Program Courses*

EDH 590-599 Current Issues Electives
These courses will be taught on campus (residencies) as well as online. All courses focus on the current issues within the community college. Possible subject areas may include:

EDH600 The American Community College (2 credits)
Explores the founding of the American community college and the transformations the community college has experienced throughout the 20th century. Emphasis is on the mission of the community college and how social, economic, and political forces have influenced the mission and the curriculum of the community college particularly in terms of access, opportunity, and educational democracy.

EDH620 The Community College Student (2 credits)
Examines the nature and characteristics of community college students. Explores theories of student and adult development and their application to the community college context. Includes issues of democracy and multiculturalism.

EDH650 Community Relations for the Community College (2 credits)
Examines the development and maintenance of appropriate external community relationships. Includes communication with external publics, public relations methods, and the community college as community citizen.

IS600 Administrative Technology Planning (2 credits)
Examines the technology used by community college academic and administrative managers, and the impact of technology on decision making.

MGT500 Foundations of Management Theory and Practice (4 credits)
This course provides an overview of the history, functions, leading theorists and the language of management. Particular emphasis will be given to the unique nature of managing community college staff and faculty. While many of the basic assumptions of management theory hold up in the higher education sector, the unique nature of colleges requires adapting business management theory and practice to the higher education environment.

MGT621 Financial Systems (4 credits)
Introduces generally accepted accounting principles and concepts, together with the preparation and analysis of financial statements.

MGT626 Strategic Marketing for Community Colleges (2 credits)
Introduction to the key concepts, tools, and applications of modern marketing analysis for community colleges.

MGT627 Strategic Planning in the Community College (2 credits)
Examines strategic planning concepts and practices in the community college. Students are exposed to and practice using tools used in strategic planning throughout management procedures, problem-solving techniques, and process evaluations. Includes the theories of planning, organizational and behavioral principles of the planning process, analytical and forecasting methods, and strategy implementation.

MGT631 Statistical Decision Analysis (2 credits)
Statistical Decision Analysis focuses on how to conceptualize, organize, calculate, interpret, and present numerical observations for decision making.

MGT632 Individual and Group Behavior in the Organization (2 credits)
Uses cases and student experiential knowledge drawn from the workplace to explore how theories of behavior apply to individuals and groups within organizations.

MGT636 Community College Finance (2 credits)
Introduces the federal, state, and local funding systems within which community colleges function. Also covers corporate and private funding. An overview of national as well as state structures will be presented.

MGT637 Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining in Community Colleges
(2 credits)
This course covers contemporary labor-management relations in the public sector, with emphasis on the community college. Includes the history of collective bargaining, federal and state laws affecting collective bargaining, and the National Labor Relations Board’s functions, and techniques in negotiation, arbitration, and mediation.

MGT646 Legal Issues in Community College Management (2 credits)
Examines the legal foundations of management practices at community colleges, such as employment laws, ADA, and laws that protect and limit faculty, student and staff rights.

MGT647 Managerial Accounting in Higher Education (2 credits)
This course focuses on the use of managerial accounting information in tactical and strategic decision making in a community college organizational environment. While some time will be invested in process study, an emphasis is placed on the meaning and application of management accounting information. Initially a transition from financial to managerial accounting will establish the context for a course premise that management accounting is a supporting system/tool for organizational mission achievement and assessment. Linkages between organizational culture and managerial accounting system design are studied.

MGT665 Human Resources Management (2 credits)
Analyzes the relationship between corporate strategy and human resource planning within organizations.

MGT666 Ethical Issues for Community Colleges (2 credits)
Investigates the ethical context in which American community college leaders function. The course focuses on the ethical principles that guide ethical decisions in Western culture and the use of those principles in decision making for community college professionals. Students will develop their own ethical framework as a community college professional.

MGT676 Globalization and the Community College (2 credits)
Examines the impact of globalization on the notion of community within community collegepractice.

MGT686 Leadership in the Community College (2 credits)
Explores the phenomenon of leadership from both cognitive and experiential dimensions using illustrations of community college leadership.

MGT690 Capstone (2 credits)
Integrates theory, research, and practice in the field of management.

RSH610 Practitioner Research (4 credits)
This course is designed to help students develop skills in researching and analyzing the current literature in a selected area of study. Emphasis will be placed on identifying, analyzing and evaluating the current theories and practices in the students’ selected area of study. Students will be given sufficient practice in searching for and critically evaluating the academic literature, organizing different pieces of literature, and writing a comprehensive review of literature.

RSH635 Institutional Research (2 Credits)
This course helps students become better consumers of organizational intelligence by exploring the roles of an institutional researcher, sources of institutional research, methods of investigation used in the process of collecting and disseminating institutional research, decisions that can be made based on institutional research, and their own the individual’s role in the institutional research process.

*Courses subject to change.