2021-22 Graduate Academic Catalog

Page 88 2021–22 Graduate Academic Catalog Graduate-Level Course Descriptions CYBS-6200 – HLCA-6700 C Cybersecurity (CYBS) CYBS-6200 Introduction to Cybersecurity 3 hours This survey course will provide an overview of cybersecurity, including the threat landscape, threat intelligence, security solutions, and security incidence response. This course addresses the challenges in securing cyberspace and the goals of cybersecurity in the areas of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CYBS-6250 Foundations of Risk Management 3 hours This comprehensive course addresses financial, operational, brand, and technological business risks. There is an emphasis on assessing threats, evaluating controls, and implementing policies and procedures to mitigate or solve them. The course will also emphasize business continuity and risk management programs. CYBS-6270 Cybersecurity Law and Policy 3 hours This course provides an in-depth analysis of U.S. and international laws that apply to data security, data breaches, sensitive information safeguarding, law enforcement surveillance, cybercriminal combat, privacy, and many other cybersecurity issues. CYBS-6280 Enterprise Security Architecture 3 hours This course will integrate an understanding of information security elements into an overall enterprise security architecture. This understanding will include the conceptual design of the network security infrastructure, related security mechanisms, and related security policies and procedures. This course will identify architecture tradeoffs for choices in mitigating cybersecurity threats. E Economics (ECON) ECON-6400 Managerial Economics 3 hours This managerial economics course studies the role of economic theory in management analysis and decisions incorporating a Christian ethical context. This course is about economic principles and their relevance to business decision-making. We will explore the interaction of information, economic incentives, and market competition and how these interact to determine prices, products available, profits, and patterns of trade and organization. At the end of this course, students should be able to understand how basic economic reasoning can lead to improved managerial decisions. Prerequisite: BUS-6100 Managerial Data Analysis; or BUS-6300 Operations Research; undergraduate or equivalent competency in microeconomics. ECON-6450 Economics of Government Policy 3 hours This course provides a review of the macroeconomic instruments of public policy (both fiscal and monetary) and an overview of the implication to business decisions. Monetary policy will review tools of the central bank, a historical examination of the evolution of monetary policy, and the current state of monetary theory. The linkage between monetary policy and debt finance will be examined, and contemporary public finance issues will be explored. Monetary and fiscal policy impacts on interest rates, credit availability, and exchange rates will be assessed. Finally, collective decision-making will be examined with an introduction to public choice theory. Prerequisite: ECON-6400 Managerial Economics. F Finance (FIN) FIN-6500 Executive Financial Management 3 hours This course focuses on the critical financial issues and decisions facing organizational leaders and business executives. Key concepts covered in the course include analysis of financial statements, time value of money, cost of capital, working capital management, and cash flow forecasting. Using these tools, students will learn to evaluate and determine the value of organizations and proposed capital projects. Prerequisite: ACCT- 6300 Accounting for Business Executives. H Healthcare (HLCA) HLCA-6300 Healthcare Systems 3 hours An introduction to healthcare delivery, focusing on consumers, providers, organization, financing, quality and utilization of services, health planning, and political and governmental impacts. Includes a comparison of the U.S. healthcare system with those of other countries. In addition, there is a brief overview of global health issues and public health policies. HLCA-6310 Healthcare Policy and Data Analysis 3 hours The goal of this course is to explore current issues impacting the U.S. healthcare system. Governmental, environmental, and economic realities serve as the impetus driving the healthcare industry. This course will help graduates understand the perspectives of these varied stakeholdrs. Students will learn how to leverage big data to make data-driven decisions and the benefits and challenges wrought by health information technology. HLCA-6320 Quality Management in Healthcare 3 hours The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with the concepts and methodologies of quality improvement across the healthcare continuum. This course focuses on the vision, strategy, and tools relating to healthcare improvement. The course will introduce and explore the evolution of quality including definitions, principles, theories, and practices. The student is introduced to and applies a diverse collection of methods of quality improvement. HLCA-6700 Ethical Issues in Healthcare 3 hours This course will examine the various elements of healthcare compliance, including: occupational safety, security, patient and employment confidentiality/data protection, audit, HIPAA, and internal codes of conduct. The course will also examine emerging ethical issues and dilemmas that healthcare managers face. NOTE: For those students electing the healthcare concentration, this course substitutes (not replaces) for the M.B.A. course MGMT- 6700 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business.