MA Applied Professional Studies (MAPS)

Explores survey research including data collection and data analysis. Multi-career cross-listing: SOCA 307. Not available for students with credit in: SOCA 307.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Occasionally.

Examines and evaluates greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation policies that a variety of national and sub-national governments are implementing. Not available for students with credit in: POLS 312. Multi-career cross-listing: POLS 312.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Spring (odd years).

Examines decision making from both a rational and cognitive-bureaucratic perspective. Investigates the universal applications of theoretical strategic thinking, integrates tactical and strategic decision making, and applies creative and critical thinking in strategic formulation and implementation. Explores case studies of military, political and corporate strategies. Not open to those with credit in POLS 217. Multi-career cross-listing: POLS 217.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Spring (even years).

Examines racism within various institutions such as public government bodies, private business, and universities. Outlines political, social, ecological, and economic effects of racism. Not open to those with credit in SOCA 323. Multi-career cross-listing: SOCA 323.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Fall, Spring.

Examines landscape ecology from the perspective of its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with ecological processes. Includes metric tools and spatial model techniques to explain real world phenomena. Not open to those with credit in GEOG 384. Multi-career cross-listing: GEOG 384.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Occasionally.

Examines the procedures used to plan and evaluate programs and their operations.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Summer.

Distinguishes the emerging moral conflicts with data collection and presentation, identifies the relevant ethical features, and develops strategies and policies for avoiding these conflicts.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Occasionally.

Explores how advances in information communication technologies affect the built environment at various scales to understand the role of multiple actors working at the intersection of technology and urbanism and to determine the impact on community growth and resilience.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Occasionally.

Explores spatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology including data acquisition, integration, and editing. Applies GIS technologies to environmental management and urban planning. Not open to those with credit in GEOG 460. Multi-career cross-listing: GEOG 460.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Occasionally.

Examines fundamental issues concerning formal organization and its impact on individuals and society.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Fall.

Articulates the validity and complexity of data as illustrated in research.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Fall.

Identifies ethical and moral problems and formulates strategies to avoid making ethically questionable choices.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Spring.

Examines communication or communication in a global workplace emphasizing intercultural and multi-generational differences. Cross-listed with: COMM 703.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Offered: Yearly.

Provides an opportunity to use coursework knowledge in an applied setting based on specialization area. Requires 100 hours of a supervised project.

Prerequisites: Completed 18 credits of MAPS coursework.

Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

Examines urbanism and the global city under present-day conditions, including modernity, late-capitalism and globalization.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Fall.

Investigates management, policy, urban studies and leadership in the public sector.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Spring (odd years).

Examines how political coalitions shape policy outcomes, the influence of institutions on policy design, and the evaluation of public policy.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Spring (even years).

Examines environmental injustice, poverty, homelessness, and gender, housing, and educational inequalities.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Spring.

Provides an in-depth study of new and/or special-interest subject areas within the discipline. Course may be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credits.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Occasionally.

Explores data visualization including opportunities for critiquing representations of data, techniques used in analysis packages and best practices for data visualization to different audiences.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Offered: Spring (odd years).

Create and distributes interactive and shareable visual analytics using Tableau.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Offered: Summer.

Analyzes and describes generic programming language concepts as they are implemented in R. Creates plots, tables and charts to visualize analysis results.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Offered: Summer.

Uses SPSS to summarize and display large amounts information using visual analytics.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Offered: Summer.

Provides opportunity for an in-depth study of new and/or special-interest subject areas within the discipline. Course may repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credits.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Offered: Occasionally.

Delves into identifying and building new smart skills that are most effective in policy-making and policy implementation to create urban environments more livable, equitable, and efficient.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Fall.

Examines how governments partner with for-profit and non-profit organizations to shape public policy, redefine traditional methods of public administration, and solve some of the world's most intractable problems.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Summer.

Explores technology that enables greater participation in government or otherwise assists government in delivering citizen services and strengthening ties with the public.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Summer.

Explores how humans and machines engage in effective decision-making processes by aligning values, ethics, and shared cognition and how interface design affects social and cultural factors.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Spring.

Provides opportunity for an in-depth study of new and/or special-interest subject areas within the discipline. Course may be repeated for a maximum of nine credits with a different topic.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Offered: Summer.

Explores place-based education through the use of local, regional, and/or national communities and the environment as the basis for teaching and learning. Course may be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credits. Field Trips.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

Offered: Occasionally.

Provides an opportunity to work on an independent research study or project under the supervision of a faculty member.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair.

Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.