Course Descriptions & Concentrations

ACC 300 Principles of Accounting (3 credit hours) This course includes the basic concepts and framework of financial accounting. The material focuses on financial statement interpretation, an analysis and application of internal control practices, and working capital management. In addition, students will learn to analyze company financial performance.

BUS 300 Foundations of Business (3 credit hours) This course is a basic overview of the functional areas of business. It provides a general framework for understanding the development, structure, and social responsibility of business. Emphasis is placed on the interaction of management, marketing, finance, and operations within the business environment.

BUS 304 Business Ethics (3 credit hours) This course explores business ethics from a theoretical and practical perspective. Business scenarios are presented in the course that present ethical dilemmas that require that application and practice of ethics. Topics include ethical, moral, and judgment issues in advertising, sales, consumers, and product-safety as well as workplace management and employee relations.

BUS 306 Introduction to Business Law (3 credit hours) The course material will provide the student with an overview of essential legal issues as they pertain to business: conflict resolution (litigation and alternatives); contracts; financing, securities and bankruptcy; legal entities and employment law; legal rights and obligations for business owners, officers, employees, directors and shareholders; intellectual property.

CAP 400 Development of Business Strategy (3 credit hours) This course is a capstone course for the undergraduate business school students and will be structured around a framework of measurement principles covered throughout the program offered at Westcliff University. Each student will be required to use different methods and principles that are learned in this program as a foundation for their final project of the program.

ECO 300 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credit hours) Microeconomics is about making choices and decision making at the individual firms and households. Subjects covered include: demand, supply, and elasticities; labor and financial markets; consumer choice and production structure, different market structures, perfectly competitive market, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly. It also includes positive externalities and environment protection. Other important topics included are poverty and income equality, financial markets, international trade, and globalization.

ECO 301 Principles of Macroeconomics (3 credit hours) This course will focus on the analysis of macroeconomics phenomena, gross domestic product, inflation, interest rate, wages, and unemployment. It also explains the economic growth, saving, investment, capital formation, and financial markets. Other topics include money and banking, short term economic fluctuations, aggregate demand, aggregate supply, economic cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, the Federal Reserve and money creation, exchange rate determination, international trade, international financial markets, international capital flows, and the balance of payments.

ENG 315 Business Communication (3 credit hours) This course emphasizes on selecting the appropriate information, organization, and style to communicate effectively to a specific audience such as a supervisor, colleague, consumer or client. Written, oral, and team communication strategies will be explored and developed. Students will conduct primary and secondary research to identify career interests, practical job skills, and begin a “job search” portfolio that will include a working resume and cover letter. Students will assess and understand the risks and rewards of digital technology including digital social media platforms and artificial intelligence (AI).

ENT 300 Essentials of Entrepreneurship (3 credit hours) This course is designed to examine the fundamentals of starting and organizing a small business. It covers such topics as the challenges of entrepreneurship, building the business plan, strategic planning, forms of ownership, marketing, pricing, cash flows, financial planning, putting the plan to work, looking at ethical and legal concerns and regulatory environment.

ENT 400 Analytical Approach to Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship (3 credit hours) This course is designed to enable students to build up an understanding of different phases and processes in an innovation driven enterprise. In this course students learn about the innovative, creative, and risk-taking entrepreneurial mind-set and that entrepreneurship is not the same as a small business. Areas covered include opportunity identification, opportunity development, opportunity evaluation, and concept validation. Furthermore, students in this course gain the knowledge of how an innovation driven entrepreneur will continue into subsequent phases and processes of innovation, including business case analysis, intellectual property protection, legal structure for entrepreneurial venture, marketing challenges, financial preparation, effective business plan development, growth strategies, and exit strategy.

ENT 401 Entrepreneurial Innovation Management (3 credit hours) This course is designed to equip students with a working knowledge of innovation and how it differs from invention and creation and the strategic and operational perspectives of innovation in an organization. The course helps students to gain a broad perspective on the importance of innovation on enterprise and national competitiveness in the contemporary global economy. Particular emphasis is placed on the basic process of innovation; types of innovations including disruptive innovations, individual innovations, organizational innovations, and implementation of innovation including capital management in innovation; R&D budget allocation in innovation; venture capital investment; financing, investing, and working capital management in innovating corporations; and human resource management in innovation. The aim is to thrive in the future and use innovation as a catalyst for change on the global stage.

ENT 402 Negotiation Theory and Skills for Entrepreneurs (3 credit hours) This course explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and its resolution. It provides the student with the core concepts of negotiation.

ENT 403 Feasibility Analysis for Sustainable Entrepreneurship (3 credit hours) This course equips students with the tools they need to navigate the important financial, legal, marketing, managerial, and operational decisions to help them create and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage in small business. Strong emphasis is placed on application with Experiential Learning Activities and application of technology and social media throughout.

ENT 404 New Product Development for Entrepreneurs (3 credit hours) This course covers the management processes of new product development, coupled with a practical orientation of taking the student through real life challenges and dilemmas, resulting in a course that brings together the most up-to-date and accessible discussion of the literature in this area, as well as a wealth of examples and illustrations.

FIN 300 Essentials of Corporate Finance (3 credit hours) This course examines the tools and techniques used in the world of finance. Students will be introduced to financial institutions, financial concepts and nomenclature. The course will introduce the student to such key financial concepts such as time value of money, cost of capital, asset valuation, ratio analysis, and risk and reward tradeoff.

FIN 400 Working Capital Management (3 credit hours) This course is an introduction to the management of short-term or current accounts of the firm to optimize its risk/return profile. Management of the liquid assets of the firm which comprise a substantial portion of total assets has been made possible because off the increasing range of management techniques and technologies. As a higher-level undergraduate finance course in working capital management, the course covers the concepts of managing working capital, corporate cash management, and forecasting and planning short-term investment and financing.

FIN 401 Financial Institutions and Markets (3 credit hours) This course introduces the study of financial institutions and markets. This course provides the concepts of the structure, importance, and functioning of financial institutions and markets. The course also examines the role and interactions of bank and non-bank financial institutions in the modern dynamic financial system. The course will introduce the student to such key concepts such as interest rates in economy, money market, bond market, stock market, various financial institutions and risk faced by those institutions, etc.

FIN 402 Corporate Financial Decisions (3 credit hours) This course is designed to introduce students to the world of corporate finance. The course helps students gain a broad perspective on how corporations invest, how they raise capital to finance their investments, and how the investments create value for the corporations. In this course the students learn about the basic jargons used in corporate financial decision making, financial statement analysis as relates to value creation, time value of money concept and terminologies, risk return trade-off, stock and bond valuation, capital budgeting decisions, capital structure decisions and the weighted average cost of capital, corporate dividend policy, and IPO pricing.

FIN 403 Financial Derivatives (3 credit hours) This course will introduce the students to basic concepts and terminologies used in financial and derivative markets. It is designed to aid students in developing an understanding of the major functions, principles, and techniques of derivative markets and their respective instruments. Students will be introduced to the structure, pricing and valuation of options, forward, futures and swap. The course will also deal with the analyses of different risks and use of derivatives to hedge and mitigate these risks.

FIN 404 Investment Decisions (3 credit hours) A sound investment decision requires a clear understanding of the investment environment, conceptual knowledge and rigorous analytical skills. The objective of this course is to familiarize the students with fundamentals of these aspects by tying investment theories, tools, techniques and empirical evidence together to enable them for active participation in the investment decision making process.

HRM 400 Fundamentals of Human Resource Management (3 credit hours) The primary objective of the course is to provide students a foundation in Human [G1] Resources (HR) by presenting and examining fundamental concepts and applications of HR, including a managerial aspect that is vital in the overall strategic plan of an organization. Topics covered include job analyses, planning, recruitment and selection processing, training and employee development. In order to encompass a more holistic approach to HR as it relates to the attainment of organizational goals, additional topics such as compensation, benefits, organizational and employee safety, and motivating the workforce will also be examined. Legal matters in HR compliance, disciplinary aspects, and the development and promotion of best practices in HR round-out the course.

HRM 401 Compensation and Reward Management (3 credit hours) This course has been designed with an aim to provide students the basic ideas on management of compensation and reward in business organizations. More specifically, the course includes conceptual learning of various theories and approaches of total compensation management, the role of total compensation in attracting and retaining modern day employees, linking performance and reward systems in organizations, role of unions and other stakeholders in compensation management, and issues pertaining to compliance in managing total compensation.

HRM 402 Strategic Human Resource Planning (3 credit hours) The course introduces students to the basic concepts and practical applications of managing labor relations in different organizational contexts. Four major fields covered include labor relations, the collective bargaining process, cost of labor contracts, and the labor relations process in practice.

LDR 300 Introduction to Leadership (3 credit hours) This course inspires those in leadership positions in your organization to motivate, delegate, communicate and build the team for success.

LDR 301 Public Relations (3 credit hours) In this course, students will explore approaches to managing public relations in different organizational settings from small start-up businesses to global companies. Students will examine established strategies and tactics as they develop their own form and style.

LDR 303 Foundations in Operations Management (3 credit hours) This course focuses on operations management as the systematic direction and control of the processes that transform inputs into finished goods or services. Students will learn that operations management is one of the primary functions of a business. This course is intended to provide managers in all functional areas with sufficient knowledge to make informed “total business decisions” and to introduce standard terms and concepts for communications with operating personnel.

MGT 300 Fundamentals of Decision Making (3 credit hours) This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of how humans make decisions. Students explore approaches to decision-making and the rules of thought to transform complex decisions into simpler decision situations. They learn how to evaluate choices and achieve clarity on possible actions.

MGT 301 Introduction to Sales Management (3 credit hours) This course blends the most recent sales management research with the real-life best practices of leading sales organizations. Students will learn the importance of employing different sales strategies for different customer groups, as well as integrating corporate, business, marketing, and sales strategies.

MGT 303 Online Business (3 credit hours) This course emphasizes conceptual and pragmatic learning of three driving forces behind the expanding field of e-commerce — technology change, business development, and social issues. As a foundation course in the digital marketing concentration, the conceptual framework for this course utilizes templates of modern-day companies to further demonstrate the differences and complexities in e-commerce today. Authentic case studies representing Uber, Airbnb, Instacart, and others are reviewed to prepare students for real-life scenarios.

MGT 400 Performance Management (3 credit hours) This course is designed to discover tools to gain a comprehensive understanding of the talent development process. Students should gain an inclusive understanding of the correlation between the recruitment process, training and development of human resource talent and the strategic objectives of the mission and values of the organization. Performance management and its innovative components integrating data analytics, will be evaluated against current objectives in organizations. New ways technology is applicable for talent development will be introduced. The transition from recruiting for alignment of objective planning, in sync with organizational strategy will be addressed. The cycle and process from recruitment to succession planning will be explored. The introduction of applicable laws will be discussed related to compliance in talent development.

MGT 401 Management of Labor Relations (3 credit hours) The course introduces students to the basic concepts and practical applications of managing labor relations in different organizational contexts. Four major fields covered include labor relations, the collective bargaining process, cost of labor contracts, and the labor relations process in practice.

MGT 402 Customer Relationships Management (3 credit hours) This course focuses on Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and covers strategic, organizational and marketing aspects of CRM. Students will learn analytical CRM, operational CRM, and other CRM systems as well as how to implement and boost the marketing management of an organization in evolving business environments. Relationship marketing theory is also reviewed and presented as a managerial approach to initiate and build customer relationships in changing social contexts.

MKT 300 Principles of Marketing (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the principles of marketing. The course contributes to technical and professional preparation in marketing, written and oral communication skills, understanding the global impact on business organizations, ethics in business, legal issues in organizations, role of cultural diversity in business and the dimensions of quality in organizations.

MKT 301 The Necessities of International Marketing & Culture (3 credit hours) This course examines marketing principles and planning factors and techniques applied in a global environment. In addition, problems of marketing internationally and methods of alleviation will be studied.

MKT 302 Principles of Advertising (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the principles and background of advertising, advertising campaigns, and types of advertising. Special emphasis is given to the social, legal, planning and creative aspects of advertising.

MKT 303 The Psychology of Consumer Behavior (3 credit hours) This course draws key concepts from marketing, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to present a strong foundation and highly practical focus on real-world applications for today’s global business environment. Students will learn the latest research and business practices with extensive coverage of social media influences, increased consumer power, and emerging neuroscience findings. Additionally, students will learn consumer decision-making, goals, emotions, charity, health, materialism, and sustainability.

MKT 304 Principles of Branding (3 credit hours) As an introductory course in brand management, it has been designed keeping in view of establishing effective understanding of the concept of branding as an integral component of innovation and marketing of products and services. Principally, the course has been crafted on five major themes – 1. Introducing brand and brand management, 2. Developing a branding strategy for a company, 3. Designing and implementing brand marketing programs, 4. Measuring and interpreting brand performance, 5. Growing and sustaining brand equity under changing global business environment.

MKT 305 Mass Communication and Media (3 credit hours) As an introductory course in managing mass communication media in the process of business management, it aims to establish effective understanding of the concepts of mass communication, mass communication media and various aspects underlying mass communication media management in real-life business situations.

MKT 400 Applied Marketing Analytics (3 credit hours) This course establishes a practical understanding of customer needs and improving marketing results through the use of straightforward, economical methods in processing marketing information. Students will perform sophisticated business analyses using Microsoft Excel, perform risk and return analyses, establish strategies to retain high return customers, establish sales forecasts, promote marketing campaigns with an improved level of efficiency, and promote optimization of product sales, store layouts and improve online advertising. Students will also explore the use of social media and viral marketing to improve marketing and sales efficiency.

MKT 401 Social Media Strategy (3 credit hours) In this course, students will review the concept of social media and its management as an integral component of digital marketing. Social media, strategic framework of social media, choices of social options for target, message and idea, integrating social media across organizations. Additionally, students will learn structured ways to create integrated customer engagement and social media campaigns.

MKT 402 Applied Search Marketing (3 credit hours) In this course, students will apply professional search marketing techniques to the online presence of organizations in order to improve the effectiveness of the clients’ marketing campaigns. Primarily focused on search engine optimization, this course provides opportunities to plan and execute a comprehensive search engine optimization (SEO) strategy.

MKT 403 Digital Marketing Strategy (3 credit hours) This course provides comprehensive, practical guidance on how organizations can optimize digital media and technology to meet marketing goals. This course connects marketing theory with practical business experience through case studies and interviews from cutting edge companies such as eBay and Facebook, assisting students in comprehending digital marketing in the real world, The students will learn best practice frameworks for developing a digital marketing strategy, and will also engage in practical aspects linked to effective digital marketing techniques, including search marketing, conversion optimization, and digital communications using social media.

MKT 404 Integrated Marketing Communication (3 credit hours) The course provides an overview of the components and considerations involved in marketing communication strategy decisions. Students will focus on learning how to prepare for overseeing the creation of imaginative and effective communication plans.

ORG 300 Introduction to Organizational Behavior (3 credit hours) This course begins with an examination of critical personal characteristics of organizational members to see how these factors influence the effectiveness of organizations and their members. Special attention is then given to the role of teams in organizations and group dynamics, the stages of team development, and actions that can support the development of effective teams. This course serves as an introductory course to understanding organizational behavior.

RES 300 Introduction to Business Research (3 credit hours) In this course, students will explore the process of gathering, recording, and analyzing the most appropriate data for decision making. Students will develop the skills needed to effectively communicate research results for maximum impact.

SPM 400 Contemporary Issues in Sports & Exercise Science (3 credit hours) This course is designed to develop awareness and critical understanding of a range of contemporary sport and exercise issues. The course will cover a survey of topics such as exercise science, athletic training, sports studies, and research in sports with a focus on current issues. Students will also examine social and cultural norms within a sporting or exercise context. Particular emphasis is placed on the socio-cultural implication of sport in relation to gender, race, social class, and sexuality; the impact of sport and exercise on societies both small and large scale; and contemporary views of careers within sport and exercise and the relationships between them.

SPM 401 Organizational Sports & Strategic Management (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the strategic and managerial challenges that confront organizational sports. A broad overview of how business theories, practices and skills are integrated into organizational sports. The strategic management of business units such as finance, accounting and budgeting, marketing, and competitive sustainability are applied in the governance and leadership of sporting organizations. The course builds a strong foundation in areas of management, strategic planning and decision-making in the successful management of sports entities.

SPM 402 Leadership Principles for Sports Management (3 credit hours) This course focuses on understanding and mastering theories, concepts, principles, and practices of leadership in the sports industry. The goal of the course is for students to gain knowledge about effective leadership and to enhance and build a skill set that assists and positions students in leadership roles.

SPM 403 Sports Psychology (3 credit hours) This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts, theories and history of sport psychology. The course will cover interdisciplinary studies such as general, social, and developmental psychology, as well as leadership and exercise physiology. The subject will enhance students’ understanding of psychological effects on sport behavior and the effect of sport behavior on an individual’s psychology. Students will learn about skills training, motivation, personality, stress and anxiety, team dynamics, leadership, youth development, mental processes and burnout, among other things, in bringing awareness to important issues within sport psychology.

SPM 404 Sports Facility & Events Management (3 credit hours) Gain access to the knowledge and skills that are necessary to develop, maintain, and operate sports facilities. Understand the complexities of establishing facilities, renovating facilities, and managing facilities. A chance to review, evaluate and create event planning models, sport finance, and facility management concepts.

EDU 300 Introduction to Teaching (3 credit hours) This course focuses on factors involved in schools and education today. An introduction to curriculum standards and lesson planning will be covered, and students will articulate their own beliefs and values about teaching, learning, and schooling.

EDU 301 Introduction to Education (3 credit hours) This course focuses on factors involved in schools and education today. An introduction to curriculum standards and lesson planning will be covered, and students will articulate their own beliefs and values about teaching, learning, and schooling.

EDU 305 Educational Psychology (3 credit hours) This course is an introductory course in educational psychology designed to provide students with an understanding of cognitive, social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of learning and instruction. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to evaluate educational and psychological theories and research and their relevance to teaching in diverse communities.

EDU 311 Unit Design (3 credit hours) This course covers basic principles and practices of unit design, as well as factors considered in instructional design including learning styles, motivation, and student engagement. 

EDU 315 Education and Social Justice (3 credit hours) This course challenges students to be effective advocates for social justice. Students learn about current realities in educational settings which can be refined or reconstructed.

EDU 320 Home, School, and Community Collaboration (3 credit hours) This course is focused on teacher, parent, and community engagement strategies for collaborative planning and decision making to support students’ educational and mental health needs. Students are able to define key players in K-12 education and identify ways in which all stakeholders can work together for the benefit of all learners.

EDU 325 Art of Effective Teaching (3 credit hours) This course reviews the historical and philosophical viewpoints of teaching, encouraging participants to identify, examine, and define their own teaching style and classroom management practice while considering the foundations of their upcoming professional practice.

EDU 330 Building the Foundations of Literacy (3 credit hours) This course provides an overview of the theories and practices surrounding reading and literacy instruction, focusing on symptoms, intervention, and differentiation of specific instructional strategies to be used with students.

EDU 341 Child and Adolescent Development (3 credit hours) This course highlights the diversity of child and adolescent development and examines the psychological, physiological, behavioral, and cognitive characteristics and factors that affect learning among children and adolescents.

EDU 350 Assessment of the Learning Process (3 credit hours) This course teaches students how to assess the learning process.  Students learn how to clarify learning targets, select assessment methods, and design quality classroom assessment tasks. Students learn how assessment relates to instruction and how to interpret assessment data.

EDU 355 Exceptional Students (3 credit hours) This course focuses on historical and legal perspectives of exceptional students, the characteristics of exceptional students, their strengths and needs, and strategies to work effectively with each student.

EDU 360 Curriculum and Instruction (3 credit hours) This course defines the differences and areas of overlap between curriculum and instruction.  Students learn how to create, plan, manage, and structure curriculum and instruction as well as how current issues such as globalization affect curriculum and instruction.

EDU 361 Information Literacy, Research, and Analysis (3 credit hours) This course provides an overview of strategies for accessing information, evaluating resources. locating information in the 21st century, and introduces students to theory and methods of evaluating research methods.

EDU 365 Multicultural Education (3 credit hours) This course integrates discussion, “hands-on” activities, skills and methods to develop an awareness and sensitivity to the challenges facing K-12 educators in today’s classrooms, including race, class, gender, religion, special needs, and exceptional students.

EDU 370 Teaching English Language Learners (3 credit hours) This course provides students with foundational knowledge on second-language acquisition and different types of ELL programs which are based on changing demographics.  Students learn how to guide their own students from interpersonal to academic language, academic literacy in the content areas, and how to assess ELL literacy skills.

EDU 371 Strategies for Online Learning (3 credit hours) This course addresses the online teaching and learning process, and best practices for managing and delivering online instruction, utilization of online course management tools, and navigating synchronous and asynchronous online environments.

EDU 375 Teaching with Technology (3 credit hours) This course examines the history, current practices, and future possibilities for integrating technology into the classroom.  Students learn how to enhance professional productivity, design technologically enhanced curricula, and manage disruptive technologies.

EDU 400 Differentiating and Scaffolding Instruction (3 credit hours) This course introduces the concepts of differentiating instruction and scaffolding in a wide range of settings to meet the needs of diverse types of students and also to provide variety and challenge to motivate students and encourage engagement.

EDU 401 Educational Leadership (3 credit hours) This course introduces students to theories and practices of educational leadership and organizational behaviors in the educational environment. Students evaluate their personal leadership skills, and understand and appreciate challenges faced by school leaders today.

EDU 410 Portfolio Development (3 credit hours) This course will give students the opportunity to demonstrate their competence and achievement of the program learning outcomes through the completion of a portfolio. Students rely on their research from previous courses and thoroughly examine and evaluate their learning experiences in order to analyze the issues related to education, advocacy, policy, and working with families. Students research the next steps in professional development and create a plan for further growth as a professional in education.

EDU 421 Foundations of Educational Technology (3 credit hours) The Foundations of Educational Technology course analyzes classic and cutting-edge learning theories while discussing ways in which these concepts can be applied to technological avenues and materials. This course also focuses on research and ethical issues in educational technology as well as transfer of pedagogy to an online or blended context

EDU 422 Best Practices in Educational Psychology (3 credit hours) The Best Practices course consists of teachers skill development at the technological level.  Through the completion of weekly tasks, students learn to examine practices, create and incorporate online materials and resources to meet their students’ needs.

EDU 423 Online Assessment and Evaluation (3 credit hours) The Online Assessment and Evaluation course is an introduction to assessment and evaluation and the digital assessment capabilities that can be used in language learning educational contexts. The course focuses not only on theories and principles of digital assessment and evaluation, but also on the digital tools used for these purposes such as portfolios, needs assessments, surveys, tests, and rubrics.

EDU 424 Adaptive Technology for Differentiated Instruction (3 credit hours) The Adaptive Technology for Differentiated Instruction course explores the theories behind differentiated instructions while discussing some of the technology that students with special needs use when accessing online or blended education. The course also takes a look at the tools and techniques teachers can use to adapt educational technology to students’ different needs, multiple intelligences, and learning styles.

EDU 425 Blended Learning and Teaching (3 credit hours) The Blended Learning and Teaching course helps students understand blended learning and its applications in the different settings where education takes place. Through the reading of up-to-date resources and many examples, participants consider how to create blended learning courses for their students and what to address and incorporate when designing these experiences. In addition, they see how technology tools can foster collaboration while delivering engaging instructional content. They also learn strategies for assessing students and managing a blended learning classroom.

EDU 426 Capstone Practicum (3 credit hours) The EdTech capstone course enables students to gain real experience as teachers. This course requires fieldwork assignments, which include 10 hours of classroom observation with a participating school or educational organization and creating lesson plans to teach (and record) 10 hours of lessons that incorporate theories and teaching methodologies learned over the course of the EdTech certificate. The capstone course culminates with an online showcase portfolio that summarizes the learning experience during the entire program.

EDU 431 Foundations of TESOL and Second Language Acquisition (3 credit hours) The Foundations of TESOL and Second Language Acquisition course introduces learners to the fascinating world of teaching English to speakers of other languages. This course will provide an overview of the field of language teaching by examining past and present teaching approaches and related research. There will be a balance between theory and practice. Additionally, this course overviews the latest trends and research in TESOL and their applicability in the diverse TESOL setting to include reflection, assessment, and language acquisition that promote teacher self-efficacy. By providing essential knowledge and skills of teaching English as a second or foreign language at all levels, this course also explores and discusses an extensive range of theoretical concepts and practical issues in terms of pedagogical and cultural factors taking place in real classrooms.

EDU 432 Lesson Planning and Classroom Management (3 credit hours) The Lesson Planning and Classroom Management course provides learners with the fundamental pedagogical concepts and practical skills necessary for teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. While discussing the various needs of English language learners, the roles of teachers in the classroom, how to implement classroom management strategies, design effective lesson plans and deliver outstanding ESL or EFL lessons students will engage in hands-on tasks to hone their lesson plan skills taking into consideration their teaching context.

EDU 433 Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar (3 credit hours) The Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar course provides students with insights regarding both vocabulary and grammar learning research as well as best practice in vocabulary and grammar instruction. Through cooperative, hands-on weekly tasks, students will be able to reflect, discuss and implement current research and standards regarding vocabulary and grammar teaching and assessment as proved effective in ESL / EFL settings. In addition, learners will engage in designing and putting into action effective lesson plans and materials for teaching vocabulary and grammar consistent with current theories and approaches.

EDU 434 Teaching Receptive Skills – Listening & Reading (3 credit hours) The Teaching Receptive Skills – Listening & Reading course examines listening and reading from the standpoint of foreign language literacy and considers how language and content may be integrated through reading and listening tasks. This course also discusses core concepts and key topics in the acquisition and instruction of reading and listening as well as the creation and implementation of learning tasks for the purpose of helping learners develop these receptive skills.

EDU 435 Teaching Productive Skills – Speaking, Pronunciation and Writing (3 credit hours) The Teaching Productive Skills – Speaking, Pronunciation and Writing course aims to discuss, reflect and analyze the theoretical foundations as well as practical implications of teaching ESL/EFL speaking, pronunciation and writing skills. This course introduces the underlying theories and classroom practices for teaching ESL/EFL of these productive skills while emphasizing the nature of literacy and oral/ written language development.  This hands-on course focuses on developing students’ instructional abilities to effectively design learning tasks that address those language skills and integrate them into coherent lesson plans.

EDU 436 Capstone Course (3 credit hours) The TESOL Certificate capstone course enables students to gain real experience as teachers. This course requires fieldwork assignments, which includes 10 hours of classroom observation with a participating school or educational organization and creating lesson plans to teach (and record) 10-hours of lessons that incorporate theories and teaching methodologies learned over the course of the TESOL certificate. The capstone course culminates with an online showcase portfolio that summarizes the learning experience during the entire program.

EDU 441 Child Growth and Development (3 credit hours) This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of children’s development, birth through adolescence. The class will cover general trends of development, as well as how children’s individual rate of development can be a focus. Heredity and environmental influences are discussed.

EDU 442 Home, School, and Community Collaboration (3 credit hours) This course looks at the processes of socialization focusing on the interrelationship of family, school, and community. The course also examines the influence of multiple societal contexts and explores the role of collaboration between family, community and schools in supporting children’s development, birth through adolescence.

EDU 443 Principles and Practices of ECE (3 credit hours) This course studies historical contexts and theoretical perspectives of developmentally appropriate practice in early care and education for children, birth through age eight. Also, this course explores the typical roles and expectations of early childhood educators; identifies professional ethics, career pathways, and professional standards; and introduces best practices for developmentally appropriate learning environments, curriculum, and effective pedagogy for young children including how play contributes to children’s learning, growth, and development.

EDU 444 Introduction to Curriculum (3 credit hours) This course studies developmentally appropriate curriculum and environments for children, birth through age eight. Students will use knowledge of children’s development, theories of learning and development, and examples from various models of developmentally appropriate practice to plan environments and curriculum in all content areas to support children’s development and learning integrated throughout indoor and outdoor settings.

EDU 445 Practicum (3 credit hours) This course provides students the opportunity to demonstrate developmentally appropriate early childhood program planning and teaching competencies under the supervision of ECE/CD faculty and other qualified early education professionals. Students will utilize practical classroom experiences to make connections between theory and practice, develop professional behaviors, and build a comprehensive understanding of children and families. Reflective practice will be emphasized as student teachers design, implement, and evaluate approaches, strategies, and techniques that promote development and learning. Includes exploration of career pathways, professional development, and teacher responsibilities.

CAP 450 Directed Field Experience (3 credit hours) This internship experience course gives students the opportunity to obtain hands-on professional experiences in their chosen field.
Prerequisite: EDU 410

EDU 451 ECE Administration I – Programs (3 credit hours) Introduction to the administration of early childhood education programs. Covers program types, budget, managements, regulations, laws, and development and implementation of policies and procedures. Examines administrative tools, philosophies, and techniques needed to organize, open, and operate an early care and education program.

EDU 452 Administration II – Leadership and Supervision (3 credit hours) Methods and principles of supervising student teachers, volunteers, staff, and other adults in early care and education settings. Emphasis is on the roles and development of early childhood professionals as mentors and leaders.

EDU 453 Adult Supervision and Mentoring (3 credit hours) Methods and principles of supervising student teachers, volunteers, staff, and other adults in early care and education settings. Emphasis is on the roles and development of early childhood professionals as mentors and leaders.

EDU 454 Professionalism in Early Childhood Education (3 credit hours) Effective strategies for personnel management and leadership in early care and education settings. Includes legal and ethical responsibilities, supervision techniques, professional development, and reflective practices for a diverse and inclusive early care and education program.

REAL 98 (0 credit hours) Designed to develop basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as well as basic vocabulary and grammar to gradually move from body language and one-word answers to speaking and writing phrases and sentences; begin the study of the simple tenses; begin reading sentences and move toward paragraph-length texts; begin reading for the main idea and details to learn about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

REAL 99 (0 credit hours) Designed to develop basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as well as basic vocabulary and grammar to gradually move from body language and one-word answers to speaking and writing phrases and sentences; begin the study of the simple tenses; begin reading sentences and move toward paragraph-length texts; begin reading for the main idea and details to learn about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

REAL 100 (1.5 credit hours) Designed to continue to gain basic listening and speaking skills, develop basic reading and writing skills, basic vocabulary and grammar, gradually move from speaking and writing phrases and sentences to producing basic paragraphs; continue the study of the simple tenses; begin reading multi-paragraph texts; continue reading for the main idea and details to learn about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

REAL 101 (1.5 credit hours) Designed to continue to gain basic listening and speaking skills, develop basic reading and writing skills, basic vocabulary and grammar, gradually move from speaking and writing phrases and sentences to producing basic paragraphs; continue the study of the simple tenses; begin reading multi-paragraph texts; continue reading for the main idea and details to learn about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

REAL 200 (1.5 credit hours) Designed to improve students’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing for everyday life while developing academic skills in these areas; scaffold the skills to gradually move away from everyday life situations and into academic instruction; work on the correct pronunciation of vowel sounds, syllable stress and reduced speech; move away from common topics of everyday life and begin to read topics with a broader scope; gain the skills necessary for composing well-written academic paragraphs; learn note-taking strategies; continue learning the simple tense, including expressing future time and modals; learn about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

REAL 201 (1.5 credit hours) Designed to improve students’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing for everyday life while developing academic skills in these areas; scaffold the skills to gradually move away from everyday life situations and into academic instruction; work on the correct pronunciation of vowel sounds, syllable stress and reduced speech; move away from common topics of everyday life and begin to read topics with a broader scope; gain the skills necessary for composing well-written academic paragraphs; learn note-taking strategies; continue learning the simple tense, including expressing future time and modals; learn about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

REAL 300 (1.5 credit hours) Designed for students to employ academic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills; learn how to write academically acceptable paragraphs and essays; move away from everyday conversational tools and begin utilizing academic-based speaking and listening skills to participate in longer discussions and debates using proper word stress, intonation, and vocabulary; learn how to read journals, essays, charts, and graphs—skills necessary in academia; and gain a deeper understanding of grammatical components such as modals, infinitives, and comparatives; move away from simple tense and into perfect and progressive tense; learn more about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

REAL 301 (1.5 credit hours) Designed for students to employ academic reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills; learn how to write academically acceptable paragraphs and essays; move away from everyday conversational tools and begin utilizing academic-based speaking and listening skills to participate in longer discussions and debates using proper word stress, intonation, and vocabulary; learn how to read journals, essays, charts, and graphs—skills necessary in academia; and gain a deeper understanding of grammatical components such as modals, infinitives, and comparatives; move away from simple tense and into perfect and progressive tense; learn more about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

REAL 400 (1.5 credit hours) Designed to help students use academic speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills; gain listening skills necessary to perform academic tasks such as note taking; gain speaking skills that enable students to provide clear and concise information in English, including the ability to restate ideas and use blended speech; gain the skills in reading necessary to compare the context of two texts, paraphrase main ideas, and identify philosophical rationale; move away from simple compositions and into compositions that are academically focused; learn the art of writing hooks; use transitional expressions and subordinating expressions to combine sentences; use parallel sentence structure; summarize research and support opinion with factual evidence; gain the skills necessary to recognize the difference between tenses; employ active and passive voice; use unreal conditionals, gerunds, and infinitives; differentiate between use, form, and meaning; learn more about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

REAL 401 (1.5 credit hours) Designed to help students use academic speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills; gain listening skills necessary to perform academic tasks such as note taking; gain speaking skills that enable students to provide clear and concise information in English, including the ability to restate ideas and use blended speech; gain the skills in reading necessary to compare the context of two texts, paraphrase main ideas, and identify philosophical rationale; move away from simple compositions and into compositions that are academically focused; learn the art of writing hooks; use transitional expressions and subordinating expressions to combine sentences; use parallel sentence structure; summarize research and support opinion with factual evidence; gain the skills necessary to recognize the difference between tenses; employ active and passive voice; use unreal conditionals, gerunds, and infinitives; differentiate between use, form, and meaning; learn more about American social and academic culture through coursework and discussion groups.

AVR 400 Introduction to Unity and Simple Games (3 credit hours) This first course in game design, for which students must have basic C# programming knowledge, teaches foundational elements of game design in C# and Unity that are required for Augmented and Virtual Reality applications. This course includes an overview of the Unity platform: configuration, basic setup, importing object collision detection, and an initial 3D environment. Demonstrated topics are scene creation, environment set up, and basic game play; incorporated course software development topics include Agile program design. Students are required to work on a project throughout the course, culminating in a functioning game.

AVR 401 2D Game Development in Unity I (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the development of interactive 2-dimensional environments; this course also expands basic Unity concepts and incorporates non-static objects within the environment. Concepts are illustrated using a single scene space shooter game with non-player characters, and the addition of non-static objects as a user progresses through a scene are included. Additional topics incorporated into the class include textures, sound effects, and core software development topics like Agile program design. Students are required to complete a project throughout the course that culminates in a functioning game. Prerequisites: complete AVR 400/600/800

AVR 402 2D Game Development in Unity II (3 credit hours) In this course students will learn advanced techniques in the development of 2-dimensional gaming development. Unity will be the environmental platform for this course. Students will learn advanced techniques used for mobile game creation. Students will create prototypes, attempt challenges, and complete quizzes to build and solidify their skill set. At the same time, students will be guided through creating their own unique VR project from start to finish, beginning with a blank design document and ending with a fully functional project. Whether students want to create an interactive walkthrough of an ancient ruin, a product configurator for a car manufacturer, a simulator for operating dangerous machinery, or any other experience, this course will help you bring those ideas to life in VR. Prerequisites: complete AVR 401/601/801

AVR 403 2D Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Behavior in Unity (3 credit hours) This course is for students interested in learning about Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent behavior using the Unity platform. The course presents the most popular AI techniques used for creating game characters using industry proven techniques and styles accepted by game developers working with games, computer graphics and artificial intelligence. This course offers hands-on workshops designed to teach students about the fundamental AI techniques used in today’s games.

AVR 404 2D AR and VR Development in Unity (3 credit hours) Artificial Reality and Virtual Reality are currently the latest craze in game development and Unity is the preferred platform for creating immersive games. This course is designed to introduce students to both AR and VR development using the Unity gaming platform. CAP 490 Capstone Project (3 credit hours) This course allows COTE undergraduate students to research and present solutions to industry problems through the planned development, construction, implementation, and management of an information technology project. Learning outcomes from all previous program courses are presented in a pragmatic and value-added manner with the course culminating in a final written project-based plan and presentation. The purpose of the project is to specifically address a business-related technology issue, provide business justification, research and evaluate potential solutions, make a recommendation based on determined decision criteria, and design and plan the implementation of the new solution. The instructor for this course serves as a mentor and consultant in the creation, development, implementation, and management of the project plan. The solution developed by the capstone student must demonstrate mastery of the program learning outcomes, course learning outcomes, and is presented in a final PowerPoint presentation.

CLD 400 Virtualization and Storage (3 credit hours) This online course provides students an overview of Cloud Computing concepts, its functional technologies, and hands-on experience through projects utilizing public cloud infrastructures (Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure). Cloud computing services are being adopted widely across a variety of organizations and in many domains. This course will introduce the cloud computing domain and cover topics focusing on storage and virtualization cloud infrastructures.

CLD 401 APIs and Scripting (3 credit hours) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are software tools used to enable different applications to talk to each other and exchange data. In this course, students learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. Students explore the API life cycle and tools used to manage all aspects of the life cycle. Additional topics include how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as API products to be used by app developers.

CLD 402 AWS and Azure (3 credit hours) This course will lead students through comparisons between two of the largest cloud services currently available: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Students will evaluate each platform In terms of Infrastructure, Platform, and Software as a Service (IaaS, PaaA, SaaS) capabilities offered, functionalities, ease of use, cost, and other factors which will enable a business to determine the best fit for their organization and specific needs. Students will develop a business plan to implement a specific service using one of these platforms.

CLD 403 Cloud Security and Disaster Recovery (3 credit hours) While so many businesses are turning to cloud services, there are many concerns regarding the security of data and access to cloud resources and services. In this course, students will explore best practices in implementing cloud security for data and resources, and develop foundational cloud security plans for business purposes. Additionally, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are significant requirements for any business to plan and prepare for in order to maintain operations or recover from disasters and security breaches which can happen at any time, and to any size of business. Students will learn how to plan for business continuity, assess risk, and perform business impact assessments. Students will research and learn what to include when preparing a disaster recovery and business continuity plan utilizing cloudbased resources and services.

CLD 404 Strategic Cloud (3 credit hours) Many organizations are evaluating the role the cloud plays in their organizational strategy. Proper planning and execution is essential for success. In this course, students learn high-level concepts to building an enterprise cloud strategy. Students will evaluate what an enterprise cloud strategy is, why one is needed, and how to build an enterprise cloud strategy. Students will develop and present an enterprise cloud strategy for a specific business application.

CYB 400 Threat and Vulnerability Management (3 credit hours) This course introduces students to the duties of cybersecurity analysts who are responsible for monitoring and detecting security incidents in information systems and networks, and executing a proper response to such incidents. During this course, students will explore and learn to explain the importance of frameworks, policies, procedures, and controls, the importance of threat data and intelligence, and how to classify threats and threat actor types. Students will utilize attack frameworks and indicator management, threat modeling and hunting methodologies, and analyze network, appliance, endpoint, and email monitoring output. This course will help to prepare students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination.

CYB 401 Software and Systems Security (3 credit hours) This course continues the preparation of students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination. During this course, students will learn how to collect and query security monitoring data, analyze query logs and SIEM data. Students will utilize digital forensics and indicator analysis techniques. Students will also analyze network-related indicators of compromise, host-related, application-related, lateral movement and pivot IoCs, and learn how to follow an incident response process.

CYB 402 Cyber Operations and Monitoring (3 credit hours) This course continues the preparation of students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination. During this course, students will learn how to follow incident response procedures including how to apply detection and containment, eradication, recover, and post-incident processes. Students will also learn to apply risk mitigation and establish frameworks, policies, and procedures, perform vulnerability management, analyze output from enumeration tools, configure infrastructure vulnerability scanning parameters, analyze output from infrastructure vulnerability scanners, and mitigate vulnerability issues.

CYB 403 Digital Forensics and Incident Response (3 credit hours) This course continues the preparation of students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination. During this course, students will apply identity and access management security, network architecture, and segmentation security solutions. Students will research and learn to apply hardware assurance best practices and evaluate vulnerabilities associated with specialized technology. Students will also identify non-technical data and privacy controls and learn to mitigate software and web application vulnerabilities and attacks.

CYB 404 Compliance and Assessment (3 credit hours) This course continues the preparation of students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination. During this course, students will learn how to analyze output from application assessments, apply security solutions for cloud and automation, identify cloud service and deployment model vulnerabilities, explain service-oriented architecture, assess the impact of threats to cloud infrastructure, and apply security solutions for cloud and automation. Students will complete this course by taking the CompTIA CySA+ final assessment exam.

DATA 100 Introduction to Data Analytics (3 credit hours) This introductory statistics course covers descriptive statistics, probability, random variables, selected probability distributions, and statistical inference, including confidence intervals and hypothesis tests. Appropriate technology is used for simulation and to solve statistical problems.

DATA 200 Applied Statistical Analytics (3 credit hours) This course focuses on more advanced models including correlation, simple and multiple regression analysis, time series and forecasting, and optimization models. Computer software will be used to assist in modeling and analysis. Students will learn to apply these techniques to solve business problems.

DATA 210 Database Design & Analytics (3 credit hours) This course provides students in-depth knowledge of database design, implementation, and management. Topics covered include data modeling, development processes, systems development, database design and programming methodology.

DATA 300 Data-Driven Decision Making (3 credit hours) Topics covered include BI tools and data analytics, with emphasis on predictive analytics focused on information and knowledge pertaining to customers, competitors, internal operations, and external variables, all for the purpose of making better strategic business decisions.

DCS 400 Applied Statistics for Optimization (3 credit hours) This course will convey a working knowledge of several of the most commonly employed quantitative models to support data analysis and improved decisionmaking within a business environment. Students will learn to identify and apply the appropriate modeling techniques as well as how to solve the resultant models via spreadsheet tools and applications. In addition, the course promotes and develops problem-solving and critical thinking skills through the evaluation of problem scenarios and short case-studies.

DCS 401 Query Design and Analysis (3 credit hours) This course provides students with the tools and analysis techniques to make informed big-data decisions using quality information. Students will learn specific packages and analysis tools, and they will learn the benefits of popular solutions, such as Hadoop and Oracle Endeca, as well as the sources of common errors in analysis and how to prevent and fix them.

DCS 402 Big Data Analytics and Visualization (3 credit hours) This course introduces students to the field of data visualization. The course covers basic design and evaluation principles to prepare and analyze large datasets and standard visualization techniques.

DCS 403 Data Structures & Algorithms Design (3 credit hours) C++ is a mature multi-paradigm programming language that enables developers to write high-level code with a high degree of control over the hardware. Today, significant parts of software infrastructure, including databases, browsers, multimedia frameworks, and GUI toolkits, are written in C++. In this course, students will be introduced to C++ data structures and how to store data using linked lists, arrays, stacks, and queues. Students will also learn basic algorithm design paradigms and the divide-and-conquer approach, which are used to solve a large variety of computational problems. Finally, students will learn the advanced technique of dynamic programming to help develop optimized implementations of several algorithms.

DCS 404 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (3 credit hours) This course introduces fundamentals of artificial intelligence and machine learning at the undergraduate level. The course starts with introducing the theory underlying artificial intelligence. The course continues by presenting the creation of artificial intelligence algorithms. In succession, developing artificial intelligence software installments for various applications using Python language is introduced. State of the art artificial intelligence models, including gaming models, are also presented. The course then emphasizes machine learning aspects of artificial intelligence. Q machine learning algorithms and implementations are successively covered. The continues with presenting deeper machine learning relevant statistical concepts and their implementation for development of learning schemes. Diverse applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning, including speech recognition and healthcare, are examined.

ITPM 400 PMP Integration, Scope, Time, and Cost (3 credit hours) Project Integration Management is the process of maintaining equilibrium in all areas of a project (i.e. scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communication, risk, procurement and stakeholder management). These are interconnected processes and cannot be performed independent of one and other. This class will define the three main aspects of managing any project (Scope, Time and Cost) and present the processes required to keep these elements integrated and related in order to achieve project success.

ITPM 401 Project Leadership (3 credit hours) Project leadership is the act of leading a team towards the successful completion of a project. However, how this is achieved varies considerably and is ultimately about getting something done well through others. Project leadership requires skills in both managing people and tasks. It is a soft skill; part art, part science. In this course various styles of leadership, including Transformational, StrengthsBased, Servant and Transactional will be discussed along with where, when, and how each of these management practices and styles are most appropriately employed.

ITPM 402 Project Schedule Management (3 credit hours) Managing project schedules can be one of the most challenging and critical elements of successfully completing a project. Time management is essential to attaining project success. For this reason, processes have been developed to address specific issues associated with project schedule management. This class will cover the processes of Plan Schedule Management, Milestones, Defining Activities, Sequencing Activities, Estimating Activity Durations, Developing a Schedule, and Schedule Control. Students will gain hands-on experience using project management software tools to create work breakdown structures and Gantt charts.

ITPM 403 Project Risk and Quality Management (3 credit hours) Developing quality control and risk management plans are two critically important aspects to an organization in ensuring positive project outcomes. This class will cover risk management, beginning with analyzing risks and developing mitigation strategies, identification and quantification of risks, preparation of risk response strategies, and monitoring risk factors. In addition, through group discussions and applied exercises, students will develop an understanding of quality assurance, how it must be integrated into risk management assessments, and processes for reaching agreement with stakeholders regarding the quality requirements for the final deliverable of a project.

ITPM 404 Project Communications Management (3 credit hours) Project Communications Management is the specific and planned process required to enable current and appropriate mechanisms for the collection, development, dissemination, storage, retrieval, control, monitoring, and documentation of project information. Successful projects require communication with team members and other project stakeholders, whether they are internal or external to the organization. Because effective communication ideally connects diverse stakeholders who may potentially have different cultural and organizational backgrounds, levels of expertise, perspectives and interests, this class will explore the necessary processes and elements required for effective communication management within project teams and stakeholders.

MTH 150 Discrete Mathematics (3 credit hours) This course provides discrete mathematics background which is necessary for undergraduate computer science students. The course starts by introducing notions of sets and functions on sets, followed by presenting the concepts of sequences and series. The natural extension of aforementioned concepts to the asymptotic big-O notation is then presented. Fundamental number theory concepts which are essential for proficiency in algorithm design, as well as comprehending functions of computers.

NET 100 Introduction to Networking (3 credit hours) This course is designed around he CompTIA Network + certification. During this course, students will complete learning modules including readings, videos, labs, and exams, preparing students to complete the certification.

NET 200 Network Routing and Switching (3 credit hours) This course is an introduction to the knowledge and skills required to set up, maintain, troubleshoot, secure, and support computer network routers and switches. Topics include the use of routers and switches in a modern digital network, router configuration, switch configuration, and common network security techniques such as Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) and Access Control Lists (ACLs). This course helps students prepare for Cisco’s CCNA certification.

NET 300 Cloud Computing (3 credit hours) The course provides an introductory overview of cloud computing topics as they pertain to both technology and business considerations. Topics include fundamental cloud computing terminology and concepts, cloud infrastructure, service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment models, cloud storage, virtualization, challenges and risks of cloud computing platforms and cloud services, cloud security, cloud data storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, cloud delivery and evaluation of appropriate cloud solutions for specific business needs.

PRG 100 Systems Analysis and Design (3 credit hours) This course is designed to bland the understanding of system analysis and design with its practical applications. This course includes an understanding of information technology issues as a business tool. The course covers components of system analysis and design techniques, data modeling, logical process modeling, and object-oriented modeling techniques.

PRG 200 Programming in the Cloud (3 credit hours) This course provides programming techniques for Cloud programming associated with Python, and the skills and knowledge for building applications using any of the hundreds of thousands of task-specific Python libraries. Students will gain basic knowledge of Python and understand the Python environment and code introspection. In this course students will enhance their knowledge of flow control, function protocols, exception handling and the application of Object-oriented features such as classes and inheritance.

PRG 300 Software Quality, Architecture, and Documentation (3 credit hours) Software Quality Assurance (SQA) encompasses integrating testing, security, and audit and focuses on the importance of software quality and security. This course defines various types of testing, recognizes factors that propose value to software quality, and provides theoretical and real-world scenarios that offer value and contribute quality to projects and applications. The practical synopsis of common testing tools helps students who are currently in testing jobs or those interested in pursuing careers as testers. The course also helps test leaders, test managers, and others who are involved in planning, estimating, executing, and maintaining software. P

RG 310 DevOps and Agile (3 credit hours) This course delves into the fundamental underlying values, principles and practices of DevOps. The outline of the course highlights how and why DevOps practices work and how it extends Agile and Lean disciplines. The goal of this course is to challenge students to question their current approaches to delivering software and give them clear guidance on how to continuously improve their delivery of value to the end user. The DevOps Track explores the change in mindset and process from traditional approaches, much more so if the organization is not already embracing Agile principles. This course is developed for: Relevant roles including Developers, Testers, Operations leads and team members, Managers, Agile Coaches, or anyone aspiring to these roles. Also, anyone with a curiosity about the case for and potential of DevOps will benefit from the Foundations of DevOps course.

PRG 320 C# Programming (3 credit hours) The course provides students with an introduction to the main concepts in programming using C#, including variables, expressions, statements, conditional execution, functions, iteration, strings, and files.

PRG 330 Python Programming (3 credit hours) The course provides students with an introduction to the main concepts in programming related to data. The course focuses on data storage and the use of regular expressions to search data. The course also includes an overview of object-oriented concepts.

PRG 400 Advanced Python (3 credit hours) In this course, students learn the advanced components of Python syntax, in addition to understanding how to apply concepts of various programming paradigms, including objectoriented programming, functional programming, and event-driven programming. This course guides students through learning the best naming practices, writing their own distributable Python packages, and getting up to speed with automated ways of deploying software on remote servers. Students discover how to create useful Python extensions with C, C++, Python, and CFFI. Students also learn about Java and how it is used in problem solving and programming. Students are introduced to object-oriented programming style, interfaces inheritance, and exception handling. Furthermore, students explore and learn about code management tools, writing clear documentation, and exploring test-driven development to help in writing clean code.

PRG 401 JAVA (3 credit hours) In this course, students learn the advanced components of Python syntax, in addition to understanding how to apply concepts of various programming paradigms, including object-oriented programming, functional programming, and event-driven programming. This course guides students through learning the best naming practices, writing their own distributable Python packages, and getting up to speed with automated ways of deploying software on remote servers. Students discover how to create useful Python extensions with C, C++, Python, and CFFI. Students also learn about Java and how it is used in problem solving and programming. Students are introduced to object-oriented programming style, interfaces inheritance, and exception handling. Furthermore, students explore and learn about code management tools, writing clear documentation, and exploring test-driven development to help in writing clean code.

PRG 402 Mobile Programming Applications (3 credit hours) This course provides a comprehensive introduction to mobile cloud computing, including key concepts, models, and relevant applications. In this course, students learn about mobile cloud computing concepts, models, and service deployments, as well as specific cloud service models. The course covers topics such as mobile cloud computing architecture, design, key techniques, and challenges. The course also covers optimizations of data processing and storage in mobile clouds, including performance and green clouds. The crucial optimization algorithm in mobile cloud computing is also explored, along with big data and service computing. Security issues in mobile cloud computing are covered in-depth, including a brief introduction to security and privacy issues and threats, as well as privacy protection techniques in mobile systems.

PRG 403 Programming Security (3 credit hours) This course provides students with an introduction to the main concepts in programming including variables, expressions, statements, conditional execution, functions, iteration, strings, and files.

PRG 404 Software Testing and Quality Assurance (3 credit hours) This course presents software testing processes, by introducing the concept of white and black box testing and how it fits with the Agile/scrum model. The relationship between software development testing and product life cycle support is established by covering unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. Testing methods discussed include verification, validation, tools, and testing metrics. The curriculum also looks into the testing life cycle, writing test cases and test plans. Students will delve into debugging techniques and best practices. Additionally, students will focus on the importance of automation for software testing and work with some test code to demonstrate the benefits of automation.

TECH 100 Introduction to Technology (3 credit hours) This course presents software testing processes, by introducing the concept of white and black box testing and how it fits with the Agile/scrum model. The relationship between software development testing and product life cycle support is established by covering unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. Testing methods discussed include verification, validation tools, and testing metrics. The curriculum also looks into the testing life cycle, writing test cases and test plans. Students will delve into debugging techniques and best practices. Additionally, students will focus on the importance of automation for software testing and work with some test code to demonstrate the benefits of automation.

TECH 110 Technology and Systems (3 credit hours) This course will help students gain knowledge of computer hardware. Students will learn basic computer architecture and digital computing, including memory, processors, storage devices, and input/output devices. Knowledge will also be gained in basic PC maintenance, hardware, and networking troubleshooting.

TECH 220 Information Security (3 credit hours) This course is designed around the CompTIA Network + certification. During this course, students will complete learning modules including readings, videos, labs, and exams, preparing students to complete the certification.

TECH 250 Technical Documentation and Communication (3 credit hours) This introductory technical writing course exposes students to the basics of technical written communication: the writing process, audience and purpose, formatting, design, research, and professional collaborative writing. Students focus on writing, independently and collaboratively, widely-used technical communications, such as memos, proposals, reports, and technical descriptions/definitions. Students’ work culminates in a digital technical communication portfolio.

TECH 300 Internet of Things (IoT) (3 credit hours) This course aims to provide students with the skills necessary to lead IoT-based transformations, not just understand the technical elements. The goal is to demystify IoT jargon so that managers can start to achieve the strategic advantage IoT makes possible. This course will provide students with an introduction to the necessary technologies, skill components, enablers and constraints for using IoT in a business. Students will learn from many examples where IoT is already transforming customer experience, operations and business models. It also explains the four key elements of leadership capability that make transformation possible through IoT. Real-world case studies, senior executive interviews, self-assessments, and practical assignments will guide participants as they construct a personal roadmap to gain strategic advantage from IoT.

TECH 310 Management of Information Systems (3 credit hours) Data is everywhere, and business must learn to use data effectively in managing business operations and decision making. This course will introduce students to different management information systems including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Transaction Processing Systems (TPS), and Knowledge Management Systems (KMS). Students will learn how these and other information management tools are used to manage business data and information and enable the IT strategy of a business.

TECH 320 Authorization and Access Control Management (3 credit hours) This is an introductory course on the principles of computer security with a focus on Authorization and Access Control Management. This course supports the requirements of the Confidentiality-Integrity-Availability (C-I-A) triad. Additional topics include computer and system security, authentication, malicious software, and software security. The course also examines how systems designs, network protocols, and software engineering practices can result in vulnerabilities, and presents students with best practices in access control management.

TECH 330 Emerging Technologies (3 credit hours) This is an exploratory course in which students will be given the opportunity to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential uses and impacts on the business world. Topics include IoT, AI and ML, metaverse, and blockchain, enabling students to explore the most current and future technologies available, and evaluate their impacts on businesses.

WEB 402 Back End Web Development (6 credit hours) Back end web development course focusing on back end coding languages and technologies in making websites and web applications works. Students learn to write codes to communicate database information for output on the browser.

WEB 403 Advanced Full Stack Development (6 credit hours) Full stack web development focuses on both front end and back end coding languages and technologies. This course will dive into deeper understanding of these technologies, additional concepts and bridging both front and back ends into one complex application.

COM 101 Composition 1 (3 credit hours) This course introduces students to the principles of standard written English; the basics of academic essay writing; the importance of tone, purpose, context, and audience; the differences in rhetorical styles; and the basics of academic research and APA style.

COM 102 Composition 2 (3 credit hours) This course allows students to demonstrate their mastery of the principles of standard written English, the principles of academic essay writing (including tone, purpose, context, and audience), the standards of academic research, and the rules of APA style; this course also engages students in conducting in-depth critical research on a community-minded topic, in producing and applying critical arguments and counterarguments, collaborating with their peers in writing workshops, and developing skills for researched and refined projects. 

Prerequisite: COM 101

COM 105 Academic Communication (3 credit hours) The Academic Communication course equips students with the skills and tools necessary to succeed in the academic classroom. Students have the opportunity to develop and strengthen good study habits, learning strategies and the underpinning learning theories that drive these habits and strategies through various instructional methods. Students engage with topics that practice critical reading skills and study techniques needed for efficient and effective mastery of college–level courses. Topics include writing, course communication, research, critical reading and comprehension, and technology, as well as personal management strategies, such as time management and learning styles. Prerequisite: none

COM 206 Speech, Debate, & Ethics (3 credit hours) This course empowers students to identify communication purposes, and work with uncertainty and argumentation in debates and negotiations, guiding them in thinking quickly on their feet while being logical. Students hone their public speaking and presentation skills, identifying logic and developing arguments in situations involving ethical controversy. 

Prerequisite: COM 102

COM 207 Critical Thinking & Research (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, which are aligned and promoted through a research project decided upon and developed by students in both individual and group capacities. These projects involve project-based and action-based research; promote relevant and sustainable solutions to community and global problems; and serve to educate, inspire, and empower students and community members. Students present their projects to the public.

Prerequisite: COM 206

COM 505 Graduate Academic Communication (3 credit hours) The Graduate Academic Communication course equips students with the skills and tools necessary to succeed in the graduate level academic classroom. Students have the opportunity to develop and strengthen good study habits, learning strategies, and the underpinning learning theories that drive these habits and strategies through various instructional methods. Students engage with topics that practice critical reading skills and study techniques needed for efficient and effective mastery of college–level courses. Topics include writing, communication, research, critical reading and comprehension, technology as well as personal management strategies such as time management and learning styles.

HUM 201 History of Social Movements (3 credit hours) This course will examine social movements through contemporary and historical lenses. Students explore the notion that social movements begin with modest efforts by a loosely formed group of people to correct or introduce some social or political injustice, and the reality that some of these initial efforts have been only marginally successful while others have escalated into broader mass efforts to achieve expanded social or political goals. Students are ultimately challenged to evaluate the truthfulness of social movement statements and arguments.

HUM 211 Exploring the Cultural Landscape (3 credit hour) This course introduces students to the field of cultural geography by examining its major themes; understanding relationships between cultures and environments; and probing the processes, elements, and human interaction that are instrumental in creating cultural identity locally, nationally, and internationally.

HUM 221 The Impact of Art: Visual, Design, & Media (3 credit hours) Students examine the basics and universal formal elements of the visual, the design, and the media arts. Students also evaluate the importance of major global historical developments and the specific methodological approaches to these art genres and how such bear importance upon contemporary trends and issues. Additionally, students will create formal and contextual responsiveness by taking a position on and arguing the merits of specific non-Western and Western works of art and how those works reflect human values in a variety of contexts.

HUM 231 Language, Culture, & Power (3 credit hours) This course examines the linkages of language, culture, and power. This includes an analysis of relations of power in society and an understanding of critical theories to support the development of a final project that showcases an understanding and commitment to equity and justice.

IST 202 Socio-Emotional Well-Being (3 credit hours) This course exposes students to the theoretical foundations of socio-emotional wellbeing and the skills involved in self-care. Students explore identity and how to promote and sustain healthy personal relationships. Prerequisite: complete 100 level courses

IST 212 Personal Finance (3 credit hours) This course provides an overview of the elements necessary for effective personal financial planning. Application of techniques and strategies essential to personal finance are discussed. Primary areas of study include creating and managing a personal budget, wise use of credit cards, investing fundamentals, stock market overview, and use of insurance for protecting one’s family and property. Prerequisite: complete 100 level courses

IST 301 Speech, Debate, & Ethics (3 credit hours) This course empowers students to identify communication purposes, and work with uncertainty and argumentation in debates and negotiations, guiding them in thinking quickly on their feet while being logical. Students hone their public speaking and presentation skills, identifying logic and developing arguments in situations involving ethical controversy. Pre-Requisites: complete 200 level courses

IST 311 Language, Culture, & Power (3 credit hours) This course examines the linkages of language, culture, and power. This includes an analysis of relations of power in society and an understanding of critical theories to support the development of a final project that showcases an understanding and commitment to equity and justice. Prerequisite: complete 200 level courses

IST 390 Integrative Studies Capstone (3 credit hours) The Integrative Studies Capstone is the culminating course in a student’s Integrative Studies program at Westcliff University. The skills and knowledge learned and refined throughout the Integrative Studies program and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are aligned and promoted through a research project decided upon and developed by students in both individual and group capacities. These projects involve project-based and action-based research; promote relevant and sustainable solutions to community and global problems; and serve to educate, inspire, and empower students and community members. Students present their projects to the public through the Capstone Colloquium. Prerequisite: complete 200 level courses

MTH 110 Quantitative Reasoning (3 credit hours) This course prepares students to understand how to view and work with quantitative information, to make informed decisions with data, and apply mathematical models to make decisions and solve problems in everyday life.

MTH 115 College Algebra (3 credit hours) This course teaches learners the fundamental concepts found in algebra with a focus on functions. The course focuses on applications of the following functions: linear, polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic.

MTH 120 Personal Finance (3 credit hours) This course provides an overview of the elements necessary for effective personal financial planning. Application of techniques and strategies essential to personal finance are discussed. Primary areas of study include creating and managing a personal budget, wise use of credit cards, investing fundamentals, stock market overview, and use of insurance for protecting one’s family and property.

SBS 202 Socio-Emotional Well-Being (3 credit hours) This course exposes students to the theoretical foundations of socio-emotional wellbeing and the skills involved in self-care. Students explore identity and how to promote and sustain healthy personal relationships.

SBS 210 Psychology, Motivation, & Decision-Making (3 credit hours) This course provides an introduction to the psychology of human behaviors, specifically those factors that influence what drives decision-making, critical thought, emotions, communication, and relationships.

SBS 220 Introduction to Political Economy (3 credit hours) This course is an introduction to the role that the political economy plays in history and society. Through a class analysis of economic processes, students evaluate various theories and societal issues.

SBS 230 Developing a Sociological Perspective (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the basic concepts, research, and theories involved in increasing the understanding of human behavior and societies. Utilizing a sociological perspective, the interrelations among human societies, individuals, organizations, and groups will be analyzed. Topics of analysis include culture, social interaction, social institutions, social stratification, deviance, community, and various social change strategies.

SCI 205 The Biology of Human Health (3 credit hours) This course introduces the principles and concepts of biology. Emphasis is placed on basic biological chemistry, cell structure and function, metabolism and energy transformation, genetics, organ systems, and other related topics. Upon completion, students demonstrate understanding of life at the molecular and cellular levels and comprehension of life at the organismal levels.

SCI 215 Creating a Sustainable World: Technology & Energy Solutions (3 credit hours) This course prepares students to assess a range of issues relating to energy, climate change, and environmental sustainability through economic, social, and technological frameworks.

SCI 225 Nutrition, Health, & Fitness Basics (3 credit hours) This course introduces the basic concepts of nutrition and how these concepts pertain to general health, diet, and fitness. Students understand and assess the applications of nutrition and fitness basics, organ systems, macromolecules, minerals, vitamins, and current health issues in relation to human health and wellness with an emphasis on the needs of the individual.

CAP 600 Applied Methods Capstone (3 credit hours) The course provides students the opportunity to engage in high-level inquiry focused on a practice-centered project. Students synthesize, integrate, and apply knowledge, skills, and abilities gained throughout the graduate program to a final project. This course bridges theory and practice.

ECO 500 Managerial Economics (3 credit hours) This course provides an overview of economic tools and analytic approaches available to the manager for business decision making. Students in this course focus on microeconomic fundamentals, pricing, forecasting, demand analysis, and macroeconomic policy as it affects the business environment. Students combine mathematical skills with applications and examples from economics and business to develop an economic perspective appropriate for managing business units or entire organizations.

ENT 601 Entrepreneurship and New Ventures (3 credit hours) This course reviews the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. Students will learn about the entrepreneurial process so as to reduce risk and gain from entrepreneurial experiences.

ENT 602 Online Business Entrepreneurship (3 credit hours) This course will use an integrative approach to electronic business by applying the theories learned in all previous course work to the analysis of the e-Business site, which was developed and expanded upon by students in each of the e-Business concentration courses. Students will complete a professional portfolio of business plans including technology, financial, marketing, operations, venture capital such as necessary to secure funding, and strategy. An executive summary and formal, electronic presentation are required.

FIN 500 Financial & Accounting Skills for Managers (3 credit hours) In this course, students learn how to determine the financial health of an organization by using financial management and managerial accounting principles through a non-financial manager lens. Students review common analysis tools and techniques to help them make better management-level decisions while gaining an understanding of financial statements. Students explore the accounting and transaction recording process and the presentation of accounting data which can be used to provide meaningful conclusions about the financial position and performance of an organization.

FIN 600 International Finance (3 credit hours) This course analyzes the financial concepts as they apply to the Multinational Corporations (MNC). It encompasses goals, motives, and the risk of international business. It covers the international financial flow of funds between countries, international financial markets, exchange rate determination, exchange rate risk, international arbitrage, interest rate parity, and currency derivatives. Besides, it studies the foreign direct investment, subsidiary, and multinational capital budgeting.

FIN 601 Entrepreneurial Finance (3 credit hours) This course prepares students to be competent in entrepreneurship and corporate finance management skills. Students will explore specific entrepreneurial nature financial planning and financial decision-making needs.

FIN 602 Analyzing and Visualizing Data for Finance (3 credit hours) Students aspiring to be finance professionals will benefit from this course, which explores modern data analysis using sophisticated computer programs. Students learn how to handle large volumes of data and visualize the data through data analysis and business intelligence programs in addition to learning about financial statement preparation.

FIN 605 Financial Regulation & Ethics (3 credit hours) This course explores financial regulations, policies, and ethics. Students receive an overview of the financial systems, their history, problems, and issues for the purpose of understanding the enactment of regulations as a method to protect the financial systems and investors. Regulations and their authority will be identified, both domestically and internationally. The course explores ethics as an extremely important aspect of finance. Students study where ethics have failed and caused major issues for the financial marketplace and individual companies.

FIN 606 Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management (3 credit hours) This course develops a framework for understanding the various types of financial decision making faced by financial managers and provides students with analytical tools for evaluating portfolio construction and management problems in a systematic manner. Students explore quantitative strategies for portfolio diversification and risk management.

HCM 600 Healthcare Systems (3 credit hours) This course introduces the structure and function of the medical care delivery system, including basic concepts and measures of health, disease, quality, values, needs and utilization; issues in healthcare manpower, institutions and system organization; general issues in policy reimbursement and regulation; broad community, and organizational considerations in medical care organizations. The student is introduced to the principles of epidemiology and environmental health and demonstrates the application of epidemiology concepts to planning for the health care service needs of a population.

HCM 602 Healthcare Strategic Management (3 credit hours) This course is concerned with the development of a general management perspective in establishing the strategic direction for a health delivery organization. Students gain an understanding of strategy formulation and implementation within the context of the managed care environment. Emphasis is on the integration of knowledge acquired in the previous management area courses.

HRM 601 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Management & Organizations (3 credit hours) This course explores the key concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and successful efforts to support DE&I in the workplace. Students identify ways to support DE&I within organizations as both a leader and individual contributor while learning about how to implement equitable organizational processes.

HRM 602 Performance Management System (3 credit hours) This course develops an understanding of the performance management system, its determinants, the ways to design and use systems for planning employee performance, and continuously monitor the performance in the organizational context. The course facilitates the ways to measure productivity and imply quality improvement practices based on compliance with the labor laws. Students learn techniques to set performance goals, manage performance throughout the year, analyze and assess performance, balance scorecards, and the role of feedback and coaching in improving organizational performance.

LDR 500 Organizational Leadership (3 credit hours) This course introduces organizational leadership program at an advanced level. It discusses Kouzes & Posner’s model of leadership as applicable to business organizations. Students will have the opportunity to examine their own leadership styles in the light of this model. Through their studies, students will be able to assess, understand, and improve their own approach to leading, as well as their ability to select and evaluate leaders.

LDR 600 Leading Strategic Change within Organization (3 credit hours) This course examines the major components of organizational development: the evolution of organization development, the nature of change, and how change agents can effectively manage and implement change in organizations. Recommended for students interested in consulting, management, or other roles that involve change and development in the workplace.

LDR 601 Managing Workplace and Conflict Resolution (3 credit hours) Students in this course review core concepts and theoretical frameworks in order to develop practical skills for preventing and managing workplace and personal conflict, and for learning effective tools for resolving disputes. Topics include the nature of conflict, conflict styles, communication, conflict dynamics, conflict intervention strategy and tactics, and third-party intervention.

LDR 602 Strategy and Innovation (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the framework that market-leading companies use to build innovation into their business approach. Students explore the tools which prepare them to develop, analyze, and implement business strategy with the aim of shaping sustainable competitive advantage.

LDR 603 Leading Across Boundaries (3 credit hours) This course explores the skills necessary to set direction and promote collaboration across organizational boundaries. Students learn how to guide organizations toward effective collaboration among departments, suppliers, teams, and customers across multiple boundaries, such as different societies and language groups, national cultures, regional subcultures, and levels of economic development.

LDR 604 Creating and Leading Effective Teams (3 credit hours) In this course, students explore concepts around team leadership, including roles, responsibilities, and expectations. They gain the knowledge and tools necessary to build and lead effective teams, manage conflict, build trust with others, and shape a culture of empowerment and shared leadership.

MGT 500 Strategic Management in a Globalized Economy (3 credit hours) This course focuses on strategic management and strategic competitiveness of business firms. It explains the opportunities, threats, and industry competition, resources, capabilities, core competencies, and competitive advantages of the firms. Other topics include the strategic actions, strategy formulation, competitive rivalry, competitive dynamics, corporate-level strategy, merger and acquisition strategies, and identifying international opportunities. Students deal with case studies of the real world by analyzing the strategic role of information systems, marketing, and management within modern business organizations.

MGT 600 Influential & Impactful Communication (3 credit hours) Managerial Communication emphasizes communication competencies that can help ensure business success. Students learn how to write effective, persuasive messages; conduct business research, analyze information, and write a business proposal or report; deliver an effective oral presentation with visual aids; and create corporate training materials. Also addressed are group dynamics, intercultural communication, media relations, and ethics.

MGT 605 Managerial Decision Making (3 credit hours) This course focuses on decision-making from the perspective of managers who must decide how to allocate scarce resources under uncertainty. Students explore a decision-making framework tied to strategic thinking, learn to evaluate decision options that support organizational success, and use real-world scenarios to apply decision-making best practices.

MKT 500 Marketing Management (3 credit hours) This course offers a comprehensive introduction to professional marketing thought and action. Students will explore the nature and purpose of marketing, along with the fundamentals of each of the most important marketing tasks. The evaluation of markets and the targeting of marketing opportunities will be covered, along with an explanation of how to integrate product and service decisions with those on pricing, distribution, and promotion.

MKT 600 Consumer Behavior (3 credit hours) Students in this course examine basic concepts and research results from marketing and the social sciences to better understand customers and their needs. Coursework addresses the decision process of buyers, factors affecting purchasing decisions and customer satisfaction. Implications for marketing strategies (e.g., market segmentation, product design and promotion) are discussed. In addition, basic concepts of buyer behavior – including pre- and post-purchase attitudes and behavior patterns, as well as information processing relating to the functional areas of marketing – are included. Managerial applications to marketing are also emphasized.

MKT 601 Digital Marketing Metrics & Management (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the theoretical frameworks for marketing analytics, marketing mix management, and optimization and return on marketing investment models. Through a combination of lectures, group projects, case studies and classroom discussion, the course prepares students that are interested in the development and application side of digital marketing metrics models as well as general marketing practitioners as users of the information. By the end of the course, students will have a general understanding of the most important marketing metrics and are able to suggest ways to improve and grow profitability of different elements of the marketing mix.

MKT 602 Market Research (3 credit hours) Marketing Research teaches students how to gather and analyze data to assist in making marketing decisions. The course addresses both quantitative and qualitative research techniques, including written questionnaires, telephone surveys, test marketing and focus groups. Emphasis is placed on examining how marketing research can help managers make better decisions regarding target markets, product features, positioning, pricing, advertising and new product introductions. Students are encouraged to consider ethical implications of specific marketing research activities.

MKT 604 New Product Development & Launch (3 credit hours) This course focuses on marketing from an entrepreneurial perspective, focusing on the different approaches required when compared to marketing for established firms and new ventures looking to act globally from the outset. Students explore the process of developing a new product for start-up companies, and small- and medium-sized enterprises while learning about idea generation, the evaluation process, and launch in product development.

MKT 605 International Marketing (3 credit hours) In this course, students explore the development of international marketing programs while examining international similarities and differences in marketing functions. Cultural, economic, political, social, and physical dimensions of the environment are addressed in relation to this focus, in addition to the changes in the marketing systems and the adoption of marketing philosophies and practices to fit conditions in different countries.

MTH 600 Descriptive Statistical Inference for Business (3 credit hours) In this course, students develop statistical literacy while examining theories and methods involved in the process of deduction. Statistical inference is presented as a method of forming logical conclusions, predictive analysis, and for providing evidence and justification for strategic decision making. Students discover how to write output so that it can be understood by a non-statistician. Successful students who take this course will have taken and passed at least one upper division statistics course.

ORG 500 Organizational Behavior (3 credit hours) Organizational behavior (OB) is a relatively young field of inquiry that studies what people think, feel, and do in and around organizations. Organizations are groups of people who work interdependently toward some common purpose. Organizational Behavior (OB) concepts help us to predict and understand organizational events, adopt more accurate theories of reality, and influence organizational events. This field of knowledge also improves the organization’s financial health.

RES 600 Business Research Methodology (3 credit hours) Students in this course will explore the knowledge and skills needed to conduct and apply research for business decision making. Students will learn how to identify and define researchable business problems, how to collect relevant data, how to analyze and describe the data, and how to communicate the findings.

TSL 502 Vocabulary Instruction (3 credit hours) This is an in-depth course in vocabulary instruction, based partly on morphology, or the structure and classification of words. Processes involved in word form variation will be reviewed, with a focus on methods for teaching vocabulary to English L2 learners.

TSL 507 Pronunciation Instruction (3 credit hours) This is an in-depth course in pronunciation instruction, based partly on phonology—the study of speech sounds. It covers both segmental (vowel and consonant) and supra-segmental (stress, rhythm, intonation, and connected speech features) aspects of language, with focus on effective teaching of pronunciation to non-native speakers of English—including explanation of challenges that these learners face.

TSL 512 Writing Instruction (3 credit hours) This course is designed to give the EFL/ESL teacher various skills, strategies, and theories to teach writing to L2 learners.  The course goes into detail on ways to analyze various writing pedagogies, develop writing courses, create tasks and assignments, assess student writing, give feedback to students, and develop language skills through writing.

TSL 515 Second Language Acquisition (3 credit hours) This course provides an overview of second language acquisition; traces source and development of major trends and issues in teaching English; illustrates practical ways ESL/EFL teachers can incorporate these ideas in their own teaching practice. The course links the socio-cognitive foundations of second language acquisition and their applications as relevant, realistic, and effective pedagogical practices which will be demonstrated and taught throughout the course.

TSL 520 Grammar Instruction (3 credit hours) This course provides a thorough introduction to the grammar of spoken and written contemporary English. Included in the course is a focus on how spoken and written English differ and a look at current theories of syntax. Also included is a focus on how to effectively teach grammar to non-native speakers of English.

TSL 527 Methods of Teaching ESL/EFL (3 credit hours) This course will provide an overview of the field of language teaching by examining past and present teaching approaches and related research. There will be a balance between theory and practice that is, between providing necessary background information and relevant research, on the one hand, and offering a host of techniques and strategies that support the best principles for language learning with an emphasis on writing effective lesson plans which include supportive assessment.

TSL 532 Listening and Speaking Instruction (3 credit hours) This course explores the conceptual frameworks currently defining ‘speaking’ and ‘listening’ – what it is we are teaching and the processes involved. This theory is balanced with a focus on practical teaching strategies. Also included are lesson planning and skill assessment techniques.

TSL 542 The English Language in Society (3 credit hours) This course presents a thorough introduction to sociolinguistics, the study of the ways in which societal factors affect the ways in which language is used among various interlocutors. Included in the course is an examination of the various social contexts of language use (both in and out of school), dialects and regionalisms, the effects of cultural background on the acquisition of literacy, and the ways in which learners interact in cross-cultural settings.

TSL 545 Reading Instruction (3 credit hours) This course focuses on how English language learners learn to read and how they can be helped to achieve the goal of increased literacy. Included is a focus on theories of literacy acquisition (e.g., phonics, whole language) and the role of exposure vs. explicit instruction in the development of reading skills. As one of the course assignments, students create and deliver lesson plans aimed at helping emerging readers improve their reading skills.

TSL 552 Special Topics in TESOL (3 credit hours) This course explores the conceptual frameworks currently defining ‘speaking’ and ‘listening’—what it is we are teaching and the processes involved. This theory is balanced with a focus on practical teaching strategies. Also included are lesson planning and skill assessment techniques.

TSL 590 Curriculum Design (3 credit hours) This course presents a thorough introduction to the dynamics of designing a language course. Included in the course is an examination of the systems approach and the various contexts that influence the design of a language course and lesson planning.

TSL 591 Foundations of Educational Technology and Pedagogy (3 credit hours) The Foundations of Educational Technology and Pedagogy course looks at classic and contemporary educational and language learning theories and applies them through technological avenues and materials. This course also focuses on issues in educational technology, transfer of pedagogy to an online context, and adaptive learning.

TSL 592 Digital Assessment in Teaching and Learning (3 credit hours) The Digital Assessment in Teaching and Learning course is an introduction to assessment and the digital assessment capabilities that can be used in language learning educational contexts. The course focuses on the digital tools involved in assessments such as portfolios, needs assessments, surveys, tests, and rubrics. Students will create digital assessment tools as well as analyze the collected data.

TSL 593 Creating Digital Content for Teaching (3 credit hours) The Creating Digital Content for Teaching course consists of skill development at the technological level. Through multiple tutorials and mini assignments, students learn to design and create courses on learning management systems, create educational websites, and develop professional development tutorials to use for teacher training opportunities.

CAP 670 Practicum (3 credit hours) The TESOL Practicum is a program that enables students to gain real experience as teachers of English to speakers of other languages. This program requires fieldwork assignments, which includes 16 hours of classroom observation with a participating school or educational organization and creating lesson plans to teach (and record) 10-hours of lessons that incorporate theories and teaching methodologies learned over the course of the degree program and via independent research. Also, this course requires students to prepare 2 micro-lessons and to compile an extensive reflection and critical analysis of the different teaching techniques observed in the classroom. Students present their lesson plans and constructively evaluate them online, sharing their practicum experience with peers through an individual presentation.

TSL 010 – Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (152 hours)

• • Foundations of TESOL  This unit is an introduction to the history of TESOL, teaching strategies and practices, intended to effectively deliver content and material in an engaging, understandable, and memorable manner. The characteristics of effective teachers and learners are introduced as well as strategies for meeting the needs of diverse learners in the English Language Learner (ELL) classroom. Also included in this unit is an overview of effective lesson planning.
  • Second Language Acquisition This segment provides an overview of second language acquisition. The course will cover the mechanisms of how language is acquired, including research on the critical period hypothesis of second language acquisition.
  • Teaching Speaking and Pronunciation This section is an overview of the study of speech sounds as well as how they form patterns. A brief introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet (I.P.A.) will also be covered in the course. In addition, this unit examines the application of phonetics and phonology to the teaching of pronunciation to ELLs.
  • Teaching Vocabulary This week provides an overview of the study of word structures and rules. It focuses on content words and function words, morphemes, and rules of word formation. Additionally, this unit covers the teaching of vocabulary to ELLs.
  • Teaching Grammar This module introduces the grammar of contemporary English and examines the pedagogical methods needed to teach grammar effectively. Emphasis is placed on sentence structure and identification of the various parts of speech.
  • Teaching Reading This component examines the methods of teaching reading to ELLs. The course covers reading strategies that are sensitive and responsive to students’ needs.
  • Teaching Listening This portion of the course examines core concepts and best practices in teaching listening to ELLs. It provides listening strategies and concepts that can be applied to the classroom in many different situations.
  • Teaching Writing This section explores approaches to teaching writing to ELLs which include: controlled and guided writing practice, types of writing, the mechanics of writing and the integration of the four skills. A variety of techniques for responding to student writing will also be covered.
• • The performance outcomes which are required for the completion of the certificate include: 
  • class participation, response to discussion questions, writing research papers, group assignments, quizzes, mid-term and final examinations (Comprehensive Learning Assessments).

AVR 600 Introduction to Unity and Simple Games (3 credit hours) This first course in game design, for which students must have basic C# programming knowledge, teaches foundational elements of game design in C# and Unity that are required for Augmented and Virtual Reality applications. This course includes an overview of the Unity platform: configuration, basic setup, importing object collision detection, and an initial 3D environment. Demonstrated topics are scene creation, environment set up, and basic game play; incorporated course software development topics include Agile program design. Students are required to work on a project throughout the course, culminating in a functioning game.

AVR 601 2D Game Development in Unity I (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the development of interactive 2-dimensional environments; this course also expands basic Unity concepts and incorporates non-static objects within the environment. Concepts are illustrated using a single scene space shooter game with non-player characters, and the addition of non-static objects as a user progresses through a scene are included. Additional topics incorporated into the class include textures, sound effects, and core software development topics like Agile program design. Students are required to complete a project throughout the course that culminates in a functioning game. Prerequisites: complete AVR 400/600/800

AVR 602 2D Game Development in Unity II (3 credit hours) In this course students will learn advanced techniques in the development of 2-dimensional gaming development. Unity will be the environmental platform for this course. Students will learn advanced techniques used for mobile game creation. Students will create prototypes, attempt challenges, and complete quizzes to build and solidify their skill set. At the same time, students will be guided through creating their own unique VR project from start to finish, beginning with a blank design document and ending with a fully functional project. Whether students want to create an interactive walkthrough of an ancient ruin, a product configurator for a car manufacturer, a simulator for operating dangerous machinery, or any other experience, this course will help you bring those ideas to life in VR. Prerequisites: complete AVR 401/601/801

AVR 603 2D Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Behavior in Unity (3 credit hours) This course is for students interested in learning about Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent behavior using the Unity platform. The course presents the most popular AI techniques used for creating game characters using industry proven techniques and styles accepted by game developers working with games, computer graphics and artificial intelligence. This course offers hands-on workshops designed to teach students about the fundamental AI techniques used in today’s games.

AVR 604 2D AR and VR Development in Unity (3 credit hours) Artificial Reality and Virtual Reality are currently the latest craze in game development and Unity is the preferred platform for creating immersive games. This course is designed to introduce students to both AR and VR development using the Unity gaming platform. CAP 490 Capstone Project (3 credit hours) This course allows COTE undergraduate students to research and present solutions to industry problems through the planned development, construction, implementation, and management of an information technology project. Learning outcomes from all previous program courses are presented in a pragmatic and value-added manner with the course culminating in a final written project-based plan and presentation. The purpose of the project is to specifically address a business-related technology issue, provide business justification, research and evaluate potential solutions, make a recommendation based on determined decision criteria, and design and plan the implementation of the new solution. The instructor for this course serves as a mentor and consultant in the creation, development, implementation, and management of the project plan. The solution developed by the capstone student must demonstrate mastery of the program learning outcomes, course learning outcomes, and is presented in a final PowerPoint presentation.

CAP 690 Masters Applied Capstone (3 credit hours) In this course, COTE graduate students present solutions to industry problems through the planned development, construction, implementation, and management of an information technology project. Learning outcomes from all previous program courses are presented in a pragmatic and value-added manner with. The course culminates in a final written project-based plan and presentation. The purpose of the project is to specifically address a business-related technology issue, provide business justification, research and evaluate potential solutions, make a recommendation based on determined decision criteria, and design and plan the implementation of the new solution. The instructor for this course serves as a mentor and consultant in the creation, development, implementation, and management of the project plan. The solution developed by the capstone student must demonstrate mastery of program learning outcomes, course learning outcomes, and is presented in a final PowerPoint presentation.

CLD 600 Virtualization and Storage (3 credit hours) This online course provides students an overview of Cloud Computing concepts, its functional technologies, and hands-on experience through projects utilizing public cloud infrastructures (Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure). Cloud computing services are being adopted widely across a variety of organizations and in many domains. This course will introduce the cloud computing domain and cover topics focusing on storage and virtualization cloud infrastructures.

CLD 601 APIs and Scripting (3 credit hours) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are software tools used to enable different applications to talk to each other and exchange data. In this course, students learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. Students explore the API life cycle and tools used to manage all aspects of the life cycle. Additional topics include how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as API products to be used by app developers.

CLD 602 AWS and Azure (3 credit hours) This course will lead students through comparisons between two of the largest cloud services currently available: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Students will evaluate each platform In terms of Infrastructure, Platform, and Software as a Service (IaaS, PaaA, SaaS) capabilities offered, functionalities, ease of use, cost, and other factors which will enable a business to determine the best fit for their organization and specific needs. Students will develop a business plan to implement a specific service using one of these platforms.

CLD 603 Cloud Security and Disaster Recovery (3 credit hours) While so many businesses are turning to cloud services, there are many concerns regarding the security of data and access to cloud resources and services. In this course, students will explore best practices in implementing cloud security for data and resources, and develop foundational cloud security plans for business purposes. Additionally, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are significant requirements for any business to plan and prepare for in order to maintain operations or recover from disasters and security breaches which can happen at any time, and to any size of business. Students will learn how to plan for business continuity, assess risk, and perform business impact assessments. Students will research and learn what to include when preparing a disaster recovery and business continuity plan utilizing cloudbased resources and services.

CLD 604 Strategic Cloud (3 credit hours) Many organizations are evaluating the role the cloud plays in their organizational strategy. Proper planning and execution is essential for success. In this course, students learn high-level concepts to building an enterprise cloud strategy. Students will evaluate what an enterprise cloud strategy is, why one is needed, and how to build an enterprise cloud strategy. Students will develop and present an enterprise cloud strategy for a specific business application.

CYB 600 Threat and Vulnerability Management (3 credit hours) This course introduces students to the duties of cybersecurity analysts who are responsible for monitoring and detecting security incidents in information systems and networks, and executing a proper response to such incidents. During this course, students will explore and learn to explain the importance of frameworks, policies, procedures, and controls, the importance of threat data and intelligence, and how to classify threats and threat actor types. Students will utilize attack frameworks and indicator management, threat modeling and hunting methodologies, and analyze network, appliance, endpoint, and email monitoring output. This course will help to prepare students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination.

CYB 601 Software and Systems Security (3 credit hours) This course continues the preparation of students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination. During this course, students will learn how to collect and query security monitoring data, analyze query logs and SIEM data. Students will utilize digital forensics and indicator analysis techniques. Students will also analyze network-related indicators of compromise, host-related, application-related, lateral movement and pivot IoCs, and learn how to follow an incident response process.

CYB 602 Cyber Operations and Monitoring (3 credit hours) This course continues the preparation of students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination. During this course, students will learn how to follow incident response procedures including how to apply detection and containment, eradication, recover, and post-incident processes. Students will also learn to apply risk mitigation and establish frameworks, policies, and procedures, perform vulnerability management, analyze output from enumeration tools, configure infrastructure vulnerability scanning parameters, analyze output from infrastructure vulnerability scanners, and mitigate vulnerability issues.

CYB 603 Digital Forensics and Incident Response (3 credit hours) This course continues the preparation of students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination. During this course, students will apply identity and access management security, network architecture, and segmentation security solutions. Students will research and learn to apply hardware assurance best practices and evaluate vulnerabilities associated with specialized technology. Students will also identify non-technical data and privacy controls and learn to mitigate software and web application vulnerabilities and attacks.

CYB 604 Compliance and Assessment (3 credit hours) This course continues the preparation of students for the CompTIA CySA+ (Exam CS0-002) certification examination. During this course, students will learn how to analyze output from application assessments, apply security solutions for cloud and automation, identify cloud service and deployment model vulnerabilities, explain service-oriented architecture, assess the impact of threats to cloud infrastructure, and apply security solutions for cloud and automation. Students will complete this course by taking the CompTIA CySA+ final assessment exam.

DATA 600 Principles of Data Management (3 credit hours) This course examines and investigates the processes of effective management of digital data assets, including database development, information policy, knowledge organization, and corporate modeling techniques. The course has an information technology business focus, as it provides the technical knowledge required to successfully implement data and knowledge management collaboratively across the enterprise.

DATA 610 Database Design and Management (3 credit hours) This course covers the core competency of database knowledge that students should acquire. Cover topics include database architecture, database management systems, the principles and methodologies of database design, and techniques for database application development.

DATA 620 Data in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (3 credit hours) This is learn-by-doing course. Student will apply software design, testing and engineering knowledge in real world software development projects. Student will utilize multiple Software Engineering knowledge including software life cycle management, project management and monitoring, software architecture, software quality assurance process, software configuration management. Multiple software tools will be learned and evaluated by students.

DATA 630 Artificial Intelligence and Prescriptive Analytics in Business (3 credit hours) In this course, students will learn to apply Artificial Intelligence and Prescriptive Analytics to solve real-world business problems. Students who enroll in this course should be familiar with descriptive statistics and have experience working with data in a spreadsheet (ie. Excel). Working knowledge of SQL and Tableau is a plus, but not required. Data Wrangling is at the core of all data activity. In this course students will learn how to work with different data types, dirty data, and outliers. You will also learn how to reformat data and join data from different sources together.

DEV 600 Systems Analysis and Design (3 credit hours) This course is intended to provide implementation knowledge related to objective analysis and measurement of software performance. Topics included are measurement theory, types of software quality metrics, models to measure software reliability and quality measuring tools.

DEV 610 Web Application Development (3 credit hours) This course is intended to equip students with implementation knowledge of Java towards the client-server-based web data communications. Topics include Java techniques of WAP, XML, JNI, thread, network programming, Servlet, JSP, JDBC, and internalization. Each technology topic will cover its uses, implementation, and language issues. Relevant hands-on tasks are included to provide nearreal time application analysis experience.

DEV 620 User Interface Design (3 credit hours) This course is intended to provide implementation knowledge related to objective analysis and measurement of software performance. Topics included are measurement theory, types of software quality metrics, models to measure software reliability and quality measuring tools.

DEV 630 Web Programming I (3 credit hours) This course is intended to provide students with hands-on experience in XML which is used extensively as a standard information description language in prominent areas of information technologies, such as Internet, semiconductor, bioinformatics, etc. This course includes Web services infrastructure outlining fundamentals of SOA and Web services, SOA runtime elements, fundamentals of XML and use of XML to develop Web based applications.

DEV 640 Web Programming II (3 credit hours) This course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to build websites with ASP.NET 2.0. and gain an understanding of the new architecture behind ASP.NET. Topics cover using system types and collections to help manage data, and create and configure Web applications; using Microsoft ADO. NET, XML, and data bound controls; creating custom Web controls; using ASP.NET state management; caching; customizing and personalizing a Web application; implementing authentication and authorization; creating ASP.NET mobile Web applications; tracing, configuring, and deploying applications and Web services.

EMT 600 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (3 credit hours) This course is designed for students interested in learning about Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The goal of this course is to ensure students have the education and training necessary to succeed in the AI-powered future. This course guides students through the latest advancements and technical approaches in artificial intelligence technologies such as natural language processing, predictive analytics, deep learning, and algorithmic methods to further their knowledge of this everevolving industry.

EMT 610 Metaverse (3 credit hours) This is an introductory course to the Metaverse. The Metaverse is an innovative concept and many people are reasonably confused about Metaverse basics as it has become popular only recently. In this course, students will learn about the Metaverse and explore the opportunities it holds in store for digital transformation. In this course students will dive deeper into the core concepts underlying the development of this environment. Students will also explore the different use cases and applications of the Metaverse alongside learning the best practices for implementing them.

EMT 620 Blockchain (3 credit hours) This course aims to provide students with the basics of blockchain technology. Students will learn what blockchains and cryptocurrencies are, how they can be used, and where the future of this technology is heading. Students will also learn how cryptocurrencies are created, transacted, and stored. Students will investigate the pitfalls and challenges which come with adopting a digital currency.

EMT 630 Industry 4.0 (3 credit hours) Industry 4.0, also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, involves the use of multiple technologies in the supply chain. It represents a new age in business productivity. It is no longer only about the technology, but the actual impacts it has on company performance. While Industry 4.0 continues to be transformative across various industries, this course will focus on its influence on the manufacturing sector. The application of Industry 4.0 principles to manufacturing will be referred to as the ‘Manufacturing Digital Supply Chain’. To rapidly respond to changes in our digitized world, manufacturers must activate the Manufacturing Digital Supply Chain Network (MDSCN). This network exists to help interconnect processes, production, and operations by ensuring real-time, end to end development, performance and security. Throughout this course, students will learnmore about the five key dimensions that drive this network: Digital Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Cybersecurity.

EMT 640 Identity Management in a Virtual World (3 credit hours) What really is a person’s identity in the digital and virtual world? How can an individual build and maintain their identity in a world where it is so easy to set up accounts under false names and information, and copy other users? How can an individual secure and protect their digital identity? During this course, students will explore these questions and apply best practices in identity management in the virtual world. Students will evaluate identity management tools, current legal regulations, and security aspects as they relate to emerging technologies.

HIT 600 Health Informatics (3 credit hours) This course is designed to provide a foundation in health informatics. Topics covered in this course include information technology and science as it is applied to enhancing the practice of healthcare, and to conduct research for the purpose of increasing patient health, and to make clinicians and health organizations more efficient. An investigation of the principles of informatics, communication, information retrieval and dissemination, and bioinformatics will be conducted.

HIT 610 Integrated Healthcare Technologies (3 credit hours) This course presents students with comprehensive knowledge on systems design skills in information management that they, as future users and/or systems analysts, will need to deal with in computer-integrative business environment. The course provides students with the skills to identify business problems which may be solved by technology-based solutions, determine requirements for information systems solutions, and develop designs which form the basis for implementing systems, as well as a strong foundation in systems analysis and design concepts, methodologies, techniques, and tools.

HIT 630 Compliance, Governance and Standards (3 credit hours) This course is designed to provide students with the necessary training to be able to advise on developing a board structure that includes executives, nonexecutives and independent members with varied experience. Students will also learn the skills necessary to assist in formulating committees, develop policies, and establishing committee requirements. By the end of the course students should be able to promote the proposal of policies for an organization or company that need board approval. Students should also have the skills and abilities to support the creation of a successful risk management function based on COSO and ISO recommendations.

HIT 640 Tele-Medicine and Networking (3 credit hours) This course provides students with knowledge on layered network architectures and the TCP/IP model, link layer error and flow control mechanisms, and packet switching. Both wired and wireless local and wide area networks are covered, as well as medium access control procedures, internetworking with switches, bridges and routers, routing algorithms, and network security. Networking infrastructure as it is used in support of tele-medicine, including secure healthcare data transmission and virtual communication will be explored.

ITM 600 Modern Operating Systems (3 credit hours) This course provides an overview of modern operating systems that are installed on computers, tablets, and handheld devices that allow users to run applications and save and restore data in files from a user session to the next. Students examine key operating system concepts such as virtual-memory management, multitasking, file systems, communication, and security. They also describe process/thread synchronization and scheduling issues, such as critical sections and semaphores.

ITM 610 Networking Management (3 credit hours) This course provided students with knowledge on layered network architectures and the TCP/IP model, link layer error and flow control mechanisms, and packet switching. Both wired and wireless local and wide area networks are covered, as well as medium access control procedures, internetworking with switches, bridges and routers, routing algorithms, and network security.

ITM 630 Cyber Forensics (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the skills needed for IT Professionals interested in working in a Security Operations Center (SOC), maintaining security monitoring tools, and investigating suspicious activities. When a security breach occurs, a number of processes begin such as stopping the attack, identifying the source, and researching logs to identify what may have been compromised in the attack. During this course, students will learn steps involved in cyber forensics processes, explore forensics tools, and explore security breach scenarios.

ITM 640 Issues in Business and IT (3 credit hours) This course explores decision-making from the perspective of managers who must decide how to allocate scarce resources under uncertainty. Combining qualitative and quantitative information is emphasized. Topics include framing decision problems, establishing evaluation criteria, determining tradeoffs, constructing decision trees, estimating probabilities and risk, and taking responsibility for consequences. The roles of judgment, intuition and heuristics in decision-making are also explored. Students research a practical application of decision analysis.

ITPM 600 PMP Integration, Scope, Time, and Cost (3 credit hours) Project Integration Management is the process of maintaining equilibrium in all areas of a project (i.e. scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communication, risk, procurement and stakeholder management). These are interconnected processes and cannot be performed independent of one and other. This class will define the three main aspects of managing any project (Scope, Time and Cost) and present the processes required to keep these elements integrated and related in order to achieve project success.

ITPM 601 Project Leadership (3 credit hours) Project leadership is the act of leading a team towards the successful completion of a project. However, how this is achieved varies considerably and is ultimately about getting something done well through others. Project leadership requires skills in both managing people and tasks. It is a soft skill; part art, part science. In this course various styles of leadership, including Transformational, StrengthsBased, Servant and Transactional will be discussed along with where, when, and how each of these management practices and styles are most appropriately employed.

ITPM 602 Project Schedule Management (3 credit hours) Managing project schedules can be one of the most challenging and critical elements of successfully completing a project. Time management is essential to attaining project success. For this reason, processes have been developed to address specific issues associated with project schedule management. This class will cover the processes of Plan Schedule Management, Milestones, Defining Activities, Sequencing Activities, Estimating Activity Durations, Developing a Schedule, and Schedule Control. Students will gain hands-on experience using project management software tools to create work breakdown structures and Gantt charts.

ITPM 603 Project Risk and Quality Management (3 credit hours) Developing quality control and risk management plans are two critically important aspects to an organization in ensuring positive project outcomes. This class will cover risk management, beginning with analyzing risks and developing mitigation strategies, identification and quantification of risks, preparation of risk response strategies, and monitoring risk factors. In addition, through group discussions and applied exercises, students will develop an understanding of quality assurance, how it must be integrated into risk management assessments, and processes for reaching agreement with stakeholders regarding the quality requirements for the final deliverable of a project.

ITPM 604 Project Communications Management (3 credit hours) Project Communications Management is the specific and planned process required to enable current and appropriate mechanisms for the collection, development, dissemination, storage, retrieval, control, monitoring, and documentation of project information. Successful projects require communication with team members and other project stakeholders, whether they are internal or external to the organization. Because effective communication ideally connects diverse stakeholders who may potentially have different cultural and organizational backgrounds, levels of expertise, perspectives and interests, this class will explore the necessary processes and elements required for effective communication management within project teams and stakeholders.

MIS 500 Managing Information Systems & Technology (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the impact of technology on organizations. Topics include information awareness, decision architecture, and internal knowledge dissemination. In addition, this course covers tools and techniques for competitive analysis, strategic planning, and strategy implementation by addressing the use of information, knowledge, and technology as a strategic asset.

MIS 510 Information Technology Project Management (3 credit hours) This course provides students with concepts, tools, and techniques for managing projects in the IT sphere. Based on the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), this course helps students apply appropriate theories, principles and practices, skills, and techniques to facilitate the planning, organization, management, and control of IT projects that they will face in organizations.

MIS 520 Leading Strategic Change with Technology (3 credit hours) This course examines the major components of organization development including the evolution of organization development, the nature of change, and how change agents can effectively manage and implement change in organizations. Topics include (1) the managerial and strategic contexts of organizational behavior, diversity, globalization, technology, and ethics in corporate governance, (2) managing, influencing, and motivating employee behavior, (3) managing teams locally and virtually, (4) managing conflict, organizational leadership and influence processes, and (5) managing change within the organization.

MIS 540 Management of Information Security (3 credit hours) This course provides an in-depth examination of the strategic management of Information Security within the enterprise. Topics covered include securing information assets, especially in the digital format, from ever-increasing threats, information security governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Security models and threats, and developing security programs are presented in detail.

MIS 545 Business Architecture and Organizational Transformation (3 credit hours) This course begins with a critical examination of the personal characteristics of organizational members and how it influences the effectiveness of organizations and their members. Special attention is given to the role of teams in organizations, stages of team development, and actions that can support the development of effective teams. The realities of interpersonal processes are considered through analysis of the roles of power, politics, and conflict in organizations. Leadership behavior is also critiqued in terms of leaders as facilitators of organizational and member effectiveness.

MIS 550 Big Data Analysis and Visualization (3 credit hours) This course provides students with an in-depth overview of modern tools and analysis techniques to make informed organizational decisions based on big data. Students learn various methods of managing big data and its use in data analytics. In addition, students examine sources of common errors in analysis and how to prevent and fix them.

OPM 600 Operations Management (3 credit hours) The course expands on concepts and techniques related to the design, planning, control, and improvement of manufacturing, human resource planning, and service operations. This course offers a holistic view of operations, with emphasis on the coordination of product development, process management, and supply chain management. Finally, the course investigates various aspects of operations management in great detail. Topics covered include process analysis, materials management, production scheduling, quality improvement, and product design.

OPM 610 Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (3 credit hours) This course provides students with the tools to help them consider, select, and implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to help them make sound decisions concerning internal and external functioning of the supply chain. Students will learn to drive growth and productivity by using integrated information systems to provide managers with more accurate, more consistent, and more up-to-date data for informed decision making.

OPM 620 Data Center Management (3 credit hours) Information Technology (IT) systems in business come in many different forms and structures. While many companies today are turning to cloud services and infrastructure, many others are holding on to their local servers and systems. Whether managing a small local server environment or managing infrastructure based on cloud systems, IT professionals must be aware of the many different aspects involved in managing these environments. This course will provide students with an overview of data center management requirements for both local and cloud environments. Topics will include infrastructure, power, cooling, networking, security, disaster recovery, and management.

OPM 630 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (3 credit hours) No company is immune from disasters whether in the form of system failures, security breaches, or natural disasters, and businesses must plan and prepare for the ability to recover and continue business operations. This course will provide students with the foundational tools necessary to establish protocols and plan systems to keep businesses running in the event of a disaster. During this course, students will research and develop a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DR/BC) plan for a business.

OPM 640 Operational Excellence (3 credit hours) While every business today relies on technology, it is the IT leader’s responsibility to manage IT operations in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible, while providing the highest levels of service and system up-times. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of operational excellence and tools available to help manage IT environments. Students will be introduced to IT governance systems including ITIL and COBIT, Business Process Management (BPM), and process improvement methodologies including Lean and Six Sigma.

TEM 600 Introduction to Systems Engineering (3 credit hours) This course covers computer organization and architecture, modern design concepts, and computer security through hardware. Students learn techniques for designing both small and large combinational and sequential circuits, memory technologies, CPU design and techniques to increase performance, microcomputer architecture, including plug and play device interface, and memory hierarchy. Students cover sample problems, learn design examples, and review detailed diagrams.

TEM 610 Information Systems Engineering (3 credit hours) This course provides students with technical knowledge that can be applied pragmatically to contemporary business information systems, as well as to managing all areas of IT with a business environment from the leadership perspective (Director, VP, or CTO/CIO). Course topics include analysis, design, implementation, and management of data; IT projects, enterprise technology solutions; information security; cloud; mobile; and web. Students develop a solid foundation for solving complex IT business problems and develop the ability to be proactive in facing IT challenges.

TEM 620 Engineering Administration (3 credit hours) The course expands on concepts and techniques related to the design, planning, control, and improvement of manufacturing, human resource planning, and service operations. A holistic view of operations, with emphasis on the coordination of product development, process management, and supply chain management. Finally, the course investigates various aspects of operations management in great detail. Topics covered in the areas of process analysis, materials management, production scheduling, quality improvement, and product design.

TEM 630 Strategic Technology Management (3 credit hours) This course provides an overview of modern operating systems installed on computers, tablets, and handheld devices that allow users to run applications as well as save and restore data in files from one user session to the next. Students examine key operating system concepts, such as virtual-memory management, multitasking, file systems, communication, and security. They also describe process/thread synchronization and scheduling issues, such as critical sections and semaphores.

TEM 640 Reliability Engineering (3 credit hours) Reliability engineering is the effort and process of applying systematic engineering principles and techniques throughout a product life cycle resulting in effective Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Reliability Engineers work with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. The Reliability Engineer is responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of new assets. The goal of reliability engineering is to evaluate the inherent reliability of a product or process and identify potential areas for reliability improvement. In this course, roles within reliability engineering will be covered (including reliability engineers, quality engineers, test engineers, systems engineers, and design engineers) and the industries where they are employed.

WEB 601 Front End Web Development (4 credit hours) Front end web development course focusing on web coding languages and technologies in building applications for display on multi-screen devices and on the web.

WEB 602 Back End Web Development (4 credit hours) Back end web development course focusing on back end coding languages and technologies in making websites and web applications works. Students learn to write codes to communicate database information for output on the browser.

WEB 603 Advanced Full Stack Development (4 credit hours) Full stack web development focuses on both front end and back end coding languages and technologies. This course will dive into deeper understanding of these technologies, additional concepts and bridging both front and back ends into one complex application.

DIS 900 Doctoral Dissertation Course I (3 credit hours) This course is designed to guide students in preparation to develop a dissertation. Specifically, the student develops and finalizes the Prospectus, Chapter One, and Chapter Two of the dissertation. In this dissertation course the student will create the basis for the dissertation, including the background, the purpose, research questions, the nature of the proposed research, and review of the literature relevant to the chosen dissertation topic. Prerequisites: complete RES 700, RES 701, RES 702, and RES 703

DIS 901 Doctoral Dissertation Course II (4.5 credit hours) This course is designed to guide students through creating an original dissertation. The course leads the student in developing Chapter Three of the dissertation. In this course the student will develop the methodology applicable to the proposed research. In addition, the student will prepare the IRB documents, and submit them through the dissertation Chair. Prerequisites: complete DIS 900

DIS 902 Doctoral Dissertation Course III (3 credit hours) This course is designed to guide students through the creation of an original dissertation. Upon successful defense of their dissertation and after receiving all applicable approvals, students conduct their research, collect data, and develop Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Results in this dissertation course. Prerequisites: complete DIS 900 and DIS 901

DIS 903 Doctoral Dissertation Course IV (4.5 credit hours) This course is designed to guide the student through creating an original dissertation. The course leads the student through developing Chapter 5 of the dissertation. In this course, the student defends the developed dissertation in the final defense. If additional revisions to Chapter 4 were required by the dissertation committee in Doctoral Dissertation Course III, then those should be completed before beginning Chapter 5. Prerequisites: complete DIS 900, DIS 901, and DIS 902

ECO 700 Business in a Global Economy (3 credit hours) This course provides students with an understanding of how and why business choose to expand their operations into other countries. This course exposes students to the unique challenges facing firms doing business internationally, and to the potential opportunities available to those business. Students will explore how business operate, grow, and thrive in our constantly changing world.

FIN 700 Financial Risk Management (3 credit hours) this course covers a variety of risks faced by financial managers and the tools available for managing these risks, with an emphasis on practical implementation and application. Students investigate significant aspects of financial risk management as it relates to capital management, asset allocation, and budgeting. The information is presented in the framework of making intelligent financial decisions for an organization, in line with organizational goals, by including financial statements in analysis.

LDR 700 Leadership and Creative Solutions Implementation (3 credit hours) Leaders and organizations in the new globalized and techno-savvy economy must be agile, continuously responding to external variables and thus changing to meet the needs of this new environment. The management of change within an organization is essential and ensures that people within the organization embrace change and view it as a success factor. This course emphasizes how leaders and managers can utilize creative problem-solving techniques to overcome the barriers to problem resolution. Throughout the course, a systematic and algorithmic methodology for creativity is studied and problem-solving techniques are discussed to show how leaders can better forecast business challenges before they become problematic.

LDR 800 Building Positive Relationships in a Multigenerational Workforce (3 credit hours) As a concentration course within the leadership program, the course participants will develop an in-depth understanding of generational characteristics and the respective expectations of each group from the workplace. Students will learn strategies to utilize the potentials and specific skill sets of each generation to achieve optimum rewards for the employee populations, the leadership, and the organization. The course participants will gain an enhanced knowledge of the cultural value systems of intergenerational work groups and the capacity to promote caring and positive inter-relationships among the members of the organization in collaborative systems within and to external forces and stakeholders. In the position of leading forces within organizations of various sizes and scopes, the course participants will be able to design plans of actions that would capitalize on the aptitudes as well as attitudes of their workforce adopting communication mechanisms specific and preferred by each generation.

LDR 801 Leading with Emotional Intelligence (3 credit hours) This course focuses on the emotional competence needed to manage oneself while coaching and leading others. Students explore what it means to have the ability to express and control emotions while understanding, interpreting, and responding to the emotions of others.

LDR 802 Emerging Technology for Effective Leadership (3 credit hours) This concentration course within the leadership program is designed to help the students develop new paradigms and directions for governance of the people and resilient global organizations. Students will be challenged in this course to critically think as computers do but with human feelings, commitment and respect for ethical and value systems within. The course contents delivered via collaborative lecture series, scholarly journal articles, lively and interactive class participation, will nurture and heighten the learning capacities of learners yielding competitive and competent experts ready to encounter challenges of the future era humanity has yet to encounter.

LDR 803 Augmented Global Leadership (3 credit hours) This concentration course within the leadership program is designed to encourage the students to dare reaching beyond the contemporary leadership practices and expand their knowledge beyond the requisites of yesteryear generations. Students will discover how to augment global leadership practices alternating across environmental and physical limitations and cultural boundaries without disruption of daily real-time activities. Students will capture the essence of leadership practices beyond boundaries as pioneers in the global theater embracing augmented realities that are required in the era of swift technological advancements in mind altering speed.

MGT 700 Managing People and Organizations (3 credit hours) This course explores topics in management theory, research, and application. Students explore how to balance, coordinate, and integrate individual and organizational needs so that they are equipped to understand, evaluate, and manage complex organizations. Students acquire skills needed to solve management problems, such as the ability to analyze, develop, and implement appropriate solutions in organizational systems.

MKT 700 Marketing Strategy & Consumer Behavior (3 credit hours) This course takes an in-depth approach to consumer behavior as it relates directly to forecasting and marketing strategy. The course also employs theories from disciplines, including sociology, psychology, and economics to the activities that affect consumer behavior in decision making when purchasing goods and services. Marketing strategies are developed throughout the course to verify if marketing models influence consumer behavior.

RES 700 Business Research Methods I (4.5 credit hours) The course offers an overview of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method research methodologies used in business. It provides a framework in which students design their research methodology. Emphasis is placed on data collection and analysis methods.

RES 701 Doctoral Prospectus (3 credit hours) This course is a culmination of the research curricula leading students through the pre-dissertation preparation processes. The pre-dissertation process consists of writing apreliminary prospectus and forming the dissertation committee. The final assignment should be a completed preliminary dissertation prospectus, which is required to begin the dissertation sequence. In this course, students develop a prospectus that lays out the foundation for a dissertation which will be original and contributory research by the doctoral candidate.

RES 702 Business Research Methods II (4.5 credit hours) In this course, students apply appropriate methodology to answer research questions in a dissertation within a business management context. Critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches are covered.

RES 703 Doctoral Literature Review (3 credit hours) This course is a culmination of the research curricula students have explored in tandem with their dissertation journey. Students will develop a literature review, create research instruments, and test the instrument for validity and reliability. The students will use a fresh perspective and inclusion of existing literature toward the development of a clear need for the study.

EDU 701 Advanced Academic Study and Writing (1 credit hour) This course focuses on developing the scholarly writing skills necessary to excel at a graduate level. The course will focus on proper ways to structure and format academic writing while maintaining proper style and cohesion. This course is designed to be taken concurrently with a content course.

EDU 710 Effective Teaching and Learning Strategies (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course covers best practices and sound research for effective teaching and learning in reviewing issues related to human development theory, proven learning strategies, modern technologies, barriers to learning, and cultural, linguistic, and cognitive diversity. Participants will develop student-centered lessons, activities, and materials for different types of student populations. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 711 Educational Leadership in Theory and Practice (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course explores the strategic application of key activities indigenous to the mission and value that lead directly to attaining organizational goals. People are the most important and valuable resource within an organization and, as such, must be incorporated in any functional business strategy. The course explores strategic principles related to achieving the maximum performance from managing people. Planning for performance, identifying opportunities, strengths, weaknesses, and threats are examined in great detail to obtain a strategy for a sustainable competitive advantage. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 712 Curriculum Theory and Design (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course examines the theoretical assumptions underlying curriculum design. Students explore leading concepts of curriculum development models to implement curricula that are consistent with specific theoretical principles. Students will evaluate, create, and present their differentiated curriculum, emphasizing theoretical principles and universal learning design (UDL) used during the development process. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 713 Critical Analysis of Problems and Issues for Educational Leaders (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course examines current and emerging issues and trends impacting the field of education. The issues and trends are presented in a forum that brings experience and current methodology together to review longterm and short-term strategies to address problems related to the course participants’ specific roles. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 714 Online & Blended Learning Teaching Methodologies (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This class examines effective instructional design elements for higher education and k-12 online and blended learning environments, starting with course design and development to implementation and evaluation. The technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) framework will be used to evaluate the necessary skills and innovative techniques used in the online and blended classroom for adult student learning and engagement. Activities to create meaningful interaction and build a classroom community while addressing the issues, challenges, and advantages of online learning. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 715 Classroom Technology Integration (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course explores the potential of current and emerging technologies relevant to learning, teaching, and educational research within Higher Ed and k-12. Participants will create innovative environments that enable teaching from a different perspective, using various applications, educational technology platforms, and cloud-based tools and resources to enable skill development at the technological level. The key components of creating an accessible, adaptable, and inclusive environment for children, teenagers, and adults are emphasized. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 716 Managing Human & Fiscal Resources as an Educational Leader (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) In this course, participants will review organizational theory and design and how it applies to educational management and leadership to meet the Higher Ed or k-12 organizations, faculty, and staff needs. Strategic university planning and budgeting for faculty hiring, scheduling, evaluation, and training will be reviewed and constructed for effective programmatic implementation. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 780 Writing for Research and Scholarly Publications I (1 credit hours) This course provides students with the ability to independently revise the Prospectus through step-by-step modules addressing most common issues, writing tips and techniques, and content required in each subsection. Students will be provided individualized feedback and can consult with writing specialists throughout the revision process.

EDU 781 Writing for Research and Scholarly Publications III (1 credit hours) This course provides students with the ability to independently revise the literature review through step-by-step modules addressing most common issues, writing tips and techniques, and content required in each sub-section. Students will be provided individualized feedback and can consult with writing specialists throughout the revision process.

EDU 800 Leading and Managing Choice in Education (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course focuses on concepts and strategies for managing change in various educational settings. Recognition of human diversity and strategies that empower administrators, educators, students, and schools are emphasized. Strategic planning, processes, procedures, and skills for change are presented in situational considerations and implications. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 801 Program Evaluation Methods for Academic Leadership (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course focuses on programmatic evaluation methods used to address student needs in education effectively. The evaluation methods covered consist of program review for accreditation purposes, continuous decision-making, new advancements in the field, and assessing program curriculum delivery, assignments, and teaching methodologies. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 810 Classroom Pedagogical and Andragogical Approaches (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course is designed to examine learning diversity and the psychological and social factors related to learning from childhood through adulthood. Critical analysis of selected theories and learning concepts is applied to adult and child learning experiences, learning styles, and educational programs’ motivation. There is an emphasis on the differences between how children and adults acquire, process, and apply knowledge, applied to teaching and learning. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 811 Instructional Design for Equitable Education (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course provides students with an in-depth instructional design process exploration from analysis, evaluation, and implementation, including practice in all phases. The course focuses on online and on-ground design issues, including course planning, instructional strategies selection, instruction assessment, and ongoing course evaluation. Students practice designing effective instruction based on instructional design principles and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) theory. This course will be applicable for both K–12 and HE environments. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 812 Student Assessment Methods (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) In this course, participants will examine topics related to the assessment of student learning across disciplines. Student assessment techniques and theories of cognitive learning will be reviewed and practiced using equitable assessment practices. Emphasis will be placed on how data can be used and applied for student learning outcomes analysis for effective curriculum planning. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 820 Advanced Instructional Design (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course consists of instructional design theories and practical skill development at the technological level. Through multiple tutorials and mini assignments, students will work together to produce learning experiences using today’s media and technologies, such as designing and creating courses on learning management systems and creating educational tools and webinars for a more effective online on-ground classroom experience for all. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 821 Advanced Supervision of Curriculum and Instruction (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course analyzes the relationship between current practice and research in the curriculum and instruction supervision. Students will examine and use educational best practices and evaluate current program management and classroom instruction methods to create reflective instructors and curriculum designers. Topics include the concepts and techniques necessary to establish comprehensive staff supervision programs and performance standards based on observation strategies, descriptive feedback, managing diverse personalities, and teaching subjectiveness. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 822 Critical Analysis of Problems and Issues for Educational Leaders (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course examines current and emerging issues and trends impacting the field of education. The issues and trends are presented in a forum that brings experience and current methodology together to review long-term and short-term strategies to address problems related to the course participants’ specific roles. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 823 Leading and Managing Choice in Education (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course focuses on concepts and strategies for managing change in various educational settings. Recognition of human diversity and strategies that empower administrators, educators, students, and schools are emphasized. Strategic planning, processes, procedures, and skills for change are presented in situational considerations and implications. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 824 Program Evaluation Methods for Academic Leadership (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course focuses on programmatic evaluation methods used to address student needs in education effectively. The evaluation methods covered consist of program review for accreditation purposes, continuous decision-making, new advancements in the field, and assessing program curriculum delivery, assignments, and teaching methodologies. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 830 Online & Blended Learning Teaching Methodologies (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This class examines effective instructional design elements for higher education and k-12 online and blended learning environments, starting with course design and development to implementation and evaluation. The technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) framework will be used to evaluate the necessary skills and innovative techniques used in the online and blended classroom for adult student learning and engagement. Activities to create meaningful interaction and build a classroom community while addressing the issues, challenges, and advantages of online learning. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 831 Classroom Technology Integration (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course explores the potential of current and emerging technologies relevant to learning, teaching, and educational research within Higher Ed and k-12. Participants will create innovative environments that enable teaching from a different perspective, using various applications, educational technology platforms, and cloud-based tools and resources to enable skill development at the technological level. The key components of creating an accessible, adaptable, and inclusive environment for children, teenagers, and adults are emphasized. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 833 Managing Human & Fiscal Resources as an Educational Leader (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) In this course, participants will review organizational theory and design and how it applies to educational management and leadership to meet the Higher Ed or k-12 organizations, faculty, and staff needs. Strategic university planning and budgeting for faculty hiring, scheduling, evaluation, and training will be reviewed and constructed for effective programmatic implementation. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 900 Dissertation Course I (4 credit hours | 3.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course guides Doctoral Candidates in the preparation of completing an original project/dissertation. Students must develop, write, and submit the methodology (Chapter 3), complete their Proposal, and prepare for a preliminary oral defense of that Proposal. If the Dissertation Committee Members do not approve Chapter 3, it will be sent back to the Doctoral Candidates with recommendations and required edits. Subsequently, the Doctoral Candidates must implement recommendations and edits and resubmit the chapter for final approval.  The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 901 Dissertation Course II (4 credit hours | 3.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course is designed to guide Doctoral Candidates in successfully applying for, gaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) study approval, and data collection after their proposal defense. The Doctoral Candidates will present the preliminary defense before the Dissertation Chair and the Dissertation Committee for approval and complete the PowerPoint presentation and paper recommendations and edits and resubmit for final approval. After that, students should apply for IRB approval and collect data as soon as the IRB is approved. Doctoral Candidates may not begin collecting data in any way without first acquiring IRB approval. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

EDU 902 Dissertation Course III (4 credit hours | 3.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course is designed to guide Doctoral Candidates in collecting and analyzing data for Chapter 4 and drawing conclusions based on their study and literature review for Chapter 5 of their Dissertation. Doctoral Candidates will complete data collection, analysis, and interpretation of the results; they will then draw conclusions based on the combined results and literature review. Doctoral Candidates will write and submit Chapters 4 and 5. The Dissertation Committee Members offer recommendations and edits for the doctoral candidate to implement for final approval.

EDU 903 Dissertation Course IV (4 credit hours | 3.5 lecture/.5 practicum) A final document consisting of all five (5) chapters will be submitted. Finally, students will prepare and deliver an oral defense of the Dissertation to the Dissertation Chair, Committee members, and the University for approval. The final oral defense consists of a complete PowerPoint presentation that depicts the doctoral candidate’s Dissertation in its entirety. In conjunction with the Dissertation Chair and Committee members, the University will plan for the final defense. If Committee members do not approve the dissertation PowerPoint presentation and/or paper, they will be sent back to the doctoral candidate with recommendations and required edits. Subsequently, the doctoral candidate must implement recommendations and edits and resubmit for final approval. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

RES 700 Identifying & Planning a Research Project (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course culminates with a pre-prospectus and the dissertation-chair selection in preparation for the dissertation. A prospectus is a formal research project proposal to convince a reader that the research can be carried out and will yield beneficial results. The prospectus reviews existing scholarship, summarizing basic arguments relevant to the project, and positions the project concerning this scholarship. Additionally, the prospectus includes a hypothesis statement or research problem and a project organization overview. Writing a prospectus sharpens several important communication skills applicable in various situations, such as scholarship and funding applications, proposals for research forums, conferences, publications, job applications, and preparation for larger and more complex research projects found in a variety of professional settings. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

RES 800 Education Research Literature Review (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course culminates in the review of the literature. The students build and refine scholarly writing by using archival research, documented sources, and library databases as they synthesize pertinent literature and develop their topic knowledge base. Students leverage peer and instructor support systems to complete a 30-source (minimum) literature review that focuses on the methodology, arguments, and frameworks associated with the chosen topic, resulting in a clear description of the study’s need. Emphasis is also placed on examining emerging connections and themes emerging from source findings and discussions in preparation for future course requirements. Students will use the latest American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual style guide. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

RES 801 Quantitative Research in Education (4.5 credit hours | 4 lecture/.5 practicum)  Students will apply their knowledge of descriptive statistics to conduct inferential statistics. Students will test hypotheses, test the difference between two means, two proportions, and two variances, study correlation and regression, conduct chi-square and ANOVA, and review nonparametric statistics, sampling, and simulation. Students will apply these skills to the data sets they have previously been working with to increase their proficiency and skills in conducting, interpreting, and reporting inferential statistics. Students will use SAS for this course. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

RES 802 Qualitative Research in Education (4.5 credit hours | 4 lecture/.5 practicum) This course reviews fundamental research principles set in an educational context and forms the basis for quantitative and qualitative analysis. Students will explore the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of quantitative and qualitative research. This course will guide students in a comparison of these theoretical frameworks and methods of employing quality standards. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

RES 803 Identifying & Planning a Research Project (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course culminates with a pre-prospectus and the dissertation-chair selection in preparation for the dissertation. A prospectus is a formal research project proposal to convince a reader that the research can be carried out and will yield beneficial results. The prospectus reviews existing scholarship, summarizing basic arguments relevant to the project, and positions the project concerning this scholarship. Additionally, the prospectus includes a hypothesis statement or research problem and a project organization overview. Writing a prospectus sharpens several important communication skills applicable in various situations, such as scholarship and funding applications, proposals for research forums, conferences, publications, job applications, and preparation for larger and more complex research projects found in a variety of professional settings. The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

RES 804 Education Research Literature Review (3 credit hours | 2.5 lecture/.5 practicum) This course culminates in the review of the literature. The students build and refine scholarly writing by using archival research, documented sources, and library databases as they synthesize pertinent literature and develop their topic knowledge base. Students leverage peer and instructor support systems to complete a 30-source (minimum) literature review that focuses on the methodology, arguments, and frameworks associated with the chosen topic, resulting in a clear description of the study’s need. Emphasis is also placed on examining emerging connections and themes emerging from source findings and discussions in preparation for future course requirements. Students will use the latest American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual style guide.  The practicum component gives students invaluable experience by participating in project-based learning as aligned with and to complement course content. As part of practicum, students produce deliverables for their employers or placement organizations that inform critical decisions while gaining confidence, applying classroom learning to solve real world problems, and transforming classroom theory to practice.

Early Childhood Education – Administration
The Certificate in Early Childhood Education (ECE) – Administration prepares students to be leaders in the field of Early Childhood Education. Students work, research, and learn from early childhood education teachers with diverse backgrounds and real-world experience. This certificate meets the State of California Community Care Licensing Title 22 Administrative Requirements to be a fully qualified director for a Title 22 (private) childcare (infant toddler, preschool, and school age) program as well as the Title 5 Administrative Requirements needed to apply for a Child Development Master Teacher/Site Supervisor/Program Director permit for a Title 5 (public) childcare (infant toddler, preschool, and school age) program. To complete a Bachelor of Arts in Education in Early Childhood Education – Administration, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

EDU 451 ECE Administration I – Programs (3 credit hours)
EDU 452 ECE Administration II – Leadership and Supervision (3 credit hours)
EDU 453 Adult Supervision and Mentoring (3 credit hours)
EDU 454 Professionalism 3 credit hours Integrative Studies Elective (3 credit hours)

Early Childhood Education – Teaching Preparation
The Certificate in Early Childhood Education (ECE) Teaching prepares students to be educators in the field of Early Childhood Education. Students consider, research, and learn to teach children with diverse backgrounds and ability levels. Students create a professional portfolio, partake in mock interviews, and are connected to leading Early Childhood Education agencies in the area. The certificate meets State of California Community Care Licensing Title 22 requirements to be a fully qualified teacher for a Title 22 (private) childcare (preschool, and school age) program. To complete a Bachelor of Arts in Education in Early Childhood Education – Teaching Preparation, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

EDU 441 Child Growth and Development (3 credit hours)
EDU 442 Child, Family, and Community (3 credit hours)
EDU 443 Principles and Practices of ECE (3 credit hours)
EDU 444 Introduction to Curriculum (3 credit hours)
Integrative Studies Elective (3 credit hours)

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
The College of Education offers an internationally recognized certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) for pre-service as well as in-service classroom teachers. This certificate provides students with an innovative methodology for English pedagogy with proven success at English language schools worldwide. Whether teaching in an ESL or EFL setting, students are prepared to deliver engaging and interactive language classes, while discussing the latest research trends in the English language teaching field. Students analyze, reflect, and integrate the foundations of TESOL and language acquisition into their teaching practices. To complete a Bachelor of Arts in Education in Coding for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

EDU 431 Foundations of TESOL and Second Language Acquisition (3 credit hours)
EDU 432 Lesson Planning and Classroom Management (3 credit hours)
EDU 433 Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar (3 credit hours)
EDU 434 Teaching Receptive Skills: Listening and Reading (3 credit hours)
EDU 435 Teaching Productive Skills: Speaking, Pronunciation, and Writing (3 credit hours)

Educational Technology
The Educational Technology (EdTech) undergraduate certificate is a practical, innovative program that examines the history, current practices, and future possibilities of integrating technology into classrooms. Students learn how to navigate and best engage their students in online and blended educational settings. By discussing the latest trends in EdTech research, learning theories, and practical hands-on experience, students analyze the ways in which technology can enhance the learning experience. This certificate enables pre-service and in-service teachers to design and develop an online/blended learning experience. Students enrolled in this program complete the following courses. To complete a Bachelor of Arts in Education in Early Childhood Education – Educational Technology (EdTech), students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

EDU 421 Foundations of Educational Technology (3 credit hours)
EDU 422 Best Practices in Educational Technology (3 credit hours)
EDU 423 Online Assessment and Evaluation (3 credit hours)
EDU 424 Adaptive Technology for Differentiated Instruction (3 credit hours)
EDU 425 Blended Learning and Teaching (3 credit hours)

Coding for Education
The Full Stack Coding Bootcamp offered by Westcliff University is a multidimensional certificate program that bridges a path for students who want to pursue careers in the growing and exciting field of web development. The program focuses on creating dynamic and interactive experiences through a rigorous full-stack coding curriculum. Students pursuing this program will gain the necessary skills for front-end and back-end development, all while preparing them for success in the professional world. To complete a Bachelor of Arts in Education in Coding for Education, students must complete the three (3) courses listed below—18 credit hours total.

WEB 401 Front End Web Development (6 Credit Hours)
WEB 402 Back End Web Development (6 Credit Hours)
WEB 403 Advanced Full Stack Web Development (6 Credit Hours)

Educational Technology – The Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages concentration in Educational Technology prepares educators and professionals to create, enhance, and innovate their classrooms and curriculum with technology for learning. Opportunities for building technology skills and confidence, evaluating current trends and tools, and designing and implementing content and assessments based on current learning theories and best practices, will build a foundation for educators and prepare them to lead and contribute in their perspective contexts. To complete a Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in Educational Technology (EdTech), students must complete the three (3) courses listed below—9 credit hours total.

TSL 591 Foundations of Educational Technology and Pedagogy (3 credit hours)
TSL 592 Digital Assessment in Teaching and Learning (3 credit hours)
TSL 593 Creating Digital Content for Teaching (3 credit hours)

Leadership
The leadership concentration prepares professionals to positively impact organizations and transform learning environments by examining educational issues and trends. Strategies are presented to address problems through strategic planning, response to diverse needs, and the analysis and synthesis of political, social, economic, legal, and cultural contexts that shape educational discourse. Advancing education through innovation, creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, students are equipped with leadership skills to manage change effectively and interpret data for programmatic review, accreditation, evaluation, and efficient use of human and fiscal resources. Leveraging individual strengths, students cultivate the dispositions of ethical leaders and promote success for all. To complete a Doctor of Education in Leadership, Curriculum, and Instruction in Leadership, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

EDU 713 Critical Analysis of Problems and Issues for Educational Leaders (3 credit hours)
EDU 800 Leading and Managing Choice in Education (3 credit hours)
EDU 801 Program Evaluation Methods for Academic Leadership (3 credit hours)
EDU 821 Advanced Supervision of Curriculum and Instruction (3 credit hours)

Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
The Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Concentration applies the theories of curriculum design with instructional practice. Setting learning objectives and aligning outcomes with assessment strategies are fundamental to learning and design frameworks. Applying practical solutions with technological integration fosters accessibility and inclusive methods to meet the needs of diverse learners. Using a variety of assessments including informal, formal, formative, and summative provides data-driven evidence of comprehensive learning experiences closing gaps and improving achievement for all. To complete a Doctor of Education in Leadership, Curriculum, and Instruction in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

EDU 810 Classroom Pedagogical and Andragogical Approaches (3 credit hours)
EDU 811 Instructional Design for Equitable Education (3 credit hours)
EDU 812 Student Assessment Methods (3 credit hours)
EDU 820 Advanced Instructional Design (3 credit hours)

Finance
This concentration focuses on investments and the workings of financial institutions. Students will study topics such as corporate and global finance, financial and technical feasibility analysis of a project or program. This concentration provides a solid foundation for entrepreneurs who want to start their own business. To complete a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

FIN 400 Working Capital Management (3 credit hours)
FIN 401 Financial Institutions and Markets (3 credit hours)
FIN 402 Corporate Financial Decisions (3 credit hours)
FIN 403 Financial Derivatives (3 credit hours)
FIN 404 Investment Decisions (3 credit hours)

Human Resources
The Human Resources concentration focuses on employee selection, training, management development, industrial relations, compensation and the dynamics of organizational behavior. Students are prepared to become human resources practitioners in high-performing organizations. They will demonstrate competency in critical areas, including business practices, making strategic contributions to an organization and effective management of the human resources department. To complete a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

HRM 400 Fundamentals of Human Resource Management (3 credit hours)
HRM 401 Compensation and Reward Management (3 credit hours)
HRM 402 Strategic Human Resource Planning (3 credit hours)
MGT 400 Performance Management (3 credit hours)
MGT 401 Management of Labor Relations (3 credit hours)

Sports Management
The purpose of the concentration in sports management is to provide students with the skills and practical and theoretical concepts in marketing, public relations, education, ethics, economics and financial management as well as the social and legal issues inherent in this field. To complete a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

SPM 400 Contemporary Issues in Sports & Exercise Science (3 credit hours)
SPM 401 Organizational Sports & Strategic Management (3 credit hours)
SPM 402 Leadership Principles for Sports Management (3 credit hours)
SPM 403 Sports Psychology (3 credit hours)
SPM 404 Sports Facility & Events Management (3 credit hours)

Entrepreneurship
What does it mean to be an entrepreneur? If we accept the traits of creativity, imagination and a willingness to do what it takes are what is needed, why are all entrepreneurs not successful? This concentration is designed to provide students with the tools to bring an idea to life, to innovate and to be persistent. They will explore ways to problem solve by piecing together the basic concepts of entrepreneurship, remove barriers and support change. To complete a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

ENT 400 Analytical Approach to Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours
ENT 401 Entrepreneurial Innovation Management 3 credit hours
ENT 402 Negotiation Theory and Skills for Entrepreneurs 3 credit hours
ENT 403 Feasibility Analysis for Sustainable Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours
ENT 404 New Product Development for Entrepreneurs 3 credit hours

Web Development
The Full Stack Coding Bootcamp offered by Westcliff University is a multidimensional concentration that bridges a path for students who want to pursue careers in the growing and exciting field of web development. The program focuses on creating dynamic and interactive experiences through a rigorous full stack coding curriculum. Students pursuing this program will gain the necessary skills for front-end and back-end development, all while preparing them for success in the professional world. To complete a Bachelor of Business Administration in Web Development, students must complete the three (3) courses listed below—18 credit hours total.

WEB 401 Front End Web Development (6 credit hours)
WEB 402 Back End Web Development (6 credit hours)
WEB 403 Full Stack Web Development (6 credit hours)

Digital Marketing
This program provides students with the skills set to leverage digital marketing platforms such as social media and search engines. Students will learn about marketing, communication and analytical knowledge, and will investigate ways to engage company audiences, clients and consumers to sell products and grow. To complete a Bachelor of Business Administration in Digital Marketing, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

MKT 400 Applied Marketing Analytics (3 credit hours)
MKT 401 Social Media Strategy (3 credit hours)
MKT 402 Applied Search Marketing (3 credit hours)
MKT 403 Digital Marketing Strategy (3 credit hours)
MKT 404 Integrated Marketing Communication (3 credit hours)

Information Technology
The Information Technology concentration provides students the opportunity to learn aspects of Information Technology as they apply to the modern application of IT that utilizes data management, cloud technology, networking and security, and business intelligence for the attainment of organizational goals. Graduates from the IT certificate program will have a strong foundation in IT systems that will enable them to design, maintain, and continuously improve the efficacy of information systems that are aligned with strategic initiatives, and for the purpose of knowledge creation and the sustainability of competitive advantage. To complete a Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

DATA 210 Database Design & Analytics (3 credit hours)
DATA 300 Data-Driven Decision Making (3 credit hours)
DCS 402 Big Data Analytics and Visualization (3 credit hours)
NET 100 Introduction to Networking (3 credit hours)
NET 300 Cloud Computing (3 credit hours)

AR/VR Mobile Game Development
The Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Mobile Game Development concentration is designed to lead students in preparation for a certification in Unity game development. Topics include simple game design concepts and structure, AI and intelligent behavior in Unity, Unity game development fundamentals, and technologies associated with augmented and virtual reality systems. To complete a Bachelor of Business Administration in AR/VR Mobile Game Development, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

AVR 400 Introduction to Unity and Simple Games (3 credit hours)
AVR 401 2D Game Development in Unity I (3 credit hours)
AVR 402 3D Game Development in Unity II (3 credit hours)
AVR 403 Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Behavior in Unity (3 credit hours)
AVR 404 AR and VR Development in Unity (3 credit hours)

Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity Concentration is designed to advance the professional careers of technologists and computer scientists in the field of computer systems and information technology security. The certificate program is presented in a detailed and innovative approach that examines a variety of computer systems security topics, including cybersecurity essentials and network security; communications security techniques such as cryptography, computer forensics, threats and detection; information security management, and a proactive approach to designing cybersecurity for emerging technologies. Security policies on privacy and legal issues are also presented. Upon completion, graduates can design and implement cybersecurity measures and strategies across several sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, research and development, education, banking and finance, and international business. To complete a Bachelor of Business Administration in Cybersecurity, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

CYB 400 Threat and Vulnerability Management (3 credit hours)
CYB 401 Software and Systems Security (3 credit hours)
CYB 402 Cyber Operations and Monitoring (3 credit hours)
CYB 403 Digital Forensics and Incident Response (3 credit hours)
CYB 404 Compliance and Assessment (3 credit hours)

Strategic & Innovative Leadership
The Master of Business Administration in Strategic and Innovative Leadership is for those who desire to lead with integrity and innovative perspective. Students explore the skills and capacity needed to influence others, manage change, set strategic direction, build teams and support networks, and navigate the complex dimensions within leadership roles. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Strategic and Innovative Leadership, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

LDR 602 Strategy and Innovation (3 credit hours)
LDR 603 Leading Across Boundaries (3 credit hours)
MGT 600 Influential & Impactful Communication (3 credit hours)
MIS 550 Big Data Analytics and Visualization (3 credit hours)

Financial Management
The Master of Business Administration in Financial Management is designed to provide a theoretical and practical framework on managing money in public and private organizations. It encompasses a wide array of theory, concepts, applications, and analytical tools needed for effective decision-making. Students will explore how organizations and individual investors make decisions in accessing and deploying capital. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Financial Management, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

FIN 601 Entrepreneurial Finance (3 credit hours)
FIN 602 Analyzing & Visualizing Data for Finance (3 credit hours)
FIN 605 Financial Regulation & Ethics (3 credit hours)
FIN 606 Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management (3 credit hours)

Global Business
The Master of Business Administration in Global Business focuses on the complex global business environment and the knowledge and skills needed to compete domestically as well as in international markets. Students will explore industry structures and competitive dynamics in global markets. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Global Business, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

BUS 625 Global Procurement & Sourcing Strategies (3 credit hours)
FIN 600 International Finance (3 credit hours)
HRM 601 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Management & Organizations (3 credit hours)
MKT 605 International Marketing (3 credit hours)

Organizational Management
The Master of Business Administration in in Organizational Management is to provide students with the skills and practical and theoretical concepts that will assist them when seeking promotions or positions in management and supervision. This concentration is designed to prepare diverse adult learners to become effective, change-oriented leaders in an international society by adding distinctive and challenging curricula. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Organizational Management, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

LDR 600 Leading Strategic Change Within Organizations (3 credit hours)
LDR 601 Managing Workplace and Conflict Resolution (3 credit hours)
LDR 604 Creating and Leading Effective Teams (3 credit hours)
MGT 605 Managerial Decision Making (3 credit hours)

Entrepreneurship
Innovation and flexibility are the secrets to success in today’s business marketplace. The Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship fosters the enterprising spirit and managerial autonomy that businesses rely on to stay competitive in this dynamic economy. Westcliff Master of Business Administration students who specialize their program in entrepreneurship also learn how successful entrepreneurs gain access to the resources needed; launch their venture; grow their business; and, finally, exit their business. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

ENT 601 Entrepreneurship and New Ventures (3 credit hours)
ENT 602 Online Business Entrepreneurship (3 credit hours)
FIN 601 Entrepreneurial Finance (3 credit hours)
MKT 604 New Product Development & Launch (3 credit hours)

Healthcare Administration
The Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Administration teaches students the important aspects of managing a healthcare facility. Business management, managed care, and health care policies are covered with a focus on quality assurance and decision making in managed care. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Administration, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

HCM 600 Healthcare Systems (3 credit hours)
HCM 602 Healthcare Strategic Management (3 credit hours)
HIT 600 Health Informatics (3 credit hours)
HIT 630 Compliance, Governance, and Standards (3 credit hours)

Digital & Strategic Marketing
The Master of Business Administration in Digital and Strategic Marketing introduces students to topics such as marketing strategy, development, research, and consumer behavior. Students will learn to develop and implement contemporary digital marketing campaigns for any type of organization and learn to make data-driven decisions using social media metrics and business intelligence. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Digital and Strategic Marketing, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

MKT 600 Consumer Behavior & the Decision-Making Process (3 credit hours)
MKT 601 Digital Marketing Metrics & Management (3 credit hours)
MKT 602 Market Research (3 credit hours)
MKT 604 New Product Development & Launch (3 credit hours)

Data-Driven Decision-Making
This Master of Business Administration in Data Drive Decision Making focuses on data science and organizational management, facilitating the exploration of how data and technology impact and interact with culture. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between these forces and how they are evolving amid current events and an increasingly data-driven landscape. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Data Driven Decision Making students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

MGT 605 Managerial Decision Making (3 credit hours)
MIS 550 Big Data Analytics and Visualization (3 credit hours)
MTH 600 Descriptive Statistical Inference for Business (3 credit hours)
RES 600 Business Research Methodology (3 credit hours)

Information Technology Management
The Master of Business Administration in Information Technology Management provides students the opportunity to learns aspects of Information Technology as they apply to the attainment of organizational goals, management, and the use of information technology as a means of sustaining competitive advantage. Curriculum pertaining to information systems, computer hardware and software, emerging technologies, business intelligence (BI), tools such as online analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, business performance management (BPM), predictive and data analytics, data science, and big data and informatics will be investigated. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Information Technology Management, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

CLD 600 Virtualization and Storage (3 credit hours)
ITM 640 Issues in Business and IT (3 credit hours)
MIS 510 Information Technology Project Management (3 credit hours)
MIS 550 Big Data Analytics and Visualization (3 credit hours)

IT Project Management
The Master of Business Administration in Information Technology Project Management is designed to provide students with a foundation in IT Project Management based on the Project Management Book of Knowledge and Project Management Professional certification. This program is ideal for professionals who are interested in the field of project management and who many have experience but who do not have formal training. Students will learn common methodologies used by project managers today focusing on project integration, scope, time, cost, leadership, risk, quality, and communications management. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Information Technology Project Management, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

ITPM 600 PMP Integration, Scope, Time, and Cost Management (3 credit hours)
ITPM 601 Project Leadership (3 credit hours)
ITPM 602 Project Schedule Management (3 credit hours)
ITPM 603 Project Risk & Quality Management (3 credit hours)
ITPM 604 Project Communications Management (3 credit hours)

*This concentration has an embedded industry certificate, which requires it to be five courses

Web Development & Design
The Web Development concentration offered by Westcliff University is a multidimensional certificate program that bridges a path for students who want to pursue careers in the growing and exciting field of web development. The program focuses on creating dynamic and interactive experiences through a rigorous full stack coding curriculum. Students pursuing this program will gain the necessary skills for front-end and back-end development, all while preparing them for success in the professional world. To complete a Master of Business Administration in Web Development, students must complete the three (3) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

WEB 601 Front End Web Development (4 credit hours)
WEB 602 Back End Web Development (4 credit hours)
WEB 603 Advanced Full Stack Web Development (4 credit hours)

Cybersecurity
The concentration in Cybersecurity will cover in detail the different cyber-threats in today’s digital age and how we can implement the best technical and business security practices to mitigate and counter these risks. Cyber security can be defined in a nutshell, as follows: It is the set of technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs, and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access. Cybersecurity knowledge becomes a cornerstone in the development of individuals and teams that are prepared to protect governmental, military, and commercial institutions from cyber-attacks. Graduate students will complete one additional graduate-level assignment in each course. To complete the concentration in Cybersecurity, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

CYB 600 Threat and Vulnerability Management (3 credit hours)
CYB 601 Software and Systems Security (3 credit hours)
CYB 602 Cyber Operations and Monitoring (3 credit hours)
CYB 603 Digital Forensics and Incident Response (3 credit hours)
CYB 604 Compliance and Assessment (3 credit hours)

Cloud Computing
The Cloud Computing concentration is designed to provide students with a foundation in cloud computing technologies for business. This program is ideal for professionals who are interested in the field of cloud computing and who may have experience but do not have formal training. Students will learn technologies, processes, and management of systems, including virtualization and storage, APIs and scripting, AWS and Azure, cloud security and disaster recovery, and strategic cloud implementation concepts for business applications. Graduate students will complete one additional graduate-level assignment in each course. To complete a Master of Science in Information Technology in Cloud Computing, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

CLD 600 Virtualization and Storage (3 credit hours)
CLD 601 APIs and Scripting (3 credit hours)
CLD 602 AWS and Azure (3 credit hours)
CLD 603 Cloud Security and Disaster Recovery (3 credit hours)
CLD 604 Strategic Cloud (3 credit hours)

Strategic Leadership for the 21st Century
Expectations are high for the changes this decade is likely to bring to the workplace. Leadership influencers are forecasting challenges that leaders will face as a new level of workplace transformation continues to be shaped by accelerating technology changes, increasing consumer expectations, and hyper-connectivity. The goal of this concentration is to prepare students to meet these challenges by introducing the concepts of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Work Culture, Employee Experience, Data, Change, Analytics, Diversity, Productivity, Automation, and WellBeing. To complete a Doctor of Business Administration in Strategic Leadership for the 21st Century, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

LDR 800 Building Positive Relationships in a Multigenerational Workforce (3 credit hours)
LDR 801 Leading with Emotional Intelligence (3 credit hours)
LDR 802 Emerging Technology for Effective Leadership (3 credit hours)
LDR 803 Augmented Global Leadership (3 credit hours)

Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
The Doctor of Business Administration Concentration in Business Intelligence & Data Analytics (BIDA) prepares business executives with the knowledge and acumen to solve complex business problems, enabling organizations to remain competitive in the 21st-century globalized economy. Through the use of data analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) tools, doctoral students gain valuable insights about customers, competitors, internal operations, and external variables that influence organizational strategy, and enhance their ability to make better strategic decisions. Doctoral students in this concentration analyze business data with the specific intent to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations while becoming fastidious about future predictions and strategic implementation. Students develop a strong foundation in executive analytics using critical business intelligence tools such as artificial intelligence (AI), predictive and prescriptive analytics, and decision support systems. To complete a Doctor of Business Administration in Business & Data Analytics (BIDA), students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

DATA 800 Foundations in Analytics for Executives (3 credit hours)
DATA 801 BI, Analytics, & Decision Support (3 credit hours)
DATA 802 Time Series & Predictive Analysis for Business (3 credit hours)
DATA 803 Artificial Intelligence & Prescriptive Analytics (3 credit hours)

Cybersecurity
The Doctor of Business Administration with a concentration in Cybersecurity covers the different cyber-threats in today’s digital age and how we can implement the best technical and business security practices to mitigate and counter these risks. Cybersecurity can be defined in a nutshell, as follows: It is the set of technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs, and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access.
Cybersecurity knowledge becomes a cornerstone in the development of individuals and teams that are prepared to protect governmental, military, and commercial institutions from cyber-attacks. Graduate students will complete one additional graduate-level assignment in each course. To complete a Doctor of Business Administration with a concentration in Cybersecurity, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below — 15 credit hours total. COTE concentration course sequences are to be taken in numerical order, as follows:

CYB800 Threatand Vulnerability Management – 3 credit hours
CYB801 Software and Systems Security – 3 credit hours
CYB802 Cyber Operations and Monitoring – 3 credit hours
CYB803 Digital Forensics and Incident Response – 3 credit hours
CYB804 Compliance and Assessment – 3 credit hours

Information Technology Management
The Doctor of Business Administration Concentration in Information Technology Management prepares business & IT executives with the knowledge and acumen to solve complex business and IT problems, manage IT initiatives, ensure digital assets security, and have the expertise to implement governance and management of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Doctoral students will gain valuable insights into the strategic frameworks needed to sustain competitive advantage through the use of IT and other emerging technologies. This concentration has its design roots in the Project Management Institute (PMI) guide to the Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) accepted Information Systems Knowledge and Practice platform. To complete a Doctor of Business Administration in Information Technology Management, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

TECH 820 Business Intelligence & Information Technology (3 credit hours)
TECH 821 Management Information Systems & Advanced IT (3 credit hours)
TECH 822 Information Technology Project & Portfolio Management (3 credit hours)
TECH 823 Governance of Enterprise IT (3 credit hours)

Applied Computer Science
The Doctor of Business Administration Concentration in Applied Computer Science (CS) prepares doctoral students with the knowledge and acumen to lead computer science and software initiatives that incorporate relevant, current, and emerging technologies for the purpose of sustaining competitive advantage in a computer science framework. This exciting concentration delves into software engineering concepts, Business Intelligence (BI), analytical tools to support organizational decisions, software security design principles, and examines the virtual world of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). To complete a Doctor of Business Administration in Applied Computer Science, students must complete the four (4) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

DATA 801 BI, Analytics, & Decision Support (3 credit hours)
TECH 830 Enterprise Software Engineering Concepts (3 credit hours)
TECH 831 Security in Software Design & Development (3 credit hours)
TECH 832 Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Design & Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) (3 credit hours)

Web Development & Design
The Full Stack Coding Bootcamp offered by Westcliff University is a multidimensional concentration that bridges a path for students who want to pursue careers in the growing and exciting field of web development. The program focuses on creating dynamic and interactive experiences through a rigorous full-stack coding curriculum. Students pursuing this program will gain the necessary skills for front-end and back-end development, all while preparing them for success in the professional world. To complete a Doctor of Business Administration in Web Development, students must complete the three (3) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

WEB 601 Front End Web Development (4 credit hours)
WEB 602 Back End Web Development (4 credit hours)
WEB 603 Full Stack Web Development (4 credit hours)

Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity Concentration is designed to advance the professional careers of technologists and computer scientists in the field of computer systems and information technology security. The certificate program is presented in a detailed and innovative approach that examines a variety of computer systems security topics, including cybersecurity essentials and network security; communications security techniques such as cryptography, computer forensics, threats and detection; information security management, and a proactive approach to designing cybersecurity for emerging technologies. Security policies on privacy and legal issues are also presented. Upon completion, graduates can design and implement cybersecurity measures and strategies across several sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, research and development, education, banking and finance, and international business. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology in Cybersecurity, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

CYB 400 Threat and Vulnerability Management (3 credit hours)
CYB 401 Software and Systems Security (3 credit hours)
CYB 402 Cyber Operations and Monitoring (3 credit hours)
CYB 403 Digital Forensics and Incident Response (3 credit hours)
CYB 404 Compliance and Assessment (3 credit hours)

IT Project Management
The IT Project Management program is designed to provide students with a foundation in IT Project management based on the Project Management Book of Knowledge and Project Management Professional certification. This program is ideal for professionals who are interested in the field of project management and who may have experience but do not have formal training. Students will learn common methodologies used by project managers today focusing on project integration, scope, time, cost, leadership, schedule, risk, quality, and communications management. Graduate students will complete one additional graduate level assignment in each course. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology in IT Project Management students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

ITPM 400 PMP Integration, Scope, Time, and Cost (3 credit hours)
ITPM 401 Project Leadership (3 credit hours)
ITPM 402 Project Schedule Management (3 credit hours)
ITPM 403 Project Risk and Quality Management (3 credit hours)
ITPM 404 Project Communications Management (3 credit hours)

Cloud Computing
The Cloud Computing program is designed to provide students with a foundation in cloud computing technologies for business. This program is ideal for professionals who are interested in the field of cloud computing and who may have experience but do not have formal training. Students will learn technologies, processes, and management of systems including virtualization and storage, APIs and scripting, AWS and Azure, cloud security and disaster recovery, and strategic cloud implementation concepts for business applications. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology in Cloud Computing, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

CLD 400 Virtualization and Storage (3 credit hours)
CLD 401 APIs and Scripting (3 credit hours)
CLD 402 AWS and Azure (3 credit hours)
CLD 403 Cloud Security and Disaster Recovery (3 credit hours)
CLD 404 Strategic Cloud (3 credit hours)

AR/VR Mobile Game Development
The Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Mobile Game Development concentration is designed to lead students in preparation for a certification in Unity game development. Topics include simple game design concepts and structure, AI and intelligent behavior in Unity, Unity game development fundamentals, and technologies associated with augmented and virtual reality systems. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology in AR/VR Mobile Game Development, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

AVR 400 Introduction to Unity and Simple Games (3 credit hours)
AVR 401 2D Game Development in Unity I (3 credit hours)
AVR 402 3D Game Development in Unity II (3 credit hours)
AVR 403 Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Behavior in Unity (3 credit hours)
AVR 404 AR and VR Development in Unity (3 credit hours)

Data Analytics
Provides an overview of quantitative methods essential for analyzing data, with an emphasis on business applications. Topics include identification of appropriate metrics and measurement methods, descriptive and inferential statistics, experimental design, parametric and non-parametric tests, simulation, and linear and logistic regression, categorical data analysis, and select unsupervised learning techniques. Standard and open-source statistical packages are used to apply techniques to real-world problems. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology in Data Analytics, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

DCS 400 Applied Statistics for Optimization (3 credit hours)
DCS 401 Query Design and Analysis (3 credit hours)
DCS 402 Big Data Analytics and Visualization (3 credit hours)
DCS 403 Data Structure & Algorithms Design (3 credit hours)
DCS 404 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (3 credit hours)

Web Development
The Full Stack Coding Bootcamp offered by Westcliff University is a multidimensional concentration that bridges a path for students who want to pursue careers in the growing and exciting field of web development. The program focuses on creating dynamic and interactive experiences through a rigorous full stack coding curriculum. Students pursuing this program will gain the necessary skills for front-end and back-end development, all while preparing them for success in the professional world. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in Web Development, students must complete the three (3) courses listed below—18 credit hours total.

WEB 401 Front End Web Development (6 credit hours)
WEB 402 Back End Web Development (6 credit hours)
WEB 403 Full Stack Web Development (6 credit hours)

Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity Concentration is designed to advance the professional careers of technologists and computer scientists in the field of computer systems and information technology security. The certificate program is presented in a detailed and innovative approach that examines a variety of computer systems security topics, including cybersecurity essentials and network security; communications security techniques such as cryptography, computer forensics, threats and detection; information security management, and a proactive approach to designing cybersecurity for emerging technologies. Security policies on privacy and legal issues are also presented. Upon completion, graduates can design and implement cybersecurity measures and strategies across several sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, research and development, education, banking and finance, and international business. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in Cybersecurity, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

CYB 400 Threat and Vulnerability Management (3 credit hours)
CYB 401 Software and Systems Security (3 credit hours)
CYB 402 Cyber Operations and Monitoring (3 credit hours)
CYB 403 Digital Forensics and Incident Response (3 credit hours)
CYB 404 Compliance and Assessment (3 credit hours)

IT Project Management
The IT Project Management program is designed to provide students with a foundation in IT Project management based on the Project Management Book of Knowledge and Project Management Professional certification. This program is ideal for professionals who are interested in the field of project management and who may have experience but do not have formal training. Students will learn common methodologies used by project managers today focusing on project integration, scope, time, cost, leadership, schedule, risk, quality, and communications management. Graduate students will complete one additional graduate level assignment in each course. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in IT Project Management students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

ITPM 400 PMP Integration, Scope, Time, and Cost (3 credit hours)
ITPM 401 Project Leadership (3 credit hours)
ITPM 402 Project Schedule Management (3 credit hours)
ITPM 403 Project Risk and Quality Management (3 credit hours)
ITPM 404 Project Communications Management (3 credit hours)

Cloud Computing
The Cloud Computing program is designed to provide students with a foundation in cloud computing technologies for business. This program is ideal for professionals who are interested in the field of cloud computing and who may have experience but do not have formal training. Students will learn technologies, processes, and management of systems including virtualization and storage, APIs and scripting, AWS and Azure, cloud security and disaster recovery, and strategic cloud implementation concepts for business applications. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in Cloud Computing, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

CLD 400 Virtualization and Storage (3 credit hours)
CLD 401 APIs and Scripting (3 credit hours)
CLD 402 AWS and Azure (3 credit hours)
CLD 403 Cloud Security and Disaster Recovery (3 credit hours)
CLD 404 Strategic Cloud (3 credit hours)

AR/VR Mobile Game Development
The Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Mobile Game Development concentration is designed to lead students in preparation for a certification in Unity game development. Topics include simple game design concepts and structure, AI and intelligent behavior in Unity, Unity game development fundamentals, and technologies associated with augmented and virtual reality systems. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in AR/VR Mobile Game Development, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

AVR 400 Introduction to Unity and Simple Games (3 credit hours)
AVR 401 2D Game Development in Unity I (3 credit hours)
AVR 402 3D Game Development in Unity II (3 credit hours)
AVR 403 Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Behavior in Unity (3 credit hours)
AVR 404 AR and VR Development in Unity (3 credit hours)

Advanced Programming
This concentration will provide students with a solid foundation in the fundamentals, techniques, and best practices in programming. Topics covered include advanced Python, Java, Object-Oriented programming, mobile programming applications, security in programming, and software testing and quality assurance. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in Advanced Programming, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

PRG 400 Advanced Python (3 credit hours)
PRG 401 JAVA 3 credit hours PRG 402 Mobile Programming Applications (3 credit hours)
PRG 403 Programming Security (3 credit hours)
PRG 404 Software Testing and Quality Assurance (3 credit hours)

Data Analytics
Provides an overview of quantitative methods essential for analyzing data, with an emphasis on business applications. Topics include identification of appropriate metrics and measurement methods, descriptive and inferential statistics, experimental design, parametric and non-parametric tests, simulation, and linear and logistic regression, categorical data analysis, and select unsupervised learning techniques. Standard and open-source statistical packages are used to apply techniques to real-world problems. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in Data Analytics, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

DCS 400 Applied Statistics for Optimization (3 credit hours)
DCS 401 Query Design and Analysis (3 credit hours)
DCS 402 Big Data Analytics and Visualization (3 credit hours)
DCS 403 Data Structure & Algorithms Design (3 credit hours)
DCS 404 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (3 credit hours)

Web Development
The Full Stack Coding Bootcamp offered by Westcliff University is a multidimensional concentration that bridges a path for students who want to pursue careers in the growing and exciting field of web development. The program focuses on creating dynamic and interactive experiences through a rigorous full stack coding curriculum. Students pursuing this program will gain the necessary skills for front-end and back-end development, all while preparing them for success in the professional world. To complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in Web Development, students must complete the three (3) courses listed below—18 credit hours total.

WEB 401 Front End Web Development (6 credit hours)
WEB 402 Back End Web Development (6 credit hours)
WEB 403 Full Stack Web Development (6 credit hours)

AR/VR Mobile Game Development
The  AR/VR Mobile Game Development concentration is designed to lead students in preparation for a certification in Unity game development. Topics include simple game design concepts and structure, AI and intelligent behavior in Unity, Unity game development fundamentals, and technologies associated with augmented and virtual reality systems. To complete a Master of Science of Computer Science in AR/VR Mobile Game Development, students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

AVR 600 Introduction to Unity and Simple Games (3 credit hours)
AVR 601 2D Game Development in Unity I (3 credit hours)
AVR 602 3D Game Development in Unity II (3 credit hours)
AVR 603 Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Behavior in Unity (3 credit hours)
AVR 604 AR and VR Development in Unity (3 credit hours)

Data Analytics
The Data Analytics (DATA) concentration is designed to provide students with the skills necessary for business analytics. Students will be presented the basic skills with information management tools and cloud databases to store, analyze, and extract business-relevant information. Students will use data visualization to understand and communicate data analyses and report data findings effectively to diverse audiences. To complete a Master of Science of Computer Science in Data Analytics (DATA), students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

DATA 600 Principles of Data Management (3 credit hours)
DATA 610 Database Design and Management (3 credit hours)
DATA 620 Data in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (3 credit hours)
DATA 630 Artificial Intelligence and Prescriptive Analytics in Business (3 credit hours)
DATA 640 Cloud Data Visualization (3 credit hours)

Health Informatics
The healthcare industry relies heavily on technology and data. The concentration in Health Informatics (HIT) provides students with a foundational understanding of healthcare technologies and data management within the United States healthcare system and regulations. Topics include principles of data management, health informatics, healthcare technologies, compliance, governance and standards, tele-medicine and networking. To complete a Master of Science of Computer Science in Health Informatics (HIT), students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

DATA 600 Principles of Data Management (3 credit hours)
HIT 600 Health Informatics (3 credit hours)
HIT 610 Integrated Healthcare Technologies (3 credit hours)
HIT 630 Compliance, Governance and Standards (3 credit hours)
HIT 640 Tele-Medicine and Networking (3 credit hours)

Software Development
The Software Development (DEV) concentration is designed to instruct students in the programming process and focuses on best practices in web interface design and development. Topics include systems analysis and design, web application development, user interface design, and web programming. To complete a Master of Science of Computer Science in Software Development (DEV), students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

DEV 600 Systems Analysis and Design (3 credit hours)
DEV 610 Web Application Development (3 credit hours)
DEV 620 User Interface Design (3 credit hours)
DEV 630 Web Programming I 3 credit hours DEV 640 Web Programming II (3 credit hours)

Web Development
The Full Stack Coding Bootcamp offered by Westcliff University is a multidimensional concentration that bridges a path for students who want to pursue careers in the growing and exciting field of web development. The program focuses on creating dynamic and interactive experiences through a rigorous full stack coding curriculum. Students pursuing this program will gain the necessary skills for front-end and back-end development, all while preparing them for success in the professional world. To complete a Master of Science of Computer Science in Web Development, students must complete the three (3) courses listed below—12 credit hours total.

WEB 601 Front End Web Development (4 credit hours)
WEB 602 Back End Web Development (4 credit hours)
WEB 603 Full Stack Web Development (4 credit hours)

Technology Engineering Management
The Technology Engineering Management program is designed to provide students with a foundation in systems engineering management processes and techniques. This program is ideal for professionals who are interested in management roles within the systems engineering field and who may have experience but do not have formal training. Students will learn information systems engineering processes and techniques, strategic engineering technology management, and reliability engineering. Graduate students will complete one additional graduate level assignment in each course. To complete a Master of Science in Engineering Management in Technology Engineering Management (TEM), students must complete the five (5) courses listed below—15 credit hours total.

TEM 600 Introduction to Systems Engineering (3 credit hours)
TEM 610 Information Systems Engineering (3 credit hours)
TEM 620 Engineering Administration (3 credit hours)
TEM 630 Strategic Technology Management (3 credit hours)
TEM 640 Reliability Engineering (3 credit hours)