Curriculum:
Total 45 Credits
PRST 501 – Communication for Professionals
Using case studies and research articles, students explore and assess the role of organizational, interpersonal, non-verbal, group, and employment communication in today’s professional world. Students will be expected to engage critically with applicable scholarly literature on the subject of professional communication and demonstrate mastery of research in the area.
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PRST 503 - Ethics for Professionals
This course will focus on the application of ethical principles to organizational systems and decision-making. Emphasis will be placed on how ethical principles affect and are applied to policy-making, leadership behavior, systems of communication, technology use, and systems of organizations.
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PRST 504 - Research Methods & Statistics
This course presents a systematic approach to managerial methods of conducting organizational research and analysis. Students will undergo the managerial research process of specifying the problem; translating the problem into specific research questions; designing the data collection and methodology; collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data; and reporting research results and recommendations.
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PRST 512 - Computing for Professionals
Uses Microsoft® Office business application software and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to challenge and support students in their efforts to sharpen and integrate their computer, critical-thinking, problem-solving, data analysis, and reporting skills to achieve competency that addresses the demand for information technology proficiency in the new economy.
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PRST 515 – Program Evaluation
Measuring results in business is fairly straightforward. Measuring results in government and other non-profit organizations is not so precise. This course provides knowledge and skill required to apply the scientific method to the assessment of social programs (organized, goal-directed activities designed to address a social, humanistic, or other human-related problem).
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PROJ 501 Intro to Project Management
This course will prepare students to manage scheduling, supply management, project team recruiting, resource allocation, time/cost tradeoffs, risk assessment, task coordination, team-building, progress monitoring, and post-project assessment through a comprehensive overview of project management. Case studies are used to illustrate the principles and tools of project management as a process.
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CRTV 501 Foundations in Creativity
Provides a foundation in creativity including leading theorists and their idea. Questions investigated include who is creative and why? What does it mean to be creative? Is creativity a general attribute or is it discipline specific? Students will complete and score a creativity assessment.
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CRTV 502 – Tools and Techniques in Creativity
Provides opportunities to enhance creative capacities and strengths. Through study and experiential learning, students work toward self-mastery of creative techniques, tools and strategies. Moreover, through a fieldwork experience, students learn to teach and motivate other individuals or groups to use these techniques in real life circumstances for their benefit.
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CRTV 503 – Creativity in the Workplace
This course focuses on applied creativity—how creative ideas happen, how they become innovations, and how creativity can be infused into every aspect of an organization. Examples from a wide range of industries and organizations demonstrate how to build systemic creativity in individuals, in teams, and at the leadership level.
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CRTV 610 – Creativity and Change Leadership
This course explores the relationship between change, leadership, and creativity, and how these three concepts mutually support one another. Distinction is made between a leader who is effective at introducing change, but who is not creative.
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CRTV 620 – Research & Assess Creativity
This course acquaints students with creativity research and applications. The goal is to help students employ creative problem solving to successfully complete their course of study in the context of other responsibilities and the program’s standards and requirements. Using creativity as a vehicle, students will study various research paradigms.
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CRTV 630 –Global Perspectives on Creativity
The goal of this course is to explore theories, research, assessment, and programs for the development of creativity in a wide variety of countries around the world. Motives for the lack of global creativity research are suggested.
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ELL 501 – Purpose/Business of E-Learning
Examines the business side of e-learning. Explores historical, organizational and strategic issues associated with developing and delivering e-learning through a wide range of topics. Non-profit and profit models used for marketing and delivering e-learning products are examined and business practices, as they affect the success of e-learning enterprises, are examined.
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ELL 502 – E-Learning Technologies
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of emerging e- learning technologies, a description of what is in store for the near future, and foundational elements for sound decision making regarding technological responses to well-defined learning problems.
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ELL 503 – Teaching/Learning Issues ELrng
This course prepares trainers, teachers, and administrators at all educational levels with the knowledge they will need to provide effective experiences in distance education. Provides a conceptual and theoretical foundation as well as practical skills and knowledge, along with numerous opportunities for hands-on experience.
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ELL 504 – Lrng Technologies & Disabilities
The course is designed to develop the knowledge and skills required to utilize adaptive and assistive technology (AT) and accommodation in the facilitation of learning design and delivery.
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ELL 604 – Design & Delivery of E-Lrng I
Extends fundamental knowledge of the world of E-Learning by addressing the technical processes involved in the design and development of E-Learning products. Issues related to policy, values, technology, and economics are addressed to produce a practical understanding of their role in the creation of E-Learning products and strategies.
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ELL 605 – Design & Delivery of E-Lrng II
Builds on ELL 604 to extend knowledge of E-Learning design to the realities of managing the delivery and success of an E-Learning product within educational, training, or informal learning organizations. Project management techniques are addressed to provide students with the ability to control risk and maximize learning and consumer satisfaction.
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HSM 544 – Intro to Homeland Security
This course will provide the students with an overview of the concepts that will help them to understand Homeland Security issues at the strategic level. This course will also examine the conceptual framework of other courses that will be covered in the Homeland Security Management program.
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HSM 549 - Terrorism & Homeland Security
Terrorism is one of the primary concerns of homeland security. This course provides students with an understanding of the historical causes, present tactics, and strategies for prevention of terrorism.
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HSM 554 - Critical Infrastructure Protection
Presents the theory necessary for students to obtain a working knowledge of the various threats posed to critical infrastructure by terrorism. Topics include types of terrorist attacks, WMD, terrorists preparation for an attack, protecting critical infrastructure, protective security, and emergency response. Students will also conduct research on select topics.
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CST 604 – Technology for Homeland Security
Presents the theory and methodology necessary to obtain a working knowledge of the strategic use of network-centric software for data aggregation, integration, collaboration, categorization, and pattern-recognition by homeland security defense. Topics include technology process, data mining, network-centric software, pattern recognition, and technology sensors. Students will conduct research on select topics.
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CST 609 – National Security Intelligence
This course will present a broad overview of the intelligence community, objectives, methodology, organizational structure and role within the government. Topics include the intelligence process, organizational structure, collections, analysis, covert action, intelligence reform, foreign intelligence, and accountability. Students will conduct research on select topics.
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CST 614 – Counterintelligence
This course will present the theory, techniques and procedures within the counterintelligence community. Objectives, methodology, organizational structure and role within government will be stressed. Topics include the mission, investigations, techniques, collection, analysis, counter-human intelligence techniques, counter-signals intelligence techniques and counter-imagery intelligence techniques. Students will conduct research on select topics.
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HSM 644 - Public Management in Crisis
Covers comprehensive disaster plans and training for the public manager. The course will include planning for natural disasters and accidents and planning for events related to terrorism. The benefits of this knowledge will be greater security and the protection of life and property.
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HSM 645 – Emergency Incident Risk Mgmt
This course will focus on risk management skills used by first responders to to emergency incidents. Particular attention will be paid to the emergency operations systems of the Philadelphia police and fire departments in conjunction with the Managing Director’s Office of Emergency Management.
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PRST 640 – Policy Analysis
The course analyzes the entire process of policy agenda-setting, initiation, decision-making, implementation, evaluation and assessment. Students will be equipped with tools to analyze and understand the entire process of policy formation in any public or private enterprise. The skills developed in this course can be used in many professional fields.
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PRST 644 – Communicating in Virtual Teams
Virtual teamwork, where members collaborate regardless of their actual location, has become an increasingly pervasive phenomenon in today’s corporate world. This graduate level course explores the role of virtual teams in the corporate world and will allow students to experience first-hand the opportunities and challenges associated with operating in a virtual environment. If you successfully complete the course you will have acquired the necessary group skills that will enable you to successfully function in a virtual team setting.
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CRTV 695 – Applied Project in Creativity I
First of a two-course capstone experience providing creativity studies students with an opportunity to demonstrate achievement in their concentration and to engage in self- reflection. Components include a statement of awareness of personal creative strengths, expansion to date.
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CRTV 696 – Applied Project in Creativity II
Students will complete the creative portfolio begun in CRTV 695. Components include creative expression, future directions, and reflection on the major, concentration, and experience of creating a portfolio.
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ELL 695 - Applied Project E-Learning I
The first of a two-course sequence in which students create a full-scale project in e- learning that demonstrates the knowledge and skills that they have acquired from the ELL concentration. Students complete five deliverables that form the foundation for ELL 696, which will result in a professional-level e-learning project.
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ELL 696 - Applied Project E-Learning II
The second of a two-course sequence in which students create a full-scale project in e-learning that demonstrates the knowledge and skills that they have acquired from the ELL concentration. Students complete three deliverables that, added to the work from ELL 695, result in a professional-level e-learning project.
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HSM 695 - Applied Project in HSM I
Provides the student with an opportunity to develop a substantive homeland security, or intelligence studies project of their own choosing, possibly continuing on research and development initiated in earlier courses. The project will include strategies and management of information security, legal issues, risk analysis, and response to Managing Director’s Office of Emergency Management.
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HSM 696 - Applied Project in HSM II
Provides the student with an opportunity to develop a substantive homeland security, or intelligence studies project of their own choosing, possibly continuing on research and development initiated in earlier courses. The project will include strategies and management of information security, legal issues, risk analysis, and response to compromise.
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