Jun 25, 2024  
2019-20 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-20 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.

 

Criminal Justice Administration

  
  
  • CJA 3911 - Introduction to Homeland Security

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: CJA 1100 ; junior or senior standing. Examines the history, foundation, and extent of the scope (disasters, border, maritime, cyber, space, terrorism). Discusses policies, legal considerations for training, and social and ethical issues regarding intelligence collection and program implementation. Integrates All-Hazards Homeland Security with the National Response Framework.


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  • CJA 4220 - Community Relations and Minority Problems

    3 credit hours
    Analysis of public hostility toward police and current community relations projects, human relations, training and education of law enforcement officers; responsibilities of police administrators, causes of tension and conflict, dissent and disorder, positive and negative factors in the control of minority group hostilities; minority recruitment in law enforcement.


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  • CJA 4260 - Special Issues in Criminal Justice

    3 credit hours
    A variety of subtopics related to the criminal justice system such as problems in private security and public morality with regard to criminal justice theory, victimology, drug use, alcoholism, and sex offenses; analysis of current police training programs; relationships between legislation and political processes which affect the criminal justice system. May be repeated with department permission provided the subtopic changed.


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  • CJA 4300 - Criminal Justice Internship

    6 or 9 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. (Open only to pre-service seniors, e.g., those preparing for a career in the criminal justice field who are not currently employed by a criminal justice agency and restricted to Criminal Justice Administration majors and minors.) Field placement in a criminal justice agency to provide practical understanding and experience in the field. Requires a minimum of 150 clock hours for 6 credit hours or a minimum of 225 clock hours for 9 credit hours.


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  • CJA 4500 - The Juvenile Justice System

    3 credit hours
    The problem of juvenile delinquency and youth crime with emphasis on the history of the juvenile justice system, the court and police role within the system, rehabilitation and correction of the delinquent, and juvenile probation services. Alternatives to traditional procedures, such as community-based programs versus correctional institutions, and non-judicial and judicial adjustment examined.


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  • CJA 4850 - Private and Industrial Security

    3 credit hours
    Examines the relationships among the criminal justice system, homeland security, and private and industrial security including historical roots and mutual concerns. Covers terrorist acts, internal theft, white-collar crime, retail security, institutional security, cargo and computer security as well as the role of the criminal justice system in prevention and investigation.


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  • CJA 4860 - Security Administration

    3 credit hours
    The placement of the security function within an organization. The role of the security manager in developing a program to protect assets and reduce illegal losses, to protect against acts of terrorism, and to provide protection for personnel. The application of management techniques to the operation of the organization’s security division, including personnel recruitment and selection. Development of security survey techniques, identification of security risks, and techniques used to eliminate opportunities for theft, other crimes, and terrorist acts.


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  • CJA 4900 - Readings in Criminal Justice Administration

    3 or 6 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Open only to Criminal Justice Administration majors and minors. For the advanced student who is capable of independent study. Readings and research projects are expected in a particular area of criminal justice relevant to the individual student’s interests. Preparation of an annotated bibliography and report required and  variable dependent on the amount of credit hours. Arrangements should be made with the instructor prior to registration. The student should be expected to have 45 contact hours for 3 hours of credit or 90 contact hours for 6 hours of credit. May be repeated for 3 hours of credit if for only 3 hours of credit previously; a maximum of 6 hours total course granted as credit in this program. 


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Dance

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • DANC 3600 - Teaching Creative Movement for Children

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: 2000-level dance technique courses in ballet or modern dance and permission of department. Dance as a viable activity that can enhance the learning process. Explores the discipline of dance as basic to an education for all people. Educational and aesthetic theories and practices related to fashioning developmentally appropriate dance experiences for children. Offered even-numbered fall semesters only.


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  • DANC 4290 - Special Topics in Dance

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of department; must have taken DANC 4100  and/or demonstrate proficiency in modern dance technique at the intermediate level. Allows students to explore topics not covered in regular dance curriculum enhancing student’s breadth of knowledge and career preparedness. Content varies based on faculty or guest artist instructing class. Topic, method of instruction, and prerequisite will be determined at time of scheduling. Course may be repeated.


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  • DANC 4600 - Dance Kinesiology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 2010  or DANC 2040 . An experiential study of the human body in rest and in motion. Emphasis on the skeletal and muscular systems in consideration of applications to dance performance, teaching and creative processes, injury prevention and rehabilitation, nutrition, environmental effects on the human body, and the emerging area of dance medicine while training for classical ballet and modern dance. Offered spring semester only.


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  • DANC 4950 - Directed Studies

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Available only to students in Theatre and Dance who have completed 50 percent of their coursework in their major and have an overall GPA of 3.2 for their last 30 hours of study; permission of department required. Proposals must be submitted and approved by theatre and dance faculty the semester prior to the beginning of the semester of enrollment. Individualized intensive instruction for students to pursue research and creative activity in a specified area.


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  • DANC 4990 - Senior Seminar in Dance

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of 75 credit hours and permission of department. A capstone to the dance student’s undergraduate career and preparation for transition to the professional world or graduate study. Includes lectures, workshops, professional guest speakers, and discussion sessions. Students will complete various paper-based projects, a capstone research project, resume, and portfolio construction.


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Data Science

  
  

Developmental Studies Math

  

Developmental Studies Reading

  

Developmental Studies Writing

  

Early Childhood Education

  
  
  
  
  • ECE 4110 - Residency II: Grades Prek-3

    12 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Successful completion of professional education requirements; admission to teacher education; major requirements in Early Childhood Education with at least a C- grade in each course; senior or graduate standing; minimum grade point average of 2.75 overall. Full semester of supervised teaching experience in two placements in the public schools. Pass/Fail.

     


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Economics

  
  
  
  
  
  • ECON 3210 - The Financial System and the Economy

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ECON 2410 ; junior standing. Basic introduction to the functions of financial institutions and markets in the conduct of domestic and international economic transactions. Within financial market context, focus on special role that money plays as an asset and a determinant of the price level, the cause of inflation and inflation’s effects on interest rates and borrowing costs, and the influence of Federal Reserve actions (monetary policy) on money and interest rates.


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  • ECON 3520 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ECON 2410 , ECON 2420 ; junior or senior standing; admission into the College of Business. Second semester of microeconomic theory following ECON 2420 . Topics include consumer choice, the labor supply model, the life cycle model, choice under uncertainty, production and supply, the cost of production, perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, game theory, and the human capital model. For Economics B.B.A. and B.S. students only.


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  • ECON 4100 - Law and Economics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Admission into the College of Business; junior standing preferred. Applies microeconomic theory to the analysis of legal rules and institutions. Examines the economics tools lawyers and experts use in analyzing antitrust issues. Topics include intellectual property rights, measuring compensatory damages in liability cases, current legal issues such as tort reform, the role of economics in bargaining and settlement, and antitrust law topics such as mergers and price-fixing.


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  • ECON 4400 - Economics of Antitrust and Regulation

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ECON 2420 ; junior standing; admission into the College of Business. Economic analysis of the antitrust laws and their enforcement: price-fixing, collusion, mergers, monopolization, and vertical arrangements. Economics theories of regulation/deregulation applied to actual regulatory policies: natural monopoly; price and entry regulation; health, safety, and environmental regulation; and intellectual property. Includes historical development as well as current applications.
     


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  • ECON 4420 - Labor and Human Resource Economics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ECON 2410  or ECON 2420 ; junior standing; and admission into the College of Business. Current issues and theories, returns to training and education (human capital), earnings differences; union impacts and government regulation of labor relations and labor markets; human resource information system modeling, including applied PC or mainframe data analysis and integration of Internet information sources.


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  • ECON 4480 - State and Local Economies

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Admission into the College of Business and junior standing preferred. Analysis of state and local economies in the United States. Topics include local economic development; data sources for the analysis of local economies; comparing local economies; employment and the labor force; income and earnings; population and housing; identifying driving industries; impact analysis; cluster analysis; underemployment; local workforces; human capital; location, infrastructure, and natural resources; regional development policy; recruiting; tax incentives; technology and green policy; and examining short-term and long-term policy issues.
     


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  • ECON 4600 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Admission into the College of Business and junior standing preferred. Problems of environmental quality and natural resource scarcity from an economic perspective. Topics include interaction between the environment and the economy, benefits and costs of environmental regulation, use of incentives to achieve least-cost pollution control, international environmental issues such as global warming, the role of natural resources in the U.S. economy, problems associated with natural resource scarcity and depletion, and problems related to consumption of renewable resources.


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  • ECON 4700 - Sports Economics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite:  Admission into the College of Business; junior standing preferred. Economic theories in the areas of public finance, labor markets, game theory, industrial organization, and price theory studied within the context of sports. Examines common misperceptions about sports-related statistical data and relates it to issues in the broader economy. Topics include benefits and costs of financing sports arenas, structure and competitiveness of sports leagues, antitrust exemptions, effects of title IX regulations, labor bargaining and negotiations, wage and price determination. Explores issues in collegiate sports such as potential for crowding out other college programs (the prisoner’s dilemma).


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  • ECON 4720 - Economic Issues in the Music Industry

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ECON 2420 ; admission into the College of Business; and junior standing. Economic analysis of issues arising in the recorded music industry largely in response to Internet availability of music formats. Topics include structure, conduct, and performance of the industry; optimal copyright policy; the economics of digital piracy; superstars and variety; payola; economics of two-sided markets; policy analysis; and evaluation of effects on social welfare.


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  • ECON 4780 - Behavioral Economics and Finance

    3 credit hours
    (Same as FIN 4780 .) Prerequisites: ECON 2410  and ECON 2420 ; admission into the College of Business; junior standing preferred. Concepts in behavioral economics and finance. Focuses on common behavioral tendencies not well integrated into standard neoclassical economic theory. Topics include other regarding preferences, risk aversion, sunk cost fallacies, endowment effects, and common biases and errors in judgment and decision making. Explores applications of these concepts in finance and other areas of business.


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