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3.00 Credits
This course explores the fundamentals of modern operating systems (OS), including basic operating system structure, file systems and storage, memory management techniques, process scheduling and resource management, and threads. Course activities evaluate OS-level mechanisms as well as policies designed to detect and defend against cyberattacks. Lab activities explore applications of OS security techniques such as authentication and memory protection.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares students to access, analyze, manage, and present data to an organization's decision makers. The focus of this course is to prepare students to effectively and efficiently use tools for data mining and data visualization. An essential skill within business intelligence (BI) is the ability to effectively communicate analysis, which includes providing a recommendation to decision makers. This course provides students the ability to do this in a test environment. The Capstone project integrates all concepts learned with the use of a BI application.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended for business students with these goals: 1) To provide the key methods of predictive analytics and advanced BI concepts; 2) To provide business decision-making context for these methods; 3) Using real business cases, to illustrate the application and interpretation of these methods. The course will cover R Programming, trends in predictive analytics, and understanding available application programs that can be deployed within the business enterprise.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the development of effective models of decision making in a dynamic business environment. The decisions that business leaders make on a daily basis define and refine the culture and impact the ability of the organization to achieve successful outcomes. Exploring and critically thinking about the model(s) used to make these decisions is important in creating a business executive with the skills necessary to lead an organization to accomplish the defined goals. Topics will include the exploration of methods, techniques, and theoretical frameworks associated with creating a systematic approach to complex decision making. By the end of the course, students will have a toolbox of effective decision-making tools and techniques that can be applied to increase effective outcomes.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a strategic analysis of the contemporary influences on globalization. Under investigation are the technological, sociocultural, demographic, political, legal, economic, and environmental factors in establishing and fostering worldwide business entities. Through readings and projects, students will critically evaluate topics such as trending opportunities, emerging markets, barriers to entry, national cultures and social structures, and contingency planning. Students will also debate cases on international financial management, cross-cultural leadership, and various negotiation styles.
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3.00 Credits
The interactive seminar concentrates on applying economic theory and tools in examining real-world problems. Learners will utilize library journals and online resources to analyze economic and financial problems, and will work collaboratively in groups to maximize discussion and participation. Topics in the seminar include understanding consumer behavior, business approaches to economic problems, tax policy, and welfare economics.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the interrelated individual and group behavior topics of leadership, culture, and change. Students reflect upon the classic theories in these subject areas and analyze the applicability of these theories to modern organizations. The course increases self-awareness in the areas of leadership style, the effects of culture on the individual and the individual on culture, and relationship to change as students analyze the interconnectedness of these concepts and their importance to organizational effectiveness. By understanding themselves better in terms of leadership, culture, and change, students will be more prepared to be effective organizational leaders.
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3.00 Credits
The Learning in the Digital Age TECEP® exam assesses students' ability to apply digital tools like blogs and social media to research, produce, analyze, and present information. Students will also develop and apply knowledge to support digital learning. As a result, students will develop critical media literacy skills to demonstrate and express their learning in a digital online environment.
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3.00 Credits
This course gives an overview of a field of study, research, teaching, and invention that explores what it means to be a human being in the networked information age. Students will engage in an interdisciplinary investigation of transmedia tools and methodologies for the creation and presentation of information. This course will be divided into two sections. In the first section, students will examine the history and emergence of digital humanities as a subfield co-created by librarians, computer scientists, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and scholars in visual art, media studies, literature and rhetoric, and composition. In the second section, students will learn and experiment with concepts and methods afforded by practitioners in digital humanities. In so doing, students will generate a project in which they will interrogate what it means to study the value of human expression in the context of a networked society.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a study of theories and concepts of writing and rhetoric in digital media with emphasis on the uses of textual and visual media in digital spaces, such as websites, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs. Students will investigate topics in the emerging field of digital rhetoric and writing. The course will facilitate students' reflective interrogation of how they can command resources for writing in digital spaces to the greatest professional and academic effect. Students will explore how all digital spaces have rhetorical concerns and how their effectiveness - often understood as ""usability"" - is dependent on contextual factors like audience and occasion. In other words, students will explore how new and emerging technological means of communication and design can be better understood and deployed with the benefits of rhetorical study. This course will also help build the course offerings in the Professional Communication area of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) degree program and provide opportunities to students who are interested in digital publication as well as those who are interested in theories of digital composition and rhetoric.
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