May 05, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Other Courses

  
  • GFA 1000:Introduction to On-Set Film Production

    6 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
    This course provides students with a basic set of skills and insights sufficient to be integrated onto the sets of working film productions. The course is offered in collaboration with the Georgia Film Academy.

  
  • GFA 2000:On-Set Internship

    0 Class Hours 6 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GFA 1000  
    This internship course provides students with basic on-set film production experience, knowledge and experience with film-industry standards, organizational structure, professional equipment and on-set procedures by giving students hands-on experience on the sets and offices of working film productions and businesses.


Accounting

  
  • ACCT 2100:Introduction to Financial Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Business Majors: ENGL 1101  and MATH 1111  or higher; Non-business Majors: ENGL 1101  and MATH 1101  or higher.
    An introduction to the language of business. Focuses on financial statements and their use in decision-making. Designed for business and non-business majors.

     

  
  • ACCT 2200:Introduction to Managerial Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 2100  
    An introduction to how accounting information is used to manage a business. Includes managerial problem-solving techniques and current trends in managerial decision-making.

  
  • ACCT 3100:Intermediate Financial Accounting I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Grade of “B” or higher in ACCT 2100   and ACCT 2200  , and minimum GPA of 2.0
    This course focuses on the collection, analysis, and reporting of financial accounting information. The course includes theory and application of financial accounting concepts within the framework of accounting as an information system. The course also covers several technical accounting topics from a preparer’s perspective.

  
  • ACCT 3200:Concepts in Federal Taxation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Grade of “B” or higher in ACCT 2100   and ACCT 2200  , and a minimum GPA of 2.0
    Focuses on the fundamental principles and concepts applicable to tax liability determination and tax planning, including an introduction to tax research methodology.

  
  • ACCT 3300:Accounting Information Systems

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   with minimum grade of “C”, minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    A continuation of accounting transaction processing concepts; internal controls and systems analysis and design.

  
  • ACCT 3396:Cooperative Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program, approval of the Career and Internship Advisor (KSU Career Planning and Development), and a grade of “C” or better in ACCT 3100  .
    A supervised work experience program for a minimum of two 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.
  
  • ACCT 3398:Internship

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program, approval of the Career and Internship Advisor (KSU Career Planning and Development), and a grade of “C” or better in ACCT 3100  .
    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 training. The work experience may not be with a current employer. The course will be graded on an S/U basis.

    Notes: Internship credit can be used only in the “Business Electives” area of the BBA.
  
  • ACCT 4050:Intermediate Financial Accounting II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   with minimum grade of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program  or  student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    A continuation of intermediate financial accounting theory and applications, with a focus on detailed technical topics and specialized problems.

  
  • ACCT 4100:Advanced Financial Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   and ACCT 4050    with minimum grades of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    Study of specialized topics in financial accounting, including business combinations, consolidations, and partnerships.

  
  • ACCT 4150:Auditing and Assurance

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   and ACCT 3300   with minimum grades of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    This course teaches audit theory, attestation, and assurance services. It focuses on the concepts of risk, control, evidence, and ethics for financial reporting and internal control purposes.

  
  • ACCT 4152:Internal Auditing

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   and ACCT 3300   with minimum grades of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    This course covers internal auditing from a broad perspective to gain a further understanding of the internal audit profession as well as governance, risk assessment, controls, and audit concepts that the internal auditors need to know and understand.

  
  • ACCT 4200:Advanced Managerial Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   with minimum grade of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    Focuses on specialized topics in managerial accounting theory and application.

  
  • ACCT 4250:Advanced Taxation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   and ACCT 3200   with minimum grades of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    A continuation of income tax concepts, types of taxpayers, decision making strategies, tax research and planning, professional standards and ethics, and the relationship and differences between financial and tax accounting.

  
  • ACCT 4300:International Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   and ACCT 4050   with minimum grades of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    Introduction to accounting-related skills, tools, and knowledge sets useful in the context of investment in and management of international enterprises. Covers translation of foreign currency financial statements, accounting for foreign-currency transactions and hedges, comparative accounting and disclosure, ethics and other relevant topics.

  
  • ACCT 4350:Accounting Systems Audit and Control

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   and ACCT 3300   with minimum grades of C, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or  tudent in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    The study of the control and security of accounting information systems with an auditing perspective. Topics covered include: The quality of information, information technology (IT) audit process, types of IT audits, ethics, fraud, forensic auditing, computer assisted audit tools and techniques, and IT governance.

  
  • ACCT 4400:Directed Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100  with minimum grade of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 3.0, Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course, and approval of instructor and the Director of the School of Accountancy prior to registration.
    Special topics of an advanced nature not in the regular course offerings.

  
  • ACCT 4490:Special Topics in Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   with minimum grade of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course, and approval of instructor and the Director of the School of Accountancy prior to registration.
    Selected special topics of interest to faculty and students.

  
  • ACCT 4550:Accounting Data Analytics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100  , ACCT 3300   and ACCT 4050   with minimum grades of “C”,  60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course. Corequisite: None
    Knowledge of and competencies in data analytics has been identified as one of the growing needs for future accountants in all practice fields. This course will introduce students to this topic and have students use hands on analytic tools such as Microsoft Access and other data analysis software.

  
  • ACCT 4600:Governmental and Not-for Profit Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   with minimum grade of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    Study of accounting and reporting practices for state/local governments and not-for-profit organizations. Course includes consideration of current events and other topical issues related to governments and not-for-profit organizations.

  
  • ACCT 4700:Valuation of Closely Held Businesses

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   and ACCT 3200   with minimum grades of “C”, FIN 3100  , 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    The study of fundamental concepts and valuation methods used to value a closely held business when there is no established market price. When determining the future benefit stream of a business entity and the associated risk, concepts from finance, economics, accounting and taxation will be incorporated.

  
  • ACCT 4800:Fraud and Forensic Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 3100   with minimum grade of “C”, 60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0, and Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program that includes this course.
    This course will introduce students to a variety of fraud topics, including occupational fraud and fraudulent financial reporting. In addition, the students will explore the foundations of forensic accounting, including fraud examination techniques. The course uses a mix of articles, cases, and classroom discussion.


African and African Diaspora Studies

  
  • AADS 1101:Introduction to African Diaspora Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course provides a developmental introduction to the interdisciplinary origins and methods of African and African Diaspora Studies (also known as Black, Africana, African American, and Pan-African Studies). Students compare and contrast historical, cultural, economic, and social phenomena in Africa to African-descended people in the Americas, Europe, Oceania and Asia. Students learn about African and African Diaspora Studies as a field of intellectual inquiry and key contributions of pioneers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.

  
  • AADS 1102:Issues in African and African Diaspora Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Learning Support Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of Learning Support English and Mathematics courses or concurrent registration, if required.
    This course provides an overview of key concepts, problems, themes, strategies, and methods of African Diaspora Studies (also known as Black, Africana, African American, and Pan-African Studies). Students explore recent political, economic, and social problems facing the African Diaspora, especially issues of race, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity. Students learn how Africana Studies alumni have used their expertise in addressing these issues and how the discipline is relevant to their own career path.

  
  • AADS 2260:Research Methodologies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 1107  
    This course is designed to expose the student to the variety of interdisciplinary research methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, to prepare them for the methodological approaches appropriate for their chosen concentrations in African and African Diaspora Studies.

  
  • AADS 3380:Study Abroad

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior or Senior status and permission of the instructor.
    This course fulfills the study abroad requirement of the B.A. in African and African Diaspora Studies. The content of the course varies depending on available course offerings, but focuses on locations in Africa or locations significantly influenced by the African Diaspora.

  
  • AADS 3398:Internship

    3-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior or Senior status and permission of the instructor.
    This course is an out-of-the-classroom structured 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 faculty and the internship supervisor. Internship sites must be secured in advance of the semester of the placement and must be approved by the instructor and internship coordinator.

  
  • AADS 3500:The Black Woman

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course introduces students to the experiences, theoretical contributions, and representations of Black women in the United States from feminist, literary, historical, and psychological perspectives. Students learn: (a) the impact of racial and gender oppression in the lived experiences of Black women historically and contemporarily; (b) the various ways Black women have coped with and resisted their oppression; and (c) the intersectional effects of class and sexual identity on Black women’s lives.

  
  • AADS 3780:Trends in African and African Diaspora Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1101 
    This course focuses on current trends, issues, problems, and strategies in the field of African and African Diaspora Studies (also known as Black, Africana, African American, and Pan-African Studies). Particular attention is paid to how socio-demographic variables, such as race, gender, class, religion, and/or ethnicity impact the issues facing the African Diaspora.

    Notes: The course may be repeated with a change of content.
  
  • AADS 4040:Major Issues and Figures

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course offers an in-depth examination of a major issue or figure relevant to the field of African and African Diaspora Studies (also known as Black, Africana, African American, and Pan-African Studies).

    Notes: The course may be repeated with a change of content.
  
  • AADS 4100:Directed Applied Research

    1-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: AADS 2260  and consent of the instructor and department chair.
    This course offers students the opportunity to investigate AADS-oriented concepts and issues by participating in faculty-supervised research or scholarship. Course content and instructional methodologies are determined by the faculty member in discussion with the student.

  
  • AADS 4400:Directed Study in African and African Diaspora Studies

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: AADS 2260 , approval of the instructor and department chair.
    This course is offered to students interested in investigating special topics and seminars external to regular course offerings. A maximum of 3 hours of AADS 4400 may be used toward satisfying the upper-division major requirements.

  
  • AADS 4490:Special Topics in African and African Diaspora Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1101 
    A study of selected topics of interest to faculty and students relevant to the field of African and African-Diaspora Studies (also known as Black, Africana, African American, and Pan-African Studies).

    Notes: The course may be repeated with a change of content.
  
  • AADS 4499:Senior Seminar

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: AADS 2260  plus 21 hours of upper level courses or permission of instructor.
    A capstone course in which students connect and integrate learning from AADS and other courses that they have taken in their concentration, explore the deeper issues in the discipline, research and write a senior thesis, and make technology-assisted presentation of their findings to a committee of AADS faculty.


American Studies

  
  • AMST 1102:American Identities

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Learning Support Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of Learning Support or concurrent registration, if required.
    This course explores what it means to be “American.” Examining “American Identities” from local and global perspectives, and through a variety of disciplinary frameworks, this course focuses on the diverse forms of “American Identity,” as well as the social and cultural histories that have shaped these identities. Students examine their own and others’ identities. Students gain knowledge and skills related to intercultural relations through various methods that include research, reading, writing, performance, and class activities.

  
  • AMST 3700:American Studies: Principles and Methods

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    What is American Studies? And what does it mean to study America? To answer these questions, this reading, writing and discussion based course introduces students to the field of American Studies: the interdisciplinary study of American cultures. The course critically examines the meaning and culture of America locally and globally, using a wide variety of readings and activities from multiple academic disciplines and popular culture.

  
  • AMST 3710:U.S. in the World

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    Examines “America” as a cultural signifier that circulates around the world. These representations not only travel to other countries, but also return to us in cultural products from other countries. In addition to cultural theory, we will look at film, television, literature, and music. A primary concern is to interrogate what ideological assumptions underlie our notion of what “America” means.

  
  • AMST 3720:America and Empire

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course critically examines imperialism and colonialism in the Americas. Possible course topics include: U.S. imperial projects, global assertions of U.S. power, European colonization of the Americas, or Indigenous Peoples’ resistance to empire. We will read across disciplines, pulling from an array of methods and materials, to understand “America” in relation to colonial and imperial ideologies and movements.

  
  • AMST 3740:American Popular Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    Critical analysis of popular culture in American society. A particular offering of the course could focus on a specific area of popular culture (e.g., books, music, sports, food, mass consumption or advertising) or survey several of those topics. Historical and theoretical readings will support students’ analysis of primary texts, including examples highlighting the globalization of American popular culture, mass markets and niche markets, the social formation of taste, and shifts in society’s preferences for mass consumption in different time periods.

    Notes: Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.
  
  • AMST 3750:Place in American Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course offers a thematic study of the cultural, social, and economic patterns of American places using texts and methods from a variety of disciplines such as history, literature, and sociology. Employing the techniques of critical reading and historical analysis, students interrogate texts ranging from contemporary prize-winning novels, film and media representations, to primary historical documents to gain a fuller understanding of both the place studied and the significance of “place” in culture.

    Notes: Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.
  
  • AMST 3760:Advanced Studies in American Identities

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    Examines the construction of individual identities and identity groups in American culture. Students survey and critique a range of texts expressing and representing the formation of identity constructions around such categories as race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, class, and sexuality. Students consider the various historical, cultural and social forces that shape (and sometimes resist) diverse views of American identity both within and outside the U.S.

    Notes: Course may be repeated with a change in content.
  
  • AMST 3770:American Cultural Productions

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    Examines the production, interpretation, performance, circulation, and contestation of cultural practices and activities that produce ideas and beliefs about “America.” The course may focus on a particular cultural product (e.g., the suburbs) or cultural productions related to a particular historical period (e.g., the Great Depression) or to another discrete category (e.g., racial productions).

    Notes: Course may be repeated with a change in content.
  
  • AMST 3780:American Cultural Movements

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    Examines the history of and relationships between selected cultural movements in the United States through an interdisciplinary lens. Drawing primarily on historical resources and cultural texts, the course analyzes the evolution and conduct of movements or of a particular major movement, as well as the evolution of academic inquiry and understanding of these movements.

    Notes: Course may be repeated with a change in content.
  
  • AMST 4490:Special Topics in American Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    A study of selected special topics of interest to faculty and students.

    Notes: Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

Anthropology

  
  • ANTH 1102:Introduction to Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Learning Support Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of English Learning Support, if required. Successful completion of Mathematics Learning Support or concurrent registration, if required.
    This course is an introduction to anthropology’s four major subfields: biological anthropology, archeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics.

  
  • ANTH 2220:The Anthropology of Death

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1101  
    In this course, students examine how anthropologists have looked at the topic of death from a multitude of perspectives. Students explore the importance of death to the field of anthropology and also use it as a lens to examine American attitudes toward and rituals surrounding death.

  
  • ANTH 2777:Anthropology of Tourism

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course introduces students to anthropological explorations of tourists and tourism. It enables students to understand the deep cultural impact of contact through reading historical and contemporary ethnographic works of tourism and tourists, and their respective impacts on cultures and identities.

  
  • ANTH 3300:Anthropological Theory

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  and any two of ANTH 3301 , ANTH 3303 , ANTH 3305  
    This course surveys the historical development of anthropological theory. It emphasizes the major theories and theoreticians in the discipline of anthropology and their importance for understanding contemporary anthropological research.

  
  • ANTH 3301:Human Origins

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 
    This course is an introduction to the evolutionary origins of humans. Major topics include evolutionary theory, primate behavior and taxonomy, the fossil record of human and non-human primate evolution, and the interaction of culture and biology as it relates to human evolution.

  
  • ANTH 3303:Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    Languages constitute the social life and cultural practices that anthropologists study. This course introduces the student to anthropological approaches to the study of language use, which is distinct from a linguist’s approach to language. Students learn how languages shape and reflect our thoughts and identities. Students examine the complex world of meaning-making, which form the fundamental component of our social, political, economic, and cultural life.

  
  • ANTH 3305:Principles of Archeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  or permission of the instructor.
    Archeology is the subfield of anthropology that has as its goal the understanding of the human past by studying the material remains that people leave. This course will cover the history, goals, methods, and theoretical base of current technology. Cultural resource management will be introduced as well.

  
  • ANTH 3307:Cultural Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    The comparative study of human cultures and societies through use of cross-cultural analysis of human behavior and case studies. Major foci are comparisons between universal and culturally relative aspects of human behavior, comparative social organization, cultural change and adaptation, and contemporary global cultural problems.

  
  • ANTH 3310:Cultural Diversity in the U.S.

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    The interrelated issues of culture, race, ethnicity, identity, gender, and social stratification in American society are examined through a holistic and comparative perspective with an emphasis on the examination of case studies.

  
  • ANTH 3315:Indigenous Peoples of the Southeast United States

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    An examination of the culture of the prehistoric, historic and contemporary Native Americans of the Southeastern U.S. including the Mound Builders, Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles.

  
  • ANTH 3320:Lab in Physical Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3301  (or concurrent enrollment) and STAT 1107  
    This course provides students with practice in techniques used by physical anthropologists in areas such as: human skeletal anatomy, forensic anthropology, paleontology, primatology, human growth and development, and population genetics. In addition, students get an introduction to important literature in the field. This course is a prerequisite for some upper division physical anthropology courses

  
  • ANTH 3321:Indigenous Peoples of North America

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    The study of contemporary issues affecting Native American peoples through a survey of traditional cultures and culture change.

  
  • ANTH 3335:Archeology Field Techniques

    3-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    This course is an archaeological field course designed to teach students the skills and techniques of modern archaeological survey, excavation, and laboratory analysis. The site of the local field school varies from year to year, but the international opportunity is an archaeological site in Belize, Central America. Contact the professor prior to registration for the determination of credit hours.

     

  
  • ANTH 3340:Religion, Magic, and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  
    This course examines the anthropological approach to religion and magic, which privileges local religious experiences and practices and places them in socio-cultural context. This course encourages students to consider the roles that religions play within broader adaptive systems, and how religions alternately promote both cultural stability and cultural change. Cosmologies, religious systems, and magical systems of thought are explored from an anthropological perspective.

  
  • ANTH 3345:Food and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  
    This class takes a global look at the social, symbolic, and political-economic roles of food, including how people in different cultures and environments throughout history define themselves through their foodways. The course explores a cross-cultural range of identities and socialities built through food production, preparation, and consumption, and how these change over time.

  
  • ANTH 3350:Cultures and Societies of the World

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  
    A comparative survey of culture and social organization in various regions of the world with a focus on contemporary social problems, cultural change and adaptation.

  
  • ANTH 3355:Capitalisms and Cultures in Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    This course compares and contrasts various forms of capitalisms and cultures in Asia to understand the dynamics of society and political life. This course enables students to develop a global perspective on critical issues that concern policymakers, business-strategists, development-workers, and academics from an anthropological perspective. Students compare and contrast various forms of capitalism in Asia from an anthropological vantage point for understanding dynamics of society and political life in Asia.

  
  • ANTH 3360:Anthropology and Africa

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  
    This course introduces students to methods, theories, and topics in African historical and contemporary anthropology. Particular emphasis is placed on how people from the West have encountered and come to understand African peoples and vice versa. This course examines how the colonial encounter helped structure methodological and conceptual formulations in anthropology and subsequent critiques and revisions. It also examines many contemporary African issues through the lens of anthropology.

  
  • ANTH 3365:Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102   
    This course explores the Afro-Brazilian experience in multi-racial Brazil, where the majority of the population is of African descent. This course focuses on how Afro-Brazilian culture, politics, music, samba, capoeira (martial arts), carnival and religion have impacted and often defined Brazilian society and culture. The course also focuses on Brazilian racial identity, social movements and racism. Brazil is constantly situated within the African Diaspora.

  
  • ANTH 3375:Engaged Archaeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    Although archeology is a scholarly subject, it is not divorced from contemporary issues. In this class, students learn the role that archeology plays in various publics and communities. Students identify and engage stakeholders related to an archaeological site and undertake a hands-on project such as developing a heritage management plan or a collaborative excavation plan. Students also evaluate competing interpretations of the past and develop a narrative that incorporates multiple understandings of material culture.

  
  • ANTH 3380:Maya Archeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    This course is designed to introduce students to the ancient Maya, whose civilization flourished in the lowlands of Central America between 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1500. It also examines reasons for the rise and fall of classic Maya civilization, including topics such as the development of complexity, settlement, subsistence, art and architecture, ritual and religion, and intellectual achievements.

  
  • ANTH 3390:Lab in Archeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    This course introduces laboratory methods through a project-oriented, hands-on format. A major focus of the course is on the inferential processes through which archaeologists recover and understand the past. This course also introduces many of the important principles and concepts that archaeologists use to analyze, manage, curate, and publish artifacts and the data associated with them. In addition, it allows the opportunity to have some hands-on experience with artifacts. Hands-on experiments in class help reinforce the theoretical concepts. Finally, the main goal is for the student to get basic “literacy” with respect to archaeological analysis and develop good lab habits rather than master any particular kind of analysis.

  
  • ANTH 3397:Anthropology Practicum

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3300 , ANTH 4450 , 90 credit hours completed, and permission of the instructor.
    This course is a structured field-based or on-campus research experience in a supervised setting related to anthropology. Practical experience is combined with scholarly research in the topical area of the practicum under the guidance of a faculty committee. Projects are selected in advance of the semester of the practicum. Students learn to apply research skills in a practical setting.

  
  • ANTH 3398:Internship in Anthropology

    variable 1-12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3300 , ANTH 4450 , 90 credit hours completed, and permission of the instructor.
    A structured off-campus experience in a supervised setting that is related to the student’s major. Practical experience is combined with scholarly research in the topical area of the internship, under the guidance of an interdisciplinary faculty committee. Sites must be selected in advance of the semester of the internship.

    Notes: A departmental internship orientation session is scheduled once a semester.
  
  • ANTH 3521:Ethnography of Media: Global Perspectives

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 , or permission of the instructor.
    This course examines how media images and usage shape the identities of individuals and groups around the world. Drawing on ethnographic studies done by anthropologists, this course prepares students to see how representations of peoples, places, practices, and events in the media shape our ideas about others and ourselves. Individuals’ and groups’ relationship with the media is the key element in understanding how people relate to each other within and across cultures and political boundaries.

  
  • ANTH 3777:Global Ethnographies of Labor

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    This course establishes the centrality of labor in understanding social identities and social change around the world. It emphasizes the cross-cultural meaning of “labor.” Through ethnographies, it locates the effects of larger global processes like development, war, tourism, and their changing impact on meaning of labor for people’s individual and collective identities.

  
  • ANTH 3999:Anthropology of Gender

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    This course introduces students to anthropological approaches to studying gender relationships in various cultural contexts. It familiarizes students with the relationship between feminism and anthropology. It examines how the research of feminist anthropologists shaped the central theoretical, methodological, and ethical concerns within anthropology. It also emphasizes why ethnographic methods are essential for understanding the complex gender relationships in a globalizing world.

  
  • ANTH 4100:Directed Applied Research

    1-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Any upper-division anthropology course and approval of the instructor and department chair.
    This course offers students an opportunity to investigate anthropologically-oriented concepts and issues by assisting in faculty-led research or scholarship. Course content and instructional methodologies are identified by the faculty’s needs and expectations.

  
  • ANTH 4400:Directed Study in Anthropology

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
    Covers special topics and seminars external to regular course offerings. May include original research projects and practicum experiences.

  
  • ANTH 4405:Human Variation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3301  
    This course provides an understanding of the nature and extent of human biological variation, as well as an understanding of how it is studied. The course focuses on two separate yet inter-connected topics: the biological variation that exists within our species, Homo sapiens; and the concept of race.

  
  • ANTH 4420:Lab in Forensic Anthropology

    0 Class Hours 6 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  or ANTH 3320  and permission of the instructor.
    This laboratory class provides an overview to the field of forensic anthropology for undergraduates. Forensic anthropology is an applied field of physical anthropology that seeks to recover, identify, and evaluate human skeletal remains within a medico-legal context. This generally includes the determination of an unidentified individual’s sex, age, ancestry, stature, and in many cases, circumstances surrounding death.

  
  • ANTH 4421:North American Archeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    An introduction to archaeological goals, methods, and interpretation of the prehistory of North America.

  
  • ANTH 4422:Archaeology of Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  or ASIA 3001 
    This course examines cultural and historical developments in Asia from approximately 10,000 BCE through 1600 CE. Students learn about the rise of complex societies, cities, and states; early economies; empires; and the role of archaeology in modern Asia. Along the way, students engage in major debates that have arisen from competing interpretations of the archaeological record.

  
  • ANTH 4425:Historical Archeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    The course introduces students to methods and issues in American historical archeology. Particular emphasis is placed upon archaeological methods and documentary research, changing gender roles, ethnicity, and technological innovations. Case studies will focus on the South but other regional contexts may also be included.

  
  • ANTH 4430:Environmental Anthropology Field Methods

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    This course exposes students to the field of environmental anthropology as they experience fieldwork in the natural environments of Georgia. The intensive field methods and research approaches in this course allow students to learn how to work as part of an anthropological research team as they examine and evaluate global research issues in environmental anthropology at the local and regional level. The course includes topical lectures, field methods, lab analysis, and interactive team projects.

  
  • ANTH 4450:Research Methods in Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 1107 , ANTH 3307 , and any two of ANTH 3301 , ANTH 3303 , ANTH 3305 .
    Major theoretical ideas and methods used in anthropological research are examined with a focus on applying them in research and practice.

  
  • ANTH 4490:Special Topics in Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Prerequisites will vary with each course. The prerequisites will be listed in the schedule of classes.
    Selected topics of interest to faculty and students.


Apparel and Textiles

  
  • ATT 1000:Orientation

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Provides ATT students an overall introduction to the apparel industry, career opportunities in the field and the ATT curriculum.

  
  • ATT 1150:The History of Fashion

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course explores the history of fashion, designers and businesses from past to present and how understanding the fashion past influences future trends. Historical roles of dress in western civilization along with the cultural, social, and physical evolution are explored.

  
  • ATT 1200:Apparel Design Graphics

    2 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 2 Credit Hours
    This course covers the fundamentals of vector drawing using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Students will learn software tools and techniques including drawing tools, path editing, shape manipulation, blending, shading, object layering, technical flats, illustrations, and design and reproduction considerations. Application and principles of computer graphics will be taught and used to create successful projects.

  
  • ATT 1300:International Sourcing

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Survey of international sourcing strategies including the decision making process, transportation, domestic production, Asia/Europe/Americas operations, foreign investment, foreign purchase, turn time, competitive advantage, communications, full package production capabilities, cultural priorities, political influence, international regulations and alliances, costs, quality, and technology.

  
  • ATT 1400:Principles of Merchandising

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Merchandising functions are discussed that include developing strategies to have the right merchandise, at the right price, at the right time, in the right amount and at the right locations to meet target customer needs. This course will explore apparel and consumer product strategies and methods used in planning inventory. Issues in wholesaling, retailing, advertising, and promotion will be included.

  
  • ATT 2301:Apparel Computer-Aided Technical Design I

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
    The use of industry standard computer systems to determine the product information for apparel and consumer textile products including source materials, processing and assembly options, pattern development, sizing theory, garment fit and product development. Students will develop a complete set of flat patterns and alternate designs utilizing manual and computer software methods through applied project work. Principles of material utilization, pattern engineering, quality, and final design will be emphasized.

  
  • ATT 3100:Fashion Merchandising

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ATT 1400  
    Application of merchandising principles as they relate to buying, problem-solving, retail math and visual presentation using standard industry practices and software. Students will learn how style, color and presentation are major ingredients to successful merchandising producing customer excitement and demand.

  
  • ATT 3150:Visual Merchandising

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ATT 1400  
    This course examines the history, visual tools, application, and theory of display techniques used in developing successful visual apparel merchandising. Students learn how to use visual merchandising to entice customers to buy and thereby increase sales.

  
  • ATT 3250:Math Applications in Merchandising

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 1107  or IET 2227  
    Students learn the appropriate math applications for planning, controlling and interpreting the merchandising functions. An understanding of sales planning, merchandising factors, assortments, gross margin and their impact on the financial success of an organization are explored.

  
  • ATT 3398:ATT Internship

    1-12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department Chair Approval
    This course is a structured experience in a supervised setting with an industry partner that is related to the apparel, fashion or textile industry. The goal is for students to attain more practical experience while using their acquired academic skills.

  
  • ATT 3505:Fabric Formation and Design

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course provides the student with the understanding of how fabrics are constructed and the fundamentals of fabric design through application software used in industry today.

  
  • ATT 3600:Apparel Analysis and Product Development

    2 Class Hours 2 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ATT 1400  
    This course discusses the steps involved in apparel product development from concept through delivery will be covered from the perspective of the manufacturer and the retailer. Product creation, design, marketing, merchandising, sourcing and distribution are discussed along with a study of stitch formation and seam application.

  
  • ATT 3602:Apparel Computer-Aided Technical Design II

    2 Class Hours 4 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ATT 2301   and ATT 3505  
    Manual and computerized pattern grading theory are demonstrated and practiced by students utilizing industry standard digitizing, grading, and marker making systems. Principles and methods used in the preparation, planning, and cutting of fabrics and materials in apparel/textile products are presented including preparatory processes related to fabric cutting. Also presented are basic principles and computer methods of calculating, designing, and making pattern markers for apparel/textile products including yardage, cost estimation, and garment and fabric specifications through applied project work. Laboratory work includes developing cost and quality factors and the operation of equipment for inspecting, marking, shading, fabric defects, spreading, cutting and ply numbering. A systematic appraisal of the factors governing economical fabric use, including: in-depth study of the relationship of pattern make-up to fabric consumption; the impact of width variation to total consumption; and the relationship of all fabric defects to total utilization is presented.

  
  • ATT 3800:Fashion Forecasting, Data Analysis & Consumer Trends

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Explore the techniques used in industry today including computer software programs to assist with consumer-driven fashion forecasting. Students will examine how to identify, track, and analyze trends in apparel and consumer products consumption. Both long-range and short-range forecasting strategies will be used for market analysis. Consumer trend research activities involve collection of information from multiple sources on a continual basis for the consumer style selection, color selection, and the fabric and trim market.

  
  • ATT 4444:Quality Assurance for Textiles and Apparel

    2 Class Hours 2 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ATT 3505  
    This course is designed to introduce the student to the quality aspects fabric and apparel. Quality assurance areas are examined such as materials testing, sampling, sewability and preparing product specifications.

  
  • ATT 4490:Special Topics in ATT

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department Chair Approval
    This course covers special topics related to apparel, fashion or the textiles such as design, product development, textiles, sourcing, marketing and merchandising. Students may take this course more than once for credit with approval of the department chair.
     

  
  • ATT 4670:Apparel/Textile Business Practices

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ATT 1300  and ATT 2600 and ATT 3602  
    Evaluation of the comprehensive factors that determine sound business practices for an apparel enterprise. The course explores the targets markets, a business plan, garment costing, product lifecycle, quality assurance and marketing.

  
  • ATT 4750:Advanced Design and Product Development

    2 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ATT 1200  
    Students will examine the fashion industry design techniques through the use of technology in both 2D and 3D applications. The course surveys product development software and presentation methods used in industry today.

 

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