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Course Descriptions

American College of Education courses are designed to be taken independently, not sequentially. The majority of courses do not have prerequisites except as indicated in the course descriptions below. Note that 4000 level courses are at the bachelor’s level, 5000 level courses are at the master’s level, and 6000 level courses are at the specialist and doctoral level.
 

Educational Technology
  

  • TECH6393 - Capstone in Instructional Technology

    Credits: 3
    The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout the program. Students create a professional portfolio based on work created during their program to highlight mastery of specific academic outcomes and demonstrate the impact of their studies.

English
  

  • COM4003 - Communications

    Credits: 3
    This course considers the necessity of communicating well in society. Communicating verbally, through the written word, and through body language are examined closely. Barriers to communication along with ways to overcome them are discussed in detail. The importance of providing and accepting feedback is analyzed. Interpersonal communication skills and theories of communication round out the course. 
  

  • ENG4003 - Technical Writing

    Credits: 3
    This course provides an overview of how to write successfully for a variety of technical purposes. Through a series of exercises, students learn to respond appropriately in writing in various modes and organizational contexts for different audiences.  Ethics of the writer and the responsibility to the audience are discussed in-depth. Students gain practical experience and better understand how to decrease barriers to communication through the written word. The impact of culture and language on technical writing are also considered.
  

  • ENG4023 - Written Communication - Advanced English Skills

    Credits: 3
    This course explores how writing can effectively convey ideas, thoughts, and needs. Using the fundamentals of high-quality writing - focus and coherence, organization and structure, development of ideas, voice, word choice, and conventions - and critical thinking, students produce various written texts in different modes and lengths to communicate with audiences in a variety of settings. Advanced-level English skills and digital tools for writing are integrated within the written products.
  

  • ENG5003 - Writing as a Means to an End - Connecting Writing and Reading for Literacy Success

    Credits: 3
    Covey’s principle of “beginning with the end in mind” sets the stage for developing competencies in using different language strategies to convey meaning, relevance, and purpose for reading and writing within various genres. By exploring theories for developing and interpreting concepts, learners establish a vehicle for integrating content across disciplines as a way to interpret, synthesize, and respond to issues experienced by various audiences. Emphasis is placed on argumentative, informative/explanatory, narrative, and other forms of writing, their structure, and appropriateness to various audiences.
  

  • ENG5013 - High Drama - Evaluating Literary and Commercial Works

    Credits: 3
    This course aids in understanding the influences on creation of thought and perspective as reflected in personal expressions and professional expectations. By examining literary and commercial works on the same topic, learners consider how personal or professional perspectives can take a dramatic shift depending upon environmental influences and delivery approaches impacting comprehension. Understanding the drama of a personal story gives expression to the human experience.
  

  • ENG5023 - The Culture of Literary Expression - Analyzing Influences on Literature and Comprehension

    Credits: 3
    This course investigates the societal factors impacting literary expression including class, politics, gender, and globalization, as expressed in music, digital devices, images, film, and other technologies. From wars to social media, an understanding is gained of how these have influenced changes in the English language over time, as a backdrop for responding and reflecting upon personal and professional fulfillment.
  

  • ENG5033 - Revolutionary Words - Using Language and Literacy to Make a Difference

    Credits: 3
    This course introduces the impact of language in personal and public writing and speaking - including uses of propaganda, contradiction, letters, novels, journalism, poetry, theater, and visual media - on social and political change, including insurrection, legislation, and military conflict. To accomplish a purpose for communicating to a selected audience, the structure and conventions of language are examined.
  

  • ENG5043 - The Message in the Bottle - Media and Messaging in the Modern Age

    Credits: 3
    This course defines ways media has served as a conveyance of ideas, generating responses from the town crier to digital devices. By exploring the theories and psychological factors of developing and interpreting meaning, learners engage in forms of communication based upon research into the patterns of language, ways to determine accuracy and truth, and a best-fit approach for a selected audience.
  

  • ENG5053 - The Power of Words and Images - Framing Influential Works Through New Literacies

    Credits: 3
    This course selects influential works from pivotal moments in history which shaped the course of human interaction. “The pen is mightier than the sword” has given way to the tweet of thumbs. Through research, learners explore how the Library of Congress determines what to archive, identifies significance, and sorts content. The nature of new literacies frame the study of exemplary writers and the descriptive writing process.
  

  • LIT5113 - Social Studies and Language Arts for Elementary Teacher Preparation

    Credits: 3
    This course considers how to develop an appreciation for the world beyond the classroom as found in writings and other literacies in relation to significant historical events and global perspectives. Principles and methods of inquiry to foster critical and creative thinking are utilized to explore methods for introducing genres and core ideas which have shaped regional, state, national, and global understanding from past eras to present day. Response to Instruction (RtI) procedures will engage strategies and methods appropriate for the delivery of English language arts and social studies through the use of differentiated instruction. Students also engage in 5-10 hours of field experiences.
  

  • LIT5123 - Implementing Secondary Literacy and ELA Principles

    Credits: 3
    This course examines the use of language, literacy and modes of communications through content specific examples of ELA. Utilizing content-specific illustrations, learners examine major components of ELA and literacy to support conceptualization of knowledge for secondary grade levels. Prioritizing essential elements of thought characterized in a discipline, learners connect prior knowledge to authentic assessment options which support best practices and state standards related to ELA and literacy.
  

  • LIT5143 - Social Studies and Reading/Language Arts for Elementary Teachers

    Credits: 3
    This course considers how to develop an appreciation for the world beyond the classroom as found in writings and other literacies in relation to significant historical events and global perspectives. Principles and methods of inquiry to foster critical and creative thinking are utilized to explore methods for introducing genres and core ideas which have shaped regional, state, national, and global understanding from past eras to present day. Response to Instruction (RtI) procedures will engage strategies and methods appropriate for the delivery of reading/language arts and social studies through the use of differentiated instruction.
  

  • LIT5153 - Exploring Foundations of Elementary ELA and Literacy

    Credits: 3
    The course introduces the foundations of elementary level reading and English language arts (ELA) to support literacy and communications skills across disciplines. Principles and methods of inquiry to foster critical and creative thinking are utilized to examine methods for introducing language arts concepts across curriculum. This course also examines issues related to integrating reading skills to enhance fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension in a variety of text structures and across content areas.
  

  • LIT5163 - Principles of Elementary ELA and Literacy

    Credits: 3
    This course builds key concepts related to phonemic awareness and phonics, shaping an emerging understanding of the connection between language and the written code, listening and talking, and ELA principles. Essential components of effective reading instruction will be explored using research based best practices. Students will analyze critical elements of emerging skills to foster the use of appropriate instruction and assessment strategies across developmental stages, content areas and technology to support elementary age learners.
  

  • LIT5173 - Extending Connections Beyond ELA

    Credits: 3
    This course examines issues related to integrating curriculum to enhance fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension in a variety of text structures and literacies across the content areas for elementary grade levels. Utilizing core concepts, ELA skills will be used to build connections between disciplines and extending into real-world applications. A range of instructional strategies for assessment, intervention, and enrichment will be evaluated to support diverse learners. Key dimensions for the development of differentiated instruction will promote blending of resources from the school environment, community and abroad, including the use of technology.
  

  • LIT5183 - Investigating Secondary Literacy and ELA Fundamentals

    Credits: 3
    This course integrates English Language Arts (ELA) and Literacy applications for developing skills across disciplines. Specific examples from secondary grade levels grades explore strategies to support literacy skills for older grade levels. Principles and methods of inquiry to foster critical and creative thinking are utilized evaluate effective strategies to support ELA concepts aligned to best practices.
  

  • LIT5193 - Integrating Secondary Literacy and ELA Concepts

    Credits: 3
    This course examines issues related to integrating communication skills to enhance fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension in a variety of text structures and literacies across the content areas for secondary learners. Utilizing core concepts, ELA skills will be used to build connections between disciplines of thought, extending into real-world applications. A range of instructional strategies for assessment, intervention, and enrichment will be evaluated as to their effectiveness for supporting engagement and motivation of learners. Key dimensions for the development of differentiated instruction will be addressed to support literacy and reading skills across disciplines.

ESL/BL/TESOL
  

  • BE5013 - Foundations of ESL and Bilingual Education

    Credits: 3
    An essential course for all educators, this course provides students with an understanding of the historical, political, social, cultural, and educational concepts and issues that affect linguistically and culturally diverse students in the educational system. A review of local, state, and federal policies regarding entitlement and appropriate school services for English language learners, and important program models are analyzed. Current theories of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), bilingualism, and socio-cultural theories are explored for their pedagogical implications and specific program models within and outside the U.S. are examined for their contributions to student academic achievement.
  

  • BE5023 - Assessment of ESL and Bilingual Students

    Credits: 3
    Students in this course explore issues of assessment of second language learners within the larger framework of historical, social, cultural, and political contexts. Utilizing a variety of theoretical models related to second language acquisition and academic achievement, students 1) analyze the ways that second language students are diverse, 2) discuss equitable assessment of diverse learners, and 3) evaluate existing instruments for second language learners. Students examine and review relevant state standards for content matter learning and language proficiency, and examine how those are assessed in mandated, large-scale assessment and in classroom assessment (traditional and alternative).
  

  • BE5033 - Methods and Materials for Teaching English as a Second Language

    Credits: 3
    This course provides teachers methods for providing language and content instruction to second language learners. Students consider historical and current English as a second language (ESL) program models and second language acquisition theories, pedagogy, and methodology. Relevant federal, state, and local learning and assessment standards are reviewed and applied to their teaching. Students are guided in creating and presenting teaching units and lessons based on various methods, approaches, and techniques. Students discuss the selection, use, and evaluation of books, multimedia, technology, and other materials. Students examine the application of relevant learning and assessment standards to their teaching of second language learners.
  

  • BE5043 - Cross-Cultural Studies for Teaching ELLs

    Credits: 3
    With the increase of limited-English-proficient students in urban environments, this course examines the impact of culture on society and the educational system, and the importance of culture in addressing the needs of immigrant students. It explores the dynamic processes of acculturation and cultural conflict. Students examine the role of culture in the American educational system and how ethno-linguistic groups contribute to the dynamics of the classroom. Students examine behavioral expectations and learning styles of students from different backgrounds, how that changes the classroom dynamics, and how teacher expectations can affect perceptual judgments of students. Students learn how to design culturally relevant instruction to further the academic success of diverse groups, and learn ways to foster collaborative and dynamic learning environments.
  

  • BE5053 - Advocacy and Leadership

    Credits: 3
    This course addresses growth opportunities for teacher leaders as they increase their awareness of educational policy and laws at the local, state, and national level and the roles of school leaders, boards of education, legislators, and other stakeholders in establishing these policies. Emphasis is placed on building leadership and advocacy knowledge and skills required to share information on policies and trends with colleagues; to work collaboratively with colleagues, student families and community members to advocate for student and teacher rights, needs, and resources, and to represent and advocate for the teaching profession and their students outside the classroom.
  

  • BE5101 - Internship Experience for ESL Education

    Credits: 1
    The ESL Internship is designed to guide aspiring ESL teachers through structured and semi-structured, supervised experiences focused on teaching ESL students.
  

  • BE6043 - Advanced Foundations of Second Language Learners

    Credits: 3
    This course provides an understanding of the historical, political, social, cultural, and instructional concepts and issues that affect linguistically and culturally diverse learners in a variety of settings. Students will research and review local, state, and federal policies regarding entitlement and appropriate services for second language learners. Students will gain in-depth knowledge of language development and acquisition and design research based support and instruction for second language learners. U.S. and international program models are analyzed and current theories of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), bilingualism, and socio-cultural theories are explored for their pedagogical implications. Students will develop assessment instruments, select materials, and learn how to monitor learning outcomes to support and enhance the development of second language learners.
  

  • BE6053 - Assessment Methods for Second Language Learners

    Credits: 3
    Students in this course examine assessment approaches for second language learners within the larger framework of historical, social, cultural, and political contexts. Students will evaluate assessment tools and research historical theories in order to analyze the best practices in assessment of second language learners. Utilizing a variety of theoretical models related to second language acquisition and academic achievement, students 1) analyze the ways that second language students are diverse, 2) discuss equitable assessment of diverse learners, and 3) evaluate existing instruments for second language learners. Students examine and review relevant state or national standards for content matter learning and language proficiency and examine how those are assessed in mandated, large-scale assessment and in professional assessments (traditional and alternative). Students in non-traditional settings will examine how to align assessment methods with current professional standards for the field. Students will learn how to target certain learning outcomes by using critically evaluated materials.
  

  • BE6063 - Methods and Materials for Second Language Instruction

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on the methodology for teaching language and content to second language learners. Participants research and critically examine historical and current ESL and bilingual education program models, theories of ESL and bilingual instruction and literacy, first and second language acquisition, and transfer of skills and content knowledge between first and second language. Relevant federal, state, and local learning and assessment standards are researched, reviewed and applied to their instructional settings. Participants research and use various methods, approaches, and techniques, as well as discuss the selection, use, and evaluation of books, multimedia, and other materials in the first and subsequent languages to support second language learners across multiple professional settings.
  

  • BE6073 - Professional Advocacy and Leadership for Second Language Learners

    Credits: 3
    This course addresses growth opportunities for leaders as they increase their awareness of the need for advocates in the area of second language instruction in a variety of settings. Students will research policy and laws at the local, state, and national levels and reflect upon how they impact the second language learners in their current professional setting. Emphasis is placed on building the knowledge and skills required to share information on policies and trends with colleagues; to work collaboratively with others to advocate for second language learners and instructor rights, needs, and resources, and to represent and advocate for second language learners both within and beyond their current instructional settings.
  

  • BE6083 - Understanding Linguistics and Second Language Learners

    Credits: 3
    This course covers the following essential dimensions of linguistics and the acquisition of language: language and the brain, first and second language acquisition, major components of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics), cognition and learning, and communicative competence.  The course examines second language learners and their proficiency in oral, reading, and writing skills in English as well as the importance of the home languages as a foundation for learning a second language. Students get an overview of socio-cultural, psychological, and political variables that play a part in second language acquisition, which will translate to greater understanding of second language learners as they navigate the community and professional settings.
  

  • BE6093 - Capstone in Second Language Instruction

    Credits: 3
    The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the doctoral focus of study in second language instruction. Students create a professional portfolio based on work created during their program to highlight mastery of specific academic outcomes and demonstrate the impact of the focus of study on the professional field. 
  

  • BE6113 - Technology for Second Language Instruction

    Credits: 3
    This course will examine types of educational technology resources which support second language learners. Students will explore how to evaluate the use of technology in different educational settings, and how to integrate it in course design. Students will also analyze strategies for assessing and selecting current and relevant technology tools to meet the needs of second language learners. Students will be required to develop an integrated technology project for improving second language learners’ language development or an academic aspect in an instructional setting. Students will also create a research proposal to investigate a technology tool to support second language education, aligned to the developmental needs of their learners.
  

  • BE6123 - Cross-Cultural Studies for Teaching Second Language Learners

    Credits: 3
    This course evaluates the impact of culture on society and the educational system and the role in addressing the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. This course will explore the dynamic processes of acculturation and cultural conflict in learning a second language. Students will examine the role of culture in an educational system and how ethnolinguistic groups contribute to the dynamics of the classroom. Students will analyze behavioral expectations and learning styles of students from different backgrounds and how classroom dynamics and teacher expectations shape perceptual judgments of learners. Students will create culturally relevant instruction to further second language development and the academic success of diverse groups and create ways to foster collaborative and dynamic learning environments.
  

  • BE6133 - Capstone in Second Language Instruction

    Credits: 3
    The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact their knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the Educational Specialist in the Second Language Instruction program.  Pre-requisite(s): Completion of 27 hours at the 6000 level
  

  • BL5063 - Methods and Materials for Teaching Bilingual Education

    Credits: 3
    Designed for Bilingual Education, this course prepares teachers in methodology for teaching language and content to English Language Learners in bilingual education programs. Participants critically examine bilingual education program models and theories of bilingual education and literacy, first and second language acquisition, and transfer of skills and content knowledge between first and second language. Participants are guided in creating a teaching unit and adapting and presenting lessons using various methods, approaches, and techniques. Participants discuss the selection, use, and evaluation of books, multimedia, and other materials in the first and subsequent languages. Participants examine the application of relevant learning and assessment standards to their teaching.
  

  • BL5101 - Internship Experience for Bilingual Education

    Credits: 1
    The Bilingual Internship is designed to guide aspiring bilingual teachers through structured and semi-structured, supervised experiences focused on teaching bilingual students.
  

  • EB5401 - Independent Study in ELLs or Bilingual Education

    Credits: 1
    This course is an independent study of specific problems in the field of curriculum and instruction with specialization in ESL/BL. May be repeated. In seeking permission to register in this course, the student will submit a proposed topic to the department chair. With an approved topic, the student will conduct an independent inquiry under the supervision of a faculty member. Work in EB5401 must be accomplished in a regular five-week session with all student products submitted through the learning management system. Through the student’s independent inquiry, the student will develop a product for review. Pre-requisite(s): Permission of the department chair.
  

  • EB5402 - Independent Study in ELLs or Bilingual Education

    Credits: 2
    This course is an independent study of specific problems in the field of curriculum and instruction with specialization in ESL/BL. May be repeated. In seeking permission to register in this course, the student will submit a proposed topic to the department chair. With an approved topic, the student will conduct an independent inquiry under the supervision of a faculty member. Work in EB5402 must be accomplished in a regular five-week session with all student products submitted through the learning management system. Through the student’s independent inquiry, the student will develop a product for review.
  

  • EB5403 - Independent Study in ELLs or Bilingual Education

    Credits: 3
    This course is an independent study of specific problems in the field of curriculum and instruction with specialization in ESL/BL. May be repeated. In seeking permission to register in this course, the student will submit a proposed topic to the department chair. With an approved topic, the student will conduct an independent inquiry under the supervision of a faculty member. Work in EB5402  must be accomplished in a regular five-week session with all student products submitted through the learning management system. Through the student’s independent inquiry, the student will develop a product for review.
  

  • EBL5091 - Capstone Experience for ESL and Bilingual Education

    Credits: 1
    The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the ESL/BL program.
  

  • EBL5101 - Internship Experience for ESL and Bilingual Education

    Credits: 1
    The ESL/BL Internship is designed to guide aspiring ESL/BL teachers through structured and semi-structured, supervised experiences focused on teaching ESL/BL students.
  

  • ES5063 - Linguistics for TESOL

    Credits: 3
    Students in this course cover the following essential dimensions of linguistics and the acquisition of language: language and the brain, first and second language acquisition, major components of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics), cognition and learning, and communicative competence. Emphasis is placed on implications for ESL and bilingual education teachers.
  

  • ES5073 - Applied Linguistics

    Credits: 3

    An in-depth study of theories and terminology, students create specific classroom applications utilizing linguistics in the major five areas impacting language acquisition: phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, and discourse. Targeting specific strategies, students utilize theories to create dynamic interactive lessons appropriate for particular ELL student populations. Pre-requisite(s): ES5063  

     
  

  • TEL5081 - Certificate Capstone Experience for Teaching English Learners

    Credits: 1
    The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout, and as a result of the Certificate in Teaching English Learners.
  

  • TEL5091 - Capstone Experience for Teaching English Learners

    Credits: 1
    The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout, and as a result of the Master of Education in Teaching English Learners program.

Finance
  

  • EBUS5203 - Management of Financial Resources

    Credits: 3
    Designed to explore fiscal and budget responsibilities, this course applies budgetary principles to interpret a range of funding and valuation models, including property tax levy. By analyzing the shifts in cash flow, students consider multiple theoretical approaches to effectively manage revenue sources, expenditures, budgetary constraints, and forecasts of resources, with respect to state and federal regulations. Emphasis is placed on the budget process including the support of technology resources, facilities, and applications as it relates to reporting the management and oversight of funds and financial services.
  

  • FIN4003 - Finance and Sustainability in Business

    Credits: 3
    As a leader or manager, individuals need to understand financial practices to ensure sustainability. This course provides insight into the leader’s role related to financial planning, fundraising, and fiscal responsibility. Topics include budgeting and accounting, grants and proposals, and venture and private equity.
  

  • FIN5003 - Financial Management

    Credits: 3
    Students will investigate operating problems and issues relevant to financial management, such as with forecasting, profit maximization, international financial markets, and financial risk assessment. This course applies budgetary principles to impact funding, impact investing, and valuations. By preparing financial statements and analyzing the shifts in cash flow, students consider multiple theoretical approaches to effectively manage revenue sources, expenditures, and budgets. Emphasis is placed on the socially responsible budget process including the support of sustainability, technology resources, and applications as it relates to reporting the management and oversight of funds and financial services.
  

  • FIN5013 - Financial Management for Leaders

    Credits: 3
    The main goal of this course is to develop a foundation of financial management concepts and tools from a managerial perspective. This core understanding will help students to apply how corporations make important investments and financing decisions. The course also further lays the foundation for more complex financial management topics such as describing the corporation and its operating environment to help managers understand how the finances of a company work and how they will need to interface with finance. 

General Education Course
  

  • GE4003 - Critical Reflection and Self-Assessment

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on helping students learn to analyze their strengths and weaknesses with a discerning eye. Through a series of exercises, students assess their strengths and how to harness them. Students also assess their challenge areas and determine ways to resolve them. Students will leave the course with a better understanding of how to utilize the best parts of their personality and skills for a force of good in society.
  

  • GE4013 - Collaboration and Teamwork

    Credits: 3
    In an era of increasing collaboration, people entering the workforce now more than ever before need to understand the value of working with others. This course offers insight on how to be flexible when working with individuals and provides tips on how to exercise interpersonal sensitivity and take feedback gracefully without offense. Learners learn to recognize when it’s necessary to stand up for their ideas or compromise for the good of a team. The concept of synergy is discussed along with the different modes of persuasion and negotiation. Students also learn about the various jobs involving teamwork, including virtual opportunities.
  

  • GE4023 - Personal and Professional Ethics

    Credits: 3
    This course addresses personal and professional ethics as employability skills essential to the modern workplace. Characteristics of integrity, respect, perseverance, positive attitude, dependability, and professionalism are explored in-depth. The appropriate use of technology is discussed as an aspect of integrity.
  

  • GE4033 - Planning and Organizational Skills: Time Management

    Credits: 3
    This course is designed to teach students the basic principles of planning and organization with a focus on time management. From keeping a day planner to using a digital organizer, students will learn about tools they can use to gain control of their busy lives. The concepts of to-do lists, prioritizing commitments, filing things away, and filtering out digital and physical clutter as strategies for improving efficiency are explored. Students address the challenges associated with procrastination and how to overcome it. Practical advice is provided on how to complete tasks in a timely manner, ways to approach seemingly difficult projects, and how to make commitments in line with personal and professional values and goals.
  

  • GE4043 - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on strategies that students can use to think critically in more effective ways. The concept of analyzing problems from various perspectives is discussed in detail, and different models of problem solving are introduced. The importance of seeking feedback from multiple stakeholders is explored, along with the necessity to research what individuals and various entities within an organization have done to overcome their challenges. Theories of critical thinking are analyzed, and students gain practical experience in dealing with authentic, real-life problems. Students have the opportunity to review examples of organizational leaders succeeding and thriving in solving problems. The notion of what it means to think outside the box is explored in depth.
  

  • GE4053 - Developing an Academic Mindset

    Credits: 3
    This course provides tips and suggestions on how learners can be more academically minded in all aspects of their lives. Through a series of activities, students will realize that learning doesn’t have to stop when a lecture ends or their degrees are earned. The course examines attributes of successful, lifelong learners and people both in and out of academia. Exercises in the course are designed to foster students’ interest in learning and ignite passion for continual development. 
  

  • GE4063 - Creative Thinking and Innovation

    Credits: 3
    This course is designed to help tap into the creative powers that many people possess but do not use. Through an examination of inventors and world leaders who created innovative products, students learn more about how they, too, can design powerful products and ideas that can revolutionize the world. Students examine attributes of creative thinking and what it takes to be innovative in a global society. The idea of not reinventing the wheel but making it better is also explored. Students engage in activities that teach them to think in unique and innovative ways about problems and opportunities on a global scale.
  

  • GE4073 - Self-Efficacy and Self-Directed Action

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on helping students learn how to independently structure their lives to better meet academic, personal, and professional goals. The concepts of self-efficacy, self-directed action, and self-awareness serve as the focal point as students learn to build confidence in their skills and take initiative toward attaining their aspirations. Emphasis is placed on developing lifelong habits that lead to greater productivity. Through a series of application-based exercises and reflective work, learners gain knowledge on how to take more control of their futures. Additionally, goal setting, resilience, and the drive to get things done are explored.
  

  • GE4083 - Professionalism and Leadership

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on leadership styles and the attributes necessary to lead with poise, confidence, and kindness. Students learn what professionalism is and how to apply it not just in leading others but in all their interactions. The importance and benefits of taking pride in one’s work is explored. Techniques to win over followers and others are examined along with attributes of professional interactions. Creating an environment and workspace that embodies professionalism is discussed. Students will leave the course with skills they can use to be more confident in leading and interacting with others.
  

  • GE4093 - Work From Home

    Credits: 3
    With an increased need for telework, employees must be prepared to work from home. Students explore how to set up an organized home office, create routines to establish productivity, foster healthy work-life balance, and use technology appropriately. Learners recognize strategies to mitigate procrastination, reduce environmental distractions, and design measurable goals for success. Students discuss how to select proper modes of communication and etiquette for messaging, emails, video calls, and virtual group meetings.
  

  • GE4103 - Digital Literacy and Application

    Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to basic software and Internet applications necessary for success in the 21st century. Through a series of exercises, learners will leave the course better able to research, find key information, and use Microsoft Office more fully. Students will be taught about the benefits of using Excel spreadsheets in school and the workforce. A consideration of the value of various websites including those that are non-profit, education- based, or government-operated are discussed. Common apps used in the business and educational worlds are analyzed. Students will leave the course with a better understanding of how to navigate software programs, the Internet, and apps on their smartphones for greater productivity and efficiency.
  

  • PS4093 - Senior Capstone Experience in Professional Studies

    Credits: 3
    The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout and as a result of the Professional Studies program.

Health Informatics
  

  • HCI5003 - Introduction to Health Informatics and Data Science

    Credits: 3
    This course offers an exploratory overview of the history and fundamentals of health informatics. An introduction to topics such as legal and ethical issues in informatics, information systems, and data science will be covered. The use of information in clinical and organizational decision making to improve health outcomes will be emphasized.
  

  • HCI5013 - Clinical Terminology and Foundational Programming for Health Informatics

    Credits: 3
    This course will focus on health concepts, documentation, health taxonomies, and clinical terminologies. Students will explore nomenclature required for health data analysis, medical vocabulary standards, and clinical systems associated with the electronic health record. Students will establish a foundation of knowledge relative to programming language and clinical terminologies.
  

  • HCI5023 - Clinical Information Systems: Innovation and Complex Work Designs

    Credits: 3
    This course is designed to acclimate the student to trends in innovative technology impacting the design and structure of health information systems. The assessment and utilization of information systems within health organizations will be examined. Students will explore new and emerging technological approaches to data management and data security, as well as emerging trends in healthcare such as telehealth.
  

  • HCI5033 - Security, Privacy, and Legal Topics in Health Informatics

    Credits: 3
    Protection of data and client privacy in the design, development, and implementation of information systems will be emphasized in this course. Students will explore risk management and risk mitigation strategies in using and managing data from a developer and end user perspective in health organizations. Current legal and regulatory topics in health informatics will be discussed.
  

  • HCI5043 - Health Data Analytics and Disaster Preparedness

    Credits: 3
    This course will emphasize the importance of data analytics relative to crisis and disaster management. Students will gain an understanding of the interconnectedness of human capital, health-related data, and the use of technologies in crisis and disaster management. Students will evaluate and critically reflect on past instances of pandemics, natural disasters, and other crisis in order to harness data analytics, data management, and information dissemination in strategy development and future planning.
  

  • HCI5053 - Health Information System Development and Evaluation

    Credits: 3
    This course examines the process of information system development and evaluation in health organizations. Fundamental aspects of the systems development life cycle will be emphasized. Computer science principles such as programming, operating system considerations, and data standards will be examined.
  

  • HCI5063 - Global Health Informatics

    Credits: 3
    In this course, students will examine the critical role of information technologies in health systems management and research in progressively interconnected societies. Students will explore data collection, analysis, and the management of health information in resource-constrained countries. Challenges and opportunities of effectively integrating and sustaining systems in low-resource settings will be assessed.
  

  • HCI5073 - Public Health Informatics

    Credits: 3
    This course is designed to acclimate the student to the process of operationalizing informatics to address critical public health concerns impacting individuals, families, communities, and the environment in which they reside. Students will analyze public health data and the use of advanced technologies to synthesize data in support of public health surveillance and research. Informatics and its role in improving public health outcomes in diseases such as cancer will be explored.
  

  • HCI5083 - Ethical Foundations in Health Informatics

    Credits: 3
    This course will focus on ethical issues related to decision making, documentation, privacy, quality management, and research. Students will evaluate the ethical implications of health informatics and research on vulnerable populations. The intersection of technology and society will be examined in a social and behavioral context.
  

  • HCI5093 - Capstone Experience for Health Informatics

    Credits: 3
    This course will include a culminating leadership and management experience in the informatics field. Students will demonstrate competencies in leadership, management, effective communication, use of data analytics and decision-making to implement an informatics project.
  

  • HCI5103 - Health Information Leadership, Project Management, and Evaluation

    Credits: 3
    This course will examine various leadership theories and the role of leaders in managing health information. Students will focus on the influence of leadership styles on work analysis, change management, and effective collaboration. As health organizations become more multifaceted, leaders will be increasingly tasked to manage complex projects. This course will prepare students to apply appropriate leadership skills and best practices in project life cycle management.
  

  • HLTH4403 - Healthcare Information Management

    Credits: 3
    This course provides students an overview of informational technology as it applies to healthcare management. Students study web portals, online health risk assessments, electronic recordkeeping, interactive health tools, trackers, videos/podcasts, digital health coaching, online challenges, social networking, personal health records, and portable tracking devices (e.g., pedometers, glucose monitors, etc.).
  

  • HLTH5443 - Technology, Leadership, and Health Informatics

    Credits: 3
    Technology continues to drive ways to deliver, analyze, and interpret data, including informatics, clinical research, consumer and public health statistics. By teaching and training staff in the use of technology, protocols within an organization can be established as they relate to compliance issues and how stakeholders need to understand its use. Guidance is provided in the appropriate selection of technology to benefit targeted populations.
  

  • HLTH6443 - Systems, Policy, and Leadership in Health Informatics

    Credits: 3
    As technology is an integral part of the public health care system, students will research ways to deliver, analyze, and interpret data, including informatics/bioinformatics, clinical research, consumer and public health statistics. They will then learn how to teach and train the staff to use the different technology, helping to develop protocols to be established within the organization. These protocols will relate to compliance issues as well as inform stakeholders of their importance. Through research and discussion, the students will be guided to provide the appropriate selection of technology with the targeted population in mind.

Healthcare Administration
  

  • HLTH4301 - Introduction to Healthcare Administration

    Credits: 1
    Designed to introduce topics, this course explores current issues related to the healthcare industry as an opening needs assessment and survey of potential solutions to critical concerns.
  

  • HLTH4303 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare Management

    Credits: 3
    This course explores legal and ethical issues in healthcare management, with emphasis on HIPAA laws, case law, malpractice suites, risk management, and health power of attorney creation and execution.
  

  • HLTH4313 - Leading and Decision-Making in Health Services

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on leadership and management models and styles. Organizational behaviors, organizational change, and change management will also be covered.
  

  • HLTH4363 - Marketing for Healthcare Administrators

    Credits: 3
    Students learn introductory level marketing as it applies to the health and wellness field. Students assess market opportunities in wellness services, programs, and facilities, and create marketing strategies and tactics. In addition, students study the importance of strategic planning and its relationship to effective marketing.
  

  • HLTH4373 - Human Resources for Healthcare Administrators

    Credits: 3
    This course provides a foundation of knowledge and skills applicable to human resource management in healthcare settings. Topics include principles, concepts, issues, and challenges related to human resource management; financing; insurance, and the role of leadership as they apply to heath organizations.
  

  • HLTH4383 - Finance for Healthcare Administrators

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on understanding financial statements, managerial accounting solutions, and cost analyses. Students also apply financial and managerial accounting principles to develop solutions that make a positive financial impact. Federal and grant funding as it relates to healthcare will be emphasized.
  

  • HLTH4392 - Communication and Advocacy for Health and Wellness

    Credits: 2
    In this course, students examine the fundamentals of effective communication with diverse populations. Topics include the vital role that health communication takes in health care delivery structures, health care reform, health promotion, illness prevention, consumerism, and client advocacy. Innovative communication tools, technologies, and research will be explored.
  

  • HLTH4393 - Quality Management for Healthcare Administrators

    Credits: 3
    This course examines quality management methodologies used to analyze safe and effective healthcare operations. Techniques such as advanced quality planning and control plans will be studied to determine how they are utilized to drive quality improvement and optimization of healthcare organizational efficiencies. Emphasis will be placed on using statistical analysis techniques to increase healthcare efficiencies and improve health outcomes.
  

  • HLTH4913 - Senior Capstone Experience: Health and Wellness Services Management

    Credits: 3
    This Capstone course culminates in students’ development of a paper and project that showcase their healthcare knowledge. As part of the Capstone, students prepare a final web-based employment portfolio containing their project-based work in the program.
  

  • HLTH5453 - Health Policy Evaluation and Development

    Credits: 3
    This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to guide students in evaluating healthcare policy issues that impact decision making and outcomes in healthcare. Students will explore healthcare delivery systems and analyze issues which impact the delivery of healthcare and nursing at global, national, and state levels of government. Students will analyze the development, formulation, and implementation of policies and related economic issues that can influence healthcare practice today. In addition, the course includes topics such as the relationship between healthcare providers and patients, insurance policies, quality management, legislative liability issues, ethical decision making.
  

  • HLTH5603 - Legal and Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare Administration

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on legal and ethical implications for healthcare administrators. Students will gain competencies in legal, regulatory, and risk management concepts as they relate to healthcare leadership and accountability. Emphasis is placed on the application of ethical principles in decision making.
  

  • HLTH5613 - Leading and Strategy Development in Healthcare Organizations

    Credits: 3
    Organizational behavioral theories will provide the theoretical framework for critical study of effective leadership within the context of micro and macro systems across healthcare organizations. Emphasis will be placed on the processes of communication, problem solving, critical thinking, risk- taking, conflict management, team building, change management and effective decision-making. Various models of leadership and necessary leadership competencies for the healthcare administrator will be examined.
  

  • HLTH5623 - Epidemiology and Public Health for Healthcare Administrators

    Credits: 3
    This course examines core epidemiological and public health functions and concepts. Analytic and descriptive epidemiology and the relevance to public health and healthcare organizations will be studied. The role of healthcare administrators in analyzing and interpreting data to determine risk measures and public health impact will be investigated.
  

  • HLTH5633 - Advanced Quality Management for Healthcare Administrators

    Credits: 3
    The focus of this course includes information, skills and processes required to guide quality improvement initiatives in a variety of healthcare settings. Students learn to apply leadership skills, theory and evidence to ensure quality, and cost effectiveness of healthcare delivery within the organizational structure. Students acquire the skills to select the methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality and apply quality principles to improve outcomes. Current national efforts in performance measures, financial incentives and quality are discussed.
  

  • HLTH5643 - Information Systems Management for Healthcare Administrators

    Credits: 3
    This course is designed to provide students will a broad exposure to informatics in the healthcare setting. An overview of software platforms used in day to day operations will be studied. Emphasis will be placed on technology skills that will impact project management, quality and efficiency in the healthcare delivery system.
  

  • HLTH5653 - Financial Analysis and Assessment in Healthcare Administration

    Credits: 3
    Students will learn to assess the financial status of healthcare organizations via the application of financial accounting and statement analysis. Both nonprofit and for-profit accounting methods will be examined, with an emphasis on case-based studies. The impact of private and government insurance on budgeting, operations, and revenues will be examined.
  

  • HLTH5663 - Human Resources in Healthcare Organizations

    Credits: 3
    Advanced concepts in human resources management in healthcare organizations will be studied. The development and implementation of human resources programs to support a diverse workforce in healthcare organizations, and the role and responsibilities of management, will be examined. Staffing, recruiting, training, compliance, and legal implications for healthcare organizations will be emphasized.
  

  • HLTH5673 - Marketing for Healthcare Professionals

    Credits: 3
    This course examines marketing to consumers and payers in the healthcare marketplace. Concepts such as customer satisfaction and branding as it relates to the healthcare industry, as well as digital marketing, including websites, social media, and search engine optimization, will be studied. Data driven research analysis will be emphasized.
  

  • HLTH5683 - Project Management for Healthcare Administrators

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on essential skills of project management, including the ability to utilize data and technology, business skills, planning, effective communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution. Emphasis is placed on the ability to set and carry out organizational goals, plans, policies and procedures in a data and deadline driven healthcare environment.
  

  • HLTH5693 - Capstone Experience for Healthcare Administration

    Credits: 3
    This course will include a culminating leadership and management experience. Students will demonstrate competencies in leadership, management, effective communication, use of data analytics and decision- making to implement healthcare administration project.

Higher Education
  

  • HE5091 - Capstone Experience for Higher Education

    Credits: 3
    The Capstone Experience is designed for candidates to demonstrate and document the impact of their knowledge and competencies gained throughout, and as a result of the Master of Education in Higher Education.
  

  • HE6103 - Law, Compliance, and Governance in Higher Education

    Credits: 3
    Focused on examining statutory and regulatory compliance issues impacting institutions, this course is designed to heighten analytical skills to ensure an understanding of the intricacies influencing higher education in today’s climate of globalization. The interrelationship between law and policy is explored through the use of case studies, partnerships, and community relationship serving to establish a context for practice with the governance of an organization.
  

  • HE6113 - Resource Management in Higher Education

    Credits: 3
    This course considers how to strategically manage human, financial, and data resources. Strategic thinking, planning, and development establish effective ways to 1) strengthen working relationships, 2) engage in financial practices which contain costs and advance the mission of an institution and 3) utilize data for continuous improvement. By comparing and evaluating institutional advancement strategies, activities are assessed to determine how they complement strategic priorities and goals, build and enhance program relevance, and add practical value.
  

  • HE6123 - Student Affairs

    Credits: 3
    Dependent upon function and service, student affairs influences the relationship between adult learning and instructional outcomes. Leadership practices, as seen through theoretical lens, explore personnel issues, student support, success, and retention, and assessment options which guide decision-making. Consideration is given to ways student perspectives shape the college experience and how these can be leveraged for change.
  

  • HE6133 - Issues in Higher Ed

    Credits: 3
    This course investigates critical issues and concerns, emerging roles and functions, and influencing factors helping to redefine the nature of higher education. Societal shifts are probed to determine relevancy. Trends in technology and instructional delivery become the frame for forecasting the possible future of higher education.
  

  • HE6143 - Higher Education Administration

    Credits: 3
    This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities required of administration in higher education. Students investigate critical functions, societal shifts, technological trends, and how emerging roles are reshaping the foundations of higher education. Students also examine functions of and decision making within operations, financial options, human resources, marketing, and enrollment. 
 

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