Online Master’s in Organizational Leadership Courses

This course provides learners, particularly those in the master’s, EdS and doctoral programs in Leadership Studies, with specific, topical learning experiences. These experiences are to be individually designed and appropriate to the learner’s academic goals. It offera the learner an appropriate mixture of experiential and scholarly learning within a narrowly defined area of inquiry. This study is to be undertaken under the joint supervision of the field faculty member and the supervisory faculty member (on occasion, this may be the same person). This course may be repeated for a total of three (3) times.

This course provides learners, particularly those in the master’s, EdS and doctoral programs in Leadership Studies, with specific, topical learning experiences. These experiences are to be individually designed and appropriate to the learner’s academic goals. It offera the learner an appropriate mixture of experiential and scholarly learning within a narrowly defined area of inquiry. This study is to be undertaken under the joint supervision of the field faculty member and the supervisory faculty member (on occasion, this may be the same person). This course may be repeated for a total of three (3) times.

The course introduces students to strategies and tactics that underpin successful digital marketing including search optimization, social media marketing, online advertising, email marketing, mobile marketing and content marketing, as well as synergies among these related activities. Students build strategies to optimize digital marketing and practice implementing activities included in their strategy.

This course provides students with a detailed understanding of social media and digital advertising in search and on social platforms. Students will apply their developing skills to a real-world marketing project for an existing or imagined company; creating profiles, creating and curating content, crafting advertising, doing keyword research and learning tools for image and video creation that are included in posts.

This course will provide cutting-edge analytical skills focused on digital marketing applications. Students will learn analytical software, including segmentation of visitors, customer lifetime value assessments, how to optimize the return on advertising spend of digital strategies and multi-channel attribution techniques. Students will also study reporting associated with search ads, as well as social media advertising reports. This is a hands-on class where students will work with a real data set using commonly employed analysis tools.

This course introduces commonly used code-based business analytics software packages. The covered topics include descriptive analytics, data visualization and data management and organization using these business analytics software packages. The focus will be on analyzing large-scale realistic data.

This course focuses on data mining and commonly used predictive analytics tools such as classification, clustering and regression methods. The students will apply these techniques using code-based business analytics software for analysis of large-scale data that will be used in business decision-making.

This course focuses on modeling large-scale real-life deterministic and stochastic optimization problems mathematically, solving them using code-based business analytics software and analyzing uncertainty in decision modeling.

Through the media of readings, lectures and presentations, students will be exposed to many of the challenges facing the healthcare delivery system in relation to its environment. These areas will include organization for delivery of health services, financing, political and social issues. Ethical considerations in delivery of health care will be addressed. The student will become a more knowledgeable user of healthcare services.

An exploration and analysis of problems, using the case method, affects healthcare delivery and disease prevention systems in the United States. This higher-level, problem-solving based course explores the complex interrelationships among community, society, government, patients/clients and professional groups. Students are prepared as decision makers to act in this dynamic, challenging and stressful environment.

This course surveys current legal, administrative-regulatory and ethical responsibilities of healthcare managers/ governance and provides. Emphasis is placed upon institutional defensive law (medical negligence and torts), healthcare regulation (administrative law), patient confidentiality, informed consent and advanced directives, professional discipline, healthcare access, government healthcare policies, managed care, criminal fraud and abuse, patient rights, labor and employment law, environmental regulation, insurance law, public safety and homeland defense/terrorism. The diverse legal and ethical responsibilities of healthcare facilities in many ways define current healthcare law, policy and practices. A fundamental knowledge and understanding of law, regulations and compliance is essential for all students interested in pursuing a career in the healthcare field.

The purpose of this course is 1) to provide an overview of the economic analysis for decision making related to healthcare issues and 2) to discuss the contemporary challenges facing the American healthcare sector. This course is designed for students with sufficient knowledge in price and cost theories. Building atop these economic foundations, the course intends to examine the efficiency of healthcare delivery and its financing, demand for healthcare and insurance, government intervention and healthcare reform. At issue of this course is how healthcare markets contrast with other markets in the economy and economic analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

This course introduces the student to theory and reading related to several aspects of cybersecurity such as security attacks, intrusions, threats, security requirements and controls, cryptography and encryption, physical vs. cybersecurity, network security, security-enhancement software and secure protocols and management of security risks. This is a graduate level course with outcomes that will be assessed at a higher-level of learning. The additional work of finding a real world problem prior to the development of the solution or synthesis for this problem is the added requirement for MBA/graduate level students.

This course covers techniques for decision making in the cybersecurity world using intermediate technical knowledge gained from the program including when to develop a Continuity of Operations (COOP) vs. Disaster Recovery Plan, motivations of threat actors and implications in government, manufacturing, healthcare, financial industries and the energy sector. This course is designed to provide intermediate content to support the student’s ability to understand and successfully pass the CompTIA Security+ Exam. This is a graduate level course with outcomes that will be assessed at a higher level of learning. The additional work of finding a real world problem prior to the development of the solution or synthesis for this problem is the added requirement for MBA/graduate level students.

This course covers advanced techniques for decision making in the cybersecurity world. This course is designed to provide advanced content to support the student’s ability to understand and successfully pass the CompTIA Security+ Exam. Additionally, students learn leadership in terms of cybersecurity and IT personnel and resources. This course offers insights in the hiring of cybersecurity and IT personnel and how to determine worth of experience, certifications, etc. This is a graduate level course with outcomes that will be assessed at a higher-level of learning. The additional work of finding a real world problem prior to the development of the solution or synthesis of this problem is the added requirement for MBA/graduate level students.

This course provides an in-depth examination of business aspects of the esports industry. Students will examine esports concepts related, but not limited to, marketing, revenue generation and economics.

This course teaches students how to start-up and manage a Esports business with an emphasis on practical advice and guidelines. The course also covers elements of finance, law and event operations relevant to Esports.

This course teaches students how to use digital media in Esports. Specific topics include content creation, online communication, streaming, social media, gaming platforms and brand development.

This course will provide students with a review of historical and contemporary maternal and child health (MCH) issues and trends. The course will emphasize health promotion, disease prevention and supportive programs at different stages of a woman’s and child’s life. The impact of common health problems at different stages of the life cycle, and their functional outcomes in terms of morbidity and mortality, will be highlighted.

This course will provide a comprehensive introduction and overview to the field of environmental health. Students will learn to evaluate environmental health problems in relation to other social, economic, political and public health issues. Students will be exposed to current challenges to human health from the environment, and will also learn concepts and skills to identify, control, monitor, evaluate and prevent these challenges.

This course will examine current foundational issues in the laws and ethics that impact the policies and practice of public health. This course will explore the intrinsic tensions between promoting the public’s health and protecting the legal and ethical rights and interests of individuals. Students will learn how to examine and appropriately assess legal and ethical issues that underlie the field of public health.

The course will introduce students to the concepts and methods of community health improvement and the role of research and assessment. This course will include identification and prioritization of community health problems with an emphasis on developing and implementing strategies to address these problems.

This course examines major health problems of underdeveloped, developed, and emerging nations. Students will conduct in-depth analyses of health problems among various populations in multicultural settings, both nationally and internationally.