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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This course provides a broad framework for understanding the nature of entrepreneurship in multiple organizational settings. The course introduces students to the innovation and idea generation process and helps students apply an alternative way of "thinking" to assist in solving difficult issues for government, business, and the non-profit sector.

This course provides an overview of the potential for innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities or new ventures within a corporate environment. The course covers various aspects of corporate entrepreneurship. Major topics include understanding the corporate entrepreneurial revolution, learning about the nature of entrepreneurship within established organizations (intrapreneurship), understanding the requirements for setting up an environment conducive to being intrapreneurial within a corporate setting, and learning about the entrepreneurial direction of firms as they grow and evolve. Among the issues discussed are the role of creativity within corporate entrepreneurship, the relation to product innovation and technology, the importance of corporate strategy within an entrepreneurial framework, and what it takes to create an entrepreneurial culture in a corporate setting.

Students in this course will work to gain an in-depth understanding on the role that innovation plays in driving process and cost efficiencies, strategy development, decision making, addressing customer demands and market trends, financial performance, and business growth. Key models from Entrepreneurship will be analyzed for learning how to target and implement innovation.

This course prepares the operating manager for the responsibilities of performing strategic planning. The course will identify what goes into and how strategic planning is performed. Strategy formation and evaluation will be assisted by computer decision models and management games. The interrelationships of organizational units and proactive management posture with respect to environmental forces will be stressed. This course may not be offered annually.

This course is designed to acquaint the graduate student with advanced statistical forecasting techniques. Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to identify a forecasting problem, gather data and use computerized statistical packages to obtain solutions, analyze results, determine the validity and reliability of the model, and if necessary, recommend alternative methods to solve the model. This course may not be offered annually.