May 14, 2024  
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

School of Business and Leadership


As a graduate student in the School of Business and Leadership, 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 Business and Leadership 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 Business Organization and Management, Human Resource Management, Leadership and Organizational Change, and Marketing Communications Leadership.
  • 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 Business and Leadership offers all these, and more. Become a student of the School and let us help you to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Business Organization and Management

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Human Resource Management

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Courses

  • HRD 501 - Adult and Organizational Learning


    This course will provide students with an introduction to the 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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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. Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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. Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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
    Term offering cycle: Fall and Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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. Each internship will include applying research theory and HRM concepts to what is being done in the ‘real world’ within a project area (or case study of the organization). Chair Approval Required. Students must have the approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course.

    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. Term offering cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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. Each internship will include applying research theory and HRD concepts to what is being done in the ‘real world’ within a project area (or case study of the organization). Chair Approval Required. Students must have the approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course.

    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. Term offering cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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
    Term offering cycle: Fall and Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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
    Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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
    Term offering cycle: Fall and Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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 and organizational development models will be incorporated as a means of improving employee performance.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • Marketing Communications Leadership

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  • MKT 549 - 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
    Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 555 - Crisis Communications


    Crisis Communications assumes every firm will face a crisis. Students learn how to plan for an unknown future crisis and optimize communications with the public.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 557 - Digital Marketing


    The course will provide a fundamental overview of digital marketing channels (Paid, Earned and Owned) and then shift to developing a comprehensive integrated digital marketing campaign from conception to implementation to optimization.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 561 - Emerging Media


    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. Prerequisite: MKT*547.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MKT*547. Term offering cycle: Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 519 - International Marketing


    Course provides an overview of the international business environment. Special emphasis given to the marketing function and how goods and services are delivered to international markets. Graduate students will deliver a paper and presentation in addition to undergraduate assignments. Cross-listed with MKT*419.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Cross-listed with MKT*419. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: even years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 510 - Leadership Assessment and Development


    The course provides a framework for students to assess and develop their own leadership competencies and prepares them to assess and develop the competencies of others in organizations. The course addresses career development, leadership coaching, self-leadership, lifelong learning, and the development of emotional intelligence competencies. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.MCL program. Prerequisites: MKT*547 and MKT*549.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.MCL program. Prerequisites: MKT*547 and MKT*549. Term offering cycle: Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 583 - Marketing Internship I


    Graduate internships provide experiential experience, network opportunities, and potential employment. Open only to students matriculated in the M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications program.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open only to students matriculated in the M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications program. Term offering cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 610 - Marketing Organizational Consultation


    This is the Marketing Communications Leadership capstone course. The academic purpose is to understand consultation, both internal and external. Skill-building includes how to quickly assess the strengths and weaknesses of an organization with minimum disruption. The semester project includes teams apply their marketing skills in helping a local non-profit overcome a marketing problem. Prerequisites: MKT*561, MKT*510. Requires 30 hours of field work.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MKT*561, MKT*510. Requires 30 hours of field work. Term offering cycle: Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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 Prerequisites: MKT 507, MKT 547, MKT 549, MKT 551, MKT 557, MKT 559, and MKT 561. Requires 24 hours of field work.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MKT 507, MKT 547, MKT 549, MKT 551, MKT 557, MKT 559, and MKT 561. Requires 24 hours of field work. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 547 - Marketing Research


    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
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 507 - Marketing Strategy


    This is an introduction to marketing and marketing strategies, stressing functional roles in the organization and society.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Fall and Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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
    Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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
    Term offering cycle: Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MKT 520 - Team and Conflict Management


    The course prepares students to work in and to lead teams and to manage conflict in appropriate ways. The course emphasizes the development of positive interpersonal behaviors for teams, team building, effective decision-making and other team processes, and managing the sources of conflict and conflict behaviors in order to resolve organizational problems. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.MCL program. Prerequisites: MKT*551 and MKT*557. Corequisite: MKT*561.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.MCL program. Prerequisites: MKT*551 and MKT*557. Corequisite: MKT*561. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • Leadership and Organizational Change

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  • 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
    Term offering cycle: Fall and Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MGT 596 - Advanced Seminar in Leadership


    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. Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of 27 graduate credits. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MGT 532 - Coaching and Critical Conversations


    Students will examine the coaching relationship from a variety of perspectives. This framework can be used for individual development, relationship-building, conflict-handling, leadership and directive feedback, and emotionally-charged conversations. Students will explore these techniques and concepts through a variety of applied learning activities. Elective course for students in MGT, HRM, HRD, or HESAA graduate degree programs.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Elective course for students in MGT, HRM, HRD, or HESAA graduate degree programs. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • LOC 540 - Creating High Performance Organizations


    This course focused on the importance of, and the skills needed for, assessing and to building high performance organizations. It will explore not only the role of leadership in the development of HPO’s; it also will provide the participants with a framework for understanding and influencing organizations toward higher performance. Whether you are an executive, manager, or employee you will learn Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*510, LOC*520. Corequisite: LOC 530.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*510, LOC*520. Corequisite: LOC 530. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MGT 536 - Cross-Cultural Management


    Students will learn how to lead and motivate a cross-cultural team in another country. Prereq: Undergraduate business management classes. Prereq: Undergraduate business and management classes.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prereq: Undergraduate business and management classes. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: odd years.

    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
    Term offering cycle: Fall and Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • LOC 600 - Individual Graduating Project


    Students will work individually on designing and conducting an organizational change or leadership project that will allow them to apply their competencies in an active organization under guidance of a faculty advisor. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*580, LOC*590.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*580, LOC*590. Term offering cycle: Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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
  • LOC 530 - Leadership and Decision-Making Analytics


    The course prepares students to engage in their first field research projects between the first and second year of the program. The course focuses on collaborative and innovative research methods on data collection, data analysis, and data reporting. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*510, LOC*520. Corequisite: LOC 540.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*510, LOC*520. Corequisite: LOC 540. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • LOC 510 - Leadership Assessment and Development


    Course assesses leadership competencies and creates a plan to develop leadership skills throughout the program. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Corequisite: LOC 520.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Corequisite: LOC 520. Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MGT 531 - Leadership Concepts and Practices


    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MGT 533 - Leadership Team Dynamics


    In today’s complex organizations, effectively working with and managing teams is often the difference between success and failure. This course examines the role and importance of leadership and teams in organizations. It explores the mix of attributes, skills and capabilities required of successful leaders and the nature of team development, the process involved in building and leading high performance teams, and the skills and attributes required of an effective team player.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • LOC 580 - Leading Organizational Change


    The course examines theories of planned organizational change and their application to organizations. Students will learn how to lead, plan and implement successful organizational change. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*560, LOC*570. Corequisite: LOC*590.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*560, LOC*570. Corequisite: LOC*590. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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
    Term offering cycle: Fall and Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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. Each internship will include applying research theory and concepts to what is being done in the ‘real world’ within a project area (or case study of the organization). Chair Approval Required. Student must have the approval of their academic advisor in order to apply for an internship and register for this course.

    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. Term offering cycle: Fall, Summer, and Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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
  • LOC 570 - Organizational Consultation


    This course will address the study of the consultation process including the skills and techniques involved in action research. The course will focus on entry, contracting, organizational scanning, preliminary diagnosis, and large system interventions. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisite: LOC*550. Corequisite: LOC*560.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisite: LOC*550. Corequisite: LOC*560. Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • MGT 515 - Organizational Performance and Design


    An examination of design and management of organizational structures and systems. Students will complete a semester-long project diagnosing and analysing key design dimensions of their own organizations in order to learn how to evaluate an organization and how to improve its success by aligning structures and systems to strategies for effectiveness.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: irregular offering.

    Credits: 3
  • LOC 560 - Organizational Strategy and Systems Thinking


    This course focuses on the process of formulating, executing and evaluating strategy for achieving the goals of the organization. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisite: LOC*550. Corequisite: LOC*570.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisite: LOC*550. Corequisite: LOC*570. Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • LOC 550 - Public Engagement Practicum


    Students will work in groups on a leadership project in a non-profit organization under the close guidance of a faculty member. The public engagement practicum provides students with the opportunity to develop their consultation skills, collaborate in applying learning from the first year in the program, and engage with a community client. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*530, LOC*540.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisites: LOC*530, LOC*540. Term offering cycle: Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    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.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Term offering cycle: Summer. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • LOC 520 - Team and Conflict Management


    The course prepares students to work in and to lead teams and to manage conflict in appropriate ways. The course emphasizes the development of positive interpersonal behaviors for teams, team building, effective decision-making and other team processes, and managing the sources of conflict and conflict behaviors in order to resolve organizational problems. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Corequisite: LOC 510.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Corequisite: LOC 510. Term offering cycle: Fall. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3
  • LOC 590 - Virtuous and Purpose-Driven Leadership


    The mission of the program is to create enlightened transformative leaders, and this course will focus on several topics that contribute to the mission: Positive leadership, virtuous leadership, and purpose-driven leadership. Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisite: LOC*560 LOC*570. Corequisite: LOC*580.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment restricted to students in MS.LOC program. Prerequisite: LOC*560 LOC*570. Corequisite: LOC*580. Term offering cycle: Spring. Typical yearly cycle: all years.

    Credits: 3