2021-2022 Graduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Forensic Studies |
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FO 750 - Forensic Cognitive Psychology (3.00 cr.)
Introduction to the application of cognitive psychology to the improvement of forensic science policy and practice. Students examine current challenges for the forensic science community, including the contribution of forensic science errors to wrongful convictions and the increasing demand for forensic examinations to produce probative results in criminal trials.
Restrictions: Restricted to forensic pattern analysis majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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FO 780 - Pattern Evidence Recognition and Statistical Methods (1.00 cr.)
An introduction to the current paradigms and statistical methods used or being developed for forensic pattern evidence. Students are assigned readings and training through online assignments.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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FO 790 - Forensic Pattern Analysis Capstone (4.00 cr.)
A capstone experience in which a student may arrange an internship, independent study, or research experience with a faculty sponsor to engage in an in-depth exploration of a topic associated with forensic or criminal investigation.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/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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GB 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.
Prerequisite: GB 715 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 702 - Marketing Strategy (3.00 cr.)
Explores marketing's role in creating value for the firm and its stakeholders in a global environment. Using analytical tools for decision making, students evaluate and formulate a marketing strategy across the product life cycle and in various levels of competitive intensity. Key topics include environmental analysis, marketing mix (product, price, promotion, and distribution strategy), segmentation, targeting, and positioning. Same course as EL 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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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. Same course as EL 703 .
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 - Emerging Technologies and Analytics (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. Same course as EL 704 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 705 - Leading and Managing People (3.00 cr.)
Develops knowledge and skills for effectively leading and managing people and teams in organizational settings. This course teaches how to create and manage conditions that promote the performance, well-being, and commitment of employees and teams in the workplace. Topics include effective leader behaviors, power and influence, team composition, setting goals and direction, job design, supportive relationships, coaching employees and teams, fostering an adaptive and innovative culture, managing personal and career development, and developing a higher purpose for how to lead employees and teams. Pedagogical methods include class discussions, case studies, group exercises and discussions, and individual reflections.
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 , and GB 700 (or GB 712 ); 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.
Restrictions: Closed to students entering summer 2020 and beyond.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 712 - Law, Ethics, and Social Responsibility (3.00 cr.)
Explores the ways in which law, in a variety of forms, sets boundaries on human behavior. Students examine recent lawsuits, disasters, and scandals through the lenses of law, ethics, and social responsibility. The course helps students articulate why individuals disagree about the extent to which we can and should apply specific tools to business problems that raise legal and ethical concerns. Students also discover the dynamic nature of social responsibility and its role in promoting accountability, sustainability, and more.
Restrictions: Open to students entering summer 2020 and beyond.
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 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: EL 715 or GB 715 .
Prerequisite (may be taken concurrently): EL 704 or GB 704 .
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 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 .
Recommended Prerequisite: 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 processing and cleaning of real-world datasets and their appropriate representation in visual form. Data resides in a multitude of databases and formats and comes in a variety of forms such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Making data understandable to non-technical users requires knowledge of the best techniques for presenting data to aid in its interpretation. This course is focused on the use of data visualization techniques in software applications such as Tableau™, Python, and R. Same course as DS 736 .
Prerequisite: GB 730 or written permission of the instructor.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 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.
Prerequisite: EL 704 or GB 704
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 740 - Digital Marketing and Analytics (3.00 cr.)
Digital marketing is how marketing strategy gets executed in the digital space. No area of business has been more fundamentally transformed by technology than marketing. Social media, CRM, direct marketing, search, online advertising, content creation and distribution, communications, and brand management are all technology dependent. This course introduces students to marketing technology platforms such as Marketo (direct marketing), SalesForce.com (CRM), Google Analytics (web analytics), social media management, and analytic tools like Iconosquare (Instagram), Tableau or PowerB1. Students connect the dots between technology tools and strategy, data, analytics and insights; providing them with the knowledge and skills necessary for contemporary marketing.
Prerequisite: GB 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
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: B2C). The course covers recent and groundbreaking work in consumer research on the many facets of consumers as unique individuals and decision makers, the social and cultural influences on consumer behavior, and the ethical responsibility of marketers. The course considers multiple perspectives on consumer behavior, including psychological, and sociological, and highlights how understanding consumers can inform marketing strategy. This class involves working in teams on a research project to address a marketing problem.
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. As a part of this course, this class evaluates a real-world company and the customer experience it delivers. Serves as an elective for both Management and Marketing specializations. 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.)
Explores the drivers of successful innovation. Students learn the stages of a systematic innovation process, the critical components of innovation strategy, and the characteristics of organizational cultures that motivate creativity, experimentation, and risk taking. Topics covered include understanding the different types of innovation, managing innovation failure, and developing technology-based innovations. Based on design thinking principles, the course includes a mix of discussions, case studies, and hands-on activities. In particular, students conduct market research to develop an innovation. Serves as an elective for both Marketing and Management specializations.
Prerequisite: GB 702 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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GB 746 - Strategies for Marketing Communication (3.00 cr.)
A sound marketing communication strategy is a prerequisite for a successful marketing campaign. Strategies for marketing communication address the critical question: How to effectively and efficiently bring a message (e.g., what to say, how to say, when to say, etc.) about your products or services to the target audience? Students study the key elements in a well-grounded strategy for the marketing communications programs for any customer-oriented institution. The process of formulating such a strategy for marketing communications is also examined. Furthermore, common and emerging strategies for marketing communications are discussed and critically evaluated. This class incorporates a mix of case analysis, presentation, discussion, and lecture.
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: Annually
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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: GB 704 .
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 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 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 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 , and GB 700 (or GB 712 ); 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.
Prerequisite: GB 722 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
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 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: EL 705 or 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 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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KM 852 - Kodály Pedagogy, Level I (1-2.00 cr.)
A sequential, child-developmental approach to vocal music pedagogy for children in preschool through grade one 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 developmentally appropriate songs and activities 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: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 853 - Kodály Materials, Level I (1-3.00 cr.)
Participants research, collect, and learn a collection of rhymes, songs, and singing games that support Kodály methodology for preschool through grade one. They learn the principles of 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 instruments, with an emphasis on playing the Appalachian dulcimer.
Restrictions: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 855 - Secondary Choral Studies I (2.00 cr.)
Level-I students in Secondary Choral Studies focus on repertoire for middle and high school choral and vocal ensembles. Students focus on choral conducting, choral rehearsal planning, and musical literacy. Strategies for improving vocal blend and methods for auditioning choristers are covered. During the choir segment, participants have an opportunity to perform choral masterpieces from all periods, arrangements of 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: All
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KM 856 - Choral Studies, Level I (1-2.00 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: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 860 - Musicianship, Level I (1-2.00 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: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 952 - Kodály Pedagogy, Level II (1-2.00 cr.)
A sequential, child-developmental approach to vocal music pedagogy for children in grades two and three 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 developmentally appropriate songs and activities 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: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 953 - Kodály Materials, Level II (1-3.00 cr.)
Participants research, collect, and learn community and children's rhymes, songs, and singing games that support Kodály methodology for grades two to three. They apply the principles of 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 instruments, with an emphasis on playing the guitar.
Restrictions: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 955 - Secondary Choral Studies II (2.00 cr.)
Level-II students in Secondary Choral Studies focus on repertoire for middle and high school choral and vocal ensembles. Students focus on choral conducting, choral rehearsal planning, and musical literacy. Strategies for improving vocal blend and methods for auditioning choristers are covered. During the choir segment, participants have an opportunity to perform choral masterpieces from all periods, arrangements of 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: All
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KM 956 - Choral Studies, Level II (1-2.00 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: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 960 - Musicianship, Level II (1-2.00 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: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 992 - Choral Studies, Level III (1-2.00 cr.)
During the first portion, participants develop and implement a rehearsal flow chart and practice advanced conducting techniques. They may also learn other techniques such as applying the International Phonetic Alphabet to choral texts with students. During the choir segment, participants have an opportunity to perform choral masterpieces from all periods, arrangements of 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: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 993 - Kodály Materials, Level III (1-3.00 cr.)
Participants collect and learn songs and singing games that support Kodály methodology for grades four and five, and beyond. They continue the study begun in Levels I and II of the principles of 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 instruments, with an emphasis on ukulele. Participants prepare songs to sing and play on the ukulele for a group demonstration/performance at the end of the course.
Restrictions: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 994 - Kodály Pedagogy, Level III (1-2.00 cr.)
A sequential, child-developmental approach to vocal music pedagogy for children in grades four, five and beyond 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 developmentally appropriate songs and activities, 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: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 995 - Musicianship, Level III (1-2.00 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: One-credit course sections are restricted to Graduate Certificate in Kodály Education students. All higher numbered credit course sections are restricted to Master's Kodály Music Education students.
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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KM 997 - Secondary Choral Studies III (2.00 cr.)
Level-III students in Secondary Choral Studies focus on repertoire for middle and high school choral and vocal ensembles. Students focus on choral conducting, choral rehearsal planning, and musical literacy. Strategies for improving vocal blend and methods for auditioning choristers are covered. During the choir segment, participants have an opportunity to perform choral masterpieces from all periods, arrangements of 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: All
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RE 510 - Foundations of Literacy Curriculum and Instruction (3.00 cr.)
Students analyze and explore topics including various theories, processes, and models of reading and writing; definitions of literacy; knowledge of language development, cueing systems, metacognition, vocabulary, writing, spelling, phonemic awareness, phonics and comprehension; and formal and informal assessment for all literacy learners K-12. Introduces research processes and personal inquiry strategies.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 520 - Principles and Practices of Teaching Reading (3.00 cr.)
Introduces theory and research related to reading, and its curriculum and pedagogy; including the situated and multi-layered conceptualizing of reading with an eye toward practical implications for teaching and learning inside and outside classroom contexts. Includes multiple instructional strategies adapted to the specific needs and interests of all literacy learners K-12. Current children's and young adult literature texts are explored in context to support learners K-12.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 523 - Elementary Literacy and Literature (3.00 cr.)
Explores the major theories of language development, phonological processing, cognition, and learning as related to emergent and elementary literacy learners. In conjunction, current children's literature is explored to support the development of young learners.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 525 - Reading and Writing in the Linguistically Diverse Class (3.00 cr.)
Offers an overview of the underlying concepts and practical skills needed for English learners (EL) to acquire literacy in English. Students learn methods and strategies for planning, implementing, and assessing reading and writing instruction for all ages and levels of EL students, from pre-literacy to academic skills. Special emphasis is placed on ensuring academic success for English learners in U.S. grade K-12 schools and beyond. Specific topics include reading comprehension, content-based instruction, vocabulary development, beginning reading skills (phonemic awareness and phonics), reading fluency, academic literacy, the writing process, and reading and writing assessment.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 531 - Adolescent Literacy and Literature (3.00 cr.)
Investigates the situated and multi-layered conceptualizing of adolescent literacy with an eye toward practical implications for teaching and learning inside and outside the classroom contexts. Current young adult literature is explored as a way to support adolescent learners.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 601 - Media Literacy Education (3.00 cr.)
Introduces media literacy education, its curriculum and pedagogy. Media literacy education is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate media in a variety of forms. It expands notions of "reading" beyond traditional print texts to acknowledge various twenty-first century multiple literacies and consider perspective and difference. It can be integrated into a variety of subjects.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 602 - Second Language Development: Theory and Practice (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on facilitating understanding of language and language use, especially as it pertains to learning and teaching with emerging bilingual K-12 students. It introduces linguistic topics such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, as well as the interdisciplinary areas of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 603 - Language, Literacy, and Culture (3.00 cr.)
Explores various social, cultural, and political aspects of language and language use, such as ideology; identity; language change, variations, and dialects; and classroom discourse. Students examine philosophies and theories of bilingual education policy, practice, and research. Topics include second language acquisition, English-only mandates, testing practices, and curricular programs.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 604 - Methods for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (3.00 cr.)
Focuses on the theories and methods of second language teaching and learning, and develops skills in applying those methods to classroom practice through lesson plan development and demonstration. Students explore the techniques, strategies, and materials for delivering ESOL-focused instruction across the content areas. Students develop appropriate, research-based teaching strategies for application across language proficiency levels and grade spans.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 605 - Principles and Practices of Teaching Writing (3.00 cr.)
Introduces theory and research related to writing, its curriculum and pedagogy including the writing process, development of writing abilities, and writing instruction and assessment. This course explores the application of the literature to classroom practice at elementary, middle, and secondary school levels. Closed to students who have taken RE 601 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 606 - Assessments in Bilingual and Second Language Education (3.00 cr.)
Designed to give students a deep understanding of issues related to the testing and assessment of language minority students and offers practical suggestions for using assessment to inform student learning. Course content includes the study and evaluation of the means of assessing language and content proficiency, the consideration of relationships between second language proficiency and academic achievement, and sociocultural dimensions of testing and assessment. Teachers evaluate the outcomes of their curricular and instructional changes on English language learners' literacy and language proficiency. The final course in the TELL program.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 609 - Disciplinary Literacy (3.00 cr.)
Introduces the research and application that addresses literacy as a tool for learning content-specific material. Students explore a wide range of disciplinary strategies related to reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. Particular attention is given to vocabulary, comprehension, study skills, and writing strategies for all learning, including struggling readers and English Language Learners.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 610 - Disciplinary and Digital Literacies (3.00 cr.)
Explores theory and research related to disciplinary literacies in conjunction with new (digital) literacies at the K-12 level. Examines instructional and assessment practices and pedagogies for various disciplinary literacies. Explores the critical use of digital resources and tools to leverage disciplinary learning in an increasingly connected world.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 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.
Prerequisite: RE 510 , RE 523 , RE 531 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 725 - Literature for the Adolescent (3.00 cr.)
An overview of current literature published for middle and high school students. Various genres are explored in order to illustrate the broad literacy approaches present in texts aimed at youth.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring/Summer
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 733 - Teaching Literacy in the Content Area I (3.00 cr.)
Introduces a wide variety of strategies which use reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing to support content learning. Particular attention is given to the development of vocabulary, comprehension, study skills, and writing strategies for all learners including struggling readers and English Language Learners. The Maryland State Department of Education has approved this course for the required Reading in the Content Area I course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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RE 737 - Literacy Assessment I (3.00 cr.)
Examines the processes, models, and instruments for assessing the literacy development of diverse learners. Students develop the ability to critically select, administer, and implement appropriate literacy assessments for the purposes of formal and informal data collection. Students also synthesize a variety of data points to facilitate curricular and pedagogical decisions. Students learn methods to effectively and professionally communicate assessment results and corresponding instructional plan suggestions with stakeholders including: teachers, administrators, parents, guardians, and advocates. May be repeated once for degree credit.
Prerequisite: RE 510 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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