2021-2022 School of Graduate and Professional Studies Catalog 
    
    Apr 29, 2024  
2021-2022 School of Graduate and Professional Studies Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Graduate and Professional Studies Courses


 

Accounting

  
  • AC 5220 - Financial Accounting in Healthcare Organizations


    This course introduces and examines the fundamentals of financial accounting theories and practices and emphasizes asset and liability, measurement and reporting. Topics include: interpreting financial statements, balance sheets, income statements, stockholders’ equity, leases and statement of changes in financial positions and tax accounting. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 5230 - Intermediate Accounting I


    This course provides a comprehensive view of financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, ratio analysis, and cash flow statements. Some discussion of reporting of financial activities such as bonds and corporate debt will be covered, all with consideration of generally accepted accounting practices. To be taken first term in program. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 5240 - Cost Accounting


    A study of the concepts, procedures and tools associated with reporting financial data on performance to an organization’s decision-makers. Emphasis is on the tools associated with planning, directing, and controlling an organization’s activities, all with the goal of performance improvement. Topics include activity based costing, earned value management, and budgeting activities. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 5250 - Managerial Accounting


    This course equips students to more effectively and ethically lead and influence in situations where financial issues play a key role. Students examine the economic concepts, accounting processes and financial tools used by leaders to assess conditions and take action to influence performance. This course serves as an introduction to the concepts and principles of managerial accounting and will cover cost accounting systems, budgeting, budget variant analysis, responsibility accounting and decision-making, and their relationship to leadership and the strategic decision making process. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 5255 - Accounting for Leaders


    This course prepares students to efficiently lead and influence in conditions where fiscal issues play an integral role in organizational success. Student examine accounting processes, economic concepts, and financial tools utilized by leaders to assess financial conditions influencing performance.  This course introduces the concepts and principles of managerial accounting and covers cost accounting systems, budgeting, budget variant analysis, ethical accounting and decision making, and the relationship to leadership and the strategic decision-making process. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • AC 5310 - Accounting for Decision-Making


    Leaders must assess risk and implement strategy through planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Management Accounting is the process of analysis, interpretation and presentation of accounting information collected with the help of financial and cost accounting, in order to assist in the process of decision making, creation of policy, and day-to-day operation of an organization. This course will provide a foundation for students to identify, measure, analyze, and interpret accounting information to assist in making sound financial decisions. This course prepares students to more effectively and ethically lead and influence situations where financial issues play a key role. Students will examine the economic concepts, financial tools, and data used by leaders to assess conditions, predict inconsistencies, and take action to influence performance.  While developing business acumen, this course will provide a foundation to the concepts and principles of managerial accounting to include accounting principles, standards, systems, budgeting, budget variant analysis, and their relationship to the strategic decision-making process. Toward this end, students must understand the financial and operational sides of the business and must be able to prepare and report on financial and nonfinancial measures of performance. (Pre-requisites: MG 5140 ) Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 5550 - Federal Taxation


    This course explores corporate and personal income tax laws and their effect on private, public, and non‐profit organizations. Emphasis will be on business strategy and tax considerations. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 5620 - Government and Non‐Profit Reporting


    This course covers the environment of government/non‐profit accounting and financial Analysis, budgeting control, revenues and expenditures, accounting for capital projects, related account groups, and endowment management to include investments, accounting for business type and trustee activities, issues of reporting, disclosure, and non‐profit organizations. Prerequisites: AC 5230   Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 5640 - Auditing and Attestation


    This course introduces the student to the audit process, with emphasis on the perspective of management in a CPA firm, but with consideration to internal processes. Topics include implementing control procedures and assessments using both the compliance and management methods. Audit planning, staffing and training are considered. Special topics include enterprise risk management and auditing non‐profit and public organizations. Prerequisites: AC 5230   Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 5660 - Litigation Services, the Role of the Accountant as an Expert


    This course explores the value of the forensic accountant as an expert consultant and expert witness in litigation matters. Damage calculations, business valuations, expert witness reports, expert witness testimony, and alternative dispute resolution are among the topics covered. Specific litigation areas addressed include those involving contract disputes; tort claims; personal injury, wrongful death, and wrongful termination; bankruptcy; claims against accountants; employee fraud; tax fraud; insurance; divorce; and intellectual property. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 5730 - Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions


    This course focuses attention on all key stages of the M&A lifecycle including conception, planning, the first 100 days post merger/acquisition, due diligence of intellectual property (IP), and ongoing evaluation and improvement. Prerequisites: AC 5230   Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 6230 - Internal Audit and Risk Management


    Using a case‐based approach, this course explores the role of internal audit in developing and maintaining an effective fraud risk management program for an organization. Emphasis is on the value of internal audit as a critical defense against the threat of fraud. Fraud risk factors, fraud schemes and concealment strategies, preventive and detective controls, internal auditing standards, auditing processes and techniques, best practices in fraud risk management, fraud risk assessment, governance, and ethics are among the topics covered. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 6310 - International Accounting


    The International Accounting course provides an overview of the theoretical and practical challenges posed by accounting in the global environment, creating a platform for understanding accounting issues unique to international business activities. Discussions will cover a range of issues faced by contemporary global entities in the areas of auditing, standards, external financial reporting, financial reporting harmonization and convergence, accounting systems, foreign currency transactions and translations, international financial statement analysis, performance evaluation, changes in price levels, controls, taxes and transfer pricing, as well as ethical, social, legal, and cultural considerations. Prerequisites: AC 5230   Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 6430 - Performance and Ethical Standards of the Audit Professional


    This course will discuss professional audit standards and standards of quality control adopted by the PCAOB and the AICPA including Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS), procedures for gathering evidence, audit risk assessment, non‐audit engagements, legal requirements and professional ethics. The requirement for auditors to evaluate systems of internal control in a post Sarbanes‐Oxley business environment will be discussed. Different types of audit reports, such as departures from GAAP or going concern opinions, will be covered as well as the various other services auditors can and do perform. Students will have opportunity to consider notable cases and examine how accountants exercise leadership within their organization with respect to ethical behavior. Prerequisites: AC 5640   Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 6440 - Business Crime and Ethical Behavior


    This course will consider the acts, necessary intent, and defenses related to organizational, occupational, and white collar crimes. The course will review crime prevention, the criminal justice system, and punishment. The code of ethics of the American Institute of Public Accountants (AICPA), the Association of Fraud Examiners (ACFE), and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines will be reviewed. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • AC 6640 - Fraud Risk Management and Interrogation


    This course studies the responsibilities of the auditor in detecting fraud, focusing on Statements of Auditing Standards No. 53, 82, and 99. The roles and responsibilities of the audit committee, senior management, financial  management, and internal and external auditors will be reviewed. Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletins 99 on Materiality and 104 on Revenue Recognition will be covered. Specific fraud audit methods and checklist will be studied. In addition, students will learn about common techniques used to question individuals involved in fraudulent tax activities. Credits: 4
Credits: 4

Clinical Mental Health Counseling

  
  • CMHC 5910 - Professional Issues and Ethics in CMHC


    This course will help students explore the relationship between the law, and the framework of ethics, and clinical mental health counseling. Legal duties and the rights of clients and providers will be discussed. The course will also provide a forum for the exploration and analysis of ethical questions and dilemmas encountered by managers and clinicians in clinical mental health counseling. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CMHC 6400 - Treatment Planning and Advanced Assessment


    This course examines concepts of mental disorders, through the lens of the DSM-5 classification systems, to facilitate appropriate and advanced use of assessment and diagnosis. The course allows for students to learn about mental disorders across the lifespan and include the biological, psychological, social and environmental factors implicated in vulnerability and resilience. Students learn treatment planning strategies, which are based in best practice, evidence-based, integrative care, treatment models, that are client-centered, individualized and culturally sound treatment plans for a wide variety of clinical mental health disorders. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CMHC 6960 - Practicum in CMHC


    This synchronous, online course is a clinical-experiential course designed to strengthen students’ skills and understanding of the practice of clinical mental health counseling through supervised practice. The course provides for continued development and practice of skills learned Residency I and II.  In this initial clinical course, students will complete 100 hours of supervised practice, 40 of the hours must be direct service with clients. Additionally, students will receive feedback, based on recorded sessions and case conceptualizations, from the instructor and peers as well as group supervision from instructors and individual supervision from approved, site supervisors. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CMHC 6970 - Internship I in CMHC


    This synchronous, online course is a clinical-experiential course designed to strengthen students’ skills and understanding of the practice of clinical mental health counseling through supervised practice. The course provides for continued development and practice of skills learned Residency I, II, and Practicum.  In this initial Internship course, students will complete 300 hours of supervised practice, 120 of the hours must be direct service with clients. Additionally, students will receive feedback, based on recorded sessions and case conceptualizations, from the instructor and peers as well as group supervision from instructors and individual supervision from approved, site supervisors. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CMHC 6980 - Advanced Internship in CMHC


    This synchronous, online course is a clinical-experiential course designed to strengthen students’ skills and understanding of the practice of clinical mental health counseling through supervised practice. The course provides for continued development and practice of skills learned Residency I, II Practicum, and Internship.  In this Advanced Internship course, students will complete 300 hours of supervised practice, 120 of the hours must be direct service with clients. Additionally, students will receive feedback, based on recorded sessions and advanced case conceptualizations, from the instructor and peers as well as group supervision from instructors and individual supervision from approved, site supervisors. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CMHC 6985 - Advanced Internship II in CMHC


    This synchronous, online course is a clinical-experiential course designed to strengthen students’ skills and understanding of the practice of clinical mental health counseling through supervised practice. The course provides for continued development and practice of skills learned Residency I, II, Practicum, Internship, and Advanced Internship. This course is intended for students in states that require a greater number of supervised clinical experience hours (or length of clinical experience) than is required by CACREP.  In this Advanced Internship II course, students will complete 300 hours of supervised practice, 120 of the hours must be direct service with clients. Additionally, students will receive feedback, based on recorded sessions and advanced case conceptualizations, from the instructor and peers as well as group supervision from instructors and individual supervision from approved, site supervisors. Credits: 3
Credits: 3

Computer Information Systems

  
  • CT 591x - Internship in Data Analytics


    This internship series allows students to overlay the academic and theoretical study of Data Analytics with practical experience in the field. Students have the means to apply academic concepts to solve real world business problems.  The internship is designed for students to better understand the work expectations and individual organizational culture. Credits: 1 to 4
Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • CT 5000 - Graduate & Professional Skills Development


    The course introduces students to the tools needed to complete an advanced degree in Computer Information Systems. In addition, it reviews the basic skills required to participate successfully in an intercultural, professional IT environment. Major topics include: techniques for conducting scholarly research, review of basic CIS technical tools including web design and deployment, research paper methodology, job procurement and resume preparation, employment interviewing techniques, and a review of the training and preparation that is essential for a career in the high tech sector. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 5120 - Organizational Leadership in Technology


    This course combines theory and practice by encouraging students to learn traditional and contemporary leadership theories and apply them to the analysis of the behavior of leaders, colleagues, and subordinates in a technological environment.  Through a variety of readings, cases, and exercises, students will examine numerous effective leadership models.  Topics include the evolution of leadership; the special qualities of leadership appropriate to information technology, the leadership roles of strategy, vision and transformational change; the development of leaders; the leadership responsibilities of creating effective teams, organizations and cultures; the exploration of different leadership styles; the application of leadership skills required for successful IT project management, and current popular approaches to leadership theory. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 5130 - Introduction to SQL for Data Analytics


    Through this course, students will learn to use SQL to collect and analyze data from relational database sources. The course will concentrate on the proper construction of the SQL queries that are the basic access tool used in data dictionaries, data modeling, and data mining processes and procedures. At the completion of this course, students will have the ability to build, query and manipulate database structures and to format information critical to the process of informed business decision making. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 5150 - Data Science Tools


    This course is an introduction to the foundational tools used in data analytics. First, the students will learn the R programming language, a popular programming environment used in statistical analysis and graphical reporting. Students will also work with Tableau, software used for data visualization. The course will teach basic data structures in R and the fundamental libraries needed to analyze data. Topics to include: cleaning, merging, organizing data, loops and functions, basic statistical functions, visualization and exploratory data analysis. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 5230 - Cloud Computing Concepts


    This course provides the basic skills required to analyze, design, and implement cloud-based solutions in a multitude of organizational structures. It focuses on the integration of scalable, reliable platforms, utilizing such fundamental concepts as: private vs. public clouds, migration, virtualization, debugging, development and performance metrics, and disaster recovery. Additional tools and topics, such as the use of Amazon Web Servers, are also explored. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 5320 - Data Mining for Data Science and Analytics


    This course introduces students to the principles and practice of analytics through statistical modeling and data management. Many business problems still utilize traditional statistical and data mining tools. This course introduces several modeling tools like multiple linear and logistic regression (MLR), Hierarchical linear model (HLM), multiple discrimination analysis, factor analysis, introduction to Bayesian statistics, and cost and objective functions. In addition, it introduces Monte-Carlo simulations and rules of probability distributions. Credits: 4 Students cannot take both CT 5325 Data Mining and Statistical Modeling and CT 5320 Data Mining for Data Science and Analytics for credit.
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 5325 - Data Mining and Statistical Modeling


    This course introduces students to the principles and practice of analytics through statistical modeling and data management. Many business problems still utilize traditional statistical and data mining tools. This course introduces several modeling tools like multiple linear and logistic regression (MLR), Hierarchical linear model (HLM), multiple discrimination analysis, factor analysis, introduction to Bayesian statistics, and cost and objective functions. In addition, it introduces Monte-Carlo simulations and rules of probability distributions. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 5510 - Java - Introduction to Object Oriented Programming


    Object Oriented programming is an essential skill for those students wishing to work with application development and maintenance.  This class is an introduction to Java, among the most popular object based languages in use today.  It presents the fundamental design principles of modularity and abstraction as applied to current programming practices in computer science. Students will work with object oriented components and characteristics as they write, debug, execute and test Java applets and applications. Topics to include: data types, classes, inheritance, arrays, overloading and exception processing. A variety of Java development environments will be considered. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 5610 - Database Design


    This course introduces database design and creation. Emphasis is on data dictionaries, normalization, data integrity, data modeling, and creation of simple tables, queries, reports, and forms. Students should be able to design and implement normalized database structures by creating database tables, queries, reports, and forms. Students will use MS Access and MS SQL Server and the SQL programming language. They will also work with Visio to create database diagrams. Credits: 4 Students cannot take both CT 5610 Database Design and CT 5130 Introduction to SQL for Data Analytics for credit.
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 5901 - Computer Information Systems On-Site Internship


    Students apply knowledge and theories gained in class to real world business situations. Students work with co-operating employers on a part-time basis to achieve specific predetermined academic objectives. This internship is designed for the student to work in an office setting rather than in a remote project environment. Contract required. Prerequisite: CT 5000  Credits: 0 to 8 May be repeated using different number (up to 8 credits): CT 5902 - 5904
Credits: 0 to 8
  
  • CT 5990 - Topics in Computer Science


    Special topics course. Credits: 0 to 5
Credits: 0 to 5
  
  • CT 5991 - Special Projects II


    Special Projects II is the second in a series of optional courses that allows senior-level students to work on real-world projects associated with the college. The class utilizes all aspects of the student’s academic training, including: project management, programming, system design, database integration, user training, and more. Students will operate in a team environment on real projects with established deliverables and target dates. This course is open to students who have demonstrated the skillsets required in a professional project cycle environment. Credits: 0 to 8 May be repeated for up to 8 credits using CT 6820
Credits: 0 to 8
  
  • CT 6016 - Certification Preparation - Data Science


    This course is a general review of the material and knowledge required to pass a data science certification exam. Although specific certification exams and testing strategies will be considered, students in this class will study material that will prepare them to successfully complete a variety of data science certification examinations. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 6050 - Mobile Web Development


    A broad introduction into the development of mobile web sites and applications. This investigation provides the basic programming skills required to design and implement quality websites on a variety of mobile platforms. Students will learn to distinguish between mobile websites and mobile web applications and to create mobile websites using tools such as HTML5 and JQuery Mobile. The class will also explore the basics of creating multi-platform web hybrid applications using Apache Cordova (PhoneGap). Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6110 - IT Project Management


    This course will examine various techniques used to manage complex projects in the context of overall organizational goals and strategy. The course will examine the roles of team members as well as the impact of team building, planning, scope management, time management, and budgetary constraints. A number to technical tools, e.g. GANTT and PERT charting will be examined. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6111 - Information Security


    Cybersecurity is a growing field that deals with threats to hardware and software in both public and private environments. This course is designed to prepare the software professional for a wide range of security challenges, including reviews of:  cryptography, web security, network attacks, malware, operating systems, cloud processing and physical security. A wide range of security tools and procedures will be considered. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6320 - Pega System Architect Essentials


    This course is for System Architects who are responsible for developing business applications. It reviews the core competencies required for participating in the development of a business application built on the Pega Platform. Students learn how to use Pega’s rules-based architecture to configure and test application functionality such as process flows, UI screens, automated decisions, and properties. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6440 - Information Visualization


    This course helps develop an understanding of the relationship between the human visual perceptual system and the design and evaluation of information visualizations that promote analysis. Students learn to build interactive dashboards and tell compelling stories with charts and graphs using geospatial, univariate, multivariate, relational, text, and other forms of data. They will also learn to evaluate the effectiveness of particular elements of visualizations and think critically about design decisions. Credits: 4 Student cannot take both CT 6445 Visual Analytics and CT 6440 Information Visualization for credit.
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6445 - Visual Analytics


    This course helps develop an understanding of the relationship between the human visual perceptual system and the design and evaluation of information visualizations that inform, educate, and promote analysis. Students will learn to build interactive dashboards and tell compelling stories with charts and graphs based on geospatial, univariate, multivariate, relational, text, and other forms of data. They will also learn to see their design ideas from other perspectives to help evaluate the effectiveness of particular elements of visualizations and think critically about each design decision. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 6530 - Python Programming


    This course provides an introduction to computer programming in Python, a popular, easy-to-learn, cross-platform language with extensive libraries. Programs can be written for immediate interpretation or for compilation. The language, libraries and development environments are open-source and free. Students will learn to recognize problems appropriate for computer program solutions, to determine the requirements of those solutions, and to translate those requirements into procedural programming constructs. Object-oriented programming methodology will also be covered. Credits: 4 Students cannot take both CT 6530 Python Programming and CT 6535 Python and Data Analytics for credit.
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6535 - Python and Data Analytics


    This course provides an introduction to computer programming in Python, a popular, easy-to-learn, cross-platform language with extensive libraries. Students will learn to recognize problems appropriate for computer program solutions, to determine the requirements of those solutions, and to translate those requirements into procedural programming constructs using object-oriented programming methodology. Students will then use basic Python commands to access databases, analyze data, and develop data-driven decisions. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 6540 - Python for Data Science and Analytics


    The course begins with a review of basic Python syntax, concepts and operation. The course will explore using JSON and SQL for data exchange and database access.  Students will learn to work with the Python libraries that are used for mathematical calculations and data analysis, including: Pandas, NumPy, and SciPy. Once familiar with data generation, analysis and visualization techniques, the class will use Matplotlib to analyze data, and develop data-driven decisions. Prerequisites: CT 6530 - Python Programming   Credits: 4 Students cannot take both CT 6535 Python and Data Analytics and CT 6540 Python for Data Science and Analytics for credit.
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6560 - Web Programming with PHP/MySQL


    Server-Side Web Programming introduces the student to the core concepts of creating dynamic web pages using the PHP programming language and the MySQL database server. Students will learn to create and maintain their own databases and to execute the SQL required to access those structures using PHP.  Students will acquire the skills and templates required to construct web-based, content management oriented platforms. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6570 - Web Analytics


    The Web Analytics class reviews the tool and techniques associated with the collection and measurement of web data that is used for purposes of web optimization and the analysis of web traffic. A primary goal of the course is to train students in the methods used to gather and report on that data and its use in business and market research. Students will also be introduced to the concept of web scraping, a process that involves the automated extraction of data from target web sites for the purposes of further reporting and analysis. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 6610 - IT Intelligence and Business Strategy


    This course will examine how IT can support and improve the process of strategic planning and designing business strategies.  Organizations are undergoing a series of revolutionary changes, including vertical integration, horizontal consolidation, strategic alliances and joint ventures, entrepreneurial startups, and specialized niche networks.  This course will critically examine changes and discuss the various strategic decisions and managerial skills needed to confront them in a variety of firms in organizations, as well as the use of technology in helping managers address these challenges.  The course will also focus on using information technology to craft successful business strategies. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6670 - Network Communications


    In this course you will study data communication networks focusing on the layered network structure and basic protocol functions. The course covers issues such as addressing, multiplexing, routing, forwarding, flow control, error control, congestion response, and reliability. It includes wired, wireless, and mobile networks. Multimedia, security, and network management topics will be introduced. Brief coverage is provided of the history of the Internet and the development of communication standards. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6710 - Spreadsheets for Business Analysis


    Students will use powerful tools and methods in spreadsheets to analyze data, design charts and graphs, create forecasts and models, and communicate the insights derived from those insights. In this course, students will learn how to generate table summaries, outline and group data, use complex formulas and IF statements, work with functions, create pivot tables, format pivot charts, perform what-if analysis with Goal Seek and Solver, and explore the various lookup functions. The class will also explore the uses of the Data Analysis Tool Pak for Random Number Generation, Annova, correlation, covariance, F & T tests and more. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 6740 - Java - Advanced Topics


    A continuation of Java - An intro to Object Oriented Programming. This course builds on the beginners Java course, and goes deeper into programming topics that help the student to understand more advanced Java concepts topics. Topics covered in the class include: simple and multi-dimensional arrays, recursion, inheritance, and polymorphism. Prerequisites: CT 5510 Java - Introduction to Object Oriented Programming   Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6760 - Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing


    Information is stored in both structured and unstructured forms. One of the prominent unstructured forms of data collection is text. Numerous advances have been made in capturing the essence of such data through algorithms and techniques that fall under the umbrella of natural language processing. This course will cover the fundamentals of language model with the focus on analyzing textual data through transformation to machine-readable data, various types of weighting for documents and tokens, sentiment analysis, semantic analysis, and clustering. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 6820 - Special Projects


    Special Projects is the first in a series of optional courses that allows senior-level students to work on real-world projects associated with the college. The class utilizes all aspects of the student’s academic training, including: project management, programming, system design, database integration, user training, and more. Students will operate in a team environment on real projects with established deliverables and target dates. This course is open to students who have demonstrated the skillsets required in a professional project cycle environment. Credits: 0 to 8 May be repeated for up to 8 credits using CT 5991
Credits: 0 to 8
  
  • CT 6835 - Advanced Python Programming


    In this Python course, students already familiar with basic Python programming techniques will learn more advanced Python functionality. Topics to be covered include: review of basic Python features and coding, introduction to use of advanced IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA, Regular Expressions, database access, file handling, NumPy, and the Python math libraries. Students will also be introduced to the basic Python tools used in Data Science. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6870 - Advanced Network Communications


    This course dives further into the routing and switching protocols that make networks work efficiently.  The main focus of this course is on layer 2 and layer 3 protocols which include spanning tree, multi-area OSPF, quality of service and port security.  This course introduces information assurance and security in networks in order to meet standard guidelines provided by the government. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6910 - Machine Learning


    This course covers various non-linear algorithms necessary to perform both supervised and unsupervised learning analysis for modern business analytics problems. The emphasis is on application of ML through case studies from industries such as aviation, sports, healthcare and banking. Various topics covering prediction problems related to classification and regression, partitioning techniques, clustering and dimension reduction will be discussed. Python will be used throughout the course. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 6915 - Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics


    This course covers various non-linear algorithms necessary to perform both supervised and unsupervised learning analysis for modern business analytics problems. The emphasis is on application of ML through case studies from industries such as aviation, sports, healthcare and banking. Various topics covering prediction problems related to classification and regression, partitioning techniques, clustering and dimension reduction will be discussed. Python will be used throughout the course. Credits: 4 Students cannot take both CT 6910 Machine Learning and CT 6915 Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics for credit.
Credits: 4
  
  • CT 6920 - Big Data Tools and Architecture


    Today, business can collect and store huge volumes of data. New tools enable big data scientists and engineers to analyze that data to gain insight and to extract meaningful trends and patterns. This course will introduce the student to the collection, storage, processing, analysis, and visualization of big data using Hadoop with MapReduce and Spark. Learners will begin to understand the procedures used for resolving real world business challenges involving big data. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • CT 7610 - Database Management


    This course seeks to help students develop database management skills covering installation, configuration and tuning a database, administering servers and server groups, managing and optimizing schemas, tables, indexes, and views, creating logins, configuring permissions, assigning roles and performing other security tasks, including the design and implementation of backup and recovery strategies as well as maintenance. Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • ECS 590x - Practicum/Internship in Computer Information Systems


    The Practicum/Internship allows students to overlay the academic and theoretical study of Computer Information Systems with practical experience in the field. Students have the means to apply academic concepts to solve real world business problems.  The Internship is designed for students to better understand the work expectations and individual organizational culture. Credits: 1 to 4
Credits: 1 to 4
  
  • ECS 5100 - Computer Security: Foundations


    This course is an introduction to the wide range of topics that encompasses computer security. It is designed to provide a foundation for an advanced study of issues related to digital devices, networks, data systems, cryptography, and information management. Upon completion of this executive program in cyber security, both the IT and the general business professional will be equipped to manage the wide variety of security challenges and threats faced by businesses and industries across the globe. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 5200 - Database Security


    This course covers database vulnerabilities and defenses. Students will become familiar with methods for preventing unauthorized access, leakage, or loss of data.  It introduces technologies for database protection, access control, and auditing as well as best practices for database hardening. Students will explore the benefits and drawbacks of centralized and decentralized data storage through exposure to Hadoop. They will analyze government policy and regulatory compliance through an introduction to HIPAA and other regulations affecting the storage of sensitive or restricted data. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 6011 - Certification Preparation - Security


    This course is a general review of the material and knowledge required to pass a security certification exam. Although specific certification exams and testing strategies will be considered, students in this class will study material that will prepare them to successfully complete a variety of security certification examinations. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 6100 - Policy, Legal, Ethics, and Compliance


    This course integrates law, ethics and cybersecurity. The course examines laws related to privacy, intellectual property, civil litigation, criminal prosecutions, and, of course, cybersecurity. Students will identify and analyze the policies reflected in those laws. Students will explore several applicable ethical frameworks and apply them to various scenarios. Students will examine their responsibilities related to the handling of data as it pertains to legal, ethical and/or agency auditing issues, and how the type of legal dispute (civil, criminal, private) affects the evidence used to resolve an issue. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 6200 - Cybersecurity Planning and Management


    The ability to secure information within a modern enterprise is a growing challenge. Threats to information security are global, persistent, and increasingly sophisticated. Effective information security requires participation, planning, and practice. This course is designed to teach students the basics of information security, in both the management aspect and technical aspect. The course addresses a range of topics, each of which is vital to securing the modern enterprise. These topics include plans and policies, enterprise roles, security metrics, risk management, standards and regulations, physical security, and business continuity. The course will emphasize the practical implications of cybersecurity management through the application and study of timely examples. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 6300 - Network Security


    This course aims to provide configuration guidelines for network infrastructure security. It first reviews the key components of a network infrastructure, and then points out the differences between information security and infrastructure security. Network Infrastructure includes network devices such as routers, firewalls, switches, servers, workstations, and other devices, as well as, the software running on these devices. This course will highlight the technologies and security methods that make sure that every time a configuration is changed or new device is added, a security hole is not created in the network. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 6400 - Building Secure Web Applications


    Secure web applications are essential to the successful operation of business operations and are a prime concern of the IT professional. This course is a hands-on study of the policies and techniques required to design, implement, and manage secure web systems and protect related data structures. It is intended for business professionals who have an interest in defending their organizations web assets. Topics to include: threat awareness and identification, application and server vulnerabilities, testing and defense strategies. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 6500 - Cloud Computing


    Cloud computing introduces new privacy and security risks that are not present in traditional data centers. This course is about these concerns and the appropriate policies and responses for a cloud environment. The course begins with an overview of cloud computing and virtualization which provides the necessary background for understanding these issues. Additional topics include access control, identity management, denial of service, account and service hijacking, secure APIs, malware, forensics, regulatory compliance, trustworthy computing, and secure computing in the cloud. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 6600 - Ethical Hacking


    This course is designed to teach students to help identify potential threats on a computer or network. An ethical hacker attempts to systematically penetrate a computer system by bypassing system security and by searching for weak points that could be exploited by malicious hackers. This information may then be used by an organization to improve overall system security. Working with both hardware and software developers, ethical hackers work to uncover the security vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could potentially exploit. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 6700 - Information Assurance


    This course provides information system users with the knowledge of their roles and responsibilities towards protecting information system assets. Topics will include workstation and office security, types of malicious programs such as viruses, access control mechanisms, IT governance and security management. This course will also lay a foundation for students to pursue further studies of systems security and protection issues such as terminology, threats to information resources, computer abuse, and system vulnerabilities. This course will map to many topics included in the CompTIA Security+ Certification. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ECS 6900 - Digital Forensics Tools and Techniques


    This course will introduce the principles of collection, preservation, examination, and analysis of computer evidence. Students will learn the evolving law of acquiring and analyzing digital evidence from computers and devices. Additional topics will include: computer crime, intellectual property, privacy, risks, vulnerabilities, countermeasures, and the presentation of legal evidence in a court of law.  National and International standards for privacy and data rights will be discussed along with personal data security at border crossings. This course will cover a brief history of gray hat hacking and will include both theoretical and practical labs. Credits: 3
Credits: 3

Counseling

  
  • COUN 5000 - Introduction to Counseling


    An orientation to the counseling profession; ethical and legal issues, counseling process, skills and theories; professional counselor roles, functions and work settings; and historical foundations of counseling. This course serves as an orientation to the counseling profession and to the clinical mental health counseling program. The course covers history, philosophy, and trends in clinical mental health counseling; roles, responsibilities, knowledge of clinical mental health settings and curriculum; legal and ethical issues; policies. laws, and legislation, and implications of sociocultural, demographic, and lifestyle diversity; and coordination of counseling program components as they relate to the total clinical mental health community. Students will learn about national standards, certification and licensure requirements.  

    NOTE: By participating in this course, students agree to endorse the professional ethical codes of their respective organizations (e.g., American Counseling Association) Credits: 3

Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 5140 - Human Growth and Development


    This course provides an advanced overview of the theories, concepts, and research regarding the developmental characteristics of human development. The course will enhance students’ understanding of significant developmental changes that occur over the lifespan. Emphasis will be placed on human development throughout the life span, including emotional, physical, cognitive, and social development with an emphasis on the influences of cultural phenomena on behavior. The course will involve critiques of different theories of human development culture, lifespan processes, and the relationships among these. Professional, clinical, legal, and ethical issues will also be addressed. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 5150 - Human Sexuality


    This course provides foundational understanding of sexuality from multiple perspectives, ranging from the biological through psychological, as well as cultural, medical, ethical and legal issues. The course also serves to explore issues related to counseling matters of sexuality, including the culture of sexuality, stigma, and special topics. Through examination sexuality and issues related to sexuality, students will be better informed to assume a role in helping clients address issues of human sexuality. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 5160 - Counseling Special Populations


    This course allows students to explore working with selected/special populations with which they may come into contact as counselors. The course will include discussion of and research into the role of ethical and culturally competent counseling with special populations in integrative models of care and various counseling settings; while, becoming familiar with the various counseling approaches useful in effecting changes in these individuals. The course views special populations through the lens of multiculturalism and diversity requiring an understanding of the cultural context of relationships, issues, and trends in working with different cultures.  This awareness will aid students in building counseling skills that will enhance their effectiveness in working with special populations. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 5210 - Psychopathology and the DSM


    Based on the DSM-5, this course provides an in-depth examination of the history and etiology of mental disorders.  In addition to learning the DSM-5 classification system, students gain an understanding of the social implications of psychiatric diagnosis, recovery, and stigma commonly associated with mental illness.  They become familiar with cultural diversity and other factors impacting diagnosis and assessment.  Students gain an understanding of the biological, neurological, psychosocial, and physiological factors that affect human functioning and behavior.  The clinical application of these principles is explored through study of relevant literature, investigation of case studies, and class discussions. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 5510 - Clinical Counseling Theories


    This course includes a study of basic counseling and consultation theories and helping relationships from individual, group, and systemic perspectives. Explores helper and helpee characteristics, sociocultural factors, and legal and ethical considerations. Includes supervised training in counseling and consulting skills and application of theories into counseling practices. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 5520 - Skills in Helping Relationships


    An introduction to basic counseling skills, (initial disclosure, in-depth exploration and commitment to action) through skill building/role play. This course provides a student with the counseling skills necessary to establish a counseling relationship with the client characterized by warmth, respect, genuineness, concreteness, and empathy. Students receive supervised training through modeling, live observation, skill rehearsal, and videotaping. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 5530 - Group Counseling


    The purpose of this course is to provide a basis for theoretical, experiential, and practical understanding of the dynamics, techniques, and other factors involved in group psychotherapy. Content will combine theoretical knowledge of group process, dynamics, facilitation methods and experiential learning and exercises designed to foster understanding of the power and scope of group forces. Aspects of learning will encompass a wide range of topics relative to salient concepts of group work. This will include stages of group development, cultural diversity factors, roles of group members, agents of change in group dynamics, group leadership skills, group composition, various types of groups, methods of evaluation of effectiveness, and legal and ethical considerations. This course will also introduce students to leading therapy groups in a wide range of settings, e.g. outpatient, inpatient, day treatment and community settings. Topics will include all aspects of group planning, e.g. screening process, identifying group expectations, use of group contracts, planning sessions, implementation of effective interventions, Applicability of various theoretical perspectives, specialty groups, and other identified areas of student interest. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 5920 - Assessment and Assessment Techniques


    Designed as a practical introduction to testing and assessment, this course covers the basics in assessment including statistical concepts used in testing, as well as test development, administration, scoring, and interpretation.  Topics include intelligence, achievement, neuropsychological assessment, objective and projective personality testing, and testing of ability, aptitude, and attitudes.  The course is designed to enable students to become competent and critical readers of testing data and research, to improve their knowledge of referral options, and to integrate testing data in treatment planning and therapy. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 6120 - Research Methods and Program Evaluation


    This course will introduce students to applied human research and enable them to understand counseling, psychology, and education-based research.  Students will study common research designs and critically analyze published research. Students will learn to develop relevant research questions, design appropriate research paradigms, search applicable literature, and write a preliminary research proposal. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 6170 - Substance Use Disorders and Process Addictions


    This course is designed to provide clinical mental health counseling students with an overview of substances use disorders and process addictions. This course examines the various etiological factors that contribute to substances use disorders and process addictions, including neurobiological, genetic, psychological, socio-cultural, environmental, spiritual, and contextual factors. Emphasis will be placed on a bio-psychosocial model, highlighting the inter-relationship between such factors.  Special emphasis will be placed on co-morbid disorders, differential diagnostic issues, and the various methods used to evaluate substance use problems.  Historical & contemporary treatment modalities will be reviewed, including detoxification, self-help philosophies, assessment techniques, individual, group and family modalities, dynamics of motivation, and relapse prevention.  Barriers to effective treatment will also be discussed.  This course examines the various aspects of professional practice, including case management functions, record keeping, report writing, consent to treatment, confidentiality and disclosure. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 6190 - Social and Cultural Foundations


    This course is designed to promote development of a theoretical and practical framework for effective delivery of mental health services within the context of multicultural counseling.  In addition to exploring the impact of cultural diversity on the helping relationship, this course will examine the relationship that ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, minority status, aging, and disability plays in the delivery of mental health services.  Students will identify practice‐based strategies that address service delivery to culturally different individuals.  The course will also explore counselor bias and system bias as well as the impact of that implicit and explicit prejudice and discrimination has on the therapeutic relationship. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 6200 - Psychopharmacology and Advanced Psychopathology


    This course focuses on the knowledge that counselors should acquire regarding medications utilized to treat mental health issues. It will include the major classes of medications currently in use, drug interactions, and the counselor’s role in advocating and educating clients to understand their medications and the ethical dilemma involved in this advocacy. Topic include the impact and use of medications (including efficacy and misuse), the counselor’s role in working in an integrative health system with clients that have been prescribed drugs including referring and collaborating with prescribing professionals. The course also takes an advanced look at psychopathology, research in mental health diagnostics, and how culture influences definitions psychopathology. The course will introduce advanced clinical issues and contemporary neuroscience research related to altered development and maladaptive behaviors. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 6350 - Career and Lifestyle Development


    This course will provide both the theoretical foundation and the practical experience necessary to understand and foster the career/lifestyle development for clients both individually and in groups.  Students will be prepared with the necessary knowledge and skills to collect, evaluate, and use occupational and life development data in helping individual clients and various client populations to make effective decisions and take appropriate actions in their career/life development. Ethical and legal issues, contemporary trends and application of career counseling models to a variety of populations in school and community settings will be explored. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 6520 - Advanced Skills in Helping Relationships


    This synchronous, online course facilitates the development of advanced individual counseling skills, serving to introduce students to the advanced micro skills, and mesoskills, macroskills, and group leadership skills and assist them in learning how to utilize and apply these counseling skills. The goal of this course is to present the advanced skills and techniques that form the foundation of the counseling process. A focus of the course is the development of counselors that will become effective agents of change through therapeutic relationships. This course facilitates self-development related to one’s ability to relate to and connect with others and we will emphasize personal growth and self-care throughout the course. The course will involve live, online skills practice as well as submission of recorded sessions of skills’ practice for peer and instructor feedback. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 6910 - Crisis and Trauma Counseling


    The purpose of this course is to provide students with a solid foundation in the theory and treatment of psychiatric crises and emergencies. The course will address various dynamics involved in a psychiatric crisis, including but not limited to; concept of disequilibrium relating to overwhelmed defenses and coping skills, effects of psychosocial stressors, resiliency, and the effects of various symptoms and diagnoses. Fundamentals of trauma and trauma-causing events and their impact upon crisis intervention work will be examined. The course will examine the differences and similarities of emergencies as opposed to crises. All aspects of psychiatric emergencies will be examined: Emergency assessments and interventions, techniques of lethality assessment, risk factors such as substance abuse, violence history, demographic profile, cultural factors and the presence of mental illness. Differential assessment regarding the various aspects and levels of professional mental health response will be reviewed, including the use of Psychological First Aid, suicide prevention, stabilization, and immediate psychiatric crisis response. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • COUN 7010 - Counseling Couples and Families


    This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to conducting couple and family counseling. The primary objective of the class is to assist counseling students translate theories into action through the use of family systems theories. As such, the course will include processes of couples and family counseling and special aspects of contemporary couples and family counseling. Students explore the interviewing and counseling techniques that are specific to working with couples and families. Structural, communication, analytic, behavioral, and postmodern theories of couples and family counseling will be explored as well as ethics, legal issues, and current research in family systems theories. Credits: 3
Credits: 3

Digital Marketing

  
  • DM 5010 - Foundations of Digital Marketing


    Today’s digital marketers are tasked with designing campaigns that speak to multiple audience segments, inspiring them into action, and measuring the results to make data-fueled decisions.  Marketers in the innovation industry are scrappy, creative, and agile.   

    This introductory course provides a survey of digital marketing concepts. The internet is a dynamic marketplace. Students will explore the history of internet marketing to understand how the early influences have shaped today’s marketing strategies. Topics include digital marketing fundamentals, marketing analytics, search engine optimization, email marketing, and social media platforms. Additionally, students will practice their digital marketing skills through an online marketing simulation program. Thus, this class provides students the theoretical understanding of the internet marketplace while also equipping them with the required digital marketing skills to be successful in their future careers. Credits: 4

Credits: 4
  
  • DM 5020 - Marketing Analytics in Digital Marketing


    The new age of marketing requires an understanding of data.  With the introductory course of digital marketing fundamentals, students explore customer data analysis techniques and their theoretical foundations to help students acquire analytic skills that can be applied to real world marketing problems.  Marketing Analytics is an application of data science to marketing decision problems.  Additionally, this course offers the theoretical understanding of data necessary for students to adapt to the many changes in marketing, while also equipping them with the skills they will need to perform vital daily functions.  Credits: 4
Credits: 4
  
  • DM 6030 - Social Media Campaigns with Clients


    Social media is changing how business is done around the world in almost every industry. The marketing and business worlds are undergoing fundamental changes in how consumers interact with brands and each other. Social media has helped give consumers a voice and connect them with their friends and other like-minded consumers, and it has also opened up numerous new communication channels available for marketers and brands to connect with current and potential customers.  

    In this interactive course, students will get an opportunity to work with a local organization (i.e.) to gather a practical understanding of digital marketing, primarily social media platforms.  This course helps students understand how marketing has (and has not) changed due to the rise of social media and changes in various underlying contextual factors, such as dramatically increased speed of information dissemination across consumers and brands. The overarching goal is to obtain a clear perspective on what’s really going on in digital/social/mobile marketing so that students can begin to appreciate its true value to consumers, to managers, and to other corporate stakeholders.  Students will be equipped with the relevant knowledge, perspectives, and practical skills required to develop marketing strategies that leverage the opportunities inherent in social media and consumer-to-consumer social interactions for achieving business and marketing goals.  Credits: 4

Credits: 4

Economics

  
  • EC 5600 - Global Economics


    This course will develop students’ capacity to analyze the global economic environment and to employ economic analyses when making key management decisions.  Students will examine how economics impacts organizational operations, recognize its constraints, and apply economic reasoning to managerial decision-making within a culturally diverse world. Students will analyze the current and future economic environment and trends as they impact the global organization’s present and future goals. Through case studies, individual and group activities, students will examine economic theory with meaningful applications they are likely to face in their professional careers. Students will learn how to solve practical problems and to communicate the results clearly. This course will examine a variety of issues including:  demand analysis, cost estimation, relevant costs, competitive forces, international trade, international finance, and pricing policies (Pre-requisites: MG 5140 ) Credits: 4
Credits: 4

Education

  
  • ED 5010 - Curriculum Design/Planning/Instruction/Assessment


    This course provides the student with an opportunity to acquire knowledge of and demonstrate competence in a variety of curricula in K-12 schools and design, plan, deliver, and evaluate student learning across the curriculum. There will be an emphasis on content specific standards and learning competencies and how they become the driving force for lesson planning and assessment. The Understanding By Design model will be used to guide students in developing lessons that can be taught with small and large groups of learners. The curriculum in all content areas will be discussed and the integration of curriculum to enhance student learning and authentic forms of assessment will be a focus. Credits: 3 There is an experiential component for those seeking licensure.
Credits: 3
  
  • ED 5015 - Teaching Math


    This course provides students with the content knowledge needed to provide instruction in math. Mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and the use of various strategies and technology to help students acquire skills and knowledge associated with math literacy will be discussed. Students will also be exposed to current methods of teaching mathematics. There will be a focus on integrating mathematics into the other areas of the curriculum. Students will be required to spend time in a general education classroom working with teachers as they provide mathematic instruction including Response to Intervention instruction. Credits: 3 There is an experiential component for those seeking licensure.
Credits: 3
  
  • ED 5020 - Curriculum and Methods of Teaching Language, Grammar and Writing: Developing Powerful Writers


    This course is designed to teach students the nuances of the English language and grammar and enable them to become powerful writers. In addition to knowledge about the English language and grammar, students will acquire skills and strategies that will enable them to teach grammar effectively to students in K-12. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ED 5030 - Meeting the Needs of all Learners


    In this course students become familiar with the role of the case manager and who constitutes the team, due process, who is a qualified examiner, and various placement options. In addition, the course helps students develop skills to implement an IEP/IFSP/Transition Plan, use data to inform decisions about the education of students and to make modifications to the curriculum, including instruction, assessment, and behavioral strategies for all students, find resources to support all learners and develop tools to assess learning and monitor and communicate student growth. Credits: 3 There is an experiential component for those seeking licensure.
Credits: 3
  
  • ED 5035 - Lifespan Development


    Humans all begin in the same manner and develop in a similar pattern physically, cognitively, and emotionally when all the elements are perfect. In this course we look at that development from conception through the end of life in a quick overview of what it takes to become the people we know or want to be. We look at the aspects of life that make things work properly as well as the things that could cause life to go in a different direction. This course includes theories of physical, psychological development, learning, social and environmental factors that influence the growth of a people throughout their life times. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ED 5090 - Literature in the 21st Century: Exploring Literature preK-12


    In this course students will explore and analyze a variety of contemporary literature genres (poetry, fiction, non-fiction), in the context of content areas to which children, adolescents, and young adults are currently exposed. Through reading, analysis and critical evaluation, students will use a variety of forms of communication, including writing, speaking, and listening to convey the essence of the literature to share this with students within the class and beyond.  Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ED 5095 - Teaching Diversity Through Literature


    Today, more than ever, schools must be prepared to meet the varying educational, social, and emotional needs of all children. The U.S. population will be considerably more racially and ethnically diverse by 2060, according to projections released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Therefore, It is absolutely essential that our educational resources reflect the changing makeup of our classrooms to ensure that students feel welcomed and supported in an inclusive and diverse environment. In this course, you will explore representations in literature which can enable students to find their unique identity and to develop pride in their roots and origin as well as develop a cultural awareness. Participants will explore how to evaluate and select the best multicultural and international literature when building classroom libraries. Through a thorough examination of current research and participating in engaging collaborative exercises, participants will become teacher leaders within their schools for teaching diversity through literature. This course will also practice read-a-louds through a readers’ workshop model that allows diversity to be more intentionally discussed and explored. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
  
  • ED 5113 - Developing Grit Through Growth Mindset Education


    Developing Grit through Growth Mindset Education is designed to teach educators about Dweck’s construct of mindsets and Duckworth’s construct of grit.  This course will share the research linking growth mindset and the development of grit. Educators will develop an understanding of the value of grit with youth and learn how to promote the development of grit in the classroom and school through mindset education. Participants will examine what research has shown to be the most effective in developing grit as well as review and learn from current researchers in the field. Participants will be able to work cooperatively and individually to plan lessons based on the research and work of Duckworth, Dweck, and Ricci. Credits: 3
Credits: 3
 

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