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IS 666 - Current Topics Via Distance Learning
This course will be conducted on the Internet by the instructor. Students will interact with the instructor and one another using the communications platform of the Internet. E-mail, chat room and other vehicles will be utilized. Each trimester the course will focus on a different contemporary theme that is of interest to the business community. Individual research on the topic conducted by the student will be presented to the community and discussed in an open forum setting.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 580
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IS 681 - Security and Privacy Internet
This course utilizes both chat rooms (synchronous) and discussion groups (asynchronous) as communications modalities to explore the major issues and debates surrounding workplace security and privacy. The following topics are covered: general privacy issues and legislation, e-mail and voice mail monitoring, e-commerce security, Internet usage monitoring, and market databases and consumer privacy.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 580
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IS 684 - Internet Based Application Development
This course examines the significant aspects of initiating and maintaining a corporate presence in the Internet. The class begins with an overview of the Internet with discussion of such topics as File Transfer Protocol, e-mail, and the World Wide Web. Students will evaluate current connection technologies such as digital dial-up, DSL, T1 and fiber optics. ISP’s services will be surveyed. There will be a discussion of server hardware, operating systems, web-server software, firewalls, Internet appliances, and Internet application development tools. Internet applications such as IP Telephony, business to consumer, and business to business will be investigated. Students will use an Internet applications software development tool to construct and publish a website.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 580 or equivalent
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IS 685 - Business Analytics with Data Mining
Modern computational and Internet-based technologies allow business organizations to capture, store and warehouse vast quantities of data. Data mining is concerned with the task of extracting information and knowledge from this data that can be used to help an organization function more effectively. In this course, state-of-the-art data mining techniques and technologies used in business analytics will be studied.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 580 and MBA 510
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IS 686 - Business Analytics with Text Mining
An estimated 80 percent or more of an organization’s data is semi-structured or unstructured textual data (call center logs, emails, corporate documents/forms, etc.). Thanks to the web and social media, the volume of textual data has grown at an unprecedented pace during the past decade. This course aims to increase student awareness of the power of text mining to derive business insights from text-based content. The primary focus in the course is on predictive modeling within broad frameworks for business analytics. In addition, students will learn practical techniques for information retrieval and text mining that allow organizations to maximize the value of information within large volumes of textual data.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MBA 580 or equivalent and MBA 510 or equivalent.
Offered in the Fall, Winter and Spring trimesters
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IS 690 - Managing Network-Based Applications
This course presents an introduction to the technical and organizational skills necessary for building, implementing and maintaining a telecommunications system. The topics covered include data transmission, voice communication, distributed networks, value-added carriers, and telecommunications architectures. The case studies will focus on evaluation of the design, implementation and management of telecommunication systems. A course project is required.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 580
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IS 699 - Independent Research in Information Systems
This course provides selected students with the opportunity to conduct in depth research in areas of specific interest as determined by the students and faculty mentor. Independent Research may be undertaken withthe approval of the student’s faculty mentor and the chairperson of the Department as one of the final courses in the program.
Thesis Research
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 580
Department Consent Required
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IS 990 - Special Topics in Information Systems
In a quickly changing, technology-centric business environment, it is crucial for business students to stay current. This course will cover a topic or set of topics in Information Systems/Business Analytics that is relevant to current or emerging business technologies and trends, but is not an area of focus in other graduate level IS offerings. The topic of the course may differ each time it is offered.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 580
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IS 991 - Special Topics in Information Systems
This course provides a systems view of computer networking and telecommunications. Topics include voice and data communications, networking protocols, IP telephony, wireless and mobile networks, networking security and management. The course also covers networking and telecommunication techniques, applications technology, networking topologies and architectures. Specific areas discussed include LAN system fundamentals, such as Ethernet and token ring, WAN system fundamentals, such as circuit-switching, packet-switching, X.25, frame relay and Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed
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ITA 700 - Early Italian Theater 1250 to 1800
This course is a survey of the various genres of theater prevalent from Renaissance Italy to the late seventeenth century. Attention is given to the historical and cultural background in which the plays were first produced. Technical innovations and literary issues are also central to this course. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 701 - Medieval and Renaissance Short Story
This course will investigate the evolution of the Italian narrative prose from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Students will read and discuss representative texts in their historical context. Readings will include excerpts from the Novellino, Dante’s La Vita Nuova, and the Decameron by Boccaccio, as well as from other writers of the Renaissance such as Petrarch, Luigi Pulci, Lorenzo de Medici, and Niccolo Machiavelli. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 702 - Lyric Poetry from the 13th to 17th Century
This course is a survey of the lyric tradition in Italy from the late Middle Ages to the early Baroque. Special attention is given to thematic and poetic innovation, as well as to the historical circumstances in which the poetry was produced. This course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 703 - Autobiography
This course serves as an introduction to the genre of life writing through the study of a selection of representative autobiographies from different periods and by authors of various disciplines (writers, artists, philosophers, playwrights). Particular attention will be given to those works written in the eighteenth century, the era in which autobiographies enjoyed a boom in production and in readership. The class is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 710 - Dante I
This course treats Dante’s evolution from his early work in the La Vita Nuova through the Convivo to the first part of the Commedia, the Inferno. This course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 711 - Dante II
This course will focus on a close, critical reading of Dante’s Purgatorio and Paradiso with reference to the important religious, philosophical, political, and social elements of early fourteenth century Italy. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 750 - The Art and Politics of Renaissance Italy
The major interest of this interdisciplinary course will be to explore the intersections between the worlds of art, philosophy, and literature and that of politics in the main city-states of Quattrocento and Cinquecento Italy. This course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 760 - Renaissance Epic Poetry
This course is a survey of the major works of the Italian Epic tradition, with particular attention on poetic invention and manipulation of traditional motifs of this genre. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 780 - Italian Baroque and Enlightenment
This course is an examination of the art, culture, and literature of the period of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with particular attention on the counter-reformation in the 17th century and the Enlightenment in the 18th century. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in the Spring Semester
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ITA 790 - Italian Language Pedagogy
This course addresses the theoretical issues around the teaching of Italian as a foreign language, while placing them in the greater context of second language teaching and learning. The course surveys a variety of methodologies and practices, including current ones in order to address specific issues around developing learners’ cultural proficiency as well as their proficiency in the skill areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking in Italian. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 800 - Modern Italian Theater
In this course, students will analyze the masterpieces of Italian modern drama through the reading of theatrical works spanning almost 200 years, from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth century. The reading and discussion of several operas will be included, as well as film representations of select performances. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 810 - Leopardi, Manzoni, and Foscolo
This course presents significant social, political and literary trends in early eighteenth century Italy by focusing on the three principal writers of the age, Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Manzoni, and Giacomo Leopardi. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 850 - Italian Civilization from the Risorgimento to World War I
Focused on the history, literature, and painting of Italy from 1860 until 1918, this interdisciplinary course aims to offer students a deeper understanding of the complex historical events that helped to shape Italy after the Unification and into the twentieth century. The class is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 860 - Modern Italian Narrative
In this course, students will read the great novels written in Italy in the last 150 years: from just after National Unification in 1861 through World War I, the Fascist Ear, World War II, and up to the post-war reality and beyond. This course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 880 - Modern Italian Poetry
In this course, students will study the development of Italian poetry in the late 19th and 20th centuries, exploring how creativity is affected by personal experience, artistic conventions, culture, and politics. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 900 - Italian Cinema
This course will examine Italian cinema from a variety of cultural, artistic, and historical perspectives from its origins in the first years of the twentieth century to the present. The course will center upon several of the great masterpieces of Italian cinema that emerged after World War II, often viewed under the rubric of “neo-realism.” The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 910 - Italy and Fascism
This course will address the phenomenon of Italian Fascism through the study of historical texts, literary works, and art. Emphasis will be placed on addressing issues such as how Mussolini come to power, how the regime influenced the daily lives of Italians, what ties the Duce had to German Nazism, and the birth of the Resistance Movement. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 920 - History of the Italian Language
In this course, students will chronologically trace the development of the Italian language from its Latin roots to the language of the present day. Emphasis will be placed on the historical formation of Italian and its dialects. Historical phonology and morphology, and problems of syntax and lexicon will also be addressed. Examples from early Italian texts will be used for linguistic analysis. Students will also learn and practice translation techniques at the end of the course. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 930 - Women Writers of the Twentieth Century
In this course, students will investigate the most important works written by Italian women during the last century. Texts will be read in their cultural context, with particular attention paid to the history of Italian women. Readings will include novels, short stories and poetry. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 950 - Fantastic Literature
This course explores the genre of fantastic fiction through a reading of short stories, brief novels, and plays by important modern Italian authors. Much emphasis will be placed on the viewing of important cinematic representations of these texts. Special attention will be devoted to contextualizing Italian fantastic fiction within this international literary movement. Topics may include the inherently subversive nature of the fantastic, the link between fantastic texts and politics, and the theoretical debate about the fantastic in critics such as Freud and Todorov. The course is conducted in Italian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 980 - Culminating Experience
This course is required for completion of the MS in Adolescence Education (7-12): Italian. Under the supervision of a faculty member approved by the department chair, the student will prepare a special project that reflects the student’s interests and course of study. The project may focus on a variety of topics, including teaching methodology, literature, and culture. The student will submit a detailed proposal for the project to the faculty advisor before registering. Prerequisites: completion of 18 credits in Italian and permission of the department chair.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Department Consent Required
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ITA 981 - Thesis
The student will develop a thesis topic in consultation with a faculty adviser. The thesis will be written under the direction of this adviser within the Italian section of the Department of Foreign Languages. A thesis committee, consisting of two faculty members, will provide continuous feedback and judge the final version of the thesis.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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ITA 990 - Special Topics
Topics will be drawn from a full gamut of possibilities within the fields of Italian language and literature.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MBA 500 - Business Perspectives
This course provides an overview of the MBA program and an integrated perspective of business. Each trimester students will work in teams focusing on a specific company. A variety of media and technologies will be utilized to analyze a company from a variety of perspectives: mission; strategies; financial information; use of technology; corporate policies on ethics diversity and the environment; marketing strategy; global policies; succession plans; HR strategy; etc. Both a comprehensive written and oral report using contemporary presentation media are required. Required for all MBA students who enter the program beginning in the Summer 1996. Course must be taken within first 9 credits.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MBA 510 - Quantitative Tools for Management
This course provides a survey of quantitative tools essential for business analysis and also provides a basis for the subsequent study of quantitative business methods. The course covers an introduction to statistical methodologies and the interpretation of statistical findings, measures of centrala tendency, dispersion, probability, discrete and continuous distributions, sampling inference, simple and multiple correlational and regression. It also surveys some of the most commonly used management science models employed by decision makers in structuring and solving problems encountered by organizations. These include decision theory, linear programming, queuing models, Markov analysis and simulation. The computer will be used to generate solutions to several problems. Issues of implementation will permeate the coverage of material throughout the course. Not open to students who entered the MBA program prior to Summer 1996.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MBA 520 - Financial Accounting and Reporting
A study of the nature and purpose of accounting and its use by management to communicate information to external stakeholders; elements and presentation of the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows; the accounting information system and recording process; the sales/revenue cycle, cost of goods sold and inventory; and financial statements analysis and investment desicions.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MBA 530 - Economics for Managers
This course will explore the basic tools of micro and macroeconomic analysis with emphasis on decision making in domestic and international business. Topics include demand theory, supply, the price system, cost analysis, market structures, factor pricing, national accounts, fiscal and monetary policy, and international economics. Not open to students who entered the MBA program prior to Summer 1996.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MBA 550 - Finance for Managers
Corporate managers study finance to understand the relationship between the value of the stockholder’s investment in the business enterprise and the internal decisions that control the firms’ resources. This course surveys the concepts, theory and decision-making techniques of financial management. It investigates the ethical, environmental and international dimensions of financial decisions. It also exposes students to various sources of information about the worldwide financial markets.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Corequisite: MBA 510
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MBA 560 - Marketing Management
This course surveys the activities and decisions involved in directing the flow of need-satisfying products and services to consumers in domestic and foreign markets. Areas of study include corporate strategy, marketing planning, marketing research, the marketing environment, consumer behavior, market segmentation and targeting, product development, pricing, promotion, distribution, social marketing, and marketing ethics.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MBA 570 - Management and Organizational Behavior
This course explores both human behavior and the overall functioning of organizational structures on three levels: the individual, group and organization. It examines the theoretical issues influencing behavior and practical issues influencing the management of complex systems. Topics include group dynamics and process, organizational structure, communications, conflict management, job design, and organizational change and development.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MBA 580 - Information Systems
In a business environment where operational efficiency, strategic planning, and competitive positioning are increasingly impacted by and dependent upon technology innovations and information analysis, study of information systems is an essential pursuit for business leaders. This course introduces students to the technology foundations and management concepts related to the use of information and technology in business. It examines the techniques used to acquire, build, maintain, and secure information systems that support business operations and business intelligence. Students will also learn the strategic roles of information systems and emerging technologies within the organization and its competitive environment. Course emphasis is placed upon the managerial considerations and analytical skills associated with efficient operation and ethical decision-making in today’s information-driven business environment. MS Excel skills will be included.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MBA 710 - Strategic Management
This course focuses on corporate-level and business-unit strategy formulation and implementation. It encourages a multi-functional ‘general management’ perspective that requires the integration and application of knowledge and techniques learned in previous courses. Topics covered include the relationship of organizations to their domestic and international environments, strategic leadership, formal and informal approaches to strategy formulation in uncertain environments, competitive analysis, the role of organizational structure and managerial systems in implementation, and mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of strategic decisions. The course also addresses ethical and legal issues associated with the strategic management process. Conceptual and analytical skills are developed through readings and lectures, with an emphasis on cases.
Seminar
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Must be within last 9 credits of degree completion. Student must contact the Assistant Dean for permission to enroll.
Capstone Course
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MFT 509 - Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy
A survey of and introduction to the field of family therapy with emphasis on family therapy and systemic theory. The course will familiarize students with a working vocabulary of family therapy terms. It will be an introduction to the historical and conceptual influences on family therapy. The course will provide exposure to four models: Satir, Bowen, Object Relations, and Adlerian.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in the Summer
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MFT 510 - Lifespan Personality Development
The course, through lectures and interactive means, is designed to acquaint the learner with the facts, major theories, clinical and parenting implications of human growth and development from a life-span point of view. Biological, cognitive, social, relational and intergenerational perspectives are considered. Family systems and approaches are featured in an integrative context.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in Fall & Spring Offered in the Summer
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MFT 531 - Group Dynamics in the Family
A laboratory course in the study of the forces and dynamics that operate in small groups. Analysis of class experience is used to foster more percise understanding of the interaction; further refinement of skills required for effective counseling/therapy; and development of greater counselor/therapist discrimination in the assesment of dynamics in both individual and group experience.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MFT 540 - Fundamental Concepts of Psychiatry
This course is designed to introduce the student to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-%). Through the use of lecture, case vignettes, extensive descriptions, video presentations, and class discussion, the student will be better able to comprehend the standard diagnostic criteria applied to patients. The class will explore how culture, gender, and other aspects of diversity intersect with psychiatric diagnosis. Additionally, we will look at some of the changes incorporated in DSM-5, differing from DSM-IV.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in the Fall Semester Offered in the Summer
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MFT 551 - Pre-Practicum Seminar
This course is oriented toward those students who are preparing for field placement. It is designed to provide interviewing and training skills to students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program. Students in training are expected to gain an understanding of the role of the counselor/therapist and the therapeutic process, how clients change, and basic strategies. It is essentially a laboratory course with major emphasis on practice. Role playing, video tapes and the use of the video camera will be utilized as part of the learning process.
Seminar
Credits: 3
Offered in the Spring Semester Offered in the Summer
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MFT 580 - Dimensions of Aging
An introduction to the study of aging. Biological, economic, psychological and social aspects will be examined.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed
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MFT 630 - Relational Psychopathology
Family Psychopathology will be studied from theoretical, therapeutic and preventive perspectives. Family influences on individual functional and dysfunctional behavior will be examined from contextual and relational views. Psychopathology (in the absence of genetic influences or other predisposing conditions, i.e. temperament or character) will be seen as the end product of faulty or incomplete socialization.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MFT 740 - Marital Therapy
A course designed to present the basic techniques and strategies for clinicians to become effective marriage and couple therapists. Marital relationships and marital and couple therapy are viewed from the individual, interactive, and intergenerational perspectives. Attention is given to larger systems context, including the role changing social and political environments play is assessment and treatment formulations. Several current models of marital/couple treatment are presented and critiqued. Integration of theory and clinical practice is achieved through case discussions, including application to special populations and problems that present at the Iona Marriage and Family Therapy Center.
Seminar
Credits: 3
Offered in the Fall Semester
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MFT 741 - Parenting
This course is designed to consider parenting from a systems perspective. It will consider structural elements such as parenting as a subsystem in the larger family system, boundaries, roles and rules in the family. Parenthood will be examined at various focal points in the life cycle of the family. Satir’s communications model and techniques will be utilized also. Multigenerational dynamics will be discussed.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in the Spring Semester
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MFT 743 - Human Sexuality
This course undertakes to provide prospective marriage and family therapists with a theoretical and practical foundation for dealing with human sexual behavior. This course will sort out good information from bad, opinion from fact, and myth from truth as to provide an integrated introduction to the study of human behavior. Human sexual behavior will be examined from multiple perspectives: the biological, psychological, socio-cultural, and the systemic. The course will provide a systemic basis for evaluating the marital relationship of couples with sexual problems and dysfunctions. Students will be given a method for understanding marital/sexual problems using an intergenerational, interpersonal perspective.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in the Fall Semester
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MFT 785 - Spiritual, Psychological, and Systemic Aspects of Dying
An introductory course into this essential force in the life cycle. Our North American culture often hides death from view and even presumes that, along with our other enemies, death can be defeated. The course examines our social and cultural perspective on death: the individual psychodynamics ramifications, life-cycle perspectives, as well as the systemic impact. The course differentiates between complicated and uncomplicated grief and provides differing treatment perspectives for each phenomena. An assessment paradigm and techniques will be explored. Lastly, consideration will be given to the loss history of those who work in the field, as well as the impact of loss and working with those in loss on the counselors themselves.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed
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MFT 786 - Complicated Grief
Sociological and technological trends have increased the frequency of complicated mourning experiences in the general population. Factors increasing the risk of complicated mourning will be examined, as well as therapeutic methods.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed
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MFT 787 - Children and the Mourning Experience
Children will be the focus of this course in two ways. The mourning experience of children at different developmental stages will be examined. The death of a child will be discussed from the point of view of its effect on parents and family dynamics.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed
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MFT 794 - Family Approaches to Therapy
A course designed to help the student-family therapist who is about to begin his/her clinical career search selected major models of family therapy to find one that best expresses her/his personal world view. Several philosophical themes about the human condition are examined so the beginning therapist may delineate, more clearly, her/his world view, and to learn how one’s values intersect with clinical practice. The impact of contextual variables (e.g. gender, culture/race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, spirituality, etc) on the formation of one’s world view is explored. Self-of-the-therapist issues are explored via student presentation and student-led class discussion.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in the Fall Semester
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MFT 795 - Marriage, Family and Friendship Therapy
This course will examine dyadic relationships as they manifest themselves in friendships, marital and family relationships. A discussion of the nature and developments of intimacy, Bowen’s concepts of differentiation of self, family of origin schemas and communication skills. Techniques for assessing relational satisfaction and compatibility will be introduced. Techniques for developing communication skills and negotiating conflicts will be presented.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in the Spring Semester
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MFT 796 - Symposium in Family Therapy
In this course ( intended for the advanced student and senior student clinician) we will review the epistemology foundations of family therapy, especially systems and cybernetics concepts as they relate to depicting family dynamics and to creating therapeutic interventions. We will review the historical antecedents of family therapy and discuss several seminal models of treatment. In addition, we will shift our focus from action and intervention to meaning and conversation as we review the postmodern critique of family therapy with the intent on understanding how the “power of the therapist” informs assessment and treatment. Collaborative practices - including use of narrative and reflecting team in action will be emphasized.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed
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MFT 800 - Supervised Case Seminar for Family Therapy Certificate
An analysis of current development and problems met in therapy practice and supervision based on the student’s work.
Seminar
Credits: 3
Corequisite: Cns 870
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MFT 880 - Ethical Issues in Marriage and Family Therapy
This course will focus on the ethical responsibilities of the counselor in a variety of therapy situations. The case study method will be used in which the counselor will be responsible for the evaluation and written analysis of the cases.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed
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MFT 885 - Multicultural Issues in Counseling/Therapy
While the major emphasis of this course will be a survey of the theory and practice underlying the mental health practitioners and delivery of clinical services to multicultural populations, it will also emphasize the role of the practitioners own ‘culture’ in the counseling/therapy relationship. More specifically, special attention will be focused on personal attitudes, prejudices, culturally dependent ‘world views’ and paradigms that affect human relationships as well as counseling and therapy. Students will be expected to engage in an initial and honest exploration of their own cultural frames of reference and the impact of their personal ‘world views’ on the counseling/therapy and other relationships.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed
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MFT 895 - Research in Marriage and Family Therapy
An introductory course to the field of family therapy research. Current available methodologies, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies will be presented. Each method’s underlying assumptions and historical development will be discussed.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MFT 998 - Special Field Placement
Students may register for this course only with the written permission of the chair of the department. A written project may be required. Grade option: Pass/Fail.
Field Studies
Credits: 3
Offered When Needed
Department Consent Required
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MFT 6100 - Marriage and Family Therapy Clinical Pre-Practicum
Students are assigned to various approved counseling centers (including Iona’s Marriage and Family Therapy Center), hospitals, clinics and social service agencies where they engage in a pre-practicum internship in clinical work under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional acceptable to New York State to provide supervision in marriage and family therapy. This pre-practicum experience is designed to help the student begin to integrate the student’s theoretical knowledge with direct practice, to develop professional skills, to deepen self-awareness and the ability to use oneself in the treatment process. The course also serves to help the student beginning clinical practice to begin to learn how to establish the marriage and family therapist’s professional role in relation to other professionals from allied helping fields. Students are expected to follow the guidelines given in the student manual with respect to expectations of clinical practice and abide by the directives of the Clinical Director/Field Placement Coordinator.
Practicum
Credits: 1.5
Prerequisite: MFT 509 , MFT 531 , MFT 540 , MFT 551 , MFT 795 , and MFT 880
Department Consent Required
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MFT 6510 - Supervised Case Seminar I
This is the introductory case seminar designed to be taken in conjunction with the first practicum. Both the Seminar and the Practicum usually extend over two consecutive semesters. Students meet in groups with a maximum of six, to discuss case material from their practicum setting.
Seminar
Credits: 1.5
Department Approval Required.
Department Consent Required
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MFT 6520 - Supervised Case Seminar I
This is the second semester of the Supervised Case Seminar I.
Seminar
Credits: 1.5
Department Approval Required.
Department Consent Required
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MFT 6710 - Marriage and Family Therapy Practicum Field Placement I
Students are assigned to various approved counseling centers, hospitals, clinics, and social service agencies where they engage in an internship in clinical work under the supervision of a professionally trained supervisor. This practicum is designed to integrate the student’s theroetical knowledge with direct practice, to develop professional skills, to deepen self-awarness and the ability to use oneself in the treatment process. This course also serves to establish the counselor/therapist’s professional role in relation to other professionals from allied helping fields. Students are expected to follow directives given in the field placement manual. Grading is pass(P) or fail(F).
Field Studies
Credits: 1.5
Prerequisite: CNS 551
Department Consent Required
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MFT 6720 - Marriage and Family Therapy Practicum Field Placement I
This is the second semester of the Counseling Practicum.
Field Studies
Credits: 1.5
Department Consent Required
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MFT 7510 - Supervised Case Seminar II
Supervised Case Seminar II.
Seminar
Credits: 1.5
Department Consent Required
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MFT 7520 - Supervised Case Seminar II
This is the second semester of the Supervised Case Seminar II.
Seminar
Credits: 1.5
Offered When Needed
Department Consent Required
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MFT 7710 - Marriage and Family Therapy Practicum - Field Placement II
This is a continuation of Marriage and Family Therapy Practicum-Field Placement I, on a more advanced level. Grading is Pass (P) or Fail (F).
Field Studies
Credits: 1.5
Prerequisites: CNS 6710, 6720
Department Consent Required
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MFT 7720 - Marriage and Family Therapy Practicum - Field Placement 2
This is the second semester of the Marriage and Family Therapy Practicum.
Lecture
Credits: 1.5
Department Consent Required
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MKT 610 - Marketing Research
An in-depth study of a wide spectrum of quantitative and qualitative methods and procedures used in marketing research amd their application to marketing decision making. A marketing research project will provide hands-on experience in planning and implementing marketing research, including problem identification, research design, use of secondary data, questionnaire design, sampling, fleidwork , data analysis, and oral and wriiten report presentation.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 510 & MBA 560
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MKT 615 - Consumer Behavior
An intensive study of the consumer as decision maker. Cultural, social, personal and psychological influences on consumer decision making will be analyzed. Relevance to market segmentation, product positioning, product development, and promotion by business and nonprofit organizations will be examined.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 616 - Brand Management
Students will develop core skills needed towards understanding, crafting, measuring and managing brand strategies across a variety of industries, such as fashion, sports and entertainment. The course draws on marketing, sociological, psychological and technological theories of consumer behavior and culture and examines branding as a co-creation of consumers, marketers and culture. The course objectives are to:
1) Design effective brand identifies and value propositions as part of overall business strategy.
2) Develop brand building and licensing programs (including associated legal issues)
3) Apply brand licensing and creative elements for effective branding
4) License key brands to expand retails channels internationally
5) Leverage digital technologies, such as social media marketing, to promote branding and licensing programs.
lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
Offered in the Winter Trimester
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MKT 625 - Services Marketing
This course examines the distinctive characteristics of services as opposed to tangible goods and the opportunities for marketing services worldwide. It focuses on how service firms can gain a competitive advantage by designing and implementing marketing strategies based on service differentiation, quality, and productivity. Particular attention is given to the study of technological and other environmental changes affecting the marketing of both stand-alone as well as customer-support services.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 630 - International Marketing
This course analyzes the attractiveness and riskiness of international markets. International marketing decisions studied include choice of markets, mode of entry, appropriate organization for international expansion, and degree of adaptation/standardization of marketing mix elements for each target market. A strategic approach to making international marketing decisions is developed that stresses research as a means to understand the economic, political, legal and cultural characteristics of doing business abroad and their managerial implications. Prerequisite: MBA 560 .
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 635 - Management of Marketing Communications
A comprehensive study of planning, development and execution of promotional strategy using the tools of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, public relations, direct and digital marketing, special events marketing, and use of social media. Students will learn how to develop promotional objectives, set budgets, create effective messages, select media, address legal considerations, and measure advertising effectiveness.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 638 - Health Services Planning and Marketing
This course surveys community and institutional health systems planning, strategic planning, project planning and marketing as they apply to health services. Also included is a review of the major marketing strategies, including new services development, health care advertising, and pricing decisions.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MKT 640 - New Product Development
This course focuses on the development of appropriate organizational structures for managing new product development. It discusses the risks and rewards of innovation, and the need for regular and systematic development of new products and services. The various stages in the new product development process, from idea generation to commercialization, are examined in detail. The consumer adoption process and the factors that may influence it are also studied.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 645 - Marketing Decisions
This course presents an intensive study of strategic marketing decision making. Using the case method, students will learn to apply a decision process framework to real-world business problems. Emphasis will be placed on how marketing decisions are made, the role of information in marketing decision making, strategic considerations, and the roles played by economics, finance and related disciplines in the marketing decision process.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 650 - Business Development Strategies in Sports, Entertainment and Media
A study of the application of basic marketing concepts to the field of sports and leisure organizations. Topics include the sport consumer, research in sport marketing, the sport product, sports promotion and public relations, and future trends in sports marketing. Formerly MKT 990.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 655 - International Advertising and Sponsorship
This advanced marketing course provides a broad overview of international advertising/sponsorship issues and functions. It aims at acquainting the student with the international advertising/sponsorship practices within an integrated marketing framework. Students will also explore specific techniques for planning media use and creating advertising campaigns to market products/services worldwide. Formerly MKT 991.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 660 - Nonprofit Marketing
This course provides an overview of the entire marketing process for nonprofit organizations. Key topics include the growth and development of nonprofit marketing, developing a core marketing strategy, positioning the organization, fundraising, and designing and managing the marketing mix. Students will also explore the marketing of social ideas and causes (e.g., AIDS awareness, gun control), whether undertaken by organizations, government, or as part of a cause-related marketing strategy.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 665 - Sales Management
Sales Management examines the elements of an effective sales force as a key component of the organization’s total marketing effort and enhances student understanding of the relationship between sales and marketing. Topics studied include the organization and management of the sales function including sales representative development and training, forecasting, recruiting and selection practices, compensation, expenses, quotas, motivation, and the implementation of sales strategies. Formerly MKT 996.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 671 - Marketing on the Internet
This course examines the potential of the internet to generate profits for companys by enhancing their ability to create customer value. Using an internet based format that promotes an interative learning, the course discusses the internet as an alternative platform, for marketing research and business planning, product design and distribution as well as communication medium. Moreover, by approaching internet marketing within the more general framework of e-business, the course is also intended to familarize students with various emerging business concepts like customer management, personalized and on-line relationship marketing. Prereq: MBA 560 or equivalent.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MKT 695 - Marketing Internship
MBA students are placed in a private organization or public agency to 1) carry out an assigned marketing project, 2) engage in day to day functioning of the establishment, and 3) learn how a modern corporation is organized and operates under the direct supervision of an executive of the organization and a department faculty. Students engaged in the internship will meet with the faculty supervisor periodically to report the progress and discuss any issues relating the internship. Prerequisites: MBA core plus MKT 610 or MKT 615 , one other Marketing course and permission of the department chair. MNG 625 is helpful.
Internship
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: MBA Core, MKT 610 or MKT 615 , one other Marketing course, and permission of Department Chair
Department Consent Required
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MKT 699 - Independent Research in Marketing
This course provides selected students with the opportunity to conduct in depth research in specific areas of interest in the field of Marketing as determined by the students and faculty mentor. Independent research may be undertaken with the approval of the student’s faculty mentor and the chairperson of the Marketing Department.
Independent Study
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560 and Permission of Chair
Department Consent Required
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MKT 993 - Marketing Special Topics
This course will examine topics of current interest in marketing that are not covered in the course regularly offered by the department. Recent topics have included Sport Marketing and Fashion Marketing.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MKT 994 - Special Topics: Global Fashion Marketing
Students will be introduced to the dynamic global business of fashion. Topics include: product development; marketing decisions and retail strategies for women’s, men’s and children’s apparel and accessories; global sourcing; ethical considerations; fashion trends; emerging market sectors; and careers in the fashion industry.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 560
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MNG 613 - Leadership and Management in Sports, Entertainment and Media
Exploration of elements behind the rise and success of sports and entertainment media, such as: 1) Values that enable prosperity in the early years of an organization. 2) Leadership principles that sustain a growth trajectory. 3) Methods for dealing with crisis management situations. 4) Developing and implementing product and programming innovation.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 570 or a grade of at least B in BUS 220
Offered in the Fall Trimester
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MNG 615 - International Business Management
This course focuses on the globalization of business and its impact on the management of the dominant organization in this area. An in depth study of the strategy organization of company operations that cross national boundaries will be conducted. The challenges presented will be addressed employing the case method and completing selected readings.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 570
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MNG 622 - Cases in Business Crisis Leadership
Designed to promote “learning by doing”, this course enables students to design their own responses to a number of actual organizational crises, and then to compare their reactions to those actually employed by the organizations that experienced them. Students will be able to work individually or in teams.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MNG 623 - Business Crisis Leadership
Organizations’ ability to provide products and services are challenged by a variety of potential disruptions; product failures, environmental disasters, key employee separations, crimes against property and employees, terrorism, and competitor’s actions, to name but a few. This foundation course is designed for those who must lead organizations’ efforts to continue to function effectively in the face of these crises. Key topics addressed in the course include, forecasting and planning for crises, managing crises, and achieving crisis resolution.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MNG 625 - Organization Theory And Design
A course designed to explore the theoretical foundations of organizations, as well as the pragmatic consequences of various theories. The course deals primarily with individual and group research followed by regular student presentations as an approach to experiencing the implications and consequences of a number of fundamental types of organizations. Special focus is placed upon the relationship between individuals and organizations.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 570
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MNG 627 - Management Considerations in Infrastructure Development, Maintenance, and Improvement
Infrastructure is the physical foundation upon which society rests, providing for shelter, transportation, services and utilities. This practical course studies the management of the process of creating, planning and maintaining infrastructure performance, from design through enhancement. The focus is on executing and coordinating the use of resources at all managerial levels.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MNG 628 - Seminar in Infrastructure Management
A groundbreaking effort in that management issues have not received a great deal of attention in the research community: The vast majority of related subject matter has been limited to the engineering field. This seminar is intended to provide students with direct interaction with industry leaders, each of whom will conduct a session dealing with a specific management of infrastructure issue, and then be available to advise and guide students, who will focus their research and report on the issue.
The specific trimester assignment with be the production of a publication worthy paper dealing with a key management issue selected by students, in concert with an industry expert, and the faculty member who conducts the seminar. It is expected that students will present their papers at appropriate conferences.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MNG 631 - e-Commerce Strategy
Driven by the Internet, consumers are redefining buying patterns, and businesses are analyzing new strategies to leverage the power of the next operation of information technologies. This e-commerce course helps students learn how to develop new relationships with customers, distributors, resellers/retailers, suppliers, logistics providers, and business partners through electrnoic commerce. Students will discover how e-commerce can impact a corporation and improve business performance and learn what can inhibit the growth of e-commerce. E-commerce strategies will be examined for such industries as consumer products, entertainment, media, communications, financial services, the public sector, petroleum and utilities.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: MBA 570
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MNG 635 - Knowledge Management
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the concepts and
theories relevant to the acquisition, development and dissemination of
knowledge in organizations at the individual, group and organizational
level. Multiple perspectives of organizational learning and several current
models of knowledge management systems and processes related to internal and external sources of knowledge will be examined. At the completion of this
course class members will be able to demonstrate a comprehensive framework for designing and implementing successful knowledge management strategies for leveraging the intellectual assets of the organization.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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MNG 637 - Competitive Business Intelligence
Now more than ever, in today’s competitive business world, intelligence is power. This course helps you learn about systematic, legal, and ethical means to gather intelligence on customers, competitors, personnel, technologies, and the total business environment. Students will examine a wide spectrum of techniques involved in analyzing business, competitive data, and information in a comprehensive manner with an emphasis toward application.
Lecture
Credits: 3
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