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• PRST 310: Leading Oneself and Others int

  4.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course addresses the key concepts, models, attitudes and practices that support leading oneself and others in the 21st century. Individual and organizational performance within the 21st century is fundamentally influenced by increasing change, complexity and diversity. The need for rapid responsiveness, creativity and flexibility has increased general levels of delegation and autonomy. This has increased the need for new forms and levels of personal initiative, competence and self-leadership. Translating change, complexity and diversity into sustained organizational performance requires higher levels of complex engagement, mutual learning and collaboration among increasingly diverse stakeholders. This course examines various approaches and develops competencies for leading oneself and others into higher states of engagement, mutual learning, collaboration, innovation and rapid responsiveness.
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• PRST 311: Critical Thinking, Use of Rese

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course examines the key concepts, models, attitudes and practices that support critical thinking and informed decision making in the 21st century. A rapidly changing, complex and information rich environment has increased the challenge of identifying valid information, conducting logical and sufficiently comprehensive analysis, and making accurate predictions. Increasingly politicized and polarized mass media, the rise in narrow focus advocacy and extremism, and concerns about cognitive bias have generated an expanding set of competing arguments and approaches to determining fact. This course examines various approaches and develops competencies regarding the identification of valid information, logical analysis and argument, and informed decision making.
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• PRST 312: Creativity & Innovation in the

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course examines the key concepts, models, attitudes and practices that support creativity, innovation and both the communication and implementation of novel ideas in modern organizations. Significant expansion in competition arising from rapid globalization, production flexibility driven by new technologies, and changing consumer preferences have significantly reduced product/service life cycles. This has increased the need for individual, team and organizational creativity, innovation and rapid implementation. The increasing complexity of product/service development and delivery processes combined with the expanded participation of diverse stakeholders has made the presentation and communication of novel ideas especially important. This course examines various approaches and develops key competencies regarding the arousal of creativity, presentation of novel ideas and successful management of innovation within modern organizations.
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• PRST 313: Global Society in the 21st Cen

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course examines the key components, dynamics and issues that comprise global society in the 21st century. Increasingly open national boundaries combined with rapidly advancing technology, telecommunications, production and distribution systems, trade, human migration and social diversity has generated a more interdependent global society and economy. A rapidly expanding human population combined with significant increases in per capita and overall consumption (accelerated by globalization) has increased both the consumption of natural resources and the impact of human activity on the natural environment. Individual, organizational and societal performance increasingly depends on understanding and aligning strategy with the challenges and opportunities of a globalized society. This course analyses modern global society and fosters a globally oriented decision making perspective.
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• PRST 314: Ethics, Social Responsibiltiy

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course addresses the key concepts, models, attitudes and practices that support ethical, socially responsible and sustainable human activity in the 21st century. Globalization and rapidly increasing human populations, natural resource extraction and consumption has increased the general level of interdependence among individuals, groups, cultures, institutions, nations and the natural environment. This has highlighted the issue of which guiding values and behavioral norms will govern the functioning of this increasing interdependent, impactful and coupled human-natural system. This course examines various approaches and develops competencies regarding ethical, socially responsible and sustainable human activity.
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• PRST 315: 21st Century Life and Work Ski

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This program level course (must be completed by the end of the Bachelor of Professional Studies program) addresses the key cross-cutting life and work skills that support personal and professional success in the 21st century. Priority cross-cutting competencies that are not sufficiently addressed within a dedicated course or indirectly in other courses are covered by a series of short online training modules. Topics include understanding modern organizations, communication with diverse participants, giving and receiving effective feedback among diverse participants, negotiation and conflict management with culturally diverse participants, customer service, stress management, managing diversity and inclusion, collaborative decision making and others.
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• PRST 321: Fundamentals of Strategic Plan

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course addresses the key concepts, models and practices of strategic planning in organizations across a variety of sectors (private, public, non-profit and specialized). Increasing complexity, change and diversity around and within organizations requires a well-developed and executed strategic planning system to produce and implement informed strategic decisions. The ability to accurately assess external conditions, the internal state of an organization, and develop both product/service strategies and a supportive organizational design that maximizes organizational success, is a key competency for managers and professional service providers in all sectors. Students will learn how to develop a strategic planning system that generates effective organizational strategy and a supportive organizational design.
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• PRST 322: Fundamentals of Process Mgmt

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course addresses the key concepts, models and practices that support the development, implementation and improvement of core and support processes in organizations across a variety of sectors (private, public, non-profit and specialized). The core activity of organizations is comprised of beginning-to-end value added processes that produce an organization's products/services (primary outputs) in accordance with the existing strategy. The core value-added processes are supported by a variety of connected support processes. Developing both core and support processes that integrate human effort and technology in a manner that optimizes the motivating potential, efficiency and effectiveness of organizational processes, is a key competency for managers and professional service providers in all sectors. Students will learn how to map out, develop and improve organizational processes using process development technology.
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• PRST 323: Fundamentals of HR Mgmt

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course addresses the key concepts, models and practices of human resource management across a variety of sectors (private, public, non-profit and specialized). Increasing complexity, change and diversity around and within organizations requires complex employee and technological responses. Human resources capable of executing complex tasks is a key contributor to organizational success within the contemporary performance environment. The human resource management system comprised of various activities including staffing, compensation, employee development, performance management and employee relations, helps to secure, deploy, motivate and retain the required human resources required in all sectors. Students will learn how to execute the fundamental components of a human resource management system including a structured interview process.
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• PRST 324: Fundamentals of Coaching Indiv

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course addresses the key concepts, models and practices of multilevel organizational coaching across a variety of sectors (private, public, non-profit, specialized). Increasing complexity, change and competition within a more globalized society requires ongoing improvements in productivity, innovation, flexibility and rapid responsiveness. Contemporary performance conditions are expanding the general level of delegation and employee autonomy in organizations, and direct supervision is being replaced by a coaching approach that promotes self-regulation at the individual, relational, team and inter-team level. Multilevel organizational coaching that draws upon and integrates a variety of approaches is a key competency for managers and professional service providers in all sectors. Students will learn multi-level organizational coaching that integrates various approaches to coaching individuals, relationships and teams in organizations.
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