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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Discuss the problem solving process and how it is integrated into team decision making. Will learn how to apply quality tools in the decision making process. Quality tools to be discussed include control charts, flow charts, cause and effect diagrams, check sheets, Pareto charts, histograms, scattergrams, Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. The seven management and planning tools will be discussed. Students will apply these to problems as part of a team. (Fall/Spring).
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3.00 Credits
A study of how organizations gain insight and understanding from experience to create new organizational environments. Looks at how learning and total quality management programs are linked at different organizational levels to encourage integration of internal systems and work teams to facilitate process improvements. (Spring/Summer).
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3.00 Credits
Students will actively participate in learning several methods for forming sustainable public sector, corporate or small business, non-profit organizational and community based relationships. Each student will develop and test a strategic alliance and network action plan for an individual and organization. The course includes research into desired objectives and outcomes, recent literature on performance based needs, and market/consumer/client-service issues. This is an interactive course designed to provide meaningful application of theory to the day-to-day practice of stakeholder and mutually beneficial relationship management in a regulatory and organizationally networked environment. This class is conducted as a seminar-workshop intended as a hands-on, experiential learning experience. The students will be exposed to collaborative alliance development and networking methodologies and techniques that can be used to form meaningful relationships between organizations across organizational sectors and among individuals. The course is research intensive, interactive, and based on a team approach to working and learning through the application of models to real situations. (Fall).
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Selected topics which will cover Administration and Leadership topics of current interest of developing theory. These courses could be interdisciplinary and integrate topics from a variety of disciplines. (Fall/Spring/Summer). Prerequisites will vary according to the topic.
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3.00 Credits
This course engages students in a review of public administration, non-profit and private agency issues and agendas for the purpose of understanding varying contexts for program evaluation and grant writing. Students conduct research and analysis of different approaches and techniques for program evaluation and design a best practice program evaluation process and evaluative tools using case studies. (Summer).
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3.00 Credits
Focus will be on policy, theory, policy making and policy analysis, different rationales for government action generally; how different types of policy are made; and a detailed look at the problems facing those who try to assess the worth of public policy. (Fall/Spring/Summer). Prerequisites: must be matriculated in the MALS Program or POI.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with a perspective on ethics in roles involving administration, leadership, and policy formulation. The most prominent guidelines and theories for making ethical judgments in administration will be explored in the course. Students will also examine ethics codes for various professions, corporate governance structures, and the emerging legal issues governing ethics in business and public organizations. Additionally, students will consider the importance of creating a social context and an organizational climate that emphasize ethical values and behavior. The course will also attempt to focus on the types of practical issues requiring ethical sensitivity toward the various stakeholders that administrators are likely to encounter in their work. (Fall).
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3.00 Credits
Comprehensive survey of qualitative and quantitative research methods and their method-specific hypothesis formulations, data acquisition, verification, and analysis. Emphasis is placed on understanding of potential research problems including major sources of variation: ethnographic and qualitative limitations, sampling, survey mode, questionnaire format, question framing, interviewing, coding, and statistical analysis. Alternative measurement approaches and basic multivariate analysis strategies are also examined. (Fall).
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1.00 Credits
An introduction to the research and writing tasks required of graduate students. Students will be expected to analyze their own writing style, explore the components of a long report/thesis, prepare a critique of a completed thesis, prepare abstracts and an annotated bibliography. (Fall/Spring).
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3.00 Credits
Intended for students in the MALS concentrations in Administration and Leadership and Organizational Development desiring to complete the thesis/professional project requirement. An opportunity for the candidate in these concentrations to prepare, perform, and explain organizational research or projects based upon primary sources. Students must select a thesis/project topic with the advice of the MLS590 instructor and the other member(s) of their committee. (Fall/Spring). Prerequisite: students must have completed MLS589 and have completed 24 credit hours of coursework towards their degree.
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