36 courses with the subject MOD, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MOD 101Portfolio Development3
This course is strongly recommended for students planning to submit a portfolio describing and documenting their prior college-level learning experience. Topics include an overview of experiential learning, writing a portfolio paper, and collecting documentation in support of a portfolio paper. 122 | College of Professional Studies 2022-23 Catalog
An overview of experimental learning styles is explored with specific attention to David A. Kolb’s experimental learning theory. Students will explore lifelong learning experiences based on concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. The course will prepare students to submit a portfolio paper for additional credit based on their lifelong learning experiences.
Challenge Exam Option ONLY This course is an introduction to the basic principles of employment law. The course covers major legislation affecting the employment relationship including civil rights, whistleblower, and wage/hour law. The course also introduces basic theories of tort law as they apply to the employment relationship.
This course focuses on the communication behavior of individuals within group structures. Students explore the stages of group development, decision-making techniques, group problems and problem solving, resolution skills, norms, structures, leadership, authority, membership, ethics, cultural sensitivity, and the intra-and inter-personal dynamics within small groups.
Group Dynamics is designed to provide the opportunity to study the principles underlying the process of group action and interaction in social situations and in professional leadership and supervisory group situations.
Introduction to various types of professional communication, both written and oral. Students practice skills in communication styles such as memos, email, research reports, proposals, presentations, and interviews.
Challenge Exam Option ONLY This course will offer an overview of Six-Sigma and the initiation of process improvement. The concept of Six-Sigma will be defined and distinguished from other quality improvement programs. The initiation and implementation of Six-Sigma programs is incorporated, as are the representative tools used in Six-Sigma programs. College of Professional Studies 2022-23 Catalog | 123
Challenge Exam Option ONLY A detailed analysis of the impact on the workplace of the abuse of both legal and illegal drugs, this course will give an in-depth overview of selected substances that are commonly abused in the workplace. This course will cover theories of counseling used to treat chemically dependent individuals.
This course examines the role communication plays in creating a productive and successful organizational environment. This class aids adult learners in developing, analyzing, and strengthening their communication skills by focusing on different types of communication, various communication mediums, presentation skills, conflict management, and types of diversity within communications.
Emphasizes how stress affects human health and behavior. Stress can affect a person psychologically, emotionally, and physically. The course will examine how stress affects such diseases as cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. Stress can also be related to environmental factors such as job and family life. Stephen Covey’s First Things First and The Four Quadrants of Time Management will be discussed as a possible means to help students alleviate stress. Type A and Type B personalities will be examined, and students will learn stress management techniques which will aid them in dealing with stress on a daily basis.
This course helps students learn to think clearly, concisely, and analytically, through a familiarity with the Critical Literacy Theory. Students learn how to define terms, formulate arguments, and analyze statements critically and objectively.
This course provides an overview of the underlying causes of stress and how stress affects health. The course focuses upon stress reducing techniques such as time management, as described by Steven Covey.
This course is designed to impart a functional ability to reason well and to improve students analytical skills and instincts. Using the Critical Literacy Theory, you will develop an understanding of the methods used in building strong arguments. The course is further designed to aid students in understanding the essentials of reasoned decision making. 124 | College of Professional Studies 2022-23 Catalog
This course provides a paradigm for understanding individuals within organizations. Topics covered include adult learning theory, group formation and conflict management, the work environment, and communication channels within organizations. The course also covers writing and presentation skill development.
This course is about motivational theory and its application to individuals and group functioning in work and home situations. Leadership styles related to particular circumstances are analyzed. Negotiation is covered through readings and class practice, with an analysis of the effect of productivity.
An on-campus class that examines the formal and informal functions of organizations and analysis of agencies or organizations based on a systems model. Adult learners analyze and solve organizational problems using a step-by-step method, which will be applied to work-related independent study projects. This class serves as the springboard for the organizational research project.
This introductory course is designed to answer many fundamental questions about the role of information systems in business from a management perspective.
In this course students will learn about individual decision making, group decision making, and managing motivation. The objectives are to understand why and how leadership skills are so critical to organizational success.
This course is an examination of current theory in organizational behavior including the study of interactions between and among individuals in the organizational context. Topics include organizational culture, goal-setting, performance management, stress and work-life balance, teams and power in organizations. College of Professional Studies 2022-23 Catalog | 125
MOD 360Intro to Research Methods & Analysis Using Statistics3
This course covers problem analysis and evaluation techniques, and explores methods for defining researching, analyzing, and evaluating problems in the work or vocational environments through an independent study project. Specific statistical information covered in the course includes identifying and measuring objectives, collecting data, working with significance levels, analyzing variance, and constructing questionnaires.
This course is designed to introduce students to the followership concept. Followership has been described as the other side of leadership. Followership is premised on the notion that leaders and followers serve a common organizational purpose. Followership also explains how leaders and followers are organizational roles filled by individuals in organizations, and oftentimes individuals are both leaders and followers simultaneously.
This course explores the values and perceptions of selected groups affecting social and economic life through an analysis of policies and practices of recruitment, selection, training, development and compensation of employees. Special attention is given to Equal Opportunity and Office of Safety and Health Administration legislation through a series of case studies and simulations.
MOD 410Quantitative Approaches to Managerial Decision-Making3
This course is an examination of quantitative applications in management with an emphasis in managerial accounting and operations management. Topics include: budgeting, forecasting, cost control, financial analysis, the value-chain, cost management, and total quality management.
This course focuses on learning and applying a servant leadership approach. Servant leaders are motivated to serve first and lead second. Servant leaders operate from a position of strength through service to organizational members and other organizational stakeholders. Applying a servant leadership approach involves using visionary foresight to establish organizational goals, and then serving the needs of followers and stakeholders in a cumulative effort to achieve results. 126 | College of Professional Studies 2022-23 Catalog
This course explores principles of marketing needed by managers in all areas in order to develop and utilize effective marketing practices. Concepts of our global economy, including major social, psychological and political influences and their marketing implications are considered from a manager’s perspective.
We are living in a period of great change in the business world due to the technologies that are changing the way people communicate with each other and the organizations that interest them. This course is designed to provide the basic knowledge necessary to harness the marketing power of social media.
MOD 430Business, Government & the International Economy3
This course examines the interaction between business organizations, governmental structures, and the international economic environment. Topics include governmental attempts to regulate business organizations and manage the national economy. Models of competitive production are reviewed as in the impact of global competition.
This course covers responsibilities and strategies associated with managing a sales force, examines selling techniques from a variety of perspectives. Gaining an understanding of selling in the contemporary business environment with a strong focus on creating and communicating value for customers and managing the buyer/seller relationship process is a key component of this course.
Selling is one of the most dynamic areas of business and knowledge about selling is invaluable to any student. This module introduces you to the field of selling and also provides basic skills in selling that can be used right away. Among the key topics are the following: sales careers and the selling process, sales technologies, prospecting, negotiation and the sales call, closing approaches, managing salespeople, and global aspects of sales.
Integration of previous coursework in the functional areas of business management with the theoretical foundations for strategic planning. Planning concepts and techniques are applied to case studies of organizations. College of Professional Studies 2022-23 Catalog | 127
This course explores how and why public, private and nonprofit organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other crisis situations.
MOD 450Ethical & Legal Environment of Modern Organizations3
This course considers managerial decision-making from an ethical and legal standpoint. Topics include the application of moral philosophy to the business environment, the Constitutional basis for regulations such as teams in capitalist environments, antitrust regulation, and human rights.
This course introduces a strategic social responsibility for courses that address the role of business in society. Social responsibility is concerned with issues related to values and expectations, as well as the rights of members of society. We view social responsibility as the extent to which a business adopts a strategic focus for fulfilling the economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities expected by all its stakeholders.
MOD 470Organizational Research Project (Optional*)3
This is an on-campus independent project requiring the analysis of an organization, identification of a problem or opportunity, research of previous work on the topic, and collection and analysis of data to make an informed recommendation. A comprehensive paper documenting the development of the project is required.
The dynamic nature of law, the legal processes and specific areas of law that guide business decisions are discussed. The course addresses the aspects of law and its standard for human behavior that increasingly affects and constrains business activity. Includes introductions to the legal system, tort, criminal and contract law.
