This course examines the theoretical foundations that inform health and wellness programs. Students will assess contemporary theories in health psychology and its subdisciplines to identify strategies to promote health and wellbeing. Students will evaluate current research regarding the biopsychosocial factors that influence health behaviors and decision-making. Students will propose and evaluate wellness programs with attention to the role of ethics, diversity, equity, inclusivity, and belongingness in health applications.

ORG 8550 Organizational Systems Theory Based on current thinking in systems theory and its application, this course applies systems thinking to organizational development. Topics include system dynamics, system archetypes, dynamic links, loops, and the application of chaos theory to improving organizational performance.

This advanced course explores the role of learning, education and training in designing and implementing organizational change. The course examines the role of learning initiatives as tools for change and as environmental factors that impel organizations toward changing their strategies and tactics. Based on current theories and applications for leading organizational change, students will explore current literature and case examples of learning initiatives and educational programs to implement and support organizational change and organizational development.

This advanced seminar explores current topics in aligning educational and business strategy in organizations. Students will explore current issues in this area, including published literature, with an emphasis on learning the implementation of educational and learning strategy in organizations. Topics include return on investment in learning programs, selecting the optimal combination of curriculum, instruction, and technology, and evaluating the impact of learning programs on the strategic organizational performance.

This advanced graduate seminar explores theories of motivating adult performance in the workplace. The exploration includes theories and application of methods for leaders to influence and persuade others in ways that motivate and engage them in their work and their organization's mission.

This highly experiential course explores current issues and practices in the application of leadership and organizational development processes and systems. Topics include effective 21st-century leadership styles and practices, virtual leadership, leading across global cultures, transforming organizational cultures, diversity equity, inclusion, effective leadership development programs, strategic planning in uncertain times, and other current topics. This course is an experiential course during which student will analyze their leadership skills based on the core concepts of the course and will culminate in the students developing a personal leadership plan for the 21st century.

This advanced graduate seminar explores issues and models for leveraging human resources to execute business strategy. Topics include succession planning, leadership development models, workforce staffing models, compensation models, and training and development strategies.

This course addresses the connection among organizational culture, executing business strategy, structuring organizations into teams and workgroups, and aligning these with culture. The role of leaders in creating, maintaining, and changing culture explored. The course includes current theories on the role of culture in organizational success and the role of leadership in guiding the organization and its culture toward successful outcomes.

This course focuses on methods used to examine the effectiveness of programs developed to treat offenders, support victims, as well those concerning crime prevention schemes. Prior evaluation models will be reviewed, diversity issues will be examined and problems and appropriate methods in assessing effective models of intervention will be discussed. Evaluation concerns will not only include program effectiveness, but also issues of equity, ethics and legal requirements. Students will become familiar with how to address the need to design and evaluate programs according to such concerns. They will also have an opportunity to examine how prediction techniques and operational research methods measure the effectiveness and performance of criminal justice programs.

This course explores the relationships among criminality, drug use, and addiction by examining the evolution of drug policies from the following perspectives: enforcement, prosecution, and sentencing of drug users and addicts. The impact of drug laws on criminal justice processing will also be examined. Students will gain an understanding of drug use and will explore theoretical orientations that help to explain why people use drugs and how such use leads to criminal behavior. Further, the ways in which drug use and drug policies have an impact on the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems will be covered. An integral part of this course will be based on current events, policies on drug treatment, and enforcement of drug laws.