Transcultural Nursing explores cultural beliefs and practices as they apply to a population’s health and the development of illnesses, as well as similarities and differences among cultural groups. Course materials and resources allow students to explore appropriate communication, cultural needs within the nursing scope of practice, and patient-centered care based on cultural values and preferences. Students will also identify disparities in health and health care among cultural groups. Prerequisite: NUR 300. This course may not be taken outside of this program and is not available for Non Degree Seeking students. 

This course creates a foundation for the registered nurse transitioning to baccalaureate nursing practice. Course content includes baccalaureate nursing core competencies, standards of professional nursing practice, the theoretical basis of practice, ethical and legal components of practice, interprofessional communication and collaboration, accountability, autonomy, and decision making in the delivery of safe, effective, and quality driven nursing practice to improve patient health outcomes. Prerequisites: ENG 328. This course may not be taken outside of this program and is not available for Non Degree Seeking students.

This course emphasizes the use of information technology to develop distinct competitive advantage in relations with competitors, customers, and suppliers, and with respect to products and services. Course participants examine strategies of actual companies and identify other strategies that can be deployed to gain competitive advantage in diverse settings. In addition, the course is cumulative in nature, integrating knowledge and information attained while completing the entire MBA curriculum. The course project requires generation and presentation of an organizational information systems strategic plan.  

The course considers issues of identity, social inequality, and discrimination in society. The focus is on identities such as race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, culture, age, and ability, as well as the intersection between them. The focus is on these social categories as both elements of personal identity and sources of social inequality.

Social theory presents opportunities to rethink and reform cultural, social, and political societal assumptions with the goal of promoting liberation for all people and exposing oppression in its many forms. Key critically minded contributors to social theory include economists, philosophers, psychologists, historians, activists, dramatists, essayists, poets, and novelists. Social theory, from a critical perspective, is accessible to everyone and seeks ways to understand social life and is crucial for helping people make sense of their daily lives and is essential to understanding new research, social practices, and institutions. With the long-term aim of helping us better understand our lives and world, students will study what theorists have to say about the social world. The course covers key areas such as Queer Theory, Crip Theory, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and other areas of inquiry that seek to engage a multidisciplinary perspective with the goal of advancing emancipatory knowledge.

This course studies the problems and needs of organizations and how business functions, staff, data, business processes, and technology can be used to achieve organizational goals and objectives. The focus is on assessment for improvement of the business and its functions. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of the Digital Literacy Competency

Students will demonstrate mastery of the concepts and methodology in the major by producing a final project that includes extensive research into the selected topic. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the General Education Capstone course. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the General Education Capstone course.

This course introduces the fundamentals of computer systems, the role of information processing in the business environment, and provides a basic overview of essential computer software. The course also provides an overview of systems development, operating systems and programming, database management, networking, and telecommunications all from a management perspective.

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and tools to develop an understanding of the nature of literature, what functions it has, and what the relation of the text is to the author, the reader, language, society, and history.

This course addresses the business systems analysis function and purpose within organizations. Students will learn to elicit, analyze, and validate business and user requirements. Topics include information systems solutions planning, requirements gathering, logical system diagrams, developing information systems solutions to address business problems, and intelligent business information systems analysis methods, based upon emergent technology.