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GLS 8376 - Character Development in Fiction
Credits: (4 credits)
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GLS 8379 - Revising Form and Content
Credits: (4 credits)
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GLS 8383 - Writing a Suspenseful Novel
Credits: (4 credits)
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GLS 8384 - Lyric Essay
Credits: (4 credits)
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GLS 8385 - Experimental Literature
Credits: (4 credits)
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GLS 8400 - Advanced Poetry
The focus of the course will be on completing new work which will become part of a book-length manuscript.
Notes
MFA only;
Credits: (4 credits)
Prerequisite: GLS 8300
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GLS 8403 - The Narrative Lyric
Credits: (4 credits)
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GLS 8420 - Advanced Creative Nonfiction
This class is a sequel to Groundings in the Craft: Elements of Creative Nonfiction. Its purpose is to build upon fundamental craft knowledge already practiced by the student, and to pursue rigorously and adventurously the development of finished works that reflect a writer’s vision and knowledge.
Notes
MFA only
Credits: 4 credits
Prerequisite: GLS 8320
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GLS 8440 - Advanced Fiction
This is an advanced level, thesis preparation class designed for students who have had substantial coursework and who are ready to begin the serious work of shaping a book-length fiction thesis.
Notes
MFA only
Credits: 4 credits
Prerequisite: GLS 8340
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GLS 8462 - Introduction to Literary Theory
Credits: (4 credits)
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GLS 8485 - Water~Stone: Creative Nonfiction
Credits: (4 credits)
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GLS 8486 - Water~Stone: Fiction
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8000 - Foundations in Public Administration
This course introduces students to the professional study of public administration. The course provides a historical overview of American public administration and each of its significant sub-fields, as well as an introduction to contemporary reform efforts, both within and outside the public sector. Students learn to integrate their own experiences with key concepts in public administration and to use these experiences and concepts to plan the rest of their master’s programs.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8002 - Fundamentals of Nonprofit Management
This course provides an overview of the historical development of the nonprofit sector, an introduction to emerging issues and leadership challenges for the sector, and a close look at management issues unique to the nonprofit sector. The class also examines the missions, operations, and challenges of nonprofit organizations.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8010 - Professional Ethics
This course explores selected theories of ethics and fundamental principles of ethical management, with a focus on practical approaches to dealing with ethical dilemmas across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8020 - Organizational Theory and Behavior
This course examines the concepts, analytical tools, and personal skills relevant to the study of behavior in organizations. The course uses simulations, case studies, and discussion. It explores planned organizational change, the relationship between accomplishing tasks and fulfilling a mission, and other crucial topics in organizational life.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8030 - Public Fiscal Management
This course analyzes government revenue and expenditure policies, with an emphasis on the Minnesota state budgetary process. Topics include principles of public fiscal management, tax and spending systems, revenue sources, intergovernmental relations, and the administrative and political aspects of fiscal policy.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8032 - Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations
This course introduces concepts and techniques in financial management applicable to nonprofit organizations. The focus is on nonprofit accounting, the interpretation and analysis of nonprofit financial statements, data and procedures for operational forecasts and budgets, financial responsibility, and the duties of nonprofit boards.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8040 - Public Policy Analysis
This course evaluates a variety of approaches and models used to analyze the making of public policy by examining the assumptions and limitations of each model. Current policy issues are explored. Each student designs and completes a significant research project on a selected public policy issue.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8050 - Human Resource Management for Government
This course examines current case law, regulations, and trends that define and influence the personnel function. Topics include recruitment, selection, compensation, employee motivation, collective bargaining, organizational philosophies, and legislation and regulation.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8052 - Human Resource Management for Nonprofit Organizations
This course provides an overview of the human resources function, with emphasis on the unique issues facing nonprofit organizations. It examines challenges of recruitment, retention, compensation, and personnel policies. Special attention is given to the role of boards and other volunteers.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8061 - Administrative Law
This course has been designed to be user-friendly to the nonlawyer and has as its goal to acquaint students with the fundamental principles and concepts of administrative law. Taught from a public administration perspective, the course provides students the opportunity to explore the interplay between and among politics, democracy, and bureaucracy; to examine bureaucracy’s relationship to the legislative branch of government and to the courts; to learn about the administrative process at the local, state, and federal levels; to focus on the regulatory aspects of administrative law with particular attention to controlling risks, solving problems, and managing compliance; and to take a look at some contemporary substantive issues through the lens of administrative law.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8062 - Law for Nonprofit Organizations
This course examines the legal history and frameworks of nonprofit organizations. Emphasis is placed on the laws relating to the incorporation and tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations. The course includes an examination of how nonprofit organizations influence legislation and rule-making processes. Students look at issues of accountability for nonprofit organizations and analyze the differences between profit and nonprofit organizations.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8070 - Research Methods
This course is designed to enhance managers’ applied research skills in both their quantitative valuations and qualitative evaluations of various issues that confront them in their roles as decision-makers. Topics include research purpose and design; literature reviews; survey and data collection; statistical hypothesis testing; and research-proposal development
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8082 - Volunteer Management
This course explores the theories and practices required to develop and implement effective volunteer management programs within nonprofits. Topics include planning to ensure the success of volunteer programs, outlining the steps of appropriate volunteer recruitment, creating effective personnel policies and procedures, orientation training, supervising and evaluating, and recognizing volunteers for their contributions. Some related topics covered: what is national service, the changing demographics of the community volunteer, and organizational responsibilities and liabilities with administering volunteer programs.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8100 - Communications and Marketing for Nonprofits
This course explores research and marketing techniques used by nonprofits. Examines the importance of long range strategic planning for nonprofit organizations’ market development. The course involves students in exercises in brand development and management, audience targeting, development of key messages, and other components of effective communication.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8110 - Governance and Planning in Nonprofit Organizations
This course introduces the governance process in nonprofit organizations, including the composition, roles, and responsibilities of governing boards; the relationship between boards and staff; and the role of governing boards in planning. Examines strategies for analysis and intervention when governance structures are not serving organizational needs.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8120 - Labor Relations
This course offers a wide review of Labor Relations. The course assumes a general understanding of relationships between management and organized labor and other core graduate courses specifically organizational theory and human resource management. The instructional approach is in the survey form and will employ lecture, readings, guest speakers, student presentation, and case study to achieve its objectives. It is not intended to train students for specialized careers in labor relations in a single course, but to acquaint the student with the underlying values, systems, laws and procedures shaping Labor Relations and the pertinent topics affecting the workplace today.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8130 - Housing & Economic Policy
This course examines economic development theories and housing policies in the United States. Emphasis upon understanding how economic and housing markets operate and how national, state, and local governments can influence business investment and job development decisions and the construction and rehabilitation of housing for different populations. This course first provides an overview on how economic and housing markets function. The discussion will include discussion of basic principles of macro and microeconomics and then analysis of specific views of economic development, including export-base, core-periphery, and locational theories. The course then provides specific analysis and evaluation of the different policies and techniques governments have used to secure economic and housing goals. Among the techniques examined will be: tax incentives and TIFs, bonding, public subsidies, public/private partnerships, infrastructure development, and direct government investment in, or ownership of housing and economic development entities.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8201 - Public Dispute Resolution
This course is an introduction to the public policy formation and implementation process. Public organizations encounter many situations where negotiation skills and mediation training in a public context is useful. Neighborhood disputes, development issues or special interest concerns require public officials to negotiate and mediate between parties in order to reach consensus and resolution to different opinions and points of view. These skills are different than the typical policymaking and implementation training that most public officials are used to. In today’s world of public participation and citizen awareness, negotiation and mediation skills are essential.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8208 - Organizational Culture
Organizations with highly effective cultures are more able to attract funding and clients, have stronger market share and profit, and serve more constituents more effectively than organizations with weaker cultures. In this course, you will learn how to determine the effectiveness of an organization’s culture and what you can do to maximize the performance of public, private, or nonprofit organizations.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8221 - Public Negotiation Skills Building
This course is designed to give the student a working knowledge of the theory and practice of negotiations in various public sector settings. The course is structured to allow the student to spend considerable time in realistic role-play exercises and will cover employee to employee, labor and community interest group dispute resolution through the use of bargaining skills and tactics. Participants will be involved in team negotiations with other members of the class.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8222 - Public Mediation Skills Building
Conflict is not necessarily good or bad. Conflict can be dysfunctional, and it can be difficult and dangerous for personal, business, or institutional relationships. Conflict often requires a third party neutral to assist parties in resolving their disputes and in creating valuable and workable relationships after their disagreements. This course provides students with the basic skills to become a mediator, and it provides students with an understanding of common mediation principles and practices. Students will also learn how mediation fits into the broader area of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8223 - Contemporary Social Policy Issues
This course is open to advanced master’s level students. This course examines the historical context, theoretical arguments, and political controversies surrounding current and emerging social policy issues. Consideration is given to the impacts of changing social policies on vulnerable populations, the delivery of health and human services, and society at large.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8225 - Critical Issues in Public Administration
This course explores in-depth those changes that are likely to have the greatest impact on local government managers in today’s environment. External factors such as changing demographics, rising citizens’ expectations, and the evolving nature of federalism will be examined as context for how effective managers must now respond. Several important internal issues such as how to motivate the new work force, how to determine the costs and benefits of technology in service delivery, and governing body expectations for successful managers will also be covered.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8228 - Public Arbitration Skills Building
This course is designed to make students familiar and comfortable with arbitration as a dispute resolution process in the public sector. Students will have a chance to participate in several scripted arbitration proceedings that will give them knowledge of the legal requirements and tactical underpinnings of this common workplace process. Employees will be made aware of the State Statutes governing public employee disputes and will become familiar with both salary and discipline arbitration proceedings.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8230 - Municipal County Administration
This course is a survey of contemporary issues facing municipalities specifically in Minnesota and generally in the upper Midwest. The semester will explore the practicalities and politics of managing a municipal organization using a variety of current practitioners in the field. Areas of concentration will include: community roles and power structures, city council and staff relations, public safety and public works issues, land use and community development, employee relations, finance, legal authority and emerging issues of governance and the role of citizen participation. Students currently will find this class a good way to acquire a broad-based understanding of municipal operations and the complexities of this occupational field.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8235 - Strategic Planning & Decision Making in the Public Sector
The first half of the course is a survey of strategic planning, to include: organization of the planning process; the mission statement; analysis of environmental strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis); and identifying strategic issues or goals. We will also review the effectiveness of strategic planning in government. Students will examine strategic plans and work in teams on planning exercises. As strategic planning should lead to decision making in an organization, the second half of the course is on normative and behavioral decision making. Several normative models of decision making are introduced and contrasted with findings from psychological research and behavioral decision theory on how individuals and groups make decisions in practice. Research shows that people often do not think in the best way or make the best decisions to reach their own goals. Topics include utility theory, expert systems, Kohlberg’s stages of moral thinking, and the effectiveness of individual versus group decision making. Psychological biases are shown to occur in probability estimation, hypothesis testing, preference reversals, framing effects, and risk avoidance.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8243 - Public Negotiation and Mediation
This course’s focus is on mediation as an element of the negotiation process. It will concentrate on the role of the mediator as a neutral facilitator within the conflict resolution process. The course includes lectures, discussions, and mediation and negotiation exercises that give participants an opportunity to acquire essential skills and familiarize themselves with mediation and negotiation procedures. This course also explores major themes in negotiation theory and practice, including distributive versus integrative bargaining, personality styles, multi-party negotiation, and ethical issues.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8244 - Advanced Public Arbitration
This course’s focus is on more complicated public arbitration cases. Particular emphasis will be placed on labor and management issues. Time is also devoted to the legal framework of public arbitration. This course will explain procedural and evidentiary issues and will address decision-making and writing awards.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8245 - Advanced Public Mediation
This course covers advanced public mediation techniques, strategies, and tactics. The course is designed to enhance the participant’s basic mediation skills. Special emphasis will be given to intercultural disputes, improving communication skills, and option development techniques. The course will also focus on the facilitative and evaluative approaches to public mediation. Participants in the class will be involved in numerous exercises and will have opportunities to experience co-mediation in a public arena.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8250 - Legislative Practicum
An in-depth exploration of how the state legislative processes operates and how knowledge of the law-making process is critical to public policy management and advocacy. The course will employ reading, discussion, guest presenters, on-site visits, and a project that requires students to follow a bill from start to finish.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8260 - Alternative Service Delivery
This course is open to advanced master’s level students. State and local governments are facing their worst fiscal crises in years. As a result, public officials in Minnesota and across the United States are seeking either more cost effective or alternative ways to deliver public services, including the employment of what President Bush calls “faith-based initiatives.” This course examines the theoretical underpinnings, debates, and track record of the various alternatives to delivery public services. Topics include: privatization, vouchers, contracting out, public/private and public/nonprofit partnerships, and the use of market incentives and competition to improve service delivery. We shall also examine several policy areas where alternative means to deliver services have been tried or advocated including criminal justice, education, health care, welfare, energy, and transportation.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8270 - Social Identities & Conflict
This course will examine issues of race, gender and ethnicity as they influence conflict in the changing workplace. This course is designed to provide participants an opportunity to examine conflicts in multicultural settings and how these are influenced by various social identities. This course will also engage students in reflective dialogue concerning issues of cultural diversity in the workplace and their impact on the process of social conflict. Emphasis will be placed on conflicts involving race, gender and ethnicity and will include discussions of issues of disability, sexual identity, social class and religion. Included in the course goals are the following: 1) Gaining a theoretical understanding of various issues and perspectives on social identity. 2) Understanding the role community and culture can play in the ways individuals see, understand and respond in conflict situations. 3) Examining how issues of social identity and social conflict manifest personally as well as professionally. 4) Identifying a range of strategies and resources to help us address social conflict more effectively in diverse organizational settings.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8360 - Lobbying for Nonprofits
This course provides the historical and theoretical context for nonprofit involvement in advocacy and lobbying; addresses organizational infrastructure needs in building capacity for public policy work; examines legal guidelines for nonprofit lobbying; and provides students with practical experience in working with the legislative process at the state or local level.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8361 - Fundamentals of Philanthropy
This course examines the history, key issues, and emerging trends of philanthropy. Identifies the unique issues and career opportunities in this discrete component of the nonprofit sector. This course is for students interested in the field of philanthropy and practitioners in the field who want to gain an understanding of the history and issues that frame the context for their work.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8362 - Fundraising for Nonprofits
This course examines strategies for diversifying revenues and creating short and long-term development plans. This course helps students develop skills in conducting research, identifying resources for public and private grants, and writing proposals. Covers capital campaigns, earned income opportunities, membership development, individual donors, planned giving campaigns, and other fundraising initiatives.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8440 - Social Demographics
This course will look at some of the details impacting our society and specifically how immigration, aging, and policy converge in our society and ultimately in our policymaking. Any one of the three issues covered in this course could be a separate, semesterlong course. This course covers basic concepts present in each of the three areas.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8490 - Capstone Skills Development for Government
This course requires students to integrate the diverse materials mastered in the core program, formulate business recommendations, and communicate findings in oral and written form. In a series of structured simulations of contemporary problems commonly encountered by administrators, students receive the opportunity to practice managerial skills and demonstrate the leadership necessary for effective managerial performance.
Notes
(MPA capstone)
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8492 - Capstone Skills Development for Nonprofits
This course provides MANM soon-to-be-graduating students with a rigorous classroom and practicum course that helps them demonstrate the skills and knowledge they have mastered in the program and test their critical thinking and skills abilities to manage and/or lead a nonprofit organization. Students will study and examine the critical or current issues of the nonprofit sector, complete an applied research project with a Twin Cities organization, and present the project including a final paper and presentation to a MANM Nonprofit Board of Review (a panel of nonprofit leaders selected) at the end of each semester.
Notes
(MANM Capstone)
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8494 - Internship
Any student without professional work experience in his or her field of study is required to participate in an internship. This internship is an additional course that will not fulfill an elective requirement. Each student is notified at the time of admission whether an internship is a required component of his or her individual program. If the student is required to complete an internship, he or she must work with his or her advisor in planning the internship.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8495 - Master’s Thesis
Research and writing of a major academic or professional paper of approximately 50 to 100 pages in length under the supervision of a student-selected faculty member and committee that integrates knowledge and skills acquired in the program. Individual master’s theses must be approved by a faculty committee, and oral defense of the final paper is required. The master’s thesis is completed over two semesters. The master’s thesis is an option for all MAM, MANM, and MPA students on the Saint Paul campus. Dual degree students may complete a master’s thesis on a cross-sector issue.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8497 - Independent Study
Independent study provides an opportunity to work independently under the direction of a faculty member. The student and the instructor work out a course of study before the term begins and typically meet four to six times throughout the term to discuss readings and papers. Students may take one independent study.
Credits: (1-4 Credits)
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GPA 8501 - Historical Foundations and Professional Development
This course examines how public administration and nonprofit management have evolved as fields of study, and how they are designed and practiced. The academic and career development goals of individual students are addressed. Students are prepared to integrate theory into practice at an advanced level.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8502 - Research Methods
Advanced Research Methods introduces students to the basic techniques of quantitative and qualitative research required in the field of public administration. Students learn how to define a research project and select appropriate methodologies to investigate political and social phenomena. Emphasis is also placed on learning how to interpret and critically evaluate public administration research.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8503 - Critical Issues for Public Administrators
This course identifies and explores important contemporary issues facing public administration practitioners, and looks at how these issues relate to major ideas in the history of the field. This course examines leading-edge professional practices related to these issues, and the extent to which these practices have been successful in local, state, and national contexts. Students integrate their learning from the other core courses and prepare for written exams in the program.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8504 - Advanced Organizational Theory and Leadership
This course is an advanced, in-depth examination of the concepts, analytical tools, and personal skills underlying behavior in organizations. It explores the relationship between task accomplishment and human fulfillment in the context of planned organizational change.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8506 - Advanced Seminar in Public Policy
This course examines the theoretical and philosophical approaches used to systematically examine the public policy process. Because no single theory or model can adequately describe the complexities of this process, the analytical frameworks and assumptions of the major approaches to policy analysis are emphasized, and emerging theories explored. In individual assignments, students are encouraged to examine policy issues and frameworks that relate to potential dissertation topics.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8507 - Dissertation I: Advanced Research Methods
This course prepares students to design, develop, complete, and defend an applied dissertation research project. The nature and purpose of dissertation research are explored, and technical issues relevant to research in the field of public administration are examined. By the end of the course, students are expected to develop dissertation prospectuses of sufficient quality to be submitted to their dissertation committees for review and approval. (Graded on an A-F basis)
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8521 - Comparative Public Administration
This course uses theories from comparative political science and public administration to examine the public administration systems of different countries and/or regions through case studies. Given the growing interdependence of nations and globalization of public policy concerns, practitioners of public administration often need to deal with a public administration issue beyond their borders. This course will help bring a broader perspective to practitioners, which will help them in dealing with such situations as well as aid them in assessing local public administration issues from a new perspective.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8523 - Contemporary Social Policy Issues
This course examines the historical context, theoretical arguments, and political controversies surrounding current and emerging social policy issues. It considers the impacts of changing social policies on vulnerable populations, the delivery of health and human services, and society at large.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8524 - Housing and Economic Development Policy
This course examines economic development theories and housing policies in the United States. Emphasis upon understanding how economic and housing markets operate and how national, state, and local governments can influence business investment and job development decisions and the construction and rehabilitation of housing for different populations. This course first provides an overview on how economic and housing markets function. The discussion will include discussion of basic principles of macro and microeconomics and then analysis of specific views of economic development, including exportbase, core-periphery, and locational theories. The course then provides specific analysis and evaluation of the different policies and techniques governments have used to secure economic and housing goals. Among the techniques examined will be: tax incentives and TIFs, bonding, public subsidies, public/private partnerships, infrastructure development, and direct government investment in, or ownership of housing and economic development entities.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8527 - Alternative Service Delivery
State and local governments are facing their worst fiscal crises in years. As a result, public officials in Minnesota and across the United States are seeking either more cost effective or alternative ways to deliver public services, including the employment of what President Bush calls “faith-based initiatives.” This course examines the theoretical underpinnings, debates, and track record of the various alternatives to delivery public services. Topics include: privatization, vouchers, contracting out, public/private and public/nonprofit partnerships, and the use of market incentives and competition to improve service delivery. We shall also examine several policy areas where alternative means to deliver serviceshave been tried or advocated including criminal justice, education, health care, welfare, energy, and transportation.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8600 - Strategic Planning and Decision Making in the Public Sector
The first half of the course is a survey of strategic planning, to include: organization of the planning process; the mission statement; analysis of environmental strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis); and identifying strategic issues or goals. The effectiveness of strategic planning in government is also examined. Students will examine strategic plans and work in teams on planning exercises. As strategic planning should lead to decision making in an organization, the second half of the course is on normative and behavioral decision making. Several normative models of decision making are introduced and contrasted with findings from psychological research and behavioral decision theory on how individuals and groups make decisions in practice. Research shows that people often do not think in the best way or make the best decisions to reach their own goals. Topics include utility theory, expert systems, Kohlberg’s stages of moral thinking, and the effectiveness of individual versus group decision making. Psychological biases are shown to occur in probability estimation, hypothesis testing, preference reversals, framing effects, and risk avoidance. Doctoral students will lead discussions and write papers on assigned topics.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8992 - Dissertation II
The preparation of a successful doctoral dissertation (one approved by the student’s doctoral committee), with direction from the student’s committee. (Graded on a Pass/no Credit basis)
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8993 - Dissertation III
The preparation of a successful doctoral dissertation (one approved by the student’s doctoral committee), with direction from the student’s committee. (Graded on a Pass/no Credit basis)
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8997 - Independent Study
Independent study provides an opportunity to work independently under the direction of a faculty member. The student and the instructor work out a course of study before the term begins and typically meet four to six times throughout the term to discuss readings and papers. Students may take two independent studies.
Credits: (1-4 Credits)
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MBA 8010 - Negotiation Theory & Practice
Through both lecture and simulation, this course explores major themes in negotiation theory and practice, including distributive versus integrative bargaining, personality styles, multi-party negotiation, and ethical issues. Students are encouraged to reflect on the theoretical foundations that underlie our actions and on the many considerations that influence effective and ethical negotiation practice.
Credits: (4 credits)
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MBA 8011 - Conflict Management Systems Design
This course will help you improve decisions, increase creativity, enhance others’ performances and your capacity to build a healthy, productive workplace. The classroom will be a metaphor for “organization”. Students will experience how conflict is managed individually and systemically. The class will discern patterns, roles, concerns, power differentials and differing workplace assumptions. Participants will work in teams within the organization to design customized conflict responses. The course will merge theory and practice, challenging students on best practices, conflict prevention tools, and alternative dispute resolution options.
With a greater in-depth appreciation for workplace culture, systems and people, class team members will gain familiarity with the necessity of assessments, buy-in, design teams, development, implementation, roll-out and feedback loops. Participants will build their capacity to manage conflict more effectively on a systemic basis using principles of organizational systems design.
Credits: (4 credits)
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MBA 8012 - Conflict Theories
This course explores the nature of conflict from a range of theoretical and research-based perspectives including psychology, communication, and group and social dynamics. This course lays a foundation for further study in conflict management and resolution.
Credits: (4 credits)
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MBA 8020 - Corporate Finance
This course presents the theory and practice of corporate finance. Topics include concepts of corporate valuation, financial statement analysis and forecasting: the evaluation of capital investments under differing assumptions about risks and the state of the world; the financing choice for capital projects; the effects of debt, equity and derivative financial instruments on the value of the firm; dividend policy and other stakeholder forms of payment; corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, and merger; issues in corporate control and compensation.
Credits: (4 credits)
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MBA 8021 - Financial Institutions and Markets
This course begins with a discussion of the financial system and financial institutions and the relationship between interest rates and security prices, the money market where interest rates are determined, and the role of the consumer and business and government in the financial markets. The course 1) examines how markets are organized and how trading occurs; and 2) establishes a framework for understanding how existing markets are set up, how trading occurs in them and how these markets evolve over time. The concentration is on securities markets and trading practices, but most of the principles developed are also applicable to other kinds of markets – markets for products, service and information.
Credits: (4 credits)
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MBA 8022 - Finance Theory & Applications
This course covers the major decision-making areas of corporate finance and selected areas of financial history. Focusing on financial analysis and planning, corporate policies, valuation, and risk management. Topics will include firm capital structure and payout policy, short-term and long-term financial planning, options, risk management and derivates, and corporate restructuring. The course builds upon the topics covered in MBA 8220: Managerial Finance.
Credits: (4 credits)
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MBA 8030 - Global Business
This course will focus on practical issues of global business. We will discuss foreign direct investment, joint ventures, licensing and distribution agreements. Topics covered will include exporting, counter trade, supply chains, global human resource management, global marketing, and financial management in international business. We will also examine entry strategies for doing business in global markets. The students will apply the topics covered by working in groups to develop an international marketing plan to enter a foreign market with a specific product or service.
Credits: (4 Credits)
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MBA 8031 - International Business Transactions
This course provides students with an understanding of selected types and forms of international business transactions. It examines the role of business organizations in these transactions and focuses on international dispute mechanisms and how business disputes are resolved using these mechanisms. Attention is given to regional trade agreements such as NAFTA, ASEAN, and MERCOSUR. The WTO, the United Nations ICSID, UNCITRAL, and non-governmental options such as the International Chamber of Commerce will also be examined. Some time is devoted to public and private international organizations and how they influence the resolution of business disputes. Specific international dispute centers, such New York, London, and Stockholm are examined in light of their practices and procedures. International business transactions are an essential part of today’s business and dispute resolution methods utilized in resolving conflicts are essential for business graduates.
Credits: (4 credits)
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MBA 8040 - HR Strategy
Typically the majority of an organization’s costs relate to people, yet few organizations take a strategic approach to HR management. This course provides an in-depth review of the essential elements required to develop a strategic HR role. It also includes the development of a human capital strategic plan for an organization, which facilitates student skill development in this critical area. This course should be of interest to HR professionals, those who are considering the field of HR, and/or those who are interested in the potential to significantly impact organizational profits.
Credits: (4 credits)
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MBA 8097 - International Seminar
Credits: (4 credits)
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MBA 8101 - Management & Organizational Behavior
Managing people requires a broad range of interdisciplinary knowledge and skills. To be effective, managers must have solid planning and organizational skills. They must also have solid understanding of human behavior, and how human behavioral tendencies affect and are affected by organizational systems, processes, and interactions. This component of Module 1 helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage people in organizations. Topics include fundamentals of social cognition, individual differences, judgment and decision making, motivation, organizational power and politics, managerial communications, and conflict management.
Credits: (3 credits)
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MBA 8102 - Human Resource Management
This component of Module 1 provides an overview of human resource management in organizations, and examines the role of the human resource (HR) function in developing strategy and creating sustainable competitive advantages. The techniques, policies, processes, strategies, and practices used by companies and managers to effectively and efficiently utilize human resources will be discussed. Topics of discussion will include staffing, compensation, training and development, performance management, and employment law.
Credits: (2 credits)
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MBA 8160 - Leadership Development
The concepts of management and leadership are often compared. One way to define leadership in a managerial context is that leadership is the extent to which a manager has influence over others above and beyond their positions-based power or authority. This component of Module 1 will help students develop two distinct sets of skills that will help them become leaders: self-leadership and team building. Topics will be introduced in regular class settings, and them be developed through intense full-day workshops and follow up activities.
Credits: (3 credits)
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MBA 8191 - Project Management
The ability to manage projects from idea to implementation requires a broad set of knowledge and skills. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), a project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.” Effective project management is by nature and integrative activity that requires interpersonal, technical, financial, and strategic skills. This component of Module 1 will serve two purposes. First, it will introduce students to the scope of knowledge and tools required to manage successful projects. Second, it will provide context for integration of many elements of the Hamline MBA program, including the transition from Module 1 to Module 2.
Credits: (2 credits)
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MBA 8210 - Managerial Accounting
This course will build on financial accounting principles and examine the tools that support management measurement and control of costs and operations. Financial forecasting and budgeting will be introduced for establishing performance targets. Cost volume and differential pricing techniques will be examined as tools for making tactical decisions. Budgeting, job order and activity based costing will be examined as tools for measuring day-to-day operations. Alternative performance measures will be examined for measuring progress towards strategic goals.
Credits: (3 credits)
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MBA 8220 - Managerial Finance
Today, managers need to understand the fundamentals of financial management to make good decisions. This course covers the issues in Finance that a manager is likely to encounter. The course will discuss the financial statements, cash flows and the time value of money. Once we understand these basics, we will discuss issues surrounding corporate financing including valuing equity and debt. We will discuss capital investment and how a company decides to allocate its resources in a value-maximizing manner. We will also discuss risk and return and how it ultimately affects the company’s cost of capital along with capital structure and dividend policy.
Credits: (3 credits)
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MBA 8240 - Managerial Economics
This course examines supply and demand and the effect of elasticity on price, income and total revenue. With this foundation, marginal analysis and opportunity cost concepts will be introduced. The course will then examine how economic principles are impacted by different market structures (perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly). The course will conclude with analysis on how economics impacts strategy and business decision-making.
Credits: (2 credits)
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MBA 8290 - Business Process Management—Operations
Business operations are driven by business processes. This course will examine key operational business processes (sales/collection, acquisition/payment, conversion, finance) developing an understanding of workflow, inputs/outputs and data needs. An internal integration perspective will established the foundation for dealing with external business partners. Technology tools and applications which enable business process efficiency and integration will also be introduced.
Credits: (2 credits)
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MBA 8330 - Managing the Global Marketplace
Managers need a background in global trade to function in the international marketplace. We will cover globalization, outsourcing and international trade theory. The discussions of the organization of international business and import-export issues will help the students understand the planning involved in effectively moving a business into the global marketplace. There will be coverage of ethical issues in international transactions. Materials on cross cultural negotiations, human resource issues and strategies for entering a specific international market will aid the students in negotiating a license agreement in class covering a specific product or service to be distributed in an international market.
Credits: (3 credits)
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MBA 8350 - Marketing Management
Marketing expertise has emerged as a key requisite in determining the success of organizations. This course will prepare students to lead organizations through complex challenges in the local and global marketplace. State-of-the-art marketing practices, theories, case studies, and trends are blended into results-oriented actions that equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to make sound marketing decisions.
Credits: (3 credits)
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MBA 8380 - Business Law and Regulatory Environment
Business Law and Regulatory Environment provides a clear understanding of the basic principles of business law. Among the topics covered are contracts, sales, intellectual property, business organizations, agency, securities regulation, negotiable instruments, e-commerce and antitrust law. When the students complete the course they should be able to identify and work through common legal problems and ethical issues they will face in the workplace.
Credits: 2 credits
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MBA 8381 - Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Students in the two-credit Social Responsibility and Sustainability course will examine viewpoints on what responsibility businesses have to their stakeholder groups. We will also explore the evolving role of sustainability in the business community and opportunities to incorporate social responsibility issues in business strategy and daily business practices. Our exploration of sustainability will include a diverse range of industries.
Credits: 2 credits
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MBA 8420 - Strategic Financial Analysis
Viewing strategy through the lens of financial performance sharpens (or enhances) management (or management capabilities). Whether evaluating alternative strategies, setting strategy-assessing metrics, or judging strategy implementation – financials play a paramount role. Strategic Financial Analysis is designed to provide students with both theory and hands-on analytical practice to analyze and support strategic decisions.
Credits: 2 credits
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MBA 8460 - Strategic Management
This component provides a broad understanding of business strategy. Strategy literature is evaluated to assess applicability of classic frameworks in the 21st century. Business cases are discussed and analyzed with a focus on competitive strategy, the economics of information, resource allocation, industry analysis, and the importance of mission and goals. This component integrates knowledge and skills of previous coursework (in Modules 1-4) as well as electives.
Credits: 3 credits
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MBA 8461 - Mergers & Acquisitions
This course draws on financial, economic, and legal concepts from previous modules to examine mergers and acquisitions as a growth strategy for a firm. Topics include: strategic motives for mergers and acquisitions; methods of valuation of acquisition targets; financing sources; due diligence (legal and regulatory issues and best practices); and post merger integration.
Credits: 2 credit
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MBA 8491 - Capstone/Field Study
The Capstone/Field Study Competency provides several benefits. First, it serves an integrative role, allowing you to apply skills developed throughout your Hamline MBA education to issues being faced by an actual business organization with real issues and opportunities involving multiple functions. Second, it requires you to formulate a business plan for an organization contemplating significant change. Finally, it will provide opportunities for dialogue with industry leaders, again allowing you to blend theory and practice in understanding the complicated world of business today.
Credits: 3 credits
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NSEE 8000 - Environment and Society
Participate in a community investigation of natural and social environmental issues. Explore the concept of environmental literacy, build a solid understanding of the basics of environmental education, and be actively involved in a series of community investigations in human-built and natural locations around Minnesota’s Twin Cities. Learn to focus through three “lenses”: systems (knowledge of social and natural systems and their interaction); problem identification and solving (ethics typically are an issue in these situations); and move to action (defined as citizenship and stewardship). Examine and reflect on your environmental philosophies and behaviors.
Credits: (3 credits)
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NSEE 8010 - History of the Environment
From Izaak Walton to Rachel Carson, the history of the environment is filled with dedicated role models. Environmental education is the outgrowth of dedication, perseverance, literature, painting and politics, but the history of environmental ethics, movements and education is not well understood. Meet people like Leopold, Olson, Comstock, Peterson, and Carson; look at the power of the individual, the organization of groups, and emerging and changing ethics. Course includes some humor and some drama.
Credits: (3 credits)
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NSEE 8011 - History and Nature of Science
Fundamental to effective science teaching is a deep understanding of how science works, its challenges through history, and its impact on those we call “scientists.” Explore science through cultural and historical perspectives; share examples of scientists, scientific advancements, and their impacts on society; and design plans for making the history and nature of science standards more inclusive in your curriculum.
Credits: (2 credits)
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NSEE 8100 - Teaching and Learning in the Environment
Read, discuss, and write about contemporary issues in teaching, learning, and assessment as they apply to education about the environment. It is important to acknowledge that environmental education seeks to influence the environmental decisions and behaviors of the citizens. Think critically about how learning theories apply to practice and explore different approaches to making environmentally literate decisions.
Credits: (2 credits)
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NSEE 8111 - Science Teaching and Learning
Science classrooms are exciting environments. The combination of hands-on exploration, laboratory activities, vocabulary and research makes science teaching complex and challenging. This is a practitioner’s course where science-specific instructional strategies will be actively investigated, including the classroom environment, impact of state and national standards, inquiry as process and pedagogy, effective questioning, misconceptions and gaps in understanding, use of science notebooks/journals, curriculum design, assessment models, state science testing, science literacy, and cultural perspective.
Credits: (3 credits)
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NSEE 8200 - Ecological Systems: Biomes
The concept of systems is essential to understanding ecological principles; nothing demonstrates this better than the biomes of Minnesota. Each of Minnesota’s biomes (prairie, deciduous forest, boreal forest) is an interplay of large geologic, biologic, cultural, and meteorological systems. Within each broad system is a subset of systems recognized as plant communities. Experience hands-on, wet-feet camping; sampling, identifying, and observing; travel and reflection, story-sharing; and science knowledge. Discover applications for your own classroom.
Credits: (3 credits)
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NSEE 8300 - Social Systems: Environmental Footprints
It’s not just how many footprints mark our presence on Earth. It’s how big those footprints are. At the heart of the ecological footprint are questions about equity, justice, and sustainability. The typical American consumes between four and eight times more resources than people of other cultures. Create a personal environmental impact statement while investigating the math, science, and social implications of how we live.
Credits: (2 credits)
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