Business COGS
Business COGS
Business COGS
The Business Certificate of Graduate Studies (COGS) was designed to provide graduate course exposure to students who were ultimately interested in pursuing the Master of Business Administration degree. Now, it also serves as a COGS for completion of the Master of Professional Studies. The purpose of the COGS in Business is to serve those that wish to gain business expertise for professional purposes. For more infromation about this program click here.
Professional Studies Core Courses (required for all MPS students)
Professional Studies Seminar
This course acquaints students with the Master of Professional Studies Degree program. The course allows students to engage in assessments that evaluate their knowledge, skills, abilities, and interests as they develop and/or refine college and career goals. Additionally, students will develop key communication skills for the 21st century workplace. Students also explore their own role and ethical considerations within a workplace.
Foundations of Agile Management
The course teaches principles and values of Agile frameworks and helps students apply Agile practices and techniques to real world project management. Moreover, the course is designed to demonstrate the value of project management that fosters continuous organizational development where project management is at the center of organizational change.
Foundations of Data Analytics and Reporting
This course will introduce business analytical models and tools used to interpret data and their implications to management decision making. The data analysis will enable students to make data driven decisions to optimize the business process and enhance organizational efficiency. Moreover, the use of data in the creation of enhanced business documents and oral presentations will be a key component of the course.
Project Management and Team Building
This course is designed to introduce project management principles and help organizational leaders strategically build teams to achieve goals related to organizational output. The course will cover core elements of project management including project scope, time and cost management, quality management, human resource considerations, communications, risk management, and procurement management. Moreover, the course examines leadership styles and the analysis of group dynamics from an interdisciplinary perspective including: psychology, sociology, organizational management, and cultural anthropology.
Action Study: Master of Professional Studies
This course is designed to serve as the capstone course for the Master of Professional Studies Program. The goal of the course is for students to be able to articulate, define, research and analyze a problem or challenge in their current profession or field and integrate theory, data, and practical applications to address and develop a solution to the issue. More specifically, the course will incorporate an "action study" in which the student will use their academic experiences and knowledge to actively address the issue during the course, as part of an action-based plan that will be developed in the context of an internship experience with support from a faculty member. The capstone course serves as the final course in the Master of Professional Studies.
Business COGS Courses
Financial and Managerial Accounting
This course takes a managerial approach with emphasis on decision making. It includes financial statement analysis and topics on determination of cost behavior using regression analysis and learning curves, activity-based costing, cost allocation, performance measurement, and the decision-making process.
Responsible Leadership: Aligning the Interest of Stakeholders, Profit and Planet
This course prepares leaders to act as responsible leaders and understand responsible leadership as successful stakeholder alignment. The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the challenges and opportunities of responsible leadership. In this course, students will discuss the challenges of leading in a responsible and sustainable manner and examine the relationships between successful businesses, sustainability, ethics and positive societal impact. Students will learn how businesses can create long-term value by considering how organizations operate holistically in ecological, social and economic contexts.
Employee Engagement and Performance
Engaged employees have positive attitudes towards their jobs and employers and they are willing to do whatever it takes to get work done well. This course will introduce students to the science behind employee engagement. Students are encouraged to take additional Management courses in order to enhance their employee engagement skills.
Management Information Systems for Managers
Information systems and technology are pervasive in business today. This course is designed to improve students’ understanding of information systems and technology resources as well as learning how these critical resources should be optimally deployed to achieve an organization’s strategic objectives. The primary focus of the course is the strategic and managerial applications of technology, which is not left solely to technical specialists; it is the responsibility of all managers.
Marketing Management Fundamentals
Focusing on the coordination of the marketing function with other organizational functions within an organization, the course provides a broad overview of the management of the marketing function and the creation of marketing strategies intended to create and maintain competitive advantage.