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University Course Descriptions

  

Course Numbering System

Each course is represented by four capital letters followed by a four-digit numeral (e.g., FINC 3311).

The letters form an abbreviation for the instructional area while the numeral is interpreted as follows:

First Digit: The first digit indicates academic level and provides information regarding restrictions as to undergraduate and/or graduate student enrollment:

1000 and 2000 series –undergraduate lower division
3000 and 4000 series – undergraduate upper division (normally for undergraduate students but with advisor approval for graduate students).
6000 series – graduate courses (for graduate students only except for undergraduates with an approved mixed load petition).

Second Digit: The second digit indicates the amount of credit awarded. For example, a course numbered 4331, carries three semester hours of credit.

Third and Fourth Digits: The third and fourth digits are used to distinguish between courses within an instructional area. Course Punctuation

One of the following marks of punctuation may immediately follow the course number, or may separate a series of course numbers. Internal punctuations (between multi-listed courses) take precedence over all punctuation in a series of course numbers. The significance of each mark of punctuation is as follows:

  • Colon – A colon (:) following a course number indicates that the course may be taken as an independent one-semester course. This also applies when two course numbers are separated by a colon.
  • Comma – A comma (,) between course numbers indicates that both courses must be taken before credit is received for either, but the second course may be taken first.
  • Hyphen – A hyphen (-) between course numbers indicates that both courses must be taken before credit is received for either. The first course must be completed before the student enrolls in the second course, or if “concurrent enrollment only” is shown in the course description, both courses must be taken at the same time.
  • Semicolon – A semicolon (;) between course numbers indicates that the first course may be taken and justify credit without completion of the second course, but the second course cannot be taken without the first as prerequisite.

The three numbers in parentheses (0-0-0) after each course title indicate the number of semester credit hours, the number of class hours per week, and the number of additional laboratory or activity hours per week.
 

English - Undergraduate
  

  • ENGL 2332 World Literature: Ancient to Renaissance

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Lower Division

    Prerequisite(s): TSI complete in Reading and Writing
    Survey and study of world literature from its beginnings in ancient civilization to the 17th century European Renaissance era. (Formerly World Literature I)
  

  • ENGL 2333 World Literature: European Renaissance era to the Modern Era

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Lower Division

    Prerequisite(s): TSI complete in Reading and Writing.
    Survey and study of world literature from the European Renaissance era to the Modern Era. (Formerly World Literature II)
  

  • ENGL 3310 Introduction to the Study of Language

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301 .
    Study of English language including attitudes, terminology, phonology, morpho-syntactic and lexical structures.
  

  • ENGL 3311 Shakespeare

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore literature.
    Study of selected works of Shakespeare. (Formerly LIT 3311) Cross-listed with DRAM 3311 .
  

  • ENGL 3312 Grammar and Rhetoric

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Study of the structure of English and rhetorical strategies for writing.
  

  • ENGL 3313 Poetry and Poetics

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore literature.
    Study of poetry and conventions, explication strategies, interpretive methods, theoretical frameworks, aesthetic movements, and evaluative criteria in the field of poetry. (Formerly LIT 3313)
  

  • ENGL 3315 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Writing

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Any ENGL 2000-level literature course or above.
    Study in and practice of writing and critiquing the various forms of nonfiction, including the memoir, reportage, new journalism, and the essay. Conducted in a writing workshop setting. (Formerly: Creative Nonfiction Writing)
  

  • ENGL 3316 Narrative Fiction

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore literature.
    Study of the elements of fiction, narrative theory, aesthetic movements, and methods of interpretation. (Formerly LIT 3316)
  

  • ENGL 3317 Contemporary Drama

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore Literature
    Study of the elements of drama, dramatic theory, aesthetic movements, and methods of interpretation. Cross-listed with DRAM 3317 .
  

  • ENGL 3318 Introduction to Fiction Writing

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Any ENGL 2000-level literature course or above.
    Study in and practice of writing and critiquing the various forms of fiction, including the short story, the novella, and the novel. Conducted in a writing workshop setting. (Formerly: Fiction Writing)
  

  • ENGL 3319 Introduction to Poetry Writing

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Any ENGL 2000-level literature course or above.
    Study in and practice of writing and critiquing poetry, in forms and free verse. Conducted in a writing workshop setting. (Formerly: Poetry Writing)
  

  • ENGL 3320 19th Century American Literature

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore literature.
    Study of selected 19th century American authors, genres, movements, and contexts.
  

  • ENGL 3321 20th Century American Literature

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore literature.
    Study of selected 20th century American authors, genres, movements, and contexts.
  

  • ENGL 3322 Writing for the Print Media

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Grade of “B” or higher in ENGL 3430 .
    Teaches professional techniques in news and feature media writing. Includes news judgment, interviewing, writing, revising and critical analysis of print story construction.
  

  • ENGL 3324 21st Century Language

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 hours in sophmore literature
    Study of selected 21st Century American authors, genres, movements, and contexts.
  

  • ENGL 3325 Literary Theory

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301 , ENGL 1302 
    Presents students with the theoretical and ideological frameworks necessary for a critical study of literature.
  

  • ENGL 3326 British Literature

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  and ENGL 1302  
    Survey and study of British Literature from the 17th to 19th centuries.
  

  • ENGL 3328 Introduction to Screenwriting

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Any ENGL 2000-level literature course or above.
    Study in and practice of writing and critiquing screenplays and adaptations. Conducted in a writing workshop setting. (Formerly: ENGL 4328; Screenwriting)
  

  • ENGL 3329 Introduction to Cultural Studies

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  and ENGL 1302  
    This course introduces students to concepts in Cultural Studies through a variety of critical perspectives for approaching and analyzing cultural texts and phenomena. (Formerly ENGL 2312)
  

  • ENGL 3335 Studies in Ethnic Literature

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore literature
    Course focuses on multiculturalism in American literature, including topics of race, ethnicity, or region; topic varies by instructor. May be repeated with a different emphasis.
  

  • ENGL 3337 Studies in World Literature

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore literature
    Study of world literature with a focus on specific authors or thematic concerns. Topics vary by instructor.
  

  • ENGL 3430 Professional Writing

    Cr. 4
    Semester Credit Hours: 4
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 1
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  and ENGL 1302 .
    Must be taken in first semester of coursework at UHV. Study of professional writing, including correspondence, proposals, research reports, resumes and job letters. (Formerly COM 3430)
  

  • ENGL 4300 Selected Topics in Language and Literature

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore literature
    Specific focus on a selected topic in language and/or literature. Topics vary by instructor. May be repeated with a change of focus.
  

  • ENGL 4302 Independent Study

    Cr. 3 per semester.
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 3 s.h. in sophomore literature and approval of instructor.
    Course focuses on a specific topic in literature or language. Varies by instructor. Concurrent enrollment is allowed. May be repeated with a different focus
  

  • ENGL 4315 Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2313  and 3315 
    Continued and intensive practice in writing creative nonfiction in a workshop setting with the aim of preparing manuscripts for potential publication. May be repeated once for credit.
  

  • ENGL 4318 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2313  and 3318 
    Continued and intensive practice in writing fiction in a workshop setting with the aim of preparing manuscripts for potential publication. May be repeated once for credit.
  

  • ENGL 4319 Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2313  and 3319 
    Continued and intensive practice in writing poetry in a workshop setting with the aim of preparing manuscripts for potential publication. May be repeated once for credit.
  

  • ENGL 4323 Literature for Writers

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301 , ENGL 1302 
    Develop students’ abilities to better identify, characterize and understand the craft, style and technique of significant writers of prose or poetry. Formerly “Reading for Writers”
  

  • ENGL 4325 Editing Internship

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Grade of “B” or higher in ENGL 3430  and either ENGL 3312  or ENGL 3342 .
    Major or Minor in English. Min 3.0 GPA, Senior Status. Application Required. A practical course in which students learn advanced editing techniques by working on actual publishing projects under the guidance of an instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4326 Publishing Internship

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Grade of “B” or higher in ENGL 3430  and either ENGL 3312  or ENGL 3342 .
    Major or Minor in English. Min 3.0 GPA. Senior Status, Application Required. A practical course in which students learn advanced document design, layout and proofreading techniques by working in a professional publishing environment.
  

  • ENGL 4328 Advanced Screenwriting Workshop

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2313  and 3328 
    Continued and intensive practice in Screenwriting in a workshop setting with the aim of preparing manuscripts for potential publication. Cross-listed with DRAM 4328 . May be repeated once for credit.
  

  • ENGL 4330 Critical Studies in Race, Class, and Gender

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  and ENGL 1302  
    Introduces students to concepts from theoretical and cultural discourse on gender, race, and class through interdisciplinary investigation of histories, literatures, and arts with the intention of improving cultural literacy in global contexts.
  

  • ENGL 4331 Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  and ENGL 1302  
    Focused study of Medieval literature and culture, with an emphasis on England and Northern Europe.
  

  • ENGL 4332 Greek and Roman Literature

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  and ENGL 1302  
    Introduction to the literature of classical Greece and Rome.
  

  • ENGL 4333 Asian Literature

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  and ENGL 1302  
    Introduction to far Eastern literary traditions.

English as a Second Language - Undergraduate
  

  • ESLN 4303 Student Teaching in an English as a Second Language Classroom

    Cr. 3
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Admission by application to the Director of Field Experiences.
    English as a second language teaching experience in a public or laboratory school, guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. (Formerly C&I 4303)
  

  • ESLN 4310 Teaching Diverse Populations

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Examination of divergent communities and education through cultural categories. (Formerly C&I 4310)
  

  • ESLN 4311 Language and Reading

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Analysis of the relationship between language and reading. Analysis of oral and written cueing systems and study of first and second language acquisition. Cross-listed with LANG 4310 .
  

  • ESLN 4320 Teaching English as a Second Language

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Study of methods and materials in teaching students of limited English speaking ability. Instruction and practice in designing strategies and using appropriate materials derived from assessment of specific linguistic competencies. (Formerly C&I 4320)

Entrepreneurship-Undergraduate
  

  • ENTR 3301 Creating the Foundation

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    The course focus is on pre-launch activities of developing and evaluating the business Idea. The course includes idea generation, business model development, idea assessment, and business potential assessment. The course design is activity-based with students assessing and developing actual business ideas.
  

  • ENTR 3302 Launching the Firm

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENTR 3301
    The course includes gathering the necessary resources, creating a marketing plan, structuring the business, creating a financial plan, developing the business plan, and opening the doors. The course is activity-based with students fully engaged in the process.
  

  • ENTR 4303 Growing the Firm

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    The course includes the activities and planning to grow the new firm from startup to about 200 employees (growth Stage 1 and Stage 2 as defined by the Edward Lowe Foundation). The course includes developing marketing, financial, organization, management, human resource, risk management, leadership, and harvest strategies and plans for firm growth.
  

  • ENTR 4306 New Venture Finance: The Entrepreneur’s Perspective

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    This course provides students with a wide range of financial skills to more effectively manage their resources for firm growth. Specific issues critical to a growing businesses such as financial forecasting, effective financial management, sources of financing, cash flow management, firm valuation, angel financing, venture capital financing, the initial public offering, and exit planning are examined. 

Finance - Undergraduate
  

  • FINC 1301 Personal Finance

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Lower Division

    Prerequisite(s): TSI complete in Mathematics, or grade of C or better in MATH 1300 .
    This course addresses financial decisions a person will make over his/her lifetime. This course cannot be used to satisfy degree requirements within the concentrations on the BBA programs, or within the General Business or Marketing concentrations on the BAAS program.
  

  • FINC 2301 Personal Financial Management and Planning

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    The course will improve a student’s conceptual understanding of how the modern financial services industry works to create wealth for individuals and the role of financial markets and institutions in the process.
     
  

  • FINC 3304 Business Finance

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): ACCT 2301 /2401, 2302 / 2402 and BUSI 3304.
    Examines the role of and theoretical framework available to financial managers as they seek to solve business financial problems. (Formerly FINC 3311) (Credit will not be given for both FINC 3311 and FINC 3304).
  

  • FINC 3321 Capital Markets

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3304  or concurrent enrollment in FINC 3304  
    Managers in any corporate function should understand the pricing of financial instruments in the capital markets. This course will examine the main investment concepts in the fixed income, equity, and derivatives markets.
  

  • FINC 4300 Selected Topics in Finance

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3304 .
    May be repeated when topics vary.
  

  • FINC 4320 Investment Principles

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3304 .
    Introduction to securities markets; analysis of securities issued by corporations, intermediaries and by federal, state, and municipal governments; and investment management in light of tax considerations, timing, and selected portfolio needs.
  

  • FINC 4325 International Finance

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3304 .
    Application of finance principles in the international environment including the nature of the balance of payment mechanism; the factors affecting the foreign exchange markets; defensive techniques to protect the business against foreign exchange risk; and investing, financing, and working capital management within a multinational firm. (Cross-listed with IBUS 4331 .) (Credit will not be given for both FINC 4325 and IBUS 4331 .)
  

  • FINC 4352 Intermediate Financial Management

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3304 
    An integrated approach to financial management including study of intermediate-level financial theory and its application to financial decision making under uncertainty.
  

  • FINC 4353 Portfolio Management and Security Analysis

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3304 
    Theory and practice of portfolio management. Efficient markets theory, modern portfolio theory, asset pricing models, portfolio management strategies, and portfolio performance evaluation.
  

  • FINC 4354 Risk Management

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3304 
    Various financial derivatives and corporate risk management theories; concepts of risk and the basic principles of risk management; risk management for corporate assets and liabilities; corporate operating risk; options, futures, swaps, and other financial derivatives for corporate risk management.
  

  • FINC 4355 Real Estate Finance

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3304 
    Framework and valuation tools to manage real estate investments as individual properties or as part of a portfolio; how to make decisions on whether and how to lease, buy, or mortgage a property acquisition; whether to renovate, refinance, demolish or expand a property; and when and how to divest a property.
  

  • FINC 4358 Fixed Income Analysis

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3304 
    Fundamental ideas and tools for thinking about traditional fixed income securities. Introduction to modern techniques for pricing fixed income securities and derivatives.
  

  • FINC 4369 Cases in Finance

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 4320  and FINC 4352 
    Introduction to construction and utilization of financial decision models using case study methods. Topics covered are: working capital management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, valuation, risk-return, and other special topics of financial management.

Foundations of Education - Undergraduate
  

  • FEDU 3321 Educational Foundations for Teaching

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Introduces current philosophical, socio-political, and economic forces that impact education. Includes legal organization/issues; diversity including children of poverty and special populations in secondary school classrooms.
  

  • FEDU 3330 Current Issues, Mandates, and Special Populations In American Schooling

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Introduces current philosophical, socio-political, and economic forces affecting education. Survey of topics addressing cultural diversity and special populations in secondary school classrooms. Teacher certification only.
  

  • FEDU 4310 Human Learning and its Application to Education

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to Teacher Education Program.
    A survey of theories of learning including behavioral, cognitive and information processing theories. Application of learning theories in the public school classroom will be emphasized. (Replaces PSYC 4320  for Education plans)

French - Undergraduate
  

  • FREN 3313 Oral and Written Communication I

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of Instructor.
    Development of fluency through intensive oral practice and the writing of French.
  

  • FREN 3323 Oral and Written Communication II

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Satisfactory completion of FRE 3313 or Permission of Instructor.
    Development of greater fluency through intensive oral practice and the writing of French.
  

  • FREN 4300 Special Topics in French

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Approval by instructor.
    May be repeated when topics vary.
  

  • FREN 4313 Advanced Oral and Written Communication I

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): FRE 3323 or an equivalent or consent of instructor.
    Development of advanced fluency through intensive oral practice and the writing of French.
  

  • FREN 4320 Professional Applications of French

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Placement test or FRE 3323 or instructor consent.
    Development of professional fluency through intensive oral practice and writing of French. Emphasis placed on business correspondence and professional communication.

Gaming - Undergraduate
  

  • GMNG 3310 3D Modeling

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Junior or higher standing.
    Fundamental 3D theories, principles, methodologies for creating and exploring 3D computer models.
  

  • GMNG 3311 Game Design

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    This course provides students with a theoretical and conceptual understanding of game design. Topics include narrative design, symbolism, mechanics, and psychological underpinnings of successful games.
  

  • GMNG 4300 Special Topics in Digital Gaming and Simulation

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Varies with class offering.
    A course in the BS in Computer Science and BAAS with Concentration in Digital Gaming and Simulation.
  

  • GMNG 4305 Digital Gaming and Simulation Internship

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): COSC 3331 ; 6 s.h. UD GMNG with a minimum grade of “B” completed course work applied to the project, or permission from instructor.
    Provides students the opportunity to apply classroom theory to actual practice and to broaden their experience by exposure to industrial practice in Gaming or Simulation.
  

  • GMNG 4310 Advanced Game Programming with DirectX

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): DirectX Programming and MATH 3361 Linear Algebra , or permission from instructor.
    Provides an advanced knowledge of programming interactive computer graphics, with an emphasis on game development, using real-time shaders with DirectX.
  

  • GMNG 4311 Advanced 3D Modeling

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): GMNG 3310 , MATH 3321 
    Fundamental 3D theories, principles, methodologies for creating and exploring 3D computer models, modeling techniques including texturing, lighting, and rendering 3D models. Apply the concepts to one or more programming projects. A major term-long team project ending with a presentation.
  

  • GMNG 4312 Game Engines

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): COSC 3317  or permission from instructor.
    Graphics game engines and their high-level APIs, behavioral control for characters, level design, gameplay, interface issues and the business, social and personal aspects of games. The development of gameplay using a commercial 3D gaming engine such as Unreal Tournament 2004 (UT). Team project required. (Formerly GAM 4312)
  

  • GMNG 4314 Gaming Networks Architecture

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): COSC 4339 
    Telecommunications and Networking, or a background in networking with concurrent enrollment in COSC 4339 . Study the theory and application of massively multiplayer game development. Topics will include design, architecture, and development of massively multiplayer gaming systems. Network, security, and database techniques used in the development process will also be covered.
  

  • GMNG 4316 Advanced Leveling

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 3321 , GMNG 3310 
    In depth coverage of level design theory for games and simulations, and applications of leveling theory in designing levels, characters, and objects.
  

  • GMNG 4317 Art for Gaming

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): GMNG 3310 
    Study of 3D animation, lighting, shading, texture, digital sound, and other building blocks to produce 3D animation using modeling, entering, animation and outputting software. Application to digital games and simulations training models. A major term long project ending with a presentation.
  

  • GMNG 4318 Advanced Animation for Gaming

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): GMNG 3310  and Math for Gaming, or permission from instructor
    Concepts and theories about motion modeling. Students will gain skills in creating scripts for multimedia animating objects and developing multimedia animation projects.
  

  • GMNG 4320 Digital Games as Communication

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): 6 s.h. of Gaming
    Course brings questions about texts, producers and audiences to the new medium of the digital game as a way to further our understanding of this popular cultural phenomenon.
  

  • GMNG 4321 Game Development Project Management

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): GMNG 4312 Game Engines .
    Acquire and apply knowledge and skills necessary to lead, manage, and be a member of successful game project teams such as software or game development projects. Planning, estimating, scheduling, risk management, tracking, staffing, organization, quality management, and configuration management.
  

  • GMNG 4322 Game Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Modeling

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 3391  and COSC 3317 
    Navigation, pathfinding, non-player character behavior, strategic intelligence, content generation, conversational behavior, coordinated behavior, learning-player modeling, strategy learning, etc. Combine design and technology to craft a powerful, engaging player experience.
  

  • GMNG 4323 Virtual Reality

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): GMNG 3310 
    This course focuses on the theory, design, implementation and application of creating three-dimensional stereoscopic real-time virtual environments.
  

  • GMNG 4340 Senior Project

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): COSC 3331 ; 6 s.h. UD GMNG course with a minimum grade of B or permission from instructor.
    Individual or group project directed by faculty/industry experts. Plan, develop, implement prototype game or simulation project from concept to completion. Present final prototype and portfolio to a jury of faculty and gaming/simulation company representatives. Must be approved by faculty advisor before project can be initiated.

Geography - Undergraduate
  

  • GEOG 1300 Principles of Geography

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Lower Division

    Introduction to geographical perspectives for multiple majors to master subject content while focusing on spatial distributions of human activities that account for present and past cultural patterns such as population, folk and popular culture, language, religion, gender, ethnicity, politics, and economic development.

Geology - Undergraduate
  

  • GEOL 2310 Earth and Space Science Concepts

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Lower Division

    An introduction to concepts and principles in Earth and space science. It includes Earth history, geology, oceans, atmosphere, and Earth’s place in the universe. (Formerly : SCIE 2310)
  

  • GEOL 3310 Engineering Geology

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Study of procedures and techniques used to evaluate geologic factors for site characterization, selection and the design of engineered structures.
  

  • GEOL 3311 Structure Geology

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Mechanics of rock deformation, analysis of rock structures, preparation and interpretation of geologic maps and cross sections showing structural and tectonic features.
  

  • GEOL 4310 Geomechanics

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Principles of geomechanics and its application to petroleum engineering.
  

  • GEOL 4311 Hydrogeology

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Physical and chemical aspects of groundwater movement, supply and contamination.

Health Care Administration - Undergraduate
  

  • HCAD 4351 Quality Assessment for Patient Care Improvement

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    The concept of Quality and the process of Quality Assessment and Improvement across the health care continuum. Focus on the history and evolution of quality and its terms, principles, theories, and practices; methods of assessing and improving the quality of care and caring in healthcare delivery systems; review of changes implemented by health care systems in America.
  

  • HCAD 4352 Healthcare Information Systems Management

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    An introduction to practices developed for the management of electronic healthcare records and information mobility. Emphasis placed on the impact of technology on patient care and how new uses for technology are designed and implemented. Includes techniques used for problem solving with information technology; basics of information representation, relational databases, system design, and propositional logic.
  

  • HCAD 4353 Human Resource Management

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): MGMT 3303  
    (A survey of human resource management (HRM) activities within the organization. Topics include the functional areas of HRM as integrated components of business strategy, HR planning, recruitment, selection, and diversity, jobs analysis and design, training and development, employee and labor relations, compensation, and the legal framework for the practice or HRM. (Cross-listed with MGMT 4311 .) (Credit will not be given for both HCAD 4353 and MGMT 4311 .)
  

  • HCAD 4354 Economics for Healthcare

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    This course is designed to foster a student’s understanding of the economic principles that drive the demand for and supply of medical care in the United States. After completing this course, the student should be adept at deducing the logic behind decisions made by physicians, hospitals, managed care organizations, and government as well as the choices made by consumers on individual aggregate levels.
  

  • HCAD 4355 Organizational Change

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): MGMT 3303  
    Examines theories, concepts, skills, and practices concerning organizational development and change. Topics include the nature of planned changes; diagnosing organizations; collecting and analyzing diagnostic information; feeding back diagnostic information; designing interventions; and leading, managing and evaluating organizational change. (Cross-listed with MGMT 4325 .) (Credit will not be given for both HCAD 4355 and MGMT 4325 .)
  

  • HCAD 4356 Strategic Healthcare Management & Planning

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Designed to give students an opportunity to develop conceptual skills needed to plan, develop, and effectively execute strategy in health and managed care organizations. Emphasis on development of organizational strategy in health care institutions and emergency programs; strategic planning process; formulation of objectives and policies; execution of the strategy process in the health care industry; and overcoming the challenge of strategy failure in managed care organizations.
  

  • HCAD 4361 Healthcare Delivery Systems & Organization

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Provides foundational overviews of U.S. nursing and health care delivery systems including unit level healthcare models, delivery systems of care, complexity theory and managing change.
  

  • HCAD 4362 Healthcare Informatics

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Provides foundational overviews of health informatics, information technology systems and healthcare technologies. Examines utilization of health information and technologies for best patient care outcomes
  

  • HCAD 4364 Healthcare Finance

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Examines healthcare policy, resource allocations, healthcare finance and socioeconomic principles to manage patient care. Student will learn to develop budgets for best patient care practices.

Health Studies - Undergraduate
  

  • HLST 1306 First Aid/CPR/AED/Public Health Emergencies Training

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Lower Division

    This course will introduce the knowledge and skills related to First Aid, CPR, AED, and disaster/public health emergency training.
  

  • HLST 3302 Independent Study

    Cr. 3 per semester or more than 3 by concurrent enrollment.
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Approval of school dean.
  

  • HLST 3311 Medical Terminology

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Introduction to anatomical, physiological and pathological terms. Identify and use prefixes, suffixes and roots used in Health care communication.
  

  • HLST 3312 Public Health

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to upper-division standing in Health Studies
    Introduction to public health concepts and practice. Topics include philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities and results at global, national, state, and community levels.
  

  • HLST 3313 Foundations of Health Promotion and Prevention of Illnesses

    Cr. 3
    Semester Credit Hours: 3
    Class Hours Per Week: 3
    Additional Laboratory or Activity Hours Per Week: 0
    Course Level: Upper Division

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to upper-division standing in Health Studies
    Emphasis on foundational development, assessment, education and evaluation of community-based health promotion and illness prevention strategies in collaboration with inter-professional disciplines.
 

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