EDUC 511.01 Practicum in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Course Description: A first field experience course to observe and interact in educational environments that complement the MAEd summer course sequence.
Course Credits: 1
Course Instructor: Scott
EDUC 510.01 Current Issues in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Course Description: Course focuses on important Issues in designing, implementing, and managing school curricula. Candidates learn to collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to design standards-based curricula reflecting best practices in culturally diverse and differentiated classrooms. Teaching/learning models that promote critical and creative thinking and metacognition are employed to help candidates become reflective practitioners.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Scott
MBE 500.50 Accounting Information and Management Decisions
Course Description: Examines the ways managers use accounting information to improve entity performance. Topics include accounting reports for management, alternative approaches to ascertaining costs, alternative approaches to setting prices, and performance evaluation.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Jackson, G
MBE 510.50 Operations Management and Decision-Making
Course Description: Explores the strategies and skills needed to develop technology driven, sustainable, operating systems in a global environment incorporating strategic decision making models. Topics include forecasting and demand planning, inventory management, materials resource planning, lean operating systems, quality control, process design, layout planning, and operations strategy.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Ewell, P
MBE 520.50 Ethical Management in a Global Environment
Course Description: Explores management responses to globalization trends that are reshaping political, economic, and socio-cultural values. Examines potential ethical dilemmas managers may face and uses tools such as the Balanced Report Card, Triple Bottom Line Accounting, and case studies to provide practical solutions that promote human rights, improve labor conditions, and reduce negative environmental impacts as well as promote profitable business operations.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Busila
MBE 530.50 Marketing Management
Course Description: Applies fundamental principles to managerial decision-making in marketing contexts reflecting constantly evolving marketplaces. Topics include brand equity, customer value analysis, database marketing, e-commerce, value networks, supply chain management, segmentation, targeting, positioning, and integrated marketing communications.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Hansen
MBE 560.50 Leading Diverse Organizations
Course Description: Examines how differences may affect organizational experiences on three levels: the individual, the group, and the organization. It includes various topics related to effective management of people from different cultural and demographic backgrounds. Specifically, MBE 560 explores seven diversity dimensions of race, gender, age, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Kilroy
MBE 590.50 Advanced Strategy and Policy Integration
Course Description: This course covers topics of mission, goal, strategy formulation, strategy implementation and strategy evaluation. Strategic techniques include Industry Analysis, Analysis of the Competitive Environment, Key Success Factors, Strategic Scenario Analysis and SWOT Analysis. Additional topics covered include strategic thinking, competitive advantage, vertical and horizontal integration, and planning horizon.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Dumville
EDUC 530.01 Cognitive and Child & Adolescent Development
Course Description: Course examines psychological theories and research findings dealing with child and adolescent development and learning. Special emphasis is placed upon the ways in which theoretical and empirical findings in educational, developmental, and cognitive psychology contribute to enhancing teaching and learning.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Scott
EDUC 540.01 Classroom and Behavior Management
Course Description: Provides behavior management content and skills that create positive classroom behavioral supports through strategies, effective teacher behaviors, and student assessments and interventions. Candidates develop an evidence-based, classroom management philosophy. Field experiences provide authentic classroom ontexts for candidates to reflect on implementation of evidence-based, practical management skills related to their philosophy.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: McConnell
MBE 540.50 Managerial Economic Analysis
Course Description: Applies fundamental macroeconomic analysis to managerial decision-making in market contexts shaped by domestic and international macroeconomic developments. Topics include demand analysis and estimation, forecasting, cost theory, break-even analysis, capital budgeting, hedging, and foreign exchange markets.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Vachris
MBE 550.50 Managerial Finance
Course Description: Applies strategic decision-making techniques to the acquisition and deployment of invested capital at both the firm and departmental levels. Topics include financial markets and institutions, working capital management, financial statement analysis, cash flow and risk analysis, capital structure, financial planning, and multinational finance.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Nafar
MBE 570.50 Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Course Description: Explores how people operate in organizations and how the structure of the organization can affect their performance. Case studies illustrating concepts regarding human behavior and development in individual, group and complex organizational settings will be used. Different leadership styles and approaches and their impact on organizational behavior will be examined.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Kilroy
MBE 580.50 Competitive Supply Chain Systems
Course Description: Explores the strategies and skills needed to develop technology driven, sustainable, competitive supply chain systems in a global environment. Topics include transportation, ERP Systems, e-commerce, capacity management, production management, quality management, inventory management, and supply chain strategy.
Course Credits: 3
Course Instructor: Ewell, P