Graduate Business Core
BUAD 500 Managerial and Leadership Analysis
This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an organization, whether a full company, department, division, or other strategic business unit within an existing organization by getting the right things done through teams of people. It addresses the common management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
BUAD 600 Organizational Behavior and Teamwork
This course responds to the increasing need for cooperative skills in concurrent design and engineering projects, interdepartmental committees, quality circles, self-managed work teams, and relationship selling. Self-awareness is the foundation of group dynamics. Areas to be covered include individual differences; personality; emotional intelligence; learning; ethics; decision making; and motivation. Group dynamics is understood to be a pillar of organizational success. Areas covered include communication; group dynamics; leadership; trust; power; and change. Both experiential and theoretical approaches are used to deepen understanding.
BUAD 650 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
A study of selected contributions in political theory and how they contribute to an analysis of public policy on the role of ethical implications of administrative activity and provides a theoretical framework within which responsible decisions can be made. It relates the ethical considerations and legal principles to the organization’s responsibility to society.
BUAD 665 Strategic Decisions
Effective organizations strategically design their mission, vision, structure, and operations to anticipate and respond to external threats, opportunities, and conditions. This course explains how organizations formulate, implement, and evaluate strategies that help ensure their sustainability and profitability. Students are required to present an oral and written case study relating to a present Fortune 500 company, describing the past, present, and future organizational challenges and to recommend effective, productive actions along with an action plan for implementation.
ISM Core
ISM 610 Information Systems Management and Design
This graduate level course focuses on the design of computer-based information systems to increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency in the development and implementation of organizational strategy. Key topics include the control/evaluation of organizational activities and decision support systems designed for modern organizations.
ISM 620 Information Systems Infrastructure
This graduate level course focuses on information systems infrastructure. Key topics include architecture, operating platforms, database systems, data storage, networking, wired and wireless transmission.
ISM 630 Information Systems Security
This graduate level course focuses on knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools in the domain of information technology security. Key topics include threat management, risk diagnosis, and accountability.
ISM 640 LEGAL ISSUES OF INFORMATION SECURITY
This graduate level course examines covers information systems laws and regulations. It includes techniques for investigating information systems related crimes, gathering evidence, and developing incident reports.
ISM 650 Information System Access Control
The graduate level course focuses on the three primary security principles availability, integrity, and confidentiality. Key topics include the mechanisms used to control what resources an entity can access, and the extent of the entity’s capabilities to interact with the resource.
ISM 660 Information Systems Risk Management
This graduate level course provides a methodology to identify an organization’s information systems assets, the proper way to determine the necessary level of protection required, and techniques for developing budgets for information systems implementations.
