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2018-2019 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum [Archived Catalog]
Course Descriptions
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Courses are identified and organized by degree program. Listed below are those courses for the 2018-2019 academic school year. CampusVue will list courses open for enrollment each semester, by Section if applicable. Not all courses are offered every semester.
College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences (CIMHS)
All courses are online. Each course description includes information about the term in which it is offered every academic year, as well as any prerequisites and residential conference (RC) requirements. Students registered for an online course that requires residential training must attend the specific RC component to remain enrolled.
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Existential, Humanistic, and Transpersonal Psychology |
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EHTP 3605 - Kabbalah and Transpersonal Psychology
The objective of this course is to give an overview of the Kabbalah-the esoteric offshoot of Judaism-and its contemporary relevance for transpersonal psychology. The major teachings of the Kabbalah and Hasidism will be presented concerning human personality and growth, as well as classic methods such as meditation for awakening intuition, creativity, and other higher potentialities. 3 credit(s)
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EHTP 3610 - Transpersonal Neuroscience
This course examines transpersonal states of consciousness as seen through the eyes of contemporary transpersonal psychology and brain science and the controversies that surround these topics. Sections of the course will examine the nature of consciousness itself, in brain science as well as the philosophy of mind and transpersonal psychology, and explore in nontechnical ways the fundamentals of transpersonal neuroscience and consciousness, looking toward how this approach sheds light on spirituality and higher states of awareness. 3 credit(s)
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EHTP 3615 - Existential Psychology and Literature
Kafka, it is clear, read Freud. What might have happened had Freud read Kafka? What if psychology had inclined from the start-as William James, Otto Rank, and Rollo May had urged-toward literary and intuitive epistemologies and conceptions of the mind as it sketched out its apparent topography? Modernist European writers like Pirandello, Woolf, Kafka, Musil, Beckett, and Broch were native psychological geniuses who understood reflexively that existence and psychology could not be systematized-precisely why they opted for fiction and sometimes essay as their preferred methodologies. “No longer joy in certainty but in uncertainty,” exhorted the forward-looking Nietzsche; “No longer ‘cause and effect’ but the continually creative.” In this course, we shall consider selections from the work of some of these modernist masters and several others as well and, so, open up to the crossroads between literature, awareness, world, and the mind. We will be considering, in effect, a gathering of “existential soundings” and thereby inquiring into that, arguably, that only the literary sensibility can say. 3 credit(s)
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EHTP 4530 - Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality in Their Cultural Contexts
This course provides an overview of the ways that religion and spirituality interact with psychology with special attention to the cultural context. This includes an exploration of various models for how religion and spirituality can relate to science and, in particular, psychology. Various models for psychology of religion and spirituality are considered, as well as models for integrating religion and spirituality with psychology. Psychology historically has had a complex relationship with religion, spirituality, and culture. The primary purpose of this course is to explore various models for the interrelationships of psychology, religion, and spirituality with special consideration given to the cultural influences upon these relationships. Consideration will be given to these domains (psychology, religion, spirituality, and culture) separately as well as from an integrated perspective. The course begins with an overview of definitions and exploration of epistemological issues relevant to how science and psychology can relate to religion and spirituality. The next section of the course explores various models for the psychology of religion, followed by a section on models for integrating psychology with religion and/or spirituality. The concluding sections of the course devote attention to the cultural contexts for the relationships between psychology, religion, and spirituality as well as consideration to applications of the psychology of religion and the integration of psychology with religion and spirituality. Though open to all students, this course also satisfies the Clinical Interventions III/IV requirement in the Clinical Psychology degree program, with Clinical Interventions I & II as prerequisites. 3 credit(s)
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EHTP 4535 - The Use of Poetry with Death, Loss, and Life Transition
The creative arts are often used to assist people facing death, loss, and other important life transitions. Similarly, these life events often cause individuals to reflect upon the meaning in their life and seek to create new meaning, which can be aided by poetry and the creative arts. This course focuses on the use of poetry when encountering death, loss, and life transitions. Students are encouraged to reflect upon their own use of creativity in times of difficult life transitions. Additionally, students will explore ways to facilitate the use of poetry with others facing life transitions. Poems from various cultural backgrounds are considered. Though open to all students, this course also satisfies the Clinical Interventions III/IV requirement in the Clinical Psychology degree program, with Clinical Interventions I & II as prerequisites. Cross-listed with CS 4535 and PSY 4535. 3 credit(s)
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EHTP 6150 - Existential Psychotherapies II: Rollo May and the Existential Tradition
Rollo May was the founding parent of existential-humanistic psychology and a pivotal figure in what we may call philosophical/psychological rapprochement. His books, byproducts of a profound disposition and wide-ranging literacy and curiosity, encourage a rich dialogue between philosophy and psychology and the broader humanities. May expresses concretely what he believed from the time of his earliest work: that psychology requires a grounded, theoretically cogent, interdisciplinary approach to human nature. His books remain an auspicious place to start for those interested in learning about what psychology at its most esoteric can be. In this course, we will consider Rollo May’s work and legacy attentively, thereby glimpsing what psychology at its most visionary and rarified might be. Though open to all students, this course also satisfies the Clinical Interventions III/IV requirement in the Clinical Psychology degree program, with Clinical Interventions I & II as prerequisites. 3 credit(s)
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EHTP 8151 - Practicum in Professional Practice
This course is intended for students seeking practicum training not related to clinical practicum or the MFT program. Students are responsible for arranging the practicum and should consult the director of the EHTP Specialization in order to identify a Saybrook faculty liaison. Prerequisite(s): Open only to students pursuing an EHTP certificate. 3 credit(s)
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EHTP 8950 - Certificate Integrative Seminar
The final part of the Certificate is the integrative paper. The purpose of the integrative paper is to give the learner an opportunity to draw together the most important aspects of the Certificate courses, to assess strengths and identify further learning needs, and to develop a specific plan for continuing personal and professional work. Prerequisite(s): Open only to students pursuing an EHTP certificate. 1 credit(s)
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MA Leadership/NOLS |
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MAL 6001 - Foundations of Leadership
This course will focus on leadership as an integrative discipline and examine leadership as both a role and a choice. Students will gain basic fluency in the theory and practice of leadership grounded in the NOLS Leadership Model. Through a comprehensive and historical review of leadership theory, students will explore, both experientially and conceptually, the different approaches to leadership and the opportunities, challenges, and rewards of each approach. Special emphasis will be given to the theory and practice of emotional intelligence. Each student will also examine the native and acquired qualities and attributes that constitute their own unique approach or “Signature Style” as an emerging and evolving leader demonstrated on expedition, the cohort and online learning community, and in personal and professional domains. As a foundational course, the focus is on intrapersonal and interpersonal leadership. 3 credit(s)
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MAL 6002 - Systems Thinking and Adaptive Leadership
This course introduces students to systems theory, family systems theory, and their application in Adaptive Leadership. The systems thinking skills that are introduced are: cultivating non-reductionist thinking approaches; performing contextual analyses; recognizing feedback loops, stocks, and flows; emergent properties and strange attractors; and cognitive agility with self-organizing dynamics and structures. An outcome of this course will be the ability to exercise agile thinking - processing, integrating information that emerges out of complex dynamics and relationships. Adaptive Leadership is introduced as a specific leadership framework for engaging in the field of complex dynamics and emergent properties. 3 credit(s)
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MAL 6003 - Coaching and Neuro-Leadership
This course will focus on the growing field and discipline of coaching and its application in a variety of leadership contexts. Coaching is a fundamental skill required of all types of leaders, whether they are leading through influence or through direct managerial responsibility. Coaching is also a growing profession and skill for those in positions of leadership development. Although the course will review the breadth of the leadership coaching field, particular emphasis will be placed on the emerging concepts from Neuroscience and their impact on coaching and leadership in general. This course builds on the emotional intelligence work from Foundations of Leadership by introducing the theory and practice of mindfulness. 2 credit(s)
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MAL 6004 - Information Competency
Students will use online and printed resources to explore and discover different types of materials and sources of information for future research projects and for life-long learning. Students will learn and practice finding, citing, evaluating, and annotating online and printed information sources, will learn to use APA citation formatting, will assemble an annotated bibliography, and will be introduced to a number of online resources and tools. 2 credit(s)
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MAL 6005 - Group Dynamics and Leadership
This course will focus on the theories and practices of effective group and team functioning. Models of group development will be compared and contrasted. Teams, as distinct from groups, will also be an area of focus. Specific group dynamics resulting from the tensions or inherent paradoxes of group membership will be both discussed and experienced as part of the expedition component of this course. Students will have an opportunity to both identify and practice specific leadership actions that help resolve group or team dilemmas. The development of group/team facilitation skills will be emphasized. 2 credit(s)
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MAL 6006 - Ethics and Sustainability
This course will provide both a conceptual overview of ethics as well as requiring students to consider the relationships between leadership, ethics and sustainability on a personal and professional level. Students will explore theories and models of ethics as well as ethical development. They will consider the role of leader in making ethical decisions in a complex global and interdependent context, and the challenges facing the Ethical Leader. This will be grounded in present context of considering the challenges of contemporary global issues including sustainability, using the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a frame of reference. One credit of the course will occur through experiential education on a NOLS canyoneering course, which will take place in a fragile ecosystem, requiring daily decisions and actions related to ethics as sustainability by students. Students will complete a Leave No Trace master’s educator course. Students will develop a personal or professional code of ethics to guide them in their future work and lives as a part of this course. 3 credit(s)
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MAL 6007 - Diversity Inclusion and Action
This course will focus on issues of diversity, inclusion, and addressing biases and discrimination in the context of leadership as well as global citizen. Students will develop empathy as a key skill in identifying, defining, and addressing micro-aggressions, with experiential practice. They will discuss the changing nature of identity, and sharpen their receptors to appreciate the experience of others. Systems of oppression, the ineffectiveness of colorblindness as a solution, and the fallacy of reverse racism will be directly addressed. Through the experiential portion of this course, the relationship between power and conflict will considered. Students will receive feedback on their interventions and other actions to effectively address statements and actions of bias in culturally and contextually appropriate means. 2 credit(s)
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MAL 6008 - Change Leadership
This course will investigate the field of change at the level of individual, group and organization. Through a review of the historical roots of applied behavioral science and humanistic psychology up to the current thinking from systems and complexity science, the concepts and practices of change leaders will be explored. Resistance to change, an inherent complementary component of this topic, will be reviewed. Leadership practices and tools to promote entrepreneurship and innovation will also be covered. As a result of this review, students will develop their own “Practitioner Theory of Change” and have selected their client system for the third semester Capstone practicum. 3 credit(s)
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MAL 6009 - Managerial Leadership and Organizational Behavior
This course is focused on the unique leadership challenges inherent in managerial hierarchies. Distinctions will be discussed between management and leadership. Basic management concepts and skills will be reviewed including human resource practices, financial literacy and process improvement. Basic organizational leadership concepts and skills will include the importance of values, mission, vision and goals. Stages within organizational life cycles and the impact on leadership approaches and practices will also be covered. 2 credit(s)
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MAL 6010 - Group Dynamics and Leadership II
This course will build on the second semester course (Group Dynamics and Leadership I) with a more specific focus on skills application, both in the conference-based Skill Group activity and during the third expedition. Students will have numerous opportunities to assess group norms, facilitate interpersonal processes and conflict, select and effectively implement interventions appropriate to the group’s current stage of development, and receive real-time feedback on their leadership actions. Additional models concepts on group leadership will be introduced. 2 credit(s)
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MAL 6011 - Virtual Global Leadership
The aim of this course is to explore the theories and methodologies that enhance leadership and management of complex global organizations with distributed and technological workplaces. Managing global organizations is complex and challenging and involves leading a staffs, teams, project groups, etc. who are not co-located. Global leaders need to build dynamic relationships across and beyond an organization to collaboratively engage with employees, shareholders, suppliers, and customers around the world. Developing innovative global organizational cultures, processes, networks, workplace platforms, etc. require an understanding of organizational communication, sociotechnical systems, knowledge sharing ecologies and virtual teams. This course provides an opportunity for students to explore these areas and to develop new knowledge and skills by learning, experimenting, evaluating and adapting useful methods to envision innovative global organizations with collaborative dispersed workplace environments. 3 credit(s)
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MAL 6012 - Social Change Theory
leveraging network partners toward the accomplishment of a common goal. Building on the Systems Thinking and Adaptive Leadership course of the first semester, students will gain fluency in the practice of systems mapping grounded by field experience with NOLS on an Alaska Backpacking Expedition. They will explore, both experientially and conceptually, the domains of systems theory and its opportunities, challenges, and rewards. They will also examine leadership qualities and attributes that Systemic Facilitators require, as well as those of Sustainability Change Agents. Collaborative problem solving will be an integral component of this course, and will be demonstrated on expedition, the cohort and online learning community, and in personal and professional domains. 2 credit(s)
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MAL 6013 - Capstone Project
This course will integrate the learning from all previous courses into hands-on learning. capstone practicum experiences. Students will select an appropriate capstone project based in their community, with supervision and guidance from the course instructor. As a part of the project, students will integrate concepts from previous coursework, developing goals and strategies, using a systems-based approach, and the application of change leadership theory. Students will also expand their practice of expedition leadership through co-leading with others, and increased responsibility for group and course outcomes. Each student will select an aspect of group culture that s/he would like to change, develop a plan for creating and leading this change, implement that plan in concrete actions, and evaluate the change. Students will discuss as well as reflect on both their expeditionary leadership and their efforts to lead and facilitate cultural change within an existing group. They will also examine their capacity to lead others, create change, and support the leadership of others as demonstrated on expedition, the cohort and online learning community, and in personal and professional domains. 3 credit(s)
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MA in Management |
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MAM 8000 - Organizational Systems & Culture
Leaders in all sectors encounter complex systems that directly impact culture in organizations. They are challenged to co-create models and systems that sufficiently address the complexity while poising the organization to meet future challenges. This course explores the leadership and organization behaviors through multiple lenses and in various contexts. It critically examines the dimensions of system and culture that leaders must navigate. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8001 - Global Economies, Markets, and Supply Chains
With the emergence of interdependent worldwide economies, business organizations are shifting from envisioning themselves as highly competitive international businesses to profitable sustainable global enterprises. This mindset gives rise to new business strategies, financial management principles, collaborative forms of inter-organizational partnerships and alliances, and innovative operational processes, including sustainable approaches to gaining and serving global markets, managing global supply chains and reaching business goals. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8002 - Foundations of Leadership & Management
This course grounds students in classic and emerging theories of leadership and management. They will explore a range of core concepts required to move from theory to skillful practice. Students will be encouraged to explore and expand their understanding of their own practices of leadership and management. Further, they will consider the concepts in a variety of organizational settings. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8003 - Dispersed Workforce Characteristics, Environments, and Issues
Managing a global workforce requires a wide variety of leadership qualities and talent management skills including the ability to identify, understand, analyze, and address complex workplace issues from a social systems perspective. It also involves developing a cosmopolitan mindset and understanding how world issues impact the organization’s operations and workplace dynamics. This course examines the core characteristics of a global workforce and the complex business, political, economic and social issues that managers routinely face while developing students’ leadership and managerial skills in creatively resolving challenging workplace situations in an ethical and sustainable manner. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8004 - Talent Management Principles, Practices & Contemporary Issues
While technology has a commanding presence in the business landscape, leaders recognize that the organization’s talent is its most valuable asset. This course introduces the fundamental theories and practices of talent management. This includes a focus on essential elements including employee development, succession planning, and employee engagement. Students will be introduced to best practices in talent management that they will be able to apply in their practice of leadership and management. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8005 - Managing Across Cultures
While critically examining inter-cultural managerial concepts and challenges, this course has a “practical application” format, providing students an opportunity to creatively experiment with and practically apply the concepts and practices examined in MAM 8003 & 8008 to organizational settings. It enables the further development of students’ own global leadership perspectives while integrating new learning into their professional management approaches and workplace practices. With emotional and cultural intelligence as a background, there is a particular focus on how to realistically address the challenges created by distributed organizations and a global workforce, including how to effectively communicate across cultures, develop vibrant intercultural work environments, collaborative work relationships and teams, and address cross-cultural workplace conflict. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8006 - Organizational Communication Systems & Strategic Partnerships
Organizations are complex, ever-evolving systems of networks, partnerships and alliances. Leaders are responsible for both navigating and co-creating these webs. This course examines the many facets organizational communication systems and the ways in which they impact the formation and furtherance of strategic partnerships. The course will explore the roles that leaders play in the dissemination of information and creation of dialogue. Students will delve into the critical role that strategic partnerships play in organizations of all types. They will learn how to formulate and leverage partnerships that advance their organizations’ missions. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8007 - Strategic Information Systems, Knowledge Ecologies, and Technology
A business enterprise has to structure consciously its communication, information, decision support, and knowledge management systems and processes so they support a distributed organizational structure and way of conducting business in a global context. This includes managing an organization’s supply chain, plus building and maintaining customer relationships and providing customer service. Utilizing an inter-organizational perspective and knowledge ecology framework, this course examines how to design innovative intra- and inter-organizational business structures and work systems. It also explores how to deploy information, communication and collaboration technology to engage business partners and motivate knowledge workers, how to foster collaborative organizational networks and cross-cultural teams, and how to promote efficient and effective decision making and daily operations. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8008 - Social Network Analysis, Partnership Facilitation, and Conflict Resolution
While critically examining managerial concepts and challenges related to establishing engaged social networks in a distributed organization, this course has a “practical application” format, providing students an opportunity to creatively experiment with and practically apply the concepts and practices examined in MAM 8003 & 8005 to organizational settings. It enables the further development of students’ own virtual global perspectives while integrating new learning into their existing professional management approaches and workplace practices. With organizational behavior and social psychology as the background, there is a particular focus on how managers can develop vibrant knowledge sharing organizational dynamics, establish organizational partnerships, analyze organizational networks, implement innovative virtual work environments and meetings, and handle organizational conflict. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8010 - Communication & Group Dynamics
Organizations function through networks of formal and informal communication and group dynamics. This course exposes students to the complexity of social systems and networks of relationships within organizations. The course explores the nature of group behavior and group dynamics. Theories of communication and group dynamics are examined through a critical lens. Students examine approaches to managerial communication and the impact of those approaches on outcomes. They examine challenges inherent in building sustainable collaboration. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8011 - Transforming Organizations: Principles of Change & Development
Forward-focused leaders must be able to advance successful change agendas and build the requisite alliances for transformations to occur. In this course students explore the interplay between organizational learning, innovation and transformation. They learn multiple theoretical approaches to change and the challenges that each approach presents in actual practice. Further, students explore the role of individual and organizational resilience. The course addresses the impact of resistance, resource allocations, and conflict on organizational transformations. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8012 - Socially Responsible Accounting and Financial Management
This course provides managers with a background to aid in making decisions about the management of assets and the financing of organizational growth. It sets foundations in current economic perspectives, organizational integrity, and sustainability principles, and examines financial principles to inform study about key accounting practices for operational purposes. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8013 - Marketing in a Global Internet Age
This course critically examines marketing as an integrative process. To do so, it takes into account the global marketplace, consumer behavior patterns, and how the Internet and social media have revolutionized the way customers communicate and engage with businesses. Within that context, the course explores the issues in key analytical areas of global markets, consumer behavior, and planning and product strategies. These foundations enable managers to develop a balance in marketing decisions that consider prices, channels of distribution, physical movement of goods, communications, advertising, personal sales, and other factors. Customer relationship management systems are also discussed. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8014 - Sustainable Operations and Organizational Systems
The course covers the fundamentals of effective supply chain management from an organizational systems standpoint. A key focus is on the design of global supply chain networks and how they are strategically managed. The course introduces a framework that identifies the key drivers of supply chain performance: facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing. Students acquire practical managerial concepts and skills that enable them to examine and improve supply chain performance. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8015 - Project Management and Execution: A Social Systems Approach
With organizational systems and collaborative management principles and practices as the foundation, this course examines the fundamental nature of both project management and enterprise relationship management. With the global workplace as the context, it introduces the core concepts of project management, and critically examines related issues and practices. Among other topics, it explores how effective project management entails consistently communicating with internal and external stakeholders associated with various aspects of project, recruiting team members, managing the relationships with project managers and team members, and procuring the needed financial resources and materials. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8016 - Managing Cost, Resources, and Vendors
Project management involves overseeing a portfolio of interrelated tasks that must be aligned with the enterprise’s strategic goals and operational processes to ensure successful and timely completion of the project. Essential preliminary tasks are identified, including the creation of budgets, realistic timelines, reporting procedures, and vendor arrangements. Utilizing a systems approach, this course examines effective approaches for (a) clearly scoping the project, (b) charting its components and processes, (c) identifying factors that can impact its progress, (d) obtaining the resources needed for success, (e)managing the project budget, and (f) managing vendors. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8017 - Project Schedule, Quality Control, and Risk Management
Risk management, benchmarking and outcomes assessment are critical to successful project planning and progress measurement. This course focuses on understanding core quality management principles and approaches and how to manage risk. Central to the course is an understanding of the nature of risk and its impacts. The course applies a systems and collaborative management perspective to critically examine how to design and use the appropriate assessment strategies, tools, and processes throughout a project. It addresses how to integrate them as key components of the project structure, execute them, and use assessment findings to make effective corrections. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8020 - Collaborative Work Systems & Teams
This course examines the vital role that teams play in contemporary organizations. The theories of team development, team leadership and collaboration will be analyzed with an emphasis on testing practical utility. The role of culture, diversity and identity are surfaced so that students develop and understanding of principles of inclusion. Students are tasked with identifying various types of teams, including virtual, and the characteristics of each. They will identify leadership and followership skills required to work successfully in collaborative systems. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8025 - Systems Thinking, Analytics and Ethical Decision Making
Business enterprises daily face new and complex situations that call for “out-of-the-box” thinking and entrepreneurial problem solving. Individuals and teams need organizational intelligence, the knowledge and practical wisdom contained in the workforce and the networks in which they participate, to make well informed and innovative decisions. With systems thinking, transdisciplinary analysis and integrative principles as a foundation, this course examines the art of solving problems collaboratively, making organizational decisions and taking sustainable, ethical action, as well as promoting innovation and taking the risk to try new ideas and approaches in a distributed intercultural work environment. The course also explores effective use of technology to accomplish this. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8026 - Conflicting and Corroborating Models of Adaptive Leadership
Leaders of change in organizations and in community need a wide range of tools to address diverse environments and challenges. This specialization course for the Executive and Community Leadership program brings focus to how the tools of Distributed Adaptive Leadership mesh with other management and leadership models. Participants in this course will learn to assess dynamic systems to determine the appropriate leadership models to apply, and analyze the effects and efficacy of those models. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8027 - Thrival for Distributed Adaptive Leadership
In the context of the Executive and Civic Leadership Specialization, “thrival” is held in contrast to “survival.” The VUCA (volatile,uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) nature of the environments in which leaders, teams, enterprises, and communities of interest frequently operate tends to increase stress and degrade performance. Participants in this specialization course learn individual and collective practices for nurturing self-awareness and vital emotional/relational engagement through taking responsibility for personal safety, inclusion of multiple perspectives, management of triggers and hungers; and clarity of values and purpose. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8028 - ECL Practicum
Students demonstrate application of Distributed Adaptive Leadership (DAL) skills within an enterprise or community setting. The practicum integrates academic learning with practical experience, calling on all aspects of DAL curriculum to design, deploy, and evaluate a specific solution while leading a team. Each practicum is conducted by the student in their own chosen space (distributed enterprise or community of interest), with peer consultation and supervision by the instructor. The end product of the practicum is deployment of a strategic set of adaptive interventions (meetings, committees. events, policy changes and/or adaptive solutions) in a distributed system of the student’s choosing. 3 credit(s)
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MAM 8030 - Program Capstone: Strategically Leading People, Projects, and Innovation
With project management in distributed organizations and work-life integration as its focus, this course concludes the MAM program, tying together all of the business, management and organizational concepts, skill sets and workplace applications studied and developed throughout the various courses. The Capstone project enables students to articulate your own forward thinking vision and practice of empowering and ethical global management, demonstrate your empowering management and problem solving skills through analyzing and resolving a case study, and chart your career path through a professional portfolio. 3 credit(s)
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Mind-Body Medicine |
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MBM 0505 - Mind-Body-Spirit Integration Seminar
New students enrolled in the Mind-Body Medicine and Integrative Wellness Coaching degree programs will attend a four-day ”Mind-Body-Spirit Integration Seminar,” which is a required component of their first residential conference. The seminar is organized around a series of lectures, experiential exercises, and small group sessions that are led by expert facilitators. Students will be introduced to the research and principles supporting the use of mind-body-spirit practices and self-care. Throughout the sessions, students will practice the skills, discuss their experiences within the group, and discover ways to integrate these approaches personally and professionally. Attendees are expected to participate each day. Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisite. Students from other degree programs throughout the university are invited to register in advance. 0 credit(s)
Offered: Offered FA-Term A, SP-Term A Course Length: All four days
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MBM 0901 - MBM 1-Day Residential Conference
This course code registers the student to attend one day at the College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences residential conference for one day without committing to a workshop or siminar in advance. The course topics will vary widely according to which class the student attends. Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisite. 0 credit(s)
Offered: Offered FA-Term A, SP-Term A Course Length: 1 day RC Required.
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MBM 0902 - MBM 2-Day Residential Conference
This course code registers the student to attend two days at the College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences residential conference. The course topics will vary widely according to which class the student attends. Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisite. 0 credit(s)
Offered: Offered FA-Term A, SP-Term A Course Length: 2 days RC Required
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MBM 0905 - MBM 5-Day Residential Conference
This course code registers the student to attend five days at the College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences residential conference. The course topics will vary widely according to which class the student attends. Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisite. 0 credit(s)
Offered: Offered FA-Term A/SP-Term A Course Length: 5 days RC Required.
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MBM 5506 - Certificate Colloquium and Integrative Capstone
This course will orient students to the fundamentals of graduate study as they learn to develop and apply critical thinking and reasoning skills necessary to demonstrate academic scholarship. In addition, the course will be facilitated by mentors to assist Certificate students as they discuss personal and professional aspirations and goals. The online platform provides a supportive and engaging environment as mentors and students connect and learn from each other’s experiences. At the culmination of the certificate program students develop an integrative capstone essay synthesizing the student’s personal, academic, and professional learning on an application of mind-body medicine. 1 credit(s)
Offered: Offered FA - Term A/SP - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 16 Weeks. No RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: TBA
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MBM 5543 - Statistical Methods for Healthcare Research I
This course provides an overview on the use of statistical methods in healthcare research. Students a) become familiar with statistics, b) understand the most commonly used statistics for graduate research, and c) comprehend the relationship between statistical techniques, sample size, and statistical significance. Prerequisite(s): 5538 or MBM 5553 , and 5539 or MBM 5557 . 2 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SP - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: 7 (3), 7(4), 7.1 (4), 7.2 (4)
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MBM 5545 - Assessing Systems and Processes in Healthcare
This course introduces students to a systems-oriented approach to assessing healthcare systems and processes. This course provides methods for healthcare consultants, administrators, and researchers to evaluate care systems, processes, and outcomes in holistic and humanistic ways through the use of systems-oriented approaches. Students learn to adapt a systems and organizational perspective, identify problems in care systems, and assess the outcomes of systemic changes. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SP - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: 5.1 (5), 5.3 (3), 6.1 (3), 6.3 (3), 7.1 (4), 8.1 (4), 8.2 (3), 8.2 (5), 8.4 (4), 8.5 (3), 8.5 (5).
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MBM 5546 - Statistical Methods for Healthcare Research II
This course provides a continuation of the prerequisite course, MBM 5543 . This course provides an overview on the use of statistical methods in healthcare research. Students a) become familiar with statistics, b) understand the most commonly used statistics for graduate research, and c) comprehend the relationship between statistical techniques, sample size, and statistical significance. Prerequisite(s): MBM 5543 . 1 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SP - Term B. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: 7 (3), 7 (4), 7.1 (4), 7.2 (4).
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MBM 5551 - Doctoral Research Pilot Study I
This course guides students in developing a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research design, serving as a pilot study for dissertation research. The course meets the following objectives: Students a) propose and refine a research question, b) develop a research design, addressing recruitment, interventions, any measurements, and data collection methods, c) specify methods for data analysis, and d) submit a SIRB application, assuring the protections of human participants. By the end of the second segment of the course, students a) implement the research design, b) recruit participants, c) conduct the research, and d) prepare a written research report, including all of the elements in a research report. Prerequisite(s): MBM 5540 , 5538, or 5548 or MBM 5553 or MBM 5556 ; 5539, 5549 or MBM 5557 . 1 credit(s)
Offered: Offered all terms. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: L.O. 6.1, 7.1, 7.3, 7.4.
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MBM 5552 - Doctoral Research Pilot Study II
This course serves as a continuation of the prerequisite course MBM 5551 . This course guides students in developing a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research design, serving as a pilot study for dissertation research. The course will meet the following objectives: Students a) propose and refine a research question, b) develop a research design, addressing recruitment, interventions, any measurements, and data collection methods, c) specify methods for data analysis, and d) submit a SIRB application, assuring the protections of human participants. By the end of the second segment of the course, students a) implement the research design, b) recruit participants, c) conduct the research, and d) prepare a written research report, including all of the elements in a research report. Prerequisite(s): MBM 5540 ; MBM 5551 ; 5538. 5538, or 5548 or MBM 5553 or MBM 5556 ; 5539, 5549 or MBM 5557 . 2 credit(s)
Offered: Offered all terms. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: L.O. 6.1, 7.1, 7.3, 7.4.
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MBM 5554C - Doctoral Research Pilot Study Continuation
After seeking the instructor’s approval, students may register for the continuation course for one additional semester if they have completed the protocol and IRB application. Prerequisite(s): MBM 5554 0 credit(s)
Offered: FA-Term A/B, SP-Term A/B, SU-Term A. Course Length: 16 Weeks (SU 8 Weeks). No RC Required.
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MBM 5567 - Leadership in Healthcare
This course takes the perspective that leadership in healthcare systems is about individuals, roles, culture, and systems. Leadership is about personal, team, and organizational values. Exceptional leadership involves self-awareness, a compelling vision, emotional intelligence, a philosophy of serving and developing others, and masterful implementation. All need to be included to comprehend the nature of, the development of, and the practice of leadership. Leadership represents a holistic view of the relationships among individuals, cultures, and systems. It proposes three distinctions that will assist in clarifying thinking about leadership, its development and practices: leading, leader, and leadership. Leadership recognizes how individuals-in any type of group or organization-can bring an organization together with limited formal power, and can help an organization to grow and thrive. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SU - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: 1.3 (4), 2.1 (4), others TBA.
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MBM 5568 - Integrative Perspectives on the Human Life Course
This course examines important life experiences that impact many or all people in the course of living, including trauma, caregiving, and substance abuse. Opportunities and challenges that present in the second half of life will also be addressed, with an emphasis on life-long development and growth. The course emphasizes wellness from a mind-body-spirit perspective and approaches that enhance growth and development. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SP - Term B. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: 1.1 (3), 1.2 (3), 3.1 (4), 3.2 (4), 3.3 (3), 3.4 (3), 6.1 (3), 6.2 (3), 6.3 (3), 8.1 (3), 8.1 (4).
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MBM 5584 - Doctoral Level Professional Seminar in Mind-Body Medicine
This course prepares students to embrace their professional identity as scholar-practitioners. Individuals have the opportunity to prepare for the dissertation proposal course, present their research proposal idea to peers, and critique a dissertation. In addition, they are supported through the process as they establish personal and professional goals for their work in the field of integrative healthcare. Prerequisite(s): MBM 5557 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered every term. Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required.
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MBM 5586C - Ph.D. Practicum Continuation
After seeking the instructor’s approval, students may register for the continuation course if they need an additional term or semester to complete 100 hours of practicum experience. The continuation course may not exceed 16 weeks. Prerequisite(s): MBM 5586 0 credit(s)
Offered: FA Term A/B, SP Term A/B, and SU-Term. Course Length: 16 Weeks (SU 8 Weeks). No RC required.
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MBM 5588C - MS Capstone Seminar Continuation
After seeking the instructor’s approval, students may register for the continuation course for an additional term or semester to complete the final capstone essay. The continuation course may not exceed a total of 16 weeks. Prerequisite(s): MBM 5588 0 credit(s)
Offered: FA Terms A/B, SP Terms A/B, and SU Term Course Length: 16 weeks (SU 8 weeks) No RC Required
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MBM 5629 - Evidence-Based Competencies and Skills for Coaching
This course provides students with an extensive overview of the foundational coaching competencies and skills as defined by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and Board Certified Coach (BCC) organizations. The coaching skills and competencies learned in this class can be applied to diverse contexts such as integrative health and wellness, leadership and business, and life coaching. In addition, students will gain a deeper understanding of the theories and evidence-based practices underlying various coaching approaches. This course will also provide students with basic level knowledge and skill development in group coaching and facilitation. Students who complete this course will be prepared to utilize and apply their coaching and facilitation skills within their chosen profession. This is a highly interactive and experiential class. This course will also provide those students interested in deepening their coaching skill set with a solid foundation to prepare them for more advanced courses in coaching. [Note this is equivalent course to MBM 5630 Coaching for Health and Wellness and MBM 5631 - Coaching for Health and Wellness - Dietary and Nutritional Coaching ] 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SP - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: 1.4 (3), 2.1 (3), 2.3 (4), 2.4 (3), 3.2 (4), 3.3 (5), 5.1 (3), 5.2 (2), 7.1 (3).
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MBM 5631 - Coaching for Health and Wellness - Dietary and Nutritional Coaching
This course provides students with an extensive overview of the foundational coaching competencies and skills as defined by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and Board Certified Coach (BCC) organizations. The coaching skills and competencies learned in this class can be applied to diverse contexts such as integrative health and wellness, leadership and business, and life coaching. In addition, students will gain a deeper understanding of the theories and evidence-based practices underlying various coaching approaches. This course will also provide students with basic level knowledge and skill development in group coaching and facilitation. Students who complete this course will be prepared to utilize and apply their coaching and facilitation skills within their chosen profession. This is a highly interactive and experiential class. This course will also provide those students interested in deepening their coaching skill set with a solid foundation to prepare them for more advanced courses in coaching. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SP - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: 1.4 (3), 2.1 (3), 2.3 (4), 2.4 (3), 3.2 (4), 3.3 (5), 5.1 (3), 5.2 (2), 7.1 (3).
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MBM 5633 - MA in Integrative Wellness Coaching Capstone Seminar
This is the final course in the Integrative Wellness Coaching master’s curriculum, providing students with the opportunity to integrate their learning throughout the degree program. Students will complete a capstone essay summarizing their learning experiences in this program, and formulate their professional approach to integrative wellness coaching and health promotion. Students will also develop and present a strategic marketing and business plan that describes the evidence-based coaching approach or program that they intend to implement within their respective professional niche. This pragmatic orientation to business planning will help students explore key issues and answer important questions related to their future practice in integrative wellness coaching and health promotion. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered every term. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: TBA.
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MBM 5661 - Nutritional Foundations of Mental Health
This course provides an overview of the practical and scientific approaches to understanding the impact that food has on mental health. Topics in this course will include learning about the quality and variety of food that is available to us, its impact on mental health, and the influence that nutrition has on brain development and maintenance throughout the life cycle. Prerequisite(s): MBM 5660 . 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered FA - Term B. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required.
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MBM 5662 - Whole Medical Systems: Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda
This course provides an overview of Chinese and Indian medical traditions. The course provides an opportunity for students to study Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, and consider the relationship between these traditional medical systems and biomedicine. Students study the conceptual paradigm of each system, historical foundations, the typical physician-patient relationship, commonly used interventions in current practice, and available outcome studies assessing efficacy for common mental health disorders. This course includes a two day residential component, video conferences with faculty and students, and online discussion of assigned readings. This course will specifically look at medical traditions from the perspective of culture, including systematic correspondence and philosophical structures. How do early medical systems describe the natural world? The image of the body? Holism? What are the characteristics of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda that inform and contribute to the modern concept of wellness? Special emphasis will be placed on the psycho-emotional aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SU - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required.
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MBM 5671 - Advanced Nutritional Biochemistry
Nutritional biochemistry is the study of nutrition and metabolism on the cellular and molecular level. Clinicians involved in integrative and functional nutrition therapy must become well versed in nutritional biochemistry in order to understand the importance of nutrients in the functions of metabolic pathways and networks, as well as their role in clinical imbalances and the pathway to aging and pathology. This course introduces the concepts in the IFMNT radial to link cellular and molecular metabolism with the integrative and functional nutrition care process. This course prepares students for MBM 5678 that will incorporate nutrition and cellular metabolism with systems biology/physiology, genetics, and biochemical individuality. Prerequisite(s): General Biochemistry. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered SP - Term B and Fall - Term B. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: 2 (3), 2.3 (2)
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MBM 5524 - Contemporary Neuroscience-Psychology and the Brain
This course explores brain and nervous system relationships with special emphasis on clinical examples and mind- body interactions. Beginning with the basic function of nerve cells (neurophysiology) we explore how cells communicate (the synapse and clinical neurochemistry) and the structure of the nervous system (neuroanatomy). Students learn about the most current neuro-imaging techniques. We explore neuroscience of the senses, emotion, arousal and stress. Neuroscience in Depression, Schizophrenia, Autism, and ADHD are investigated. The class concludes with a discussion of the biology of consciousness, meditation, and the brain-mind question. Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisite. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered FA - Term B. Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required.
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MBM 5645 - The Human Energy Field and Energy Medicine
This course explores health and healing according to an energetic perspective that has roots in ancient healing practices. Today this field, known as energy medicine, is experiencing rapid growth, including a proliferation of energetic therapies and an accumulation of research. An overview of the human energy field and a presentation of some of the key energy medicine modalities, both diagnostic and therapeutic, constitute most of the course. The course reviews the main systems of energy medicine from indigenous medicine, including hands-on and distant healing, the energetics of Oriental medicine and Ayurveda, homeopathy, healing with light and color, and sound therapy, as well as historical and philosophical concepts of a life energy. The course also examines contemporary modalities and their scientific foundations including electromagnetic field applications, phototherapy, energy psychology, and measurement of subtle energies and bioenergetic effects. The biofield, the role of emotions and conscious intent, and living systems theory are developed as scientific explanatory concepts underlying energy medicine. Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisite. 3 credit(s)
Offered: SU - Term A. Course Length: 8 Weeks. No RC Required.
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MBM 5674 - Ayurvedic Medicine
This course provides an overview of the medical traditions and medical practices of India. The course provides an opportunity for students to study ayurvedic medicine as a lifestyle and as a healing tradition, and to consider the relationship between ayurvedic medicine and Western biomedicine. Students study the conceptual paradigm of ayurvedic medicine, historical foundations, the typical physician-patient relationship, and commonly used interventions in current practice. Special emphasis will be placed on the psycho-emotional aspects of traditional ayurvedic medicine, and available outcome studies assessing efficacy for common mental health disorders. Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisite. 3 credit(s)
Offered: SU- Term A Course Length: 8 Weeks No RC Required
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COUN 2538 - Aging and Long-Term Care
The course goal is to broaden understanding and develop effective approaches to individual and social issues associated with aging. The course emphasizes a multi-perspective approach to aging and the challenges an aging population presents to administrators and clinicians. The course explores interventions associated with aging, mentoring in society, the renewal of eldership in society, and a paradigm for aging in place. 10 Contact Hours; 0 credit(s)
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COUN 2539 - Child and Elder Abuse Assessment and Reporting
This course will review the signs of physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect, with special attention to cultural context. The course is designed to satisfy Child Abuse Assessment and Reporting for MFT and Clinical Psychology (7 contact hours) and requirements for MFT licensure (3 contact hours) covering issues of elder abuse with additional emphasis on financial abuse. 10 Contact Hours; 0 credit(s)
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COUN 2544 - Mental Health Recovery
This workshop provides developing clinicians with a broader and deeper understanding of those they will be serving. By inviting mental health advocates to join the conversation, stigma and stereotypes are identified and addressed. Cultural competency, recovery-oriented care, resiliency, case management, and systems of care are emphasized. 10 Contact Hours; 0 credit(s)
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COUN 2639 - Special Populations: Severe Mental Illness & Developmental Disorders.
Focusing on selected populations, these courses provide overview of pertinent research and clinical issues for clinicians. 1 credit(s)
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COUN 2640 - Special Populations: Partner Abuse and Domestic Violence.
Focusing on selected populations, these courses provide overview of pertinent research and clinical issues for clinicians. 1 credit(s)
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MFT 2011 - Advanced Systems Theory
This course provides an in-depth study of systems theories and transformational models applicable to community and family life. Students will learn to think in systems terms on a number of levels across a wide variety of family structures and a range of presenting problems, taking into account external societal influences. Skills in systemic and transformational interventions within an intercultural context will be acquired. 3 credit(s)
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MFT 2533 - Special Populations: Working with Couples and Families.
Focusing on selected populations, these courses provide overview of pertinent research and clinical issues for clinicians. 1 credit(s)
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MFT 2540 - Advanced Couples Therapy
This course is designed for study in greater depth of major theories of couple relationships and relevant issues arising in partnering and parenting. The course emphasizes clinical skills and therapeutic interventions for working with couples in clinical and community settings. 3 credit(s)
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MFT 2542 - Mental Health Services Act
This workshop provides resources to support county mental health programs for children, youth, adults, elders, and families in a continuum of prevention, early intervention, community services, and collaborative support. Intervention approaches emphasize cultural competency, consumer and family inclusion, wellness and recovery models of care. 10 Contact Hours; 0 credit(s)
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MFT 2550 - Advanced Family Therapy
This course is designed for study in greater depth of major theories of family therapy and relevant issues arising in intergenerational relationships. The course emphasizes clinical skills and therapeutic interventions for working with families in clinical and community settings. 3 credit(s)
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MFT 2627 - Special Populations: Work with the Older Generation.
Focusing on selected populations, these courses provide overview of pertinent research and clinical issues for clinicians. 1 credit(s)
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MFT 2641 - Special Populations: Working with Children and Adolescents.
Focusing on selected populations, these courses provide overview of pertinent research and clinical issues for clinicians. 1 credit(s)
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MFT 2642 - Special Populations: Diversity in Social and Cultural Context.
Focusing on selected populations, these courses provide overview of pertinent research and clinical issues for clinicians. 1 credit(s)
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MFT 6530 - Domestic Violence: Abuse in Intimate Relationships
This course provides an overview of intimate partner violence, the development of violence against women as a social issue, and the responses developed by activists, therapists, and community and government agencies. It covers important issues and controversies, including obstacles in determining rates of prevalence; theories and research about causation, especially with regard to gender and culture; and individual and societal intervention and prevention efforts. Understanding these topics is important for advocates, community organizers, and researchers and demonstrating competency in many of these areas is required by various licensing boards for therapists and counselors. Students can focus on research and/or practice in various areas: men’s violence against women, female perpetrators, same sex or adolescent relationship violence, victim and family services, programs for perpetrators, and community-based prevention programs. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 0700 - Academic Writing Support
Academic Writing is a one-credit tutorial that provides substantive support for students seeking to develop writing skills that allow them to meet APA and graduate-level standards. Recognizing that students have diverse needs, the course has been structured to be flexible enough to accommodate each student’s experience and needs by offering three writing approaches: process, product, and personal voice. Enrollment can be by student’s choice, required at admission, or recommended to the student by course instructors at any time during the program. Students may take up to 3 credits of Academic Writing over the duration of their program at Saybrook University. Enrollments beyond the 3-credit limit will be on a noncredit basis only. 1 credit(s)
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ORG 0701 - Academic Writing Support
Academic Writing is a one-credit tutorial that provides substantive support for students seeking to develop writing skills that allow them to meet APA and graduate-level standards. Recognizing that students have diverse needs, the course has been structured to be flexible enough to accommodate each student’s experience and needs by offering three writing approaches: process, product, and personal voice. Enrollment can be by student’s choice, required at admission, or recommended to the student by course instructors at any time during the program. Students may take up to 3 credits of Academic Writing over the duration of their program at Saybrook University. Enrollments beyond the 3-credit limit will be on a noncredit basis only. 1 credit(s)
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ORG 0702 - Academic Writing Support
Academic Writing is a one-credit tutorial that provides substantive support for students seeking to develop writing skills that allow them to meet APA and graduate-level standards. Recognizing that students have diverse needs, the course has been structured to be flexible enough to accommodate each student’s experience and needs by offering three writing approaches: process, product, and personal voice. Enrollment can be by student’s choice, required at admission, or recommended to the student by course instructors at any time during the program. Students may take up to 3 credits of Academic Writing over the duration of their program at Saybrook University. Enrollments beyond the 3-credit limit will be on a noncredit basis only. 1 credit(s)
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ORG 0703 - Academic Writing Support
Academic Writing is a one-credit tutorial that provides substantive support for students seeking to develop writing skills that allow them to meet APA and graduate-level standards. Recognizing that students have diverse needs, the course has been structured to be flexible enough to accommodate each student’s experience and needs by offering three writing approaches: process, product, and personal voice. Enrollment can be by student’s choice, required at admission, or recommended to the student by course instructors at any time during the program. Students may take up to 3 credits of Academic Writing over the duration of their program at Saybrook University. Enrollments beyond the 3-credit limit will be on a noncredit basis only. 1 credit(s)
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ORG 0704 - Academic Writing Support
Academic Writing is a one-credit tutorial that provides substantive support for students seeking to develop writing skills that allow them to meet APA and graduate-level standards. Recognizing that students have diverse needs, the course has been structured to be flexible enough to accommodate each student’s experience and needs by offering three writing approaches: process, product, and personal voice. Enrollment can be by student’s choice, required at admission, or recommended to the student by course instructors at any time during the program. Students may take up to 3 credits of Academic Writing over the duration of their program at Saybrook University. Enrollments beyond the 3-credit limit will be on a noncredit basis only. 1 credit(s)
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ORG 0705 - Academic Writing Support
Academic Writing is a one-credit tutorial that provides substantive support for students seeking to develop writing skills that allow them to meet APA and graduate-level standards. Recognizing that students have diverse needs, the course has been structured to be flexible enough to accommodate each student’s experience and needs by offering three writing approaches: process, product, and personal voice. Enrollment can be by student’s choice, required at admission, or recommended to the student by course instructors at any time during the program. Students may take up to 3 credits of Academic Writing over the duration of their program at Saybrook University. Enrollments beyond the 3-credit limit will be on a noncredit basis only. 1 credit(s)
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ORG 7006 - Sociotechnical Information Systems and Distributed Organizations: Organizational Communication, Information Flow, and Technology
This interdisciplinary course explores organizations as dynamic global enterprises which weave together people and technology into self-organizing, interactive networks. Students examine how digital technology has a) changed the nature and dynamics of socio-technical systems, b) transformed organizational information systems and enterprise wide knowledge generation and application, and c) reshaped organizational cultures, workplace operations, business partnerships, and supply chains. Central to this course is enabling students to develop their own socio-technical organizational model, and devise approaches to effectively design, implement and manage technological information and communication systems that enhance the quality of both organizational performance and work life. Intermediate level course. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7025 - Humanistic Foundations of Organizational Development
This course is an introduction to the origins and evolution of Organizational Development (OD). OD grew into early coherence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, arising from the same antecedents as humanistic psychology. It is practiced today, in many forms, around the entire globe. This course provides readings and writing assignments that serve as a vehicle for becoming more appreciative of the core values and the historical roots of OD theory and practice and its long-standing humanistic tradition. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7028 - Talent Development and Strategic Human Resource Management
Central to business organization success is its talent, its multifaceted workforce. Organizational leaders must consciously leverage their human resources, unleash their workforce’s creativity, and tap into their organization’s intellectual capital. This course drawing upon various disciplines including organizational psychology critically discusses both domestic and critical international human resource management concepts, principles, practices, issues, and challenges, as well as the core characteristics and practices of engaging workplaces and the attributes of the current global organizations that are rated the best places to work. Students develop their own human resource or talent development vision, as well as their core best practices. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7030 - Envisioning Leadership as a Tool for Transformation
The contemporary organization is a complex enterprise requiring managers to engage with and lead a global workforce and facilitate dynamic social networks utilizing various forms of communication and collaboration technology platforms. Using various analytical lenses this interdisciplinary course critically examines core distributed organizational characteristics, behaviors, dynamics and issues, as well as management approaches shaped by social systems, intra and inter organizational networks, and cross-cultural perspectives. Particular attention is given to exploring innovative organizational structures, cultures, operational processes, workplace environments, and sociotechnical communication systems founded in human-centric workplace and information systems principles. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7032 - Analyzing Complex Organizational Situations: A Systems Perspective
With organizations as the focus, this introductory course provides students with a first look at systems thinking as an approach to understand complexity and identify leverage points for intervention. Through both theory and practice, students will learn to recognize the systemic nature of complex phenomena (at the personal, organizational and societal levels) and develop systems models as a way to develop deeper understanding and communicate more effectively the interconnectedness of a social system and its implications for improvement and transformation. Systems thinking is a foundation for both understanding the current state as well as for designing the future of complex social systems and institutions in the private, public and social sectors. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7035 - Sustainable Economics and Supply Chains
Global economies are interdependent challenging businesses to operate in a competitive but sustainable manner that benefits a diverse set of stakeholders, does not exploit or harm the environment, and provides for the development of a sustainable future for the generations that follow. Critically examining existing economic systems, business operation practices, and marketing strategies, this courses enable students to envision innovative economic systems that lead to the emergence of new business strategies, financial management principles, collaborative forms of inter-organizational partnerships and alliances, and sustainable operational processes. This includes discussing new approaches to gaining and serving global markets, managing global supply chains, and reaching business goals. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7036 - Strategic Management, Data Analysis & Decision Making: A Systems Perspective
With strategic analysis, planning, decision making, and organizational alignment in distributed organizations as the core focus, this interdisciplinary course enables students to expand their practical skills as strategic leaders and managers who face complex situations and have to make challenging decisions which have far-reaching economic ramifications for organizations, as well as the well-being of society and the environment. Particular attention is given to planning processes, implementing and evaluating organizational strategic initiatives, and to gathering and analyzing data from a systems perspective. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7037 - Transformative Learning
The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the exciting body of work that resides within the community of scholars interested in understanding transformative learning on the individual, community, and organizational level. Sparked by the theory of Jack Mezirow, this field incorporates the work of Freire, Haberma.s, Kegan, Cranton, and others who seek to understand and facilitate learning that results a significant perspective shift in individuals, and cultural and paradigm shifts at collective levels. This course enables you to apply your understanding of the importance of the encounter with the “other” and the role of language to creating the conditions for transformative learning in organizations. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7040 - Organizations and Social Systems Design
Focusing on organizations, this course explores Social Systems Design as developed by Banathy, Ackoff and others. Social systems design is a participatory, collaborative and disciplined way of engaging in future creating inquiry. The learner will address questions such as: What is design in a social context? What is a design culture and how does it relate to the sciences, the humanities, and organizational behavior and development? Building upon these notions, the course will also examine: How do organizations and workplaces respond to change? How organizational managers can facilitate the design of social systems in their enterprises? Design principles such as “form follows function, and the ethics of designing with those that will live the consequences of the choices made are explored. Social Systems Design shares core assumptions with participatory action research. The learner will be able to explore the usefulness of social systems design for the creation of new organizations or for the transformation of existing ones. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7042 - From Evolutionary Consciousness to Conscious Evolution
This course engages a systemic understanding of evolution with the possibility of engaging in conscious evolution at the socio-cultural level. Three levels of inquiry are introduces: First, at the individual level, the notion of Evolutionary Leadership in introduced to connect the learning needs to develop mental models, skills and sensitivities necessary to enable evolutionary inquiry. Second, at the community and organizational level, Evolutionary Learning Communities are explored as spaces where evolutionary leaders can come together to engage in dialogue, learning, design and action. Lastly, at the societal level, the notion of Evolutionary Development is explored as a framework for conceptualizing and linking diverse strategies to enable systemic transformation and conscious evolution. This course is a space to explore what lies beyond sustainability as well as to contextualize in a wide and expansive view of change the work that the learner is committed to do as an organizational systems scholar-practitioner. 3 credit(s)
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ORG 7044 - Communication, Generative Dialogue, and Strategic Discourse
Drawing upon various scholars (including Isaacs, Bohm and Deetz) and practitioners who are exploring the communication challenges of the contemporary globally distributed organization, this course critically examines communication concepts, practices and issues found in organizations. Among the many topics discussed are communication theories, generative dialogue, cross-cultural communication, social media, stakeholder dialogue, strategic dialogue, and knowledge sharing methods. 3 credit(s)
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