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Concepts of Emergency Management   (EDM-300)   3 credits  
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Course Description
An introduction to emergency management at the global, national, regional, state, and local levels. Topics include preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. The history of emergency management is reviewed, and its future in government and industry is discussed.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain the four phases of Emergency Management; mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery applied across an All Hazards/Whole Community approach to Emergency Management.
  • Discuss scientific principles involved in the development of mitigation and preparedness policies, strategies and tactics.
  • Discuss scientific principles involved in the development of multi-level response and recovery policies, strategies and tactics.
  • Articulate the social science components of Emergency Management related to government, the private sector, to non-governmental organizations, and to individuals.
  • Discuss the Incident Command System as it relates to national preparedness goals.
  • Review and assess the use of emergency management related technologies across phases of Emergency Management.

 
Principles of Finance   (FIN-301)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Principles of Finance serves as an introduction to financial management. Financial management is concerned with value and, when applied to firms, studies financial decision making and its impact on the value of the firm. Virtually all management decisions have financial implications, and the impact of these decisions on the value of the firm is the basis by which management is judged. Superior management produces superior financial decisions that lead to growth and increased valuation of the firm. This course considers specific financial decisions such as selecting among alternative investments (i.e., capital budgeting), the sources of the firm's finances (i.e., the optimal capital structure), the management of current assets and liabilities (i.e., working capital), and the tools of financial analysis. The course emphasizes analytical tools and their use in solving financial problems.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify both short- and long-term financial management problems.
  • Solve optimal capital structure problems.
  • Analyze financial statements.
  • Determine a firm's cost of capital.
  • Use present value tables.

Available by DSST exam. 
Women in Management   (MAN-304)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Focuses on obstacles women face when implementing traditional management functions and steps they can take to deal with these difficulties. Reviews the history of management, women's contributions to management thought, and factor contributing to an increased percentage of women executives over past 25yrs. Addresses question of what organizations can do to select, develop, and retain capable women executives. Specific topics include networking, mentoring, career planning, and managing dual careers.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify the obstacles faced by women aspiring to and/or holding managerial roles.
  • Discuss strategies that can be used by women to prepare for or succeed in management.
  • Discuss key aspects of the history of women in management roles and their contributions to management thought.
  • Identify factors that have contributed to the increase in the percentage of women executives over the past 25 years.
  • Describe strategies that organizations use or can use to select, develop and retain capable women in management roles.
  • Discuss advantages women experience from networking, mentoring and career planning.
  • Explain how managing dual careers presents particular challenges for women.
  • Use case studies to illustrate selected examples of the above learning outcomes.

 
Materials Management and Inventory Control   (OPM-311)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Integrated approach to the control and physical movement of raw materials, components and finished goods from the supplier through the manufacturer and distributor to the ultimate user. Emphasis is placed on the concepts, methods and functions of inventory control and its relationship to the area of materials management.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss the overall objectives of Materials Management
  • Explain the overall process of managing inventory
  • Identify specific planning and control activities of materials management
  • Discuss what integrated approach would you recommend to optimize the operations of materials management
  • Assess how the basic elements in purchasing play a crucial role in materials management
  • Elaborate on different cost reduction techniques; such as: variety reduction, standardization and simplification, and inventory control
  • Discuss the single period inventory management system
  • Identify the details that materials management professionals should consider when selecting a vendor
  • Analyze the benefits of Just in Time (JIT)
  • Explain the continuous review inventory system
  • Articulate how economic order quantity (EOQ) and reorder point (ROP) maintain a balance inventory
 
Real Estate Property Management   (REE-341)   3 credits  
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Course Description
The course is designed to provide the student with knowledge and skills necessary to manage simple income producing property. Topics include utilizing sound accounting and reporting principles in a property management business, securing, qualifying, and contracting with tenants and leases; determining rentals, merchandising space, collecting rent, tenant relations, and property maintenance.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Ownership development and management
  • Rental and leasing
  • The Management Plan
  • Financial reporting
  • Residential management
  • Foreclosure, receivership and other current topics.

 
Animal Husbandry   (ANS-162)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Principles of animal care and management for domestic and farm animals encountered in veterinary practice, including recognition of the functions performed by the breeds and types of domestic animals; principles of nutrition with emphasis on practical aspects of feeding; principles of breeding and reproductive cycles, including care of pregnant females, care of the sire, preparations for birth of the young, postnatal care, management practices during lactation, and weaning procedures.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Principles of animal care and management for domestic and farm animals encountered in veterinary practice, including recognition of the functions performed by the breeds and types of domestic animals.
  • Principles of nutrition with emphasis on practical aspects of feeding.
  • Principles of breeding and reproductive cycles, including care of pregnant females, care of the sire, preparations for birth of the young, postnatal care, management practices during lactation, and weaning procedures.

 
Applied Quality Management   (APS-402)   3 credits  
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Course Description
The Applied Quality Management course provides students with the knowledge and techniques required to improve product quality and process efficiency by identifying and measuring production process variability which, if not successfully addressed, leads to inconsistent product quality, costly wastage, non-standardization and other reliability and productivity problems. This course introduces basic quality management concepts and definitions and builds on that knowledge to explore Statistical Process Control (SPC) based quality improvement techniques as a means to diagnose, reduce and eliminate causes of variation and to assist in process improvement, production control, production planning and decision-making. A brief review of the fundamentals of statistics and probability and their applications in quality management is provided, and various measurement and control techniques, for example charts for variables and attributes are presented.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain the concepts of Total Quality Management and Total Quality Education.
  • Diagnose problems in the quality improvement process.
  • Identify ethical and unethical behavior in Quality Management.
  • Apply various quality improvement techniques.
  • Describe and apply the development and nature of quality control charts.
  • Apply the basic concepts of statistics and probability to quality management and control.
  • Utilize Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques as a means to diagnose, reduce and eliminate causes of variation.
  • Analyze Statistical Process Control (SPC) data to improve processes, production controls, production planning and decision making.
  • Perform process capability and specification studies.
  • Explain each total quality implementation phase then list the steps that are associated with each.
  • Propose how business leaders might plan and execute quality management strategies to gain and sustain a competitive advantage in today's global business arena.
  • Communicate why Total Quality Management (TQM) is fundamental to partnering for mutual benefit.

 
Management Information Systems I   (CIS-301)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Management Information Systems provides an overall picture of information systems in the conduct of business. The course covers the organization and management of a networked enterprise, the infrastructure of information technology, the necessary support systems for the digital company, and the building and managing of information systems in a global business environment.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain the nature and importance of information systems in business.
  • Analyze business processes and their relationship to information systems.
  • Assess the impact of information systems on the success of organizations.
  • Analyze the relationships among ethical, social, and political issues raised by information systems.
  • Identify and evaluate challenges posed by managing information technology infrastructure.
  • Evaluate the role of information policy and administration in the management of data resources.
  • Assess the significance of telecommunications networks and networking technologies for information systems.
  • Design solutions for the ethical, social, and security issues faced by the digital firm.
  • Explain the way that information technology works to coordinate functions, as in supply chain management.
  • Analyze the impact of e-commerce and Internet technology on information integration and dispersal.
  • Discuss knowledge management and evaluate systems used for management and decision support.
  • Evaluate the challenges of building information systems.
  • Analyze the elements of effective project management.
  • Evaluate the issues involved in developing global information systems.

Available by DSST exam. 
Operating Systems   (COS-352)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Operating Systems provides an understanding of the workings of the entire computer system, because it is the operating system that manages each and every piece of hardware and software. In this course, students will learn what operating systems are, how they work, what they do, and why. Comparison of the major operating systems is included. Due to the nature of this course, it is advisable to have already taken an introductory course in computers and to have experience with programming in at least one computer language.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Explain the structure of an operating system
  • Describe memory management
  • Describe memory management
  • Describe process management and synchronization
  • Describe device management
  • Describe interrupt handling
  • Describe interrupt handling
  • Explain and illustrate the user command interface
  • Evaluate and compare operating systems

 
Small Business Finance   (FIN-314)   3 credits  
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Course Description
This course explores the application of basic financial management techniques within a small business environment (100 or fewer employees). The course will consider financial problems and their solutions faced by persons who start and operate small businesses. Learners will explore the use and purpose of profit and loss statements, balance sheets, equity, debt, retained earnings and financial ratios; as they apply to common and alternatives solutions to the more common financial management problems encountered by small business.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Articulate and demonstrate advanced learning/knowledge/experience or accomplishments in the two following areas:
    • Preparation, comprehension and utilization of Balance Sheets, Income Statements and Source and Use Statements (pro forma and actual) - their preparation, comprehension and utilization for a 'best practices' in small business finances
    • Utilization and preparation of Cash Flow statements in managing the small business financial operations cycle
  • Articulate and demonstrate advanced learning/knowledge/experience in at least 4 of the following 9 areas:
    • Explain how to determine variable cost and fixed cost, understanding the difference between these types of cost and why that understanding is important for successful small business finance
    • Discuss the application of ratio analysis and how to use financial ratios for estimations of solvency, appropriate amounts of debt to equity, performance, and profitability
    • Discuss the application of management and the control of inventory [methods and practices] and why it is important
    • Discuss applications of the principles inherent with the management of accounts payable and accounts receivable and an understanding of their importance
    • Discuss source of and accessing investment funding for personal, family/friends, banks, and others - including crowd funding and other innovative methods
    • Discuss debt management including cost of debt, long term debt vs. short term debt - debt to finance short term needs vs. long term needs - pros and cons, and security/collateral.
    • Discuss compensation for yourself and employees, including income taxes/FICA responsibilities, benefits, salary/drawings and profit distribution.
    • Discuss taxes including corporate taxation/small business tax - tax planning/tax preparation
    • Discuss the preparation of a Financial Business Plan reflecting the annual financial cycle
  • Identify and discuss at least four common small business financial management problems, such as:
    • Transaction and payment authorization management
    • Equity financing
    • Depreciation accounting
    • Working capital financing/vendor credit
    • Managing accounts receivable
    • Cash-flow management
    • Financial/management and reporting (periodic, annual)
    • Insurance requirements/legal liabilities, and
    • Financial oversight
 
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