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ACCT 2000 - Financial Accounting Hours: 4
The first of the introductory courses in accounting focuses on an introduction to the financial statements of business organizations. Understanding, preparation and use of financial statements are covered from a user decision-making and social responsibility perspective. There is a philanthropy section of this class offered once a year.
Prerequisites: MATH 0900. COMP 1020 (Spreadsheet Fundamentals with Excel) suggested to students with no knowledge of Microsoft Excel or other equivalent software programs.
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ACCT 2100 - Managerial Accounting Hours: 4
The second of the introductory accounting courses emphasizing the use of accounting for decision making in the managerial environment. The purpose is twofold: (1) to provide you with the basic skills and techniques for using accounting information, coupled with subjective, non-financial information, in a decision-making role, and (2) to assist you in mastering and applying professional thinking skills and techniques to the solving of problems from a management prospective.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2000.
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ACCT 3100 - Individual Taxation Hours: 4
A study of individual tax law. Topics include gross income, exemptions, tax determination, deductions and losses, depreciation, property transactions, alternative minimum tax, and basic tax research. Professional thinking is developed through reflection, tax research, and weekly critiques of tax issues in the public media.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2000.
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ACCT 3300 - Accounting Information Systems Hours: 4
A study of the procedures, practices, and concepts of accounting information systems with management and control implications. Emphasis on the resources, events & agents (REA) model of business process with coverage of major transaction cycles such as revenue/receivables and purchase/payables. Use of information instances as context for understanding business documents and their relationship with accounting information systems.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2100.
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ACCT 3500 - Advanced Managerial Accounting Hours: 4
A study of both the fundamental techniques and the new management accounting and control tools needed to implement strategy in the 21st century. A hands-on approach is used in both the design of performance measurement and control systems and the fundamental uses of accounting data by management in business organizations today from a strategic perspective. Critical thinking skills and ethical considerations regarding business decisions are emphasized.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2100, ECON 2100 or 2200, FIN 3400, MGMT 3000, and MKTG 3100.
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ACCT 3700 - Intermediate Accounting I Hours: 4
A study of the application of accounting techniques and theory to recording and reporting of financial data. Emphasis is on the accounting cycle, current assets, plant assets, intangible assets, investments, the conceptual framework, and financial statements.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2100 and junior standing; or permission of instructor.
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ACCT 3800 - Intermediate Accounting II Hours: 4
A continuation of ACCT 3700 with emphasis on current liabilities, long-term liabilities, stockholder equity, earnings per share and income determination, accounting errors and change, statement of cash flows, current accounting controversies, pension and lease accounting, accounting for deferred taxes, reporting and disclosure issues.
Prerequisites: ACCT 3700.
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ACCT 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
An opportunity for students to engage in intensive independent study on an accounting topic of their choice under the direction of an accounting faculty member.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing; or permission of instructor.
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ACCT 4200 - Auditing Hours: 4
A study of the independent auditing function, professional ethics, legal liability, generally accepted auditing principles, and audit reporting. Case analysis and ethics cases important in developing critical thinking skills.
Prerequisites: ACCT 3800 or permission of instructor.
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ACCT 4400 - Practicum Hours: 1-4
This course will provide students opportunities to practice what they learn. This could be through an internship, mentorship, or tutoring of other students, leadership in an organization, or leading a project at their place of employment. Reflection, writing, speaking, and or collaboration will be a component of the practicum.
Notes: This course cannot count towards a minor.
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ACCT 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
Experience with an organization that offers an exposure to accounting practices. Students may design their own internship experience within departmental guidelines.
Notes: Open to juniors and seniors with better than average academic performance. Credit over 4 hours cannot count toward satisfying the minimum number of courses required for the major. This course cannot count towards a minor.
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ACCT 4990 - Seminar in Accounting Topics Hours: 1-4
Special topics that offer in-depth study of some aspects of accounting theory or practice.
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ACCT 5100 - Taxation of Entities and Tax Planning Hours: 3
A study of advanced tax topics relating to corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies entities. Tax planning and research are emphasized.
Prerequisites: ACCT 3100 or permission of instructor.
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ACCT 5110 - Estates, Trusts, and Family Tax Planning Hours: 3
Discussion, research & presentation of cases delineate the importance of tax planning in this complex area. Students will learn to use these research tools to communicating research results for tax planning and tax practice to tax clients.
Prerequisites: ACCT 3100 or permission of instructor.
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ACCT 5120 - Tax Research and Communication Hours: 3
Introduction to the tax research environment, including an introduction to tax practice and tax research methodology. A study of the primary and secondary sources of Federal tax law using a computerized tax database will be used. The course will focus on tax planning, communicating findings to a client, tax practice and administration, working with the IRS, sanctions, agreements, and disclosures.
Prerequisites: ACCT 3100 or permission of instructor.
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ACCT 5130 - Tax Planning and Communication Hours: 3
The course will teach the fundamental differences between tax and financial accounting. We will study the theory, legislation history, and practice standards regarding timing and temporary differences and the scope of permanent differences. And, we will come to understand the effects of events on income taxes including net operating losses, valuation allowances, and changes in tax rates. We will study the interpretation of publicly held company income tax disclosures. Students will learn to use these research tools to communicate research results for tax planning and tax practice to tax clients.
Prerequisites: ACCT 3100 or permission of instructor.
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ACCT 5140 - Tax Seminar Hours: 3
This tax seminar may include areas of tax policy, practice and procedures, and/or other relevant tax issues.
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ACCT 5300 - Accounting History and Ethical Issues Hours: 3
The course uses a seminar model for ongoing discussion of the significant developments in accounting starting with the first known evidence of accounting over 5000 years ago. The influence of numbers including the invention, development and cultural integration of our current numbering system are discussed. The influence of the development of rail and other utilities and banks in the 19th century are considered. Primary objective is to connect the essential cultural significance of accounting with the development and current existence of human endeavor.
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ACCT 5310 - Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting Hours: 3
This hybrid course focuses on governmental and non-profit accounting. The role of financial reporting, stewardship, and financial statements are covered. Research and a service project is required.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2000.
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ACCT 5320 - International Accounting Hours: 3
This class covers international financial reporting standards and international GAAP. This course will take a case study approach to studying accounting practices in other countries with a look at culture and its influence on financial accounting and reporting.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2000.
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ACCT 5330 - Accounting Theory and Current Reporting Issues Hours: 3
The course uses a seminar model for discussion of the significant developments in financial accounting & reporting thoughts, concepts, theory and controversies. Variations on the standard financial reporting model/standards are discussed. Various reporting entities are examined including traditional, financial services, not for profit, variable interest entities. Challenging accounting and reporting areas such as intangibles, derivatives, valuation/measurement, and the principles/rules basis for accounting will be discussed.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2000.
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ACCT 5400 - Graduate Seminar Hours: 3
This seminar will highlight topics of interest for accounting students such as service quality, balance of life issues, special topics in accounting, and includes special speakers, executive-in-residence, etc.
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ACCT 5900 - Fraud Examination Hours: 3
To provide an introduction to the field of fraud examination, with emphasis on the detection, investigation, and prevention of corporate fraud. In particular, the course will include critical examinations of: internal management control systems that can be used to deter and/or detect fraud; behavioral attributes and employee actions that might indicate fraud; investigative techniques for confirming fraud; and the design of systems oriented at the prevention of fraud. An examination of various fraud schemes will also be conducted. The course is taught using a combination of lectures, videos, seminar type discussions, and fraud-oriented cases using the case method. The course focus is toward management, rather than accountants and auditors.
Prerequisites: ACCT 3700 and 3800
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ACCT 5910 - Investigation Methods and Interviewing Hours: 3
To provide an overview of the various techniques and methods used in both the investigation of suspected fraudulent activities and schemes and the interviewing and/or interrogating of personal relating to a suspected fraudulent activity or scheme. Ethical behavior and critical thinking is emphasized.
Prerequisites: ACCT 5900
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ACCT 5920 - Criminology and Legal Aspects Hours: 3
To provide an overview of the types of human behavior, criminal behavior, theoretical explanations of crime and the societal response to crime. In addition, the various legal aspects of fraud and the investigative techniques of fraud will be explored. Information literacy and intellectual engagement will be emphasized.
Prerequisites: ACCT 5900
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ACCT 5930 - Forensic Accounting Hours: 3
To provide knowledge of the special skills in accounting, auditing, finance, quantitative methods, research, and investigative methods required in the field of forensic accounting. Emphasis is focused on the application of those skills to case situations as the ability to “think outside of the box” is developed and refined. Analysis and critical thinking is stressed.
Prerequisites: ACCT 4200 or 5900
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ANTH 1000 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Hours: 4
In this course, we will discuss the variety and significance of human experiences using perspectives drawn from the tradition of social and cultural anthropology. Case studies and theoretical essays will emphasize cultural practices and identities as fluid and contested, emerging from processes of social conflict as well as the continuity of traditions. In applying these concepts and theoretical tools to social life, students will be expected to bring in their own diverse experiences to enrich the class, as well as conduct hands-on ethnographic research projects of their own.
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ANTH 1100 - Introduction to Cultural Geography Hours: 4
Human beings come from, inhabit, and shape particular spaces. This course explores the central role of landscape as a repository of cultural meaning and group identification. Space becomes place through the cultural process of assigning, contesting, and reproducing that meaning. While some of the material will draw from cross-cultural comparisons, our primary focus will be the cultural landscape of the United States. Themes of particular interest include the cultural-historical narrative of westward expansion and the “frontier,” the emergence of “suburban” as a landscape form for human habitation in the US, the “border” as an imagined and policed boundary of the territorial nation-state, and the links between economic restructuring, waste dumping and the abandonment of certain places under conditions of “blight.”
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ANTH 2000 - Social Justice in the Americas: Anthropological Perspectives Hours: 4
In this course, students will examine contemporary social movements in the Western hemisphere. We will begin with an overview of the historical roots of today’s social and cultural conflicts, examining the impact of European and US imperialism in shaping hemispheric inequalities and cultural identities. From there, we will look at case studies of contemporary social movements and gain an understanding of their interests, claims, and forms of organizing. Our case studies will include a look at indigenous rights movements, factory takeovers and “autonomous organizing” in Argentina, and new labor movements among immigrants in the United States.
Prerequisites: ANTH 1000 or permission of instructor.
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ANTH 2200 - Anthropology of Sex and Gender Hours: 4
This course will explore the socio-cultural construction of sex and gender categories. Since sex and gender are often “naturalized”—seen as emerging from inborn conditions—part of our process will be unlearning our assumptions as well as learning about the tremendous range of meanings assigned to gender across various societies. By exploring and comparing the definition and performance of gender in different social worlds, students will acquire a theoretical understanding of basic processes of socialization, identity, gendered performance, and cultural change.
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ANTH 3000 - Central America: Culture and Politics Hours: 4
This course introduces students to issues in Central American cultural and political change, organized around a 2-week trip to either El Salvador or Guatemala. The class will study the roots, experience, and aftermath of civil war and violence in the region, with special attention to the repression of indigenous communities. Contemporary challenges facing Central American nation will be explored as well, including economic globalization, rapid cultural change, youth gang violence, and the daily out-migration of hundreds of people heading north. In their travels, students will have the opportunity to hear from and converse with indigenous and community leaders, local politicians, ex-combatants in the civil wars, labor organizers, returned migrants and others, putting a human face to the socio-cultural and historical processes we study.
Prerequisites: ANTH 1000 or permission of instructor.
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ANTH 3100 - Globalization and Cultural Identity Hours: 4
Increasingly, we define the economic, cultural, and political changes of the contemporary moment under the concept of “globalization.” As new media and technologies collapse space and compress time, we become entangled with others in new and constantly changing ways. While many analysts of globalization look at macro-level processes of economic restructuring and political re-organization, this course examines the experience of globalization as it implodes onto everyday life and structures particular cultural identities. Rather than understanding “culture” as a static or pre-existing condition that is broken down by globalization, we will approach cultural practices and ethnic identities as fluid and contested.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission of instructor.
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ANTH 3500 - Immigration and Cultural Politics Hours: 4
Historical exclusion of those seen as a “cultural threat” to the dominant social norms. Using the theoretical tools of cultural anthropology, we will approach recent political debates as an encounter between differing perspectives on ethnicity, race, and citizenship in the US.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission of instructor.
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ANTH 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
This course is designed to enable students to engage in individual study and research in a subject area already familiar through previous course work. During the first week of the course, and in consultation with the instructor, students prepare a prospectus on previous related academic work, or special area of interest, specific research topic, and an outline for proposed research report.
Prerequisites: ANTH 1000 and permission of instructor, and an Anthropology course in the area of the student’s independent study.
Notes: The course may be repeated on a different topic in a subsequent term.
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ANTH 4020 - Race, Culture, and the Law Hours: 4
This advanced seminar explores law as a cultural system. Rather than a fixed structure of rules, legal norms and institutional emerge from an ongoing social process. Within this process, actors in the legal system enact, enforce, and sometimes contest certain cultural values and social norms. Drawing on the literature of critical race theory as well as anthropological studies of law, we will discuss the mechanisms by which the US legal system produces unequal outcomes for members of racialized groups and ethnic communities.
Prerequisites: ANTH 1000 or permission of instructor.
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ANTH 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
This course is intended for minors in anthropology and related fields. It provides opportunities for practical and/or theoretical work in areas of anthropology, supervised by a department faculty member, and as appropriate, by a member of an off-campus organization.
Notes: Students are encouraged to take part in designing an individualized internship experience around preferred areas of concentration they chose for themselves. Internships may be extended for two terms.
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ARAB 1000 - Elementary Arabic I Hours: 4
Arabic 1000 is an introduction to the Arabic language and cultures for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Through partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, online exercises and modules, and brief writing assignments, students will develop and practice the four skills—oral (speaking and listening) and literacy (reading and writing)—and will be introduced to culture in Arabic speaking communities.
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ARAB 1100 - Elementary Arabic II Hours: 4
Arabic 1100 is the second semester of an introduction to the Arabic language and cultures. Students will continue to learn the foundations of Arabic, with the goal of achieving an intermediate level of proficiency. This course continues to engage students with partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, online exercises and modules, and brief writing assignments to deepen competency with reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as to increase knowledge of culture, history, and politics.
Prerequisites: ARAB 1000.
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ART 1000 - Freshman Seminar Hours: 1
Students examine and explore the various considerations contemplated by professional artists, such as creative process, sourcing inspiration, time and project management, and engagement in the community.
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ART 1050 - Drawing I Hours: 4
An introduction to observational drawing - still-life and the human figure exploring compositional solutions, creative process, art historical context and a variety of drawing materials.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 1100 - Design 2D Hours: 4
Study of fundamental elements and principles of two-dimensional art and their application to problems of visual organization. Lecture and studio projects.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 1150 - Design 3D Hours: 4
Study of fundamental elements and principles of three-dimensional art and their application to problems of visual organization. Lecture and studio projects.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 1200 - Beginning Painting Hours: 4
An introduction to the broad field of painting. Students become familiar with a wide range of painting approaches, color concepts and color mixing techniques. Students acquire basic knowledge about the paint medium (acrylic and oil), grounds and supports. Through exploring contemporary and historical themes and genres, students develop painting skills and learn the fundamentals of composition and overall formal cohesiveness.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 1300 - Color Principles Hours: 2
An examination of topics such as color as energy, color and perception, and light and pigments: additive and subtractive color. Studio applications will include color interaction problems, additive and subtractive color mixing, and written analysis of three-dimensional color applications.
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ART 1350 - Introduction to Arts Administration Hours: 4
Arts Administration is an interdisciplinary study that prepares students for work and engagement in the creative sector. Arts administrators specialize in one or more areas of the arts, create connections between the arts and community, and manage the business, policy, and communication functions of an arts organization. Introduction to Arts Administration surveys the environment for the American nonprofit arts sector and the functions of nonprofit arts organizations. Discussions, lectures, readings, off-campus visits, and guest speakers help the student build awareness of contemporary issues in the arts and consider arts administration as a career choice.
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ART 1500 - Beginning Photography Hours: 4
An examination of the fundamentals of black and white film photography, emphasizing the development of technical skills, creative seeing and visual expression. This course also includes a broad survey of the history of photography.
Notes: Students are encouraged to have their own 35mm film SLR cameras, however, several cameras will be available for check out for a nominal fee. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 2000 - Sophomore Seminar - Writing Intensive Hours: 1
Students will plan for their next steps as art majors through the development and maintenance of a portfolio, and learning to create an artist’s statement. Students also explore professional career paths and disciplines in the visual arts.
Prerequisites: ART 1000 or permission of instructor.
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ART 2100 - Drawing II Hours: 4
This course focuses specifically on the complexities of drawing from the life model. Students focus on understanding and rendering underlying essential structures (basic anatomy) and surface texture. Students explore the aesthetic and expressive nature of the human form and recognize the expressive possibilities of the various drawing materials, techniques and approaches utilized throughout the course. Students will produce visually rich and thorough drawings and stretch themselves creatively.
Prerequisites: ART 1050 or permission of the instructor.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 2600 - Communication Design: Foundations Hours: 4
Students will gain knowledge of the practice of typography and its importance in the field of communication design. From hand lettering to computer software, students will demonstrate precise application skills of type as letterform. Students will explore various influences design has had on society through the historical study of major designers and movements and apply aspects of these visual explorations in studio projects.
Prerequisites: ART 1050, 1100 and 1150.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 2700 - Beginning Ceramics Hours: 4
Introduction to working in ceramics through hand building processes, glazing and decorating techniques, and firing processes. Expressive qualities of the ceramic form will be addressed through sculptural and vessel construction.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 2800 - Relief Printmaking Hours: 4
An introductory course focusing on woodcuts, linocuts and monotypes, linking fundamental printmaking techniques and processes with a variety of conceptual and expressive approaches.
Prerequisites: ART 1050 and 1100 or permission of instructor.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3100 - Advanced Drawing Hours: 4
Exploration of contemporary and traditional drawing techniques and concepts leading to the development of a unified portfolio of work.
Prerequisites: ART 2100 or permission of instructor.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3200 - Special Topics in Painting Hours: 4
An intermediate level course; students work on assigned and self-directed projects as they relate to the formal and conceptual evolution of a particular topic in painting. Both contemporary and traditional techniques and issues within the special topic are explored. Topics rotate and can include for example: still life painting, portraiture, figure painting, abstract painting or painting and mixed media. Emphasis is placed on expressiveness, formal cohesiveness and the creation of meaningful, mature works. Students will take steps to explore a personal vision and style.
Prerequisites: ART 1050, 1100 and 1200 or permission of the instructor.
Notes: Repeatable to 12 hours. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3300 - Sculpture Hours: 4
A study of the art and craft of making sculpture. Studio projects will address modeling and fabrication techniques. Pertinent historical and contemporary topics will be addressed.
Prerequisites: ART 1150 or permission of instructor.
Notes: Repeatable to 12 hours. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3400 - Beginning Integrated Digital Media Hours: 4
An introduction to the principles of digital media in a contemporary fine-art context. An emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary, emerging and experimental uses of digital media (possible topics include video art, installation art and social media).
Prerequisites: ART 1050 and 1100.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3410 - 3D Computer Graphics and Animation Hours: 3
This course gives students a studio experience with 3D computer graphics and 3D animation techniques using the PC platform. Students will learn techniques and strategies for creating three-dimensional computer models, and creating 3D animations that illustrate a concept or tell a story. This course is applicable to all fields where visualization is needed to present an idea, illustrate a process, or tell an interesting story. It is especially advantageous to artists, teachers, and designers.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3500 - Intermediate Photography Hours: 4
An investigation of the historical significance, basic materials and processes, and aesthetics of digital photography. Technical and conceptual assignments.
Prerequisites: ART 1500.
Notes: Students are required to have access to a digital camera with RAW shooting function. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3600 - Communication Design: Media Applications Hours: 4
Complex practice of design as information management and its importance in the field of communication design will be emphasized. Multiple page layouts and experimentation of various forms of advertising media will be explored. Experimentation with various image-generating techniques as it relates to the field of advertising, as well as practical concerns such as schedules, budgets, creative briefs, design strategies will be explored and applied.
Prerequisites: ART 1050, 1100, 1150 and 2600.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3610 - Illustration Hours: 4
Introduction to concepts of illustration, including concept generation, development of personal style and approach, and methods of linking text and image. Exploration of a variety of media.
Prerequisites: ART 1050 and 2100.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3620 - Package Design Hours: 4
Exploration of the fundamentals of consumer package design and construction, including material use, surface graphics, and fundamental characteristics. Marketing and promotional problems are explored as well as environmental concerns.
Prerequisites: ART 1050, 1100, 1150, 2600 and 3600.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3700 - Wheel-Thrown Ceramics Hours: 4
Introduction to the use of the potter’s wheel. Basic through intermediate wheel throwing techniques are addressed through the creation of a variety of ceramic forms. Various glazing, decorating and firing processes, including high-fire, are also explored.
Prerequisites: ART 2700 or permission of instructor.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3800 - Intaglio Printmaking Hours: 4
An introductory course focusing on the intaglio processes of etching, drypoint, softground, aquatint and related techniques using zinc and copper plates to explore a variety of conceptual and expressive approaches.
Prerequisites: ART 1050 and 1100 or permission of instructor.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
Independent study in studio art. A proposal describing the specific project must be submitted and approved by the instructor prior to registration.
Notes: Permission of instructor required. May be repeated for credit, pursuing a different topic. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 3920 - Art Methods and Materials at the Elementary and Middle School Levels Hours: 4
A study of the art curriculum in elementary and middle school level classrooms, investigating major themes in state and national Academic Content Standards for Art: 1) historical context, 2) creative expression and communication, 3) analyzing and responding to art, 4) valuing and reflecting on artwork and artifacts, and 5) connecting their learning of visual art to the study of other arts areas and disciplines outside the arts. Students will be expected to complete 50 hours of observation and participation in a local art classroom. Required for multi-age licensure in art; teacher candidates must receive a grade of C or better.
Prerequisites: EDUC 1600.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 4000 - Senior Practicum Hours: 1
This culminating seminar directs students in creating and presenting an exhibition of their work.
Prerequisites: Senior Art major status.
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ART 4100 - Special Topics in Drawing Hours: 4
An in depth, individualized drawing course focusing on mixed drawing media and theme-based, serial approaches resulting in a body of exhibition quality work.
Prerequisites: ART 1050, 2100, and 3100.
Notes: Repeatable to 8 hours. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 4200 - Advanced Painting Hours: 4
Students further refine their painting skills and commit to an ongoing exploration of issues in painting, both contemporary and historical. Course instruction focuses on assisting students in developing their visions, methods and goals. Students are engaged in all the practical and conceptual aspects of developing a cohesive body of work in which the personal views are grounded in an understanding of the self, our communities and the broader culture.
Prerequisites: ART 1200 and 3200 or permission of the instructor.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ART 4400 - Integrated Digital Media Topics Hours: 4
An in-depth exploration of digital media arts through two rotating topics: IDM: Time-Based Media and IDM: Interdisciplinary Studio. IDM: Time-Based Media covers video and other time-based media through studio seminars, practical assignments and film screenings (possible topics include media remixing, video art, performance). IDM: Interdisciplinary Studio is a boundary-crossing exploration of digital and traditional art (possible topics include digital collage, installation art and social practice).
Prerequisites: ART 3400.
Notes: Repeatable to 8 hours (once each topic). This course has an additional fee.
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ART 4500 - Advanced Photography Hours: 4
Focus on individual, long-term projects and theory and issues related to contemporary photography. Possible areas of photographic exploration may include: Documentary; Black and White: The Fine Print; and Concepts of Photography.
Prerequisites: ART 1500 and 3500.
Notes: Repeatable to 12 hours.This course has an additional fee.
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ART 4600 - Advanced Communication Design Hours: 4
Projects, processes and conceptual development of design through visual sophistication, advanced visual problem solving and development of a personal design voice will be emphasized. Portfolio development through print and web is explored.
Prerequisites: ART 2600 and 3600.
Notes: Repeatable to 12 hours. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 4700 - Advanced Topics in Ceramics Hours: 4
Advance exploration of ceramic arts through topics rotating over a three year cycle. Topics covered are: mold-making (addresses mold-making techniques in ceramics, pressed and poured molds, and the use of repeated forms for installation); glaze calculation (introduction to the materials and methods in creating glazes, glaze formulary, and history and types of glazes); topical formal issues in ceramic form (figurative approaches in clay; construction and creation of large-scale forms and vessels).
Prerequisites: ART 1150, 2700 and 3700 or permission of instructor.
Notes: Repeatable to 12 hours. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 4750 - Summer Ceramic Institute Hours: 4
Advanced topics in ceramics with 1 to 2 visiting ceramic artists; topics vary depending on specialty of visiting artists. Students gain skills and experience tied to specialties of visiting artists.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Notes: Repeatable. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 4800 - Advanced Printmaking Hours: 4
Advanced exploration of relief and intaglio processes building upon the foundation levels with in-depth conceptual and expressive approaches informed by contemporary and historical printmaking concerns.
Prerequisites: ART 3600 and 3610 or permission of instructor.
Notes: Repeatable to 12 hours. This course has an additional fee.
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ART 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
Internships are available to majors upon submission of a written proposal. They are arranged individually with design firms, museums, and corporations. The number of credit hours varies.
Prerequisites: Approval from the Art Department must be granted before registering for the internship.
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ARTH 1000 - Art History Survey I: Prehistory 14th Century Common Era Hours: 4
Before human beings wrote anything, they were painting, drawing, sculpting, and building works of art. In this course we consider what this means for the nature of human existence as we examine art produced between roughly 30,000 bce and 1400 ce in various locations and cultures around the world. What does art-making contribute to human lives and our search for meaning and understanding? Is it different now than in ancient history? We explore these questions by studying art from the ancient through medieval periods and by looking at our own culture’s continued fascination with humankind’s distant past.
Notes: For all students except art majors, this course may be used as a substitute for the INST Creativity and Culture requirement.
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ARTH 1100 - Art History Survey II: 15th to 21st Centuries Hours: 4
This course surveys major movements in the history of art from the 15th through the 21st centuries. Using a global perspective, we will examine the role of art across cultures, periods, and places. We will consider how developments in various media, skills, and concepts surrounding the production of art have helped humans understand larger, enduring questions of meaning and existence.
Notes: For all students except art majors, this course may be used as a substitute for the INST Creativity and Culture requirement.
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ARTH 2100 - Impressionists and Pop Artists Modern Art 1863-1963 Hours: 4
Prostitutes. Night Clubs. Movies. Skyscrapers. Chinese Restaurants. Stray Cats. Private Gardens. Beer Gardens. These are just some of the subject matters for artists, architects, and photographers in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries that we’ll consider in this course. Course readings and discussions focus on the development of the Modern in relation to issues of gender, sexuality, community building, social reform, surveillance, domesticity, historic preservation, and so on. We will explore such topics in relation to a diversity of artists and media, including paintings by the French Impressionists and the American Ash Can School; photographs by both documentary and fine art photographers; architecture, both commercial and domestic; ceramics, notably within the Arts & Crafts movement; and design work including Art Nouveau posters and Bauhaus graphics.
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ARTH 2200 - Hot Mamas and Guerilla Girls; Women as Artists and Subjects in the Visual Arts Hours: 4
“Do Women Have to be Naked to get into the Met Museum?” The feminist performance group, Guerrilla Girls, posed this question in 1981 while noting that less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections of the museum were women, while 85% of the nudes were female. Women have been making art for millennia, yet as noted by the Guerrilla Girls’ query, their contributions to cultural and intellectual traditions have been often overlooked by mainstream artworld institutions. This class examines the dilemmas and contributions of women working in the practice, theory, and criticism of the visual arts.
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ARTH 3100 - Soup Cans? Puppies? Transgenic Mice? Exploring Contemporary Visual Art Hours: 4
This course explores visual art and culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, focusing primarily on art after 1960 in Europe and the United States. Linda Weintraub notes that artistic freedom expanded beyond all limits in this period, becoming “unencumbered by methods, rules, and requirements” and making artists our culture’s “free radicals.” We will consider the different roles taken on by contemporary artists as visionaries, activists, problem solvers, and cultural critics as they create works connected to the world outside art. Our approach focuses on how contemporary artists have engaged with particular themes and content relevant to this period, such as identity, place, and spirituality.
Prerequisites: ARTH 1000 or 1100 or 2100 or 2200; or permission of instructor.
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ARTH 3200 - Special Topics in Art History Hours: 4
A special topics course focusing on a particular concept, period, artist or school. Areas of focus might include: Modern Art & Urban Experience; Identity & the 1980’s; Art of the United States.
Notes: Repeatable to 12 hours.
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ARTH 3300 - Gender and Sexuality in Art History Hours: 4
The history of European and American art is replete with images of the human body: sacred bodies and sexy bodies, old and young, ailing and athletic. This course examines how these images of the body reflect, reinforce, and shape constructions of gender and sexual identity. By taking a historical approach, we can examine how notions of masculine and feminine, queer and straight identities change and differ across time and place in order to understand that contemporary identities or categories are themselves constructed and not fixed. By focusing on representations of the body, we will be able to examine the gendered nature of representation itself and thereby gaining greater insight into the powerful role of images in shaping our understanding of gender and sexuality.
Notes: This course fulfills the dyad requirement when paired with one course from among COMM 4100, FMST 3281, INST 3501, INST 3504, INST 4011, WGSS 3010, WGSS 4026.
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ARTH 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
Independent study in art history. A proposal describing the specific project must be submitted and approved by the instructor prior to registration.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor required.
Notes: May be repeated for credit, pursuing a different topic.
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ASC 1100 - College Reading and Study Strategies Hours: 4
Designed to help students develop and enrich their communication skills. Emphasis on critical reading strategies and the application of study strategies.
Prerequisites: By placement only.
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ASC 1150 - Argumentative Writing Hours: 4
In ASC 1150 students focus on argumentative writing in timed or demand writing situations. Students meet in writing workshops to refine strategies in critical thinking, text analysis, composing, and revising, and they apply their workshop skills in a service-learning component in which they work with younger writers.
Prerequisites: By placement only.
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ASCI 3800 - Financial Mathematics I Hours: 4
Introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial mathematics. Major topics include the measurement of interest, various annuities, amortization schedules, sinking funds, yield rates, bonds, inflation, duration, immunization, and an introduction to financial derivatives.
Prerequisites: MATH 1800.
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ASCI 4600 - Problem Solving in Actuarial Science Hours: 2
Preparation for taking professional actuarial examinations administrated by the Society of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuarial Society. Course content may vary from term to term.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
Notes: This course may be repeated, however no more than four hours of this course may count toward an actuarial science major.
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ASCI 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
Internships are available to majors upon submission of a written proposal as described in the internship packet that must be obtained from the Office of Academic Affairs. They are arranged individually usually with local organizations, agencies or companies.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department chairperson required.
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ASCI 5000 - Financial Mathematics II Hours: 4
Introduction to financial economics. Major topics include derivatives markets, valuation of derivative securities, and applications in financial risk management.
Prerequisites: ASCI 3800.
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ASCI 5100 - Actuarial Models I Hours: 4
Introduction to the theoretical basis of actuarial models and application of those models to insurance and other financial risk. Major topics include survival models, life tables, life insurance models, life annuity models, and benefit premiums.
Prerequisites: MATH 3300.
Prerequisites and Corequisites: ASCI 3800.
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ASCI 5200 - Actuarial Models II Hours: 4
Continuation of Actuarial Models I. Major topics include benefit reserves, multiple-life models, multiple-decrement models, and application of Markov chains and Poisson processes to insurance and other financial risk.
Prerequisites: ASCI 5100.
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ASCI 5300 - Loss Models Hours: 4
Introduction to survival, severity, frequency and aggregate models, and use of statistical methods to estimate parameters of such models given sample date.
Prerequisites: MATH 3350.
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ASCI 5500 - Special Topics in Actuarial Science Hours: 4
Designed for actuarial majors who wish to learn special topics in actuarial science. Course content may vary from term to term.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
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ASCI 5990 - Practicum in Actuarial Science Hours: 3
Application of the actuarial science and MBA curricula through hands-on experience. Throughout the program, practicing actuaries will be invited to present topics in their fields of expertise (life, health, property, risk management, or financial investment, etc). For this capstone experience students will choose, in consultation with a practicing actuary and the course instructor, a specific actuarial science topic to study, about which they will complete a significant semester-length project. Typically working in teams, students will prepare and submit a written report of the project (may include objective, data collection, data analysis, actuarial modeling, and conclusion), as well as present the report orally in class.
Prerequisites: Two courses from ASCI 5000, 5100, 5200, 5300, 5500.
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ASL 1000 - Elementary ASL I Hours: 4
American Sign Language 1000 is an introduction to American Sign Language and Deaf cultures for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Through partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, DVD exercises, and brief writing assignments, students will develop and practice the four skills—visual production, visual comprehension, literacy production, and literacy comprehension—and will be introduced to Deaf culture in ASL-using communities.
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ASL 1100 - Elementary ASL II Hours: 4
American Sign Language 1100 is the second semester of an introduction to American Sign Language and Deaf cultures. Students will continue to learn the foundations of ASL, with the goal of achieving an intermediate level of proficiency. This course continues to engage students with partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, online exercises and modules, and brief writing assignments to deepen competency with reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as to increase knowledge of Deaf culture, history, and politics.
Prerequisites: ASL 1000.
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ATHT 1000 - Introduction to Allied Health Professions Hours: 2
This course is an introduction to the professional fields that fall under the allied health umbrella. Examples of Allied Health professions include physical therapy, athletic training and occupational therapy. This course is designed to expose first year students interested in pursuing degrees in Athletic Training or Allied Health to issues and conditions that are representative of health care in the 21st century. These will include exposure to evaluation schemes, injury documentation, and other special topics.
Notes: Offered in Fall.
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ATHT 1700 - Basic Athletic Training Lab Hours: 1
This is a lab course designed to give the student hands-on experience in taping and other motor skills associated with the profession of athletic training.
Corequisites: ATHT 1600.
Notes: Open to Athletic Training majors only. Offered in Spring.
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ATHT 2500 - Clinical Proficiencies I Hours: 1
This course occurs when the athletic training student is in their second year of the major. Knowledge and skill application will be focused on injury evaluation processes with appropriate use of therapeutic modalities to heal the injured areas. Students will meet once a week with an Approved Clinical Instructor (ACI) to review and talk about their experience and discuss required clinical proficiencies as they pertain to the injury evaluation and treatment process. This will be an evidence based class designed to enhance and refine the appropriate level clinical skills.
Notes: This is a sophomore level class. Offered in Fall. This course has an additional fee.
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