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COU 695 COUNSELING COUPLES 3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides a therapeutic perspective incorporating multiple theoretical and therapeutic orientations for couple counseling. The course examines common areas and patterns of marital dysfunction. Students will begin to develop their own informed approach to couple counseling based on reflective consideration of major systemic therapies and their own personal theoretical perspective.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
MSA 695 RESEARCH CAPSTONE PROJECT 3.0 Credit(s)
In this course, students will learn the importance of and appropriate techniques for conducting accounting research. Emphasis will be placed on how to identify the appropriate authoritative guidance (e.g., FASB, ASC, PCC) and resources for accounting research and how to use applied research techniques to resolve basic to intermediate accounting issues.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
QI 620 APPROACHES TO QUANT DATA ANALYTICS 3.0 Credit(s)
Applying quantitative techniques to clinical and administrative data to inform and improve healthcare quality and patient safety outcomes. Analysis of quantitative information is important to any healthcare problem, and especially so for Six Sigma projects. This course provides knowledge and the tools to dissect complicated business problems and provide quantitative analysis to problems instead of relying on intuition and instincts. Prerequisite: Take QI-601
Offered: As Needed All Years
HR 616 TOTAL REWARDS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines one of the main functional areas of Human Resource Management, compensation and benefits. After completing the course, students can develop a detailed understanding of the various choices organizations make when deciding how to compensate, support, and reward employees, and the consequences of those choices. Students can also think systematically about how the external environmental conditions and internal organizational situations influence the design and management of an organization's compensation and benefits systems. Experiences focusing on the transfer of course material to real-world situations will be an integral part of the class.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MHA 612 LEADERSHIP IN HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS 3.0 Credit(s)
Philosophy, structure and processes of Public Health Leadership in health care. Topics covered include: Leadership curriculum, Leadership qualities, levels and styles, Leadership culture and change management. Prerequisite: Take MHA-510
Offered: Module 6 All Years
MFIM 672 ADVANCE PYTHON W/FINANCIAL APPLICATION 3.0 Credit(s)
This course utilizes the programming knowledge and skills in Python to solve practical problems in quantitative finance. Specifically, students will learn how to conduct time-series and cross-sectional analyses with real-world financial data, apply and implement financial models in Python, formulate and code up algorithmic trading strategies, and eventually evaluate that strategy's performance and test its robustness. Prerequisite: Take BUAN-651
Offered: All Semesters All Years
EDL 671 ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNSHIP I 1.5 Credit(s)
K-12 schools benefit from equity-focused, reflective instructional leaders. SHU's 092 Internship experience provides candidates, as future administrators, opportunities to experience leadership with the support of a school-based mentor and an experienced administrator serving in the role of SHU internship professor. Through their internship activities, candidates will reflect on ways to meet the varied needs of students, staff, families, and communities within the context of the National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) standards. Candidates will engage in discussions with their SHU internship professor based on readings and current topics within education. Through reflective journaling, candidates will develop their "leadership lens" and frame their reflections as equity-focused future instructional leaders. Three online, synchronous meetings will be held a semester with the SHU internship professor. Candidates complete 250 hours of internship time by the end of EDL 671 and EDL 672. For 671, candidates must be either enrolled in or having completed EDL 654 and EDL 605. EDL 671 is a pre-requisite to EDL 672. Candidates pay a one-time fee of $250 charged upon registration of EDL 671. Each internship course is 1.5 credits, 3 credits total. Prerequisite: Pre or co-req EDL-654
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
EDL 672 ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNSHIP II 1.5 Credit(s)
K-12 schools benefit from equity-focused, reflective instructional leaders. SHU's 092 Internship experience provides candidates, as future administrators, opportunities to experience leadership with the support of a school-based mentor and an experienced administrator serving in the role of SHU internship professor. Through their internship activities, candidates will reflect on ways to meet the varied needs of students, staff, families, and communities within the context of the National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) standards. Candidates will engage in discussions with their SHU internship professor based on readings and current topics within education. Through reflective journaling, candidates will develop their "leadership lens" and frame their reflections as equity-focused future instructional leaders. Three online, synchronous meetings will be held a semester with the SHU internship professor. Candidates complete 250 hours of internship time by the end of EDL 671 and EDL 672. For 671, candidates must be either enrolled in or having completed EDL 654 and EDL 605. EDL 671 is a pre-requisite to EDL 672. Candidates pay a one-time fee of $250 charged upon registration of EDL 671. Each internship course is 1.5 credits, 3 credits total. Prerequisite: Take EDL-671
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
HR 617 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 3.0 Credit(s)
The primary objective of this course is to help you understand the individual, group, and organizational factors that influence individual attitudes, behaviors, and experiences in the workplace. No matter what career path you choose, understanding these topics will enable you to successfully craft your own career and interact effectively with others in the workplace. Because you have already been exposed to the basic theories of management, this course will emphasize applying these theories to address problems and using them to analyze current management trends. We will also discuss the implications of what we learn for your own careers. To achieve these learning objectives, we will supplement readings from the text with readings from business publications, self-assessment exercises, case analyses, group experiences, and reflection.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
HINF 624 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is to introduce the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. The student will learn about where artificial intelligence is already being applied in informatics and how it can evolve in the near future. After the course, students will be able to understand how artificial intelligence is applied in informatics and how it can change the practice of healthcare and technology to improve healthcare efficiency. The course will teach basics about artificial intelligence applications, limitations, and opportunities in healthcare. Prerequisite: Take HINF-501
Offered: As Needed All Years
MSA 636 FORENSIC ACCOUNTING 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the field and practice of forensic accounting. Topics to be discussed include fraudulent financial reporting, employee fraud, indirect methods of reconstructing income, money laundering and transnational financial flows, various courtroom procedures and litigation support, and cybercrime
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years
OT 600 PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION IV 1.0 Credit(s)
Personal transformation IV is a continuation of the course you began in your first semester. This course will again require self-reflection and will begin to relate your self- reflection to the practice of occupational therapy. This course in the series will also help prepare you for employment as you will create a resume, write a personal mission statement, and consider important factors of employment and your values in relation to job opportunities. We believe that the process of becoming an occupational therapist in this program will transform you. You will document your transformation in your portfolio and will create a professional development plan to guide your continued growth during your first year out of school.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
PT 633 EVALUATION & INTERVENTION II 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CS 631 DATA WAREHOUSING 3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides a comprehensive review of data warehousing technology. Areas of study include the evolution of the modern day data warehouse; analysis and collection of business data requirements; dimensional modeling; the loading of data using extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes; data quality issues; and reporting from the data warehouse using SQL and online analytical processing (OLAP) techniques. Several Oracle lab experiments are conducted to provide hands-on experience in the areas of data warehouse design, construction, data loading, and essential reporting techniques. Prerequisite: TAKE CS-603
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
NU 611 CARE MANAGEMENT&RESOURCES 3.0 Credit(s)
Reviews the basic approaches to care or case management and utilization in their evolution, driving factors, and contemporary roles within a variety of healthcare settings. The role of practice guidelines and key relationships among nursing roles and interprofessional team members is considered along with the contributions of technology and financial considerations. Prerequisite: Take NU-553, NU-554, NU-575 or NU-475, NU-605, NU-550
Offered: Modules All Semesters All Years