The MPS in EABT program offers you a comprehensive education in the principles and practice of enterprise architecture by integrating strategic, business, and technology planning methods. You can acquire the ability to understand, analyze, justify, and communicate solutions throughout your course of study, and you can complete the 33-credit online master's degree program in as little as two years on a part-time basis.
The core course of study includes:
- enterprise architecture foundations
- enterprise architecture tools and practices
- enterprise modeling
- enterprise information technology architecture
- enterprise architecture leadership and decision making
- project and portfolio management
- understanding complex organizations
- cost and value management
- corporate, business, and project strategy
Electives courses are available in:
- business architecture
- project management
- security architecture
- supply chain
Course List - Master of Professional Studies in Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation
| Title | Abbreviation | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Architecture Foundations I | EA 871 | Theoretical foundations and practice of enterprise architecture. | 3 credits |
| Enterprise Modeling | EA 873 | Theoretical foundations and practice of enterprise modeling. Prerequisite: EA 871 |
3 credits |
| Enterprise Information Technology Architecture | EA 874 | Theoretical foundations and practice of the enterprise information technology architecture. Prerequisite: EA 871 |
3 credits |
| Architecting Enterprise Security and Risk Analysis | EA 876 | Analytical skills to produce credible, meaningful answers to critical risk management questions across enterprise architecture layers, including the supply chain. Prerequisite: EA 871 |
3 credits |
| Managing and Leading People in Organizations | MBADM 816 | Overview of human behavior in organizations, and implications for managing and leading individuals, teams, and organizations. | 3 credits |
| Financial Management | MBADM 820 |
Application of techniques available to aid managers in sound financial decision making. Prerequisite: MBADM 811* |
3 credits |
| Global Strategic Management | MBADM 571 | Integrating multiple functional business areas to resolve global business problems and improve organizational performance. | 3 credits |
| Strategic Leading and Identity | BA 888 | The course takes a unique approach to strategic leadership that emphasizes identity issues that are critical to understanding individual and collective processes in organizational life. | 3 credits |
*waived for this degree only.
Elective Courses
Choose 6 credits only from the following:
| Title | Abbreviation | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerging Trends, Technology, and Corporate Innovation | ENTR 810 | This course explores emerging trends and disruptors in technology and industry that create new markets and influence decision. | 3 credits |
| Strategic Business Architecture | BA 809 | Develop competencies for leading new product/process development or participating in corporate spin-outs using entrepreneurial skills within a corporation. | 3 credits |
| Title | Abbreviation | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Management | MANGT 510 | A problem-based, interdisciplinary course in project management skills and techniques needed to manage projects in a modern business environment. | 3 credits |
| Cost and Value Management | MANGT 515 | A problem-based course that emphasizes project cost control and teaches students to apply techniques to control projects in business.
Prerequisite or concurrent: MANGT 510
|
3 credits |
| Organizations | MANGT 531 | An examination of organizational theories and process of organizational behavior. | 3 credits |
| Strategy: Corporate, Business and Project | MANGT 540 | A problem-based course that focuses on linking projects to overall corporate strategy.
Prerequisite or concurrent: MANGT 510
|
3 credits |
| Title | Abbreviation | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundations of Information Security and Assurance | IST 815 | This course provides theoretical and applied foundations of information security and assurance. | 3 credits |
| Network Management and Security | IST 554 | Essential skills and knowledge for effectively utilizing networks and Internet technologies to facilitate, manage and secure data communications and applications. | 3 credits |
| Title | Abbreviation | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supply Chain Management | SCM 800 | Introduction to the strategic framework, issues, and methods for integrating supply and demand management within and across companies. | 4 credits |
| Supply Chain Performance Metrics and Financial Analysis | SCM 801 | Performance metrics used in supply chain management, both within the enterprise and across the extended enterprise. | 2 credits |
| Demand Fulfillment | SCM 812 | This course covers the forecasting and inventory management activities involved in the fulfillment of demand for finished goods. | 2 credits |
| Supply Management | SCM 822 | An overview of the strategic role that supply management has in effective supply, demand, and value chain operations. | 2 credits |
| Manufacturing and Service Operations Planning | SCM 842 |
Planning strategies for managing manufacturing and service operations within supply chains. |
2 credits |
| Business Ethics | BA 803 | A study of ethical conduct in organizations and how cultural differences and personal conduct impact business decisions | 1 credits |
Capstone Experience
| Title | Abbreviation | Description | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Paper or Project | EA 594 | Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small group basis. Note: EA 594 must be scheduled over the final two semesters in a 2-credit/1-credit consecutive sequence for a total of 3 credits. |
3 credits |
Course Availability
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