College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Graduate Catalog

182 Students will learn leadership models and skills that can be used in a diverse and global environment. Attention will be given to important leadership issues in the 21st century such as ethics, change, and innovation. Students will have the opportunity to assess their own skill sets and consider development plans for enhancing those skills sets. CJI 6303 Market Decisions for Managers Students will gain a working knowledge of the decisions marketing managers make by learning to think strategically. Students will develop marketing plans aligning marketing decisions and strategies. Students will be able to implement marketing decisions to optimize customer and organizational value. CJI 6305 Leading for Sustainability The course invites students from different NSU schools to collaborate and innovate for social and environmental sustainability for Broward County Community. Students will work in teams. A small budget will be allocated to each group. Through practical business innovation, the course explores the creative process. Using a combination of lectures, discussion, example, and guest speaker videos; students from different fields such as nursing, arts & sciences, business, education will learn to collaborate together. Based on selected Broward County Top priorities to be a more sustainable community, participants will combine their expertise to create innovative real business projects on issues linked to one of the following goal area: Environment, Climate & Energy, our Economy & Jobs, Education Arts & community, Equity & empowerment, Health & Safety and the Natural Systems. CJI 6310 21st Century Management Practices (3 Credits) Students will gain an understanding of leading state-of-the-art business theories and will be able to apply them to real- world situations. They will learn to understand and challenge the ideas of 20 th century management thinkers, and to practice developing and challenging their own and applied models and paradigms. CJI 6320 Legal, Ethical, and Social Values of Business (3 Credits) Students will gain an understanding of the meaning and importance of the law, ethics, personal morality, and corporate social responsibility. They will exhibit moral, ethical, and socially responsible behavior, and will be able to analyze the business decisions from a legal, ethical, and social responsibility perspective. CJI 6330 Managing Organizational Behavior (3 Credits) Students will gain a working knowledge of how to manage personal, interpersonal, and group processes by having the interpersonal skills to assume responsibility for leading and promoting teamwork among diverse stakeholders. Students will learn to manage individual and group behaviors in improving organizational productivity and performance. Through experiential learning, students will learn to integrate home, work, and educational observations and experiences and to convert them into proactive practical applications for growth and renewal. CJI 6340 Managing Human Resources (3 Credits) Students will gain a working knowledge of planning, organizing, and managing human resource systems; and will gain hands-on abilities to design, direct, and assess human resource systems in enhancing relationships with internal and external customers, leading to organizational effectiveness. CJI 6350 Delivering Superior Customer Value (3 Credits) Students will learn to apply the customer- value paradigm in creating a market- driven culture that designs and delivers optimum long-term value to customers. They will examine strategies for optimizing and communicating customer value, measuring customer orientation, and building customer relationships; and will learn (using case analysis and exercises) how to blend the delivery of service and product quality with pricing strategies to maximize value. CJI 6410 Administrative Law and Ethics in the Public Sector (3 Credits) This course introduces students to fundamental legal concepts regarding administrative law and the administrative process. The course also introduces students to the field of ethics and shows how ethical principles are applied to administrative agencies to ensure not only legal but also moral government decision- making. Administrative law is the body of law concerned with the actions of administrative agencies, frequently called the “4th branch of government” in the United States. The course thus examines how administrative agencies are created, how they exercise their powers, how they make laws and policy, formally as well as informally, the laws that govern agency rulemaking and adjudications, especially the Administrative Procedures Act, Constitutional and other legal protections afforded against agency actions, and how agency actions are reviewed and remedied by the courts and legislative branch of government. The course also examines the intergovernmental relations and the political and practical constraints that influence administrative policy. CJI 6420 Public Administration in Theory and Practice (3 Credits) This course examines the role of public administration and not-for-profit organizations in a democratic society. Students examine the cultural and intellectual evolution of the field, the theories, forces, and people that drive the public sector and the specific management techniques used to implement public policy. Finally, attention is given to how public policies are developed and the institutions that governments use to implement those policies. CJI 6430 Strategic Planning in the Changing Public Environment (3 Credits)