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CMPD 4470: Alternative Dispute Resolution 3 Credit Hours
This course offers a survey of theories and methods related to alternative dispute resolution and conflict management through lecture, discussion, and experiential activities. Emphasis will be placed on interpersonal conflict and mediation skills.
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ACCT 2101: Principles of Accounting I 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.
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ACCT 2102: Principles of Accounting II 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ACCT 2101
A study of the underlying theory and application of managerial accounting concepts.
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ACCT 3100: Intermediate Financial Accounting I 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.
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ACCT 3200: Concepts in Federal Taxation 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.
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ACCT 3300: Accounting Information Systems 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.
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ACCT 3397: Internship and Experiential Learning in Accountancy 0-12 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program, a grade of “C” or better in ACCT 3100 , approval of the Career and Internship Advisor (KSU Career Planning and Development), and a minimum GPA of 3.0.
This is a supervised work experience of one academic semester with a previously approved business firm, private agency or government agency. This course is designed to provide hands-on experiences and challenges to help students develop and improve their skills and problem-solving abilities. Prior to enrolling in this course, students are responsible for working with their Career & Internship Advisor to secure an approved internship position. Current and prior work experience does not qualify for credit. Graded assignments are required to receive credit.
Notes: This course will be graded on an S/U basis. This course may only be used in the Business Electives area of a BBA.
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ACCT 4050: Intermediate Financial Accounting II 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.
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ACCT 4100: Advanced Financial Accounting 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.
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ACCT 4150: Auditing and Assurance 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.
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ACCT 4152: Internal Auditing 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.
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ACCT 4200: Advanced Managerial Accounting 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.
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ACCT 4250: Advanced Taxation 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.
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ACCT 4300: International Accounting 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.
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ACCT 4350: Accounting Systems Audit and Control 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.
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.
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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.
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ACCT 4490: Special Topics in Accounting 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.
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ACCT 4550: Accounting Data Analytics 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.
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ACCT 4600: Governmental and Not-for Profit Accounting 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.
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ACCT 4700: Valuation of Closely Held Businesses 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.
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ACCT 4800: Fraud and Forensic Accounting 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.
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BLCK 1101: Introduction to Black Studies 3 Credit Hours
This course provides a developmental introduction to the interdisciplinary origins and methods of Black Studies (also known as African & African Diaspora, 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 Black Studies as a field of intellectual inquiry and key contributions of pioneers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
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BLCK 1102: Issues in Black Studies 3 Credit Hours
This course provides an overview of key concepts, problems, themes, strategies, and methods of Black Studies (also known as African Diaspora, 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 Black Studies alumni have used their expertise in addressing these issues and how the discipline is relevant to their own career path.
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BLCK 2100: Career Success with Black Studies 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 Black Studies. Students engage in exercises designed to assist in successfully progressing and completing the Black Studies major. Topics include an overview of the Black Studies undergraduate major, career options relevant to Black Studies, preparation for employment with a bachelor’s degree, and preparing for and succeeding in graduate school.
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BLCK 2200: Black Thought Matters 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.
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BLCK 3100: Black Religion & Spirituality 3 Credit Hours
This course explores historical, cultural, and societal perspectives of religion and spirituality in the African Diaspora. A salient feature of this endeavor is to explore the Black Church in the United States and its relationship to the spiritual and religious expression of the African Diaspora.
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BLCK 3200: Race and Technology 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.
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BLCK 3300: Black Popular Culture 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.
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BLCK 3310: Introduction to Hip Hop Studies 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.
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BLCK 3380: Study Abroad 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Junior or Senior status and permission of the instructor.
This course fulfills the study abroad requirement of the Black Studies BA. 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.
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BLCK 3390: Black & Minority Entrepreneurship 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the history and contemporary challenges of minority-owned businesses in the United States. Students in this course will become familiar with critical issues in entrepreneurship through multicultural and multidisciplinary perspectives of African Americans, Latino/Hispanic-Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and women through critical readings and community-engaged projects.
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BLCK 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.
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BLCK 3400: Black Activism in Brazil 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.
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BLCK 3440: Black Biography 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.
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BLCK 3500: The Black Woman 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.
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BLCK 3520: Black Masculinities 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.
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BLCK 3550: Black Women’s Health 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.
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BLCK 3780: Contemporary Topics & Trends in Black Studies 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1101
This course provides an in-depth analysis of a selected contemporary topic, trend, issue, or problem in the field of Black Studies (also known as African and African Diaspora Studies, 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.
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BLCK 4031: Black Panthers 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.
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BLCK 4040: Major Issues and Figures 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102
This course offers an in-depth examination of a major issue or figure relevant to the field of Black Studies.
Notes: The course may be repeated with a change of content.
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BLCK 4100: Directed Applied Research 1-6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ISD 3100 or approval of the instructor and department chair
This course offers students the opportunity to investigate Black Studies-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.
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BLCK 4400: Directed Study in Black Studies 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.
Notes: Note: A maximum of 3 hours of BLCK 4400 may be used toward satisfying the upper-division major requirements in the Black Studies program.
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BLCK 4490: Special Topics in Black Studies 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1101
A study of selected topics of interest to faculty and students relevant to the field of Black Studies (also known as African and African-Diaspora, Black, Africana, African American, and Pan-African Studies).
Notes: The course may be repeated with a change of content.
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BLCK 4499: Senior Seminar 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 Black Studies 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 Black Studies Faculty.
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BLCK 4500: Social Policy & Grassroots Organizing 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.
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BLCK 4550: Black Genocide 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.
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AMST 1102: American Identities 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.
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AMST 3700: American Studies: Principles and Methods 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.
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AMST 3710: U.S. in the World 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.
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AMST 3720: America and Empire 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.
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AMST 3730: Introduction to Native American Studies 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.
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AMST 3740: American Popular Culture 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.
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AMST 3750: Place in American Culture 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.
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AMST 3760: Advanced Studies in American Identities 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.
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AMST 3770: American Cultural Productions 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.
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AMST 3780: American Cultural Movements 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.
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AMST 4490: Special Topics in American Studies 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.
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ANTH 1102: Introduction to Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
This course is an introduction to anthropology’s four major subfields: biological anthropology, archeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics.
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ANTH 1105: Introduction to Physical Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
This course examines humans from biological and evolutionary perspectives. Topics of survey and analysis include systems of genetic inheritance and evolution, primate behavior and ecology, the human fossil record, modern human biological variation and adaptation, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, and interactions between human biology and culture.
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ANTH 2210: Archaeological Discoveries and Debates 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.
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ANTH 2220: The Anthropology of Death 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.
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ANTH 2223: The Human Skeleton 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.
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ANTH 2230: Contemporary Issues in Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
Anthropology is the study of human beings in all times and in all places, both culturally and biologically. In this course, students get a brief introduction to the three sub-fields of anthropology: cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology. The course examines current social issues in each of these areas.
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ANTH 2777: Anthropology of Tourism 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.
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ANTH 3300: Anthropological Theory 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 30 credit hours.
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.
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ANTH 3301: Human Origins 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.
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ANTH 3303: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology 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.
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ANTH 3305: Principles of Archaeology 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.
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ANTH 3307: Cultural Anthropology 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.
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ANTH 3310: Cultural Diversity in the U.S. 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.
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ANTH 3315: Indigenous Peoples of the Southeast United States 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.
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ANTH 3320: Methods in Biological Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ANTH 1105
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.
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ANTH 3321: Indigenous Peoples of North America 3 Credit Hours
This course presents the study of contemporary issues affecting Native American peoples through a survey of traditional cultures and culture change.
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ANTH 3325: Forensic Medicine 3 Credit Hours
This course exposes students to the scientific fields involved in death investigation. This course covers theory and techniques related to identifying human remains and determining the cause of death in a medicolegal setting. The format of the course allows students to explore multiple disciplines, including forensic pathology, toxicology, anthropology, radiology, and careers in death investigation. Case studies and optional field trips allow students to explore the practical applications of course materials.
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ANTH 3330: Forensic Anthropology Field Techniques 3 Credit Hours
This course exposes students to the role of forensic anthropology in the investigation and recovery of clandestine burials. This course covers theory and techniques related to the identification, mapping, and recovery of forensically-significant remains. The intensive field methods allow students to work in a team-based environment to practice methods in forensic archaeology. A large portion of this course is held outdoors at the Forensic Anthropology Field Lab (FAFL) at the KSU Field Station.
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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.
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ANTH 3340: Religion, Magic, and Culture 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.
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ANTH 3345: Food and Culture 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.
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ANTH 3350: Cultures and Societies of the World 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.
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ANTH 3355: Capitalisms and Cultures in Asia 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.
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ANTH 3360: Anthropology and Africa 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.
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ANTH 3365: Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics 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.
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ANTH 3375: Engaged Archaeology 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.
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ANTH 3380: Maya Archaeology 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.
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ANTH 3390: Lab in Archaeology 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.
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ANTH 3397: Anthropology Practicum 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: 60 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.
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ANTH 3398: Internship in Anthropology variable 1-12 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: 60 credit hours completed and permission of the instructor.
The internship class is a structured off-campus experience in a supervised setting that is related to the student’s major. Practical experience is combined with academic assignments in the topical area of the internship. Sites must be selected in advance of the semester of the internship.
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ANTH 3521: Ethnography of Media: Global Perspectives 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.
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ANTH 3777: Global Ethnographies of Labor 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.
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ANTH 3999: Anthropology of Gender 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.
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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.
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ANTH 4150: Greek Osteology Field School 3-6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor
This course is an intensive introduction to osteological field work. The students work directly with the professor in learning how to clean, conserve, and inventory human skeletal remains from archaeological sites. The work is hands-on with substantial reading required in order to complete the analyses in the field.
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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.
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ANTH 4405: Human Variation 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ANTH 1105
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.
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ANTH 4411: Bioarchaeology of Greece 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ANTH 1105
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.
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ANTH 4420: Methods in Forensic Anthropology 6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ANTH 2223
This course is designed to expose undergraduate students to the techniques, theory, and methodology used in anthropological research and the practice of forensic anthropology. Forensic anthropology is an applied field of biological anthropology that seeks to recover, identify, and evaluate human skeletal remains within a medico-legal context. This process includes the determination of an unidentified individual’s biological sex, age-at-death, populational affinity, stature, and in many cases, the circumstances surrounding death.
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ANTH 4421: North American Archaeology 3 Credit Hours
This course provides an introduction to archaeological goals, methods, and interpretation of the prehistory of North America.
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ANTH 4422: Archaeology of Asia 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.
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ANTH 4423: Bone Biomechanics 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.
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