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MSFA 730 - Behavioral Finance
Unit(s): 2
This course examines how limited information, limited attention and limited rationality impact financial markets. After a review of ‘heuristics and bias’ literature, we discuss trading strategies in markets whose structure give rise to momentum, bubbles and segmented markets with limited arbitrage.
Prerequisite: ECON 712 or concurrent MSFA 712 or MBA 6109
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 732 - Derivatives II
Unit(s): 2
Analysis of fixed-income derivatives including custom interest rate agreements and analysis of interest rate and currency swaps. Analysis of equity options and warrants, hedging and hedging strategies.
Prerequisite: ECON 724 or MSFA 724
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 734 - International Finance
Unit(s): 2
International financial systems and foreign exchange rate regimes. Foreign exchange market calculations and arbitrage relationships. Exchange rate forecasting methods. Study of currency strategies for international portfolio management. International CAPM models of securities pricing.
Prerequisite: ECON 716 or MSFA 716 or MBA 6102
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 736 - Econometrics
Unit(s): 2
Probability models for portfolio risk and return evaluation. Simple Regression Models with hypothesis tests, goodness of fit, and testing for problems with the data or the model. Multiple regression models with applications to CAPM and portfolio management. • Prerequisites (MBA students must take Stats prior to this class)
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 740 - Capital Market Theory
Unit(s): 2
This course introduces students to the essential aspects and tools of portfolio management. Developing expected returns and risks for asset classes and individual assets based on macro- and micro-expectational factors; Developing strategies for managing portfolios of domestic and foreign debt securities, including passive, semi-active, and active management techniques.
Prerequisite: ECON 712 or MSFA 712 or MBA 6109
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 742 - Alternative Investments
Unit(s): 2
The course will cover a history of alternative investments/strategies including private equity, venture capital, distressed debt, hedge funds, real estate, commodities and leveraged buy-outs. The primary goals of the course are to provide students with an understanding of alternative investments/strategies, their uses in a diversified portfolio, ways to access the investments and appropriateness for different investor types.
Prerequisite: ECON 712 or MSFA 712
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 744 - Financial Econometrics
Unit(s): 2
This course expands on the econometric techniques commonly used in finance. Financial markets have spurred many of the advances in econometrics in the past two decades, and in turn. Knowledge of financial markets is required in this course, but much of the finance theory in the course is communicated in the process of describing the econometric methods used.
Prerequisite: ECON 736 or concurrent MSFA 736
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 746 - Portfolio Management
Unit(s): 2
Efficient financial markets theory. Asset pricing theories and models. Portfolio management policies for individual investors, mutual funds, and institutional investors. Asset allocation and general portfolio construction. Fixed income vs. equity portfolio management strategies. Risk measurement and management.
Prerequisite: concurrent ECON 740 or concurrent MSFA 740
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 748 - Ethics and Finance II
Unit(s): 1
Professional standards of practice regarding Performance Presentation standards and associated ethical obligations. Ethical and practical issues in constructing and maintaining portfolio returns and appropriate benchmark portfolios.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 749 - MSFA
Unit(s): 1
The internship is 10-20 hours per week during a student’s last semester (fourth trimester) and counts for two units of academic credit. The student will work with a full-time MSFA faculty member on a research project/report that will be related to the work undertaken in the internship.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 798 - MSFA Internship
Unit(s): 2
The internship is 10-20 hours per week during a student’s second-to-last or last semester and counts for two units of academic credit. The student will work with a full-time MSFA faculty member on a research project/report that will be related to the work undertaken in the internship..
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 799 - MSFA Directed Study
Unit(s): 0 to 4
By special arrangement.
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FREN 100 - Intensive French
Unit(s): 8
French 100 combines first and second semesters of Elementary French while offering a smaller class size (16 students), cutting edge language learning technologies, and a small stipend to support outings in the City.
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FREN 133 - Intermediate French Conv
Unit(s): 2
French conversation at the intermediate level. Introduction to French and Francophone culture and society. (May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units of credit). Offered every semester.
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FREN 195 - FYS: First-Year Seminar
Unit(s): 4
First Year Seminars are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All FYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many FYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. FYSeminars are only open to students in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one FYS, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other FYSeminars this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman
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FREN 201P - French 201 Language Practicum
Unit(s): 0
Corequisite: FREN-201
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FREN 202 - Fourth Semester French
Unit(s): 4
An intermediate-level course focusing on developing the elementary reading, writing, listening and speaking skills as well as grammar acquired in the first year. In addition, there is an increased focus on cultural knowledge and the inclusion of a full-length work of literature.
Prerequisite: FREN 201 or Placement-French with a minimum score of 83
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FREN 216 - Foreign Lang Methodology
Unit(s): 2
Required for all Spanish and French conversation tutors. While simultaneously teaching conversation sessions, students will specifically learn how to: identify issues underlying communicative language and task-based teaching, create well designed language learning activities that engage learners in communicative language learning tasks, sequence those tasks, apply appropriate language teaching terminology during class discussions, reflect about themselves as learners and teachers, and participate in intellectual discussions about second language acquisition and foreign language teaching issues.
Prerequisite: FREN 202 or SPAN 202 or SPAN 222
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FREN 250 - Africa Films Africa
Unit(s): 4
The diversity of the African continent as seen through the eyes of its filmmakers. Weekly viewings and discussions will be informed by critical literature on African film and its place in the West and the developing world.
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FREN 255 - Diplomatie Sans Frontieres
Unit(s): 4
This course is designed to serve students intending to do internships or gain employment in French-speaking environments or countries. Although fully developing the language skills to function in international institutions takes years, learning the conventions associated with different kinds of communication and expanding your vocabulary in the areas of your specialization (whether it is politics, commerce, human rights, cultural diplomacy) can facilitate your assimilation once you find yourself immersed in that kind of environment.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 260 - African Literature and Film
Unit(s): 4
A substantial introduction to the literature and film of the African continent exposing students to the diversity of the continent through its rich literary heritage.
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FREN 265 - Les Enfants Terribles
Unit(s): 4
What can we learn from rebellious figures, those men and women who refuse to live by the rules? Meet some of France’s celebrated “unruly children,” explore their creative contributions to contemporary French culture, and brush up on your colloquial French.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 275 - Cultures de France
Unit(s): 4
French culture and civilization focuses on the study of French society from 1851 to the present through cultural phenomena in the context of major historical, political, and social events.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 312 - Finesses de la langue
Unit(s): 2
This course is designed to help students develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the subtleties of the French language. They will develop their vocabulary, grammatical sophistication, and reading proficiency.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 313 - Finesses de la langue II
Unit(s): 2
This course is designed to help students develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the subtleties of the French language. Students will develop their vocabulary, grammatical sophistication, and reading proficiency.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 315 - Paris: Biographie d’une ville
Unit(s): 4
This course offers a study of cultural currents that have made Paris a global metropolis. It invites students to explore diverse facets of Parisian life and encourages them to look at French culture through their own experience and artistic sensitivity.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 320 - Le plaisir du texte
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to reading and analyzing literary works, with special emphasis on the acquisition of critical vocabulary through readings in major genres (poems, plays, novels) and multiple writing assignments.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 322 - Le bon sens et la folie
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to the major literary currents of the 17th and 18th centuries, to the historical events that helped shape them, and to other cultural manifestations associated with them.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 324 - Guerre et paix
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to the major literary currents of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries to the historical events that helped shape them, and to other cultural manifestations associated with them.
Prerequisite: FREN 255 or FREN 265 or FREN 275
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FREN 330 - Rencontres: L’Afrique francoph
Unit(s): 4
An intensive and comprehensive introduction to the literature and culture of the almost thirty French speaking countries of Africa through representative texts produced in three very culturally diverse regions: North, West and Central Africa.
Prerequisite: FREN 255 or FREN 265 or FREN 275
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FREN 332 - Rencontres: Le monde franco
Unit(s): 4
An intensive and comprehensive introduction to the Francophone world excluding Africa (which is covered in French 330). Texts, DVDs, and artifacts will be used as the basis for an exploration of the literary, cinematic and popular production, and the cultural and linguistic specificity of French-speaking groups in North America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Prerequisite: FREN 255 or FREN 265 or FREN 275
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FREN 340 - French Cinema and Literature
Unit(s): 4
A comprehensive history of French Cinema and literature from the turn of the 20th Century to the present. Students will read, analyze, compare and contrast literary and cinematic works of each significant period starting with the invention of the first camera and the Lumiere’s Brothers’ first films to the different movements that influenced today’s film and literary productions. Taught in English.
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FREN 350 - Paris-Berlin
Unit(s): 4
The course explores the many cultural exchanges between France and Germany from the late 1800s to the early decades of the 20th century. In this period, Paris and Berlin were centers of artistic productions. The new perspectives in literature, art, architecture, and film of this period and their integration with social and political developments are focal points. The foundation is Nietzsche’s manifesto of personal self-overcoming.
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FREN 390 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Exploration of one or more selected topics in the field.
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FREN 398 - Dir Reading & Research
Unit(s): 1 to 6
Individual project on various topics of French and Francophone studies to be determined with the instructor. Written permission of the department chair and the dean is required. Offered every semester at the upper-division level only to help students complete their requirements for the major or the minor.
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FREN 440 - Special Topics in French
Unit(s): 4
Examples of courses: Images du féminin; Conditions de l’amour; Culture des affaires.
Prerequisite: FREN 315 or FREN 320 or FREN 322 or FREN 324 or FREN 330 or FREN 332
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FREN 450 - Sp Topics:Francophone Lit/Cult
Unit(s): 4
Examples of courses: Carte d’identité; Migrations; L’Algérie francaise, la France algérienne.
Prerequisite: FREN 315 or FREN 320 or FREN 322 or FREN 324 or FREN 330 or FREN 332
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GEDU 603 - Methodology of Educational Research
Unit(s): 3
An introduction to the process and methods of educational research articles and to developing a preliminary plan or proposal for research in the field.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Level Restricted to Graduate
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GEDU 630 - Disability and Impairment
Unit(s): 3
Research approaches and discourse in psychology and medicine tend to place disability as a problem that resides within the individual body/mind. By contrast, disability studies perspectives help to contextualize our understanding of disability more broadly within society and culture, while at the same time, acknowledging individual variation. Students will be immersed in the debates, theoretical perspectives, methods, and findings that have been used to explain and address disability and impairment across disciplines.
School of Education
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GEDU 631 - Engage Scholar Disability Just
Unit(s): 3
The focus of this course is on interdisciplinary research, for the purposes of teaching and/or community engagement for disability justice. Research will be produced that promotes collaboration with communities. Findings will be presented to teachers and/or teacher educators in order to prepare doctoral students for leadership positions in education and advocacy, for the purpose of social change.
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GEDU 632 - Disability Activism, Law & Pol
Unit(s): 3
This course provides a historical perspective to understand the emergence of disability law and public policy. Topics include early industrialization, compulsory schooling, American eugenics, institutionalization, and the Disability Rights Movement. Federal legislation, key statues, and landmark court cases associated with both disability rights and educational rights for students with disabilities are explored. Disability memoir, case law, guest speakers, as well as seminal and current critiques of the law are used, to support students in understanding the variation in interpretation of law, and the implications of this variation for students with disabilities in P-22 schools.
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GEDU 633 - Disability Studies in Ed
Unit(s): 3
Across the field of disability studies, disability is defined not as a deficit inherent in certain body/minds, but rather as a relationship of differential power/privilege and constructed contextually. In this course we will look at the social meaning and material consequences of disability in various cultural and historical spaces, and how these have influenced educational opportunities for students who are labeled with disability. Epistemological and theoretical differences between disability studies in education, and traditional, special education will be explored to understand deeply-divided approaches to research and practice, as they relate to student disability. We will also understand how disability intersect and co-constructs other identity markers in educational spaces, nationally and globally.
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GEDU 635 - Multiliteracies in Tchr Ed
Unit(s): 3
The concept of “multiliteracies” refers to a broad and inclusive model of literacy that accounts for the complex and rapidly changing modes of meaning making within our diverse society. While at least eighty percent of students classified as having a disability have difficulty reading, all students can benefit from some kind of literacy support: learning to read words, vocabulary, and comprehending text, and/or understanding language in context, using a cell phone, operating a washing machine, recognizing an important street sign or bus stop, following a recipe, or reading a prescription. This course is designed to survey the current research on teacher education with an emphasis on best practices for addressing a wide range of student literacies. Supported higher education teaching experiences will be provided, offering career advancement towards adjunct and faculty positions.
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GEDU 697 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Level Restricted to Graduate
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GEDU 698 - Special Topics Seminar
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Exploration of one or more selected topics in General Education.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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GEDU 700 - Philosophical Found of Ed
Unit(s): 3
Philosophical foundations of modern educational thought and practice in America, it also explores contemporary educational ideologies in the U.S.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 701 - Anthropology of Educ
Unit(s): 3
Fundamental principles of anthropology as applied in education, business, and community learning contexts. An overview of the history, tradition, and political ideologies of two or more countries, other than the United States, provides a backdrop for the study of culture, technology, and values in an American pedagogical setting.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 702 - Soc/Crit Theoretical Foundtns
Unit(s): 3
This seminar provides a social and critical theoretical foundation to the study of education. The aim of the course is to examine the ways that particular theorists have conceptualized 1) what education is, 2) how to characterize its social power and potential, and 3) how theory informs our research processes and praxis. The readings introduce students to philosophies and critiques of education as well as to broader social and political theories that challenge commonsense definitions of education as a whole with a specific focus on knowledge production, ideology, power, and agency.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 703 - Public Scholar & Comm Eng Lrng
Unit(s): 3
The purpose of this course is to prepare doctoral students with a deep understanding of the theory and practice of community-engaged scholarship before entering into fieldwork with a local school or organization. In addition to course readings and discussions, students will learn first-hand from School of Education faculty with track records of community partnerships who will share their experiences as guest speakers.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 704 - Psych Founds of Educ
Unit(s): 3
Systematic exploration and critical investigation of the theoretical foundations and the practical problems and issues encountered in the application of psychology to education.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 705 - Law and Education
Unit(s): 3
Survey of federal and state statutory and case law in the following: compulsory education, loyalty, religion, freedom of speech, due process, equal protection, termination, evaluation, negotiations, records, discrimination, the Civil Rights Act as amended, special needs, ADA, and civil and tort liability.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 706 - Intro to Inquiry: Quan Meth
Unit(s): 3
This course serves as one of a two-part introduction to inquiry intended to provide a foundation in students’ preparation as engaged scholars. You will build the foundation of a critical quantitative toolkit for the purpose of effecting social change in the pursuit of a better, more just world. With a focus on engaging inquiry–the act of asking and investigating questions–through quantitative perspectives, students in this course will engage in critiquing, proposing, analyzing, and shaping research that enacts social justice through quantitative approaches. You will gain an understanding of fundamental concepts and procedures of quantitative research methods and of basic descriptive statistics through critical quantitative approaches to develop and pilot a research project.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 707 - Advanced Statistics
Unit(s): 3
A continuation of applied educational statistics (706) and an introduction to multivariate statistical analyses used in research in education. Among the subjects to be considered are the following: factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA), analysis of covariance, repeated measures ANOVA, multivariate ANOVA, multiple regression, discriminant analysis, and factor analysis.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 708 - Intro to Inquiry: Qual Meth
Unit(s): 3
This course serves as one of a two-course sequence that will introduce students to inquiry, as a concept, and as a process. The focus of this course will be on qualitative methodologies that are in alignment with SOE’s vision and commitment to community engaged, public scholarship. The goal of this course is that by the end of the semester students will be conversant in a range of critical qualitative methodologies and have a toolkit from which to draw upon as they move through the doctoral process. Specifically students will explore the rich terrain of qualitative research, research design, data collection and analysis, and to bring an informed eye to the reading of anticolonial, critical, and humanizing research in education. This analysis will focus primarily on the historical relationship between marginalized cultures and the concept of scientific research and knowledge production. This critique will inform our approaches to socially engaged scholarship that employs research methods to move us toward social justice in education.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 711 - Survey Research
Unit(s): 3
Introduction to the logic and methods of survey research. Common problems of conceptualizing, planning, conducting and analyzing surveys along with strategies, designs procedures and techniques used to solve such problems.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 712 - Qualitative Research
Unit(s): 3
This course revolves around the theory and methods of qualitative research, drawn from the social sciences of anthropology and sociology, as applied to education. Students will learn to formulate a research question, collect data through observation and interviewing, and analyze data. Coursework includes a student-developed research project.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 713 - Content Analysis
Unit(s): 3
This course examines issues related to the collection and analysis of textual and other representational data for research purposes, covering several approaches to content analysis, both qualitative and quantitative.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 714 - Educ & Psych Measurement
Unit(s): 3
Principles of classical, modern (item-response theory), and cognitive test theory applied to educational and psychological measurement and their application to doctoral research. Applications to both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing orientations will be stressed throughout the course. The focus will be on test development and test evaluation.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 716 - Program Evaluation
Unit(s): 3
Introduction to program evaluation. Basic issues of evaluation design, data collection, interpretation, and communication of results are discussed. Emphasis is placed on designing evaluations based on an understanding of how programs are implemented.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 718 - Ethnic/Mult Resrch Iss
Unit(s): 3
An examination of various research paradigms employed by social scientists, educators, human service professionals, and community agencies interested in the study of comparative group behaviors, educational strategies and learning patterns within racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 721 - Correlational Designs
Unit(s): 3
Correlational approaches to analyzing educational data, including simple and multiple regression, path analysis, LISREL, and hierarchical linear models.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 and GEDU 708
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 722 - Meta-Analysis
Unit(s): 3
Prerequisites: GEDU - 706, GEDU - 708. This course deals with the methods and process of meta-analysis, which is a quantitative review of the literature. Students will have the opportunity to plan a meta-analysis and to evaluate published meta-analyses in an area of education.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 723 - Part Crit Ped Rsch
Unit(s): 3
A discussion of the theoretical foundations of participatory critical pedagogy research as well as a description of effective processes to conduct research utilizing this methodology. Students will be encouraged to (a) define and/or refine the methodology of their own dissertation and (b) acquire experience in the process of dialogic retrospection - the praxis of dialogue as an emancipatory tool, the creation of a text from dialogue transcripts and the analysis of the generative themes contained in the dialogue.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 724 - Introduction to SPSS
Unit(s): 3
A second course in statistics using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Topics include file organization, data entry and cleaning, variable creation and recoding, data analysis, record keeping, reliability analyses, merging data files, and SPSS data analysis procedures (descriptive, comparative, correlational, classificatory), and table creation.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 725 - Skills for Scholarly Writing
Unit(s): 3
This course is designed to assist doctoral students to learn a style for scholarly writing, including the dissertation. Dissertation writing requires a distinctive type of writing, an academic, scholarly approach that meets local conventions, in contrast to an ‘essayist,’ term paper method of writing or a popular periodical style. The tasks, activities, and discussions of this course will include attention to approaches to formal writing that retain clarity, logic and interest, applications of APA as appropriate to dissertation writing, and a review of common grammatical usage.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 730 - Disability and Impairment
Unit(s): 3
Research approaches and discourse in psychology and medicine tend to place disability as a problem that resides within the individual body/mind. By contrast, disability studies perspectives help to contextualize our understanding of disability more broadly within society and culture, while at the same time, acknowledging individual variation. Students will be immersed in the debates, theoretical perspectives, methods, and findings that have been used to explain and address disability and impairment across disciplines.
School of Education
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GEDU 731 - Engage Scholar Disability Just
Unit(s): 3
The focus of this course is on interdisciplinary research, for the purposes of teaching and/or community engagement for disability justice. Research will be produced that promotes collaboration with communities. Findings will be presented to teachers and/or teacher educators in order to prepare doctoral students for leadership positions in education and advocacy, for the purpose of social change.
School of Education
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GEDU 732 - Disability Activism, Law & Pol
Unit(s): 3
This course provides a historical perspective to understand the emergence of disability law and public policy. Topics include early industrialization, compulsory schooling, American eugenics, institutionalization, and the Disability Rights Movement. Federal legislation, key statues, and landmark court cases associated with both disability rights and educational rights for students with disabilities are explored. Disability memoir, case law, guest speakers, as well as seminal and current critiques of the law are used, to support students in understanding the variation in interpretation of law, and the implications of this variation for students with disabilities in P-22 schools.
School of Education
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GEDU 733 - Disability Studies in Ed
Unit(s): 3
Across the field of disability studies, disability is defined not as a deficit inherent in certain body/minds, but rather as a relationship of differential power/privilege and constructed contextually. In this course we will look at the social meaning and material consequences of disability in various cultural and historical spaces, and how these have influenced educational opportunities for students who are labeled with disability. Epistemological and theoretical differences between disability studies in education, and traditional, special education will be explored to understand deeply-divided approaches to research and practice, as they relate to student disability. We will also understand how disability intersect and co-constructs other identity markers in educational spaces, nationally and globally.
School of Education
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GEDU 735 - Multiliteracies in Tchr Ed
Unit(s): 3
The concept of “multiliteracies” refers to a broad and inclusive model of literacy that accounts for the complex and rapidly changing modes of meaning making within our diverse society. While at least eighty percent of students classified as having a disability have difficulty reading, all students can benefit from some kind of literacy support: learning to read words, vocabulary, and comprehending text, and/or understanding language in context, using a cell phone, operating a washing machine, recognizing an important street sign or bus stop, following a recipe, or reading a prescription. This course is designed to survey the current research on teacher education with an emphasis on best practices for addressing a wide range of student literacies. Supported higher education teaching experiences will be provided, offering career advancement towards adjunct and faculty positions.
School of Education
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GEDU 797 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 798 - Special Topic Seminar
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Exploration of one or more selected topics in General Education.
Restriction: Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GERM 102 - Second Semester German
Unit(s): 4
German 102 is the second in a three semester series of courses designed to introduce students to the German language and to provide them with the basic skills to function in a new linguistic and cultural environment. While the class sessions are centered on practicing communication in German, all four skills for language acquisition - listening, speaking, reading and writing - are emphasized. This course requires additional conversation practice in nine scheduled sessions outside of the class meetings. German 102 is offered every spring semester.
Prerequisite: GERM 101 or Placement-German with a minimum score of 33
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 201 - Third Semester German
Unit(s): 4
German 201 is the last in a three semester series of courses designed to introduce students to the German language and to provide them with the basic skills to function in a new linguistic and cultural environment. While the class sessions are centered on practicing communication in German, all four skills for language acquisition - listening, speaking, reading and writing - are emphasized. German 201 is offered every fall semester.
Prerequisite: GERM 102 or Placement-German with a minimum score of 55
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 202 - Fourth Semester German
Unit(s): 4
Intermediate German. This course focuses on reading, discussing, and writing about authentic materials in a culturally relevant context while reviewing and expanding grammatical concepts covered in first through third semester German. Extensive use of literary and non-fictional texts, film, and online resources will expand students’ German language proficiency and intercultural competence.
Prerequisite: GERM 201 or Placement-German with a minimum score of 80
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 305 - Conversation and Writing
Unit(s): 4
Continuation of intermediate German. Like German 202, this course focuses on reading, discussing, and writing about authentic materials in a culturally relevant context while reviewing and expanding on previously studied grammatical concepts. Extensive use of literary and non-fictional texts, film, and online resources will expand students’ German language proficiency and intercultural competence.
Prerequisite: GERM 202
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 310 - Adv Readings & Composition
Unit(s): 4
This course stresses advanced reading, writing and discussion in German based on a variety of authentic materials like fictional and non-fictional texts. Specific topics to be determined. Prerequisite: GERM - 305 or equivalent German language proficiency as determined by the department. (Please see the Department of Modern and Classical Languages website for more information).
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 318 - Jewish Lit & Cult/20th C. Euro
Unit(s): 4
Taught in English. Fulfills Core-C Literature requirement. Listed as elective for Jewish Studies and Social Justice, International Studies, and European Studies.
This course examines some of the most important issues involving ethnicity, heritage, and identity by focusing on major expressions by writers and artists of Jewish background in Western and Eastern Europe. The class is interdisciplinary in scope, using literature, theater, film, art, music, and other media to define concepts that have shaped significant contributions by Jewish artists, thinkers and intellectuals, particularly in the German and Yiddish vernacular. Against the changing historical backgrounds, the class seeks to gain a deeper understanding of what it meant to be Jewish in the early part of the century, and to distinguish different forms of acculturation and/or assimilation. It then moves on to discuss literary testimonies of Holocaust survivors and ends with examples of the burgeoning Jewish culture in post-wall Germany.
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 320 - German Lit & Cult/1945-Today
Unit(s): 4
Taught in English. Fulfills Core-C Literature requirement. Listed as elective for International Studies and European Studies. This course centers on discussions of literary production in post - World War II Germany against the background of the profound historical, political and social changes in central Europe and the world at large, which mark the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. After explorations into different works from East- and West-Germany until 1989 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, a particular emphasis will be placed on developments in the “new” German capital Berlin. Students examine texts in different genres, including prose, poetry, theory, and film, while gaining a deeper understanding of the contexts in which new ideas and forms of expression emerge. A special focus will be the question of identity and identifications as shaped by personal, national, and trans-national influences.
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 350 - Paris-Berlin
Unit(s): 4
Taught in English. Fulfills Core-C Literature requirement. Cross-listed with French Studies. Listed as elective for International Studies, European Studies, and Jewish Studies and Social Justice. This course explores the profound social and intellectual changes which marked the turn into the 20th century in Europe, particularly Germany, Austria, and France, and the reflection of these changes in the arts. The concepts of “modernity” and “modernism” will be the point of departure for an overview of the “_isms” by which this period is defined in political (e.g. Nationalism, Imperialism, Socialism, Capitalism, Feminism), philosophical (e.g. Social Darwinism, Rationalism, Idealism), and artistic terms (e.g. Naturalism, Postimpressionism, Expressionism, Symbolism, Surrealism). We will analyze groundbreaking theoretical works by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and others, and delineate their influences on literature and film. Special attention will be given to the interplay of different movements and ideas, and the (self-)awareness of the subject in a rapidly changing and challenging world.
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 398 - Dir Reading & Research
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Directed Studies supplement regular course offerings for smaller groups of students at a higher level of German proficiency. They focus on reading and discussing texts and films in German while improving written and oral language proficiency. The specific contents will be determined by instructor and students in collaboration. Interested students should contact the German Studies program coordinator.
College of Arts and Sciences
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MGEM 5101 - Global Environmt & Bus Trends
Unit(s): 3
An overview of major forces and trends of the world: including but not limited to the economic, political, demographic, and technological forces, and trends in globalized competition and globalized cooperation in business. Of particular interest to this group of students, their deep understanding of such forces and trends should help them to spot meaningful opportunities and threats that would allow fruitful entrepreneurial pursuit.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5102 - Tech Apprec & Intel Prop Mgmt
Unit(s): 3
A broad scale survey of new and emerging technologies, including but not limited to, information and digital technology, material science and nanotechnology, life science and bio-technology, and space technology. To couple with their general understanding and appreciation of these business-opportunity-laden technologies, this group of students should also study different legal protections (or little or no protection) given to patents and other forms of intellectual property in the U.S., in Europe, in Asia, and in the rest of the world. Cases may be used to study how successful companies have managed their creation, protection, exploitation of intellectual property rights globally.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5104 - Crs-Cul Mng & Eth Bus Prac
Unit(s): 3
This course focuses on the cultural and ethical aspects of management and business practice. Although EU and other regional and global treaties have reduced many structural barriers, businesses still face various cultural and ethical challenges in different parts of the world. Among other things, this course will expose students to several traditional values systems, such as Christianity, Buddhism, and Confucianism; certain contemporary value systems, such as social welfare system and environmentalism; and social roles of various institutions, such as governments, churches, families, and businesses. This is a foundation course on cross-cultural and ethical issues. A number of functional area courses will expand from this base to address cross-cultural and ethical issues in respective business functional areas.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5105 - Operations Mngt and Supply Chain Mgnt, with a Global Perspective
Unit(s): 3
Globalized production and outsourcing have become a norm in business. Assuming these students have already been familiar with general principles and methodologies of operational efficiency and optimization, this course will focus on the challenges associated with country borders. Among other things, this course will examine import/export control, customs inspection and delays, licensing, certification, environmental protection rules, and a whole host of other complications. These factors vary from one country to another, and complicates businesses’ decision making in their operations management and supply chain management.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5106 - Corporate Fin w/a Global Persp
Unit(s): 3
This course will focus on the challenges associated with multiple macro economic and financial parameters. With multiple currencies and different economic outlooks, businesses still have to develop a series of future cash flow estimates to do capital budgeting. With different costs of capital in different countries, and different risk levels associated with various financial instruments, decision on a global business’s capital structure becomes a lot more complex than a pure domestic business. This course will cover all of these aspects of corporate finance.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5107 - Innovation Techno Management
Unit(s): 3
The course aims to equip future entrepreneurs with an understanding of the main issues in the management of innovation and technology. It also addresses how technological innovation drives the long-term competitiveness of global organizations. Innovation management, and particularly technological innovation, is inherently uncertain and risky, and most new technologies fail to be transformed into successful products and services. Therefore, the focus of the course is to discuss how firms better manage technology and innovation. Furthermore, the other focus is on critically evaluating the factors for technological innovation, and then developing strategies for managing technological innovations in the competitive global environment.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5108 - Glb Compt Entr Barr & Stra All
Unit(s): 3
Not all countries and markets are equally accessible for all businesses. Some countries are more protective than others, some industries are more protected than other industries in certain countries, and some of these protections are more accepted than others under certain bi-lateral or multi-lateral agreements and treaties. Such protections may be in the form of outright ban, quotas, cumbersome application and review processes, local partner requirements, local content requirements, or any other discriminative provisions. This course will examine all sorts of entry barriers in select countries and regions. To counter such barriers, this course will introduce various forms of strategic alliance and partnerships, including but not limited to joint venture, licensing, franchising, management contract, and reciprocal distribution agreement.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5109 - Crs-Cult Mktng & Integ Mar Com
Unit(s): 3
This course focuses on applying marketing principles to customer segments in cultural environments other than your own. Studying their needs and preferences, adjusting product attributes to meet their tastes, introducing services that fit their expectations, and other similar customized treatments are effective steps in cross-cultural marketing. Of particular importance, designing and executing a customized and integrated marketing communication program in this context is crucial. As a business expands internationally or penetrates another ethnic consumer segment, promotional messages should be carefully examined and perhaps re-crafted, and communication media be carefully selected to effectively reach the target audience.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5111 - Social Entrepreneurship
Unit(s): 3
Social Entrepreneurship is an emerging and rapidly changing field dedicated to the starting and growing social mission-driven for-profit and nonprofit ventures - that is, organizations that strive to advance social change through innovative solutions. Social Entrepreneurship is more than a set of tools and techniques for starting and growing a social venture. It is a mindset, a way of looking at things that is opportunity focused and creative. It is about passion - doing what you love. It is about creating wealth in all its forms: economic value, social innovation and sustainability, and making a difference in the communities that we serve. While numerous different definitions of social entrepreneurship exist, there appears to be a consensus on two major elements:• Social entrepreneurship involves the creativity, imagination and innovation often associated with entrepreneurship; and• The outcomes of social entrepreneurship are focused on addressing persistent social problems particularly to those who are marginalized or poor, however broader definitions also include those issues most pressing to society such as energy conservation, pollution, solution for pervasive disease amongst those able to pay for treatment, and those incapable of treatment.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5112 - Ven Cap, Corp Entre & Micro Fi
Unit(s): 3
This course covers a wide range of funding options that support innovative business endeavors. Besides the venture capital model, which is well known for supporting technology innovations in Silicon Valley, this course also examines internal funding sources that support in-house innovation and entrepreneurial endeavors, and the micro-finance model that support entrepreneurial initiatives in rural areas and third world countries. Guests representing both the supplier and the user of the fund in each of these funding models will be invited to give their views.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5113 - Consulting
Unit(s): 3
In this course you will work closely with faculty at IQS as well as with a European company to complete a consulting project, focused on a particular problem identified with the company. This will also include structured time with the faculty sponsor to review the company assignments and with the company, either at their location, or at IQS, working on projects for the company. Successful completion of this course is required by IQS in order to complete the Master in Entrepreneurial Management.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5114 - Business Plan Course
Unit(s): 3
In this course you will work with a Faculty member at Fu-Jen University to develop a unique and compelling business plan. This includes ongoing individual meetings, coaching, and the use of a pool of mentors to provide the student with “real world” insight as the business plan develops. Successful completion of this course is required by Fu-Jen in order to complete the Master in Entrepreneurial Management.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5115 - U.S. Consulting Course
Unit(s): 3
In this course you will work closely with faculty at USF as well as with a company located in the Bay Area, to complete a consulting project, focused on a particular problem identified with the company. This will also include structured time with the faculty sponsor to review the company assignments and with the company, either at their location, or at USF, working on projects for the company.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5116 - Business Analytics Global Context
Unit(s): 3
To achieve the learning goals, this class focuses on the primary elements of business intelligence and decision support systems in the global context: database platforms that store data, corporate innovation, data analytics challenges, and effective decision-making and corporate planning. Students will learn fundamental design elements in terms of data modeling and database implementation. The data warehouse intended to better support business intelligence/analytics tasks and related organizational infrastructure are also discussed.
School of Management
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MGEM 5123 - Common Ground in Corp Val
Unit(s): 3
After a tough financial crisis that ended in a very severe economic crisis globally, it makes sense to become well versant in managing the financial assets and liabilities of a company. This includes grasping the complexity of the financial instruments which CFOs now must use in order to maximize the value of a company. Students will deepen their understanding of finance by reviewing Accounting principles, including the introduction of tools and resources to better manage financial issues in the future.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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