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2016-2017 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
School of Management
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As a graduate student in the School of Management, you will develop a strong foundation of professional knowledge, entrepreneurial thinking, and global awareness to help you to make ethical decisions and achieve success in your chosen field.
The School of Management offers students many ways to grow and learn through:
- Student Diversity: Our graduate degree programs attract students from a wide array of industries and academic backgrounds as well as students from the Higher Education Student Affairs Administration program. This diversity of backgrounds creates an integrated number of perspectives to learn with and from. We offer Master of Science degrees in Management, Human Resource Development, Human Resource Management, and Integrated Marketing Communications.
- Teaching Excellence: Our full-time faculty and long-term relationships with adjunct instructors bring highly-respected professionals and scholars together for practical and relevant learning in the classroom.
- Individual Attention: Small class size leads to greater exchange of ideas. In a School where the student to professor ratio is 12 to 1 and the class size is capped at 25, you get personalized, individual attention to focus your learning and reach your goals.
Nazareth College’s School of Management offers all these, and more. Become a student of the School and let us help you to achieve your personal and professional goals.
HRD 501 - Adult and Organizational Learning This course will provide students with an introduction to HRD and the theory, principles, and models of human behavior and learning in organizations. The course will focus on the analysis of differences in adult learning styles/needs, and individual versus group processes in learning organizations.
Credits: 3
HRD 502 - Career Planning and Development This course will provide students with the tools for analyzing and evaluating career development plans or programs as a sub-system of performance management in organizations. It will provide students with the opportunity for individual career exploration and introduce key organizational career management processes that might be developed to increase job satisfaction and organizational commitment levels within the employee population of a firm.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Summer
Credits: 3
HRD 560 - Training and Development Students will examine the role of training and development in achieving organizational objectives. Needs assessment, design, methods, techniques, and evaluation are some of the issues to be explored through the course. Adult learning models will be incorporated as a means of improving employee performance.
Prerequisites & Notes Pre or Co-requisite: HRD 501
Credits: 3
HRD 583 - Human Resource Development Internship A graduate level internship is a work experience of a minimum of 180 hours completed in a semester and offered only to matriculated students. Students must have approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course. Student Learning Outcomes: At the conclusion of this internship, students will satisfy academic requirements demonstrating: -a greater understanding of the role of the HR professional in the organization -improved skills and knowledge needed by HRD professionals in today’s organizations -applied research, theory and HRD concepts to what is being done in the ‘real world’ wtihin a project area (or case study of the organization) -appreciation for whether or not HRD is consistent with a future career interest.
Prerequisites & Notes Chair Approval Required. Students must have the approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall, Summer, and Spring
Credits: 3
HRD 595 - Strategic Human Resource Development This course is a comprehensive experience designed to integrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes acquired through successful, prior course completion of core and elective courses. Case analysis,project managment, and research will play an important role in this capstone experience. The students will also examine the future of HR through the critical lense of trends and issues faced in the field.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits
Credits: 3
HRD 596 - Advanced Seminar in Human Resource Development The Advanced Seminar in HRD presents the opportunity for students to demonstrate an integrated understanding of sound business principles, ethical standards, and best practices in human resource development. Students will complete an instructor-approved project that addresses a key performance area within their existing workplace or another organization as the focus for development of an idea or resolution of a business problem. Working in close consultation with the course instructor and project sponsor from the partnering organization, students will formulate and defend a plan of action for the identified opportunity or problem and prepare a formal presentation of the completed project.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits
Credits: 3
HRM 520 - Introduction to HR This course provides an overview of the HR functions in modern organizations, special emphasis is given to improving productivity, quality of work life and engagement of employees given trends in diversity, technology, globalization, and other current HR issues.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
HRM 523 - Hr Professional Certification Prep Certification Program The primary emphasis of this course is to assist HR professionals in preparation for the SHRM-CP Certification examination sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management. The secondary purpose is for the professional development of individuals interested in expanding their HR management knowledge. This course will cover the topics in the HR body of knowledge as defined by HRCI.
Credits: 3
HRM 530 - Legal Environment of Human Resources This course is an introduction to the study of law with special emphasis on employment law. Areas of study will include an overview of the legal environment, common law, statutory law, regulatory law, legal research, employment at will, employment contracts, equal employment opportunities laws, compensation, benefits, and labor law. Students will explore this complex and changing regulatory context from the perspective of the HR manager.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
HRM 535 - Organizational Development and Change The study of change theory and the practice of organization development provides grounding to this course in order to support the skill development,ethical advocacy, and application of change strategies for the workplace and in the community. Students will be able to identify and explain the important concepts of change theory and apply them to relevant challenges in their current and future professional roles.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
HRM 540 - Talent Acquisition & Retention Students will learn about the challenges of designing and managing a successful staffing process. The course operates from the perspective that effective planning, sourcing, and selection of human resources is a key driver of an organization’s ability to achieve its strategic objectives.
Credits: 3
HRM 550 - Compensation and Benefits The general structure of an organization and the rewards employees seek in exchange for the contribution they provide will be examined. Topics include: people and work; rewards and a motivating work environment; government and market influences; job content analysis; development pay structures; measure performance and pay for performance; employee benefits and administration of the compensation plan.
Credits: 3
HRM 570 - HR Metrics and Analytics This course provides the opportunity to develop individual and managerial skills in varied workforce metrics utilized in the HR profession. Students will assess their skills and compare and contrast measurement systems (scorecards, analytics, dashboards and more) in a range of HR functional areas. Implications for organizational and individual performance will be evaluated.
Credits: 3
HRM 583 - HRM Internship A graduate level internship is a work experience that is completed during one semester. It requires the student to work 12-20 hours per week for a minimum of 180 hours. Successful completion of the internship earns the student three hours of academic graduate credit.
Prerequisites & Notes Chair Approval Required. Students must have the approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall, Summer, and Spring
Credits: 3
HRM 596 - Advanced Seminar in Human Resources Management The Advanced Seminar in HRM presents the opportunity for students to demonstrate an integrated understanding of sound business principles, ethical standards, and best practices in human resources management. Students will complete an instructor-approved project that addresses a key performance area within their existing workplace or another organization as the focus for development of an idea or resolution of a business problem. Working in close consultation with the course instructor and project sponsor from the partnering organization, students will formulate and defend a plan of action for the identified opportunity or problem and prepare a formal presentation of the completed project.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits
Credits: 3
MGT 503 - Management and Behavior in Organizations The effective management of people is a critical component of organizational competitiveness. This course prepares students to manage organizations and their human capital in a rapidly-changing global environment. Topics covered include leadership; teamwork; power, politics, and influence; how to structure more effective organizations; and, how to manage organizational change. Tying all of these elements together, the course will devote particular attention to the competencies, skills and behaviors that are indicative of good management and how organizations and managers can be transformed for better alignment with the business demands of the future.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
MGT 505 - Quality and Performance Management Students will explore the basic principles of continuous quality improvement and its impact on the management of people and organizations. Students will work in teams to gain initial experience in problem solving, using statistical and management quality improvement techniques and applying these to manage individual, team, and organizational performance.
Credits: 3
MGT 507 - Marketing Management Students will study marketing principles and will apply them to case studies involving various marketing problems. Students will also gain a working knowledge of marketing management from guest speakers, who will offer expertise in specific areas.
Prerequisites & Notes Pre-requisite: Undergraduate course in Principles of Marketing is required.
Credits: 3
MGT 509 - Accounting & Finance for Non-Financial Managers In this course students will learn about the key financial information contained in balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, budgets and forecast, and annual reports. Emphasis is placed on how to interpret the information and its relation to the overall performance and financial health of the organization.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Summer
Credits: 3
MGT 511 - Information Systems Management The study of management information system concepts through the examination of both traditional and advanced software methodologies. Students will gain hands-on experience in practicing and managing tools for making information system’s decisions for the workplace.
Credits: 3
MGT 513 - Globalization and Cultural Competency Students will benchmark and enhance their competencies in the effective management of challenges and issues facing organizations in the current global environment. Students will have the opportunity to critically explore, clarify, and test their own conceptual framework, attitudes, values, and behavioral patterns rooted in one?s own cultural context.
Credits: 3
MGT 515 - Organizational Performance and Design An examination of design and management of organizational structures and systems. Students will use case analysis to learn how to evaluate an organization and how to improve its efficiency by aligning structures and systems to strategies for effectiveness.
Credits: 3
MGT 527 - Ethics and the Practice of Management Students will explore the complex role of ethical considerations in management decision-making. Students will read relevant philosophical texts and will complete case studies to consider related ethical problems in business.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Summer
Credits: 3
MGT 529 - Organizational Psychology This course will focus on the study of human behavior in organizations, including the analysis of individual and group processes in organizational settings. Understanding and improving the performance of individuals and the organizations in which they work will be emphasized.
Credits: 3
MGT 531 - Leadership Theory and Practice This course will provide students with the concepts, models and techniques of leadership. Participants will apply learning to their own development of leadership style and the process for building and supporting teams, organizations and other individuals in leadership.
Credits: 3
MGT 560 - Management Behavior and Team Dynamics This course provides the opportunity to develop individual and interpersonal skills that enhance managerial effectiveness in today’s high-performance, team-based environments. Students will assess their work preferences and compare those with the performance expectations of tomorrow’s managers. Feedback will be provided and implications for performance impacts on individuals, teams, and the organization, as a whole, will be evaluated. This will include the range of development and motivational challenges from building a multi-cultural workforce to managing virtual teams.
Credits: 3
MGT 583 - Management Internship A graduate level internship is a work experience that is completed during one semester. It requires the student to work 12-20 hours per week for a minimum of 180 hours. Successful completion of the internship earns the student three hours of graduate level academic credit.
Prerequisites & Notes Chair Approval Required. Student must have the approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course. Normal Cycle Offering: Fall, Summer, and Spring
Credits: 3
MGT 595 - Advanced Seminar in Management The Advanced Seminar in MGT presents the opportunity for students to demonstrate an integrated understanding of sound business principles, ethical standards, and best practices in management. Students will complete a instructor-approved project that addresses a key performance area within their existing workplace or another organization as the focus for development of an idea or resolution of a business problem. Working in close consultation with the course instructor and project sponsor from the partnering organization, students will formulate and defend a plan of action for the identified opportunity or problem and prepare a formal presentation of the completed project.
Prerequisites & Notes Chair Approval Required. Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
MGT 596 - Advanced Seminar in Management The advanced seminar in management presents the opportunity for students to demonstrate an integrated understanding of sound business principles, ethical standards, and best practices in management. Students will complete an instructor-approved project that addresses a key performance area within their existing workplace or another organization as the focus for development of an idea or resolution of a business problem. Working in close consultation with the course instructor and project sponsor from the partnering organization, students will formulate and defend a plan of action for the identified opportunity or problem and prepare a formal presentation of the completed project.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits
Credits: 3
MGT 604 - Project Management This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of project management theory and a working knowledge of the tools used for project planning, scheduling, and control.
Credits: 3
MGT 610 - Seminar in Management: Executive Lecture Series Students will interact with senior level executives from a variety of industries and organizations. The primary purpose is to identify similarities and differences that exist in the management and leadership styles of successful executives. Students will also attempt to identify the skills, knowledge and outlook needed to successfully guide organizations in the 21st century.
Credits: 3
MKT 507 - Marketing Concepts and Strategy Students will study the process of creating, distributing, promoting and pricing goods, services, and ideas to facilitate satisfying exchange relationships with customers along with the development of favorable relationships with the relevant stakeholders.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
MKT 547 - Marketing Research & Analytics Students will learn about process and techniques that are used to gather, record, and analyze data as an aid to making marketing and communication decisions. Specific topics will include the development of research designs for collecting primary and secondary data, sampling and data analysis and analytics.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite/Co-requisite: MKT 507 Normal Cycle Offering: Spring
Credits: 3
MKT 549 - Global Buyer Behavior The course is designed to provide you with a basic understanding of the principles of business-to-business and business-to-consumer buying behavior on a global perspective and how to apply it to the practice of marketing. Global Buyer Behavior borrows heavily from the study of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics. Changes in buyer decisions across multiple cultures are explored.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall
Credits: 3
MKT 551 - Persuasive Communications This course focuses on persuasive communication, defined as the use of messages to alter or strengthen attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. In order to accomplish these goals, the messages first need to attract others’ time and attention. Throughout the semester, students will learn humanistic and social scientific theories about persuasion and apply these theories to craft and critique statements.
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Fall
Credits: 3
MKT 553 - Leading Innovation This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the evolution of innovative teams; the differences between innovation dealing with products versus services or processes; and the leadership and organizational behaviors that help or hinder creative development. Additionally this course will challenge students assess their individual leadership behaviors along with developi
Prerequisites & Notes Normal Cycle Offering: Spring
Credits: 3
MKT 559 - Primary Media MKT 559 Primary Media is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of media most frequently used in marketing, how to evaluate it in relation to client criteria, implement it, and weave various media options into a successful marketing campaign. Primary media is the stable media used in the majority of advertising and public relations including traditional options, like newspapers
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: MKT 507, MKT 547 Normal Cycle Offering: Summer
Credits: 3
MKT 561 - Emerging Media MKT 561 Emerging and New Media is an array of innovative digital media that is rapidly entering the marketplace. It includes creative, but untested, medium, like Vine, new options from primary digital media, like Facebook or Google, and new trends, like engaging in customer conversations. Some of these emerging options will mature into tested primary media while others will fall away.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: MKT 507, MKT 547, MKT 559 Normal Cycle Offering: Summer
Credits: 3
MKT 600 - Marketing Program Management Marketing Communications Program Management is the capstone experience for graduate applied marketing communications candidates in their final semester of study. The objective is to integrate learning’s from the preceding seven program core courses and apply those skills and experience toward improving a local non-profit firm’s marketing capabilities.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: MKT 507, MKT 547, MKT 559, MKT 549, MKT 561, MKT 551, MKT 553 Requires 24 hourse of filed work. Normal Cycle Offering: Spring
Credits: 3
Human Resource Development
Human Resource Management
Integrated Marketing Communications
Management
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