2021-2022 Graduate Catalog 
    
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2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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English
  

  • ENGL 899 - Thesis Non-Credit

    Credit Hours: 0
    Lecture Hours: 0
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is required for students that have completed their course work and the number of thesis hours for credit required in their graduate degree program. Students who will continue to use University resources in completing their thesis must enroll in this course.


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Enterprise Resource Planning
  

  • ERP 611 - Introduction to ERP and Business Processes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A problem-based, interdisciplinary course on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) concepts to help students understand the integrated software modules used to run virtually all business processes in an organization. Explains and demonstrates in detail how business processes such as sales logistics, production/ material management, procurement, and human resources are supported in an ERP software package. This course is cross-level listed with MGMT 491 and listed as MGMT 611 in the previous catalog.

    *Undergraduate students can enroll only with the permission of the instructor


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  • ERP 612 - Electronic Business Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A problem-based exploration of the various electronic business tools and technologies required to efficiently manage a supply chain. This course is cross-level listed with MGMT 492 and listed as MGMT 612 in the previous catalog.

     


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  • ERP 613 - Operations Planning and Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Gain detailed information on planning and control systems for business operations through aggregate production planning procedures and disaggregation methods in hierarchical production planning. Topics will include forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling, and inventory management. This course is cross-level listed with MGMT 493 and listed as MGMT 613 in the previous catalog.
    Prerequisite: ERP 611   or instructor’s permission


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  • ERP 614 - Purchasing and Materials Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Focuses on materials management and purchasing policies, procedures and goals including the role of purchasing in production planning and inventory management. Key topics include: providing uninterrupted flow of materials and services, keeping inventory at a minimum to achieve the organization’s objectives, quality standards, supplier selection and development, order specifications and agreements, improving competitive position, and achieving positive external and internal working relationships. This course is cross-level listed with MGMT 494 and listed as MGMT 614 in the previous catalog.
    Prerequisite: ERP 611   or instructor’s permission


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Finance
  

  • FINC 560 - Foundations of Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course surveys the fundamental financial concepts and principles including the role of the financial manager, valuation models, basic risk and return concepts, and capital budgeting, capital structure theory, dividend policy, working capital management, and financial planning and control.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 550  or equivalent


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  • FINC 620 - Financial Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on the firm’s financing and investment decisions. Among the topics covered is capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, and risk management. Emphasis is placed on the importance of valuation in financial decision making and on the effects of international capital markets on the firm’s value creation opportunities.
    Prerequisite: FINC 560  or equivalent


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  • FINC 655 - International Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to recognize the increasing importance of global integration of money and capital markets, a trend that is creating expanded opportunities for both investors and organizations that need to raise capital. This course will focus on macroeconomic issues such as the significance of balance of payments deficits, microeconomic issues such as capital budgeting for multinational corporations, detailed discussion of international markets, and analysis of risk and effect of diversification on an international basis.


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  • FINC 660 - Financial Institutions

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Recent developments in financial institutions and markets will be studied. The impact of new financial regulation on financial intermediaries and how it will affect operations will be investigated.
    Prerequisite: FINC 620 


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  • FINC 670 - Investment Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The objective of this course is to help students gain an appreciation of what is involved in making investment decisions. The strategies of practicing investment professionals as well as results from theoretical and empirical research are used to introduce students to the practical aspects of investing.


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  • FINC 675 - Security Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is a practical course in security and company analysis. Students will learn how to analyze and evaluate companies and the securities that they issue using publicly available information.
    Prerequisite: FINC 620 


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  • FINC 680 - Option and Futures Trading

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides the student an introduction to derivative securities markets. Option and future instruments are discussed in detail, followed by valuation theory and hedging application.
    Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor


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  • FINC 685 - Entrepreneurial Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on financing a new firm from startup to maturity. Topics include: business models and business plans, financial projections, financing new ventures through debt and equity, structuring deals through term sheets, negotiating with investors and other stakeholders, controlling growth, and managing harvest and exit.
    Prerequisite: FINC 620   or equivalent


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  • FINC 695 - Seminar in Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on current issues, trends, and problems in finance that are of interest to faculty and students. Depending on the topic at hand the course may rely on interactive discussions as well as individual and/or group research and reporting by students on a variety of different issues in finance.

    This course can be repeated multiple times with different topics.

     

     


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Healthcare Management
  

  • HCM 680 - Managed Care and the American Healthcare Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides a foundation to understand and apply the concepts of managed care. The evolution and need for managed care will be explored as well as the managerial tools needed to accomplish managed care goals. Particular emphasis will be placed on the provider and consumer issues inherent to managed care systems in the current environment, as well as the application of managed care concepts to specific industry segments.


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  • HCM 681 - Health Care Finance and Control

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on the financial assessment, acquisition, allocation, and control of financial aspects of health care organizations. Topics include application of financial management principles of the unique decision-making in the healthcare industry, budgeting processes, cost allocation, fee structures, and management control process.


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  • HCM 682 - Health Services Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed as an advanced study in the application of marketing tools within varied healthcare settings. Additionally, core marketing concepts and contemporary issues in healthcare marketing will be explored with emphasis on using marketing tools to meet organizational and public health goals.


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  • HCM 683 - Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides guidance in preventing and solving managerial and biomedical ethical problems including substantive ethical principles and procedural methodologies by which managers can understand, analyze and resolve ethical problems. Topics covered include business ethics versus health care ethics, conflicts of interest, ethical committees, informed consent, confidentiality, human experimentation, death and dying, abortion, the ethics of managed care, and HIV disease. In the second part of the course, federal and state laws, health care agencies and regulations are evaluated. Recent court decisions and their implications with respect to the health care profession will be discussed. Class discussions will consist of the realistic aspects of using legal counsel and diminishing tort and criminal liability to the health care institution.


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  • HCM 684 - Human Resources for Health Care

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to explore key concepts, theories, and issues in the effective utilization of human resources within health service organizations. The strategic value of human resource management will be emphasized as will the contemporary human resource environment, acquisition, and preparation of human resources, assessment and development, compensation, and additional special topic areas.


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  • HCM 685 - Health Care Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will introduce students to HCM technology systems, tools, and products and to provide a conceptual framework for understanding how to use technology to reduce costs and improve productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness in their current and future work situations. Today’s health practitioner has to use technology to find medical information and use accounting systems, personal systems, health insurance company systems, inventory systems, patient billing systems, purchasing systems, as well as input and retrieve data.


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  • HCM 686 - Managing and Measuring Quality Outcomes

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course examines the concept of quality and quantity assessment from multiple perspectives: patients, healthcare providers, payers, standard setting organization and healthcare policymakers. Content will address the importance of leadership while creating a culture of quality and patient safety in health care. Topics include: the definition of quality and its function in health services; clinical quality improvement; measurement, statistical tools, quality structure, process and outcomes measurements; strategic quality planning; quality tools; importance of customer voice, market voice; and international quality standards.


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Health Informatics
  

  • HINF 610 - Healthcare Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The course begins with a brief overview of the US healthcare system then discusses the current use of technology in healthcare. It also discusses the collection and storage of healthcare data, patient records, and various techniques for processing medical images. Students will cover technologies that support healthcare, medical computer networks and systems and data security and protection. Actual medical applications that are used in health care and standards that guide data transactions will be covered.


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  • HINF 620 - Medical Decision Making and IT

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides a discourse of the applications of decision sciences in health-care industry; decision modeling; cost-effectiveness analysis; DSS use in medical decision making; methods to allocate health-care resources; decision making for health economics and medicine; Monte Carlo simulations; quality-adjusted life years. including decision modeling. Medical decision analyses will be used to describe the fields of application, methodological approaches, results and implications of medical decision analysis. Students will understand the various situations in which quantitative analysis can improve decision making and create competitive advantages SAS Enterprise Miner and Base SAS will be used.


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  • HINF 630 - Managing Health Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course presents the details of information processing in hospitals, hospital information systems (HIS), and more broadly health information systems. It presents the architecture, design, and user requirements of information systems in health care environment. It focuses on Information Technology aspects of Health Informatics specifically addressing the design, development, acquisition and deployment of HIS. The second part will equip students with the knowledge of how to address management and operational challenges faced in health informatics leadership roles within a variety of organizational settings. The course with use interactive case analysis to apply theory to real-world health informatics cases. SAS Forecast Studio will be used.


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  • HINF 640 - Business Analytics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Data analytics and decision analytics are examined in this course. This course discusses the manager’s strategies and tools for problem solving and decision making in domains in which data, including text, web, and social networks information, and how computer models can be used as descriptive and predictive tools to gain the insight needed to guide decision making. The course concentrates on big and small data, and structured and unstructured data. Statistical models for understanding patterns and relationships in health data, data visualization, simulation, modeling and forecasting will be taught. Key regulatory for healthcare data reporting requirements are also taught. Base SAS and other relevant statistical software and spreadsheet will be used.
    Prerequisite: BADM 530   or equivalent


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  • HINF 650 - Public Policy for Health Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will examine ethical, legal, and policy issues related to health informatics and the use of IT in healthcare. Analyses of these policies and their effect on clinical informatics, consumer informatics, and population health informatics will be discussed. Students will learn to develop health care solutions and strategies within the limitations of these policies. Topics of interest include the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), and meaningful use. Other regulations and policy efforts, such as HIPAA, Stark, and the CMS, as well as entities that formulate policies at the federal and state levels, such as the ONC and exchanges, will also be covered.


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History
  

  • HIST 501 - Historiography

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An exploration of theories of historical interpretation, with applications to the histories of the United States, Latin America, and Europe.


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  • HIST 506 - Revolution and American Identity

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is an introduction to the major writings and interpretations of the era of the Revolution from the early eighteenth century to the ratification of the Constitution in 1787. The emphasis will be on eighteenth-century American Society and culture, the connections between England and the evolution of American protest and political thought that shaped American ideological concepts that were the basis of the independence movement and the effects of the revolution on class status, slavery and race, as well as the attempts to create new forms of government in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War.


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  • HIST 507 - Soc Strata in the Ante South

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An exploration of social delineations in the Old South, with attention to the rationale for and the distinguishing features of these groupings.


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  • HIST 508 - Antebellum Reform Movements

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A developmental study of the origins and progress of American reform efforts from their inception in the Great Revivalism of the 1820s to the culmination of the controversial reform movement, Abolitionism, in the 1860s, with particular attention to the polemical and cognitive aspects of antebellum reformism.


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  • HIST 510 - Stud in 20th Cent US History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An exploration of social, cultural, political, economic, and military issues in U.S. history from the beginning of World War I to the present, including such topics as the development of a mass society, changing role of women, and other relevant issues.


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  • HIST 512 - Interpretation of 19th Century US History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The course focus is on the literature and interpretations of major issues in nineteenth century United States history. The required readings will place the issues and periods in a cogent context with the latest interpretations. The student will also be introduced though the required reading to the historiographical controversies in major fields of political and social history with special emphasis on the Civil War and Reconstruction.


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  • HIST 519 - History of Medicine and Public Health in US

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An examination of the major health problems confronting Americans from colonial times through the twentieth century, as well as the policies and measures adopted by state and federal authorities to deal with these problems.


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  • HIST 520 - Studies in United States Foreign Relations from 1771 to the Present

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of domestic factors that contributed to the shaping of U.S. foreign policy from the revolutionary period through post-war conflicts with England and France, including such aspects as expansionism, the Spanish-American War, relations with Latin America, World War I and Wilsonian ideals, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, NATO and the Cold War, and the current issues of nuclear proliferation and U.S. and Soviet relations in the post-Vietnam era.


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  • HIST 526 - The French Revolution

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the development of the ideas of the Enlightenment, particularly in France, and their contribution to the revolutionary ferment, and the sequence of events by which the Revolution emerged, the changing attitudes within French society, and the economic, social, and political changes brought by the Revolution to France and all of Europe.


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  • HIST 527 - Europe in the Industrial Age

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A course focusing on the social, economic, and technological factors which led to the spread of industrialization in Europe in the nineteenth century, and on the social, political, demographic, and intellectual reactions to the industrial revolution from its early days through World War I.


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  • HIST 528 - The Rise of Fascism in Europe

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An investigation of the political, social, intellectual, and economic factors making possible the rise of fascism in Europe in the period between the world wars, with attention to the influence and operations of major fascist parties through the beginning of World War II.


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  • HIST 537 - History of Imperial Russia

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will explore, in depth, the social, cultural, and political history of Russia during the imperial period (roughly 1700-1917). The class will include analyses of the important social, economic, and political strata and organizations as they occurred in imperial Russia.


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  • HIST 538 - History in 20th Century Russia

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will introduce, in some depth, the forces of stability and change interacting during the years 1900-1995 in Russia. It will focus on the Bolshevik experiment, the rise of Stalinist dictatorship, World Wars, the Cold War, and the demise of the Soviet system.


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  • HIST 551 - Caribbean History from Columbus to 1838

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A survey of Caribbean history to 1838, with emphasis on the impact of European conquests and the Catholic influence, plantation slavery, African socio-economic development, nation-state rivalries in the Caribbean, local governments, and the impact of the abolitionist movement.


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  • HIST 552 - Caribbean History Post-Slave

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A continuation of the history of the Caribbean, with study of such topics as black peasantry, the influence of missionaries, value formation, Asian contract workers, labor unions, the plantation economy, the independence movement, and relations with the metropolitan countries and the United States.


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  • HIST 555 - The ABC Countries

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the cultural, economic, and political development of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.


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  • HIST 556 - The Andean Republics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the social, economic, and political development of the continent of South America north of the Southern Cone.


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  • HIST 557 - The Harlem Renaissance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A comprehensive study of the Harlem Renaissance/the Age of the “New Negro,” primarily from 1920 to 1930. The course will examine African-American culture and politics from the perspective of the African-Americans who participated in this cultural and political explosion through the prism of post-1920 historians.


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  • HIST 558 - African-Americans and World War II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A comprehensive study of African-Americans, the mind-set of the U.S. military, and World War II. The course will focus on the nature and the problems surrounding the integration and usage of African-Americans in the armed forces of the United States, primarily from 1937 to 1950.


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  • HIST 560 - Black Biography

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth study of major African American personalities who have directly and indirectly impacted the black and white communities in the course of United States history. This course will present African Americans as the major players in studying and interpreting the major historical questions and problems, which have directly and indirectly impacted the course of United States history.


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  • HIST 570 - Major Topics in African History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course examines the significant developments on the African continent from pre-history to the modern era. The focus is on isolating those people, places, and events that have shaped the “African character.” Topics include Africa as the biological and cultural place of origins for humankind, the great kingdoms of African antiquity, the impact on African societies of the various slave trades on the continent, the impact on African societies of European colonialism, and the recovery of African societies via independence movements.


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  • HIST 572 - African Liberation Movements

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to familiarize students with the efforts to achieve independence by various African peoples. Regionally, the course will span liberation movements from Egypt to South Africa. Chronologically, it will include efforts of Africans to free themselves from the shackles of European Colonialism in the twentieth century. The focus of the course will be to provide tangible evidence that freedom or democratic movements are not just confined to the Western World but reflect the universal yearnings of all people.


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  • HIST 575 - History of Women in Africa

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The study of women’s roles and contributions in history has become a major discipline. This course is designed to look at one segment of women in history - women in sub- Saharan Africa. Using scholars who articulate the insights of the most recent scholarship, the course intends to present an overview of women’s past and present contributions to African development as well as the many obstacles to their further economic and social progress. The course will explore women’s history in the region as it has changed over time under pre-colonial, colonial, and independence governments. It will address the wide range of variations in women’s social position in Africa as well as the effect of cultural influences imposed by outsiders. Divided into three parts, it will address many current women’s issues under the following topics: Women in the Economy, Women in Society and Culture, and Women in Politics and Policy Making. Specifically addressed are the current issues of women as heads of households, female circumcision (female genital mutilation), multiple wives, child care, control over women’s labor and the proceeds from that labor, the feminist movement, women in the military, women’s role in politics and the effect of local and international governmental policy on women.


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  • HIST 576 - Africa and the Americas

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course has a double purpose: to introduce students to African history and to explore the continuing relationship tying Americans of African descent to the continent of Africa. The first part of the course will focus on the history of West Africa before the beginning of the sea-borne exchange with Europe and the Americas. Students will be introduced to the early West African empires, to local patterns of society and culture, and to the role-played by Muslim scholars, clerics, traders, and kings. In the second part of the course we examine the history of Africans and the changes they undergo on the continent of Africa and in the Diaspora. This includes the European colonization of Africa and the Africans who were drawn into the Atlantic exchange: the history of the New World plantation complex and the role of African culture and social organization in shaping life in the Americas. In the last part of the course, we explore the connections between Africans and the African-Americans: Back to Africa movements in the US (1820’s and 1920’s), the African foundations of early modern African-American thought, and the contributions made by African Americans to the African continent.


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  • HIST 590 - Special Topics in History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides for study of special topics in history not covered in the regular graduate history courses.


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  • HIST 591 - Special Topics in History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course provides for study of special topics in history not covered in the regular graduate history courses.


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  • HIST 601 - Directed Readings in 19th Central American History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A directed reading course for those history students who are making their final preparations for the comprehensive examinations.


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  • HIST 602 - Directed Readings in 20th Central American History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A directed reading course for those history students who are making their final preparations for the comprehensive examinations.


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  • HIST 603 - Directed Readings in African-American History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A directed reading course for those history students who are making their final preparations for the comprehensive examination.


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  • HIST 626 - Directed Readings: 18th Central European History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A directed reading course for those history students who are making their final preparations for the comprehensive examinations.


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  • HIST 627 - Directed Readings: 19th Central European History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A directed reading course for those history students who are making their final preparations for the comprehensive examinations.


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  • HIST 628 - Directed Readings: 20th Central European History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A directed reading course for those history students who are making their final preparations for the comprehensive examinations.


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  • HIST 650 - Directed Readings in Mexican History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A directed reading course for those history students who are making their final preparations for the comprehensive examinations.


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  • HIST 651 - Directed Readings in Caribbean History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A directed reading course for those history students who are making their final preparations for the comprehensive examinations.


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  • HIST 652 - Directed Readings in Latin American History

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A directed reading course for those history students who are making their final preparations for the comprehensive examinations.


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  • HIST 691 - Master’s Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The writing of a thesis based on original scholarly research about a topic related to the major field and approved by the thesis advisor, and the completion of an oral defense of the thesis before an examining committee. (May be completed in increments of three credit hours per semester.)


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  • HIST 899 - Thesis Non-Credit

    Credit Hours: 0
    Lecture Hours: 0
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is required for students that have completed their course work and the number of thesis hours for credit required in their graduate degree program. Students who will continue to use University resources in completing their thesis must enroll in this course.


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Information Systems and Business Analytics
  

  • ISBA 620 - Management Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Information systems have become essential for creating competitive firms, managing global corporations, and providing useful products and services to customers. This course provides the concepts of management information systems that students will find vital to their professional success. It is a computer-based approach to planning, design, implementation and evaluation of information systems in complex organizations. International issues related to the transnational firms, and social, ethical and cultural issues related to information systems are covered also.


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  • ISBA 630 - Data Analytics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course will expose students to business intelligence techniques on the SAS platform, including: decision support, querying and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. This course is cross listed with and equivalent to BIDA 630  .
    Prerequisite: BADM 530  or equivalent


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Management
  

  • MGMT 605 - The Art of Leadership and Communication

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is the first step in the development of the path that students will take as they move through the MBA program. The course focuses on three core activities. First, they will work on the development of goals they hope to achieve in their MBA education. Next, students will discuss and receive individualized guidance from a 360 Degree feedback assessment designed to help them improve and enhance critical career and professional skills. Finally, students participate in experiential exercises that focus on the communication skills and behaviors required for successful leadership. Students’ written and oral skills are enhanced through report preparation, presentation, and public speaking.


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  • MGMT 610 - Business Analytics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course introduces several commonly used modeling tools to develop and improve students’ analytical skills in a variety of realistic situations. The skills learned in this course will help students to recognize a decision situation, understand the business problem, and deal with uncertainty and complex interactions to solve the problem. This course is cross listed with and equivalent to BIDA 650  .
    Prerequisite: ISBA 630   or BIDA 630  


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  • MGMT 615 - Leading Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course explores the importance of human behavior in reaching organizational goals. Course emphasis: managing individual and interpersonal relations; group and inter-group dynamics; leadership, communication and motivation skills in managing organizational performance and change.


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  • MGMT 645 - Electronic Commerce

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The purpose of this course is to provide the essentials of electronic commerce-how it is being conducted and managed as well as assessing its major opportunities, limitations, issues, and risks. Major topics include Internet consumer retailing, business-to-business e-commerce, m-commerce, e-commerce support services, and e-commerce strategy and implementation. Students will also learn how to launch a successful online business.


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  • MGMT 650 - Business Policy and Strategy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This is a capstone course designed to develop a framework of analysis for long-term policy formulation in a global economy. Case materials and computer simulation are used to integrate strategic concepts and techniques learned in earlier core courses. Emphasis will be placed on social and ethical responsibilities of management.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 610  and MGMT 615  and MKTG 640  and FINC 620  or consent of instructor


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  • MGMT 655 - Managing Innovation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Innovation is the lifeblood of every successful company. During this course, we will focus on a range of techniques to spur innovation, including new products, new markets, new processes, new partnerships, and new technology. The course considers strategies for startups and strategies to revitalize larger, more mature firms. The course culminates in a plan to take your own organization to the next level.

     


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  • MGMT 660 - International Business Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course examines management concepts and the practices of multinational and foreign firms. The objectives, strategies, policies, and organizational structures of corporations engaged in various social, economic, political, and cultural environments are discussed also.


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  • MGMT 665 - Total Quality Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Success in modern business depends on success in quality management. This course will provide the framework and methods for potential business managers and entrepreneurs to approach quality as a strategic and competitive variable. Methods to be covered include statistical process control, tolerance and robust design. Course content draws heavily on the teachings of Drs. W. Edwards Deming, Genichi, and Taguchi.


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  • MGMT 670 - Supply Chain Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    Interest in supply chain management, both in industry and in academia, has grown rapidly over the past several years. This course represents, in an easily accessible manner, recently developed state-of-the-art models and solution methods important in the design, control and operation of supply chains.


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  • MGMT 675 - New Ventures and Entrepreneurship

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on the generation and analysis of ideas and the managerial decisions necessary to operate a new venture. It emphasizes creativity and the source of ideas, an idea’s operational feasibility, analysis of the environment, industry, and financial resources needed by the entrepreneur for improving the chances of success, as well as operational issues such as marketing, risk protection, and human resource management. Self-assessment and other managerial decision making tools aid in determining the entrepreneurial interest of course participants.


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  • MGMT 695 - Seminar in Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on current issues, trends, and problems in management that are of interest to faculty and students. Depending on the topic at hand the course may rely on interactive discussions as well as individual and group research and reporting by students on a variety of different issues in management.

    This course can be repeated multiple times with different topics.

     


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Marketing
  

  • MKTG 570 - Fundamentals of Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of marketing and focuses upon the factors that influence managerial strategies and decisions for marketing their product or services, which include consumer and organization buyer behavior, marketing research, product decision, services marketing, promotion, pricing and distribution. Additionally, the course examines marketing in the international, electronic, and non-profit sectors and seeks to sensitize students to the legal and ethical consequences of marketing decisions.


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  • MKTG 640 - Modern Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This is an advanced course emphasizing the application of digital marketing strategies to a global marketplace. This course focuses on refining problem solving skills through the planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating of digital marketing strategies for real life organizations. The components of digital marketing strategies that will be explored include: search engine, social, video, display, websites, blogs, mobile (devices), and data analytics.
    Prerequisite: MKTG 570  or equivalent


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  • MKTG 650 - International Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course explores methods applied to estimate market potential and to serve markets outside the United States; methods to serve these markets through branches, warehousing operations, international brokers and traders and foreign affiliates, adaptations to markets in countries with different cultural, political and economic characteristics, and reviews of the marketing and distribution methods of a selected number of U.S. and foreign companies.


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  • MKTG 660 - Marketing Analysis and Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course represents an intensive study of market structure and demand for consumer and industrial goods, buyer and consumer behavior, and analysis of distribution systems with analytical techniques.


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  • MKTG 675 - Services Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on the distinctive aspects of marketing a service. The issues and concepts of services marketing are explored through the utilization of cases.


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  • MKTG 680 - Marketing Channels

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course focuses on the process of logistics planning and implementation through case analyses and tests. Domestic and international issues such as transportation modes, warehousing, materials procurement and flow, and customer service will be the primary emphasis of the course.
    Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor


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  • MKTG 695 - Seminar in Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    This course examines current topics and problems in marketing. Intensive individual or group research is applied to the marketing issues facing management.


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Math Education
  

  • MATE 610 - Numbers and Operations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth view of numbers and operations that undergird students’ conceptual understanding of the historical foundations of numbers, number systems, and algorithms. Research with an emphasis on the demonstration of best practices and creative strategies to support student learning regarding the conceptual understanding of numbers and operations and common misconceptions will be explored.


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  • MATE 620 - Algebraic Thinking

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth view of algebraic concepts that undergird students’ conceptual understanding of algebraic thinking. Research with an emphasis on the demonstration of best practices and creative strategies to support student learning regarding algebraic thinking will be explored.


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  • MATE 630 - Geometric Thinking

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth view of geometric concepts that undergird students’ conceptual understanding of geometric thinking such as the Van Hiele Model. Research with an emphasis on the demonstration of best practices and creative strategies to support student learning regarding geometric thinking will be explored.


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Mathematics
  

  • MATH 501 - Teaching Mathematics Using Computers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A study of the use of computers in mathematics teaching and research, incorporating evaluations of instructional software and examining integrative techniques for applications of microcomputers in middle grades math, consumer math, general math, geometry, advanced mathematics, trigonometry, and calculus.


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  • MATH 502 - Topics in Mathematics for Teachers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An intensive study of current topics in mathematics of interest to public school teachers including but not limited to such topics as algebra, geometry, trigonometry, functions, statistics, probability, and use of technology.


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  • MATH 504 - Current Trends in Mathematics Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The primary purpose of this course is to explore mathematics education from methodological and research perspectives. This will be accomplished by developing teaching, research, writing, presentation, and discussion skills.


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  • MATH 505 - Analysis for Teachers I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An exploration of proofs of functions, limits, continuity, derivatives, and definite integrals.


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  • MATH 506 - Analysis for Teachers II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A continuation of MATH 505 , emphasizing proofs and covering such topics as the integral, applications of the integral, L’Hospital’s Rule, infinite series, and multiple integrals.
    Prerequisite: MATH 502 


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  • MATH 507 - Linear Algebra I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The first course in a two-semester sequence in linear algebra, including such topics as systems of linear equations, matrices, vector spaces, linear transformations, determinants, canonical forms of matrices, and inner product spaces.
    Prerequisite: MATH 251 or consent of the department.


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  • MATH 508 - Numerical Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A practical survey of numerical analysis, with topics included from iterative methods of nonlinear equations, the approximation theory, numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations, and numerical linear algebra.
    Prerequisite: MATH 251 and MATH 331 and MATH 507 


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  • MATH 509 - Linear Programming and Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An applications-oriented course developing some of the theories and computational techniques of linear programming - the simplex method, the concept of duality, and the Duality Theorem, matrix representation of the Simplex Algorithm, sensitivity analysis, integer programming - and applying them to transportation problems.
    Prerequisite: MATH 372


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  • MATH 511 - Abstract Algebra I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The first course of a two-semester sequence in abstract algebra, including such topics as groups, normal subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphisms, Cayley’s Theorem, Cauchy’s Theorem, permutation groups, Sylow’s Theorem, direct products, finite abelian groups, rings, ring homomorphisms, ideals, quotient rings, Euclidean rings, and polynomial rings.
    Prerequisite: MATH 361 or consent of department


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  • MATH 521 - Real Analysis I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The first course of a three-semester sequence in real analysis, including such topics as real number systems, elements of point-set topology and metric spaces, sequences and series of real numbers, continuity, differentiation, integration, the Reimann-Stieltjes Integral, sequences, and series of functions, point wise and uniform convergence, functions of several variables, implicit function, and inverse function theorems.
    Prerequisite: MATH 412 or consent of department


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  • MATH 531 - Topology I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The first course in a three-semester sequence in topology, presenting an axiomatic development of topological spaces and including such topics as continuity, compactness, connectedness, separation axioms, metric spaces, and convergence.
    Prerequisite: MATH 412 or consent of department


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  • MATH 533 - Advanced Studies in Teaching Mathematics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    An in-depth investigation of a variety of techniques and topics pertaining to curriculum, methodology, technology and research in teaching mathematics in grades 6-9, including an exploration of problem analysis, descriptive statistics and elementary probability. Statistical software such as Excel and SPSS will be used to reinforce concepts.


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  • MATH 541 - Complex Analysis I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    The first course of a three-semester sequence in complex variables, including such topics as complex numbers and their geometrical representation, point sets, sequences and mappings in the complex plane, single-valued analytic functions of a complex variable, elementary functions, and integration.
    Prerequisite: MATH 412 or consent of department


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  • MATH 571 - Ordinary Differential Equation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Hours: 3
    Lab Hours: 0

    A course including such topics as existence and uniqueness theorems, linear systems, autonomous systems, periodicity, boundedness and stability of solutions, nonlinear equations, perturbation theory, Sturm-Liouville systems, etc.
    Prerequisite: MATH 331 or consent of department


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