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MHR 501 - International Human Resource Management
Credit(s): 4
Explores the problems of managing HR in a cross-national firm. Deals with issues of global strategy, cross-cultural management, international assignments, immigration, workforce mobility, and integration of cross-national HR practices. Course is taught from a managerial perspective using case studies.
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MHR 505 - Training and Development
Credit(s): 4
Human Resource Development (HRD) deals with the personal and professional enhancement of employees. Topics covered include needs assessment, designing an employee development program, methods of adult education and training, career and life planning issues, and developing employee skills to meet the needs of future organizations.
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MHR 510 - Organizational Change and Development
Credit(s): 4
Organization Development (OD) is the process of applying social science principles to the workplace to bring about planned organizational change. Focuses on developing new approaches to organizational problems and providing for the psychological wellbeing of organizational members. Addresses interventions at the personal, group, and system levels.
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MHR 515 - Recruitment, Selection, and Retention
Credit(s): 4
Various methods for recruiting, selecting, and retaining employees. Topics include equal employment opportunity; human resource planning; determination of staffing needs; internal and external recruitment strategies; selection interviews, tests, and assessment procedures; placement, promotion, and transfer policies; and retention strategies.
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MHR 522 - Organizational Behavior
Credit(s): 4
Foundations for understanding individual and group behavior with applications to managerial problem solving. Topics will include individual behavior, perception, motivation, group behavior, group dynamics, leadership, communication, and stress.
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MHR 523 - Finance for HR Professionals
Credit(s): 4
Provides a basic overview of accounting and finance. Focuses on the theories, concepts, and practices HR professionals need to know in order to understand accounting and financial statements, communicate with accounting and finance people, and manage the accounting and financial aspects of their HR programs.
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MHR 532 - Succession Management
Credit(s): 4
Focuses on the design and management of career and succession systems for individuals and organizations. Topics will include career development, balancing career and family, individual career planning, labor market analysis, job search strategies, succession planning, termination planning, outplacement, retirement planning, and managing your own career in HR. Taught from a managerial perspective using case studies.
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MHR 538 - HR Leadership
Credit(s): 4
A personal effectiveness course focusing on the cultivation of leadership attributes, skills, and knowledge. Topics include a review of leadership theory, leadership development models, and leadership education. Students will design leadership development programs.
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MHR 540 - Management Consulting
Credit(s): 4
Focuses on consulting tools, processes, and strategies for establishing relationships, analyzing problems, recommending solutions, and evaluating effectiveness. Course will discuss the planning, marketing, and management of the consulting firm as well as the assignment.
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MHR 542 - Team Building
Credit(s): 4
Theories of cooperation, participatory decision-making, and collaborative learning are used to develop strategies for creating and improving the operational performance of work teams. The course will be taught from both the group-process and information technology perspectives.
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MHR 543 - Employee Relations
Credit(s): 4
Examines common approaches to employee-centered issues. Explores company responses to problems in workplace laws and regulations regarding hiring and firing, personnel practices, wage and hour requirements, employee benefits, family and medical leave, health and safety, illegal discrimination, workers with disabilities, termination, employee privacy, independent contractors, and unions.
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MHR 544 - Conflict Management
Credit(s): 4
Analysis of various methods for resolving grievances, disputes, and conflicts in unionized and nonunion organizations. Topics include collective bargaining; sources of conflict; exchange theory; negotiation; mediation, arbitration, and third-party intervention methods; selecting the appropriate conflict-resolution method for a particular organization; and evaluating the effectiveness of the method. Formerly Conflict and Dispute Resolution.
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MHR 545 - Troubled Employees
Credit(s): 4
This course focuses on dealing with employees who have serious psychological issues. Topics include violence in the workplace, depression, anxiety, suicide, alcohol, and drug abuse. Strategies for identifying, referring, and managing troubled employees will be discussed. The course is taught from a clinical perspective to help HR professionals select appropriate caregivers for employees with severe problems.
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MHR 553 - Employment and Labor Law
Credit(s): 4
Analyzes state and federal regulations of human resource decision-making. Significant attention will be devoted to specific employment and labor laws. The course focuses on the identification and application of legal, ethical, and regulatory issues in formulating and implementing policies.
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MHR 557 - Compensation Management
Credit(s): 4
The design and administration of compensation and benefit packages. Course content includes financial analysis of compensation packages, economics of compensation, executive compensation, mandated benefits, and control of costs. The course will be taught from a managerial perspective focusing on issues of equity, incentive, and risk.
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MHR 559 - Performance Management
Credit(s): 4
The design and operation of work systems. Course content includes setting performance objectives, designing performance systems and processes, engineering and re-engineering work processes, evaluating results, and conducting performance appraisals. The course will be taught from a managerial perspective using the case method to focus on issues of productivity, quality, and cost control.
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MHR 590 - Special Topics
Credit(s): 4
This course will be offered on an occasional basis focusing on an in-depth treatment of a special topic or current issue in human resources or organization development. Course topics might be theoretical (Critical Theories of the Firm), professional (Preparation for the PHR Exam), disciplinary (Talent Management), or practical (Managing Conflicts between EEO, ADA, INS, and Florida Workers Comp).
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MHR 591 - SHRM National Conference
Credit(s): 4
This course is designed to help students explore the concept of continuing professional education (Life Long Learning) in the context of the Society for Human Resource Management’s Annual Professional Conference. Prior to the conference, we will meet to develop conference plans. During the conference, we will meet daily to discuss what people are learning. After the conference, each student will write a reflection on his or her participation and learning.
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MHR 610 - Managing the Human Resource Department
Credit(s): 4
This course looks at the field of human resources from a department leadership perspective. Using the case method, students will develop a problem solving approach to issues that affect organizational effectiveness and employee development.
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MHR 625 - Emerging Issues in HRM
Credit(s): 4
Examines trends, directions, phenomena, issues, and problems affecting human resources, HR management, and the HR profession. Issues may include HR roles, HR service delivery, organizational structures, professional preparation, technology, knowledge base, globalization, and the ‘human’ in human resources.
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MHR 670 - Independent Research
Credit(s): 2-6
A student conducts independent research on a topic of interest. In consultation with a faculty member, a student identifies a research topic, designs and conducts a study, writes a research report, and makes a seminar-style presentation to the faculty. Prerequisite(s): completion of at least four MHR courses.
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MHR 673 - Independent Project
Credit(s): 2-6
A student develops an independent project in an area of interest (e.g.: stress management, performance appraisal, job analysis, etc.). In consultation with a faculty member, the student defines the scope and objectives of the project, conducts the project, writes a project report, and makes a seminar-style presentation to the faculty. Prerequisite(s): completion of at least four MHR courses.
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MHR 675 - Internship
Credit(s): 2-6
Provides the student with practical experience in a human resources environment. This course is not intended for students who are already working in the field. In consultation with career services and the director, the student identifies a host organization, defines an internship project, and completes several weeks of supervised on-site activities. Prerequisite(s): completion of at least four MHR courses.
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MHR 677 - Thesis
Credit(s): 4-8
Students conduct an original research project on a topic of interest. The thesis may count as one or two courses. Prerequisite(s): approval of a faculty committee.
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MLS 505 - Aesthetics and Politics of Art
Credit(s): 4
This course is framed by the question “when does art/artistic representation have ethical impact?” It examines how aesthetic criteria for judging artworks might or might not overlap with ethical criteria. We will explore the work and life of Leni Riefensthal; cultural imperialist tendencies of glossy tourist-art-books about impoverished locations; the Bauhaus movement ; representational versus non-representational art; the “Warhol effect” of blurring art and everyday consumer goods; handmade artifacts versus mechanical reproductions; and the theme of “moral imagination through arts” of philosopher Martha Nussbaum and others.
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MLS 506 - Medieval Times
Credit(s): 4
This course celebrates the writings of the major authors of the medieval period. Topics include virgins, vixens, and cuckolds; forms of persecution and prosecution; and the bestselling book in the world.
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MLS 515 - Topics in MLS
Credit(s): 4
Topics change each semester. Consult the online schedule of courses for topic being ofered in a given semester.
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MLS 516 - Masterworks Topic
Credit(s): 2
Masterworks topics focus on a single work, author, artists, genre or city. Topics change each semester. Offered first and/or second seven weeks of the semester.
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MLS 542 - Manet’s “Olympia”
Credit(s): 4
Manet’s painting is now a highly regarded work of art, admired for its frank depiction of a nude prostitute and her black servant, as well as its innovative style. When it was first exhibited in 1865, however, it caused a scandal for the same reasons. This course will examine the painting’s intersections of sexuality, race, and social class-seen as offensive at the time–in the context of rapidly changing cultural, social, economic, and demographic conditions in mid nineteenth-century Paris.
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MLS 551M - Teach and Learning Humanities
Credit(s): 2
Contemporary Teaching in the Humanities provides a foundation in both learning theory and the practical application of teaching methodologies in various modalities and contexts. Designed for discipline experts within the humanities preparing to teach at the college level, the course provides strategies and techniques to deliver and measure effective instruction for a diverse student body. In addition to learning theory applications, specific topics include how to lead meaningful class discussions, alignment, assessment, learning styles, and the effective use of learning technology.
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MLS 553M - The Great Gatsby
Credit(s): 2
This course offers an in-depth exploration of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most critically acclaimed novel. We will examine biographical and cultural relevance, but most importantly, our goal will be to establish literary qualities within The Great Gatsby making it worthy to be called an American literary masterwork.
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MLS 556M - Conceptions of Justice
Credit(s): 2
What is justice? This question has taxed philosophers and political thinkers for millennia. Aristotle and Plato defined it as treating equals equally, and unequals unequally. The moderns of the 17th century revolutionized the political and philosophical landscape by positing a principle of universal human equality. Social reformers of the 19th century offered utilitarian justifications for political and economic change. How did all these conceptions of justice vary from each other? What ideals of equality remain a legacy of which epoch, and what can we learn from all these different conceptions of fairness?
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MLS 571M - Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
Credit(s): 2
This intensive course offers an in-depth exploration of William Faulkner’s tour de force novel, Absalom, Absalom! While the text is deeply American, set in the Civil War era and flashing forward and backward more than fifty years on either side, it is more significantly a novel of universal and Biblical complexity. We will examine Faulkner’s unique writing style, his intricate thematic layering, and the novel’s place in American literature and as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction.
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MLS 574 - Spirit of the Counter-Reformation in Art and Music
Credit(s): 4
What effect did the Counter-Reformation have on the visual arts and music of the sixteenth century? This course will focus on the theological treatises of St. Teresa and St. Ignatius Loyola and their influence on artists and composers such as Caravaggio, Borromini, El Greco, and Palestrina.
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MLS 576 - Existential and Humanistic Psychology
Credit(s): 4
Can people really change? Do we have control of our future? What does it mean to be a person? The first half of this course looks at these issues from the perspective of existential and humanistic psychologists Ludwig Binswanger, Rollo May, Viktor Frankl, and Carl Rogers. The second half looks at nontraditional approaches to existential and humanistic issues including biofeedback, mind-body connections, dream interpretation, meditation, and learned optimism.
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MLS 579 - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Credit(s): 4
This course will focus on the crowning achievement of Chaucer’s poetic career. It is the first work to gather the entire spectrum of English folk and to give them voice. The carnival and the controversy that it plays out on the stage of pilgrimage allows Chaucer to create a complete library of medieval genres and an enduring statement about the human condition. Students will learn enough of the language to do a close reading of each tale, place the author’s achievements in the context of our contemporary theories, and, adopting one of the tales, produce a paper that is linked to their own version of the tale. We will end the term, then, with a story-telling pilgrimage of our own.
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MLS 580 - Psychology of Religious Experience
Credit(s): 4
This course is about the scientific and empirically based study of the social and individual religious behaviors of people. From altruism to exorcism, from first communion to fevered visions of a heavenly city, some of humankind’s most interesting behaviors are related to religion. Our topics will include definitions of religion; social sources of individual religious beliefs; religion, mental health, and mental illness; the psychology of conversion; cult membership; the psychology of evil; prayer and meditation; and life-after-death experiences. Students will draw from sources across the liberal arts in completing their individual portfolios on a topic of interest.
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MLS 580M - Masterworks Independent Study
Credit(s): 2
Please refer to Independent Study Guidelines for approval procedure.
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MLS 581 - The Designer as Social Critic: Activism and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Credit(s): 4
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, members of the Arts and Crafts movement attempted to influence society through their art and writing. In Europe, this movement was largely socialist and reflected reactions against historical revival in design and architecture, as well as the predominance of mechanization in production. To a large extent, the U.S. version of the movement abandoned socialism and anti-industrialism and focused more on developing a new style of design that was simple, honest, and uniquely American. In this course, we analyze critical writings and artistic styles that typified the Arts and Crafts movement in Europe and the United States. Our studies will include the works of John Ruskin, William Morris and the British Arts and Crafts movement; Elbert Hubbard and the “Roycrofters;” Gustav Stickley and the Mission Style; and Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School.
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MLS 582M - Masterworks Independent Study Abroad
Credit(s): 2
Please refer to Independent Study Guidelines for approval procedure.
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MLS 583 - Modern Theories of Personality
Credit(s): 4
This course will look at psychological theories of human nature. We will read and discuss the major theories of personality as represented by Freud, Jung, Skinner, Rogers, Erikson, and others. We will also complete personality measures and interpret the results. The class will be run on a humanistic model in which students take responsibility for their own learning.
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MLS 587 - Picturing War
Credit(s): 4
From Roman triumphal arches to the Abu Ghraib photographs, war has been the subject of much of Western visual culture. Imagery can be just as effective at promoting war and national identity as in questioning the ethics of armed conflict and other forms of large-scale aggression. This course examines the historical contexts and rhetorical strategies of the imagery of war in the Western world, focusing mainly on art, with some attention to film.
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MLS 588 - The Art of Landscape Design: From Renaissance Garden to Green City
Credit(s): 4
The health of a society can be discerned by the quality of its landscape, and the manner in which it is designed. The Renaissance Garden is the point of origin for this class, the rebirth of the classical ideal. From this early effort to reunite humanity and nature, the evolution of landscape design will be studied through the Baroque, Enlightenment, Romantic, and Modern periods. The course will culminate with a focus on Florida, with field trips to Bok Tower Garden.
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MLS 590 - American Civil Liberties
Credit(s): 4
This course will examine the question of the proper balance between national security and civil liberties in times of emergency from the perspectives of political philosophers like John Locke, the founders of American Constitutionalism like Thomas Jefferson, and recent Presidential Administrations like that of G.W. Bush. The primary purpose of this course is to give students a historical perspective on the development of American civil liberties.
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MLS 591M - The What, Why and How of Art
Credit(s): 2
The course introduces students to the foundations of visual art through the exploration of modern and contemporary art works as well as hands-on studio work. No previous art courses are required. The course will incorporate exhibitions at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum and other Central Florida art venues.
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MLS 592 - Rococo to Revolution: Gender, Race, and Power in 18th-Century French Art
Credit(s): 4
This course examines the dramatic changes that took place in French 18th‐century visual culture, focusing on issues of gender, race, and power. Visual culture includes not only art and architecture, but fashion, interior decoration, and landscape gardening. We will explore representations of kingship and queenship, women’s empowerment within the restrictions of 18th-century gender roles, and images of slavery in an age of liberty, among other areas.
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MLS 597M - Psychology Gets Religion
Credit(s): 2
This course is about the scientific study of the social and individual religious behaviors of people. From altruism to visions of a heavenly city, some of humankind’s most interesting behaviors are related to religion. We will begin with readings by William James, and continue into the empirical basis of this field of study. Topics include definitions of religion and spirituality; religious and nonreligious child-rearing; the psychology of worship; religion, mental health, and mental illness; and psychology on the brain. [Fall 2011]
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MLS 599M - Italy in the High Middle Ages
Credit(s): 2
In this period of plagues and popes, cultural cross-currents such as ancient learning and faith, conflicts of spiritual and secular power, syntheses of Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic styles, the emergence of cities and universities, all combine to lead Italy to the cusp of the Renaissance. Students will undertake readings in theology and poetry as well as study selected examples of architecture, sculpture and painting. Readings will focus on Dominic, Francis and Aquinas; Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio. We will compare the paintings of Cimabue, Duccio and Giotto. One class will feature a guest lecture by a noted specialist in medieval musicology, who will explain the Squarcialupi Codex and the music of Francesco Landini, using examples from the composer’s work.
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MLS 602 - The Human Order
Credit(s): 4
The social and political philosophies of the ancient world reflect the effort to shape the human community according to a universal order in which human beings have a natural place and a natural purpose. In this course, students explore the social and political thought of ancient Greece and Rome in the context of the culture in which that thought arose. The course also examines the cosmology and science of the ancient world, with an emphasis on the attempt to direct the powers of reason to the discovery of a natural order.
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MLS 603 - Religion and Western Culture
Credit(s): 4
The society that emerged from the ruins of the Roman Empire brought together classical, Germanic, and Christian elements to forge a new western European culture. This course traces the interaction of these strands through an examination of religion, social and political development, and changes in the arts. Students will examine the medieval synthesis in which religious concerns predominated, explore the factors that lead to its breakdown, and enhance their research skills at the graduate level.
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MLS 604 - The Origins of Modernity
Credit(s): 4
If ancient social and political thought can be characterized by the attempt to fashion a human order that reflected the order of the universe, modern thought must be characterized by the effort to establish order in the human community without the help of a divine being and without knowledge of a transcendent natural order. This course investigates the various ways in which modern social, aesthetic, and political thinkers endeavor to rest human society on purely secular foundations.
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MLS 605 - Milestones of Modern Science
Credit(s): 4
Science has always been concerned with the search for order, whether it be to explain the starry phenomena in the night sky; the diversity of substances like rocks, water, and wind; or the nature of our own origins. This course pursues the pathways of science from ancient roots, through the 17th century, and into the present, concentrating on some of the exceptional ideas in biology and physics, with excursions into chemistry and mathematics. We study how the accumulation of knowledge acquired by technical tools and extraordinary thinking fabricates a new view of the universe and indicates our place in it.
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MLS 606 - Masterpieces of Modern Literature
Credit(s): 4
This course explores the ways in which literature has come to question and define values in the modern world. As writers have endeavored to come to grips with the social, political, and spiritual dislocations of modern life, they have pursued themes of meaning, identity, community, and communication in order to examine the complexities and perplexities of the human condition.
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MLS 680 - Independent Study
Credit(s): 4
Please refer to Independent Study Guidelines for approval procedure.
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MLS 681 - Internship Guidelines
Credit(s): 2, 4 or 6
Please refer to Independent Study Guidelines for approval procedure.
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MLS 682 - Independent Study Abroad
Credit(s): 4
Please refer to Independent Study Guidelines for approval procedure.
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MLS 690 - Thesis Project
Credit(s): 4
The culmination of the degree program is the completion of a thesis project. Working under the direction of a faculty mentor and with the support of a liberal studies seminar, students apply the knowledge they have acquired in the program in designing and executing a final project. The project may be a research study or a creative work supported by a critical or theoretical essay. Refer to section entitled “Thesis Project” for guidelines and additional information.
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MLS 690 - Thesis Project
Credit(s): 4
The culmination of the degree program is the completion of a thesis project. Working under the direction of a faculty mentor and with the support of a liberal studies seminar, students apply the knowledge they have acquired in the program in designing and executing a final project. The project may be a research study or a creative work supported by a critical or theoretical essay. Refer to section entitled “Thesis Project” for guidelines and additional information.
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MLS 691 - Thesis Extension
Credit(s): 4
Students who have not completed the thesis requirement by the end of the semester must register and pay for MLS 691 Thesis Extension (at the billing rate of two credits). Continuous enrollment in MLS 691, during the fall and spring terms only, is expected until the thesis is completed. Refer to section entitled “Thesis Project” for guidelines and approval process.
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MPH 500 - Biological Basis of Human Disease
Credit(s): 2
This course provides an overview of the major diseases of public health importance, their classification and causes. This course serves as a foundational course familiarizing students with the basic pathophysiological aspects of many of the diseases discussed throughout the program.
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MPH 510 - Research Methods for the Health Sciences
Credit(s): 4
This course explores the fundamentals of research design in the health sciences and applying quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods to address public health issues.
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MPH 515 - Comparative Health Systems
Credit(s): 4
This course compares the organization, structure and function of health care, public health and regulatory systems across national and international settings. The course uses a systems approach. Major public policies and their impact on health and health equality will be also be discussed.
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MPH 520 - Foundations of Public Health
Credit(s): 4
This course serves as an introduction to the major issues of public and community health in the United States. The means by which structural bias and social inequities undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity will be emphasized. Students will learn to assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities’ health.
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MPH 530 - Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Credit(s): 4
This course will explore social and behavioral science theories, models, and approaches that inform public health research and practice. With emphasis on an ecological perspective, students will apply relevant theories to understanding community health issues and to developing interventions.
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MPH 540 - Applied Biostatistics
Credit(s): 4
This course covers the basic tools for the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in all areas of public health. Students will learn to assess the impact of chance and variability on the interpretation of research findings and subsequent recommendations for public health practice and policy. Topics will include general principles of study design; hypothesis testing; review of methods for comparison of discrete and continuous data including ANOVA, t-test, correlation, and regression.
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MPH 546 - Global Health Field Experience
Credit(s): 4
This course will introduce students to the many facets of multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches to global health. The course will be held in Geneva, Switzerland where students will participate in seminars at the World Health Organization and engage in site visits at organizations such as the United Nations, International Red Cross (ICRC), and UNHCR. In addition to experiential learning, the course will include assigned readings and materials.
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MPH 550 - Public Health Management
Credit(s): 4
This course provides an overview of health delivery systems, organizational theory, and the conceptual basis of traditional and executive leadership roles in healthcare facilities. Emphasis will be on the application of theory and best practice standards to the demands of the health business environment, and the development of leadership skills and competencies through a wide array of specialty topics including: strategic planning, organizational structure, performance and change, organizational communication, motivation and problem solving.
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MPH 600 - Environmental and Occupational Health
Credit(s): 4
This course introduces environmental health topics with a primary focus on environmental factors impacting human health, sources of these factors, methods of identification, and regulatory measures. Topics include health hazards associated with contaminated water, food and air; vectors of disease; exposure to toxic chemicals; solid and hazardous waste; environmental justice; regulations; safety in the work place; and emerging global environmental health problems.
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MPH 610 - Special Topics in Public Health
Credit(s): 4
This course will focus on specific topics of public health importance. Topics covered may vary.
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MPH 620 - Global Public Health
Credit(s): 4
This course discusses the global context of public health including principles underlying global health and the dimensions of public health particular to international settings. Emphasis will be placed on the issues and challenges to world health that transcend geopolitical boundaries, and the wide array of forces that impact these health issues. Focus areas will include the impact of globalization; health disparities, social and gender inequity; infectious disease; nutrition; maternal and child health; wars and civil conflicts; resources and environmental issues; and disaster response and management.
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MPH 630 - Practicum
Credit(s): 1
All MPH students are required to complete an approved supervised practicum of at least 120 hours. Students will integrate and apply classroom learning in a public health work environment enabling students to observe and learn from professionals in the field through active engagement in a professional organization.
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MPH 640 - Epidemiology
Credit(s): 4
This course introduces the basic concepts of epidemiology as applied to public health problems. Emphasis is placed on the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation and appropriate summaries and displays of data to describe the health of populations. Topics include the dynamic behavior of disease; usage of rates, ratios and proportions; methods of direct and indirect adjustment, and clinical life table which measures and describes the extent of disease problems. Various epidemiologic study designs for investigating associations between risk factors and disease outcomes are introduced. Also presented is the application of epidemiology in the areas of health services, screening and public policy.
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MPH 650 - Public Health Core Concepts (Capstone)
Credit(s): 2
Students will synthesize, integrate and apply the skills and competencies they have acquired to a public health problem that approximates a professional practice experience. The course will include a capstone project whereupon students will work on public health practice projects or research projects that are of particular interest to them.
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Racial Reconciliation and Community Restoration Courses also count as electives in the Master of Liberal Studies program.
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INTD 500 - Race and Social Justice
Credit(s): 4
This course delves into a philosophical investigation of the relation between state institutions and citizens, in particular the role that institutions play in creating or alleviating discrimination, oppression, and social harm against citizens. The point of this investigation is threefold: (1) to expose any misconceptions one might have concerning state institutions and racial justice, (2) to gain a better understanding of the impact that state institutions have on different racial groups in the United States, and (3) to understand how social justice advocates have addressed problems of discrimination and oppression in the past and think strategically about how one might address similar problems today. This course counts toward the Racial Reconciliation and Community Restoration Certificate and may be used as an elective toward the Master of Liberal Studies degree.
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INTD 510 - Advocacy for Social Change
Credit(s): 4
Prerequisite(s): In this experiential course, we will examine several important social issues and social movements, the stages of successful social movements along with the theories and concepts linked to their sucess, and how to develop and implement activist and advocacy campaigns to address pressing contemporary social problems. This course counts toward the Racial Reconciliation and Community Restoration certificate and as an elective toward the Master of Liberal Studies degree.
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INTD 515 - Politics and Poverty
Credit(s): 4
This course considers competing philosophical ideologies and how they impact what one thinks about poverty and what can be done to address it. The point of this scrutiny is twofold: (1) to expose any misconceptions one might have concerning political ideology and the practice of politics as they relate to poverty, and (2) to gain a better understanding of the roles that philosophy play in political theory and the practice of politics with respect to poverty. This course counts toward the Racial Reconciliation and Community Restoration Certificate and may be used as an elective toward the Master of Liberal Studies degree.
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INTD 525 - Incarceration and Inequality
Credit(s): 4
Privilege and inequality pervade the current U.S. criminal justice system. Student teams select and research a problem with policy and/or practice, identify one or more solutions, and make advocacy presentations before real policymakers, such as chiefs of police and city, county, and state elected officials. This course counts toward the Racial Reconciliation and Community Restoration certificate and as an elective toward the Master of Liberal Studies degree.
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RED 509 - Foundations of Reading
Credit(s): 3
This is the introductory course in the reading sequence. The course covers the theoretical models of reading, emergent literacy, phonics instruction, and the reading/writing connections. A balanced approach to reading instruction is emphasized.
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RED 511 - Methods for Teaching Writing in Elementary Schools
Credit(s): 3
Students will learn various writing process pedagogies and theories and explore methodologies for teaching writing in the language arts curriculum and across subject matter.
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RED 544 - Statistics for Teachers: Tests and Measurements
Credit(s): 3
This course includes basic statistical concepts and theories of tests and measurements. Students will learn to apply descriptive and inferential statistics to educational settings.
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RED 568 - Differentiation in Language Arts and Content Area Instruction
Credit(s): 3
This course presents strategies for teaching the four areas of language arts: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Emphasis on the importance of integrating reading and content area instruction. Strategies for diverse learners will be implemented in an original unit of instruction designed by the student based on best practices of a balanced reading classroom. ESOL infused course. Prerequisite(s): RED 509 .
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RED 569 - Research-Based Practices in Reading and Language Arts
This course immerses students in authentic literature appropriate for elementary grade reading instruction. Students will apply knowledge of recent research in the field and techniques for integrating meaningful reading and writing experiences throughout the curriculum. Emphasis on strategies for appropriate literature responses through literature circles and application of the writing process.
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RED 575 - Diagnostic Techniques in Reading
Credit(s): 3
This course examines a variety of testing available to classroom teachers to diagnose and improve reading instruction. Students will administer diagnostic instruments and design and implement curriculum to improve the student’s reading skills. Prerequisite(s)/Co-requisite(s): RED 509
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RED 577 - Demonstration of Accomplishment in Reading: Elementary
Credit(s): 3
Candidates will, through an extensive reading field experience, apply knowledge of data-based instructional planning within an elementary school classroom. Candidates will implement an integrated literacy unit, which will include strategies for differentiation, integration of reading and writing throughout all content areas and progress monitoring with evidence of student learning gains. Prerequisite(s): (two of four) RED 509 , RED 575 , RED 568 , and RED 569 .
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RED 581 - Enhancing Instruction: Using Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course will begin with a comprehensive review of best practices in effective instruction. Graduate students will then explore a variety of strategies available to enhance instruction and create a motivational environment for learners. Throughout the semester, graduate students will be reading and responding to a variety of recently published literature for children and young adults. Students work toward expertise in matching techniques and materials to the needs of the individual child.
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RED 582 - Children’s Literature: A Global Perspective
Credit(s): 3
This course immerses students in authentic literature appropriate for elementary grade reading instruction. Students will become familiar with a variety of major children’s authors and illustrators, the genres of children’s literature and the research in the field along with techniques for effective uses of children’s literature in the classroom. The course has an emphasis on strategies appropriate for responding to literature and participating in literature circles.
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RED 583 - Advanced Reading Strategies for Coaching, Assessment, and Remediation
Credit(s): 3
Graduate students will focus on intervention and assessment strategies at the school level for administering and interpreting assessments. A coaching model will be presented for supporting school personnel with instructional strategies and materials based on current reading research which has proven to be effective for the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties.
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RED 584 - Intensive Intervention and Assessment for Students with Reading Difficulties
Credit(s): 3
Graduate students will be able to apply their knowledge of reading development to reading instruction with sufficient evidence of increased student reading proficiency for struggling students, including students with disabilities and students from diverse populations. Graduate students will implement explicit, systematic and multisensory reading instruction and intervention strategies for students with reading difficulties.
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RED 584 - Literacy Research, Theory, and Practice
Credit(s): 3
Through the integration of literacy research, theory, and practice, this course provides graduate students with an opportunity to critically examine their literacy practices and demonstrate their knowledge and proficiency in supporting literacy learning for all K-12 students. With a focus on culturally-responsive literacy instruction, educators will review recent literacy research as well as design and conduct an action research project that examines an aspect of their literacy instruction.
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RED 589 - Literacy Research, Theory, and Practice
Credit(s): 3
Through the integration of literacy research, theory, and practice, this course provides graduate students with an opportunity to critically examine their literacy practices and demonstrate their knowledge and proficiency in supporting literacy learning for all K-12 students. With a focus on culturally-responsive literacy instruction, educators will review recent literacy research as well as design and conduct an action research project that examines an aspect of their literacy instruction.
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RED 590 - Special Topics in Education
Credit(s): 3
Special topics will be covered in a seminar format to focus on a specific issue in reading education.
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RED 599 - Independent Study
Credit(s): 1-3
Directed individual instruction in a content area of a student’s choice. Consent of instructor and program director required.
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