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4.00 Credits
(4 units) The purpose of the integrative capstone course is to plan, start or build an ethical, sustainable, and profitable venture for an existing or new business, NGO or governmental organization. Students may work individually or in a group to complete a strategic business plan that will include a management plan, financial statements, risk analysis, operations and marketing plan as well as an action plan to implement the venture. Course instruction will center around a series of integrated modules that will focus on the practical implementation of all aspects of the curriculum. Students will explore the interconnections between the strategic foundation of the venture and the cultural, sustainable and spiritual aspects of their values, core purpose and goals within a global business context. The result will be evidence of mastering the core MBA competencies and fulfilling the student's purpose for attending Presidio World College to define and implement their calling.
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4.00 Credits
(4 units) Building upon the fundamentals of finance introduced during the first year, this course explores sustainable finance at national and international levels. Topics include financing enterprises through venture capital and private equity funding, initial public offerings (IPOs), fixed income securities offerings, commercial paper, and angel investing. Financial instruments in a global market will be examined through a review of spot exchange, currency forwards, hedging, options, swaps as well as international bonds and equities. Fundraising in the non-profit sector will likewise be considered. The course also surveys the legal aspects of organizing, financing and operating a business enterprise, with emphasis on torts, contracts, agency, government regulation, intellectual property rights, competition policy, employee rights, business fraud, corporate governance and shareholder rights, environmental law, product liability, as well as the national and international finance and investment systems, including a sustainability critique and reorientation.
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4.00 Credits
(4 units) The process of creating and managing socially and environmentally sustainable organizations, economies and societies depends primarily on human beings in their individual and collective diversity and complexity. This course focuses on the cognitive and experiential understanding of the inner dimension of this diversity and complexity, including the conscious and unconscious motivational and inspirational forces and conceptual frameworks that support and hinder the understanding and practical implementation of sustainability. This learning empowers students to function more effectively by supporting their inquiry into meaning and purpose to enable them to act with inspiration and pragmatism.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on developing embodied skills in communication and leadership presence through practice, for the sake of becoming more effective managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs. The course will direct this foundation to the issues of making offers of sustainable business that are commercially valuable in the world, building and working together on effective teams, making and managing promises of value to others, and developing a presence of a leader that produces trust and commitment from others. The skills identified and developed in this course are fundamental to participants' future results in ventures and leadership, and will be used in the participants' capstone projects and in their real world ventures and careers.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of the art of critical thinking and its application to teaching at all levels of education. Three dimensions of reasoning are examined including the elements of critical thinking, universal intellectual standards and intellectual virtues, which in combination make up the process of fair-minded critical thinking. The course includes application of specific critical thinking strategies to the classroom from elementary to adult education.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of a variety of instructional strategies, curriculum theories and research. Investigation of emerging trends in instructional delivery systems. Exploration of effective instructional strategies in culturally diverse classrooms. Focus on active involvement in constructing a personal repertoire of teaching behaviors in order to encourage an equity pedagogy.
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of contemporary and traditional techniques for evaluating both individual learners and learning environments. Roles of various types of assessments including performance-based psycho-educational, portfolio and others.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the knowledge, skills and dispositions required for National Board Certification. Begins preparation of required portfolio.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on compelling issues in today's schools such as violence and conflict management and resolution; ethics, behavior and self-worth; technology and social behavior; and assessment and accountability. Students will be able to utilize appropriate strategies and develop curriculum that address these issues.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of research methodology applicable to schools in data-driven environments. Technology applications in research. Articulates guidelines for development of the Practicum/Curriculum Project as the capstone for the Master of Arts in Education: Teaching.
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