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MBA 61100 - Accounting for Executive Action
(3) Systems and procedures for budgeting and control, including cost and profit planning, responsibility accounting, cost behavior patterns, operating and capital budgeting, and accounting data for decision making. Prerequisite: Introductory course(s) in accounting or equivalent. Offered as needed.
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MBA 61600 - Fundamentals of Financial Instruments & Institutions
(3) This course will provide students with the understanding of financial markets, financial instruments, and institutions. Topics in this course will include various financial markets, derivatives, stocks, bonds, futures and precious metals, the functions of different types of financial instructions and the regulatory framework Students will be provided a basic survey of (a) the nature and forms of financial markets; (b) the financial instruments available for investing, financing operations and managing various kinds of financial risk and the markets which trade these instruments; and (c) the role and operation of financial institutions and regulatory bodies. Offered Fall or as needed.
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MBA 61700 - Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC/LEAD)
(3) For students enrolled in the ANTHC/LEAD program. By instructor permission only.
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MBA 61800 - Financial Statement Analysis
(3) In this course students will learn to interpret and analyze financial statements for credit, lending, and investment decisions. Students will be introduced to the financial statements user perspectives, accounting concepts and principles used in the measurement and reporting of results, and ratios. Comprehensive study of the 10K statement, analysis of financial results, benchmarking and industry comparisons, Altman’s Z score, transparency, and indications of earnings manipulations using real life case studies are included. Prerequisite: Basic competency in excel, foundational knowledge in accounting (undergraduate), or advisor/instructor permission. Offered Summer/Fall.
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MBA 62100 - Organizational Behavior
(3) Focus on individuals and groups within organizational systems including organizational dynamics, behavior, design, and other factors impacting organizational success. Offered as needed.
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MBA 62300 - Valuation
(2) This course will examine a variety of valuation methodologies, including income approaches, asset-based approaches, and market approaches. Specific focus will be on the discounted cash flow analysis and selection of appropriate discount rates. Students will examine concrete valuation cases to put valuation theory into practice. The course will address both public and privately held companies. Prerequisite: MBA 61800 Financial Statement Analysis . Offered Summer or as needed.
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MBA 62400 - Managerial Economics
(3) This course introduces selected microeconomics concepts, models, and techniques relevant to management decision making. Topics include supply and demand for goods and inputs; market outcomes under perfect competition, monopoly, and monopolistic competition; differential pricing; game theory; and project analysis using net present value, simulation, and real options. Offered Fall/Summer.
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MBA 62500 - Organization Development
(3) This course introduces students to behavioral science theories and how they are used to develop strategies for planned change in organizations. The course prepares students to become effective organizational leaders through self-reflection, organizational assessment, diagnosis, and intervention. Offered Fall or as needed.
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MBA 62700 - Entrepreneurship
(2) Entrepreneurship is a lifestyle. This interdisciplinary class introduces students to strategies, tactics, and tools to articulate critical problems, develop a rich idea pool, evaluate solutions, and make a plan for launch. Given innovative ideas, a business model, and operational strategy, students will refine the external market conditions and internal operational and financial revenue models to develop a sound execution plan. This course is designed for students interested in growing ideas into relevant and sustainable projects, programs, organizations, and enterprises. Offered Spring or as needed.
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MBA 62800 - E-Business
(3) The subject of E-Business is an exciting and cutting edge component of entrepreneurial studies. This course is designed to educate the student to the level whereby he or she will be able to plan for and implement an e-business start-up or be able to lead the transition team of a traditional bricks and mortar business that is expanding to include e-business solutions in its business strategy. Offered Spring or as needed.
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MBA 63100 - Human Resource Management
(3) Strategic planning, development, and management of human resource capital focusing on both human and regulatory issues within the organization. Title VII, labor relations, task and work analysis, performance management, compensation, and other HRM topics examined as they affect supervisors and managers. (Due to similar content between MBA 60930 and 63100, only one course may be applied towards fulfilling EMBA-SL.) Offered Fall or as needed.
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MBA 63200 - The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Telecommunications
(3) This course exams the business economics, financing, development, and marketing of technology-driven content. Internet content pervades all types of business and lifestyles. Students explore how ideas, technology and bandwidth converge as key drivers of profit and non-profit businesses, and how money and policy influence content, entertainment, bandwidth, advertising, marketing, social media, mass media and information technology. In this fast moving and constantly expanding global environment, this course provides a business framework to evaluate how past and current trends can be leveraged in the future. Offered Fall or as needed.
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MBA 63500 - Health Services Finances
(3) An examination will be offered of the challenges of how the US health service systems function financially including private, insurance coverage, and publicly funded programs that interface with non-profit, private, and governmental service organizations. Contractual negotiations that build the relationships among doctors, laboratories, clinics, and hospitals, utilization review, coding, and billing will be discussed. The Stark law and Anti-kickback Safe Harbors legislation will be brought into the discussion of the financial limitations placed on some health service entities. Prerequisites: MBA 61600 Fundamentals of Financial Instruments & Institutions and MBA 61800 Financial Statement Analysis . Offered Fall or as needed.
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MBA 63600 - Health Service Systems & Policies
(3) Examines the structures, functioning, and financing of the US Health services system. Emphasizes foundational concepts of health and illness; health care cost; quality, access, and utilization; workforce; competition in health care markets; and supplier, provider, and payer effectiveness and efficiency. Investigates consumer behavior, determinants of demand for health services, determinates of costs in health care organizations, the roles of competition and regulation, insurance, financing, and looks at alternative approaches applied in other nations. Reviews the current information management systems that are used to coordinate services and administrate the various components of health services systems. Offered Summer or as needed.
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MBA 63800 - Health Services Current Topics
(3) Analyzes current information and management systems including workforce planning and productivity, financial planning and monitoring, quality assurance, staffing and scheduling, administrative information systems, patient care systems, and legal/regulatory requirements for security and confidentiality. Evaluates alternative uses of computer technology in health services including telehealth and electronic patient records. Tracks and provides supportive materials to address dynamic shifts in contemporary health service administration and in such requirements as the Stark Law, Anti-kickback Safe Harbor, Medicare, and Medicaid legislation. Offered as needed.
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MBA 63900 - Health Services Evaluation & Outcomes
(3) Offers quantitative methods in health services management to allow the administrator to evaluate programs and services for their effectiveness and efficiencies. Topics include: cost-benefit analysis, activity analysis, outcome assessment, designing of program evaluations, and reporting results. Tools will be provided to measure the magnitude of problems posed by different diseases, determine what health services are affected by the problems, and identify ways to eliminate or mediate the conditions while improving prevention and treatment. Prerequisites: MBA 61800 Financial Statement Analysis , MBA 62400 Managerial Economics , and MBA 65200 Business Analytics . Offered Fall or as needed.
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MBA 64000 - Quality Management Practices
(3) Practical applications of major quality management systems and models focusing on the integration of a number of models and approaches in order to ensure successful implementation.
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MBA 64200 - Marketing and Social Media
(3) This course is a comprehensive and practical introduction to marketing management. Students develop an understanding of the techniques and strategies for marketing in a global environment. It examines the traditional areas of planning, pricing, promotion, and product and brand management. It also includes the impacts of social media and globalization on the development of marketing strategy. Included are understanding the possibilities and challenges raised by new distribution channels, customer feedback loops, customer/employee/owner loyalty mechanisms, and overall strategy development and communications processes with increasingly technologically mediated organizations. Students apply their learnings through a combination of interactive discussions, cases, practical examples, and projects. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 64300 - Entrepreneurial Leadership
(3) Entrepreneurs face unique leadership challenges, especially when creating a brand-new venture. This class will explore how to build and scale a team, foster a positive company culture, and gain a better understanding of the unique challenges of entrepreneurial leaders. Offered Spring.
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MBA 64400 - Health Services Ethical & Legal Issues
(3) Explores the laws that govern US health services systems and the inherent ethical issues involved in its delivery and development. Opportunities to gain certification for Institutional Review Board membership. Review of key laws governing health services practices including ERISA, COBRA, ADA, HIPAA, Medicare, Medicaid, Stark, antitrust, fraud, and abuse. Offered Spring.
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MBA 64600 - Entrepreneur’s Toolkit
(3) Apply the ideas and tools introduced in Entrepreneurial Thinking and expand your toolkit to include financing, marketing, managing, iterating, and product development skills. This is a hands-on course where students are able to work on real world problems and startup ideas. Prerequisite: MBA 64100 Entrepreneurial Thinking Offered Fall.
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MBA 64800 - Launch It
(3) Leverage your research and learnings from Entrepreneurial Thinking and The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit courses to create a launch plan and budget. Learn what actually happens during a business launch, practice messaging, further idea development, engage stakeholders, and consider risk management. Prerequisites: MBA 64600 Entrepreneur’s Toolkit and MBA 64100 Entrepreneurial Thinking Offered Spring.
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MBA 65200 - Business Analytics
(3) This course provides a broad introduction to business data analysis and statistical inference to support management decisions. Topics include descriptive statistics, classification techniques, linear and logistic regression, similarity and distance measures, clustering, conditional probability and the Naïve Bayes estimator, lift curves, text mining, and the costs and benefits of developing databases and data science capabilities within an organization. Offered Spring or as needed.
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MBA 65300 - Spreadsheet Modeling and Simulation
(3) This course covers intermediate and advanced spreadsheet techniques for data analysis and simulation of business decision problems under uncertainty. Topics include analysis of growth, net present value of complex cash flows, recursive simulation models, simple optimization analysis using Solver, Monte Carlo techniques, and data storage and presentation. Offered Fall or as needed.
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MBA 65600 - IT Project Management and Implementation
(3) The IT organization of most businesses finds itself needing to effectively execute a “project”. Often this project involves complex changes to the IT network that will impact many if not all of the employees. IT projects often represent significant capital expenditures to most organizations and have the attention of senior management. Despite the importance, attention and funding most IT projects fail to meet one or, all of the original targets. The vast majority of IT projects fail when measured against original targets of for scope, return on investment and schedule. This course gives the student tools to help minimize the risk of IT projects while learning to manage the human, technical and financial aspects more effectively. Offered Spring.
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MBA 66100 - Information Technology and Theory
(3) IT has become a critical component in practically every industry and every business. IT is enabling communication, collaboration and information sharing at a scale and rate that is changing how business gets done and how people interact with each other. This course will provide a basic understanding of how IT networks function, current technologies in use for communications and computer networks, and factors an IT leader should consider in making technology decisions. Offered Fall.
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MBA 66200 - Telecommunications and Information Policy and Regulation
(3) The Telecommunications Act of 1996, along with parallel international legislation and continued evolution of domestic and international policies, form the basis for this course. Topics reviewed include: obligations and rights of common carriers; universal service in the information age; market entry and exit; pricing rules; network access by consumers, competing providers, and information providers; and strategies for interacting with regulatory agencies. Offered Spring.
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MBA 66300 - Business Ethics
(3) This course explores the ethical traditions of business including: the relationship between capitalism, corporations, and ethics; issues of social justice and economic distribution; the relationship between business ethics and the environment; and ethical issues and current challenges in the global workplace. Students will learn how to spot potential ethical issues before they become problem and be introduced to strategies and tactics for ethical decision-making and negotiation. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 66400 - Leadership
(3) Leaders in today’s organizations deal with cultural, human, digital, and environmental complexities, global competition, and management challenges. Effective leaders understand complexities of human behavior, engage their teams to innovate and solve problems, resolve conflicts, know their own leadership strengths and challenges, and inspire others to navigate their work with confidence. In this course students explore several leadership styles, traits, and behaviors using readings in the humanities, and exposure to indigenous stories and traditions of leadership. Students examine their own leadership roles within a team-building and outdoor experiential lab environment. Offered Summer.
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MBA 66500 - Negotiation and Decision Making
(2) Students learn about key decision making, types of negotiations, the negotiation process, weighing options, and learning from outcomes. This course introduces relevant interdisciplinary content, including the psychological biases and factors relevant to decision-making under uncertainty. Students will participate in several simulations and learn how to prepare for both negotiations and decisions and assess the outcomes. Offered Fall or as needed.
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MBA 66700 - Cyber Security and Data Privacy
(3) There is no bigger threat facing IT leaders than cyber attacks. One of the IT organization’s fundamental objectives are to keep critical business, customer and employee information secure and private. This course will arm the student with the basics of cyber security and how to reduce the threat. Offered Spring.
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MBA 66900 - Financial Technology and Systems
(2) This course will introduce students to the challenging interface between cutting-edge information and telecommunications technology and financial systems and applications. The consolidated nature of the financial services industry, involving banking, insurance and investment services, has created an urgent need for customer relationship channels across multiple products and brands. This course will expose students to a variety of integrated e-CRM applications in the financial services industry including web inquiry, online transactions and product recommendations. Other facets of financial technology that will be covered in the course include web and wireless based information-processing and transaction-enabling applications, secure on-line banking, smart card devices, mobile networks, e-commerce and m-commerce systems, electronic brokerage and program trading applications. Apart from the technical insight required to comparatively appraise several “off-the-shelf” applications that are currently available in the market, students will also acquire the necessary decision-making skills in order to be able to select the proper technology precisely suited for the job at hand given organizational budget and resource constraints. Prerequisites: MBA 61800 Financial Statement Analysis and MBA 67000 Corporate Finance . Offered as needed.
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MBA 67000 - Corporate Finance
(3) Students will gain knowledge of financial and economic needs and processes within the organization. Topics include capital budgeting, business strategy analysis, forecasting and prospective analysis, mergers and acquisitions, credit analysis, corporate financing strategies and risk management. Prerequisite: . Offered Fall.
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MBA 67500 - Investments
(3) Course will cover return concepts, policy statements, investment alternatives and historic returns, efficient market theory, Markowitz mean/variance portfolio theory, the capital asset pricing model and extensions, asset pricing theory, portfolio strategies, and performance evaluation. Management of the student fund is an integral part of the class. Prerequisites: MBA 65200 Business Analytics , MBA 61800 Financial Statement Analysis , MBA 68300 Fund Management Practicum to be taken concurrently or instructor permission. Offered Spring or as needed.
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MBA 67600 - Risk Management & Derivatives
(2) This course will serve as an introduction to risk management using financial tools. Students will learn about the derivative instruments available, how they are traded and valued, and techniques for using these instruments to manage different kinds of balance sheet and corporate risk. Prerequisites: MBA 65300 Spreadsheet Modeling and Simulation is suggested, but not required. Offered Summer or as needed.
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MBA 68000 - Directed Study
(1-3) Individual study in a given field under the guidance of a faculty member. Offered as needed.
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MBA 68300 - Fund Management Practicum
(1) Students in this class will be tasked exclusively with managing APU’s live, fully funded, real-time growth equity endowment portfolio, established October 2001. Students will employ active-management quantitative stock screening and selection methods, sound portfolio construction principles, and portfolio attribution and characteristics analysis, while following the prescribed investment policy and discipline.
This portfolio management course is fast-paced with an emphasis on leveraging APU’s industry-leading Bloomberg Professional service, providing a comprehensive array of market and portfolio data, news, and analytics. Students will be required to achieve their Bloomberg Certification during the course.
This course may be taken up to 3 times for credit. Prerequisite: MBA 61800 Financial Statement Analysis . Offered Fall/Spring/Summer.
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MBA 68500 - Internship
(1-6) Practical work experience or experiential opportunity in a given area of concentration under the guidance of a faculty member and on-site supervisor. Completion of a written report or document. Offered as needed.
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MBA 69000 - Seminar
(1-3) Small group meets with faculty member for in-depth study and discussion of particular topics. Appropriate course descriptions published when offered. Offered as needed.
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MBA 69001 - Nonprofits: Creating Sustainability via Focus
(1) Successful nonprofits have focus—clarity of purpose. They build on that with excellent people, external relationships, an ability to raise funds, and a sense of entrepreneurialism that enables them to adapt. This course focuses on leading edge thinking about the factors that create a sustainable organization and that build organizational resilience. Students will gain experience by analyzing current practices of a nonprofit and implement a strategy for improvement. Offered as needed.
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MBA 69002 - Nonprofits: Building Stability via Resilience
(1) Creating organizational stability requires perceptiveness and nimbleness to navigate change and weather crisis. This class will focus on how to sustainably strengthen an organization’s impact and enhance its stability by guiding board, staff, funders and other constituents. Students will build skills to assess and navigate stakeholders’ needs and priorities in order to effectively bring resources to the nonprofit-human, monetary, and physical. Offered annually.
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MBA 69200 - Special Topics
(1-3) Examination or study of a special topic or area. Course description published when offered. Offered as needed.
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MBA 69300 - Special Finance Topics
(2) Special topics offered depending on demand and program development, these topics will include: The Art of Trading, Options, Derivatives and Futures, Pensions, Commodities, and Managing the Student Fund. Prerequisite: MBA 65200 Business Analytics . Offered as needed.
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MBA 69500 - Research Project
(3) Undertaking of a major research project under the guidance of a faculty member. Involves in-depth study of a specific area. Quantitative or qualitative research methods are used in the completion of the project. Prerequisite: A course in design and principles of research is recommended. Offered as needed.
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MBA 69600 - Current Topics in Business
(1-4) These courses will examine a variety of current business issues. Each course will be taught by a leading authority on a subject relevant to evolving business challenges. These include entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities, integration of different functional areas of business, global business developments, and other leadership issues for a rapidly changing business environment. May be taken multiple times with different topic names.
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MBA 69700 - Capstone Course
(3) Integration and application of the skills learned in competitive strategy, finance, human resource management, marketing, accounting, operations management, and other functional areas through an interactive management simulation conducted in teams. Prerequisites: Completion of at least eight (8) MBA courses (inclusive of all core MBA degree offerings) representing a cross section of functional management/administrative disciplines or instructor permission. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MBA 69900 - Business Project
(3-6) Execution of the project designed in MBA 60100 Business Project Design under the guidance of a faculty mentor who will act as the chair of the project committee. The written product and oral presentation to the project committee is required. The project committee will consist of MBA 60100 instructor, faculty mentor if different, MBA director, and industry topic expert(s) if applicable. The project committee must approve the final product before presentation is scheduled. Prerequisite: MBA 60100 Business Project Design . Offered as needed.
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MT - Mathematics |
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MT 09600 - Pre-College Mathematics
(1) This course is a self-paced course which students will complete via course content on the internet. A review of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers through concepts in fractions, decimals, percents, ratios, proportions, positive and negative numbers, simple equations, and includes an introduction to geometry. Credits may not be applied toward a certificate or degree program. Offered as needed.
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MT 09700 - Elementary Algebra
(3) Properties of real numbers, polynomials, factoring, exponents, radicals, algebraic fractions, graphing, solving linear equations, systems of linear equations, linear inequalities, absolute value equations, and quadratic equations. Credits may not be applied toward a certificate or degree. Prerequisite: MT 09600 or placement test. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MT 10100 - Intermediate Algebra
(4) Includes and extends topics covered in MT 09700 . Covers properties of real numbers, linear equations and inequalities; graphs, functions, and their applications; systems of equations; polynomials and polynomial functions; rational expressions, equations, and functions; radical expressions, equations and functions; quadratic equations and functions; exponential and logarithmic functions. Satisfies CT Computation for Foundational Studies. Prerequisite: MT 09700 or placement test. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MT 11000 - College Algebra for Health Sciences
(3) The purpose of this course is to develop skills necessary to create a solid foundation of mathematic operations and problem-solving techniques for health science applications. Topics include algebraic review, dimensional analysis, dilutions, concentrations, dosage & intravenous calculations, algebraic equations, exponential and logarithmic functions and an introduction to statistics. Prerequisite: MT 09700 or placement. Satisfies CT Computation for Foundational Studies. Offered: Fall.
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MT 12100 - Precalculus
(4) Equations integrated with geometry, including linear, power, polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions and their inverses. Prerequisite:A grade of C- or better in MT 10100 or placement test. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MT 21000 - Math Concepts
(3) Elementary set theory, the real number system, numeration systems, algorithms of arithmetic, logic and geometry, the metric system, calculators, computer programming, and probability and statistics. Prerequisite: A grade of a C- or better in MT 10100 or placement test. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MT 22000 - Applied Statistics for Environmental Science
(4) The fundamental principles of statistics including descriptive statistics, probability, linear regression, inferential statistics with science applications, and an introduction to the interpretation of the output of statistical analysis packages for microcomputers. Prerequisite: A grade of a C- or better in MT 10100 or placement test. Offered Fall.
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MT 23000 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry I
(4) Differential and integral calculus of elementary algebraic and transcendental functions including trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions with associated analytic geometry. Prerequisite: A grade of C- or better in MT 12100 , placement test or instructor permission. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MT 24000 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry II
(4) Integration techniques and applications, infinite series, and associated analytic geometry. Prerequisite: A grade of a C- or better in MT 23000 or placement test. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MT 28000 - Directed Study
(1-5) Individual study in math under the guidance of a faculty member and by permission only. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MT 32000 - Advanced Statistics
(4) Practical application of both univariate and multivariate statistical methods including linear regression, analysis of variance, and general linear model. Design of research and evaluation of data. Prerequisite: A grade of a C- or better in MT 22000 or equivalent. Offered: Spring.
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MT 35000 - Multivariable Calculus
(4) Vectors, curves, surfaces, partial differentiation, and multiple integrals, and an introduction to vector calculus. Prerequisite:A grade of C- or better in MT 24000 . Offered Spring.
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MT 35500 - Introduction to Mathematical Proof and Theory
(4) This course is an introduction to reading and writing mathematical proof. This course will discuss the basic language of proof common to all branches of mathematics with a concentration on discrete mathematics. It will contain topics such as mathematical induction, set theory, logic, divisibility, combinatorics, and cardinality. Prerequisite:A grade of a C- or better in MT 35000 or permission of the instructor. Offered Spring.
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MT 36000 - Differential Equations and Applications
(4) Ordinary differential equations, elementary methods of solution, linear differential equations, and systems of linear differential equations, power series, and an introduction to dynamical systems, with application to environmental sciences. Prerequisite:A grade of a C- or better in MT 24000 . Offered: Fall as needed.
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MT 37000 - Linear Algebra and Applications
(4) Linear algebra and its applications. The topics of linear transformations, matrix algebra, determinants, vector spaces, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and orthogonality will be covered. Prerequisite: A grade of a C- or better in MT 24000 . Offered Fall as needed.
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MT 38000 - Directed Study
(1-5) Individual study in math under the guidance of a faculty member and by permission only. Offered Fall/Spring.
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MT 42500 - Applied Statistical Modeling
(4) Mathematical, statistical, and computational skills needed to fit statistical models to data in environmental science and evaluate them. Each student will be expected to motivate, construct, analyze, and report on a statistical/mathematical model of their own using data they acquire and to explore and communicate techniques used in their field of study. Topics will include a review of deterministic functions and approaches to modeling, statistical approaches and probability distributions, likelihood methods, some Bayesian approaches, and some matrix algebra. Examples will be drawn mostly from fisheries and ecology. Prerequisite:A grade of a C- or better in ; two semesters of statistics or permission of the instructor. Offered Fall.
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MT 48000 - Directed Study
(1-5) Individual study in math under the guidance of a faculty member and by permission only. Offered Fall/Spring.
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OEE 60100 - Thesis Seminar I
(1) This seminar is to be taken in the initial semester of MSOEE program attendance, affording each student an opportunity to develop a thesis topic. The seminar meets weekly in order to explore research and project options, broaden participants’ understanding of current trends among researchers and practitioners in the field and support the development of a collaborative research environment within the cohort. The culminating paper will provide a working draft for the Thesis Proposal with particular emphasis on the literature review. This may be a quantitative or qualitative research proposal for the Research Thesis or a proposal for an action project to be carried out for a Project Thesis. At the end of the semester students present their work to invited peers and faculty.
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OEE 60300 - Research Methods in Outdoor and Environmental Education
(3) This course is a graduate level course in which students will learn the necessary skills to develop a research project that includes a statement of the problem, data collection, compilation, analysis, and interpretation. Special emphasis will be placed on methods appropriate to the nature of outdoor program design and the wide variety of quantitative and qualitative methods commonly employed in research in this field. Offered: Annually
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OEE 60500 - Outdoor and Environmental Education Literacy
(3) This course will experience the wide variety of outdoor and environmental curricula offered locally and nationally via readings on their history, philosophy, methods, and issues. Field trips and trainings will be utilized as appropriate to provide demonstration models and hands on experience in diverse approaches to implementing OEE curricula. The course will also explore certification and training options for the students enrolled in the Outdoor and Environmental Education Graduate Program.
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OEE 60700 - Teaching Methods for Outdoor and Environmental Education
(3) This course will cover in detail the theories and methods used in outdoor and environmental education. Students will learn to integrate the natural sciences into standard outdoor and environmental teaching methods. The emphasis is on practical techniques utilized in both formal and non-formal education in an environmental context. Course will include off-campus field component and lab fee.
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OEE 60800 - Ideas of Nature
(3) An investigation of the ways in which ideas about nature are foundational to U.S. culture. The focus will be mainly on U.S. American attitudes toward nature but will include consideration of views held by diverse peoples worldwide, particulary indigenous peoples. Offered Spring.
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OEE 61100 - Curriculum Design for Experiential Educators
(3) This course will explore the role of the curriculum design as a foundation of successful outdoor and environmental education by making students familiar with the educational materials and curricula that are offered nationally and locally. Focus will be on students’ ability to design their own curriculum and to adapt it to different audiences.
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OEE 61300 - Learning Theory in Outdoor Education
(3) Outdoor Educators in both non-formal programs and experientially grounded formal programs commonly rely on a distinct set of learning theories. This course will introduce these approaches to learning and help students to acquire a working knowledge of the most commonly used theories in Outdoor & Environmental Education. These approaches include Constructivism; Behavior Constraint; Diffusion Innovation; Adaptive Dissonance; Place-Attachment; Optimal Arousal; Flow; Social Learning; Expectancy, Self-efficacy and Locus of Control; and Effectance and Competence Motivation. Students will gain an understanding of the outdoor and environmental educator’s role in facilitating learning experiences relying on each perspective; Place-Attachment; Optimal Arousal; Flow; Social Learning; Expectancy, Self-efficacy and Locus of Control; and Effectance and Competence Motivation. Students will gain an understanding of the outdoor and environmental educator’s role in facilitating learning experiences relying on each perspective; Place-Attachment; Optimal Arousal; Flow; Social Learning; Expectancy, Self-efficacy and Locus of Control; and Effectance and Competence Motivation. Students will gain an understanding of the outdoor and environmental educator’s role in facilitating learning experiences relying on each perspective.
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OEE 61500 - Power of Place in Education
(3) This course will explore the concepts of place-based transformative education, ecological identity, place dependence and place attachment as factors in the development of a sense of place in a variety of student/client populations. Particular emphasis will be placed on exploring and understanding the role of place in the curriculum and strategies for enhancing the development of ecological identity in students of outdoor and environmental education programs. Course delivery will focus on active engagement with developing Spring Creek Farm as a place-based learning lab and integrate readings, active exploration of the natural world, participation in place-based community service and written/oral personal reflection. Offered: Annually
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OEE 67500 - Thesis Seminar II
(1) This seminar is to be taken in the second semester of MSOEE program attendance, affording each student an opportunity to fully engage his/her thesis topic . The seminar meets weekly in order to share research and project challenges and successes thus, broadening participants’ knowledge of the multiple approaches to research and project development in this varied field. The culminating paper will be the Thesis Proposal ready for review by committee members.
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OEE 68000 - Directed Study
(1-3) Designed for students wishing to learn about and experience new topics not available in regular scheduled classes.
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OEE 68500 - Practicum
(1-3) This course involves supervised fieldwork in a professional setting with emphasis on organizing, leading, and assessing outdoor and environmental education programs. Students will work with professional organizations that deliver curriculum, assisting them with learning organizational and teaching techniques, and developing project and research proposals.
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OEE 69200 - Special Topics
(1-3) Designed for faculty and students wishing to learn and experience new topics not available in regularly scheduled classes.
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OEE 69900 - Thesis Research/Professional Project
(1-4) Students will study an area of their interest in outdoor and environmental education, developing a research question, collecting, compiling, and analyzing data, and writing a professional paper summarizing their thesis. Work will be supervised by a thesis committee with a presentation and defense of work, and approval of thesis before graduation.
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OS 10600 - Mountain Weather
(2) This course prepares students to observe and evaluate weather in the field with the emphasis on weather forecasting. During the course students will learn to make weather forecasts from weather observations and share weather knowledge by reading, writing and teaching about it.
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OS 11000 - Introduction to Wilderness Skills
(4) Introduction to the skills necessary for safe, efficient non-motorized wilderness travel, including expedition planning, equipment, rations, camping, wilderness travel on both water and land, and hazard recognition. Students should expect to be in the field the majority of the class traveling in remote, off trail terrain. Lab fee required, plus personal food, equipment, and transportation costs. Satisfies EE Personal Responsibility for Foundational Studies. Offered Fall.
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OS 11100 - Dog Mushing
(2) An in-depth introduction to dog powered sports. Topics include dog sledding history, veterinary care, racing technique, and equipment. This course builds student experience through hands-on field classes and kennel visits, assisting with a dogsled race, and a dogsled/ski trip. Lab fee required. Satisfies EE Personal Responsibility for Foundational Studies. Offered Spring. Professional Competencies: RP, EC, EP.
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OS 11200 - Introduction to Winter Wilderness Skills
(4) Introduction to winter travel and camping, avalanche evaluation, backcountry skiing, and basic winter natural history. Course includes an Avalanche I curriculum. Lab fee required, plus personal food, equipment, and transportation costs. Prerequisite: OS 11000 . Offered Spring.
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OS 11300 - Sea Kayaking
(2) Fundamentals of sea kayaking. Topics include equipment selection and use, wet exits and rescues, paddling strokes, wind and waves, navigation, and seamanship. At least one weekend outing. Lab fee required, plus personal food, equipment, and transportation costs. Satisfies EE Personal Responsibility for Foundational Studies. Offered yearly.
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OS 11400 - Climbing Systems
(2) Fundamentals of rock climbing including objective and subjective hazard evaluation, movement, rope handling, dynamic and static forces, fixed line ascension, belay escapes, knot passes, lowers, and changeovers at the anchor. Lab fee required. Satisfies EE Personal Responsibility for Foundational Studies. Offered Fall.
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OS 11500 - Beginning Ice Climbing
(2) Fundamentals of ice climbing including objective and subjective hazard evaluation, movement, rope handling, dynamic and static forces, fixed line ascension, belay escapes, knot passes, lowers, and changeovers at the anchor. Lab fee required. Prerequisite: OS 11400 or instructor permission. Offered Spring.
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OS 11700 - Equipment Design and Repair
(2) This class addresses the wide range of problems associated with maintaining outdoor equipment and introduces students to the fundamentals of equipment design and construction. Lab fee required. Offered as needed.
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OS 12000 - Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding
(1-4) During this intensive block course, students learn and practice the fundamentals of snowboarding or alpine skiing, employing the American Teaching System (ATS) created by the national organization of Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) and the American Association of Snowboard Instructors (AASI). In a resort setting, and in partnership with an established ski and snowboard school, students advance at their own pace, from novice to intermediate to expert. Lab fee required. Satisfies EE Personal Responsibility for Foundational Studies. Offered spring.
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OS 18000 - Directed Study
(1-4) Individual study in a given field under the guidance of a regular faculty member and by permission only. Offered as needed.
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OS 18500 - Practicum
(1-12) The practicum is an integral part of the student’s pre-professional preparation. It will help them identify career areas to pursue and network with professionals in that field of work. Offered as needed.
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OS 19200 - Special Topics
(1-4) Special topics in various fields are offered as needed. Appropriate course descriptions are published as topics are developed. Offered as needed.
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OS 20000 - Introduction to Outdoor Studies
(4) Survey of the field of recreation and leisure services. As a required course for all Outdoor Studies majors and minors, it serves as an orientation to the profession. Satisfies the Sophomore Seminar for Major Studies. Offered Fall.
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OS 20100 - Recreation Program Design
(4) Prepares students to plan, conduct, lead, and evaluate programs in the field of outdoor recreation and adventure education. Students will analyze and review different styles and philosophies of local recreational programs and develop their own program design. Offered Spring.
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OS 20200 - Wilderness First Responder
(4) Fundamentals of emergency care in a non-urban environment, including physiology, injury assessment, short term care, anatomy, and small group rescues. Certification fee required. Satisfies EE Personal Responsibility for Foundational Studies. Offered Fall.
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OS 20300 - Wilderness First Responder Refresher
(1) This course reviews and recertifies the Wilderness First Responder standards of care in non-urban environments. Class consists of lectures, hands on scenarios, and readings. Students must have a current WFR certification. Certification fee required. Prerequisite: OS 20200 or permission of instructor. Offered as needed.
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OS 20400 - Leave No Trace Master Educator
(1) A Leave No Trace Master Educator course is designed to give students a comprehensive overview of Leave No Trace skills and ethics through practical application in a field-based setting. The course emphasizes the ability to teach ethics and skills to different audiences. The course includes a minimum of four eight-hour days and at least three nights camping in the field. Upon successfully completing the course, the student will receive a LNT Master Educator certification that is recognized in the outdoor industry internationally. Lab fee includes the certification fee. Prerequisite: OS 11000 . Offered Fall.
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OS 21000 - Snow and Avalanche Science for Professionals I
(4) This course explores the properties of weather, terrain, and snow pack that lead to snow avalanches. The course will also address avalanche rescue techniques and career opportunities in the field of snow science. Content covers avalanche level 2 curriculum. Satisfies SI Biological/Physical Scientific Inquiry. Prerequisite: OS 11200 or instructor permission. Offered Fall.
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OS 21100 - Backcountry Skills
(4) A menu course in backcountry skills that develops students’ expertise and knowledge of specific skill related to wilderness recreation. Students will also gain the ability to plan, prepare for, and undertake short recreational trips in the backcountry of Alaska and elsewhere. For water courses students must be competent swimmers. Lab fee required, plus personal food, equipment, and transport at own costs. Prerequisite OS 11000 or instructor permission. Offered Fall.
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| Packrafting |
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| Survival Skills |
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OS 21200 - Backcountry Skiing
(2) A field-oriented course designed to prepare students to plan and conduct safe backcountry skiing trips. Topics include alpine touring/ telemark skiing techniques, map reading and route finding skills, and avalanche evaluation and rescue techniques. The course meets weekly to tour outside Anchorage area. Lab fee required. Prerequisites: OS 11200 , OS 21000 . Offered as needed.
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