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HURD 791 PROJECT PLANNING & CONTROL CONCEPTS
Prerequisites: HURD 789
Credits: 3
This course is designed as an experience for personal growth in acquiring
essential knowledge of procedures, tools, and techniques needed to
conceptualize work requirements and make detailed project plans. It provides
an integrative perspective in the organization of structuring projects to improve
accuracy of forecasts and to assess project cost and duration.

HURD 806 RESEARCH PLANNING: ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION, and
PROPOSAL WRITING
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This course is designed to 1) provide the human resource development
practitioner with an understanding of the various kinds of educational and
business research. The focus will be given to business research, design
strategies, evaluation and report writing. Provides an understanding and
interpretation of the use of basic statistical techniques appropriate to research
designs and includes; 2) the identification, design and implementation of
organizational interventions designed to satisfy a need, alleviate a problem, or
serve as new initiatives will be critiqued as students develop proposals for a
critical analysis of a specific topic related to the HRD field of study. These
proposals are to represent a highly sophisticated understanding of the
application of principles learned through experience in the HRD program and
existing research.

HURD 880 INTEGRATIVE SEMINAR: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT IN HRD
Prerequisites: HURD 806
Credits: 3
This course has dual foci: (1) to provide an academic framework in which
human resource practitioners can synthesize their knowledge, and (2) guidance
in the application of the knowledge and skills obtained as seminar topic
proposals developed during the planning stage (HURD 806) are completed.
Topics include current issues in adult learning, training and education; design of
training programs; consultant-client relationships; management strategies for
change; organizational behavior issues, analysis of social forces; and special
topics based on student interests.

HURD 881 RESEARCH ADVISEMENT
Prerequisites: HURD 881
Credits: 3

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