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GPA 8234 - Civic Engagement
Fundamental to our democracy is the active involvement of citizens. Today we hear a lot of talk about civic engagement. But what is civic engagement? How do the public and nonprofit sector become models of citizen participation? This course will explore the discontents and the promises, introducing students to a new new model of engaged democratic practice which is deeply political in an older sense of politics as engaging different interests and views in solving common problems and creating common things.
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 - Managerial Leadership and Cultural Competency
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to examine issues of cultural competence in managing and leading organizations in changing times. This course will engage students in a series of dialogues concerning issues of cultural competence in the workplace,their impact on the processes of management, work and the organization. Emphasis will be placed on workplace issues of race and gender and will include discussions of issues of disability, age, social class, sexual identity, religion and ethnicity.
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, semester long 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.
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(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.
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(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 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 services have been tried or advocated including criminal justice, education, health care, welfare, energy, and transportation.
Credits: (4 credits)
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GPA 8534 - Civic Engagement
Fundamental to our democracy is the active involvement of citizens. Today we hear a lot of talk about civic engagement. But what is civic engagement? How do the public and nonprofit sector become models of citizen participation? This course will explore the discontents and the promises, introducing students to a new new model of engaged democratic practice which is deeply political in an older sense of politics as engaging different interests and views in solving common problems and creating common things.
Credits: 4 credits
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GPA 8570 - Managerial Leadership and Cultural Competency
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to examine issues of cultural competence in managing and leading organizations in changing times. This course will engage students in a series of dialogues concerning issues of cultural competence in the workplace,their impact on the processes of management, work and the organization. Emphasis will be placed on workplace issues of race and gender and will include discussions of issues of disability, age, social class, sexual identity, religion and ethnicity.
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
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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
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GPA 8994 - Dissertation IV
Independent work completing research based on approved proposal.
Credits: 2
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GPA 8995 - Dissertation V
Independent work with chair/mentor writing up analysis and conclusions. Outcome is finished dissertation that will go to final defense.
Credits: 2
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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 8031 - International Business Transactions
International Business Transactions will take students through the life-cycle of a model business transaction in which an existing product and service offering will be provided for the first time in an international location. For each transaction life-cycle element, emphasis will be placed on considerations unique to the conduct of the transaction across political, geographic and cultural boundaries. Readings in bargaining strategies and international contract structure will be applied through a series of practical classroom exercises and preparation of typical transaction deliverables.
Credits: 4
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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 8051 - Electronic Marketing
This course explores the important concepts of electronic marketing, which will be considered within the framework of the marketing function and its influence on total business function. This course is designed to provide you with an introduction into the world of the digital channel and Internet based marketing communications such as the use of social media marketing (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and etc.) to influence our customers in decision making. This course will examine electronic marketing issues from a balanced perspective of theory and practice. On the theory side, we will draw on recent developments in research on Internet marketing. On the practical side, real-world cases and practices will be used to systematically supplement the principles and theories introduced.
Credits: 4
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MBA 8052 - Market Research
Marketing strategy and decision making rely on accurate, useful information developed through marketing research activities. This course introduces you to the fundamentals of marketing research in order to prepare you to conduct basic research on your own or be a more informed consumer of sophisticated and specialized marketing research services. This course has an applied, skill-building focus, underlined with thorough understanding of marketing research principles. You will learn the typical research methods used to generate and analyze primary data in marketing research. You will also be exposed to and use standard sources of secondary data. Finally, you will undertake typical data analysis tasks used in marketing research.
Credits: 4
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MBA 8053 - International Marketing Management
This course focuses on practical issues of participating in international markets. We discuss foreign direct investment, joint ventures, licensing and distribution agreements. Topics covered include exporting, supply chains, global human resource management, global marketing, and financial management in international business. We also examine entry strategies for doing business in global markets. The course includes both conceptual frameworks and contemporary applications. Students 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
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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 communication, human resource management, and conflict management.
Credits: 3
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MBA 8140 - Critical Thinking
It is a challenging objective to raise student skills in critical and analytical thinking. And this course’s purpose is just that. Through exploring today’s complex business problems, students will develop a critical thinking attitude while learning how to apply an array of critical thinking skills. Emphasis will be placed on using logical reasoning supported by qualitative and quantitative evidence to identify problems, evaluate alternatives, and justify decisions. It is expected that students will become better listeners, more capable communicators – both in writing and speaking – as well as better at reflecting upon their own thinking.
The class is based on the premise that critical thinking and communication skills are best learned through practice. Therefore, repeated writing and speaking exercises will be core components of the class, and students will receive training and practice as well as instructor and peer feedback to help them improve their skills.
Credits: 2
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MBA 8160 - Leadership Skills 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 position-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 then be developed through intensive full-day workshops and follow-up activities.
Credits: 3
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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 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 8250 - Financial Accounting
This course in an introduction to the external accounting systems used by U.S. organizations to report their financial position to external users such as stockholders, creditors, and potential investors. Students will develop an understanding of the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Statement of Cash Flows. By the end of the course, students will be able to read and interpret financial statements.
Credits: 3
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MBA 8310 - 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. It will be taught in two parts. The first portion of 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 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. The second part of the course focuses on applying some of what we learned in the first part of the course. We will also discuss special topics such as mergers and acquisitions and international finance in this part of the course.
Credits: 3
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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 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: 2
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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
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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
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MBA 8450 - 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
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MBA 8470 - Managerial IT
Organizations are only as strong as the combined effectiveness of its people, processes, and technology. The people manage and implement the business processes; technology is the key enabler of them. This course will examine how to understand and manage information technology to create and revitalize business processes, improve decision making, and gain competitive advantage. Selected major areas of IT critical to all managers and leaders will be surveyed using case studies as a core learning method.
Credits: 2
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MBA 8495 - Strategic Management and Capstone/Field Study I
This competency integrates a broad understanding of business strategy with a practical field study experience. Strategy literature is evaluated to assess applicability of classic frameworks in the 21st century. Business cases are analyzed with a focus on competitive strategy, the economics of information, resource allocation, industry analytics, ethics, and the importance of mission and goals. The Capstone/Field Study competency challenges you to integrate and apply skills developed throughout your Hamline MBA education to issues being faced by an actual business organization by giving you the experience of serving as a consulting team for a designated client organization contemplating significant change or investment. Throughout this competency you will have numerous opportunities for dialogue with industry leaders, allowing you to blend theory and practice in understanding the complicated world of business today.
Credits: 2
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MBA 8496 - Strategic Management and Capstone/Field Study II
This competency integrates a broad understanding of business strategy with a practical field study experience. Strategy literature is evaluated to assess applicability of classic frameworks in the 21st century. Business cases are analyzed with a focus on competitive strategy, the economics of information, resource allocation, industry analytics, ethics, and the importance of mission and goals. The Capstone/Field Study competency challenges you to integrate and apply skills developed throughout your Hamline MBA education to issues being faced by an actual business organization by giving you the experience of serving as a consulting team for a designated client organization contemplating significant change or investment. Throughout this competency you will have numerous opportunities for dialogue with industry leaders, allowing you to blend theory and practice in understanding the complicated world of business today.
Credits: 4
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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 8110 - Foundations of Environmental Education
You will read, discuss, and write about contemporary issues in teaching, learning, and assessment as they apply to education about the environment. You will demonstrate your reflection skills through dialogue, writing, and examination of your personal beliefs about teaching and learning. You will explore how knowledge is constructed individually and socially. In this course, you will study teaching and learning concepts, but also challenge them. In a supportive community of learners, we will think critically about how theories apply to practice, and explore different approaches to helping people make environmentally literate decisions.
Credits: 4 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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NSEE 8485 - Research Methods Practicum
Research as an inquiry strategy is the central theme of this course. Critical steps in the research process, along with related methodological issues, are examined. These include an understanding of a variety of research methodologies, statement and clarification of research problems, and basic statistical methods of describing data
Credits: 4 credits
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NSEE 8495 - Capstone
The capstone project is the culmination of an MAEd:NSEE student’s work at Hamline University. It is generally an applied research project conducted in the student’s school or workplace. The student works closely with an administrative advisor to construct the research question, carry out the research, and complete the project. The capstone committee offers additional support throughout the process. This project requires a written component and an oral presentation. Advisor/committee approvals are required at proposal stage before registration occurs. The capstone course is only available to those master’s students who are nearing completion of their NSEE degree program.
Notes
For further information about the capstone committee and process, please contact Dr. Renee Wonser (651-523-2419 or rwonser@hamline.edu).
Credits: 4 credits
Prerequisite: Successful completion of NSEE 8486.
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WRIT 8000 - MFA Core
The MFA journey begins with a core seminar course, “Writers and Readers, Creators Both.” The course is a reading-intensive examination of the relationship between reading and writing. Students expand their knowledge of the craft of writing and the use of literary texts as guides for their own work.
Notes
required of MFA students
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8010 - Composition Theory and Pedagogy
Notes
MFA Elective
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8013 - Apocalypses
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8017 - Vocation and Money
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 8110 - Groundings in the Craft: Elements of Poetry
In this course, students study important elements of poetry: metaphor, simile, voice, forms and structures for poems, free verse structures, and the image.
Notes
MFA Only
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8120 - Groundings in the Craft: Elements of Creative Nonfiction
This foundation class explores the fundamental craft skills and broad structural subgenres of creative nonfiction.
Notes
MFA only
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8130 - Groundings in the Craft: Elements of Fiction
The focus is on the fundamentals of writing fiction: character development, scene, plot, narrative voice, structure, setting, and dialogue.
Notes
MFA only
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8205 - Regional Literature
Credits: 4 credits
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WRIT 8210 - Currents in Poetry: Riding the Waves as Editor and Writer (Water~Stone: Poetry)
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8220 - Creative Nonfiction Today: Navigating the Craft as Editor and Writer (Water~Stone: Creative Nonfiction)
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8230 - The Successful Story: Fiction Through the Lens of Editor and Writer (Water~Stone: Fiction)
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8310 - 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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WRIT 8320 - 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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WRIT 8330 - 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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WRIT 8400 - Form and Vision in Poetry
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8401 - The Novel
Credits: (4 credits)
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WRIT 8402 - Lyric Essay
Credits: (4 credits)
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