May 17, 2024  
2011-12 Graduate Catalog 
    
2011-12 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Health

  
  • HLTH 6860 - Program Planning for Health Promotion

    3 credit hours
    Program planning, theories and models of health education and promotion, development of interventions, and program implementation, including mission, goals, objectives, and activities of health education and promotion programs. Introduces needs assessment and program evaluation.


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  • HLTH 6870 - Health Promotion

    3 credit hours
    Health promotion knowledge as well as the ability to impart this knowledge to the lay population. In-depth information will be covered regarding lifestyle and its relationship to risk factors for cardiovascular disease and cancer.


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  • HLTH 6880 - Internship and Special Projects

    3 to 6 credit hours
    (Same as EXSC 6880 /PHED 6880 /LSM 6880 .) On-site practical experience in an exercise science, health promotion, or sport management program. Those with extensive work experience will develop, implement, and conclude a project (research or applied) in consultation with the major professor.


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  • HLTH 6950 - Advanced Methods of Community Health Education

    3 credit hours
    Review of program planning, development of interventions, and implementation of programs. Budgeting, needs assessment, and evaluation of health education and promotion programs covered.


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  • HLTH 6970 - Advanced Methods in Human Sexuality Education

    3 credit hours
    Methodology, teaching techniques, and the organization of sexuality education programs for schools (K-12) and other community settings. Additional emphasis directed to concepts and information about human sexuality education, i.e., the psychological, physiological, sociological, and ethical aspects.


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  • HLTH 7120 - Research in Epidemiology

    3 credit hours
    Advanced study in epidemiological analysis, methods, and critique with an emphasis within the field of health and human performance. Areas include epidemiology and chronic disease, public health, exercise science, and sports medicine.


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Health and Human Performance

  
  • HHP 6610 - Research Methods in Health and Human Performance

    3 credit hours
    Location of information, methods of research, methods of collecting data, application of the computer in analyzing data, and preparation and presentation of a research paper.


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  • HHP 6700 - Data Analysis and Organization for Human Performance

    3 credit hours
    Pertinent skills needed to analyze and organize research data through introduction of concepts, principles, techniques, and activities that lead to the appropriate organization and analysis of research data collected for health and human performance.


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  • HHP 6999 - Comprehensive Examination and Preparation

    1 credit hours
    Open only to students who are not enrolled in any other graduate course and who will take the master’s comprehensive examination during the term. The student must contact the graduate advisor during the first two weeks of the term for specifics regarding the details of this comprehensive examination preparatory course. Credit may not be applied to degree requirements.


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  • HHP 7300 - Current Measurement Issues in Health and Human Performance

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: HHP 6610  and HHP 6700  or equivalent. Advanced applications of measurement theories (i.e., item response theory), test construction, statistical techniques, and computer software for measurement research in the area of health and human performance.


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  • HHP 7600 - Practicum in Human Performance

    2 credit hours
    Careful supervision given to actual teaching, clinical, or research experience. Assignment by department or chair of candidate’s committee. S/U grading.


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  • HHP 7610 - Practicum in Human Performance

    2 credit hours
    Careful supervision given to actual teaching, clinical, or research experience. Assignment by department or chair of candidate’s committee. S/U grading.


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  • HHP 7640 - Dissertation Research

    1 to 6 credit hours
    Assignment by department or chair of candidate’s committee. Selection of a research problem, review of pertinent literature, collection and analysis of data, and composition of dissertation. Once enrolled, student should register for at least one credit hour of doctoral research each semester until completion. S/U grading


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  • HHP 7700 - Advanced Data Analysis and Organization for Human Performance

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: HHP 6610  and HHP 6700  or equivalent. Skills and understanding necessary to read, conduct, report, and interpret advanced data analytical techniques using data from HHP. Practical and written assignments, presentations, examinations, and projects will furnish doctoral student with tools necessary for data analysis associated with dissertation requirement.


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  • HHP 7710 - Experimental Design in Human Performance

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: HHP 6610  and HHP 7700  or equivalent. Skills and understanding necessary to evaluate designs used in HHP research literature. Practical and written assignments, evaluation of current research, examinations, and projects; knowledge and skills for planning appropriately the design for future research projects.


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  • HHP 7999 - Comprehensive Examination and Preparation

    1 credit hours
    Open only to students who are not enrolled in any other graduate course and who will take the master’s comprehensive examination during the term. The student must contact the graduate advisor during the first two weeks of the term for specifics regarding the details of this comprehensive examination preparatory course. Credit may not be applied to degree requirements.


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History

  
  • HIST 5010 - Colonial America

    3 credit hours
    Exploration and colonization of North America, relations between Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and colonial societies in the context of the Atlantic world from 1492 to 1760.


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  • HIST 5020 - The American Revolution

    3 credit hours
    Examines international conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the War of 1812 while emphasizing political, social, intellectual, and economic developments in the new United States.


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  • HIST 5030 - Jacksonian America, 1815-1850

    3 credit hours
    The major political, social, and economic developments in the awakening of American nationalism, Jacksonian Democracy, expansionism, and the Mexican War.


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  • HIST 5050 - Modern America, 1877-1914

    3 credit hours
    The nature and consequences of the shift of the United States from an agrarian to an urban and industrialized society between Reconstruction and World War I.


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  • HIST 5060 - Modern America, 1914-1945

    3 credit hours
    The increasing involvement of the United States in world affairs from World War I through World War II and of the social and political consequences of economic complexity which resulted in prosperity, depression, and the New Deal.


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  • HIST 5070 - Modern America, Post-1945

    3 credit hours
    The major social, political, economic, and diplomatic developments in the history of the United States from 1945 to the present with particular emphasis on the role of the United States in world affairs and the changing role of government.


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  • HIST 5130 - The Sunbelt

    3 credit hours
    The Southern rim of states from a nineteenth-century American outpost to the modern pacesetting position in economics, culture, racial relationships, and politics with such leaders as King, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan.


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  • HIST 5140 - The United States West

    3 credit hours
    History of the United States West with an emphasis on the area west of the Mississippi River from pre-contact to the twenty-first century. Explores major social, political, economic, and environmental issues with particular attention to race, class, gender, and the original inhabitants.


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  • HIST 5150 - The American South

    3 credit hours
    The major themes that have created and recreated southern culture from the colonial period to the present. Major social, political, and economic factors that made and remade the region through time.


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  • HIST 5212 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Early Modern Europe

    3 credit hours
    Major trends and movements in artistic, literary, social, economic, political, scientific, and religious thought in cultural context and diffusion in society; how these trends and movements have changed European concepts since the Enlightenment. Begins about 1200 to establish a background and then focuses on 1400 to 1789.


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  • HIST 5213 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe

    3 credit hours
    Major trends and movements in artistic, literary, social, economic, political, scientific, and religious thought in cultural context and diffusion in society; how these trends and movements have changed European concepts since the Enlightenment. Begins about 1650 to establish a background and then focuses on 1789 to the present.


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  • HIST 5220 - Renaissance Europe

    3 credit hours
    Survey of political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.


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  • HIST 5230 - Reformation Europe

    3 credit hours
    Survey of political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.


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  • HIST 5250 - Europe: The French Revolution and Napoleon

    3 credit hours
    The social, political, and economic aspects of the old regime, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic period in European history.


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  • HIST 5310 - Germany to 1870

    3 credit hours
    The evolution of the German states from their Indo-European origins to their unification in a single German nation in 1871 with particular emphasis on the history of German men and women since the Middle Ages. History of Austria and its possessions also included.


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  • HIST 5320 - Germany Since 1870

    3 credit hours
    The history of Germany from national unification in 1871 through its reunification in the contemporary world. Course emphasizes major social, cultural, political, intellectual, and economic developments of the period as they relate to both German men and women. History of the Austro-Hungarian empire (1867-1918) and the modern Austrian state also included.


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  • HIST 5360 - Britain in the Nineteenth Century

    3 credit hours
    Survey of British political, economic, diplomatic, military, and cultural developments from the end of the Napoleonic era to Gladstone’s retirement in 1894.


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  • HIST 5370 - Britain in the Twentieth Century

    3 credit hours
    The political, military, imperial, economic, and social history of a changing Britain in its century of total war, imperial decline, and economic readjustment.


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  • HIST 5440 - The Middle East

    3 credit hours
    The development of the Near East, the rise and spread of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism in the Near East, contemporary developments. Emphasis on cultural contributions of the Near East to western civilization.


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  • HIST 5510 - Colonial Latin America

    3 credit hours
    The indigenous societies present before European colonization and the first encounters in Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. Analysis of political structures imposed by the Spanish as well as the social and cultural implications of colonialism and miscegenation


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  • HIST 5520 - Modern Latin America

    3 credit hours
    Examination of colonial background of Latin America, moving to an exploration of economic, political, social, and cultural developments in Latin America since independence.


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  • HIST 5530 - Latin American-United States Relations

    3 credit hours
    Relations between the United States and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with emphasis on the effect of cultural differences on inter-American diplomacy.


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  • HIST 5560 - Ancient Egypt

    3 credit hours
    Examines political, social, and cultural developments reflected in Egyptian artistic, literary, and architectural works within the context of the 3,000 years from the Predynastic Period through the Ptolemaic Dynasty (3200–32 B.C.E.).


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  • HIST 5610 - History of Medicine

    3 credit hours
    Medical developments and in particular the relationship between medicine and society. Examines two medical traditions: the West and China. Discussions not only on major developments in medicine but also of the systems of healing in these cultures and comparison of the different roles medicine played within these societies. Also investigates the impact of Western scientific medicine on the various systems of traditional medicine.


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  • HIST 5630 - Computer and Quantitative History

    3 credit hours
    Examines quantitative reasoning in historical research. Covers historiographical questions and practical research skills. Includes historical causality, historical change over time, data preparation, sampling, and the interpretation of quantitative data.


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  • HIST 5640 - Environmental History

    3 credit hours
    Traces environmental change in America from the Puritans to the present and from wilderness to suburbia. Explains impact of growth, settlement, and resource exploitation on our national landscape and institutions.


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  • HIST 5650 - Religious Experience in America

    3 credit hours
    Explores the nature of religion as experienced in American history focusing on the questions “How has religion affected America?” and “How has America affected religion?” Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the contact of and exchanges among traditions such as Protestant-Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Animism.


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  • HIST 5660 - American Architectural History

    3 credit hours
    An analysis of the historical development of American architecture and of architecture as evidence of America’s cultural, social, economic, and technological growth from 1607 to the present.


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  • HIST 5670 - American Urban History

    3 credit hours
    A survey of the development and growth of cities and suburbs from the colonial period to the present with particular emphasis on urban institutions, problems, politics, culture, and society.


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  • HIST 5680 - History of Sport in America

    3 credit hours
    The role of sport in American society from the colonial era to the present, with emphasis on how sporting activities reflect political, cultural, and economic characteristics of various time periods.


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  • HIST 5690 - Native American History

    3 credit hours
    United States American Indian history from pre-contact to the present with emphasis on issues important to native people and on their active participation in a constantly changing world.


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  • HIST 5720 - Boone’s and Crockett’s America

    3 credit hours
    Studies the mass movement of farm families into the interior of North America before 1860, with particular emphasis on Native American life, frontier politics, society, and culture, as well as the subsequent development of a frontier myth celebrating this migration.


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  • HIST 5740 - American Cultural and Intellectual History

    3 credit hours
    Explores the major issues in American cultural and intellectual history through an examination of American literature, philosophy, social sciences, fine arts, and popular culture.


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  • HIST 5750 - African American Social and Intellectual History

    3 credit hours
    The changing role and status of African Americans in American life and the contributions to the culture and institutions of the United States.


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  • HIST 5760 - America Divided: Race, Class, and Gender

    3 credit hours
    Interaction of race, class, and gender in the lives of Americans within historical frameworks; how such interactions have shaped American social and political institutions.


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  • HIST 5770 - Women in America to 1890

    3 credit hours
    Examines women’s roles in the United States from colonial times to 1890, emphasizing the experiences of women of different classes, races, and ethnic groups with work, family, and politics.


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  • HIST 5780 - Women in America Since 1890

    3 credit hours
    Examines women’s roles in the United States since 1890, emphasizing the experiences of women in different classes, races, and ethnic groups with work, family, and politics.


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  • HIST 5790 - Women in Europe Since 1700

    3 credit hours
    A comparative study of the social, intellectual, cultural, political, and economic history of women’s lives in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia since 1700.


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  • HIST 5810 - History of Women in the Third World

    3 credit hours
    Examines the connections between modern colonialism and the development of third-world feminisms. First focuses on conquest and colonialism and the consequences for third-world women of that process, then moves to postcolonial societies and expands to include women’s political, economic, and social roles in the three regions of Africa, China, and Latin America.


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  • HIST 5850 - Material Culture Resources in World History

    3 credit hours
    A survey of the architecture, furniture, tools, utensils, weapons, ceremonial objects, etc., of the world’s major civilizations. Provides a basis for studying how various cultural styles have influenced the development of our own material culture resources.


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  • HIST 6010 - Historiography

    3 credit hours
    An introduction to history’s major schools of thought. Through reading, class discussion, and essays, students explore critical interpretations in American, European, and non-Western history.


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  • HIST 6020 - Historical Research Methods

    3 credit hours
    Sharpens comprehension of historical interpretation by exploring, through reading, research, and class discussion, possible alternative explanations for specific historical events and themes.


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  • HIST 6101 - Seminar: Readings in Early American History

    3 credit hours
    Analyzes scholarly literature on the history of North America from the emergence of native societies through the American Revolution.


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  • HIST 6104 - Seminar: Topics in American History

    3 credit hours
    Analyzes scholarly literature on a major topic in the history of the United States. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.


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  • HIST 6105 - Seminar: Research in American History

    3 credit hours
    Intensive primary source research and scholarly writing in United States history. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.


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  • HIST 6205 - Seminar: Research in European History

    3 credit hours
    Intensive primary source research and scholarly writing in European history. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.


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  • HIST 6220 - Seminar in Public Programming for Historical Organizations and Archives

    3 credit hours
    Examines the theory and practice of educational outreach and public programming for historical organizations. Designed to provide in-depth study in reference services, outreach, history education, advocacy, exhibit development, and assessment for a variety of cultural institutions.


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  • HIST 6225 - Oral History: Theory and Methodology

    3 credit hours
    Examines theory and methodology of oral history, including in-depth examination of the relationship of history and memory; explores oral history in texts, films, websites, and museum exhibits. Students focus on how to conduct professional quality oral history interviews, how to process the materials, and how to organize a professional project.


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