Apr 28, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Linguistics

  
  • LING 4040 - How Language Works

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2330 
    Description: Introduction to how language works with emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, including consideration of their application to the teaching of English.  Additional topics include phonemic transcription, word formation strategies, language and the brain, language acquisition, language variation, and language change.
  
  • LING 4050 - English Grammar and Usage

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 , 1020 , 2330 
    Description: Study of the major syntactic structures of standard English, the function of syntactic structures, terminology, and the basic techniques of syntactic analysis. Attention is also given to usage issues associated with prescriptive contemporary grammar in both speech and writing.
  
  • LING 4060 - Survey of Early Germanic Languages

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2330 
    Description: Introduction to characteristic linguistic features of Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Low Franconian, Old High German; examination of relationships between members of the early Germanic language family; overview of cultural/historical backgrounds of speakers of these early languages.
  
  • LING 4070 - Language, Culture and Identity

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: LING 4040  
    Description: Students will analyze language based on its social functions-how it lets us organize our society and ourselves.  Students will focus on the construction of cultural identities and the way people use language to position themselves as members of various groups by enacting their ‘own’ identity and that of ‘others.’
  
  • LING 4400 - Teaching Foreign Languages in Secondary School

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 , 1020 , 2330 
    Description: Surveys research-based instructional strategies in secondary foreign language education including contextualizing language instruction, addressing and assessing standards-based language instruction, integrating culture and technology, developing oral and written interpersonal communication, and adapting instruction to diverse learners.  This course requires 5 weeks in Residency I with specific performance assessment requirements.
  
  • LING 4510 - Capstone Seminar in Foreign Languages

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 2020  or SPAN 2020  or GERM 2020  or LATN 2020  or GREK 2020  
    Description: The capstone course is needed for all foreign language majors, including those seeking licensure, so that they might polish their skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in the target language.  Students will review their studies, and select and edit written coursework for a portfolio.
  
  • LING 4600 - Special Topics in Linguistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Study of a selected topic in linguistics as determined by the instructor.  May be taken twice for credit for maximum of six hours.

Management

  
  • MGT 440I - Management Internship

    Credit Hours: 1 to 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , GPA of 3.0, and permission of Internship Coordinator
    Description: Designed to provide academic credit for relevant and meaningful experience in preparation for management positions.  Weekly updates, term paper, and satisfactory evaluation by employer/supervisor required for credit.  Grading on a pass/fail basis.
  
  • MGT 1100 - Computers In Business

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: An introduction to the use of computers in business. Course highlights computer hardware, software, and concepts and stresses the use of computer systems to solve business problems. Course provides hands-on experience with microcomputer systems and business software.
  
  • MGT 1110 - Introduction to Business

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Business environment, economics and legal foundations of business, human resources, marketing operations, and financial functions of domestic and global business.
  
  • MGT 1200 - Business Information Technology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description:  Use of computers to solve business problems and hands-on experience with computer hardware and system and analytical software applications.
  
  • MGT 2110 - Business and Economic Statistics I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: An introduction to basic statistical concepts and techniques applied to business decision- making.
  
  • MGT 3001 - Technology for Business

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  
    Description: Introduces the business student to the technology required for success in business.  Focus will be on the application of spreadsheets, databases, and other technologies used in business.
  
  • MGT 3002 - Ethics and Diversity in Business

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  
    Description: This course will emphasize the individual as decision-maker and focus upon ethical issues and dilemmas facing managers in business organizations.  The specific objectives of the course are to raise students’ general awareness of ethical dilemmas at work, to place ethical issues within a management context subject to analysis and decision-making action, and to enhance and improve the ability of students to reason toward a satisfactory resolution of an ethical dilemma.
  
  • MGT 3010 - Principles of Management and Organizational Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: The basic concepts and principles of management and organizational behavior are considered. Within the framework of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, human aspects of management are explored. Some of these aspects are interpersonal relations, group dynamics, power and conflict, motivation, leadership, corporate culture and organizational change.
  
  • MGT 3110 - Organization Behavior and Theory

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , MGT 3010 
    Description: An analysis of individual, interpersonal, and group behavior within organizations, as well as the interplay of human, technological, structural, cultural, and environmental factors for the purpose of relating them to the practice of management.
  
  • MGT 3200 - Global Business

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  
    Description: Introduces the history of international business, economic theories of trade, an analysis of the international general environment, the global monetary system, and international organizations.
  
  • MGT 3210 - Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3010 BB 1 
    Description: The staffing function of the organization, including the processes and legal issues of recruitment, selection, training, development, compensation, safety, health, performance appraisal, and retention of personnel.
  
  • MGT 3250 - Business Study Abroad

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  and permission of instructor
    Description: This course will provide students in the College of Business with real world international experience in business.  Students will study abroad under the supervision of qualified faculty and will experience the challenges, opportunities, and differences of businesses internationally.
  
  • MGT 3300 - Social, Legal, and Political Environment of Business

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Presentation of law of an expanding social, legal, and political institution, the development and nature of the legal system; business crimes; the law of torts, constitutional limitations of regulatory powers; legislative, judicial, and administrative control of business activity through tax laws, antitrust laws, laws of employment, labor laws, and consumer and debtor protection laws.
  
  • MGT 3310 - Data Analytics and Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: The acquisition, organization, and use of data in decision making in business.
  
  • MGT 3320 - Business Law I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , Junior standing, CGPA 2.1
    Description: A study of the legal right and potential liabilities of business people. Included is an introduction to the nature of the legal system, the basic law contracts, the uniform commercial code (sales, commercial paper, secured, transactions), bankruptcy, and agency.
  
  • MGT 3330 - Business Law II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: A study of the legal rights and potential liabilities of business people. Included are the basic legal principles of agency, partnerships, corporations, securities, personal property and bailment, real property, environmental controls, and estates and trusts.
  
  • MGT 3410 - Production Operations Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Cross Listed ENGT 3610 
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , MGT 3310 
    Description: Methods of efficient plant management including production scheduling, inventory control, forecasting, linear programming, transportation, statistical analysis, CPM, PERT, simulation, quality control, work management and maintenance.
  
  • MGT 3610 - Entrepreneurship

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3010 BB 1 
    Description: An in-depth study of the entrepreneurial process. Through the development of a business plan and financial projections, the student will gain an understanding of the entrepreneurial process which is critical to success in the small business sector. Emphasis will be placed upon the start-up and the knowledge required in management, finance, and marketing to insure success in a new venture. The impact of technology and the global and diverse workforce will be examined.
  
  • MGT 3630 - Creativity and Ideation

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course will examine the role of creativity and innovation in business with a particular focus on the management of the creative and innovative process to solve problems and develop new ideas.  Students will explore personal creativity, management practices that enhance or suppress creativity, the relationship between creativity and innovation, and the process of innovation in a business setting.
  
  • MGT 3640 - Business Modeling

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3610 
    Description: Students are exposed to the process of business model design in this course.  Activities will provide students with opportunities to examine business models enabling them to have a deeper understanding of the mechanics behind successful business ventures.  Students will design business models for new ventures.
  
  • MGT 4001 - Professional Development Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  
    Description: Professional development issues of the business student are addressed including written and oral communication skills, resume writing, networking, and interviewing skills.
  
  • MGT 4010 - Evolution of Management Thought

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , MGT 3010 
    Description: The development of management theories and practices during the twentieth century. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the primary management schools of thought and their impact upon the modern workplace. The influence of societal forces and world events on the evolution of management thought and principles will also be examined.
  
  • MGT 4090 - Corporate Citizenship

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MGT 3010 
    Description: Explores corporate citizenship and how organizations implement strategies to fulfill social responsibility and financial goals.
  
  • MGT 4100 - Management Information System

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Course focuses on the management and effective use of information resources by organizations and individuals in support of decision making. Topics include data communications, system specification and purchase, system development and documentation, and the effects of technological change on individuals and organizations.
  
  • MGT 4110 - International Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MGT 3010 
    Description: A critical investigation of cultural aspects of living and engaging in business in non-U.S. locations. Major topics include individual and group behavior within the cultures, environments, and infrastructures of various countries in which the increasing globalization of business enterprise requires sensitivity and adaptation of Americans in business. Term paper required.
  
  • MGT 4500 - Business and Economic Forecasting

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3410 
    Description: Factors contributing to business fluctuations and description of the features of U. S. cycles, alternative models of business cycles, basic economic indices and indicators, and economitrics models and forecasting techniques.
  
  • MGT 4640 - Venturing

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3610 3630 3640 
    Description: The student will participate in a culminating event that brings together the knowledge and skills acquired during the course of entrepreneurship studies.  Students will receive a hands-on experience through which they will develop and present a complete business plan.  A juried business plan competition provides student teams a showcase for their business plans and exposure to potential backers.
  
  • MGT 4810/481L - Strategic Management/Lab

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1   Corequisite: MGT 481L
    Description: Capstone course encompassing analysis of the dynamic interplay of threats and opportunities in corporations’ external environments with strengths and weaknesses in corporations’ internal environments that affect corporate decision making about long-term performance. Teamwork, written reports, and team presentation may be required. Analytical conclusions to be supported with approved sources.
  
  • MGT 4900 - Special Problems in Management

    Credit Hours: 1 to 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3010  with a grade of “C” or higher, BB 1  and permission of Chair
    Description: Application of the scientific method to business problems which are of interest to both faculty and students, and are academically relevant.

Management Technology

  
  • MT 1000 - Introduction to Business Environment

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Complex set of interrelationship between the business organization and its environment. Dimensions of work-related experiences, behavioral problems encountered and issues involved in business/society relationships, and current assessment of the role that business plays within a changing society.
  
  • MT 1010 - Mathematics of Drugs and Solutions

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Fundamental mathematical skills to calculate drug dosage, fractional and decimal arithmetic, and solving for an unknown in a proportion.
  
  • MT 1050 - Industrial Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Common and decimal fractions; percentages; ratio and proportion; algebra; areas and volumes; metric measure; graphs; geometrical constructions; trigonometry; work and power; and speed ratios of pulleys and gears.
  
  • MT 2010 - Accounting Survey

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Concepts and principles of accounting: accrual accounting, the accounting cycle, financial statements, and the capital structures of sole proprietorship, partnerships, and corporations.
  
  • MT 2030 - Marketing Survey

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Basic framework and facts of marketing to include marketing research, advertising, direct and indirect selling and distribution, methods of pricing, warehousing, sales control, sales promotion, with continual emphasis on the consumer, competition, and governmental regulations.
  
  • MT 2050 - Principles of Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Organizational management with emphasis on various models and functions. Concepts of the management functions of planning, organizing, and controlling with an emphasis on behavioral science concepts as applied to managing people in organizations.
  
  • MT 2100 - Mathematics for Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Designed primarily for students who are planning to enter the field of business. Arithmetic fundamentals, basic principles of algebra, percentage, discounts, simple and compound interest, annuities, etc., and their application to various phases of business.
  
  • MT 2110 - Business Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MT 2100 , MATH 1110  or permission of instructor
    Description: Methods of gathering and analyzing statistical data by using the process of statistical reasoning; probability and distribution; correlation and regression; expected value; network analysis; queuing theory; economic order quantity; and linear programming. Does not meet the Liberal Arts core requirement for mathematics.
  
  • MT 2120 - Statistical Process Control

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Basic principles and techniques of quality control and its applications to the manufacturing process, process control, sampling inspections, reports and records based on statistical analysis.
  
  • MT 2150 - Personal Financial Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Consumer problems including credit, financial statements, budgeting and saving techniques, insurance, legal documents, housing, investments, income taxes, retirement and estate transfer, and family financial liabilities.
  
  • MT 2200 - Business and Industry Safety

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Legal rights and potential liabilities of business persons. Principles of business law in contracts, negotiable instruments, personal property, agency employment, and Federal and State regulations for proprietorship, partnerships, syndicates, and corporations.
  
  • MT 2250 - Introduction to Business Law

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Legal rights and potential liabilities of business persons. Principles of business law in contracts, negotiable instruments, personal property, agency employment, and Federal and State regulations for proprietorship, partnerships, syndicates, and corporations.
  
  • MT 2270 - Business Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Contemporary issues in business practice. Truth in advertising, the use of power and influence, the social responsibility of business, affirmative action and equal opportunity, and the ethics of profit.
  
  • MT 2370 - Human Relations in Business

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Human interactions with the social, organizational and human elements encountered in the work environment, group processes, group structures, group conflicts, cohesion, leadership, group productivity, and decision making.
  
  • MT 2400 - Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Organization, functions, and administration of a personnel department, including selecting, training, placement, morale, leadership, promotion, appraisal, pay incentives, employee-employer relationship, and laws affecting the personnel function.
  
  • MT 2450 - Labor Relations

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Applied labor and manpower problems in the U.S., the relationship between management and unions, collective bargaining, contract administration and impasse procedures in the public and private sectors.
  
  • MT 2500 - Purchasing and Logistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Purchasing and logistics management of materials and equipment in industry and government. Control and flow of materials through the manufacturing process. Storage and handling of materials internal to plant operations, study of the optimum quality, price, source, quantity, and time.
  
  • MT 2550 - Small Business Operation

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Analysis of problems and considerations involved in establishing, planning, organizing, and operating new business ventures, special research reports, field projects, case analyses, and panel discussions with business persons.
  
  • MT 2570 - Production Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Methods of efficient plant management, production scheduling, inventory control, forecasting, linear programming, transportation, procedures of MRP, JIT, and other techniques.
  
  • MT 2600 - Seminar Special Topics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: An in-depth examination of topics of a timely interest to the manufacturing community.

Marketing

  
  • MKT 3001 - Introduction to Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Designed for students studying disciplines other than business.  This course provides an introduction to the marketing mix functions and process, including an examination of the marketing decisions a firm must make.  Includes identification of consumer and organizational needs and explanation of environmental issues.  Ethical and international issues are addressed.  Not available to BBA students.
  
  • MKT 3010 - Principles of Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: A critical survey of functions, principles, processes, institutions, and trends involved in the process of organized exchange. The strategic manipulation of product, distribution price, and promotional variables is emphasized relative to identified market needs, market satisfaction, and product positioning. Relationship marketing is emphasized.
  
  • MKT 3110 - Salesmanship

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MKT 3010 BB 1 
    Description: An in-depth examination and study of the selling process. Both the theory and practical applications of selling skills will be examined and discussed. The student will have the opportunity to learn the basic skills of prospecting, developing a sales presentation, trial closes, overcoming objections, and closing. The skills learned will be applied by making a sales presentation.
  
  • MKT 3210 - Retailing Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MKT 3010 BB 1 
    Description: A study of the development and present status of the retailing structure with emphasis on unit location, organization, operation, management, display, traffic flow, inventory control, distribution, and evaluation from a marketing perspective. A retail project or simulation is required.
  
  • MKT 3310 - Sales Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MKT 3010 BB 1 
    Description: A study of the tasks and functions of the sales manager. Emphasis will be placed upon recruiting, training, motivating, and supervising a sales force. Textbook study and lectures will be supplemented by role playing in each of the emphasized areas. Students will also learn the skills necessary to develop sales forecasts, territory design, and territory management.
  
  • MKT 3410 - International Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MKT 3010 BB 1 
    Description: Study of managerial marketing policies and practices of firms marketing their products and services in foreign countries. An analytical survey of institutions, functions, policies, and practices in international marketing relative to the marketing structure and environment of foreign countries. A country study is required in paper form.
  
  • MKT 3510 - Consumer and Market Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MKT 3010 BB 1 
    Description: A critical study of market behavior and the social psychological aspect of the purchase act with application to marketing problems. Topics include models of consumer behavior learning, perception, attitude, personality, demographics, psychographic and their assessment relative to marketing communication. Social and cultural influences on market behavior and exchange are emphasized.
  
  • MKT 3600 - Social Media Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  and permission of chair
    Description: Evaluate and develop social media strategies and plans.  Learn to identify target markets; create personas; select platforms and tactics; engage consumers ethically and effectively; monitor, evaluate and tune initiatives; and determine return on investment.
  
  • MKT 3610 - e-Commerce I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: A look at tools and technologies needed for Electronic Commerce. Business opportunities, challenges, and strategies for use of the Internet will be explored. Strategies and vision on the national and global information infrastructure will be discussed. A live website (personal first, then a business) and database beginnings for ordering capabilities will be individually built. Impacts of the electronic market, changes in company missions, security issues and other related topics are covered.
  
  • MKT 3620 - e-Commerce II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MKT 3010 , BB 1 
    Description: Continuation of MKT 3610 ; including advanced web site development database design. Shopping cart type entry data input for order pick sheets and customer invoicing. Development of e-commerce site documentation. Advanced course designed to provide a current state of the internet, origin and growth of e-commerce, differences and similarities between e-commerce and traditional commerce, and the relationship of e-commerce to the internet.
  
  • MKT 3710 - Business Mapping

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MKT 3010 , BB 1 
    Description: An in-depth examination and study of the spatial analysis of business information. Course content will consist of both the theory and practical application of geographical information systems in solving business problems. The emphasis of the course will be to develop a working knowledge of GIS software, basic cartographic principles, data sources, and a cognizance of the spatial relationship inherent in business data. Skills and knowledge obtained during the course will be refined through their application to business situations applicable to spatial analysis.
  
  • MKT 3800 - Transportation Operations

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MKT 3010 , BB 1 
    Description: This course is concerned with the management of both domestic and international types of transportation, and the roles that various modes of transportation play in getting goods and services to the intermediate and/or end user. Included are studies of the varied areas of transportation management and includes its relationship with other business areas like accounting, finance and production. Topics included are shipment planning and documentation (both domestic and international), freight loss and damage claims, line/staff functions of traffic management, price determination, regulated and unregulated environments and legal influences. Emphasis is placed on the international aspects of transportation functions.
  
  • MKT 3900 - Marketing Internship

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , GPA of 3.0, and permission of Internship Coordinator
    Description: Designed to provide academic credit for relevant and meaningful experience in preparation for marketing positions.  Weekly updates, term paper, and satisfactory evaluation by employer/supervisor required for credit.  Grading on a pass/fail basis.
  
  • MKT 4100 - e-Commerce Supply Chain

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 , MKT 3010 

     
    Description: This course studies supply chain and distribution activities, and develops the shipping cycle from form entry through delivery to the customer. E-Distribution and e-Supply Chain activities are covered.

  
  • MKT 4150 - Industrial Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MKT 3010 
    Description: Problems involved in marketing materials, equipment, services, supplies, and components to the industrial and institutional markets are discussed. Purchasing, institutional economics, pricing, promotion, distribution, and the case study method are emphasized relative to rational buying motives.
  
  • MKT 4200 - Logistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MKT 3010 
    Description: A study of managing activities related to traffic, transportation, inventory management and control warehousing, packaging, order processing, and materials handling from a technological standpoint. Attention is placed on information systems for logistics management.
  
  • MKT 4310 - Advertising and Promotional Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MKT 3010 
    Description: A critical study of the process, principles, and functions involved with the research process and product. Topics include research design, sampling, questionnaire design, statistical manipulation and inference, data collection, and research results preparation and presentation. Actual research projects are conducted and presented to the clients.
  
  • MKT 4410 - Marketing in Asia

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  
    Description: China has been the fastest growing major economy since 1979 and has great impact on the global economy.  This course provides an overview of China’s economy, history, culture and overall business environment.  Students will learn the skills necessary for developing, evaluating, and implementing business strategies in China.
  
  • MKT 4450 - Marketing Research

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MKT 3010 
    Description: A critical study of the process, principles, and functions involved with the research process and product. Topics include research design, sampling, questionnaire design, statistical manipulation and inference, data collection, and research results preparation and presentation. Actual research projects are conducted and presented to the clients.
  
  • MKT 4800 - Marketing Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  and MKT 3210 , 4310 , 4450 
    Description: The capstone course in marketing, emphasizing the strategic manipulation and integration of product, distribution, pricing, and promotional elements. Marketing policy is determined in a variety of product/ service/marketing situations using appropriate projects, case studies, and simulations.
  
  • MKT 4900 - Special Problems in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 1 to 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 MKT 3010  with a grade of “C” or higher; and permission of Chair
    Description: Individual research and analysis of contemporary problems, issues and opportunities in concentrated areas of study under the guidance of a faculty member. The application of academic and theoretical constructs to specific problems and issues is emphasized.

Mathematics

  
  • MATH 490A - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: Selected mathematical topics of general interest.
  
  • MATH 490B - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: Selected mathematical topics of general interest.
  
  • MATH 490H - Independent Study with High Impact Practices

    Credit Hours: 1 to 5 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Participation in a high impact practice
    Description: The course awards up to five (5) hours of honors credit, but no credit toward graduation, for participation in activities that the University recognizes as high impact practices.
  
  • MATH 1010 - Mathematical Thought and Practice

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course examines how different areas of mathematics explain and shape our world, as well as how we view and experience it. Students with high school deficiencies in mathematics must sign up for E-sections which include a mandatory lab.
  
  • MATH 1110 - Algebraic Problem Solving

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1010  or 1530  with a grade of “C” or higher; or ACT-M score of 19 or higher (or equivalent SAT or COMPASS score)
    Description: Students will learn important aspects of functions and their representations from a problem solving view point. The primary emphasis is meaningful use and interpretation of the language, symbols, and concepts of functions and their representations.
  
  • MATH 1234 - Honors Seminar in Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to University Honors Program or permission of instructor
    Description: This honors course introduces students to topics of current research in mathematics.
  
  • MATH 1410 - Structure of Mathematical Systems I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Non-enhanced section MATH 1530  with a “B” or higher; or ACT-MATH score 20 or higher;

    Enhanced section -  HS Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry and ACT-MATH 19 score or higher
    Description: Topics include numeration systems and place value, decimals, fractions, percents, proportionality, number sense, integers, and number theory.  Emphases are problem solving, number sense, and communicating mathematics concepts with language, symbols, and concrete and pictorial representations.

     

     

  
  • MATH 1411 - Structures of Mathematical Systems Lab

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Corequisite:  
    Description: Elective mathematics laboratory for students desiring extra assistance with MATH 1410. Lab instruction will focus on problem-solving. Pass/Fail grading.
  
  • MATH 1420 - Structure of Mathematical Systems II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1410  with a grade of “C” or higher
    Description: Topics include proportionality, algebraic thinking, geometry, and measurement.  Emphases are problem solving, multiplicative reasoning, number sense, and communicating mathematics concepts with language, symbols, and concrete and pictorial representations.  This course is reserved for students seeking elementary or middle school teaching licensure.

     

     

  
  • MATH 1421 - Structure of Mathematics Systems Lab

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Corequisite:  
    Description: Elective mathematics laboratory for students desiring extra assistance with MATH 1420 . Lab instruction will focus on problem-solving. Pass/Fail grading.
  
  • MATH 1530 - Elements of Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Deficiencies in Reading and Writing must be removed before enrolling in MATH 1530.
    Description: Measures of central tendency and dispersion for descriptive statistics, estimations of confidence intervals for means and proportions, probability distributions, hypotheses testing, analysis of variance, the least squares method, and correlation analysis. Students with high school deficiencies in mathematics must sign up for E-sections which include a mandatory lab.
  
  • MATH 1550 - Statistics and Probability for K-8 Teachers

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Must complete deficiencies in reading and writing
    Description: Categorization and collection of data.  Representations of univariate and bivariate data.  Measures of central tendency and variability related to distribution of data, correlation, confidence intervals, data driven decision making, probability and probability distributions, expected value, combinations, and permutations.  Analysis of published data such as standardized test scores.
  
  • MATH 1710 - College Algebra

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1010  or 1530  with a grade of “C” or higher; or ACT-M score of 19 or higher (or equivalent SAT or COMPASS score).
    Description: A study of functions and their representations with emphasis on the use of functions in problem-solving and modeling contexts. Topics include polynomial functions, rational functions, power and root functions, inverse functions, and systems of equations.
  
  • MATH 1720 - Precalculus (Trigonometry)

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1710  or 1110  with a grade of “C” or higher in either course or ACT-M score of 25 or higher
    Description: Circular functions and their graphs, inverses, identities and conditional equations, solutions of triangles, trigonometric form of complex numbers, DeMoivre’s Theorem, exponential and logarithmic functions, parametric and polar equations.
  
  • MATH 1730 - Precalculus

    Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1710  or 1110  with a grade of “C” or higher; or ACT-M with score of 25 or higher.  Students who do not meet this requirement may challenge their placement by taking (at their own expense) the APSU Mathematics Placement Examination.
    Description: Analysis of functions and their graphs, inverse functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, theory of equations, conic sections, circular functions and their graphs, trigonometric identities and conditional equations, solutions of triangles, trigonometric form of complex numbers, DeMoivre’s Theorem, parametric and polar equations. Structured primarily to prepare students for MATH 1910 .
  
  • MATH 1810 - Elements of Calculus

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1110   or 1710  or 1730  with a grade of “C” or higher or ACT-M score of 25 or higher.  Students who do not meet this requirement may challenge their placement by taking (at their own expense) the APSU Mathematics Placement Examination.
    Description: Designed for students whose major interest is outside the physical sciences but who require a working knowledge of calculus. Limits, the derivative, differentiation techniques, applications of differentiation, the definite integral, exponential and logarithmic functions, and applications of integration.
  
  • MATH 1820 - Elements of Calculus

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1810 
    Description: A continuation of MATH 1810. Functions of several variables, integration techniques, differential equations, Taylor polynomials, infinite series, and numerical methods.
  
  • MATH 1910 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry

    Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite:   with a grade of “C” or higher or HS trigonometry and ACT-M score 27 or higher.  Students who do not meet this requirement may challenge their placement by taking (at their own expense) the APSU  Mathematics Placement Examination.
    Description: Elements of plane analytic geometry, functions, limits, derivatives of algebraic and trigonometric functions, integration, and applications.
  
  • MATH 1920 - Calculus and Analytical Geometry

    Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1910  
    Description: Polar coordinates, numerical integration, infinite series, techniques of integration, improper integral, conic sections, and transcendental functions.
  
  • MATH 2110 - Calculus

    Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1920 
    Description: Three dimensional vectors, partial derivatives, multiple integration, and vector calculus.
  
  • MATH 3000 - Discrete Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1820 , 1920  or permission of instructor
    Description: The study of algorithms, counting methods and combinatorics, graph theory, trees, Boolean algebras and combinatorial circuits.
  
  • MATH 3010 - Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1920 
    Description: Topics include inductive and deductive reasoning, symbolic logic, truth tables, set theory, and functions, with emphasis on various techniques in proving mathematical theorems. Applications to geometry, number theory, algebra, analysis, and topology.
  
  • MATH 3120 - Differential Equations I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 2110  
    Description: First order differential equations and applications, linear equations of higher order and applications, series solutions of differential equations, Bessel functions and other classical functions obtained by series solutions.
 

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