Mar 28, 2024  
2012-2013 Graduate Catalogue 
    
2012-2013 Graduate Catalogue Archived Catalogue

– Course Descriptions


 

Chemistry and Biochemistry

  
  • CHM 525 - Computational Chemistry

    Credits: (3)
    (425)   Prerequisite: Physical Chemistry. Theory and practice of computational chemistry, including molecular mechanics, semi-empirical and ab initio molecular orbital theory, density functional theory, and molecular dynamics. Two hours of lecture and two hours of computer lab hours each week.


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  • CHM 536 - Advanced Analytical Chemistry

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: Organic chemistry, quantitative analysis. Application of modern analytical methods to chemical problems. Emphasis upon chemical information, structural and quantitative, obtainable from these techniques. Topics may include modern spectroscopic, chromatographic, electrochemical, bioanalytical or isotropic techniques.


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  • CHM 545 - Inorganic Chemistry

    Credits: (3)
    (445)   Prerequisite: Physical chemistry and quantitative analysis, or equivalent. Study of periodic relationships: crystal lattice theory; transition metals and ions; crystal field theory; organometallic structures and reactions; and reaction mechanisms.


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  • CHM 546 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CHM 545  or equivalent. Study of contemporary inorganic chemistry. Topics may include organometallic, bioinorganic chemistry, group theory, and/or current topics in contemporary inorganic chemistry.


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  • CHM 567 - Biochemical Techniques and Instrumentation

    Credits: (2)
    (467)    Prerequisite or corequisite:  CHM 365  or equivalent. Theory and practice of advanced biochemical techniques. Topics may include buffer and reagent preparation, protein assay, protein purification, electrophoresis, enzyme kinetics, vesicle construction, DNA isolation, and molecular visualization and modeling. Four hours each week.


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  • CHM 568 - Advanced Biochemistry

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CHM 365  or equivalent and CHM 321 . Topics may include protein structure, stability, and visualization, enzyme kinetics and mechanisms including enzyme activators, inhibitors, and inactivators, ligand recognition and binding, and enzyme regulation.


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  • CHM 574 - Aquatic Chemistry

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. The chemistry of aqueous solutions, including use of activity coefficients, acid-base and buffer concepts, gas solubility, results of carbon dioxide dissolution, trace metal speciation, oxidation-reduction processes, photochemistry and mineral solubility. Concepts will be applied to laboratory solutions and natural waters.


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  • CHM 575 - Chemical Oceanography

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: General chemistry. An oceanography course is recommended. Sources, distribution, forms of occurrence, and reactions of chemical species in seawater. Chemistry of concentrated aqueous solutions. Patterns of global ocean circulation. Air-sea and sediment-seawater interactions. Estuarine processes and reactions. Human impact on the oceans.


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  • CHM 576 - Chemical and Physical Analysis of Seawater

    Credits: (3)
    (PHY 576)   Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Study of modern chemical and physical measurements of seawater including salinity, alkalinity, pH, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen. Several class periods may also be devoted to working aboard an oceanographic research vessel while at sea.


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  • CHM 578 - Aquatic Toxicology

    Credits: (3)
    (478)   Prerequisite: Organic Chemistry. Topics in aquatic toxicology, including toxicity testing; transport, transformation and ultimate distribution and fate of chemicals in the aquatic environment; and the performance of hazard risk assessments on aquatic ecosystems exposed to chemical insult.


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  • CHM 579 - Role of the Oceans in Human Health

    Credits: (3)
    (MSC 579)   Prerequisite: CHM 212 , BIO 110 , or consent of instructor. Discovery, structure, and biological activity of marine bioactive compounds, chemotaxonomy, pharmaceutical leads, marine biotoxins, structure, mode of action, regulation and monitoring, the producing organisms, how (biosynthesis) and why these compounds are made. Two lectures per week.


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  • CHM 585 - Industrial and Polymer Chemistry

    Credits: (3)
    (485)   Prerequisites: Physical chemistry and two semesters of organic chemistry. Properties, synthesis, and reactions of major industrial chemicals; synthetic plastics, soaps and detergents; petrochemicals; paints and pigments; dyes; pharmaceutical and nuclear industries; mechanism of polymerization; copolymerization; physical and chemical properties of polymers; polymer characterization; advances in polymer techniques.


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  • CHM 586 - Fundamentals of Heterocycles with Emphasis on Pharmaceuticals

    Credits: (3)
    (486)   Prerequisite: 2 semesters of Organic Chemistry. Well over half of all known organic compounds and most pharmaceuticals are heterocyles (containing an atom other than C in the ring). This course will examine their chemistry. Topics include the nomenclature, properties, synthesis, and pharmaceutical applications of heterocycles.


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Chemistry Lab

  

Clinical Research

  
  • CLR 501 - Clinical Research Monitoring and Ethics

    Credits: (3)
    In-depth examination of the stages of a clinical study from an operational perspective. Includes an overview of clinical research monitoring techniques and ethical considerations. Introduces skills for project planning and implementation; effective team management; management of timelines, resources, and contractual obligations; and monitoring project progress and risk.


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  • CLR 510 - Advanced Scientific Writing & Interpreting Medical Literature

    Credits: (3)
    Examination of methods used in developing a systematic literature review of a body of research relevant to drug development. Emphasizes methods for reviewing and summarizing pre-clinical and clinical trials data. Discusses interpretation of statistical results. Students will critique scientific rigor in published medical literature.


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  • CLR 512 - Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics

    Credits: (3)
    Pharmacotherapeutics is defined as the treatment of disease using drugs. Topics will include knowledge and tools needed by advanced clinical research students to understand diseases and medications being investigated in clinical protocols.


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  • CLR 515 - Epidemiology and Safety

    Credits: (3)
    Examination of the application of epidemiologic methods to clinical research. Includes overview of clinical study design with emphasis on burden of illness and post-marketing safety studies, assessment of bias, and interpretation of statistical results. Introduction to the development, validation, and selection of appropriate surveys and patient-reported outcomes instruments.


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  • CLR 520 - Regulatory Affairs & Project Management

    Credits: (3)
    In-depth study of regulations pertaining to biopharmaceutical and device development, including, but not limited study of INDs, NDAs, ANDAs, CANDAs, PLAs, CMC, submission processes, and financial/accounting (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance. Studies the organization, responsibilities, and interactions between Regulatory Affairs and Project Management necessary to successfully manage pre-clinical and clinical research projects.


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  • CLR 525 - Current Issues in Global Regulatory Development and Management

    Credits: (3)
    Study of the global regulatory bodies, regulations, and management strategies that govern clinical research. Presents the FDA regulations, as well as reviews other countries’ regulations pertaining to drug, biologic, and device development. Current issues in global biopharmaceutical development reviewed.


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  • CLR 540 - Advanced Pharmacoeconomics

    Credits: (3)
    Exploration of analytical tools and strategies to evaluate the economic contribution of biopharmaceutical products from the perspective of patients, reimbursement groups, and prescribers. Discuss quality-adjusted methods and decision analysis. Examine basic concepts of formulary submission documents and product pricing strategies.


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  • CLR 545 - Biopharmaceutical Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Management

    Credits: (3)
    The study of leveraging research capabilities with the marketplace and communicating research results for public benefit. Topics to include: the identification, management, development and commercialization of marketable research and technologies. Additional topics include patents and licensing.


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  • CLR 550 - Clinical Research Trial Design & Data Management

    Credits: (3)
    In-depth study and development of clinical research designs, including biopharmaceutical clinical research protocols and statistics for phases 1 through 4. Emphasis also placed on data management, including electronic data capture and emerging data capture methods. Includes development of skills necessary for multi-disciplinary teamwork required to build, maintain, and analyze a high quality study database.


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  • CLR 555 - Innovative Product Development and Strategic Planning

    Credits: (3)
    Principals of operational and business practices pertaining to drug, biologic, and device development. Developing strategies including planning from research to discovery to formulation reviewed, including cost estimation and project management.


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  • CLR 560 - GXPs, ICH, and Quality Audits

    Credits: (3)
    In-depth study of regulations governing the design and execution of clinical research. The role of IRBs, history of GXPs, principals of GLPs, GMPs, and GCPs are reviewed. The incorporation of compliance and quality assurance in clinical research, as well as auditing strategies, compliance inspections and auditing techniques reviewed.


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  • CLR 597 - Master’s Project

    Credits: (1-3)
    Prerequisites: CLR 501 , CLR 510 , CLR 520 , CLR 550 , and CLR 560 . A research activity alternative to the thesis. The project emphasizes methods of implementing research findings to solve identified clinical research or regulatory affairs problems or practice improvements. A scholarly presentation is required to summarize the project.


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Communication Studies

  
  • COM 595 - Special Topics in Communication Studies

    Credits: (1-3)
    Graduate level exploration of communication topics, issues, themes and perspectives.  Details of specific courses available through graduate school or instructor listed with course.  Consent of instructor required.


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Computer Science

  
  • CSC 500 - Concepts in Computer Science

    Credits: (6)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. An accelerated introduction to fundamental concepts in computer science. Topics include object-oriented programming; data structures; program control structures; introduction to algorithm design and analysis and software engineering concepts.


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  • CSC 515 - Artificial Intelligence

    Credits: (3)
    (415)   Prerequisite: CSC 332  or equivalent. Introduction to key concepts and applications of artificial intelligence. Knowledge representation; state space searching; heuristic search; expert systems. Biologically – inspired computing techniques such as neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. Implementation of concepts and techniques.


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  • CSC 516 - Introduction to Biologically Inspired Computing

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 415 , CSC 515  or consent of instructor. Theory and application of computing paradigms that operate analogously to biological systems. Topics such as machine learning, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligent systems, and hybrids of these systems. Attention will be given to problem representation and emerging models of computation.


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  • CSC 517 - Symbolic Artifical Intelligence

    Credits: (3)
    Exploration of key concepts and applications of symbolic artificial intelligence such as knowledge representation, search strategies, game theory, heuristic search, knowledge engineering, expert systems, reasoning, learning, natural language processing. Implementation of concepts and techniques.


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  • CSC 520 - Digital Image Processing

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 340  or equivalent. This course introduces the methods and theory of digital image processing beginning with image representations, storage formats, and data structures. Students develop tools for reading image data, determining image properties and performing common point, local, and global transforms. The course also covers data compression, digital watermarking, morphological processing, and steganography.


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  • CSC 521 - Computer Gaming

    Credits: (3)
    (421)   Prerequisites: ART/CSC/FST 320 , CSC 340 , and CSC 370 . Topics related to the design and implementation of computer games are covered, including design, modeling, and animation of meshes for game characters and environments, scene and object representation, graphics pipeline, collision detections, picking, graphics optimization, and other issues such as basic game physics and artificial intelligence for games. Animations are created using advanced 3D software and code modifications to a game engine will be made.


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  • CSC 522 - Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: STT 215 , MAT 162 , and CSC 221 . Modeling and evaluation of computer systems. Probability spaces and probability calculus, random variables and their distribution functions, the calculus of expectations. Markov chains; birth-death processes; Poisson processes; single queue; network of queues and their simulation. System simulation for performance prediction. Modeling concurrent processes and the resources they share.


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  • CSC 532 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms I

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 332  or equivalent. Theory of the design of efficient computer algorithms. Algorithms for sorting, searching, pattern matching, and polynomial arithmetic, cryptography, as well as study of greedy algorithms, graph algorithms.


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  • CSC 533 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms II

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 532 . Theory of the design of efficient computer algorithms. Amortized analysis, sorting networks, matrix operations. Polynomials and FFT, number-theoretic algorithms, and computational geometry.


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  • CSC 537 - Parallel Computing

    Credits: (3)
    (437)   Prerequisite: CSC 340 . Implementation of scientific algorithms in parallel. Use of shared-memory, distributed-memory, and multicore technologies. Study of techniques for improved performance and issues related to speedup and slowdown.


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  • CSC 540 - Advanced Scientific Computing

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 340  or equivalent. This course introduces the underlying theory, design, implementation, application, and analysis of numerical algorithms fundamental to scientific computation. Topics include Fourier and wavelet transforms spectral analysis, energy distributions, convolution, correlation, windowed transforms, and filtering. Other topics include constrained nonlinear and combinatorial optimization, curve fitting, data mining, clustering, and fuzzy logic.


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  • CSC 544 - Network Programming

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 344  or MIS 416  or equivalent. Implementation of network and distributed programming concepts using C, C++, or JAVA on Unix or Windows platforms. Networking programming interfaces, security, management, design and applications. Hands on experience with network components. Students plan, configure, install, diagnose, performance tune, operate and manage state-of-the-art computer networks, internetworking devices and protocols.


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  • CSC 550 - Software Engineering

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 450  or equivalent. An introduction to software life cycle models; size estimation; cost and schedule estimation; project management; risk management; formal technical reviews; analysis, design, coding and testing methods; configuration management and change control; and software reliability estimation. Emphasis on large development projects. Individual project following good software engineering practices required during the semester.


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  • CSC 553 - Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 332  or equivalent. An exploration of object-oriented design and software construction. Topics in object-oriented analysis and programming: classes, methods, messages, inheritance, static and dynamic binding, polymorphism, templates, design methodologies, class libraries, and software reuse. Substantial object-oriented software project required.


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  • CSC 564 - Computer and Network Security

    Credits: (3)
    (MIS 564)    Prerequisite: CSC 544 . An in-depth coverage of network security technologies, network design implications, and security planning for an organization’s computer network. Procedures for the identification, preservation and extraction of electronic evidence. Auditing and investigation of network and host intrusions. Forensic tools and resources for systems administrators and information system security officers.


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  • CSC 570 - Real-Time Graphics

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisites: CSC 370  or equivalent. Theory and implementation of high-performance computer graphics. Applications from virtual reality, training, and entertainment. Graphics hardware. High-fidelity graphics. Introduction to computational geometry.


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  • CSC 572 - Scientific Visualization

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 332  or equivalent, senior or graduate standing in a science program, or permission of instructor. The application of computer graphics techniques to scientific, medical, engineering, and business data. Understanding the requirements placed on data display by physics, physiology, and psychology.


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  • CSC 577 - Pattern Recognition

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite: CSC 340  or equivalent. This course introduces pattern recognition methods and theory using conventional statistical approaches, neural networks, fuzzy logic, support vectors, and linear principal component analysis (PCA). The course also presents methods for non-linear PCA, clustering, and feature extraction. Students implement algorithms; apply methods to selected problems, and to document findings.


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  • CSC 587 - Systems Simulation

    Credits: (3)
    (MIS 587)   Prerequisite: QMM 280 , STT 215 , or equivalent. Study of the techniques and applications of computer simulation of systems. Students will learn to plan simulation studies, program them in a simulation language, perform the study, and analyze the results with statistical rigor. Also covered are random number generation, input distribution selection, generating random variables, and variance reduction techniques.


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  • CSC 594 - Research Project

    Credits: (1-6)
    (MIS 594)   Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Focused study of a research topic in the practical application of computer science or information systems under the guidance of a faculty member. Topics are selected by the student with faculty and graduate coordinator approval. Written analysis and oral presentation of the project is required.


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  • CSC 598 - Internship

    Credits: (1-6)
    (MIS 598)   Prerequisite: Overall GPA of at least 3.0. Academic training and practical experience through work in a private company or public agency. Faculty supervision and evaluation of all study and on-site activity. Students must secure permission of the graduate coordinator.


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Conflict Management and Resolution

  
  • CMR 502 - Conflict Management Theory

    Credits: (3)
    The module presents an overview of the theoretical state of the field. The most important theoretical approaches from the various disciplines are presented. Students are required to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of all of the important perspectives to the understanding of the causes and mechanisms of conflict.


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  • CMR 503 - Decision Making and Negotiation

    Credits: (3)
    This module presents the theoretical foundations of three important conflict management techniques, namely Negotiation, Mediation and Facilitated Problem Solving. Students are required to have a solid understanding of the background to these techniques, as well as a sound understanding of their applications.


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  • CMR 507 - Mediation and Conflict Resolution Practicum

    Credits: (3)
    This applied module provides the students with an intense workshop on applied management techniques, including negotiation and mediation skills development. Training draws on the students’ own, personal experience, and includes the use of case studies and scenario-based role-playing.


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  • CMR 520 - Conflict Management and Resolution

    Credits: (3)
    This module examines the dynamic aspects of social conflict - how it originates, escalates, de-escalates and is terminated. A number of different models and their various implications for conflict management are debated.


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  • CMR 521 - Alternative Dispute Resolution

    Credits: (3)
    Mediation and other Alternative Dispute Resolution systems now exist in many organizations to address issues such as supervisor-supervisee conflicts, management-union disputes, and team-workgroup problems. Using case studies from a wide range of work environments, this course explores alternative dispute resolution systems in the workplace, examining their usefulness, their limitations, and their future.


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  • CMR 522 - Public Management and Facilitation

    Credits: (3)
    The module on public management and facilitation is designed to introduce students to the principles of planning, managing and facilitating a workshop to elicit information, gain consensus and arrive at informed decisions. It is designed to focus on the roles, structure and running of workshops. It will be of particular benefit to team leaders and people working in a project environment.


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  • CMR 523 - Ombudsmanship

    Credits: (3)
    This module provides basic information and training for the Organizational Ombudsman by emphasizing the principles of confidentiality, neutrality, independence, and informality. The course will enable the Organizational Ombudsman, persons interested in becoming an Ombudsman, or anyone desiring to establish an Organizational Ombudsman function to act with purpose, understanding, and effectiveness when working with the individual and the organization. The course focuses on how the Ombudsman works with the visitor to the office as well as how they act as a change agent within their organization. The course will allow you to practice key Ombudsman skills of listening, asking questions, clarifying, generating options, and negotiation throughout the Ombudsman process.


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  • CMR 524 - Family Violence Across the Lifespan: Professional and Social Responses

    Credits: (3)
    This module explores the impact of abuse, neglect and violence on early childhood development. The focus is on conflict intervention strategies and program designs to address the effects of violence in families, schools, and communities. The focus is then on the long term effects of violence and trauma in adult survivors that can be associated with domestic violence, abuse and neglect, and violence in schools.


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  • CMR 525 - Conflict in International Politics

    Credits: (3)
    Students are provided with an overview of the current international system and introduced to the actors, their interactions and the norms of the international system. The impact of the law and norms of international relations on international conflict are analyzed and debated.


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  • CMR 526 - The 21st Century Workplace: Diversity Matters

    Credits: (3)
    This course covers the basics of planning for and managing the needs of the diverse workplace. You will examine the management of a diverse workforce in terms of changing work priorities, quality of work life, human resource policies, procedures, and organizational culture. You will also explore strategies to align these workforce changes with your professional goals, as well as to define training needs and options related to implementing necessary changes.


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  • CMR 527 - Labor Law and Relations

    Credits: (3)
    This module examines various themes within the labor relations and labor law fields, as they impinge on the ability of the individual to manage conflict in the workplace. There is a particular concentration on the content of recent legislation, and the practical issue of learning to cope with change relationships, on the part of both labor and management.


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  • CMR 528 - Individual and Organizational Problem Solving and Decision Making


    This course is the Capstone Course for students graduating with a concentration in Domestic, Social and Organizational Conflict Transformation.  The course will integrate theories of organizations at different levels of analysis (micro/intra and interpersonal, and macro/organizational), and a problem-solving process that managers and executives can use to identify and resolve organizational problems.  Students will work through multiple cases of organizational problems at all levels in small groups and the entire class.  They will learn to apply a 4-step process to diagnose and resolve organizational problems: 1) identify the problem; 2) diagnose root causes using the ‘Five Whys’ technique; 3) identify possible solutions; 4) evaluate solutions and choose optimal one(s), taking into consideration likelihood of success and difficulty of implementation.  Students will apply basic theories of Organizational Behavior (OB), including the individual (motivation, satisfaction); interpersonal (group processes) and organizational (structure, process) to the situations. 


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  • CMR 530 - International Law and Dispute Resolution

    Credits: (3)
    This module deals with the basic rules governing the international community. A substantial portion of this course focuses on the role of international and national tribunals in the law-making process of the international community, with emphasis on modern developments in jurisdiction, international agreements, war crime tribunals, anti-terrorist conventions and international economic law. Special consideration is also given to the impact of the United Nations with respect to resolution-creation as well as truce agreements.


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  • CMR 531 - Ethics in International Affairs

    Credits: (3)
    This module examines several international relations traditions and finds that thinking about what one should do is an important part of our ability to analyze the way in which states and other actors interact. Understanding ethics also informs our ability to decide what our own nation should do; it is vital to our responsibilities as citizens. The graduate course on Ethics in International Affairs examines ethical frameworks such as consequentialism, liberalism, utilitarianism, and Just War Theory, as well as several non-Western ethical traditions, including the Islamic tradition. Students will analyze cases involving war/intervention, terrorism, justice, multinationals, and the environment.


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  • CMR 532 - Development, Change and Conflict

    Credits: (3)
    This module explores contemporary development theories and processes. It relates them to key perspectives and issues in conflict in developing countries and regions. Macro-theoretical perspectives such as modernization, dependency, and neo-liberalism are examined, as well as human-centred and alternative developmental approaches.


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  • CMR 533 - International Peacekeeping and Negotiation

    Credits: (3)
    Violent conflict within states has become the most common form of war in the Post-World War II era. Many of these conflicts are ethno-national in nature. This course will explore the shift in the nature of war towards the “Post-Modern” form of internal war, and the major tools the international community possesses to manage internal wars - peacekeeping operations. We will explore the various forms of peacekeeping operations from UN mandated operations, to regional operations including NATO and the OAU. Finally we will assess and evaluate issues in peacekeeping missions. One major issue to address in peacekeeping is command and control of both the peacekeeping forces, and the warring factions. Command and control is central to maintaining control of an operation and ensuring that negotiations can carry on to bring about an end to hostilities.


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  • CMR 534 - Problem Solving and Decision Making

    Credits: (3)
    The purpose of this module is to acquaint the students with the basics of problem-solving and decision-decision. In the process of making decisions, problems must be solved. Specific attention will be given to problem-solving in groups, and how effective solutions may be devised for a myriad of problems.


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  • CMR 535 - Violence Studies

    Credits: (3)
    The module in Violence Studies will introduce students to the various social, political, and economic conditions that have given rise to radical response. We will closely examine small rebel bands, (commonly referred to as “guerrilla” movements), and “terrorist” organizations in both ‘Third World’ countries and Industrialized nations. We are often interchanging the term ‘revolutionaries” with ‘terrorist” given the strategies utilized to counter the possible international threat. To this end, we will also examine ways in which revolutions upset and effect alliances in the international system. That is – examining the link between revolutions and international relations.


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  • CMR 536 - Terrorism and Counterterrorism

    Credits: (3)
    The threat of terrorism is pervasive in most countries around the world. The source of terrorism is important to understanding the different tools states can employ to counter the problem. This course will look at research on the causes of terrorism exploring the operational environment of states where terrorism is common. In addition to causation, this course will also explore counterterrorism methods. Counterterrorism will look at all methods individually and then turn to focus on complimentary counterterrorism strategies that elevate alternative opportunities of political engagement to encourage individuals to substitute terrorist behaviour with other forms of political engagement.


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  • CMR 537 - Crisis Negotiation

    Credits: (3)
    Students will learn strategies for resolving high conflict/crisis situations including workplace violence scenarios, domestic violence disputes, robberies, situations on college campuses, crises where hostages are involved and other potentially dangerous situations.  The course takes students through a number of steps in understanding how to resolve the different types of crises, beginning with active listening and concluding with behavioral change.  Principled Negotiation, the Breakthrough Strategy and the importance of saving face are incorporated into the process.


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  • CMR 538 - Intercultural Dispute Resolution

    Credits: (3)
    Many mediators think that intercultural dispute resolution is based primarily on considerations of race, ethnicity, or national origin. Research has shown that the experiential models we most rely upon are those we learned from the cultural community in which we were raised during our formative years. We tend to respond to conflict in the ways we learned from our own culture group. In this sense, our approach to resolving conflicts is both patterned and culturally grounded. ADR professionals must consider these patterns when facilitating dispute resolution. Learn the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of the four Intercultural Conflict Styles.


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  • CMR 539 - Mediation in the Community

    Credits: (3)
    Mediation practitioners provide a wide variety of services in the community ranging from Family and Divorce Mediation, including custody, visitation, support and equitable distribution to mediating workplace disputes involving Title VII issues such as discrimination and sexual harassment.  Students will learn about the range of practice modalities in the community including consumer-merchant disputes, homeowner-contractor issues, neighbor-to-neighbor disputes and Medicare case appeals.  Professional mediators as guest speakers and illustrative case studies will provide examples of the practice modalities.


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  • CMR 540 - Propaganda, Political Warfare and Influence Operations

    Credits: (3)
    This course will prepare students to identify, assess, and counter information operations and propaganda efforts at a time when communications technologies amplify the essential nature of perception management in modern conflict and policy. Students will examine the history and methodology of foreign propaganda and influence operations as it applies to war and statecraft in both democratic and non-democratic societies. Special attention will be paid to the methods and strategies employed against the United States and its interests around the world.


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  • CMR 541 - Missile Defense and its Role in Conflict Resolution

    Credits: (3)
    This course examines the role of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) in securing nations against war. Ballistic missiles (and cruise missiles, a lesser included case) are a highly effective, ultra high speed means of combat forces of virtually any size to carry out combat against surface-based targets, capable of raining nuclear warheads down on any unstoppable in their destructive power, providing any entity that possesses them with the power to terrorize, dominate, annihilate or simply deter their adversaries. In recent decades, however, the capability to destroy these weapons in flight has been underway, and already had many milestones, with several victories in combat, and widened or worsended conflicts averted, to date.


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  • CMR 542 - The Psychology of Terrorism

    Credits: (3)
    This course provides a broad overview of the psychological literature explaining: the psychological processes that are involved in the development of a terrorist, the impact of terrorism, and the combating of terrorism. The course will focus on modern day Islamic terrorism, but will also briefly examine terrorism in other societies.


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  • CMR 543 - International Organizational Behavior

    Credits: (3)
    An examination of how communication shapes operations, encounters, interactions and relationships within and between international organizations.


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  • CMR 544 - Strategic Communication: Analysis of Persuasion and Cultural Principles and Techniques

    Credits: (3)
    An advanced seminar focusing on strategic persuasion and counter-propaganda principles and methodologies in diverse cultural settings. This graduate seminar will use lecture-discussion and case studies to address culture, mass and interpersonal communication, negotiation-conflict resolution, and persuasion strategies and tactics designed to result in desired attitude and behavior change.  May be repeated once for credit.


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  • CMR 545 - Technology and Security

    Credits: (3)
    This course examines the nature and importance of technology to US National Security, and its interrelationship with and effects on conflict prevention and resolution. The US has long followed a strategy of a strong defence technological base and resultant military capabilities, with the intention of deterring adversaries from engaging in armed conflicts against strategic interests of the US worldwide, and failing deterrence, to have sufficient capabilities to fight and win conflicts around the world as well as defend home territory.


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  • CMR 546 - Space Technology and Security

    Credits: (3)
    This course will examine space technology’s history, importance to US national security overall, and how space technology has contributed to the prevention and resolution of many conflicts around the world, in its short history. Included is how technology and its evolution enabled, directed, and limited space security, with its manifold benefits for conflict prevention and resolution.


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  • CMR 547 - National and International Security

    Credits: (3)
    The course will examine National and International Security and identify the concerns and perspectives that drive contending views of security policy.  It will introduce students to the field of security studies within the context of Peace, War and Defense (PWAD) as it has evolved since its inception following World War ll and will explore some of the critical events and issues that form the background of 9/11.  With the intent of considering strategies for enhancing National and International Security, this course investigates pressing, critical security threats and issues and focuses on the security problems and potential solutions.


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  • CMR 548 - Emerging International Security Threats

    Credits: (3)
    This course surveys a suite of emerging international threats which pose serious security risks to international development, stability and progress.  The purpose is to assess the future international security environment in order to help develop government policy, strategy and plans for dealing with emerging security threats like genocide; organized crime; narcotics trade; human trafficking; weapons proliferation; environmental, energy, health and financial perils; regional issues; and other related topics.


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  • CMR 549 - Political Violence and Insurgency

    Credits: (3)
    This graduate course will explore the concepts of Political Violence and Insurgency in the context of international security.  While these essential elements of Political Violence and Insurgency will be treated separately, this course will also examine and define their relationship to international terrorism.  The approach of the course will be both descriptive and prescriptive in nature and content and will be presented within the framework of an operational and policy perspective.  This course subject and content material is essential for anyone who is interested in or involved with international and national security and must deal with Politial Violence, Insurgency, International Terrorism or Counterterrorism.


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  • CMR 550 - Trauma Awareness and Transformation

    Credits: (3)
    Participants will explore the social psychological-neurobiological-physical-spiritual processes of responding to deep personal loss, pain and suffering in settings of individual and community violence and trauma, as well as examine recently developed approaches to the healing of individuals and communities who have experienced trauma.


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  • CMR 551 - Non-Violent Communication and Crisis Intervention

    Credits: (3)
    This course is designed to provide students with a thorough overview of the issues of crisis theory, crisis intervention, and nonviolent communication.  You will explore crisis theories as critical times for capitalizing the ability to change, and will explore how episodes of crisis can transform personal, family, social, and community relationships.  You will learn and practice skills for understanding people in crisis, responding to rage-and to the destructive impulses that may arise from rage, and for intervening to prevent escalation to violence.  Through discussions of core principles of different crisis intervention theories and practice sessions, you will learn skills of deep listening, building authentic and empathic relationships, and honoring authentic human connections.


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  • CMR 552 - Spy Tech: The Technology of Modern-Day Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and its Role in Global Conflict Management

    Credits: (3)
    US national security and global stability with it, depend not only on whether or not the US has the military might to achieve its national security goals, but also whether or not it is in danger, and if so, where, who, to what extent, how, and with what, its adversaries were seeking to attack the US. This course will focus on the modern-era technologies of ISR, from radio and radar detection, through image-taking, both by film and by electronic means and the other spectra which have been discovered and exploited over the years. How these tools were and are deployed, and the nature and effects of their deployment, from the first lighter-than air balloons of WWI, through the fast fighters with cameras instead of guns in WWII, through bombers, spy satellites, ELINT, SIGINT, through the U-2, SR-71, through to the satellites and spy drones of today, will all be examined. This course will cover the eras in which these technologies were discovered and exploited, and the effects and ramifications of these technologies will also be examined.  


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  • CMR 553 - From M-4s to Smartphones: Soldier Tech on the Modern Battlefield

    Credits: (3)
    What are the tools that a modern-day US infantryman uses, carries, and indeed, wears, that help to make him the greatest warrior ever to walk the battlefields of today? What guns, bullets, helmets, body armor, other clothing, and indeed, what colors should his clothing be, to best enable him to hide, to move and to remain unseen by his enemies, to survive on the modern battlefield, and to succeed in finding and defeating his enemies? What communications devices should he have, how should it work to help him to achieve all these goals? This course examines the current state of the art in individual infantryman’s “gear” from the weapons he carries, to the uniforms he wears, to the rapidly-growing sophistication of the means by which he communicates and coordinates with his fellow soldiers and commanders.


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  • CMR 554 - Cyberwarfare, the Newest Dimension of War: Cyber-Technology and its Role in 21st-Century Conflict

    Credits: (3)
    The US depends upon networks to operate its vital water and electrical grids; without either of these networks, modern civilization would quickly die. The US economy depends on networks for funds management, investment, et al, as does all the rest of the world that is involved in the global money market in any way. Similarly, if not even more so, the US military depends critically upon networks and global information access for the success, and indeed, superiority, of its global security operations, in what some experts have termed the “Reconnaissance-Strike Complex.” This course will examine the nature of cyber systems, of networks, and the economic and military power they confer up any nation-state that uses them effectively. It will also examine the vulnerabilities that these cyber-networks, and how a sufficiently sophisticated and powerful cyberattack, a “cybergeddon,” could conceivably destroy all the advanced infrastructure that make a modern civilization like ours run. It will also examine current and future efforts to defend against such threats, and counterattack adversaries who might launch such attacks. 


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  • CMR 555 - Robots at War: Examining the Evolution of Unmanned Vehicles in Armed Conflicts and Security Operations

    Credits: (3)
    Robots are with us, at war, today; indeed there are thousands of robots currently at war, operating beside, overhead, and at sea (both on and beneath the surface), our men and women in uniform.  Robots look nothing like us; they typically look like smaller versions of other existing machines of war:  airplanes, tanks, boats, and the like.  Robots do the 3D, or ‘dull, dirty, dangerous’ jobs such as long-endurance overhead surveillance, mine-detection and mine-clearing.  This course examines the evolution, state of the art of robotic systems and their multitudinous and growing roles in warfighting, intelligence gathering, and mine-clearing, among others.  It also considers the rapid growth of the technologies underlying unmanned vehicles, and the possible future directions that these technologies and applications might take.  Finally, the class will consider the roles of ‘freedoms’ that robots should have on the modern and future battlefields.


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  • CMR 556 - Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Wars: The Technologies of Nuclear Weapons and their Delivery Systems

    Credits: (3)
    Nuclear weapons are the most powerful, destructive weapons ever devised by man; they can be used to destroy an entire nation, no matter how vast, in a matter of minutes.  Conceived in the later days of WWII, nuclear bombs were used to devastating effect on Japan, bringing the otherwise fanatically-determined warring nation to surrender in a matter of days.  The Cold War itself revolved around the battle of wills between the world’s two most powerful nation-states, precisely because they were armed with ever-growing, ever-more sophisticated arsenals of nuclear weapons and delivery systems.  This course examines the history and technology of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, the effects these technologies had on US and global security, as well as efforts to defend against these weapons.  It also examines the international relations theories developed both during and after the Cold War, into the current era, to try to understand the nature of nuclear warfare and how best to prevent it.


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  • CMR 557 - Disaster Mental Health Response

    Credits: (3)
    Through exploring the phases of disaster recovery, students will learn basic triage and screening, psychological first aid and early interventions to help restore psychological, social and behavioral health.  Using a strengths-based approach, students will learn to identify protective factors and to foster healthy coping skills, resilience and recovery before, during and after disasters.  Students will also explore factors which increase the risk for development of more serious mental health problems and will develop a greater understanding of trauma and traumatic stress reactions, including suggestions for early identification and interventions. It is expected that students bring a general understanding of conflict management theories and be prepared to use their knowledge to explore and practice basic disaster mental health response.  Learning process for this course involves a blended format which includes independent readings and experiential excercises, combined with intensive classroom lectures and dialogue.


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  • CMR 560 - Intelligence and National Security

    Credits: (3)
    This course focuses on the craft of U.S. Intelligence and its role in the making and implementation of national security.  Topics include definitions and problems of Intelligence and National Security; various aspects of Intelligence and National Security; and significant past, present and future events, operations and implications involving Intelligence and National Security.  This course examines the concept, framework and applications of Intelligence and National Security, as well as, analyzes the relevant historical background and current national and international issues.  Formulation and implementation of strategic, national and operational-level policy will be addressed within the context of Intelligence and National Security.  The focus of the course will center on Intelligence and National Security and related national and international security issues.


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  • CMR 561 - International Terrorism: Regional Studies

    Credits: (3)
    This course focuses on the craft of U.S. Intelligence and its role in the making and implementation of national security.  Topics include definitions and problems of Intelligence and National Security; various aspects of Intelligence and National Security; and significant past, present and future events, operations and implications involving Intelligence and National Security.  This course examines the concept, framework and applications of Intelligence and National Security, as well as, analyzes the relevant historical background and current national and  international issues.  Formulation and implementation of strategic, national and operational-level policy will be addressed within the context of Intelligence and National Security.  The focus of the course will center on Intelligence and National Security and related national and international security issues.


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