and Publishing for Children and Young Adults
The goal of this course is to provide graduate library school students with a grounded understanding of the review criteria for various genres of literature for youth; to develop the critical skills necessary for effective reviewing; to gain the expertise required for professional reviewing through practical application; to develop an understanding of the major review journals used for collection development in school and public libraries; and to gain an understanding of the importance of reviewing as a tool for continuing education and professional development.
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MAYL 811 - Diversity Issues in Youth Literature 3 Credit Hours
Issues of diversity and inclusivity have long been the concern of those in the field of literature for youth. Contemporary professional and social media have stimulated and informed often complex discussions. This class will contextualize the history of diversity in publishing for youth, reviewing recent juvenile literature and professional publications, movements, and controversies in this arena.
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MAYL 812 - Fairy Tale Fantasy and Contemporary Media for Young Adults 3 Credit Hours
Young Adult fantasy novels and short stories based on traditional fairy and folktales have surged in recent years, accompanied by a complementary surge of similar works in television and movies. This class examines the traditional fairy tale and its contemporary incarnations in Young Adult Literature and media. Relevant course readings and viewings will inform focused assignments, including an annotated bibliography/folk and fairy tale resource.
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MAYL 813 - The Fantasy Tradition in Children’s Literature 3 Credit Hours
Children’s Literature in the United States and Great Britain has a long tradition of fantasy novels ranging from Barrie’s Peter Pan to Baum’s Wizard of Oz to Rowling’s Harry Potter. This class examines the evolution of the fantasy novel for children in the United States and Great Britain, and its contemporary incarnations in children’s literature and media. Relevant course readings and viewings will inform focused assignments, including an annotated bibliography.
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MAYL 814 - Graphic Novels for Youth 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the history and development of sequential art as storytelling media, focusing on the graphic format in literature for youth including layout, design, style and content.
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MAYL 815 - History of Folk and Fairy Tales for Youth 3 Credit Hours
The goal of this course is to provide graduate library school students with an understanding of the history, development, and changing evaluative criteria for the body of folk and fairy tales published for youth in the United States; to acquaint them with the tools necessary to effectively address folk and fairy tale collection development issues; to provide additional resources for effective programming; and to kindle the enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity necessary to provide informed reader advisory services.
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MAYL 816 - Literary Theory and Youth Literature 3 Credit Hours
A survey of major schools of 20th-and-21st-century literary criticism with an emphasis on the most prominent theorists, texts, and ideas. Readings will cover key components of literary analysis such as feminist theory, structuralism, gender and queer studies, reader-response theory, race and ethnicity studies, post-colonial theory, and cultural studies, among others. These theoretical premises will be applied to selected literary selections for children and young adults, in an examination of how these theories apply in the context of youth literature. Ideological debates surrounding multiculturalism, cultural inclusivity, authenticity, and the literary canon will also be discussed.
Listed also as ENGL 416
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MAYL 817 - Picture Book Illustration 3 Credit Hours
Beginning with the Golden Age of children’s book illustrators in the nineteenth century, this course examines the illustrated book for youth, the evolution of the contemporary picture book, and the art of visual storytelling, with attention to style, format, media, and content.
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MCR 601 - Mediation Skills Training 3 Credit Hours
This is a five-day, 40-hour intensive “boot camp” taught on-campus by experienced professional mediators and approved by the Circuit Court of Cook County and Lake County. This gateway course develops the practical skills of conflict resolution through extensive supervised role-playing. MCR 601 is the gateway course for all MCR courses and thus is a prerequisite or co-requisite to other MCR courses.
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MCR 603 - Traditional and Alternative Dispute Method 3 Credit Hours
This is an overview of the American legal system that traditionally resolves disputes through the courts. We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a highly-formalized system of dispute resolution. In addition, we will focus on the growing trend to resolve disputes through alternative means: negotiation, arbitration and mediation.
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MCR 605 - Ethics of Conflict Resolution 3 Credit Hours
Those who seek to resolve conflict are motivated by good intentions, but may wind up doing more harm than good. This course focuses on the ethical duties owed to parties in a dispute, with a particular focus on neutrality, confidentiality and informed consent. Students will study ethical canons, including the ABA’s model standards of conduct for mediators, as well as case studies.
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MCR 607 - Negotiation 3 Credit Hours
Negotiation is a key element of conflict resolution. Parties to a dispute attempt to negotiate a favorable resolution while third-party mediators attempt to negotiate with the parties to forge an agreement. In this five-day, intensive campus-based course, students will use live role-playing exercises to hone their negotiation skills under the guidance of experienced negotiators.
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MCR 609 - Psychology of Conflict 3 Credit Hours
This course will explore the psychological origins of conflict as well as how a deeper understanding of human nature can be used to resolve conflict.
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MCR 611 - Interpersonal Communication 3 Credit Hours
This course will present and review the essentials of interpersonal communication including strategy and tactics of integrative communication, planning to achieve successful outcomes, and dealing with perceptions, cognition and emotion that impact interpersonal communication. Through the identification of social, cultural, and affective elements that shape communication styles, the course will examine the role and effects of inclusion and its inverse in improving or subverting communication and how conflicts play out.
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MCR 613 - Intercultural Conflict Resolution 3 Credit Hours
Using a social justice lens, this course explores how our cultural biases, conscious and implicit, shape our decisions and influence how we interact with others in the workplace, home, classroom, and community. It also offers up theories and practical tools for hw to effectively engage in the process of intercultural conflict resolution. Personal and professional implications are investigated, with a particular focus on the intersectionality of identities such as race, age, gender, class, and country of origin. Further, values and traditions are investigated as to their impact on attitude, comportment, and decision-making. Finally, a hands-on individual project allows the participant to apply theri learning to a real-life intercultural situation possibly leading to conflict, attempting to avoid its negative consequences, and conceptualizing a practical and realistic solution and closure. In addition to the individual project, students are invited to actively engage each other in robust discussions around class material and to reflect on what they are learning in individual journal entries.
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MCR 615 - Religion and Conflict Resolution 3 Credit Hours
Religious differences have spurred conflict throughout history in horrific events like the Crusades, the Reconquista and the Troubles. Yet religion has also played an important pacifying rule in ending slavery and segregation in the United States, colonial rule in India and apartheid in South Africa. The course will use case studies to help students learn to use religion as a tool for peace, rather than conflict.
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MCR 619 - Online Dispute Resolution 3 Credit Hours
Modern disputes often occur at a distance with participants living in different parts of the world. Conflict can simmer due to the difficulty in bringing the parties to the same table. Technical advances have made it possible to resolve conflict at a distance. This course will address how online dispute resolution differs from conventional mediation and focus on specific skills needed to effectively resolve disputes online.
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MCR 621 - Family Conflict Resolution 3 Credit Hours
Conflict between family members can be the nastiest, with the intense feelings of love turning to hate. Disputes over legal matters like divorce, child custody and inheritance are common, but so too are more personal disputes between family members. Students will not only learn to help resolve family disputes, but also to avoid family conflict in their own lives.
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MCR 623 - Conflict Resolution in the Workplace 3 Credit Hours
People spend a third of the lives at work and professional disputes can turn personal. The course emphasizes the unique dynamics of workplace conflict, with a particular focus on power imbalance between managers and subordinates.
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MCR 625 - International Conflict Resolution 3 Credit Hours
Nation-states exist in a potential state of conflict with their neighbors and global rivals. In its most extreme form, this conflict leads to bloody wars, but other serious conflicts abound over issues like trade, immigration and natural resources. This course will examine case studies of both intractable and resolved conflicts to create a framework for understanding global conflict.
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MCR 627 - Conflict Resolution in the Community 3 Credit Hours
This course is grounded in the concept that construction of social meaning lies at the heart of how human conflict is created and understood. “Social conflict emerges and develops on the basis of the meaning and interpretation people involved attach to action and events…From this starting point, conflict is connected to meaning, meaning to knowledge, and knowledge is rooted in culture.” [Lederach 1995, p. 8] In this course we will explore processes of addressing conflict in communities in ways that view conflict as normal and continuous dynamic that provides opportunities for creative constructive change in human relationships and in communities. This course is offered with an elicited-approach to learning, viewing our learning as a process of co-creation, emerging from the context of our experiences and conversations. In our work together, we will learn about conflict, different approaches to conflict in a community setting, and explore and apply resources for conflict transformation in communities.
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MCR 629 - Commercial Conflict Resolution 3 Credit Hours
Despite a focus on the “bottom line,” businesspeople often allow emotion to intrude in commercial transactions. This course emphasizes the importance of recognizing and checking this emotional element in order to maximize profitability. In particular, the course will address conflict between business rivals and conflict between business partners.
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MCR 631 - Collective Bargaining 3 Credit Hours
This course covers the highly-complex world of labor relations, including union formation, contract negotiation and ratification and disputes arising under the contract.
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MCR 635 - Circle Practice: Foundations of Restorative Justice 3 Credit Hours
This course will provide an overview and foundational practice for restorative justice. Restorative practices provide ways to address harm/violation that attends to the needs and feelings of all involved and emphasize repairing harm and healing relationships. A foundational practice to restorative justice is circle practice. In circles, people come together to address conflict, healing and support. Students will learn the fundamental elements of circles and be prepared to keep circles. Upon completion of this course, students will be certified as a trained Circle Keeper.
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MCR 641 - Leading Change 3 Credit Hours
Learners will be introduced to the field of Change Leadership and Management and the effect of conflict on change efforts. The history, foundations, and supporting theories will be explored. The role of the change agent will be investigated. Additionally, organizational and personal transformation concepts will prepare the learner to operate and thrive in an environment of discontinuous change and to understand the steps needed to accomplish the change and to deal with the ensuing conflict. Strategies for introducing change in an organization and making the change permanent will be developed as well as keys to identifying and dealing with the resulting conflict.
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MCR 645 - Conflict Management 3 Credit Hours
This course provides learners the opportunity to improve their ability and knowledge of conflict management. If and when mediators fail to secure a resolution to a conflict, the next best alternative to a resolution is the ability to manage the conflict in question. Unlike conflict resolution, conflict management is the management of existing conflict that has no imminent resolution. By managing a conflict, we buy time towards the resolution of that conflict. By the end of this course, learners will be able to identify conflicts without an imminent resolution, and how to manage such conflicts.
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MCR 647 - Divorce & Family Mediation 3 Credit Hours
This 5-day (45 hour) divorce mediation skills training is an advanced course that will incorporate the concepts learned in MCR 601, Mediation Skills Training. The course will prepare the student to mediate a variety of family cases, including divorce or child custody, adult guardianship, and/or child protection matters. Students in this course will learn about different mediation processes as well as advanced communication and negotiation skills. Students will then apply these skills through mediation simulations, fishbowl exercises and role play sessions based on scenarios common to a variety of family court settings. Additional topics covered will include: the legal processes; domestic violence and other impediments to mediating; the grieving process; impact of separation on children; working with professionals; mediating with multiple parties; co-mediation; and ethical issues.
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MCR 690 - Conflict Resolution Practicum 3 Credit Hours
In this course, students develop real-world conflict resolution skills in a professional setting under the supervision of a faculty member. Students may elect to assist a professional mediator, to serve in an administrative capacity in a nonprofit organization, or pursue a practicum that fits their career aspirations in higher education or elsewhere. Interested students should contact the program coordinator for placement assistance and approval.
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MGMT 197 - Business Gateway Practicum 3 Credit Hours
This course serves as an introduction to the various disciplines of business including marketing, management, finance, accounting, economics, ethics, and entrepreneurship. This course is also designed to expose the student to the multitude of career fields in the areas of business, with the knowledge of Gallup’s CliftonStrengths assessment. Assignments are a mixture of individual and group work that emphasize the application of course material to business problems and developing students to be successful leaders and team members. For the major project, students will develop a proposal for a for-profit business that is sustainable. This course is offered in both fall and spring terms and open to business and non-business students.
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MGMT 360 - International Management 3 Credit Hours
This course serves as an introduction to the field of international management. Global economy of the 21st century calls for managers, even in small companies, to interact with people- managers, employees, and other stakeholders etc. around the world; thus, an understanding of management practices across nations will be the foundation of a successful career in management. The purpose of this course is to help students understand how people and organizations function in an international context. Effective managers will be those who understand and use the knowledge of international business as well as cross-national similarities and differences in management practices.
Offered each semester in a hybrid format, students will engage in weekly individual assessments, virtual discussions and a team-based integrative project that will be guided by the instructor through regular meetings.
Previously numbered as BAD 385
Listed also as Honors: Explorations and Investigations
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 301
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MGMT 362 - Human Resource Management 3 Credit Hours
Managing human resources effectively, efficiently, and ethically is critical to organizational success, but human resource practices and policies also have widespread implications for individuals and society as a whole. The human resources management (HRM) responsibilities covered in this course include matching individual skills with specific job needs, recruiting and selecting employees, designing performance management systems, developing and implementing compensation policy, managing training and development, monitoring compliance of governmental and corporate standards, and supporting management efforts to create or maintain an ethical, healthy corporate culture.
Previously numbered as BAD 245
Listed also as CAS 306 .
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and MGMT 301 .
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MGMT 364 - Healthcare Communication 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as CAS 311
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MGMT 401 - Principles of Operations Management 3 Credit Hours
This course introduces students to the basic principles of operations management in manufacturing and service organizations. Topics of discussion include design of production systems, layout analysis, production planning, master scheduling, forecasting, inventory control, materials requirement planning, personnel planning, quality control, and just-in-time production systems. The course is developed in a lecture format with the use of case studies to introduce students to experiential learning. Upon completion, students will master the principles of Operations Management.
Previously numbered as BAD 380
Prerequisite(s): QUAN 201 and MGMT 301 .
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MGMT 460 - Leadership and Negotiation 3 Credit Hours
This course is based on the premise that negotiation and conflict resolution skills are integral to a leader’s ability to successfully shepherd all types of organizational change from inception to full realization. The course is largely experiential, providing students with opportunity to develop their skills by participating in activities and integrating their experiences with the principles presented in the course discussions. Perspectives on leadership, negotiation, and conflict resolution are examined against the backdrop of contextual factors including culture, diversity, and ethics.
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 301
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MGMT 461 - Managing Diversity 3 Credit Hours
The focus of the course is to help students develop an ability to understand, respect, and value similarity and diversity among people as well as how group composition affects and in turn gets affected by the workplace context. Issues related to discrimination, affirmative action, and cultural dynamics are explored; historical, legal, psychological, and sociological viewpoints are highlighted.
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 301
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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MGMT 463 - Global Supply Chain Management 3 Credit Hours
In today’s global competitive world, businesses from corporate giants to small businesses, strive to optimize logistics and operations techniques and practices. This course introduces the concepts of supply chain management and evaluates the core fundamentals of logistics. In addition, to identifying supply chain trends and evolution, the relationship between domestic and foreign goods supply is explored. The course is delivered in an experiential learning setting that blends lectures with case studies and computer simulations. Case discussions include reflection on current trends in Global Supply Chain Management practices. Upon completion of the course, students will develop the needed skills to pursue careers in Global Supply Chain Management.
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 401
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MGMT 490 - Special Topics: Management 3 Credit Hours
This course provides students with the opportunity to focus on a particular and salient topic in the field of management. Potential topics may include sustainability, disruptive innovation, or other topics based on the current context. Depending on the topic, critical reviews of selected journal articles, guest lectures, empirical research projects and papers, as well as student presentations, may be an integral part of the course. This course may be repeated for credit if the topic is different.
Previously numbered as BAD 492
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 301 .
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MGMT 497 - Business Capstone Practicum 3 Credit Hours
This course takes a holistic approach and draws from multiple business disciplines where the goal of companies is to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. During the course, students will learn and use a variety of strategic management tools to help them analyze business strategy and the business environment, and craft and implement effective decisions and strategies. There is typically a mixture of individual and team assignments and exams, with assignments typically done in the style of report done by real world managers, usually in PowerPoint or Excel. A major component of the course is a team-based simulation where students manage a simulated company and compete against their classmates and teams around the world.
Previously numbered as BAD 490
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 301 , MGMT 301 , FIN 301 , and QUAN 201 ; senior standing. MGMT 401 is recommended.
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MGMT 502 - Foundations in Management 0 Credit Hours
This course provides opportunity to learn about your ‘self’ in the context of your professional life and helps you learn how to effectively manage your relationships with coworkers, managers, and subordinates. It begins acquainting you with the ever-growing body of evidence that will be available to you throughout your career regarding effective organizations and management practice, and helps you become a literate, well-informed professional, able to make decisions that are beneficial to you and others.
Previously numbered as GSB 614
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MGMT 601 - Business Gateway Practicum 3 Credit Hours
This Gateway Practicum delivers two major experiential opportunities centered on the How and the Why of business, along with numerous opportunities to explore decision-making, conflict-resolution, and cross-cultural negotiation through the lens of DU’s core values - Caritas and Veritas. The focal point for the How is a team-based challenge helping a business client solve a current problem. The Why is engaged by exploring the Mission of Dominican University with an overnight trip to the university’s birthplace in southwestern Wisconsin. The Why is the compass heading of ethical business leaders guiding their How. There is a Gateway Experience fee for food, travel, and lodging.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of all MBA foundation courses and permission of the Director of Graduate Programs.
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MGMT 602 - Leading People and Organizations 3 Credit Hours
The goal of the course is to prepare students to manage self, people, teams and organizations, focusing on three overlapping levels of leadership: organizational, team, and individual. Students will examine and discuss the structures, functional processes, operating practices, and styles needed to be an effective leader in the global economy.
Previously numbered as GSB 624
Listed also as LIS 756
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 502
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MGMT 607 - Management Information Systems 3 Credit Hours
This course explores and assesses the current and future role of information technology in business, from both a management and a user perspective. Topics include: the strategic role of IT, hardware and operating systems, software development tools and processes, relational databases, big data, data warehouses, data analytics, security concerns, ethical issues, privacy issues, enterprise applications, intelligent systems, and the role and influence of IT on business processes. Hands-on experiences include, web site creation, database, data warehouse, data analytics, and spreadsheets. Case studies are also used to facilitate discussions focused on the course topics.
Previously numbered as GSB 622
Prerequisite(s): QUAN 504 and MGMT 601 .
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MGMT 609 - Operations Management for Competitiveness 3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the concepts and methods utilized in planning, directing and controlling the transformation process of resources into goods and services. Employing the integrated, process-based analytical framework developed in this course, students will utilize selected business cases and in-class experiential learning exercises to connect the courses ideas and techniques to their real-world application.
Previously numbered as GSB 723
Prerequisite(s): QUAN 504 and MGMT 601
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MGMT 699 - Strategic Management 3 Credit Hours
This is a course in strategic management that builds upon and integrates the curriculums core subjects to develop management decision-making skills. Students examine how executives effectively formulate and implement strategies most conducive to a firms success and growth in a global economy. The course may include a business computer simulation that helps students develop and hone their management skills. Students analyze case studies of multinational firms. Students typically take this course in their final semester.
Previously numbered as GSB 791
Prerequisite(s): All foundation and core courses.
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MGMT 760 - Leadership Development 3 Credit Hours
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant (Max De Pree). Leadership is one of the most studied topics in all social sciences and yet, remains one of the least understood. This seminar is intended to steer students towards a lifelong, self-directed learning path in leadership and self-development. In this course, students will learn about different leadership styles and practice. They will develop proficiency to evaluate readings and research in order to gain insight into the role of leadership in organizations, the challenges of being a leader, and the importance of leadership on other people’s work and personal lives. New frontiers in the study of leadership, such as caring, positive and relational leadership, will be also discussed together with the most establish paradigms in leadership literature. This seminar will be taught in a non-traditional format and will utilize tools to facilitate experiential and evidence-based learning. Only students who are proactive, motivated, and energized by learning should apply for enrolling in this seminar.
Previously numbered as GSB 790
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 602
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MGMT 762 - Strategic Human Resource Management 3 Credit Hours
Students in this course develop a deep understanding of the terminology, principles, and practices of strategic human resource management (HRM). A single HR manager may be involved in hiring, firing, enforcing policy, investigating mishaps, consulting on corporate strategy, training, negotiating in relation to compensation, employment contracts, and benefits provision. This broad array of HR practices will be examined from the perspective of not only what’s best for the corporation, but also what’s best for human beings, communities, and the world.
Previously numbered as GSB 751
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 602
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MGMT 790 - Special Topics in Management 3 Credit Hours
This course provides graduate students with the opportunity to focus on a particular and a germane topic in the field of management. Potential topics may include sustainability, disruptive innovation, or other topics based on the current context. Depending on the topic, critical reviews of selected journal articles, guest lectures, empirical research projects and papers, as well as student presentations, may be an integral part of the course. This course may be repeated for credit if the topic is different.
Prerequisite(s): MGMT 602
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MKTG 370 - International Marketing 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the complexities of marketing products and services in international markets. Through lectures, discussions, and case studies, the course will explore the elements of the marketing mix in an international marketing context. Topics will include the importance of international marketing to American producers, appraisals of the international marketing environment, and the recognition of cultural differences in various foreign countries.
Previously numbered as BAD 351
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 301
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MKTG 371 - Marketing Research 3 Credit Hours
This course serves as an introduction to marketing research theory and practice. The course will focus on a variety of research methods including quantitative and qualitative approaches. There will also be emphasis on the importance and management of information.
Students will gain skills in marketing research and analysis through a variety of approaches including lectures, classroom activities, and client-centered projects, case studies, or simulations.
Previously numbered as BAD 352
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 301
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MKTG 373 - Personal Selling 3 Credit Hours
This course presents the principles and techniques involved in the selling process and the role of selling and sales management in the marketing plan. This course will help you become more expert in the personal selling process by applying principles learned in real selling situations. You will study and experience the role of selling in the marketing process. Sales positions are often the gateway into most companies and their marketing positions. Having a personal selling course under your belt adds to your competitiveness in the job market.
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 301
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MKTG 374 - Digital Marketing 3 Credit Hours
This course allows students to explore the world of digital marketing strategy and tactics. Students will integrate understood theories of marketing with the challenges and opportunities of the digital era. Students will develop an understanding of online channels and platforms and their role in developing a marketing plan through a variety of approaches including lectures, classroom activities, and client-centered projects, case studies, or simulations.
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 301
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MKTG 490 - Special Topics: Marketing 3 Credit Hours
This course provides students with the opportunity to explore in depth a particular topic in the field of marketing. Potential topics may include sales management, brand management, and integrated marketing communication. Depending on the topics, critical reviews of selected journal articles, guest lectures, empirical research projects and papers, as well as student presentations, may be an integral part of the course. This course may be repeated if the content of each class is different.
Previously numbered as BAD 493
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 301 .
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MKTG 606 - Marketing Management 3 Credit Hours
This course is an exploration of marketing concepts, topics and theories presented to provide an understanding of marketing and buyer relationships in today’s business environment. The course analyzes the elements of the marketing mix, including product, price, promotion, and physical distribution, for successful planning, strategy and control of marketing campaigns. Students will analyze marketing opportunities and challenges in through a variety of approaches including lectures, classroom activities, and client-centered projects, case studies, or simulations.
Previously numbered as GSB 626
Prerequisite(s): ECON 501 and MGMT 601 .
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MKTG 770 - Global Marketing Management 3 Credit Hours
This course examines international business activities with special emphasis on the global marketing environment. Students evaluate marketing mix variables such as product, promotion, physical distribution and pricing policies that drive management decisions.
Previously numbered as GSB 764
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 606
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MKTG 771 - Marketing Research 3 Credit Hours
The course will focus on a variety of marketing research methods including quantitative and qualitative approaches. There will also be emphasis on the importance and management of information. Students will gain skills in marketing research and analysis through a variety of approaches including lectures, classroom activities, and client-centered projects, case studies, or simulations. Emphasis is placed on students developing a marketing research project.
Previously numbered as GSB 771
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 606
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MKTG 773 - Consumer Behavior 3 Credit Hours
This course enables students to effectively design consumer-oriented marketing strategies and practice. Through a variety of approaches including lectures, classroom activities, and client-centered projects, case studies, or simulations, students examine consumer behavior theories as well as contemporary consumer research on fast-changing marketing trends.
Previously numbered as GSB 773
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 606
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MKTG 774 - Marketing Strategy 3 Credit Hours
An integrated course that builds upon the core subjects in the marketing curriculum. This course will be an experiential learning exercise in strategic marketing decision-making, problem solving and planning. You will face the challenge of evaluating real marketing situations and propose courses of action to address those situations. This will allow you to experience the situations and challenges often faced by marketing professionals.
Previously numbered as GSB 774
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 606
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MKTG 775 - Brand Management 3 Credit Hours
This course will explore the understanding of a brand’s meaning, of its promise to its customers, and of customer relationships with brands. Enrolled students will earn a Brennan Credential in Brand Management in addition to course credit.
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 606
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MKTG 790 - Special Topics in Marketing 3 Credit Hours
This course provides students with the opportunity to explore in depth a particular topic in the field of marketing. Potential topics may include business-to-business marketing, sales marketing management, and integrated marketing communication. Depending on the topic, critical reviews of selected journal articles, guest lectures, empirical research projects and papers, as well as student presentations, may be an integral part of the course. This course may be repeated for credit if the topic is different.
Previously numbered as GSB 776
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 606
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MRST 395 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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MRST 495 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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MUS 101 - Fundamentals of Music and Class Piano I 3 Credit Hours
Basic skills in music theory and beginning piano. This course is designed for the absolute beginner who has not played any musical instrument. This course concludes with a performance.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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MUS 105 - Rudiments of Music Theory 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed for the students who have no formal training in music. It explores basic note reading in the treble and bass clefs, time signatures, intervals, basic rhythm and key signatures. Students interested in music theory but who have no prior theory classes start with this course. Students with prior experience can test out of this class and proceed with MUS 107 - Music Theory I . Please contact the head of the music discipline with questions.
Previously numbered asMUS 129
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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MUS 107 - Music Theory I 3 Credit Hours
The student will study in detail and become familiar with intervals, triads, and seventh chords in both major and minor scales. It is important that the student become familiar with the color of each degree of the scale through many rigorous exercises in class and through assigned homework. The class will cover material that includes common chord modulation, cadences, and the importance of the dominant seventh chord and all of its inversions and resolutions. Secondary dominants will also be introduced. These concepts will be applied to musical examples and to music that the student is studying when appropriate to the theory being studied in class.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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MUS 108 - Music Theory II 3 Credit Hours
Students will develop a comprehension of formal structures, for example binary and ternary forms, sentence structures in the music of the Baroque and Classical eras. Emphasis will be focused in the second half of the course on the chromatic harmony of the19th century including Neopolitan chords, diatonic seventh chords, mode mixtures, and augmented sixth chords. Toward the end of the course, concepts of early 20th century music will be introduced.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 107 or consent of the instructor.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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MUS 115 - Private Instruction-Piano 1-2 Credit Hours
Individual instruction in piano at the elementary through early-intermediate level. This course is designed for students who have completed two semesters of class piano or the equivalent amount of previous private piano instruction. Absolute beginners should enroll in MUS 101 . Course fee applies. This course may be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite(s): Audition and consent of instructor.
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MUS 119 - Diction For Singers 3 Credit Hours
Basic rules of singing diction using the International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of notation recognized by singers, actors, and other speech/language-oriented professions. Students will apply IPA to repertoire study and performance in English, Italian, Latin, Hebrew, German, French, and Spanish.
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MUS 120 - Private Instruction-Tonal Harmony 3 Credit Hours
This course will explore many facets of the study of tonal harmony including the recognition of intervals, chordal and non-chord tones; understanding the fundamentals of rhythm; principles of part writing; basic analysis of musical scores; recognition of cadences, phrases and periods in music of the Baroque and Classical periods; and a preliminary study of the chromaticism of 19th century music. Final project will be to compose a short original piece for solo piano. Course fee applies.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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