Today's workforce is diverse; individuals are frequently interacting with peers, managers and customers, each with different backgrounds, experiences, group affiliations, neurodiversity, sexual orientations, religions, and identities. With equity and respect, these differences can enhance performance and creativity; workplace diversity can also help to increase employee and customer engagement, contentment, and inclusion. This course explores ways in which employees and managers can cultivate an inclusive workplace culture and offers means for expanding appreciation of each individual's uniqueness. This course may review paradigms that limit and promote inclusion, such as unconscious biases, behavioral change, leadership, acknowledgement of the dimensions of diversity, and enforcement of patterns by employers, employees, and society as a whole. Recommended: MGMT 566.

This course examines tools and methods used to manage projects of varying size and scope, and explores how these tools can be deployed to plan, schedule, execute, and assess projects from start to finish. Topics may include cost, risk, and quality management frameworks. While designed primarily for students in management-related and technology-related fields, the course takes a broad approach, recognizing the diversity of professions which require project management skills and knowledge. Students may be introduced to the roles and responsibilities of project and program managers in various settings, to the knowledge areas of the Project Management Institute, and to the significance of project management teams.

This capstone course focuses on the concepts and techniques of business management. It analyzes the process of developing and executing strategies designed to maximize a company's competitive advantage. With this information, students will develop skills to determine the appropriate strategy to fit the company's unique resources and environment. Students will have the opportunity to participate in experiential learning that will allow them to apply previous learning and degree content by crafting and executing strategy. They will also apply their knowledge of strategic management to their own field of professional interest by completing a course project. Students will also be required to submit professional documents such as a cover letter, resume, and professional portfolio as part of the course. Prior to capstone enrollment, students are expected to complete the majority of their required major courses. Students should consult with their advisor regarding specific major courses that may be completed with their capstone. NOTE: Students who were admitted to the college before Fall 2019 and have remained active in their original catalog year are not required to take IDIS 601.

Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of goods and services to maintain relationships that satisfy organizational and individual needs and wants. The course introduces students to terminology, functions, institutions, philosophy, consumer behavior, market decision-making and public policy issues. The course will provide students with the basic framework to understand the role and scope of marketing in the business environment.