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Applied Psychology

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Professional Core Course Descriptions

COMM 335 - COMMUNICATION IN GROUPS AND TEAMS

The course examines current theories and best practices of working collaboratively in professional contexts. Students apply these concepts to analyze their own work experience, generating strategies for how to improve their performance in work groups. Students will learn basic project management skills and work in online virtual teams to complete a final communication project.

HRM 420 - PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

This course provides students with an overview of the emergence and development of organizational development as a field, processes for diagnosis and intervention, and basic skills needed to facilitate individual, small group, and organizational change. The course will also cover key concepts in organizational transformation, organizational development in global settings, and future directions in the field.

MGMT 312 - PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

This course explores the basic concepts and processes of management. Students will explore the functional roles and processes of planning, leading, organizing, and controlling comprising the manager role. Students develop skills related to the manager function and required in today's competitive environment.

MGMT 325 - ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

This course focuses on the organizational processes and theoretical constructs related to organizational behavior. The roles of leaders, followers, and teams and their influence on the culture and performance of an organization are addressed through the analysis of key organizational behavior concepts and related cases. Topics will include: values, perception, attitudes, assumptions, learning, motivation, conflict, diversity, and change.

SOCL 310 - DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE

This course explores the spectrum of cultural diversity and its consequences within the workplace. While the focus is on the American workplace, some cross-cultural material is examined in relation to current trends toward globalization and multinational corporations. Important themes running throughout the course relate to recognizing and actualizing the benefits of cultural diversity in the workplace as coworkers and leaders minimize the misunderstandings that frequently accompany diversity.

SOCL 335 - APPLIED RESEARCH METHODS

Applied Research Methods introduces students from business fields and the social sciences to foundational issues of applied research - that is, research pursued for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and utilizing data pertaining to practical or real-world phenomena. Topics of study include but are not limited to the following: research ethics, steps of the research process, three major data collection techniques (i.e. survey, experiment, observation), as well as additional qualitative research strategies, measurement and sampling issues, and measures of association. Students work individually to conduct and report on a research project.

WRIT 320 - BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WRITING

This is an advanced composition course for juniors and seniors which focuses on business, technical and professional writing. Skills taught include audience analysis; research methods; questionnaire, interview and survey techniques; letters; data collection, interpretation and documentation; graphic illustration; and composition of reports in special formats. Instruction and practice are provided in writing various types of reports such as résumés, proposals, summaries, research reports and instructions for user manuals, and in presenting committee and oral reports. Students will be encouraged to relate course materials to their major programs and their workplaces.

The above list of courses only represents a portion of the courses required for a bachelor's degree. View the bachelor's degree full curriculum.

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