Courses

FN 672 DERIVATIVES & RISK MANAGMENT   3.0 Credit(s)
Featuring an overview of derivative securities and their use in corporate strategy and risk management, this course employs quantitative methods to analyze, design, price, and use derivative instruments in a managerial context. Basic derivative contracts such as forward, futures, options, and swaps are covered, as well as the pricing of these claims, arbitrage, and hedging in these markets. Students apply the analytical models to real-life situations through case studies. Prerequisite: Take FN-660 or WGB-603
Offered: Spring Semester All Years

PT 651 Clinical Experience I   4.0 Credit(s)
Clinical Education I consists of an eight (8) week full-clinical clinical education experience that is designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice skills learned in the classroom. The focus is on acquisition of beginning skills in the process of professional practice: patient-therapist interactions, history taking, carrying out selected examinations, evaluations, and interventions in part or in to-to, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, documentation, and re-evaluation of outcomes. In most cases, these skills can be most appropriately acquired in the following clinical settings: outpatient musculoskeletal facilities, in and outpatient acute and subacute rehab, and geriatric settings.
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years

ED 600 INTRO TO SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL LEARNING   3.0 Credit(s)
In this course, candidates will gain a broad understanding of mental health and social-emotional learning as well as strategies to navigate the barriers that impact students' ability to access learning.This course highlights the role of schools and educators in supporting student wellness and school-based mental health. Topics explored in this course will range from trauma-informed practices, social-emotional learning, compassionate education, and the development of school-wide infrastructures. Class sessions will balance content discussions with tools, strategies, and a continuum of interventions that can be applied across a student's day by all members of the school community.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

HINF 617 Advanced Health Data Analytics   3.0 Credit(s)
The course prepares students to find, normalize, and use advanced statistical tools to convert data into information to make clinical, operational and financial decisions in a healthcare setting.  Topics include exploratory data analysis, data visualization, statistics, regression, decision tree, and model training/testing. Prerequisite: Take HINF-602
Offered: All Semesters All Years

CS 653 SPECIAL TOPICS IN DATA SCIENCE   3.0 Credit(s)
With emerging technologies in data science growing, various topics will emerge in the field as needed by the corporate environment. This course will examine timely topics not extensively covered in other courses such as : Ethics in Data Privacy, Data Bias, Data Literacy in the Enterprise and GDPR and other regulatory restrictions around data. Prerequisite: Take CS-650
Offered: All Semesters All Years

BU 620 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP   1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
Harnessing the power of entrepreneurship to address societal problems has created a new breed: social entrepreneurs. Social ventures have created international attention and evolved into cross-sector collaboration with companies, investors and the public sector. They have stimulated new forms of financing seeking financial returns alongside measurable social or environmental returns.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 618 CIRCULAR ECONOMY I   1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
A circular economy decouples economic growth from the depletion of natural resources through the creation of products, services, business models and public policies that allow resources to remain in use at their highest quality and value. Using business cases, the course explores circular economy solutions for the 21st century.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 619 CIRCULAR ECONOMY II   1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
This course is a business simulation of circular economy with teams competing against each other. The interactive format combines teachings on circular strategies with rounds of simulations when student teams have to take executive decisions based.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

BU 617 GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY   2.0-3.0 Credit(s)
Successful integration and effective management of sustainability requires committed leadership, clear direction, and strategic influence - along with a robust governance structure. Sustainability governance helps a company implement sustainability strategy across the business, manage goal-setting and reporting processes, strengthen relations with external stakeholders, and ensure overall accountability.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

FN 616 SUSTAINABLE FINANCE   1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
Actors in the financial sector must define and show not only how they create value to society, but how they contribute to securing legitimacy and trust in society and support the financing of the evolving policy environment. This course combines theory with case studies to put concepts into practice.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

MSA 602 GOVERNMENTAL & NOT-FOR-PROFIT ACCOUNTIN   3.0 Credit(s)
This course will focus on accounting for state and local governments, accounting for private non-profit organizations, and accounting for bankruptcy and legal reorganizations. Students will also learn the modified accrual basis of accounting used by state and local governments and certain types of other nonprofit organizations, the budget accounting and the fund accounting standards set by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Analyzing comprehensive cases, critical problem solving and reading professional and academic journals will be the integral parts of this course. Prerequisite: Take AC-221 AC-331 AC-332
Offered: Fall & Late Spring Semesters All Years

MSA 634 BUSINESS VALUATION & EMERGING ATTESTATI   3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the business valuation process. Topics to be discussed include business valuation overview, valuation standards, various types of reports, appraisal theory, appraisal engagement, market approach, asset approach, income approach, discounts and capitalization, premiums, and completing the engagement.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

HINF 660T CAPSTONE PROJECT TUTORIAL   0.0 Credit(s)
Tutorial course taken in conjunction with HINF 660- Capstone Project to provide students opportunities to meet 1:1 with faculty in completing the required coursework. Prerequisite: HINF-660
Offered: All Semesters All Years

SCC 630 COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM CONSULTATION & COLLABORATION   3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides students with an understanding of the development and implementation of a comprehensive school counseling program in alignment with the ASCA National Model and other state school counseling models. The course includes an examination of the school counseling roles of consultation and collaboration in developing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive program. In addition, this course explores the advanced roles and responsibilities of modern school counselors from a social justice lens in meeting the diverse needs of all students and contributing to a safe and successful school climate.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

SCC 620 INTRODUCTION TO SCHOOL COUNSELING, LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY   3.0 Credit(s)
This is a foundational course designed to introduce students to the profession of school counseling. The course includes an exploration of the history of the profession, current trends within the profession, and the professional identity of the school counselor. The course also includes an examination of the school counselor core themes of leadership and advocacy with a focus on understanding socio-political factors that impact the roles, responsibilities, and functions of a professional school counselor. A social justice lens is used to introduce the ASCA National Model for understanding the traits of an effective 21st century school counselor in facilitating the academic, college/career, and social/emotional development of all students.
Offered: All Semesters All Years