This course provides an examination of the development of higher education in America as seen through historical, legal, philosophical, and social lenses. Students analyze influences of the European model and alternative approaches and the complex social settings in which these events occur. The development and range of today’s institutions are reviewed with implications for policy development.

This course explores the application of economic principles and analytical tools to address contemporary business challenges and enhance managerial decision-making. Students will focus on strategies for pricing, production, and profit maximization, as well as investment evaluation and decision-making under uncertainty. Key topics include pricing strategies, cost analysis, risk management, and market structures such as perfect competition, monopolistic competition, monopoly, and oligopoly. Through critical analysis and synthesis of economic models, students will develop a problem-solving approach to real-world managerial scenarios, preparing them for effective decision-making in dynamic business environments. Prerequisite: ECO 204

This course examines the elements of exceptional military leadership used to effectively navigate the intersection of security, economic, and geopolitical factors that shape contemporary societies. Students will be introduced to high-impact, ethics-driven military leaders who have exhibited excellence in performance in military and civilian life. Students will also utilize performance improvement tools and strategies to drive success on and off the field.

This course builds on leadership, business, management, and marketing concepts contained in the MBA program, while introducing the principles of brand publishing, trending technologies, and customer behavior. Through examples and case studies, students learn to improve the organization, tracking, assembly, personalization, and sourcing of content to establish a center of excellence within an organization. In addition, this capstone project will generate a portfolio project to demonstrate students’ significant execution of brand publishing as a core marketing function and career path.

This course is a combination of practical applications and examples of business intelligence technology to transform and analyze data for decision-making and examine health care outcomes for patients. Students will analyze how strategic planning is essential for sustainability and how business intelligence tools assist leaders in making decisions that will positively impact their bottom line. Additionally, through the use of case study examples, students will learn how health care organizations use health care data and technological tools to create business intelligence plans.

During this course, students will apply evidence-based, differentiated strategies in relationship to practice, process, product, content, assessment, and grouping to meet diverse academic instructional needs. Students will construct assessments, learning objectives, and instructional strategies that offer a rich inquiry of learning styles. This approach to instructional design will promote critical thinking for learning along with the inclusion of cultural schemata (i.e., personal experiences, cultural and language norms, and family belief systems). Prerequisite: EDU 650.

Various tools and methodologies for assessing English proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing for both ELL children and adults will be critiqued. Formative and summative assessments will be explored with an emphasis on the application and appropriateness of their use for instructional design.

This course focuses on leadership in the educational or corporate environment to bring about change required to meet learning and training needs. Students will evaluate their personal leadership in their professional environment. Leadership tools to provide increased learning opportunities will be used to design learning experiences and evaluate results.

In this course, students will examine theories, organizational learning outcomes, and models of assessment and evaluation that lead to institutional improvement and effectiveness in the use of technology. Students will follow a logic model to conduct a program evaluation and develop a proposal for organizational improvement.