Education Courses
Courses run from January 6 to March 26, 2020
ED540 Best Practices in Literacy Curriculum
Day: Monday
Room: AD-205
Instructor: G. LaBreck
This course will give participants an opportunity to develop a balanced literacy framework addressing reading, writing, speaking and listening. It is designed to provide opportunities to acquire concepts and skills for application to the literacy curriculum development process in schools. The strongest elements of a balanced literacy program guide students toward proficient and lifelong reading; consequently, participants will engage in inspecting and evaluating several literacy curricula and planning elements for the individual classrooms, school and whole district.
ED550 Teacher as a Researcher (Online)
Instructor: K. Rybakova
Students will identify basic educational research terminology such as action research, peer reviewed research and mixed methods. Content includes creating research questions, analyzing peer reviewed articles and action research projects and formulating an APA style thesis outline. This course functions as an introduction to action research methods and will help students prepare for their capstone thesis.
ED554 Trends in Curriculum Development
Day: Tuesdays (Blended, on-campus dates to be determined)
Room: AD-205A
Instructor: P. Thompson
This course examines problems and issues of curriculum development common to all content areas and educational levels. It is designed to provide opportunities to acquire concepts and skills that may be applied to the curriculum development process in local schools.
ED641 Educational Leadership
Day: Wednesdays (Blended, on-campus dates to be determined)
Room: AD-205
Instructor: J. McGee
This course introduces students to the principles of school leadership. It provides learners with the
wherewithal to lead departments, school units and regional districts to achieve an organization’s mission, goals and objectives. It is based on the theory that leadership skills can be learned and assimilated.
MBA Courses
Courses run from January 6 to March 26, 2020
MG551 Organizational Theory & Behavior
Instructor: D. Cragen
This course surveys the major areas within the field of management, examining structures and processes on both group and organizational levels. Both traditional and contemporary organizational theories are analyzed and applied to business operations. Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to: Apply managerial and ethical concepts to organizational strategy, structure, and culture.
MG552 Operations Research Techniques
Days: Thursdays (Blended, on-campus dates to be determined)
Room: AL-136
Instructor: R. Wheaton
This course concentrates on the application of quantitative decision-making to business problems. Emphasis is placed on linear programming, transportation problem analysis, waiting line theory, PERT/CPM project management, and inventory control techniques.
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to: Apply marketing concepts and case analysis tools to create recommendations for improvements to business problems Prerequisite: Undergraduate statistics, algebra and an understanding of computers and Excel.
EC551 Economic Systems
Instructor: D. Leland
This course presents a survey of relevant current economic trends in the rapidly changing modern world. The subject matter is divided into three broad areas including macroeconomic issues, microeconomic issues, and analysis of emerging global systems. The method of analysis combines the use of economic history, theory, and development with a critical analysis of current economic issues and events. The objective is to learn to assess the impact of regional, national, and global economic trends on business and society.
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to: Assess the impact of regional, national, and global economic trends on business and society.
MG527, MG528, MG529 Project Management Specializations
Day: Wednesdays
Room: AL-204
Instructor: F. Appunn
These courses are intend to build applied and specialized project management knowledge by offering a range of single credit courses that fit into two categories (a) a range of specialized capabilities relating to specific industries, and (b) a range of new and advanced topics that have proven important to the project management field.
Prerequisite: PMP Certification, PM minor, graduate-level status, or approval.
MG563 Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
Day: Tuesdays (Blended, on-campus dates to be determined)
Room: AD-121
Instructor: J. Pare
This course covers the identification, evaluation, and management of environmental risks in the business setting, for purposes of aiding internal safety planning and community emergency response, reducing liability, and serving corporate social responsibility. It also addresses the nature of scientific or technical uncertainty and the ethical-political-social difficulties inherent in environmental decision-making.
Cybersecurity Courses
Spring Courses
Courses run from January 13 to March 6, 2020
CY613 Cyber Data Analytics
Day: Thursdays
Room: AL-204
Instructor: F. Appunn
Examines legal and ethical challenges relevant to cyber operations professionals confront in the public and private sectors. Coverage extends to include the specific cyber extensions including the implications of ethical hacking, limitations on defensive strategies, and avoiding collateral damage. The course then reviews the statutes and regulations that provide the government with the authority to conduct cyber operations, as well as the limits that the statutes impose. In addition, students investigate the interaction between public-sector and private-sector cybersecurity and the resulting the influences on privacy that and cybersecurity defenses.
CY617 Cyber Law and Ethics
Instructor: H. Felch
Examines legal and ethical challenges relevant to cyber operations professionals confront in the public and private sectors. Coverage extends to include the specific cyber extensions including the implications of ethical hacking, limitations on defensive strategies, and avoiding collateral damage. The course then reviews the statutes and regulations that provide the government with the authority to conduct cyber operations, as well as the limits that the statutes impose. In addition, students investigate the interaction between public-sector and private-sector cybersecurity and the resulting the influences on privacy that and cybersecurity defenses.
Spring II Courses
Courses run from March 16, 2020 to May 8, 2020
CS550 – Technology Management and Integration
Day: Thursdays
Room: AL-204
Instructor: F. Appunn
This course is designed to provide a graduate-level introduction of corporate information systems, including investigations in the role of technology for communications, decision making, management, and planning. Students will demonstrate competency in utilizing information technologies on the managerial level and adapt technology to business scenarios and leadership decisions.
Cy645 Cybersecurity Operations
Instructor: H. Felch
Addresses the delivery of ongoing protection of the organization by deploying appropriate planning, processes, and tactics. Operations integrates controls relating to events, provisioning, maintaining, changes, and updates to systems from internal and external sources. It includes the systems and processes needed to monitor, inform, respond to outages, and restore operations. Content includes related incident response, crisis management, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
