Mar 29, 2024  
2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Exercise Science

  
  • ES 4300 - Physiology of Exercise and Aging

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A 2.75 AGPA, a grade of “C” or better in ES 3900, Exercise Science major or permission of the department chair.
    This course provides an overview of exercise physiology and healthy aging. Students are introduced to the study of the exercise, physical activity and health promotion as it relates to the aging population. The course emphasizes physiological changes related to aging, fitness assessment techniques, exercise programming, and health promotion for the older adult.

  
  • ES 4400 - Directed Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A 2.75 AGPA, 60+ semester hours, permission of the department chair.
    This course covers topics and seminars of an advanced nature external to regular course offerings.

  
  • ES 4490 - Special Topics in Exercise Science

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A 2.75 AGPA, Exercise Science major or permission of the department chair.
    This course includes selected topics of interest to faculty and students not regularly offered by the Department of ESSM.

  
  • ES 4500 - Physiology of Exercise II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A 2.75 AGPA, a grade of “C” or better in ES 3900. Corequisite: ES 4550.
    This course examines the study of the physiological basis of training and factors limiting human performance. Students are introduced to concepts of neuromuscular function, hormonal control, environmental conditions and ergogenic aids as they relate to acute and chronic exercise.

  
  • ES 4550 - Exercise Science Laboratory Techniques

    0 Class Hours 2 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A 2.75 AGPA, a grade of “C” or better in ES 3900. Corequisite: ES 4500.
    This course provides an introduction to laboratory techniques commonly used in the field of exercise science. The course includes an overview of ergometry, energy expenditure, blood pressure, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and musculoskeletal responses during exercise. The topics within the course include safe, legal, and ethical practices required when working in an exercise physiology laboratory.

  
  • ES 4600 - Exercise Prescription

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.75 AGPA, a grade of “C” or better in ES 4500 and ES 4550. Corequisite: ES 4650.
    This course introduces students to methods utilized in creating exercise prescriptions and developing exercise programs. Emphasis is placed on developing and delivering safe and valid exercise prescriptions.

  
  • ES 4650 - Exercise Testing

    0 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.75 AGPA, a grade of “C” or better in ES 4500 and ES 4550. Corequisite: ES 4600.
    Exercise Testing is a detailed examination of various fitness assessments. This course emphasizes current test procedures used for determining body fat percentage, maximum oxygen uptake, maximum power output, and muscular strength and endurance. This course thoroughly familiarizes students with lab procedures, test protocol, and the interpretation.

  
  • ES 4700 - Clinical Exercise Physiology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A 2.75 AGPA, a grade of “C” or better in ES 4500 and ES 4550.
    This course is designed to address the clinical aspects and implications of exercise physiology principles for those with or at risk of developing cardiovascular, pulmonary or metabolic disease.

  
  • ES 4800 - Clinical Biomechanics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2.75 AGPA, a grade of “C” or better in ES 3800, Exercise Science major.
    This course includes a survey of acute and chronic activities related to injury and biomechanical mechanisms. The course will expose students to basic kinetic and kinematic analyses. The course includes an examination of contemporary theories of prevention using a bioomechanical perspective.

  
  • ES 4900 - Exercise Science Senior Seminar

    2 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A 2.75 AGPA, a grade of “C” or better in ES 4500 and ES 4550, 90+ credit hours.
    This course is a capstone course designed as a culminating experience for the major by integrating the student’s prior academic experience in exercise science. Students are provided an overview of contemporary issues, trends, theories, and research related to exercise science. The course is delivered in a seminar format to encourage student participation and interaction with peers and faculty.

  
  • ES 4950 - Exercise Science Senior Internship

    3-12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A 2.75 AGPA, a grade of “C” or better in ES 4500 and ES 4550, 90+ credit hours, and approval of the department chair.
    This course is a senior-level credit-earning experience at an approved exercise science internship site. During this course, students work under the direct supervision of an exercise science professional and university supervisor. Students must have current professional liability insurance and CPR/AED certification.

    Notes: Credit for the course can be placed in the elective areas only.

Film

  
  • FILM 3105 - Fundamentals of Writing for Film and Television

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2110.
    This course is an introduction to the skills used in dramatic writing, especially in film and television. The objective is to “demystify” the art and craft of writing movies and TV shows. Along with lecture and instruction, students will read scripts, write scenes, and watch movies and TV shows. The purpose of this class is not to complete full-length works, but to master the scene and story structure. In addition to basic craft and the principals of story, students will also learn how to create and pitch saleable movie and TV concepts. From how to handle money to managing agents, from how to work under the pressures of production to writing for the celebrity-actor, students will begin to learn what they need to break into Hollywood and stay there. This is not a traditional academic course, but the beginning of professional training for those who want to work in the entertainment industry

  
  • FILM 3200 - Film History and Theory I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2110.
    A survey of the major developments, movements, and critical approaches in international cinema from 1895-1950, this course emphasizes an understanding of the historical, cultural, commercial, and aesthetic contexts that influence film, but also develops the student’s understanding of a film’s narrative and visual structure and its place within established theoretical traditions.

  
  • FILM 3210 - Film History and Theory II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: English 2110.
    This course is a survey of the major developments, movements, and critical approaches in international cinema since 1950, including a consideration of American independent film and recent digital cinema. The course emphasizes an understanding of the historical, cultural, commercial, and aesthetic contexts that influence film, but also develops the student’s understanding of a film’s narrative and visual structure and its place within established theoretical traditions.

  
  • FILM 3220 - Studies in Film

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2110.
    Analysis of film from such perspectives as genre, literary and film aesthetics, and literary adaptation. May include screening of selected films.

     

    Notes: This course can be taken more than once provided the course content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • FILM 4105 - Advanced Writing for Film and Television

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FILM 3105.
    Using the basic skills gained in the fundamentals course (FILM 3105), students will now expand beyond mastery of the scene and write an entire film or television script over the course of the semester. This is an intensive writing course. Along with a strong desire to write professionally, independence, discipline and collegiality are requisites for success in this course. Students must come to class prepared with at least one story idea for an original full-length movie, pilot TV series, or speculative episode of a TV series in mind. Students will be divided into groups, based loosely on genre. In addition to their work in class, students will also work with each other out of class. Students will complete the class with an original script, advanced knowledge of the screen and television writing crafts, and experience in the professional collaborative process.

  
  • FILM 4200 - Advanced Studies in Film

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FILM 3200 or FILM 3220, or permission of the instructor.
    An intensive study of selected topics in American and international cinema, emphasizing critical theory and analysis of films and related readings.

    Notes: This course can be taken more than once provided the course content differs entirely from the previous offering.

Finance

  
  • FIN 2500 - Consumer Finance

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: All developmental studies courses, if required.
    A nontechnical course designed to develop an understanding of the basic principles and techniques as they apply to personal income, spending and investing. Emphasis is placed upon financial planning, budgeting, saving, home ownership, estate planning, and retirement.

    Notes: This course is for non-business majors. This course will not count for business majors.

    Offered as an online course.
  
  • FIN 3100 - Principles of Finance

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours including ACCT 2100, ACCT 2200, ECON 2100, ECON 2200, and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    An introductory course designed to develop knowledge of the basic concepts, principles, and functions of managerial finance. Topics include the time value of money, valuation of bonds and stocks, financial analysis, working capital management, capital budgeting, and capital structure strategies.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • FIN 3396 - Cooperative Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement, FIN 3100, and approval of the Coordinator of cooperative education/internships (KSU Career Services); Non-business Majors: Not available to non-business majors.
    A supervised work experience program for a minimum of two academic semesters at a site in business, industry, or government. For sophomore, junior, or senior level students who wish to obtain successive on the job experience in conjunction with their academic training.

     

    Notes: Co-op credit can be used only in the “Business Electives” area of the BBA.

  
  • FIN 3398 - Internship

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement, FIN 3100, and approval of the Coordinator of cooperative education internships (KSU Career Services); Non-business Majors: Not available to non-business majors.
    A supervised, credit-earning work experience of one academic semester with a previously approved business firm, private agency, or government agency. A research paper is required to receive credit. For junior or senior students who wish to participate in an on the job experience in which they may apply their academic education. The work experience may not be with a current employer. This course will be graded on an S/U basis.

     

    Notes: Internship credit can be used only in the “Business Electives” area of the BBA.

  
  • FIN 4220 - Corporate Finance

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and FIN 3100; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours including FIN 3100 and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    Application of the principles and concepts of finance to the acquisition and management of corporate assets and financial resources, the management of the firm’s capital structure, and development of dividend policy.

  
  • FIN 4260 - Short Term Financial Management

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and FIN 3100; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours including FIN 3100 and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    Focuses on the structure and functioning of payment systems, the management of short-term assets and short-term liabilities of the business firm, and the impact of computer and communications technologies on financial management systems.

  
  • FIN 4320 - Fixed Income Securities

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and FIN 3100; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours including FIN 3100 and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    This course provides students with knowledge of the fixed-income markets. The course will cover the pricing and risk management of fixed-income securities, and an introduction to fixed-income derivatives. It covers interest rate management, product fundamentals, and portfolio strategies. This course is a valuable preparation for students interested in taking the Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) examination.

  
  • FIN 4360 - Investments

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and FIN 3100; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours including FIN 3100 and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    This course provides students with working knowledge of equity securities and portfolio management with an emphasis on the fundamental trade-off between risk and return. The course covers securities markets, efficient diversification, asset pricing models, and investment strategies of individual and institutional investors. It also introduces students to bonds and financial derivative products.

  
  • FIN 4400 - Directed Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement, FIN 3100, and approval of instructor and department chair prior to registration; Non-business Majors: FIN 3100 and approval of the instructor, department chair, and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    Special topics of an advanced nature not in the regular course offerings.

  
  • FIN 4420 - International Financial Management

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and FIN 3100; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours including FIN 3100 and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    Investigates the implications for financial decision making rules and policies that result from consideration of an international financial perspective.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • FIN 4460 - Financial Statement Analysis

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and FIN 3100; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours, FIN 3100, and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    This course focuses on financial statement users, their information needs, and how effective financial statement analysis addresses those needs. Students will be instructed in methods to assess the financial health and performance of a firm to make realistic valuations and sound financial decisions (e.g., as to investing, lending, liquidity, and risk) in light of industry and economic conditions.

  
  • FIN 4490 - Special Topics in Finance

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement, FIN 3100, and approval of instructor and department chair; Non-business Majors: FIN 3100 and approval of the instructor, department chair, and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    Selected special topics of interest to faculty and students. This course may be taken more than once.

  
  • FIN 4520 - Financial Derivatives and Financial Engineering

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and FIN 3100; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours including FIN 3100 and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    This course is designed to help students gain a thorough understanding of the roles of futures, options, and other financial derivatives in allocating risk; the design of financial derivatives; the valuation of financial derivatives; and their applications to financial risk management problems.

  
  • FIN 4560 - Behavioral Finance

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA requirement and FIN 3100; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours including FIN 3100 and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    The tools and applications of behavioral finance are presented. Topics include expected utility, prospect theory and mental accounting; conventional finance and challenges to market efficiency; heuristics and biases, overconfidence and emotion; financial decision-making stemming from psychology; behavioral explanations of observed behavioral anomalies; aggregate stock market puzzles; and retirement and pensions.

  
  • FIN 4620 - Financial Management of Financial Institutions

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and FIN 3100; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours including FIN 3100 and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    Financial decision making concepts are applied to the particular financial management issues of financial institutions, including funds acquisition and management of operations and capital investments.

  
  • FIN 4660 - Advanced Corporate Finance

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and FIN 4220; Non-business Majors: 60 credit hours, FIN 4220, and permission of the Coles College of Business.
    This course provides an in-depth coverage and quantitative analysis of the firm’s decisions to raise capital publicly, privately, domestically, and globally. The course also covers restructurings of debt obligations (bond refunding, exchange and tender offers), and equity/asset restructurings.


Fine Arts Education

  
  • FAED 3340 - Music and Art for the Elementary School

    0 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 45 credit hours.
    A course designed for preparing elementary school educators to integrate meaningful art and music experience into the classroom. Prospective elementary classroom educators develop basic concepts, skills, methods of instruction, and teaching competencies in the specific areas of music and art.


Foreign Language

  
  • FL 1001 - Introduction to Foreign Language and Culture I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 0099 or READ 0099 if required.
    Introduction to a foreign language and culture, stressing progressive acquisition of effective communication skills in both the written and spoken language and an understanding of the practices and products of the culture being studied.

    Notes: Not open to native speakers of the language.
  
  • FL 1002 - Introduction to Foreign Language and Culture II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: One year of foreign language in high school or FL 1001 or the equivalent.
    Introduction to foreign language and culture, part II, stressing continued, progressive acquisition of effective communication skills in both the written and spoken language and an understanding of the practices and products of the culture being studied.

    Notes: Not open to native speakers of the language.
  
  • FL 2001 - Intermediate Foreign Language and Culture I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FL 1002 or permission of the instructor.
    The student will continue to develop proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and learn to communicate in culturally appropriate ways.

    Notes: Not open to native speakers of the language.
  
  • FL 2002 - Intermediate Foreign Language and Culture II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FL 2001 or permission of the instructor.
    Students continue to increase linguistic and cultural proficiency through the use of a variety of materials and activities.

    Notes: Not open to native speakers of the language.
  
  • FL 2209 - World Languages and Cultures

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 0099 and READ 0099 if required.
    An overview of world languages and cultures and their manifestations in our society. Class discussions and readings are reinforced through supervised field experiences in the metro Atlanta area. In addition, students survey academic and professional career opportunities in fields that require linguistic skills and cultural competence.

  
  • FL 3309 - Survey of Chinese Literature and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    FL 3309, cross-listed as ENGL 4380, is a survey of Chinese literature and culture, examining major works and literary and artistic movements as well as cultural issues. Readings and discussion in English; some readings in the original for Chinese language students.

  
  • FL 4400 - Directed Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FL 2002.
    Covers special topics external to course offerings in order to allow a student to work individually with an instructor.

  
  • FL 4490 - Special Topics in Foreign Language

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FL 2002 or permission of the instructor.
    Selected topics of interest to faculty and students.


Foreign Language Education

  
  • FLED 3303 - Second Language Acquisition

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education program, FREN 2002, GRMN 2002, or SPAN 2002.
    An introduction to major learning theories with particular focus on those dealing with acquisition of a second or foreign language. Course also explores how language learning styles and strategies relate to theories of language acquisition and their implications in the classroom, P-12. Field experience is required. Proof of liability insurance is required for field experience.

     

  
  • FLED 4410 - Methods, Materials, and Curriculum of Foreign Language Education, P-8

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FLED 3303 and FREN 2002, GRMN 2002, or SPAN 2002.
    An overview of methods, materials and curriculum in foreign language instruction grades P-8. The field experience emphasizes principles of classroom and behavior management as well as ways to put theory into practice.

    Notes: Field experience is required. Proof of liability insurance is required for field experience.
  
  • FLED 4412 - Methods, Materials, and Curriculum of Foreign Language Education, 9-12

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FLED 3303 and FREN 2002, GRMN 2002, or SPAN 2002.
    An overview of methods, materials and curriculum in foreign language instruction grades 9-12. The field experience emphasizes principles of classroom and behavior management as well as ways to put theory into practice. Field experience is required. Proof of liability insurance is required for field experience.

     

  
  • FLED 4413 - Field Experiences in FLED, P-12

    6 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FLED 3303 and either FLED 4410 or FLED 4412.
    This course is a field experience course with multiple placements. Students will choose two field placements from among elementary, middle and high school levels. During orientation prior to beginning each field experience, students shall explore the relationship between theory and classroom practice in foreign language education, across the P-12 spectrum.

  
  • FLED 4480 - Student Teaching in Foreign Languages, P-12

    1 Class Hours 33 Laboratory Hours 12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FLED 4413 and EDUC 2130.
    Full-time teaching experience in foreign language under the supervision of a public school cooperating teacher and college supervisor. Must have prior approval of College of Education to Student Teach.

     

    Notes: Must have prior approval of College of Education to Student Teach.

  
  • FLED 4498 - Internship in Foreign Language Education, P-12

    6-12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Provisional teaching license issued by State of Georgia, full-time employment teaching foreign language, letter from county where employed requesting that KSU work with individual to complete certification, analysis of academic transcript(s), and written program of study.
    Supervised, credit-earning work experience of one academic semester with a previously approved school. Meant to substitute for student teaching for provisionally licensed teachers.


French

  
  • FREN 1001 - Introduction to French Language and Culture I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 0099 AND READ 0099, if required.
    Introduction to French language and culture, stressing progressive acquisition of effective communication skills in both the written and spoken language and an understanding of the practices and products of French and Francophone cultures.

    Notes: Not open to native speakers of French.
  
  • FREN 1002 - Introduction to French Language and Culture II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: One year of high school French or FREN 1001 or the equivalent.
    Introduction to French language and culture, “Part II,” stressing continued, progressive acquisition of effective communication skills in both the written and spoken language and an understanding of the practices and products of French and Francophone cultures.

    Notes: Not open to native speakers of French.
  
  • FREN 2001 - Intermediate French Language and Culture I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Two years of high school French or French 1002 or the equivalent.
    The student will continue to develop proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and learn to communicate in culturally appropriate ways.

    Notes: Not open to native speakers of French.
  
  • FREN 2002 - Intermediate French Language and Culture II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Three years of high school French or FREN 2001 or the equivalent.
    Students continue to increase linguistic and cultural proficiency through the use of a variety of materials and activities. Course will serve as a transition between intermediate and upper-level courses in French.

    Notes: Not open to native speakers of French.
  
  • FREN 2003 - Accelerated Intermediate French Language and Culture

    6 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Two years of high school French or FREN 1002.
    This accelerated intermediate level course in French language and culture covers in one semester the materials presented in FREN 2001 and FREN 2002. The course stresses continued, progressive acquisition of effective communication skills in both the written and spoken language and an understanding of the practices and products of French and Francophone cultures.

  
  • FREN 2290 - Special Topics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of the department chair.
    Covers special topics and study abroad courses external to course offerings at the intermediate level.

  
  • FREN 3200 - Critical Reading and Applied Writing

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 2002 or FREN 2003.
    This course emphasizes skill development and refinement in the areas of critical reading and writing in French. Designed to give students extensive experience in reading and writing in French, the course focuses on the relationship between writing and reading, and on ways to improve one through the other.

  
  • FREN 3302 - Practical Conversation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 2002 or FREN 2003.
    This course stresses expansion of effective listening comprehension and speaking skills through culturally and linguistically appropriate activities.

  
  • FREN 3303 - Grammar and Composition

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 2002 or FREN 2003.
    This course provides a general review of grammar through composition and other written activities, such as summaries, correspondence, descriptions, narration, literary analysis, and other rhetorical and culturally appropriate forms.

  
  • FREN 3304 - Literature and Culture I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 3200 and FREN 3303.
    An introduction to French and Francophone literature and culture from the Middle Ages to 1820. Students examine literary and artistic movements as well as cultural issues of the period.

    Notes: Readings and discussion in French.
  
  • FREN 3305 - Literature and Culture II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 3200 and FREN 3303.
    An introduction to French and Francophone literature and culture from 1820 to the present. Students examine literary and artistic movements as well as cultural issues of the period.

    Notes: Readings and discussion in French.
  
  • FREN 3390 - Upper-division Study Abroad in French

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior or Senior status and permission of the department chair.
    This course fulfills the study abroad requirement for the B.A. in Modern Language & Culture with a primary language of French. The content of the course may vary depending on available course offerings in the foreign institution. The chair of the Department of Foreign Languages must preapprove the use of this course as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree in Modern Language & Culture.

  
  • FREN 3398 - Internship

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 3302 AND FREN 3303 or permission of the instructor.
    Supervised, credit-earning work experience of one semester requiring use of French in the work place.

    Notes: Prior approval by department coordinator and internship supervisor is required. No more than three semester hours may be applied toward the major.
  
  • FREN 4400 - Directed Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 3302 AND FREN 3303 or permission of the instructor.
    Covers special topics and seminars external to course offerings that allow a student to work individually with an instructor.

    Notes: Requires prior approval by instructor and department chair.
  
  • FREN 4402 - Contemporary Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 3304 or FREN 3305.
    An examination of the historical, social, and political contexts of the contemporary French and Francophone experience through the analysis of cultural representations such as film, media, plastic arts, music, and literature.

    Notes: Readings and discussion in French.
  
  • FREN 4404 - Commercial French

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 3302 AND FREN 3303 or permission of the instructor.
    An in-depth study of business practices and the language of business in the French-speaking world. This course will prepare students for the exam for the Certificat Pratique de Francais Commercial given by the Paris Chamber of Commerce.

  
  • FREN 4434 - Topics in Language, Literature, and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 3304 or FREN 3305.
    An exploration of a period, movement or genre in literature, a topic in culture, or language related issues. Topics are chosen for their significance and impact on French and Francophone cultures.

    Notes: Course taught in French.
  
  • FREN 4456 - Advanced Grammar and Linguistics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 3302 AND FREN 3303.
    Advanced study of grammar from a linguistic perspective. Provides an overview of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. Exposes students to dialectical variations of the French-speaking world. Stresses development of oral proficiency.

    Notes: Course taught in French.
  
  • FREN 4490 - Special Topics in French

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: French 3302 or permission of the instructor.
    Special topics relevant to the study of French speaking societies.

  
  • FREN 4499 - Senior Seminar

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: FREN 3304 and FREN 3305 and senior status.
    This is a capstone course designed to synthesize and connect the student’s prior academic experiences in the major and related fields of study. Students will prepare a reflective essay and a research paper to present to the faculty.

    Notes: Papers and presentation in French.

Gender and Womens Studies

  
  • GWST 1102 - Love and Sex

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1101.
    This course examines the phenomena of love and sex from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives in a global context. Students critically evaluate the personal and social significances of intimacy and analyze the ethical, political, and cultural dimensions of love and sex through a variety of media. Topics may include family, marriage and monogamy, sexual identity and orientation, reproductive politics, sex work, consent, and representation.

  
  • GWST 2000 - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    This course is a survey of the foundational figures, themes, and texts in the history of gender and women’s studies in an interdisciplinary and global context. Themes to be addressed include sameness vs. difference feminisms; the sex/gender distinction; internal and external critiques of Western feminisms; transnational and global feminisms; feminism’s relationship to critical race studies, postcolonialism, queer theory; and gender, trans-gender, and masculinity studies.

    Notes: All sections include a required supervised civic and community engagement project. Offered as an online course.
  
  • GWST 2050 - Global Perspectives on Gender

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    This course offers global perspectives and contexts within which gender can be explored, analyzed, and critiqued. The course will be driven by cross-cultural and comparative study and may include analysis of the construction of gender in relation to social practices, the law, tradition, religion, institutional culture, economics, and popular culture.

    Notes: This course may be repeated for credit with prior approval.

    Offered as an online course.
  
  • GWST 3001 - Feminist Theories

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    Feminist Theories involves the study of concepts and ideologies that articulate and define theories of feminism through the intersections of gender with race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other social differences. Students will engage with several foundational and vibrantly contested conversations within feminist theory that draw from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including those influenced by liberalism, Marxism/socialism, psychoanalysis, radical feminism, post-modernism, and post-colonialism.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • GWST 3010 - Queer Theory & Sexuality

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    Queer Theory & Sexuality is an interdisciplinary course that considers the global emergence and significance of theories and practices that 1) refute and destabilize the notion of an essential, normative sexuality and gender and 2) suggest that sexuality is fluid and varied and is constructed by social, political, and economic factors. The course surveys a broad array of scholarship and other forms of print and non-print media and explores a range of topics that might broadly be identified as 1) practices, identities, and communities; 2) the cultural construction of gender and sexuality; 3) sexual citizenship and the nation-state.

  
  • GWST 3020 - Black Feminisms

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    A survey of historical and contemporary black feminist traditions. Core themes could include the intersections of race and gender with class, sexuality, generation, and place; black feminist thought and its relationship to womanism and other feminisms; outsider-within positionality of black women; black feminist epistemologies; mediated representations of black women’s identities; black lesbian feminism; commodification of black women’s bodies; black women’s global resistance to racism and sexism.

  
  • GWST 3030 - Gender in Popular Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    An examination of gender as depicted in popular culture texts. Focusing on one medium (e.g., film, television, periodicals, music) or surveying a range of popular culture forms, students will critique depictions of gender; practice using theories and methods from gender and women’s studies to understand popular culture’s role in shaping gender identity; and do research on gender in the context of popular culture.

  
  • GWST 3060 - Gender in the Workplace

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    Gender and the Workplace examines work and professional-related gender issues from several perspectives, including the legal, sociological and economic viewpoints. Students will engage with a variety of relevant and timely topics that include gender stereotyping and discrimination, career development, diversity issues, sexual harassment, and work/life balance. As part of the course requirements, students will complete a civic/community engagement assignment relative to the course.

  
  • GWST 3070 - Gender and Social Justice

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GWST 2000.
    This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the social and historical constitution of gender in a social justice framework. Students will explore a wide variety of critical and literary materials to analyze interlocking systems of hierarchy and domination; to evaluate gendered experience across local, regional, national, and global contexts; and to identify critical responses to systemic forms of oppression in the contemporary world.

  
  • GWST 3080 - Masculinity Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    Masculinities Studies is an interdsciplinary introduction to this growing and often contested field. Using a variety of texts, students explore historical, political, and theoretical development, as well as social and cultural constructions, of the category “masculinity.” Students map central debates surrounding masculinity, including why it is frequently thought to be “in crisis.” The course examines political and social movements related to masculinity as it considers masculinity in relation to other theories, including feminist, postcolonial, etc.

  
  • GWST 3090 - Transnational Feminisms

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    Transnational Feminisms is an interdisciplinary study of the economic, social, and political consequences of the phenomenon known as globalization, particularly those consequences that affect issues of gender. As such, students analyze transnational feminisms, studying both the opportunities and challenges that are inherent in transnational feminist scholarship and activism. Through critical inquiry into a variety of texts, the course dynamically reconceptualizes relationships between women and nation; between gender and globalization; and between feminist theory and practice.

  
  • GWST 3398 - Internship

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GWST 3000 and approval of the internship coordinator.
    A structured off-campus experience in a supervised setting that is chosen in relation to student’s focus and interests. Practical experience is combined with a research approach that investigates issues relevant to the internship. Students will meet with the internship coordinator to develop an appropriate plan that will lead to the writing of a research-oriented paper or research project, a required part of the internship. Students should consult with the internship coordinator at the midpoint of the semester prior to the internship to choose from an approved list of internship sites, none of which may be with a current employer

  
  • GWST 4000 - Research in Gender and Women’s Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GWST 3000 and completion of 60 credit hours.
    A study of research models of scholarship in gender and women’s studies, combined with an opportunity for students to conduct a research project of their own. Students will read examples of outstanding research and survey discipline-based scholarship focusing on gender and women’s studies. Topics for studying methods could include debates regarding different methodologies, critiques of traditional research methodologies, integrating feminist theory with scholarship, and ethical questions associated with producing research in gender and women’s studies.

    Notes: This course should be taken as the final course of the GWST minor.
  
  • GWST 4040 - Major Topics & Figures

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
    This course offers an in-depth examination of a major topic or major figure relevant to the field of gender and women’s studies. Students will learn how to conduct interdisciplinary research and employ gender analysis through the advanced study of one major thinker or the advanced, comparative study of a set of thinkers grouped according to a major topic.




    Notes: Specific content may vary, so course may be repeated.
  
  • GWST 4400 - Directed Study

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Another GWST course, approval of the instructor, and approval of the program coordinator.
    The Directed Study is an advanced, individual study of a selected topic not offered in the regular curriculum. Students may conduct in-depth, gender-related research under the supervision of a faculty member. The directed study is student driven, and students are responsible for selecting the subject matter to be studied, method, data sources, and theoretical question(s), all under the direction of a faculty member.

  
  • GWST 4499 - Senior Seminar in GWST

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GWST 2000 and completion of sixty credit hours.
    This capstone course is designed to complete the major by integrating prior academic experiences in Gender and Women’s Studies. Students research, write, and present a senior thesis that addresses the relationship between theory and practical experience. A seminar format is used throughout the course.


Geographic Information Systems

  
  • GIS 3398 - Internship

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 4405 and permission of the GISc program director.
    A structured off-campus experience in a supervised setting that is related to the student’s major and career interests. Practical experience is combined with scholarly research under the guidance of GISc faculty and the internship supervisor. Sites must be in advance of the semester of the internship and must be approved by the director of the GISc program.

    Notes: Geography students seeking a B.A. in Geography need to take GEOG 3398.
  
  • GIS 4415 - Practicum in Geographic Information Systems

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 4405 and permission of the instructor.
    This is a capstone course for the GIS Certificate Program and is designed to integrate students’ prior training in geospatial theory, technologies and/or data analyses through the use of geographic information systems in on-site work settings. Student experiences are applied in nature and are on campus or with selected private or public organizations in the community. Students find and obtain their own practicums, which require the program director’s approval.


Geography

  
  • GEOG 1101 - World Regional Geography

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: None.
    An introduction to world regions through the context of human geography. The course focuses on basic geographic concepts to analyze social, economic and political issues at local, regional and global scales. Elements of fundamental physical geography will be discussed to illustrate the spatial relationships between the physical environment and human geography.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • GEOG 1102 - Earth from Above

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: None.
    This is a survey course for any student with an interest in geography, maps, or geospatial data and technologies. Students will obtain fundamental geographic principles of place and space, and learn introductory geospatial techniques such as map reading, coordinate systems, and scale by using global positioning satellite receivers, aerial photos, satellite imagery, and Google Earth technologies. The course is designed to give students hands-on experience to collect, manipulate, analyze, and understand geospatial data.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • GEOG 1112 - Weather and Climate

    3 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: None.
    This course examines aspects of physical geography, specifically earth-sun relationships, atmospheric processes, climate and weather patterns, and vegetation patterns and principles. Emphasis is on the distribution and interactions among these environmental variables as well as the impact humans have had on these natural systems. The lab focuses on practical and applied aspects of these environmental systems. Lab work includes maps reading, data collection, and data analysis.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • GEOG 1113 - Introduction to Landforms

    3 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: None.
    This course examines aspects of physical geography such as plate tectonics, rocks and soils, river systems, coastal systems, glaciers, and karst topography. Emphasis is on the evolution and distribution of these physical landforms and resultant landscapes, as well as the processes that have shaped them. The lab focuses on practical and applied aspects of landform patterns and processes. Lab work includes the use of topographic maps and aerial photographs, the identification of rocks and minerals, and the analysis of landscape features.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • GEOG 2105 - Social Issues: Perspectives in Geography

    2 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 0099 and READ 0099.
    This course provides students with the knowledge and tools necessary to critically examine world social issues from the social science perspective of geography. The discipline of geography examines social issues at various scales and from spatial, areal, human-environmental interaction, and physical perspectives.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • GEOG 3300 - Urban Geography

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 1101 or GEOG 2105.
    An analysis of the location and distribution of urban centers, urban land uses and the geographical aspects of general urban issues.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • GEOG 3305 - Introduction to Cartographic Processes

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1107; CSIS 2300; and GEOG 1101 or GEOG 2105.
    This course is an introduction to the processes and technology of cartography, the science and art of map making. The foundations of map construction and design will be presented from theoretical and applied perspectives. Students will be introduced to hands-on and computerized mapping, leading to a basic appreciation of the map as the integral component of geographic information systems data analysis. SSED majors this course will not count as an upper division GEOG requirement for your degree program.

  
  • GEOG 3310 - Historical Geography

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 1101 or GEOG 2105.
    A global approach to the study of the geographic factors affecting historical events associated with the human exploration and settlement of the planet. The influence of geography on economic and political changes over time will be reviewed for selected historical phenomena.

  
  • GEOG 3312 - Geography of Europe

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 1101 or GEOG 2105.
    A geographical survey of Europe and its environs, with emphasis on the tremendous diversity found in both the physical and human geography of the region. Economic, political and cultural geography are examined within the framework of the forces that are rapidly restructuring the landscapes of Eastern and Western Europe.

  
  • GEOG 3315 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 3305 or permission of the instructor.
    Students will be introduced to the basic design of state-of-the-art GIS and its analytical capabilities. Topics include: Geodatabases, applications in GIS, map projection information, raster/vector data models, introduction to available data on the internet, and basic GIS analytical functions such as querying and overlaying. The course will use ArcGIS to introduce these concepts in a hands-on environment.

  
  • GEOG 3320 - Political Geography

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 1101 or GEOG 2105.
    This course is intended to explore the following concepts and issues from a geographical perspective: territoriality, theories of the state, spatial expressions of ideology, boundary issues, imperialism, geopolitics, nationalism, electoral geography, national identity, religion and governing power in a spatial context, and cultural and/or economic hegemony.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • GEOG 3330 - Economic Geography

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 1101 or GEOG 2105.
    A geographic analysis of global resources and economic growth. The underlying theme of the course is the impact of space (location, distance, area, boundaries) on economic decision-making. Topics to be discussed include population, transportation, rural and urban land use, industrial location, natural resource management, and development/underdevelopment. Differing spatial theories will be employed to explain the global economy in transition.

  
  • GEOG 3340 - Cultural Geography

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 1101 or GEOG 2105.
    A thematic approach is applied to analyze human cultures, to examine world cultural regions, to note the spread of cultural traits, to interpret interactions between culture and environment, and to appreciate multiple traits of cultures and cultural landscapes. The five themes of region, diffusion, ecology, integration, and landscape are used to explore historical and contemporary issues of population, agriculture, politics, language, religion, ethnicity, popular culture, and urban spaces. The philosophy of the course is based on the premise that the built environment is a spatial expression of the beliefs, attitudes, and practices of a people.

    Notes: Offered as an online course.
  
  • GEOG 3350 - Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 1101 or GEOG 2105.
    A spatial survey that focuses on the physical, historical, cultural, and economic forces at work on the African continent, south of the Sahara. Special emphasis is placed on the roles of the natural environment, population geography, historical geography, agriculture, economic development, and other factors that shape the landscapes of Sub-Saharan Africa.

 

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