Online Doctoral Programs

Today’s human resource (HR) managers do much more than fill positions—they’re strategic partners with a critical seat at the executive table. The DBA program’s Human Resource Management specialization prepares you with the theoretical knowledge, industry insights, and capabilities to be an authoritative voice in this field, whether you’re looking to pursue executive leadership, teaching, or research.

The Homeland Security specialization is designed for leaders in the private and public sectors interested in analyzing homeland security and crisis planning from a business perspective.

This specialization investigates marketing challenges and opportunities from a real-world context. Study key marketing concepts, including market segmentation, marketing channels, competitive intelligence, integrated marketing, product development and commercialization, and consumer behavior.

Whether you are a manufacturer, retailer, or service provider, if you conduct business globally, you need to understand how products and services move from concept to deliverable.

Explore the entrepreneurial concepts and processes that are found in both established companies with a pioneering spirit and start-ups.

Examine what innovation is and what it is not. Learn how to design the concepts, processes, and tools to increase the rate and extent of innovation in your company, thereby enhancing your company’s competitive edge.

The Homeland Security specialization is designed for leaders in the private and public sectors interested in analyzing homeland security and crisis planning from a business perspective.

Apply the latest theories and research on child development, abnormal psychology, behavior analysis, and health issues affecting children and adolescents.

Gain knowledge of how to conduct both quantitative and qualitative research, as well as how to critically review the latest research in human development.

The Self-Designed specialization lets you design your own program of study. This offering provides you with maximum flexibility to design a program that closely matches your personal and professional goals.

Focus on how cultures impact human development, explains international perspectives on human development, and describes how current global crises such as terrorism, genocides, mass migration, refugee crises impact development including health and mental health of global population under crises.

Apply developmental theories and the latest research in human development to the science of learning and instruction.

This specialization can help you advance social welfare by identifying community needs and learning best practices for working with key stakeholders on today’s most pressing social policy issues.

Develop advanced skills to provide culturally sensitive support to children and families.

This program helps you cultivate a better understanding of the resources and support services available for vulnerable populations, including those who are terminally ill, disabled, or dealing with acute or chronic illness.

This specialization can prepare you for a career as an expert in clinical social work practice.

This curriculum is designed to help you gain insight into organizational behavior, staff development, internal and community relations, and management

Learn to identify the needs of families, individuals, and communities whose lives have been affected by addiction

Study crisis intervention theories and models for working with a wide range of populations. You also will be able to examine best practices for counseling victims in the aftermath of natural or man-made crises.

Examine the psychological impact that terrorism, natural disasters, and other crises can have on individuals and communities.

Develop advanced skills to provide culturally sensitive support to children and families. You will discover specific resources and instruction for working with couples, families, children, and adolescents.

Designed to help you gain an in-depth understanding of organizational behavior so that you can better assess the effectiveness of community-based social work organizations.

Enhance your skills as a supervisor or advanced clinician. You will explore major methods and practices as well as ethical and legal issues that you may encounter as a supervisor working with staff from diverse backgrounds.

Develop and assess the best possible strategies in practice interventions with individuals and families facing chronic or terminal illness, disability, and issues associated with aging

Explore the psychology of addiction and the various interventions available for individuals and families who are dealing with addictive behavior.