Spring II Courses
March 11 – May 3, 2024
Registration opens January 26, 2024
Business Courses
MS552 Applied Analytics for Business
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Leland
This course concentrates on the application of quantitative decision-making to business problems. Emphasis will be placed on the use of model formulation and interpretation using realistic business problems that will be analyzed by a managerial perspective. Prerequisite: Undergrad statistics and understanding of computer.
HC510 The United States Healthcare Systems
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Booth
This course describes the organization and delivery of healthcare in the United States. Topics include an introduction to healthcare finance, public and private operations, healthcare law and the regulatory environment. Additional topics include healthcare reimbursement, innovation and change, access, information privacy and security, quality, affordability, and policy trends.
HR561 Compensation & Benefits
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Nedik
This course introduces students to the planning, administration, and design of compensation programs, including legal compliance fundamentals. The course also provides a comprehensive overview of the design and administration of private-sector benefit programs.
HR562 Recruitment and Retention
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Wheaton
This course introduces students to the recruitment and selection process. Beginning with work force and job analysis, students will learn how to develop a total selection process. Students will develop selection criteria and participate in the selection process for a model organization.
MG532 Managerial Risk Analysis and Decision Making
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Appunn
Managers need to understand how they personally value risk in order to recognize the potential impact their behavior may have on organizations and stakeholders. They need to be able to foster sound processes in group environments. The course will include approaches to optimize decision-making and risk analysis to solve problems in different operating environments. This is a qualitative course covering a framework for making decisions, as well as understanding how these decisions can be used to manage risk. Contemporary techniques such as TRIZ, KT, McMaster, and others are explored. Prerequisite: graduate-level status, or approval. permission of the instructor.
Criminology Courses
CR610 Critical Issues in Criminology
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Dyer
This course examines the current critical issues in criminology and the methods to analyze those issues in relation to the various theories that exist in the field of criminology. By their nature, the critical issues will change from time to time, depending upon the public sentiment, scientific discoveries, and technological advances. The criminological theories will be consistent with those examined in Criminological Theory. Prerequisite: CR500.
CR650 Organizational Policy & Change
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Dyer
This course focuses on the process of organizational planned change Students will learn about how planned change is proposed and implemented through policy development and/or change in criminal justice agencies. They will also learn that implementation of change involves acceptance by employees, clients and the agency as a whole. They will then assess evaluative research on the effects and longevity of change.
Cybersecurity Courses
CS550 Technology Management and Integration
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Appunn
This course is designed to provide a graduate-level introduction of corporate information systems, including investigations in the role of technology for communications, decision making, management, and planning. Students will demonstrate competency in utilizing information technologies on the managerial level and adapt technology to business scenarios and leadership decisions.
CY645 Cybersecurity Operations
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Marcello
Addresses the delivery of ongoing protection of the organization by deploying appropriate planning, processes, and tactics. Operations integrates controls relating to events, provisioning, maintaining, changes, and updates to systems from internal and external sources. It includes the systems and processes needed to monitor, inform, respond to outages, and restore operations. Content incudes related incident response, crisis management, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
Education Courses
ED530 Special Education Law
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Morin
Participants will gain an understanding of federal and Maine special education law. This course is designed and intended for teachers and special education administrators, principals, assistant superintendents and superintendents. The course includes review of current cases and trends in special education law with an opportunity for case analysis.
ED698 Capstone in Education
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Rybakova
This capstone course is designed to give students opportunities to take on the role of researcher by reflecting and applying theory to practice, a process known as action research. According to Sapp, action research is a practical experience in systematic problem solving designed to result in positive change? (1994). This type of research method requires the student to identify and document the existence of a problem in his/her own setting. Based on a scholarly review of current literature, the student must then propose and implement a plan to solve or improve the problem. This results in the researcher developing a system to evaluate the effectiveness of his/her solution. All core classes must be completed, and this must be one of the last three courses. Prerequisite: Earned grade of “C” or higher in ED550 or taken with permission of the School Chair.
ED544 Secondhand Trauma Strategies for Educators
Format: Online, Asynchronous
Instructor: Brewer
This course will examine childhood trauma, its causes, symptoms and the strategies that can be applied to support children and educators. Course topics will include identifying the effects of second-hand trauma on educators; strategies that can assist in responding and managing second-hand trauma, skills to employ in coping with its short/ long term effects. School leaders will find this course helpful in initiating training in the areas of educator self -care and wellness.