NOTE: Certain courses and programs require the use and/or handling of hazardous materials or equipment. Students are expected to follow all safety instructions and to take the required safety precautions including, but not limited to, the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) during the course or program to prevent incidences of injury to self or other students.
Biology
BIOL 4760 - Introduction to Bioinformatics
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: BIOL 3250/BIOL 3251 and CSCI 1170 or consent of instructor. Application of computer science to biological questions. Specifically applies to the computational aspects of data gathering, processing, storage, analysis, and visualization methods for use in revising and testing biological hypotheses. Students should have a strong background in either computer science or biology, be willing to learn about the other field in an accelerated fashion, and be willing to work cooperatively as part of an interdisciplinary team. Four hours of lecture/problem-solving per week.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: BIOL 4350/BIOL 4351 or equivalent; access to Mac or PC laptop must be confirmed. Takes a ground-up approach to teaching the fundamentals of biostatistical analysis using R programming language and RStudio.
1 credit hourPrerequisite: Major or academic focus in the Jones College of Business. Provides tools for professional development and exploration of business majors and careers.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Junior standing and major in the Jones College of Business. Uses the proven content and design of The Dale Carnegie Course(R), which includes lecture, in-class activities, reflective exercises, and interactive experiences. Helps students develop self confidence and leadership ability; strengthen ability to relate to and to motivate others; enhance ability to communicate effectively, reduce stress, and present a positive attitude. A Dale Carnegie(R) certificate of completion is a requirement for earning a passing grade (D- or better [0.67 or higher]). May not be audited. Must be taken for a grade.
1 credit hourPrerequisites: Must be taken in the final semester of the B.S. in Commerce program. A capstone course involving creative, critical, ethical, and logical problem solving in business context; synthesis of knowledge of major business disciplines; relationships between internal and external business factors; communication as it relates to the business environment; and professionalism. Restricted to B.S. in Commerce majors only.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Senior standing; admission to the College of Business. Cannot be substituted for required MGMT, ENTR, or BUAD courses in these majors or minors. Designed to facilitate the transition from college to career. Interpersonal skills for the job search and for success in a professional management environment emphasized.
BUAD 4950 - Business Administration Applied Experience
1 to 3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Senior standing; overall GPA of 2.50; and admission to the College of Business. Student affiliated with an organization on a part-time basis to develop knowledge and experience in the practical application of business theory to actual business problems in a non-classroom situation.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Admission into the College of Business; must be taken after completion of the business requirements and in the semester in which the student graduates. Development of top management perspective with emphasis on policy and strategy formulation and evaluation through the demonstration of competence in handling multifunctional business problems. Transfer credit not allowed; must be taken in residence.
3 credit hoursSurvey of business economic units of our society; the problems of business such as ownership, social responsibility, physical factors, personnel, marketing, and managerial controls. Includes exploration and analysis of business careers.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite/corequisite: ENGL 1010. Provides students with technical skills necessary to prepare business letters, memos, reports, emails, text messages, and resumes.
1 credit hourSkills in and knowledge of the career decision-making process; aspects of career development theories; how interests, skills, and values relate to career choices; and information about how educational options and career clusters are organized.
1 credit hourSkills needed to efficiently and effectively search for a job, create professional resumes and career materials, use social media for job search purposes, and job interviewing skills.
1 credit hourProvides students with workplace etiquette skills needed during the job-search process and throughout their careers. Topics will include nonverbal and interpersonal communication skills, table manners, protocol, and other career-related skills.
3 credit hoursIntroduces the increasingly complex set of interrelationships between the business organization and its environment. Selected topics raise major issues involved in business/society relationships and include current assessment of the role that business plays within a changing society.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Junior standing. (Keyboarding skills helpful.) A review of the theory and processes in oral and written business communication. Emphasis on the extensive functions of written and electronic communications.
BCED 4200 - Problems in Business and Marketing Education and Entrepreneurship
1 to 3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Admission into the College of Business; junior standing; consent of department chair. Individual research, reading analysis, or projects in contemporary problems and issues in a concentrated area of study under the direction of a faculty member. This course may be taken only twice.
BCED 4300 - Professional Meeting, Event, Exhibition, and Convention (MEEC) Management
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Admission into the College of Business. Introduces students to the meetings, events, exhibitions, and conventions (MEEC) industry. Explores the core issues of the MEEC industry from the fundamentals to the contemporary trends.
BCED 4400 - Tools of the MEEC Industry (Meeting, Event, Exhibition, and Convention [MEEC] Management)
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: BCED 4300; admission into the College of Business. Introduces students to the meetings, events, exhibitions, and conventions (MEEC) industry. Explores the core issues of the MEEC industry from the fundamentals to the contemporary trends. Introduces students to the tools used in the meetings, events, exhibition, and conventions [MEEC] industry. Explores the core issues involved in the selection of tools (from terminology and vendor references to the Green Movement) for use in meetings, events, exhibitions, and conventions.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Junior standing; prerequisite into the College of Business. Skills needed to develop and deliver rich virtual business presentations via the Web, video, and teleconference. Emphasis on the hands-on, practical techniques for planning, designing, and delivering engaging, interactive, participative, and impactful virtual business presentations.
BCED 4570 - Meeting, Event, Exhibition, and Convention (MEEC) Practicum
3 credit hoursCompletion of all minor required courses (including LSTS 3530 and BCED 4300). Provides students with practical work experience in the Meeting, Event, Exhibition, and Convention industry.
BCED 4645 - Issues and Trends in Corporate Communication
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Junior standing, BCED 4660/BCED 5660; completion of BCED 3510 recommended. Significant research of emerging issues and trends in corporate communication.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Junior standing; admission into the College of Business. (BCED 3510 recommended.) Research and analysis of case studies of significant research; case studies in business communication; communication policies, principles, and procedures from the executive’s viewpoint.
BCED 4710 - History and Foundations of Business and Marketing Education
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Junior standing; admission into the College of Business. Developments, aims, principles, and present status of business education; organization and evaluation of the business education curriculum; administration and supervision of business education.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Junior standing; admission into the College of Business. A supervised program of related work experience. Provides experiential opportunities for the application of the theoretical concepts learned.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: BCED 3510; admission into the College of Business. Offers skills needed to create digital communication for business with emphasis on the writing process, digital tools, planning, design, collaborating, copyright and fair use, and technical aspects of digital writing.
BCED 4900 - Dimensions in Professional Development
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Junior standing; admission into the College of Business. Emphasis on job acquisition process, time management, effective listening skills, oral and nonverbal communication competencies, dictation management, and assumption of professional responsibility for participative management activities.
3 credit hours(Same as DATA 1500.) Introduces basic principles and tools as well as its general mindset in data science. Concepts on how to solve a problem with data include business and data understanding, data collection and integration, exploratory data analysis, predictive modeling, descriptive modeling, data product creation, evaluation, and effective communication.
3 credit hoursThe application of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data to make business decisions. Topics include measures of central tendency, variation, probability theory, point and interval estimation, correlation and regression. Computer applications emphasized.
3 credit hours(Same as INFS 3470.) Prerequisite: ISA major and admission to College of Business. Introduces Python, a popular, general purpose programming and scripting language well suited to a wide range of business problems. Topics include basics of programming-variables, strings, lists, functions, writing scripts that automate tedious tasks, parsing and interpreting data, interacting with APIs, and building web scrapers. Emphasis on practical applications in a business context.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: BIA 2610 or MATH 1530, junior standing. Introduces the concepts and application of data analytics in business. Spreadsheet software and associated analytic tools utilized to visualize, model, and analyze business data using a hands-on-approach.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: BIA 3620 or an equivalent course; junior or senior standing. Development and application of industry-level analytic tools to visualize, model, and analyze business data. Opportunity to develop skills for self-service business analytics via hands-on approach.
3 credit hours(Same as INFS 4100.) Prerequisite: BIA 2610 or MATH 1530. Provides an information systems perspective to identifying and solving geospatial business problems. Explores how business can make strategic and operational decisions based on geospatial data. Students work through several practical cases to solve common geospatial problems encountered in the corporate environment.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Junior standing. Legal rights and potential liabilities of business persons. Presentation of the dynamic nature of law in responding to the changing social, ethical, political, regulatory, and international environment. Includes the development and nature of the legal system; business crimes; the law of torts and product liability; constitutional limitations on regulatory powers; legislative, judicial, and administrative control of business activity through the laws of business organizations, securities regulations, antitrust laws, employment laws, labor and safety laws, and consumer protection.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Junior standing; admission into the College of Business. Legal rights and potential liabilities of business persons. Includes basic law of contracts; UCC; sales; commercial paper; secured transactions and credit; bankruptcy; personal property and bailments; real property; and wills, trusts, and estates.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Junior standing and admission into the College of Business. Risks covered by the insurance contract, their selection and control; making, constructing, and enforcing the contract; negotiation and settlement of claims; misconduct of agents. Government regulation of the insurance industry. Emphasis on current principles, policies, procedures, and practices in insurance.
BLAW 4470 - Real Property Law for Commerce and Agriculture
3 credit hours(Same as AGBS 3140 and FIN 4470.) Prerequisite: Junior standing. Legal rights and limitations of ownership of property, estates, titles, methods of transferring titles, abstract of titles, mortgages, leases, easements, restrictions on the use of property, real estate development, application of contract law to real property, and the role of real estate in the administration of estates. Emphasis on specific application to agricultural businesses and farms.
3 credit hours(Same as MGMT 4490 and ECON 4490.) Prerequisite: Junior standing and admission into the College of Business. Economic background and effects of government regulation of labor relations; emphasis on a detailed examination of the National Labor Relations Act as amended or expanded by the Labor Management Relations Act, the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosures Act, and Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act.
3 credit hours(Same as MGMT 4500.) Prerequisites: Junior standing; admission into the College of Business. A detailed examination of the legal rights and responsibilities of employers and employees with respect to fair employment practices; emphasis on significant statutes, administrative regulations, and judicial decisions forming the body of antidiscrimination law.
1 to 3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Senior standing; approval of department chair; and admission into the College of Business. Individual research and analysis of contemporary problems and issues in a concentrated area of study under the guidance of an approved faculty member.
1 credit hourIntroduces the fields of chemistry and biochemistry, including an overview of career paths, strategies for success in the major, and current areas of active research. Also covers introduction to scientific literature, institutional resources, and enrichment opportunities such as undergraduate research.
4 credit hoursCorequisite: CHEM 1011. For students with no prior courses in chemistry; to be taken before CHEM 1110/CHEM 1111. Fundamental concepts of chemistry: measurements, matter, chemical bonds, chemical reactions, nuclear chemistry, states of matter, solutions, and electrolytes. Three hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory. Will not count toward a major or minor in Chemistry. TBR Common Course: CHEM 1010
4 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 1010/CHEM 1011. Corequisite: CHEM 1021 Topics include hydrocarbons, organic functional groups, isomerism, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and proteins, enzymes, and metabolism. Three hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory. Will not count toward a major or minor in Chemistry. TBR Common Course: CHEM 1020
4 credit hoursCorequisite: CHEM 1031. Language, development, structure, and role of chemistry as it relates to the knowledge and activities of the educated person. Examples will be taken from medicine and human health, environmental pollution, energy and its costs, etc. Understanding of the relationship between chemistry and society will be enhanced using special subtopics: lectures, demonstrations, and inquiry-based laboratory work drawing from the expertise of the individual instructor. For nonscience majors. Three hours lecture and one two-hour laboratory. (Does not count toward any major or minor.)
4 credit hoursPrerequisite: High school chemistry. Corequisite: CHEM 1111. Fundamental concepts of atomic structure, molecular structure and bonding, chemical reactions, stoichiometric relationships, periodic properties of the elements, thermochemistry, and properties of gases. Three hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory. TBR Common Course: CHEM 1110
4 credit hoursPrerequisite: C- or better in CHEM 1110/CHEM 1111. Corequisite: CHEM 1121. Chemical equilibrium, solid and liquid states of matter, chemistry of acids and bases, principles of chemical kinetics, precipitation reactions, elementary thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and nuclear chemistry. Three hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory. TBR Common Course: CHEM 1120
4 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 1020/CHEM 1021 or CHEM 1120/CHEM 1121. Corequisite: CHEM 2031. Aspects of organic chemistry fundamental to an understanding of reactions in living organisms. Three hours lecture and one three-hour laboratory.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: CHEM 1120/CHEM 1121 with minimum grade of C- (or equivalent course). Corequisite: CHEM 2231 recommended but not required. Gravimetric, volumetric, optical, and electrochemical analysis with examples from clinical chemistry, water pollution chemistry, occupational health and safety, and industrial chemistry. Three hours lecture.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in CHEM 1120 or equivalent course. Corequisite: CHEM 2230 recommended, but not required. Laboratory course in classical wet chemical analysis; two three-hour laboratory periods per week.
1 to 4 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Student research allied with the instructor’s research or designed specifically for the particular student. Minimum of three clock-hours work per week required for each credit hour. Up to four hours may count in the General Science major, but does not count for a major or minor in Chemistry. May be repeated for a total of four credits.
1 credit hourPrerequisite: CHEM 2030 or CHEM 3010. Communicating science, taking standardized tests, applying for graduate/professional school or a job, using library and online resources, and other professional skills. Capstone course. One-hour lecture. Offered each spring.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 1120/CHEM 1121 or equivalent. Corequisite: CHEM 3011. Types of carbon compounds, their nomenclature, reactions, and physical properties. Three hours lecture.
1 credit hourPrerequisite: CHEM 2230 / CHEM 2231 or consent of instructor. Techniques involving the use of liquid, column, paper, thin-layer, and ion-exchange chromatography for the purpose of purifying and/or separating compounds.
1 credit hourPrinciples, techniques, and applications of gas chromatography. Selection of column materials, packing of columns, and types of detectors. Separation of mixtures of hydrocarbons, drugs, and pesticides.
4 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 2030/CHEM 2031 or CHEM 3010/CHEM 3011. Corequisite: CHEM 3531. Structure, properties, and functions of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids and their reactions in living organisms. Three-hour lecture and one three-hour lab. Does not count toward Biochemistry major.
CHEM 3850 - Environmental Field and Laboratory Methods
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 1120/CHEM 1121; sophomore or higher level. Provides students with the practical tools necessary to evaluate an environmental question, develop an investigative plan, carry out the sampling and analysis from environmental matrices, and evaluate and present the results. A hands-on laboratory and field-based course. Students will learn how to collect, preserve, and analyze samples commonly measured for environmental assessment.
1 to 4 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor; CHEM 2230 recommended. Student research allied with the instructor’s research or designed specifically for the particular student. Minimum of three clock-hours work per week required for each credit hour. Summary report or some other form of presentation required. A total of no more than four hours of research credits may be counted toward a major in chemistry. May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
1 to 3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Successful completion of target courses and permission of instructor. A course to refine thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills through exposure to on-the-spot technical questions and a laboratory teaching experience as an assistant in an introductory chemistry laboratory. Course credits will count toward a major in General Science and one hour will count toward a major in Chemistry. May be repeated for a total of three credits.
1 to 4 credit hoursProvides students with opportunities for on-the-job training or other off-campus research experiences in conjunction with on-campus academic experiences. A final presentation or manuscript is expected. Department chair should be consulted. Pass/Fail.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: CHEM 3010/CHEM 3011 and CHEM 3020/CHEM 3021 or CHEM 2030/CHEM 2031 with permission of instructor. Drug design and development including structural changes involved in making drug analogs. Drug interaction with macromolecular targets including receptors, enzymes, and DNA. Various classes of drugs and their mechanisms for the treatment of specific therapeutic areas.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 3020/CHEM 3021. Theory of and practice in the interpretation of mass, infrared, Raman, ultraviolet-visible, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra. Three hours lecture.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Lectures, readings, and discussions of topics of current interest in chemistry. Lecture only. May be repeated for credit with a different topic (maximum of 6 hours).
4 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 2030/CHEM 2031, CHEM 2230/CHEM 2231, and CHEM 3020CHEM 3021 all with a grade of C- (1.67) or better. It is assumed that students have a solid grasp of college-level math including algebra. Corequisite: CHEM 4126. Chemistry of forensic substances such as paint, combustion and arson, color and colorants, glass, controlled drug substances, and fibers.
0 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 2030/CHEM 2031, CHEM 2230/CHEM 2231, and CHEM 3020CHEM 3021 all with a grade of C- (1.67) or better. It is assumed that students have a solid grasp of college-level math including algebra. Corequisite: CHEM 4125. Experiments about the chemistry of forensic substances such as paint, combustion and arson, color and colorants, glass, controlled drug substances, and fibers.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: CHEM 3010/ CHEM 3011 and CHEM 3020/ CHEM 3021 or CHEM 2030/ CHEM 2031 with permission of the instructor. Focuses on the structure and function of bioorganic molecules (i.e., peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and peptidomimetics), similarities between enzymatic reactions and bench-top organic reactions, and the techniques and instrumentation used to study bioorganic molecules.
1 credit hourPrerequisite: CHEM 2230/CHEM 2231, CHEM 4550/CHEM 4551, or consent of instructor. Mass spectrographic analysis emphasizing the use of the instrument in obtaining mass spectral data. Technique of obtaining spectra using gas chromatographic effluents as well as normal sampling procedures. Routine maintenance and an introduction to the interpretation of simple spectra.
4 credit hours(Same as FSCH 4230.) Prerequisite: CHEM 2230/CHEM 2231, or CHEM 4550/CHEM 4551 with instructor permission. Corequisite: CHEM 4231. Potentiometric titration, polarographic, coulometric, gas chromatographic, ultraviolet, visible and infrared absorption, and atomic absorption techniques of analysis. Requirements and limitations of each technique for obtaining quantitative measurements; applications to various chemical systems from both theoretical and experimental standpoints. Three hours lecture and one three-hour laboratory.
1 credit hourPrerequisite: CHEM 2230 / CHEM 2231 or consent of instructor. Laboratory study of atomic absorption spectrophotometry emphasizing the use of the instrument in making analytical measurements. Research instrumentation, flame, and non-flame techniques.
CHEM 4310 - Modeling Organic and Biological Molecules
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: CHEM 3010/CHEM 3011 and CHEM 3020/CHEM 3021 or permission of instructor. Basic concepts of molecular modeling and utilization of corresponding visualization and computation software tools with applications to organic and biological molecules.
4 credit hoursPrerequisites: MATH 1910 and PHYS 2020/PHYS 2021. Corequisite: CHEM 4331. Basic study of physical chemistry including modern theories of atomic and molecular structure, chemical thermodynamics, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, and related theoretical topics. Three hours lecture and one three-hour laboratory.
4 credit hoursPrerequisites: CHEM 2230/CHEM 2231; MATH 1920; PHYS 2020/PHYS 2021 or PHYS 2120/PHYS 2121. Corequisite: CHEM 4351. Quantitative principles of chemistry involving extensive use of calculus. Thermodynamics, phase changes, chemical equilibria, electrochemistry, reaction kinetics, quantum chemistry, molecule structure, and statistical mechanics. Three hours lecture and one three-hour laboratory.
4 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 4350/CHEM 4351. Corequisite: CHEM 4361. A molecular approach to traditional physical chemistry. Concepts and theorems of classical thermodynamics revisited on the basis of quantum and statistical mechanics applied to simple molecular models. Necessary mathematical apparatus discussed in sufficient detail, but only at applied level. Laboratory session provides hands-on experience with quantum-chemistry computational software to predict thermochemical and spectroscopic properties of molecules. Three hours lecture and one three-hour laboratories. Offered every spring.
CHEM 4380 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experimental Methods
1 credit hourPrerequisite: CHEM 3020/CHEM 3021 or CHEM 2030/CHEM 2031. NMR measurements, operation of the spectrometer, and evaluation of the quality of spectra produced.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: CHEM 1120 or equivalent; CHEM 3010 recommended. The basic concepts and theories of inorganic chemistry and how these are used to predict and understand the physical and chemical properties of compounds of the elements other than carbon. Chemistry of ions of the elements as it takes place in water, in solid-state salts, and in complexes, along with the chemistry of a selection of representative inorganic and organometallic molecules.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: CHEM 3010 and CHEM 4400; corequisite: CHEM 4360/CHEM 4361 recommended. Atomic theory for chemical periodicity; symmetry and group theory; molecular orbital theory; coordination, organometallics.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 3020/CHEM 3021. Corequisite: CHEM 4431. Techniques for synthesis and purification of organic and organometallic compounds. Practice compound characterization (NMR, IR, MS, XRD). Develop skills in database searches, data analysis, and scientific writing. Six hours laboratory and one-hour lecture.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite/corequisite: CHEM 3020/CHEM 3021; not open to those who have had CHEM 3530/CHEM 3531. Chemical properties of biological molecules such as amino acids, proteins, enzymes, and carbohydrates. Chemical basis of enzyme catalysis and reactions of carbohydrate metabolism. Three hours lecture per week.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 4500. Structure and metabolism of lipids, amino acids, nucleotides, and nucleic acids at the molecular level. Emphasis on chemistry of metabolic reactions. Three hours lecture per week.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite/corequisite: CHEM 4500 or consent of instructor. Theoretical principles and laboratory experience underlying common biochemical analytical techniques including spectrophotometry, column chromatography, electrophoresis, enzyme kinetics, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, structural analysis of carbohydrates and lipids, and manipulation of DNA. One hour lecture and three hours of laboratory per week.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: CHEM 3530/CHEM 3531 or CHEM 4500 with a grade of C- or better. Structure, function, and properties of protein- and ribonucleic acid-based enzymes. Chemical basis for catalysis and the methods used to study enzymes. Examples drawn from the literature to illustrate application of course material to disease.
; corequisite:CHEM 4551 . Survey of basic quantitative, qualitative, and purification methods with specific emphasis on molecules of interest to biochemistry. Three hours lecture and one three-hour lab per week.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: CHEM 4500. Focuses on the structure and chemistry of nucleic acids as well as the application of genetic techniques in biotechnology. Addresses the basic concepts of nucleic acids and the transfer of genetic information in a living system at the molecular level. Types of mutations, effects of mutagens, and mutation repair mechanisms also covered along with the application of techniques related to nucleic acids in biotechnology.