Education and Coursework

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - August 2023 - May 2025 (expected)

Select Coursework (4 credits per course)

Specialization #1 - Strategic Leadership and Management

• Leadership and Teams

• Managing Organizations

• Strategic Management

• Strategic Leadership and Management Capstone

Specialization #2 - Managerial Economics and Business Analysis

• Statistics for Management Decision Making

• Microeconomics for Business

• Money and Banking

Specialization #3 - Value Chain Management

• Marketing Management

• Operations Management

• Managerial Accounting

• Value Chain Management Capstone

Specialization #4 - Financial Management

• Accounting Measurement, Reporting, and Control

• Investments

• Corporate Finance

Specialization #5 - Business Analytics

• Business Analytics with R

• Communicating with Data

• Data Toolkit: Business Data Modeling and Predictive Analytics

• Applications of Data Analytics in Marketing

• Applications of Data Analytics in Accounting

Specialization #6 - Elective Specialization

• Emerging Technologies, Disruption, and AI

• Entrepreneurship: From Startup to Growth

• Global Strategy

• Infonomics

Program Capstone (completed after 72 credit hours)

*Click on a course for a detailed description of learning objectives and outcomes

*Gies is an AACSB-accredited business school

Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS) - Expected before 2027

Select Coursework (1 credit per course; 30 courses total)

Foundations of Data Structures and Algotithms

• Algorithms for Searching, Sorting, and Indexing

• Trees and Graphs: Basics

• Dynamic Programming, Greedy Algorithms

• Approximation Algorithms and Linear Programming

• Advanced Data Structures, RSA and Quantum Algorithms

Software Architecture for Big Data

• Fundamentals of Software Architecture for Big Data

• Software Architecture Patterns for Big Data

• Applications of Software Architecture for Big Data

Machine Learning: Theory & Hands-On Practice with Python

• Introduction to Machine Learning: Supervised Learning

• Unsupervised Algorithms in Machine Learning

• Introduction to Deep Learning

Computing, Ethics, and Society

• Computing, Ethics, and Society Foundations

• Ethical Issues in AI and Professional Ethics

• Ethical Issues in Computing Applications

Network Systems: Principles and Practice (Linux and Cloud Networking)

• Network Systems Foundation

• Network Principles in Practice: Linux Networking

• Network Principles in Practice: Cloud Networking

More to come!

Master of Public Policy (MPP) - May 2014

Coursework (3 credits per course)

• Practicum - Graduate Internship at the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

• Practicum - Graduate Internship at the Clinton Global Initiative

• Co-Op - Regional Fellowship at the Office of Governor Deval Patrick

• Co-Op - Legislative Advocate at Local Domestic Violence Shelter

• Public Management

• Ethics and Public Policy

• Public Policy Seminar

• Politics and the Policy Process

• Economics and Public Policy

• Quantiative and Qualitative Policy Methods

• Urban and Housing Policy

• Applied Public Sector Economics

• Introduction to Advanced Statistical Methods

• Federal Budgeting

• Legislative Drafting

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (BA) - May 2013

Select Coursework (3 credits per course)

• Honors General Chemistry

• Honors Biology

• Calculus I & II

• Honors Medical Ethics

• Introduction to Philosophy

• Introduction to Psychology

• Comparative Politics

• World Politics

• Family and the State

• American Politics Through Film

• Race and American Politics

• Public Policy

• Civil Liberties

• Behavioral Neuroscience

• Controversies in Public Policy

• American Foreign Policy

• Political Law and Judicial Behavior

• American Political Thought

• Honors Introduction to Legal Reasoning

• Political Organizations

• Introduction to Women and Politics in the US

• The Body Politic