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2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Master of Business Administration |
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GB 6065 - Organizational Dynamics
This course is designed to provide students with competency in organization dynamics and covers recent developments in the field of organizational development. It includes a history of the field, a review of core components and interventions of OD, and newer areas such as transformational leadership, transformational change and development, appreciative inquiry, multi-level strategic change, and global impact. It is a study of the issues, theories, and methodologies associated with organizational development and the management of change, with a major emphasis on organizational culture and organizational change processes. Topics also include diagnostic process, intervention strategies, and overcoming resistance to change. Techniques such as goal-setting, team-development procedures, productivity and strategy interventions, and interpersonal change models necessary to explore in graduate level studies in business are examined.
3 Credits
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GB 6070 - Operations Management
A study of the theory and practices of the operations function and its application to productivity in the business areas. Focus is on the quantitative techniques for problem solving and decision making in a variety of strategic and tactical areas of operations management, including total quality management; process design and control, capacity planning, location strategy, materials requirement planning, inventory control, and project management.
3 credits
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GB 6108 - Compensation and Benefits
Application of compensation principles to organizations’ strategies. Focus on managing employee compensation in contemporary organizations. The major objectives are to examine the current state of compensation decision making, to examine how recent theories and research inform compensation decisions and to offer an opportunity to develop competencies in making compensation decisions.
3 credits
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GB 6110 - Strategic Management of Business Enterprises
This course explores the integration of the functional areas of business at the corporate level. Heavy emphasis is on environmental analysis, goal setting, assessing core competencies, choosing a strategic direction, and organizational implementation and control in the context of a respective business operation.
Prerequisite(s): , , and
3 credits
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GB 6111 - Current Issues in Food and Agribusiness
Analysis of current critical practice and research issues in food and agribusiness, agri-food systems, food systems, global, competitiveness, sustainable agriculture, agribusiness ethics, new food and agribusiness ventures, cooperatives, farm management firms, agribusiness multinationals, innovation change, etc. The course will use case study analysis and problem solving to analyze the efforts of critical practices on the food and agribusiness industry.
3 credits
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GB 6112 - Food and Agribusiness Marketing
An analysis of agricultural marketing systems focusing on their structure, pricing and coordination mechanisms, and performance. Case studies will be used involving decision making, using marketing tools from previous courses.
3 credits
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GB 6113 - Management of Food and Agribusiness Delivery Systems
This course will deal with the economically efficient distribution of goods and services from their points of creation to the customers. Topics will include strategic decisions such as aggregate distribution plans and warehouse location, as well as operational decisions including the delivery routes and dispatching.
3 credits
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GB 6114 - Food and Agribusiness Price Analysis
A study of the applications of price and demand theories to agricultural market analysis. Topics include agricultural product supply and input demand, uncertainty and risk, expectations, and supply dynamics.
3 credits
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GB 6115 - Topics of International Food and Agribusiness
An analysis of government policies and programs which develop agriculture, conserve agricultural resources, address consumer food concerns, stabilize prices and increase income levels. The influence of macro-policy, world economy and international trade on U. S. agriculture is also discussed.
3 credits
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GB 6122 - Entrepreneurship
This course examines the nature of entrepreneurship. This course will focus on all the aspects of starting a new business. Topics include attributes of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial careers, evaluating opportunities, writing business plans and financing the new venture.
3 credits
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GB 6161 - Global Human Resources and Diversity
This course is intended to familiarize the students with the latest global trends and human resource management and multinational corporations with differing cultures, HR systems and policies. Management across borders requires global managerial staffing and cross-cultural decision making.
3 credits
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GB 6183 - Sales/Sales Management
Sales/Sales Management
3 Hours Lecture
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GB 6210 - Contemporary Business Issues
This course is designed to provide a forum for decision, reflection, and examination of contemporary business issues. Global business, legal systems, and social issues, quality, and the internet are a few examples of the topical areas that are covered in this course.
3 credits
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GB 6211 - Business Ethics
This course explores the ethical gray areas of contemporary business practices and develops skills in moral judgment dialogical framework for ethical decision-making. Emphasis will be placed on the student’s self-assessment of core values, experiences and assumptions.
3 credits
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GB 6212 - Leadership
Leadership is influencing people by providing purpose, direction and motivation, while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization. The goal of this course is to help students develop their own leadership skills. This course examines the role of leaders, leadership, and management, power and influence, leadership styles, cultural dimensions of leadership, and leadership and strategic effectiveness.
3 credits
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GB 6213 - International Business and Economics
International Business and Economics reflects the changes in trade law, including the international aspects of intellectual property, and other new cases reflecting the ongoing evolution of the world economy. This course includes new U.S. case law, and discusses new international regimes such as the anti-bribery convention and the Financial Action Task Force. Additionally, coverage of the emerging jurisprudence of NAFTA and the WTO is included.
3 credits
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GB 6214 - Graduate Study Tour
The course offers an in-depth, inter-country examination of major business centers and industries throughout the world including the United States. The study tour includes numerous corporate and institutional visits allowing for firsthand exploration of business issues. Cultural, political, legal, regulatory, and social issues are also examined. The study tour travel component is one week.
3 credits
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GB 6215 - Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance as a subject matter recognizes that good governance practices are essential in raising capital in the competitive global environment. This course focuses on understanding how differences in capital markets, ownership structures, and legal traditions affect the optimal design of financial contracts. Moreover, this course will examine potential conflicts between shareholders and other corporate constituents. This course will explore and evaluate the legal, economic, and financial framework of corporate governance. The design of this course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the current role and responsibilities of corporate directors, officers, and managers in the wake of recent legislation designed to provide the public with a more “transparent” view of how corporations conduct business. Additionally, this course will investigate the changing nature of the relationships between the various constituencies that compose the corporate environment. Finally, this course will expose students to international corporate governance and discuss the reasons for the recent failures of corporate governance.
3 credits
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GB 6216 - Global Executive Leadership
This course uses strategy as its unifying theme to explore the global economy and the impact of managerial decisions. By examining comparative management issues thoroughly, this course discusses the strengths and weaknesses of competitors and how to adapt organizational practices. Also covered are: the key topics of formation and implementation of strategies in the global environment, the building of strategic alliances, negotiation and cross-cultural communication, international human resource management, and business ethics.
3 credits
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GB 6217 - Transportation and Distribution
This course will offer a broad overview of transportation and distribution systems including the activities of transportation and supply chain systems, such as transportation network design, scheduling, routing, contracting, and pricing.
3 credits
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GB 6219 - Entrepreneurial Finance
This course will inform the students of the relevant matters in the creation and financing of an entrepreneurial venture. The course will focus on all financial aspects facing the entrepreneur in today’s economic environment. Topics include attributes and sources of capital to finance entrepreneurial ventures ranging from “friends, family and fools,” angel investors, venture capital, debt financing and grant funding.
3 credits
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GB 6220 - Business Analytics and Communications
Business Analytics and Communications.
3 Credits
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GB 6225 - Supply Chain Management
This course is an introduction to the supply chain concept and will explore the management of supply chains to improve an organization’s overall supply efficiency. Topics covered include core logistics functions, cost integration, and relationships with suppliers, customers, and other firm functions such as manufacturing and finance.
3 credits
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GB 6227 - Global Supply Chain Management
As companies are beginning to recognize that managing their businesses through functional silos is inappropriate in a challenging and complex global marketplace, there is an urgent need for a decision-making framework. This course attempts to provide such a framework by integrating operations and supply chain concepts to address the critical issue of managing flow of products, services, and information. This course will provide an overview of the concepts and decision processes in effectively managing the flow of goods, services and information in a global environment.
3 credits
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GB 6230 - Family as Entrepreneurs
The objective of the course is to familiarize students with some of the unique issues faced by owners of entrepreneurial and family businesses. Examples of topics covered include: selection of business form, tax planning, financing and cash flow planning. Special problems of family businesses include integrating family members into the business, motivating and retaining non-family employees, and business succession strategies. These issues will be viewed from a multi-disciplinary perspective that includes legal, tax and behavioral considerations.
3 credits
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GB 6231 - International Business for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship in the 21st century is evolving. Because of global changes in technology, communications, and capital markets, today’s innovative startups are building successful companies in countries around the globe, in many instances with investors, vendors, customers, and employees located thousands of miles away. The challenges these leading-edge companies face, particularly in emerging markets, are some of the most sophisticated issues both for businesses and governments alike.
3 credits
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GB 6239 - Portfolio Management
Focuses on current practice and recent theoretical developments. Deals with characteristics of individual securities and portfolios, criteria and models for alternative portfolio composition, criteria for evaluation and measurement of performance, and the impact of government regulation. Evaluation of current theory, its significance for financial management decision making, and consideration of relevant empirical evidence are covered.
3 credits
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GB 6244 - Strategic Procurement
Competition is no longer company versus company; it is supply chain versus supply chain. More and more, companies are counting on their suppliers to lower costs, improve quality, and develop innovations. The success of a firm and its ability to satisfy customer expectations are influenced greatly by the capabilities and performance of its suppliers. The objectives of this course are to understand the relationship between suppliers and customer, determine which elements in the relationship are critical, examine how relationships vary among industries and products, and develop and implement effective supplier relationships. The course should help firms identify ways to categorize and organize suppliers, build and retain good supplier relationships and ensure that suppliers meet quality and delivery requirements. This should lead to a better understanding of supplier relationships so that better strategic sourcing decisions can be made. Using this approach, companies can reduce enterprise spending, consolidate and prioritize suppliers, reduce supplier risk, and align procurement strategies with corporate goals.
3 credits
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GB 6277 - Mergers and Acquisitions
An analysis of the acquisition by one firm of all or some of the assets of another firm and its impact on both the companies involved and on society. Topics include a discussion of the types of combinations, the motivations of the participants, the financial analysis required to carry out merger or acquisition activities, negotiation strategies, and the tax and accounting options that are available to the parties.
3 credits
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GB 6299 - Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship involves recognizing opportunities, combining and mobilizing resources, triggering positive changes in various domains, and building sustainability. It aims at social impact, but does not exclude economic wealth creation. Social Entrepreneurship is about using entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative responses to social problems.
3 credits
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GB 6309 - Management Information Systems in Supply Chain Management
A comprehensive study of the concepts, processes, and strategies used in the development and management of global supply chains. Supply-chain management (SCM) is a systems approach to managing the entire flow of information, materials, and services from raw material suppliers through factories and warehouses to the final end-customer. Specific topics include: global supply chain management, procurement, electronic commerce, information technologies, and logistics activities. SCM represents a philosophy of doing business that stresses processes and integration. This course will be taught through the use of textbook materials, outside readings, and case analysis.
3 credits
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GB 6310 - Auditing
The objectives of this course are to provide the student with detailed concepts and the current practice of financial statement auditing, and to improve analytical and communication skills through a variety of in-class activities and a comprehensive auditing case project environment.
3 credits
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GB 6320 - Commercial Law for Accountants
This course emphasizes the most current commercial law topics required for accountants in both practice and preparation for advanced licensing. Topics include: common law contracts; Article 2 of the UCC Sales; Article 9 of the UCC Secured Transactions; federal securities law and basic debtor creditor law.
3 credits
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GB 6324 - Executive Compensation
We now live in a “winner take all” economic environment where the dispersion of pay and other rewards between the “winners,” who have marketable skills, and the others, whose skills are not in demand, is growing farther apart. Executives, managers, technologists and others with rare and hard to replace skills are being rewarded like “one of a kind” athletes and media stars in the labor market. This trend of high pay for high potential employees is the most developed in the United States, but other countries who compete with the U.S. for talent are also adjusting their pay policies to cope with this world-wide phenomenon. This course will explore this trend from economic, management, ethical and legal perspectives.
3 credits
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GB 6330 - Financial Reporting and Analysis
This course adopts a user’s perspective of financial statements rather than a preparer’s perspective. Financial statement data will be analyzed and then used in decision making situations such as equity valuation, credit extension, and maximation of shareholders’ wealth. This course serves as a bridge between accounting and finance, integrating the concepts of these disciplines. This course is designed to provide the student with: 1) the ability to analyze financial statements, 2) an understanding of the incentives of companies to “manage” earnings through their choices of accounting methods, which are somewhat flexible within GAAP, 3) an understanding of the limitations to the usefulness of financial statements, and 4) despite these limitations, an understanding of the value of financial statements in decision making situations such as stock price evaluation, loan approvals, and maximizing shareholder wealth. We accomplish this through a body of knowledge developed by research in finance, accounting, and economics.
3 credits
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GB 6340 - Advanced Accounting Theory
The primary objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the theoretical foundation of GAAP as it relates to business combinations and to become proficient in the worksheet techniques involving consolidated financial statements. Topics include partnerships, segments, government accounting and foreign currency transactions. Students will study the theory and apply it to contemporary practices within organizations.
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4 credits
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GB 6341 - Law and Ethics for Supply Chain Management
This course exposes graduate students to fundamental issues and current best practices in managing legal/ethical compliance and corporate social responsibility in the supply chain process. Course topics cover both domestic and international business issues, including child labor, environmental sustainability, anti-corruption, and human rights. Special attention is given to preparing law and management students to understand and manage the demands on U.S. and international corporations making complex business decisions in the face of increasing expectations for transparency and accountability. Structured around real-world cases that simulate the challenges of today’s domestic and global markets, the course equips students to manage and integrate the differing perspectives.
3 credits
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GB 6345 - International Finance
An overview of current financial theory and practice as it applies to the multinational enterprise. Topics include foreign exchange markets and forecasting, foreign exchange risk management, the international debt crisis, multinational working capital management, and capital budgeting. Eurocurrencies and foreign security markets are also discussed.
3 credits
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GB 6347 - Crisis Communications
From Deflategate to the BP Oil Spill to Target’s information security breach, organizations have to deal with communicating before, during and after events that threatened their future success. According to the U.S. federal government, 40 percent of businesses struck by a disaster don’t reopen. Of those that do, 25 percent fail within two years. According to the Red Cross, there are 70,000 disasters in the U.S. per year, about 200 per day. Add to that 2 million episodes of workplace violence, plus communicable diseases, and we have business disasters happening multiple times every day. (Jason Daley, “Managed Chaos,” Entrepreneur, January 2015).
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3 Credits
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GB 6360 - Legal Issues in Human Resource Management
One of the human resource professional’s roles is to help ensure the organization’s compliance with labor and employment laws and to recognize when the organization needs advice from legal counsel. This course will help you recognize legal issues and recommend policies and procedures that can minimize exposure to lawsuits. It will help the student become better informed about how his/her role and responsibilities can impact the organization’s bottom line.
3 credits
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GB 6411 - Financial Markets
This course will serve as an introduction to the financial system and its relationship to the financing of domestic and international business activity. Financial market components and phenomena such as financial instruments, institutions, flow of funds, market efficiency, interest rate determination and term structure, exchange rates, and the balance of payments are analyzed. The governmental impact on financial markets, manifested through monetary and fiscal policy and regulation, is also covered. An introduction is given to the concept of financial assets valuation and the time value of money. The emphasis is on the significance of these elements for conducting the financial affairs of businesses.
3 credits
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GB 6425 - Speculative Markets
This course introduces the student to the world of speculative markets. Toward this end, students will study the key issues in options and futures pricing and learn how to employ these assets to maximize investor utility. An examination of controversial issues in this area will be conducted. Students will write a research note on an important issue in the speculative markets field.
3 credits
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GB 6500 - LGBT Wrkplc Incl
3 Hours LEcture
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GB 6501 - Adv Iss LGBT Wrkplc
3 Hours Lecture
3
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GB 6502 - Transgender Inclusion at Work
Transgender Inclusion at Work
3 Credits
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GB 6503 - Allies at Work
3 Hours Lecture (OL)
3
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GB 7010 - Executive Capstone Seminar
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3 Hours Lecture
3
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GB 7015 - Supply Chain Capstone
This course covers the major issues both domestically and globally in supply chain management including definition of a supply chain, the role of inventory, advanced production-inventory models, supply contracts, bullwhip effect and information sharing, vendor-managed inventories and other distribution strategies, third-party logistics providers, managing product variety, information technology and supply chain management, international issues.
3 credits
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GB 7110 - Executive Capstone Seminar
Critical analysis of case studies in strategic management with an emphasis on integrative decision-making. Focuses on strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation and control in today’s organization.
3 credits
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GB 7120 - Entrepreneurship Capstone
Intended as an all-encompassing business course from the entrepreneurial perspective. Integration of business background acquired from accounting, marketing, strategic planning and implementation. Discussion will practically apply or simulate business situations.
3 credits
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GB 7125 - Strategic Human Resource Management Capstone
This course examines strategic human resource (HR) management and HR planning. Applicable theories and methods of strategic, operational, and tactical planning and their relationship to HR management are covered, as well as the multiple roles HR plays in assisting organizations to gain and sustain competitive advantages in a fast-paced environment.
3 credits
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MHA 6010 - US Healthcare Systems
This course provides a prescriptive and analytic
overview of the history, economic matrix and
current operation of the US healthcare industry
and its impact on the evolution of healthcare in
the U.S. Emphasis will be placed on analysis of
organizational components, health policy,
healthcare delivery mechanisms, access to care,
health services personnel, national demography,
mortality and morbidity, political influence, and
sociological forces that have and continue to
shape healthcare as we know it. Students will
identify, explore, analyze and compare current
systems and identify opportunities for reform or
fundamental restructuring.
3 hours lecture
3 credits
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MHA 6015 - Ethical, Legal & Policy Issues in Healthcare Management
An introduction to law and the legal system as it
relates to the delivery and financing of health
care; corporate liability; medical malpractice;
admission and discharge processes; medical staff
bylaws; informed consent; patients’ rights;
medical records; governmental regulation of
personnel and health facilities; legal aspects of
human resource administration in health care;
liability and corporate responsibility; ethical
concerns in the practice, distribution and
administration of healthcare; personal,
professional, and organizational ethical dilemmas
and decision-making responsibilities; faith
traditions; theories, principles and methods that
influence reasoning, analysis and argument in
contemporary health care ethics.
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6016 - Population Health Management for Healthcare Leaders
Population Health Management for Healthcare Leaders
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6020 - Marketing & Communication for Healthcare Leadership
Marketing concepts as applied to health services
organizations; consumer behavior; market
segmentation; target marketing; marketing
research; management and control of marketing mix
variables; assessing the internal and external
environment; competitor analysis; service
design/performance as they interact with marketing
plans; buyer behavior; segmentation; market
research; products/services; pricing,
distribution, promotion, and marketing control.
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6021 - Patient Access and Value Based Care for Healthcare Pioneers
Patient Access and Value Based Care for Healthcare Pioneers
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6025 - Healthcare Accounting, Economics, and Financial Management
Financial management functions and organizations;
financial statement analysis; working capital
management; present value analysis; capital
budgeting; cost of capital; variance analysis;
financing techniques; financial analysis case
studies; cost allocation; capital acquisition and
budgeting; pricing of services; time value
analysis; reimbursement; financial risk and
return; revenue cycle; financial viability; basic
accounting transactions; financial report
preparation; concepts of accrual vs. cash
accounting; not-for-profit health care accounting;
analysis of health care organization financial
reports; spreadsheet use to make financial
decisions; healthcare reimbursement and theory;
reading and analyzing healthcare financial
statements; recording transactions; analysis of
cost and budgetary controls; interpretation and
utilization of accounting reports and statements;
auditing; provider behavior; patient access and
demand; insurance; expenditures; premium rate
setting; cost and utilization rates; HMO rate
setting; private and public healthcare
reimbursement systems under managed care;
financial aspects of integration; managing
resources; profitability; cost and pricing models;
exploring the interaction financial, strategic,
organizational policy and the external environment
information on decisions; economic models of
supply and demand; competition; market power;
labor choices; production functions and efficiency
are applied to the health sector; integrated care
delivery systems; application of economic
principles to the allocation of scarce resources
in health care.
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6030 - Clinical Integration in Health Services Management
Leadership concepts and disease management
principles as employed in health care
organizations; skills required to solve the most
pressing operational problems found across
departments within today’s complex health care
institutions, including effective approaches to
communication, change and conflict management,
quality improvement, monitoring, and measurement,
cultural competence, patient safety,
organizational relationships, performance, power,
and group dynamics; case-based approach.
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6035 - Health Information Systems & Informatics for Innovative Leaders
Principles of modern information architectures;
computer networking and communication technologies
needed to support modern information
infrastructures; information systems and
technology in health care, specifically focusing
on the limitations of such technology; informatics
initiatives aim to facilitate effective
information use for the purpose of improving the
quality of health services and/or efficiency of
processes; implications for various stakeholder
groups (e.g., patient access); electronic medical
record; including consumers, practitioners,
administrators, and policy makers; conduct
research; develop public health informatics
tools/projects; terminology; organization; and
strategy, planning techniques; systems selection;
contract negotiation; project management; medical
informatics; technology trends and issues for
health care; theory, technology, and practical
application of information systems; design,
acquire, and maintain information systems for
integrated health care delivery.
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6040 - Data Analytics and Impact for Healthcare Managers
Essential data analytics skill set that can be
applied across the continuum of healthcare service
and delivery; core functions of data analysis;
visualization and presentation; data mining
strategies; database management; modelling of
trends and population health management
applications; projects that integrate an
understanding of health data and analytic
strategies that are appropriate for making
strategic choices in health policy and general
healthcare delivery research and management within
the Triple Aim framework.
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6045 - Quality & Performance Improvement For Healthcare Transformation
Introduces the theoretical application of
statistical quality management in health care, as
well as the practical application of quality
improvement methods in health care settings;
customer driven process involving team and process
thinking and application of statistical tools to
way in which work is accomplished; knowledge,
skills, and tools necessary to implement,
facilitate, and coordinate continuous quality
improvement activities in health care
environments; provides students with knowledge,
skills, and tools including lean/six sigma, to
implement, facilitate, and coordinate continuous
quality improvement activities in health care
environments; develop, implement, and test a
solution to improve health care or public health
delivery, using a model called the Model for
Improvement. The model uses three questions to
scope the improvement project and four steps,
Plan-Do-Check-Act, to implement and test
solutions.
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6050 - Operations and Value-Based Strategies in Healthcare
Comprehensive review of population health
approaches, strategies, and programs designed to
improve consumers’ access and quality of care
while managing costs; policy implications and
delivery of population health approaches within
the health sector; their impact on consumers and
providers, and consumer engagement programs
throughout the continuum of care; integrates
social determinant identification; basic
managerial epidemiological concepts;
patient-reported outcomes (PROs) include measures
of health status, quality of life, and
satisfaction with healthcare; how to design and
evaluate a PRO measure and best practices for
integrating PRO in clinical research and
healthcare settings; analyzing the internal
operations of a health care institution, including
governance, departmental structure, planning and
financial management, and human resources
development, as well as the external environments
impacting the organization.
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6055 - Capstone: Strategic Management and Leadership for Healthcare
In the capstone course, students apply and
demonstrate knowledge, theories, principles,
methods, skills, competencies, values, and
perspectives developed throughout the MHA
curriculum to resolve “real” health administration
challenges. The focus of this course is on the
creation of a Capstone Project that’s designed to
integrate the components of healthcare
organizational strategy development and execution.
The course will cover the following content areas:
Techniques for determining strategies for unique
services; integration of strategy, structure, and
administrative systems; how to lead organizational
challenges (e.g., organization change, building
strong culture, developing effective teams,
resolving conflicts, implementing effective
motivational systems, and nurturing a learning
organization); self-development; organizational
design and governance; power, politics and
conflict; human resource processes; and
organizational change and innovation; micro and
macro organizational behavior theories; processes
of communication, value analysis, problem solving
and decision making are explored at an individual,
team and organizational level; models of
leadership.
The final capstone project will require students
to: Integrate the specialized disciplines and
knowledge learned from previous MHA courses
through the use of case analyses and action
research. Students are challenged to formulate
strategies that address complex problems and
situations faced by managers of health services
organizations. Students will utilize industry case
studies to research and examine issues associated
with strategic change and the alignment of health
services organizations within their environment.
Students will present solutions to these issues to
a board of higher education faculty and
administration, healthcare executives and experts
from the community, who will challenge students to
formulate and inform strategies and business plans
to address problems faced today in the world of
health care delivery”
. ”Provides students with the opportunity to
analyze and observe executive role models and to
assess and develop their own management
philosophies”
. “This course requires students to conduct
individual integrative projects that address and
analyze topics important both to the student and
the preceptor through demonstration of
program-defined competencies”
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MHA 6060 - Executive Immersion Experience
Three in-person sessions scheduled at the
beginning, middle, end of the MHA Program. This
approach offers a personal aspect to the graduate
program that is important for connections and
relationships to develop. This experience also
reinforces and aligns with the university’s
strategic mission to embed practical and relevant
experiential learning throughout appropriate
junctures in the MHA programs. Events and
learning opportunities might include but are not
limited to:
. 48-hour visits with a “touring” component and a
faculty component
o For example, for a Friday-Saturday visit; MHA
students would arrive Friday late afternoon/early
evening for a networking event/cocktail hour. On
Saturday the students would have the opportunity
to tour several area health agencies and meet with
the providers and administrators in these
respective organizations.
. Time should be scheduled to not only participate
in a guided tour but also to have a “Meet and
Greet” with the key personnel who are responsible
for the oversight of the organization.
. On Saturday, guest speakers (perhaps senior
leaders and executives from various sectors of
healthcare, higher education, the MHA Advisory
Council etc.) could speak with the students.
. In addition, the MHA faculty, industry leaders
etc., could hold “lightening rounds” about their
career path, research, teaching, and service.
. To end the session, time could be set aside to
reinforce key topics/skills: professionalism,
leadership, departmental “deep dives”, networking;
and case studies could be utilized to further
examine topics from an integrative standpoint.
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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Mathematics and Physics |
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MP 0010 - Fundamentals of Algebra
A review of fundamental arithmetic and algebra to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of mathematics. The course is designed to provide the student with the requisite foundation and practice in preparation for the MP 1102 , MP 1203 or MP 1205 sequence. Students assigned to this course are required to take MP 1102 - College Algebra and MP 1203 - Elementary Functions or MP 1205 - Finite Mathematics to fulfill the Mathematics Core Curriculum requirement.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 institutional credits (Institutional credit will not be applied to either required or elective credits, but will be counted toward determining full-time status)
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MP 0010 - Fundamentals of Algebra
A review of fundamental arithmetic and algebra to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of mathematics. The course is designed to provide the student with the requisite foundation and practice in preparation for the MP 1102, 1203 sequence. Students assigned to this course are required to take in addition MP 1102 College Algebra and MP 1203 Elementary Functions. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 1513 institutional credits (Institutional credit will not be applied to either required or elective credits, but will be counted toward determining full-time status.)
3 Hours Lecture
3 Credits
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MP 1102 - College Algebra
This course provides a detailed treatment of basic algebra, stressing solution of equations and problem-solving techniques. Emphasis throughout is on practical applications and manipulative skills.
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of MP 0010 - Fundamentals of Algebra or a score of 465 or greater on the mathematics portion of the SAT.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 1105 - Discrete Mathematics
An introduction to the theory and application of discrete mathematics. Topics include logic, sets, functions and relations, combinations and elementary probability.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1102 - College Algebra .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 1203 - Elementary Functions
Mathematical functions, including logarithms and trigonometry, are treated from both the numerical and functional viewpoints. Emphasis throughout is on practical applications and manipulative skills. This course serves as a precalculus background.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1102 - College Algebra or its equivalent, as determined by the department, or satisfactory performance on appropriate diagnostic exam administered to entering students.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 1204 - Calculus I
This is a one-semester calculus course designed to introduce the student to the basic ideas, techniques, and applications of differential and integral calculus of a single-variable.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1203 - Elementary Functions or 620 or higher on the mathematics portion of the SAT.
4 hours Lecture and Discussion
4 credits
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MP 1205 - Finite Mathematics
This course provides students with an overview of finite mathematics. Topics include systems of linear equations and inequalities, linear programming, matrix theory, mathematics of finance, set theory, and combinatorics.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1102 - College Algebra or or its equivalent, as determined by the department or satisfactory performance on appropriate diagnostic exams administered to entering students.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 1206 - Geometry
An overview of classical and modern geometry and its applications with an introduction to the axiomatic approach and the concepts of mathematical proof.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1203 - Elementary Functions .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 1210 - Applied Mathematics
This course is designed primarily for those who are not planning additional course work in Mathematics. The selection of topics, examples and applications will be driven by what is necessary to make a person quantitatively literate, and thus better prepared to meet the challenges of the modern world. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits.
3 Hours Lecture and Discussion
3 Credits
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MP 2114 - Business Statistics I
An introduction to the concepts of probability and statistics. Topics include data analysis and description, probability, probability distributions, sampling distributions, and estimation.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1203 - Elementary Functions or MP 1205 - Finite Mathematics .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 2115 - Introduction to Actuarial Science
This course provides a basic introduction to actuarial science and its role in insurance as a discipline and an industry. Topics include: a brief history of the evolution of the actuarial profession, basic mathematics of simple and compound interest, introduction to probability theory, and applications of material to risk management and insurance.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1203 - Elementary Functions or MP 1205 - Finite Mathematics or equivalent, as determined by the department.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 2116 - Statistical Quality Control
This course provides an introduction to the purpose and function of statistical quality control. Topics include the use of modern statistical methods for quality control and improvement as well as the principles of statistical quality control and their application in a variety of situations.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1203 - Elementary Functions or its equivalent, as determined by the department.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 2119 - Physics I
This is a general course stressing the understanding of physical principles and methods of problem solving. The first semester covers the basic principles of mechanics, heat, and the kinetic theory of gases. The second semester covers electricity, magnetism, wave motion, light, and selected topics in modern physics. In the laboratory, experiments are performed illustrating the basic physical principles and methods of experimental science.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1203 - Elementary Functions or .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion, 3 hours Laboratory
4 credits
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MP 2121 - Calculus II
This course is a continuation of MP 1204 - Calculus I Topics include methods of integration, infinite series, functions of several variables, partial differentiation and multiple integration.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1204 - Calculus I
4 hours Lecture and Discussion
4 credits
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MP 2123 - Physics Ic
This is a general course which uses calculus to stress the understanding of physical principles and the methods of problem solving. The first semester covers the basic principles of mechanics, heat, and the kinetic theory of gases. The second semester covers electricity, magnetism, wave motion, and light. In the laboratory, experiments are performed illustrating the basic physical principles and methods of experimental science.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1204 - Calculus I
Note: Students may take the lab that accompanies MP 2119 or MP 2219 .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion, 3 hours Laboratory
4 credits
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MP 2126 - Linear Algebra
This course is an introduction to linear algebra. Topics may include systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces, linear transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and applications.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1204 - Calculus I .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 2214 - Business Statistics II
This is a course in statistical inference. Topics include: parametric and non-parametric hypothesis tests on means and proportions, Chi squared tests, analysis of variance, regression, and correlation. Practical applications are stressed.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2114 - Business Statistics I .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 2215 - Statistics for Business
This course provides an introduction to the concepts of probability and statistics. Topics include data analysis and description, probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1203 - Elementary Functions , MP 1205 - Finite Mathematics , or an equivalent course, as determined by the department.
4 hours Lecture and Discussion
4 credits
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MP 2219 - Physics II
This is a general course stressing the understanding of physical principles and methods of problem solving. The first semester covers the basic principles of mechanics, heat, and the kinetic theory of gases. The second semester covers electricity, magnetism, wave motion, light, and selected topics in modern physics. In the laboratory, experiments are performed illustrating the basic physical principles and methods of experimental science.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2119 - Physics I is a prerequisite for Physics II.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion, 3 hours Laboratory
4 credits
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MP 2223 - Ordinary Differential Equations
This course covers the solution of ordinary differential equations. The topics of discussion include solution of first-order equations, linear equations with constant coefficients, and series solution of differential equations. Applications are stressed.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2121 - Calculus II
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 2224 - Physics IIc
This is a general course which uses calculus to stress the understanding of physical principles and the methods of problem solving. The first semester covers the basic principles of mechanics, heat, and the kinetic theory of gases. The second semester covers electricity, magnetism, wave motion, and light. In the laboratory, experiments are performed illustrating the basic physical principles and methods of experimental science.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2123 - Physics Ic is a prerequisite for Physics IIc.
Note: Students may take the lab that accompanies MP 2119 - Physics I or MP 2219 - Physics II .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion, 3 hours Laboratory
4 credits
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MP 2230 - Numerical Methods
A study of numerical methods involved in interpolation, differentiations and integration, numerical solutions of equations and systems of equations, and fitting empirical data. Applications are stressed.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2121 - Calculus II or both a programming Language and MP 1203 - Elementary Functions .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 3036 - Methods in Advanced Mathematics
An introduction to the study of formal mathematics, with an emphasis on proofs. Topics may include finite mathematics and combinatorics, elementary number theory, and analysis.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2121 - Calculus II .
2 hours Lecture and Discussion
2 credits
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MP 3037 - Modern Algebra and Number Theory
An introduction to the theory of groups, rings, fields and polynomials, and the theory of numbers including unique factorization, congruence classes and the distribution of primes.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2126 - Linear Algebra and MP 3036 - Methods in Advanced Mathematics or Permission of instructor.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 3120 - Foundations of Mathematics
This course presents the logical and philosophical basis of mathematical structures and modes of thinking. This includes discussion of Godel’s theorem, the notion of completeness, the Axiom of Choice, and the Peano postulates.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1204 - Calculus I or Permission of Instructor.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 3123 - Advanced Calculus
This course provides an in-depth look at the calculus of several variables. Topics include: the geometry of n-dimensional space, differentiation and integration of functions of several variables, integrals over curves and surfaces, and the theorems of Green, Stokes and Gauss.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2121 - Calculus II .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 3124 - Physics IIIc
This course covers the modern concepts of physics and stresses appropriate mathematical techniques. The topics include special theory of relativity, important historical experiments, the classical theory of the electron, the Rutherford atom, the Bohr atom, early ideas on quantization, postulational quantum mechanics from the Schroedinger point of view, and the one electron atom.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2219 - Physics II or MP 2224 - Physics IIc .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 3140 - Applied Mathematics
The course covers the mathematical tools for treating a variety of problems in science; boundary value problems for differential equations, Green’s functions, calculus of variations, spectral theory of operators, and other topics, as time permits, are included.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2223 - Ordinary Differential Equations and MP 2224 - Physics IIc .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 3231 - Statistics for Science
A course in basic and intermediate methods of applied statistics, with emphasis on the analysis of data from laboratory and field experiments. Both parametric and non-parametric techniques are presented, and the logic underlying experimental design and statistical inference is stressed. Recommended for students anticipating graduate study or research careers. Not open to majors in Business Administration.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1203 - Elementary Functions or MP 1205 - Finite Mathematics .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 3235 - Fourier Series
This is an introduction to Fourier series and eigenvalue functions covering the topics of orthogonal systems, Fourier series, eigenvalue functions and boundary value problems with an introduction to the derivation and classification of partial differential equations.
Prerequisite(s): MP 2223 - Ordinary Differential Equations .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 3241 - History of Mathematics
Development of mathematics from the earliest days to the present, with emphasis on Greek mathematics, the development of calculus, and the history of algebra, analysis, and geometry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1204 - Calculus I or Permission of instructor.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 3250 - Biostatistics
This course focuses on applying existing statistical tools and techniques to interpret data about the medical and life sciences. Topics include data analysis and description, probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression and analysis of variance.
Prerequisite(s): or
3 hours Lecture
3 credits
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MP 4122 - Analysis
This course is an introduction to the ideas and theorems of real analysis. Topics include: basic set theory, function theory, topology, sequences and series, and the limits, continuity, differentiation and integration of functions on metric and Euclidean spaces.
Prerequisite(s): MP 3123 - Advanced Calculus and MP 3036 - Methods in Advanced Mathematics .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 4125 - Partial Differential Equations
Topics include eigenfunctions, expansions, separation of variables, types of partial differential equations, numerical methods, similarity solutions, and perturbation theory.
Prerequisite(s): MP 3123 - Advanced Calculus .
3 hours Lecture and Discussion
3 credits
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MP 4132 - Symbolic Logic
Topics covered include: Boolean algebra, logic circuit analysis, Karnaugh mapping, IC logic families, D/A and A/D conversions, memory devices, flip-flops, arithmetic circuits, number systems and codes, and interfacing.
Prerequisite(s): MP 1203 - Elementary Functions or MP 1205 - Finite Mathematics and either MP 2219 - Physics II or a computer course.
3 hours Lecture and Discussion, 3 hours Laboratory
4 credits
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