What’s New

The changes below have been made since the 2019-2020 GGU Catalog PDF-Revised October 8, 2020 was published on June 21, 2019, with revisions made to the academic calendar on October 8, 2020.

General Information:

Academic Calendar : Trimester term length was reduced from sixteen weeks to fifteen weeks.
Instructional Methods : Descriptions were revised to reflect which methods satisfy the U.S. Department of Veteran Affair’s definition of “hybrid.”
Last Date of Attendance (LDA) : Added policy to align faculty and student expectations when students stop attending classes without withdrawing from the related courses.
Seattle Location : Address was changed effective August 1, 2019.

Policies and Statements:

Adding or Dropping Courses : Trimester term add period was reduced from two weeks to one week.
Declaring Undergraduate Program Concentrations : Replaced the former “Multiple Concentrations” policies.
Declaring Graduate Program Concentrations : Replaced the former “Multiple Concentrations” policies.
Graduate Academic Residency Requirement : Revised to reflect changes to Graduate Transfer Credit policies.
Graduate Admission Criteria : Added “conditional admission” policy for “domestic” students.
Graduate Transfer Credit : Revised to explicitly state polices pertaining to applying credits from one GGU graduate degree to a subsequent degree.
Graduate Writing Proficiency Requirement : Revised to clarify practices pertaining to the Graduate Writing Placement Exam and enrollment into proficiency courses for students who do not take the exam by the deadline.
Maximum Number of Degree Programs : Limitations on the number of degree programs to which students can be admitted were established.

New Programs:

Accounting Data & Analytics Graduate Certificate: Available Summer 2020.
Accounting Foundations Graduate Certificate: Available Summer 2020.
Advanced Analytics for Accountants Graduate Certificate: Available Summer 2020.
CPA Applied Accounting Graduate Certificate: Available Summer 2020.
Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) : Program without concentration; foundation and advanced program revisions.
Master of Science in Information Technology Management, Security in Computer Systems Management Concentration : New concentration offering. (Deleted April 2020.)
Master of Science in Accounting Data & Analytics (MSADA): Available Summer 2020.

Revised Programs:

Accounting, BS : Path2CPA course list revised.
Accounting Undergraduate Certificate : Program requirements were completely revised to mirror the MSA foundation requirement.
Business, Accounting Concentration, BS : Path2CPA course list revised.
Business Administration, DBA : Corrected proficiency requirements by adding BUS 201 and MATH 240 as “general proficiency” requirements and removing them from the “Admission” section.
Business Administration, Finance Concentration, MBA : Concentration course requirements were revised.
Business Administration, Global Supply Chain Management Concentration, MBA : OP 303 was deleted from list of elective courses.
Business Administration, Project Management Concentration, MBA : PM 345 was deleted from the concentration and additional OP and PM courses were added.
Business Analytics: Revised program and Analytics Management concentration available Fall 2020.
Business Proficiency Requirement: Deleted from all Bruce F. Braden School of Taxation programs.
Financial Accounting & Reporting Graduate Certificate : Lists of required and elective courses were revised.
Finance, MS: Revised program available Fall 2020.
Finance, General Finance Concentration, MS : FI 100 was removed from the foundation program.
Global Supply Chain Management Graduate Certificate : OP 303 was deleted from list of elective courses.
Information Technology Management, Individualized Concentration, MS : Title was changed from “General Concentration;” full-time cohort program was eliminated; MSBA courses were deleted from the concentration.
Internal Auditing Graduate Certificate : Lists of required and elective courses were revised.
Leadership, MS: Revised program with various concentrations available Fall 2020.
Project Management, MS : PM 345 was replaced with LEAD 303; MGT 301 and MGT 312 were deleted from electives requirement.
Project Management Practices Graduate Certificate : PM 345 was deleted from the electives requirement and additional OP and PM courses were added.

Deleted Degree Programs:

Master of Accountancy and Concentrations in:

Financial Accounting & Reporting
Forensic Accounting
Internal Auditing
Management Accounting
Taxation

Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) and Concentrations in:

Business Analytics
Financial Accounting & Reporting
Forensic Accounting
Internal Auditing
Management Accounting
Taxation

Master of Science in Finance and Concentrations in:

Corporate Finance
General Finance
Investment Management

Deleted Certificate Programs:

New Courses:

Revised Courses:

ACCTG 100A Intermediate Accounting I : Cross-listing with ACCTG 200A added.
ACCTG 100B Intermediate Accounting II : Cross-listing with ACCTG 200B added.
ACCTG 111 Auditing : Cross-listing with ACCTG 211 added.
ACCTG 302 Accountants Professional Responsibilities and Ethics : Prerequisite course list revised.
FI 300 Corporate Finance : Prerequisite course list revised and cross-listing with MBA 321 added.
HRM 304 Technology Strategies for Human Resources Management : Course title and description were revised.
MBA 321 Finance : Cross-listing revised to FI 300.
MSBA 305 Business Intelligence : Prerequisite course list revised.
MSBA 321 Big Data Ecosystems : Cross-listing with ITM 321 removed.
MSBA 328 Visualization and Communication : Prerequisite course list revised.
OLHS 112 Building and Sustaining Team Cohesiveness : Prerequisite and corequisite courses were added.
OLHS 113 Managing Conflict and Crucial Conversations : Prerequisite and corequisite courses were added.
OLHS 115 Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations : Prerequisite and corequisite courses were added.
TA 319 Federal Tax Procedure : Corequisites were removed so that students can take the course on its own in their first term of enrollment in the program.
TA 338 Tax Timing : Cross-listing with LLM 338 added.

Revised Courses: Effective Fall 2020

ACCTG 351C Analysis of Financial Information for Accountants : Course title, description, and requisites changed.
ECON 380 Financial Markets and Institutions : Course prerequisites removed.
FI 300 Corporate Finance : Course requisites and cross-listing changed.
FI 346 Derivative Markets : Prerequisite changed.
FI 428 Business Valuation : Prerequisite changed.
ITM 300 IT Management & Digital Transformation in the Business Enterprise : Course title and description changed.
ITM 304 Managing Data Structures : Course title and description changed. Cross-listing removed.
ITM 316 Software Leadership & Automated Operations : Course title and description changed.
LEAD 300 Management and Leadership : Cross-listing removed.
LEAD 301 Personal Leadership : Cross-listing removed.
LEAD 303 Teamwork in Organizations : Cross-listings removed.
LEAD 304 Leading Complex Change : Course description revised and requisites removed.
LEAD 305 Adaptive Decision Making : Course description revised and requisites removed.
LEAD 306 Integrated Leadership Mastery : Course description changed.
MBA 311 Strategic Analysis and Design : Course description and requisites changed.
MBA 323 Information Technology : Course description and requisites changed.
MBA 350 Business Planning : Course description and requisites changed.
MGT 345 Context of Business :Course title and description changed. Cross-listing removed. Corequisites added.
MKT 300 Marketing Management : Cross-listing removed.
MKT 302 Communications and Presentations : Cross-listing removed.
MSBA 305 Business Intelligence : Course title, description, and requisites changed.
MSBA 307 AI for Data Integrity & Risk Mitigation : Course title, description, and requisites changed.
MSBA 326 Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics : Course title changed.
MSBA 327 Natural Language Processing : Course title changed.
MSBA 328 Visualization and Communication : Course title and requisites changed.
MSBA 330 Self-Service Analytics : Prerequisites removed.
MSBA 395 Business Analytics Capstone : Course requisites changed.
OP 300 Operations and Supply Chain Management : Course description changed. Cross-listing removed.
OP 329 Global Supply Chain Applications in Business : Course title and description changed.
PM 342 Agile Management for Project Managers : Corequisite removed.
PM 344 Project Governance: Program and Portfolio Management : Cross-listing removed.
PSYCH 308 Applied Psychological Research : Course description revised and prerequisite removed.
PSYCH 323 Psychodynamic Models of Counseling : Corequisite removed.
PSYCH 324 Child/Adolescent Psychology, Assessment and Treatment : Corequisite removed.
PSYCH 325 Principles of Couple and Family Counseling : Corequisite removed.
PSYCH 336 Evidence-Based Practice Treatment : Corequisite removed.
PSYCH 339 Cognitive-Behavioral and Short-Term Models of Counseling : Corequisite removed.
PSYCH 344 Tests and Measurements : Prerequisite removed.
PSYCH 394 Practicum: Counseling Psychology : Requisites changed.

Deleted Courses:

MGT 363 Executing Strategic Initiatives
MKT 334 Services Marketing
MKT 343 International Marketing
OP 303 Managing Innovation and Technology
PM 345 Project Administration, Leadership and Team Dynamics
TA 341 Multistate Sales and Use Taxation
TA 348 California Sales and Use Taxation

Deleted Courses: Effective Fall 2020

ITM 315 Infrastructure and Hosted Services
ITM 317 Networks and Communications
ITM 344 Project Governance: Portfolio and Program Management
MBA 300 Management and Leadership
MBA 301 Personal Leadership
MBA 302 Communications and Presentations
MBA 303 Teams in Organizations
MBA 310 Context of Business
MBA 320 Marketing
MBA 321 Finance
MBA 322 Operations
MSBA 304 Managing Relational Structures
PSYCH 341 Organizational Behavior and Process
PSYCH 342 Organizational Development, Assessment and Intervention