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Ohio University Graduate Catalog 2015-2017 [Archived Catalog]

Courses

 
  

  • MATH 6221 - Algebra I

    G-sets. Orbits and stabilizers. Orbit decomposition formula. Permutation groups. Alternating groups. Simple groups. Composition series. Jordan-Holder Theorem. The Sylow Theorems. Fundamental theorem of abelian groups. Solvable and nilpotent groups. Rings of power series and Laurent series. Division rings. Prime and maximal ideals in a ring (not necessarily commutative). Nil radical. Rings of quotients of domains (not necessarily commutative). Artinian and Noetherian rings and modules. Hilbert Basis Theorem. Completely reducible modules. Semi-simple Artinian rings. Free, projective, and divisible modules. Tensor product of modules and algebras. Polynomial rings. Irreducible polynomials. Quotient rings. Eisenstein Criterion. Algebraic extension. Algebraically closed fields. Splitting fields. Normal and separable extensions. Finite fields. Fixed fields. Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory. Solvability by radicals. Constructability by ruler and compass.

    Requisites
    MATH 5222
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6222 - Algebra II

    Continuation of Algebra I.

    Requisites
    MATH 6221
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6231 - Coding Theory I

    A mathematically rigorous survey of Error-Correcting Codes with emphasis on their parameters and their algorithmic efficiency for coding and decoding. Reed Solomon Codes, Goppa Codes, Reed Muller Codes, Algebraic Geometry Codes. Coding and Decoding based on Fast Fourier Transform algorithms. This course surveys various approaches to the structure theory of convolutional codes. They are considered as vector spaces over fields of Laurent expansions, as modules over rings of polynomials and as graph codes. All necessary algebraic background beyond linear algebra is presented in the class, including concepts related to modules over principal ideal domains and ideas regarding trellises and other relevant types of graphs.

    Requisites
    MATH 5230
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6232 - Coding Theory II

    This course surveys various approaches to the structure theory of convolutional codes. They are considered as vector spaces over fields of Laurent expansions, as modules over rings of polynomials and as graph codes. All necessary algebraic background beyond linear algebra is presented in the class, including concepts related to modules over principal ideal domains and ideas regarding trellises and other relevant types of graphs. The course also addresses topics on algebraic coding theory over ring alphabets.

    Requisites
    MATH 6231
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6301 - Analysis I

    Abstract measure and integration, Lebesgue measure on real line; Lp-spaces; Fubini and Radon-Nikodym theorems; differentiation theory.

    Requisites
    MATH 5302 or 5700
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6302 - Analysis II

    Continuation of Analysis I.

    Requisites
    MATH 6301
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6310 - Complex Analysis

    A graduate course in complex analysis focused on classical results for analytic and harmonic functions. Many of the techniques explained in the course, e.g. integrals along paths and the residue theorem, are useful in applications. Topics will include: Analytic and harmonic functions, Cauchy’s theorem and Cauchy’s integral formula, classification of singularities, and entire functions.

    Requisites
    MATH 5302 or 5310
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6320 - Functional Analysis

    An introduction to the basic results of functional analysis in the setting of Banach and Hilbert spaces. Key topics include the weak and weak* topologies, distributions, and an introduction to the Spectral Theorem. Theorems covered include the Hahn-Banach theorem, the Principle of Uniform Boundedness, the Closed Graph theorem, and the Open Mapping Theorem.

    Requisites
    MATH 6301 and (MATH 5330 or 6302)
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6330 - Fourier Analysis

    A graduate course in Fourier Analysis focused on classical results for Fourier series and Fourier transforms. Standard techniques explained in the course, e.g. representations of functions by Fourier series, forward and inverse Fourier transforms, are useful in applications. Topics will include: Fourier series on [-pi,pi], Bessel inequality, convergence theorems, the Fourier transform, and the inverse Fourier transform.

    Requisites
    MATH 6301
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6400 - Ordinary Differential Equations

    A rigorous, proof based course on ordinary differential equations and systems.

    Requisites
    MATH 5400 and (MATH 5302 or 5330)
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6411 - Partial Differential Equations I

    Classical methods in partial differential equations. First-order PDEs, Laplace’s equation, the wave and heat equations, second-order elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations, maximum principles.

    Requisites
    (MATH 5302 or 5330) and 5400 and 5410
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6412 - Partial Differential Equations II

    Advanced functional analytic methods in partial differential equations

    Requisites
    MATH 6411
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6420 - Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control

    A basic course in calculus of variations and optimal control of systems governed by differential equations.

    Requisites
    MATH 5302 and 5400
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6470 - Dynamical Systems

    An advanced course in dynamical systems with an emphasis on canonical examples and mathematical theory.

    Requisites
    MATH 5400 or 5470
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6500 - Mathematical Statistics

    Different types of convergence, consistency, sufficiency and completeness of estimators, theory of hypotheses testing, asymptotic theory.

    Requisites
    MATH 5510 and 5302
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6510 - Linear Models

    Simple linear and multiple regression models, one-sample and one-factor analysis of variance, analysis of residuals, generalized linear models, analysis of deviance as a generalization of the analysis of variance.

    Requisites
    MATH 5510
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6520 - Experimental Design

    Randomization, blocking, Latin squares, balanced incomplete block designs, factorial experiments, confounding and fractional replication, components of variance, orthogonal polynomials, response surface methods.

    Requisites
    MATH 5510
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6530 - Time Series Analysis

    Introductory examples and models, autocorrelation, stationary processes, ARMA models, spectral analysis, nonstationary time series, state-space models, further topics and applications.

    Requisites
    MATH 5510 and 5302
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6640 - Numerical Analysis: Linear Algebra

    In-depth analysis of numerical aspects of problems and algorithms in linear algebra.

    Requisites
    MATH 5600
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6650 - Numerical Analysis: Approximation Methods

    In-depth treatment of numerical approximation techniques, including differentiation and integration.

    Requisites
    MATH 5600
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6660 - Numerical Analysis: Differential Equations

    In-depth treatment of numerical methods for ordinary differential equations; introduction to methods for partial differential equations.

    Requisites
    MATH 5400 and 5600
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6700 - Point Set Topology

    General topological spaces, product and quotient spaces, convergence, separation, countability properties, compactness and paracompactness, connectivity, metric spaces, completion, metrization, completely regular spaces, uniform spaces.

    Requisites
    MATH 5302 and 5700
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6710 - Algebraic Topology

    The fundamental group and the van Kampen theorem, homology of complexes, exact sequences, polyhedra and CW-complexes, simplicial and singular homology and cohomology, applications to Euclidean spaces (the Jordan theorem, the Brouwer fixed point theorem, topological invariance of open sets), covering spaces, fibrations and cofibrations, higher homotopy groups, manifolds and Poincare duality, characteristic classes of vector bundles, introduction to K-theory.

    Requisites
    MATH 6700
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6750 - Set Theory

    Introduction to axiomatic set theory; ordinals and cardinals; equivalents of axiom of choice. Introduction to combinatorial set theory.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6900 - Special Topics in Mathematics

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6930 - Independent Study

    Independent study of topics under guidance of faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 independent study

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6940 - Project in Computational Mathematics

    Students complete an individual project such as design, implementation, testing, or analysis of an algorithm.

    Requisites
    MATH 5600
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 research

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6942 - Project in Mathematics Education Research

    Students complete an individual project such as designing and conducting a small pilot study and writing a report detailing the importance of the research question, its place in extant literature, framework and methods, results, and implications.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 research

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 6950 - Thesis

    Master level Thesis. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 10.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 thesis/dissertation

    Eligible grades: F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7000 - Topics in the Foundation and History of Mathematics

    Selected topics not offered in normal course offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7010 - Topics in Number Theory

    Selected topics not offered in normal course offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7100 - Topics in the Teaching of Mathematics

    Selected topics not covered in regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7150 - Topics in Geometry

    Selected topics not covered in regular offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7200 - Topics in Algebra

    Selected topics not covered in regular offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7300 - Topics in Analysis

    Selected topics not covered in regular offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7400 - Topics in Differential Equations

    Selected topics not covered in regular offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7500 - Topics in Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic Processes

    Selected topics not covered in regular offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7600 - Topics in Applied Mathematics

    Selected topics not covered in regular offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 7700 - Topics in Topology

    Selected topics not covered in regular offerings. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-10.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 50.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 8900 - Special Topics in Mathematics

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 8950 - Dissertation

    Doctoral dissertation research. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 thesis/dissertation

    Eligible grades: F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MATH 8960 - Seminar

    Seminar. May be repeated for credit.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 20.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6110 - MBA Core I

    Business-related subjects delivered in modular format. Consists of 12 credit hours of modular units in accounting, statistics, marketing, and economics. Units may be added by the faculty team from other 600-level business courses based on the current business environment.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 12.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 24.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 12.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6120 - MBA Core II

    Modular content of business-related subjects. Consists of 13 credit hours of modular units in accounting, finance, marketing, and management. Units may be added from other 600-level business courses based on current business environment. Students must take a 3 credit hours elective in addition to the 13 credit hours of business modules.

    Requisites
    MBA 6110
    Credit Hours: 13.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 26.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 13.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6130 - MBA Core III

    Modular content of business-related subjects. Consists of 13 credit hours of modular units in management information systems, marketing, management, finance, operations, and international business. Units may be added from other 600-level business courses based on current business environment. Students must take a 3 credit hours elective in addition to the 13 credit hours of business modules.

    Requisites
    MBA 6120
    Credit Hours: 13.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 26.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 13.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6310 - Foundations of Accounting

    Introduction to the basic tenets and processes of accounting systems for financial statements and managerial reports. Study of the financial reporting process for investor and creditor decisions, including internal controls. Study of cost behavior, budgeting, and capital budgeting for managerial reports. Spreadsheet design and application integrated throughout the course.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6315 - Accounting for Executives

    Critical analysis and application of accounting principles, and building on those principles to maximize value creation. Bridging accounting and financial disciplines with strategic focus of an organization, and understanding the external forces impacting that particular organization.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6320 - Data Analysis for Decision Making

    Provides a basic understanding of the effective use of the elementary tools of statistical analysis. Students will improve their ability to “think statistically;” identifying and exploiting variation during problem solving. Extensive use of spreadsheet-based statistical techniques is also addressed.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6325 - Business Analytics

    Provides an introduction to analytics, which can be characterized as the gathering of data, processing of that data, interpreting the results of the information thus generated, all justified by and culminating in the commitment of management to decisive action based on the insights developed. Employs techniques from the classical disciplines of statistics and operations research as well as more recently developed methodologies such as data mining, executive information systems, digital dashboards and online analytical processing.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6330 - Financial Markets

    Iintroduces macroeconomic issues and concepts that a manager has to understand and adapt to. An overview is provided of the structure and functioning of financial markets. Also addressed: how to frame economic issues within the rest of the external environment.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6335 - Managerial Finance

    Managerial Finance is an integrated application of accounting and economic principles to the financial functions of business. The course covers financial analysis, basic investing concepts, risk and return, time value of money, capital structure, and capital budgeting.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6340 - Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

    A strategic and analytical approach to complex behavioral problems involving interactions among individuals, groups and organizational structure. Includes an exploration of the design and implementation of management practices as a basis for aligning human resource practices to support and advance strategy implementation and control for the organization.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6345 - Financial Markets and Institutions

    This course provides students with a basic knowledge of the concepts, problems, and applications of financial decision making as it relates to financial markets and institutions. Concepts related to banking, equity markets, fixed income markets, derivative markets, and foreign exchange markets are emphasized.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6350 - Strategic Marketing and Supply Chain Management

    Reviews basic marketing principles, explains the linkages between marketing concepts and strategy, and covers strategic issues in marketing and supply chain management.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6355 - Investments

    Covers the principles used by investors to identify and evaluate various investment alternatives in forming investment portfolios. The topics include sources of investment information, relationship between investment risks and returns, portfolio theory, portfolio performance evaluation, analysis and valuation of securities (the main focus is on common stocks), and investor and market behavior.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6360 - Strategic Use of Information

    Provides a broad view of MIS by integrating organizational and technical perspectives. Focuses on the multitude of current information systems types, associated issues, and impacts on individuals, organizations and business in general. Iintended to provide the student with an introduction to information systems, oriented toward fundamental principles and concepts rather than technical aspects of information systems.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6365 - Advanced Corporate Finance

    The course provides students with a deeper understanding of corporate finance. Specifically, we explore and discuss the following topics: capital structure, dividend policy, both long-term and short-term financing, risk management at the firm level, and some special topics. The course provides students with the skills necessary for a career in financial management. This course combines real-world examples from the Wall Street Journal and recent academic articles with the financial management strategies outlined in the text. In short, students will be able to address key company specific questions about the firm¿s strategy and ability to fund its operations, while at the same time managing and incorporating risk management to maximize shareholder wealth.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6370 - Operations Management

    Covers many of the key concepts and tools of operations management and will apply these to many of the issues faced by firms today.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6380 - Strategic Leadership

    Students are asked to view organizations from the perspective of the top management team. In particular, the course will address approaches to assessing the organization, analyzing its context, and setting an effective overall direction for it.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6425 - Leadership and Change Management

    Addresses topics related to effective leadership with respect to organizational change processes. The goal of the course is to provide students with a constructive and reflective sense of the challenges posed by organizational change, as well as tools and approaches for coping with (and adapting to) the ongoing pressures that inspire the need for change.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6525 - Ethics in the Global Environment

    Provides students with an introduction to key concepts related to business ethics, placing a special emphasis on issues that arise in the global environment. Important decision-making frameworks are introduced, and the strengths and weaknesses of these frameworks are are discussed. Cases based on real-world situations are employed so that students can practice applying ethical frameworks in their own decision-making processes.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6900 - Special Topics in Business

    Special topics or projects.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6910 - MBA Core IV

    Modular content of business-related subjects. Consists of 6 cr hrs of international business, including a study abroad experience. Units may be substituted or added from other 600-level business courses based on current business environment.

    Requisites
    MBA 6130
    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 10.0 field experience/internship, 2.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6911 - Internship

    Internship

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 6.0 field experience/internship

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6912 - Applied Business Experience

    Students will apply their course material from the MBA program to a consulting or simulated business experience. Students will define a business problem to address, assess the organization and its context, and suggest solutions and an action plan for implementing the solution.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 10.0 field experience/internship

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6920 - MBA Experiential Learning

    Applied learning experience in which students consult with various real organizations. Students set appropriate project scope, identify business problems to address, analyze the organization’s current situation and context, and recommend solutions.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 1.0-12.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 11.5 practicum, 0.5 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6930 - Graduate Readings Course

    Special readings completed under guidance of a faculty member.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 6.0 independent study

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MBA 6931 - Independent Study

    Special project(s) pursued independently by the student.

    Requisites
    Admission to MBA program
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 6.0 independent study

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MCB 6700 - Current Topics in Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology

    Discussions of current research directions and publications in molecular and cellular neuroscience. Sample topics include neuronal plasticity, synapse function, neural stem cells, neurogenesis, neurosteroids, receptors and channels, roles of glial cells, and neurodegeneration.

    Requisites
    (BIOS 5140 or MCB 7200) and CHEM 5901
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MCB 6900 - Special Topics in Molecular and Cellular Biology

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MCB 7100 - Advances in Signal Transduction

    Introduction to the advanced concepts in the area of agonist-receptor mediated biochemical signalling mechanisms. The topics include principles, experimental techniques and quantitative analysis of agonist-receptor interaction, ion channels, adrenergic and cholinergic receptors, classical and low molecular weight G proteins, second messengers, oncogenes, growth factors, steroid receptors, and signal transduction in bacteria and yeast.

    Requisites
    CHEM 5901 and 5902
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MCB 7200 - Molecular Biology

    Introduction to the basic concepts and techniques used in molecular biology. Topics include nucleic acid and chromatin structure, replication, recombination, the processes of transcription and translation and their regulation, plasmids, viruses, transposable elements, and techniques used in molecular biology.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MCB 7300 - Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory

    Exposes the MCB student to a wide variety of laboratory techniques used in the broad field of molecular and cellular biology by allowing the student to carry out these techniques in the laboratory.

    Requisites
    MCB 7200
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 6.0 laboratory

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MCB 7410 - Seminar in Molecular and Cellular Biology

    Involves student presentation and discussion of seminars on topics of current interest in the area of molecular and cellular biology.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MCB 7500 - Disorders of the Nervous System

    Provides an integrated approach to the study of the nervous system diseases, encompassing all aspects of the problem, from the underlying molecular causes to the mechanisms of action of therapeutic agents. This is a unique offering open to graduate students in the sciences to review the neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropathology and neuropharmacology underlying important neurological disorders as well as the molecular and genetic mechanisms that give rise to these diseases. This team-taught multidisciplinary course utilizes the talents of faculty members form the departments of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences and Neurology/Family Medicine.

    Requisites
    BIOS 5140
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MCB 7510 - Topics in Molecular and Cellular Biology

    Designed for the presentation of significant current topics in molecular and cellular biology in response to specific student demand.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 3.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 0.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MCB 7600 - Advanced Cell Biology

    A discussion of current research directions in cell biology. Topics include, but are not limited to, protein transport and targeting, cell cycle, membrane transport and excitability, and cellular differentiation. Emphasis on current research directions of these topics.

    Requisites
    CHEM 5901 and MCB 7200
    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5011 - Media and the Digital Divide

    Steeps the student in some of the most current literature on the quicksilver proliferation of new technologies throughout the world, with emphasis on who has access, command, and knowledge about these technologies and who is lacking and why. Readings explore the contours of the digital divide as it shapes and is shaped by culture amid shifting cultural and geopolitical climates.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5012 - Broadcasting for Social Justice: A History of Broadcasting and U.S. Social Movements (1930-Present).

    Historical analysis of the manner in which committed educators, media activists, and practitioners have sought to employ the reach of our broadcast media with the emerging struggle for civil/human rights in 20th- and 21st-century America. Conduct a detailed historical survey of social movements, beginning in the Depression-era, expanding through the birth of the civil-rights movement, anti-war, feminist, environmental, and anti-globalization movements. Of particular interest is a focus on media examples (Broadcast Reform Movement, educational/public broadcasting, Pacifica radio, Nat’l Fedration of Community Broadcasters, minority production consortia, the Cable Access Movement, media activism on the Internet in a continuation of the struggle for greater public participation).

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5015 - Media and Development

    Examines relationships between media and socioeconomic development. These relationships are explored in the context of issues that include globalization, media ownership, participatory media, the digital divide, gender, and representations of poverty in mainstream media. Connections between media and development are assessed through considering media in a variety of forms, including television, radio, the Internet, motion pictures, and participatory media. Relationships are also examined at different scales, such as the global, national, and local scales, as well as in various parts of the world, including Latin America, Asia, Africa, and parts of the U.S., including Appalachia. Along with course readings, media content viewed in class serves as a basis for discussions.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5111 - Media Phenomenology

    Provides a framework through which students can investigate the ways that people experience media through their stories. Investigates how phenomenology, as theory and methodology, can effectively be applied in a range of contexts, demonstrating the value and utility of hermeneutics, semiotics, and deconstruction.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5135 - Documentary Genres

    Investigates the construction of nonfiction film and televisual documentary imagery from the inception of motion pictures (ca. 1895) through the current postmodern American media landscape. Examines the influences American network television and video technology has had on the documentary genre. Investigate the role and impact of foundation support, public broadcasting, cable networks, and media activism.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5140 - New Media and Communication Technologies

    Examines the role of digital technologies and broadband networks in the implementation of modern media and communication services. Emerging applications in telephony, cable, wireless, satellite, broadcasting, Internet and multimedia are highlighted.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5141 - Satellite Media and Communication

    An overview on the role of space satellites in global media and communication from historical, technical, regulatory, economic, cultural and programmatic perspectives.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5150 - Media and Globalization

    This course highlights fundamental issues and debates regarding the relationships between media and globalization. Through lectures, readings, and critically examining media content in various forms (e.g. excerpts from motion pictures, web-based content, music, etc.), students explore and evaluate various perspectives regarding media and globalization. The course examines relationships between media and globalization over time, at various geographic scales, across a range of national contexts, and from assorted stakeholders’ perspectives. At the same time, it broadly considers the social, political, economic, and cultural linkages between media and globalization.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5160 - History of Computer Graphics

    Investigates the history of special effects in film from Melies to ILM, with an emphasis on narrative integration and technical achievement.

    Requisites
    Permission required
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5170 - Media and the Muslim World

    Introduces students to topics related to the growing interest in the uses of media in and about the Muslim world. Examines controversial issues regarding how Islam has been and continues to be depicted in the U.S. media, as well as how different media practitioners are working to change that image.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5172 - Public Media: Past, Present, and Future

    Historical development, current status, and challenges to public media.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5175 - Media & Sexual Representation

    Addresses ways that media shape templates of sexuality, gender, and eroticism, and how their representations reflect the imperatives of culture, the ephemeralities of fashion, and the limitations of law.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5176 - Technology, Communication, and Culture

    Examines ways in which communication technologies shape and structure a culture, and also ways in which a culture, in turn, uses those technologies first to stabilize itself and second to discover meaning.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5540 - Personal Values in Telecommunications

    Explores the nature of personal values and surveys the values that have shaped and are shaping American culture. Examines the role of the individual within media institutions and of the media within American culture.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5601 - Media Financial Management

    Consideration of fiscal problems in media businesses and industries with special emphasis on financial policies and economic factors.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5680 - Action Research

    An experiential and interactive approach to the systematic use of media resources by groups, organizations and communities, in development and business, to promote, produce, and support social change.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5750 - Politics and Electronic Media

    Explores the complex interaction among the media, citizens, politicians, and other political actors, including how politicians use media in election campaigns, and how citizens and activists use media in the political process.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5805 - Advanced Digital Video Postproduction

    Work individually and in collaborative teams in advanced post. Accomplished production students work with pre-existing material. The focus is creative editing strategies and expanded use of software applications from previous courses. One product is your portfolio reel.

    Requisites
    MDIA 5100 or VICO 6401
    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5810 - Media and Identity

    Introduces the students to the way media construct and represent social and cultural identities such as race, class, gender, age, and sexual orientation. Considers various theories of representation such as feminist theory, race theory, and white privilege.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5900 - Special Topics in Media Arts and Studies

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 5937 - Independent Production Projects

    Independent production projects under the supervision of faculty. Advance project approval required.

    Requisites
    Permission required
    Credit Hours: 1.0-12.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 0.0 independent study

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 6000 - Introduction to Graduate Study

    Prepares students for graduate study through analysis and discussion of research and teaching.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 2.0 hours.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 seminar

    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • MDIA 6010 - Introduction to Mass Communication Research

    Concerned with basic principles of scholarly research in mass communication. Become familiar with general concepts and procedures employed in the main research methodologies of mass communication, and each is responsible for conducting and reporting his/her own formal pilot research project.

    Requisites

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
 

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