2019-2020 Graduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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GB 703 - Financial Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Introduces students to financial theories and applications within the corporate context. The course is intended to develop financial analysis skills; provide a strategic orientation toward problem solving; introduce students to the types of decisions faced by financial managers; and provide an understanding of valuation and the linkage between managerial decisions and firm value.
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 ; GB 611 or GB 707 ; GB 613 and GB 615 , or GB 706 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 704 - Information Technology and Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Provides a strategic management approach to developing and sustaining competitive advantage using information and information technology in the organization. Topics include alignment of technology with management and organization goals; business value of technology; enterprise resource planning; customer relationship management; social technologies such as LinkedIn and Facebook; digital business; big data technologies; technology innovations; distributed co-creation, mobile technologies; the growing "Internet of Things"; "Big Data"; e-government and public good; cyber security issues; and ethical and legal issues in technology. Students gain a strong information technology knowledge set and an appreciation for information systems as process enablers, change agents, and strategic facilitators using web-based systems.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 705 - Leading and Managing People (3.00 cr.)
Develops skills and knowledge for leading and managing people at work for personal efficacy and organizational effectiveness. Themes include adding value, managing people and performance, designing jobs and reward systems, and creating innovative cultures. Topics include values and vision, personality and decision making, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, goals and rewards, power and influence, innovation and adaptation, and ethics. Pedagogical methods include lectures, case studies, group exercises and decisions, and class discussion.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 706 - Accounting for Decision Making (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on how management uses both financial and managerial accounting information in making strategic decisions regarding the capital market and internal operational decisions. It emphasizes the financial statement preparation, interpretation, and analysis, as well as the use of accounting information for planning, control, and performance evaluation. Accounting is considered to be the language of business. As such, this course provides an understanding of an essential part of executive decision making process.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 707 - Managerial Economics (3.00 cr.)
Combines theory and practice in using economics for making profitable business decisions. Theory includes demand and cost analysis of the firm, as well as competitive market situation analysis. This course also incorporates topics surrounding how the firm is impacted by the macroeconomic environment, including theories of the business cycle, economic growth, and international trade and finance. In addition to theory, there is practical application of the tools discussed. Quantitative techniques for managers are also covered as appropriate, and the course provides a basic understanding of how to use economic data in the business environment.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 709 - Strategic Management (3.00 cr.)
Develops general management insights and exposes students to a variety of perspectives, approaches, and tools for the conduct of strategic management. Through completion of strategic analyses and a strategic audit, students develop their capacities to describe, apply, and draw and defend conclusions from strategic analysis tools; summarize, present, and discuss strategic topics and issues; and identify, understand, analyze, and evaluate the strategies of businesses. Typically taken in last semester. Must be taken within last six credits of program.
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 ; GB 611 or GB 707 ; GB 612 or GB 711 ; GB 613 and GB 615 , or GB 706 ; GB 700 , GB 701 , GB 702 , GB 703 , GB 704 , GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 711 - Communicating in the Legal Regulatory Environment of Business (3.00 cr.)
Examines the legal and regulatory controls that define, promote, and limit business activities. A wide range of important legal topics are covered, including legal process and dispute resolution; agency law; corporate governance; securities law; product liability; employment law; and the global implications for each of these areas of law. The course may also cover specialized topics, such as intellectual property and environmental protection. Moreover, this course is designed to develop critical communication skills through written and oral presentation assignments related to the study of the legal environment of business. Students emerge from this course with an understanding of the complicated legal and regulatory environment in which they operate, as well as with the skills necessary to consistently plan, create, and deliver effective written and oral business communications.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 715 - Applied Business Statistics (3.00 cr.)
Provides an up-to-date coverage of the relevant tools and techniques for intermediate to advanced data analysis. Statistical modeling combined with current computing power has shaped the landscape of modern business. Fields that have taken enormous advantage of this technology and grown exponentially in recent years include information driven marketing and data mining. This course stresses a hands-on approach towards understanding and applying these techniques to various business problems. Topics include data summary and presentation, advanced linear regression analysis, modeling discrete dependent variables and policy evaluation. Time series forecasting is also included. Excel and cases are used. Intermediate Excel skills required.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 718 - Entrepreneurship (3.00 cr.)
Develops the strategies, techniques, and attitudes for creating innovative products, processes, plans, and organizational solutions. Topics include business plan development, intrapreneurship, managing rapid and innovative organizational growth, small business management, and skills and methods unique to new and growing ventures. Deliverables may include business plan formulation.
Prerequisite: GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 719 - Independent Study (1-3.00 cr.)
Under the supervision of a faculty sponsor, students have an opportunity to pursue independent research projects based on a topic of mutual interest to their sponsor and themselves. Independent study is an exception and must be agreed upon by a faculty sponsor, the department chair, and the Sellinger School Dean. Written or electronic permission of the instructor and the department chair. A research paper is required.
Prerequisite: All core courses.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 720 - Advanced Corporate Finance (3.00 cr.)
Builds upon students' knowledge from GB 703 and includes advanced issues in corporate finance. Topics include capital structure policy, dividend policy, long-term and short-term financing decisions, mergers and acquisitions, leasing, international dimensions, and corporate risk management.
Prerequisite: GB 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 721 - Advanced Financial Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the assessment of financial performance and health of companies from the point of view of equity and credit analysts. Students learn to apply financial statement analysis, prepare pro forma financial statements, and determine the intrinsic value of a firm. Topics include analyzing financial statements, generally accepted accounting principles, forecasting financial statements, and business valuation.
Prerequisite: GB 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 722 - Investment Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Provides students with an introduction to the organization and functioning of securities markets. Fundamental analysis is emphasized. Topics include bonds, equities, risk definition and measurement, return analysis, and models of valuation. Students are also introduced to the primary types of derivative securities such as options and futures.
Prerequisite: GB 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 723 - Portfolio Management (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on modern portfolio theory and how it applies to the pragmatic world by managing a portfolio under live market conditions. Students use the Internet and financial data platforms to access investment information. Students learn the theoretical concepts and pragmatic aspects of portfolio management, including international aspects, ethics, and social responsibility. Topics include portfolio construction, analysis, and evaluation; capital market theory; arbitrage pricing theory; security valuation; market efficiency; derivatives; valuation and strategy; international investing; and other investment alternatives such as real estate and collectibles. Closed to students who have taken GB 828.
Prerequisite: GB 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 724 - Financial Markets and Institutions (3.00 cr.)
Surveys money and capital markets to determine their functions and interrelations in the national economy. Examines the interaction of key institutions and monetary and fiscal policies in the financial markets. Students obtain an understanding of the global financial system including financial markets, financial institutions, the role of central banks, the interaction of monetary and fiscal policy, and regulation. The role of interest rates in the financial system, including the term structure and risk structure of rates, is also covered.
Prerequisite: GB 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 726 - International Finance (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the theory of the firm as applied in a global decision framework with emphasis on a detailed examination of foreign exchange markets. Students learn to apply financial analysis and decision-making techniques in an international setting. Topics include direct foreign investment; foreign exchange risk; country risk analysis; multinational debt and equity markets; reporting results to investors and tax authorities; international aspects of investment portfolios; and the ethical considerations of transcultural commerce.
Prerequisite: GB 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 727 - Investment Banking (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the role of the investment bank in raising capital. Topics include the process of raising capital, initial public offerings, seasoned offerings, convertible financing, debt financing, venture capital, share repurchases, and investment research. Emphasis also is placed on the changing environment of the investment banking industry. Closed to students who have taken course as a GB 825 topic.
Prerequisite: GB 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 730 - Introduction to Data Science (3.00 cr.)
Introduces the use of data science to provide guidance to strategic business decisions. Students learn to effectively identify, design, and implement integrated analytics solutions to business problems. Major topics include strategic decision making; the formulation of objectives; the development of alternatives; multi-objective value analysis; and simulation. Technologies considered include Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Analytics; Monte Carlo simulation; optimization models; cloud computing; Hadoop; enterprise software for decision support; and data visualization. This course serves as the foundation for the data science specialization and requires some background utilizing computer programs. Same course as DS 730 .
Prerequisite: GB 704 , GB 715 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 731 - Introduction to Programming (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to programming and software development with an emphasis on data analytics and data science applications. Students are introduced to problem solving with the fundamentals of programming, enabling them to decompose complex problems into elementary steps for effective implementation in a modern programming language such as Python. Students work with numeric and textual data, procedural programming with conditionals and loops, basic linear data structures, and on testing their solutions. Emphasis is placed on developing applications for preparing, processing, and analyzing real data to provide guidance for strategic decision making. Personal laptop required. Serves as an elective for both Data Analytics and Information Systems specializations. Same course as CS 701 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 732 - Data Management and Governance (3.00 cr.)
Theoretical and practical foundations of data management and data governance that include review of issues and policies surrounding design, analysis, implementation, and use. Privacy, ethical and global issues are discussed. Topics include data valuation, information life cycle management, e-discovery, data storage, data deduplication, and disaster recovery. Case studies are used throughout the course.
Prerequisite: GB 704 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 733 - Enterprise Systems (3.00 cr.)
Theoretical and practical foundations of enterprise systems that include review of issues surrounding design, analysis, implementation, and use. Comparison of Hadoop with data warehouse technologies is discussed. Lecture material is combined with hands-on projects utilizing SAP. The course concludes with a real case study involving data from multiple sources using different formats and containing data quality problems.
Prerequisite: GB 701 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 734 - Managing Global Supply Chains (3.00 cr.)
Explores issues in setting up and managing global supply chains for both products and service companies. This course is broadly divided into three topic areas: structure and design; sourcing management; and logistics management. Topics include structure and design of global supply chains; sourcing strategy development; supplier evaluation, selection, and management; transportation management; and warehouse management.
Prerequisite: GB 701 , GB 704 , GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 735 - Project Management (3.00 cr.)
Develops principles and techniques for the successful completion of projects. Students investigate the planning and execution of large, cross-functional change. New methods, programs, products, and systems are implemented with substantial human costs and scheduling and business disruption challenges. This course presents and evaluates planning, scheduling, and costing methods, examples, cases, and project success techniques to increase effectiveness. Data analytics project management is emphasized.
Prerequisite: GB 704 or GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 736 - Data Visualization for Decision Making (3.00 cr.)
Investigates the human processing of information and appropriate representation of data in a visual form. Data resides in many different databases and comes in a variety of forms such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Making data understandable to nontechnical users requires knowledge of the best techniques for presenting data and information. This course is focused on presentation of the data and the use of data visualization techniques such as Tableau™ and SAS Visual Analytics™. Same course as DS 736 .
Prerequisite: GB 730 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 741 - Consumer Behavior (3.00 cr.)
The primary goal of marketing is to satisfy customer needs. This issue is approached with a focus on the end consumer (i.e., business-to-consumer) by digging deep to understand consumer behaviors, perspectives, preferences, choices, and more. By meaningfully examining consumers, business is better able to craft strategies to serve them. Taking a social science-primarily psychology-based-approach to comprehending consumers, the course covers recent and groundbreaking work in consumer research to apply it to insights for business practice. A select but broad range of topics is covered.
Prerequisite: GB 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 742 - Customer Experience Design and Delivery (3.00 cr.)
This class drills down into topics that help managers understand how to create, deliver, and manage great customer experiences. Research demonstrates that there is a significant gap between how businesses believe they perform and consumer perceptions about how well they deliver against customer needs. Customers' journeys now have so many touchpoints across both digital and traditional channels, designing and delivering great experiences for customers is more complex and challenging than ever. To make matters even more complicated, customers' expectations are constantly evolving making it imperative that companies continually update their understanding of their customers by deliberately and continually collecting and interpreting customer data. In this class, students learn strategies (e.g., observational and survey research design and analysis) to help managers stay informed about customers' perceptions and expectations. Students learn about designing great experiences by understanding how to use virtual/physical environment, process design, and managing people to deliver excellence in service. Finally, understanding the outcomes of great customer experiences such as customer loyalty, net promoter scores, referrals, and word of mouth are covered. Serves as an elective for both Management and Marketing specializations.
Prerequisite: GB 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 744 - Customer-Focused Innovation Management (3.00 cr.)
Studies the theoretical underpinnings of new product development in a variety of industries. Students learn to describe the new product development process; identify the components of a new product development strategy; and structure their organizations to encourage creativity and innovation. Students use multivariate statistical techniques like factor analysis, cluster analysis, and conjoint analysis to evaluate the marketplace attractiveness of proposed new products. Topics include managing new product failure, technology-based product development, and accelerating new product development.
Prerequisite: GB 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 746 - Strategies for Marketing Communication (3.00 cr.)
Examines the components of marketing communications. Students learn to put an integrated marketing program into practice to address the diverse marketplace with a customer orientation. Topics include planning the communications program; capturing imagination in creative execution; measuring consumer response; overcoming barriers; and analyzing case histories.
Prerequisite: GB 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 747 - Special Topics in Marketing (3.00 cr.)
Provides an opportunity for the student to conduct intensive study and/or research in a selected industry or of a contemporary marketing topic. Readings, discussions, projects, and presentations are core components. Topics may include marketing research, marketing and social media, sales management, and customer experience management. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: GB 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 748 - International Marketing (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the application of marketing concepts and principles to international markets. Students learn to evaluate the international marketing environment, and to identify adaptations in data collection/analysis, product, price, promotion, and distribution. Offered as a study tour course.
Prerequisite: GB 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 749 - Customer Experience Management: The Disney Study Tour (3.00 cr.)
Students examine Customer Experience Management (CXM). Considered the new battlefield for business, CXM deals with how businesses design and manage their touchpoints with customers. The goal is to not only satisfy customers at one touchpoint, but to delight and excite them throughout their entire experience journey. As a result, customers may become repeat patrons and active advocates for the brand. The course consists of classes at Loyola followed by a study tour at Walt Disney World (Orlando) - a world leader in CXM. At Disney, students get a first-hand and behind-the-scenes look at CXM and are taught by Disney professionals. Offered as a study tour course. Serves as an elective for both Management and Marketing specializations. A fee is charged, amount varies.
Prerequisite: GB 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 753 - Legal, Ethical, and Global Perspectives of Cyber Security (3.00 cr.)
Introduces the ethical and legal considerations of digital property. Covers the evolution of related statutes and case law, as well as how ethical and legal norms differ. Topics include legal and regulatory policies, evidence procedures, global differences in legal protection, privacy policy, digital property rights, the impact of new technologies, and global cultural norms.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 754 - Introduction to Cyber Security Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Surveys the current concepts and trends in cyber security for managers and policy makers. Provides students with the foundation for assessing risk frameworks associated with inter-organizational and external breaches of security, setting up an IT security organization, system development considerations, and technical issues. Uses readings, lectures, discussions, and exercises to promote understanding of securing information in distributed and global environments. Topics include strategy, business continuity, legal issues, risk management, disaster preparedness/recovery, training and awareness, policies and procedures, physical security, public key infrastructure and encryption, industrial espionage, privacy, and software licensure compliance.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 757 - Cyber Security and Organizational Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Introduces the high-level tasks that would be the direct responsibility of a senior C-level executive. Topics include positioning, goals, methodology, architecture framework, metrics for evaluating program effectiveness, and the relationship to other information technology disciplines. Students apply systems thinking while working through a real-world, hands-on project creating a risk assessment and policy document for a business process.
Prerequisite: GB 754 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 759 - Special Topics in Management Information Systems (3.00 cr.)
Provides students with the most current readings, discussions, and experiences in the field of information systems management. Group projects, papers, and presentations may be used to share information on the topic. The particular topic will be identified in the course schedule for the semester in which the class is offered. Topics may include human-computer interface, management of the I/S function, total quality management, and IT project management. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: Varies with topic.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 761 - Financial Accounting Problems II (3.00 cr.)
Builds upon areas covered in GB 661 , and deals with problems in accounting for corporate securities, treasury stock, pension plans, leases, revenue recognition issues, income tax allocation, investments, and accounting changes. Students acquire a comprehensive understanding of financial statements. Pronouncements of the AICPA, FASB, SEC, and other authoritative sources are an integral part of the course.
Prerequisite: All MBA Core courses or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 762 - Cost Accounting (3.00 cr.)
Deals with cost measurement, classification, and recording for external reporting and internal decision making. Topics include an in-depth coverage of cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, cost accounting systems, budgeting, variance analysis, cost allocation, capital budgeting, and relevant cost for decision making. Students learn to identify, classify, and apply cost accounting techniques in business applications.
Prerequisite: All foundation courses or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 764 - Federal Taxation of Business Entities (3.00 cr.)
The study of four related aspects of federal entity taxation: the structure of federal income taxation, taxation of business entities, special business topics, and tax consequences of corporate liquidations and reorganizations. Topics covered in theme one include the determination of gross income, business deductions, and business losses and relevant tax planning strategies. Topics covered in theme two include corporate formation, capitalization, operation, and dividend distributions; partnership formation and operation; subchapter S election and operation; and corporate, partnership, and S-corporation tax planning strategies. Topics covered in theme three include multijurisdictional taxation; the corporate alternative minimum tax; taxation of proprietorships; and relevant tax planning strategies. Further topics include a comparative analysis of the various forms of doing business; the basics of corporate liquidations and reorganizations; and an introduction to tax research. The Internal Revenue Code and Regulations are an integral part of this course.
Prerequisite: All MBA Core courses or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 765 - Auditing (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the basic concepts of auditing in a manual and computer-based accounting system and covers the generally accepted auditing standards and procedures. Students develop the judgment and decision-making skills needed to function as auditors in the complex environment of business and the basic skills to research current issues impacting the audit profession. Major topics include ethical responsibilities, internal control evaluation, evidence gathering, reporting standards, and basic auditing concepts.
Prerequisite: All MBA Core courses or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 769 - Global Finance & Mngt Issues Affecting the EU & Beyond (3.00 cr.)
Students study global issues impacting business operations in two very different business cultures. This course includes a classroom component and an international study tour component with site visits in Prague, Czech Republic and Berlin, Germany. Fulfills the following specializations: Management, Finance, International Business. A fee is charged, amount varies.
Prerequisite: GB 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 770 - Special Topics in Law and Social Responsibility (3.00 cr.)
Students develop an understanding of alternative perspectives on a specific topic, study this topic in depth, and engage in personal reflection about the topic. Topics may include corporate accountability, leadership, teamwork, law and society, and legal responses to inequality in the workplace. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: Varies with topic.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 772 - Workplace Equity and Professional Identity (3.00 cr.)
Individuals who work in organizations count on the idea that their hard work and smart choices will propel them to success. This course provides students with a deep understanding of who gets ahead and why. Course foundations consider what race, gender, and class mean at work. Additional topics include religious oppression, heterosexism and transgender oppression, ableism, and ageism. By the end of the course, students know how to work for diversity and inclusion, both personally and organizationally. Ethics, social responsibility, and law serve as tools for promoting change. Students are given the freedom to explore specific topics in more depth. Closed to students who have taken Glass Ceiling as a topic under GB 770 or GB 797 .
Prerequisite: GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 774 - Business Law: Commercial Transactions (3.00 cr.)
Considers the legal environment of business, including the principal characteristics of the American legal system, the concepts and principles used to determine individual and corporate accountability, and the regulatory system within which businesses operate. Treats aspects of the commercial transaction including contract law, the commercial code (UCC: sale of goods, negotiable instruments, secured transactions, bank collections and deposits), surety, and bankruptcy law.
Prerequisite: GB 711 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 778 - Employment Law (3.00 cr.)
Covers the basic legal concepts and principles relevant to the employment relationship, including common law, state and federal statutory law, and constitutional law. Explores their relevance for employment policies and practices. Also covers multinational legal considerations relevant to employment.
Prerequisite: GB 705 , GB 711 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 779 - International Study Tour: Corporate Social Responsibility (3.00 cr.)
An experiential learning course that focuses on issues of corporate social responsibility and ethics in the international arena. Students, informed by the issues of social responsibility relevant to international industries and the specific corporations visited, consider how leaders of multinational organizations take into consideration the company's local and global impacts on society and the environment. Students consider how issues of legal compliance (both United States and international) interact with principles of ethics and corporate social responsibility to establish acceptable levels of individual and corporate behavior. Offered as a study tour course.
Prerequisite: GB 700 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 782 - International Economics (3.00 cr.)
Covers the main concepts and analytical tools in international economics, as well as some of the major economic events that have attracted the attention of investors and policy makers around the globe. Focus is on the determinants of a country's external accounts (external trade and investment flows), exchange rates, and how these variables simultaneously reflect and affect business and consumer decisions, economic growth, and government policies.
Prerequisite: GB 707 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 785 - Management Consulting (3.00 cr.)
This consulting practicum requires students to: develop and hone skills in project management; develop leadership and team building insights; apply classroom concepts, tools, and frameworks to real business problems; enhance student-resume with tangible experience; and make a difference in the community where one lives and works. Students research and partner with an organization to help detect problem areas such as strategy, finance, marketing, operations, information systems, and to identify possible solutions. Student teams are responsible for a written report and formal presentation to the clients with observations, analysis, conclusions, recommendations, and proposed implementation.
Prerequisite: GB 600 or GB 715 ; GB 611 or GB 707 ; GB 612 or GB 711 ; GB 613 and GB 615, or GB 706 ; GB 700 , GB 701 , GB 702 , GB 703 , GB 704 , GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 789 - Special Topics in Business Economics (3.00 cr.)
Focuses in depth on the issues and theories in a particular field of business economics. Topics may include industry studies, environmental economics, international trade, labor and managerial economics, health economics, and applied econometrics. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: GB 707 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 791 - Leadership (3.00 cr.)
Develops self-awareness and insight into the interpersonal skills needed to be an effective leader. Students develop a mastery of the theory and practice of leadership in organizations. Topics include leadership research and theory, characteristics of effective leaders, leadership behaviors and styles, and recent developments in the understanding of effective, responsible, ethical leadership. Methods include team problem-solving exercises, role plays, and cases.
Prerequisite: GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 792 - Human Resources Management (3.00 cr.)
Develops student understanding regarding the flow of human resources into and through the organization, including recruitment, selection, training, performance evaluation, outplacement, intrinsic and extrinsic reward systems, teamwork, task analysis and design, and the processes by which employees influence organizational goals and operations. Methods may include lectures, case studies, and team and research projects.
Prerequisite: GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 793 - Leading Organizational Change (3.00 cr.)
Develops visionary leadership concepts as key requirements for leading change in organizations. This course also prepares students as strategists, implementers, or recipients of organizational change. Students develop an understanding of the politics of change, the creation of an organizational vision, the skills for leading and implementing change, and a sensitivity to the needs of the recipients of change. Topics include managing teams, analyzing appropriate change strategies, leading and implementing change, and developing ethical perspectives of the change process.
Prerequisite: GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 795 - Special Topics in International Business (3.00 cr.)
Explores the international business environment, management practices, and specific problems facing managers conducting business in more than one cultural context. Readings, discussions, group projects, and presentations may be used to share information on the topic. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: Varies with topic.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 796 - International Management (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the management of multinational enterprises across different countries and cultures. A cultural framework is initially established at both the national and organizational units of analysis. Subsequently, management issues such as strategic initiatives; international alliances; organization structure and systems; motivation; leadership; global human resources; negotiations; and organizational knowledge and learning capabilities are investigated and compared across organizational and country cultures.
Prerequisite: GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 797 - Special Topics in Management (3.00 cr.)
Students examine, understand, and develop a mastery of a current management topic. Methods may include research, cases, discussion, and team projects, papers, or presentations. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: Varies with topic.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 798 - Global Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the international dimensions of strategy and provides a framework for formulating strategies in an increasingly complex and global world. All aspects of international business are incorporated to enable managers to develop, implement, and evaluate a global strategy for domestic organizations going international for the first time or for the ongoing multinational corporation. Specific industries or regions may be selected for study. Global strategy literature is reviewed. The course consists of lectures, case studies, and team assignments.
Prerequisite: GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 822 - Fixed Income Securities (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the analysis of specific types of fixed income securities including Treasury and municipal bonds, corporate bonds, mortgage securities, and closely related instruments. Students learn how to value the various types of fixed income securities, measure and manage interest rate risk, analyze credit risk, and construct bond portfolios.
Prerequisite: GB 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 823 - Derivatives and Risk Management (3.00 cr.)
Examines derivative securities such as options, futures, forwards, and swaps. Students learn trading strategies, hedging strategies, and how to value derivative securities. Topics include derivatives markets, pricing models, stock options, interest rate derivatives, binomial option pricing, numerical procedures, and exotic options.
Prerequisite: GB 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 825 - Special Topics in Finance (3.00 cr.)
Addresses issues in a particular field of finance, including investments, portfolio management, derivative securities, international finance, capital markets, corporate finance, and financial institutions. Encompasses critical reviews of selected journal articles, empirical research, guest lectures, student papers, and presentations. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: Varies with topic.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 827 - Valuation (3.00 cr.)
Teaches students to value equity securities, starting with the top-down approach and industry analysis/forecasting. Students examine valuation theory, models and applications under various circumstances such as initial publics offering, corporate restructurings, leverage buyouts, venture capital situations, and closely-held firms. Topics include the discounted cash flow techniques and valuation using alternative valuation techniques such as market-based multiples. Students learn to apply appropriate financial analysis techniques to valuation problems. Emphasis is placed on obtaining the required information necessary for valuation models from financial statements and other sources.
Prerequisite: GB 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 828 - Sellinger Applied Portfolio Management (3.00 cr.)
Provides students with actual portfolio management experience. Students serve as portfolio and investment managers charged with managing the Sellinger Applied Portfolio Fund in a manner consistent with the core goals and philosophy of the Loyola University Maryland Endowment. Students make use of financial data platforms, the Internet, and other sources of information to create, manage, and monitor this portfolio. Students apply the theoretical concepts and pragmatic aspects of portfolio management, including international aspects, ethics, and social responsibility. Topics include asset valuation, constrained setting asset allocation, asset selection, risk management, and performance evaluation. Closed to students who have taken GB 723 .
Prerequisite: GB 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 850 - Global Information Systems (3.00 cr.)
Investigates the critical coordination, control, and communication involved with doing business on a global scale and the role of technology. Covers operational issues, technology issues such as IT standards, law, cultural differences affecting use, outsourcing, and politics surrounding data management and telecommunications.
Prerequisite: GB 704 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 851 - Business Intelligence and Data Mining (3.00 cr.)
Introduces students to the concepts of managerial decision making through business intelligence (BI) and data mining, as well as data mining software such as SAS Enterprise Miner™ and SAS Visual Analytics™. Students develop an understanding of the strengths and limitations of data mining techniques, and they actively engage in data mining projects applying these techniques. Broad overviews are provided to both descriptive and predictive modeling techniques including association, clustering, and prediction. The concepts of data input, data partitioning, variable selection, transformation, imputation, and model assessment (specifically lift charts and ROC curves) are presented. Students observe and participate in the entire data mining process from data acquisition to final model deployment. Managerial concepts are discussed using cases. A real-world project serves as the culmination of this sequence. Same course as DS 851 .
Prerequisite: GB 730 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 852 - Advanced Analytics (3.00 cr.)
This advanced course provides a more in-depth coverage of the technical aspects of each of the modeling tools discussed in previous courses and expands the knowledge set to techniques such as optimization, risk management, and new types of data visualizations that streamline the visual presentation of large, complex datasets in order to support better business decision making. These techniques are demonstrated using many of today's leading analysis tools including NoSQL, Hadoop, Hive, Shark, R, Apache, and Google BigQuery. These technologies form the core of an open-source software framework that supports the processing of large datasets, visualizing data, building dashboards, and choosing tools for statistical analyses. Application to National Security concerns are examined. Students apply analytics to their organization's datasets or to a dataset provided by the instructor.
Prerequisite: GB 851 or DS 851 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 853 - Social Media and Web Mining (3.00 cr.)
Teaches students to uncover underlying themes or concepts contained in large document collections, automatically group documents into topical clusters, classify documents into predefined categories, and integrate text data with structured data to enrich predictive modeling endeavors. Students participate in managerial decision making, using social media and web mining through analyses of these data types. Students also process and prepare textual data for analysis, group documents using similarity measures, identify topics and extract from a document collection, apply association discovery techniques, and address problems from the areas of forensic linguistics, document categorization, and information retrieval. The course provides an introduction to Python which covers the functionality of software SAS Text Miner™—a component for SAS Enterprise Miner™ used in previous courses. Strategic uses of text and social media data are addressed using case studies.
Prerequisite: GB 851 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 867 - Special Topics in Financial Accounting (3.00 cr.)
Investigates and analyzes in detail current topics of interest to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and other items of interest in the accounting literature. Uses current pronouncements, exposure drafts, and interpretations of current FASB pronouncements. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: Varies with topic.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 894 - Advanced Topics in International Trade, Finance, and Investment (3.00 cr.)
An in-depth exploration of the impact of international trade, finance, and investment on global business; in particular, how firms influence the formation of government policy in the above areas and, in turn, how government policies influence the decisions of global business firms. Field Trip
A field trip to the World Bank, IMF, and/or other governmental agencies is included.
Prerequisite: GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 896 - Power and Influence (3.00 cr.)
Develops students' understanding of organizations as political entities, where power and influence are key mechanisms for organizational performance. Topics include power and its sources, work relationships, the effective and ethical use of influence, and the nature and use power and influence have over the course of a career.
Prerequisite: GB 705 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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GB 897 - Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (3.00 cr.)
Provides the opportunity to learn and practice negotiation methods and skills and to learn about the uses of mediation and arbitration as alternative methods of dispute resolution. Students learn to demonstrate an informed understanding of negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, including ethical issues and legal considerations relevant to them; demonstrate and explain their own negotiation and mediation skills; and identify and use relevant sources of information (print, electronic, and practitioner) to research and report on questions pertaining to negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. Negotiation and mediation exercises and invited experts are used along with lectures. Topics include positional bargaining; mutual gains bargaining; preparation for negotiation; negotiating tactics; cross-cultural negotiating; negotiating and gender; ethical and legal issues relevant to negotiating; the mediation process and role of the mediator; the arbitration process; and the use of mediation and arbitration in lieu of litigation.
Prerequisite: GB 705 , GB 707 , GB 716 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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KM 590 - Musicianship Fundamentals (2.00 cr.)
Focuses on the development of musical skills for the teacher: sight singing, ear training, inner hearing, dictation, musical memory, transposition, improvisation, part work, and form. Participants learn a variety of activities and strategies to develop these skills in the areas of rhythm, melody, and harmony. The movable-do system of solfa, a German system for absolute note name singing, and a rhythm language are used. Skills are presented in a sequence compatible with Kodály methodology in order to prepare teachers to develop music literacy skills in their students. Credits do not count toward the graduate degree.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 852 - Kodály Pedagogy, Level I (2.00 cr.)
A sequential, child-developmental approach to vocal music pedagogy for American children in preschool through grade two is presented. Participants are introduced to the philosophy and practices inspired by Zoltan Kodály, as well as the principles of music learning theory developed through the research of Dr. Edwin Gordon. They learn to plan and teach a curriculum, based largely on the use of American folk songs that leads children to musicianship and musical literacy. Teachers learn techniques for developing in their students' music readiness, good vocal production, in-tune singing, aural discrimination, rhythm skills (via movement), beginning skills in the use of solfa and rhythm syllables, and the foundations of music notation and reading.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 853 - Kodály Materials, Level I (3.00 cr.)
Participants research, collect, and learn American rhymes, folk songs, and singing games that support Kodály methodology for preschool through grade two. They learn the principles of folk song analysis and create a retrieval system to organize their materials for the sequential teaching of tonal, rhythmic, and formal skills. They also learn basic principles of accompanying children's singing with folk instruments, with an emphasis on playing the Appalachian dulcimer.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 856 - Choral Studies, Level I (2.00 cr.)
During the first portion, participants study basic score analysis, rehearsal techniques, and sequencing the choral rehearsal. Vocal health and pedagogy are emphasized, including diction, phonation, resonance, posture, and breath. Participants study the basics of conducting, and prepare and conduct music appropriate for children's choirs at the elementary level. During the choir segment, participants have an opportunity to perform choral masterpieces from all periods, arrangements of folk music of various styles, and recent compositions. Studies include interpretation, musical style, principles of choral singing, and application of solfa in learning new music. The ensemble performs at the closing concert on the final Friday evening of the program.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 860 - Musicianship, Level I (2.00 cr.)
The Kodály philosophy requires that every music teacher be the best musician he or she can be. To that end, this course focuses on the development of musical skills for the teacher-ear training, sight singing, improvisation, dictation, musical memory, transposition, part singing, and form. Students learn a variety of activities and strategies to develop these skills in the areas of rhythm, melody, and harmony. The movabledo system of solfa, a German system for absolute note name singing, and a rhythm language are used.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 952 - Kodály Pedagogy, Level II (2.00 cr.)
A sequential, child-developmental approach to vocal music pedagogy for American children in grades three to four is presented. Participants explore the philosophy and practices inspired by Zoltan Kodály, as well as the principles of music learning theory developed through the research of Dr. Edwin Gordon, as applied to students on the intermediate level. They learn to plan and teach a curriculum, based largely on the use of American folk songs, that leads children to musicianship and musical literacy. Teachers learn techniques for developing in their students good vocal production, in-tune singing, aural discrimination, intermediate level skills in rhythm (via movement), use of solfa and rhythm syllables, form, music notation and reading, and part-singing.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 953 - Kodály Materials, Level II (3.00 cr.)
Participants research, collect, and learn American rhymes, folk songs, and singing games that support Kodály methodology for grades three to four. They apply the principles of folk song analysis to expand their retrieval systems to include repertoire for the intermediate grades and organize their materials for the sequential teaching of vocal, melodic, rhythmic, formal, and part-singing skills. They also learn basic principles of accompanying children's singing with folk instruments, with an emphasis on playing the folk guitar.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 954 - Kodály Secondary Pedagogy, Level II (2.00 cr.)
Participants learn vocal music pedagogy and the skills to develop a sequential choral curriculum for grades six through twelve. This course continues to follow the Kodály principles and philosophies studied in Pedagogy, Level I, and applies them to the secondary choral setting. Participants study and complete score analyses for Medieval and Baroque repertoire, while studying conducting and rehearsal techniques appropriate for these styles.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 956 - Choral Studies, Level II (2.00 cr.)
Participants continue studying Kodály choral techniques and rehearsal strategies. Participants enhance and improve conducting skills through posture and stance, clear and concise patterns, the anacrusis, attacks, releases, and establishing and maintaining tempo. Participants also conduct music appropriate for children's choirs at the elementary level.
During the choir segment, participants have an opportunity to perform choral masterpieces from all periods, arrangements of folk music of various styles, and recent compositions. Studies include interpretation, musical style, principles of choral singing, and application of solfa in learning new music. The ensemble performs at the closing concert on the final Friday of the evening program.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 960 - Musicianship, Level II (2.00 cr.)
The Kodály philosophy requires that every music teacher be the best musician he or she can be. To that end, this course focuses on the development of musical skills for the teacher-ear training, sight singing, improvisation, dictation, musical memory, transposition, part singing, and form. Students learn a variety of activities and strategies to develop these skills in the areas of rhythm, melody, and harmony. The movable-do system of solfa, a German system for absolute note name singing, and a rhythm language are used.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 992 - Choral Studies, Level III (2.00 cr.)
During the first portion, participants develop and implement a rehearsal flow chart, practice advanced conducting techniques, and apply to choral texts the International Phonetic Alphabet. During the choir segment, participants have an opportunity to perform choral masterpieces from all periods, arrangements of folk music of various styles, and recent compositions. Studies include interpretation, musical style, principles of choral singing, and application of solfa in learning new music. The ensemble performs at the closing concert on the final Friday evening of the program.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 993 - Kodály Materials, Level III (3.00 cr.)
Participants collect and learn American folk songs and singing games that support Kodály methodology for grades five and six. They continue the study begun in Levels I and II of the principles of folk song analysis and add upper level materials to the retrieval systems they created to organize their materials for the teaching of vocal, expressive, rhythmic, melodic, formal, and harmonic skills. They also learn basic principles of accompanying children's singing with folk instruments, with an emphasis on five-string banjo. Participants prepare songs to sing and play on the banjo for a group demonstration/performance at the end of the course. This course also reviews and expands upon the singing game, play party, and folk dance skills mastered in Levels I and II, adding new repertoire suitable for grades five and six.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 994 - Kodály Pedagogy, Level III (2.00 cr.)
A sequential, child-developmental approach to vocal music pedagogy for American children in grades five and six is presented. Participants continue the study begun in Levels I and II of the philosophy and practices inspired by Zoltan Kodály, as well as the principles of music learning theory developed through the research of Dr. Edwin Gordon, as applied to students on the intermediate level. They learn to plan and teach a curriculum, based largely on the use of American folk songs, which leads children to musicianship and musical literacy. Teachers learn techniques for continuing the development in their upper grade students of good vocal production, in-tune singing, expressive performance, aural discrimination, rhythm skills, skills in the use of solfa and rhythm syllables, part-singing skills, skills in analysis and labeling of various musical forms, and intermediate skills in music notation and reading.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 995 - Musicianship, Level III (2.00 cr.)
Focuses on the development of musical skills for the teacher on a more challenging level than that of Levels I and II in the areas of sight singing, ear training, inner hearing, dictation, musical memory, transposition, improvisation, part work, and form. Participants learn a variety of activities and strategies to develop these skills in the areas of rhythm, melody, and harmony. The movable-do system of solfa, a German system for absolute note name singing, and a rhythm language are used.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 996 - Kodály Secondary Pedagogy, Level III (2.00 cr.)
Participants learn vocal music pedagogy and the skills to develop a sequential choral curriculum for grades six through twelve. Kodály principles and philosophies in Pedagogy, Level I and Pedagogy, Level II are followed and applied to the secondary choral setting. Participants learn to plan and teach a curriculum that leads choristers to musicianship and musical literacy, all while preparing them for performances and competitions. Repertoire studied is from Late Baroque to Present Day and includes methods for developing sight singing, and tuning your ensemble.
Restrictions: Restricted to Kodály music program students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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Liberal Studies |
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LS 600 - Self and World: Fundamental Issues in Human Existence (3.00 cr.)
What does it mean to be a human being in the world? This course undertakes to define the human self, the world, and the manner in which the two relate through examination of the fundamental conditions and experiences of human existence. Themes considered may include faith, exile, solidarity, and death. Must be taken in the first semester of enrollment. Students beyond their first semester of enrollment must obtain written permission of the instructor.
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LS 629 - Black America: From Slave Narratives to Hip Hop (3.00 cr.)
Connects the history, literature, and the arts of African Americans to survey the African-American experience. Through close readings of both canonical and non-canonical writers, analyzing political movements and discussing recurring themes, students engage with the rich culture of the African-American community. The authors read range from Douglass to Baldwin to Tupac. The movements include slave revolts, American Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the American Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, Hurricane Katrina, and current events.
Both writers and events are viewed from the vantage point of the Great Migration, the significance of art and music, racial violence, and the fight for equal rights for all races.
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LS 678 - Persuasion: The Lawyer's Craft (3.00 cr.)
Persuasion through writing, analysis, and argument has been a constant friend of the lawyer. But, what of the layperson? How can a layperson change the course of the law through his or her writings? Students examine the rhetorical tools deployed (e.g., logos, pathos, and ethos) in popular works and how they have influenced legal change. Students consider how these works changed our perception of justice, rights, and belonging.
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LS 782 - Baltimore Stories (3.00 cr.)
Examines Baltimore's rich and complicated history and explores some of the stories that have shaped and transformed it. Each state and each city has a story, there are a million of them. Baltimore City, as a microcosm of America, has thousands of them. From the 1968 Riots to the 2015 Baltimore Uprising, Baltimore City has used both storytelling and activism as tools to define and redefine its national identity and its place within the national conversation. In each story and in each act of engagement the issues of race, class, and gender intersect. These are the moments that demand our attention.
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LS 798 - Special Topics in Liberal Studies (3.00 cr.)
An opportunity for students to pursue research on a specific topic with a faculty mentor. Written permission of the instructor.
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LS 799 - Capstone Project in Liberal Studies (3.00 cr.)
This independent project builds on the work of one or more graduate courses in liberal studies, developing the concept, method, or approach of that course in greater depth and intellectual subtlety. The course may develop methodology from any of the three course categories (historical, thematic, or creative), but it may not in itself fulfill the curricular requirement to take at least one course from each group. The course aim is the production of a publishable paper or an art product worthy of exhibition. A public presentation to an audience of current and former liberal studies students and faculty is required. Those interested in enrolling should discuss their plans with the director at least a semester in advance. Written or electronic permission of the instructor and the director.
Prerequisite: Completion of 10 courses (30 credit hours) toward the Master of Arts (MA) in Liberal Studies.
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LS 671 - Surrealism and Cinema (3.00 cr.)
Participants learn about surrealists, European artists of the 1920s, and their fascination with the magical medium of film. Old surrealist films are screened, such as Andalusian Dog by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel, as well as more modern films with surrealist themes, such as Altered States by Ken Russell and Naked Lunch by David Cronenberg. Through these screenings, text readings, papers, and class discussion, participants learn how to interpret surrealist symbols that appear in many films. (Seminar format)
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LS 673 - Minding Metaphors (3.00 cr.)
Through workshops, lecture, and discussion, students explore the crafting of contemporary poetry. Readings encompass theory and a wide range of poets. Writing assignments consist exclusively of poems; students will enjoy broad latitude in subject and approach. No previous experience or expertise in writing poetry is required.
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LS 675 - The Critical Eye: Looking at Art (3.00 cr.)
A course in the methods and practices of scholarly research and the writing of a research paper in the field of art history. Participants indulge themselves in the "forensic" methods of art history and practice the formal discipline of writing a research paper: competent expository writing; research techniques and library skills; the proper citation of sources; and the care, nurture, and notation of a good bibliography. The different ways art historians "read" a work of art are examined. The various textures of meaning that contribute to our fascination with works of art are the focus of our reading, writing, and looking.
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LS 677 - Understanding Comics: The World of Graphic Literature (3.00 cr.)
Comics, narratives which juxtapose words and images in sequential panels, have been with us as long as written language itself. Graphic literature today is challenging, vibrant, promiscuous, forthrightly multicultural, and often aggressively independent. In this course, students experience a wide array of graphic literature, explore the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the medium, and try to take the full measure of its sophistication.
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LS 679 - Literary Biography (3.00 cr.)
Looks at biography as a literary art form, while examining the role biography plays not only in understanding the significant accomplishments of certain individuals, but in illuminating the times in which they lived. Has biography changed over the decades? Are biographies ever entirely unbiased? Are popular biographies invariably less accurate than academic ones? What privacy rights do public figures retain? These are some of the questions this seminar addresses as it looks at biographical writings about such figures as Madame Curie, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses Grant, Mohandas Gandhi and Coco Chanel. Students are also asked to write a biographical essay about a public, artistic or historical figure of their own choice.
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LS 680 - Critical Methodologies: Humor Studies (3.00 cr.)
This course, of potential interest to anyone who laughs, proposes that humor serves as one of the best ways to understand literature and culture. From Archilochus to Rushdie, parody and the playful are productive: they illuminate serious forms, as well as generating their own discourse and conventions. Writers use humor to reveal the local and the universal, to speak truth in multiple voices, to refashion art and expectation.
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LS 681 - Living Theatre (3.00 cr.)
Students explore the process of beginning with a play text, developing an interpretation of it, and creating a solid production plan—a set of concrete choices that respond to a specific understanding of a text in this hands-on course. To this end, students read and interpret plays as "literature" and then go on to act in scenes from plays, consider the work a director might do on the text, and conceive of and execute scenic and costume designs.
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LS 684 - All is Fair in Love and War: A Survey of Women's Texts from 900 to 2012 (3.00 cr.)
The adage "all is fair in love and war" connotes a strategic iciness in two of humanity's most commonly held experiences; it also betrays a disconcerting equation of humanity's capacities for love and violence. This class focuses on texts, mostly by women from Europe and America, broadly related to the ideas and experiences of love and war, as well as issues of race, history, and political activism. Canonical and non-traditional texts are discussed, among them novels, poems, short stories, memoirs, academic articles/works, journalism, films, and music. This course emphasizes how these texts represent gender, how literature contributes to identity-formation, and how women have used the written word to change their social and imaginative conditions. Taught from a feminist perspective.
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LS 685 - Religion and Popular Culture (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to critical issues in and approaches to the study of religion and popular culture. The course considers how religious themes and images are portrayed, critiqued, and manipulated in books, films, music and other media forms. An important part of the class is a discussion of what "religion" is and what we mean when we make distinctions between "high" and "low" culture.
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LS 687 - A Sensory Approach to Creative and Practical Nonfiction Writing (3.00 cr.)
Unlock the subliminal and powerful secrets of your own creativity and productivity. This course teaches the tried and true--but little known and used--techniques of some of the most accomplished writers. Learn how to get beyond "writer's block" and under-confidence to a successful "writer's wellspring" through a variety of sensory-based activities and readings from a number of literary genres. Using the universal magic of our own senses (and there are more than five), this course helps conjure successful texts like a master. This workshop-based exploration of quality creative non-fiction changes how you write forever.
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LS 689 - American Film Classics (3.00 cr.)
Students are encouraged to examine and reflect upon traditional American values as portrayed in a set of eight vintage films. The central focus of the films chosen varies but could include foundational myths like the self-made man, the cowboy and the Wild West, the pioneer spirit, or individual freedom. May be repeated for credit.
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