GPS Courses

This course examines the current critical issues in criminology and the methods to analyze those issues in relation to the various theories that exist in the field of criminology. By their nature, the critical issues will change from time to time, depending upon the public sentiment, scientific discoveries, and technological advances. The criminological theories will be consistent with those examined in Criminological Theory

This course focuses on the process of organizational planned change Students will learn about how planned change is proposed and implemented through policy development and/or change in criminal justice agencies. They will also learn that implementation of change involves acceptance by employees, clients and the agency as a whole. They will then assess evaluative research on the effects and longevity of change.

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 incudes related incident response, crisis management, business continuity, and disaster recovery.

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.

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.

Students in this course will investigate how to effectively implement a comprehensive literacy assessment approach and to link assessment results to the day to day instruction in the classroom. Students will gain theoretical knowledge as well as experience in application, design and architecture of the RTI model, and RTI implementation (including instructional practices) for literacy improvement.

In this course, students will explore the cognitive, neurological, and emotional characteristics which impact the literacy development of students, focusing on 1.) the unique needs of students with developmental impairments and 2.) for English as a second language learners. Students will evaluate literacy performance for the special learner, and adapt, apply and assess teaching interventions for learners with diverse needs.

This course will explore questions including: What is creativity? Who is the creative person? How can creativity be developed? Why is creativity important? How do I conduct a creative classroom, and encourage it in my students? Intended to awaken and encourage creativity in you personally and in your classroom, students will explore questions and research in an open ended seminar format, highlighting ideas and practice that can be applied in varied learning environments.

This course describes the organization and delivery of Health Care in the United States. Topics include an introduction to health care finance, public and private operations, health care law and the regulatory environment. Additional topics include health care reimbursement, innovation and change, access, information privacy and security, quality, affordability, and policy trends.

This course introduces students to the planning, administration, and design of compensation programs, including legal compliance fundamentals. The course also provides a comprehensive overview of the design and administration of private-sector benefit programs. Prerequisite: MG551

This course introduces students to the recruitment and selection process. Beginning with work force and job analysis, students will learn how to develop a total selection process. Students will develop selection criteria and participate in the selection process for a model organization.

Managers need to understand how they personally value risk in order to recognize the potential impact their behavior may have on organizations and stakeholders. They need to be able to foster sound processes in group environments. The course will include approaches to optimize decision-making and risk analysis to solve problems in different operating environments. This is a qualitative course covering a framework for making decisions, as well as understanding how these decisions can be used to manage risk. Contemporary techniques such as TRIZ, KT, McMaster, and others are explored.

This course concentrates on the application of quantitative decision-making to business problems. Emphasis will be placed on the use of model formulation and interpretation using realistic business problems that will be analyzed by a managerial perspective.