Mar 29, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Criminal Justice

  
  • CRJ 4210 - Gangs in Society

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CRJ 1010  
    Description: This elective course examines the problem of gangs in society. Topics include why gangs form, why people and society’s response to the problem.
  
  • CRJ 4220 - White Collar Crime

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Cross Listed LDSP 4220  
    Description: The study of contemporary forms of white collar crime and its explanations, theories, and accounts along with its investigation, adjudication, and regulation.
  
  • CRJ 4230 - Criminal Justice in Popular Culture

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CRJ 1010  
    Description: This elective course examines the portrayal of criminal justice in film, television, literature and mass media. In addition, these media are used to illustrate perspectives relevant to criminal justice.
  
  • CRJ 4860 - Criminal Justice Internship and Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Declared major in criminal justice, senior standing, and permission of the department
    Description: This course involves work experience with a cooperating criminal justice agency, public or private. Students must complete at least 160 contact hours during the semester. Students are required to complete documentation requirements and attend two formal meetings during the course of the internship. A major written project relating to the internship experience is required.

Culinary Arts

  
  • CA 2410 - Dining Room Service

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Types of dining service appropriate to differing food service operations; gain an appreciation of the relationship between “front” and “back” of the house.
  
  • CA 2450 - Decoration and Design

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Theory, demonstration and practice in the production of decoration exhibits work to include string work, color flow, marzipan, fruit and vegetable sculpture, pastillage, chaud-froid, tallor and chocolate.
  
  • CA 2700 - Bar Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Alcohol laws and servers’ responsibility, basic mechanics and principles of bar tending, and basic understanding of production process of all alcoholic beverages.
  
  • CA 2710 - Meat Cutting and Process

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Identification of primal cuts of meat. Proper cutting techniques and skills required for boning and tying poultry and hams and the basics of hotel-restaurant butchery.
  
  • CULA 1200 - Sanitation and Food Safety

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This primer course is designed to educate all students to the sacred trust between food production facilities and the general public.  It should prepare each studet to successfully complete the National Restaurant Association’s ServSafe or any similar certificate.
  
  • CULA 1305 - Nutrition for Culinary Arts

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This is an introduction to the basic nutritional principles and guidelines.  Topics include nutrients, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, minerals and vitamins.  Students plan meals and menus based on the above principles using nutritional guidelines as the primary basis.
  
  • CULA 1310 - Fundamentals of Baking

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1200  
    Description: Fundamentals of baking is an introduction to the basic principle of baking including formula procedures, properties of baking ingredients, and functions and proper use of bakery equipment.  Students will present yeast breads and rolls, pies, cakes, icing, basic pastry dough, and cookies using mixing methods and ingredients.
  
  • CULA 1320 - Culinary I (Fundamentals)

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1200  
    Description: This is the introductory food production class for culinary students.  Topics include the theories and methods of cooking, vocabulary, and the development of safe and sanitary kitchen practices.  Production items will include vegetable and starch preparation, stocks, sauces and soups, poultry and egg cookery.

     

  
  • CULA 1321 - Advanced Baking and Pastry

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1200 , 1310 ;
    Description: Baking skills are polished as students learn more difficult baking, pastry and dessert techniques.  Emphais is placed on presentation, plating and appearance.  The production of high skill, high quality finished products is emphasized with special attention to chocolate work, plate presentation, and cold and hot preparations.  Souffles, dessert sauces and creative flavorful designs exemplify this course.
  
  • CULA 1325 - Culinary II (Fabrication)

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1320 ;
    Description: This course will introduce the principles of identifying, receiving, fabricating, and storing vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts, grains, dry goods, prepared foods, dairy products, and spices.  Students will then explore the subject of meats, poultry, seafood and their application in food service operations.
  
  • CULA 1330 - Garde Manger

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course provides students with skills and knowledge of the organization, equipment and responsibilities of the “cold kitchen.”  Students are introduced to and prepare cold hors d’oeuvres, sandwiches, salads, as well as basic charcuterie items while focusing on the total utilization of product.  Reception foods and buffet arrangements are introduced.

     

  
  • CULA 1340 - Dining Room Service

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1320 , 1325  
    Description: An exploration of table service principles and skills with an emphasis on customer service in a restaurant.  The focus will be placed on guest relations, professional communications, order-taking in an a la carte environment, service sequence, point-of-sale systems, case handling, beginning merchandising, table skills, and dining room preparation.  Students will study and engage in critical-thinking topics that are relevant to providing high quality formal table service and customer service.
  
  • CULA 2250 - Professional Catering

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1320 ;
    Description: This course examines the requirements to start and operate a catering company.  Topics of discussion include kitchen equipment, regulations, operations, and business planning.
  
  • CULA 2300 - Food and Beverage Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1320 ;
    Description: This course covers restaurant and food service operations.  Including facilities capabilities, personnel management, and daily operations, sanitation, and facilities readiness.
  
  • CULA 2331 - Cooking for Special Diets

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1320 , 1325 ;
    Description: This course introduces students to the basics of product selection and cooking techniques appropriate for a variety of special needs or food allergy diets.  Food preparation and planning menus for food allergies, food intolerance and diabetic cooking methods and ingredient choices and/or substitutions are taught in this class.
  
  • CULA 2340 - Human Resource Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course focuses on human relations in organizations and restaurant management.  It also offers a brief look at management history, policies, and behavior of workers and management.
  
  • CULA 2350 - Introduction to Ice Carving

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: In this laboratory course, students will learn the hands on basic ice carving principles and skills necessary to create beautiful artworks of ice.
  
  • CULA 2351 - Plated Desserts and Presentations

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1200 , 1310 , 1321 ;
    Description: The essential elements of plated desserts are taught in detail.  The students are taught to strive for a well-balanced presentation.  The course emphasizes the importance of the required time and patience for yielding breath-taking results.  Students are exposed to methods of production that result in dramatic presentations in quantity.
  
  • CULA 2352 - Hot and Cold Desserts

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1200 , 1310 ;
    Description: This course covers the principles and techniques of sorbets and ice creams, souffles, cobblers, crisps and strudel dough products.  Topic include Baked Alaska, bombes, sherbets, crepes and hot and cold souffles.  Student will prepare hot and cold desserts with suitable sauces and garnishes.

     

  
  • CULA 2361 - Retail Bakery Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 1200 , 1310 , 1321  
    Description: This course introduces students to the application of baking and pastry arts production techniques in a wholesale and/or retail setting.  Students are introduced to theory of merchandising baked goods for bakeries as well as formula standardization and conversion production planning, purchasing, costing, and “price for profit.”  Students will hone their skills, learn new formulas and create desserts while practicing techniques, methods and procedures used in the production of desserts and breads.
  
  • CULA 2370 - Bar Service

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description:  A study of beverage service in the hospitality industry including spirits, wines, beers, and non-alcoholic beverages.  Topics include purchasing, resource control, legislation, marketing, physical plant requirements, staffing service and the selection of wines to enhance foods.
  
  • CULA 2373 - Gourmet Foods

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: This course will expand on prior knowledge but also includes vegetable, cookery, pasta and rice cookery, sandwich making, hors d’oeuvres, and food presentation.  Students will be required to plan a 4-course menu and execute it appropriately using their knowledge from other courses.  Students will also explore international cooking to apply all skills learned throughout the class.

     

  
  • CULA 2375 - Purchasing and Cost Control

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CULA 2300 ;
    Description: This course is intended to provide the student with the methodologies and tools to control food, beverage, labor and other costs within a hospitality business.  Hospitality purchasing principles are also explored.  This course regularly uses basic mathematics.
  
  • CULA 2376 - International Food

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: International Foods will expose students to some of the diversity of culture and foods of many countries around the world including regions of the United States.  Classroom assignments, cooking demonstrations, guest speakers, and cooking labs will allow students to have a taste of the world.
  
  • CULA 2380 - Culinary Internship

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is a supervised work experience in the culinary field requiring a minimum number of work hours.  Work activities can range from entry-level to professional cooking.  Individual conferences with the intern director are arranged of class attendance.
  
  • CULA 2390 - Culinary Capstone

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description:  

    Description:  A capstone course required for all culinary majors.  Topics include recipe development, menu construction, and pricing.  Demonstration of proficiency in proper cooking method, selection and construction of salads, entrees with appropriate side items, and desserts is required for successful completion of CULA 2390.


Dance

  
  • DANC 1035 - Fundamentals of Dance

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description:  A dance course designed to provide experience and insight into the art of dance through theory and practice.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 1040 - World Dance

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Applied techniques of various world dance forms which may include West African Dance, Belly Dance, Flamenco, Indian Dance or others.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 1200 - Introduction to Dance

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: A survey course that explores dance as an expressive art form and its place in human culture throughout history.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 1350 - Ballet I

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Theory and practice of ballet techniques.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 1450 - Modern Dance I

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Theory and practice of modern dance techniques.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 1500 - Jazz Dance I

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Theory and practice of jazz dance techniques.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 1700 - Hip Hop Dance I

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Exploration of hip-hop dance styles.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 1850 - Dance Performance Practicum

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Practical experience rehearsing and performing in a concert dance work.
  
  • DANC 1900 - Tap Dance I

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Description: Beginning exploration of form, style, and techniques of tap dance.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 2300 - Music for the Dancer

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor.
    Description: Exploration of music properties and genres as they relate to dance techniques and choreography.
  
  • DANC 2355 - Ballet II

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 1350  and course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Theory and practice of ballet techniques at an intermediate level.
  
  • DANC 2450 - Modern Dance II

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 1450  and course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors and concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Theory and practice of modern dance techniques at an intermediate level.
  
  • DANC 2500 - Jazz Dance II

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 1500  and course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors, or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Theory and practice of jazz dance techniques at an intermediate level.
  
  • DANC 2600 - Special Topics in Dance

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Occasional course offering to further prepare students for a professional career in dance.  Focus may include the rehearsal and performance dance repertoire, ballet partnering, specialized course taught by a Guest Artist in residence or other.  Topics to be announced.
  
  • DANC 2850 - Dance Performance Practicum

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Practical experience rehearsing and performing in a concert dance work.
  
  • DANC 2900 - Tap Dance II

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 1900  and course restricted to those pursuirng theater and dance majors, minors or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Continued exploration of form, style, and techniques of tap dance.
  
  • DANC 3040 - Dance History I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: A comprehensive examination of the evolution of dances as an art form from its origins to the end of the 19th century.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 3250 - Dance for Musical Theatre

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor.
    Description: An exploration of dance as itis approached through Musical Theatre.  General Musical Theatre styles will be introduced as well as choreography for the stage.
  
  • DANC 3350 - Ballet III

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 2355  and course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Theory and practice of ballet techniques at an advanced level.
  
  • DANC 3400 - Dance Improvisation

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor.
    Description: An exploration of improvisation as a means of generating movement for expressiveness, composition, and manipulating movement ideas in choreography.
  
  • DANC 3450 - Modern Dance III

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 2450  and course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Theory and practice of modern dance techniques at an advanced level.
  
  • DANC 3500 - Jazz Dance III

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 2500  and course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Theory and practice of jazz dance techniques at an advanced level.
  
  • DANC 3600 - Special Topics in Dance

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Occasional course offering to further prepare students for a professional career in dance.  Focus may include the rehearsal and performance of significant dance repertoire, ballet partnering, specialized course taught by a guest artist in residence or other.  Topics to be announced.
  
  • DANC 3800 - Dance Composition I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3400  or permission of instructor;
    Description: An exploration of movement invention and the craft of choreography using structural devises, ideas and concepts.
  
  • DANC 3850 - Dance Performance Practicum

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Practical experience rehearsing and performing in a concert dance work.
  
  • DANC 3880 - Costuming for Dance

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor.
    Description: Basic design theory as it relates to theatrical dance costumes.  The course will focus on articulation of design concepts in a collaborative process, character analysis, to realization of designs that enhance the choreographic intent.
  
  • DANC 3900 - Tap Dance III

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 2900  
    Description: Intermediate exploration of form, style, and techniques of tap dance.
  
  • DANC 4040 - Dance History II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3040 ;
    Description: This course is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of dance as an art form, from 1900 to present.  Open to all.
  
  • DANC 4200 - Dance Kinesiology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Sophomore standing
    Description: This course will introduce the structure and function of the human body in relationship to dance.  Students will gain a better understanding of human motion through anatomical analysis, conditioning principles, injury prevention, and by identifying individual anomalies.
  
  • DANC 4300 - Dance Somatics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 4200  or permission of instructor;
    Description: A guided and structured exploration of movement that employs awareness of the anatomical systems.
  
  • DANC 4350 - Ballet IV

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3350  
    Description: Development of pre-professional classical ballet technique including principles, theory and practice.
  
  • DANC 4400 - Dance Composition II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3800  or permission of instructor;
    Description: This class is an in-depth exploration of movement invention and the craft of choreography using structural devices, ideas and concepts.

     

  
  • DANC 4450 - Modern Dance IV

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3450  and course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors, or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Theory and practice of modern dance techniques at a pre-professional level.
  
  • DANC 4500 - Theory and Practice of Teaching Dance

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing and course restricted to those pursuing dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor; sophomore standing.
    Description: A practical exploration of dance pedagogy and strategies pertaining to dance techniques and dance education.
  
  • DANC 4550 - Jazz Dance IV

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3500  
    Description: Pre-professional exploration of the form, style, and techniques of jazz dance.
  
  • DANC 4600 - Special Topics in Dance

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Occasional course offerings to further prepare students for a professional career in dance.  Focus may include the rehearsal and performance of significant dance repertoire, ballet partnering, specialized course taught by a guest artist in residence or other.  Topics to be announced.
  
  • DANC 4650 - Independent Research

    Credit Hours: 1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Opportunity for directed scholarly research in an area of special interest to the student.  Enrollment accepted only after professor has approved a written project proposal from the student.  Variable 1-3 credits.
  
  • DANC 4750 - Directed Studies in Dance

    Credit Hours: 1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Directed concentrated study in a specific area of dance. Designed as a substitute for a required course that is needed but not offered in a specific semester.  Permission granted only to allow student a timely graduation.  Variable 1-3 credits.
  
  • DANC 4850 - Dance Performance Practicum

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Practical experience rehearsing and performing in a concert dance work.  May be repeated for credit an additional two times.
  
  • DANC 4900 - Tap Dance IV

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3900  
    Description: Pre-professional exploration of form, style, and techniques of tap dance.
  
  • DANC 4950 - Choreography Practicum

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Student choreography of a substantial concert dance work.  May be repeated for credit an additional two times.
  
  • DANC 4995 - Senior Capstone

    Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent and senior standing
    Description: A method of summative evaluation in which the student is given an opportunity in their final year of study to demonstrate integrated knowledge and growth in the major.  Each individual senior dance student will create a substantial work.  Application must be approved.

Decision Sciences

  
  • DSCI 3510 - Managerial Dynamics and Simulation

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Cross Listed ENGT 3660 
    Prerequisite: MGT 3410  and Business majors must meet the BB 1 , Junior standing
    Description: Dynamic phenomena surrounding business and engineering environment through simulation techniques on computer. Problems in queuing theory, inventory processing, sales forecasting, advertising, random number generators, flow charting, and stochastic nature of equations, Buffon’s Needle, and discrete and continuous systems.
  
  • DSCI 3530 - Statistical Quality Control

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3410 , Business majors must also meet the BB 1 , Junior standing
    Description: Basic principles and techniques of quality control and its applications to manufacturing process. Emphasis on process control, sampling inspections, reports, and records based on statistical analysis.
  
  • DSCI 4410 - Operations Research

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3410 , Business majors must also meet the BB 1 , Junior standing
    Description: Continuation into the advanced sections of production/operations management. Stochatic inventory, integer, non-linear, mathematical and goal programming; effects of quality control, plant layout, and queuing on the overall production process; sensitivity analysis and simulation.

Diversity

  
  • DIVR 4020 - Capstone Seminar in Social Justice

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Must be AAST minor or WGS minor; and three (3) credit hours in each program.  Permit required.
    Description: Students will examine upper-division readings in feminists and critical race theory culminating in a research project and presentation.

Early Childhood

  
  • EC 2200 - Introduction to Early Childhood Education

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite:   and completion of   
    Description: Historical and theoretical influences upon early childhood education. Legal, ethical, health and safety, and professional issues impacting the care and education of children, birth through age eight. Orientation to early childhood teacher education licensure program and the early childhood profession, including leadership and measurement of programs for young children and their families. Includes observation of early childhood programs.
  
  • EC 3010 - Early Literacy Development

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Survey of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical materials on language development in children. Implications for literacy development and the teaching of reading and writing will also be required.
  
  • EC 4020 - Developmentally Appropriate Practice: K-3

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Survey of theoretical and practical issues related to developmentally appropriate practice including social constructivism, thematic and literature-based instruction, curriculum integration, and the role of the physical and social environment in teaching and learning. Emphasis on social studies curriculum, K-3.
  
  • EC 4030 - Evaluation and Assessment: PreKindergarten–Grade 3

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  and MATH 1530 ;
    Description: Student assessment, evaluation of programs, and processes for parent involvement will be addressed. Emphasis on observation on documentation and other authentic strategies. Includes field-based experience with children.
  
  • EC 4040 - Problem Solving: Prekindergarten

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Develops competency in the selection and use of materials, resources, and instructional strategies to foster problem-solving and higher order thinking skills in prekindergarten children. Develop of early science, math, and social skills will be emphasized. Includes field-based experience with children.
  
  • EC 4080 - Child Guidance and Classroom Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Theories of classroom organization and management and their application, prekindergarten - grade three.  A field experience is required.  Must be taken in semester prior to student teaching.
  
  • EC 4140 - Applications of Development Theory

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Develops competency in the selection and use of materials, in the use of instructional strategies, and in the teaching of specific skills. A portion of course is field based.
  
  • EC 4160 - Learning Styles of the Culturally Different

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Give the student appropriate experiences in: (1) developing an awareness of the learning styles, (2) investigating materials and methods designed to aid in the learning process, and (3) formulating objectives and techniques for working with the parents of the culturally different child.
  
  • EC 4170 - Evaluation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Pupil assessment, evaluation of programs, and processes for parent involvement in Early Childhood Education. A portion of the course is field based.

Early Childhood-Teaching and Learning

  
  • Milestone I - Milestone I – Candidacy Status

    Credit Hours
    Prerequisite:
     

     
    Description: • Completion of EDUC 2100  or equivalent with “C” or better
    • Minimum of 12 hours of undergraduate credit or 3 hours of graduate credit
    • Minimum 2.5 GPA
    • Acceptable level for knowledge and skills identified for Milestone I through approval of electronic portfolio
    • Evidence of Professional Dispositions
    • Completion of security clearance by TBI/FBI

  
  • Milestone II - Milestone II – Provisional Status

    Credit Hours
    Description: • Minimum 2.75 GPA
    • Minimum of “C” in Professional Minor courses
    • Acceptable level for knowledge and skills identified for Milestone II through approval of electronic protfolio
    • Evidence of Professional Dispositions
    • Minimum of 45 hours if undergraduate or 9 hours if graduate student
    • Minimum Praxis I (PPST Reading–174; Writing–173; and Math–173 or ACT–22; SAT–1020) or GRE (Verbal–350 and Quantitative–350) for graduate students
    • Successful interview (during EDUC 3070/5501)
    • Completion of security clearance by TBI/FBI
  
  • Milestone III - Milestone III – Clinical Status

    Credit Hours
    Description: • 2.75 GPA
    • Minimum of Grade of “C” in all professional education courses
    • Passing all required Praxis II tests (see list of testing requirements for specific tests on College of Education website)
    • Completion of all courses required for licensure/degree
    • Acceptable level for knowledge and skills identified for Milestone III through approval of electronic portfolio
    • Evidence of Professional Disposition
    • Completion of security clearance by TBI/FBI

Economics

  
  • ECON 2000 - Contemporary Economics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Introduction to current economic events; relates current happenings to past events to understand the basic economic forces that influence our system.
  
  • ECON 2100 - Principles of Macroeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Principles of pricing, stabilization, and growth in a modern capitalist economy, supply and demand, employment theory and fiscal policy banking systems and monetary policy, economic growth, and fundamentals of the international economy.
  
  • ECON 2200 - Principles of Microeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ECON 2100 
    Description: Concepts of value and distribution under alternative market condition, elasticity, allocation of resources and price determination, analysis of consumption, and marginal utility.
  
  • ECON 3010 - Intermediate Microeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Concepts of value and distribution under alternative market condition, elasticity, allocation of resources and price determination, analysis of consumption, and marginal utility.
  
  • ECON 3020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Macroeconomic problems of inflation and unemployment, statistics (GDP and the Consumer Price Index) and theory (Classical, Keynesian, and Monetarist views), and public policies.
  
  • ECON 3210 - Money and Banking

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: The nature and function of money, organization and operation of monetary and financial systems, determinants of money supply and demand, the conduct of monetary policy and its impact on employment, income and price level.
  
  • ECON 3220 - Managerial Economics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Environment of the firm, intra-firm decision problems, analytical concepts and methods, partial-quilibrium analysis of the product markets, analysis of factor productivities, cost, pricing principles and practices, and estimation of demand and cost primarily from the standpoint of managers in the private sector.
  
  • ECON 3510 - Government and Business

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Relationships between government and business, government efforts to enforce competition to regulate public utilities, and protect the special interests of farmers, workers, and consumers.
  
  • ECON 3900 - Economic Internship

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  with GPA of 3.0 and permission of Internship Coordinator
    Description: Designed to provide academic credit for relevant and meaningful experience in preparation for economics positions.  Weekly updates, term paper, and satisfactory evaluation by employer/supervisor required for credit.  Grading on a pass/fail basis.
  
  • ECON 3960 - Urban Environments and Economics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: An examination is made of the urban environments. Consideration is given to environmental problems.
  
  • ECON 3980 - Economic Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: A systematic examination of the structure of dynamic global economic activities. Economic theory is emphasized for review of geographic patterns of resource utilization.
  
  • ECON 4000 - Issues in Free Enterprise

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Special topics in the area of free enterprise; topics may vary from time to time according to the specialty of the occupant of the Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise in the BBA Program.
 

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