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A-S 5100 - Topics in Legal Studies
This course is part of the accelerated law program run collaboratively with the College of Arts and Sciences and the WMU Thomas Cooley Law School, allowing students to take courses through the Law School that are also included in the accelerated program. Consult a program advisor for additional details.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 1 - 18 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
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A-S 6990 - Cooperative Education and Practical Training
Cooperative education, internship or practical training experience during a semester involves full-time planned and supervised work related to the student’s major or minor and is performed outside the department, unit or university. This work is to be summarized in a written report. Students enrolled in this course will be classified as having full-time student status for the purpose of loan deferments and insurance eligibility. Students may take up to a maximum of 6 credit hours in A-S 6990.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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AAAS 5100 - Foundational Theories in Diversity Leadership
The course focuses on developing an understanding of diversity and difference, power and privilege, and oppression. Emphasis will be given on understanding of one’s self within these systems as an essential foundation for culturally competent practices in any environment. Students will learn: (i) systems that maintain differential access to power and privilege at the expense of marginalized others, (ii) skills for understanding and interrogating their own multiple social identities (i.e., social locations), (iii) knowledge and skills for appropriate training practices in bias, (iv) strategies for interrupting systems of oppression and other ways to work for the core value of social justice. Students may enroll in their junior or senior year or as part of a graduate program. There are no prerequisites, however, students are encouraged to contact their advisor or the instructor of record before enrolling to make sure this is a good fit.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to upperclass and graduate students.
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ACTY 5980 - Readings in Accounting
Directed individual study of topics not covered in other departmental courses.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Written approval of MSA Advisor.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
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ACTY 6010 - Accountancy
This course is designed for graduate students who have no academic background in accounting. It is a study of the fundamental concepts and applications of financial accounting and managerial accounting. The course emphasizes the use of accounting information and the analysis of accounting statements rather than the recording of transactions and the preparation of accounting statements.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Admission to the MBA program or department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Masters in Business Administration.
Notes: Students may not receive credit for both ACTY 6010 and equivalent courses. MSA students may not enroll in ACTY 6010. Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6100 - Financial Accounting and Reporting
This course examines the pronouncements of authoritative, regulatory organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the International Accounting Standards Board, and the Financial Accounting Standards Board. The underlying logic (or lack thereof) behind these pronouncements is investigated. These pronouncements are studies in their broad concepts, including asset and liability recognition and measurement issues, revenue recognition alternatives, the timing of expense matching, and funds flow reporting. Practical, “real world” cases emphasizing these concepts form a major portion of the course. The impact of financial reporting on capital markets, from a user perspective, is also discussed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3110 with a grade of “C” or better, or approval of the Chair of the Department or the Director of the MBA Program.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCOB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA or MSA program or the approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6110 - Managerial Accounting
This course emphasizes the use of accounting information for planning, control, and decision making. The managerial accounting topics covered include job order costing, cost allocation, service costing, activity-based costing, standard costing, transfer pricing, and global accounting issues. The course is not available for credit to students who have completed ACTY 3220 or its equivalent; MSA students are not permitted to enroll in ACTY 6110.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 6010 or (ACTY 2100 and ACTY 2110 with a grade of “C” or better) or equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCOB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA program or approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer II (Grand Rapids only)
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ACTY 6130 - Advanced Accounting Information Systems
This course will explore accounting information systems and their relationship with accounting functions. The objective of the course is to provide students with a theoretical framework for accounting information systems, information technologies and applications used by accounting information systems, internal control systems, auditing accounting information systems and empirical research related to these areas. Detailed focus is paid to transaction procedures, transaction cycles, internal controls and database structures. Examples of topics covered in class are: software development lifecycle, database control concepts and procedures, auditing accounting information systems, accounting information systems design, and e-communication and information system networks. Examples of assignments and projects include: advanced accounting information systems modeling, advanced form, query, and report design, and data analysis. Examples of software to be used in the course are: SAP, Access, i-Metrix and Excel.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3130 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCoB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA or MSA program or the approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6170 - Attestation and Assurance Services
A critical study and examination of the theory of auditing and auditing practices, including the demand and supply for auditing services and current issues facing auditors in the United States and elsewhere.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 4160 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCOB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA or MSA program or the approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6210 - International Accounting
This course examines international dimensions of accounting and the uses of accounting information for decision making in a multinational environment. Major emphasis is placed upon accounting and managerial issues of multinational corporations such as currency translation, financial reporting and disclosure, international taxation, transfer pricing, and current issues and developments.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: A minimum grade of “C” or better in ACTY 6010 or ACTY 2110 or equivalent course.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCOB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA or MSA program or the approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6220 - Seminar in Management Accounting
This course examines a variety of advanced cost management concepts and techniques for manufacturing and service organizations. The topics may include advanced cost-volume-profit analyses, activity-based costing and activity-based management, strategic cost management, total quality management, re-engineering and process improvement, transfer pricing, and other cost management issues in a global environment.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3220 or ACTY 6110; with a grade of “C” or better in any prerequisite.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCOB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA or MSA program or the approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6240 - Business Tax Planning
An advanced course in business taxation involving the identification and analysis of tax problems. Income tax strategy is studied involving the timing of income, types of business organizations, and the various alternative tax treatments. Case studies will be used, and research in taxation will be emphasized.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3240 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCOB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA or MSA program or the approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6270 - Accounting Fraud
This course identifies various aspects and elements of fraud as it occurs in business. Three major categories of fraud will be examined: asset misappropriation, financial statement misstatement, and corruption. The course begins with an introduction to the problem, and then analyzes how fraud can be prevented. The course covers the various methodologies for detection and investigation of fraud as well as resolution attributes and related matters.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 4160 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCOB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA or MSA program or the approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6280 - Financial Statement Analysis
The course examines the concepts and techniques of financial statement analysis from the viewpoints of investors, creditors, and management. Students will have opportunities to analyze financial statements and value a firm using several approaches. Through a mixture of lecture/discussion, case analyses and term projects, students should be able to develop the following skills: 1) understand the usefulness and limitations of financial statements in evaluating a company’s performance for credit, investment, and other purposes; 2) learn and appreciate the linkages among strategic business analysis, accounting analysis and financial analysis; 3) use accounting numbers to forecast future earnings and cash flows and to estimate a firm’s value; 4) learn the techniques for analyzing foreign financial statements prepared with the IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and convert them into U.S. GAAP (Generally Acceptable Accounting Standards) statements and ratios.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: (ACTY 6100 and ACTY 6110) or (ACTY 3100 or ACTY 3220).
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Requires admission to the MBA or MSA program.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
When Offered: Fall
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ACTY 6340 - Supply Chain Cost Analysis
This course examines the integrated/cross-functional behavior of product and process costs across the supply chain. The primary focus of the course is the application of data-driven critical analysis and decision making tools to provide economic justification for the development and management of supply chains. Topics include: cost accounting methods, product and service should cost models (cost breakdowns), approaches to target costing, total landed cost analysis, correlation and regression costing/pricing models, management of risk and relationship cost, lease/buy analysis, and currency exchange.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6430 - Selected Topics in Accountancy II
The advanced study of selected topics in accountancy. Course varies according to topic.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCOB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA or MSA program or the approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 6440 - Selected Topics in Accountancy III
The advanced study of selected topics in accountancy. Course varies according to topic.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Enrollment in HCOB graduate business courses requires admission to the MBA or MSA program or the approval of the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 7100 - Independent Research
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Application and department approval.
Credits: 2 to 6 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Master in Accountancy.
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Open to graduate students only.
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ACTY 7120 - Professional Field Experience
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Application and department approval.
Credits: 2 to 12 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Master in Accountancy.
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Open to graduate students only.
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ADA 5200 - Family and Addiction
This course provides students with knowledge on the effects of substance abuse on the family. Included is theory and practice regarding dysfunctional relationships, children of substance abusers, and resulting disorders.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ADA 5370 - Constructive Confrontation and Referral in Substance Abuse Services
This course provides students with knowledge of intervention strategies for active substance abusers. Emphasis is placed on strategic constructive confrontation techniques and effective referral processes.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ADA 5700 - Field Education: Substance Abuse
A clinical, prevention, research, or administrative field experience meeting practice requirements in certification of substance abuse services. The field experience involves direct supervision by faculty and clinical supervisors.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Admission to certificate program and instructor approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students. Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Students should enroll in ADA 5700 only if they are also concurrently enrolled in an internship with another WMU master’s degree program. The site must be approved by the SPADA field coordinator.
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ADA 5980 - Readings in Substance Abuse Services
This course is offered as independent study and readings under the guidance of a faculty member. Initiative for planning the topic for investigation and seeking the appropriate faculty member comes from the student, with consultation from the advisor.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor and program advisor approval.
Credits: 1-4 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students. May be repeated up to a maximum of 4 hours in a program of study.
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ADA 6060 - Causes of Substance Abuse
This course will examine the three major theories that explain the causes of psychoactive substance use: the biological, psychological, and sociological. The historical responses of society to substance use such as strategies including control, prevention, intervention, and treatment will be outlined and the research of various epidemiologic patterns and social correlates of substance use will also be studied.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
Cross-Listed: Cross-listed with CECP 6340 and SWRK 6530.
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ADA 6110 - Physical Aspects of Addictive Drugs
This course will have students examine the neurobiology of the addiction process, treatment of cognitive deficiencies, and mental and medical health conditions that may mimic or co-exist with substance abuse disorders. Current literature will be utilized in order to address medical and pharmacological interventions and treatment.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ADA 6115 - Applied Neuropsychopharmacology of Addictive Drugs
The intent of this course is to provide students will an advanced understanding of the physiological and behavioral processes involved in psychoactive substance use, misuse, and addiction. An emphasis will be placed on the major and minor classifications, biology, and pharmacology of commonly abused legal and illegal psychoactive substances. The course will include the history of drug use, drug metabolism, dependence, withdrawal, and practice and policy application for recovery, prevention, and treatment.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ADA 6330 - Diversity and Ethical Issues in Addictions
This course will examine the social, political, economic, and cultural context in which substance abuse exists, including risk and resiliency factors of individuals and groups. Multicultural and ethical issues will be addressed in regards to strategies for prevention, treatment, and recovery and students will be expected to participate in self-exploration of their beliefs, values and behaviors.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ADA 6340 - Recovery Oriented Systems of Care
This course will examine the understanding that recovery from substance abuse and dependency is a process of change which occurs within a systemic model of care that includes prevention, intervention, treatment, and management of substance use disorders. Students will have exposure to various substance abuse screening and assessment instruments, counseling strategies, and treatment modalities in order to assess, treat, and refer to the appropriate service providers along the continuum of care. This course will also provide students with an understanding of the ethical codes related to substance abuse counseling.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
Cross-Listed: Cross-listed with CECP 6360 and SWRK 6550.
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ADA 6400 - Co-Occurring Disorders and Addictions
This course will instruct students on how to screen for co-occurring disorders with various assessment tools, address each diagnosis in a comprehensive treatment approach, and assist them in developing skills to deliver supportive, appropriate treatment services for clients with more than one disorder.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ADA 6410 - Addiction in Family Systems
This course will examine how substance use disorders affect family members, couples, and significant others as well as how they impact and influence the user. In addition, the models of diagnosis, assessment tools, and methods of intervention for these groups will be identified and discussed. Strategies and behaviors that family members, couples, and significant others must adopt in order to assist in sustaining recovery and healthy relationships will be outlined.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ADA 6420 - Clinical Supervision of Addiction Services
This course will prepare students to understand the various clinical supervision theories, roles, and modalities in order to implement leadership in the counseling profession. Moreover, aspects of the supervisory alliance will be addressed as well as issues surrounding critical thinking, self-awareness, competency, and organizational/administrative skills.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ADA 6700 - Field Practicum
The field practicum component of the graduate certificate is designed to be a capstone learning experience during which students, with the guidance and assistance of those persons who are currently working in the substance abuse field, can apply the knowledge and information obtained in the academic setting to further develop and refine his/her skills. Since skills are acquired by the application of information, knowledge, and many hours of practice, field practicum is required of all students in order to complete the graduate certificate in substance abuse.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Admission to the Graduate Certificate program and completion of 9 hours of course work in the program.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ADA 7120 - Professional Field Experience
Please refer to The Graduate College section of course descriptions.
Credits: 2 to 12 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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AE 5100 - Foundations of Structural Mechanics
Fundamental analysis techniques for aerospace structures. Analysis of stress and strain including linear elastic anisotropic materials. Multi-axial yield. Boundary value problems and an introduction to variational calculus. Energy methods for structural analysis including minimum potential. Castigliano’s theorems and other approximate methods.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: AE 4630 with a grade of “B” or better, or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
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AE 5200 - Advanced Aerodynamics
Fundamental mathematical skills in vector analysis and perturbation methods. Theoretical studies of thin airfoils, finite wings, wing-body and vorticities. Low and high Reynolds aerodynamics. Boundary layer and viscous flow control. High lift aerodynamics. V/STOL and UAV Aerodynamics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: AE 3710 with a grade of “B” or better, or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
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AE 5400 - Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics
Three-dimensional kinematics and dynamics with a focus on aerospace vehicles. Newton/Euler and Lagrangian and Kane’s formulations for systems of particles and rigid bodies. Translating and rotating reference frames. Aircraft 6-DOF equations of motion, orbital mechanics for the two-body problem.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ME 2580 and ME 3600, with a grade of “B” or better in all prerequisites.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
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AE 5760 - Advanced and Electric Propulsion Systems
Introduction to electric propulsion with an overview of electricity and magnetism, atomic physics, non-equilibrium flows and electrothermal, electromagnetic, and electrostatic electric propulsion systems. Brief introduction to other types of advanced propulsion methods.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: AT 4760 with a grade of “B” or better, or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
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AE 5950 - Topics in Aerospace Engineering
A specialized course dealing with some particular area of aerospace engineering not included in other course offerings.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
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AE 6200 - Biofluid Mechanics – From Earth to Space
Introductory analytical studies of fluid dynamics in bioenvironment. Fundamentals of internal and external biofluidic flows. Circulations of blood and cerebrospinal fluid will be discussed. Applications to spaceflight-induced human body fluid distributions and flow dynamics for human space exploration missions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: AE 5200 or ME 5300 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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AE 6400 - Atmospheric Flight Dynamics and Control
Synthesis of basic autopilot and stability augmentation systems for atmospheric flight vehicles. Advanced flight control structures including control of inertial cross-coupling. Human pilot plus airframe and the relationship with flying qualities requirements. Extensive use of commercial software tools.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: AE 5400 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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AE 6410 - Space Flight Dynamics and Control
Introduction to space vehicle dynamics and control. Two-body and restricted three-body problems, orbital trajectories, orbit transfers, orbit perturbations. Spacecraft attitude kinematics and dynamics. Formulation of spacecraft rotations and orbital targeting problems as control problems. Algorithms and software for analysis of spacecraft dynamics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: AE 5400 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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AE 6710 - Molecular Gas Dynamics
Analysis of basic gas properties at the molecular level. Kinetic theory; molecular collisions, the Boltzmann equation. Maxwellian distribution function. Quantum mechanics; the Schrodinger equations, quantum energy states for translation, rotation, vibration, and electronic models of atoms and molecules. Statistical mechanics; the Boltzmann relation, the Boltzmann energy distribution, partition functions. These ideas are combined for the analysis of a chemically reacting gas at the molecular level.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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AE 6950 - Advanced Topics in Aerospace Engineering
A specialized course dealing with some particular advanced areas of Aerospace Engineering not included in other course offerings.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval required.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to graduate students only.
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AE 6970 - Problems in Aerospace Engineering
Special problems of individual need or interest under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty. May be elected with approval of department chairperson and faculty member. Application must be submitted and approved prior to the election of the course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit up to six hours. Open to graduate students only.
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AE 7000 - Master’s Thesis
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to graduate students only.
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ANTH 5000 - Topics in Archaeology
A consideration of the prehistory of a particular geographic area (e.g., the southwestern United States, the Circumpolar) or of selected theoretical problems (e.g., artifact typology, prehistoric ecology). The topic to be studied will be announced each semester.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit under different topics. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ANTH 5030 - Anthropology in the Community
Students in the course apply anthropological methods and understandings to a community based research and/or service project. The focus of the class rotates among different sites and topics depending upon the semester it is offered. The experiential learning component of this course facilitates student understandings about the relevance of anthropology to problems and projects outside of the university setting and strengthens community connections with the university.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ANTH 5040 - Archaeological Research Methods
An in-depth exploration of archaeological research methods, emphasizing how archaeologists analyze and interpret the material record. Students learn the complexity of archaeological methods through a practice oriented approach to topics such as research design, sampling, typology, classification, database management, lithic, ceramic, faunal and floral analytical techniques, archaeological illustrations, writing, curation, and collections management.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2100
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ANTH 5060 - The Archaeology of Gender
Gender constructs, a critical organizing principle for human interaction, are becoming an important focus for archaeological investigation. This course will explore the multiple ways archaeologists have attempted to use gender relations as a means to gain insights into individual societies. We will follow gender as an archaeological concept historically and conceptually. Participants will explore the attempts and successes of a gendered understanding of the archaeological record.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ANTH 5090 - Cultural Resource Management Archaeology
Cultural Resource Management is an important aspect of modern American archaeology; it is in this context that most sites are excavated, archaeological data is collected, and where most archaeologists work. The goal of this course is to consider larger issues of Historic Preservation and Cultural Resource Management in archaeology by focusing on topics including the history, politics, and legal structure of preservation, the structure and practical realities of the CRM industry, looting, public presentation and outreach, global heritage, and heritage tourism.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2100
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ANTH 5220 - Poverty, Power, and Privilege
This course critically explores anthropological approaches to understanding poverty as well as racial, class, and sexual inequalities. The course emphasizes inequalities within the contemporary United States, but situates those dynamics within an analysis of global processes and conditions. Particular emphasis is placed on analyzing ways that everyday practices, neoliberal social policies, economic restructuring, resistance efforts, and institutional practices play in producing, challenging, and maintaining structural violence. Feminist, post-structuralist, Marxist, cultural studies, and hegemony studies approaches are covered. Both ethnographic case studies and theoretical analysis are explored to inform collaborative required applied community based anthropological research on power, race, and class relations within the Kalamazoo region.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ANTH 5250 - Spirits and Medicine
This course explores how healing is linked to belief and in turn how beliefs about well-being, illness, and treatment are culturally prefigured. Students will examine healing practices in the United States and cross-culturally as they relate to belief and consciousness, including western medicine and alternatives, spirit possession and trance, and methods of divination.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ANTH 5300 - Research Methods
An in depth consideration of the research methods and tools of the modern anthropologist. An emphasis on methods and techniques of data collection, statistical analysis, and graphic presentation of a wide variety of anthropological data.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ANTH 5330 - Museums and Material Culture
This course comprises: a critical consideration of museum practices, including processes of collection, archives, and exhibition; and critical approaches to material culture more broadly. It is also meant to be an exploratory course, dependent on full engagement between participants – instructor as well as students. We will be actively engaged in a process of discovery in terms of how to understand objects in cultural and historical context, how to critically interrogate a variety of anthropological approaches to objects over time, and how to understand anthropology’s responsibility to the public through museum practices.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2100
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ANTH 5400 - Ethnographic Research Methods
An exploration of the complexity of ethnographic research methods through a practice oriented approach to training in ethnographic approaches. Students learn a range of qualitative research methods as well as the political, ethical, methodological, and theoretical dilemmas of anthropological fieldwork and writing through supervised fieldwork projects as well as classroom assignments.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ANTH 5450 - Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology
An intensive study of the cultures of an area of the world or selected problems. Topic will be announced each semester.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ANTH 5500 - Human Evolution
This course is designed to provide students with an intensive examination of the human fossil record from the initial divergence of the hominid lineage to the origin of modern Homo sapiens. Emphasized in this course will be paleontological theory, issues relating to species definition and recognition, functional anatomical complexes, adaptive processes, and human morphological variation.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ANTH 5550 - Topics in Biological Anthropology
A consideration of the biological relationships of specific population groups or general problems in human biology (e.g., human genetics, human growth and constitution, palaeopathology, dental anthropology). Topic will be announced each semester.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ANTH 5900 - Anthropology as a Profession
The course provides a survival guide for the world of professional anthropology. Students will develop the core skills needed to work in academia or applied fields. These skills include creating and maintaining a CV and resume; grant-writing; developing research designs; literature reviews; thesis research; writing proposals; oral and written presentations of research; publication of books; articles and reports; negotiating with ethics boards and other bureaucracies; teaching pedagogy; and course development. The goal of this course is to prepare students to use their anthropological training in whatever career trajectory they hope to pursue; university settings or applied fields such as museums, Cultural Resource Management firms, forensics laboratories, non-profit organizations, etc.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Junior standing and 12 hours of coursework in Anthropology or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
When Offered: Spring
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ANTH 6010 - Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
Intensive study of contemporary issues in sociocultural theory. May be elected as a graduate cognate course by students in other disciplines.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Masters in Anthropology.
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
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ANTH 6020 - Seminar in Archaeology
Advanced study in the major problem areas of prehistoric research. May be elected as a graduate cognate course by students in other disciplines.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Masters in Anthropology.
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
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ANTH 6030 - Seminar in Biological Anthropology
Advanced instruction and research in the principal problem areas in biological anthropology. May be elected as a graduate cognate course by students in other disciplines.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Masters in Anthropology.
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
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ANTH 6040 - Integrating Anthropology
This course provides an integrative introduction to major themes that cross-cut the anthropological sub-disciplines. Topics such as the evolution of language, Marxist thought, or race and racism will be explored through a combination of guest lectures, readings of primary literature, and seminar-style discussions. Students will be encouraged to explore the nature of anthropological inquiry and to find the linkages between cultural, biological, and archaeological anthropology.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Graduate standing in anthropology.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Masters in Anthropology.
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
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ANTH 6090 - Ethnohistory Seminar
Ethnohistory is the study of cultures combining research techniques and theoretical approaches from the fields of history and anthropology. This course will survey ethnohistorical research on a hemispheric level, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America. We will read works in the areas of culture contact, colonialism, material analysis, historiography, oral history, gender, historical archaeology, ethnography, tribalization, globalization, and modernization. The core of ethnohistory lies in the realization shared by practitioners of the benefits obtained through the use of multiple lines of evidence to study history and culture. Ethnohistorians recognize that documents, archaeological findings, oral histories, and ethnographies can be profitable compared, contrasted, and integrated to elucidate the histories and cultural contexts of groups that have been ignored in conventional historical accounts. Thus, interdisciplinary study is incumbent in ethnohistory. By juxtaposing multiple lines of evidence, the ethnohistorian can at once examine the distant and the local, the general and the particular, bringing human experience into better focus.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate Students Only.
Cross-Listed: Course is cross-listed with HIST 6090.
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ANTH 6200 - Anthropological Theory
Students are introduced to anthropological theory as a means of raising questions that are significant to the social sciences in general. The importance of theory to anthropological research across the subdisciplines and a critical understanding of the social world will be emphasized. The course will also focus on the historical and political roots of anthropology through comparing select theorists across the history of anthropological thought. Special attention will be given to current theoretical controversies that continue to define the political and ethical concerns of working with human subjects.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ANTH 6900 - Archaeological Field School
Archaeological investigation of specific problems relating to the prehistory or history of a particular area (e.g., southwest Michigan, Lower Mississippi Valley). Participants will receive instruction in collecting and evaluating background information, creating a research design, and implementing archaeological fieldwork (i.e., logistics, site location survey, mapping, recovering and recording objects from archaeological contexts), and processing and curating data for analysis and interpretation in the laboratory.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2100 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated with approval of instructor, but does not count toward M.A. program requirements twice. Open to Graduate Students Only.
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ANTH 6980 - Independent Readings in Anthropology
Students may contact a faculty member to undertake independent readings on a specific topic of interest. The student should have some familiarity with the topic in advance. The purpose of the course is to allow the student to gain a greater depth of knowledge in a topic which is not offered in a formal course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Credits: 1 to 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate Students Only.
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ANTH 6990 - Independent Research in Anthropology
Students may contact a faculty member to conduct research under the guidance of the faculty member. Before the initiation of the research a literature search and a written proposal must be prepared. At the conclusion of the research project, a written report will be submitted to the guiding faculty member.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Credits: 1 to 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate Students Only.
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ANTH 7000 - Master’s Thesis
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a Credit/no credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
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ANTH 7100 - Independent Research
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Graduate standing in anthropology and department approval.
Credits: 2 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a Credit/no credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
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ANTH 7120 - Professional Field Experience
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Completion of master’s degree course work, including one methods class; and department approval.
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a Credit/no credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
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ARAB 5020 - Arabic for Graduate Study
Arabic instruction for graduate students enrolled in a degree program who need knowledge of Arabic for their field of study. Students will sit in appropriate level course for their learning.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Approval of department of student’s graduate program and approval of Department of World Languages and Literatures.
Credits: 3 to 4 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. May not be taken by undergraduate students in any field.
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ARAB 5030 - Arabic - English Translation Practicum
This is a practical course to teach the skills for translating texts from Arabic into English. The objective of this course is to develop further language proficiency and to introduce students to the nuts and bolts of translation. Students will produce English translations from different sorts of Arabic texts, such as news, essays, documents, poetry, and short fiction.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARAB 2010 or instructor approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ARAB 5200 - Topics in Arabic Linguistics and Language Science
The advanced study of a language or a group of languages from a scientific point of view, such as the function and status of languages in society, the comparative history of different language families or the manipulation of language for pragmatic needs across cultures.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be offered as ARAB/CHIN/FREN/GER/GREK/ITAL/JPNS/LAT/RUSS 5200. May be repeated for credit. Open to upper-class and graduate students.
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ARAB 5500 - Independent Study in Arabic
Directed individual study of a specific topic in Arabic literature or linguistics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARAB 1010 and department approval.
Credits: 1 to 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
When Offered: fall, spring, summer.
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ART 5000 - Independent Studies
An opportunity for qualified undergraduates to elect an area of special interest and pursue it in depth.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5100 - Drawing Workshop
Continuation of ART 3100.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ART 3100.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: Repeatable for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5200 - Independent Study in Art History
Problems in art history from ancient times to the present selected by the individual student in consultation with the instructor.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Department approval.
Credits: 2 to 3 hours
Notes: Repeatable for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5210 - Topics in Art History: Variable Topics
Investigation of changing topics in art history in class or seminar sessions by advanced students. Course title varies from term to term.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit under a different title. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students. MFA candidates and other students with department approval.
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ART 5220 - Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Art
Investigation of changing topics in Medieval and Renaissance art history in seminar sessions. Advanced theory and methods are stressed. Research papers are required. Course has variable topics.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit under a different title. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students. MFA candidates and other students with department approval.
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ART 5230 - Topics in Modern Art
Investigation of changing topics in modern art in seminar sessions. Advanced theory and methods are stressed. Research papers are required. Course has variable topics.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit under different topics. Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students. MFA candidates and other students with department approval.
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ART 5250 - Topics in Asian Art
Investigation of changing topics in Asian art in seminar sessions. Advanced theory and methods are stressed. Research papers are required. Course has variable topics.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit under different topics. Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students. MFA candidates and other students with department approval.
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ART 5270 - Art History Methods
Intensive study of the methods, literature, and research techniques used in art historical inquiry and writing.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students. MFA candidates and other students with department approval.
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ART 5290 - Art History Internship
Designed to provide Art History majors with professional knowledge and skills in the following areas: gallery, museum, archival, visual resources library work, arts advocacy, and arts administration. Students are supervised by an Art History faculty member and a supervisor in the organization where the student is placed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Registration requires approval by supervising faculty member.
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5300 - Ceramics Workshop
Advanced work in ceramics on an independent basis.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5310 - Sculpture Workshop
Continuation of ART 3310. The advanced student explores the expressive possibilities of his or her own individual sculptural direction, with bronze and aluminum casting related techniques.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5350 - Intermedia Workshop
An advanced interdisciplinary course that examines unconventional art forms such as collaboration, kinetic, performance and/or installation art. The student is expected to have a solid background in one conventional art form to allow for technical and conceptual explorations in Intermedia art. Course topic varies from semester to semester.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5380 - Jewelry and Metalsmithing Workshop
Advanced work in jewelry design and metalsmithing. Students collaborate with the instructor to plan a suitable and particular direction for study.
Credits: 1-6 hrs.
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5400 - Painting Workshop
Continuation of ART 3400.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5410 - Printmedia Workshop
This advanced studio course investigates contemporary trends in printmedia including such topics as ‘the multiple’ and three-dimensional and installation methods. Students are encouraged to explore all printmedia and interdisciplinary approaches. An in-depth analysis of critical print media theory will provide the basis for the continuing development of the student’s own personal language and its contextualization within contemporary art.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5480 - Photography Workshop
An advanced course that masters the technical and conceptual applications of still image equipment and materials with focus on portfolio development and advanced individual research. Critical readings are partnered with studio projects. Course topics vary from semester to semester.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ART 3160 or ART 4470, with a minimum grade of “C” in all prerequisites.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Repeatable for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ART 5520 - Art Education Practicum
A teaching laboratory course. Application of theories and skills in art education. Practice in methods and procedures of art education. Must be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
Credits: 6 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ART 5700 - Intern I
Design Practicum in Design Center. Involves an introduction to problem solving for real clients from the community and university. Focus is on the design process from concept to completion and involves client contact, budget preparation, electronic pre-press production, and interface with printers and the printing industry.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
When Offered: Fall and spring semester.
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ART 5710 - Intern II
Design Practicum in Design Center. Involves an introduction to problem solving for real clients from the community and university. Focus is on the design process from concept to completion and involves client contact, budget preparation, electronic pre-press production, and interface with printers and the printing industry. Credits are variable due to the fact that larger more intense projects are sometimes given and the credits are determined by the depth of the project.
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
When Offered: Spring semester only.
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ART 6510 - Art Education Theory
Theories of art and education as they influence art education theory and practice. Includes discussion of various historical and contemporary viewpoints in aesthetics, criticism, art history, art studio for teaching, and discussion of historic and recent developments in art education.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Master of Arts in Art Education program.
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ART 6520 - Recent Topics in Art Education
Topical seminar. Each semester different topics will be investigated in depth in terms of instruction and assessment, curriculum development, and research. Possible topics include: Multicultural Perspectives in Art Education, Technology in Art Education, Students with Special Needs in Art Education, Assessment, Community Approaches to Art Learning, and Interdisciplinary Roles for Art in Education. Must be repeated once, under a different topic.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ART 6510
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Master of Arts in Art Education program.
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ART 6530 - Research in Art Education
This course examines research and research methods used for conducting inquiry in art education. Quantitative and qualitative research models will be discussed. Methods of data collection and data analysis will be presented. Students generate research problems, prepare a literature review, and write a research proposal to guide the final graduate project in ART 6550.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ART 6510 and six credits of ART 6520.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Restricted to Master of Arts in Art Education program.
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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ART 6550 - Graduate Project in Art Education
In this course a student conducts independent inquiry and prepares a written project in which a problem of some significance to the field is investigated and reported. This research is conducted under supervision by graduate faculty in art education. The project is to be composed of research conducted by the student for the purpose of demonstrating knowledge and understanding of research methods in art education, and knowledge of issues and developments in the field of art education. The project proposal is to be written and approved in ART 6530. The completed work must be approved by a committee of graduate faculty. Students who plan to work with human subjects in their research study must abide by the rules and practices established for Western Michigan University. The project itself may employ qualitative and or quantitative research methods on a topic or problem directly related to art education. This would include a phenomenological study of students in an art class context; an analysis of a premise or construct traced through the literature of art education; a survey of attitudes, beliefs, or practices conducted among arts education professionals; or the preparation and field testing of an extensive curriculum module. The use of digital media in the final form of the presentation is encouraged and will be negotiated with graduate faculty.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ART 6510, 6 credits of ART 6520, and ART 6530.
Credits: 2-4 hrs.
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
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ART 7000 - Master’s Thesis
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a credit/no credit basis. Open to Graduate Students only.
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