May 04, 2024  
2018-2019 Florida Tech Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Florida Tech Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Courses are listed alpha-numerically. The 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series are undergraduate courses. The 5000 series are graduate courses that can also be taken by undergraduates with cumulative grade point averages of 2.75 or higher, who have satisfied all listed prerequisites and whose registration is approved by the department head or program chair responsible for the course. The 6000 series courses are restricted to graduate students only. Courses below 1000 are developmental in nature, are not counted in GPA calculations and do not count toward any Florida Tech degree.

Courses that may be taken in fulfillment of Undergraduate Core Requirements are designated as follows: CL: computer literacy requirement, COM: communication elective, HU: humanities elective, LA: liberal arts elective, Q: scholarly inquiry requirement, SS: social science elective, CC: cross-cultural. These designations follow the course descriptions. Other courses that satisfy Undergraduate Core Requirements are identified by the course prefix: any MTH course can be used toward meeting the mathematics requirement; and any AVS, BIO, CHM or PHY course, or EDS 1031  or EDS 1032 , toward meeting the physical/life sciences requirement.

 

Management

  
  • MGT 5087 Management of Transportation Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies various contemporary carrier modes, emphasizing management problems common to all modes of domestic and international transportation. Investigates and discusses transportation engineering, use of transportation facilities and materiel, and economic, personnel, labor and union aspects.
  
  • MGT 5088 Project and Program Risk Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Systematically approaches risk management from project initiation to project planning, implementation, control and closeout. Discusses various techniques and models for qualitative/quantitative risk assessment and risk management in areas such as cost, schedule and outputs.
    Recommended: Background kowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  and MGT 5017 Program Management  
  
  • MGT 5089 Multiple Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines alternative methods to plan, schedule and control multi-projects within an organizational setting. Includes the role of multiple projects within an organization and the impact on conventional day-to-day workflow.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5017 Program Management  and MGT 5113 Project Management for Information Technology  
  
  • MGT 5090 Practicum for Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Formulates and applies the knowledge of project management in an integrative fashion within a project team environment. Requires a written project plan and a significant research paper or challenging project.
    Requirement(s): May serve as the capstone for certain majors. Must be taken during the last 12 credit hours of the program
  
  • MGT 5091 Research Seminar in Management 1

    Credit Hours: 1
    Independent study with a faculty member in some area of management in greater depth than is normally possible in a regular class. Requires a comprehensive term paper.
  
  • MGT 5092 Research Seminar in Management 2

    Credit Hours: 2
    Independent study with a faculty member in some area of management in greater depth than is normally possible in a regular class. Requires a comprehensive term paper.
  
  • MGT 5093 Practicum of Quality Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Formulates and applies the knowledge and skills of quality management principles and practices in an integrative fashion within a project environment. Requires a written quality project plan. Involves a significant research paper or challenging capstone project designed to demonstrate mastery over the complete curriculum.
    Requirement(s): Must be taken during the last 12 credit hours of the program
  
  • MGT 5100 Distribution Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Distribution systems and management from a cost vs. return view. U.S. and world transportation systems’ impact on distribution centers, automated order processing, warehousing techniques and layout, organization for physical distribution management, total systems approach, government regulation, distribution components and management of distribution resources.
  
  • MGT 5101 Leadership Theory and Effective Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces and examines historical development of leadership theory and supporting research. Considers past and contemporary theory in self-analysis by students to define their own leadership styles.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5013 Organizational Behavior  
  
  • MGT 5105 Interpersonal Relations and Conflict Resolution

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers interpersonal behavior in two-person relationships, emphasizing interpersonal communication and conflict resolution. Also covers group processes, development and how group norms and culture influence interpersonal relationships.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5013 Organizational Behavior  
  
  • MGT 5106 Organizational Communication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes basic communication theory and the effects of communication on human behavior and organizational effectiveness. Provides a basic understanding of organizational communication theory. Uses case studies and experiential exercises to improve communications skills.
  
  • MGT 5112 Seminar in Contemporary Issues in Human Resources Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys significant socio-political, legal, technological and economic issues in contemporary organizations and member work-life quality. Uses current and personal experiences within organizations. May serve as the capstone for certain majors.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5033 Human Resources Management  
  
  • MGT 5113 Project Management for Information Technology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the components and management process of complex projects from the information technology (IT) perspective. Introduces project management tools and techniques useful to the IT professional. Studies the formation and leadership requirements of project management.
  
  • MGT 5114 Introduction to Information Security Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the fundamental principles of computer security as applied to information technology (IT). Covers foundations, psychology, prevention, detection, human factors, technical considerations, management processes and future considerations for the security of information technology.
  
  • MGT 5115 Global Information Technology Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers theory, development and impacts of national and international policy on information technology (IT). Explores how frequent shifts in public policy require IT businesses to adjust rapidly to adhere to regulations. Requires development of sophisticated strategies including new technologies, global transfer and analysis to be able to adapt to the changing environment.
  
  • MGT 5119 Accounting for Nonprofit Entities

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers accounting systems employed by universities and other nonprofit entities. Includes fund accounting used by municipalities and county, state and federal government, and financial management cycle from planning through evaluation.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5001 Managerial Accounting  
  
  • MGT 5121 Product Lifecycle Management Concepts

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts, characteristics, models and drivers of product life-cycle management. Focuses on the people, process, practice and technology that underpin a product-centric. Product life-cycle approach to products and their information.
  
  • MGT 5122 Product Lifecycle Management Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides exploration and understanding how to use cases realized in all four of a product life cycle (create, build, sustain/support and dispose). Requires taking a product through the four life-cycle phases and understanding how a consistent product centric view drives both innovation and efficiencies.
  
  • MGT 5131 Productivity Measurement and Improvement

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the productivity and quality improvement process, organizing for successful implementation of the Deming philosophy, organizational structure and implementing teams. Includes productivity, profit and quality, organizational anxieties, measurement problems, partial/total firm productivity, JIT and TQM.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  
  
  • MGT 5132 Basic Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers market forces of supply and demand, concept of utility, firm and production, production function and costs of production, and various market structures. Introduces macroeconomics, the issues of aggregation, circular flow model, monetary sector and the government stabilization policies.
  
  • MGT 5133 Advanced Analytical Methods for Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Quantitative models using management science, operations research and decision science techniques with business applications. Includes linear and integer linear programming (graphical and simplex methods), inventory models, queuing models and Markov processes.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  and MGT 5022 Analytical Methods for Management  
  
  • MGT 5134 Commercial Enterprise in Space

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes economic considerations of space processing and Earth resources observation; history of in-space experimentation and developments; definition of Earth’s orbital environment and its attendant commercial advantages; launch operations and landing/retrieval; financial/profit considerations of operating in space; and current commercial space opportunities and risks.
  
  • MGT 5136 Investment Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes portfolio design, analysis and management including the Markowitz approach to portfolio design; the simplified model of William Sharpe; and the capital asset pricing model. Covers the management of bond and equity portfolios, portfolio optimization, arbitrage and hedging techniques.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5002 Corporate Finance  and MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  
  
  • MGT 5137 The Management of Engineering and Technology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores relationships between technology, innovation, management and business operations. Studies technology strategy in terms of the discovery-product-market path. Relates the management functions of planning, organizing and controlling to life cycles. Uses case studies.
  
  • MGT 5138 Business Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers concepts of moral philosophy and their relevance to decision making, and applies this understanding in a wide variety of practical management settings. Extensively uses case analyses.
  
  • MGT 5140 International Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers international financial systems and methods needed to adapt to the international setting. Includes international monetary system, foreign exchange markets and international trade, international accounting and taxation, foreign direct financial investment, international capital markets, multinational capital budgeting, exchange exposure and risk management.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5002 Corporate Finance  
  
  • MGT 5141 Implementing Statistical Process Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Implements an overall SPC program, emphasizing how to manage a process throughout the entire organization with the aid of tools and methods for the improvement of quality. Includes how to target processes for SPC, conduct process capability studies and maintain ongoing process control.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  
  
  • MGT 5142 Business, Government and Public Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the legal basis of the relationship of business and government, dimensions of federal regulation of business through Congressional action, administrative oversight by executive department agencies, regulatory power of independent agencies (Federal Reserve, SEC and FTC) and importance of political action committees in the influencing of public policy.
  
  • MGT 5145 Technology and Business Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the process of developing a technology strategy and integrating it with business strategy. Involves technology situation analysis, technology portfolio development, technology and corporate strategy integration and establishing technology investment priorities. Extensively uses case studies.
  
  • MGT 5146 Management of Innovation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Considers innovation in a historical context, organizing organizational culture and innovation, managing cross-functional teams, venturing and organization learning, intra- and entrepreneurship, managing R&D resources, executive leadership and the management of innovation and change, and designing innovative organizations.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5013 Organizational Behavior  
  
  • MGT 5147 Management of Technology Research Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews past and current MOT research. Systematically explores adaptation of scientific methodology to the analysis and solution of technology management problems. Requires a written proposal and a formal oral defense.
  
  • MGT 5148 Design and Analysis of Experiments

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers productivity measurement and improvement and quantitative methods used in the management of technology. Includes analysis of means, multifactor analysis of variance, factorial experiments and orthogonal arrays, including personal computer software applications for the design and analysis of experiments.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5007 Intermediate Managerial Statistics  
  
  
  • MGT 5150 Management of Software Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores management’s consideration of functional requirement specifications, design, development, implementation and maintenance of computer-based software systems that provide information technology-related services to organizations.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5014 Information Systems  
  
  • MGT 5151 Database Systems Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Investigates how database management system techniques are used to design, develop, implement and maintain modern database applications in organizations.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5014 Information Systems  
  
  • MGT 5152 Computer Systems Administration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers a chief information officer’s multiple role in management of computer-based resources, both centralized and networked data center operations with wide-area networks and local-area networks; computer-based systems development/maintenance/security.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5014 Information Systems  
  
  • MGT 5153 Telecommunications Systems Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the legal and technical operation environment of telecommunications in organizations. Assesses organizational ramifications of government telecommunications laws, policies and deregulatory activities.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5014 Information Systems  
  
  • MGT 5154 Advanced Management Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the relationship between information technology and the strategic operational and functional areas of organizations in both global and domestic environments.
    Requirement(s): May serve as the capstone for certain majors
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5014 Information Systems  
  
  • MGT 5155 Security in the Enterprise

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines topics relevant to managing security in an enterprise environment. Focuses on legal obligations and relevant legislation. Includes forensic investigation of security incidents, monitoring and surveillance, metrics and attack models.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5114 Introduction to Information Security Management  
  
  • MGT 5156 Host-Based Security

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines security from the system user’s point of view. Provides an overview of computer application development (programming languages, compilers, development, distribution, software engineering). Also includes operating systems, databases, virtualization and Web applications. Requires no prior programming knowledge.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5114 Introduction to Information Security Management  
  
  • MGT 5157 Secure Networks and Communication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines security in networked environments and digital communications. Includes the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, communications protocols, wired and wireless communications, Internet security, addressing and routing, and digital certificates. Also presents best practices, methods and tools.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5114 Introduction to Information Security Management  
  
  • MGT 5158 Topics in Advanced Database Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Expands on basic knowledge of managing database systems to support today’s complex systems. Includes query processing and optimization strategies, security and privacy issues, data analytics and decision support, and emerging technologies in a global environment.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: MGT 5151  
  
  • MGT 5159 Database Administration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Expands on basic knowledge of database administration in today’s complex systems. Covers basic concepts, processes and procedures associated with administering a database system. Provides an overview of managing, configuring and maintaining such systems (assigning roles and responsibilities, backup and recover, security, performance).
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: MGT 5014  
  
  • MGT 5160 Introduction to eBusiness

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the concept of eBusiness and how it affects businesses, governments and people. Identifies the major building blocks of an eBusiness organizational system, such as marketing, information technology, product/services distribution and strategic policy/planning.
    Recommended: Undergraduate coursework in business fundamentals or marketing
  
  • MGT 5162 Survey of Information Technologies for eBusiness

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys information technologies available for an organization’s eBusiness enterprise. Covers the role of the Internet; use of search engines for business promotions; strategies for evaluation of effectiveness of eBusiness sites; cost estimation for eBusiness site design, development and implementation; and maintenance technologies.
    Recommended: Background knowledge in technology and marketing equivalent to MGT 5019 Marketing  
  
  • MGT 5163 Marketing in An Internet-Based Environment

    Credit Hours: 3
    Develops the organization’s marketing function in an expanded, multi-channel capacity to conduct eBusiness in an Internet-based environment. Discusses barriers to eBusiness market entry and their impact on the organization’s decision making. Analyzes sources of product/service availability and cost reduction strategies in eBusiness.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5019 Marketing  and MGT 5160 Introduction to eBusiness  
  
  • MGT 5164 Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the fundamentals of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Focuses on understanding how business processes use ERP software and how they improve operations and productivity. Includes discussion and hands-on experience with ERP components (customer relationship management, human resource management).
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: MGT 5151  
  
  • MGT 5166 Projects in eBusiness

    Credit Hours: 3
    Students work closely with a faculty member to develop an eBusiness project, such as a business plan for a start-up company or an acquisition/merger of existing companies. Requires an applied research project report.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5020 Applied Management Project  
  
  • MGT 5167 Supply Chain Information Technology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on supply chain management (SCM) from a technical perspective. Introduces SCM technologies and services. Covers logistics resource management (LRM), forecasting models, network design, supply chain optimization and customer relationship management (CRM). Requires projects to simulate information flow in the supply chain.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: MGT 5014  
  
  • MGT 5170 Quality Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces principles and techniques for establishing quality goals, identification of customer needs, measurement of quality objectives and development of process features and controls for improving overall system performance.
  
  • MGT 5171 Managerial Decision Modeling

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers solving problems with decision trees, decision models based on expected value/uncertainty, forecasting, PERT/CPM, utility-based decision-making, and decision support systems. Uses case studies and computer software, and emphasizes practical applications. Features decision scenarios, decision criteria and decision states.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5006 Introductory Managerial Statistics  
  
  • MGT 5211 Procurement and Contract Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews in depth the federal acquisition process and introduces the basic concepts, policies and procedures incident to government contracting through the FAR and supplementing directives.
  
  • MGT 5212 Advanced Procurement and Contract Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers principles, policies, concepts and procedures in management of contracts and subcontracts. Includes rules of interpretation, subcontracting terms and conditions, in-depth examination of significant contract clauses, patent/data provisions, risk allocation and assumption, impossibility of performance, product liability, warranties and claims.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5211 Procurement and Contract Management  
  
  • MGT 5213 Contract Changes, Terminations and Disputes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Uses case studies and lectures to examine in depth the post-award management problems associated with contract administration. Covers contract changes, terminations, disputes and other issues.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5211 Procurement and Contract Management  
  
  
  • MGT 5215 Emergency Procurement and Contract Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the basic concepts, policies and procedures incident to public agency contracting. Includes in-depth coverage of the acquisition process. Emphasizes using commercial organizations to supply goods and services; contingency contracting and interagency support; and establishing organizations for maintenance and continuity of operations.
  
  • MGT 5216 Management of Logistics in Complex Emergencies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers key institutional factors. Includes emergency rescue; military agencies; local, state and federal emergency agencies in the field; and international humanitarian and relief organizations. Explores emergency requirements for food, shelter, healthcare and public order.
  
  • MGT 5217 Contract and Subcontract Formulation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies in depth the pre-award phase of the federal acquisition process. Uses class discussions and case studies to examine the management problems from the perspective of the contracting office, requiring activity, courts, Congress and the contractors.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5211 Procurement and Contract Management  
  
  • MGT 5218 Contract Negotiations and Incentive Contracts

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores, analyzes and discusses negotiation concepts and techniques, and places them into practice using mock negotiations. Examines all types of contracts.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5211 Procurement and Contract Management  
  
  • MGT 5220 Contract Management Research Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3
    Advanced study and research of topical government contract management issues. Involves a significant research paper or challenging capstone project designed to demonstrate mastery over the complete curriculum.
    Requirement(s): Must be taken during the last 12 credit hours of the program
  
  • MGT 5231 Government Contract Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the method rather than the material. Uses the case method of study and basic source material to cover all facets of procurement law. Emphasizes legal methods, logic and the developmental concepts of procurement law.
  
  • MGT 5240 Business and Legal Aspects of Intellectual Property

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines patents, trademark, copyright and trade secret law.
  
  • MGT 5270 Special Topics in Contracts Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Independent study with a faculty member in an area of contract management in greater depth than is normally possible in a regular class. Requires a comprehensive term paper.
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5211 Procurement and Contract Management  
  
  • MGT 5300 Healthcare Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the development of the U.S. healthcare system. Includes the origins of the trends that led to the current and future American healthcare system; role of the manager in design of the organization with respect to procedures, resources and feedback; professional integration; and interaction of management and other healthcare professionals.
  
  • MGT 5301 Healthcare Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes the ethical, legal and technological setting for organizational theory and concepts; strategic planning and marketing in the hospital setting; management engineering applied to problem-solving and decision-making; motivation for resource output and control; and leadership, interpersonal and organizational communication.
  
  • MGT 5302 Healthcare Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides students with theory, tools and practical experience in healthcare financial management. Examines payment sources and reimbursement arrangements, public and private financing of healthcare service organizations from both theoretical and practical perspectives, and emerging trends in the healthcare industry affecting decision-making.
    Prerequisite: MGT 5000  and MGT 5002  
  
  • MGT 5303 Healthcare Ethics and Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys the legal environment of the health services industry from a policy perspective. Emphasizes the tensions and trade-offs between quality and cost. Includes access to healthcare, antitrust laws, personnel licensure and institutional accreditation, malpractice, and professional and institutional liability, among other topics.
  
  • MGT 5304 Healthcare Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies fundamental microeconomic concepts to the analysis of the healthcare market and the study of the organization and delivery of medical care services. Includes demand of care and insurance, supply of care by physicians and organizations, and rational for government intervention.
    Prerequisite: MGT 5132  
  
  • MGT 5305 Healthcare Quality Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the systems that measure and maintain quality in healthcare. Includes how to improve the standards of care and hold the effectiveness and efficiency of care, and the functions and requirements of the new Total Quality Management discipline as it applies to healthcare.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5301 Healthcare Management  
  
  • MGT 5310 Healthcare Nursing Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes basic issues nursing professionals must handle. Also covers leadership, professional skills, personal issues, organizational behavior and development of peak performance psychology, management skills and career development.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to MGT 5301 Healthcare Management  
  
  • MGT 5311 Healthcare Information Systems Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews modern information technologies for locating health statistics. Covers basic concepts of data quality and presentation. Familiarizes students with the scope and range of data systems, and explores important health indicators. Emphasizes decision-making needs.
    Prerequisite: MGT 5301  
  
  • MGT 5312 Healthcare Marketing and Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the principles and concepts of marketing as they apply to healthcare organizations. Discusses the nature of marketing strategy, the environment in which marketing operates, the consumer decision-making process, market research, market mix, and monitoring and controlling the marketing process.
    Prerequisite: MGT 5019  
  
  • MGT 5500 Integrated Logistics Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides the framework for integrated logistics support (ILS). Discusses the management tools available to logistics managers and places ILS in perspective within the acquisition process. Includes understanding of all elements of ILS, the relationship of ILS elements to ILS planning and current systems acquisition practices.
  
  • MGT 5901 Master of Public Administration Capstone Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Involves team-based consulting activity for an outside client organization. Requires a project, written report and presentation assessed for synthesis of learned competencies in oral and written communication, critical thinking and public policy administration.
    Requirement(s): Serves as capstone for the Master of Public Administration  degree program. Must be taken during the last 12 credit hours of the program
  
  • MGT 5902 Human Resources Management Capstone Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Involves a team-based consulting activity for an outside client organization. Requires a project, written report and presentation assessed for synthesis of learned competencies in oral and written communication, critical thinking and human resources management.
    Requirement(s): Serves as the capstone for the Human Resources Management  degree program. Must be taken during the last 12 credit hours of the program
  
  • MGT 5903 Logistics Management Capstone Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Involves a team-based consulting activity for an outside client organization. Requires a project, written report and presentation assessed for synthesis of learned competencies in oral and written communication, critical thinking and logistics management.
    Requirement(s): Serves as the capstone for the Logistics Management  degree program. Must be taken during the last 12 credit hours of the program
  
  • MGT 5904 Systems Management Capstone Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Involves a team-based consulting activity for an outside client organization. Requires a project, written report and presentation assessed for synthesis of learned competencies in oral and written communication, critical thinking and systems management.
    Requirement(s): Serves as the capstone for the Systems Management  degree program. Must be taken during the last 12 credit hours of the program
  
  • MGT 5905 Technology Management Capstone Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Involves a team-based consulting activity with an outside client organization. Requires a project, written report and presentation assessed for synthesis of learned competencies in oral and written communication, and the use of technology in organizations.
    Requirement(s): Serves as capstone for the Technology Management  degree program. Must be taken during the last 12 credit hours of the program
  
  • MGT 6000 Doctor of Business Administration Introduction and Orientation

    Credit Hours: 0
    Introduces the doctoral program to each new cohort of students. Addresses curriculum, scheduling, research requirements and administrative aspects of the program. Also introduces faculty and staff before formal orientation.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
  
  • MGT 6001 Issues in Strategic Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews strategic management of a business. Emphasizes the specific problems using case studies in accounting, finance, economics and marketing. Focuses on strategies across all aspects of a business and how to analyze business cases. Requires extensive, academic-style writing and case study analysis.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
  
  • MGT 6002 Organizational Behavior, Ethics and Responsibilities in Business Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews strategic management of a business. Emphasizes specific problems using case studies in organizational behavior, ethics and social responsibility. Focuses on key areas of organizational behavior and managing change. Requires extensive, academic-style writing and case study analysis.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
  
  • MGT 6003 Advanced Study of Human Resources in Modern Business Enterprises

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines all aspects of human resources management in global business enterprises. Requires extensive, academic-style writing and case study analysis.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
  
  • MGT 6004 Advanced Study in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines innovation and entrepreneurship in modern society. Requires extensive, academic-style writing and case study analysis.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
  
  • MGT 6005 Advanced Study in Business Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines modern topics in a global modern society. Includes theories in leadership from leading case studies and current research. Requires extensive, academic-style writing and case study analysis.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
  
  • MGT 6006 Advanced Study in International Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines all aspects of business in a global context. Focuses on the challenges of business in international markets. Also examines the effects of global competition and currency fluctuations. Requires extensive, academic-style writing and case study analysis.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
  
  • MGT 6007 Advanced Study in Financial Business Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines all aspects of financial management in a global modern business enterprise. Requires extensive, academic-style writing and case study analysis.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
  
  • MGT 6008 Legal Environment in Business

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the legal environment of business in an international and domestic context. Requires extensive, academic-style writing and case study analysis.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
  
  • MGT 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted candidacy
  
  • MGT 6990 Research Methods 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores qualitative, quantitative and mixed method modes of research design. Involves extensive writing and exploration of research methods in preparation for the dissertation proposal. Reviews chapters of individual dissertations. Also explores sample dissertation topics.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
    Requirement(s): Successful completion of doctoral comprehensive examination
    May be repeated for credit
  
  • MGT 6991 Research Methods 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores qualitative research methods. Involves extensive writing and exploration of quantitative research methods in preparation for the dissertation proposal. Reviews chapters of individual dissertations and sample dissertation topics emphasizing quantitative methods.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
    Requirement(s): Successful completion of doctoral comprehensive examination
    Prerequisite: MGT 6990   Corequisite: MGT 6990  
    May be repeated for credit
  
  • MGT 6992 Special Topics Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0
    Addresses selected topics of special research interest of faculty. Advances critical issues within the business research community. Requires registration over three semesters with different topics.
    Majors in Doctor of Business Administration (9062)
    Must be repeated three times with different topics
  
  • MGT 6999 Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Successful completion of the doctoral comprehensive examination

Military Science

  
  • MSC 1001 Military Science 1

    Credit Hours: 1
    Studies the history, mission and organization of Army ROTC and the U.S. Army; customs, courtesies, squad organization and first aid; and leadership development through practical exercises. Academic classes meet one hour weekly. Leadership lab meets 1.5 hours weekly. Optional: Ranger Company, Cadet Club, Color Guard, Drill Team and field exercises.
  
  • MSC 1002 Military Science 1

    Credit Hours: 1
    Studies the history, mission and organization of Army ROTC and the U.S. Army; customs, courtesies, squad organization and first aid; and leadership development through practical exercises. Academic classes meet one hour weekly. Leadership lab meets 1.5 hours weekly. Optional: Ranger Company, Cadet Club, Color Guard, Drill Team and field exercises.
    Prerequisite: MSC 1001 
  
  • MSC 1003 Leadership Laboratory 1

    Credit Hours: 1
    Students engage in a minimum of 4.5 hours of basic military leadership and management techniques to include physical training, troop leading procedures, field training and individual and small unit tactics and training.
  
  • MSC 1004 Leadership Laboratory 2

    Credit Hours: 1
    Students engage in a minimum of 4.5 hours of basic military leadership and management techniques to include physical training, troop leading procedures, field training and individual and small unit tactics and training.
    Prerequisite: MSC 1003 
  
  • MSC 2001 Military Science 2

    Credit Hours: 2
    Land navigation and map reading; basic leadership and continued leadership development through practical exercises; Army communications procedures. Academic classes meet two hours weekly. Leadership lab meets 1.5 hours weekly. Optional: Ranger Company, Cadet Club, Color Guard, Drill Team and additional weekend field exercises.
  
  • MSC 2002 Military Science 2

    Credit Hours: 2
    Land navigation and map reading; basic leadership and continued leadership development through practical exercises; Army communications procedures. Academic classes meet two hours weekly. Leadership lab meets 1.5 hours weekly. Optional: Ranger Company, Cadet Club, Color Guard, Drill Team and additional weekend field exercises.
    Prerequisite: MSC 2001 
  
  • MSC 3001 Military Science 3

    Credit Hours: 3
    Military estimates, operation orders and platoon tactics; weapons, land navigation, military skills and communications II; instructional techniques; and development of leadership through tactical exercises. Classes meet three hours weekly. Leadership lab meets 1.5 hours weekly. Optional: Ranger Company, Cadet Club and additional weekend field exercises (attendance required).
    Prerequisite: MSC 1001  and MSC 1002  and MSC 2001  and MSC 2002  
  
  • MSC 3002 Military Science 3

    Credit Hours: 3
    Military estimates, operation orders and platoon tactics; weapons, land navigation, military skills and communications II; instructional techniques; and development of leadership through tactical exercises. Classes meet three hours weekly. Leadership lab meets 1.5 hours weekly. Optional: Ranger Company, Cadet Club and additional weekend field exercises (attendance required).
    Prerequisite: MSC 3001 
 

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