Graduate and professional studies courses being offered

Graduate and Professional Studies Courses

Summer I Courses

May 6 – June 28, 2024
Registration opens March 22, 2024

Business Courses

AC551 Accounting for Management Decisions

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Brown

This course analyzes the use of accounting as a managerial tool. Topics include budgeting, systems building and evaluation, inventory valuation, fixed asset valuation, and analysis and interpretation of financial reports from internal and external sources.

HC520 Healthcare Informatics

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Belanger

Reliable and valid information sources and accurate databases inform healthcare decisions. This course offers a best-practices framework to the integration of information technology with healthcare administration. Topics include hardware and software applications, data extrapolation and manipulation, and other strategic approaches to information services.

HR563 Labor Relations

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Booth

Students are exposed to the principles and techniques of collective bargaining. Topics include references to national and state statutes and cases of precedential value, preparation for bargaining, scope of the bargaining process, use of impasse procedures, unfair labor practices, and the role of the grievance procedure under a collective bargaining agreement.

MG530 Teams: Authority, Influence, and Power

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Appunn

This course builds leadership and management skills that facilitate the effective execution of objectives where stakeholders and resources come from multiple areas, locations, budgets, and organizational substructures. To facilitate the execution of projects and processes to achieve objectives, the topics include the use of persuasion, motivation, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, and influence to ensure the delivery of resources and processes. Students will demonstrate leadership and management of teams and groups across multiple locations, structures, and multiple levels of formal authority. The control, communication, and interaction of data, information, knowledge, and learning lead to an introduction of a range of associated meta-topics.

MG650 Grant Writing

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Rybakova

This course prepares graduate students to research, write, and apply for different forms of grants in a variety of sectors. The course content is project-based, and the culminating project is a completed grant letter and application to a grant entity of choice. Throughout the process, students will learn the art and rhetoric of writing grants, hone their academic writing skills, and engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with their peers in seeking out appropriate and applicable grant funding for a project of their choice.

MG695 Strategic Plan Analysis

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Cragen

This course will investigate complex business situations. The analysis will be centered on five areas: financial health, marketing effectiveness, internal environment of the organization, external environment of the organization and industry outlook. The company and industry analysis conducted will culminate in a set of recommended strategies to be presented in an executive report format. Various industry and company analytical tools will be utilized, such as a PESTLE analysis and Porter’s Five forces.

Criminology Courses

CCR663 Corrections in the 21st Century

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Ochs

This course focuses on the agencies and processes of the corrections system. Students will learn about community and institutional corrections. They will also learn about organizational structure and management. Current issues in corrections will be considered, as will the effects of technology on correctional agencies, personnel, and offenders. Students will explore current research and methods within the fields of community-based and institutional corrections to determine their efficacy. Students will work on policy improvement initiative to inform the future of corrections stakeholders.

CR664 Security in the 21st Century

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Marsolais

This course examines the important issues and challenges in security today. Students will explore the history of private security and its interconnectedness with public law enforcement and private industry. Students will examine current security threats and challenges including financial, physical, or cyber-threats, in practical and theoretical terms. Based on their research and active involvement with professionals in the security industry, students will evaluate the efficacy of current and emerging practices to determine best practices for the future of security in its various forms.

Cybersecurity Courses

CY656 Cyber Integration and Assurance

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Appunn

Provides knowledge and capabilities to extend general risk postures of an organization to the cyber areas. It aligns enterprise views, policy formulation, together with legal compliance, acquisition considerations, and principles relating to integration with external parties. In addition, the course integrates technology and strategy within the cybersecurity arena with threat modeling, with all other areas of the firm, and extended information stakeholders beyond the firm’s boundaries.

IS544 Information Systems Project Management

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Appunn

The course addresses the need for technology managers and leaders to cope with complex systems that continue to evolve while under development and during deployment. Unlike traditional project management, technology projects require one to incorporate continuous change and accept scope creep. Sound processes are greatly flexible, include a more focus on teams, efficiency, and better communication. Frequently, servant leadership approaches are advantageous.

Education Courses

ED571 Organizational Theory, Planning, and Change

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Brewer

This course is about understanding schools as organizations and how to change them to improve learning for all. It draws on literature about organization theory, organizational behavior, culture, change, leadership, and professional learning communities. It is designed to promote critical thinking about and planful action toward creating schools that are true learning organizations. The course begins with an overview of diverse models of organizations and moves to a focused examination of culture and its impact on organizational behavior. Frameworks for understanding organization change and resistance to change are then explored, followed by critical examination of leadership capabilities and skills necessary to lead successful school change efforts, including shared vision, inquiry-based use of data, and broad-based involvement and collaboration.

ED572 School Law for Administrators

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Blair

This course provides a working knowledge of Maine and Federal school law as it applies to major issues that have affected and continue to impact public education. Discrimination, first amendment rights, due process, and academic freedom will be addressed. Through classroom activities, conversations, weekly assignments and research of relevant case law, students will explore the theoretical underpinnings of social reform and public policy. School law students will consider their rights and responsibilities as educators, the rights of students and families, as well as the scope and limitations relating to public policy relating to public schooling in the U.S.

ED650 Grant Writing

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Rybakova

This course prepares graduate students to research, write, and apply for different forms of grants in a variety of sectors. The course content is project-based, and the culminating project is a completed grant letter and application to a grant entity of choice. Throughout the process, students will learn the art and rhetoric of writing grants, hone their academic writing skills, and engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with their peers in seeking out appropriate and applicable grant funding for a project of their choice.



Summer II Courses

July 1 – August 23, 2024
Registration opens May 17, 2024

Business Courses

HC525 Healthcare Reimbursement

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: McAdam

The complexity of today’s healthcare reimbursement and payment systems requires an in-depth understanding of health insurance mechanisms, public funding sources, managed care functions, and the wide array of reimbursement options. This course includes a required, function-specific research project.

MG520/HC530 Lean Supply Chain Logistics Management

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Anzalone

This course examines the breadth of the value chain, including all critical players and elements. Strategic procurement and the management of supply chains are a critical function in the daily delivery of quality customer centric services. Efficient practices require analytical interpretations, communication and negotiating skills, as well as the organizational skills necessary to manage input/supplier matrices using the concepts from lean management.

HR564 Training and Development

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Wheaton

A major function of human resource departments is to ensure that employees are properly trained to perform their assigned tasks. This course introduces students to the training and development process. Additionally, performance review and evaluation is discussed as part of the overall career development plan.

MG599 Topics in Business: Nonprofit Management

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Pelsma

This course seeks to provide a framework for how nonprofit leaders have used business management tactics and techniques to run their organizations. We will explore several different types of nonprofit organizations with the goal of understanding the issues with respect to different industries within the sector. This course specifically will focus on growth of nonprofit organizations to scale, the strategies for doing so, and the implications for growing nonprofit organizations like a business.

MG533 Innovation, Change, and Agile Projects

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Appunn

This course provides an overview of concepts and strategies used to select optimal options for change. Management and leadership skills are employed to build broad support for change, diffuse innovation, and achieve successful execution through solid project management practices. Topics include organizational culture, innovation processes, technology forecasting, organizational development, use of technology, service-oriented architecture, joint process change, reengineering, diffusion of innovations theory, social epidemic theory, learning organizations, and change implementation strategies.

MG535 Complex and Advanced Projects*

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Appunn

This course intends to build on a thorough project management foundation to include detailed insight into large projects, projects with diversified stakeholders, multi-location, and international projects. Topics including portfolio theory and information economics are designed to enhance previous learning and extend to project portfolio management and project management office functions.

* This course requires a pre-requisite.

MG610 Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Appunn

This course is designed to strengthen the student’s skills in business leadership as related to the confluence of innovation, enterprise development and entrepreneurism. This course will provide a framework for understanding organizational issues underlying creative and entrepreneurial success. Students will critically analyze leadership characteristics of entrepreneurs and investigate means of adding value to organizations. Students will develop skills leading to effective communication and management for an evolving organization, including patent management, recognition of potential funding sources, target markets, and other challenges in the entrepreneurial environment. Students will explore entrepreneurial theory and business principles in order to maximize the chances of a successful new business start-up.

Education Courses

ED642 Financial and Budget Management of Schools

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: TBD

This course considers the key dimensions of a school’s financial manager as well as the principles and practices associated with school budgets. The generation of financial statements and the management of inflows and expenses, line items, payroll, and the appropriate management of key budget personnel are discussed. The role of the school budget in yearly planning and control is explored within the context of the leadership function of a school’s chief financial officer.

ED573 Supervision & Evaluation of Personnel

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: McGee

This course provides an overview of supervisory practice in public schools and includes a review of Maine State Law regarding hiring and dismissal practices, just cause, contract issues, dismissal, non-renewal, progressive discipline, and compliance investigation. Additionally, we explore how leaders can promote growth in teachers and improve student achievement through formative supervision and evaluation. We will examine the foundations of a teacher supervision and evaluation system which includes emphasis on adult learning theory, classroom supervision/coaching, supervision which promotes professional growth, principles/standards for effective teacher evaluation and performance-based approaches to teacher development/school improvement.

ED556 Psychology of Learning

Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Rybakova

This survey course is designed to offer foundational knowledge in concepts in educational psychology. In this course, learners will investigate learning theories and recent cognitive science on learning. We’ll explore the ways in which sociocultural phenomena, both past and present, have impacted learning and cognitive science, diving into topics like trauma, poverty, increased screentime, and AI use. Learners will take away a foundational knowledge of cognitive, social, and linguistic development from infancy to adulthood, reflect upon how learning theories impact pedagogical paradigms, and, finally, investigate a topic of their choosing within the realm of learning differences, assessment, or memory through a theoretical analysis.