2019-2020 Graduate Academic Catalog

Page 74 2019–20 Graduate Academic Catalog Graduate-Level Course Descriptions CYBS-6200 – EDR-6350 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 trade offs 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. Education Reading Endorsement (EDR) EDR-6000 Linguistic and Language Development for Teachers 3 hours Teachers will study the linguistic foundations of reading and typical language development. From that basis, teachers will learn about language variation, academic language and common language disorders that impact the reading processes. EDR-6100 Literacy Issues and Trends 4 hours Teachers seeking the graduate reading endorsement will learn foundational issues related to both historical and current issues related to reading. Topics covered include literacy acquisition; reading skills; language of school-based texts; teaching struggling readers and diverse learners; use of new, popular, and critical literacy; and standards, assessment, and high stakes tests. EDR-6200 Diagnosis and Intervention in Reading 3 hours Study and implementation of individual assessment and teaching strategies in reading: knowledge of the uses of multiple assessments to identify students’ strengths and needs as well as to monitor progress in reading; development of skills to administer and analyze reading assessments; analysis of cultural, family, and environmental factors influencing reading; assessment and instruction in academic language; tiered interventions for RTI and development of individualized assessments, and plans for reading intervention to address a students’ learning needs. Prerequisites: EDR-6100 Literacy Issues and Trends. EDR-6250 Supervised Field Experience — PK-3 1 hour The supervised field experiences allow teachers to apply the knowledge of the classes in three grade ranges. All teachers must engage in a PK–3 field experience (minimum 40 contact hours), a middle childhood field experience (minimum 30 contact hours), and a secondary field experience (minimum 30 contact hours). Field experiences may be completed concurrently or consecutively in any order. Teachers should sign up for the number of hours based on the number of field experiences they will complete within the semester. Prerequisites: EDR-6000 Linguistic and Language Development for Teachers; EDR-6100 Literacy Issues and Trends; EDR-6200 Diagnosis and Intervention in Reading. EDR-6300 Adolescent Reading: Theory and Practice 3 hours Presentation of theory, research, and strategy for the instruction of adolescent readers (grades 4–12) with a focus on addressing the reading needs of students who are not able to meet literacy expectations for their grade level. Particular focus is on the the range of instructional practices, technologies, and curricular materials that may meet the academic needs of older students with disabilities and/or with culturally/linguistically diverse backgrounds. Prerequisites: EDR-6100 Literacy Issues and Trends. EDR-6350 Supervised Field Experience — Middle 1–3 hours The supervised field experiences allow teachers to apply the knowledge of the classes in three grade ranges. All teachers must engage in a PK–3 field experience (minimum 40 contact hours), a middle childhood field experience (minimum 30 contact hours), and a secondary field experience (minimum 30 contact hours). Field experiences may be completed concurrently or consecutively in any order. Teachers should sign up for the number of hours based on the number of field experiences they will complete within the semester. Prerequisites; EDR-6000 Linguistic and Language Development for Teachers; EDR-6100 Literacy Issues and Trends; EDR-6200 Diagnosis and Intervention in Reading; EDR-6300 Adolescent Reading: Theory and Practice.