PSA600
Public Safety Systems (3 cr.)
This course examines public safety systems including the political, legal, social and policy environments that impact public safety. It addresses current technology, training assessment, ethical issues, application of current research, strategies for creating partnerships, and working relationships among public safety organizations.

PSA605
Community Relations (3 cr.)
This course examines various strategies for community building and developing partnerships in the community. It addresses problem solving and team building that encourages community involvement. The course covers building media relationships that foster communication and trust within the community. Conflict prevention/resolution and negotiation are addressed.

PSA610
Risk Management in Public Safety (2 cr.)
This course examines risk and risk-management principles. It focuses on liability issues in public safety and strategies to reduce associated risk. A key focus of the course is training as a risk management technique.

PSA615
Homeland Security and Emergency Management Principles (3 cr.)
This course focuses on emergency management principles, planning for natural and man-made disasters, recovery procedures and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) procedures. It provides strategies for building partnerships with other agencies. Homeland security, threat awareness and training issues are discussed.

PSA620
Public Sector Finance (3 cr.)
This course covers budgeting, grant writing, grant management, reporting and revenue sources used by the public sector manager. It includes financial statement analysis and asset management. It provides an ethical financial perspective to be used in the public sector.

PSA690
Public Safety Capstone (3 cr.)
Prerequisite: Must be taken in student’s final semester
In this course students integrate public safety knowledge, skills and tools developed in previous public safety and management courses. It emphasizes critical analysis of current topics and trends. It includes a major research paper and presentation on a public safety topic of the student’s choice.

GM600
Management Principles (3 cr.)
This course provides an overview of key organizational and behavioral concepts, which underlie effective management practice in private and public sector organizations around the world. Comparative management systems are examined in terms of global applications. Special attention is given to defining and interpreting cross-cultural differences and influences. The course emphasizes the approaches of collaboration that especially addresses the expectations, needs and performances of people in organizations and gives attention to the external, internal and global cultures that influence organizational structure, behavior and change.

GM620
Communication Skills (2 cr.)
Prerequisite: It is recommended that this course be taken in the student's first semester
This course engages students in writing and speaking activities to enhance their personal and professional communications skills. The course also includes study of APA grammar, punctuation and style requirements as a foundation for all graduate written projects.

GM625
Leadership and Decision Making (2 cr.)
This course introduces selected models and practices in the exploration and understanding of what is effective leadership and decision-making. Skills necessary for effective decision-making and problem solving within organizations are emphasized from the role of manager.

GM643
Multicultural Perspectives (2 cr.)
This course focuses on how diversity of all kinds influences both organizational behavior and client outcomes. The place of culture in society, the marketplace and workplace is examined. The importance of cultural competence is explored along with the knowledge and skills needed to work with, manage and serve diverse groups of workers and clients.

GM655
Human Resource Management (2 cr.)
This course examines core areas of staffing, training, motivation, compensation and benefits, and employee relations in both service and product-driven organizations. It emphasizes the understanding of and the application of effective human resource management principles to the issues faced by the human resource manager in today's world.

GM670
Strategic Management (2 cr.)
This course examines both the theory and application of strategic management tasks. Among the tasks considered are: developing a mission/vision statement, setting objectives, developing and implementing a strategy, and evaluating performance.

GM675
Managerial Ethics and Issues (2 cr.)
This course examines various theories and methods that can be used to resolve organizational dilemmas involving ethical behavior. Students apply philosophical principles and managerial techniques to the ambiguous and ethical issues facing today's organizations domestically and globally.

GM599
Management Development (2 cr.)
Prerequisite: Students with less than five years of experience are required to take GM599
This course provides an opportunity for students to apply management theory to the everyday practice of management. Self-assessments, including management style assessments, are used to help students understand more clearly their leadership style, as well as the implications for various management responsibilities. The approach to this applied course includes group activities and projects to assist students in skill building.

GM605
Creative Problem Solving and Critical Thinking (2 cr.)
This course gives students the opportunity to learn and practice higher level thinking skills such as curiosity and imagination, divergent thinking, idea generation, creative problem solving, evaluation, synthesis, critical thinking and analysis. Students develop strategies to search for challenges, identify problems, produce creative ideas, research solutions, design innovative applications and build a case for the solution.

GM625
Leadership and Decision Making (2 cr.)
This course introduces selected models and practices in the exploration and understanding of what is effective leadership and decision making. Skills necessary for effective decision making and problem solving within organizations are emphasized from the role of manager.

GM629
Project Management (2 cr.)
This course facilitates learning and applying the principles and tools of successful project management in organizations. It examines how a successful project manager controls company resources within the limits of time, cost and performance.

GM630
Quantitative Methods (3 cr.)
This course focuses on statistical analysis of data for professional applications or research with an emphasis on quantitative methodologies. The course covers populations, sample selection, and descriptive and inferential statistics. Significance, Chi Square, correlations, analysis of variance and simple regression, and concepts of reliability, validity and levels of measurement are addressed.

GM640
Legal and Government Systems (2 cr.)
This course provides a survey of legal and governmental systems and their impact on organizational decision making. The legal focus emphasizes principles of contract, tort and discrimination law. The governmental component addresses administrative processes, the political allocation of resources, and access to governmental decision-making.

GM660
Financial Management (3 cr.)
This course introduces, discusses and analyzes financial issues facing profit, not-for-profit and governmental organizations in today's domestic and global business environment. The course provides the general manager with an ethical financial manager's perspective by way of examination of various financial areas including: types of organizations, sources of capital, investment in the US and in foreign countries, asset management, time value of money, international payments and foreign exchange rates, trade theory and policy, and financial statement analysis.

GM667
Information Technology (2 cr.)
This course provides an overview of planning and managing technology and information flow in organizations. It addresses present and future issues regarding computer systems and their impact on management and operations.

HD568
Designing Corporate Training (2 cr.)
This course examines the tools, techniques and knowledge necessary to create corporate and industrial training programs and professional development seminars and workshops. It considers ways to design, develop and deliver programs efficiently and in a way that maximizes adult learning.

HD635
Getting Published (1 cr.)
This course explains the basics of getting published and helps participants define possible projects, identify publications and publishers, and prepare a draft of a proposal that might be submitted to a publisher.

HD636
Coaching and Team Building: Applying Human Development Processes in Organizations (1 cr.)
This course addresses the application of human development processes to the roles of organizational consultant and/or organizational leader. Techniques to enhance capacity to act as an effective facilitator of employee growth and development in organizational settings, particularly in coaching and team building, are examined.

HD720
Reengaging our Relationship with Conflict (1 cr.)
This course offers participants a framework through which to view the nature of conflict and their relationship with it. The nature of conflict and strategies for resolving it are explored from the perspective of conflict as a block to the natural flow of energy, or chi between people. The extent to which conflict represents imbalance and energy are examined. Strategies for resolving conflict by addressing imbalances or disease at the mental, emotional and spiritual levels are explored.

HD734
The Art and Practice of Executive Coaching (2 cr.)
This course defines executive coaching and compares it to other forms of executive training and development. The rationale for using executive coaching in light of adult learning theories is discussed. A model of executive coaching is presented along with various methodologies and approaches currently used. The benefits of executive coaching to the individual and the organization are highlighted.

HRM602
Organizational Measurement and Assessment Issues in Human Resources (3 cr.)
This course examines research design for organizational measurement and assessment. Assessment and evaluation tools are examined for hiring, career development, retention and termination processes.

HS616
Health and Human Service Systems (3 cr.)
This course provides an overview of the American health and human service systems, including history, structure, organization and financing. Major trends affecting the two systems are discussed, including political climate, regulations, managed care, technology and inequity of access. Students explore the origins of public welfare and welfare reform, managed care and health insurance. The role of print and electronic media in forming public opinions about the health and human service systems is also discussed.

HS621
Population Analysis (2 cr.)
This course examines how the health and social well being of general populations relates to specific client populations. It focuses on the contributions of the fields of demography and epidemiology in understanding how to research and use population-based data to carry out needs assessments, policy development, program development and evaluation.

HS679
Public Policy: Issues & Trends (2 cr.)
Prerequisites: GM600 and HS616
This course examines public policy decision-making processes and analyzes how public policy decisions affect the delivery of health and human services in the United States. Policy trends and consequences are identified. Current health and human service policy issues facing both providers and consumers are examined.