Jun 17, 2024  
2018-19 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-19 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


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.

 

Academic Success Program

  

Accounting

  
  
  
  
  
  
  • ACTG 3110 - Intermediate Accounting I

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites:   with minimum grade of C;  ACTG 2125  or ACTG 3000  with minimum grade of C; MATH 1630 ; GPA of at least 2.00; junior standing; admission into the College of Business; passing grade on departmental admission exam. Introduction to professional accounting standards and financial statement preparation. Review of the accounting cycle. Extensive coverage of time value of money concepts and accounting for and reporting of current assets; current liabilities; and property, plant, and equipment.


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  • ACTG 3120 - Intermediate Accounting II

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ACTG 3110  with minimum grade of C and admission into the College of Business. Continuation of Intermediate Accounting I with professional accounting standards and financial statement preparation. Extensive coverage of accounting for and reporting of investments, long-term liabilities, owners’ equity and related issues, revenue recognition, accounting changes and errors, and cash flows.


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  • ACTG 4420 - Accounting Internship

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Senior standing or consent of advisor; a plan of activities with the associated firm prior to registration; admission into the College of Business. Active employment with an accounting firm, governmental agency, or business firm for accounting field work; credit given for experience and research upon completion of acceptable work and formal report. (Not counted as part of 24-hour Accounting major requirements.) Pass/Fail.


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Actuarial Sciences

  
  • ACSI 4140 - Mathematical Foundations of Actuarial Science

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: MATH 3110  and STAT 3150  or consent of instructor. Integrates calculus, probability, and risk management topics into fundamental tools for assessing risk in an actuarial environment. Calculus and probability topics include derivatives, integrals, partials, random variables, distributions, and conditional probability. Risk topics include frequency and severity. Insurance concepts such as retention, deductible, coinsurance, and risk premiums. For students in Actuarial Science, a preparatory course for a Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society Course.


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  • ACSI 4200 - Introduction to Mathematics of Investment

    3 credit hours
    (Same as MATH 4200 .) Prerequisite: MATH 1920  or consent of instructor. Calculus and probability/statistics used to model and analyze investments in bonds, treasury bills, stocks, and other derivatives. Topics include obtaining the price of a bond as a function of interest rate, developing formulas for duration and convexity to study the sensitivity of price to interest rate, and mathematical modeling of investor preference and attitude toward risk.


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  • ACSI 4220 - Mathematics of Pricing Theory

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ACSI 4200 /MATH 4200  and ECON 2410 , ECON 2420 ; or consent of instructor. Applies calculus and theory of interest tools to intermediate topics in microeconomics. Topics include mathematics of supply, demand, and equilibrium; prices, costs, and the gains from trade; consumer behavior; elasticities; competition; monopoly; market power, collusion, and oligopoly; the mathematics of risk and uncertainty; and surplus economics. For students in Actuarial Science, a preparatory course for a Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society VEE (validation by educational experience) course.


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  • ACSI 4240 - Mathematics of Interest Theory, Economics and Finance

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ACSI 4230  or consent of instructor. Applies calculus and theory of interest tools to intermediate topics in microeconomics and macroeconomics and topics in finance. Topics include pricing activities, the simplified Keynesian model, interest and discount rates, valuation of payment streams, yield rates, amortization, cash flows and internal rate of return, stock and bond valuation, portfolio risks, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), efficient markets, capital structure, leverage, financial performance measurement, and basic option pricing and the Black-Scholes model. For students in Actuarial Science, a preparatory course for a Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society Course.


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  • ACSI 4600 - Problems in Actuarial Science

    1 to 6 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Senior standing and consent of instructor. Students wishing to enroll must submit a written course/topic proposal to the department prior to the semester in which ACSI 4600 is taken. Proposal must be approved prior to taking the course. At the conclusion, each enrollee must submit a written report to the department.


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  • ACSI 4630 - Mathematics of Risk Management

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ACSI 4200 /MATH 4200 . For students in Actuarial Science, offers preparation for a Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuarial Society VEE (validation by educational experience) Course. Topics include mathematical modeling of volatility; pricing of bonds, stocks, and other derivatives with uncertainty; benchmark portfolios; asset/liability management for property/casualty insurers; liability associated with a financially distressed company. Heath-Jarrow-Morton and Cox-Ingersoll-Ross models.


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Advertising

  
  
  
  
  
  
  • ADV 3520 - Special Topics in Professional Issues

    3 credit hours
    (Same as JOUR/PR/VCOM.) Special topics in journalism, advertising, public relations, and visual communication focusing on practical applications. Topics change each semester and have included investigative, environmental, sports, and political reporting; visual editing; international public relations; and advertising account management. May be repeated up to 6 credits.


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Aerospace

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • AERO 2201 - Professional Pilot Flight Lab I

    2 credit hours

    Prerequisite: AERO 2230  or simultaneous completion of AERO 2230. Flight instruction leading to the FAA Private Pilot Certificate; the first of four flight labs in the Professional Pilot concentration sequence. Private Pilot certificate must be completed during this course. Requires a minimum of four training sessions per week at the airport campus in the spring/fall semester and a minimum of five training sessions per week at the airport campus in the summer session. Fee required.


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  • AERO 2710 - sUAS Remote Pilot Certification

    2 credit hours
    Prerequisite: AERO 1020 , AERO 1710  with minimum grade of C, and AERO 2230 . Offers preparation for students to take the FAA Remote Pilot Aeronautical Knowledge test. Topics will include regulations, airspace and requirements, weather, loading and performance, and small unmanned aircraft operations. Students acquire actual experience of operating in the National Airspace System (NAS) through a series of manned flights. Manned flight experience requires scheduled time at the airport campus for guided simulator and flight demonstrations. Fee required for manned flight experience. FAA Remote Pilot Certificate must be completed during this course at student expense. 


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  • AERO 2715 - Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Certification

    3 credit hours


    Prerequisite: AERO 1710  with minimum grade of C or permission of instructor. Offers preparation for non-UAS major students to take the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Aeronautical Knowledge test. Topics include regulations, airspace and requirements, weather, loading and performance, and small unmanned aircraft operations. FAA Remote Pilot Certificate must be completed during this course at student expense.

    Note: UAS majors must take AERO 2710 sUAS Remote Pilot Certificate. 

     


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  • AERO 3170 - Aviation Safety

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: AERO 1020 . Addresses safety issues inherent in aviation operations, including human factors, maintenance and design factors, and weather implications. Examines numerous case studies involving aircraft accidents or incidents to assist students in identifying potential risks and hazards in the aviation industry. Introduces the Safety Management System (SMS) approach to increasing aviation safety.


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  • AERO 3203 - Professional Pilot Flight Lab II

    2 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Private Pilot Certificate; AERO 3210  or simultaneous completion of AERO 3210 . Flight instruction leading to the FAA Instrument Rating; second of four flight labs in the Professional Pilot concentration sequence. Instrument Rating must be completed during this course. Requires a minimum of four training sessions per week at the airport campus in the spring/fall semester and a minimum of five training sessions per week at the airport campus in the summer session. Fee required.


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  • AERO 3204 - Professional Pilot Flight Lab III

    2 credit hours
    Prerequisites: AERO 3203  and AERO 3215  or simultaneous completion of AERO 3215 . Flight instruction leading to the FAA Commercial Pilot Certificate-Airplane Single-Engine Land; third of four flight labs in the Professional Pilot concentration sequence. Commercial Pilot Single-Engine Land Certificate must be completed during this course. Requires a minimum of four training sessions per week at the airport campus in the spring/fall semester and a minimum of five training sessions per week at the airport campus in the summer session. Fee required.


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  • AERO 3240 - Professional Pilot IV

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Commercial Certificate, AERO 3204  and AERO 3261  or simultaneous completion of AERO 3261 . Fourth class in the Professional Pilot concentration sequence. Provides students with an introduction to cabin class aircraft and flight in the multi-crew environment. Topics include advanced aircraft systems, flight management systems, crew resource management, aeronautical decision making, and aviation safety. Reviews Part 14 CFR Part 61, 91, 119, 121, and 135 regulations. Includes the training requirements of 14 CFR 61.31 for high performance and pressurized aircraft. Examines flight in cabin class aircraft using the training format employed by the air carrier industry. Includes LOFT assessments with students working as crew and learning typical air carrier procedures in the department’s BE-1900 flight training device. Meets for six hours per week and consists of lecture and laboratory. Fee required.


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  • AERO 3261 - Professional Pilot Flight Lab IV

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisites: AERO 3204  and AERO 3215 . Flight instruction leading to the FAA Commercial Pilot Airplane Multi-engine Land Certificate; last of four flight labs in the Professional Pilot concentration sequence. Commercial Pilot Multi-engine Land Certificate must be completed during this course. Fee required. Requires a minimum of three training sessions per week at the airport campus in the spring/fall semester and a minimum of four training sessions per week at the airport campus in the summer session. Fee required. NOTE: This is not an FAA Part 141 course.


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  • AERO 3510 - Instrument Operations in the National Airspace System

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: AERO 2230 . (Not open to Professional Pilot majors or students who have completed AERO 3210 .) Introduces non-Professional Pilot students to flight in the instrument flight rules (IFR) environment. Topics include flight instrument systems, instrument navigation concepts, IFR communications, instrument charts and procedures (departure, enroute, arrival, and approach), and aviation weather in the IFR environment.


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  • AERO 3631 - Introduction to Air Traffic Control Lab

    1 credit hour
    Required corequisite: AERO 3630 . Focuses on the many aspects of the Air Traffic Control System; introduces the Air Traffic Control Tower, the Terminal Radar Approach Control, and En-Route systems. Students required to attend simulation labs which will give them hands on application of tasks and procedures used in the National Airspace System. Fee required. A final grade of B is required for continuation in the ATC program. Requires four hours contact time required per week. Fall only. For complete ACT policy to http://mtsu.edu/aerospace/cti.php.


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