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IEGR 793 - Master’s Pre-Candidacy
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a master’s graduate student engaged in study prior to the achievement of master’s candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or for a thesis proposal defense enroll in this course. Additionally, students needing additional time to complete a Master’s Project enroll in this course after initial enrollment in the appropriate Master’s Project course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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IEGR 795 - Project Report
3 hours.
3 Credits
Project report allows the students learn how to prepare a real project. This course emphasizes the analysis and the design of a specific industrial engineering problem under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Each student completing IEGR 795 is expected to have published or submitted (at least) a paper on the research project to a professional journal or a refereed conference proceeding.
Prerequisite(s) Approval of advisor
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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IEGR 797 - Thesis Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a master’s student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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IEGR 799 - Thesis Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows master’s students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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IEGR 805 - Pre-Candidacy Research I
3 Credits
This course is intended as a rotational research opportunity for students. Students will conduct research driven by the instructor/PI to advance a research objective. The course will work through research issues and solutions utilizing current research projects being undertaken by the faculty. In addition, this course will enable a PhD student to develop a scholarly research plan in consultation with the student’s dissertation committee chairperson. This course aims for the student to experience various research methods/techniques while developing their plan of action for completion of the dissertation.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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IEGR 810 - Pre-Candidacy Research II
3 Credits
This course is intended as a rotational research opportunity for students. Students will conduct research driven by the instructor/PI to advance a research objective. The course will work through research issues and solutions utilizing current research projects being undertaken by the faculty. In addition, this course will enable a PhD student to develop a scholarly research plan in consultation with the student’s dissertation committee chairperson. This course aims for the student to experience various research methods/techniques while developing their plan of action for completion of the dissertation.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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IEGR 815 - Pre-Candidacy Research III
3 Credits
This course is intended as a rotational research opportunity for students. Students will conduct research driven by the instructor/PI to advance a research objective. The course will work through research issues and solutions utilizing current research projects being undertaken by the faculty. In addition, this course will enable a PhD student to develop a scholarly research plan in consultation with the student’s dissertation committee chairperson. This course aims for the student to experience various research methods/techniques while developing their plan of action for completion of the dissertation.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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IEGR 905 - Dissertation Research I
3 Credits
This course enables a Ph.D. candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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IEGR 910 - Dissertation Research II
3 Credits
This course enables a Ph.D. candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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IEGR 915 - Dissertation Research III
3 Credits
This course enables a Ph.D. candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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IEGR 920 - Dissertation Research IV
3 Credits
This course enables a Ph.D. candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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IEGR 925 - Dissertation Research V
3 Credits
This course enables a Ph.D. candidate to execute the scholarly research plan (previously developed in the pre-candidacy phase) in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. A student can only take this dissertation course after passing the A-Exam and being advanced to candidacy.
Offered (FALL/SPRING/SUMMER)
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IEGR 993 - Doctoral Pre-Candidacy
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a doctoral student as a full-time student engaged in study prior to the achievement of doctoral candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or preparing for a proposal defense enroll in this course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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IEGR 997 - Dissertation Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a doctoral student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the dissertation. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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IEGR 998 - Dissertation Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows doctoral students the opportunity to defend their doctoral dissertation for approval by the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee after the dissertation has been completed. After gaining approval of the dissertation chairperson and committee, the dissertation is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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INSS 540 - Fundamentals of Quantitative and Statistical Skills for Managers
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an understanding of analytical and managerial tools and concepts that are used to help manage important operations functions. It provides a foundation for understanding the operations of a business or manufacturing facility. Students will learn how a company’s technology, facility configuration, processes, trading relation-ships and management practices enable it to effectively and efficiently serve its markets. The course covers such topics as production and inventory control, scheduling, and quality control. Students will be able to implement various techniques used in operations management based on knowledge of college algebra, statistics and Excel spreadsheet.
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INSS 586 - Operations Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course highlights the essential skills in mathematics and statistics that are required of the manager. These skills underlie the manager’s ability to make sound decisions and solve complex problems.
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INSS 587 - Fundamentals of Information Technology for Managers
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course highlights the importance of the world of information technology in organizations. The focus is providing a base for understanding the fundamental concepts of architecture, information systems, the internet and other technological innovations to the effective structure of supply chains, enterprise management and customer response. The course is centered on the practical understanding and use of the concepts and terminology of technology. This course uses productivity software applications to solve business cases.
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INSS 615 - Data Wrangling and Visualization
3 Credits
This course systematically explores the processes, techniques, and tools for data wrangling with a focus on data visualization. Students will learn to acquire, clean, format, shape, and store data using tools such as Excel, Regular Expressions (Regex) scripting, Python, SQL, Tableau Prep, and Tableau. Various visualization techniques will be employed to diagnose data quality and guide wrangling activities.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INSS 630 - Supply Chain Management and Strategic Sourcing
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to tools, techniques and strategies for effective sourcing and for managing supply chains. Students learn to use software tools for managing supply chain resources. This course uses case studies and articles to enhance student learning.
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INSS 632 - Logistics Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to analytical tools and frameworks related to logistics and distribution channels management. Students learn to use software tools in designing and managing a logistics network. This course uses case studies to augment student learning.
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INSS 634 - Information Systems for Supply Chain Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to managerial and technical issues related to adoption and strategic use of information systems for effectively managing supply chains. Students learn to use software tools and techniques to manage enterprise resources. This course uses case studies to augment student learning.
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INSS 636 - Current Issues in Supply Chain Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This capstone course introduces students to current issues in supply chain management. Students discuss case studies and review latest academic & practitioner articles. Students work on a project where they deal with a real company’s supply chain management issues.
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INSS 661 - Data Engineering
3 Credits
This course introduces the fundamental building blocks of data engineering and data governance, covering theoretical aspects of data models, technical aspects of data architectures, their implementation, and governance for organizational data infrastructure. Students will gain an understanding of the components that enable enterprises to manage data as a valuable asset.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INSS 687 - Information Technology & Supply Chain
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course highlights the role of technology as an integrative component in the strategic success of an organization. The course focuses on the key role of Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) in all components of the effective organization’s value chain and in its decision-making capability. The role of the Internet and wireless technologies are fundamental elements. The course examines the role IT plays as a competitive tool than can differentiate a company’s products, services, and processes.
Prerequisite(s) Department HOLD for non-Business Masters students. Seek override from Graves School Masters Office (at GBSM 435; 443-885-3396; gravesmasters@morgan.edu) for non-Business Masters Students.
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INSS 688 - FinTech: Technologies and Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course discusses in detail technologies and systems to leverage emerging technologies that disrupt financial services. Technologies like cloud architectures, blockchain technology to upend everything from clearing and settlement to insurance, digital currencies, tokenization, and artificial intelligence will be covered.
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INSS 691 - Project Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on Project Management (PM) concepts, techniques, and methodologies. For any organization to develop and maintain a competitive edge, it must be able to flawlessly transform ideas into profitable products and services in a cost effective and timely manner. The most efficient vehicle for transforming ideas into successful products and services in a cost effective and timely manner is structures project management. The course provides skills necessary for creating Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) as well as going through other necessary steps to compute project’s estimated duration, cost and resources requirements. The course is based on widely accepted PM standards set forth by PMI.
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INSS 692 - Knowledge-Based and Collaborative Systems in the Organization
3 hours.
3 Credits
Knowledge management is a key element in many organizations. Explicit knowledge exists throughout an organization and has to be organized with knowledge systems to provide support for decisions and problem-solving and planning. Implicit know-ledge is another element in the successful organization that defies ordinary means of organizing. Both are explored. Knowledge-based organizations and ideas like intellectual capital (to compare with financial capital) are hand in hand with the increased collaboration in modern organization. The class explores the richness of these concepts through cases and projects.
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INSS 693 - Decision Support Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
In this course, students integrate areas leading to and contributing to management decision making. The course focuses on management’s need and uses for decision and expert systems, various management support tools, and implementing management support systems. The course includes contemporary topics in Decision Support Systems (DSSs), Executive Information Systems (ElSs), Expert Systems (ES), Neural Networks (ANN), and Groupware. It provides hands-on practice in building and using decision support and expert systems software applications.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 687 .
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INSS 694 - Data Visualization
3 Credits
This course introduces data visualization as an analytical tool, a medium of communication, and the basis for interactive information dashboards. Students will learn best practices and communication in data visualization, sharpen analytical skills, and learn how to design dashboards.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INSS 695 - Data Analytics for Decisions
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the development, governance, management and utilization of analytical and computational models for structured and unstructured data to solve business needs. Information architectures, business intelligence and data mining topics relevant to the business domain are covered.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 587 and INSS 586 . Student must pass these courses with a grade of B or better.
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INSS 696 - Current Issues in Information Technology
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides students with opportunities to learn about the current issues in technological advances in the field of information technology through current readings, discussions and experiences. The content of the course varies from semester to semester based on paradigm shifts in business. Currently topics include Electronic Commerce, Internet and Intranet, EDI, Applications of World Wide Web, etc.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 687 .
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INSS 699 - Data Analytics Capstone Project
3 Credits
This data analytics capstone project is a team-based learning experience that gives students the opportunity to conduct real-world analytics project on campus or at an agency.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INSS 795 - Data Analytics Methods
3 hours.
3 Credits
Data Analytics Methods course provides students with the research theories and methods for transforming data into information useful in business domains. Students will use tools developed for data analytics to solve business problems applicable to data sets of varying sizes.
Prerequisite(s) BUAD 701 and BUAD 705 .
Offered (SPRING)
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INSS 840 - Foundation in Information Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
Explores and discusses the interdisciplinary nature of information systems. Examines the assumptions, concepts, theories, and methodologies that inform research about the behavioral aspects of information systems. Pedagogical issues and techniques are also studied.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 687
Offered (SPRING)
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INSS 841 - Information Systems Strategy
3 hours.
3 Credits
Examines the information systems industry and outlines tools for formulating and evaluating information systems strategy, including an introduction to the economics of technical change, models of technological evolution, and models of organization-al dynamics and innovation.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 840
Offered (FALL)
Contact Hours 3
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INSS 842 - Information Systems Seminar I
3 hours.
3 Credits
Current issues and practices in the strategic management of information technology are analyzed and discussed. Examines different approaches to managing the information systems function within a broad organizational context.
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INSS 843 - Information Systems Seminar II
3 hours.
3 Credits
Explores and discusses current topics related to information systems. Current topics include, but are not limited to, Electronic Commerce, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, and underlying security issues.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 840
Offered (FALL)
Contact Hours 3
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INSS 850 - Dynamics of Information Systems in Organizations
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course explores concepts, framework, tools, techniques, and processes that assist management in its interaction with and directions of computer-based information systems organizations. Emphasis on redesigns of information flows to meet the needs of functional areas of organizations.
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INSS 851 - Knowledge-based Information Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
Focuses on discussion of knowledge-based tools, techniques, and applications utilizing a significant amount of knowledge about functional business areas. Case studies from a number of business domains are selected for analysis.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 840
Offered (SPRING)
Contact Hours 3
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INSS 852 - Enterprise-wide Infrastructure
3 hours.
3 Credits
Explores critical issues of communication infrastructure among information systems from technical, strategic, and organizational perspective. Network standards, connectivity and flexibility issues are examined in a global context.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 840
Offered (SPRING)
Contact Hours 3
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INSS 853 - Management Databases
3 hours.
3 Credits
Examines the interlocking technological and managerial issues that arise in the operation of distributed systems with emphasis on database technologies. Focuses on analysis and solutions for business problems in a distributed environment.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 840
Offered (FALL)
Contact Hours 3
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INSS 854 - Information Systems Security
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on information systems security and information assurance. The emphasis is on a policy perspective. Topics covered include principles of security enhancements, risk management, compliance and forensics.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 852
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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INSS 855 - Information Systems for Supply Chain Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines issues related to the strategic use of information systems in supply chain management. Topics include information sharing, Bull-whip effect, supply chain integration, and inter-organizational information systems.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 840
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CICS 590 - The Scholarly Practitioner: Professional Field Experience
1-12 Variable Credits
This course is designed to develop the masters student’s identity as a scholarly practitioner and research leader in their field. A scholarly practitioner is defined as an individual who uses current research and applied theories as tools for change within their field; blends academic research with professional skills and development; and solves practice-based problems based on current research and best practices. Students will submit documentation that verifies their professional experience and will be coached through both reflective and practical assignments that challenge the student to apply current literature, research methodologies, theories, and concepts to their profession.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CICS 690 - Capstone
6 Credits
This Capstone course will require students to conduct in-depth research on a problem of practice within their professional fields or area of interest. Students will spend the course seeking to obtain a deeply rooted understanding of the industry/field/area of interest and the problem. Students will also design and coordinate hands-on, experiential, immersion activities that serve to expand their knowledge of the field. Students may, for example, conduct field observations, interview leaders of industry, view archival footage, or engage in computer simulations. Students will continually revise their project based on discussions, peer reviews, and instructor feedback. By course end, students are expected to present an evidenced-based solution to a complex problem of practice.
Prerequisite(s) CICS Master’s Student
Offered (SPRING)
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CICS 793 - Master’s Pre-Candidacy
9 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a master’s graduate student engaged in study prior to the achievement of master’s candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or for a thesis proposal defense enroll in this course. Additionally, students needing additional time to complete a Master’s Project enroll in this course after initial enrollment in the appropriate Master’s Project course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hour sand the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) Department Approval Required
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CICS 797 - Thesis Guidance
9 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CICS 799 - Thesis Defense
9 Credits
This course allows Master’s students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hour sand the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CICS 800 - Research Seminar I
3 Credits
These courses are designed to enable students to participate in research in ares of their competence under the supervision of qualified individuals. Students are required to submit research findings orally in a seminar and to submit a written report to the graduate faculty.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CICS 802 - Research Seminar II
6 Credits
This course serves as the second part of the doctoral research seminar series in the College of Interdisciplinary and Continuing Studies. The seminar course is designed to enable students to participate in research in areas of their competence under the supervision of qualified individuals. Students will be introduced to methodologies and techniques and theories of advanced research as they continue to develop their own research projects. Students are required to submit research findings orally in a seminar and to submit a written report to the graduate faculty.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CICS 804 - Research Seminar III
3 Credits
This course is designed to provide doctoral students with a solid and applied understanding of advanced research methods most commonly used in academic research.
It is intended to build on the research skills obtained in 890, 800, 802. Advanced topics in research design and statistical analysis will be discussed and students will be asked to apply their skills to develop methodology of the dissertation proposal.
Students will select the methodology that best fits their research problem and question. Participants will also gain skills in the design of conceptually cogent and methodologically rigorous proposals and manuscript preparation.
By the end of the course, students should be able to defend their dissertation proposal.
Prerequisite(s) CICS 800 , CICS 802 , and CICS 890 completed
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CICS 890 - The Scholarly Practitioner: Professional Field
1-12 variable Credits
This course is designed to develop the doctoral student’s identity as a scholarly practitioner and research leader in their field. A scholarly practitioner is defined as an individual who uses current research and applied theories as tools for change within their field; blends academic research with professional skills and development; and solves problems of practice based on current research and best practices. Students will submit documentation that verities their professional experience, and will be coached through both reflective and practical assignments that challenge the student to apply current literature, research methodologies, theories, and concepts to their profession.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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CICS 993 - Doctoral Pre-Candidacy
9 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a doctoral student as a full-time student engaged in study prior to the achievement of doctoral candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or preparing for a proposal defense enroll in this course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) Department Approval Required
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CICS 997 - Dissertation Guidance
9 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the dissertation. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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CICS 998 - Dissertation Defense
9 Credits
This course allows doctoral students the opportunity to defend their doctoral dissertation for approval by the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee after the dissertation has been completed. After gaining approval of the dissertation chairperson and committee, the dissertation is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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INST 501 - Theories of International Relations
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course presents Graduate Students with the conceptual and theoretical tools needed to assess the: sources, concepts, theories, evolution of, and current trends in the world order. Following the in-depth review of theoretical debates, the class will discuss current issues and global challenges. Throughout the course, the distribution of responsibilities and the legitimacy of current policies undertaken to address these challenges will be assessed.
Offered (FALL)
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INST 505 - International Development Administration
3 hours.
3 Credits
At the crossroads between Public Administration, Management, and Development Studies, this course introduces students to the world of development policies’ implementation and results’ assessment. The paradigm shifts around “development” and “global justice”, “global development governance” agents, especially IGOs; NGOs, and the administrations of developing states are analyzed. Specific development programs are presented, and their tools and results assessed and discussed.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 506 - Human Rights
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the developing systems, laws and norms of the promotion of human rights. The course examines legal, political, cultural and economic aspects of human rights including ideological and cultural perspectives.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 508 - North/South Global Issues
3 hours.
3 Credits
The objective of this course is to identify global issues and to study, analyze and discern their wider ramifications. The course also examines the need for international cooperation to help ameliorate international problems and make the world safe and prosperous for all.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 509 - American Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will focus on the study of United States foreign policy. Specifically, the course will examine an analysis of this country’s role, resources, and policies as a great hegemonic power. Special attention is given to the relationship between foreign and domestic policies that impact and shape the decision-making process of the international community of nations.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 510 - Sub-Saharan Africa
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of the political, economic and social histories and culture of Africa with a view towards understanding the challenges which have developed in creating the image of Africa and its peoples. The historical survey will set the tone for an examination of such topics as the expansion of foreign trade relations, nation-building, health care issues, ethno-national conflicts, development and social change.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 511 - The Middle East
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of the political, economic and social histories and culture of the Middle East with a view towards understanding challenges which have developed in creating the image of the region and its peoples. Specific topics to be addressed include political violence and terrorism, civil society, foreign and domestic trade, and the impact of Islam on shaping development and social change.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 512 - The Caribbean-Latin America
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of the political, economic and social relations, histories and cultures of the Caribbean and Latin America, with a view towards understanding the challenges which have developed in creating the image of the region and its peoples. Specific topics to be addressed include political violence and civil society, foreign and domestic trade and its impact on shaping development and social change.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 513 - Asia
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of the political, economic and social relations, histories and cultures of Asia with a view towards understanding the challenges which have developed in creating the image of the region and its peoples. Specific topics to be addressed include political violence, civil society, foreign and domestic trade and their impact on shaping development and social change within the region.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 514 - Western Europe
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course assesses social and political challenges faced by the 21st century Europe, in particular through the institutions and politics of the European Union, their historical developments and the EU transformation into a complex supra-national entity. Introducing first the philosophical and historical sources of the European construction, the class questions the nature of European governmental structures and focuses on the various fields of intervention of the EU.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 515 - Russia and the Former Soviet States
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of the political, economic and social relations, histories and cultures of Russia and the Former Soviet States with a view towards understanding the challenges that have developed in creating the image of the region and its peoples.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 516 - The Politics of the Global Environment
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course focuses on the political dimensions of trans-boundary ecological problems. It examines contemporary political responses to global environmental challenges and facilitates creative formulations of data-based analysis of these challenges. In addition, the course examines how developments in the environment interact with political consideration to influence world politics.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 520 - Public International Law
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course presents the sources, evolution, and current tools and instruments of Public International Law by analyzing and discussing the legitimacy and future prospects of mutually agreed rules, norms, international courts in an world of: soft-law, flexible policies, and open global governance. The differences between municipal and international legal orders and their consequences for the latter are addressed.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 522 - Multi-National Corporations and Non-Governmental Organizations in World Politics
3 hours.
3 Credits
Multinational corporations (MNC) and Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), and transnational networks, increasingly relevant as agents of world politics, are the object of both criticism and praise. This class aims at exploring their current roles and influence in a globalized world, and how they shape the concept of, and the conversation around, “global governance” and “global justice.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 523 - Fundamentals of Intelligence
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is a survey of the field of US intelligence. It provides a basic overview of the fundamentals of intelligence through a brief history of the development of intelligence as a profession. The course examines the structure of the US national intelligence community and provides a general framework and understanding of the intelligence community and its functions at the macro level.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 580 - Internship in International Studies
3 hours.
3 Credits
This internship is designed to permit students to gain on-site experience in selected non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations and business. Periodic conferences with the faculty advisor and the agency supervisor will aid in determining the student’s program. Students will submit a written report to the graduate faculty.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 601 - Seminar in International Studies
3 hours.
3 Credits
Students will prepare a research paper in an area of interest under faculty supervision by bringing together and integrating knowledge acquired in the basic core and electives. Students will submit research findings orally and in writing.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 602 - Seminar in Comparative Politics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will exam alternative theoretical approaches to the study of comparative politics. Topics include (I) theory building, (2) research method, and problems, and (3) cross national research analysis. These approaches will be applied to selected political systems and will be used to analyze the systems’ responses to such challenges as political and economic development, democratization, stabilization and ethnic conflict.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 603 - Seminar in Research Design and Methodology
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course introduces students to the theoretical foundations, practical and professional relevance of qualified research, especially empirical research, applied to the field of world affairs. Students will analyze the research cycle steps, learn the relevance and use of tools of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, and demonstrate their research skills by developing a full research design.
Offered (SPRING)
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INST 604 - Contemporary African Philosophy and Literature
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course is aimed at a reading of a select number of African literary and philosophic texts focused on grasping the lived existential experience out of which these texts are articulated. In this critical exploration the focus is on examining the African experience of the modern world.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 606 - Applied Intelligence Research Methods
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to intelligence research methods to address practical intelligence problems. Using military and intelligence databases and both qualitative and quantitative methods, the course will focus on the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in an environment in which researchers must be cognizant of the potentially classified nature of the information being processed.
Prerequisite(s) INST 523
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 607 - Ethics in International Affairs
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course discusses whether and how the various stakeholders on the world stage should act according to ethical and moral principles, such as fairness, justice, and equality. It assesses ethical debates in world politics from the traditional realm of security issues and Just War to the issue of global wealth distribution. It also considers the validity and effectiveness of international adjudication of justice.
Prerequisite(s) INST 501
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 780 - Advanced Internship in International Studies
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course offers exposure to and experience in international studies through participation in government agencies, as well as non-government and international organizations under the supervision of qualified faculty. Internship agency/site must be relevant to the student’s concentration. Students submit a public policy report to the graduate faculty and must receive a “B” grade, or better, to receive credit. Prerequisite: completion of all course work.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 788 - Supervised Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
These courses are designed to enable students to participate in research activities in areas of their interest under the supervision of qualified faculty. Students are required to submit research findings orally in a seminar and to submit a written report to the graduate faculty.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 789 - Supervised Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
These courses are designed to enable students to participate in research activities in areas of their interest under the supervision of qualified faculty. Students are required to submit research findings orally in a seminar and to submit a written report to the graduate faculty.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 790 - Special Topics in International and Cultural Studies (Study Abroad)
3 hours.
3 Credits
This is a five-week intensive immersion study/research abroad that will examine important contemporary issues related to the geographic areas to be studied and visited. The course includes lectures, discussions, and an extensive experiential learning component, such as guided visits to relevant historical, cultural, political and economic locations. Topics to be studied vary according to the targeted general region or subregion.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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INST 796 - Final Research Paper
0 Credits
This zero-credit course is designed for students who have chosen the research paper exit option (6 credits of additional course work and a research paper with a grade of B or better) for the MA in International Studies. This course is not the additional course work required for the exit option but is instead the means of recording completion of that option. The grade for the research paper will be recorded as the grade for INST 796. The final grade must be a B or better.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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INST 797 - Thesis Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a master’s student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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INST 799 - Thesis Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows master’s students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and is counted as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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JOUR 501 - Reporting and Writing for Knowledge-Based Journalism
3 hours.
3 Credits
The emphasis of this core course is on news values, news writing skills and reporting techniques used in a variety of media, including print, broadcast, digital, social and mobile. The classroom will serve as a news room, but students will use the entire city as their beats to develop, write and produce stories on a variety of issues.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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JOUR 502 - Information Gathering and Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core course focuses on information gathering and research for media professionals. Specific areas of focus include critical thinking, computer search tools, writing, editing, information use, language use, interviewing, research tools, library use, government documents (including Freedom of Information Act requests), business documents, human sources, etc. The course prepares students to conduct research and to assess and use information in media-related decision making. Emphasis will also be given to the ethical collection and reporting of information discovered during the research process.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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JOUR 503 - Mass Communication Law and Ethics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This core course in the master’s program in journalism provides aspiring journalists with a practical and substantive “knowledge-based” understanding of global media law – and its protections and constraints – along with various significant ethical problems, which confront today’s journalists, in general, and emerging integrated digital media journalists, in particular, who work within a developing world context. It examines major free speech principles and trends in U.S. and international media law and ethics. The course analyzes a wide range of issues and practical considerations pertaining to the First Amendment in the U.S. and related press freedoms and challenges abroad. Specifically, it may include the following areas: censorship, speech distinctions, emotional distress and physical harm, privacy, libel, newsgathering, reporter’s privilege, media and the courts, obscenity, indecency and violence, advertising (commercial speech), intellectual property (copyright and trademarks), and electronic media regulation.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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JOUR 510 - Editing Techniques
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the study of the application of more complex editing skills required of news editors, including learning advanced news and feature editing techniques, copy editing, line editing, editing for background and context and using quotations, statistics, maps, graphs and charts.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 512 - Investigative Reporting
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course requires students to apply their skills in research and writing to produce investigative stories on societal, governmental and/or scientific issues for print, broadcast and online formats. The goal is to examine an issue that goes beneath the surface to discover not only the publicly available information, but also harder-to-find information that seeks to present the fullest possible picture. The course will also require students to confront the ethical issues and problems that face investigative journalists, to learn to develop and protect sources and to think critically and skeptically.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 513 - Feature Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes advanced elements of stylized, long-form, storytelling used in magazine and newspaper features. This literary, poetic and sometimes “spoken word” journalism combines the finest elements of creative and expository writing.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 515 - Profile and Biography Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
Students in this class will hone their nonfiction profile-writing skills in their own work and in careful analysis of their classmates’ pieces. They will study long-form narrative profiles to learn about structure, voice, theme and style and then apply what they learn by writing extended profiles, drawing on the practice of immersion reporting.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 520 - Legal Affairs Writing
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course guides students to understanding the complex issues raised by journalistic coverage of the American legal system and how to report intelligently and responsibly about events and issues arising from the courthouse beat.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 530 - Financial Journalism
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course teaches students how to understand what’s going on at companies – from multinational corporations to “mom and pop” stores – and to report and write stories about these businesses in a compelling way. As business becomes more influential in the lives of everyday citizens, it’s important for media to become more aggressive in acting as a watchdog. More than any other beat, covering business requires not only an understanding of complex numbers, but also the ability to use data and a compelling narrative to tell the reader something they need to know and that will impact their wallet.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 531 - Science Reporting
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to acquaint reporters with all aspects of science reporting and writing. It will train participants to view new breakthroughs and discoveries with skepticism and will give students a working knowledge of many of the main areas of science coverage, including the environment, artificial intelligence, and human interaction with technology. There will be lessons on social media, online writing, news and feature writing, and writing long-form narratives.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 532 - Political Reporting
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course teaches students the fundamentals of covering the American political world, as well as larger concepts that can help generate deeper context and understanding. This course is designed to provide a broad overview of this beat, from the grassroots to the White House. This course emphasizes deadline writing and critiquing of political and public policy news. Students are also encouraged to explore the use of social media to cover and explain campaigns and policy. The course encourages familiarity with the methods and insights of political and social science; the selection of readings includes many pieces of original research. Students should come away with the confidence to use such materials to inform their future reporting.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 533 - Multimedia Storytelling
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course looks at the changing climate of the practice of journalism. Television reporters have to shoot and edit their own video as well as write for the web. Print reporters must capture video, and often edit video files that are offered to the web. The course will focus on how to produce print and video versions of the same stories, which are then made available on multiple platforms. The best multimedia stories are multi-dimensional and combine compelling text, action for video, processes that can be illustrated with graphics, strong quotes for video or audio, and/or powerful emotions for still photos and audio. They use the strength of each medium to tell the story in dynamic ways that allow readers and viewers to experience stories in a more engaged way. In addition to covering those topics, the course will also examine the relationship between news organizations and social networks and what it means for how journalists tell and present stories in interactive ways.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 535 - Social Justice Reporting
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will train students to cover social justice in areas such as health, education, government, and especially criminal justice and government. Students will develop their content knowledge, gain skills and practices, and learn how to apply all three.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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JOUR 538 - Sports Journalism in the Digital Age
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will train students to cover social justice in areas such as health, education, government, and especially criminal justice and government. Students will develop their content knowledge, gain skills and practices, and learn how to apply all three.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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