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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • RES 4000:Vertically Integrated Projects

    0 Class Hours 3-12 Laboratory Hours 1-4 Credit Hours
    Multidisciplinary course supporting faculty research. Can participate multiple semesters. Students will have strong foundations within discipline, pursue further knowledge/skills, make meaningful contributions, and assume significant technical/leadership responsibilities.

Accounting
  

  • ACCT 2101:Principles of Accounting I

    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.
    A study of the underlying theory and application of financial accounting concepts.

     
  

  • ACCT 2102:Principles of Accounting II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ACCT 2101  
    A study of the underlying theory and application of managerial accounting concepts.
  

  • ACCT 3100:Intermediate Financial Accounting I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Grade of “B” or higher in ACCT 2101  and ACCT 2102 , 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 2101  and ACCT 2102 , 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 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 ,  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. Concurrent:
    ACCT 4150 
    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 , 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 , 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 , 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
    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 2200:Black Thought Matters

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course offers an introduction to Black Political Thought. It analyzes traditions and trajectories of Black intellectual discourse during the 20th Century. Emphasis is placed on foundational texts in the field of Black Studies, yet students will engage with a range of works representing the diversity of Black thought in the 20th Century. This course examines the goals, viewpoints, and strategies of various intellectuals, social movements, and other political voices from the African Diaspora.
  

  • AADS 2250:Careers in African and African Diaspora Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course introduces students to occupations and job opportunities in the public, private, and non-profit sectors relevant to the field of AADS. Students engage in exercises designed to assist in successful progression in and completion of the AADS major. Topics include an overview of the AADS undergraduate major, career options relevant to AADS, preparation for employment with a bachelor’s degree, and preparing for and succeeding in graduate school.
  

  • AADS 3200:Race and Technology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course examines technology as a factor in historical change, emphasizing the role of tools, machines, and systems in revolutions, culture, politics, and economics in Africa and the African diaspora. Students engage historiographical debates and readings on the relationship between race and technology in the recent and distant past. More broadly, students develop a critical understanding of the role of race inquiry in technological knowledge through biographies, case studies, and primary source documents.
  

  • AADS 3300:Black Popular Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course is a critical analysis of popular culture in the US, the Caribbean, African, and/or other region in the African diaspora. A particular offering of the course could focus on a specific area of popular culture in film and/or media (e.g., books, music, sports, language, food, mass consumption or advertising) or a survey several of those topics.
  

  • AADS 3310:Introduction to Hip Hop Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours
    This course is an introduction to Hip Hop Studies. Students will learn the pillars of Hip Hop, map its development from an urban youth culture in New York to a global phenomenon, and use Hip Hop to interrogate shifting ideas of race, gender, and identity in the 20th and 21st centuries. Through an interdisciplinary framework consisting of readings (both critical and creative), music, film, and television, students investigate the implications of the commodification and consumption of Hip Hop Culture.
  

  • 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 3400:Black Activism in Brazil

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours
    This course examines Black Activism in Brazil. The course reviews the history of resistance of Black Brazilians to racism, from slavery to contemporary Brazil. The course also examines the intersections of Black Social Movements with other social movements based on race, gender, and social class. The course analyzes the connections between Black Social movements and Civil Rights and other anti-racist movements in various parts of the African Diaspora, especially the United States.
  

  • AADS 3440:Black Biography

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours
    This course introduces the personal narrative as an interdisciplinary approach to researching the global black experience. We examine a range of types and categories in biographical writing including autobiographies and memoirs, political and historical biographies, fugitive and captivity narratives, and fictional biographies.
  

  • 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 3510:Black Women Writers

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course is a comparative study of literature by Black women writers from the U.S., the Caribbean, Africa, and/or any region in the African diaspora. Readings for the course may include poetry, short fictions, novels, drama, biography, and autobiography. Topics include narrative strategies, modes of representation, and textual depictions of the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, nationality, and/or generation.

    Note: This course may be crosslisted with ENGL 3510  
  

  • AADS 3520:Black Masculinities

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours
    This course introduces students to the experiences, theoretical contributions, and representations of Black men and masculinities in the U.S. from social science, literary, and historical perspectives. The course pays particular attention to: (a) the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class for Black men historically and contemporaneously; (b) the various ways that Black men cope with and resist their oppression c) the various ways that Black men create new masculinities.
  

  • AADS 3550:Black Women’s Health

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours
    Black women have poorer health outcomes on a variety of psychological and physical measures compared to other groups such as Black men, White men, and White women. This course focuses on why this is by examining the interlocking systemic, interpersonal, and individual stressors shown to negatively impact Black women’s health (e.g., gendered-racism). Students also explore and engage in evidence-based techniques that protect and enhance wellbeing in a variety of populations, including Black women.
  

  • 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 4031:Black Panthers

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours
    Black Panthers is an in-depth interdisciplinary examination of figures and issues of the black radical imagination using the Black Panther Party and the Marvel Comics superhero Black Panther. Through the discussion of film, music, comics, and other texts, students learn how historical, political, cultural, and community-based models of the Black Panther party and superhero are applied to a variety of fields of study, careers, and projects for social change.
  

  • 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

    0 Class Hours 1-6 Laboratory Hours 1-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ISD 3100  or approval 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 AADS

    1-3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ISD 3100  or 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 in the AADS degree program.
  

  • 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: ISD 3100  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 a technology-assisted presentation of their findings to a committee of AADS faculty.
  

  • AADS 4500:Power, Privilege, and Policy

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours
    This course explores how to transform grassroots social movements into sustainable institutions with organizational, political, and policy objectives. The aim of the course is to bring marginalized perspectives to the challenges facing activists and policymakers. In this course, students foster more awareness on how interdisciplinary strategies and grassroots collaborations can bring about sustainable social change.
  

  • AADS 4550:Black Genocide

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours
    This course provides students with a scholarly examination of violence imposed on the African Diaspora with a focus on the Black populations in both the United States and Brazil. Students investigate how Black lives can matter. Students examine cases of police violence, the dynamics of incarceration, racial segregation, and dehumanization to sustain class discussions. The course challenges students to make connections between local, national and global trends in the African Diaspora.

American Studies
  

  • AMST 1102:American Identities

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    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 3730:Introduction to Native American Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    This course serves as a broad overview of Native American cultures, history, and contemporary issues, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to the field. Students learn about Native America through a variety of perspectives and topics, including the relationship between Native nations and the U.S. government, questions of tribal identity and belonging, and Indigenous cultural productions, ranging from traditional stories to contemporary texts. Given KSU’s location, special attention is paid to southeastern tribes.
  

  • 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
    This course is an introduction to anthropology’s four major subfields: biological anthropology, archeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics.
  

  • ANTH 2210:Archaeological Discoveries and Debates

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course presents key discoveries and contemporary debates in archaeology and provides an overview of archaeological societies in the New and Old World. Students examine representative sites, artifacts, and important moments in the human past and learn how archaeologists piece together evidence to tell the story of humanity.
  

  • 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 2223:The Human Skeleton

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course explores human osteology, or the study of the human skeletal system. We cover bone biology, anatomical terminology, bony landmarks, and bone variation to examine topics such as the anthropological use of the skeleton in forensic, genetic, and bioarchaeological contexts.
  

  • 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
    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 Archaeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    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 covers the history, goals, methods, and theoretical base of current technology. Cultural resource management is introduced as well.
  

  • ANTH 3307:Cultural Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course presents the comparative study of human cultures and societies through the 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
    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:Methods in Biological Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3301  
    This course explores the discipline of physical (biological) anthropology through intensive reading and lab-based research. We cover current topics of study in some of the major subfields such as human biology, primate evolution, osteology, paleoanthropology, and bioarchaeology.
  

  • ANTH 3321:Indigenous Peoples of North America

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course presents the study of contemporary issues affecting Native American peoples through a survey of traditional cultures and culture change.
  

  • ANTH 3335:Archaeology 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
    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’ societies and cultures 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
    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 Archaeology

    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 Archaeology

    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 4411:Bioarchaeology of Greece

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3301  or ANTH 3305  or ANTH 3350  
    This course introduces students to the practice of bioarchaeology in Greece from the early 1900’s through today. Students trace the development of bioarchaeology from its early roots in typology through the paradigm shift of the New Physical Anthropology to modern scientific analyses of human skeletal remains. Case studies and classic anthropological texts are read and discussed.
  

  • 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 Archaeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course provides 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 4423:Bone Biomechanics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3320  
    This course examines the mechanical properties of our skeletal organ system. The study of skeletal biology and biomechanics allow anthropologists to understand the function of the skeleton and how it can be used to interpret the lifeways of past peoples. Research from this field is key to the study of paleopathology, prehistoric subsistence strategies, locomotion, and bone trauma.
  

  • ANTH 4425:Historical Archaeology

    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
    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: Must have earned at least 30 credit hours.
    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.

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  • 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.
 

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