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Courses


 

Accounting

  
  • ACG 2013 - Financial Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    For the following elective courses, please check the PBA Undergraduate Day Catalog for course descriptions. The descriptions will include course requisites and course availability.


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  • ACG 2023 - Managerial Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    For the following elective courses, please check the PBA Undergraduate Day Catalog for course descriptions. The descriptions will include course requisites and course availability.


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  • ACG 5013 - Intermediate Accounting I

    3 Credit Hours
    Review of the accounting model and financial statement preparation. In-depth study of balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flow topics. The course also includes analysis on how management decisions impact financial statements. 

    Prerequisite: ACG 2013 ACG 2023  and MAT 1853 or higher
    Availability: As required


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  • ACG 5023 - Intermediate Accounting II

    3 Credit Hours
    Continuation of ACG 5013 . In depth study of present and future value concepts, current and long-term liabilities. Accounting changes, leases, principles of revenue recognition and accounting for investments.

    Prerequisite: ACG 3113 or ACG 5013 ; MAT 1853 or higher
    Availability: Spring/Summer, As Needed


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  • ACG 5033 - Advanced Managerial Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasizes the concepts, techniques, and conventions underlying the balance sheet and the income statement. Covers the fundamental principles of asset valuation, income determination, financial reporting, business taxes, and owner’s equity. Includes the principal functions of accounting analysis, managerial control, and financial analysis. Special focus on budgeting and performance measurement.

    Prerequisite: ACG 2013  and ACG 2023 
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • ACG 5113 - Advanced Accounting Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    An in-depth analysis of the historical development of accounting theory and its application to current and future accounting issues. The effect of economic, political, and social forces on accounting theory and practice is examined. Core Accounting Theory of Assets, the Income Statement and Statement of Cash flows is examined.

    Prerequisite: Admission to MAcc
    Availability: Fall


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  • ACG 5123 - Advanced Financial Accounting and Reporting

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced study of accounting and financial reporting concepts, standards, and procedures for Core Accounting Theory of Liabilities and Stockholder’s Equity are examined. Advanced topics also include the consolidated companies and other advanced topics.
     

    Prerequisite: Admission to MAcc
    Availability: Spring


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  • ACG 5133 - Advanced Auditing

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced application of Auditing Concepts, standards, and procedures in the conduct of a Financial Statement audit. Topics will include the auditor’s responsibilities for reporting on internal controls, audit sampling requirements, audit reports, professional ethical standards, and auditing EDP systems.

    Prereq/Corequisite: Admission to MAcc
    Availability: Fall


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  • ACG 5143 - Tax Research

    3 Credit Hours
    Methods of researching tax problems and practical exercises in the uses of research tools in locating, understanding, and interpreting source materials.

    Prerequisite: Admission to MAcc
    Availability: Fall


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  • ACG 5153 - Financial Statement Analysis

    3 Credit Hours


    An in-depth study of financial statements as an integral part of the strategic analysis of firms, with the effect of accounting regulations and managerial discretion on financial statements. Topics include strategic analysis, risk and profitability analysis using ratios, accounting analysis, interpretation of financial statements, cash flow analysis, judgments about earnings quality, and prospective forecasting of financial statements.

    Prerequisite: ACG 2013 , and ACG 2023  

     
    Availability: Spring


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  • ACG 5163 - Government & Not For Profit Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced study of accounting and financial reporting concepts, standards, and procedures for governments and non-profit agencies. Topics will focus on the financial management and accountability issues pertinent to government and non-profit organizations.

    Prereq/Corequisite: Admission to MAcc
    Availability: Spring


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  • ACG 5213 - Enterprise Systems I - Introduction to ERP Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to Enterprise Resource Planning Systems is designed to introduce students to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), a business management paradigm that integrates all facets of the business, including planning, manufacturing, sales, finance, and accounting. It will establish a theoretical foundation of ERP systems and examines business function, processes, data requirements, development, and management of ERP systems for sales, marketing, accounting, finance, production, supply chain, and customer relationship management. The course will cover both the methodology and practice of ERP using Microsoft Dynamics, a leading commercial ERP software package. Hands-on homework will be assigned so the student can work through real-life business situations using the MS Dynamics system and explore the interaction among the different business processes. These exercises, along with class discussions through dialog, will prepare the student with the knowledge and skill sought by a growing number of businesses attempting to use enterprise systems to maintain or expand their competitive edge.
     

    Availability: Fall


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  • ACG 5223 - Enterprise Systems II - Business Processes and Data Analytics

    3 Credit Hours


    Information is vital to any successful decision making process. ERP and accounting information systems are one of the primary information systems employed by organizations to assist managers within an entity with making internal decisions as well as provide information to external stakeholders such as investors, creditors, governmental agencies, and the community at large. This course will introduce students to the systems that produce financial and managerial information for organizations. Although discussions will cover information systems as a whole, particular emphasis will be placed on the revenue and expenditure cycles, financial reporting and subsidiary ledgers. There are all components of an ERP system.

    Students will learn theoretical material from the ERP/Accounting Information Systems Text. The text addresses ERP systems’ controls and processes in an automated ERP system. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and case studies applying Data Analytics will be also be utilized to apply the concepts learned in the course.

    Prerequisite: ACG 5213     
    Availability: Spring


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  • ACG 5233 - Federal Taxation I

    3 Credit Hours
    This course is a study of the taxation of individuals, corporations, estates and trusts with an emphasis on planning opportunities under alternative techniques.

    Prerequisite: ACG 2023 , MAT 1853 or equivalent
    Availability: Fall


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  • ACG 5333 - Cost Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Cost Accounting examines managerial accounting issues with an emphasis on the study of job order costing, process costing, and standard cost methods and procedures with special emphasis upon cost control and planning. In addition to examining core cost accounting topics, students will examine research on contemporary costs accounting issues.

    Prerequisite: ACG 2023  
    Availability: Fall


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  • ACG 5343 - Federal Taxation 2

    3 Credit Hours
    A study of the taxation of partnerships and their partners; corporations and their shareholders; estate and trust and their beneficiaries; and special problems in tax procedures. In addition to examining core tax issues, students will examine research on contemporary tax related issues.

    Prerequisite: ACG 5333  
    Availability: Fall


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  • ACG 5533 - Enterprise Systems III - Data Analysis and Data Analytics

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines data analytics and ERP systems reporting and analysis required by twenty-­first century organization. With data considered the new currency and data mining and analysis required for organizations to be competitive, this course provides students with exposure to fundamental concepts and tools necessary to contribute to quality, data driven decision making and reporting. The course incorporates hands on learning in Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Excel and other BI and data analysis tools. Hands-on work will be assigned so the student can work through real-life business situations using the MS Dynamics system and explore the interaction among the different reporting tools and business processes. These exercises, along with class discussions through dialog, will prepare the student with the knowledge and skills sought by a growing number of businesses attempting to use enterprise systems and data analytics to maintain or expand their competitive edge.

    Prerequisite:  ACG 5213  , ACG 5223  
    Availability: Spring


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Biblical and Theological Studies

  
  • BIB 5003 - Genesis

    3 Credit Hours
    Building upon a foundational understanding of the Torah, students will examine the historical-critical context, literary content, and theological message of the book of Genesis.

    Corequisite (MDIV): THL 5233  

    Availability: Fall


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  • BIB 5010 - Exploring the Old Testament

    0 Credit Hours
    A study of the content, background, and genres of the Old Testament, emphasizing the development of skills for biblical interpretation.

    Availability: On Demand


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  • BIB 5013 - Elementary Hebrew I

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will learn to translate biblical Hebrew by developing an understanding of Hebrew grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.

    Availability: Fall


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  • BIB 5020 - Exploring the New Testament

    0 Credit Hours
    A study of the content, background, and genres of the New Testament, emphasizing the development of skills for biblical interpretation.

    Availability: On Demand


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  • BIB 5023 - Elementary Hebrew II

    3 Credit Hours
    As a continuation of Elementary Hebrew I, students will learn to translate sustained texts of the Hebrew Bible by building upon a basic understanding of Hebrew grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and English translation evaluation.

    Prerequisite:  /BIB 2033
    Availability: Spring


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  • BIB 5033 - Elementary Greek I

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will learn to translate Koine Greek by developing an understanding of Greek grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.

    Availability: Fall


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  • BIB 5043 - Elementary Greek II

    3 Credit Hours
    As a continuation of Elementary Greek I, students will learn to translate sustained texts from the Greek New Testament by building upon a basic understanding of Greek grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and English translation evaluation.

    Prerequisite:  /BIB 2013
    Availability: Spring


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  • BIB 5053 - Biblical Exegesis and Technology

    3 Credit Hours
    An introduction to the use of Bible software tools for original language study for the student who has no previous background in Greek and Hebrew or who has had language courses some years previously. The course considers how to do word studies, solve interpretive problems, and do exegetical work using available electronic tools.

    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BIB 5113 - Intermediate Greek I

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will translate sections from the Greek New Testament by developing an intermediate proficiency in Greek grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Students will also develop skills in Greek exegesis.

    Prerequisite: BIB 5043 /BIB 2023
    Availability: Fall


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  • BIB 5123 - Intermediate Greek II

    3 Credit Hours
    As a continuation of Intermediate Greek I, students will translate sustained sections from the Greek New Testament by building upon an intermediate proficiency in Greek grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Students will also learn to apply skills in Greek exegesis and will develop skills in textual criticism.

    Prerequisite: BIB 5113 /BIB 3053
    Availability: Spring


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  • BIB 5203 - Intermediate Hebrew I

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will translate from different genres within the Hebrew Bible by developing an intermediate proficiency in Hebrew grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.

    Prerequisite: BIB 5023 /BIB 2043
    Availability: Fall


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  • BIB 5213 - Intermediate Hebrew II

    3 Credit Hours
    As a continuation of Intermediate Hebrew I, students will translate sustained texts from different genres within the Hebrew Bible by building upon an intermediate proficiency in Hebrew grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.

    Prerequisite: BIB 5203 /BIB 3183
    Availability: Spring


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  • BIB 5463 - The Book of the Twelve

    3 Credit Hours
    Building upon a foundational understanding of prophetic literature in the Hebrew Bible, students will analyze the literary content, canonical shape, and theological message of the Book of the Twelve (i.e., the Minor Prophets).

    Corequisite (MDIV): MLS 5033  

    Availability: Odd Springs


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  • BIB 5513 - Acts of the Apostles

    3 Credit Hours
    Building upon a foundational understanding of the birth of the new covenant community, students will analyze the historical context, narrative structure, and theological message of the Acts of the Apostles.

    Corequisite (MDIV): MLS 5513 

    Availability: Even Falls


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  • BIB 5713 - Psalter

    3 Credit Hours
    Building upon a foundational understanding of the Writings in the Hebrew Bible, students will analyze the poetic form and features, canonical shape, and theological message of the Book of Psalms.

    Corequisite (MDIV): THL 5243  

    Availability: Even Springs


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  • BIB 5723 - First Corinthians

    3 Credit Hours
    Building upon a foundational understanding of the Apostle Paul’s life and letters, students will analyze the historical context, epistolary features, and theological message of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians.

    Corequisite (MDIV): MLS 5903 

    Availability: Spring


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  • BIB 5913 - Gospel of John

    3 Credit Hours
    Building upon a foundational understanding of the gospels and Jesus, students will analyze the literary features, narrative structure, and theological message of the Gospel of John.

    Corequisite (MDIV): THL 5803  

    Availability: Odd Falls


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  • BIB 6003 - New Testament Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will examine an New Testament book, author, literary tradition, or theme at an advanced level.

    Availability: On Demand


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  • BIB 6013 - Travel Study Experience

    3 Credit Hours
    An on-site study of the history, archaeology, geography, religion and culture of a specific region. Students will examine the historical, biblical, theological, religious, and cultural background of the area in order to gain an overall understanding of a specific destination and to make appropriate application to Christian thought and ministry.

    Availability: Odd Summer


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  • BIB 6103 - Advanced Greek I

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will develop advanced skill in reading and translating selected texts from the Greek Bible, including grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.

    Prerequisite: BIB 5123 /BIB 3063
    Availability: On Demand


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  • BIB 6113 - Advanced Greek II

    3 Credit Hours
    As a continuation of Advanced Greek I, students will develop expertise in reading and translating biblical and extra-biblical Koine Greek texts, including advanced proficiency in Greek grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.

    Prerequisite: BIB 6103 /BIB 4073
    Availability: On Demand


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  • BIB 6143 - Romans

    3 Credit Hours
    Building upon a foundational understanding of the Apostle Paul’s life and letters, students will analyze the historical context, epistolary features, and theological message of Paul’s letter to the Romans.

    Availability: Summer (Triennially from 2023)


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  • BIB 6153 - Old Testament Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will examine an Old Testament book, author, literary tradition, or theme at an advanced level.

    Availability: On Demand


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  • BIB 6173 - Biblical Storytelling

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will study the Gospel of Mark through the emerging approach of Performance Criticism and apply this method in interpreting, internalizing, and performing biblical compositions.

    Availability: January Intensive (Triennially from 2022)


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  • BIB 6183 - Bible Translation Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will examine selected topics in Bible translation at an advanced level. This repeatable course will cover the following subject matter requirements for the Master of Divinity Bible translation concentration: cultural anthropology, language and culture, language and society, morphology and syntax, semantics and pragmatics, translation principles, theory, and practice, and discourse analysis.

    Availability: On Demand; taught through the OCAP form & will be done while studying abroad


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  • BIB 6233 - Advanced Hebrew I

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will develop advanced skill in biblical Hebrew, including Hebrew grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Students will also develop skills in textual criticism and Hebrew exegesis.

    Prerequisite: BIB 5213 /BIB 3193
    Availability: On Demand


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  • BIB 6243 - Advanced Hebrew II

    3 Credit Hours
    As a continuation of Advanced Hebrew I, students will develop expertise in reading and translating biblical Hebrew, including Hebrew grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Students will also learn to apply skills in textual criticism and Hebrew exegesis.

    Prerequisite: BIB 6233 /BIB 4133
    Availability: On Demand


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  • BIB 6301/2/3 - Advanced Greek Papyrus Study I

    1-3 Credit Hours


    This lab-based course involves the study of Greek papyri, which may involve transliteration, translation, and other explorations of various papyri. Papyri may be accessed electronically or physically. The course may include opportunities for students to assist in the education of Greek language students. This course is usually offered as a Directed Study course. 

    The course may be offered for variable credit (1-3 credit hours), depending on the semester’s curriculum and content of the course.

    Prerequisite: Instructor Approval
    Availability: Fall


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  • BIB 6311/2/3 - Advanced Greek Papyrus Study II

    1-3 Credit Hours


    This lab-based course involves the study of Greek papyri, which may involve transliteration, translation, and other explorations of various papyri. Papyri may be accessed electronically or physically. The course may include opportunities for students to assist in the education of Greek language students. This course is usually offered as a Directed Study course.

    The course may be offered for variable credit (1-3 credit hours), depending on the semester’s curriculum and content of the course.

    Prerequisite: Instructor Approval
    Availability: On Demand, Spring


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Intercultural Studies

  
  • ICS 5003 - Theology of Reconciliation

    3 Credit Hours
    This course explores God’s transforming action in the world from personal and communal perspectives. Students develop expertise in scriptural sources relating to reconciliation as well as a diversity of other sources of theological reflection on intercultural engagement and reconciliation. 

    Availability: Odd Falls, A Term


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  • ICS 5013 - Theology of Religions

    3 Credit Hours
    This course explores challenges posed to Christian theology and practice when encountering and engaging with other religions, including social, political, philosophical, and theological issues related to living in religiously pluralist contexts often characterized by conflict. Students examine contemporary Christian theologians to understand how the doctrines of God, Christ, the church, and mission are understood in the theology of religions, with particular focus on how methodological and typological models determine the debate. 

    Availability: Even Summers, A Term


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  • ICS 5203 - Theology of Church

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines theologies of Christian community life at congregational and other levels within diverse intercultural ecclesial contexts, where intercultural encounter may be seen as constitutive of church life. Students develop intercultural theological expertise in scriptural sources relating to church as well as sources across the theological tradition.

    Availability: Even Springs, A Term


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  • ICS 5403 - Advanced Missiology

    3 Credit Hours
    This course presents contemporary developments in missiology together with a survey of the field. Students will cultivate a depth of understanding of the theology of mission and the missio Dei, examining frontiers within current missiological scholarship and building on classics in the discipline.

    Availability: Even Falls, A Term


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  • ICS 5603 - World Christianity

    3 Credit Hours
    This course introduces an emerging field of Christian study and specialization that combines the interdisciplinary approach of missiology and practical theological method. Students theologically engage contemporary Christian experience from an inclusive, diverse global perspective.

    Availability: Odd Springs, A Term


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  • ICS 5803 - Intercultural Theology and Ministry

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will utilize insights from social and cultural studies, religious studies, mission studies, as well as current history and narrative biography to explore the principles, dynamics and processes that influence intercultural communication. This course will introduce conceptual tools, theological and hermeneutical lenses, theoretical approaches, and practical insights to facilitate our awareness of contemporary cultural convergence in dialogue with the gospel.

    Availability: Odd Summers, A Term


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  • ICS 6003 - Contemporary Global Crises

    3 Credit Hours
    This course presents a diversity of challenges, including international conflicts, migration and refugees, human trafficking, family and reproductive issues, famine and hunger, and poverty. Students are offered a diversity of cases and analyses so as to better understand contemporary intercultural communicative practices in the light of these issues.

    Availability: Odd Falls, B Term


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  • ICS 6013 - Strategies in Intercultural Engagement

    3 Credit Hours
    This course presents various dimensions of intercultural engagement, particularly church planting, pastoring, and purposeful discipleship formation through biblical, theological, and historical principles and practices that permit a critical evaluation of contemporary means and methods in light of theology and biblical hermeneutics.

    Availability: Even Summers, B Term


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  • ICS 6203 - Integrated Human Development

    3 Credit Hours
    This course introduces practical approaches to integrated human development in diverse contexts around the world. Students develop understanding of the global human need for transformation in whatever context. Theory and practice are offered from within diverse social locations around the world to advance understanding of what is being done and what may be done in the future.

    Availability: Even Springs, B Term


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  • ICS 6403 - Intercultural Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines evangelizing practice in light of communicative theology and current practice in diverse contexts. Students will survey diverse forms of communicative praxis so as to develop their skills and strategies as Christian intercultural communicators, whether in various settings in their home country or elsewhere around the world.

    Availability: Even Falls, B Term


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  • ICS 6603 - Worship as Intercultural Encounter

    3 Credit Hours
    Explores Christian practices of worship in diverse contexts and expressions. Students are trained to undertake an examination of their experience of worship practices from the standpoint of intercultural communication.

    Availability: Odd Springs, B Term


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  • ICS 6803 - Intercultural Research

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines the application of anthropological knowledge to solve contemporary societalproblems through the review of cultural perspectives, theory, methods, and data to identify, assess, and address real world challenges. Students will explore how intercultural research can help them identify the needs for change that local people perceive, and assist in the development of culturally appropriate change.

    Availability: Odd Summers, B Term


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  • ICS 6833 - Intercultural Engagement

    3 Credit Hours


    On demand in place of ICS 6803 - Intercultural Research  

    A practicum focused in one of the four areas:

    • Intercultural Engagement and Missional Leadership

    Studentsare supervised by an experienced leader who mentors them as they build on their knowledge and experience. Students may work in a traditional, Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)-accredited ministerial location or an analogous context. The approved supervisor documents the equivalent of one unit of CPE, namely 400 hours of contextual engagement, full use of verbatims, and on-going theological reflection in a mentoring apprenticeship context. Alternatively, students may immerse themselves in a particular context so as to develop sound and in-depth strategic planning to launch or redevelop an existing ministry from the perspective of intercultural engagement. Students are approved for work under an experienced leader who documents the development of a robust, tested, and detailed strategic plan complete with a leadership vision and missional focus, projections over a 3-5 year period, and realistic financial and personnel projections.

    • Intercultural Engagement through Comparative Experience

    Students develop innovative approaches and new understandings through comparative engagement with multiple contexts. Students may work alone in the examination of three or more selected contexts but will generally work as a team whereby each member brings in separate experience(s). As such, the team collectively develops a collaborative comparative approach to understanding those contexts from the perspective of theologically grounded intercultural engagement. Students are typically approved as a team working under a faculty mentor, organizational executive, or pastoral leader. The result is a collaboratively authored report suitable for a workshop-style presentation in diverse church and other organizational contexts. Students will develop and propose innovative approaches to intercultural engagement practices in the context of comparative experience.

    • Intercultural Engagement in Empirical Research

    Students focus on in-depth, social science-based research on a topic related to intercultural engagement, particularly in pastoral or ministerial contexts. They are encouraged to utilize hypothesis-testing and other approaches as they see fit in light of their research problem. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches, including traditional ethnographic modes, may all be utilized. Students work under a faculty mentor. The result is a single-authored empirical analysis suitable for release as an article or monograph.

    • Intercultural Engagement for Theological Development

    Students focus on the theological implications of intercultural engagement through practical theological method and methodology. They may engage any research problem that advances theological understanding. This may include hypothesis-testing or other designs. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches, including traditional ethnographic modes, may all be utilized. Students work under a faculty mentor. The result is a single-authored, practical theological analysis suitable for release as a thesis-length monograph with clear engagement of the theological literature together with empirical or other research, as appropriate.

    Availability: On Demand


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  • ICSV 5000 - Travel-Study Experience

    1-3 Credit Hours


    An on-site study of the history, archaeology, geography, religion and culture of a specific region. Students will examine the historical, biblical, theological, religious, and cultural background of the area in order to gain an overall understanding of a specific destination and to make appropriate application to Christian thought and ministry.

    This is a variable credit course that may be taken for up to 3 credits.

    Prerequisite: Odd Summer
    Availability: On demand


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Business: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

  
  • BUS 5523 - Enterprise Systems - Customer relationship management systems

    3 Credit Hours


    This course examines customer relationship management (CRM) and its application in marketing, sales, and service functions within an organization. It will include theoretical concepts from the CRM textbook as well as hands on learning of a CRM system, Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Companies adopting effective CRM strategies are able to properly align their business processes with customer centric strategies maximizing people, technology, and knowledge. Companies utilize CRM to optimize the identification, acquisition, growth, and retention of desired customers and to gain competitive advantage and maximize profits. Anyone interested in working with customers and CRM technology and would like to be responsible for the development of any major aspect of CRM will find this course beneficial.

    Emphasis is given on conceptual knowledge, real-world projects, and hands-on learning using Microsoft Dynamics CRM software. Microsoft Dynamics CRM software is used throughout the course.

    Availability: Fall


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Business: Finance

  
  • BUS 5143 - Investments

    3 Credit Hours
    This course covers modern portfolio choice and asset pricing theories, seminal empirical studies and basic trading strategies related to the money, bond, equity, and derivatives markets. It also provides an introduction to the Market Microstructure approach to the, functioning of financial markets with an emphasis on the role of liquidity and asymmetric information in the price discovery process. This course also overviews different performance measures of investment strategies and portfolio managers.

    Prerequisite: BUS 5063
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5413 - International Finance

    3 Credit Hours
    To examine decision-making in International Finance via a broad study of the opportunities and problems encountered by Multinational Corporations (MNCs) operating in an increasingly globalized market-based economy. Emphasis will be placed on international parity conditions, foreign exchange determination, and the identification, measurement, and management of risks present in investments and business operations that span national boundaries. Specific topics include the international monetary system, balance of payments, market microstructure of foreign exchange, bond, and equity markets, international banking, interest and purchasing power parity conditions, transaction and economic foreign exchange rate exposures, the use of foreign currency derivatives to hedge transaction and exposure, and international capital market equilibrium theory and practice.

    Prerequisite: BUS 5063
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5443 - Money and Banking

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will cover the evolving role of the Federal Reserve, the structure and performance of the nation’s financial system and the role of money and interest rates in today’s economy. Issues related to the definition and measurement of the nation’s money supply will be discussed as will be the importance of an efficient and sound financial system.

    Prerequisite: BUS 5063 
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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Business: General

  
  • BUS 2013 - Business Statistics

    3 Credit Hours
    For the following elective courses, please check the PBA Undergraduate Day Catalog for course descriptions. The descriptions will include course requisites and course availability.

    Prerequisite: MAT 1853 or higher
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 2343 - Principles of Macroeconomics

    3 Credit Hours
    Nature of economic concepts and problems. Course includes the basic theory of market price determination, extending into national economic measures, the business cycle, and the theory of the determination of national output, employment, and prices. Contemporary macroeconomic issues are discussed.

    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 2353 - Principles of Microeconomics

    3 Credit Hours
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    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5043 - Quantitative Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics include research design, measurement issues, the sources and collection of data. An introductory graduate course designed to provide students with the background necessary for understanding the role of statistics in decision-making in the modern business environment. The ethical issues associated with the conduct of research will also be explored.

    Prerequisite: BUS 2013   or MAT 2003
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5053 - Marketing Management

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines the planning processes marketing managers use to develop each functional area of marketing. Students prepare and present a comprehensive marketing plan using actual case studies to identify the central issue, recommend alternatives, and implement strategies.

    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5063 - Corporate Finance

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines and analyzes the decisions that managers are required to make about securing and managing funds. Includes capital markets, sources of funds, types of financial instruments, cost and risks, and financial strategies. Issues explored include risk analysis, financial and capital structure, capital budgeting, valuation and portfolio analysis, long-term investment decisions, dividend policy, tax strategies, break-even analysis, and cost/volume profit analysis.

    Prerequisite: ACG 2013  and ACG 2023 
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5093 - Corporate Strategies

    3 Credit Hours
    This capstone course is designed to help students examine both external and internal environments of an organization, identify key strategic issues, identify and choose from alternative strategies, and defend such decisions. Case histories of domestic and international organizations are examined, and the opportunities for and implications of strategic planning and managerial decision making are discussed in tandem with the impact of external political, social, and economic factors.

    Prerequisite: Completion of 9 MBA courses or more.
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5103 - International Business

    3 Credit Hours
    Presents an analysis of the impact of geographic, political, social, economic, legal, and technological influences on international businesses. Examines how businesses operate in an international environment composed of different political and cultural traditions, and different governmental institutions. Studies the opportunities and constraints for adjusting and accommodating to varying national requirements.

    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5203 - Global Business Environments

    3 Credit Hours
    This course identifies emerging economic, strategic and behavioral theories shaping the dynamic global business environments. The course will focus on developing economies, the tradeoffs of globalization, the evolution of the multinational enterprises’ role in the global economy, the future of global businesses and how MNEs develop competitive global policies and strategies for successful expansion into multiple countries. Global Business Environments includes the Global Trip Component.

    Prerequisite: BUS 5103 
    Note: Travel costs vary by travel destination.
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5293 - Managerial Economics

    3 Credit Hours
    This course includes several applications of material learned in microeconomics. These applications include theories related to pricing, resource allocation, consumer demand, profits, and production. The course will emphasize the use of economic analysis in managerial decision-making through the use of case studies and research projects.

    Prerequisite: BUS 2353
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5313 - Legal Environment of Business

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to the Anglo-American legal system beginning with the historical and continuing to present-day basis of the common law and its influence on our modern statutory law. Emphasis on how to foresee and avoid legal entanglements before becoming involved in litigation. Contracts and sales torts; the legal nature of the corporation; business organizations and employment law. Practice in the art of careful listening, analysis, logic and expression of issues both verbally and in writing.

    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5403 - Operations Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Operations Management (OM) is concerned with the management of resources and activities that produce and deliver goods and services for customers. Efficient and effective operations can provide an organization with major competitive advantages since the ability to respond to customer and market requirements quickly, at a low cost, and with high quality, is vital to attaining profitability and growth through increased market share. As competition becomes fiercer in an increasingly open and global marketplace, a company’s survival and growth become greatly contingent on its ability to run its operations efficiently and to exploit its resources productively. The course focuses on the basic concepts, issues, and techniques for efficient and effective operations. Special emphasis is placed on process improvement and supply chain management. Topics include operations strategy, product and service design, process design and analysis, capacity planning, lean production systems, materials and inventory management, quality management and six sigma, project management, and supply chain management.

    Prerequisite:   or MAT 2003
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5623 - Business Research Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    An applied and practical course surveying the contemporary advanced research methods and statistical techniques applied to business settings. Topics include advanced research design, collection of data, and the interpretation and presentation of results. Computer assisted problem solving is applied to the use of the research models.

    Prerequisite:   or MAT 2003
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5633 - Fundamentals of Project Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Provides an introduction to the planning and performance of complex projects within organizations. Emphasizes the technical planning of integration. scope, schedule as they are applied to initiating, planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling, and closing of projects. Highlights the integration of technical, leadership, and strategic and business management skills for successful project completion.

    Prerequisite: BUS 5403  
    Availability: Fall


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  • BUS 5643 - Planning, Monitoring and Controlling Projects

    3 Credit Hours
    Provides in-depth development of schedule, cost, and scope baseline plans, with an emphasis on their interdependencies using a work breakdown structure (WBS). Offers a structured approach to integrated cost and schedule management using schedule analysis, earned value methodologies, estimating procedures, sensitivity analysis, and variance analysis. Identifies methodologies for scope control, quality control, risk management, and supplier management.

    Prerequisite: BUS 5633  
    Availability: Fall


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  • BUS 5653 - Contemporary Project Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Analyzes current and future trends in the field of project management. Emphasis is placed on current events, research in the field, and foreseeable trends in the next decade. Explores different industries and their unique project management methodologies to meet industry-specific needs. Covers topics related to best practices and creating successful projects across commercial, government, and non-profit environments.

    Prereq/Corequisite: BUS 5633  
    Availability: Fall


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  • BUS 5703 - Special Topics in Business (MBA)

    3 Credit Hours
    In this elective course, students will research and discuss current domestic and international topics in business fields ranging across all disciplines contained within the RSB MBA curriculum, to include business data analytics.

    Availability: Fall


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  • BUS 5713 - Management of People and Organizations

    3 Credit Hours
    This course provides the foundations for understanding and explaining individual and group behavior from a managerial perspective. It addresses the topics of individual behavior, values, attitudes, personality, motivation, group behavior, team behavior, leadership approaches to behavior, conflict and negotiations, culture, and organizational change, Additionally, it focuses on the functional components of managing people, such as staffing/interviewing, compensation, performance management and appraisals, affirmative action/equal opportunity/diversity, employee/labor relations, and training and development.

    Prerequisite: Program undergraduate pre-reqs only.
    Availability: Fall and Spring


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Business: Marketing

  
  • BUS 5213 - International Marketing

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to issues and practices in international marketing. Focus is placed on cultural, legal, social, economic, and behavioral differences that affect marketing in global environments and on how the marketing mix is adapted to different cultures, Importance of world trade and the global business environment is emphasized.

    Prerequisite: BUS 5053
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5363 - Integrated Marketing Communication

    3 Credit Hours
    The IMC concept and process focuses on companies that truly put the customer first by integrating marketing and communication strategies to achieve balance and efforts to acquire and retain customers. This course integrates communications and marketing strategies and provides the student with the analytical skills required to effectively implement marketing plans.

    Prerequisite: BUS 5053 
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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  • BUS 5453 - Special Topics in Marketing

    3 Credit Hours
    In this course students will research and discuss current domestic and international topics in the marketing field including the integration of marketing, advertising and promotion in profit and non-profit organizations.

    Prerequisite: BUS 5053 
    Availability: Fall/Spring


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Leadership

Note: Courses are listed in sequence order

Courses are to be taken in this sequence: LDR 5013 , LDR 5003 , LDR 5103 , LDR 5033 , LDR 5043 , LDR 5053 , , LDR 5073 , LDR 5113 LDR 5063  and LDR 5093 .

  
  • LDR 5003 - Organizational Behavior and Group Formation

    3 Credit Hours
    Engages students in this unique course through activities to develop the community of their cohort learning experience. The psychological foundations of group formation and interdependent relationship-building will be explored within a leadership context. Practical aspects explored will include group formation and behavior, motivation theory, task design, group decision-making, techniques for conflict management, negotiation and facilitation. Positive psychology will serve as the foundation for promoting a “broaden and build” leadership mentality.

    Availability: Fall and Spring


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  • LDR 5013 - Foundations of Leadership Development

    3 Credit Hours
    This course provides a foundational exploration of the discipline of leadership studies including definitions, theory and practice. Students will examine the history of leadership thought and how leadership theory has evolved over time. Students will examine key practices of effective leadership to enhance personal leadership abilities while assessing leadership strengths and styles. They will be introduced to academic writing at the Master’s level to learn APA formatting as well as analysis and synthesis thinking required at the graduate level.

    Availability: Fall and Spring


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  • LDR 5033 - Needs Assessment and Performance Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines methods, tools, techniques, and models to assess individual and organizational needs to optimize performance. Variables influencing performance are examined so learners may apply skills learned to accurately diagnose and analyze performance problems. Course materials and exercises assist learners in recognizing the importance of accurate needs assessment and performance analysis within their organization.

    Availability: Fall and Spring


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  • LDR 5043 - Leadership in the Multicultural Environment

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines the way leaders within organizations can lead, and manage the diverse groups of people that make up the current multicultural business community. The course will focus on cultural differences, the global multicultural environment, and how those differences affect the process and practice of leadership workplace of the 21st century. A postmodern approach to multicultural leadership, an integration of faith, and competencies for effective leadership in a global multicultural environment will be explored.

    Availability: Fall and Spring


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  • LDR 5053 - Strategic Thinking and Planning

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction of the overall concept of strategic leadership, to differentiate it from conventional leadership, to identify the obstacles to its success, and to present the steps that can make a strategy a learning process. The focus of the course is to prepare leaders to build a high performing organizations while meeting their organization’s simultaneous need for stability and change. The course reviews (a) why leaders fail in current environments, (b) the difference between strategic thinking leaders and managerial leadership, (c) the in-depth understanding and application of strategic leader’s core competencies (habits).

    Availability: Fall and Spring


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  • LDR 5063 - Leading Organizational Change

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will focus on the methods, techniques and theories of organizational change needed by leaders to plan and initiate change. Students will learn models of change and methods to facilitate, drive, and sustain organizational change.

    Availability: Fall/Spring/Summer


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  • LDR 5073 - Coaching and Consulting for Organizations

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines the skills required to become an expert in the practice of internal or external consulting for local and/or international organizations, how to maximize the effectiveness of organizations through effective consulting practices, and how to maximize the effectiveness of individuals, teams, and careers through developmental coaching processes.

    Availability: Fall and Spring


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  • LDR 5093 - Action Research Project

    3 Credit Hours
    This course focuses on the premise that research is as much a part of the working world as it is a feature of academic preparation and work based learning. Action learning is about seeking in a rigorous manner how to understand and create efficient working practice. The global marketplace demands rapid change which in turn generates demand to conduct research. This course will ask learners to explore how adults can effectively learn in today’s workplace and how organizations can better support and use that learning to power their performance.

    Availability: Spring and Summer


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  • LDR 5113 - Ethics in Leading

    3 Credit Hours
    This course allows the learner to effectively utilize the meaning and importance of ethics and personal morality in relation to corporate responsibility. The course will analyze leader value systems and how these values impact decisions and the future growth and development of organizations. Students will explore the concept of the healthy ethical organization as defined by the concept of servant leadership. Students will examine their own personal values and ethical assumptions to create a higher level of self-awareness and leadership performance.

    Availability: Fall and Spring


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  • LDR 5133 - Human Resource Development

    3 Credit Hours
    An integral element of leadership is developing other leaders, and human resource development and training of individuals and work groups to improve individual and organizational performance in a competitive marketplace that is constantly changing. Continuous learning is crucial for organizations to be successful, and human resource development is an indispensable component in the educational process. This course explores the human resource development theories, methods, and functions, as well as models for program development and evaluation.

    Availability: Fall


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  • LDR 5143 - Non-Profit Operations Management

    3 Credit Hours
    This course provides learners with the needed information and skills to manage a non-profit organization. This includes setup of the non-profit organization, adherence to all state and national regulations, and all day-to-day operations requirements to begin, sustain, and maintain the non-profit organization.

    Availability: Orlando Only


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  • LDR 5153 - Finance for Leaders

    3 Credit Hours
    Finance must be understood to effectively lead all types of organizations. Leaders must be able to interpret the financial information contained in budgets, financial statements, and operational reports in order to be able to effectively evaluate the organization’s financial and organizational performance and to apply financial information when making decisions. This course will focus on the interpretation and use of basic financial information by non-financial leaders. The course will examine the topics of basic accounting principles, financial statement structure, ratio analysis, cash flow and break-even analysis, budgeting, and the time value of money.

    Availability: Summer


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  • LDR 5163 - Development for the Non-Profit

    3 Credit Hours
    This course provides learners with the needed information and skills to develop the basis for funding of the non-profit organization. This includes adherence to state reporting requirements, use of social media, and all developmental responsibilities to assure financial solvency for the non-profit organization.

    Availability: Orlando Only


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  • LDR 5193 - Gender and Leadership

    3 (Elective Option) Credit Hours
    This course will consider vital women’s and gender issues globally, nationally, and regionally as related to leadership opportunities and practices. We will explore assumptions about gender and femininity alongside race, ethnicity, culture, class inequities, generation and other aspects of identity. We will identify obstacles that have prevented women from playing equitable national and global leadership roles, and avenues for encouraging diversity and mechanisms for change. We will rethink gender and leadership strategies and what it means to lead, and consider benefits and challenges of leadership diversity. We will draw from foundational texts in areas including social injustice, social theory, cultural studies, communications, and history.

    Availability: Summer


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  • LDR 5213 - Non-Profit Leadership

    3 Credit Hours
    This course provides learners with the needed information and skills to lead a non-profit organization, and interact effectively with the local community, state, and national entities affecting the non-profit organization.

    Availability: Orlando Only


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