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• QBA 7200: Business Analytic for Big Data

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course will help students understand the current and emerging trends and practices for working with big data and large-scale database systems used throughout business and social networking services. Information is growing exponentially growing and analyzing these data needs new methods and processes. Business decision making is highly data intensive and require heavy read/write workloads. Topics in this course will cover understanding big data, storing and transforming this data, and technologies used to analyze these datasets. Prerequisite: MBA 6050
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• QBA 7300: Decision Support Systems

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course will discuss Decision Support Systems (DSS) used in business and the theory behind different DSS techniques, enabling students to understand today's competitive business environment. Students will learn modeling, decision processes, data mining, expert systems, and executive information systems used in organizations to support data driven business decisions. Additionally, students will be provided with the needed skills and knowledge of various decision-making models based on logical and mathematical models under different circumstances like uncertainty, lack of information, or certainty. As an outcome, students will be able to discuss the design, development, and operation of decision support systems allowing them to apply and integrate their knowledge into the business environment aiding management in better decision making. Prerequisite: MBA 6050
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• QBA 7320: Forecast Predict Modeling

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The course covers the use of predictive modeling and statistical forecasting methods in business and economics. Students will learn to leverage historical data to build models for predicting future results, considering both quantitative and qualitative methods and effective communication of results to various stakeholders. Prerequisite: MBA 6050
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• READ 7000: Foundations of Literacy

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  In this course, students will connect foundational knowledge in literacy instruction with the diverse needs of learners. Reading development, concepts, instructional strategies, materials and assessments will be examined.
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• READ 7010: Literacy Assess. & Instruct.

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Reading specialist candidates develop knowledge of literacy assessment to equip them to serve in the various roles of a reading specialist. Formal and informal assessment will be explored. The candidates will implement several informal assessments, interpret data, and develop an intervention plan based upon the results of those assessments. Prerequisite: READ 7000
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• READ 7020: Design Research Base Curr

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course investigates the design, evaluation, and implementation of literacy curricula along with the research-based elements of a high-quality literacy environment. Emphasis is placed on design characteristics that meet the needs of all learners in today's P-12 diverse educational settings with alignment to state and national standards.
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• READ 7030: Literacy Dev for Diverse Learn

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course examines and evaluates research, theories, key pedagogies, essential concepts of diversity and equity, and differentiated evidence-based language and literacy instructional methodologies that are culturally responsive to students' individual language and literacy needs as well as their social, cultural, and linguistic diversity.
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• READ 7040: Fundamentals of Phonics

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course focuses on foundational knowledge needed to effectively teach phonics, grammar, reading comprehension, and writing composition to school-age students. The sound-symbol correspondences of the English alphabetic code, common orthographic patterns, and the origins of the English language will be examined. Semantic organization, discourse patterns, and common text structures are also explored. Prerequisite: READ major or minor.
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• READ 7050: Intro Dyslexia/Dyslexia Interv

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course examines the topic of dyslexia as a language based learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. The course will compare and contrast the behaviors, characteristics, and brain based processes that typically and atypically developing readers exhibit while listening, speaking, reading, writing, and spelling. Characteristics of effective intervention programs will be examined. Related conditions and assistive technology will also be discussed.
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• READ 7070: Adv Struct Lang Teach Prac I

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This is the first of two practicum courses that focus on the planning and implementation of multisensory structured language lessons. Lessons are based on Orton-Gillingham principles and reflect a direct, explicit, sequential, systematic, cumulative, and intensive approach to language instruction. During a series of observed lessons, candidates receive individualized feedback from university personnel. Prerequisites: READ 7000, 7010, 7020, 7040, 7050
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