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.

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.

This course will introduce students to electronic business. It will cover such diverse issues as: e-commerce payment mechanisms, encryption and authentication of data, web assurance, electronic data interchange, legal issues on the web, and web marketing. There will also be a lab component that will provide students with exposure to and practice in web page design and creation.

This course explains the methodology and techniques in analysis and design of computer information systems. The systems analyst, the architect of information systems, is a liaison between user and programmer. The roles and responsibilities of the systems analyst are emphasized at all stages of the systems development life cycle.

This course is designed to provide students an overview of the strategies and skills required to develop and manage an Information Security Program. The course focuses primarily on information security governance, program development and management, incident management and risk management. Students will gain the skills needed to establish information security strategies, build and manage an information security program, prepare for and respond to security incidents and business continuity planning.

This course explores the fundamentals of designing a database. It emphasizes the relational model; however, the course also explores the hierarchical and network models. Additionally, the course covers such topics as data insertion, modification, and extraction using SQL. CASE tools and database management tools will be employed.

Students will study advanced-level topics in Management Information Systems. The exact topics to be covered will change over time. Contact the MBA office or the Management and MIS Department for details.