Remote Courses

Introduction to the American educational system. Explores the philosophical, sociological, historical, and political roots of schools today. Attention also given to the legal status of teachers and students, including federal and state laws and regulations, school as an organization/culture, and contemporary issues in education. Explores professionalism, ethics, performance standards, and integrity for teachers.

Students will learn the important principles and concepts related to Adult Learning Theory. Students will be given opportunities to apply these ideas in real-world settings in their own educational and professional practice by developing concrete projects. These projects will be designed and implemented during the semester. Students will be required to further reflect on the projects in terms of effectiveness and the personal and professional growth of the student and the colleagues involved in the projects.

This course provides students with critical information and hands-on practice regarding the developmentvand implementation of the Individual Education Program (IEP), the federally required document that describes all the components of special education services and safeguards for students with disabilities. Participants will learn regulatory background, essential components, procedural requirements, implementation practices, and monitoring strategies that support effective IEP implementation and lead to positive student outcomes. Participants will analyze and evaluate IEPs, gaining expertise in IEP development and implementation.

Introduction of the core concepts of self-care in order to provide a research-based, strengths-based approach to creating trauma-informed and resilience-fostering school environments. Students will gain an understanding and awareness of burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and vicarious trauma for trauma-responsive helping professionals. Risk and protective factors as well as symptoms will be explored. The course is also designed to familiarize students with contemplative practices, their relevance for the field of wellness, and to give professionals methods for taking care of themselves and preventing burnout.

Introduction to differentiated instruction and examination of why it is appropriate for all learners, how to plan for it, and how to become comfortable enough with student differences to make school comfortable for every learner in the classroom.

Various methods for recruiting, selecting, and retaining employees are examined. Topics may include equal employment opportunity, human resource planning, determination of staffing needs, internal and external recruitment strategies, selection interviews, tests and assessment procedures, placement, promotion, transfer policies, and retention strategies.

HRM 531U.

Provides theoretical and practical foundations necessary to perform digital forensic investigations through hands-on use of industry standard tools, tactics, and techniques. Uses real world laboratory exercises to demonstrate practical use of tools and techniques, analysis and interpretation. Topics include Legal and Ethical issues, Evidence Acquisition and Handling, Disk Analysis and File Recovery, Windows Artifact Analysis, Brower Forensics, Network Forensics, and Memory Forensics.

ISYS 302U

Introduction to methods and approaches for business decision making through spreadsheet modeling and decision analytics. Knowledge is gained through the practice of quantifying performance, solving problems, and developing skills to make sound conclusions driving business value. This course focuses on strategies around operations, logistics, finance, and technology seeking proficiency in today’s widely used business analytics techniques. A broad perspective on analysis, providing students opportunities to use tools, case studies, and simulations through text and real-world situations will all be explored.

ENGL 201U for degree-seeking students; MATH 265U recommended.

Evaluates cyber security open-source intelligence tools used by organizations when performing initial stage reconnaissance, black and white hat hackers, and agencies creating DOX reports on corporations and individuals. Various tools are leveraged to create a target profile such as reverse imaging, social networks, IP address, and geographic location identifications. Supporting case studies are examined.

English 201U for degree-seeking students.

Covers designing, building, and governing AI agents for real-world enterprise, operations, and security applications. Explores the foundations of agentic AI through practical labs using leading industry platforms. Topics include enterprise use-case selection, agent architecture and prompting, security and guardrail design, human-in-the-loop workflows, knowledge grounding, tool interoperability, and AI governance. No programming background is required.

Introduces principles and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of cybersecurity. Covers the theoretical foundations of AI, machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL). Introduces practical AI applications for detecting, preventing, and responding to cybersecurity threats. Addresses real-world cybersecurity problems including spam and phishing detection, malware classification, network intrusion detection, and biometric authentication.

Land and its elements; law of fixtures; types of easements and how they are created; acquisition of title and other interest in real estate property by deed, will, inheritance and adverse possession; co-ownership and marital rights; the legal and practical matters of real estate contracts for residential, commercial and construction transactions; plats of survey and legal descriptions; form and substance of deeds; recording priorities; and title examination and title insurance.

Explores emerging methods in the digital humanities as well as the intellectual context surrounding them. This project-based course will require students to identify an area of inquiry and apply digital humanities methods, such as mapping, text mining, and database construction. Students will then synthesize their findings in a multi-media presentation.

Integrative seminar with community-based learning project (or critical issues facing nonprofits). This course integrates the skills and knowledge obtained within the curriculum.

NPS 501U and NPS 520U

The Organizational Psychology class will allow students to gain a broad understanding of many areas critical to effective human resource management. Further, the graduate level course will allow an in-depth understanding of many social sciences grounded theories and practices as applied to the real world business setting. The course will help students when faced with real world decisions including: determining selection strategies and selecting valid tools, how to drive performance and development with a performance appraisal tool, how to assess needs and train for results, how to develop and select effective leaders, how to design teams and deal with conflict, how to impact morale through satisfaction and motivation strategies, and how to manage and cope with work-related stress. The ultimate intention of the course is to equip students with the knowledge and tools they will need to positively impact their organizations.