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Click on the name of an online course offered at Boston University to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the course by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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Analytical Methods Session II (MET CJ 702 OL) |
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Analytical Methods Session II |
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Biostatistics (GMS AN 712 OL) |
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This course will provide a working understanding of experimental design and statistical analyses that are appropriate for various types of biological and neuroscience based experiments. The course presumes that the students have had some knowledge of statistical concepts from either a graduate or an undergraduate course. |
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Capital Budget/Long-Term Financing (FIN 104E) |
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Capital Budgeting/Long-Term Financing provides an extensive review of how corporations create value through effective capital budgeting and financing practices. The course illustrates the linkages between corporate strategy and capital investment decisions and the conventional methods for evaluating capital investments and establishing capital budgets. The course also focuses on how "real world" considerations, such as risk and uncertainty, taxation, inflation, and financing are incorporated into capital investment decision-making and the resulting effects. |
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Corporate Finance-Financial Management (FIN 102E) |
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This is a foundations course that introduces students to the fundamental concepts and analytical tools of managerial (corporate) finance. Subsequently, students will learn how to apply these tools and concepts to issues such as capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital
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Cost Control and Earned Value Management (Module Four) |
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Business |
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To achieve project success in today's fast-paced, schedule compressed and resource scarce environments, the project manager must possess the ability to assess, manage and interact with inherent and unforeseen project risks. This seminar introduces the participant to the fundamentals of Project Risk Analysis and Management. A practical and experience-based approach shall be utilized to uncover, communicate and develop successful strategies to transform project risks into project opportunities. Participants will gain an understanding of project risk and the systematic breakdown of risk management processes as set forth by the PMI Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) |
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Diagnostic Procedures for Rehabilitation Professionals (SAR PT 634 OL) |
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Healthcare |
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Diagnostic procedures are taught including the examination of imaging techniques such as radiography, ultrasound, MRI, diagnostic use of electromyography, electrocardiograms, and other laboratory tests. A unit is included on pharmacology as it relates to clinical practice. |
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Distance Education (SED EM 680 OL) |
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General Studies |
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Students gain perspective on distance education through studying its potential and limitations; its similarities to, and differences from, conventional classroom education; the history and research on the effectiveness of distance education; the technological supports and administrative issues; and international examples. |
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Evidence-Based Practice (SAR HP 561 OL) |
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Students develop the fundamental skills necessary to critically appraise the research literature relevant to physical therapists and relate this literature to clinical practice. Students practice the application of concepts of internal, external and statistical validity to the literature on intervention, prognosis, and diagnosis in physical therapy. 3 credit hours. |
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Financial and Managerial Accounting (MET AC 630) |
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Introduction to the concepts, methods, and problems of financial and managerial accounting. Includes data accumulation, accounting principles, financial statement analysis, measurement and disclosure issues, cost analysis, budgeting and control, production costs, and standard costs. |
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Financial Management (MET FI 631) |
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Prereq: MET AC 630 The course emphasizes issues of accounting, finance, and economics that are important in most management contexts. Stresses understanding financial statements, planning and control, cost and benefit evaluation, cash flow analysis, and capital budgeting. |
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Genetics, Ethics, and the Law (GMS BT 440) |
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This course will explore the newest information in human genetics and its legal and bioethical implications. Human genetics is the most explosive field in medicine today. The decisions that come from the issues will be presented to professionals and lay people alike. This course examines cases that come straight from the headlines. Topics include new reproductive techniques; genetic diseases; prenatal testing and genetic testing. |
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Instructional Design (SED EM 701 OL) |
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Applying the strategies employed in the systems approach to the design of mediated curricula. Includes selection of educational objectives, needs assessment, taxonomy of educational objectives, and evaluating the results of systemized programs. 4 credits. |
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International Business, Economics and Cultures (MET MG 650) |
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This course considers macroeconomic factors of relevance to the firm: aggregate economic activity, cyclical movements, and fiscal and monetary policies. The course reviews the problems of decision-making relating to demand, production, costs, market structure, and price as well as provides an analysis of the interplay between governments, economic systems, labor, and multinational corporations (MNCs). Topics include: the basis for the existence, organization, and growth of MNCs; a comparison of major economic and government systems; areas include the impact on the firm?s business transactions and trade due to taxation, regulation, legal environments and labor influences This course additionally investigates the relationship between the interaction of national culture and development. Topics range from developing nations? rain forest and species management to pollution generated by developed nations. Culture, policy, and development are also discussed in relation to the impact of the business interactions (agriculture, fishing, technology transfer, etc.) among developing and developed nations. |
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Introduction to Electronic Commerce (MET TM 648) |
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The course provides a detailed examination of how businesses can successfully use Internet and Web technology. Students are introduced to the concepts and issues of electronic commerce. Topics include comparison of e-commerce procedures, payment mechanisms, applications in different industry sectors, security, the challenges of starting and maintaining an electronic business site, as well as a comparison with traditional business practices. Students create an e-commerce Web site using such tools as MS FrontPage. |
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Introduction to Finance (FIN 101E) |
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This course introduces the concepts, procedures, and ethical aspects of accounting and financial reporting. It explores these topics through the analysis and interpretation of financial statements used for decision-making in business.
The overall strategy for this course is to make it as applicable and relevant to everyday situations as possible. |
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Knowledge Management and Data Analysis (MET TM 735) |
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An important aspect of business operations concerns the way one meets the challenges of disseminating the vast amounts of information provided by today?s extensive data mining and databases, through the transformation of this information into useful knowledge that is relevant to business strategy decision. Students are exposed to the statistical and mathematical solutions to business and financial decision-making. The course deals with the basic basic concepts of probability theory. Data analysis centers on descriptive and inferential statistics as they apply to garnering and organizing information. It includes modern sampling estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, and correlation analysis. An essential aspect of knowledge management in today?s security conscience environment is the identification of risk, management of risk and alternative response actions. Security is analyzed from numerous perspectives to include: infrastructure, employee, visitor and computer systems. Focus is on the proactive use of information to develop a comprehensive plan that identifies the elements of security and risk analysis as well as presents options for risk mitigation. |
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Leadership, Teams and Communication (Module Two) |
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This course offers insight to the organization of the future. Maintaining cross functionality and customer focus can be difficult in a matrixed environment riddled with personal agendas, turf wars and difficult people. This course will help you to gain deeper understanding of the motivators that lead to these scenarios and give you tools to navigate the political land mines. It will also help you assess and maximize your communication style to win the confidence of your peers and ultimately, for optimal project results. |
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Managing Employees, professionals and teams (MET MG 743) |
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The course explores the issues that managers face when attempting to get work accomplished through other individuals or teams as they arise in organizations that employ numerous professionals and that emphasize innovation in their products, services, and internal processes. The relationship between individuals, organizations and the larger social context is studied. Focus Topics include: motivation, incentive systems, team and work flow management. The course discusses management techniques, effective verbal and nonverbal communication methods and negotiation skills as they pertain to the different aspects of managing individuals or teams. Successful managers have developed the ability to understand the nature of conflict and its resolution through persuasion, collaboration, and negotiation. Students will learn theories of interpersonal and organizational conflict and its resolution as applied in personal, corporate, historical, and political contexts. |
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Marketing Management (MET MK 743) |
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The course provides basic marketing knowledge and develops analytical and decision-making skills. Marketing tools, issues, programs, and institutions and their relationship to other management functions. Consumer behavior, promotional tools, pricing, distribution channels, product policy, marketing organization, control, and information systems. |
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Operations and Project Management (MET MG 742) |
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The course examines concepts and applied techniques for managing the operations and projects of the service or manufacturing firm. Operations topics include areas of demand forecasting, quality determination, work flow and control techniques, cost-effective management of both long-term development programs and smaller short-term projects. The course provides an understanding of the important element of operations (service or production), the supply chain management process. Material is presented that relates to the major, and often competing, supply chain challenges concerning the simultaneous standardization and differentiation of consumer preferences for products and the continued minimization emphasis in supply chains. The evolution of supply chains is studied, from those that focused on efficiencies and execution to those that use a more competitive, strategy-oriented approach, getting the ?right? products to the consumer/marketplace at the right quality/price and quantity. The course examines important concepts and applied techniques for cost-effective management of both major long-term development programs and smaller short-term projects. Special focus is on planning, controlling, and coordinating the efforts of multiple individuals. |
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