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General Education
COM 210 - Business Communication I
L. Uwaezuoke
This course is designed to include the principles of the composition of effective business writing. Students would learn how to write business letters and memorandums with great accuracy in grammar, spelling, structure, and format.
ENG 100 - English Composition I
K. Irving
This course will include expository writing as well as the development and revision of paragraphs in essays. There will be various lessons that will be thought like rhetorical strategies, reading, and discussion of selected essays
HIS 217 - Western Civilization I
K. Irving
This course provides a survey of the historical development of western institutions, ideas, and cultures that have developed in ancient times as well as the era of European expansion.
PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy
K. Irving
This course is created as an introduction to philosophical thinking in general. A survey of the most significant philosophical disciplines, methods, and ideas will be made available for the students to comprehend and appreciate.
PHIL 264 - World Religion
J. Anyanwu
POL 100 - Introduction to Political Science
K. Irving
This is a course that gives the background for political science as it presents its concepts, approaches and the introduction to the theorists of political science. Students will enhance their analysis of this field through exposure to political activities.
School of Business
ACCT 820 - Financial Statement Misrepresentation
L. Uwaezuoke
This course is designed to equip those who will review and evaluate financial statements the skills to understand the complexity of financial statement misrepresentation. Students will benefit from an enhanced appreciation of what financial figures mean and how they can be manipulated in order to perpetrate fraud.
ACCT 845 - Role of the Expert and the Expert Report
S. Nwodo
This course will explore the scope of forensic accounting and how this applies to investigations. Since forensic accountants gain expertise in different areas of investigation, they can be invited to become expert witnesses not only in civil cases but also in criminal litigation. The students will learn different instances when accountants are asked to provide information through a discovery process that includes inputs from accountants and other experts. The course will also teach students how to use auditing and other investigative skills and present than in an expert report in order to aid in investigations.
ACCT 865 - Internship in Forensic Accounting
S. Nwodo
The internship course will provide students with the opportunity to apply and utilize the skills and investigative techniques learned from all the other classes in forensic accounting. The students will experience real-world application of their knowledge. They will be given complex case studies wherein they will need to collect, analyze, and evaluate evidence related to the investigation, litigation, valuation, and cyber forensics. The students will also be required to present their recommendations to prevent and detect fraudulent financial activities in an organization.
BUS 217 - Strategies in Decision Making
R. Stewart
This course will present an up-to-date look at how actual companies act strategically and organize themselves. The authors of our textbook provide the reader with a richness of theory, a richness of practice, and a strong basis for linkage between the two. We will combine a case study approach with theory that will provide the accumulated benefits of many years of careful research and thought about management processes, and emphasizes the textbook authors’ belief that in this complex world of organizations a range of concepts is needed to cut through and illuminate particular aspects of that complexity.
BUS 251 - Operation Management
J. Omoseni
This course focuses on the area of business that is concern with the production of goods and services. It also teaches the students of the responsibilities of business operations as well as the management of resources, the distribution of goods and service to customers.
BUS 800 - Communication Strategies for Managers
J. Anyanwu
This course introduces interactive interpersonal and oral communication skills that are important to managers. These include listening, running meetings, presenting to a hostile audience, and group decision-making.
BUS 835 - Systems Integration and Alignment
B. Adeyemi
This course provides an overview of computer applications in business organizations. Students expand their scope and domains of business practices using information systems. This course teaches students the use of data, information, and technology in a new way that will favor their organizations and shape the world business future.
BUS 885 - Negotiation and Competitive Decision-Making
J. Anyanwu
This course will provide an innovative, skills-based approach to needs development, negotiating, and presentation that students can learn and use to achieve effective and focused application of personal strengths. It will enable them to understand the skills and processes necessary to meet both the logical and emotional requirements of people and organizations, while respecting operational time constraints.
BUS 960a - Dissertation – Practical Research I
V. Butera
The course requires students to select research problems through the execution of authentic research until the preparation of a completed report along with practical suggestions based on a solid theoretical framework and sound pedagogy. Study goals and objectives as the first part of the dissertation are the main requirements of the course.
BUS 960b - Dissertation – Practical Research II
V. Butera
The course is a follow up to Practical Research I. The student is asked to perform a preliminary literature review. Practical Research II involves methods of literature selection where students employ different modes of literature scanning. Students must also propose a research methodology.
BUS 960c - Dissertation – Practical Research III
V. Butera
This course is taken after Practical Research II. Students carry out their approved research proposal by performing the proposed methodology. Results are collected and analyzed and a report of the study is prepared for the next step of the dissertation.
BUS 960d - Dissertation – Practical Research IV
V. Butera
This is the final stage in the Practical Research series. In this part of the dissertation, the student is expected to have completed the research requirements and is ready for oral presentation. The defense is done in the presence of selected members of a panel.
Comp Exam - Comprehensive Examination
A. Abbott
Students intending to pursue doctoral degrees must take and pass a comprehensive examination after they have completed their non-dissertation courses because it is a pre-requisite of the dissertation courses. One of the purposes of this examination is to sufficiently assess students’ full knowledge of the dissertation title they wish to research.
CSA 902 - Biometric Authentication Technologies
B. Adeyemi
Biometric Authentication Technologies is an introduction to authentication and identification technologies. This course discusses the fundamentals of biometric technologies and explores topics such as system performance assessment, usability evaluation of biometric technologies and biometric standards and their impacts.
CSA 960d - Dissertation – Practical Research IV
A. Abbott
This is the final stage in the Practical Research series. In this part of the dissertation, the student is expected to have completed the research requirements and is ready for oral presentation. The defense is done in the presence of selected members of a panel.
GRES 690 - Master's Thesis
J. Anyanwu
This course is designated for the Master’s degree program. The value of both practical engagement and research-oriented activities would be conducted to provide background for the thesis project that would provide the students’ degrees.
HRM 304 - Employee Benefits and Compensations
D. Bennett
Through this course, students are introduced to employee compensation and benefits as part of successful retention and motivation of all staff. Attention is given to rewards program to ensure alignment with business objectives.
MBA 524 - Organizational Behavior
J. Anyanwu
This is an advanced course that will tackle the application of concepts regarding how individuals and groups act within an organization. It trains students in a systematic approach by which the relationship of people organizations could be better understood. The student will know how to build better relationships to achieve the objectives of their organizations.
MBA 580 - Multinational Financial Management
J. Anyanwu
It applies economic and finances theories to analyze challenges the international financial environment poses to financial managers. The course highlights the management feature of international financial corporations. Topics include a balance of payments, international monetary system, globalization, and the MNCs, international banking, the market for exchange rates, international portfolio management, foreign direct investment international tax environment, and exports and imports.
MBA 600 - Human Resource Management
J. Anyanwu
This course seeks to help students understand the dynamic environment of human resources management and the complex decisions that all managers must make when managing employees. Topics covered include managing employees for competitive advantage, legal compliance, job design, workforce planning, recruitment, selection, training, development, performance management, compensation, incentives, and labor unions.
School of Education
B.Ed 101 - Human Development
J. Anyanwu
This course provides an overview and analyzes classic and contemporary theoretical approaches in human development. Students will specifically put more attention on research and theories that concern education as a context of human development. The course also focuses on human development in life span perspective.
B.Ed 263 - School Organization and Management
J. Anyanwu
Students will undertake this course on school organization and management to learn about new approaches to school leadership. In this course, students will specifically discuss and examine innovative models of school organization and management that distribute roles and responsibilities in an innovative way.
Ed.D 872 - Law and Ethics in Higher Education
S. Brown
Students will examine legal perspectives related to higher education. Among the topics to be discussed will be the bases from which higher education law comes, current (case, state and regulatory) law, as well as risk management and liability issues for higher education. The remainder of the course will focus upon the ethical issues that must be faced when shaping and implementing institutional policy, curriculum and procedures. Some emphasis will be placed on the areas in which legal and ethical issues come into conflict.
Ed.D 960a - Dissertation - Practical Research I (Proposal)
J. Anyanwu
The course is a follow up to Practical Research I. The student is asked to perform a preliminary literature review. Practical Research II involves methods of literature selection where students employ different modes of literature scanning. Students must also propose a research methodology.
Ed.D 960d - Dissertation – Practical Research IV
L. Uwaezuoke
This is the final stage in the Practical Research series. In this part of the dissertation, the student is expected to have completed the research requirements and is ready for oral presentation. The defense is done in the presence of selected members of a panel.
School of Health Sciences
BHP 402 - Health Communications
J. Anyanwu
This course is for students pursuing careers in the health sciences. The course examines general principles of communication in the context of community health organizations or settings. A systems approach will be used to understand health communication in health organizations. Topics include health literacy, key considerations for constructing effective health communications, and the application of behavior change theories and general marketing principles. Selected prior and, possible, current health promotion campaigns will be critically reviewed and students will be asked to develop a health communication intervention or social marketing campaign for their local community.
BHP 410 - Foundations of Clinical Genetics
J. Anyanwu
This course provides a fundamental background and genetics tools used in a laboratory or clinic. Students delve into genetic contributions to healthcare past and present, cell biology and genetics, testing technologies and applications, and clinical genetic services. The course covers ethical practice in clinical genetics, genetic determinants of behavioral disorders, and policy issues in clinical genetics and genomics
BSN 305 - Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing
J. Anyanwu
This course teaches students the evidence‐based process and its application to nursing care. Students develop the necessary skills to find and access evidence sources and utilize a model to translate the evidence into practice. In the process, students increase their knowledge and skills to practice evidence-based nursing care.
BSN 306 - Introduction to Nursing Informatics
J. Anyanwu
This course emphasizes the nursing informatics (NI) role and the importance of the NI nurse working within interprofessional teams to address patient safety and quality by deploying successful health information technology (HIT) implementation. The topics covered in this course are organized into major themes: patient safety and quality nursing care, point-of-care applications, data management, and analytics, with emphasis on the interprofessional team. (Formerly BHS 306: Health Information Management)
DHS 820 - Case Studies-Global Health
M. Ajonina
This course examines a collection of global health problems rooted in rapidly changing social structures that transcend national and other administrative boundaries. Students explore case studies focusing on how a broad biosocial analysis might improve the delivery of services designed to lessen the burden of disease, especially among developing countries. The basis for this course is material assembled by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), Global Health Progress (GHP), International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and World Health Organization’s Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), have joined together to prepare a set of multi-sector case studies to identify ways in which key stakeholders are addressing global health concerns.
See this link: http://www.casestudiesforglobalhealth.org/
DHS 860 - Comprehensive Exam/Graduate Report in the Health
M. Ajonina
The purpose of this examination is for the student to demonstrate understanding, synthesis, and application of Core Courses in the doctoral program as presented in the program and applied to a health science topic of the doctoral student’s own choosing. The Graduate Report in the Health Sciences will allow the student to showcase knowledge and practice skills that are representative of attributes needed to perform successfully in a health sciences career or to be successful in a doctoral program. Thus, the goal with this course is to help students learn how to develop both advanced academic and professional competencies that will help them secure a job following graduation and transition from being a doctoral student to doctoral candidate ready to undertake the doctoral dissertation. The Graduate Report should be 20 pages in length.
DNP 780 - Evidence-Based in Nursing Practice
J. Anyanwu
GRES 690 - Master's Thesis
J. Anyanwu
This course is designated for the Master’s degree program. The value of both practical engagement and research-oriented activities would be conducted to provide background for the thesis project that would provide the students’ degrees.
MPH 504 - Environmental Public Health
M. Ajonina
Environmental factors including biological, physical, and chemical factors which affect the health of a community.
MSN 603 - Nursing Research
J. Anyanwu
Nursing Research discusses the research process and its application to nursing and nursing practice. Discussions will be undertaken on different types of research and research methods, including statistical method. Emphasis will be given on rights and responsibilities toward human subjects.
MSN 635 - Nursing Leadership and Management
J. Anyanwu
This course discusses leadership and management theory and application so that students are able to develop skills in understanding and implementing change within the health care setting. Topics explored in this course are leadership theory and frameworks, change management theory and paradigms, project management and systems theory, organizational culture, and financial management.
School of Law
LAW 801 - International Law
B. Ihugba
This course introduces students to the law in its global context, which is highly essential in this age of trans-national and inter-jurisdictional practice. The focus of this course is on international public law. Through this course, candidates learn about the evolution and nature of international public law, as well as the distinctive aspects of international legal reasoning. Other topics explored are sources of international law, with attention on the customary international law and the law of treaties; international fact-finding approaches and activities; participation in the international legal system; effective settlement and/or mediation of international disputes; state responsibility; jurisdiction, and immunity.
LAW 815 - Environmental Law
S. Faculty 12
Environmental Law is a course introducing students to the theories and principles underlying environmental law at both international and local levels. The course covers Constitutional responsibilities and roles relative to the environment, the law and sustainable development, environmental planning using environmental impact assessments and land-use law, the principles of environmental protection, laws over climate change, heritage issues, as well as, protection of biological diversity.
LAW 817 - Intellectual Property
S. Faculty 14
Through this Intellectual Property course, students learn the treatment of laws pertaining to patents, trademarks, confidential information, designs, and copyright, as well as understand the protections that law provides in respect of ideas, inventions, information, and other forms of creative effort. The course also aims to explore how the law must balance interests and protect investment while taking into account public welfare and technological developments. The course will explore the interrelationship of the different regimes of protection and will also consider practical issues arising in the commercialization or exploitation of intellectual property. Students completing this course should have a basic grounding in the law of the area, its limitations, policies, and objectives, including the basic features of the various systems of protection.
LAW 821 - Introduction to US Legal System
C. Chukwuka
This course provides a thorough overview of the structure and operation of the legal system of the United States. Through this course, foreign-trained students will understand the workings of legal practice in the United States. This Introduction to the US Legal System explores the fundamental structure and operation of government in the United States, with emphasis on the judicial branch, and also covers methods of crafting, finding, and enforcing the law in the United States. Students will learn about the foundational values of United States law, primarily, due process and equality.
LAW 938 - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION SEMINAR I
C. Chukwuka
Writing and publishing a scholarly legal paper is unique in the sense that its methodology is different from other doctoral research papers in other academic fields. The objectives of this seminar is to educate, direct and assist students in their intellectual and legal scholarly dissertation writing.
LAW 939 - Doctoral Research Seminar II
C. Chukwuka
This course is a continuation of the Doctoral Research Seminar I course. It will aid students in development and completion of their dissertation.
LL.B 315 - Legal Research and Writing
C. Chukwuka
LL.B 320 - Equity I
P. Abutu
LL.B 325 - Evidence I
K. Irving
LL.B 420 - Law of Advocacy II
K. Irving
LL.B 425 - Administrative Law II
B. Ihugba
LL.B 430 - Jurisprudence and Legal Thoughts I
B. Ihugba
LL.B 445 - Real Property Law I
K. Irving
School of Psychology
Comp Exam - Comprehensive Examination
A. Abbott
Students intending to pursue doctoral degrees must take and pass a comprehensive examination after they have completed their non-dissertation courses because it is a pre-requisite of the dissertation courses. One of the purposes of this examination is to sufficiently assess students’ full knowledge of the dissertation title they wish to research.
DPSY 803 - Supervised Practicum II
O. Okpala
Participation in clinical projects involving ethical decisions & application sponsored and supervised by the clinical faculty. Ethics and the APA ethical code of conduct are covered in depth.
DPSY 938 - Doctoral Seminars in Research Methods
J. Anyanwu
This course lays the foundations of good research in the field of social sciences. It deals with the logic and assumptions underlying social research. Students will become exposed with various approaches to research design and methods. The course will help students to develop their own projects.
PSY 508 - Marriage and Family Theory
J. Anyanwu
In this course all major schools and developments in family therapy, and includes brief biographies of some of the leading family therapists of the twentieth century. Current research and development in the field will also be included.
PSY 526 - Diversity Issues in Clinical Psychology
J. Anyanwu
Minority issues as they affect psychological testing and psychotherapy. Women’s issues, issues of color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, differing physical abilities and age.
PSYA 802 - Contemporary Psychoanalytical Theory
S. Faculty 12
This course is motivated both by the need for an outline of the evolution of psychoanalysis since Freud’s death and by the hope of tackling the fragmentation which has led to the current ‘crisis of psychoanalysis’.
In three sections covering the theoretical and practical aspects of psychoanalysis, and analyzing the current state of the field, this course provides an overview of the principal concepts of contemporary psychoanalysis.
