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PADM 6880 - Program Planning and Proposal Writing
This course seeks to build skill in program planning, program management, and proposal writing. The first part of this course will be devoted to the grantsmanship process, including how to: formulate and promote a project concept; prepare the project proposal; submit the project proposal; and follow-up after acceptance or rejection of the proposal. Emphasis will be placed upon the project proposal as an integral component of agency planning, program management, and assessment activities, from both grantor and grantee perspectives. In the second part of this course, each participant will prepare a project proposal.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PADM 6970 - Dissertation Seminar
Dissertation Seminar is intended to assist doctoral students in the preparation of a dissertation proposal and to facilitate the transition from course work to dissertation. This course will review of proposal components, with particular emphasis on research design and developing the literature review, and will also focus on key issues such as dissertation format standards, psychological and time management demands, committee formation, HSIRB training, and project management.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: In most cases this course should be taken after comprehensive exams have been successfully passed and after all methods courses for the doctoral program are completed. Open to Graduate students only.
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PADM 7100 - Independent Research
Designed for highly qualified graduate students or small groups who wish to pursue independent studies or group projects under the direction of a Graduate Faculty member.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Application and department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a credit/no credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
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PADM 7120 - Professional Field Experience
This practicum is designed for MPA degree candidates who are to participate in a supervised professional field experience/internship in an agency setting.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Application 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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PADM 7300 - Doctoral Dissertation
Please refer to the Graduate College section for the complete course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department and Graduate College approval.
Credits: 1 to 15 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
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PAPR 5000 - Introduction to Papermaking
Graduate students without sufficient background will learn paper science and paper engineering topics and laboratory techniques, including the basics of papermaking, paper properties, paper testing, and TAPPI standard testing procedures.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Enrollment by approval of PCI Graduate Advisor.
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (0 - 3)
When Offered: Fall
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PAPR 5301 - Material Instrumental Analysis
Instrumental techniques for analysis of the physical and surface properties of materials used in the paper and printing industries. Training to operate instruments in preparation for graduate research, or for use in other graduate level courses, and development of laboratory measurement and computer usage skills.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: One completed laboratory science course.
Credits: 2 hours
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (1 - 3)
When Offered: Fall
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PAPR 5501 - Advanced Paper Processes
Advanced course in the paper manufacturing process, including paper chemistry theory, stock preparation, converting, and the role of recycled fibers. Particular emphasis on types of paper products and their applications, the relationship of laboratory measurements to paper properties, and the effect of process variables on paper product performance.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PAPR 5000 or equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (3 - 0)
When Offered: Every other Fall.
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PAPR 5990 - Pilot Plant Operations
Students will gain experience using the department’s papermaking, recycling, paper coating, and printing pilot plants to perform supervised projects or basic research, and be able to express project or research results in oral, written, and visual communication formats in an acceptable and professional manner.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: By arrangement with instructor.
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: Course is repeatable to a maximum of three hours. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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PAPR 6000 - Surface and Colloid Chemistry
Intermolecular forces are considered in detail to build a sound background for consideration of surface and colloidal behavior of matter. The thermodynamics of interfaces and surfaces is covered in detail considering the topics of absorption, surface films, wetting, capillary penetration, and diffusion. Colloidal topics covered include areas such as ionic boundary layers, electrokinetic potential, swelling and shrinkage of gels, ion exchange, surface active agents, detergency, and retention of particles.
Credits: 3 hrs.
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (3-0)
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PAPR 6400 - Coating Rheology
The theories of flow of non-Newtonian liquids are discussed as they apply to pigmented coating systems. Further theories are formulated and evaluated in the lab to attempt to explain the behavior of coating under the shear conditions found in coating application systems.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PAPR 5301 or equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (2-3)
When Offered: Every other Fall.
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PAPR 6410 - Coating Formulations
Intensive study of the functional properties and cost considerations involved in developing coating formulations. Contributions of pigments, additives, and binders to optical, mechanical, printing, and surface properties are discussed in the context of coating formulations.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PAPR 3420 or equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (2 - 3)
When Offered: Every other Fall.
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PAPR 6600 - Mechanics and Optics of Paper and Fibers
The mechanics and optics of individual fibers and fiber networks will be considered from both theoretical and measurement standpoints. Stress-strain-analysis, theory of elasticity and flow, statics, reflection, absorption, transmission, and light scattering of these systems will be covered.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 3740 or equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (2 - 3)
When Offered: Every other Spring.
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PAPR 6910 - Pulp and Paper Operations II
Continuation of the study of the unit operations integral to pulp and paper manufacturing. The paper manufacturing phase is emphasized while completing the systematic study of unit operations used in the industry.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHEG 3120 or equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (2 - 3)
When Offered: Every other Spring.
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PAPR 6930 - Environmental Systems Engineering
The course will focus on the environmental issues associated with the pulp and paper industries. Air, water, solid waste, thermal, and noise emissions, control processes, economic, and legal issues will be studied in concert with the operation of pulp and paper manufacture.
Credits: 3 hrs.
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
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PAPR 6950 - Graduate Topics in Paper/Printing
A special course dealing in some particular subject of interest in pulp and paper and/or printing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
Credits: 1-4 hrs.
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only. May be repeated with different topics.
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PAPR 6980 - Pulping and Bleaching
The course will cover principles of kraft and sulfite pulping, use of other pulping chemicals such as anthraquinone, borohydride, and polysulfides. It will also cover all types of high yield pulps and bleaching of both chemical and high yield pulps. Bleaching chemicals that will be discussed will include chlorine, chlorine dioxide, hypochlorite, dithionite, hydrogen peroxide, oxygen, and ozone. Various bleaching sequences that are currently in practice and under development will be discussed.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PAPR 3030.
Credits: 3 hrs.
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.
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PAPR 6990 - Pilot Plant Research
Research experience using the department’s papermaking, recycling, paper coating, and printing pilot plants. Project management and experimental design of research. Preparation of research reports.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: IME 5160 or equivalent.
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 6 hours.
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PAPR 7000 - Master’s Thesis
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application; department approval and Graduate College approval.
Credits: 1 - 6 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. may be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PAPR 7100 - Independent Research
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application and department approval.
Credits: 2 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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PAPR 7120 - Professional Field Experience
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application and department approval.
Credits: 2 to 12 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PAPR 7130 - Practicum in Teaching in the Discipline
A practicum in teaching in paper and imaging science and engineering done as a collaborative effort with an experienced faculty member in an undergraduate course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PAPR 7250 - Doctoral Research Seminar
Seminars presented by graduate students, faculty, and visiting lecturers concerning their research.
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: Six hours are required for the doctoral degree. Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PAPR 7300 - Doctoral Dissertation
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application; department approval and Graduate College 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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PAPR 7350 - Graduate Research
Please refer to The Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application and department approval.
Credits: 2 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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PHIL 5070 - The Continental Tradition in Philosophy
An examination of the Continental tradition in Philosophy. Topics may vary from term to term. Examples include: phenomenology, existentialism, post-modernism, structuralism, deconstructionism, critical theory, and hermeneutics.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 5120 - Aesthetics
An investigation of the many philosophical issues which arise from the study of the arts and aesthetic experience. Topics include such issues as the ontology and identity of works of art, whether art can be defined so as to distinguish art from non-art, the status of aesthetic values, the relation of ethics to aesthetics, the status of feminist perspectives in the arts, and significance of the arts in human life.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 5200 - Philosophical Applications of Symbolic Logic
This course is designed to expose graduate students to the range of philosophical applications of modern symbolic logic. Starting with the sentential and predicate calculi, the course explores various extensions which may include alethic modal logic, deontic logic, tense logic, relevance logic and counterfactuals. In addition, the course will address salient issues in the philosophy of logic and may include an investigation of the logical paradoxes and/or the controversy surrounding quantified modal logic.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 5250 - Decision Theory
Can there be a formal theory of what it is to be rational in one’s beliefs and actions? This course is an introduction to decision theory, which claims to be just such a theory of rationality. Attention will be given to both its mathematical development and the issues it raises in the philosophy of science, the theory of knowledge, and action theory. A working knowledge of high school algebra is assumed.
Credits: 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 5340 - Moral and Philosophical Foundations of Health Care
In this course philosophical reflection and biological science are combined in a critical examination of the nature and purpose of the health sciences. Topics to be considered include: the aims of the health sciences, the interplay of fact and value in health care, competing images of humankind embedded in health science, patient autonomy, dignity and medical paternalism.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted to the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 5400 - Philosophy of Mind
A study of the philosophical problems surrounding our understanding of the nature of mind, mental states, and consciousness, and their relation to mater, and states of the brain and/or central nervous system. Possible topics include cognitive science, artificial intelligence, the relation of mind to body and/or behavior, teleological and mechanistic explanations of human behavior, the philosophical foundations of psychology, behaviorism, functionalism, the nature of intentionality, the concept of a person, the privacy of mental states, knowledge of other minds, and questions regarding free will and determinism.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. in Philosophy program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 5440 - Practical Ethics
This course will examine the relationships between ethical theory and practice, especially in the area of professional life. We will consider questions concerning moral imagination, deliberation, and justification, as well as how principles and norms guide our complex activities. Case illustrations from various professions (e.g., medicine, laws, government, science, psychiatry, etc.) will be used to highlight some of these issues.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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PHIL 5550 - Advanced Philosophy of Science
A detailed examination of some of the central problems in contemporary philosophy of science. Topics may vary from term to term. Typical topics include: nature of scientific explanation, theory structure and change, scientific realism vs. various anti-realisms, or issues in the special sciences, e.g., the physical, biological or social sciences.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 5600 - Philosophy at Pre-College Levels
A content-oriented course that explores topics, reading materials, and ways of approaching them in the teaching of philosophy at the pre-college level. A special emphasis is put on critical and creative thinking.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 5700 - Philosophical Topics
An examination of special philosophical topics. Topics to be listed in the Schedule of Course Offerings.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is made by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: May be repeated for credit, with advisor’s approval, when topics vary. May be offered in an accelerated format. Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 5980 - Readings in Philosophy
Research on some selected period or topic under supervision of a member of the Philosophy faculty.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHIL 6000 - Colloquium
A seminar in which one or more faculty involve the students in their current research. Topics may vary from term to term.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHIL 6100 - Seminar in the History of Philosophy
A close reading and discussion of selected classics written by major philosophers from the ancient, medieval, or modern period. Selections may vary from term to term.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHIL 6200 - Philosophy of Language and Logic
An examination of the relation of language to the world, and/or the philosophical basis of standard and nonstandard logics. Possible topics include the nature of reference and predication, the distinctions between a priori and a posteriori , between analytic and synthetic, and between necessary and contingent propositions, the roles of proper names, general terms, and pronouns, and the truth conditions of sentences, as well as questions concerning the philosophy of modal logic, tense logic, free logic, deontic logic, epistemic logic, paraconsistent logic, first and second order logics, and probability calculus.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is made by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: May be repeated for credit, with advisor’s approval, when topics vary. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHIL 6310 - Ethical Theory
A study of theories of ethics and morality. Topics may vary from semester to semester.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHIL 6320 - Theory of Knowledge
An examination of the nature of truth, belief, and evidence. Topics may vary from term to term. Examples include: questions about the nature of perception, a priori and a posteriori knowledge, skepticism, epistemic foundations, epistemic justification, and other related topics.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHIL 6330 - Metaphysics
An examination of the underlying nature of reality. Topics may vary from term to term. Examples include: questions about the fundamental kinds of entities that comprise reality, the existence of God, universals and particulars, space and time, causation and free will, mind and matter, identity and change, and other related topics.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHIL 6500 - Philosophy of Religion
An examination of philosophical issues related to religion. Topics may vary from term to term. Examples include: the nature and existence of God, the problem of evil, theistic and scientific explanations, pantheism, the relation between faith and reason, the nature of religious experience, life after death, miracles, religious epistemology, and the theological foundations of ethics.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
Restrictions Graduate students must be admitted into the M.A. program, unless an exception is granted by the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHIL 7000 - Master’s Thesis
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department and Graduate College approval; approved application.
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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PHIL 7100 - Independent Research
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course description.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application and department approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 5620 - Atomic and Molecular Physics
This course consists of some applications of quantum mechanics. Topics include the helium atom, multielectron atoms, the Raman, Zeeman, and Stark effects, stimulated emission, transition rates, selection rules, the diatomic molecule, and molecular physics.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 4600 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHYS 5630 - Solid State Physics
After an initial study of symmetry and crystal structure, quantum mechanics is used to describe the cohesion of solids, x-ray and neutron diffraction, the elasticity of solids, lattice vibrations, and the thermal and electrical properties of solids, with particular emphasis on metals.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 4600 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHYS 5640 - Nuclear and Particle Physics
This course covers such topics as properties of nuclei, collision theory, nuclear reactions, nuclear models, fundamental interactions, and classification techniques used in particle physics. Discussions of experimental methods as well as theoretical treatments using quantum mechanics are included.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 4600 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHYS 5980 - Selected Topics
This course affords an opportunity for advanced students with good scholastic records in physics to pursue independently the study of some subject of interest to them.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PHYS 6100 - Research Seminar
This is a required course for first-year graduate students. The course consists of faculty research talks and student talks (one by each student) on papers chosen by the students and approved by the faculty members.
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
When Offered: Spring
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PHYS 6150 - Mathematical Physics
This course provides the background needed for the application of mathematics to physical problems encountered in graduate physics courses. Relevant topics in group theory, complex variables, and functional analysis are included.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6220 - Quantum Mechanics I
This course is designed to provide a foundation of fundamental techniques for more advanced work in the physics and chemistry of atoms, molecules, nuclei, and solids. The Schroedinger equation and operator theory are applied to simple systems such as the one-electron atom and potential scattering.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6230 - Quantum Mechanics II
This course is a continuation of 6220. It employs state-vector formulation to study several problems of general interest, such as time-dependent perturbation theory, systems of identical particles, and angular momentum.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 6220.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6240 - Statistical Mechanics
Statistical methods, employing ensemble theory, are used to study the equilibrium properties of systems having many degrees of freedom. Classical and quantum theories are developed and applied to selected problems of interest in physics and chemistry. The relationships between microscopic models and macroscopic properties are emphasized.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6300 - Classical Mechanics
Lagrange’s equations are developed early in the course and are used in the analysis of both point-mass and rigid-body problems. The modifications of classical mechanics required by the theory of relativity are reviewed. The Hamilton equations of motion and Hamilton-Jacobi theory are introduced, and some of the analogies between classical and quantum mechanics are discussed.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6500 - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
This course deals with the Dirac and Klein-Gordon equations, quantum electrodynamics, Feynman diagrams, and the properties of the strong and electro weak interaction of elementary particles.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 6230.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6620 - Electricity and Magnetism I
This course deals with the static electromagnetic field, its interaction with matter, time-varying fields, Maxwell’s equations, wave propagation, wave guides, and simple radiating systems.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6630 - Electricity and Magnetism II
This course deals with the scattering of electromagnetic waves, plasma physics, special relativity, relativistic dynamics, collisions between charged particles, bremsstrahlung, and multipole fields.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 6620.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6700 - Atomic Physics
This course covers atomic structure, atomic spectra, second quantization of the electromagnetic field, the interaction of radiation and matter, resonance phenomena, and the formal theory of scattering with applications to atomic collisions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 6230 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6710 - Nuclear Physics
This course covers nuclear models, nuclear matter, electromagnetic properties, reactions, and scattering.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 6230 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6720 - Condensed Matter Physics
This course includes both static and dynamic properties of condensed matter with particular emphasis on transport properties, optical properties, magnetism, and superconductivity.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: PHYS 6220 and PHYS 6240, or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6800 - Research in Atomic Physics
This course is available for students performing doctoral research in atomic physics. A student must have a research advisor to enroll in PHYS 6800.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Advisor approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6810 - Research in Nuclear Physics
This course is available for students performing doctoral research in nuclear physics. A student must have a research advisor to enroll in PHYS 6810.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Advisor approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 6820 - Research in Condensed Matter Physics
This course is available for students performing doctoral research in condensed matter physics. A student must have a research advisor to enroll in PHYS 6820.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Advisor approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 7000 - Master’s Thesis
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application, Department and Graduate College 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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PHYS 7100 - Independent Research
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: 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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PHYS 7300 - Doctoral Dissertation
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Department and Graduate College approval.
Credits: 1 to 15 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
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PHYS 7350 - Graduate Research
Please refer to the Graduate College section for course descriptions.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 2 to 10 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 5060 - Topics in American Government
A critical examination of selected issues facing national, state, or local governments with emphasis upon contemporary theoretical and applied perspectives on the question.
Credits: 3 to 4 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PSCI 5320 - Administration in Developing Countries
This course compares public administration systems in a development context. It analyzes the role of the administrator in middle- and low-income countries, notably the administrator’s varied responsibilities as a career public official, and as an agent of change. The course will cover administration of development projects in both rural and urban settings and discuss strategies that have worked.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PSCI 5490 - Topics in Comparative Politics
This course will examine selected topics in comparative politics. The specific topic will be announced each semester.
Credits: 3 to 4 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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PSCI 5980 - Studies in Political Science
An opportunity for advanced students with good scholastic records to pursue independently the study of some subject of interest to them. Subjects are chosen and arrangements made to suit the needs of individual students.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approved application, approval of department chairperson and instructor.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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PSCI 6000 - Seminar in American Politics
Research and study in selected topics in American politics.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6010 - Foundations of American Politics
An examination of the formal institutions of government at the national level and the representation of citizen interest through political participation including elections, political parties and interest groups, and public opinion.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6030 - Seminar in American Political Behavior
This course will review current literature in the area of political behavior and psychology. Special attention will be paid to controversies in voting behavior and the meaning and significance of vital concepts such as partisanship, ideology, issue voting, belief systems, political sophistication, affective reactions to politics, and the dynamics of citizen participation.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6040 - American National Politics and Public Policy
This course provides a graduate-level introduction to American public policy. The focus of this course is on the stages or elements of the policy process as a means of analysis. While this approach has traditionally included policy formation, implementation and evaluation, it is expanded to include policy studies and other important theoretical aspects of public policy. Consequently, the course will attempt to provide a synthesis between classical and behavioral political science.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6200 - Topics in Public Policy
An examination of selected issues in the field of public policy.
Credits: 3 to 4 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6300 - Seminar: Public Administration
Study of selected topics in public administration.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6311 - Monitoring and Evaluation of International Development Projects
This class considers how monitoring and evaluation can be used to enhance the effectiveness of programs and projects in developing countries. We address the main methodologies employed in project evaluation and standards for assessing the quality of evaluations and we study and critique several completed evaluations.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6330 - Comparative National Development Strategies
This course examines the causes and consequences of more and less effective development strategies primarily at the national level. While the main focus is on experiences with industrialization, the class also considers approaches to agriculture, public health, and other areas of development.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6360 - Seminar: Development Methods and Skills
The seminar is devoted to teaching skills, methods and approaches related to administration in developing areas. Topics may include the logical framework, stakeholder analysis, cost benefit analysis, monitoring, evaluation, and participatory methods. The project paper will be shared with other students in the seminar.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6380 - Seminar: Planning Development Programs
As a capstone to the MDA program, this research seminar calls upon the student to examine the design and implementation of a particular development policy. We address constraints encountered in the policy implementation process and students develop a proposal that would improve conditions in the selected area.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Permission of the MDA Director required to enroll.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6400 - Seminar in Comparative Politics
Research and study in selected topics in comparative politics. Topics will usually be thematic but may also encompass a regional or country study. In all cases significant issues in the study of the field will be stressed.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6410 - Foundations of Comparative Politics
This course surveys the core of the research field of comparative politics, which is concerned principally with the discovery and confirmation of knowledge about institutions and behavior of their governments and their citizens. The course introduces students to the history of the field, important approaches and theories, major concepts and topics, and its eclectic methodologies.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6440 - Seminar: Economic and Social Development Theory
The course examines theories of economic and social development at the national level since World War II and applications of these theories in specific cases.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6460 - Comparative Public Policy
This course focuses on the development of policy over time and across state and national boundaries. It deals with how and why policies emerge in particular forms in different countries. Selected substantive issues will be examined comparatively in greater detail.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6490 - Rural Development
The seminar will discuss the challenges faced as well as some successful approaches in rural development in developing countries around the world. Dynamics of agrarian societies and national and local level development policies and programs will be examined. The links between rural development, agriculture, food security, poverty reduction strategies, and resource availability are analyzed. Challenges leaders face in designing and/or reforming administrative structures, institutions, and policies and programs to pursue effective rural development are considered.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6500 - Developing Countries Seminar
Variable topics examining the course of political development among the developing countries, with special reference to the relationship between administrative needs and democratic objectives.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6600 - Seminar: Political Thought
An analysis of problems and subject matter considered by political philosophers that are significant to the social sciences. Various issues arising in political thought, certain periods in history, or regions of the world may be considered.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6610 - Contemporary Political Theory
Focus will be on twentieth and twenty-first century writers. Topics may include contemporary forms of liberalism, contemporary theories of justice, contemporary civic republican theory, communitarian theory, critical theory, Continental theory, post-structuralist theory, feminist theory, multicultural political theory, Marxian theory, pragmatism, contemporary forms of conservatism, libertarianism, and rational choice theory. Basic concepts and political processes will be examined critically.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6620 - Political Philosophy I
A synthesis of the history of political philosophy and the formal analysis of those positive and normative concepts and processes necessary to the understanding of political systems. The course covers the period from classical Greece through the Renaissance. Superimposed on the overall chronological format are critical inquiries into basic concepts and processes.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6630 - Political Philosophy II
A synthesis of the history of political philosophy from the seventeenth century to contemporary times. The course also includes a formal analysis of applicable positive and normative concepts necessary to the understanding of political systems. Superimposed on the overall chronological format are critical inquiries into basic concepts and processes.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6640 - The Nature of Political Inquiry and Analysis
An examination of the principles underlying the systematic study of politics. Included are discussions of such basic questions as: How do we obtain knowledge of politics?; How do we explain political phenomena? and What is the relationship between the empirical analysis and normative evaluation of political phenomena? Attention will be given to leading approaches to the study of politics and the formulation and use of concepts, generalizations and theories.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6650 - Modern Democratic Theory
A comprehensive survey of the main currents in modern democratic theory, including elitist, participatory, deliberative, agonistic, feminist and radical perspectives. The course will also cover important topics within each of these currents, such as theories of representation, identity politics and social movements.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6900 - Seminar in Advanced Political Analysis
Variable topics in advanced political analysis and research methods are addressed. Topics may include time-series analysis, experimental design, formal methods, game theory, and comparative methods.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6910 - Political Analysis I
Introduction to the research process in political science including research design, sampling and case selection, sources of data (e.g., surveys, interviews, archives, government agencies, etc.), and basic descriptive statistics.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6920 - Political Analysis II
The application of statistical and mathematical models to the analysis of political data with emphasis on methodological assumptions and problems: correlation; analysis of variance; and simple and multiple regression.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PSCI 6910 or equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6940 - Teaching Political Science
This course addresses the basics of teaching in higher education: class preparation, leading discussions, classroom policies, university policies, classroom management, dealing with problem situations, and basic teaching skills, among others.
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: Open to Graduate students only.
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PSCI 6950 - Teaching Excellence
This course introduces advanced graduate students and teaching assistants to ideas, information and methods that are innovative and encourages them to approach teaching in a way that goes beyond the traditional lecture format. Critical thinking exercises, group projects, project-oriented learning, portfolio learning, computer-aided instruction and computer simulations are possible topics. Recent research on the nature of the learning process, both among late adolescents and adults, will also be included.
Credits: 2 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Open to Graduate students only.
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