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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
F. Monago
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 122 - American Government
L. Uwaezuoke
This is a course that provides the background for the principles of the American government that involve politics, processes and major institutions. Skills will be developed in terms of evaluating and analyzing public policies for public interests for the common good.
HIS 217 - Western Civilization I
F. Monago
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.
MTH 257 - College Algebra
J. Anyanwu
This is a course created to present the basic principles of algebra. It is a course that teaches the methods and theories regarding algebraic principles and problem solving.
PHIL 264 - World Religion
N. Kriemeyer
POL 100 - Introduction to Political Science
L. Uwaezuoke
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.
PSY 100 - Introduction to Psychology
C. Penco
Students will master the central concepts of psychology. They will be exposed to the latest research on Consciousness, Development, Abnormal, and Social Psychology.
SOC 110 - Introduction to Sociology
L. Uwaezuoke
This is a course that focuses on identifying as well as interpreting patterns of human social relations. This is designed to teach major findings in sociology and the fundamental sociological skills.
School of Business
BUS 907 - Applied Economics for Global Business
J. Anyanwu
This is an advanced course in economic analysis, with emphasis on organizations and their respective operating environments. The primary objective of this course is to help students learn and comprehend business economic concepts and principles and to apply them to a range of economic situations. Topics to be covered in the course are pricing and output decisions as well as cost and profit determination in competitive, imperfectly competitive, and monopolistic markets. Discussions will also encompass macroeconomic dimensions and policies impacting business activity in an open economy.
ACCT 306 - Income Tax Accounting
J. Anyanwu
This course covers accounting periods and accounting methods. Topics include inventories (including valuation, costing, and the requirements to maintain inventories), requests to change methods, prepaid income, income recognition principles, constructive receipt and cash equivalency, special methods that involve long-term contracts, prepaid expenses, estimated expenses, depreciation, and capitalizing vs expensing costs. Students will analyze these topics from both a tax policy viewpoint and technical perspective.
ACCT 800 - Detecting Accounting Fraud: Analysis and Ethics
J. Anyanwu
This course teaches the students the basics of detecting accounting fraud using forensic techniques in the gathering, interpreting, and documenting of evidence. Students will also examine common schemes in fraudulent transactions and the techniques to find them. The course will also teach students about the ethical standards in the accounting and auditing profession and how these standards could be intentionally or unintentionally violated through case studies.
ACCT 815 - Forensic Valuation
J. Anyanwu
Businesses require the services of people who can investigate alleged accounting misconduct, to provide them detailed valuation for a proposed sale or merger, or to create plans for taxation purposes. This course provides an understanding of how valuation is done from different business contexts. Robust judgments are required depending on the case or situation and students will be given exercises to allow them to develop this skill.
ACCT 820 - Financial Statement Misrepresentation
J. Anyanwu
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 825 - Accounting Fraud Risk Assessments
J. Anyanwu
This course provides an overview of accounting fraud risk, the risk assessment process, and a framework for conducting a risk assessment and reporting it to relevant stakeholders. Knowledge of effective fraud risk assessment can help businesses prevent and counter fraudulent practices in accounting.
ACCT 835 - Accounting Fraud in Government
J. Anyanwu
This course explores how accounting fraud is committed in government both by internal and external players. Fraud is expensive and damaging not only to the government but also to the general public as it could lead to billions of losses each year. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent them through early detection methods. This course also introduces the learners to the different U.S. statutes related to accounting practices and how they are related to the investigation of fraud and the prosecution of the same.
ACCT 840 - Internal Controls and Accounting Information Sys
J. Anyanwu
Accounting information systems support businesses in terms of their processes as well as in decision making. This course explores the role of accounting systems in business transactions, the relevant internal controls, and the use of tools like computers for the collection and organization of data and their subsequent analysis and reporting. The course also touches on the threats associated with the use of online accounting systems.
ACCT 850 - Auditing for Financial Reporting Fraud
J. Anyanwu
The course will teach students to develop and sharpen their auditing skills in order to detect, prevent, and avoid financial reporting fraud. Financial reporting fraud can be accomplished in many ways, and the effects on the business could be great. Internal and external auditors must be equipped with the right skills in order to prevent fraudulent schemes in financial reporting. The course will also highlight the challenges that auditors face in fraud identification, reporting, and implementing internal controls
ACCT 865 - Internship in Forensic Accounting
J. Anyanwu
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.
ACCT 960a - Dissertation – Practical Research I
J. Anyanwu
The course requires students to select research problem through 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 first part of dissertation are the main requirements of the course.
ACCT 960b - Dissertation – Practical Research II
J. Anyanwu
The course is a follow up to Practical Research I. The student is asked to perform 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.
ACCT 960d - Dissertation – Practical Research IV
J. Anyanwu
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. Defense is done in the presence of selected members of a panel.
BUS 150 - Business Ethics
J. Anyanwu
This course will focus on applied ethics as an art as the students learn ethical principles as well as encounter moral and ethical problems that arise in a business context. It will be presented as a normative and descriptive discipline that reflects on the different degrees of interaction with non-economic social values.
BUS 251 - Operation Management
C. Adams
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 310 - Business Taxation
J. Anyanwu
This course discusses a wide range of taxation concepts and legislations. Students learn the role of taxation in decision-making and business. They will also learn how to deal with the international aspects of the company’s taxation.
BUS 425 - Leading Organizations
J. Anyanwu
This course will use Gill Hickman’s Leading Organizations from SAGE Publications. The book features several discussions from different business authors. Thus, students will be introduced mainly to these divisions: inherent leadership context and concepts, the relationship between leader and participant in organizations, strategic management and implementation, and organizational cultures.
BUS 450 - Strategic Management
J. Anyanwu
Students will learn the fundamental concepts in strategic planning processes such as environmental scan, strategy formulation, plan implementation, and activity control. Plan drafting and evaluation are the key skills in this course. Psychological bases of strategic management and management failures will also be explored and analyzed.
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 810 - Managing Organizational Behavior
J. Anyanwu
This course offers students the opportunity to gain insight at the science of how individuals and groups of people behave at work. It gives students with a theoretical knowledge and skills used in organizational psychology. Students will learn about training, organizational development, health and safety, employee relations, and human-machine interaction.
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 860 - Law, Entrepreneurship, and Management
J. Anyanwu
In this course, we will examine how the current legal environment, government regulation, and e-commerce environment impact today’s business decisions. The cases in the text are cutting-edge, exciting, and engaging, and the reasoning of each case is presented in the language of the court. Specifically, we will focus on presenting the legal environment and ethics in a way that will spur students to ask questions and go beyond basic memorization to develop a greater understanding of the applicability to their business life.
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 893 - Global Business and Strategy
J. Anyanwu
Simply put, this course addresses the most challenging task faced by multinational companies-how to deal with globalization and the resulting need for globally integrated strategies. To answer this question, we will first look to understand global strategy. The remainder of our study will focus on diagnosing what the global market needs and how to foster growth in a competitive manner through competitive decision-making and strategy.
BUS 906 - Business Performance Statistical Analysis
J. Anyanwu
This course uses writing assignments, readings, and lectures to teach students how to be action-takers in complicated organizational settings. BUS students may gain the management and analytical tools needed to guide businesses. Key topics covered include ethical violations and the theory and practice of hiring.
BUS 925 - Financial Management
J. Anyanwu
The course focuses on corporate finance and capital markets. It emphasizes the financial facets of managerial decisions and delves into all areas of finance, such as the valuation of financial and real assets, financial derivatives and risk management, and dividend policy and corporate financing
BUS 938 - Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods
L. Bridges
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 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.
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 800 - Information Security Governance
B. Adeyemi
This course will discuss the requirements for information security governance. It will thoroughly discuss the required software, hardware, personnel, infrastructure and business processes to ensure that security is functionally able to help an organization in meeting strategic objectives.
CSA 938 - Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods
B. Adeyemi
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 to various approaches to research design and methods. The course will help students to develop their own projects.
CSA 960a - Dissertation - Practical Research I
A. Abbott
The course requires students to select research problem through 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 first part of dissertation are the main requirements of the course.
CSA 960b - Dissertation – Practical Research II
A. Abbott
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.
CSA 960c - Dissertation – Practical Research III
A. Abbott
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.
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.
ECON 660 - Urban and Regional Economics
C. Jane
This course is concerned about the distance, location, and space in economics. This course aims to provide students with an advanced introduction into the broad range of literature pertaining to regional and urban economics. This literature has en enduring tradition, both empirically and theoretically. The course has a basic theme in which space and distance are determinants in the outcomes of economic processes. Critical issues in regional and urban economics encompass location decision, the possible rationale for clustering of economic activity, spatial patterns of regional economic governance and divergence, the role of geographic elements in explaining economic growth performance of regions, the effect of spatial externalities of knowledge production, and the role that transaction costs play in molding patterns of global trade and foreign direct investments.
FIN 235 - Management Accounting and Control
S. Faculty 12
Students will examine management accounting and analytical methodologies for control and decision making in profit-directed organizations. This course defines budgetary control systems and product costing. It also defines evaluation systems for planning, directing, and checking the performance of a business.
FIN 332 - Managerial Analysis
S. Faculty 13
This course provides students with an understanding of the analytical tools that bear directly on the firm’s economic decisions. It emphasizes industrial performance and market structure, including the firm’s strategic interaction. In addition, students will also examine the behavior of individual markets.
HRM 100 - Organizational Theory and Practice
S. Faculty 13
This course explores the manners through which organizations may be designed in order to achieve their objectives. The course introduces students to the ways through which economists, psychologists and sociologists address this and related issues. It is an interdisciplinary course that compares and contrasts the contribution of the core social science disciplines to the study of organizations.
HRM 437 - Team Leadership
S. Faculty 12
This course introduces students to team leadership and how it is achieved through different frameworks. Attention will be given to theories on leadership.
MBA 510 - Global Marketing Management
C. Adams
This is an introductory course that teaches the concepts of entry-level marketing business in an international marketing setting. It covers business and marketing fundamentals, financing, buying and selling, distribution, information management, product and service planning, pricing, risk management, communications, economics, and marketing operations.
MBA 515 - Globalization Economics and Business
C. Jane
This course provides students with knowledge of the theories and applications of international economics. The course covers the comparative advantage law, the Heckscher-Ohlin theory, the Ricardian model, tariff and non-tariff barriers, alternative trade theories, customs unions, internationalization of financial markets, fixed and flexible exchange rates, and international capital mobility.
MBA 538 - Strategic Management Accounting
H. Hawk
Topics revolve around the study of managerial accounting for decision-making and internal reporting. The course uses a business management approach to developing and using accounting information. Topics include accounting for decentralized operations, cost analysis, cost behavior, control measures, and profit planning.
MBA 580 - Multinational Financial Management
F. Staff
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
D. Sengupta
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.
MBA 619 - Operations Management
C. Adams
The intent of this course is to provide students with a broad framework for evaluating operations management practices and understanding the major decisions made in operations and the connections of operations decisions to other functions. Topics covered include supply chain issue and strategy, quality management, demand and supply planning, inventory deployment/control, and transportation networks optimization. The course combines cases, discussions, readings, and projects to provide real-world application of business concepts.
MBA 655 - Global Customer Relationship Management
D. Sengupta
This course explores the global customer relationship management (CRM) perspective. In this course, students learn how CRM can be utilized to increase customer orientation level, product quality, customer satisfaction, and customer retention. This course also covers global efficiencies through CRM and the methods and tools for successful and evidence-based CRM to increase organizational competitiveness in global markets.
MBA 667 - Entrepreneurship
v. butera
This course introduces models about the major jobs of the manager who integrates product development, marketing, strategic planning, operations, human, and financial dimensions of the enterprise. These models are employed to understand the causes of the challenges managers are facing.
MCA 500 - Introduction to Operating Systems
S. Abdul
This introductory course on operating systems covers topics that include concepts in the operating systems and program execution. Students will also discuss operating system internals like memory, device, file management, and processor. Students will also compare and contrast various operating systems.
MCA 620 - Technical Writing
E. Dominic
In this course on technical writing, students will learn how to organize the expression of knowledgeable opinions and ideas. There will be exercises on oral presentation and preparing documents, such as reports, proposals, letters, and memos for effective communication. Students will use word-processing software in their writing process.
MGT 501 - Business Ethics
Y. McDuffey
This is an advanced course that focuses on applied ethics as an art as the students learn ethical principles as well as encounter moral and ethical problems that arise in a business context. It will be presented as a normative and descriptive discipline that reflects on the different degrees of interaction with non-economic social values
MGT 538 - Strategies in Decision Making
L. Bridges
This is an advanced course designed to give the students actual scenarios that will train them for analysis, synthesis, and application of critical thinking within an organization. There will be an emphasis on preparing students to deal clearly, rationally as well as creatively under diverse circumstances.
MIR 503 - International Conflicts Management
A. Abbott
This course provides students the opportunity to learn relevant theories and methods in international conflict management. The focus is on the use of skills and tools in mediation as well as conflict engagement.
MIR 609 - International Relations and World Politics
Y. McDuffey
Through this course, students will obtain the opportunity to analyze and explain contemporary international phenomena, including the identification and assessment of positions and interests of key international subjects. Students will draw on theoretical insights from more than one discipline.
MKT 505 - Marketing Research
R. Hudnett
This course involves gathering information that is meant to create a link among consumers, producers, and sellers. It seeks to identify opportunities and problems in the market. The information gathered is then used to reorganize business plans and come up with better solutions that will promote the success of the business. This information is also used in strategic meetings that seek to evaluate and redefine the goals of a business.
URES 499 - Capstone Project for Undergraduate Studies
B. Ihugba
School of Education
B.Ed 100 - Introduction to Teaching
J. Anyanwu
This course introduces students to the teaching profession. It presents both historical and current views of teaching and education, and encourages students to think more deeply, broadly and systematically about what teaching is, what teachers do and whether teaching is an appropriate course for them.
B.Ed 115 - Educational Psychology
J. Anyanwu
Students will survey and examine current problems and issues in education, which psychological theories and research can address. The course covers a wide range of topics that include testing strategies for teachers, developmental approaches to teaching, classroom management, and applications of learning theories in the field of education.
B.Ed 451 - Introduction to Counseling and Guidance
J. Anyanwu
This course introduces students to the concepts and principles and practices of the Counseling and Guidance field. It explores a variety of work settings where counselors are found. The course focuses on professional ethics and how counseling professional identity has evolved over the years.
Ed.D 800 - University and College Educational Admin
S. Brown
This course provides an overview of the complex and organizational milieu of universities and colleges and their educational administration. It covers administrative processes, tasks, and career orientation, and local, state, and federal issues. This course also provides concepts of organization and administration in contemporary institutions from the macro to micro perspectives. Study of theory and practice of the organization as it relates to governance, structure, and management of the institution. Students learn ethical dilemmas in university and college educational administration.
Ed.D 811 - Fundraising Management
S. Brown
This course provides a comprehensive overview for those entering the fundraising profession as well as those with limited experience who seek to expand their knowledge. Students are provided with an ethical foundation and are introduced to basic terminology and concepts in the field. The various fundraising vehicles are surveyed and participants learn to apply fundraising strategies as they balance individual donor and institutional needs. Relationship building, the solicitation process, the psychological dynamics and the realities of asking for money are examined as students refine their skills through analysis of case studies and participation in role playing exercises. A full array of written formats used by fundraising professionals including mission statements, grant proposals, acknowledgment letters, and campaign appeal materials are introduced. While students develop an understanding of the essentials of fundraising operations, they also examine the larger issues confronting today’s fundraising managers.
Ed.D 855 - Legal Aspects of Philanthropy
S. Brown
The course focuses on the legal dimensions of philanthropy, with an emphasis on tax and state laws and regulations. It examines philanthropy through the lenses of effectiveness, accountability, and legitimacy. Additionally, students gain insights into the underlying logic, core dimensions, and perspectives of philanthropy, viewing it both as an art and a science.
GRES 690 - Master's Thesis
C. Chukwuka
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.
MEd 604 - Cultural and Multicultural Education
D. Jimerson
This Course examines cultural and ethnic differences in values and the implications for classroom instruction and curriculum development. Examination of current research findings concerning cultural perceptions, practices and communication styles for teaching approaches, materials, learning experiences and curriculum development. This course also examines the
implications of cultural and ethnic differences for program planning for classrooms, schools and school districts.
MEd 612 - Teaching and Learning
D. Jimerson
The philosophical foundations of society and education are explored in this course and their impact on traditional contemporary theories of education is examined. Schools as institutions, issues affecting teachers, characteristics of learners, current topics related to the teaching profession, and the role of teachers in society are discussed.
School of Health Sciences
BHF 403 - Medical Law and Ethics
M. Ajonina
This course is for students pursuing careers in the health sciences. This course looks at the legal relationship between allied health care professionals and patients. Emphasis placed on the basic concepts and principles of ethics and law involved in the provision of health care services. Special attention given to issues of medical law and ethics in a global setting.
BHS 308 - Overview of Clinical Research
J. Anyanwu
This course is for students pursuing careers in the health sciences. This course is an overview of the basic concepts in clinical research. Emphasis is given to clinical research in a global setting.
BSN 400 - Health Assessment
M. Ajonina
This course teaches practical application of holistic health assessment as foundation for nursing intervention and practice. Skills to be taught are interviewing skills, physical examination, health history, cultural variations and laboratory and diagnostic procedures.
BSN 433 - Quality Improvement in Nursing Care
J. Anyanwu
This course orients students with quality improvement at their work places. Quality Improvement in Nursing Care incorporates activities that are designed to help students to put the theory into practice and ascertain that they comprehend principles such as quality improvement tools, clinical decision-making and the quality improvement process in the context of nursing.
HCA 526 - Health Economics
M. Ajonina
This course thoroughly discusses fundamental theoretical foundations of health production and the organization of health care, demand for health, health care markets and health care financing. Topics that are included are market failures, information as well as health insurance. Analyses will also be undertaken on industrial organization of pharmaceuticals, economic evaluation, health systems and aging.
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 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.
LL.B 215 - Law of Contract II
C. Chukwuka
LL.B 220 - Law of Torts II
P. Abutu
LL.B 225 - Legal Methods II
B. Ihugba
LL.B 315 - Legal Research and Writing
B. Ihugba
LL.B 320 - Equity I
D. Todd
LL.B 325 - Evidence I
D. Todd
School of Psychology
DPSY 777 - Supervised Practicum I
O. Okpala
The candidate will conduct intake assessments and participation in a variety of in-house clinical projects sponsored and supervised by the clinical faculty.
DPSY 802 - Intellectual Assessment
O. Okpala
Expertise in administration, scoring, and interpretation of various intellectual assessment tests. Integration of intellectual evaluation and neuropsychology–in particular, brain lateralization, minimal brain dysfunction, and learning disabilities. Writing evaluations, including referral questions and describing and integrating behavioral observations
DPSY 812 - Environmental Psychology
O. Okpala
Neurophysiology and pharmacology, emphasizing the relationship of brain mechanisms and synaptic chemistry to behavior. Special topics include techniques for studying brain-behavior relationships; sensory and motor systems; homeostasis and regulation of internal states; emotions, aggression and stress; learning and memory; and the biological bases of mental illness.
DPSY 999a - 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.
PSY 508 - Marriage and Family Theory
C. Penco
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
C. Penco
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 801 - Jungian Psychoanlysis
S. Faculty 13
The student will gain an understanding of Jungian thought. The course will bring up to date perspectives in the field of clinically applied analytical psychology, centering on five areas of interest: the fundamental goals of Jungian psychoanalysis, the methods of treatment used in pursuit of these goals, reflections on the analytic process, the training of future analysts, and special issues, such as working with trauma victims, handicapped patients, or children and adolescents, and emergent religious and spiritual issues. Discussing not only the history of Jungian analysis but its present and future applications, this course explores major contributions to the worldwide study of psychoanalysis.
