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Minor in Business (MSOM)

School of Management

Prerequisite for all MSOM courses is completion of 29 hours.

300 Managing Financial Resources (3:3:0). Course may not be taken for credit by School of Management majors. Focus on using basic concepts of accounting and financial management to make investment, credit, and operating decisions for an organization. Emphasis is on using financial reports to aid the planning and control of organizational activities.

301 Managing People and Organizations (3:3:0). Course may not be taken for credit by School of Management majors. Introduces students to key issues in management, organizational behavior, and human resource management. Special attention is given to best practices used by effective managers.

302 Managing Information in a Global Environment (3:3:0). Course may not be taken for credit by School of Managementmajors. Provides an overview of the strategic role of information, the need for information systems, organizing information, integration of information systems in management processes and decision making, and related discussions in electronic commerce.

303 Marketing in a Global Economy (3:3:0). Course may not be taken for credit by School of Management majors. Presents marketing principles, concepts, strategies, and analytical tools used by profit and nonprofit organizations to market ideas, products, and/or services to selected target groups. Emphasis on how to develop, promote, distribute, and price the firm's offerings in a dynamic economic, social, political, and global environment.

304 Entrepreneurship: Starting and Managing a New Enterprise (3:3:0). Course may not be taken for credit by School of Management majors. Exposes students to the behaviors required to successfully launch a new business, tools to identify and evaluate opportunities, and the issues critical to a new firm. These issues include organizational structure, effective marketing strategy, operational logistics, legal issues, financial projections, financing options, and available support structures.

305 Managing in a Global Economy (3:3:0). Course may be taken for credit by School of Management majors only if taken to satisfy the Global Understanding requirement for General Education. Provides a multidisciplinary approach to the global economy from the viewpoint of managing international business. The course introduces unique aspects of managing in the global economy including the theory and political economy of international trade and foreign direct investment, the global monetary system, and the strategy of international business.

Character Education (EDCE)

Graduate School of Education

600 Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives on Character Education (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Admission to the Character Education Program. Analyzes and evaluates theories and models of character education that fit with different philosophical perspectives on education. Comparative analyses related to character education in the United States and other countries will take place.

601 How Students Learn Values and Ethics (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Admission to the Character Education Program. Applies learning theories to practice to help increase students' learning through the study of moral and ethical development theories and how students learn personal, prosocial, and civic values.

602 Comprehensive Character Education Frameworks (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Admission to the Character Education Program. Analyzes comprehensive character education frameworks that have emerged from research and practice leading to examination of the components of frameworks and the application of framework components to character education initiatives.

603 Global and Ethical Perspectives on Teaching Diverse Learners (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Admission to the Character Education Program. Analyzes ethical and moral dimensions of classroom interactions using a developmental framework and a foundation of democratic principles. Evaluating school politics and policies, and will provide an overview of prevailing ethical points of view.

604 Character Education Curriculum and Programs (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Admission to the Character Education Program. Analyzes and evaluates the quality of a variety of classroom and school/district/community/statewide programs and curriculum materials for character education using program, implementation, and curriculum standards.

605 Character Education Assessment and Evaluation (3:3:0). Prerequisites: EDCE 602, 603, and 604. Applies assessment standards and audit tools to analyze and evaluate formative and summative assessments of school/district/community/state-wide programs for character education. Utilizes a backwards design model.

606 Leadership in Character Education: An Internship in Program Development, Curriculum, Instruction, or Assessment (3:3:0). Prerequisites: EDCE 602, 603, 604, and 605. Participate in a 150-hour on-site internship. Students choose to focus on one of the following for the internship: instructional strategies, curriculum or program development, the use of resources, or assessment.

607 Educational Research for Character Educators (3:3:0). Prerequisites: EDCE 600, 601, 602, 603, and 604. Prerequisite or corequisite: EDCE 605. Study and apply fundamental concepts and methods of educational action research. The emphasis is on researching how students learn personal, prosocial, and civic values, and teacher/school effectiveness in this area.