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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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MBA Management |
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MBAMGT 667 - Entrepreneurship
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course sensitizes students to the entrepreneurial process from the conception of an idea to the creation of a new venture. The course provides conceptual frameworks, tools, and techniques to understand different aspects of entrepreneurial process and helps students evaluate the entrepreneurial career for themselves. Students learn about assessing business opportunities, developing a business plan, understanding various ways of mobilizing resources, creating different forms of new ventures, and building a top management team for the growth of the venture.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMGT 660 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMGT 669 - Entrepreneurship Internship/Practicum
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The Entrepreneurship Practicum course is a live experience for students who want to participate in the entrepreneurial start-up business process. The course is designed for those enrolled in the Entrepreneurship Specialization, and it will also accept selected student on a case by case basis with the requisite experience in and commitment to entrepreneurial and high-tech ventures. In addition to lectures, presentations and in-depth interactions between students and the Entrepreneur in residence each student will participate in an internship or be an employee with a start-up company connected to the Venture Development Center or through he University’s venture capital backed start-up network, or through the students own efforts. Companies must be notified by the student that they are taking this course based on their internship or employment before enrollment in this program.
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MBAMGT 671L - Introduction to Environmental Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course gives students an understanding of current environmental issues as they relate to managerial decision-making. The issues are examined from the worldwide perspectives of business and society. The course focuses on issues of waste and recycling, air quality (including ozone depletion, global warming, and acid rain), water quality, resource management, biodiversity, and sustainable economic growth. MBAMGT 671L and UPCD 671L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMGT 660 or permission of instructor
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MBAMGT 673 - Clean-Energy Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Entrepreneurship is about inventing and implementing: creating a vision and organizing an imitative or venture to make it happen. Some of the most successful entrepreneurial ventures today revolve around technologies that advance a renewable energy economy, including innovations in energy capture and in solar, bio-fuels, smart-grid, wind, energy efficiency, LEED building techniques, electric transportation, and more. These are part of a growing Clean Energy economy in the Boston region, which reflects the broad movement for environmental and Social Sustainability - those companies and corporate endeavors to pursue ‘net zero’ impacts on our consumerism and material usage. That perspective reveals the huge entrepreneurial opportunities, in all sectors of that growing trend. We define the cluster as including these key sectors: renewable energy; Smart Power, Green Grid, Energy Storage; Energy Efficiency; Air, Water and Waste; Green Building; and Transportation. Overall the cluster - and the course - includes the Sustainability and CSR segment, and a New Economy component that incorporates Slow Food, Long-term Investments, local commerce. In the course, we will take an entrepreneurial look at those companies, through understanding their Business Model, and gaining an understanding of the core technologies that give rise to each of these fields. In the accompanying semester-long project, each students makes on small but tangible contribution to any of the fields they choose.
Enrollment Requirements:
MGT 650 and graduate ENVSCI course
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MBAMGT 674L - Climate and Energy: Law, Policy and Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines legal, public policy and management issues related to Climate Change as well as those related to the siting, development and distribution of renewable energy. It begins with an on international overview of the socio-economic forces shown to influence climate change, the legal and economic mechanisms that have emerged to address such change and the evolving global energy portfolio (particularly efforts to develop renewable energy). EEOS 674L and MBAMGT 674L and UPCD 674L are the same course.
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MBAMGT 675 - Managing in the Global Economy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides students with the opportunity to acquire an in-depth conceptual and operational understanding of a group of countries, with the purpose of acquiring the technical skills necessary to enter, network, structure, manage, and eventually exit effectively from a foreign environment.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMGT 677 - Multinational Corporations and Globalization
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Multinational corporations are critical players in the global political economy. The larger MNC’s have revenues greater than the GOP of many states, and their significance as economic actors leads them to play a dominant role in international trade, investment and development. Their investment, employment and location decisions have major impacts on their home and host countries, on the natural environment, on national cultures, and on labor markets. MNC’s are also important social and political actors, engaging in the governance of global issues such as climate change and labor standards. The course draws from a range of perspectives to examine issues such as offshore sourcing, the rise of China and India as economic and political powers, and the shifting relationship among states, businesses and civil society.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMGT 650 and 660 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMGT 678 - Environmental Management: Implementation Issues
3 Credit(s)
Description:
During the past two decades, there has been growing pressure on businesses and other organizations to pay more attention to the environmental and resource consequences o f the products and services they offer and the processes they deploy. This course will explore the real life opportunities and pitfalls of designing and implementing sustainable operations in today’s corporations and non-profit organizations. Topics addressed will include recycling, waste management, toxics reduction, green chemistry, green-product design, lean/green operations, closed loop production, the triple bottom line (profit, people and the planet), energy efficiency, water conservation, product stewardship, climate change strategies, life cycle analysis, and the footprinting of carbon, fuels, and water consumption. Case studies and guest speakers will delve into the successes and failures faced by today’s sustainability managers.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate student in Management or permission of instructor
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MBAMGT 680 - Mgt Health Orgnizatn
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course explores the roles of the health systems manager as planner, organizer, leader, and integrator of health programs. Particular attention is given to how these roles differ from industry’s roles, as well as to the special demands made of the manager in a health systems organization.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMGT 650 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMGT 681 - The Health System and Public Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Examines the interface of government, health, and the private sector. This course explores the various roles government plays as promoter, regulator, and buyer of health services.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMGT 660 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMGT 683 - Leadership Management in 21st Century
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will explore leadership as it is practiced in corporate and public-sector environments. The course will emphasize the role of leaders in guiding organizations through turbulent business climates, in motivating subordinates and teams, and in crafting strategic visions for their organizations. Change management, globalization, and human resource management factor strongly into discussions and readings.
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MBAMGT 684L - Social Enterprise & Poverty Alleviation
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Social enterprise thus represents an organization crossbreed, blending defining elements of the business and nonprofit models. Like a business, social enterprise tries to pay its own way with income derived from buying and selling, and like a nonprofit, it aims to fill a particular social deficiency or correct a certain market failure associated with poverty. As opposed to maximizing shareholder value the way a prototypical business does, a social enterprise may retain its surplus to further its social mission, distribute it to its membership, or even repay its creditors and investors at a modest return. MBAMGT 684L and UPCD 684L are the same course.
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MBAMGT 685 - Global Industry and Competitive Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Examines techniques of industry and competitive analysis and ways of applying these techniques to gain a better understanding of industry trends and company strategies in sectors of significant importance to the regional economy.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMGT 650 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMGT 687L - Nonprofit Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Nonprofit organizations aim to improve society while facing similar management challenges to any organization as they provide valued goods and services. This large and growing sector includes colleges and universities, hospitals and social service entities, human rights. MBAMGT 687L and UPCD 687L are the same course.
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MBAMGT 688L - Global Warming and International Business Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Global warming may be the most important challenge that the human race has faced to date; a broader public is finally coming to grips with the ramifications of the potentially disastrous changes wrought by such contributing factors as fossil fuel consumption, deforestation, rapid population growth, and pollution. The economic consequences of these changes, however, have not been well explored. Twenty-first century managers in nearly all fields will need to develop a profound understanding of the results of environmental policies, energy use, and lifestyle choices on this universal issue; those who work in environment-related fields will need in particular to come to grips with these concerns and our local, national, and international responses to them. CONRES 688L and MBAMGT 688L are the same course.
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MBAMGT 689 - Strategic Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Considers the diverse situations typically confronted by upper-level management and strategies for managing these situations, using knowledge acquired through study of the MBA Core. These strategies are based on an analysis of the internal conditions of the firm and the constraints and opportunities afforded by the external environment. Students learn to develop strategy implementation plans that provide detailed descriptions of appropriate executive action.
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MBAMGT 690 - Master’s Thesis Option Research Colloquium
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This is the first part of the Master’s Thesis Option (MTO). It covers research and research methods, and is intended to position students to successfully complete a year-long research project of publishable quality. Lectures and discussion will focus on the skills required to develop a research question, how to formulate an appropriate research strategy, and ways to identify necessary analytical tools and locate data sources.
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MBAMGT 691 - Emerging Markets in the Global Economy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The significance of the emerging economies in the global arena is on the rise. For students, it is imperative to understand what roles these economies play and how it shapes the nature of international business. The first part of the course will cover concepts that serve as a foundation to understand the dynamics of emerging markets. The second part will focus on practical issues related to entering and competing in emerging markets. Specifically, this course will help students study the institutions and the macro environment of emerging markets, examine the opportunities and the challenges of operating therein, evaluate local and global competition, and analyze the different strategies of firms.
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MBAMGT 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Independent study credit is granted only for academic work not normally offered in advanced courses. A student must find a faculty sponsor for his or her independent study project and then file a proposal for the project in the MBA Office. The proposal should be signed by both the student and the faculty sponsor.
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MBAMGT 697 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course addresses a specific topic in a particular discipline. Courses under this title are offered as one-time supplements to a given department’s curriculum.
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MBAMGT 698 - Practicum
3 Credit(s)
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MBA Management Science |
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MBAMS 600 - Mathematical Analysis for Managers
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides the mathematical skills and applications necessary to pursue graduate study in the College of Management. Topics include a review of basic algebra; graphing; linear, polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic functions; functions of several variables; systems of linear equations; probability; differentiation and integration.
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MBAMS 630 - Statistical Analysis for Managers
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Acquaints students with statistical techniques used in management decision-making and develops their ability to characterize management problems that can be solved by such techniques. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, simple and multiple regression and correlation, chi square testing, analysis of variance, and decision theory. Students make use of computers and appropriate software to apply what they are learning.
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MBAMS 635 - Operations Mgt
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course familiarizes students with the analysis, planning, and control of operations and operating resources in both production and service organizations. Topics covered include product design and process selection, capacity planning, location and layout decisions, and inventory control. Analytical techniques used in system design and operations planning and control problems are also discussed. Students make use of computers and appropriate software to apply what they are learning.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMS 630 or MSIS 630 or MS 630 BUSADM students only
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MBAMS 638 - Management Decision Models
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Using the framework of 1) data, 2) models, and 3) decisions, this course familiarizes the student with the systematic use of data and models in decision-making. The student acquires an appreciation of management science approaches to solving problems in business or government, public or private and profit or not-for-profit sectors. Examples of problems from various sectors and from various functional areas are discussed. Students gather data about these problems, develop models, and explore solutions, using computer-based analysis and managerial judgment. In addition, “what if” analyses are used to determine the sensitivity of model solutions to uncertainties in data inputs. The course is computer-based, using many of the advanced features on Excel and/or other software packages.
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MBAMS 640 - Computer & Info Syst
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines the roles of information technologies (IS) and information systems (IS) in supporting an organization’s operations, strategy, and change efforts. The course offers a comprehensive review of modern IT architectures and trends covering management of computer technologies, telecommunications, data organization, and IS applications. Major emphasis is given to the critical roles of IT and IS in innovating business models and processes, i.e., digital innovations, under different organizational settings. The course makes extensive use of case-based scenarios to describe and understand key issues in the planning, development, and implementation of IT-dependent strategic initiatives for business.
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MBAMS 652 - Lean and Six Sigma Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
A revolution in management methods is moving through the global economy at breakneck speed, High performance, Six Sigma, Lean and IS management methods among them. The new methods aim to create competitive advantage which every enterprise needs in order to create sustained growth of its net income. In this course students study how to use the new leading edge methods for creating the required competitive advantages. The course focuses on how a company can create and deliver high value and quality to end-users, how it can design products and services so these will start their lives as growth products when launched, how the companies can manage its value chains so they become capable of operating with a productivity advantage at competitively low costs, how the two - the value and the productivity advantages - drive sustained growth of the “bottom line” - a company’s net income. The student will study how, in this very competitive world, these new high performance methods will achieve stellar “bottom line” business results in an accelerated time frame under dynamically changing circumstances
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MBAMS 690 - Master’s Thesis Option Research Colloquium
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This is the first part of the Master’s Thesis Option (MTO). It covers research and research methods, and is intended to position students to successfully complete a year-long research project of publishable quality. Lectures and discussion will focus on the skills required to develop a research question, how to formulate an appropriate research strategy, and ways to identify necessary analytical tools and locate data sources.
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MBAMS 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Independent study credit is granted only for academic work not normally offered in advanced courses. A student must find a faculty sponsor for his or her independent study project and then file a proposal for the project in the MBA Office. The proposal should be signed by both the student and the faculty sponsor.
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MBA Marketing |
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MBAMKT 668 - Entrepreneurship Sales & Marketing
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Entrepreneurship Sales & Marketing is a course that will prepare you for an entry level sales and marketing position in a startup initiative as well as prepare you to launch your own sales and marketing initiative in your own startup. Live role play scenarios with experienced sales and marketing entrepreneurs will prepare you for the multiple areas of responsibilities and interactions within a startup organization as well as outward facing prospect and customer responsibilities and interactions that are required in a startup. And you will be exposed to the overall process and tools that drive a sales/marketing organization in a startup. Students will also be provided preparation assistance and given priority consideration to the internships offered through UMass Boston’s Student Entrepreneurship Program (StEP)
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MBAMKT 669 - Social and Nonprofit Marketing: Promoting Health, the Environment, and Social Change
3 Credit(s)
Description:
In 1951, when sociologist G.D. Weibe asked, “Why can’t you sell brotherhood and rational thinking like you can sell soap?”, the fields of social and nonprofit marketing were born. Social marketing seeks to benefit either society as a whole or a segment of the population (e.g., a particular vulnerable population) via influencing behavior. Nonprofit Marketing primarily involves promoting socially beneficial services and goods (e.g., health care services, educational opportunities, arts performances, museum shows). Additionally, nonprofits can and do employ social marketing to raise funds and engage volunteers. this course will enable students to gain valuable practical skills that are relevant in a broad range of fields including environmental, healthcare, nonprofit management, marketing, and public health. Students will examine the functions of social and nonprofit marketing, as well as, the ways that they both dovetail with and differ from for-profit marketing. And working in teams, students will develop social marketing programs.
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MBAMKT 670 - Marketing Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the strategic decisions necessary to match organizational resources with market opportunities. Students learn to analyze market opportunities, to develop marketing plans and marketing mix strategies, and to manage implementation and control of the marketing plan.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBA AF 610 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMKT 671 - Marketing Research
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is intended to improve your ability to actually use research as a formalized means of obtaining information to be used in making decisions in the context of increasingly globalized, diverse, and information-oriented marketplace, business world, and nonprofit organizations. During the information collection, analysis, and report process, you will learn a set of fundamental marketing research skills of problems formulation, research design, measurement scale development, questionnaire design, data collection, basic and multivariate data analysis, report writing, and presentation.
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MBAMKT 672 - Services Marketing
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines what differentiates services marketing from the marketing of products. Special attention is given to the unusually intricate coordination of planning and interaction that the marketing of services requires among the traditional management functions of marketing, operations, human resources, and finance.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMKT 673 - Marketing Communications
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course helps students develop an integrated communications strategy, blending individual external elements such as advertising, personal selling, sales promotion (including direct marketing and trade shows), and publicity with internal communications. The course is managerial in nature and provides the student with the necessary ability to analyze, plan, implement, and control marketing communications programs.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMKT 674 - International Marketing
3 Credit(s)
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMKT 675 - Business to Business Marketing
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines the strategic and tactical issues of marketing business products and services. Special focus is laid on high technology and other areas in which markets are fragmenting, life cycles are accelerating, and pressures for cost containment are increasing while margins are decreasing.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMKT 676 - Computer-Assisted Market Analysis and Planning
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides students with state-of-the-art, practical, computer-assisted approaches to such current marketing issues as segmentation and targeting, market measurement, strategic marketing analysis and planning, product positioning, new product development, advertising and promotion planning and budgeting, pricing and distribution strategy, customer satisfaction, and post-purchase management. The computer-assisted approaches include choice-based segmentation, attribute/similarity based perceptual mapping, multi-dimensional scaling, product portfolio, conjoint analysis, new product diffusion, advertising response, market/sales response, and pricing. This course emphasizes active participation. Each approach entails software implementation and a business case whose resolution can be enhanced through the use of the software.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMKT 677 - Database & Internet Marketing
3 Credit(s)
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMKT 680 - Entrepreneurship in China/US
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Through both lectures and company visits in China and the US, this course offers students an in-depth look at how business is conducted in both countries. The unique global comparative approach provides students with both theoretical foundations and first-hand experience to learn the differences and similarities of different managerial systems and entrepreneurial practices indifferent cultural settings. The course emphasizes the relationships between management functions such as marketing, human resources, accounting, finance, and information technology and the social, economical, political, and technological environments in different cultures.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMGT 650 Co-requisite = MBAMKT 670
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MBAMKT 682 - Digital Marketing Strategy and Practice
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces contemporary digital marketing strategies and practices. Digital Marketing is a key component of the organization’s total marketing effort. Effective digital marketing strategies optimize identification, selection, acquisition, growth, and retention of desired customers to maximize long-term benefits for an organization and its stakeholders. This course concentrated on 1) creating and disseminating marketing content on digital channels, including email blast, webpage design, search engine optimization, live streaming, and mobile messaging; and 2) streamlining an organization’s digital marketing process, including lead generation, salesforce automation, and customer experience management. Students who are interested in or responsible for the development of any major aspect of marketing will find this course beneficial. Students will incorporate strategical frameworks with practical tools, including customer information management, leading digital marketing applications, systems, and solutions.
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MBAMKT 684 - Brand Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
More and more firms and organizations of all types have come to the realization that one of the most valuable assets they have is the brand names associated with their products or services. To successfully compete in today’s global economy, they must learn the concepts, techniques, and guidelines to build and manage strong brands. To address this issue, this course will help students understand brand management process. More specifically, students will learn how to 1) establish strong and competitive positions, 2) create brand resonance with customers, 3) integrate brand marketing programs, 4) align internal and external marketing activities, 5) understand the ROI of marketing investments, 6) leverage brand equity across categories and markets, 7) achieve market balance in managing rand equity over time, 8) design and implement brand strategies, and 9) envision the future of branding, etc. As a key learning outcome, a Brand Audit project will be conducted by students in groups.
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MBAMKT 685 - Brain of the Consumer
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Advances in medical technology during the last 15 years have made it possible to study with a far greater accuracy the neural bases of feeling, thinking, decision-making and behaving. The progress in neuroscience has implications for the analysis of buyers’ decisions and conduct. The objective of the course is to introduce students to the most recent observations explaining how consumers act in response to personal and situational factors as manifested through neurobiological reactions. Understanding whether and why people act in not-co-rational ways as theoretically assumed is very important for developing a realistic perspective on various marketing phenomena. After reviewing existing psycho-sociological concepts as they have been typically presented in marketing textbooks, and adopting the approach of grounded theory, we will discuss findings from neuroscience that help explain individual and family consumption decisions.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
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MBAMKT 691 - Social Media Marketing
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Social media provide marketers with several important capabilities not present in most other media including interactivity and measurability. Social media platforms like Facebook, Foursquare, or Twitter have a fundamental impact on the way business and consumers behave, communicate and interact with each other. It is critical for business to understand these new media in order to benefit from them significantly. In this course, we will deal with the possibilities that Social media can offer companies and how they can be used to retain and interact with consumers. In this context, we rely partly on established theoretical models and best practice business cases. Special attention will be given to mobile services as well as the special characteristics of social media.
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MBAMKT 692 - New Product Development
3 Credit(s)
Description:
All firms rely on the development of new products and services, however, the process remains poorly understood in all levels of management. The risks and rewards inherent in the development of any particular product must be scrutinized within the overall framework of a firm’s strategic direction. This course examines the paradigms, processes and methods that characterize both successful and unsuccessful strategies. The course employs several in-depth case studies as well as team-based, hands-on product development projects.
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MBAMKT 693 - Entering International Markets
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This on-line course combines MBA students from the University of Massachusetts Boston and European universities. It combines a marketing curriculum with multi cultural group work. Teams with members from other universities will work on a group project creating a marketing plan for a business wishing to enter either the US or European market.
Enrollment Requirements:
MBAMKT 670 and MBAMGT 650
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MBAMKT 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Independent study credit is granted only for academic work not normally offered in advanced courses. A student must find a faculty sponsor for his or her independent study project and then file a proposal for the project in the MBA Office. The proposal should be signed by both the student and the faculty sponsor.
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MBAMKT 697 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course addresses a specific topic in a particular discipline. Courses under this title are offered as one-time supplements to a given department’s curriculum.
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NAV 501 - Navitas PMP Study Skills
1 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides additional academic support for an academic (credit) offering.
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NURSNG 601 - Introduction to Advanced Practice Nursing: Knowledge for Practice in the Global Community
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required core course presents a foundational context for the global, inclusive environment in which advanced practice nurses participate in the care of diverse populations. The course focuses on the integration of knowledge from nursing and the biopsychosocial fields for the continual improvement of advanced practice nursing care across diverse populations and settings. Populations are defined in the context of diversity of age, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, language, sexual orientation, abilities, religion and socioeconomic status as well as those that may be underserved, vulnerable populations or experience health disparities. The course builds on learners’ understanding of nursing knowledge gained in their undergraduate studies and provides the opportunity to analyze a broad spectrum of conceptual and theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplines. Learners select a nursing conceptual-theoretical framework to explore in-depth and to apply to advanced nursing practice with a selected population and health condition of interest.
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NURSNG 607 - Evidenced Based Teaching Practices
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to assist current and aspiring nurse educators acquired foundational knowledge for effective teaching and learning practices. This course explores current conceptual frameworks, theories, and evidence-based pedagogical practices within the nursing education discipline. Practical application of key concepts for culturally inclusive teaching in varied learning environments is particularly emphasized.
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NURSNG 613 - Human Diversity in Healthcare
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines the challenges associated with providing competent health care to diverse populations and examines its effects on the health of individuals, groups, and populations. Health behavior and health care outcomes are analyzed within the context of social, economic, political, and cultural forces. Implications of an increasingly diverse population for nursing education, research, and practice are determined, and strategies for improving the management of human diversity in nursing and health care are critically analyzed.
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NURSNG 614 - Advanced Pathophysiology
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course presents the pathophysiological knowledge required of the advanced practice nurse to practice in the management of pathophysiological disorders in primary and tertiary care settings. It includes genetic and cellular mechanisms of diseases, the immune responses and selected disorders throughout life span. It explores current research findings and theory relevant to the pathophysiology of common illnesses. Students analyze laboratory data in light of actual and potential pathophysiological processes. Special emphasis is given to the case study presentations to aid student application of pathophysiologic process to advanced nursing practice in diverse populations.
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NURSNG 615 - Advanced Health Assessment Practicum
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the development of advanced practice nursing knowledge and skills in health assessment with an emphasis on diverse populations. Concepts, theories and research germane to the scientific underpinnings for practice in the context of the bio-psycho-social and environmental domains of human development are emphasized. Critical thinking, diagnostic reasoning and communication skills are developed through practice with case guided vignettes and simulated or clinical practice experiences specific to the student’s area of advanced practice nursing. This course builds on the students’ ability to utilize scientific foundations learned in previous courses and lays the foundation for subsequent clinical courses.
Enrollment Requirements:
NURSNG 614 and NURSNG 634
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NURSNG 616 - Evidence Based Practice I: Appraising the Strength and Significance of Evidence
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the critical appraisal of health-related research to prepare learners to identify best practices and translate evidence to clinical practice, population health or health policy and analysis. Emphasis will be placed on evaluation multiple sources of existing evidence as the first step in identifying knowledge, practice or policy gaps and in translating evidence to improve outcomes, quality, safety, cost and access to care for individuals and populations. Ethical issues in the conduct of research and translation of evidence will be explored.
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NURSNG 618 - Introduction to Health Policy, Finance and Ethics
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on how issues and trends in health policy, economics and ethics are linked to the U.S. health care delivery system and other international health care systems. The role of the advanced practice nurse in developing a professional ethical framework, understanding the economic implications of health care and in shaping and formulating health policy will be stressed with a focus on application of course concepts for the advanced practice nurse. Relevant evidenced based research in health policy, economics and ethics will be analyzed.
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NURSNG 620 - Primary Care Dermatology I
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Course content will be based on the Dermatology Nurse Practitioner Core Curriculum established by the Dermatology Nurses Association, 2011. Students will develop skills in critical thinking and clinical reasoning in the application of theory and research to the practice of dermatology. Assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, and health teaching strategies are applied to a continuum of health promotion/illness problems with a focus on speciality care of the medical dermatology patient across the lifespan. Seminars are grounded in learning the application of the theory and research to the domains of practice of the adult/gerontological or family nurse practitioner who interfaces with a large cohort of dermatology patients, or is interested in dermatology specialization. This includes the management of patient health and illness and the teaching-coaching function of the nurse practitioner and ensuring the quality of health care practices. Interdisciplinary collaborative practice skills are encouraged.
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NURSNG 625L - Quantitative Research Methods
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to provide graduate students with a background in quantitative research design to promote an understanding of the scientific literature and to assist in future research pursuits. In this course, students will become familiar with the scientific research process, ethical issues related to research basic concepts of statistics and measurements, various types of quantitative research, and interpretation and reporting of research results. Student will prepare and present a research proposal as part of the course.
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NURSNG 631 - The Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The historical development, scope, and functional roles of the advanced practice nurse are analyzed. Students examine the dynamic relationships among professional organizations, health care trends, and health care policy as they influence the need for advanced practice nursing. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the knowledge and skills to assume leadership roles in the health care system. Related health professions theories, research, and opportunities for implementing changes are emphasized. Critical thinking, group dynamics, leadership skills, and role of the APN as educator are studied and modeled in classroom experiences and course assignments.
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NURSNG 634 - Advanced Pharmacology for the Advanced Practice Nurse
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course emphasizes the pharmacological knowledge required by the advanced practice nurse to safely care for and counsel patients with physical and mental illnesses across the lifespan. Students synthesize knowledge of clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in the management of common disease processes occurring in pre-and post-natal women, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and elders. Students will analyze and discuss current research findings related to pharmacotherapeutic therapies for patients in the community and tertiary care settings. Guided by faculty prepared in pharmacology and experienced in applying the science of clinical pharmacology in the practice setting, students will apply their knowledge of pharmacotherapeutics to the care of patients throughout patient transitions of care.
Enrollment Requirements:
or co-requisite = NURSNG 614 Graduate student in Nursing
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NURSNG 637 - Mental and Psychosocial Health of the Urban Family
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Multicultural individuals and families at risk for mental and psychosocial problems are considered within the context of urban living. Nursing theory and research is applied to developing processes of care for individuals across the lifespan with mental health and psychosocial problems. Students learn evidence-based care including cognitive-behavioral, psychopharmacological, and non-traditional approaches to psychosocial and related physical problems. Research related to environmental, psychosocial, genetic, economic, family systems, developmental risk factors, drug efficacy and nonpharmacological approaches for individuals with mental and psychosocial illness is investigated. The impact of contemporary health care policy and legislative proposals on quality, cost, and access to care is investigated.
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NURSNG 639 - Primary Care of Adults
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides the knowledge related to the assessment and management of patients with acute and chronic health care problems encountered by nurse practitioners in family practice and adult/gerontological primary care settings. Students analyze the direct and indirect components of the nurse practitioner role related to primary health care. Application of evidence based guidelines and research are used to support diagnostic, therapeutic, and pharmacological regimens. Continued emphasis is placed on the application of culturally sensitive nursing care to a diverse population, where diversity includes age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, sexual orientation, abilities, and socioeconomic status.
Enrollment Requirements:
NURSNG 615 and NURSNG 616 and Co-req: NURSNG 638
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NURSNG 640 - Advanced Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Across the Lifespan
6 Credit(s)
Description:
Students analyze the clinical application of theories and research from nursing, health promotion, and disease prevention. Family, human development, patient education and community theories that inform patient/family centered care are examined. Data grounded in epidemiological, sources, health histories, family assessments, physical examinations, diagnostic tests, and community assets are examined as the basis for case findings and identification of risk factors. Students begin to institute primordial, primary and secondary interventions tailored to diverse populations, demonstrate interdisciplinary communication skills, examine collaborative community partnerships, and analyze the dimensions of the advanced nursing professional leadership role in diverse communities.
Enrollment Requirements:
NURSNG 615
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NURSNG 644 - Global Perspectives on Health; Exploring the Intersection of Equity, Economics and Culture
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course brings together undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students to compare and contrast local population health priorities and challenges from a global health perspective. The course emphasizes the population health sphere of influence and utilizes the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and US Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2020 as a framework to explore global health. The focus is on synthesizing knowledge from a variety of interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical literature to better understand the social, political, economic, cultural and environmental issues that affect the health of all of us. Students deepen their knowledge and appreciation of global health, health disparities, human rights and cultural humility.
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NURSNG 664 - Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Clinical Practicum: Focus on the Patient
3 Credit(s)
Description:
In this course, students apply the knowledge and advanced practice skills in patient care learned in Nursing 690. Under the guidance of a clinical nurse specialist preceptor, students implement the advanced competencies of direct care, patient/family teaching and coaching, and ethical decision-making as they assess and treat problems experienced by adult and gerontological patients. Clinical practice in this course provides an opportunity for students to integrate advanced nursing knowledge with knowledge of disease pathophysiology, technical competence, and medical management.
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NURSNG 665 - Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Clinical Practicum: Focus on the CNS Role
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course emphasizes the CNS influence on nursing personnel and the organization. Under the guidance of a CNS preceptor, students practice in an adult/gerontological health, acute or critical care setting in their chosen specialty. This course continues to address patient care, but the focus shifts to nursing personnel and organization/network spheres of influence, giving students the opportunity to implement the CNS role fully. Students acquire skill and confidence in consultation, collaboration, and leadership skills. The course includes the Master’s degree capstone project.
Enrollment Requirements:
NURSNG 664
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NURSNG 667 - Clinical Practicum: Nurse Educators in the Clinical Practice Setting
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Students acquire advanced teaching skills required to meet the health-related learning needs of patients, families and groups in clinical and community settings. Students also learn to educate practicing nurses and other clinicians to meet patient needs more effectively. Seminars focus on the pedagogy supporting the work of nurse educators. Under the guidance of an expert preceptor, students develop educational interventions and programs and use a variety of teaching strategies.
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NURSNG 668 - Clinical Practicum: Nurse Educators in the Academic Practice Settings
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Students gain advanced teaching competencies for nurse educators to assist nursing students to acquire the knowledge, skills and values required for contemporary professional nursing practice. Seminars focus on the role of the academic nurse educator, clinical and classroom teaching skills, curriculum development and methods for evaluating student learning. Under the guidance of an expert preceptor, students develop and evaluate learning experiences for nursing students in varied environments.
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NURSNG 670 - Primary Care of the Adult Practicum
6 Credit(s)
Description:
Students refine their advanced practice skills with further attention to the application of theory and evidenced based knowledge to the role of the family or adult/gerontological nurse practitioner. The assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, evaluative, consultative, and teaching functions of the nurse practitioner role are examined within a professional, ethical, and legal framework. Students continue to gain experience in the assessment and management of health promotion, episodic and chronic illness problems in adults with the supervision of nurse practitioner or physician preceptors, and faculty support. Seminar discussions include an exploration of special topics in disease management to improve quality, access and cost of primary health care for diverse populations. Diversity, health care disparities, and ethical issues will be discussed as they relate to the clinical topics.
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NURSNG 671 - Primary Care of the Older Adult
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the health care issues and needs of elders across the care continuum of acute, chronic, community, and long-term care settings. Aspects of physical, emotional, cultural, and social aging across the lifespan are explored utilizing various theoretical perspectives and models. The assessment, teaching-coaching and management roles of the advanced practice gerontological nurse in relations to acute and chronic health conditions of the older adult are emphasized.
Enrollment Requirements:
NURSNG 639 Graduate student in Nursing
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NURSNG 672 - Primary Care of the Older Adult Practicum
6 Credit(s)
Description:
Students further refine skills in critical thinking and clinical reasoning in the application of theory and research to practice. Assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, and health teaching strategies are applied to a continuum of health promotion/illness problems with a focus on the primary care of adults and older adults across the continuum of care. Students build skills in seeing increasingly complex patients with a combination of higher risk, acute illness, and chronic health problems where atypical disease presentation and challenges to disease treatment exist. Seminars are grounded in learning the application of theory and research to the domains of practice of the adult/gerontological nurse practitioner including the management of patient health and illness, the teaching-coaching function of the nurse practitioner, and ensuring the quality of health care services. Interdisciplinary collaborative practice skills are developed. Students develop role competencies under the supervision of nurse practitioner or physician preceptors and faculty in a variety of health care settings. Seminar discussions include an exploration of special topics in disease management to improve quality, access and cost of primary health care for diverse populations (or communities) with an emphasis on underserved populations, where diversity includes age, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, language, sexual orientation, abilities, and socioeconomic status.
Enrollment Requirements:
NURSNG 670
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NURSNG 681 - Primary Care of the Childbearing Family
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course builds on human growth and development to focus on acquiring knowledge related to the assessment and management of patients with acute and chronic health care problems encountered by nurse practitioner in family practice and pediatric primary care settings. Problems of pregnant women, infants, children and adolescents are analyzed within a family nurse practitioner framework for practice. Evidenced based laboratory, diagnostic, therapeutic and pharmacological plans of care are applied to problem management. Continued emphasis in placed on application of culturally sensitive nursing care to a diverse population where diversity includes age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, sexual orientation, abilities,and socioeconomic status.
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NURSNG 682 - Practicum in Primary Care of the Family
6 Credit(s)
Description:
Students further refine skills in critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, and health teaching strategies are applied to a continuum of health promotion/illness problems of women, infants, and children. Seminars are grounded in learning the application of theory and research to the domains of practice of the family nurse practitioner with emphasis on the management of patient health and illness and the teaching coaching function of the nurse practitioner in the specialty of pediatrics and obstetrics. Students develop role competencies under the supervision of nurse practitioner preceptors and faculty in urban health care settings. Seminar discussions include an exploration of special topics in disease management to improve quality, access and cost of primary health care for diverse populations (or communities) with an emphasis on underserved populations, where diversity includes age, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, language, sexual orientation, abilities, and socioeconomic status.
Enrollment Requirements:
NURSNG 634 and NURSNG 638
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NURSNG 689 - Advanced Regression Modeling
3 Credit(s)
Description:
UML course
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NURSNG 690 - Adult/Gerontology Health Acute Care Nursing I
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces the role of the Adult Gerontology Acute Care (AG/AC) Clinical Nurse Specialist, focusing on the patient sphere of influence. The course refines students’ clinical judgments and their diagnosis of common patient problems in the autonomous domain, extends assessment skills, and expands knowledge of nursing interventions and expected outcomes. Students acquire and expand the knowledge and skills needed for the advanced practice direct care competency and ethical decision-making. Diversity, health care disparities, and ethical issues will be discussed as they relate to the clinical topics. Students will apply theory and research through comprehensive assessments and the design of appropriate management strategies.
Enrollment Requirements:
NURSNG 615 and NURSNG 616 and Co-req: NURSNG 638
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NURSNG 691 - Adult Gerontological Health Acute Care Nursing II
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course builds on A/G Health Acute Care Nursing I and continues addressing the patient sphere of influence while adding the patient/family focus to include the nursing practice and systems sphere of influence. A focus on high-incidence clinical problems, symptoms or issues in adult and gerontological health and acute and critical care continues. Diversity, health care disparities, and ethical issues will be discussed as they relate to the clinical topics. Students deepen their knowledge of adult and gerontological health and acute and critical care from interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical literature and other sources of evidence. Emphasis is placed on synthesizing knowledge from a variety of sources to make clinical judgments and to build the practice base needed for implementing other advanced practice competencies. Knowledge of assessment, diagnosis, and management in the autonomous nursing domain, and measurement of relevant, nursing-sensitive patient outcomes and quality improvement approaches to improving care for populations will be emphasized.
Enrollment Requirements:
NURSNG 690
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NURSNG 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Students wishing to enroll in this course should present to the faculty a well-defined problem for investigation. Plans for advanced study should be established at the beginning of the semester during which the student wishes to take the course. The study will be conducted in consultation and collaboration with the student’s faculty advisor, and documented in a report at the end of the semester.
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NURSNG 697 - Special Topics in Nursing
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This advanced course offers intensive study of selected topics in the field of nursing. Course content and credit vary according to the topic and are announced prior to registration.
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NURSNG 700 - Philosophy of Nursing Science: Ways of Knowing
3 Credit(s)
Description:
In this course, students learn basic concepts of the philosophy of science and the development of knowledge. The historical development and themes for knowledge building in the science and discipline of nursing are explored. Students will analyze different ways of knowing (both philosophical and historical writings) and philosophical worldviews as they relate to the development of programs of research.
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NURSNG 701L - Science as a Way of Knowing
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course investigates “science” in its multiple forms as a set of clues to the nature of knowledge. Specifically, this course advances the relationship of philosophy of science and theory to nursing science. The course explores forces and issues in the philosophy of science and theoretical thinking which guide science and knowledge development in nursing methodologies and practice. Theory-research-practice linkages in nursing knowledge development are highlighted. Specific philosophy of science content includes the complex symbolic structures of “scientific” concepts; conceptual frameworks and explanations; the variety of methods used in scientific inquiry; the nature of scientific discovery and creativity; the role of metaphysical and aesthetic factors in the construction and validation of theories; the social matrices and determinants of scientific research; and science’s dependence on both value judgments and technology.
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NURSNG 702 - Doctoral Seminar
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The goal of the doctoral seminar is to socialize students into the roles and activities of research scholars and members in a global community of scholars. The emphasis is on professional standards for doctoral education, strategies to support professional development and nursing scholar career opportunities. The focus of this semester is on how to leverage learning and mentoring experiences that support PhD education and to facilitate career development as a scholar, nurse scientist, and steward of the discipline.
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NURSNG 703 - Health Economics
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The primary purpose of this course is to have students learn and apply the basic economic concepts and models used by both economists and health policy analysts to understand and analyze health care markets. The goal of health economics is to provide a better understanding of health care problems and issues so that appropriate health policies can be designed and implemented. The course focuses on the structure and functioning of health care markets and specifically on how prices are determined in different markets for health and health-related services, as well as on how prices, in turn, critically affect the behavior of both consumers and suppliers. It is assumed that the student has no prior background in economics.
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NURSNG 705 - Health Disparities
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Health disparities in the United States are examined historically and within the context of global health, globalization, and neo-liberal economic and social ideology. Despite considerable progress in the overall health of the American population, disparities continue to exist, notable among ethno-racial groups and those at the lower end of the socio-economic scale. This course identifies and analyzes the complex causes of health disparities and surveys multi-level interventions, strategies and policy approaches to elimination disparities and improving health care outcomes for all. Students will critically analyze literature and materials relative to the broad range of topical areas covered across the course. Learning outcomes will position students to be informed and deliberative when planning programs, conduction research, participating in the policy process or otherwise working to mitigate or eliminate disparities in health care.
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NURSNG 710 - Oncology in Primary Care
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This elective course is offered online to graduate level students and advanced care providers to develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors about oncology-specific components of health care that participants will need to care for adults in primary care settings. The course will cover: 1) advanced concepts in the biology and epidemiology of cancer; 2) evolving evidence on cancer genetics and genomics that influences cancer prevention, screening and treatment; 3) health promotion and cancer risk reduction in the general population; 4) appropriate tests for screening and diagnosis; 5) personalized cancer treatment including chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, targeted therapies and hormone ablation; 6) evidence-based symptom management and palliative care; 7) implantation of survivorship care plans; and 8) compassionate hospice and end-of-life care. Participants will use evolving case studies, online resources, supplemental readings, oral presentations, periodic quizzes and a final synthesis paper to evaluate and promote learning.
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NURSNG 711 - Scientific basis for chronic illness preventative and risk reduction
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is offered to graduate level students to develop knowledge and skills related to the scientific basis for health chronic illness prevention and risk reduction. The course will provide students with a comprehensive overview of current knowledge and research related to the: 1) the epidemiology of chronic illness, 2) Research priorities related to chronic illness prevention and risk reduction; 3) The role of culture and developmental stage in health and illness, 4) Biological basis for disease which included genomics, inflammation and immunity; 5) Risk assessment; 6) Primary, secondary and tertiary approaches to chronic illness prevention with a focus on cancer, cardiovascular disease and aging; 7) Planning health promotion/community participatory research intervention and 8) Incorporating survey and biomarkers into longitudinal epidemiological research.
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NURSNG 715 - Health Informatics
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Students learn advanced practice nursing competencies related to computer skills, informatics skill, and informatics knowledge. Application of information theory and computer technology skills is directed towards improving the organization and delivery of healthcare to multicultural populations receiving primary, secondary, and tertiary health care. Health Informatics deals with using technology tools for optimizing the collection, verification and utilization of data that relates to generating knowledge to inform best practices and leadership in both public and private health systems. Students are directed to investigate ways in which information systems can address disparities in health services.
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NURSNG 716 - Evidence Based Practice II
3 Credit(s)
Description:
In this course students will refine and extend the competencies introduced in Evidence Based Practice I with emphasis on generating evidence for practice in implementing practice innovations. Emphasis will be placed on the evaluation of practice, practice improvement initiatives and the development and utilization of evidence-based practice. The end product of this course will serve as the foundation for the Capstone project in the last year of study.
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NURSNG 720 - Secondary Data Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will explore the use and limits of large national databases for the conduct of nursing and health policy research. Students will master accessing, downloading, and analyzing data from large data sets. Students will identify a testable research question and develop an analytic file to be used for analysis. Data used for this class are drawn from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization project (HCUP), 2000 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). For more information about HCUP data, see http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup.
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NURSNG 721 - Program Evaluation
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on models and methods for program evaluation within health services organizations and health care delivery systems at the local, state, national, and global levels. Content areas include history of evaluation research, types of program evaluation, research designs, planning and conducting evaluations with quantitative and qualitative methods, reporting, dissemination and utilization of findings, and the “program evaluator” role, including ethical and political considerations. In addition to content areas, applied program evaluation methods at various health care delivery system levels will be presented in “spotlight” segments during the semester.
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NURSNG 722 - Improving Outcomes: Identification, Interventions, and Evaluation of Quality Improvement Activities
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course includes review of theoretical frameworks and research methods used to implement quality improvement in health care. Approaches to solving actual problems in clinical settings are considered, with emphasis on patients with chronic illnesses and other vulnerable patient populations. Students gain familiarity with quality improvement techniques from management, policy, and clinical perspectives.
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NURSNG 723L - Cost Effectiveness: Theory, Methods & Applications
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces students to the theoretical underpinnings of cost-effectiveness analysis and the alternative methods for measuring costs and outcomes of health interventions. Through many practical applications, students gain a familiarity with how to apply cost effectiveness, cost benefit, and cost utility methods to actual research situations. GERON GR 723L and NURSNG 723L and PPOL-G 723L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
NU 703 Health Economics or equivalent
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NURSNG 724 - Mixed Method Research
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course presents an overview of core research concepts and methods to build an evidence base for nursing practice. Using a lecture-discussion approach, the student will be encouraged to evaluate research evidence and determine appropriate research designs for research hypotheses. Students will be encourages to contribute to group discussions using their professional experiences and information derived from course lectures and readings. Key features of the texts include research examples, specific practical tips on doing research, and aids to enhance and reinforce learning for the student. Emphasis is placed on using a practical approach to producing and evaluation research evidence.
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NURSNG 725 - Quantitative Research Colloquium
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Students will have an opportunity to discuss and present their on-going research with other students and participate in more advanced seminars on quantitative methods. The instructor and students will read drafts of students’ papers and provide constructive comments. Occasional presentations of research methods will be made by the instructor and students based on students requests.
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NURSNG 735 - DNP Clinical inquiry Seminar and Clinical Specialty Immersion
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course focuses on the development and refinement of advanced practice nursing knowledge and skills in a specialty area. This faculty-guided seminar is tailored to the learner’s area of interest and provides an opportunity for in-depth immersion in a clinical/conceptual area related to advanced practice nursing. Under the guidance of the faculty and clinical mentor, learners refine and apply state-of-the-art, evidence-based knowledge and skills in a specialty area and compare and contrast clinical approaches to the specialty area with attention to best practices as well as the social, political, economic, cultural and environmental factors that influence health and disadvantage vulnerable populations. Students meet on-line for the seminar and are expected to identify a mentor and site for the specialty immersion. Clinical hours/experiences (150 hours) are included in this course.
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NURSNG 741 - Health Policy I
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This is the first course in a two-semester health policy sequence. It provides a foundation for health policy analysis, focusing on the history and development of political, economic, and social systems involved in health care and on theories useful in the analysis of past, current, and future health policies. The course examines federal, state, and local governmental structures and the ways in which they and other forces affect health policy.
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NURSNG 742 - Health Policy II
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course builds on NURSNG 741, applying models of policy analysis and theoretical perspectives to the critical examination of specific health policies. The course studies the historical, political, economic, and social context in which the policies emerged, as well as the specific actors involved. Emphasis is given to health policies affecting the aged and urban family population. Case studies are presented, and participants are introduced to a variety of methods for analyzing, formulating, and evaluating health policy. The policies examined in the course may include those confronting students in their own workplace or practice.
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NURSNG 743 - Internship in Health Care Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
A three-credit experience: students may intern with health care agencies, educational institutions, legislatures, professional associations, or health promotion and prevention organizations. Students are expected to write testimonies and research or evaluation papers analyzing the health policy issues raised during the internship. An internship seminar is part of the experience.
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NURSNG 745 - Population Health I
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This is the first course in a two-semester Population Health sequence. It will provide a foundation for population health study. The course focuses on the conceptual understanding of population health and its importance in the health care system and in the community. Understanding population health issues such as health promotion, and disease and injury prevention that are influenced by local, national, and global health is an approach that seeks to improve the health of the whole population. The lens of population health student also allows us to understand disparities in health outcomes, and to identify effective strategies for reducing gaps in health disparities both within and between population groups. By the end of this course, students will be able to analyze and evaluate priority population health outcomes and strategies within–population health and its determinants– to promote health locally, nationally, and globally.
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NURSNG 746 - Population Health II
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This is an advanced course focused on randomized controlled trials and other intervention studies, which have become one of the basic research tools in evaluation the benefits and risk of new therapeutic or prevention strategies. The course will provide an in-depth examination of research design and implementation of theory-based intervention studies. The first module will help students understand how to approach population health research questions and how to design studies to answer these questions. The second module will help students understand how to establish causal statements about the efficacy and generalizability of interventions for population health. The third module is designed to review concepts and principles of outcome measurement with emphasis on reliability and validity and procedures for developing and evaluating measures. The fourth module will focus on methodological, ethical, and practical issues in the implementation of a research design for an intervention study to advance the science of nursing and healthcare.
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NURSNG 750 - Contemporary Disciplinary Knowledge
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is a multidisciplinary exploration of the structure and growth of knowledge. It examines the linkages of empirical, aesthetic, ethical, personal, and sociopolitical patterns of knowing with the conceptual models or paradigms of diverse disciplines. The course constructs a conceptual-theoretical-empirical structure for research into the generating and testing of theory.
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