Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Accounting

  
  • ACCT 8000:Accounting Insights for Managers

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Coles MBA program.
    This course provides managers with an overview of key accounting issues, with an emphasis on concepts, tools, and international perspectives that will provide direct benefits in the workplace. Areas covered include reporting performance to stakeholders outside the entity, using accounting information inside the entity to make decisions and control behavior, and ensuring the reliability of accounting information.

    Note This course may not be used in the MAcc program.
  
  • ACCT 8101:Seminar in Auditing

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program 
    A study of financial audits, assurance services, and internal audits. Emphasis is on current developments.

  
  • ACCT 8110:Business Combinations and Transactions

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 8401  
    A study of advanced accounting technical topics, regulation and behavioral issues in financial reporting environments.

  
  • ACCT 8120:Transaction Processing and Controls

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    This course reviews fundamental transaction processing in accounting systems considering the potential risks and the controls that can be implemented to mitigate the risks. Frameworks, such as COSO’s ERM Model, are used to identify the risks and controls. Various technologies will be used to provide students with hands on experience with control tools.

  
  • ACCT 8190:Accounting Strategies for Decision-Making in a Global Environment

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 8401  and ACCT 8120  
    This course examines the value of accounting strategies from the perspectives of various stakeholders in a global economic environment. A unique feature of the course is that it integrates traditional and contemporary financial accounting, audit, tax, and managerial strategies.

  
  • ACCT 8201:Corporate Governance and the Business Environment

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    This course examines corporate governance and the broader business environment from the perspective of accounting. The course will be taught in a seminar format, with a great deal of interaction in class. 

  
  • ACCT 8215:Leadership and Professional Skills

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    This course will provide an overview of the behavioral and managerial competencies that are required for success in the 21st century accounting profession.

  
  • ACCT 8220:Issues in Managerial Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program and ACCT 8000  or its equivalent.
    A study of current issues and approaches to solving comprehensive problems in the area of managerial accounting.

  
  • ACCT 8270:Accounting and Legal Issues in International Business

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program and ACCT 8000  or its equivalent.
    An introduction to accounting, control and legal issues unique to the planning, execution, control and evaluation of international business activities.

  
  • ACCT 8300:Seminar in Valuation of Closely Held Businesses

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program and ACCT 8000  or its equivalent.
    An examination of the principles of business valuation, with an emphasis on the valuation of non-publicly traded, closely-held entities, including both corporate and non-corporate businesses.

  
  • ACCT 8301:Corporate Tax and Shareholders

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    A study of the federal income taxation of corporations and shareholders. Topics covered include corporate contributions, distributions of shareholders, stock redemptions, and corporate liquidations.

  
  • ACCT 8310:Accounting and Public Policy - Financial Reporting and Auditing

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MAcc program, and ACCT 8101  
    This course incorporates both in-class learning and a travel experience to acquaint students with organizations that affect financial reporting and auditing practices.

  
  • ACCT 8320:Accounting and Public Policy - Taxation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MAcc program.
    This course provides both in- and out-of-classroom exposure to taxation resources, tax authorities, and professional firms specializing in tax matters.

  
  • ACCT 8401:Financial Accounting Theory and Application

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to MAcc program 
    A study of financial accounting theory and its application, including current and future business reporting models.

  
  • ACCT 8420:Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    This course focuses on forensic accounting and fraud examination, which encompasses both litigation support as well as investigative accounting, and requires the integration of accounting, auditing, taxation, and investigative skills in the practitioner. In addition to providing a broad overview of forensic accounting and fraud examination, this course will also cover aspects of two sub-specializations: behavioral and digital forensics.

  
  • ACCT 8440:Current Topics in Financial Reporting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    This course will focus on current topics related to financial reporting. The course will illustrate the application of alternative financial reporting standards such as GAAP and IFRS (e.g., challenges in and complexity of fair value accounting, auditing, and reporting).

  
  • ACCT 8510:Tax Research and Procedure

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    An introduction to the U.S. federal tax system, including research processes, tax practice, and procedural issues. This course is intended to strengthen students’ problem solving and communication skills in a tax research setting. Electronic tax research services are used in the search for applicable tax authority.

  
  • ACCT 8530:Taxation of Flow-Through Entities

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    An advanced study of the federal income taxation of flow-through entities, including partnerships, S Corporations and Limited Liability Companies. Topics include contributions and distributions from a flow-through entity; reporting of profits, gains and losses; complete and partial liquidations; and the partnership special allocation rules.

  
  • ACCT 8545:State and Local Taxation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program
    The goal of this course is to develop knowledge and research skills in the area of state and local taxation. The course will include a review of the U.S. Constitution’s Due Process and Commerce Clauses, and resulting court cases. Calculations for state personal income, corporate income, sales, and ad valorem property taxes will be included. Selected current issues in the area of state and local taxation will also be incorporated. Estate and gift taxes will also be investigated.

  
  • ACCT 8550:Estate and Gift Taxation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program and ACCT 8000  or its equivalent.
    A study of federal estate and gift tax laws involved in interviews and testamentary transfers of property. Tax-planning techniques designed to minimize transfer taxes and ensure the orderly transfer of assets to succeeding generations are explored, as are the use of outright and charitable gifts, trusts, and generation skipping transfers.

  
  • ACCT 8560:International Taxation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    This course examines the income tax consequences of foreign income for U.S. taxpayers and of U.S. income foreign taxpayers. Topics covered include the foreign tax credit, Subpart F income, controlled foreign corporations, and sourcing rules.

  
  • ACCT 8570:Selected Topics in Taxation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program and ACCT 8000  or its equivalent.
    An intensive study of selected topics of current interest, which might include, among others, advanced corporate taxation, state and local taxation, deferred compensation, and accounting periods and methods.

  
  • ACCT 8580:Current Topics in Taxation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    This course will provide an intensive study of selected topics of current interest in taxation. Selected topics may include, among others, federal estate and gift taxation, taxation of property transactions, state and local tax issues, and tax strategy.

  
  • ACCT 8610:Advanced Systems and Control for Risk Advisors

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Master of Accounting Program
    This course is intended to extend the student’s knowledge and understanding of systems and controls with a focus on the role of risk professionals (for example, risk advisory consultants and internal auditors).

  
  • ACCT 8620:Advanced Risk Analytics and Forensic Accounting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Master of Accounting Program
    This course will extend the student’s knowledge and understanding of accounting and data analytics with a focus on the role of risk professionals and forensic accountants (for example, advisory consultants and internal auditors).

  
  • ACCT 8630:Regulatory Structures and Emerging Issues in Financial Reporting

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc Program
    This course covers several topics related to regulation of public financial reporting regulation.

  
  • ACCT 8640:Seminar in Internal Auditing

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program.
    This course is designed to provide advanced internal audit knowledge to students considering careers in the accounting and auditing functions with an emphasis on internal auditing. The purpose of the course is to extend students’ knowledge of auditing in today’s organizations; knowledge that extends beyond the traditional attestation of the financial statements. The course examines in detail internal audit theory, applies internal audit concepts to real corporate cases and involves critical analysis of internal audit practices. The course will also incorporate research papers to achieve its objectives.

  
  • ACCT 8701:MAcc Capstone Experience 1

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program
    Preparation for professional licensure or certification and career advancement consistent with students’ professional goals. Students work with faculty advisers to develop a plan for licensure or certification and for honing professional skills consistent with their goals.

  
  • ACCT 8702:MAcc Capstone Experience 2

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 8701  
    Continuation of ACCT 8701: Preparation for professional licensure or certification and career advancement consistent with students’ professional goals. Students work with faculty advisers to develop a plan for licensure or certification and for honing professional skills consistent with their goals. Students prepare final capstone project.

  
  • ACCT 8900:Special Topics in Accounting

    1-3 (Repeatable) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the MAcc program and ACCT 8000  or its equivalent, and approval of instructor and MAcc program director prior to registration.
    Selected contemporary topics in accounting of interest to faculty and students.

  
  • ACCT 8940:Directed Studies in Accounting and Taxation

    1-3 (Repeatable not to exceed 6 semester hours) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to MAcc program and ACCT 8000  or its equivalent, and approval of the instructor and MAcc program director prior to registration.
    Special topics of an advanced or specialized nature not in the regular course offerings.

  
  • ACCT 8950:Special Projects in Accounting

    1-3 (Repeatable) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to MAcc program and ACCT 8000  or its equivalent, and approval of the instructor and MAcc coordinator prior to registration.
    Special projects for students who wish to pursue advanced work on a particular subject in a specialized area of accounting.

  
  • ACCT 9001:Introduction to Research

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into the PhD in Business Administration Program.
    The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fundamentals of business research, including but not limited to: the fundamental philosophical orientations in research, the role of theory in business research, integrity and ethics in research, and an overview of major research designs. Students will learn the major components of a research article and what is required for effective academic writing. Each subject is introduced through a textbook chapter and/or research articles covering relevant aspects. Wherever possible, faculty will attempt to tie the course content back to the students’ individual research interests.

  
  • ACCT 9002:Seminar in Accounting Research

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into Coles College doctoral program
    This course introduces students to the major research areas in their respective fields. For each research area considered, students will review both seminal and contemporary research articles drawn from major research journals. These articles will be chosen by the professor and augmented by the student.  Each seminar will provide a major review of the research questions, theories, research designs and methods relevant to the area of inquiry. Seminars will be guided by a Kennesaw or global scholar with expertise in the research area and will require extensive preparation and engagement by students. Course evaluation will include student preparation of a written research proposal pursuing an area of inquiry relevant to the content presented in the course.

  
  • ACCT 9005:Developments in Accounting Research Seminar

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into the PhD in Business Administration Program.
    This course introduces students to developments in selected research areas in accounting within the context of important elements of the research process. The important research issues examined should enable students to understand the nature and developments in accounting research. The nature of the course necessitates drawing from seminal and contemporary research articles. As such, each seminar will focus on the research questions, theories, research designs and methods, and interpreting empirical results. Students are requested to supplement the required readings with other readings and research methods textbooks.

  
  • ACCT 9006:Seminar in Behavioral Accounting Research

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into the PhD in Business Administration Program.
    This course is designed to expose students to a selection of behavioral (interview and survey methods) and experimental research in accounting, auditing, and taxation. Students should leave this course with a basic knowledge of behavioral research and be better able to create, analyze, and critique such research to enable the development of a research proposal. This course may also help students identify a dissertation topic.

  
  • ACCT 9007:Seminar in Archival Accounting Research

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into the PhD in Business Administration Program.
    The focus of this course is to provide an overview of archival research in auditing and financial accounting, and further develop literature review and critique skills to enable students to formulate ideas for future research. As there is a huge body of literature, the course offers a selection of papers to provide a springboard for further thought. This course may also help students identify a dissertation topic.

  
  • ACCT 9008:Multivariate Analysis in Accounting Research

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BRM 9201  
    This course applies STATA as the statistical software package to analyze and interpret empirical archival data in accounting research. The course will cover multivariate techniques focusing primarily on multiple regression and its numerous diagnostics. The course will also empirically address special topics such as heteroskedasticity, two-stage regressions, selection bias including inverse mills ratio, and propensity score matching. Capital market event study analysis and “difference-in-difference” techniques, interaction effects, and economic effects will also be addressed. Students will be required to empirically replicate at least one full published research paper and parts of other published research papers.

  
  • ACCT 9900:Dissertation Development in Business Administration

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 9001 , BRM 9201 , BRM 9202 , and BRM 9203  
    Dissertation Development is intended to provide a flexible learning experience to prepare students for the dissertation process. In this course, we focus on a variety of issues, including an introduction to the dissertation process, dissertation committee selection and approval, dissertation structure and design, and identification and evaluation of potential topics. We will discuss the preparation and writing of the dissertation proposal document with focus on the introduction, literature review, and hypotheses sections. We will discuss issues of research design (including data collection and appropriate methodological choices for analysis). Each topic is introduced through selected papers, and students must come prepared to discuss their own dissertation ideas.

  
  • ACCT 9901:Research Methods & Dissertation Design I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into Coles College doctoral program; ACCT 9006  , ACCT 9007   
    Dissertation Design I is designed to provide a flexible learning experience to prepare students for the dissertation process.  In this course, we focus on a variety of issues including an introduction to the dissertation process, dissertation committee selection and approval, dissertation structure and design, and identification and evaluation of potential topics.  We will also discuss the preparation and writing of the proposal introduction, literature review, and hypotheses.  At the end of the semester, we will also introduce issues of research design (including how data can be collected and what methods should be employed in analyzing the data).  Research design and data analysis will be further explored in Dissertation Design II.  Each topic is introduced through selected papers and students must come prepared to present and discuss their own dissertation ideas.

  
  • ACCT 9902:Research Methods & Dissertation Design II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into Coles College doctoral program and ACCT 9901  
    The purpose of this course is to provide content to support students during the dissertation design and proposal stage.  The focus is on preparing an effective research design and methods section to support student dissertations.  Topics are introduced through scholarly discussions and course readings.

  
  • ACCT 9903:Doctoral Directed Study

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into Coles College doctoral program; ACCT 9006 ACCT 9007 , and permission of advisor.
    This course is an individualized and independent scholarly investigation and research of an important topic in business.  The focus, content, and expectations for this study will be formally established by the doctoral student and supervising professor to provide the student in-depth knowledge of a research area within the student’s discipline.  The culmination of the study will be a research project or literature review resulting in a publishable quality paper.

  
  • ACCT 9904:Dissertation Research

    1-9 repeatable Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into Coles DBA program, completion of 12 hours of graduate level research courses, and permission of the advisor.
    Course work supports and guides doctoral candidates in the implementation of their research and the development and defense of the dissertation.  This format and structure will provide individual time with the Doctoral Committee and collegial and academic support from their peers.  This course may be repeated as necessary.


American Studies

  
  • AMST 6201:History and Culture of the Americas

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to American Studies graduate degree or certificate program
    This interdisciplinary graduate course covers the history and cultural interaction of the United States and the Americas, with attention to relationships between policy, labor dynamics, and cultural expressions across the Americas, as well as theoretical frameworks common in transnational study of the US and the Americas. Topics covered may include the Atlantic slave trade; culture and history of migrant labor; indigenous studies; and history and culture of transnational social movements in the Americas.

  
  • AMST 6401:Literature and Culture of the Americas

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to a graduate program or graduate certificate
    In this interdisciplinary course, students learn about major transnational literary movements in the Americas, with an emphasis on understanding literature in a global context. Course readings and assignments provide an overview of important questions, methods, and theoretical approaches in contemporary American Studies literary scholarship as well as an advanced introduction to important literary works.

  
  • AMST 7000:American Studies Scholarship

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    This course explores a variety of themes, theoretical influences, and methodological approaches currently alive in American Studies and its related disciplinary fields. Particular emphasis is placed on the current controversies and scholarship focused on race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. The course is organized around broad thematic concepts, with attention to global perspectives. The course introduces some basic conceptual building blocks in the field, and explores some of the historical development of American Studies.

  
  • AMST 7100:American Studies Methods

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Introduces students to current methods in American Studies research and public practice. The course focuses on core concepts, objects of analysis, and evolving research practices used for working in American Studies. While critiquing notable examples from the field, students consider various dynamic professional contexts for “doing” American Studies, such as professional organizations and journals, classrooms, the workplace, public settings, and other diverse communities outside the university.

  
  • AMST 7200:American Social Movements

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    This course examines the history of and relationship between selected cultural movements through an interdisciplinary lens. The course analyzes the evolution and conduct of movements, as well as the evolution of academic inquiry and understanding of these movements. The course emphasizes the connections between American cultural movements and those in other parts of the world. Topics discussed may include, but are not limited to, the abolitionist, labor, civil rights, American Indian, environmentalist, women’s, anti-war, reproductive rights, gay and lesbian, and anti-globalization movements among others. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7210:Historical Period

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Studies a particular era in American culture by interpreting social events and practices, material culture, visual culture and print publications in a variety of forms. The course will invite students to examine individuals’ impact on their historical moment as well as the influence important movements and social groups have exerted during specific periods, such as the Progressive Era, the 1960s, or the era of “discovery” of the New World. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7230:Public History and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Public History and Culture examines the popular uses and presentations of the American past. Exploring historical memory’s role in American culture, the course draws on a range of methods (e.g., site visits, research in popular publications, study of historical documentaries) to critique ways that the past is recorded and transmitted. Course content may include a rationale and debate about defining the parameters of the historical division, as well as an emphasis upon the significance of artifacts, lore, written and oral commentary of the period, and the language that both constructs and vivifies the meanings of past. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7240:Enterprise & Labor in American Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    This course will examine the history of enterprise and labor within their social and cultural contexts from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course will include an overview of the history of work and enterprise in the United States. Students will investigate business enterprise, work, production, and consumption as cultural phenomena. Topics may include: the emergence of the corporation; the labor movement and its cultural representations; enterprise and labor in film, television, literature, and popular culture; the work ethic as a cultural production; the history of corporate social responsibility; immigration and labor/enterprise; ethnic, racial, and gender diversity issues in American business and labor; exploration of labor and business concepts/issues through biography; the social/cultural impact of globalization; regional themes in labor and enterprise; American enterprise in the world. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7300:American Cities, Suburbs, and Countryside

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Offers a thematic study of cultural, social, and economic patterns of the American metropolis using texts and methods from a variety of disciplines, such as history, literature, anthropology, and sociology. Students interrogate texts ranging from landmarks to literature, personal histories to government documents, advertising to architecture, to explore the shifting relationships between and ideas about American cities, suburbs, and countryside. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7310:Regional Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Regional Studies offers a thematic study of cultural, social, and economic patterns of a representative region using texts and methods from a variety of disciplines, such as history, literature, and sociology. Students interrogate texts ranging from literary prize-winning novels to primary historical documents located in the earliest settlement and in contemporary literature and historical analysis. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7330:Identities and Social Groups

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Examines the social construction of individual identities and social 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 social forces that shape (and sometimes resist) various views of American identity both within and outside the U.S. and the Americas. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7410:Literature and Performance in American Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Examines the history and cultural work of literary production and of performance as social practices that can be studied in regional, national, and international American contexts. This course draws its readings from both ”literary” and “popular” culture publications. Students may explore both benchmark moments in American literary production (e.g., the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin) and performance history. They may also examine important longer-term movements in the field of American literature and dramatic performance (e.g., the formation of “American Literature” as a school discipline, developments in publishing, key moments in theater history); and/or approaches for linking history-making and cultural memory to performance texts. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7420:American Popular Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    This course examines the role of popular and mass culture in the Americas by beginning with the premise that popular culture is an important site of expression, social instruction, and cultural conflict, and thus deserves critical attention. Students may examine theoretical texts as well as primary sources, and the course may include a focus on global consumerism in America as well as Americanized sites. The course may survey a range of popular texts, such as mass culture events (e.g., sports), advertising, popular music, and theme parks, and place these expressions of mass culture in political, economic, and social contexts. Alternatively, an offering may focus on a particular popular culture product (e.g., bestsellers; popular music) in depth. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7450:American Visual Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Examines the history and cultural influences of visual culture in American life and the impact of U.S. visual culture in a global context. Emphasis is on the aesthetic, economic, and technological aspects of the film industry and/or visual culture more broadly. Course content may deal with: the history of film, television, photography, painting, sculpture, and/or architecture; the role of particular visual artists, film-makers or producers in shaping popular culture; tensions between high art, popular and commercial culture; or the role of visual culture in the American landscape. Students read from the texts to gain historical perspective, see documentary films dealing with film, the visual arts or landscape, analyze selected works, and consult reviews to ascertain the works’ critical reception and impact on the community. The course may involve visits to off-campus sites. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offerings.

  
  • AMST 7460:Movements in American Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Master of Arts in American Studies program or permission of the graduate program director.
    This course will explore artistic, literary, or other cultural movements in the broad context of American Culture. It may include courses in literary, film or art history, and discussions of broad cultural movements such as romanticism, realism, modernism and post-modernism as they appear in multiple cultural forms. Other examples of movements in American culture might include historically specific cultural movements such as the Black Arts Movement, historical surveys of cultural movements based in a particular ideology, community or social group, such as feminist cultural movements, or nationalism in American literature and the arts. This course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7510:Passages to America

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Students enrolled in Passages to America examine forced and voluntary migration and immigration in the historical development of American culture. The varied experiences of these individuals and their families are discussed in the context of such topics as racial and ethnic group relations, nativism, and social class formation. We examine power relations between dominant and subordinate groups, along with debates over citizenship, Americanization policies, and legal/illegal immigration. Finally, students analyze the cultural concepts of assimilation, pluralism, and multiculturalism that frame these debates. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7520:America in Transnational Context

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the graduate program in American Studies or permission of the program director.
    Examines interactions between Americans and other international groups. The course may address several time periods and locations or focus on a single case study (e.g., the impact of cross-cultural contact in a specific region or era). Besides secondary research from diverse disciplines, students use primary texts from popular culture to interpret the influence of American culture in other parts of the world (e.g., American television as viewed in other lands) and the ways that immigration of new groups has shaped the social landscape in the U.S. Course may be repeated for credit provided the content differs entirely from the previous offering.

  
  • AMST 7700:Practicum (Internship or Applied Research Project)

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: AMST 7000  or AMST 7100  
    This course requires students to apply American Studies knowledge, concepts, and theory to practical issues, non-academic environments, or to new research questions. The Practicum fosters the ability to (1) read and think critically while using diverse methods to study American cultural products and practices, (2) communicate effective analysis of American culture both orally and in writing, and (3) analyze and critique relationships between cultural products and social values. The practicum may be offered as an internship; applied research project; teaching practicum; or other applied experience as approved by the program director.

  
  • AMST 7901:Capstone Literature Review and Proposal

    1-6 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of the American Studies graduate program director
    Courses that may be taken concurrently:
    AMST 7100  
    In the first part of the American Studies capstone experience, students work with faculty advisors to review scholarly literature and write a research or project proposal. The research reviewed will consist of interdisciplinary scholarship from American Studies and related fields that investigates questions consistent with the program’s mission and the student’s professional goals. Students work with faculty advisors to review literature and develop a proposal related to their topic or project aims.

  
  • AMST 7902:Capstone Experience

    1-6 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: AMST 7901  and Permission of the program coordinator
    A major research project or a project using interdisciplinary methods from American Studies to investigate questions consistent with the program’s mission and the student’s professional goals. Students work with faculty advisors to carry out research related to their topic or project aims, and complete a product drawing on the content of program courses and integrating it with new, individualized study.


Anthropology

  
  • ANTH 7900:Special Topics

    1-9 (Repeatable, Regular Grades) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education and permission of advisor, instructor, department chair, and director, graduate study in education.
    Special topics of interest to faculty and students.

  
  • ANTH 7950:Directed Study

    1-9 (Repeatable, Regular Grades) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to graduate study in education and permission of advisor, instructor, department chair, and director, graduate study in education.
    Special topics of interest to faculty and students.


Applied Exercise and Health Science

  
  • EHS 6100:Research Methods in Sports and Exercise

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status and undergraduate statistics or permission of the instructor
    This course is designed to discuss concepts and methodologies employed in research design typically applied in studies dealing in exercise science and sport management. The intent is to provide the student with an intuitive or conceptual understanding of theory, tools, and processes involved in designing research studies relevant to these disciplines.

  
  • EHS 6200:Statistical Methods in Sports and Exercise

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status, or permission of department chair
    Pre-requisite: Admission to graduate program. This course focuses on statistical methods used in the fields of sports and exercise science. Students will be introduced to basic statistical concepts including organizing and displaying data, mode, median, and mean, and measures of variability. More advanced topics including correlation and regression, t tests, analysis of variance, and analysis of nonparametric data will be explored. Students will calculate and interpret data along with using the statistical software SPSS.

  
  • EHS 6300:Leadership and Administration in Sports and Exercise

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status
    This course introduces issues and skills relevant to leadership and administration in the sports and exercise industries. Topics covered include leadership styles, interpersonal communication, fiscal management, policy formulation and implementation, decision-making models, and strategic planning.

  
  • EHS 6410:Trends and Issues in Sports and Exercise

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status
    This course critically examines current topics in the sports and exercise industries. Topics include sports and exercise trends, public policy, controversies, and career implications.

  
  • EHS 6420:Sports Sponsorship and Promotion

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status
    This course introduces students to issues and concepts relating to how business and non-profit entities can market themselves through sports sponsorship and promotion. Students are exposed to topics including key marketing and sponsorship principles, current trends in the sports industry, sponsorship design/implementation, and post-sponsorship evaluation. This course provides a foundation for those students who plan to pursue a career in marketing and sponsorship in the sports industry.

  
  • EHS 6430:Advanced Sports Economics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status, Undergraduate microeconomics course, or permission of department chair
    This course focuses economic phenomena surrounding sports and exercise. Economic models from industrial organization, public finance, labor economics, game theory, macroeconomics, and other fields of economics are applied to issues in sports and fitness industries.

  
  • EHS 6440:Sports Media and Communication

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status
    This course provides in-depth analysis of the media and communications in sports. Students are introduced to concepts of mass communication and the impact it has had on today’s sport communication systems. An emphasis is placed on the application of communication principles in the promotion of sports events, venues, and products. Particular focus is given to social networks, print media, broadcast media, news releases, interviews and public relations campaigns.

  
  • EHS 6450:Sports Facility and Event Management

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status
    This course introduces students to the management of modern sports venues and hosting of sporting events. Students visit local sports venues and assist in the management of a sporting event. This course provides students with an understanding of the complexity involved in sport facility and venue management. Sport facility management includes a variety of activities such as planning and designing a sport facility, staff management, facility marketing, developing revenue streams, and facility scheduling and operations.

  
  • EHS 6510:Advanced Exercise Physiology

    2 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status and undergraduate exercise physiology or equivalent or permission of the instructor
    An advanced study through readings, discussion and laboratory experiences of select and recent topics in exercise physiology. Topics include metabolic responses to exercise; neuromuscular and molecular physiology related to exercise; temperature regulation during exercise; acute and chronic physiological responses to altitude; exercise during pregnancy; and body composition and weight control. 

  
  • EHS 6520:Exercise Psychology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status
    This course will address physical activity and exercise as they relate to psychological health issues.  Factors related to physical activity and exercise adoption and adherence and intervention planning also will be addressed.  The course will be taught with an emphasis on application of concepts and discussion and evaluation of the scientific research.

     

  
  • EHS 6530:Advanced Laboratory Techniques in Exercise Physiology

    2 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EHS 6100 , and EHS 6510 , and admission to the graduate program
    Techniques and research applications for measuring, assessing, and evaluating physiological parameters.

  
  • EHS 6540:Bioenergetic and Neuromuscular Aspects of Exercise

    2 Class Hours 2 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EHS 6510  and admission to the graduate program
    Examination of acute and chronic bioenergetic and muscular adaptations to the performance of work.

  
  • EHS 6550:Cardiovascular and Clinical Physiology

    2 Class Hours 2 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EHS 6510  and admission to the graduate program
    Examination of the mechanisms of cardiovascular dynamics and metabolic function at rest and during exercise in healthy and associated diseased populations.

  
  • EHS 7410:Sports and the Law

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of contract law as it relates to sports

  
  • EHS 7510:Physical Activity Epidemiology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status
    This course provides an epidemiological foundation to physical activity research. Participants examine the literature related to the physiological impact of physical activity on chronic diseases (e.g. cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, etc.). The course provides students the opportunity to study epidemiological concepts related to physical activity research and further develop research skills by searching, reading, and analyzing peer-review journals describing and explaining the effects of physical activity on chronic diseases.

  
  • EHS 7520:Advanced Strength and Conditioning

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status, EHS 6510 , or permission of department chair
    This course offers students an advanced and comprehensive examination of the scientific and practical foundations associated with strength and conditioning programs. Emphasis is placed on physiologic adaptations based on specificity and periodization. A variety of strength and conditioning philosophies for athletes and clients will be explored.

  
  • EHS 7530:Applied Kinesiology and Biomechanics

    2 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status and undergraduate kinesiology/biomechanics, or permission of the instructor
    An advanced study through lecture, readings, discussion and laboratory experiences of select and recent topics in kinesiology and biomechanics. Topics include qualitative and quantitative motion analysis; force, force application, and material properties; linear and angular kinetics and kinematics; biomechanical aspects of movement through fluids; biomechanics of skeletal muscle; and kinesiology of the extremities.

  
  • EHS 7540:Environmental Physiology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status and EHS 6510 , or permission of department chair
    This course will explore the physiological disruptions and adaptations to various environmental conditions. Further, students will examine the major impact of a variety of environmental situations and stressors, and will be exposed to areas of current debate in environmental physiology. The emphasis will be on athletic, normal and special populations in various environments.

  
  • EHS 7750:Special Topics in Applied Exercise and Health Science

    1-3 (Variable) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status.
    Exploration of a specific applied exercise and health science topic.

    Note Course can be repeated.
  
  • EHS 7760:Directed Study in Applied Exercise and Health Science

    1-3 (Variable) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate status and permission of the graduate program coordinator.
    This course is to provide students an opportunity to explore a topic of interest at a more in depth level than covered in class or to explore a topic not specifically addressed in a regular course offering.

  
  • EHS 7800:Administrative Field Experience

    0 Class Hours 3 Laboratory Hours 3-9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EHS 6300  and permission of the graduate program coordinator
    This course is a supervised administrative field experience in an approved exercise science or sport management setting. This individually designed experience is designed to enhance administrative and supervisory skills of the graduate student relevant to the desired area of exploration or identified need area. The field experience purpose, project, duration, and site must be approved by the student’s major professor and graduate program coordinator.

    Note Repeatable for a maximum of 9 total credit hours.
  
  • EHS 7850:Master’s Project in Applied Exercise and Health Science

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Core program completed and permission of the graduate program coordinator.
    A project to be comprised of a capstone experience that leads to an actual product such as a publishable journal and/or literature review article, position paper, teaching aid, instructional videotape, program or facility development, web site, on-line course materials, lab manual, curriculum development, or a similar project.

  
  • EHS 7900:Master’s Thesis

    1-6 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of the graduate program coordinator.
    Development and writing of a thesis under the supervision of a graduate faculty member.


Architecture

  
  • ARCH 6000:Critical Inquiries and Discourses

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to program.
    This course addresses the relevance of research questions in architecture and the assumptions that underlie them. The course emphasizes the essential role of description for formulating theoretical and methodological questions about the built environment and design. Such descriptions assist in the discovery of regularities that can be translated into theoretical questions and research hypotheses. The course is taught in a combined lecture and seminar format.

    Learning Outcomes:

    • Students will develop analytic and synthesis skills appropriate for generation of original research questions in architectural theory and design practice.
    • Students will demonstrate proficiency in formulating a well structured research hypothesis.


  
  • ARCH 6030:Research Methods

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to program.
    This course is aimed at research methods for graduate students in architecture. The course combines a survey of current qualitative and quantitative approaches to research with the development of visual methods for constructing arguments. The purpose is to prepare students in various techniques of describing and understanding the built environment. It addresses the nature of scholarly research, the types of evidence, critical reading, and presenting and illustrating scholarship in the various disciplines of architecture.

    Learning Outcomes:

    • Discuss and implement relevant techniques and skills in formulating research approaches in architecture.
    • Understand the mechanics of formulating and conducting a thesis exploration.


  
  • ARCH 6040:Directed Study

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Architecture MS program, and permission by program director.
    Special topics of interest to faculty and students. 

  
  • ARCH 6300:Urban Design Theory and Planning

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course investigates the likely urban generators/determinants/transformers that evolved not only from critical formal work but also from social, political, economic, and technological sources. This course critically reviews the contribution of urban forms of these time periods to set the foundations for this course. A factual framework of the events, persons, projects, and critical analysis of theoretical work is one of the essential parts of the course content developed through lectures, seminar discussions and presentations.

    Learning Outcomes:

    • Learn the variety of research underpinning for diverse urban contexts.
    • Able to critically analyze and explore contextual readings of diverse urban settings.
    • Understand the cultural manifestations of diverse urban settings.
    • Understand national and regional traditions shaping urban contexts.
    • Understand human behavior, diversity and intervention in a city.


  
  • ARCH 6310:Spatial Analysis

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    The course is an intensive survey of advanced analytical methods of built form. It addresses the complex relationship between societal norms and the configuration of build space. The course is centered on two questions of how space influences human perception, behavioral patterns and creation of community, and how to formulate spatial programmatic, concepts based on organizational models. Students will be able to learn the basic techniques of spatial representation, network theory and formal computational analysis.

  
  • ARCH 6320:Ecological Urban Strategies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course will strengthen the student’s awareness and analysis of ecological urbanism within architecture and urban design. It will emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of urban ecology introducing various theories case studies and embedded technologies and strategies was well as the related fields of study that contributed to holistic design. Students will be introduced to guest lecturers and content from disciplines such as biology, landscape architecture, urban planning, environmental engineers, wildlife organizations, sociology, public health, and climatology. Topics may include; global population trends, urban ecological science, urban climates and environments, energy flow in and out of a city, urban and brownfield remediation and green infrastructure.

  
  • ARCH 6330:Social Ecologies and Community

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course will examine social, political and economic layers of urban environment that shape, interact, follow or coincide with its form and life. The topics would include ideals and utopias shaped urban environments, public realm and right to the city, equality and social justice, environmental perception and cognition, political forces of urban and suburban environments, economic models and ideals embedded in the urban form, social capital, sense of community, human experience and the flaneur. the course requires a research paper that includes analysis of urban environments identifying physical forms and configurations in relation to the course topics.

  
  • ARCH 6340:Urban Practice and Strategies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course will introduce how urban design implementation take place including its stakeholders, processes and procedures. it will cover business models, construction processes, partnerships, stakeholders, community involvement methods, interdisciplinary collaborations, consortiums, as well as the construction methods and processes. It is designed to include guest lecturers with diverse backgrounds of related disciplines presenting successful and recognized case studies of urban design and development. Student work is required to include case study analysis of the course content.

  
  • ARCH 6500:Global Sustainable Design Strategies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    The course will introduce the student to the wide spectrum of innovative green buildings by looking as design and construction around the world in the context of sustainability. It will establish a platform for the understanding of local-to-regional-to-global sustainability, and highlights the interaction between human and natural ecosystems. The Architect/Engineer/Construction Manager’s perspectives will be complemented by specific building examples around the world. Form factors will be discussed and issues of planning, design and construction explored. A few highlights of course subjects would be: Global Environmental Crisis; the Global Notion of Sustainability in the Built Environment; Ecology; Energy Efficiency and the Built Performance; Low Energy - High Energy Systems; Passive and Active Environmental Systems; Waste Management; Pollution/Health/Social Cost; Global Economic Issues; World Population; Basic World Finance; Technology and the Third World; Codes, Regulations and Cost.

  
  • ARCH 6510:Green Design Concepts and Rating Systems

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    The course seeks to outline the common “Green Strategies” that are found within global and local rating systems for sustainable architectural design. using these common elements, students will be introduced to LEED, Green Globes, Earth-craft, Living Building Challenge, and other rating systems with case studies and experts providing insight to the administration and process to adherence to each. The primary areas of focus in these strategies are topics of: SITE, WATER, WASTE, ENERGY*, ATMOSPHERE/ AIR QUALITY, MATERIAL/ RESOURCES and INNOVATION .

    *Within this list, overall clarification of benchmarking strategies and energy code (ASHRAE) developments in the US will be provided as an underpinning of the concerns outlined in the rating systems examined in the course.

  
  • ARCH 6520:Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Sustainable Design

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course will foreground Architecture as a building ecology responsive to its surroundings in a symbiotic or reparative relationship. Students will study building systems with an emphasis on the understanding of system performance relative to their immediate and extended contexts. The evaluation of adequate performance will be based upon the nature of human comfort and the support of life beyond the initial stages of design.

    Using sustainability as an armature the student will become aware of the ethical obligations of the profession through a clear understanding of the inter-relationships between natural and man-made elements at both the macro and micro scale.

    The final sessions of the course will allow students to determine the impact of these needs related to the integration of Architecture design and Environmental Technologies. Students will perform and understand basic calculations that form the foundation of technological solutions within these areas in preparation of ARCH 6220.

  
  • ARCH 6530:Materials and Assemblies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course will outline the materials and methods of assembly that contribute to reduced environmental impacts. This will involve life-cycle assessment of materials (resource extraction of raw materials for production, processing and industrial processes for refinement and product composition, end-use and waste stream assessment) as well as the assembly of materials for increases building performance in the end use of the product.

    EPA, European Commission on the Environment, and the International Living Building Institute (along with other authors/ government organizations) have issued a list of materials and material assemblies as “red list” collections that should not be used in the construction industry. These items will be analyzed and discussed in the course also.

 

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