School of Business

This course demonstrates how accounting information can be used as a decision making tool. It introduces a basic understanding of generally accepted accounting principles with a traditional assumption of the accounting model. Topics include how accounting information is used for analysis and decision-making by comparing ratios, short and long-term debt paying ability, demand analysis and forecasting, capital budgeting and profitability.

Learning Outcomes:

• Classify the tools and techniques used in financial statement analysis.
• Rank the financial position of the firm.
• Defend the development of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for preparation of financial statements.
• Assess the value of the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Retained Earnings Statement, and Statement of Cash-flow.
• Evaluate the various analyses and uses of financial information.
• Compare short-term and long-term debt paying capacity of corporations.
• Compare analytical methods of particular concern to investors.
• Prepare a Statement of Cash Flow, and use related ratios.
• Assess the utilization of financial ratios from the perspective of various types of users.
• Appraise the effects of changing prices on the financial statements.
• Compare the problems encountered in analyzing specialized industries.
• Prepare financial reports for personal, governmental, and non-profit institutions.
• Evaluate using financial statement analysis and interpret the financial health of a firm.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.

This course examines basic static decision models which are used to analyze optimal decision-making processes in economics. Topics included in this course are: basic assumptions and decision analysis; linear programming and duality; risk aversion and risk bearing; Bayesian inference, and Markov Decision problems.

Learning Outcomes:

• Summarize fundamentals of managerial economic theory.
• Solve the problems of supply and demand using qualitative analysis.
• Evaluate demand analysis using quantitative forecasting methods.
• Identify, design and interpret consumer indifference curve applications.
• Create productivity models to evaluate various cost parameters.
• Determine the optimal manner of procuring different types of inputs.
• Describe vertical, horizontal and conglomerate mergers and basis.
• Evaluate monopolistic power and illustrate elastic demand and supply.
• Identify different oligopoly structures for optimal pricing, and profits.
• Distinguish among various strategies for best game theory results.
• Implement pricing strategies for maximum profitability.
• Identify strategies to maximize risk, uncertainty, and diversification.
• Assess governmental actions to alleviate social welfare and dead loss.
• Recommend an all encompassing economic series of optimal strategies.
• Explain predatory pricing, rival costs strategies, and network systems.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course is about moving organizations forward—about planning, diagnosing, implementing, and evaluating organization development interventions. It summarizes the basic processes, approaches, and strategies of organizational development that work in managing organizational change. A close look is taken at managing layoffs, divestitures, closings, and mergers and acquisitions.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe Organizational Behavior and the value of Ethical Conduct.
• Analyze the most effective methods to manage diversity and prevent discrimination in organizations.
• Design the organization by understanding and socializing the organization culture.
• Compare various personalities within the organization to maximize effectiveness.
• Appraise how values and attitudes influence job satisfaction.
• Create a method to understand group social perceptions.
• Compose a schema of the factors that make up the foundation of motivation.
• Recommend strategies that will improve job performance.
• Arrange teams within the organization that reflect the most effective group dynamics.
• Assemble groups that are most effective in decision making.
• Plan how best to resolve conflicts within the organization through negotiation.
• Solve communication issues by developing and utilizing effective guidelines.
• Test best methods to empower group effectiveness in meeting goals.
• Recommend proven strategies to recognize and develop leadership skills.
• Analyze the organization for effectiveness by defining and meeting development goals.
• Plan on how best to manage organizational change and reduce stress.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course covers principles and theories of leadership. Included is an in-depth presentation of the challenges of leadership, a discussion of leadership theories, and analysis of how to apply various leadership theories to challenging real-world situations with an emphasis on corporate ethics. It explains how leaders must transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards. It also discusses the improvement of corporate governance.

Learning Outcomes:

• Investigate the process of organizational management of groups.
• Explain the process of leadership of a group.
• Appraise the traits that are evident in individual leaders.
• Compare leadership skills needed to be a successful leader.
• Assess different styles of leadership, including the effectiveness of each.
• Create an example of situational leadership within a specific group.
• Examine an example of contingency leadership within an organization.
• Assess effective leadership as a result of achieving specific goals.
• Analyze LMX Leadership and identify reasons why it is effective.
• Assemble a list of leader characteristics necessary for transformational leadership.
• Create a plan and example for successful implementation of team leadership.
• Appraise components of psychodynamic leadership and how they are useful in organization.
• Examine some issues women face as leaders, including the issue of the glass ceiling.
• Recommend ways that a leader could use an understanding of the culture to be most effective.
• Analyze the most important reasons that a code of ethics is essential for a leader to be effective.
• Plan methods to integrate leadership while following a consolidated approach.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course studies the role of information technology in operations, decision making, and learning in organizations. The premise being that possessing adequate knowledge of technology is a pre-requisite for a successful manager. The course explores the dynamic links between technology and business strategies. Topics reviewed are technology life cycles, mapping, core competence and competition assessment, as well as internal and external technology transfer.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify managerial challenges in a networked world.
• Describe the strategies that influence IT needs within an organization.
• Discuss the organizational needs that are critical for IT intervention.
• Review the effectiveness of business networks in relation to extending.
• Summarize IT business strategies within new organizational models.
• Identify the essential need for IT support in an organization.
• Summarize approaches to effectively align knowledge growth within an organization.
• Analyze the need for effective information security within an organization.
• Define effective IT controls on the access and use of proprietary knowledge.
• Summarize the leadership skills required to organize and lead the IT function.
• Define effective controls on the access and use of proprietary knowledge.
• Analyze the need for successful system integration within an organization.
• Identify the need for technology investment and how it is useful for managers in a networked organization.
• Summarize the effectiveness of technology used within an organization.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This is a graduate level course introducing theoretical and substantive issues useful in understanding consumer behavior. The course addresses issues from a number of different viewpoints. Priority is placed on the economic, psychological, and socio-cultural factors that affect consumer behavior and the consumer decision making process. Therefore, the focus is on understanding current theoretical and methodological approaches to the various aspects of consumer behavior.

Learning Outcomes:

• Critique the cross-cultural influences on consumer behaviors.
• Describe the changing American society in relation to values.
• Explain the changing demographics that influence society.
• Describe the impact of changing subcultures on American society.
• Evaluate the different influences on consumer behavior.
• Summarize consumer behavior in relation to perception of the product.
• Demonstrate the process of product positioning in relation to consumer behavior.
• Summarize how motivation and personality influence consumer behavior.
• Illustrate influencing attitudes that impact consumer
• Analyze situational influences in relationship to “affluenza”.
• Appraise the decision process in relation to consumer behavior.
• Create a plan and example for successful implementation of a marketing strategy.
• Defend the importance of price to consumer purchases.
• Recommend ways that understanding customer satisfaction can improve business success.
• Analyze the most important reasons that a marketing plan is essential for organizational effectiveness.
• Identify the most significant influences on consumer behavior.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This exam is objective and measures basic competencies required to proceed in the DBA program. The exam is taken following the completion of the first 6 courses for the DBA degree and covers the following areas: organization development, management, ethics, finance and financial statement analysis. A grade of “Satisfactory” is required to proceed in the program. Learners are given three opportunities to pass the exam with a minimum grade of 80%.

This course provides an in-depth look at how organizations manage financial resources through capital generation, asset management, and asset planning. Complex accounting rules used to analyze and create the financial information used to evaluate a firms financial standing will be studied. Topics included in this course are budgetary planning and controls, financial and risk analysis, and managerial decision making. Learners will develop an understanding of the external users of financial information, such as investors, customers, analysts and the financial media.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the nature of Management Control systems.
• Analyze the most effective strategies to manage the organizational environment.
• Design the management control strategies by understanding and socializing the organizational behavior.
• Identify various responsibility centers within the organization to maximize effectiveness and revenue.
• Appraise how profit centers function within the management control environment.
• Describe how transfer pricing works as an extension of management control.
• Review how investment centers serve as an extension of the management control system.
• Discuss why strategic planning is a necessary control function.
• Describe the necessity of a realistic budget as a guideline for production and profit.
• Review the need for analysis of financial data for the most effective decisions.
• Describe how best to use interactive controls to effect performance within the organization.
• Solve compensation issues by developing and utilizing effective guidelines.
• Test variations in control systems to increase organizational effectiveness in meeting goals.
• Recommend proven strategies to effectively provide quality service.
• Review the necessity of control systems for the multinational organization.
• Plan on how best to manage discrete projects until completion.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology

This course delves into statistical and measurement techniques that are used to analyze, interpret, and present data, including, but not limited to, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, probability distributions, sampling, analysis of variance, correlation and linear regression. The emphasis of this course is on selecting the optimal statistical/measurement technique and in interpreting the results.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe types of statistics (descriptive and differential), variables, and levels of measurement.
• Discuss the various numerical measures available to describe data for statistical analysis.
• Analyze the usefulness of describing, displacing and exploring data.
• Identify the appropriate use of probability concepts for data analysis.
• Discuss the applicability of continuous probability distributions.
• Appraise various sampling methods and their practical usefulness.
• Identify and explain the one and two sample tests of hypotheses.
• Construct advanced statistical methods for business.
• Critique how the manager uses statistical methods such as analysis of variance, linear regression, and correlation.
• Discuss multiple regression and correlation analysis and their practical application.
• Apply the appropriate use of statistical methods such as index numbers, time series and forecasting.
• Describe Chi-Square applications and their practical usefulness in business.
• Discuss analysis of ranked data and how it is applied to overall financial review.
• Assess how statistical process control contributes to quality.
• Describe decision theory and contributions to a successful organization.
• Discuss the overall benefit of statistical analysis for the manager.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course examines how ethnographic methods may be used to analyze information-based work practices and to design business/corporate systems to be sensitive to those who use them. Corporate culture is a highly distributed, infrastructural and rapidly changing entity that endows organizational action with its deepest significance. Corporate cultures must be studied by ethnographic methods of “thick description”. Grounded in this way, the course aims to help Learners develop the judgment necessary to design, test, and evaluate effective business systems of the future.

Learning Outcomes:

• Compare Ethnography growth as a research method
• Select best qualitative research method for situation analysis
• Evaluate and prepare ethical matrix and predict outcomes
• Construct best theory concepts for hypothetical testing and findings
• Attach various methods of journal recording documentation
• Appraise various methods of observation research for best research
• Judge most effective domain analysis for ethnographic research
• Support focused observation methods for ethnographic conclusions
• Develop detailed ethnographic maps for taxonomy assessments
• Select and critique best observational selections for final inclusion
• Choose specific components for qualitative research projects
• Rate various cultural variables for inclusions in ethnographic projects
• Assess various cultural components and choose most important
• Create and recommend specific theories for inclusion development
• Compose Ethnographic manuscript suitable for journal publication
• Write and present best practice project summary with log notes
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology

This course presents a global perspective in dealing with dynamic management issues in both foreign and diverse host environments. Cross-cultural management and competitive strategy are evaluated in the context of global changes—the expanding European Union (EU), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the rapidly growing economies in Asia—that require new management applications. Real life business cases are used to present course material and provide Learners with decisions that managers of multi-national corporations face each day.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyze the competitive landscape and how globalization changes it.
• Explain the external environmental analysis process.
• Measure the importance of identifying internal strengths and weaknesses.
• Define business level strategy.
• Evaluate competitive dynamics and standard-cycle markets.
• Demonstrate the incentives and resources that encourage diversification.
• Examine the attributes of effective acquisitions.
• Illustrate the four major benefits of having an international strategy.
• Assess cooperative strategies and risks.
• Explain corporate governance.
• Evaluate the organizational structures used to implement international strategies.
• Formulate the value of strategic leadership.
• Explain how strategic entrepreneurship helps firms create value.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.

This course will focus on information; the theory and practice of leveraging and sharing information to develop more effective organizations. It presents the concept of information management within the framework of organizational or corporate information systems used in decision-making processes. Some of the topics covered include: decision making and problem solving situations in information management; information needs and requirements; group decision making processes; organization and representation of information as reflected in a chosen mode of communication and the effect on decision making; and cultural dimensions of information and information management.

Learning Outcomes:

• Examine the need for IT knowledge sharing within the organization.
• Appraise the process of IT integration for a group or organization.
• Investigate the culture change involved in IT integration.
• Compare organizational values in comparison to IT values.
• Discuss the need for competitive IT to achieve organizational effectiveness.
• Create an example of mobile business within a specific organization.
• Explain IT government, knowledge sharing and trust within an organization.
• Assess effective controls on the access and use of proprietary knowledge.
• Analyze the need for successful system integration within an organization.
• Discuss the growth of an enterprise using e-commerce.
• Create a plan and example for successful implementation of an IT strategy.
• Critique the need for technology investment and how it is useful in organization.
• Propose wireless strategies within new organizational models.
• Analyze the need for effective information security within an organization.
• Analyze the important reasons that a code of ethics is essential for corporate growth to be effective.
• Construct approaches to effectively align knowledge growth within an organization.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology
• Introduce self and explain course expectations

This course focuses on the needs for business research through the process of planning, acquiring, analyzing, and disseminating relevant data, information, and insights to decision makers in ways that mobilize the organization to take appropriate actions that maximize business performance.

Learning Outcomes:

• Assess the different types of research studies used in business.
• Interpret what constitutes no harm for participant, researcher, and research sponsor based on the goal of no harm for all research activities.
• Formulate what you need to develop a solid research hypothesis.
• Categorize what is included in research design, data collection, data analysis, and reporting.
• Evaluate the five types of external information for evaluating the value of a source and its content.
• Hypothesize the relationship that exits between variables in research design and the steps for evaluating those relationships.
• Differentiate between qualitative and quantitative method of research.
• Show the contrast between monitoring nonbehavioral and behavioral activities.
• Plan the process for selecting the appropriate and optimal communication approach.
• Appraise the advantages and disadvantages of the experimental method.
• Distinguish between measuring objects, properties, and indicants of properties.
• Classify the characteristics of preferential scales.
• Measure what the three general classes of information contribute to the testing instrument.
• Construct the five questions that must be answered to develop a sampling pan.
• Create an inventory of collected raw data to detect errors and omissions.
• Evaluate how cross-tabulation is used to examine relationships.
• Analyze the six-step hypothesis testing procedure.
• Rate predictions made with regression analysis using the method of least squares.
• Determine how to classify and select multivariate techniques.
• Chart the contents, types, lengths, and technical specifications of research reports.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course focuses on advanced educational research methods: hypothesis testing using factorial analysis of variance; analysis of covariance; and the general linear model are covered.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyze the effectiveness of QA as a scientific approach and as a tool in decision making.
• Classify the nature of decision analysis for management success.
• Analyze the effectiveness of statistical regression to manage data.
• Design the management decision strategy of forecasting.
• Evaluate various inventory control methods to maximize effectiveness for production and profit.
• Appraise the effectiveness of graphic models in management decision making.
• Evaluate how LP modeling is effective as an extension of management information analysis and control.
• Discover how simplex methods are effective for management control.
• Discuss why transportation modeling is an effective method.
• Critique the usefulness of NLP programming as a tool for data management.
• Assess the need for network analysis of financial data for the most effective decisions.
• Demonstrate how best to use project management to improve performance within the organization.
• Formulate the appropriate use of Queuing Theory within the organization.
• Test simulation modeling to increase organizational effectiveness.
• Assess how best to utilize the proven strategy of Markov Models.
• Judge the effectiveness of using SQC Modes to improve organizational performance.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course is about value creation. It focuses on techniques for improving the flexibility and originality of a manager’s thinking and will explore approaches used by organizations to create and sustain high levels of innovation in negotiation. This course reinforces the theory and research on effective negotiating strategies and provides a powerful framework to create value through the negotiation process.

Learning Outcomes:

• Evaluate the Competing Values Framework I detail.
• Identify the role of a BOD in relation to investigation of the organization.
• Discuss three different approaches to leadership values.
• Summarize a BOD role in relation to actual tasks as compared to expectations.
• Analyze methods to help leaders diagnose and measure value creation, competencies, and outcomes.
• Examine the value of resolutions and goals to achieve success.
• Summarize some of the difficulties that exist for leaders to use their power effectively.
• Critique leadership structures that can be identified within an organization.
• Identify the decision making process used by a leader to develop values.
• Explain barriers to task performance that exist within an organization.
• Describe the essential behaviors inherent in creating value.
• Critique the value of human governance for an organization,
• Discuss measures of lead cultures and advice resolution within a company.
• Analyze the most important reasons that code a of ethics is essential for leadership effectiveness.
• Summarize value structures existing within an organization.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Identify the value of resolutions and goals to achieve success.

This course explores the issues and developments in operations management with an emphasis on the manager’s perspective on supply chains. The focus of this course is on managing material and information flow across organizational boundaries, and emphasizes the challenges of managing across both functional and firm boundaries. This course takes the integrative approach to product/information design, development, and delivery. It reviews the fundamentals, logistics, operational execution and incentive alignment of supply chain management.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the various aspects that comprise Supply Chain Management
• Analyze various inventory management schemas related to forecasting
• Design SCM network systems optimizing unique company characteristic
• Compare various SCM contacts for best fit and optimal conditions
• Appraise information systems and assess value of SCM information
• Create SCM systems with best practice and creative system integration
• Compose distribution strategies that provide maximized SCM operation
• Recommend alliance strategies that accelerate best SCM performance
• Arrange procurement outsourcing tactical strategies to improve profits
• Assemble SCM logistical networks and systems to advance performance
• Plan product designs that take advantage of SCM networks and systems
• Solve customer lifetime values (CLV) implementing good SCM practice
• Test various pricing strategies to create improved SCM system designs
• Recommend improved IT to improve business SCM process and control
• Analyze SCM technology for current and future applications
• Introduce self and explain course expectations
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor
• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology

This course provides an opportunity to access the academic competencies of Learners preparing for and taking the examination encourages the integration of all facets of a doctoral education. At the end of your coursework and prior to beginning your dissertation you must successfully complete a comprehensive essay exam. Successful completion of this exam demonstrates that the Doctor of Business Administration candidate has the knowledge and skills inherent to the degree of Doctor of Business Administration. Learners are given three opportunities to pass the examination satisfactorily in order to continue in the program.

This course prepares the doctoral learner for the development of a field based project. A review is given to research design, modes of observation, and techniques of analysis, the social and ethical context of research, and the uses of research. The main focus of this course of study is placed on the delineation of a problem in business and a plan for conducting substantive research leading to its resolution or recommendations. The course will include an emphasis on the statement of the problem, the purpose, the scope of the study. The grade for the course is either a Satisfactory or an Unsatisfactory.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify a specific problem or a potential problem or an area for analysis.
• Formulate research questions.
• Assess the literature in addressing your research question.
• Create a collection of qualitative data in the literature review of a topic.
• Analyze current research.
• Synthesize the concepts underlying the appropriate use of descriptive statistics.
• Create a written project of scholarly research findings.
• Develop an Effective Project or Research Proposal.
• Contribute significantly to your own learning process.
• Acquire skills and motivation for lifelong higher-level learning and achievements.
• Evaluate attainment of all defined goals for the Doctoral Project Course.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This course is a continuation of MGT 7997. The focus of study is on the literature review and the appropriate methodology to be used both are discussed in respect to the statement of the problem and scope of the study. The grade for the course is either a Satisfactory or an Unsatisfactory.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify a specific problem or a potential problem or an area for analysis.
• Formulate research questions.
• Assess the literature in addressing your research question.
• Create a collection of qualitative data in the literature review of a topic.
• Analyze current research.
• Synthesize the concepts underlying the appropriate use of descriptive statistics.
• Create a written project of scholarly research findings.
• Develop an Effective Project or Research Proposal.
• Contribute significantly to your own learning process.
• Acquire skills and motivation for lifelong higher-level learning and achievements.
• Evaluate attainment of all defined goals for the Doctoral Project Course.
• Present a Doctoral Level Project or Dissertation to meet degree requirements.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.

This is the final doctoral project course in which the field based project manuscript is completed or ready for final rewrite. It consists of an introduction, statement of the problem, methods of analysis, findings, conclusions and suggestions for future research. At the completion of the field based project, the Learner presents his/her research methods, findings and solutions to the problem in a written document and does an oral defense of the project to their Project Chair and Committee. While the focus of this course is on the formal oral presentation, it also provides the learner with time to do a final rewrite. The grade for the course is either a Satisfactory or an Unsatisfactory.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify a specific problem or a potential problem or an area for analysis.
• Formulate research questions.
• Assess the literature in addressing your research question.
• Create a collection of qualitative data in the literature review of a topic.
• Analyze current research.
• Synthesize the concepts underlying the appropriate use of descriptive statistics.
• Create a written project of scholarly research findings.
• Develop an Effective Project or Research Proposal.
• Contribute significantly to your own learning process.
• Acquire skills and motivation for lifelong higher-level learning and achievements.
• Evaluate attainment of all defined goals for the Doctoral Project Course.
• Present a Doctoral Level Project or Dissertation to meet degree requirements.
• Successfully Complete an Oral Defense of Your Project/Dissertation.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.