Master of Interdisciplinary Studies (MIS)

Learn to use and evaluate artificial intelligence without a coding background. Explore generative AI, effective prompting, bias, privacy and the ethical decisions involved in using AI at work.

Courses:

• AILE 6030 — Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Literacy (3 credits)
• AILE 6031 — Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Ethics (3 credits)
• AILE 6032 — Advanced Topics in AI Literacy and Ethics (3 credits)

Good to know: These courses are offered fully online and also make up a nine-credit graduate certificate that can be completed independently.

Turn your interest in the arts into skills for leading and supporting arts organizations. Study how cultural policy, advocacy, funding and leadership shape their work.

Courses:

• AA 6010 — Principles of Arts Administration (3 credits)
• AA 6040 — Arts Advocacy and Cultural Policy (3 credits)
• AA 6070 — Leadership Development in the Arts (3 credits)
• AA 6110 — Legal Issues in the Arts (3 credits)
• AA 6210 — Grant Writing (3 credits)
• AA 6920 — Special Projects in Arts Administration (1 credit)

Good to know: Permission from the Arts Administration Program Director is required before taking this learning block. Courses are offered online and face-to-face over a full semester.

Interested in the decisions that keep aviation organizations running? Explore airport and airline management, aviation economics, air traffic control and flight operations.

Courses:

• AVTN 6000 — Introduction to Aviation (3 credits)
• AVTN 6020 — Aviation Economics (3 credits)
• AVTN 6410 — Air Traffic Control (3 credits)
• AVTN 6430 — Aeronautical Decision Making and Crew Resource Management (3 credits)
• AVTN 6650 — Airport Management (3 credits)
• AVTN 6670 — Airline Management (3 credits)
• AVTN 6750 — Fixed-Base Operations Management (3 credits)
• AVTN 6780 — Corporate Flight Department Management (3 credits)
• AVTN 6920 — Workshop: Aviation Standards and Practice (6 credits)

Good to know: You may complete 9 or 18 credits in this area. Courses are offered online and face-to-face over a full semester. This concentration does not include flight labs.

Bring a stronger business perspective to the work you already do. Start with business foundations, then choose courses that fit your goals in finance, management, operations, leadership or marketing.

Required course:

• BA 6000 — Business Foundations (3 credits)

Choose two:

• ACCT 6100 — Advanced Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
• ECON 6200 — Managerial Economics (3 credits)
• FIN 6100 — Managerial Finance (3 credits)
• MGMT 6100 — Managing People and Organizations (3 credits)
• MGMT 6140 — Operations and Supply Chain Management (3 credits)
• MGMT 6150 — Leadership (3 credits)
• MKTG 6200 — Marketing (3 credits)

Good to know: Complete BA 6000 first unless the School of Business approves a substitution. Courses are offered online and face-to-face in seven-week sessions.

Build skills you can use to support animals, people and the organizations that serve them. After a foundations course, choose topics such as fundraising, nonprofit management, communications and personnel management.

Start with:

• INDS 6414 — Foundations of Contemporary Animal Services Leadership (3 credits)

Select additional courses:

• BA 6000 — Business Foundations (3 credits)
• COMM 6210 — Advertising and Public Relations Strategies (3 credits)
• COMM 6230 — Professional Social Media (3 credits)
• FIN 6100 — Managerial Finance (3 credits)
• INDS 6211 — Crisis Communication Management (3 credits)
• INDS 6410 — Personnel Management (3 credits)
• INDS 6411 — Non-Profit Management (3 credits)
• INDS 6412 — Foundations of Grant Writing (3 credits)
• INDS 6413 — Foundations of Fundraising (3 credits)
• MGMT 6100 — Managing People and Organizations (3 credits)
• PRDV 5000 — Professional Development: Best Friends National Conference (1 credit)

Good to know: You may complete 9 or 18 credits in this area. Take INDS 6414 before the electives; BA 6000 is required before FIN 6100 or MGMT 6100. Courses are offered online and face-to-face in seven-week sessions.

Make room to develop your writing while studying the literature and craft behind poetry and fiction. This three-course block begins with a foundation in creative writing.

Courses:

• ENGL 6010 — Foundations of Creative Writing (3 credits)
• ENGL 6011 — Poetry Writing and Literature (3 credits)
• ENGL 6012 — Fiction Writing and Literature (3 credits)

Good to know: Courses are online and run for a full semester.

Explore the ideas and decisions shaping today’s classrooms and education systems. Choose courses in technology, creativity, policy, pedagogy and the social and historical context of education.

Courses:

• EDUC 6020 — Information and Technology in Education (3 credits)
• EDUC 6440 — Creativity in Education (3 credits)
• EDUC 6600 — Sociology of Education (3 credits)
• EDUC 6610 — Educational Policy and Politics (3 credits)
• EDUC 6620 — Critical Pedagogy (3 credits)
• EDUC 6630 — Contemporary Issues in American Education (3 credits)
• EDUC 6640 — History of American Education (3 credits)

Good to know: You may complete 9 or 18 credits in this area. Courses are online and run for a full semester; several are offered only in summer.

Have graduate coursework or an area of interest that does not fit one of the listed learning blocks? General Studies offers a way to build an approved block around your academic goals or eligible transfer coursework.

Course option:

• INDS 6200 — General Studies Special Topics (1–9 credits)

Good to know: Work with the program to plan your courses or transfer substitutions. Offerings may run for seven weeks or a full semester.

Bring different disciplines together to examine ethics, leadership and questions about what people and societies value. Special topics courses let you explore these questions through changing areas of study.

Complete 9 credits from:

• HU 6100 — Introduction to Human Values (3 credits)
• INDS 6160 — Special Topics in Leadership (3 credits)
• INDS 6190 — Special Topics in Human Values (3 credits)

Good to know: Special topics courses may be repeated for credit when the topic changes.

Develop a leadership approach you can apply in your workplace or community. Explore the essentials of leading others, setting direction and coaching people through challenges.

Select 9 credits from:

• INDS 6160 — Special Topics in Leadership (3 credits)
• INDS 6510 — Leadership Essentials (3 credits)
• INDS 6511 — Strategic Leadership (3 credits)
• INDS 6512 — Leadership Coaching Strategies (3 credits)
• INDS 6920 — Leadership Workshops (3–9 credits)
• INDS 6922 — Interdisciplinary Study Abroad (3–9 credits)

Good to know: Courses are online and offered in seven-week sessions.

Want to help a mission-driven organization do more? Study the management, grant writing and fundraising work that supports nonprofit programs and services.

Courses:

• INDS 6411 — Non-Profit Management (3 credits)
• INDS 6412 — Foundations of Grant Writing (3 credits)
• INDS 6413 — Foundations of Fundraising (3 credits)

Good to know: Courses are online and offered in seven-week sessions.

Learn to turn subject knowledge into an online learning experience. Study teaching practices, instructional design and ways to assess learning in a digital course.

Courses:

• INDS 6050 — Online Teaching for Educators (3 credits)
• INDS 6051 — Instructional Design for E-Learning (3 credits)
• INDS 6055 — Assessment in E-Learning (3 credits)
• PRDV 5000 — Professional Development: Online and Remote Teaching Foundations (1 credit)

Good to know: Take the INDS courses in numerical order. Courses are online and offered in seven-week sessions.

Explore how public organizations make decisions and serve their communities. Begin with the foundations of public administration, then focus on economics, law, human resources or a special topic.

Start with:

• PADM 6000 — Program Overview and Theory of Public Administration (3 credits)

Choose two:

• PADM 6200 — Public Sector Economics (3 credits)
• PADM 6300 — Administrative Law (3 credits)
• PADM 6500 — Public Human Resources Management (3 credits)
• PADM 6750 — Special Topics in Public Administration (3 credits)

Good to know: Take PADM 6000 before the other Public Administration courses. Courses are online and run for a full semester.

Explore the work of connecting students and teachers with information, technology and literature. Study library services, media center management and how resources are used in the classroom.

Courses:

• LM 6100 — School Library Media Foundations (1 credit)
• LM 6160 — Library Computer and Reference Skills (3 credits)
• LM 6170 — Technology for the Library Media Teacher (3 credits)
• LM 6180 — Utilization of Literature in the Classroom (3 credits)
• LM 6190 — Managing a Media Center (3 credits)
• LM 6200 — Library Technical Services (3 credits)
• LM 6890 — Practicum (2 credits required)

Good to know: You may complete 9 or 18 credits in this area. Take LM 6100 before or alongside other LM courses. Completing all 18 credits may also make you eligible for a Utah School Library endorsement.

Build the skills to plan social campaigns, shape public messaging and communicate when an organization faces a crisis.

Courses:

• COMM 6210 — Advertising and Public Relations Strategies (3 credits)
• COMM 6230 — Professional Social Media (3 credits)
• INDS 6211 — Crisis Communication Management (3 credits)

Good to know: Courses are online and offered in seven-week sessions.

Explore the decisions and communication behind athletic programs. Choose three courses spanning sports communication, athletic administration, public relations and intercollegiate athletics compliance.

Complete three:

• COMM 6250 — Sports Communication (3 credits)
• INDS 6770 — Athletic Administration (3 credits)
• INDS 6780 — Sports Public Relations (3 credits)
• INDS 6790 — Intercollegiate Athletics Governance and Compliance (3 credits)

Take a closer look at how writing persuades, how composition is taught and what it takes to prepare work for publication.

Courses:

• ENGL 6020 — Foundations in Rhetoric and Argumentation (3 credits)
• ENGL 6021 — Composition Theory (3 credits)
• ENGL 6022 — Writing for Publication (3 credits)

Good to know: Courses are online and run for a full semester.