Graduate School (Student Learning Outcomes)

After completing the Accountancy - Accounting Data Analytics program, students will:

• apply data analytics techniques to solve problems in a specific area of accounting practice aligned with their career goals.
• analyze and interpret the data analytics cycle as applied to financial reporting, auditing, and taxation.
• evaluate and apply cost data to support management planning, performance assessment, and strategic decision-making.

After completing the Accountancy - Forensic Accounting program, students will:

• analyze and apply forensic accounting tools in a specialized area aligned with their intended career path.
• evaluate current regulatory and ethical challenges in the auditing profession, with emphasis on forensic audit practices.

After completing the Accountancy - Financial Reporting and Attestation program, students will:

• analyze and apply advanced concepts in a selected area of financial reporting and attestation that aligns with their intended area of practice.
• analyze current issues facing the auditing profession, with an emphasis on the challenges that audit practitioners will likely face in the foreseeable future.
• apply accounting principles to business combinations, prepare consolidated financial statements, and resolve foreign currency translation issues.

After completing the Accountancy - Management Accounting program, students will: 

• analyze data and apply advanced concepts in a selected area of management accounting that aligns with their intended area of practice.
• use cost data in management planning, performance evaluation, and decision-making.

• conduct research on taxation topics relevant to their intended areas of practice.
• explain and apply foundational tax concepts related to corporations, partnerships, and other relevant entities.
• evaluate and solve advanced taxation issues related to various business entities, including corporations, partnerships, and other entities.
  

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate proficiency in logical reasoning and data analysis skills used in the executive decision-making process as business managers and leaders.
• identify and define social, ethical, environmental and economic challenges at local, national and international levels.  Students demonstrate proficiency in integrating their knowledge and skills in addressing these issues as business managers and leaders.
• demonstrate proficiency in integrating knowledge from multiple disciplines incorporating learning from both classroom and non-classroom settings in the completion of complex and comprehensive tasks undertaken by business managers and leaders.

After completing our program, students will:

After completing our program, students will:

• learn how to review literature, design research studies, collect and analyze data, and interpret results. They will apply this knowledge to conduct original rigorous research to address practical business problems.

• acquire broad knowledge in foundational disciplines of business administration. This breadth of knowledge allows students to examine business problems from multiple lenses. In addition, students will demonstrate deep knowledge (master) of the scholarly literature in their individual area of interest.

•  communicate research results via writing and presentation in both scholarly and practical (business) settings. 

After completing our program, students will:

• design and implement a unit of instruction, then modify instruction based on data collected.
• increase capacity for practical reflection, as a result of experiential learning opportunities provided across the program.
• increase cultural awareness to develop caring communities of learners. 

After completing our program, students will:

• apply assessment strategies to measure student learning.
• design and deliver standard-based lessons that reflect best practices.
• apply teaching strategies. 

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate a proficient knowledge in music or theatre.
• plan and implement instruction based on knowledge of students, develop critical thinking, and problem solving and actively engage the learner.
• recognize and explain the philosophical and social foundation underlying theatre and music in education and the ability to express a rationale for personal attitudes and beliefs.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate a solid understanding of the history of educators and educational advocacy in the United States and its relation to the current realities and perceptions of teachers particularly in public education.
• ground their original research in educational theory, research literature, and policy.
• demonstrate advocacy skills rooted in reflective practice.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate knowledge of the nature and diversity of gifted and talented students. 
• build their skills and knowledge of how to modify content, process/product, environment, and rigor to promote the learning and talent development of gifted and talented students. 
• apply their expertise to advocate for the rights and opportunities to learn for gifted and talented students. 

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate special education general content knowledge competencies.
• demonstrate a commitment to reducing the SPED teacher shortage in local communities by engaging in recruitment and retention practices that target high demand teaching positions.
• demonstrate an understanding of individualization in Special Education by producing an Individualized Education Program that supports research-based instructional strategies. 

After completing our program, students will:

• apply advanced knowledge and leadership skills to enact evidence-based change in the lives of individuals, families, organizations and communities.

• critically analyze problems of practice with systematic inquiry, integrating both practical and empirical research.

• demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills with a range of stakeholders and audiences.

• design and implement a dissertation study focusing on a solution to a significant problem or area of interest within the student’s context of professional practice. 

After completing our program, students will:

• integrate developmental, child life, and stress and coping theories into program planning and child life activities for children and families.
• distinguish among common pediatric illnesses and injuries in order to be able to create a plan for intervention.
• be prepared for internship placement during the first semester of their second program year.
• benefit from a translational understanding of research to practice.

After completing our program, students will:

• conduct original research effectively.
• explain and apply communication theory.
• develop writing skills to enhance professional performance.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate a mastery of poetics or storytelling craft through the creation of a full-length manuscript of poetry and fiction that is structurally sound, polished, and complete, and has a distinct voice/style.
• read and respond thoughtfully and critically in both oral and written form to other student’s work and literary texts.
• apply a sophisticated and intentional application of writing techniques and craft in their creative writing.
• develop an understanding of the history and practice of literary publishing, including the practice of submitting work to literary journals and/or to publishers. 

After completing our program, students will:

• identify and apply environmental science concepts, principles and methodology to solve problems.
• identify and apply environmental policy principles and concepts.
• effectively communicate environmental science and policy concepts, principles, and methods.

After completing our program, students will:

• conduct historical research using primary sources.
• communicate their findings effectively in writing.
• explain scholarship in the discipline (historiography).

After completing our program, students will:

• rely on vision, leadership, and technical skills to affect positive change.
• acquire a strong sense of civic duty coupled with the technical skills to tackle complex social problems and an overarching respect for policy as a useful tool for change.
• learn the ability to make difficult decision alongside of those affected by the decisions in ways that are informed by logic, research, and reason with the ultimate goal of advancing the common good.
• acquire a commitment to justice when considering solutions to systemic inequalities that threaten the common good.
• master attention to the biases that may influence understanding, action, and decision making as well as a commitment to remedy barriers to active participation.

After completing our program, students will:

• identify and summarize the major theoretical traditions of American Urban Planning. 
• explain how urban public policy affects urban municipal administration.    
• perform one professional skill (economic development, GIS, legal analysis).

After completing our program, students will:

Multilingual Learners (MLL)

• use a range of resources to learn about world cultures and specifically the cultures of students in their classrooms and apply that learning to instruction.
• incorporate authentic materials that are age and level appropriate.
• use various instruments and techniques to assess content-area/work-area learning for the ELLs at varying levels of language and literacy development.
    

Spanish

• integrate cultural products, practices, perspectives in their teaching.
• select and integrate authentic materials in their teaching.
• design and use formative and summative assessment models. 

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate how comprehension and synthesis of students’ ELD proficiency to design lessons that build on experiences and existing language skills.
• demonstrate assessment knowledge for P12 MLL classrooms.
• develop effective individualized instructional and assessment practices. 

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate an advanced level of knowledge and ability in using software development models and techniques.
• demonstrate the ability to critically analyze research in the computer science literature.
• demonstrate the ability to function effectively on teams to accomplish a common goal.

Additionally, after completing the following specialization, students will:

Specialization: Computer Science

• understand the programming models underlying different languages and make informed design choices in languages supporting multiple complementary approaches.
• identify the Chomsky Hierarchy and relate the various levels to both formal and programming language concepts as well as limits for computation.

Specialization: Information Systems

• design and implement client/server network applications using Berkeley Distribution Sockets (BSD sockets) and Application Programming Interface (API).
• analyze different cryptographic techniques.

Specialization: Software Engineering

• demonstrate an ability to work as a team to engineer working software. 
• demonstrate an ability to evaluate alternative designs according to principles of good architecture and design.

Specialization: Cybersecurity

• defend computer network by devising appropriate firewall rules and intrusion detection system alerts.
• analyze current security research and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of techniques in terms of suitable to task, effectiveness, and significant limitations.
  
• apply secured software practices.
• analyze different cryptographic techniques.

After completing our program, students will:

•  demonstrate an advanced knowledge of computer programming, data organization, data mining, data visualization, and algorithms.
• demonstrate an advanced knowledge and understanding in the core area of mathematics and statistics, including optimization, machine learning, regression, and linear algebra.
• synthesize the knowledge learned throughout the program in either a thesis or practicum setting.

After completing our program, students will:

• obtain foundational knowledge of 1) the biology of marine organisms (across all levels of biological organization and taxonomic diversity), 2) the ocean environment, and 3) the practice of science. 
• clearly and effectively communicate scientific results. 
• conduct a marine biology research project, and orally defend their work and submit a written thesis.  Both steps must be approved by their thesis committee. 

After completing our program, students will:

• understand and employ the basic tools and methods of core graduate areas in their chosen concentration.
• communicate mathematical arguments, and present the results of a mathematical/statistical study in a clear, coherent, and convincing manner, both orally and in writing.
• conduct supervised, independent projects in the mathematical sciences.

After completing our program, students will:

• defend computer network by devising appropriate firewall rules and intrusion detection system alerts.
• analyze different cryptographic techniques.
• demonstrate the ability to analyze current security research and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of techniques in terms of suitable to task, effectiveness, and significant limitations.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate knowledge of the main theoretical results and key methods used in operations research and in the development of models for management and industry.
• recognize and choose the appropriate deterministic and probabilistic models used in management and industry operations.
• describe deterministic and probabilistic models and present the results of model application using correct terminology in a clear, coherent, and effective manner.

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate the use of good software development models and techniques.
• demonstrate the ability to evaluate alternative designs according to principles of good architecture and design.
• demonstrate the ability to function effectively on teams to accomplish a common goal. 

After completing our program, students will:

• demonstrate knowledge of the main theoretical results and key methods used in the development of statistical models.
• recognize and choose the appropriate statistical models to use for given data analysis tasks.
• describe statistical models and present the results of statistical studies using correct terminology in a clear, coherent, and effective manner.

After completing our program, students will:

•  demonstrate advanced knowledge and application of several of the following core areas: Algebra, Analysis, Differential Equations/Dynamical Systems, Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis, and Probability and Statistics.
• be able to identify and conduct original research and scholarship, and communicate effectively the results of their research.
• demonstrate the ability to make integral use of the available computational tools to advance their area of research, through experimental mathematics, computer-assisted proofs, development of numerical or statistical codes yielding new mathematical data, and/or other computationally intensive methodologies.