Apr 20, 2024  
2012-2013 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2012-2013 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Computer Science

  
  • CSCI 3000 - Data Modeling

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 1015  or 1016 
    This course emphasizes the role of the database administrator in converting a conceptual model into a relational data model. The student will use business rules for developing entity-relationship diagrams for relational data models. Student will transform data models into relations and tables within a database using functional dependencies and normalization techniques. The course introduces VB and SQL scripting. The student will develop a database from a case study. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 3005 - Object Oriented Programming

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2000  or 2010 
    An introduction to object-oriented programming using the C++ language. Topics include C++ classes, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, templates, container classes, object-oriented design, and the use of class libraries.
  
  • CSCI 3020 - File Processing

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2000  or 2010 
    An introduction to methods of efficiently organizing and accessing data on peripheral devices. Study of the structures used to store and manipulate data on external devices and the techniques used to manipulate this data.
  
  • CSCI 3200 - Principles of Information Security

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 1005  or 1010  or 2000 
    An introduction to the technical and management aspects of information security. This course provides the foundation for understanding issues associated with security in computing, including security threats and controls, protection of computer systems and data, and planning for security through the development of an information security strategy.
  
  • CSCI 3250 - Data Structure and Algorithms

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2000  or 2010 
    Advanced data structures and their computer implementation. Binary trees, general trees, graphs, sorting algorithms, merging algorithms, hash codes, hash tables, file and memory allocation procedures.
  
  • CSCI 3300 - Introduction to Web Development

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 1010  or 1015  or 1016  or 2000 
    This is a survey of techniques and tools for developing basic web pages for delivery of text and graphic information. Focus will be on page markup languages, page design principles, page layout techniques, markup language syntax, and page styling methods.
  
  • CSCI 3350 - Web User Interface Design

    3
    Prerequisite:   or 1010  or 2000 
    Basic web design principles emphasizing alignment, proximity, contrast and repetition.  Web design topics incorporating layout, color, texture, typography and imagery.  User interface design principles for web pages:  client side programming, web site planning, process of designing and developing user interface mock-ups/prototypes for dynamic back-end database driven web applications.
  
  • CSCI 3400 - Computer Organization I

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2000  or 2010 
    Basic digital circuits, Boolean algebra and combinatorial logic, data representation and transfer, digital arithmetic, digital storage and accessing, control functions, input/output facilities, system organization and reliability, computer structure and programming at the machine language and assembler language level.
  
  • CSCI 3410 - Computer Organization II

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3400 
    Continuation of 3400. Continued study of micro-processors, advanced logic design, sequential circuits, digital and switching waveforms, encoding of information, number representation and arithmetic, logical operations, computer architecture for very large and very small computer systems, memory systems, and CPU design.
  
  • CSCI 3500 - Theory of Automata, Formal Languages, and Computation

    3
    Prerequisite: MATH 3000  or CSCI 3400 
    Fundamental concepts in Computer Science, including: finite-state machines and regular expressions, context-free grammars and languages, push down automata, Turning machines, undecidability, and computational complexity.
  
  • CSCI 3600 - Computer Ethics

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 1005  or 1010  or 2000 
    Study and analysis of the social, legal and ethical issues that arise from the presence of computers in society. Problems are posed and solutions discussed from the viewpoint of the computer professional. Topics include computer viruses, spyware, spam, life-critical systems and privacy issues.
  
  • CSCI 3700 - Data Communications and Networking

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 1005  or 1010  or 2000 
    Fundamental concepts, definitions and theory of telecommunications and networking with practical applications. Special emphasis is on Internet Technology including the study of TCP/IP protocols. Other topics include LAN and WAN management, security and quality of service issues.
  
  • CSCI 3760 - Linux Network Operating System Administration

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3700 
    This course covers the fundamental Linux system administration and Linux network administration principles. Topic covered include: directory tree, file and memory management, system monitoring, user accounts, TCP/IP configuration, name service and address translation, firewall, IP accounting, email service, and web services.
  
  • CSCI 3770 - Microsoft Windows Network Operating System Administration

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3700 
    This course covers the fundamental Windows system administration and Windows network administration principles. Topics covered include: directory structures, file management, user management, domains, group policy, networking services provided as part of Windows, including IIS, RRAS, DNS, WINS, and DHCP.
  
  • CSCI 3870 - Wireless Communication and Networking

    3
    This course covers data communications as well as voice communications in wireless networks. Topics covered include: wireless standards in data and voice communications, radio frequency technologies, wireless LAN hardware and software, wireless network design, installation and management including security and site surveys.
  
  • CSCI 3900 - Internship

    3
    Prerequisite: Permission of department chair
    Designed to provide academic credit for meaningful computer-related experience gained while working in a business or industry. Satisfactory employer evaluation and detailed written documentation of the work performed is required. Pass/Fail.
  
  • CSCI 4000 - Advanced Web Development

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3300 
    This course covers advanced coverage of browser-based Web processing; coverage of the browser document object model, dynamic formatting and styling, browser scripting languages, user interaction and personalization, data validation, and processing of browser-side data structures. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4010 - Mobile Software Development I

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2010  or 2070 , and 4400 ; and [4000  or 4650 ]
    An introduction to application development for small, mobile devices such as cell phones and smart phones.  The class will examine topics including user interface design, application portability, web protocols, data storage, and security on platforms such as Android and iOS.
  
  • CSCI 4020 - Mobile Software Development II

    3
    Prerequisite:  
    Continuation of CSCI 4010.  The class will cover concepts such as custom components in user interfaces, multi-threaded programming, game programming, sound, and simultaneous development of apps for phones, tablets, and other devices.
  
  • CSCI 4050 - Multimedia Tools and Technique

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3300 
    This course provides the student with hands-on experience using current versions of popular multimedia software on the PC. Static and dynamic images are created, manipulated, and integrated into applications. Video conferencing, and streaming audio and video are also examined. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4100 - Operating Systems and Architecture

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3400 
    Detailed study of systems programming, general operating systems concepts, memory management, auxiliary storage management, process control, multi processing, processor management, networking, performance monitoring, and computer system security.
  
  • CSCI 4230 - Programming Languages

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3250 
    Formal definition of programming languages including specifications of syntax and semantics. Simple statements including precedence, infix, prefix, and postfix notation. Global properties of algorithmic languages including scope of declarations, storage allocation, grouping of statements, binding time of constituents, subroutines, and tasks.
  
  • CSCI 4350 - Compiler Design

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3250 
    Review of program language structures, translation, loading execution, and storage allocation. Compilation of simple expressions and statements. Organization of a compiler including compile-time and run-time tables, lexical scan, syntax scan, object code generation, error diagnostics, object code optimization techniques, and overall design. A simple compiler is designed and implemented as a group project.
  
  • CSCI 4390 - Introduction to JAVA Server Pages

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4000 
    This is an introduction to server-based Web processing within a Java Server Pages (JSPI) development environment; coverage of server-side scripting elements, database access methods, servlets, dynamic content, standard and custom actions, authentication, and JavaBeans. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4400 - Principles Database Management

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2000  or 2010  or 3300 
    Database development process, data structures and database methods of file storage, primitive databases, Relational model approach to database management, hierarchy, network and object oriented models, data security, discussion of sample databases such as DBASE, RDB, and SQL.
  
  • CSCI 4410 - Database Admin Using DB2

    3
    This course teaches topics of database administration including database design, database implementation, user support, change-control procedures, planning for growth, and technology evaluation using DB2 database management system. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4420 - Database Admin-MS SQL Server

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4400 
    This course teaches topics of database administration including database design, database implementation, user support, change-control procedures, planning for growth, and technology evaluation using MS SQL Server. Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4430 - Database Admin Using Oracle

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4400 
    This course will teach basic database features and administrator operations using the Oracle Database Management System. This will include components, tools, instances, tables, indexes, and profiles.
  
  • CSCI 4450 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3250 
    Progress and procedures in the field of artificial intelligence. Natural language models, machine translation, simulation of belief systems, models of memory and cognition, games and game playing, winning strategies, robotics.
  
  • CSCI 4520 - Network Security

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3700 
    An examination of the tools techniques, and technologies used in the securing of information assets via networks. Topics covered include network operating system security, security of transmissions, firewall configurations, vulnerabilities and hardening of network components. Web and distributed system security, and procedures dealing with storage and disposition of sensitive data.
  
  • CSCI 4550 - Computer Graphics

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 2000  or 2010  and MATH 3450  or 2110 
    Computer graphics for computer science or mathematics students with emphasis on implementation details, algorithms, transformations, coordinates, color models, interactive graphics, and graphics standard languages. Raster and vector graphics, color and black and white, will be studied using various hardware devices. PostScript and device-dependent languages may be explored.
  
  • CSCI 4600 - Software Design and Development

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3250 
    Techniques and procedures applicable to the design and development of large-scale software systems. Programming teams, program walk through, system evaluation, system review. A software system is designed and written as a team project during the course.
  
  • CSCI 4630 - Web Server Administrator

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3300 
    An introduction to the setup and maintenance of Web server software. Both Internet Information Server (IIS) and Apache will be used as examples.
  
  • CSCI 4650 - Introduction to ASP.NET Programming

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 4400 
    An introduction to server-based Web processing using the ASP.NET development environment, coverage of browser- and server-based scripting languages, data structures and data exchange languages, file and database access methods, dynamic page styling, and other techniques for creating dynamic, data-driven Web sites.  Three hours per week.
  
  • CSCI 4670 - Network Applications

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3700 
    This course introduces a variety of network applications and services. Topics covered include: WWW and HTTP, FTP, Telnet and SSH, Email (POP3 and SMTP), Usenet, P2P, VNC, remote access, chat room, and instant messaging service.
  
  • CSCI 4750 - Systems Analysis and Design

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3020  or 4400 
    Detailed study of the life cycle of a business information system. Technique used in the study, design, development, and implementation phases of the life cycle are presented. A complete system, designed and developed as a small group project is constructed during the course. Emphasis is placed on the development of a simple but functional system.
  
  • CSCI 4770 - Advanced Data Communications and Networking

    3
    Prerequisite: CSCI 3760  or 3770 
    This course is an advanced study of telecommunications and networking. Topics include an indepth study of TCP/IP protocols, switching, routing, WAN technology, network design and management, and emerging technologies.
  
  • CSCI 4800 - Computer Science and Information Systems Seminar

    1
    Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of instructor
    Problem solving using techniques from all areas of the Computer Science and Information Systems curriculum. Research on an assigned topic culminating in a written paper and oral presentation. Review of all basic areas of study in preparation for entry into the job market. Overview of job opportunities in the computer field.
  
  • CSCI 4900 - Special Problems in Computer Science

    3
    Prerequisite: Advanced standing in computer science
    Selected topics of general interest.
  
  • CSCI 4910 - Topics Computer Science

    1
    Prerequisite: Advanced standing in computer science
    Selected topics of general interest. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • CSCI 4920 - Topics Computer Science

    1
    Prerequisite: Advanced standing in computer science
    Selected topics of particular interest. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • CSCI 4930 - Topics Computer Science

    1
    Prerequisite: Advanced standing in computer science
    Selected topics of particular interest. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • CSCI 4940 - Internship in Information Technology

    3
    Prerequisite: Permission of department chair
    This is a work/study course in Information Technology; student work in an appropriate position and on an appropriate project in information technology for an assigned employer; work project is under direction system evaluation, system review. A software system is designed and written as a team project during the course.

Dance

  
  • DANC 385A-H - Dance Practicum

    2
    The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation. Credit is given for performance activities and participation.
  
  • DANC 460A-F - Special Topics in Dance

    3
    Concentrated study of aspects of dance or related fields based on particular interests and training of the instructor and/or demonstrated needs of the students. Course title will be announced in advance, and course may be repeated as content changes.
  
  • DANC 1035 - Introduction to Dance

    3
    For dance and non-dance majors, a study of the art and language of dance through lectures, discussions, concert attendance, and studio practice. Designed to develop awareness and insight of this art form through discussion, observation, writing and movement experience.
  
  • DANC 1040 - Introduction to World Dance

    3
    An introduction to world dance forms including West African Dance, Hip-hop Dance, Jazz Dance and Belly Dance.  This class exposes students to various forms of dance from non-western cultures.
  
  • DANC 1200 - Dance Appreciation

    3
    This course explores dance as an expressive art form in all cultures throughout history.  Emphasis will be placed on lecture, discussion, reading and observation of both live and recorded dance.  Content includes, but is not limited to concert, world, and social dance.  Appropriate for the general student population.
  
  • DANC 1350 - Ballet I

    3
    Introduces elements of ballet techniques and vocabulary. Stresses learning elementary positions and movements characteristic of this highly stylized art form.
  
  • DANC 1450 - Modern Dance I

    3
    A studio class for students with stress in concert modern dance. Emphasis upon correct alignment development of strength, rhythmic and dynamic activity, as well as spatial and locomotor patterns.
  
  • DANC 1500 - Jazz Dance

    3
    Contemporary Jazz Dance technique with practical application of the elements of jazz style, including alignment, stretch, strength, isolations, stylistic movement combinations and basic dance vocabulary. Course is appropriate for the student with little or no previous experience in jazz dance.
  
  • DANC 1600 - West African Dance I

    3
    Introduction to the movement vocabulary of West African dance, emphasizing the central role that dance plays in African cultures.  This introductory course examines the techniques and philosophy of dance in various West African cultures.  Selected courses, songs, and rhythms are explored.
  
  • DANC 1700 - Hip Hop Dance I

    3
    Introduction to hip hop dance technique.  Students will improve and enhance their mental and kinesthetic knowledge of hip hop dance through an exploration of energy, personal style, stamina, physical coordination, memory, rhythm, and spatial awareness.
  
  • DANC 2350 - Stage Movement

    3
    This course introduces principles and techniques of theatrical stage movement. It is designed to help actors and dancers make their bodies more flexible and efficient instruments of expression.
  
  • DANC 2355 - Ballet II

    3
    Prerequisite: DANC 1350  or permission of instructor
    An elaboration and extension of principles addressed in Ballet I. Greater emphasis on center adagio and allegro sequences and exploration of balletic style. Students will continue to experience the flow and continuity of ballet sequences and become more familiar with the stylistic. historical, theoretical, and aesthetic bases of the form.
  
  • DANC 2450 - Modern Dance II

    3
    Prerequisite: DANC 1450  or permission of instructor
    Studio Class designed to increase skills, range, and artistry in modern dance techniques. Emphasis will be placed on movement proficiency and combinations.
  
  • DANC 3040 - History and Philosophy of Dance

    3
    Designed for majors and non-majors, this course will present a comprehensive view of the evolution of dance as an art form. It is designed to develop awareness and insight through lecture, discussion, music, video, observation and writing about Dance.
  
  • DANC 3250 - Dance for Musical Theatre

    3
    This course is a basic introduction to dance as it is approached through Musical Theatre. General music theatre styles will be introduced as well as choreography for the stage.
  
  • DANC 3400 - Dance Composition

    3
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    This course introduces the skill of manipulating the elements of time, space, and force in relation to the human body to communicate artistic intent. The course will explore movement invention and the craft of choreography using structural devise such as theme and development, chance sequencing, retrograde, and canon.
  
  • DANC 3450 - Advanced Dance Techniques

    3
    Prerequisite: DANC 2350 , 2450  or permission of instructor
    Intensive development and refinement of dance technique. Focus is placed on artistic concerns appropriate to advanced level dancers.
  
  • DANC 3800 - Dance Improvisation

    3
    Prerequisite:   or permission of instructor
    Students will study improvisation as a means of generating movement for composition, increasing body awareness, identifying personal movement preferences, broadening movement possibilities, exploring expressive range, and manipulating movement ideas in choreography.
  
  • DANC 3880 - Costuming for Dance

    3
    Basic design theory emphasizes line, shape, color, and texture, followed by a discussion of style. Includes more practical work of draping, dyeing, painting, and patterning. Teaches students to measure and research.
  
  • DANC 4400 - Dance Composition II

    3
    Prerequisite:   or permission of instructor
    This course is a continuation of the skills and concepts learned in DANC 3400. Students in this course will explore the pre-classic choreographic studies of Louis Horst as well as choreography in group forms and choreography in modern forms.
  
  • DANC 4500 - Theory and Practice of Teaching Dance

    3
    Prerequisite: DANC 1035  or permission of instructor
    This course will allow students to teach dance as a human art experience, establish a teaching philosophy, and develop material for dance technique courses. Students will also analyze, structure, and practice teaching skills for dance technique.
  
  • DANC 4700 - Analysis and Criticism of Dance

    3
    Prerequisite: DANC 1035  or permission of instructor
    Students will study major theories in dance performance, which inform their analysis of contemporary choreography. Students will hone presentation and writing skills through exposure to different styles and types of critical writing.

Decision Sciences

  
  • DSCI 3410 - Production Operations Management

    3
    Cross Listed ENGT 3610 
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB1 
    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.
  
  • DSCI 3510 - Managerial Dynamics and Simulation

    3
    Cross Listed ENGT 3660 
    Prerequisite: DSCI 3410 ; Junior standing; Business majors must also meet the BBA admissions requirements (ENGL 1010 , 1020 ;MATH 1810  or 1910 ; ACCT 2010/201L , 2020 ; ECON 2010 , 2020 ) and CGPA of 2.1 or higher.
    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

    3
    Prerequisite: DSCI 3410 ; Junior standing; Business majors must also meet the BBA admissions requirements (ENGL 1010 , 1020 ;MATH 1810  or 1910 ; ACCT 2010/201L , 2020 ; ECON 2010 , 2020 ) and CGPA of 2.1 or higher.
    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

    3
    Prerequisite: DSCI 3410 ; Junior standing; Business majors must also meet the BBA admissions requirements (ENGL 1010 , 1020 ;MATH 1810  or 1910 ; ACCT 2010/201L , 2020 ; ECON 2010 , 2020 ) and CGPA of 2.1 or higher.
    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.
  
  • DSCI 4500 - Business and Economic Forecasting

    3
    Prerequisite: DSCI 3410 ; Junior standing; Business majors must also meet the BBA admissions requirements (ENGL 1010 , 1020 ;MATH 1810  or 1910 ; ACCT 2010/201L , 2020 ; ECON 2010 , 2020 ) and CGPA of 2.1 or higher.
    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 econometrics models and forecasting techniques.

Economics

  
  • ECON 490A - Special Problems in Economics

    1
    Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of instructor
    Teacher supervised independent study of economics topics (out-of-classroom) of mutual interest to the student and faculty member.
  
  • ECON 490B - Special Problems in Economics

    2
    Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of instructor
    Teacher supervised independent study of economics topics (out-of-classroom) of mutual interest to the student and faculty member.
  
  • ECON 490C - Special Problems in Economics

    3
    Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of instructor
    Teacher supervised independent study of economics topics (out-of-classroom) of mutual interest to the student and faculty member.
  
  • ECON 2000 - Contemporary Economics

    3
    Introduction to current economic events; relates current happenings to past events to understand the basic economic forces that influence our system.
  
  • ECON 2010 - Principles of Macroeconomics

    3
    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 2020 - Principles of Microeconomics

    3
    Prerequisite: ECON 2010  recommended
    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

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB1 
    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

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB1 
    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

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB1 
    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

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB1 
    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

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB1 
    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 3960 - Urban Environments and Economics

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB1 
    An examination is made of the urban environments. Consideration is given to environmental problems.
  
  • ECON 3980 - Economic Geography

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB1 
    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

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB2 
    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.
  
  • ECON 4210 - Public Finance

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB2 
    Role of government and its function and limitations in a market, provision of goods and services by all levels of government instruments of taxation evaluated according to efficiency and equity criteria, and contemporary public sector issues.
  
  • ECON 4310 - Labor Economics

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB2 
    Economics of the labor market and labor relations, theories of wages and employment, determination of unemployment, investment in human capital, discrimination, public policy toward the labor market, role of labor unions, practices, procedures, legal foundations, legal structure associated with collective bargaining, form and content of the labor contract, grievance machinery, and mediation and arbitration institutions.
  
  • ECON 4410 - History of Economic Thought

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB2 
    Origin and evolution of economic ideas with emphasis on historical context, problems, and nature of the solutions, historical survey of the economic doctrines of the physiocratic, classical, neoclassical, historical, Keynesian, and other schools of economic thought.
  
  • ECON 4610 - International Economics

    3
    Prerequisite: Benchmark BB2 
    Process of international commerce. Theory of trade and exchange rates, institutional and legal environment, current policy issues, analysis of international trade and finance, causes and effects of protection, balance of payments, foreign exchange market, international monetary and financial systems, and international economic cooperation and competition.

Education

  
  • EDUC 2100 - Foundations of Education

    2
    Prerequisite: 12 credit hours of core requirements
    The social, philosophical and historical background of education. The course will contain lecture/discussion and a required field based experience. The Live Text electronic portfolio is introduced.
  
  • EDUC 3040 - Instructional Technology

    3
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  (Milestone I requirements)
    Competency in microcomputer applications in the instructional process, including the use of instructional software, media integration, and use of micros in classroom management.
  
  • EDUC 3070 - Instructional Strategies

    3
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  (Milestone I requirements)
    Competencies in selected generic teaching skills such as mastery learning, questioning, positive reinforcement, student evaluation/differential instruction, etc. Required prior to restricted enrollment courses (methods blocks, 4400’s). Application for provisional admission to teacher education required during this semester of enrollment. A field experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 3090 - Elementary School Curriculum, Methods, and Philosophy

    3
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  (Milestone II requirements), MUS 1030 , ART 1030 ; Corequisite: RDG 4010 , 4020 
    Elementary School Curriculum, Methods, and Philosophy. The courses focuses on the principles of child development, effective and differentiated instructional strategies for diverse young learners, standards-based curriculum integration, instructional planning and assessment. A field experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 4040 - Teaching Social Studies: K-6

    3
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  (Milestone II requirements), HIST 1210 , 1220 , 2010 , 2020 ; Corequisite: SCI 4020 , RDG 4030 
    The objectives, problems, and instructional techniques in teaching social studies, grades K-6. A school-based teaching experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 4080 - Classroom Organization and Management

    3
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  (Milestone II requirements)
    Theories of classroom organization and management and their application. A field experience is required. Must be taken semester prior to student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 4090 - Middle School Methods and Curriculum

    3
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  (Milestone II requirements), MUS 1030 , ART 1030 
    Curriculum, program, and philosophy uniquely focused on the middle grades student. A field experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 4160 - Teaching Diverse Students

    3
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  (Milestone I requirements)
    This course addresses the impact of student diversity on teaching and learning.  Differences in beliefs, effective instruction of linguistic minorities, and socialization among groups are analyzed, with a focus on the relationship of these differences to learning outcomes in U.S. classrooms.  Instructional strategies based on multicultural models of education are examined and alternative assessments are reviewed.  A field experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 4200 - Capstone: Contemporary Problems

    2
    A culminating course for the student seeking licensure to teach. Topics include school law, problems of the beginning teacher, seeking a teaching position, and professional growth.
  
  • EDUC 4270 - Classroom Evaluation and Assessment

    3
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  (Milestone I requirements); Pre/Corequisite: EDUC 3070 
    Pupil assessment; evaluation of programs; self-assessment; differentiated instruction; contemporary assessment strategies; and related research applications.
  
  • EDUC 4310 - Student Teaching PreKindergarten

    5
    Prerequisite:  
    Teacher candidates will teach a full semester under the direction of supervising teachers. Experience at two grade levels and in varied settings is required. According to state directives, the student teacher must receive prior written permission from the Coordinator of Clinical Experiences to enroll in coursework other than student teaching during the semester. EDUC 4310, 4410 , 4610 , and 4710  include an intensive seminar in which portfolio-based summative assessment is accomplished. The seminar also addresses relevant issues in professional education as well as licensure procedures and induction into the teaching profession.
  
  • EDUC 4410 - Student Teaching Grades K-3

    5
    Prerequisite: Milestone III  (Milestone III requirements)
    Teacher candidates will teach a full semester under the direction of supervising teachers. Experience at two grade levels and in varied settings is required. According to state directives, the student teacher must receive prior written permission from the Coordinator of Clinical Experiences to enroll in coursework other than student teaching during the semester. EDUC 4310 , 4410, EDUC 4610 , and EDUC 4710  include an intensive seminar in which portfolio-based summative assessment is accomplished. The seminar also addresses relevant issues in professional education as well as licensure procedures and induction into the teaching profession.
 

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