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2011-2012 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Addendum [Archived Catalog]
Course Descriptions
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Business Psychology |
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PB 519 - Statistics and Lab
The course presents the descriptive and inferential statistical techniques used in decision making. This course also examines problem-solving research methods used in industrial and organizational psychology. Students will apply univariate and multivariate statistics using computer programs designed to fulfill the needs of practitioners to address real organizational problems using research methods. Course is taken concurrently with Statistics Lab. (4 credits)
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PB 528 - Advanced Statistics
This course focuses on how to effectively use statistics to make effective decisions in research and practice. The objective is to help students learn how to use statistics to draw conclusions about applied problems. The approach will be to help students discover how to use statistics to frame the questions they ask and examine the answers they get. This is a ‘thinking’ course about understanding derived information to solve problems more than a ‘formula’ class about assessing data. Advanced multivariate methods will be explored as ways in which students can creatively explore organization conditions, examine interrelationships, and draw actionable conclusions. (3 credits)
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PB 530 - Individual Interviewing and Assessment
This course introduces the principles of individual assessment and its role in workplace psychology. It includes frameworks for conceptualizing the assessment process, specific strategies for assessing individual personality style, cognitive ability, and workplace relevant behaviors (such as leadership skills, managerial styles, teamwork and other interpersonal skills, etc). The emphasis is on how to develop an ethical, individually-focused assessment process; choose appropriate, valid, and reliable instruments; incorporate non-test assessment strategies such as interviewing and behavioral analysis; interpret and integrate assessment data; and write useful and informative assessment reports for the consumer. (3 credits)
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PB 534 - Business Development for Consulting Psychologists
This class will focus on the process and methods in building a business and practice. Ownership, partnerships, and incorporation will be addressed along with financial considerations of managing the books. Marketing will be examined as the strategies and tactics to develop client relationships and revenue streams. Brand, segmentation, product/services, and personal selling and direct marketing will be explored as tools to aid in marketing. The final deliverable for each student will be a Business Plan for their won practice.
(3 credits)
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PB 535 - Business and Financial Literacy
This course is designed to give students the basic terminology, logic, and framework to understand business thinking and decisions. The goal is to teach students to look at the ‘vital signs’ of a business. The first part of the class will look at what information a business collects and how it uses that information. Students will learn to use a financial lens to look at an income statement and balance sheet to determine the health of an organization. Students will learn the importance of interest rates as a key to understand corporate planning and valuation. The second part of the course will help students understand how companies make operational decisions. Using the lens of micro-economics, students will learn how supply and demand, costs, and prices effect output decisions. The course will also consider they ways this impacts marketing through the marketing mix, segmentation, and branding decisions. Behavioral economics will be examined to show how the erratic nature of decisions. (3 credits)
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PB 536 - Strategic and Organizational Planning
Prerequisite(s): PB 535 . This course will give students the fundamentals to understand business strategy and organizational effectiveness. The first part of the course will address the concepts and practice of policy formation. It will expand on the marketing, financial, and economic ideas introduced in PB 535 . Environment analysis and value chain will lead to assessing business level strategy, corporate level strategy, and competitive actions. The second part of the class will emphasize the organization factors in determining and implementing business policy. Organizational planning will be discussed as aligning the business with the environment through strategy, design, operations, supply chain, and culture. The options of each will examined but students will learn the critical significance of the managing their interdependence. (3 credits)
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PB 537 - Change Management
Prerequisite(s): PB 535 This course will help students advise organizations on to how restructure, reposition, or revitalize itself. This course will be a summary course. The objective is to integrate strategy and organizational due diligence with consultation and change strategies. Within the frame of community development, students will learn to consider the process of change and the techniques of change to various types of organizations. There will be a dual focus. One will focus on the project change management. The second will emphasize psychological change management. Upon completion the student will be able to understand the corporate conditions and change options available to consult on and facilitate transitions ranging from innovation and new technology, merger and acquisition integration, business succession planning, corporate reorganizations, to board governance. (3 credits)
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PB 538 - Advanced Consulting Skills
This class will focus on the methodology and practice of psychological consultation to businesses and organizations. The overarching objective is for students to develop an in-depth understanding of project management design and implementation. As project management is a general method, this course will apply project management across the wide variety of interventions that a consulting psychologist can offer. Students will examine the different types and scope of consultation that a consulting psychologist will provide. The stages and processes of the various consultations will be detailed and applied. In addition to the methods and procedures of consultation, students will address the customer relationship issues and ethical considerations that are critical to any engagement.
(3 credits)
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PB 552 - Professional Coaching
Effective coaching of managers requires the ability to establish rapport, listen effectively, and conduct interviews. Coaches also work with managers to understand the data provided by 360 instruments and other leadership assessment tools, identify strengths and developmental needs, formulate skill-building development plans, and provide non-threatening feedback. This course is designed to introduce students to the roles, responsibilities, and ethical considerations involved in individual coaching. Using role-playing and hands-on exercises, this course enables students to begin to develop the skills needed to establish individual coaching relationships. Students will also work with their own development plans in order to become directly familiar with the challenges and opportunities involved in formulating and implementing those plans. (3 credits)
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PB 563 - Project Management
Prerequisite(s): PB 451 This course will give the ability students to work with groups in planning and problem-solving. It will focus on the principles of group formation, structure, and dynamics to allow students to differentiate groups at various levels of development. Building upon this, students will learn the skills and techniques to unleash group discussion, creativity and agreement. Processes of group interaction will be explored to help students anticipate and manage resistances and defenses that are confronted in group encounters. (3 credits)
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PB 565 - Group Facilitation
This course will give the ability students to work with groups in planning and problem-solving. It will focus on the principles of group formation, structure, and dynamics to allow students to differentiate groups at various levels of development. Building upon this, students will learn the skills and techniques to unleash group discussion, creativity and agreement. Processes of group interaction will be explored to help students anticipate and manage resistances and defenses that are confronted in group encounters. (3 credits)
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PB 566 - Intergroup Conflict Resolution
This course will address the nature of competition and conflicts that occur between groups. It will examine the process and structural approaches to understanding conflict. This diagnostics approach will be employed to design various interventions to manage the differences that arise between groups. Students will explore and practice skills and techniques to manage the differences. Consensual listening and reframing will be emphasized as the prelude providing opportunities to meet the needs of all parties and to adequately address interests so that each party is satisfied with the outcome. (3 credits)
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PB 568 - Large Group Methods
This course will examine the logic and means of tapping into the knowledge of a large group (from as few as eight to more than 2,000) for planning and implementing major change efforts. It will emphasize the structured processes for engaging large numbers of people in decision making. Students will learn to create inquiry platforms that enhance the amount of relevant information brought to bear on a problem and build commitment to problem solutions. Methods to improve planning will be fused with the means of implementation so firms can shorten the amount of time needed to conceive and execute major policies and projects. (3 credits)
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PB 570 - Consumer Psychology
Students will be introduced to the major theories underlying consumer behavior. Regular student presentations of assigned articles from the domains of psychology and marketing are required. Topics may include positive psychology, regulatory focus, goal conflict, materialism, terror management, variety seeking, product assortment, and risk. Students will choose a single topic of interest to them and present both a literature review and research proposal to the class. (3 credits)
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PB 571 - Inventories
This course will address the principles and tactics to understanding individual behavior, cognition and personality. It will focus on specific measures and instruments that can be used to draw conclusions about executive aptitudes, styles, and potential. Tests, such as the 16 PF, Hogan, NEO-PR, Watson-Glaser, and ACL, will are presented a appropriate tools for corporate clients. Students will be expected to conduct tests, interpret responses, and present tests to the class. (3 credits)
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PB 572 - Simulations
This course will examine the principles and logic of situational tests. It will present the techniques to develop high fidelity and realistic exercises. Building on this, the course will address the training of observers to observe, classify, and evaluate performance on the exercises. Methods for combining different types of simulations into an assessment center will explored. Students will be expected create a mini-assessment center for critique. (3 credits)
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PB 573 - Advance Interviewing and Assessment
Prerequisite(s): PB 530 This course will build upon the skills of active listening and interactive communication. A dual focus will be emphasized. Informational interviewing will be addressed and applied as a means to problem definition and solution formation. Motivational interviewing will be presented and practiced as means of prompting people to initiate and maintain change. Students will be expected to interview and record at least one interview that will be presented and debriefed in class. (3 credits)
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PB 574 - Talent Management and Succession Planning
Prerequisite(s): PB 400 , IO 510 , IO 511 , and IO 520 . Today’s businessess are undergoing a remarkable and painful revolution brought about by economic pressure, global competition, up-and-down employment, new technology, a diversifying labor force, and customers who demand better service and higher levels of product quality. This class will explore the ways in which large and small organizations are regrouping to meet these challenges and the related psychology underlying effective leadership. This course will examine such topics as “talent management,” “sucession planning,” and high performance human resources strategies. We will distinguish “fad” from “solution,” management from leadership, and winner from loser. A central theme in class will focus on aligning internal human resources with business strategy and in turn, strategy with external realities. (3 credits)
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PB 599 - Internship II
Prerequisite(s): IO 591 and PB 593 (1 credit)
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PB 610 - Dissertation Development I
These three courses provide support and structure to the dissertation process. All courses consist of weekly meetings of their designated small research group. The faculty member, who is the dissertation chair for the research group, leads these meetings. The first course (610) offers students the opportunity to present their dissertation ideas and dissertation proposal by the end of the semester. or 610, the deliverable is a complete proposal including literature review, hypothesis, and proposed methodology, which includes IRB approval.. The second course (PB 611 ) provides continued support through peers and the dissertation chair as the student continues to work on the dissertation. For PB 611 , the deliverable is complete data collection. . The third course (PB 612 ) prepares the student for the dissertation defense. For PB 612 , the deliverable is the finished dissertation During these three courses, specific deadlines are set for committee approval, IRB approval, and submission of dissertation draft to the committee, and oral defense. (3 credits per semester; 9 credits total). Each class will be graded on a CR/NCR basis. Failing to complete a deliverable will result in an ADP. (3 credits)
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PB 611 - Dissertation Development II
These three courses provide support and structure to the dissertation process. All courses consist of weekly meetings of their designated small research group. The faculty member, who is the dissertation chair for the research group, leads these meetings. The first course (PB 610 ) offers students the opportunity to present their dissertation ideas and dissertation proposal by the end of the semester. or PB 610 , the deliverable is a complete proposal including literature review, hypothesis, and proposed methodology, which includes IRB approval.. The second course (611) provides continued support through peers and the dissertation chair as the student continues to work on the dissertation. For 611, the deliverable is complete data collection. . The third course (PB 612 ) prepares the student for the dissertation defense. For PB 612 , the deliverable is the finished dissertation During these three courses, specific deadlines are set for committee approval, IRB approval, and submission of dissertation draft to the committee, and oral defense. (3 credits per semester; 9 credits total). Each class will be graded on a CR/NCR basis. Failing to complete a deliverable will result in an ADP. (3 credits)
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PB 612 - Dissertation Development III
These three courses provide support and structure to the dissertation process. All courses consist of weekly meetings of their designated small research group. The faculty member, who is the dissertation chair for the research group, leads these meetings. The first course (PB 610 ) offers students the opportunity to present their dissertation ideas and dissertation proposal by the end of the semester. or PB 610 , the deliverable is a complete proposal including literature review, hypothesis, and proposed methodology, which includes IRB approval.. The second course (PB 611 ) provides continued support through peers and the dissertation chair as the student continues to work on the dissertation. For PB 611 , the deliverable is complete data collection. . The third course (612) prepares the student for the dissertation defense. For 612, the deliverable is the finished dissertation During these three courses, specific deadlines are set for committee approval, IRB approval, and submission of dissertation draft to the committee, and oral defense. (3 credits per semester; 9 credits total). Each class will be graded on a CR/NCR basis. Failing to complete a deliverable will result in an ADP. (3 credits)
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PB 620 - Competency Examination
This course is designed to provide support and structure to the competency exam process. (3 credits)
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Leadership for Healthcare Professionals (ExCel Track) |
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EHP 731 - Legal Issues in Healthcare Leadership
Legal Issues in Healthcare Leadership Healthcare administrators must be conversant with the legal framework of the health care industry as well as the ethical issues confronted in various healthcare settings. This knowledge is essential if you are to run your operation in an ethical and professional manner. Learning outcomes include: (1) Becoming patient centered, (2) Effectively administering licensure and medical malpractice/liability, insurance issues, (3) Legal and ethical standards for care and informed consent, (4) Protecting medical record confidentiality, patient rights and patient advocacy. (3 credits)
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EHP 732 - Strategic Planning in Healthcare Diversity
The course provides an overview of the development of the current status of the health care system in the United States, its organizational structure, and operation of the various healthcare organizations. Reflecting on the issues faced by major health care delivery systems such as clinics, hospitals, long-term care facilities, health care cooperatives as well as relevant managed care providers, this course takes a long term look at the strategic planning necessary for the operation of healthcare services in a competitive market. Learning outcomes include: (1) Defining the market position and operational role of your organization within the larger health care system, (2) Creating a three to five year strategic plan, (3) Taking a pro-active role in planning longer term solutions to current challenges. (3 credits)
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EHP 733 - Quality Management in Healthcare Organizations
This course will provide basic quality management philosophy and strategies to effect positive organizational change. Healthcare leaders are challenged to have the knowledge and skills to assess, evaluate, and design clinical processes; challenge existing methods; rapidly implement new ideas; direct organizational change; and plan for future innovations in a changing healthcare environment. Learning outcomes include: (1) Designing, organizing and analyzing information related to quality improvement, (2) Appling problem-solving skills to analyze problems and issues related to quality, (3) Designing appropriate organizational structures and teams to implement quality solutions. (3 credits)
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