Jun 16, 2024  
2022-23 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-23 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 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 current and long-term liabilities, owners’ equity and related issues, accounting changes and errors, and cash flows.


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  • ACTG 4420 - Accounting Internship

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Junior 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 27-hour Accounting major requirements.) Pass/Fail.


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  • ACTG 4610 - Financial Reporting for Governmental and Not-for-Profit Entities

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ACTG 3110  with minimum grade of C; admission into the College of Business. Accounting principles for state and local governments and not-for-profit entities; financial statement preparation and analysis for government and not-for-profit entities, including specialized industries such as healthcare, education, and utilities; and federal government accounting.


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  • ACTG 4680 - Forensic Accountancy and Fraud Auditing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ACTG 4510  or ACTG 5510 with minimum grade of C or approval of department chair and admission into the College of Business. The practice of forensic accounting, i.e., nontraditional investigative aspects of accountancy (e.g., litigation support, business interruptions, etc.); emphasis on fraud prevention and the detection of fraudulent intent to obtain improper individual or group gains.


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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.


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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 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.


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  • ACSI 4530 - Rate Making and Loss Reserving

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ACSI 4200  or the consent of the instructor. Topics include the introduction of the daily work as a P&C actuary in rate making and loss reserving, summarizing loss run data, compiling of loss triangles, computing loss development factors, incurred method, paid method, case method, Bornhuetter-Ferguson method, trend losses, rate making on losses and exposure, IBNR reserving, make loss payments plan, reporting and communication of analysis results.


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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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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 1020 - Theory of Flight

    3 credit hours
    Topics include basic aerodynamics with emphasis on lift, weight, thrust, and drag forces and moments acting upon an airplane in flight. Provides students with the opportunity to become acquainted with technical aviation terminology, the physics and mathematics necessary to understand various aspects of flight, and personal experience with aircraft design and testing through a balsa wood glider project.


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  • 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 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  with minimum grade of C (2.0). Comprehensive analysis of the principles, practices, and regulatory environment of safety in aviation operations. These include human factors issues and best practices, approaches to safety management, the role of government agencies in aviation safety, and the requirements of Safety Management Systems (SMS). Numerous case studies involving aircraft accidents or incidents examined to assist students in identifying potential risks and hazards in the flight environment.


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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 3215 - Professional Pilot III

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Instrument Rating, AERO 3210  with minimum grade of C, and AERO 3203   with minimum grade of C. Required corequisite: AERO 3204 . Third of five classes in the Professional Pilot concentration sequence. Provides students with aeronautical knowledge required for certification as a Commercial Single-Engine and Multi-Engine Pilot. Emphasis placed on the acquisition of advanced knowledge of aerodynamics, performance, systems for single-engine and multi-engine aircraft, and Federal Aviation Regulations.


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  • AERO 3230 - Crew Resource Management

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: AERO 2230 . Introduces and explores Crew Resource Management (CRM) as a cornerstone of modern aviation safety. Develops communication and non-technical skills. Investigates and fosters the effective use of human, hardware, software, and information resources related to all aviation professions. Emphasis on team building, communication, decision making, situation awareness, and use of automation.


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  • AERO 3240 - Professional Pilot IV

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Commercial Certificate, AERO 3204  with minimum grade of C (2.0); prerequisite/corequisite: AERO 3261  with minimum grade of C (2.0). Fourth class in the Professional Pilot concentration sequence. Introduces aircraft systems and procedures for a multi-engine, multiple crew, turbofan, transport-category aircraft typical of the type used in regional airline operations (CRJ 700). Covers major aircraft systems, operational procedures, and standard crew procedures for pilot-flying and pilot-monitoring roles, and requires flight simulator sessions. Fee required. 


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  • AERO 3261 - Professional Pilot Flight Lab IV

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisites: AERO 3204  and AERO 3215 , both with minimum grade of C (2.0). 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  with minimum grade of C (2.0). (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. A flight demonstration experience at the university Flight School is required at student expense. Fee required.


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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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