Graduate & Professional Studies

Day: Tuesday
Room: AL227
Instructor: J. Donato
Credits: 3

Meets every other week

Course Description: 

The objective of the course is to present a realistic and organized approach to financial reporting, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the end result of financial reporting–financial statements. Students are required to understand and analyze actual financial reports including footnotes. Consideration is given to current financial reporting problems, including lease presentation, pension presentation, options, postretirement benefits, financial-instrument disclosures, deferred taxes, and restructuring.

Day: Monday
Room: AL136
Instructor: R. Labbe
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

This course examines the economic theories and practices of the individual market structures. Topics discussed are a review of the basic economic concepts, product pricing and resource allocation in the product market, factor pricing and income distribution in the resource market, and the effects of public policy on market structures.

Day: Monday
Room: AL206
Instructor: F. Appunn
Credits: 1

Day: Monday
Room: AL206
Instructor: F. Appunn
Credits: 1

Day: Monday
Room: AL206
Instructor: F. Appunn
Credits: 1

Instructor: A. Thibodeau
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

This is a survey course in applied statistical analysis using both spreadsheets and a professional level statistical software package (such as Minitab or SPSS). Topics include analytical and graphical methods of collecting, summarizing and describing data; basic probability laws, rules and types; statistical inference, interval estimation, techniques for comparing two or more populations and models for prediction. This course emphasizes applications and interpretation of statistical results.

Instructor: L. Ochs
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

This course introduces the principles and concepts necessary for understanding the nature of society and culture. Special emphasis is placed upon the structure of economic, political, familial, religious, and other societal organizations.

Day: Monday
Room: AL116
Instructor: TBA
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

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.

Day: Thursday
Room: AL-204
Instructor: J. Grady
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

Provides an understanding of the technology used to deliver safer hardware, software, and external links. Technologies includes IoT, cloud computing, asset control, authentication, access controls, models, controls and countermeasures, assessment of vulnerabilities in the light of threats and their mitigation, cryptography. The diverse areas lead to solution designs, practical execution of security assessments, and comprehensive solution testing strategies.

Day: Tuesdays
Room: 205A
Instructor: Dr. Kate Cook-Whitt
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

Designed for teachers and administrators, the course will provide a foundational of understanding of teaching and learning with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Students will be able to understand best practices, develop, modify, and implement NGSS designed lessons.

Day: Monday
Room: TBA
Instructor: W. Alexander
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

This class will provide a broad background for thinking about issues of education in historical and philosophical context. As the introductory course in the Thomas College Masters of Education Program, it will help prepare students for subsequent courses in the areas of curriculum, instruction, and assessment of learning. Students will have the opportunity to begin to identify questions about teaching and learning that will help focus their research throughout the remainder of the program.

Day: Thursday
Room: TBA
Instructor: G. LaBreck
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

This course provides an introduction to the concepts, principles, and practices related to designing and administering effective assessments in education. Teacher-designed assessments and standardized achievement tests are examined.

Day: TBA
Room: TBA
Instructor: T. Martin
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

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.

Day: Wednesday
Room: AL-116
Instructor: R. Wheaton
Credits: 3

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.

Day: Monday
Room: AL206
Instructor: F. Appunn
Credits: 1

Day: Monday
Room: AL206
Instructor: F. Appunn
Credits: 1

Day: Monday
Room: AL206
Instructor: F. Appunn
Credits: 1

Instructor: F. Appunn
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

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.

Instructor: T. Nedik
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

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.

Day: Tuesday
Room: AL116
Instructor: D. Cragen
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

Complex business situations are analyzed in this course, with particular attention given to the development and analysis of strategic business plans.

Day: Tuesday
Room: AL116
Instructor: D. Cragen
Credits: 3

Course Description: 

This course analyzes marketing functions, institutions, and policies dealing with consumer and industrial products and services in both profit and non-profit organizations. Strategic marketing plans are formulated by students through the use of case analysis. Decision-making, dealing with product/service development, pricing strategies, distribution methods, and promotional activities are stressed.