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Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2020-2021 
    
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Course Descriptions

 

Honors (HNRS)
  

  • HNRS 2100 Honors Historical Analysis and Perspectives

    3 OR 4 semester hours

    An exploration of both the unfamiliar past and the processes by which the world of the present was created, taught in smaller, seminar-style course sections.
  

  • HNRS 2110 Republic to Prince

    3 OR 4 semester hours

    A study of history and the construction of civilizations from the ancient to early modern periods.
  

  • HNRS 2120 Age of Leviathan

    3 OR 4 semester hours

    A historical presentation of the major concepts, ideologies, and movements that have dominated the path to contemporary globalization.
  

  • HNRS 2200 Honors Nature of Science, Technology, and Mathematics

    3 OR 4 semester hours

    An exploration of the methods of inquiry used in science, engineering, and/or mathematics, taught in smaller, seminar-style course sections.
  

  • HNRS 2210 On Motion and Mechanics

    3 OR 4 semester hours

    An experiential course employing scientific, mathematical, and engineering methods to study the world around us and solve technical problems.
  

  • HNRS 2220 On the Nature of Things

    3 OR 4 semester hours

    An examination of the history, philosophy, and nature of scientific discovery, theory, and practice.
  

  • HNRS 2300 Honors Literary Analysis

    3 OR 4 semester hours

    An exploration of the study of multiple literary forms such as poetry, plays, fiction, literary non-fiction, and films, introducing students to the formal and technical features of literary texts as well as their connections to historical, social, philosophical, theological, and scientific issues, taught in smaller, seminar-style course sections.
  

  • HNRS 2998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • HNRS 2999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • HNRS 3000 Honors Colloquium: Post-Baccalaureate Success

    1 semester hours

    An orientation to the opportunities that await students beyond LMU (including national and international scholarship, service, and career opportunities) and preparation for pursuing them effectively.
  

  • HNRS 3100 Honors Ethics and Justice

    3 OR 4 semester hours

    An investigation of major philosophical, theological, and spiritual traditions of ethics and their application to concrete contexts of practice and choice, taught in smaller, seminar-style course sections.
  

  • HNRS 3110 Beyond Good and Evil

    3 OR 4 semester hours

    An exploration of moral problems through the study of ethics, considering select issues in social justice, science and technology, business and society, medicine and bioethics, or media and responsibility.
  

  • HNRS 3998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • HNRS 3999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • HNRS 4000 Honors Colloquium: Portfolio

    0 semester hours

    Completion of a portfolio demonstrating satisfactory fulfillment of the requirements for University Honors, including the submission of the final Honors undergraduate thesis or capstone project and documented attempt at disseminating this work at the Undergraduate Research Symposium or an external disciplinary conference.

    Credit/No Credit grading.
  

  • HNRS 4100 Honors Thesis

    3 TO 4 semester hours

    The preparation, research, and publication of the Honors Thesis. Required of any Honors student not pursuing a thesis/capstone/senior project in their major.
  

  • HNRS 4998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • HNRS 4999 Independent Studies

    0 TO 4 semester hours


Healthcare Systems Engineering (HSEG)
  

  • HSEG 505 Systems Engineering for Healthcare

    3 semester hours

    Fundamentals of modern Systems Engineering focused on Healthcare applications. Focus on project success, broad integrative adoptable and flexible thinking. Initiation of a SE activity: capture of goals, regulations, and constrains; stakeholders; and team development. Fundamentals of systems architecting. Feasibility studies and trade studies, capture of interfaces and top level requirements; requirement development, baseline management, interface and configuration control, verification/validation. Risk management. Life cycle activities. Class project.

    Enrollment limited to Healthcare Systems Engineering students.
  

  • HSEG 515 Healthcare Delivery Systems

    3 semester hours

    Mandatory entry-level course for 4+1 students and other students transitioning from non-healthcare fields. History, cultural tradition, and operations of U.S. private, non-profit, hybrid, and government healthcare delivery systems, including discussion of the multifaceted U.S. trauma care system and the U.S. system for mass casualty events. Case study discussions emphasizing the quality and ethical issues challenging the U.S. healthcare system today and its comparative performance amongst the industrialized world. Additional important themes of medical professionalism, and the profession’s social contract with society as central to the culture of healthcare professionals and administrators functioning within systems of care. Costs and payment systems. Successes and challenges in modern healthcare. Introduction to: electronic records and their portability; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; technology (e.g., surgical robots) and integrated systems. Review of quality, safety, and regulatory systems. Non-U.S. healthcare delivery systems. Medical and healthcare jargon. Provider’s burnout.
  

  • HSEG 535 Lean Healthcare

    3 semester hours

    The U.S. healthcare system; unsustainable increase in costs and the average quality of care compared to that of other industrialized nations. Lean effectiveness in increasing the efficiency of manufacturing processes. Differences between health care and simple manufacturing-like operations bridging the gap between traditional lean practices as applied to manufacturing versus the needs of healthcare enterprises. Review of basic lean concepts, with examples of how they can be applied to health care processes. Issues that complicate the application of Lean to complex, high variability processes (such as many healthcare processes) including handling variation, people and corporate culture issues, and the modifications required to make lean tools effective. Implementation and sustainment issues. The class will mix traditional lecture-based instruction with a variety of active learning exercises, including a day-long clinic simulation exercise. Online course delivered by WebEx (3 hours per week plus homework). This course may be offered in class or online.
  

  • HSEG 545 Healthcare Seminar

    3 semester hours

    Twelve to fourteen invited prominent experts present guest lectures with significant systems engineering component. Student project on a selected topic of systems engineering.
  

  • HSEG 598 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • HSEG 599 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • HSEG 625 Patient Safety and Quality Systems

    3 semester hours

    Patient safety as critical component of healthcare quality. Death and injury due to errors in healthcare. Reasons for errors. Error reporting systems and legal considerations. Leadership and knowledge for patient safety. Performance standards and expectations. Creating safety systems. Key design concepts. Medication safety. Safety activities. Systems thinking in patient systems. This course is available only to Healthcare Systems Engineering students.
  

  • HSEG 635 Advanced Lean Management of Healthcare

    3 semester hours

    Review of Lean basics: Principles: Value, Waste; Selected JIT/TPS tools; NUMMI Labor-Management Relations Case Study. Lean Project Management (LPDF Method) and Lean Office. Leaning Emergency Departments, Clinical Laboratories, Radiology Laboratories, Clinics, Operating Rooms, in-patient Hospitals, and Supply Chain. Selected Lean Enablers for Healthcare. Project and exam. This course is available only to the students of Lean Healthcare Certificate and Healthcare Systems Engineering MS Program.

    Prerequisite: HSEG 535 .
  

  • HSEG 655 Medical Devices and Integrated Systems

    3 semester hours

    The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) Triple Aim calls for the best care for the whole population at the lowest cost. The challenge is to bring classic health services research and population health research together in a meaningful way. The Affordable Care Act and the creation of Accountable Care Organizations have shifted reimbursement from a fee-based to a value-based model. The incentives are changing from the treatment of the sick to the promotion of health and management of chronic conditions. Big data analytics and the emergence of the data science profession are allowing purchasers and providers of care to examine large data sets to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, market trends, customer preferences and other useful business information. The course explores the opportunities for healthcare analytics and clinical treatment developments. The course will cover the research lifecycle from formulation of clinical questions, to big data access and extraction, statistical analysis, evidence formulation, and clinical implementation methods. Statistical topics will include: Hadoop clustering, structured vs. unstructured data, data quality and consistency, extrapolation, scaling, dimensionality, supervised and unsupervised learning, decision trees, handling uncertainty, Bayesian methods, Hidden Markov models, model selection, validation, data visualization, and support vector machines. The role of Healthcare Systems Engineers and data scientists in such projects will be explored. This course is taught online.
  

  • HSEG 665 Population Health and Big Data Analytics

    3 semester hours

    Electronic access to huge databases of patients provides new extraordinary potential for improving clinical diagnosis and treatments, including genomics, studies of genetic, lifestyle, environmental, clinical and other factors. The course explores the opportunities for healthcare analytics and clinical treatment developments. The course will cover the research lifecycle from formulation of clinical questions, to big data access and extraction, extraction, statistical analysis, evidence formulation, and clinical implementation methods. Statistical topics will include clustering, extrapolation, scaling, dimensionality, supervised and unsupervised learning, decision trees, handling uncertainty, Bayesian methods, Hidden Markov models, model selection, validation, data visualization, support vector machines, and so forth. The role of Healthcare Systems Engineers in such projects will be explored. Population medicine. Project.

    Undergraduate-level Statistics is recommended.

    Online course delivered by WebEx (3 hours per week). This course is available only to Healthcare Systems Engineering students.
  

  • HSEG 675 Healthcare Enterprise Informatics and Electronic Health Records

    3 semester hours

    Long term needs and connections: Vision for Value Driven Healthcare and Learning Healthcare System; mapping innovation opportunities, information to knowledge value chain. Understanding Knowledge Capital for Learning Health System: People, Process, Technology, and Relationships. Design Thinking: Understanding systems design framework of balancing desirability, feasibility, and viability; understanding how this can lead to improving the patient and clinician experience and enhance underlying value. Enterprise informatics architecture–People, Processes, Technolog–to support stakeholders: Case study of systems approach of DoD Health IT architecture; Mapping patient experience and information to value chain; provider workflow across patient experience; where standards fit in context of architectural components. This example shows architecture for high availability, highly transactional, multiple geographically dispersed simultaneous users. Enterprise informatics relationships: Understanding ecosystem relationships as they overlay on the architecture (professional societies, government agencies). We will also discuss tension between desire for increased granularity by researchers, regulatory bodies, actuaries and the increased work to enter this discrete data into the EMR. Framing ethical issues especially as they relate to the governance of health IT. Enterprise informatics architecture and analytics: clinician computer aided diagnostics (CADs); payer, policy and other stakeholder needs for computer aided diagnostics. Potential for accelerated pace of quality improvement. Enterprise informatics challenges (particularly the present EMR system): Challenges along the whole information to value chain (usability, productivity, computer aided diagnostics, changing the nature of the patient clinician interaction, ease of documenting what increases content but decreases density of the most critical information)–the Health IT tail wagging the dog. Data integrity, Interoperability with multiple legacy and new systems. Opportunities for Innovation and Applying Design Thinking: New models of health and fitness; human factors engineering; ubiquitous connectivity of mobile devices. Laptop computer or equivalent required. This course is available only to Healthcare Systems Engineering students.
  

  • HSEG 695 Preparation for Capstone Project

    0 semester hours

    This course is typically taken prior to the HSEG 696 , the Integrative Project/Thesis. The student develops a project plan, gains advisor approval, and presents the plan to a panel.
  

  • HSEG 696 Project in Healthcare

    3 semester hours

    Capstone course in which each student working individually demonstrates the mastery of the systems engineering process applied to a healthcare problem of interest. Selected projects are available from healthcare institutions in Southern California. Industry sponsored projects must complete a legal form to be obtained from the Advisor. This course should be taken in the last semester of the study program. The project must be carried out by the student in the semester of the registration. This course is available only to Healthcare Systems Engineering students, and the students of the Certificate in Lean Healthcare.
  

  • HSEG 698 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • HSEG 699 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours


CBA Internships (ICBA)
  

  • ICBA 2100 CBA Internships

    0 TO 1 semester hours

    Students in this course will complete an internship while reflecting on how it relates to their College of Business Administration coursework, professional skills, and career goals. This is a virtual course that includes assignments designed to expand your professional network, while developing strategies for the full-time job search. Students considering this course are strongly encouraged to work with Career and Professional Development (CPD) in the term preceding their internship. To successfully identify and apply to opportunities, please schedule an appointment with a career coach via Handshake, or stop by CPD to meet with a Peer Advisor.

    Credit/No Credit grading.

CFA Internships (ICFA)
  

  • ICFA 2100 CFA Internships

    0 TO 1 semester hours

    Students in this course will complete an internship while reflecting on how it relates to their College of Communication and Fine Arts coursework, professional skills, and career goals. This is a virtual course that includes assignments designed to expand your professional network, while developing strategies for the full-time job search. Students considering this course are strongly encouraged to work with Career and Professional Development (CPD) in the term preceding their internship. To successfully identify and apply to opportunities, please schedule an appointment with a career coach via Handshake, or stop by CPD to meet with a Peer Advisor.

    Credit/No Credit grading.

BCLA Internships (ICLA)
  

  • ICLA 2100 BCLA Internships in Liberal Arts Professions

    0 TO 1 semester hours

    Students in this course will complete an internship while reflecting on how it relates to their Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts coursework, professional skills, and career goals. This is a virtual course that includes assignments designed to expand your professional network, while developing strategies for the full-time job search. Students considering this course are strongly encouraged to work with Career and Professional Development (CPD) in the term preceding their internship. To successfully identify and apply to opportunities, please schedule an appointment with a career coach via Handshake, or stop by CPD to meet with a Peer Advisor.

    Credit/No Credit grading.

FRSCSE Internships (ICSE)
  

  • ICSE 2100 FRSCSE Internships

    0 TO 1 semester hours

    Students in this course will complete an internship while reflecting on how it relates to their Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering coursework, professional skills, and career goals. This is a virtual course that includes assignments designed to expand your professional network, while developing strategies for the full-time job search. Students considering this course are strongly encouraged to work with Career and Professional Development (CPD) in the term preceding their internship. To successfully identify and apply to opportunities, please schedule an appointment with a career coach via Handshake, or stop by CPD to meet with a Peer Advisor.

    Credit/No Credit grading.

Interdisciplinary Applied Programs (IDAP)
  

  • IDAP 198 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • IDAP 199 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • IDAP 298 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • IDAP 299 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • IDAP 300 Principles of Public Relations

    3 semester hours

    An introductory course that overviews strategies, concepts, theories, practices, and history of public relations.

    CMPR Minors only.
  

  • IDAP 301 Advanced Media Production

    3 semester hours

  

  • IDAP 310 Writing for Public Relations

    3 semester hours

    This course provides an overview of how effective public relations writing can help organizations to communicate, influence opinion and create change. The course will emphasize the importance of understanding an organization, its goals and objectives, target audience and culture to strategically and effectively communicate through writing.

    Prerequisite: Grade of B (3.0) or higher in IDAP 300 .

    CMPR Minors only.
  

  • IDAP 325 Public Relations Practicum: PRSSA

    1 semester hours

    This course is designed to inform students about the dynamics and purposes of the public relations industry. The course aims to lay foundations for work in the field of public relations and to build a bridge to career success. Participants will have opportunities for mentorship from peers and PR professionals while they develop speaking, writing, interpersonal, and leadership skills. The coursework prepares students for potential entrance in the Public Relations minor located in the Communication Studies Department (CMST) as well as other PR-related courses offered in Interdisciplinary Applied Programs (IDAP). Concurrent membership in LMU’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) is encouraged.
  

  • IDAP 340 Video Production for Public Relations

    3 semester hours

    An introductory course that overviews the conceptual and technical skills of video production within a public relations context. Emphasis is placed on the planning, scripting, and production processes.
  

  • IDAP 370 Public Relations Strategies

    3 semester hours

    This course explores the conceptual and strategic foundations of public relations and marketing. The course examines how to effectively communicate with consumers, create preference for products, and change consumer behavior.

    Prerequisite: Grade of B (3.0) or higher in IDAP 300  and IDAP 310 .

    CMPR Minors only.
  

  • IDAP 380 Public Relations Internship

    1 to 3 semester hours

    This course is for students who have secured a public relations internship with a public relations company or work in a public relations capacity in a company.

    Prerequisite: Grade of B (3.0) or higher in IDAP 300  and IDAP 310 .

    CMPR Minors only.
  

  • IDAP 398 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • IDAP 399 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • IDAP 400 Introduction to Social Media

    3 semester hours

    This course explores the origins of social media and how it shapes our interactions with brands, people, and governments. Students will create and maintain a student blog (“The Social Lion”), which showcases their personal analysis and observations on specific media topics occurring in real-time. Students will also create a social media campaign.
  

  • IDAP 401 Seminar in Media Projects

    3 semester hours

  

  • IDAP 420 Events Management

    3 semester hours

    This course is designed to provide students with the organizational and leadership skills needed to plan and execute a special event. Through lecture, discussion, group projects, individual assignments, guest speakers, and a final event produced by the class, students will gain experience in managing events from concept to completion.
  

  • IDAP 498 Special Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours

  

  • IDAP 499 Independent Studies

    1 TO 3 semester hours


SFTV Internships (IFTV)
  

  • IFTV 2100 SFTV Internships

    0 TO 1 semester hours

    Students in this course will complete an internship while reflecting on how it relates to their School of Film and Television coursework, professional skills, and career goals. This is a virtual course that includes assignments designed to expand your professional network, while developing strategies for the full-time job search. Students considering this course are strongly encouraged to work with Career and Professional Development (CPD) in the term preceding their internship. To successfully identify and apply to opportunities, please schedule an appointment with a career coach via Handshake, or stop by CPD to meet with a Peer Advisor.

    Credit/No Credit grading.

International Business Studies (INBA)
  

  • INBA 2880 Exploring Asian Culture

    4 semester hours

    Asia has become one of the most important political, economic, and cultural centers of the world. In particular, East Asian nations like China, South Korea, and Japan provide the world with valuable goods and services and have collectively become powerful enough to be major players in the global economy. These countries are among the most dynamic economic engines in the world. As such, it is critical for students to learn the historical, socio-political, and economic backgrounds of East Asia in order to understand how business works in this region. This course will provide students with an overview of the recent socio-political and economic developments of East Asia and an opportunity to gain first-hand cultural experiences from the two-week field trip to East Asia.
  

  • INBA 2898 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • INBA 3851 Building Global Career Competence

    4 semester hours

    This course combines experiential learning during study abroad with conceptual learning assignments to build critical global career competencies. The course involves relevant and challenging international consulting work experience, exposure to the working and cultural environments of an international setting, building skills for international adjustment and successful management of international assignments, networking and building potentially valuable international professional, and developing insights for future career planning within a global context.

    Prerequisite: BCOR 3610 .
  

  • INBA 4830 International Management

    4 semester hours

    Different economic, political, and socio-cultural environments around the world challenge managers with opportunities and risks. The goal of this course is to help students identify and evaluate the opportunities and challenges facing managers operating in international business contexts and come up with solutions to the identified problems Specifically, the course will familiarize students with the major concepts and paradigms in international management, enhance an awareness of the impact of internationalization on firms, develop the ability to analyze MNC’s strategies and behaviors, and suggest solutions to the problems identified in managing organizations and people across borders.

    (See MGMT 4630 .)

    Prerequisites: BCOR 3610  and BCOR 3860 .
  

  • INBA 4840 International Entrepreneurship

    4 semester hours

    This course focuses on developing knowledge and skills in three key components of international entrepreneurship: initiating entrepreneurial ventures, managing international business transactions, and dealing with multicultural business environments. The course includes a feasibility study of an international small business venture start up, case study, and experiential learning.

    (See ENTR 4340 .)

    Prerequisite: BCOR 3860 .
  

  • INBA 4855 Cross-Cultural Leadership

    4 semester hours

    This academically-rich, experiential, and collaborative course examines what constitutes effective leadership across cultures that comprise our global marketplace as well as our culturally-complex cities, communities, nations, and regions (including the Los Angeles/Southern California business environment). Students will learn and analyze how national/social cultural context affects leadership style, communications, conflict negotiation, and ethical decision making; examine the need for and value of cross-cultural competence for leaders and organizations; apply theories, models, and personal experiences to real-world leadership scenarios; and develop as cross-cultural leaders.

    (See MGMT 4640 .)

    Junior or senior standing required.
  

  • INBA 4872 Managing a Global Workforce

    4 semester hours

    This course helps students recognize important human resource management (IHRM) issues underlying current international and global business conditions, as well as understand key IHRM challenges and practices (e.g., cross-cultural management, managing international assignments, global talent management) relevant to effective strategic management and business development in important countries and regions of the global economy. In addition, personal competencies and international issues are examined that are relevant to students’ own future careers within the global workforce.

    Prerequisites: BCOR 3610  and BCOR 3860 .
  

  • INBA 4876 Marketing Strategy in the Global Environment

    4 semester hours

    This course provides a comprehensive framework for the development of competitive marketing strategies that achieve organizational objectives and build competitive advantage. It teaches students the fundamentals of strategic analysis and strategy development within the context of the global business environment. The course emphasizes the major analytical, ethical, and strategic frameworks of marketing, as specifically implemented within the complex contemporary conditions of global business relationships and activities. The course incorporates experiential learning, case studies, and a simulation project.

    (See MRKT 4576 .)

    Prerequisite: BCOR 3510 .
  

  • INBA 4880 International Finance

    4 semester hours

    This course introduces students to international business finance and the workings of international financial markets. The principal objective of the course is for students to develop an understanding of the basic tools of financial decision making in an international environment. Key topics of study include exchange rate determination, relationships between inflation, interest rates, and exchange rates, risk management, multinational capital budgeting, and international portfolio theory.

    (See FNCE 4480 .)

    Prerequisites: BCOR 3410  and BCOR 3860 .
  

  • INBA 4895 Global Sustainability: Challenges and Prospects in East Asia

    4 semester hours

    This course explores cross-disciplinary theory and practice of sustainability within a global context, and with an emphasis on East Asia. This course includes a two-week tour abroad to enrich student learning through direct international experience.

    (See MGMT 4695 .)

    Open to all majors of junior or senior standing.

    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • INBA 4898 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • INBA 4899 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

    Requires approval of the Associate Dean.

Irish Studies (IRST)
  

  • IRST 1998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • IRST 1999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • IRST 2998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • IRST 2999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • IRST 3300 Modern Irish Literature

    4 semester hours

    A study of Irish literature from 1900 to World War II.
  

  • IRST 3302 (Un)/Civil (W)rites: Contemporary African American, Northern Irish, and Native American Literature

    4 semester hours

    A comparative study of three different bodies of literature produced in response to the Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath.
  

  • IRST 3303 Contemporary Irish Literature

    4 semester hours

    A study of Irish literature from the end of World War II to the present.
  

  • IRST 3304 The Irish Renaissance

    4 semester hours

    A study of the period from the 1890s through the 1920s in Ireland focusing on the effort of Irish writers and others to preserve the rich legacy of Irish culture and carry it forward into the modern age.
  

  • IRST 3305 Irish Short Story

    4 semester hours

    In this course we will examine the rich and varied achievements in the genre of the short story by a wide range of modern and contemporary Irish writers.
  

  • IRST 3309 Ireland in Fiction and Film

    4 semester hours

    An examination of the diverse images of Ireland offered by various writers and directors.

    Usually taught in Dublin, Ireland.
  

  • IRST 3310 Modern Ireland

    4 semester hours

    (See HIST 4255 .)
  

  • IRST 3312 Modern Britain and the British Empire

    4 semester hours

    (See HIST 4250 .)
  

  • IRST 3330 Irish Drama

    4 semester hours

    A study of Irish drama from Yeats to Beckett and beyond.

    Usually taught in Dublin, Ireland.
  

  • IRST 3350 World Dance: Ireland

    2 semester hours

    (See DANC 397 .)
  

  • IRST 3998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • IRST 3999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • IRST 4435 Irish Cinema

    3 semester hours

    (See FTVS 4420 .)
  

  • IRST 4448 Irish Women Writers

    4 semester hours

    (See ENGL 5548 .)
  

  • IRST 4449 The Dark Stuff: Horror in Irish Literature

    4 semester hours

    (See ENGL 5549 .)
  

  • IRST 4998 Special Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours

  

  • IRST 4999 Independent Studies

    1 TO 4 semester hours


Information Systems and Business Analytics (ISBA)
  

  • ISBA 3710 Database Management Systems

    4 semester hours

    This course is intended for the student who wishes to become more proficient at developing and managing database applications. It is designed to provide an introduction to the conceptual foundations underlying database management systems, with an emphasis on its applications in business and organizations. The course begins with an introduction to the fundamental principles of database design - from data modeling to the actual implementation of a business application. This part of the course will employ lectures describing database theory, as well as hands-on tutorials demonstrating database concepts using a DBMS package. Particular emphasis will be placed on the careful planning and analysis of business needs, which will lead to the appropriate development of an Entity-Relationship Model. Using these principles, each student will design and implement a database application using a DBMS product. The second part of the course will further investigate the principles of relational model, which is the basis for the most popular DBMS products on the marketplace today (i.e., Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL). Topics to be studied include relational algebra, Structured Query Language (SQL), and maintaining data integrity in a relational design. In addition, important managerial concerns will be covered including database administration and the management of multi-user databases.

    Prerequisite: ACCT 3140  or BCOR 2710  with a grade of C- (1.7) or higher.
  

  • ISBA 3720 Systems Analysis and Design

    4 semester hours

    This course introduces established and evolving methodologies for the analysis, design, and development of a business information system. Concepts taught include systems modeling of business processes, requirement analysis, logical and conceptual design, prototype development, testing, and implementation strategies. Upon completion, students should be able to analyze a business problem and design an appropriate solution using a combination of tools and techniques.

    Prerequisite: BCOR 2710  with a grade of C (2.0) or higher, or consent of instructor and approval of Associate Dean.
  

  • ISBA 3730 Programming for Business Applications

    4 semester hours

    This course is an introduction to programming with an emphasis on its business application capability. Students will learn the basic techniques of programming from concepts to code, including problem analysis, program design, documentation, testing and debugging. The objectives of this course are: making students comfortable with fundamental programing terminology and concepts, including data type, input/output, control statements methods, arrays, strings, and files, along with web, data, and analytics applications; giving students hands-on practical experience with defining and solving problems; and illustrating to students how their programming skills can be translated into working business applications.

    Prerequisite: BCOR 2710  with a grade of C (2.0) or higher.
  

  • ISBA 3797 Internship

    1 semester hours

  

  • ISBA 4715 Developing Business Applications Using SQL

    4 semester hours

    Students looking to work with data must know how to extract data from databases using SQL (Structures Query Language). Students will gain hand-on SQL experience to create databases, construct complex relational queries, develop database programs (views, transactions, triggers, functions, and stored procedures), and write Python code to issue SQL queries for analytics and application development purposes. The SQL syntax covered is supported by many popular databases, such as Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. The course will cover SQL usage for common roles such as a software developer, data scientist, and a business analytics manager.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 3140  or BCOR 2710 ; and AIMS 3710  or ISBA 3710 , all with a grade of C- (1.7) or higher.
  

  • ISBA 4740 Financial Modeling and Analytics

    4 semester hours

    This course develops spreadsheet modeling skills and quantitative analysis tools including VBA and Python to support financial decision-making. Hands-on experience in the development of spreadsheet forecasting, simulation, and optimization models for applications in valuation, cash budgeting, and financial planning and portfolio management will be provided as well as techniques for collecting, processing, visualizing, and exploring semi-structured financial data for analysis.

    Prerequisites: BCOR 3750 , and BCOR 3410  or FNCE 3400 , all with a grade of C (2.0) or higher.
  

  • ISBA 4750 Business Web and App Development

    4 semester hours

    This course will focus on the development of front-end web applications for business at enterprise level and creation of CRUD business mobile app by using low-code platforms that are built for speed, collaboration, and control. The purpose of this course is twofold: 1) provide a valuable opportunity for students to create professional grade web applications and publishable mobile app towards building up their technical portfolio, 2) provide a solid foundation for students to meet the real-world challenges in user interface design for technical applications.

    Prerequisite: AIMS 3710  or ISBA 3710  with a grade of C (2.0) or higher.
  

  • ISBA 4755 Introduction to Big Data

    4 semester hours

    Ability to process and draw valuable business insights from big data has become central to competitiveness and survival for many industries. However, older and current technologies are not effective in handling big data, and the challenges have pushed the industry to invent fundamentally new ways of capturing, storing, retrieving, processing, and analyzing data. This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of big data, their sources, and how analytics on big data are designed and implemented. With that foundation, this course will expose students to big data and related new generation platforms and technologies. Students will gain insights into the challenges and techniques of analyzing unstructured data that are generated through various social media and other interactive platforms. Students will also learn the fundamentals of non-relational NoSQL databases, distributed file system, and massively parallel processing used extensively in big data processing. The course will also students to acquire introductory-level proficiencies in hands-on skills involving some big data platforms and tools such as Hadoop, Spark, HBase, etc., or other similar platforms. After completing this course, students will be able to analyze the big data needs and challenges of an organization and recommend choice of tools, technologies, architecture, and implementation strategies needed to capture, process, and turn “Big Data” into actionable business insight.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 3140  or BCOR 2710 ; and AIMS 3730  or CMSI 185  or ISBA 3730 , all with a grade of C (2.0) or higher; or consent of instructor and approval of Associate Dean.
  

  • ISBA 4790 Machine Learning

    4 semester hours

    Machine Learning (ML) techniques, tools, and algorithms are extensively used in providing “predictive analytics” insight to businesses. In this course, students will acquire skills to build predictive models from a given dataset to answer certain predictive business questions and learn how to deploy such models in an IT environment. During this course, students will dive deep into the inner workings of a number of supervised and unsupervised ML algorithms, learn their computer implementations in platforms such as Python, R, or other similar technologies. Students will gain knowledge of the comparative strengths and weaknesses, and understand how to choose specific algorithms to solve different types of predictive problems. They will also learn topics such as feature engineering, dimensionality reduction, model performance evaluation, performance boosting and tuning.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 3140  or BCOR 2710 ; AIMS 3730  or CMSI 185  or ISBA 3730 ; BCOR 3750 , all with a grade of C (2.0) or higher; or consent of instructor and approval of Associate Dean.
  

  • ISBA 4796 Capstone Proposal Development

    1 semester hours

    Prerequisite: BCOR 2710  with a grade of C (2.0) or higher.
  

  • ISBA 4797 Capstone Project

    4 semester hours

    This course presents a student with a challenge and an opportunity to build a portfolio-worthy project to solve a real business problem by integrating business and technical knowledge and skills. For employers, it represents a clear snapshot of a student’s understanding of the subject matter and their ability to identify a meaningful project and exercise initiative. It also presents students with first-hand experience to develop project management, teamwork, and communication skills critical for an IT career. A project proposal and instructor consent are required.

    Prerequisites: AIMS 3710  or ISBA 3710 ; AIMS 3730  or CMSI 185  or ISBA 3730 ; BCOR 3750 , all with a grade of C (2.0) or higher.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Oral Skills, Writing.
 

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