2020-2021 Graduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Accounting |
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AC 700 - Ethics for Accounting Professionals (3.00 cr.)
Helps students develop a practical, action-oriented approach to managing ethical issues within the professional accounting environment. Rather than focusing solely on philosophical texts, this course explores contemporary ethical dilemmas for a realistic understanding of how morals, ethics, and social responsibilities are intertwined. This course may be particularly helpful to accounting professionals seeking ways of giving "voice to their value," with its approach toward creating and sustaining organizational cultures that promote ethical, socially responsible decision making.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 701 - Advanced International Accounting (3.00 cr.)
Examines the international dimensions of accounting. Topics include International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), corporate financial reporting and convergence, international fraud and accounting scandals, and the impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on international accounting practices.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 702 - Advanced Financial Accounting (3.00 cr.)
Building on their study of intermediate and advanced accounting, students gain a deeper understanding of several essential and challenging financial reporting topics. These topics are studied from technical and theoretical perspectives. Students have opportunities to analyze cases using the FASB codification database and IFRS to identify authoritative guidance related to topics covered in this course and/or other accounting courses.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 704 - Tax Research (3.00 cr.)
Research and writing projects on federal tax subjects with analysis and instruction in tax research techniques, materials, and methodology. Students prepare legal memoranda.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 705 - Audit Analytics (3.00 cr.)
Introduces students to the use of audit analytics tools for deriving insights from accounting data and for more effectively performing audits. Accountants need to be equipped with tools for organizing and analyzing data to improve company performance and audit financial accounts. Students explore the traditional audit steps through the lenses of data retrieval, cleanup, preprocessing, and validation, internal and external audit analytics, and predictive modeling/machine learning. Closed to students who have taken GB 768.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 708 - Advanced Finance (3.00 cr.)
Students learn to apply financial accounting metrics to the valuation of firms in the capital markets. They also gain an understanding of the interrelationships among financial statements, stock options, and derivatives.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 709 - Accounting Internship (3.00 cr.)
Students work full-time for an accounting firm, company, government agency, or not-for-profit organization.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 710 - Professional Communications (3.00 cr.)
The course teaches professional people how to communicate more effectively using various media. It begins with the basics-grammar, spelling, punctuation-and progresses through audience identification, message creation, communication media, nonverbal communication, and visual presentations. Students use a workbook to practice the basics and a textbook to learn the fundamentals of communication via various media. The goal is for students to gain the ability to construct an effective document using any available medium and to understand the dynamics of interpersonal communication. Closed to students who have taken GB 767.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 711 - Seminar in Accounting Practice (3.00 cr.)
An overall analysis and review of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountant's (AICPA) Content Specification outlines. Study includes financial accounting and reporting,regulation, auditing and attestation, and business environment and concepts.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 712 - SEC Reporting (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the role of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Accounting profession. Topics include the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2012, the JOBS Act, Regulation S-X, Regulation S-K, the PCAOB, Annual Reports, and Registration statements. The Rules and Regulations of the SEC and their impact on financial reporting and auditing is emphasized.
Restrictions: Restricted to MAcc students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AC 719 - Individual Income Tax (3.00 cr.)
Provides students with a solid understanding of the fundamental principles of taxation impacting individuals. Items of income, deduction, and credit will be covered. The tax implications of investments, retirement savings, and home ownership are also covered during the course. Lastly, the course addresses federal tax controversy in terms of managing the IRS audit and appeals process. A tax research paper is required in addition to three examinations. Prior coursework in the area of taxation is not a prerequisite for this course. This course is helpful for students wishing to take the Uniform Certified Public Accounting (CPA) examination.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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Computer Science |
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CS 701 - 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. Same course as GB 731 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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Data Science |
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CS 703 - Programming for Data Science (3.00 cr.)
Blends methods of organizing data with algorithms for extracting and manipulating very large data sets. This course enables students to prepare data and generate features for unstructured text. Data structures such as hashing, trees, queues, and lists are studied. Algorithms such as sorting and searching are included. The map-reduce framework and database retrieval are also introduced.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CS 737 - Machine Learning (3.00 cr.)
Introduces core machine learning models and algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and dimensionality reduction. The course focuses on both understanding the theory of learning approaches, and effectively using them to solve real-world data science problems. Topics include least squares methods, linear classification, support vector machines, Bayesian networks and inference, the EM algorithm, and kernel methods.
Prerequisite: CS 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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CS 745 - Multimedia Data Analysis and Mining (3.00 cr.)
Explores the analysis of images, video, and audio for identification and extraction of meaningful information from large databases. Students apply techniques from areas such as image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and computer vision to the large datasets produced in applications including medical imaging, robotic vision, remote satellite sensing, and surveillance. Students learn to transform, compress, segment, track, and classify structured multimedia data.
Prerequisite: CS 737 , ST 710 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CS 746 - Data Visualization (3.00 cr.)
Examines techniques for both exploratory graphical analysis and effective visual presentation of complex data. This course covers both analytic techniques for data preparation as well as cognitive and perceptual issues in designing informative and effective visualizations. Students learn to model, reduce, and interpret large sets of discrete and continuous data for display and interactive visualization. Through case studies and projects, students review how to use and choose standard methods in charting and plotting data, and create these with statistical design software tools and languages.
Prerequisite: CS 703 , ST 710 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CS 753 - Big Data (3.00 cr.)
Covers a range of topics from big data storage and processing to large-scale machine learning libraries. As a hands-on programming course, students learn the details of the design and administration of a cluster, as well as how to apply these details to process "big data". By the end of the course, students should understand the challenges associated with big data, and the tools available to support answering big data questions.
Prerequisite: CS 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CS 765 - Database Retrieval (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on how to retrieve data from relational and NoSQL databases. Topics include physical organization; query processing including formal languages, SQL, and optimization; transaction modeling; and concurrency issues. Students are exposed to graph-based databases, key-value stores, and other NoSQL databases. Includes laboratory experiences with the use of database management systems.
Prerequisite: CS 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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CS 766 - Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing (3.00 cr.)
Blends textual information retrieval with natural language processing to focus on topics data scientists use to collect web data and make use of unstructured text in data models. Examples of topics are basic and advanced techniques for text-based information systems involving indexing and text representation; text classification and Naïve Bayes; web search, crawling and indexing; statistical inference, Markov models; and clustering.
Prerequisite: CS 737 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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DS 510 - 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. DS 510 is a program prerequisite and does not count toward the graduate degree and does not calculate in the cumulative GPA on the transcript. Must be passed with a B or better.
Restrictions: Restricted to Data Science students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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DS 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 GB 730 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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DS 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 GB 736 .
Prerequisite: DS 730 or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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DS 739 - Data Management and Database Systems (3.00 cr.)
Explores how to analyze the data needs of an organization and translate user requirements into a database system. Same as GB 739 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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DS 795 - Data Science Project Design (1.00 cr.)
Students must pursue an independent or small group research project that utilizes data science methods acquired during the program to address a real problem. This one-credit design course requires that students identify a suitable project, including the data to be used, and the questions asked of the data. Depending upon a project's complexity, students work either individually or in small, approved teams. The problem statement and the data stem from real-world situations similar to those that students might encounter within industry, government, non-profit, or academic research. The problem is usually specified by an industry, governmental, or non-profit sponsor with the data sets provided by that sponsor. Academic and governmental research groups may also propose projects. Each project team is supervised by the course director (in some cases, with a relevant faculty advisor) and advised by the project coach assigned from the academic, governmental, or industry sponsor, generally representing the organization that supplied the data. A component of the design is the consideration of any ethical issues raised by the project. As such, the need for ethical actions with respect to data science is also studied. The project design is reviewed by the course director and either the program board or, in the case of confidential data, by the course director after a confidentiality agreement is signed, and a group internal to the organization.
Prerequisite: CS 703 , DS 851 , ST 710 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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DS 796 - Data Science Project (3.00 cr.)
Students complete the independent or small group research project proposed in DS 795 , then present their work as a paper and at an end-of-semester symposium. Within the project, students use the complete process of addressing a real data science project which includes collecting and processing the data, applying an appropriate method to the problem, reporting on the problem, and its solution. The final report includes a discussion of the ethics involved in the project. Each project team is supervised by the course director (in some cases, with a relevant faculty advisor) and advised by the project coach assigned from the academic, governmental, or industry sponsor. To be taken the semester following DS 795 .
Prerequisite: DS 795 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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DS 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 GB 851 .
Prerequisite: DS 730 or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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Educational Leadership |
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AD 650 - Curriculum, Assessment, and Instructional Leadership (3.00 cr.)
Supports students' capacity to provide instructional leadership at the school and district level, focusing on the improvement and integration of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. Students apply the "Understanding by Design" model of curriculum design, using a three-stage backward design approach that ensures the coherence and rigor of the curriculum and transforms student learning. The course incorporates research-based design standards and collaborative peer review processes that create high-quality professional development strategies that address the learning needs of teachers.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 662 - Leadership, Supervision, and Professional Development (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the essential roles that the educational leader plays in the professional growth of the instructional staff in support of improved student learning. The foundation of this course is based upon standards for effective professional development and adult learning, as well as theory and application of contemporary supervisory models. In addition, this course emphasizes the essential role of the school leader in the development and implementation of a professional learning community within the school.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 668 - School Law (3.00 cr.)
Examines the legal responsibilities of school leaders within the context of the contemporary educational environment. Students explore the historical foundation of constitutional law as it pertains to school law, with particular emphasis on students' and teachers' rights and responsibilities to freedom of speech, privacy, due process, and equal protection of the law. Through the court case analysis approach, students examine, analyze, and assess the impact legislative, executive, and judicial branches of federal and state governments have had on education, both from the historical and contemporary context.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 674 - Human Relations and the Culturally Proficient School Leader (3.00 cr.)
Examines human relations in schools from philosophical, psychological, and sociological context through the lens of the culturally proficient school leader. This course includes an examination of pedagogical and social practices for multicultural environments as supported by communication, uncovering and resolving conflicts, parent involvement, and group dynamics. This course also explores issues such as racism, sexism, and classism related to the educational environment.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 681 - Organizational Development in Education (3.00 cr.)
An examination of contemporary models for designing, developing, and managing the complexities of education as a social organization. Particular attention is placed on structure, culture and climate, human and group dynamics, organizational symbols and politics, change, and the critical role of leadership as related to contemporary educational organizations.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 682 - Technology for School Leaders (3.00 cr.)
Examines the potential of technology and planning for successful implementation in K-12 schools, in classroom and online settings. Students apply technology to leadership in terms of vision, effective teaching, improving student achievement, and professional development, in addition to data-driven decision making, management, operations, and social, legal, and ethical issues. Students join a global learning community and work both individually and in teams to develop innovative action plans, create and share web-based instructional leadership tasks, publish a school leader's blog, and post wikis. This course is aligned with TSSA, ISTE, Maryland Technology Standards for School Administrators, and evidenced-based leadership practices for technology as it evolves within the twenty-first century school context.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 683 - Leadership Theories and Practices in Education (3.00 cr.)
Examines leadership theory, concepts, and philosophy for effective school leadership with special emphasis placed on student acquisition of knowledge, understanding, and application of the Professional Standards for School Leaders. Concepts such as visionary leadership, instructional leadership, equity and ethics in leadership, collaborative leadership, change leadership, exemplary and transformational leadership theories, and the development of the individual as a school leader are also explored. In addition, students are introduced to dispositions needed for effective school leadership.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 684 - Resource Management (3.00 cr.)
Examines the effective and efficient manner in which school leaders manage resources including budgets, finance, facilities, scheduling, decision making, and human resources (recruiting, hiring and supporting staff) and time management.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 685 - Reflective School Leadership (3.00 cr.)
Aspiring school leaders learn, understand, and apply the theories and practices of reflective leadership within the current PreK-12 educational context. Students develop skills of reflection, mindfulness, and conscious leadership, which assist school leaders to shape a more open, productive, genuine, healthy, and democratic school culture.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 688 - Internship in Educational Leadership I (3.00 cr.)
Students have the opportunity to apply and develop their conceptual knowledge and understanding of educational leadership under the guidance of both a school leader and a University supervisor. In addition, students develop, implement, and present a portfolio based upon the comprehensive experiences found in their internship. Written or electronic permission of program director. MEd students must have 33 credits completed. Certification students must have 15 credits completed. Must be passed with a B or better to move to AD 689 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 689 - Internship in Educational Leadership II (3.00 cr.)
Students have the opportunity to complete their internship experiences and portfolios. In addition, they reflect upon the total context of school leadership, including how to provide effective and efficient school leadership from an organizational context in terms of structure, human relations, politics, and culture. Written or electronic permission of the department chair. MEd students must have 33 credits completed. Certification students must have 15 credits completed.
Prerequisite: A grade of B or better in AD 688 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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AD 776 - Theory and Research in Educational Leadership (3.00 cr.)
Examines recent research in the field of Educational Leadership. Students explore prevailing paradigms and modes of research, as well as topics of contemporary and historical context relative to research in support of teaching, student learning, and school leadership.
Prerequisite: ED 600 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 600 - Foundations of Research in Education (3.00 cr.)
Examines various approaches to research in education, including historical/experimental methods, the survey, case study, and philosophical inquiry. Focuses on quantitative and qualitative methodology. Encourages students to develop a basis for evaluating and understanding research in the field and to familiarize themselves with the literature in their chosen areas of concentration. Acquisition of state-of-the-art information searching and accessing strategies is an integral part of the course objectives.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 601 - Philosophical Foundations of Diversity and Social Justice in Education (3.00 cr.)
Students focus on the intersection of diversity, social justice, and educational practices. Framed within current educational controversies, students are encouraged to develop an initial articulation of their personal philosophy of education. Readings help provoke critical reflection around these benefits and assumptions that will inform a further elaboration of student's philosophy of education.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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ED 602 - Learner-Centered Education (3.00 cr.)
Students examine the theoretical roots of learner-centered education. The focus is on the best available knowledge about how individuals learn and the most effective teaching techniques that emerge from those theories. Fundamental principles are stressed that can lead to the formation of motivated learners with a deep understanding of content and the ability to use their new knowledge to solve problems and think critically. Learning by Design, Universal Design for Learning, and Problem-Based Learning are presented as examples of the learner-centered approach.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 608 - Creative Thinking, Collaboration, and Educational Change (3.00 cr.)
Students systematically examine innovation in schools, including the philosophical and psychological assumptions that underlie departures from traditional schooling. Focusing on individuals, students explore theories in creativity and creative problem-solving skills to consider ways to open up individuals, groups, and institutions to meaningful change. Students are also exposed to new paradigms and programs in education.
Prerequisite: ED 602 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 609 - Social Justice and Technology (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on preparing candidates to foster educational environments that are socially just, diverse, inclusive, and equitable through the bridging of theory and the application of technology. Candidates develop critically reflective and analytical practices while exploring a broad range of tactics and strategies for acting on justice-oriented issues and appropriately harnessing the power of digital media in our interconnected world. Emphasis is placed on the equitable distribution of technology resources, consideration of diversity, and social responsibility.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 612 - Philosophy, History, and Reforms in Education (3.00 cr.)
Students focus on pivotal moments in American history and their influence upon the development of educational thought, curriculum, instruction, and reforms. Students gain a greater understanding of the contemporary condition of schools and educational policies and determine to what extent schools have been successful in fulfilling a democratic idea or complicit in maintaining the status quo.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 618 - Instructional Theories and Practices (3.00 cr.)
Provides students with a conceptual framework on different critical theories for implementation into teaching pedagogies. Students also explore associated innovative teaching practices.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 623 - Independent Study in Education (1-3.00 cr.)
Individual projects geared to specific needs or interests of students. Specific requirements related to each independent study will be approved on an individual basis. Written or electronic permission of the advisor and the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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ED 625 - Montessori Capstone: A Professional Learning Plan (3.00 cr.)
Reflecting on their program, students identify areas for ongoing professional development and develop a personal growth plan for their careers. The final assignment is an online presentation outlining their commitment to sound Montessori practice and a description of how they can use their training to provide leadership to the Montessori movement, in service to the child. Written or electronic permission of the advisor.
Restrictions: Restricted to Montessori Students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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ED 627 - Advanced Research Project in Montessori Education (3.00 cr.)
Students design and implement a research project related to their field of specialization. A proposal is submitted for approval. Documentation of the project is submitted in a portfolio that includes a research paper.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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ED 651 - Curriculum Theories (3.00 cr.)
Provides students with a framework to examine the underpinnings of curriculum from a historical, contemporary, and forward-thinking standpoint with a focus on the politicization of curriculum. In addition, students consider how curriculum should address local and national contextual needs for a diverse and changing world.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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ED 659 - Power, Identity, and Intersectionalities (3.00 cr.)
Students explore structural theories of race, class, sexualities, and gender in an effort to understand how these discourses impact unequal educational experiences and outcomes, and the ways in which power and the powerful benefit from marginalization. Students unpack how schools operate as a mechanism for reproducing marginalization through a racialized, gendered, and classed social order. Through this conversation, students can begin the journey of working toward classrooms and schools that challenge the status quo and aim for a more just society.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 670 - Teacher Research and Inquiry (3.00 cr.)
Investigates aspects of action research including choosing a topic to study, examining ethical issues, planning and implementing methodologies, conducting a literature review, becoming a reflective practitioner, and analyzing data for more effective teaching.
Prerequisite: Curriculum and instruction students must have 24 credits completed.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 700 - Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction: Special Topics (3.00 cr.)
Provides students with an in-depth examination into a special topic. Topics vary by section. May be repeated for credit two times with different topics.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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ED 750 - Thesis Seminar I (3.00 cr.)
Students planning to propose a thesis topic enroll in this course as they begin the thesis process. Informal meetings scheduled at the convenience of the participants and advisors provide an opportunity for critical discussion of planned research. Students receive credit upon successful completion of the thesis. Written or electronic permission of the advisor.
Restrictions: Restricted to MA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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ED 751 - Thesis Seminar II (3.00 cr.)
The culmination of work begun in ED 750 . Students enroll in this course during the last semester of thesis work and receive credit upon successful completion of the thesis. Written or electronic permission of the advisor.
Prerequisite: ED 750
Restrictions: Restricted to MA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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ED 776 - Theory and Research on Teaching (3.00 cr.)
Designed to give students an understanding of the range of theories and research on teaching and teacher leadership. The course content focuses on original research studies and theoretical arguments, primarily on instructional practices, professional development, cultural contexts of schooling, and pedagogical/philosophical issues within education.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 800 - Thesis Seminar (3.00 cr.)
Students analyze data from research projects begun in ED 670 . Students use and apply the lenses gained during the initial course sequence to examine the educational implications of their research. As a summative assessment, students complete an original empirical research thesis based on a conceptual or historical educational issue. Should be taken as the final course in the curriculum and instruction program.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 805 - Capstone Seminar (3.00 cr.)
Students use and apply the lenses gained during the initial core course sequence to examine an educational problem, topic, or issue related to their chosen track. As a summative assessment, students complete an original empirical research study or other substantive project in close consultation with their faculty advisor. Should be taken as the final course in the curriculum and instruction program.
Prerequisite: AD 776 or ED 600 or ED 670 or ED 776 ; ED 612 , ED 659 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ED 900 - Advanced Study in Music Education (3.00 cr.)
Students participate in an in-depth study of music learning theory that includes theory, aptitude testing, practical applications in the classroom, and assessment.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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Educational Technology |
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ET 605 - Introduction to Educational Technology (3.00 cr.)
Examines applications of traditional and emerging technology to the curriculum with an emphasis on the use of technology as an instructional tool to enhance the quality of classroom instruction and facilitate the work of the teacher. Includes hands-on experience with a variety of technology as well as discussions of the place of technology in school reform along with exposure to technology integration models. MAT program students may opt to take this course for one credit. Completing this course for one credit does not fulfill any non-elective or prerequisite requirement outside of the MAT program.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ET 620 - Multimedia Design in the Classroom (3.00 cr.)
Provides an introduction to the design, development, and evaluation of multimedia projects for and in K-12 classrooms and professional learning environments. Emphasis is on the use of multimedia to support the delivery of instruction, and the implementation of an instructional design model to create authentic multimedia learning tasks for K-12 students. The course also focuses on multimedia design and production as a means to teach K-12 students how to be critical consumers of information. This technology course provides hands-on learning experiences and requires extensive technology work outside of class.
Prerequisite: ET 605 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ET 630 - Digital Communication for Educators (3.00 cr.)
Examines ways that learners can use digital communication technology to work creatively with others; to expand the walls of their classrooms for collaborative and global learning; and to enhance the ways that students access, evaluate, and disseminate information.
Prerequisite: ET 605 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ET 631 - Transformative Online Teaching (3.00 cr.)
Develops expertise for teaching online and blended courses in K-12 and higher education settings. The course focuses on a series of essential skills for online teachers and the theories and best practices for integrating emerging technologies to facilitate high quality online and blended courses. Candidates develop pedagogical strategies that promote strategic use of asynchronous and synchronous tools that heighten student engagement, social presence, and interaction. The class is conducted fully online.
Prerequisite: ET 605 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ET 660 - Innovative Digital Schools (3.00 cr.)
Explores the effectiveness, practices, theory, and framework of deeper learning schools and how these schools are using digital technologies to transform the current norms of teaching and learning. Technology has transformed our society in the ways we connect, communicate, collaborate, and how we learn, yet education continues to be entrenched in traditional pedagogical styles. Through the lens of why schools need to be different and how educators can enact change, candidates analyze their current educational practices and research innovative models, based in real examples, resulting in innovative digital ideas for a K-12 educational setting.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ET 662 - Technology Leadership and Professional Learning (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on developing the skills and knowledge candidates need to lead professional growth of instructional staff in support of improved student learning. The course focuses on theoretical and practical approaches to leadership and adult learning theory using a mix of online and face-to-face staff development techniques. Particular emphasis is placed upon digital pedagogies and engagement in professional learning networks within and outside the school. The class is conducted fully online.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ET 680 - The Role of the Technology Leader (3.00 cr.)
Explores the role of the technology leader in fostering school change with technology. Examines models of change and the various ways that teacher leaders, school leaders, and school system leaders can become catalysts for change through innovative technology integration. Focuses on the role of technology planning for successful implementation of school change.
Prerequisite: ET 605 or ET 610 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ET 690 - Educational Technology Seminar (3.00 cr.)
Candidates explore technology in education and society from a variety of perspectives through extensive readings and discussions. Candidates also explore frameworks for understanding the advantages and disadvantages of technology.
Prerequisite: AD 776 or ED 776 or ED 670 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ET 691 - Educational Technology Internship (3.00 cr.)
Candidates engage in a major educational technology leadership project in a school or school-district setting. This experience provides candidates with significant opportunities to apply their educational technology knowledge and skills in a real setting under the supervision of their administration and their internship supervisor. Candidates propose a leadership project based on needs identified in their professional setting, facilitate said plan, work cooperatively with colleagues and their internship supervisor to implement, and actively reflect on their process and progress. At the conclusion of the internship, candidates complete a portfolio linking the internship to program key concepts and digitally present their work to colleagues. Pass/Fail
Prerequisite: 24 credits completed.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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ET 699 - Thesis Seminar (6.00 cr.)
Candidates planning to propose a thesis topic enroll in this course as they begin the thesis process. Informal meetings scheduled at the convenience of participants and advisors provide an opportunity for critical discussion of planned research. Students receive credit upon successful completion of their thesis. Written or electronic permission of the advisor.
Restrictions: Restricted to MA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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EL 700 - Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (3.00 cr.)
This course has two primary objectives: to provide a practical, action-oriented approach to business ethics that helps individuals who work in corporations and organizations decide what to do when they are faced with an ethical dilemma, and to explore modern corporate social responsibility-an approach to management that guides organizations beyond creating an ethical environment in the workplace. While pursuing these objectives, students study alternative perspectives on a wide range of contemporary business issues through readings and case studies. Ultimately, students see the extent to which ethics and moral and social responsibilities are intertwined.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 701 - Operations and Process Strategies (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on how operations can be used for competitive advantage in today's world by improving the use of an organization's resources. Frameworks are provided by linking business processes, metrics, best practices, and technologies to add value for the ultimate customer of the firm. Topics cover enterprise decisions related to both product and service companies such as process mapping, value stream mapping, quality management, lean philosophy, continuous process improvement, inventory control, waiting line management, and capacity management. Pedagogical methods include lectures, simulations, cases, and projects. Students develop competencies in process analysis, value stream mapping, inventory control, and queuing management.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 702 - Marketing Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Explores marketing's role in creating value for the firm and its stakeholders in a global marketplace. Using analytical tools for decision making, students evaluate and formulate marketing strategy across the product life cycle and in various levels of competitive intensity. Key topics include situational analysis, the marketing mix (4P's: product, price, place, and promotion), segmentation, targeting, and positioning. This course involves working in teams on case presentations and crafting strategic marketing plans. Same course as GB 702 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 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. Same course as GB 703 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 704 - Emerging Technologies and Analytics (3.00 cr.)
Provides a strategic management approach to developing and sustaining competitive advantage by integrating analytics and information technology into business activities. Topics include alignment of technology with management and organization goals; business value of technology; enterprise systems; customer relationship management; social and mobile technologies; "Big Data" technologies; technology innovations; distributed co-creation; the "Internet of Things"; cyber security; 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. Same course as GB 704 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 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.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 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.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 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.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 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.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 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. This course may also consider 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.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 713 - Domestic Field Study (1.00 cr.)
Students explore business models and engage with business leaders on a variety of cutting edge topics through corporate site visits.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 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.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 717 - Emerging Leaders Sustainability Colloquium (1.00 cr.)
Over the course of the academic year, students engage in active learning around the ELMBA program's central question: How do competent, credible, confident emerging leaders contribute to sustainable value creation for all stakeholders? Academic topics include sustainability, leadership, and critical thinking. Activities include networking opportunities, panel discussions, and site visits to local businesses. May be repeated once for degree credit. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 719 - Internship (3.00 cr.)
Graduate-level internships provide opportunities for students to engage in career exploration by gaining exposure to a field to determine the extent of their interest in it, and to put classroom knowledge and skills to use in responding to the specific needs and interests of a particular firm. Internships may include the option of a team-based field study or consulting project. On-site and online experiences combine to provide learning and feedback for career development.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 725 - Law, Ethics, and Social Responsibility (3.00 cr.)
Examines recent lawsuits, disasters and scandals through the lenses of law, ethics, and social responsibility. The course uses contemporary cases to consider business actions and inactions that affect: (1) consumers, (2) employees, (3) investors, (4) suppliers, (5) communities, and (6) the natural environment. For each module, students envision and articulate how law, ethics, and social responsibility hold the potential to harness positive individual and organizational behavior. The course encourages future leaders to engage in morally sound behavior and help shape sound corporate and organizational actions that recognize that other people and their desires count.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 775 - International Field Study (3.00 cr.)
Provides participants with an experientially-based international field study. By design, this course overlaps and extends the thinking and perspectives taken in previous courses in the program, while providing students with a conceptual framework that can be expanded and modified in future courses. Students learn to make better management decisions in a competitive global environment. Topics range from the application of the constraints and opportunities arising from diverse and changing international environmental factors (such as cultural distance, political risk, economic stability, legal complexities, and foreign exchange exposure) to managerial issues arising in conducting business overseas.
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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EL 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 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.
Prerequisite: EL 707 , EL 715 .
Restrictions: Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 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 (may be taken concurrently): GB 600 or GB 715 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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FI 720 - Advanced Corporate Finance (3.00 cr.)
Builds upon students' knowledge from FI 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: FI 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 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: FI 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 722 - Investment Analysis (3.00 cr.)
Provides students with an introduction to the organization and functionality of securities markets with an emphasis on fundamental analysis. 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: FI 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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FI 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 FI 828 .
Prerequisite: FI 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 724 - Financial Markets and Institutions (3.00 cr.)
Surveys money and capital markets in order to determine their functions and interrelations in the national economy. This course 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 (may be taken concurrently): FI 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 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 trans-cultural commerce.
Prerequisite: FI 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 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 is also placed on the changing environment of the investment banking industry. Closed to students who have taken this course as a topic under FI 825 or GB 825 .
Prerequisite: FI 703 , FI 724 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 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: FI 703 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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FI 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: FI 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 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 typically include derivatives markets, pricing models, interest rate derivatives, stock options, binomial option pricing, numerical procedures, and exotic options.
Prerequisite: FI 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 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 twice for credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: Varies with topic.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 827 - Valuation (3.00 cr.)
Teaches students to value equity securities, starting with the top-down approach and industry analysis/forecasting. This course examines 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: FI 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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FI 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.
Prerequisite: FI 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 700 - Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (3.00 cr.)
This course has two primary objectives: to provide a practical, action-oriented approach to business ethics that helps individuals who work in corporations and organizations decide what to do when they are faced with an ethical dilemma, and to explore modern corporate social responsibility-an approach to management that guides organizations beyond creating an ethical environment in the workplace. While pursuing these objectives, students study alternative perspectives on a wide range of contemporary business issues through readings and case studies. Ultimately, students see the extent to which ethics and moral and social responsibilities are intertwined.
Restrictions: Closed to students entering summer 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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