The Core is an opportunity to inquire into the fundamental aspects of being and our relationship with God, nature and our fellow human beings.
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An intensive exploration of the intellectual and moral virtues in the context of cultivating leadership characterized by magnanimity and humility and built on the cardinal virtues (i.e., prudence, justice, self-control, and courage). Students develop an advanced capacity for self-awareness and managing oneself. Connections between ethical, authentic, servant, and transformational leadership styles and virtues are examined and applied to personal leadership style and ethical decision making.
An examination of business as a creation of man and collective contributor to society according to its responsibilities articulated by the tenets of Catholic social teaching including the common good, solidarity, subsidiarity, the dignity of the human person, worker, and work, and a preference for the poor. Emphasis is placed on how managers and their organizations effect change for a more sustainable planet and just society.
The course introduces logic while giving students the opportunity to make arguments. The course will cover persuasion through defining and explaining what rhetoric is. The course also addresses the practice of social influence; marketing politics, interpersonal relationships, and groups. The course will teach students how to communicate effectively in business situations.
This course teaches students the art of solving problems using code. It is open to students from any discipline, with or without programming experience. Topics include translation of a problem from real-world applications to software, modeling, abstraction, complexity, and security. The course uses Python as its primary programming language. Additional programming languages related to web development and databases will be introduced toward the end of this course. The course will also cover software engineering principles, including software design patterns, testing, and documentation. This course is included in the University of Dallas鈥檚 NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence designation as CAE-Cyber Defense (CAE-CD).
This course addresses concepts, tools, and techniques for using large datasets to address business problems. This includes understanding big data concepts, common architectures, andusing industry-standard tools to store, query, transform and analyze large datasets. Techniquesrelated to importing and working with diverse types of data across different technical environments are discussed and practiced.
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This course provides hands-on experience in data visualization. Students will learn to analyze the context of data visualization, to identify, access and prepare data for visualization, to apply best practices in visual analytics, to design user-oriented visualizations based on essentialcognitive and perceptual principles, and to create dashboard and data stories that effectivelycommunicate data insights to facilitate managerial decision making. Students will complete data visualization assignments as well as a final project featuring an interactive dashboard and data story.
This course addresses tools and techniques required for using spreadsheets to analyze quantitative business problems. Topics include data cleaning, data preparation, advanced spreadsheet tools for problem analysis, and data dashboards. This course assumes intermediate spreadsheet knowledge and knowledge of business terms and functions.
This course emphasizes the relational database structure and the use of relational databases for retrieving and reporting information to support business decisions. It covers Structured Query Language (SQL) extensively. Applications of relational databases in many areas of business will be discussed. Topics include relationship database concepts, the relational data model, entity relationship modeling, introductory, intermediate, and advanced SQL queries. Advanced topics include using SQL to implement machine learning (ML) and analyze geospatial data.