GPS Courses

This course provides a comprehensive overview of relevant 21st century challenges faced by the juvenile justice system and the philosophical shift toward restorative justice. Trends will be identified and contemporary issues such as detention, waivers, mental health and substance abuse, risk assessment, family-based treatment, gangs, childhood abuse, gender and racial disparities, and institutional influences will be analyzed.

This course explains the political, legal, and social settings which shapes public administration. Also, examine is public administration accountability and responsiveness to elected executives, legislatures, the judiciary, the media, interest groups, and the public.

Homeland Security is a national and international service and protection initiative that experienced significant growth following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Additionally, Homeland Security refers to the vast network of federal, state, local, and private agencies that organized and integrated after the attacks to respond to future threats to the country, its people, its infrastructure, and way of life. This course provides a student with a comprehensive examination of Homeland Security from its mission and organizational perspectives.

Provides a foundation in digital forensics and investigations in general. The course includes forensics acquisition methods for computers (physical as well as virtual), mobile devices to include cell phones, network intrusions, and cloud storage. It will include forensic analysis and validation, examine e-mail, social media investigations.

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.

This course examines current teaching strategies to ensure that instructional materials meet appropriate mandates for content and learning goals, and which also address students’ diverse needs, abilities, and experiences.

Students will analyze instructional methods that help all children learn and progress using a variety of approaches, including guided reading and writing, read-alouds and other word study opportunities in the classroom, small group and one-to-one settings. A comprehensive balanced literacy approach addresses reading, writing, speaking and listening. According to the National Reading Panels findings the five essential areas of literacy instruction include the teaching of phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. Students will have the opportunity to build their knowledge base in these areas and implement strategies and instructional techniques in their own classrooms.

Through current research and best practices, reading development and instruction across a variety of texts and contexts from early childhood through adolescence will be explored in this course. Students will assess and implement a variety of instructional strategies to address the literacy acquisition process of students from diverse backgrounds

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.

This course builds on introductory project management skills to form a solid grounding in the nine project management knowledge areas and five process groups as detailed by the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Topics include the following: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing, integration management, scope management, time management, cost management, quality management, human resource management, communication management, risk management, and procurement management. Cost, scope, quality, and procurement receive special emphasis in this course. Students will align topics to attain project objectives within resource constraints. The course is relevant to any project management field.

This course involves a comprehensive analysis of behavioral theory and practical, analytical techniques for dealing with day-to-day problems in work situations. The specific objective is to develop the action-taking ability and the administrative capacity and know-how to handle the human problems of organizations within an appropriate policy framework

This course examines the way business enterprises relate to their external audiences in terms of a set of influences–political, social, economic, and ecological; a set of constituencies–governments, communities, pressure groups, and minority groups; and a set of issues–pollution disclosure, consumerism, and discrimination.

Complex business situations are analyzed in this course, with particular attention given to the development and analysis of strategic business plans. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply financial, economic, organizational, human resource, quantitative and qualitative concepts and theories to comprehensive business problems. Prerequisite: MBA core courses must be complete, and this must be one of the last three (3) classes completed. The course is offered in the spring and Summer I trimesters.