MGT - Management

Builds foundational negotiation skills used in professional, personal, and community settings. Covers preparation, understanding interests, communicating with confidence, creating win-win outcomes, and resolving disagreements. Students practice negotiation scenarios and reflect on how negotiation choices align with organizational goals and leadership values.

Explores practical strategies for managing time, energy, and workload in demanding environments. Covers prioritization, habit building, task planning, focus strategies, and using technology for efficiency. Students connect time-management behaviors to workplace performance, leadership impact, and personal growth goals.

Build practical coaching skills used in leadership and management roles, covering topics such as active listening, powerful questioning, developmental feedback, goal-setting, and growth-focused conversations. Practice coaching scenarios and reflect on leadership values, workplace alignment, and approaches that strengthen personal resilience and team success.

This course is an introduction to practical, real-life ways to connect the concepts of leadership to the world of work. Students learn how to be subject-matter experts in their field and have a comprehensive understanding of how the workplace operates. Students explore a variety of leadership theories and models. Students examine workplace success with an emphasis on decision-making, organization of operations, affecting change regardless of title and how to succeed on a team.

Ever wonder what makes some organizations thrive while others struggle? In this course, you will explore how organizations create value for customers, employees, and stakeholders. You will examine how business models, organizational functions, competition, and market forces shape decisions and performance. You will learn how organizations operate as systems and identify how different parts of an organization work together to support effectiveness and results.

People are at the heart of every organization. In this course, you'll explore what influences individual and team performance and how managers help people succeed. You'll practice strategies for communication, coaching, feedback, accountability, and employee development while examining the role of workplace culture and leadership. You'll learn and gain practical tools to support performance and strengthen your own management approach.

Great ideas only matter if they can be put into action. In this course, you'll learn how to plan projects, manage resources, navigate change, and keep work moving forward. You'll explore project management tools, stakeholder communication, risk management, and strategies for adapting when plans change. Whether leading a project or contributing to one, you'll develop skills to help teams execute successfully in dynamic environments.

This course introduces students to project management principles within business and organizational contexts. Learners develop skills in planning, scheduling, resource allocation, risk identification, execution, and project delivery. Students apply structured project management tools and frameworks to real-world workplace scenarios, emphasizing timely and effective outcomes.

This course focuses on the design, analysis, and improvement of organizational processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Students examine workflow design, quality management, performance metrics, and continuous improvement strategies used in modern organizations.

This culminating course integrates learning from across the program as students apply management theory, tools, and reflective practice to a comprehensive real-world or simulated organizational challenge. Students demonstrate their ability to analyze complex situations, make informed managerial decisions, and lead strategic initiatives.

This course provides a comprehensive review of governance, structure, and management of nonprofit organizations with relation to organizational mission, history and the evolution of nonprofits. Topics covered include the duties of the governing board, the executive director and the importance of all stakeholder relationships, the legal framework of nonprofit law, ethical challenges, operational risks, and efficient and accountable mission-driven operations. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours

This course provides an overview of fundraising and philanthropy, with a particular emphasis on the psychology of fundraising, donor motivation, and strategic management and planning of the fundraising process. Topics covered in this course also include fundraising strategies, such as direct mail, annual giving, capital campaigns, major gifts, and planned giving; and funding sources, including private, corporate, government, and foundation giving. Fundraising research and donor cultivation, recognition, retention, and advancement are additional themes of interest. Pre-requisite(s): Graduate status. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours