2022-2023 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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HIS 497 - Internship, Credit hours to be arranged
The for-credit internship registration process is handled via the Career Services Handshake platform. To register your internship for credit, please contact Career Services at career@bw.edu.
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Honors |
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HON 197X - Honors Guided Internship, 1-3 credit hours
In this guided internship course, students will serve as interns in the workplace and meet weekly to discuss readings and reflection relevant to their experiences at work. Placements could be in not-for-profit, for-profit, or educational organizations. Weekly reflection meetings with the faculty supervisor, a weekly journal, and a final experiential reflection essay are designed to solidify the student’s learning from this experience. The for-credit internship registration process is handled via the Career Services Handshake platform. To register your internship for credit, please contact Career Services at career@bw.edu.
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HON 200 - Interdisciplinary Honors Theme, 3-4 credit hours
HON 200 is a course with an intentional perspective from two core schools (Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences). The themes range from the narrow to the broad. This interdisciplinary approach is intended to help the student understand how different disciplines address current problems, how thinking has evolved, and how to integrate modes of thinking across disciplines.
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HON 250 - Special Topics, 1-4 credit hours
Special Topics courses (Example: Problem Solving, Constructing Scientific Knowledge, Freedom vs. Equality, Ethical Clashes)
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HON 259 - Faculty Student Collaboration, 3 credit hours
Through the FSC courses Baldwin Wallace University encourages and supports faculty-student collaborators as they tackle the inquiry-based, unscripted problems typical of research, scholarship and other creative endeavors. These courses facilitate the engagement of students and faculty in the deep learning required for the creation, practice, and sharing of knowledge or works in their area of professional study. Enrollment in the course is competitive and requires that collaborating students and faculty submit a project proposal.
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HON 297 - Internship, Credit hours to be arranged
The for-credit internship registration process is handled via the Career Services Handshake platform. To register your internship for credit, please contact Career Services at career@bw.edu.
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HON 350 - Seminar in Honors, 1-4 credit hours
Advanced Special Topics courses. Junior or Senior status required.
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HON 359 - Faculty Student Collaboration, 3 credit hours
Through the FSC courses Baldwin Wallace University encourages and supports faculty-student collaborators as they tackle the inquiry-based, unscripted problems typical of research, scholarship and other creative endeavors. These courses facilitate the engagement of students and faculty in the deep learning required for the creation, practice, and sharing of knowledge or works in their area of professional study. Enrollment in the course is competitive and requires that collaborating students and faculty submit a project proposal.
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HON 397 - Internship, Credit hours to be arranged
The for-credit internship registration process is handled via the Career Services Handshake platform. To register your internship for credit, please contact Career Services at career@bw.edu.
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HON 459 - Faculty Student Collaboration, 3 credit hours
Through the FSC courses Baldwin Wallace University encourages and supports faculty-student collaborators as they tackle the inquiry-based, unscripted problems typical of research, scholarship and other creative endeavors. These courses facilitate the engagement of students and faculty in the deep learning required for the creation, practice, and sharing of knowledge or works in their area of professional study. Enrollment in the course is competitive and requires that collaborating students and faculty submit a project proposal.
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HON 491 - Honors Thesis, 1-4 credit hours
This Honors Program course will be offered on an independent study basis and is suggested for students in their junior or senior year. The topic must be approved by the Director of the Honors Program.
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HON 497 - Internship, Credit hours to be arranged
The for-credit internship registration process is handled via the Career Services Handshake platform. To register your internship for credit, please contact Career Services at career@bw.edu.
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Hospitality and Tourism Management |
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HTM 240 - Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism Management, 3 credit hours
This course explores the history and development of the hospitality and tourism industries. The course will focus on the exploration of different sectors of the hospitality and tourism industries, travel motivations, experience management, supply and demand for tourism products and services, trends and issues, and effects of hospitality and tourism industries on individuals, cultures, and native environments.
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HTM 326 - Tourism in Recreation and Leisure, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): ASW 226 , HTM 240 , BUS 108 , SPM 243 , or MGT 205
The course aims to develop a clear understanding of the relationship between the theory and practice of working in tourism in recreation and leisure. The course is designed to encourage students to develop an understanding of tourist industry operations and problems, and competence in identifying procedures and solutions, by using best practice from industry, established business techniques and information systems.
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HTM 342 - Hospitality and Tourism Marketing and Sales, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MKT 230
This course will introduce the core principles of marketing within the realm of hospitality and tourism management. Emphasis will be placed on strategies to actively engage consumers in experience industry settings through marketing and sales. An in-depth analysis of marketing strategies and theories will aid a holistic appreciation of the scope and importance of the marketing and sales functions in the hospitality business.
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HTM 343 - Customer Experience Management in Hospitality & Tourism, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): ASW 226 , HTM 240 , BUS 108 , SPM 243 , or MGT 205
This course explores how hospitality and tourism professionals create and manage purposefully designed and staged situated experiences. Students will gain a foundation in experience management with necessary knowledge on how to design, develop, implement, and evaluate, situated experiences.
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HTM 344 - Hospitality & Tourism Lodging and Operations, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): ASW 226 , HTM 240 , BUS 108 , SPM 243 , or MGT 205
This course introduces and discusses the organization and administration of hospitality and tourism lodging operations including front desk operations, housekeeping, sales/marketing, management and other positions common to lodging operations.
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HTM 497X - Internship, 3 credit hours
The for-credit internship registration process is handled via the Career Services Handshake platform. To register your internship for credit, please contact Career Services at career@bw.edu.
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HUM 200H - Global Citizenship: Succeeding in an Intercultural World, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): ENG 131
What does it mean to live in this intercultural world? How can we make sense of ourselves, our relationship to others, and our relationship to nature in the midst of cultural difference, violence, global poverty, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the pervasive hope that we can make our world a better place for all people? In this course, students and faculty engage with current events and the ideas of influential thinkers from various liberal arts disciplines; together, we explore ways of responding to some complex issues facing us all today.
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HUM 215 - Career Pathways for Humanities Majors, 1 credit hour
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore Standing
This course guides Humanities students through the exploration of possible career pathways in order to increase their knowledge about and confidence in finding a rewarding career that will make use of the skills they developed in their Humanities classes.
Graded: S/U
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HUM 270X - Career Connections for Humanities Majors, 1-3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore Standing, 3.0 GPA, & Application to Professor- resume, cover letter, recommendation.
A guided internship in business and not-for-profit organizations with weekly meetings with the faculty supervisor to reflect, read relevant materials, and begin to chart out a career path.
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HUM 285I - Intercultural Communication, 3 credit hours
This course, taught in English by faculty of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, will complement the basic familiarity with intercultural communication. The goal is to analyze difficulties in communicating across cultural boundaries, misunderstandings arising from cultural differences and techniques for living and working successfully in an intercultural setting with a stress on international differences. The course utilizes film analyses, critical incidents, and other experiential learning techniques. Special focus will be on intercultural theories including monochronic vs. polychronic time orientation, an expansion of the basic value orientations, the interconnection of language and culture in both verbal and non-verbal communication and on studies of intercultural matters in specific contexts. It is required of foreign languages majors, but is appropriate for any student interested in cultural studies, those wishing to engage in international travel, study abroad or in working and living in an increasingly global society.
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HUM 295 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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HUM 395 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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HUM 495 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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INT 200I - Introduction to International Studies, 3 credit hours
Notes: Open to seniors with instructor permission. This course is not open to entering freshmen. Students will have the option to use second language skills to research selected assignments.
This course studies how individuals acquire their cultural, national and state identifications and how these varied identifications complicate coping with a variety of global challenges arising from increasing interdependence and, through case studies and simulations, challenges students to adopt different perspectives and experience the possible cooperation or conflict which results. It provides an introduction to a global community in transition in the post-Cold War world and to the interdisciplinary approach which characterizes the study of international affairs.
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INT 250I - Security, Technology and Threat Assessment, 3 credit hours
Notes: Open to seniors with instructor permission. This course is not open to entering freshmen. Students will have the option to use second language skills to
research selected assignments.
This introduction to security analysis will provide an overview of security threats ranging from the traditional definition focused on war to an enlarged conception of human security and existentialist threat assessment encompassing a broader range of issues including the environment and health. Attention will be directed at the challenges of managing complex interdependent systems of governance and associated risks of information analysis under conditions of advancing technology. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the overlap in types of security threats, the importance of applying different perspectives and related information and management issues which arise in developing appropriate responses.
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INT 259 - Faculty-student Collaboration, Credit hours to be arranged
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INT 263I - Special Topics, 1-3 credit hours
An examination of selected topics in the field of international studies. May be repeated if topics are different.
Semesters Offered: Not offered every year.
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INT 295I - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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INT 297I - Internship, Credit hours to be arranged
The for-credit internship registration process is handled via the Career Services Handshake platform. To register your internship for credit, please contact Career Services at career@bw.edu.
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INT 359 - Faculty-student Collaboration, Credit hours to be arranged
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INT 363I - Seminar in International Studies or National Security, 3 credit hours
An upper-level seminar dealing with topics not covered elsewhere in the curriculum.
Semesters Offered: Not offered every year.
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INT 390 - Preparing for Post-BW, 1 credit hour
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior Standing International Studies Majors Only.
This one credit workshop will help students analyze their academic and co-curricular experiences in ways that help them develop post-graduation plans for graduate school, law school, or employment. Students are encouraged to take this during the fall of their junior year.
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INT 395I - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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INT 397I - Internship, Credit hours to be arranged
The for-credit internship registration process is handled via the Career Services Handshake platform. To register your internship for credit, please contact Career Services at career@bw.edu.
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INT 459 - Faculty-student Collaboration, Credit hours to be arranged
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INT 463I - Senior Capstone Seminar, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): ENG 131 , INT 200I , INT 250I and senior standing.
An integrative interdisciplinary capstone seminar which draws on at least two of the disciplines which comprise the International Studies and National Security majors to analyze a contemporary topic of global significance. Consult the International Studies section of the course schedule for topics and scheduling information.
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INT 491 - Senior Thesis, Credit hours to be arranged
The Senior Thesis gives juniors and seniors the opportunity to do intensive research on a particular topic of global significance. Students develop their study under the direct supervision of a faculty member as approved by the head of the department or program in which the study will be done. The departmental thesis/project is intended to afford students an opportunity to engage in a study of a significant field of knowledge, to carry on original investigation when possible, and to further develop their abilities of self-expression.
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INT 492 - Departmental Thesis Project, Credit hours to be arranged
The Departmental Thesis/Project gives juniors and seniors the opportunity to do intensive work on a particular topic of global significance. Students develop their study under the direct supervision of a faculty member as approved by the head of the department or program in which the study will be done. The departmental thesis/project is intended to afford students an opportunity to engage in a study of a significant field of knowledge, to carry on original investigation when possible, and to further develop their abilities of self-expression.
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INT 495I - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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INT 497I - Internship, Credit hours to be arranged
The for-credit internship registration process is handled via the Career Services Handshake platform. To register your internship for credit, please contact Career Services at career@bw.edu.
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ITL 101 - Elementary Italian I, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): None. Appropriate course for beginners. Students with more than two years of high school Italian must have special permission of the instructor to register for ITL 101.
An introduction to basic Italian vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. Students complete the first half of the elementary Italian textbook.
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ITL 102 - Elementary Italian II, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): ITL 101 or equivalent.
ITL 102 assumes some active knowledge of basic Italian and builds on the skills taught in ITL 101 , completing the elementary textbook.
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ITL 295 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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ITL 395 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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ITL 495 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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Latin American Studies |
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LAM 200 - Understanding Latin America, 3 credit hours
The course immerses students into Latin American studies by introducing them to the history, society, politics and culture of the region through a cross-disciplinary and multinational approach.
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Management |
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MGT 170 - Explorations in Healthcare Careers, 1 credit hour
This course provides a general exploration and evaluation of career opportunities in the field of healthcare management. The course will help prepare students for the internship search process and provide preparation to guide later career decisions.
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MGT 205 - Introduction to Management, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing
This course examines the leadership activities of managers within organizations in various environments. It also analyzes the functions of management from a holistic or systems perspective with emphasis on behavioral interaction and integration to create organizational effectiveness. Students apply knowledge acquired to successfully meet individual and organizational challenges.
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MGT 295 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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MGT 305 - Individual Development Plan I, 3 credit hours
This course will provide an assessment of individual student skills, interests, and values. Plans for achieving academic and professional goals are informed by assessment, reflection, conversation with organizational mentors, and faculty advisors. Students are coached through the process of communicating with organizational mentors about the evolving plan and needs for development.
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MGT 306 - Individual Development Plan II, 3 credit hours
This course will provide an assessment of individual student skills, interests, and values. Plans for achieving academic and professional goals are informed by assessment, reflection, conversation with organizational mentors, and faculty advisors. Students are coached through the process of communicating with organizational mentors about the evolving plan and needs for development.
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MGT 310 - Human Resource Management, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 205 or HTM 240
This course provides an overview of the various functions in the field of Human Resource Management. The functions of planning, selecting, compensating, appraising, training, and development are covered. Legislation and laws pertaining to these functions as well as labor relations and health and safety are examined. Overall organizational strategy is incorporated into the application of all Human Resource functions.
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MGT 325 - Organizational Project Management, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 205
This course prepares students for the needs of work environments that are increasing project based. The course builds skills that allow managers to plan, organize, direct and control resources to achieve a specific objective. Managers working with large complex projects systematically break them down until they become a series of manageable tasks. Keeping these tasks occurring on schedule and within budget is the Project Managers’ role.
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MGT 329 - Organizational Ethics, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status and one completed Business course
Business ethics provides an examination of moral problems facing organization managers with a focus on learning how to integrate ethical thinking with strategic thinking in shaping actions. Students analyze actual case problems, learning to use various ethical theories as a guide to clear thinking.
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MGT 340 - Biomimicry- Nature Inspired Product Design, 3 credit hours
Biomimicry is an emerging field that is encouraging scientists, engineers, social scientists, and inventors to look more closely at nature’s way of doing things as more sustainable than our human way. Nature has a rich and largely unexplored library of technologies that process and manage information, materials and energy. Students will both engage in the process of investigation as well as learn about opportunities for applications in various professional and vocational fields, thus broadening their carrier choices and desires. Students will have unique opportunity to learn and experience how biomimicry inspires and makes changes to various human activities and disciplines: business or organizational managers, architects, engineers, automotive and airplane industry, sustainable energy designers, biologists, entrepreneurs, builders and policy makers. Biomimicry is inspiring these various fields and societies to be more responsible and resilient, and to find and apply solutions to old and new problems in a more sustainable way.
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MGT 350 - Green Business, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Completion of 30 credit hours
This course introduces the student to the new and rapidly growing field of corporate sustainability. Topics will include global ecological trends compelling the need for sustainable business, the “triple bottom line”, total lifecycle analysis, green products and ecological design, sustainable supply chain analysis, long-term strategy, growing public, customer, government, and industry demands made on companies to heighten their levels of sustainability performance, and the ethical motivations that organizations can adopt for “green” performance . Case studies will focus on successful sustainability initiatives across a wide array of industries and organizational contexts as well as enduring challenges faced by businesses that aim toward sustainability.
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MGT 355 - Applied Project, 12 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Completion of a minimum of 18 credit hours in the Pacesetter Program and approval of project by the faculty advisor.
The Applied Project is an individual project. Students will identify or select a project opportunity within a for profit business, not for profit business, or new business venture to apply coursework for this project. Students will conduct an in-depth analysis and then make recommendations and/or implement a solution to address a current organizational problem, enhance organizational effectiveness or competitiveness, or explore and evaluate new business opportunities.
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MGT 357 - American Healthcare System, 3 credit hours
This course explores the history, evolution and current state of health services delivery in the United States. The course provides an overview of the various healthcare stakeholders and their impact on cost, quality and access to care. This course also reviews the overall trends in healthcare including the current and future role of technology. Finally, this course provides an overview of career opportunities in healthcare.
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MGT 367 - Healthcare Law and Ethics, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 357 or Legal Studies Minor
This course focuses on the exploration of the ethical and legal aspects of contemporary issues concerning health care delivery. The potential interaction and conflicts among individual value/moral systems, ethical standards, legal and regulatory considerations are examined. This course will provide a working knowledge of health law enabling students to deal with common legal, regulatory, ethical and practical problems facing the industry.
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MGT 377 - Healthcare Finance, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 357
This course examines the economic and regulatory environment as it affects healthcare organizations and provides a general economic framework for understanding public and private funding of healthcare in the U.S. This course also explores the trends in third-party funding as well as approaches to best manage this funding. Finally, this course compares the U.S. healthcare system to that of other countries; the emphasis of this comparison will be placed on funding and cost control as well as its impact on quality and access to care.
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MGT 395 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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MGT 405 - Leadership Excellence, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 205
Leadership is a dynamic and changing process encompassing a number of practical and theoretical constructs that are applicable to today’s rapidly changing environment. This course explores various leadership dimensions as applied to power, influence, motivation, satisfaction, groups, teams, and change, to name a few. The course also studies leaders and leadership theories for the purpose of developing and shaping one’s personal concept of leadership, and the application of various leadership approaches to different contexts. Additionally, not only will students explore leadership domestically, but also will engage in exploring global leadership and its application to different national settings.
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MGT 406I - International Organizational Behavior and Management, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 205 or HTM 240 . Students may not receive credit for both MGT 409D and MGT 406I
The course is designed to provide the student with theories and skills for understanding international organizational behavior. The individual, the project team, and the organization are the basic units of study and effective interpersonal behavior is presented as one of the most important factors in organizational change as it relates to various international contexts. Topics covered in this course include organizational & national culture differences, ethics & social responsibility, negotiation and conflict resolution, motivation, international human resource management, leadership and approaches to organizational change, to name a few.
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MGT 409D - Behavioral Theories of Management, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 205 or HTM 240 . Students may not receive credit for both MGT 409D and MGT 406I
This course is designed to provide the student with a behavioral science approach to organizations. Students will learn why we behave as we do in organizations and groups. The course will help the student understand how individual awareness effects performance as a manager and leader. Individual, group, and organizational differences and similarities are highlighted throughout the course. Students will begin to develop the interpersonal skills needed to be effective employees, managers, and leaders and improve the performance of organizations.
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MGT 411 - Compensation, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 310 or permission of instructor
Theory and strategy behind organizational compensation practices are examined. Specifically, the behavioral aspects of compensation, the legal constraints, development of base pay systems, variable pay, executive compensation, benefits, and services are covered. Students become familiar with actual practices and application in organizations.
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MGT 412 - Employment Law, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 310 or POL 207
This course is a review of the historical foundations of Employment Law and Labor Law with a focus on current issues as reflected by recent agency and court rulings. Students learn about employee rights and relevant management practices to comply with Federal employment and labor laws.
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MGT 413 - Staffing and Development, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 310 or permission of instructor
This course provides a strategic overview of the Human Resource Planning function. Job analysis, recruiting, selection, training, development, retention, and appraisal are covered as key topical areas with a focus on the theoretical foundations and application of current practices.
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MGT 487 - Problem Solving and Applied Healthcare Management, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Completion of all required healthcare major courses
This course focuses on the investigation and study of problem solving and effective decision making within the dynamics of current healthcare organizations. This course also stresses problem identification, problem analysis, making decisions and recommendations and implementing solutions, and comparing results to a plan. The case method approach is used; management memos and senior research papers that incorporate critical thinking, quantitative analysis, conceptual and technical data analysis, and a formal presentation, are required.
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MGT 494 - Industrial and Organizational Capstone Project, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MGT 310 or PSY 380
The capstone course will require students to apply learning from coursework in the Major to a project with an outside profit or non-profit organization. Students will learn the consultative process and develop and utilize skills in marketing ideas, influencing decision-makers, and interacting with various organizational constituencies. Students will implement business and behavioral science research knowledge and skills in order to address and solve organizational needs and problems. The capstone requires extensive oral and written communication skills in order to complete an applied and/or research project.
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MGT 495 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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MGT 501 - Systems Management & Organizational Theory, 3 credit hours
With an emphasis on systems management, organizational theory, and ethical management practices, this course provides the foundational theories and applications of organizational management that will be built upon throughout the MBA program. The course provides both a theoretical foundation and a practical understanding of dynamic internal and external organizational environments, and introduces some ethical challenges faced by today’s managers. On the individual level, students will begin a process of self-discovery and action planning.
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MGT 504 - Negotiation & Conflict Management, 2 credit hours
This course will develop student understanding of the principles, strategies, and tactics of effective negotiation and professional conflict management. Students will also increase awareness and understanding of ethical principles and stakeholder considerations that influence the choices offered and made in transactions and relationships.
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MGT 505 - Leadership and Teams, 3 credit hours
This course covers leadership & followership from an individual perspective, and allows for the self-exploration of each student’s leadership potential. Regarding leadership, it explores the characteristics of great leaders, and the degree to which leadership is inborn versus a product of personal growth and experience. Team building is a critical function of management and leadership. The scope and focus are the study of group dynamics and team building theory with an experiential component. It also involves a study of behavioral, conflict and leadership style and an analysis of organizational team functioning.
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MGT 509 - Organizational Leadership, 3 credit hours
This course provides an analysis of behavioral science approaches to organizations, stressing the implications of theoretical concepts on managerial practices. Topics examined include strategic leadership, individual and team dynamics, and organizational change. Students will also explore interpersonal strategies related to conflict management and negotiation. This course continues the self-exploration of personal mastery with an emphasis on leadership.
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MGT 529 - Business Ethics, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore status & one business course for Accounting 3/2 Program Students
An examination of moral problems facing organization managers with a focus on learning how to integrate ethical thinking with strategic thinking. Students analyze actual case problems, learning to use various ethical theories as a guide to problem solving.
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MGT 611 - Compensation, 3 credit hours
Theory and strategy behind organizational compensation practices are examined. Specifically, the behavioral aspects of compensation, the legal constraints, development of base pay systems, variable pay, executive compensation, benefits, and services are covered. Students become familiar with actual practices and application in organizations and the implementations associated with human capital management.
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MGT 612 - Employment Law, 3 credit hours
This course is an overview of the laws affecting the workplace in the United States and interpretation of them as reflected in agency and court rulings. Through a case study approach, the course will stress the practical application of the employment laws and rulings to Human Resource Administration.
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MGT 613 - Staffing and Development, 3 credit hours
This in-depth course explores the theory and practices involved in acquiring and developing an organization’s human capital. Topics include workforce planning, job analysis, assessment, recruiting, selection, training and development. Course explores these topical areas with a focus on practical application.
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MGT 620 - Leadership as Enlightened Presence, 3 credit hours
This course examines leadership as an enlightened presence in organizational settings, combining perspectives drawn from the behavioral sciences with the humanities and the global wisdom traditions in exploring the inner architecture of leaders. The focus is on integrating multidisciplinary insights in navigating the relatively uncharted terrain of inner consciousness as the fundamental source of personal and organizational transformation. The focus is simultaneously theoretical and practical transforming conceptual understanding into new possibilities for creative action at the individual, group and organizational levels.
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MGT 621 - Organizational Development & Change Management, 3 credit hours
This course will explore the process of change in organizations, focusing on organizational development interventions used in helping organizations manage change effectively. The course focus is on the tools and skills needed to manage change, including cultural change, risk assessment, project management and team leadership. We will also explore some of the broader issues surrounding both human processual and technostructural organizational change.
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MGT 622 - Organizational Innovation by Design, 3 credit hours
This course explores the application of design thinking to the challenges of building, sustaining and transforming complex real world systems. The focus is on (a) integrating insights from cutting edge innovation technologies rooted in human centered design (b) applying them to envision alternative organizational/ societal forms in an imaginative space unfettered by current reality and (b) developing the leadership capacity to spearhead change efforts in real world contexts. By combining deep self awareness with a critical intellectual understanding of the challenges of organizations and the broader context of globalization, the course seeks to produce an exponential breakthrough in one’s problem solving repertoire both as a local actor and as a global, cosmopolitan change agent.
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MGT 645 - Project Management, 3 credit hours
This course provides students with the basic knowledge in project management according to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). It provides project managers with the fundamental practices needed to achieve organizational results and excellence in the practice of project management. The course is aligned with the current PMBOK® Guide covering the following knowledge areas: Integration Management, Scope Management, Schedule Management, Cost Management, Procurement Management, Quality Management, Resource Management, Communication Management, Risk Management and Stakeholder Management.
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MGT 655 - Applied Project, 1-3 credit hours
The Applied Project is an individual project. Students will identify or select a project opportunity within a for profit business, not for profit business, or new business venture to apply coursework for this project. Students will conduct an in-depth analysis and then make recommendations and/or implement a solution to address a current organizational problem, enhance organizational effectiveness or competitiveness, or explore and evaluate new business opportunities.
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MGT 657 - Managing Change, Creativity & Innovation, 3 credit hours
This course will bring together comprehensive aspects of change management, creative problem solving, and organizational growth with systems thinking. The course will be designed to use relevant and timely case study materials, interviews, reflective questions, and hands-on experiential opportunities. Specific topic in the course will include (but not be limited to) The Process of Change, Creativity and Innovation; Growth in the Creative Economy and the Future of Organizations; The Individual – Promoting Critical Thinking; The Group – Nurturing Team Work; The Leader – Promoting New Ideas at Work; The Culture – Enabling and Constraining Creative Processes at Work; and the Organization – Managing Processes of Change.
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MGT 660 - Corporate Citizenship & Ethics in a Globalized Economy, 3 credit hours
This course explores complex ethical challenges and responsibilities related to the management of corporations in a globalized economy. They include ethics within corporate culture, corporate citizenship, stakeholder engagement, relationships to communities and governments, cross-cultural awareness, international norms of corporate behavior, and trends in sustainability. Students are introduced to various theoretical approaches to corporate ethics and topics such as international labor and environmental challenges, bribery and corruption, and sexual harassment.
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MGT 670 - Strategic Management, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Completion of all core MBA courses
This capstone course represents the culmination and integration of the student’s MBA coursework throughout the MBA program. The art and science of strategic analysis, planning and development, implementation and execution, along with competitive assessment and overall enterprise management is the focus of the class. The student learns to apply the knowledge acquired in the classroom environment to a company that is a major player in its industry and/or in a simulated business strategy game. The competency gained will enable the student to formulate decisions based on rigorous analysis, and enable them to implement decisions, given the organization’s capabilities and limitations.
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MGT 702 - Organizational Theory & The Systems Approach to Management, 3 credit hours
This course introduces healthcare executives to factors that challenge organization design and effectiveness. It incorporates an overview of general systems theory, organizational theory, and healthcare dynamics (e.g. value-based healthcare, etc.), which are of central concern today. Executives apply the above approaches and build systemic models, which provide an understanding of the interrelationships and interdependencies in a variety of complex healthcare environments helping managers make effective decisions for their organizations.
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MGT 705 - Leadership and Teams, 3 credit hours
This course covers leadership & followership from an individual perspective, and allows for the self-exploration of each student’s leadership potential. Regarding leadership, it explores the characteristics of great leaders, and the degree to which leadership is inborn versus a product of personal growth and experience. Team building is a critical function of management and leadership. The scope and focus is the study of group dynamics and team building theory with an experiential component. It also involves a study of behavioral, conflict and leadership style and an analysis of organizational team functioning.
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MGT 709 - Organizational Leadership, 3 credit hours
This course is designed to provide the manager with behavioral science approaches to organizations. It will stress the implications of theoretical concepts and their effect on managerial practice. Topics are examined at the levels of the individual, group and organization. A participative and experiential learning approach is used to examine topics such as leadership, teamwork, global management, communication & conflict management, individual personality, organizational change & development and strategic HR management. Special attention is given to current literature relating to the relevant OB topics and Health Care Management.
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MGT 760 - Healthcare Policy, Law & Ethics, 3 credit hours
This course discusses major State and Federal laws applicable to health care, the policy development process, and reviews major health policy milestones. For each section, both the law and the policy behind the law and whether the reason for the law is being met will be discussed. The goal of this class is not for students to become experts in the law, but for students to be able to identify potential legal issues at their work. For instance, the goal is not for students to be able to perform a complicated Stark Law analysis, but instead for the student to be given tools for identifying when a Stark Law problem may exist in a certain scenario and to be able to know when to ask for legal assistance.
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MGT 770 - Health Informatics, 3 credit hours
Health Informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. This course will help students develop an understanding of health informatics and its goals, standards, applications, and uses in clinical environments.
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MGT 772 - Health Economics, 3 credit hours
The value of economics stems from its usefulness in making sense out of complex economic and social issues, including issues in healthcare. This course will use economics and integrated systems thinking to better understand the interrelationships between our healthcare stakeholders in order to foster a true shared vision that benefits the stakeholders and society as a whole. This course will also allow you to better understand the mechanisms of the health care delivery system within the broad social, political, and economic contexts. Finally, this course will use economics as a framework to better analyze public health policy.
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MGT 871 - The Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations, 3 credit hours
This capstone course represents the culmination of the executive’s two-year program. The science of strategic analysis and strategic management is taught along with competitive assessment, and strategic planning. The student learns what it’s like to be the CEO, by taking these skills, and applying this knowledge real time within an actual organization. In the process, the executive learns how to formulate decisions based on the analysis, and how to implement these decisions given the organization’s capabilities and limitations. The executives develop a multi-year strategic blueprint for the company and make an executive presentation of the plan to the senior management of the organization. Leadership, culture, structure, organization design and change management are key aspects of the implementation/execution process and are woven into this course.
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MKT 230 - Introduction to Marketing, 3 credit hours
Marketing involves understanding the changing wants of individuals and organizations, the development and distribution of goods and services to meet those wants, and the maintenance of satisfactory customer relationships. It includes all the activities necessary to get goods and services from the producer to the consumer. This course gives students an opportunity to participate in an analysis of marketing strategies and the evaluation and control of marketing programs.
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MKT 295 - Independent Study, 1-4 credit hours
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MKT 331 - Services Marketing, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MKT 230
This course compares marketing of intangible services versus tangible products and how service characteristics affect marketing strategy. Students will learn to dissect services and service experiences, evaluate service delivery systems, and understand the role of service providers and customers. Students will explore service marketing concepts, theory, frameworks, and models to improve service development, service delivery, and service marketing strategies.
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MKT 332 - B2B Marketing, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MKT 230
This course provides an introduction to business to business (B2B) marketing, as well as an understanding of the marketing issues businesses face when their customers are other businesses – as distinguished from business to consumer (B2C) marketing for personal consumption. The emphasis will be on marketing management and decision making as it relates specifically to B2B marketing – including (but are not limited to) types of organizations as industrial customers, buying centers, segmentation, industrial selling, high technology developments, and ethics.
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MKT 333 - Advertising Management, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MKT 230
Advertising is studied as an integral part of our economic and social systems, and as a tool that has a direct impact on the manufacture, distribution, marketing and sale of tangible and intangible goods. Concepts and strategies include target markets, media selection, sales promotions, budgeting and evaluation techniques. Through case studies, students will receive hands on experience in developing an advertising campaign. Exposure to professionals in the field is provided by tours and lectures.
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