Program Learning Outcomes

Bachelor of Science Degrees

  1. Auditing & Compliance
    Use manufacturing concepts, theories, and processes related to auditing and compliance for practical applications in various situations within the field of manufacturing that will require quality leadership.
  2. Quality Management
    Apply concepts in advanced manufacturing and operations to analyze issues related to quality management in multiple contexts and recommend solutions.
  3. Testing & Validation
    Apply manufacturing best practices and technologies to evaluate real world manufacturing problems related to testing and validation.
  4. Measurement System & Analysis
    Use engineering metrology principles and standards of measurements to conduct investigations and identify errors.
  5. Quality Leadership Mindset/Lifecycle Management
    Address a real world problem within a manufacturing company and work with a company to develop a targeted solution that will require quality leadership.
  6. Personal & Professional Development/Lifelong learning/Communication
    Complete a self-assessment of personal commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement as an engineering professional; include a concrete plan for lifelong learning.
  1. Statistics/Mathematics: Application Oriented Knowledge & Skills
    Examine major concepts and skills in statistical and mathematical analysis related to data analytics.
  2. Business Intelligence/Business Process Management/Communicating with Data
    Apply the principles, tools and methods of analytics to a project within a sponsoring organization to assist with the extraction, development, delivery, translation, and implementation of data analysis for tactical or strategic decision making in organizations, and successfully communicate data-driven insights.
  3. Analytics Systems Technology
    Complete a substantial project that requires the application of the principles, tools and methods of analytics systems technology to a comprehensive real-world problem or project related to data analyses for tactical and/or strategic decision making,
  4. Advanced Analytics
    Develop and justify effective paths to resolution of an analytical problem that may be complicated by the competitive environment, opposing interests, divergent or uncertain data and information.
  5. Business Analytics Agility
    Investigate major theories, tools, and approaches in data analytics to identify and successfully communicate data-driven insights for informed decision making.
  6. Leadership/Data Governance/Policy/Ethics
    Articulate and defend the significance and implications of the work in data analytics in terms of challenges and trends in a local, national or global context in relation to data governance, policy, or ethics.
  1. Technical Practice
    Define, explain and analyze vocabularies, experiments, theories and concepts in biology or biotechnology using current research, tools, methods and technologies.
  2. Experiment Development/Scientific Pathway Knowledge
    Craft a research grant proposal that includes an innovative approach and cutting edge methods and technologies to address an emerging biology, biotechnology, healthcare, medicine related challenge or opportunity.
  3. Data Literacy
    Use data analytics to complete a scientific process including experimental planning, technical experimentation, data analysis, and dissemination of findings.
  4. Personal & Professional Effectiveness
    Integrate acquired confidence, skills, behaviors and values to effectively discern professional and personal learning and goals and to shape personal and professional identities.
  1. Technical Practice
    Define, explain and analyze vocabularies, experiments, theories and concepts in biology or biotechnology using current research, tools, methods and technologies.
  2. Experiment Development/Scientific Pathway Knowledge
    Craft a research grant proposal that includes an innovative approach and cutting edge methods and technologies to address an emerging biology, biotechnology, healthcare, medicine related challenge or opportunity.
  3. Data Literacy
    Use data analytics to complete a scientific process including experimental planning, technical experimentation, data analysis, and dissemination of findings.
  4. Personal & Professional Effectiveness
    Integrate acquired confidence, skills, behaviors and values to effectively discern professional and personal learning and goals and to shape personal and professional identities.
  1. Digital Communication
    Synthesize knowledge and skills relating to a wide range of digital media and their application to enhancing organizational performance.
  2. Relationship Management
    Apply principles, tools, and methods to successfully conduct stakeholder analysis and manage team and client relationships.
  3. Campaign Design and Management
    Design and manage elements of promotional campaigns using digital media.
  4. Communication Fluency
    Craft effective written and/or visual messages to inform and persuade a wide range of stakeholders and audiences.
  5. Social Impact/Accountability
    Develop digital campaigns that reflect high ethical standards and cultural awareness.
  1. Entrepreneurship
    Complete a strategic management analysis of an entrepreneurship or innovation challenge in a business setting.
  2. Accountability
    Apply the process, tools, and concepts of financial reporting, financial statement analysis, and valuation used by investors and analysts to complete a real-world deliverable.
  3. Institutional Environment
    Examine the foundational principles, concepts, and measurement theories relating to financial reporting and stewardship in both the internal and external environment.
  4. Global
    Assess the structure and functions of the U.S. and international financial markets and institutions.
  5. Business Ethics
    Develop and justify a position and/or an approach to an issue pertaining to business ethics and corporate social responsibility by dissecting a relevant case study
  6. Relationship Management
    Integrate management best practices and tools to analyze a management problem in a given organization or community considering both the institutional and global environments.
  1. Business Management & Organization
    Integrate healthcare management principles, best practices and tools into the community or workplace and recommend probable solutions for issues in the healthcare management industry.
  2. Knowledge Healthcare Environment
    Describe and evaluate an emerging healthcare related problem or challenge in a wider global context using theories, tools and methods from healthcare management and other fields of study.
  3. Leadership
    Prepare a project, paper or other appropriate body of work which utilizes key management principles in finance, organizational management, governmental policies and/or resource allocation to address an existing problem in healthcare.
  4. Experimental Design & Clinical Development
    Develop and justify a position on an issue pertaining to political, social, environmental and economic challenges in healthcare on a local, national, or global level.
  5. Global Mindset
    Examine the global impact of organizational decisions in healthcare planning and policy development, healthcare administration, and community organization when addressing public health needs.
  6. Personal & Professional Effectiveness
    Reflect upon the personal knowledge, skills, behaviors and values developed while you were in this program that will help you shape your personal and professional identity in the healthcare field.
  1. Business Management & Organization
    Integrate healthcare management and health science principles, best practices and tools into the community or workplace and recommend probable solutions for issues in the healthcare management and/or health science industry.
  2. Knowledge Healthcare Environment
    Describe and evaluate an emerging healthcare and/or health science related problem or challenge in a wider global context using theories, tools and methods from healthcare management and other fields of study.
  3. Leadership
    Prepare a project, paper or other appropriate body of work which utilizes and connects key management principles in finance, organizational management, governmental policies and/or resource allocation to address an existing problem in healthcare.
  4. Experimental Design & Clinical Development
    Develop and justify a position on an issue pertaining to political, social, environmental and economic challenges in healthcare on a local, national, or global level.
  5. Scientific & Technical Skills
    Prepare a project, paper or other appropriate body of work, which utilizes key scientific literature, research or data to address an existing problem in health or science.
  6. Personal & Professional Effectiveness
    Reflect upon the personal knowledge, skills, behaviors and values developed while you were in this program that will help you shape your personal and professional identity in the healthcare field.
  1. Cybersecurity Principles
    Analyze issues occurring within the field of information security, both organizational and personnel security, in the context of business communications, operations, management, and compliance.
  2. Information Management
    Design and test range of information management systems drawing on theories, tools and methods in the field, leading to improved processing and security.
  3. Networking
    Apply principles of computer network architectures, topologies, and protocols to implement quality systems, components, or processes that meet performance requirements.
  4. Systems Paradigm
    Apply knowledge of systems analysis to develop a comprehensive written business plan and high-level solution model for a real-world IT project.
  5. User Experience Design
    Survey the application of human-computer interaction concepts, theory, and practice in creating and evaluating quality user interface design.
  6. Software Fundamentals
    Develop complex end-user applications that address a business problem or opportunity.
  7. Web & Mobile Systems
    Apply interface design skills by refining creative designs into websites through an iterative process of creating hand-drawn storyboards, coding wireframes, adding basic web content, and making pages responsive that are suitable for a variety of mobile devices.
  8. Teamwork
    Demonstrate skills, abilities and willingness to work with others to achieve results.
  1. Specialized Knowledge
    Design and implement a curriculum plan that identifies an area of specialization mapping degree completion requirements; define, construct, and execute an in-depth senior capstone project requiring synthesis of undergraduate knowledge and application of writing skills, analytic thinking, and research methodologies; differentiate among the varieties of liberal studies disciplines.
  2. Broad Diversity of Integrated Knowledge
    Assimilate and integrate disciplinary methods; organize broad and complex areas of knowledge; demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of contemporary issues through an understanding of methodologies and content of the humanities, social sciences and sciences expressed through the use of multiple written formats.
  3. Flexible Intellectual Skills
    Question, analyze, evaluate, and recognize precedent in theoretical and empirical studies, including primary and secondary sources; demonstrate deduction and evidence-based critical thinking in essays, tests, class presentations, and research projects; develop personal insight.
  4. Applied Learning
    Design an in-depth senior capstone project, based on a topic related to the student’s academic specialization; conduct primary and secondary source research; analyze and evaluate complex and competing source materials, according to best evidence and academic standards; write and present research findings. This project serves as experiential education as it is the culmination and practice of undergraduate student learning.
  5. Civic Learning
    Assess, develop, and evaluate a position on a significant public policy question in the student’s academic specialization, taking into account scholarly and community perspectives.
  1. Problem Solving
    Define and explain complex business problems or challenges in diverse business settings and cultures, drawing on current research, theories, practices, tools, and technologies in the field of business.
  2. Relationship Management
    Apply principles, tools, and methods to successfully implement change and innovation within organizations and use multiple perspectives to manage organizational resources and performance.
  3. Entrepreneurship
    Analyze the challenges of entrepreneurship especially for a small business and develop a business plan that can be used to run a new small business enterprise.
  4. Communication
    Demonstrate the ability to communicate concisely and persuasively both orally and in writing.
  5. Social Impact/Accountability
    Develop and justify a position and/or an approach to an issue pertaining to business ethics and corporate social responsibility by dissecting a relevant case study.
  6. Global/Institutional Environment
    Integrate management best practices and tools to analyze a management problem in a given organization or community considering both the institutional and global environments.
  7. Teamwork
    Demonstrate the ability and willingness to work with others to achieve results.
  1. Define and explain tools used in managing project disciplines including scope, risk, quality, schedule, cost, quality and performance metrics, while understanding and addressing the needs of different project stakeholders.
  2. Describe the significance and implications of project management in terms of challenges and trends in your professional or organizational context.
  3. Share various project team roles and responsibilities in the creation of an integrated project plan that meets strategic goals in a real-world setting, while addressing common project challenges.
  4. Develop and justify a position on an ethical issue in project management; explain its civic and global significance.
  1. Knowledge Base in Psychology
    Define and explain the core concepts, perspectives, findings, and trends in psychology using vocationally oriented values, standards, tools, techniques, and specialized terms.
  2. Scientific Inquiry & Critical Thinking
    Frame a problem important to the field of psychology, justify the significance of the problem in a wider societal context, and explain how methods from psychology can be used to address the problem.
  3. Communication
    Identify credible, relevant sources and engage meaningfully with them in writing.
  4. Ethical & Social Responsibility in a Diverse World
    Apply ethical theories to moral dilemmas and personal positions in the context of social responsibility in the discipline of psychology.
  5. Professional Development
    Integrate acquired confidence, skills, behaviors and values to effectively discern learning and goals to shape personal and professional identities.

Post-Baccalaureate

Designed to enhance and build on your previous academic record through additional pre-medical course work, this post-baccalaureate program covers concepts in biology, chemistry, and physics. You will have the opportunity to tailor your learning experience by choosing from optional electives in human anatomy, microbiology, genetics, cell biology, immunology, endocrinology, biochemistry, statistics, and calculus. As a result of your learning experience, you will be well equipped to apply to medical, dental, osteopathic, and other health professional schools.

Master of Arts Degrees

  1. Research & Analysis
    Use historical and contemporary references to analyze national security issues that considers interrelated factors such as diplomacy, military, law enforcement, constitutional concerns, civil right issues, and the impact of other disciplines.
  2. Security
    Investigate how national security departments and agencies at all levels assist with national level emergency and crisis response and management.
  3. Management & Leadership
    Apply management and leadership principles to craft effective policy recommendations for decision-makers in the intelligence community and key private sector security members.
  4. Governance
    Analyze the interconnectivity between nations and regions including alliances and economic ties to address governance concerns nationally and globally.
  1. Curriculum Planning & Assessment
    Design and execute a lesson to demonstrate proficiency relative to the MA Professional Standard for Teachers (1) Curriculum, Planning, and Assessment, Indicator (a) Curriculum and Planning: Knows the subject matter well, has a good grasp of child development and how students learn, and designs effective and rigorous standards-based units of instruction consisting of well-structured lessons with measurable outcomes.
  2. Teaching
    Demonstrate education specific best practices and the competencies delineated by the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Six Essential Elements (1.A.4: Well-Structured Lessons; 1.B.2: Adjustment to Practice; 2.A.3: Meeting Diverse Needs; 2.B.1: Safe Learning Environment; 2.D.2: High Expectations; 4.A.1: Reflective Practice) in a supervised classroom setting.
  3. Family & Community Engagement
    Investigate effective partnerships with families, caregivers, community members, and organizations.
  4. Professional Culture
    Design and implement a project for a school-based setting that promotes the learning and growth of all students through ethical, culturally proficient, skilled, and collaborative practice while reflecting upon positionality and conflicts relevant to the project.
  5. Reflection/Action & Analysis for Educational Equity
    Demonstrate how to effectively enact equity-oriented teaching, encompassing: Culturally Responsive Teaching, Teaching for Learner Diversity, Social Justice Teaching, and Anti-Racist Teaching.

Master of Education Degrees

  1. Specialized Knowledge
    Explain the major theories, research methods and approaches to inquiry and schools of practice in the field of education, articulate their sources and illustrate both their applications and their relationships to allied fields of study.
  2. Broad and Integrative Knowledge
    Design and execute an applied, investigative or creative work that draws on the perspectives and methods within the sub-fields of education and assess the resulting advantages and challenges of including these perspectives and methods.
  3. Applied and Collaborative Learning
    Design and implement a project or performance in an out-of-class setting that requires the application of advanced knowledge gained in the field of education to a practical challenge, articulate in writing or another medium the insights gained from this experience, and assess approaches, scholarly debates or standards for professional performance applicable to the challenge.
  4. Civic, Global, Intercultural Learning
    Assess and develop a position on a public policy question with significance in the field of education taking into account both scholarship and published or electronically posted positions and narratives of relevant interest groups.
  5. Experiential Learning
    Integrate education-specific best practices and tools into experiential learning opportunities offered in the program.
  1. Intellectual Agility
    Analyze law and policy regulations within a higher education context.
  2. Data Driven Decision Making
    Analyze, generate and propose innovative solutions to contemporary issues in higher education, driven by data and applied theory. 
  3. Inclusive Action
    Integrate principles of social justice and inclusion for concrete actions in higher education.
  4. Lifelong Learning
    Articulate methods to continuously hone and upgrade professional skills in key higher education competencies.
  5. Communication
    Effectively present ideas through multiple mediums for targeted audience in higher education administration.
  1. Specialized Knowledge
    Explain the major theories, research methods and approaches to inquiry and schools of practice in the field of education, articulate their sources and illustrate both their applications and their relationships to allied fields of study.
  2. Broad and Integrative Knowledge
    Design and execute an applied, investigative or creative work that draws on the perspectives and methods within the sub-fields of education and assess the resulting advantages and challenges of including these perspectives and methods.
  3. Applied and Collaborative Learning
    Design and implement a project or performance in an out-of-class setting that requires the application of advanced knowledge gained in the field of education to a practical challenge, articulate in writing or another medium the insights gained from this experience, and assess approaches, scholarly debates or standards for professional performance applicable to the challenge.
  4. Civic, Global, Intercultural Learning
    Assess and develop a position on a public policy question with significance in the field of education taking into account both scholarship and published or electronically posted positions and narratives of relevant interest groups.
  5. Experiential Learning
    Integrate education-specific best practices and tools into experiential learning opportunities offered in the program.
  1. Specialized Knowledge
    Explain the major theories, research methods and approaches to inquiry and schools of practice in the field of education, articulate their sources and illustrate both their applications and their relationships to allied fields of study.
  2. Broad and Integrative Knowledge
    Design and execute an applied, investigative or creative work that draws on the perspectives and methods within the sub-fields of education and assess the resulting advantages and challenges of including these perspectives and methods.
  3. Applied and Collaborative Learning
    Design and implement a project or performance in an out-of-class setting that requires the application of advanced knowledge gained in the field of education to a practical challenge, articulate in writing or another medium the insights gained from this experience, and assess approaches, scholarly debates or standards for professional performance applicable to thechallenge.
  4. Civic, Global, Intercultural Learning
    Assess and develop a position on a public policy question with significance in the field of education taking into account both scholarship and published or electronically posted positions and narratives of relevant interest groups.
  5. Experiential Learning
    Integrate education-specific best practices and tools into experiential learning opportunities offered in the program.
  1. Specialized Knowledge
    Explain the major theories, research methods and approaches to inquiry and schools of practice in the field of education, articulate their sources and illustrate both their applications and their relationships to allied fields of study.
  2. Broad and Integrative Knowledge
    Design and execute an applied, investigative or creative work that draws on the perspectives and methods within the sub-fields of education and assess the resulting advantages and challenges of including these perspectives and methods.
  3. Applied and Collaborative Learning
    Design and implement a project or performance in an out-of-class setting that requires the application of advanced knowledge gained in the field of education to a practical challenge, articulate in writing or another medium the insights gained from this experience, and assess approaches, scholarly debates or standards for professional performance applicable to thechallenge.
  4. Civic, Global, Intercultural Learning
    Assess and develop a position on a public policy question with significance in the field of education taking into account both scholarship and published or electronically posted positions and narratives of relevant interest groups.
  5. Experiential Learning
    Integrate education-specific best practices and tools into experiential learning opportunities offered in the program.

Master of Professional Studies Degrees

  1. Statistics & Math
    Demonstrate the foundational knowledge and skills critical to pursue data analytics as a profession in relation to statistics and math.
  2. Analytics in Context
    Articulate and effectively defend the significance and implications of the work in data analytics in terms of challenges and trends in a local, national or global context.
  3. Advanced Tools
    Demonstrate the knowledge of advanced tools in data analytics.
  4. Governance, Ethics, Leadership
    Articulate and effectively defend the significance of leadership, governance, and ethics in data analytics in terms of challenges and trends in a local, national or global context.
  5. Applied Analytics
    Apply the principles, tools and methods of analytics to a comprehensive real-world problem or project related to data analyses for tactical and/or strategic decision making.
  6. Business Process Management
    Integrate the major theories, tools, and approaches in data analytics to identify data-driven insights for informed business process management.
  7. Communicating with Data
    Design and deliver presentations, reports, and recommendations that effectively translate technical results/data solutions and are coherent and persuasive to different audiences.
  1. AI Techniques
    Employ instrumental methods of data analysis and modern analytical techniques for artificial intelligence (AI) as applied in industry settings.
  2. Analytics Systems Technology (Tools)
    Investigate and select data, analytics, and AI technologies to address real-world organizational questions or problems.
  3. Advanced Analytics
    Solve an organizational problem by integrating the principles, tools, and methods of AI and ML while making informed decisions about the design and deployment of systems in human environments and related workflows.
  4. Advanced Data Management
    Evaluate advanced data management technologies for suitability in different application contexts and factors influencing successful adoption.
  5. Data Visualization
    Communicate complex quantitative information to different audiences using exploratory data visualization, dashboard design, scorecard design, and spatial data representation.
  6. Data Governance and Ethics
    Identify key management, and ethical issues organizations face throughout the complete data lifecycle.
  7. User Experience
    Integrate the theory and practices of human-computer interaction and usability to analyze and design solutions.
  8. Strategy and Leadership
    Apply strategic analysis, problem solving, decision-making, effective communication, and leadership skills to the implementation of ML and AI solutions in real-world scenarios.
  1. Design Thinking
    Investigate interdisciplinary methodologies and information technology creative practices (ITCP) that focus on the design, planning, and implementation of innovative prototypes.
  2. Usability and User Experience
    Design or produce interactive media products or action plans, based on established HCI (Human Computer Interaction) principles and user-centered design including logic, imagination, intuition and systematic reasoning.
  3. Personal Craft/Narrative skills/CreativeThinking/Intellectual Agility
    Apply digital media narrative principles and a range of technologies, visual, design and programming ideas to provide creative and timely solutions for practical digital media challenges.
  4. Communication/Organization & Planning
    Develop a formal proposal, real or hypothetical, addressing a challenge or opportunity in cross-cultural and global information and communication.
  1. GIS Analysis/Tools
    Design and produce geospatial products for the decision maker by turning data into actionable knowledge using geospatial principles, practices and newly-acquired knowledge of functions and essential skills.
  2. Remote Sensing/Imagery Analysis
    Design and execute applied work that draws on the perspectives and methods of other fields of study (project management, leadership, informatics), including articulating and defending the significance and implications of the work in GIT to those fields.
  3. Geospatial Data Management
    Create a professional poster and presentation reflecting the integration and application of acquired advanced knowledge in GIT to a practical challenge; assess approaches and standards for professional performance applicable to the challenge.
  4. Data Visualization
    Propose a path to a resolution of a problem and create new methods to respond to geospatial challenges at the local, national or global level.
  5. Synthesizing/Reporting
    Synthesize and transfer learning to new, complex situations within course work or beyond the classroom, to support real-worlds applications and solve real-world problems.
  1. Computational Knowledge and Skills
    Integrate the foundational computational knowledge and skills critical in the field of informatics to solve authentic real-world problems.
  2. Advanced Information Technology (Software, Application, & Tools)/Innovation & Design Thinking
    Design and execute an applied or investigative work that draws on a multidisciplinary approach to research and analysis in informatics.
  3. IT Management Agility
    Apply analytical techniques and research methods to manage, implement, secure, and govern within a variety of information technology environments.
  4. IT Leadership, Governance, Policy & Ethics
    Assess a complex issue that incorporates the ethical, legal and social impacts of information technology and knowledge management within a societal and global business context.
  1. Learning Experience Design
    Apply learning design models, theories, practices, and technologies, based on the analysis of context, content, and learner needs, to develop engaging learning environments.
  2. Collaboration
    Demonstrate constructive working relationships and collaborations in a range of professional contexts while responding to the nuances of organizational culture, diversity of learners, project demands, and allocated resources.
  3. Learning Design Technologies
    Design and/or redesign learning experiences to create dynamic technology-enhanced and engaging environments by seeking out the learning design potential of new technologies.
  4. Communication
    Demonstrate the ability to effectively collect, analyze, and present ideas and data in multiple mediums and to diverse audiences.
  5. Cultural Responsiveness
    Create learning designs that promote social justice, inclusion, and the building of intercultural and global networks, while demonstrating the capacity to perceive multiple perspectives.
  6. Creative Problem Solving & Systems Thinking
    Respond innovatively to the learning design opportunities and challenges in diverse contexts of industry sectors and modalities, while creatively drawing upon the latest research in learning design.

Master of Science Degrees

  1. Foundational Knowledge
    Investigate the application of nutrition principles to the treatment and prevention of diseases to facilitate the adoption of healthy behaviors involved in practicing applied nutrition.
  2. Leadership/Business/Management/Organization
    Create or enhance a wellness and prevention plan or program for a portfolio that could be included in a job application package.
  3. Knowledge of Healthcare Environment
    Survey the public healthcare environment for in-depth examination and application of disease prevention including the science, evidence-based theories, and techniques to meet the contemporary demands of community health promotion.
  4. Research & Evidence-Informed Practice
    Conduct applied research and in-depth evaluation of a topic related to applied nutrition concepts, practices, challenges, and current trends through systematic literature review.
  5. Education & Training
    Create educational materials and/or messages to improve the health literacy of a target audience of patients or a community.
  6. Personal & Professional Effectiveness
    Effectively communicate, both written and orally, to educate the public and consumers about applied nutrition based on science, literature, and sound research.
  1. Financial & Economic Analysis/Data Analytics
    Use conceptual and mathematical tools to estimate economic relationships such as fluctuations in employment, prices, and economic growth.
  2. Economics Knowledge Base
    Develop a coherent framework for analyzing the determination of microeconomic and macroeconomic variables based on related theories and models.
  3. Entrepreneurship/Intellectual Agility
    Design and implement a project that applies economic theories to business and public policy issues.
  4. Communication/Global
    Develop a formal proposal, real or hypothetical, addressing a global challenge in the field of commerce and economic development that has not been adequately addressed.
  1. Stakeholder Management
    Incorporate communication theory, skill development, research findings, and best practices to assess the role of communication in supporting organizational performance by influencing the attitudes and behaviors of internal and external stakeholders.
  2. Communication Strategy Planning
    Design communication initiatives that draw on the intersection of communication at the individual, organizational, and societal levels by using an interdisciplinary focus and integrative strategic methodologies.
  3. Evaluation & Assessment
    Assess the effectiveness of a communication objective or strategy (qualitative and quantitative methods) for a sponsoring organization or your own organization to generate recommendations based on the findings.
  4. Cultural & Ethical Assessment
    Synthesize your experience, learning, and academic knowledge across the program to reflect upon your cultural and ethical perspectives on communication competencies in personal and professional context.
  5. Communication Fluency
    Demonstrate professional oral and written communication proficiency by crafting and delivering persuasive messages to target audiences.
  1. Global Knowledge
    Incorporate foundational global and intercultural knowledge, theories, and approaches to investigate global policy issues from government, private, and nonprofit viewpoints.
  2. Data Literacy
    Use both qualitative and quantitative research skills to explore data to address a global challenge that could lead to a greater positive social impact.
  3. Relationship Management/Entrepreneurship
    Apply relationship management and entrepreneurship approaches and standards to assess a practical challenge in the field of global studies.
  4. Social Justice/Global Mindset/Communication
    Assess and develop a position on a contemporary social issue from (a) a socio-historical perspective, (b) multiple viewpoints of the stakeholders and their decision-making, and (c) personal and global impact.
  5. Diplomacy
    Examine a global challenge in the context of peace and conflict from a variety of vantage points and possible diplomatic solutions.
  1. Human Resource Expertise
    Incorporate human resource theory, skill development, and best practices to assess the role of human resource management in supporting an organization’s human capital and business strategy by influencing and the attitudes and behaviors of employees and other workforce stakeholders.
  2. Business Acumen/Strategic Thinking
    Demonstrate the ability to align workforce development programs to support organizational performance by thinking strategically, understanding organizational strategies, and apply leadership skills.
  3. Relationship Management
    Manage interactions with key internal and external stakeholders through stakeholder analysis, effective communication, and consultative skills.
  4. Critical Evaluation
    Evaluate and interpret metrics that indicate the key drivers of human resource processes and make fact-based talent management decisions and recommendations.
  5. Ethical Practice/Cultural Awareness
    Demonstrate an ability to integrate core values, integrity and accountability throughout all organizational practices by considering the diverse perspectives and backgrounds of all stakeholders.
  1. Communication, Marketing and Public Relations
    Craft a marketing plan that represents the communication, marketing, and public relations strategies that nonprofit organizations use to inform and influence various constituencies.
  2. Cultural Competency and Diversity/Volunteer and Human Resource Management
    Analyze a global or international nonprofit initiative that highlights the need for cultural competency preparation for professional practice in culturally diverse settings.
  3. Financial Resource Development and Management
    Examine the major theories, methods and approaches to financial resource acquisition and development in nonprofit space.
  4. Financial Resource Development and Management
    Explore financial management, internal controls, budgeting, practices focusing on ethical and transparent approaches.
  5. Foundations & Management of the Nonprofit Sector/Future of Non-Profit
    Articulate the unique characteristics of managing the nonprofit sector and its emerging trends
  6. Governance, Leadership and Advocacy/Legal and Ethical Decision Making
    Explain governance and leadership roles and responsibilities with a focus on legal ramifications and ethical decision-making.
  7. Personal and Professional Development
    Assess and reflect upon personal and professional development skills, knowledge, and values that are critical in the nonprofit sector
  1. Development of Self
    Incorporate intellectual skills and foundational leadership theories to create personal and organizational leadership models, profiles, and plans for developing leadership competencies.
  2. Development of Others
    Integrate best practices for onboarding, developing, and coaching leaders, as well as creating organizational systems that ensure the company has strong leadership talent for current and future success.
  3. Strategic Thinking & Acting
    Develop strategic action plans to perform critical analyses of external and internal environments for a real organization, and develop recommendations for the organization’s strategic positioning and actions.
  4. Ethical Practices & Civic Mindedness
    Investigate a real-life ethical dilemma to develop an action plan for solving and preventing similar problems at the organizational and societal levels.
  5. Innovation
    Assess complex organizational problems related to leading change and driving results and recommend solutions for planning and managing the transition from the current situation to the desired future.
  6. Cross-Cultural/Global Mindset
    Reflect on leadership from key ethical, legal, policy, business, political, and societal frameworks in a global economy that is critical for creating an inclusive work environment for continued competitive advantage.
  7. Communication
    Demonstrate professional oral and written communication proficiency critical in a leadership position by crafting and delivering clear and persuasive messages to key stakeholders.
  1. Assess significant challenges involved in managing project scope, risk, quality, schedule, budget, and performance metrics, while effectively communicating with different project stakeholders.
  2. Reflect upon your own cognitive abilities and personal and professional effectiveness competencies that are critical to effectively administer and direct a project in a changing and evolving environment.
  3. Design an effective project plan for leading and managing the implementation of a complex project to meet business goals in a real-world setting, while avoiding common project management pitfalls.
  4. Develop a position on an ethical issue or dilemma that relates to ethical behavior governed by responsibility, respect, fairness, and honesty in the practice of project management.
  1. Auditing/Compliance
    Develop strategies for customizing QSRs to particular companies, device products, and manufacturing environments based on the FDA’s expectations for product design control, quality system documentation, and practical QSRs principles.
  2. Measurement System & Analysis
    Describe how measurement systems, as well as appropriate analytical methods are utilized to ensure compliance to standards specific to the development and life cycles of regulated products.
  3. Quality Management
    Translate global regulatory requirements for pharmaceutical, biologic, and medical device product commercialization into submission-ready documents and broadly applicable regulatory science solutions.
  4. Testing/Validation
    Investigate the quality assurance and compliance standards associated with developing and manufacturing new biopharmaceutical and medical device products.
  5. Compliance Standards
    Examine systemic reviews of audits in trends in reported issues across regions, including evaluating previous experiences with investigators as well as other approaches.
  6. Knowledge Healthcare
    Investigate the evolution of the medical device and pharmaceutical landscape from a technological, regulatory, and financial perspective, as well as from a societal and cultural framework, and its impact on the general economic environment.
  7. Professional Development and Lifelong Learning
    Integrate acquired knowledge, skills, behaviors and values to effectively craft goals to shape personal and professional identities in your field of work.

Master of Sports Leadership Degree

  1. Sports Knowledge Area/Innovation & Experiential Learning
    Demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge in sports and society, sports law, and media relations via selected artifacts from over the course of the program and well-crafted reflection on the related competencies and learning.
  2. Strategic Thinking, Planning, Action & Implementation
    Apply sports leadership principles, practices, and functional knowledge to address a practical challenge in a real-world setting.
  3. Leadership Development of Self & Others
    Integrate personal, interpersonal, and team-based skills and competencies required for leadership roles in sport organizations to offer solutions for change in various contexts within the sports industry.
  4. Ethical Practices
    Investigate a current ethical and legal issue related to sports, recreation, and leisure services and recommend potential solutions to address the issue.
  5. Civic Mindedness/Global Mindset
    Examine the role of sports in society within sociological, economic, and political contexts and how it can be used to develop community services and foster diversity.
  6. Communication
    Craft a strategy for building and managing an effective media relations program on the intercollegiate and professional level.

Doctoral Degrees

  1. Experiential/Inquiry/Agency
    Develop, adapt, and implement research methodologies to redefine, clarify, or resolve local problems of practice.
  2. Social Justice/Agency
    Disseminate and promote insights to peers and their communities of practice.
  3. Inquiry/Social Justice/Experiential/Agency
    Generate local and particular knowledge, framed around questions of equity, ethics, and social justice, to make a substantial contribution to an area of professional practice.
  4. Lifelong Learning
    Critically reflect on work in the program, scholar-practitioner identity and next steps in change work.

  1. Law Knowledge Area
    Evaluate and critique the structure and role of state and federal courts and basic concepts in legal reasoning.

  2. Policy Knowledge Area/Communication
    Develop conceptually informed recommendations to make or change policy structures and processes at a variety of scales and in different policy domains, and effectively communicate them to the relevant audience.

  3. Research & Analysis
    Create a plan of inquiry and execute such a plan, that uses the most appropriate technique(s) to analyze a public policy issue and make conceptually informed and empirically based recommendations.

  4. Public Interest
    Analyze the impact of political, economic, and social trends on the process of making and changing laws and public interest.

  5. Critical Thinking
    Craft recommendations, strategies, and arguments capable of influencing important debates in law and public policy in both domestic and international contexts.

  1. Diagnostic & Therapeutic Procedures
    Interpret the major theories, research methods and approaches to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the field of physical therapy.
  2. Patient Care Management
    Articulate the significance and implications of strengths, values, and practices for patient care management in the field of physical therapy.
  3. Quality Improvement/Problem Solving
    Analyze a comprehensive and publishable case report/research study that addresses the patient/client management model, clinical decision making processes, and resource utilization.
  4. Personal & Professional Effectiveness/ Communication/ Leadership
    Present a path to resolution of a problem in physical therapy, based on advanced concepts related to clinical management of patients.