| |
| |
-
A-S 3200 - Interinstitutional Study
Students may take classes at Davenport College, Kalamazoo College, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College through a cooperative program using this course number for credit toward a WMU degree. Information and enrollment forms may be obtained from the Registrar’s Office. Where credit toward the major or minor is desired, prior approval must be obtained from the student’s major and/or minor department.
Credits: 1 to 12 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
|
| |
-
A-S 3400 - Sustainable Craft Brewing
This course is part of the Sustainable Craft Brewing major, allowing students to take experiential courses related to the business, science, and practice of Craft Brewing. Consult a program advisor for additional details.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 1 to 30 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
|
| |
-
A-S 3499 - Sustainable Brewing Capstone
This course is designed to serve as the culminating experience for majors in the Sustainable Brewing major. Incorporating the classroom-based and experiential aspects of the curriculum, each student will work individually with a designated faculty member on a semester-long project. Projects will address an issue, challenge, or problem drawn from the external advisory board of industry leaders in sustainable brewing.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Junior standing, approval of the instructor of record, and a project approval form signed by the student, instructor of record, and the supervising faculty members.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
A-S 3600 - Achieving in Academic English: Emphasis on Reading
This course is for undergraduates and graduates who are non-native speakers of English and who have sufficient language proficiency to be admitted to the University, but who need to improve their reading and writing skills in order to perform successfully in their academic world. The course promotes further development in the ability to read academic prose and to write in the genres needed for academic success, including the research paper. Attention will be paid to critical reading and editing for grammatical correctness in writing.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Minimum of 500 on TOEFL.
Credits: 5 hours
When Offered: Fall, Spring
|
| |
-
A-S 3610 - Developing Proficiency in English: Emphasis on Speaking and Listening
For international students whose interpersonal speaking and listening skills are satisfactory, this course promotes further development of oral language abilities needed for academic success, including group interaction skills. Attention will be paid to developing critical listening and oral presentation skills.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Minimum of 500 on TOEFL.
Credits: 5 hours
When Offered: Fall, Spring
|
| |
-
A-S 3900 - Arts and Sciences Seminar
A variable topics course in interdisciplinary studies or other subjects that fall outside the traditional disciplines. May be taken as an elective or for credit in an Arts and Sciences major or minor by special arrangement with the department. Topics will be announced in the Schedule of Classes. May be repeated once when topic differs.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
|
| |
-
A-S 3990 - Field Experience (Community Participation)
A program of independent study combining academic work with social, environmental, civic or political field work.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: A written outline of the student’s project; and Arts and Sciences Advising approval required.
Credits: 2 to 8 hours
Notes: May be used as elective credit only. May be repeated for credit.
|
| |
-
A-S 4100 - Climate Change Studies Capstone
This capstone course is designed to help students reflect, synthesize, and integrate knowledge and experiences within the climate change minor program of study. Students are required to provide evidence (previous work and new essays) in the form of a portfolio that illustrates their achievement in meeting the program learning objectives.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 1 hour
|
| |
-
A-S 4960 - Writing-Intensive Mentored Portfolio
A student portfolio will be developed in conjunction with a faculty mentor. The faculty mentor will aid the student in the development of the portfolio and will evaluate its contents. The portfolio may be based upon information about their “life experience,” professional experience, credits from professional job training seminars and/or significant classroom projects. The course will include at least four significant writing experiences to meet the Baccalaureate Writing requirement. Mentored Portfolio credit can be used for all or part of the Professional Studies capstone experience. Students are required to seek advising prior to taking their first capstone experience. The course may be repeated for a total of six credit hours. Application forms are available from the College of Arts and Sciences advising office, the advising office at the WMU Regional Locations and on the advising page of the College website www.wmich.edu/cas/advising. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may satisfy the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student’s curriculum.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Department approval.
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
|
| |
-
A-S 4970 - Mentored Portfolio
A student portfolio will be developed in conjunction with a faculty mentor. The faculty mentor will aid the student in the development of the portfolio and will evaluate its contents. The portfolio may be based upon information about their “life experience,” professional experience, credits from professional job training seminars and/or significant classroom projects. Mentored Portfolio credit can be used for all or part of the Professional Studies capstone experience. Students are required to seek advising prior to taking their first capstone experience. The course may be repeated for a total of six credit hours. Application forms are available from the College of Arts and Sciences advising office, the advising office at the WMU Regional Locations and on the advising page of the College website www.wmich.edu/cas/advising.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Department approval.
Credits: 2 to 6 hours
|
| |
-
A-S 4980 - Directed Independent Study
A program of independent study (reading or research) that allows the student to pursue a subject that falls outside of the traditional disciplines. The initiative for describing the project, planning the method(s) of investigation, determining appropriate product or results, and securing the cooperation of a faculty member to supervise the work must come from the student. Application forms may be picked up in the College of Arts and Sciences Advising Office and must be approved by the Dean of the College. Approval is contingent on the merit of the proposal. Repeatable up to the maximum of 6 credit hours.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
|
| |
-
A-S 4990 - 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 4990.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 1 - 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
|
| |
-
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 to 18 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit. Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
ACTY 2000 - Careers in Accounting
This course is designed to help student explore and manage the professional expectations and career potential of the accounting major. Students will be introduced to the various opportunities in public accounting, private accounting and government accounting. Students will participate in resume building activities, pre-interview research, practice interviews, and career management strategies. Students will learn about Broncojobs and internship opportunities as ways to prepare for successful transitions from Western Michigan University to their professional career.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Corequisite: ACTY 2100
Credits: 1 hour
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.
When Offered: Fall and Spring
|
| |
-
ACTY 2100 - Principles of Accounting I
This is an introductory course in accounting, which includes an examination of the recording and reporting of business transactions, and the measurement of business income, assets, liabilities and equities. Emphasis is placed on financial reporting for decision-makers inside the organization.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
ACTY 2110 - Principles of Accounting II
A study of the role of accounting information in the planning and decision-making of business organizations. The course focuses on financial analysis, manufacturing cost flows, budgeting, and planning for long-term financing and investing activities.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 2100 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
ACTY 3100 - Financial Accounting I
This course examines the underlying concepts of financial accounting. It reviews the accounting cycle, related accounting records, and the financial statements. Accounting principles and reporting requirements for current assets, plant and equipment, intangibles, and other assets are also studied.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ACTY 2100 and 2110 with a grade of 2.5 (“CB”) or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy or General Business.
|
| |
-
ACTY 3110 - Financial Accounting II
This course is a continuation of Accounting 3100. Accounting principles and reporting requirements for liabilities, long-term investments, and stockholders’ equity are studied. Other topics included are accounting for pensions, income taxes, leases, accounting changes, and the Statement of Cash Flows.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy or General Business.
|
| |
-
ACTY 3130 - Accounting Information Systems
This is an introductory survey course in accounting information systems. It includes consideration of issues such as transaction processing and transaction processing cycles, the use and effects of computers and other relevant technology on accounting, database and file systems, internal accounting and administrative controls, and information technology audits. The course emphasizes use of common business software, which may include spreadsheets, flowcharting software, communications, general ledger, and database management systems.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy or General Business.
|
| |
-
ACTY 3220 - Managerial Accounting - Concepts and Practices
A study of the accounting methodology and concepts that have been developed to serve managers in decision-making for planning and control. This course covers budgeting, standard cost variance analysis, incremental analysis, cost and profit analysis, relevant costing, and product costing concepts and practices.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 2100 and ACTY 2110 with a grade of 2.5 (“CB”) or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy, General Business, Management or Public Administration: Business.
|
| |
-
ACTY 3240 - Introductory Tax Accounting
A study of the federal tax laws that apply to business entities. The course focuses on concepts of income, deductions, and credits that apply to all reporting entities and emphasizes tax planning as well as tax compliance.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ACTY 2100 and ACTY 2110 with a grade of 2.5 (“CB”) or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy, Personal Finance Planning or Public Administration: Business.
|
| |
-
ACTY 3990 - Sustainability Accounting
This course provides students with an understanding of how accounting information and reporting is essential for sustainable operations. Accounting information forms the basis for evaluating the ability of an organization to address current business needs, successfully develop a long-term strategy and manage risk for all products, systems, supply chains, and processes to preserve resources for future generations. Topics covered may include: financial statements understanding and analysis; short-term budgeting and control for economic sustainability; evaluation of sustainable projects using capital budgeting techniques, considering potential tax credits and externality costs; short-term sustainable decision making; mandatory accounting and reporting of environmental contingencies; activity based and life cycle costing of sustainable operations. Conventional cost and managerial accounting concepts are discussed, with a focus on sustainability issues.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Junior standing or instructor approval; MATH 1100 and STAT 3660 with a minimum grade of “C” or better in any prerequisite.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Not for accounting credit.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4100 - Internship in Accounting
Under the direction of a faculty coordinator, students obtain full-time, accounting-related employment. Participation is limited to available internships and competitive selection by the faculty coordinator and prospective employers. Students are required to write a final report. Each employer will provide an evaluation of the student. A student must be enrolled in ACTY 4100 while meeting the requirements of the course. This course must be taken on a credit/no credit basis and does not count toward the accounting major.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Written approval of the faculty coordinator.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
|
| |
-
ACTY 4110 - Advanced Accounting
The study of entities and special transactions not covered in Financial Accounting I and II. Particular emphasis is given to partnership equity accounting, governmental accounting, business combinations, reporting by parent-subsidiary consolidated entities (including foreign subsidiaries), and accounting for foreign currency transactions.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3110 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4130 - Advanced Accounting Systems
This course examines the types of accounting systems used by business enterprises. It includes in-depth examinations of database accounting systems, including the analysis of information, database design and implementation, and the creation of applications.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3130 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4140 - Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
A comprehensive study of the recording of transactions by governmental units and the financial statements required by generally accepted accounting principles for governmental units. Governmental units are the basic unit of study; however, colleges and universities, healthcare entities, and other not-for-profit organizations are given brief coverage to illustrate accounting and financial reporting for all not-for-profit entities.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 2110 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy or Public Administration: Business.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4160 - Auditing
A study of auditing of business and non-business organizations. Topics include audit risk, audit procedures during the planning and performance phase of an audit, internal control concepts, ethics and the legal environment, statistical audit tools, types of audit reports, auditing standards, and the relationship of internal auditing to financial statement auditing.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ACTY 3110 and 3130 with a grade of “C” or better in both.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4220 - Cost Accounting - Theory and Practice
A study of the use of cost accounting information within a planning and control framework. Topics include the information needs of managers, costing of products and services, cost allocations among departments of an enterprise, activity-based costing, the theory of constraints, cost of quality, budgeting, income effects of absorption and variable costing, transfer pricing, and performance measurement.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3220 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4240 - Advanced Tax Accounting
A study of the federal tax laws that govern the transactions during a corporation’s life cycle. The tax effects of organizing, operating, making distributions, reorganizing, and liquidating corporations are analyzed. The differences in the taxation of corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies also are addressed.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3240 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4310 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topics within the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeatable for credit under different topics.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4320 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topics within the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeatable for credit under different topics.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4330 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topic within the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeateable for credit under different topics.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4340 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topics with the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeatable for credit under different topics.
|
| |
-
ACTY 4350 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topics within the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeatable for credit under different topics.
|
| |
-
ACTY 5980 - Readings in Accounting
Directed individual study of topics not covered in other departmental courses.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Written consent of instructor.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
ADA 2250 - Drug Use: Personal and Social Impact
This course is designed to increase understanding of substance abuse, alcohol and other drug use through the public health disease model with an emphasis on psychological, physiological and social consequences of use and abuse. An overview of prevention, case finding and treatment strategies are provided.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area VIII: Health and Well-Being.
|
| |
-
ADA 3300 - Addiction and the Addiction Process
This foundational course will focus on the various models and theories of addiction as well as the behavioral, psychological, physical, and social effects of substance abuse. In addition, students will be provided an overview of the various medical and mental health conditions that may mimic or coexist with addiction.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
ADA 3360 - Clinical Approaches to Substance Use Disorders
This course examines the various aspects of substance use disorder treatment processes and interventions. Students will learn about the development of an individualized treatment plan through the screening and intake process that addresses an identified substance use disorder, as well as other issues related to treatment progress. The importance of referral and service coordination with civic groups, agencies, and other professional or governmental entities to help address the individual’s needs is also addressed. Students will gain an understanding and an appreciation of the contributions of various addiction counseling models as they apply to modalities of care for individuals, groups, families, couples, and significant others.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
ADA 3370 - Substance Abuse Treatment Strategies
This course will introduce students to a variety of helping strategies to use with substance abuse clients. The course will focus on treatment services, medical and pharmacological resources, and crisis management.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
ADA 3380 - Addiction Assessment, Recovery, and Illness Management
This course will introduce students to different philosophies, procedures, policies, and outcomes most generally accepted for the treatment, recovery, relapse prevention and continuing care of addiction. There will also be a strong focus on how to include all resources within an individual’s life system to help them with their addictions.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
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.
|
| |
-
ADA 5250 - Women and Substance Abuse Treatment
This course provides knowledge on gender specific treatment of substance abusers. This includes physiological aspects of women, as well as cultural aspects and methods to enhance the treatment of women substance abusers.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
ADA 5300 - Clinical Theory in Substance Abuse Services
This course covers selected theories which form the foundation for Substance Abuse Services practice in specific areas. Students are expected to master the content as a basis for building foundation knowledge for applied practice. The specific topics are announced with each semester offering.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
ADA 5350 - Drug Testing
This course explores the theory and practice of drug testing and its applications in both clinical practice and employment settings. The spectrum of testing ranges from field dexterity to gas chromotography. Federal requirements are reviewed for application in both clinic and work settings.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
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.
|
| |
-
ADA 5450 - Alcohol, Drugs and Aging
The problems of alcohol, medication, and legal and illegal drug use, misuse and abuse among older persons will be discussed. Prevention, intervention, and treatment will be considered.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
ADA 5650 - Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence
This course provides the student with knowledge of the multiple relationships of substance abuse and violence.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
ADA 5670 - Legal Offenders and Substance Abuse
This course provides the student with knowledge on the theories associating substance abuse with criminal and civil offenses. Specific focus is the treatment strategies and techniques related to the offending population and long-term outcomes of decreased recidivism.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
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 permission of instructor.
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.
|
| |
-
ADA 5800 - Substance Abuse Prevention
This course explores the multiple theories and techniques used in the prevention of substance abuse. The history and evolution of prevention is presented, as well as cognitive, affective, and behavioral strategies.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
ADA 5900 - Applied Alcohol and Drug Dependence Recovery Techniques
This course provides the student with knowledge of self-help groups and formal relapse prevention strategies. Application of relapse prevention strategies is integrated into multiple aspects of the continuum of care.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
ADA 5980 - Readings in Substance Abuse Services
Individualized, independent study and readings under guidance of a faculty member. Initiative for planning topic for investigation and seeking the faculty member comes from the student with consultation of the advisor.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor and program advisor approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
AE 2500 - Materials Science
First course in the science of engineering materials. Relationships between microscopic structure and the mechanical properties of metals, polymers, and ceramics. Effects of environment on material properties.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: CHEM 1100 and 1110, MATH 1220 or 1700.
Credits: 3 hours
Cross-Listed: ME 2500
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (3 - 0)
When Offered: Spring, Summer II
|
| |
-
AE 2610 - Introduction to Aerospace Engineering
An overview of aerospace engineering disciplines; the history of aerospace, fundamental elements of aerodynamics and astrodynamic experiments, airfoils and wings, performance, stability and control, propulsion, and structures leading toward the aerospace vehicle conceptual design.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: (MATH 1220 or Math 1700), may be taken concurrently.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to pre-aerospace engineering students.
When Offered: Spring
|
| |
-
AE 3610 - Aerodynamics I
A study of incompressible aerodynamics of flight vehicles with emphasis on the combined application of the basic theory and experiments for solving practical aerodynamic problems in the design of flight vehicles. Flow similarity, governing equations, potential flows, thin airfoil theory, lifting line theory, and basic aerodynamic measurement techniques.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 2720, (AE 2610 or ME 3560), PHYS 2050; PHYS 2060.
Credits: 4 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering or aeronautical engineering.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (4 - 0)
When Offered: Fall
|
| |
-
AE 3710 - Aerodynamics II
An introduction to compressible aerodynamics and boundary layer theory, including subsonic and supersonic flows over wings and bodies and viscous flows. Emphasis is placed on application of the basic theory for solving practical aerodynamic problems in the design of flight vehicles.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: AE 3610; MATH 3740; ME 2580.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering or aeronautical engineering.
When Offered: Spring
|
| |
-
AE 3800 - Flight Vehicle Performance
A study of flight vehicle performance with an emphasis on the effect of aerodynamics on vehicle design. Computer applications to the solution of the problems of flight vehicle performance.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: AE 3710, may be taken concurrently.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering or aeronautical engineering.
When Offered: Fall
|
| |
-
AE 4590 - Flight Test Engineering and Design
Analysis and design of in-flight experiments, excluding expansion of the aircraft’s flight envelope. Includes microprocessor based data acquisition system and electronic sensor interfacing. Laboratory projects emphasize the pre-test, flight and post-flight phases of flight testing with an emphasis on safety of flight issues.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: AE 4600
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering or aeronautical engineering.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (1 - 6)
When Offered: Spring
|
| |
-
AE 4600 - Aircraft Stability and Control
A study of fixed wing aircraft stability and control; estimation of fixed wing stability and control derivatives, longitudinal and lateral/directional static stability and control analysis and synthesis. Introduction to dynamic stability and control characteristics including stability and mode shapes, responses to control input, and handling/flying qualities.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: AE 3710 and ME 3600.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering or aeronautical engineering.
When Offered: Fall
|
| |
-
AE 4630 - Aerospace Structural Design
Structural design of aircraft and spacecraft emphasizing structural integrity under imposed static and dynamic loads. Design considerations include weight, cost, and mission constraints.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ME 3650
Credits: 4 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering or aeronautical engineering.
When Offered: Fall
|
| |
-
AE 4660 - Aeronautical Propulsion Systems
Thermodynamics and fluid dynamics of aeronautical rotating turbomachines, including axial turbines, compressors, mixed flow, and centrifugal machines. Analytical and computational methods will be used to design and determine performance of aircraft propulsion systems.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ME 2320; and either (ME 3560 or AE 3710).
Credits: 4 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering or aeronautical engineering.
When Offered: Fall
|
| |
-
AE 4690 - Aircraft Design
Conceptual and preliminary design of aircraft emphasizing performance, stability and control, and total vehicle efficiency.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: AE 4600 and ME 3650 (with a grade of “C” or better).
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering or aeronautical engineering.
When Offered: Spring
|
| |
-
AE 4700 - Orbital Mechanics
Introduction to astrodynamics, including the two-body problem and restricted three-body problem, orbital trajectories, transfers and targeting, and orbit determination. Computer modeling and simulation of orbital trajectories.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ME 2580, with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineering or mechanical engineering.
When Offered: Fall
|
| |
-
AE 4760 - Space Propulsion Systems
Analysis of liquid and solid propellant rocket engines, propellant thermochemistry and storage, system considerations such as heat transfer and material properties, multi-stage rockets, and trajectories in powered flight. Introduction of electric propulsion and advanced propulsion concepts.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: AE 4660, with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineering or mechanical engineering.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (3 - 0)
|
| |
-
AE 4950 - Topics in Aerospace Engineering
A specialized course dealing with a particular area of aerospace engineering not included in other course offerings.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering.
Notes: May be repeated for credit with a different topic for up to a total of six credits.
|
| |
-
AE 4990 - Independent Study
An independent study assignment available only by special arrangement with an instructor and approved by the department curriculum committee. A written report will be required and filed with the department on completion.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in aerospace engineering.
Notes: May be repeated for up to a total of six hours.
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II
|
| |
-
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 “C” or better; or graduate standing.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
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 “C” or better, or instructor approval; or graduate standing.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
AE 5400 - Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics
Three-dimensional kinematics and dynamics with a focus on aerospace vehicles. Newton/Euler and Lagrangian formulations for systems of particles and rigid bodies. Translating and rotating reference frames. Aircraft static stability, aircraft equations of motion, orbital mechanics for the two-body problem, spacecraft rotational dynamics.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
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 “C” or better, or instructor approval; or graduate standing.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to upperclass and graduate students.
|
| |
-
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.
|
| |
-
AFS 2000 - Introduction and Foundations to Africana Studies
Provides an overview of the origins of black people, the philosophical underpinnings of the discipline, the evolution of the field of Africana Studies, its theoretical and practical applications, and the holistic method of studying African peoples and their social evolution. Historically oriented, the course is designed to be interpretive rather than chronological. The course covers the African civilization in the western hemisphere, including the United States, folklore, mythology, customs, rise of Black nationalism, role of black consciousness, and present day alternatives.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
|
| |
-
AFS 2100 - Comparative Approaches to Forms of Black Consciousness
This course focuses on the history of Black consciousness in the African Diaspora from the seventeenth to twentieth century. It is concerned with forms of Black expression and social action as they are manifested in specific historical, cultural, and political contexts using comparative approaches. Some of the themes include Africa in African American thought and culture, naming and identity, feminism and gender, movement and migration, and the rhetoric of freedom in Black ideology.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area V: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
|
| |
-
AFS 2800 - Topics and Themes in Africana Studies
This course builds upon the African diaspora experiences through selected topics and themes that address complex social and historical issues such as gender, politics, economics, slavery, civil/human rights, affirmative action, sexual identity/orientation, lynching, genocide, gentrification, cultural mutilation, and modes of cultural production. The course will interrogate theories of ethnicity, diversity, multiculturalism, colonialism/post-colonialism, modernism/post-modernism, structuralism/post-structuralism in tandem with the proposed topic(s) and theme(s) being examined.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisies General Education Area II: humanities. This course is repeatable under a different topic.
|
| |
-
AFS 3000 - Black Experience: From the African Beginnings to 1865
This course will examine the myriad patterns of adaptation and adjustments made by the enslaved Africans and free people of color to the continuing oppressive character of American Society prior to 1865. Slave narratives and abolitionists tracts written by freed people reveal much about the African-Americans’ interpretation of their presence in the New World. The Black presence created a commonality of experience, the characteristics of which became and remain a distinctive American co-culture. It aims to examine how the Black presence altered the idea of race and how this alteration became a function of the institutional forms that Black Americans have shaped to survive in a hostile environment.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
|
| |
-
AFS 3010 - Black Experience: From 1866 to the Present
The Black Experience 1866 to the present will concentrate on the plight of the newly freed African-American. The development of the family in post bellum years, the Euro-American reaction to the change in status, the rise of pseudo scientific racist thought, the long-term psychological effects of slavery on both the victims and the victimizers, the search and the rise of Black Messianic leaders, the migration from the rural-agricultural South to the urban-industrialized North, the emergence of Black Nationalism-Civil Rights Movement and the non-Black backlash. AFS 3000 is highly recommended.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
|
| |
-
AFS 3100 - The Black Woman: Historical Perspective and Contemporary Status
This course is an examination of the historical perspective and contemporary status of the Black woman and her story, paying critical attention to her image as reflected in her role in the American society. The course emphasizes the problems, issues, and concerns of the Black woman. Students will participate in securing visiting Black female speakers and documenting their story as Black women.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
|
| |
-
AFS 3140 - The Black Community
An investigation of the social forms and structures within the Black community from the unique Black perspective. The course will focus on the sociological, political, economic, psychological, and physical aspects of community building by a subordinated group.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
|
| |
-
AFS 3220 - West Africa in Colonial America
This course will cover the cultural, social, and political background in West Africa of African-Americans. It will also treat African origins of aspects of American culture. It will provide students with the opportunity to explore the cultural, material, and social contributions of West Africans and later African Americans to the development of America from 1607 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. The course will therefore be a foundation for other courses covering African Americans, especially their experiences in America.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
AFS 3400 - African and African-American Cinema
African filmmakers capture Africa’s past and present experiences and imagine themselves in the future. The course examines African cultures and peoples through films, within the light of film theory and culture studies, and it addresses a wide variety of topics such as tradition and modernity, globalization, economic development, colonial and post-colonial identities, power and resistance, and gender issues.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGL 105 and one of the following: (AFS 2000 or COM 2410 or ENGL 2100).
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
AFS 3580 - The African Diaspora: Peoples and Cultures
The African Diaspora in the Americas, product of the transatlantic slave trade, has impacted every society in North America, the Caribbean, and Central and South America and has produced a diverse array of distinctive cultures and communities. And yet, the communities, cultures, and cultural influences of the African Diaspora are often neglected within the usual regional divisions of area studies courses, despite a solid tradition of anthropology dealing with the peoples and cultures of the African Diaspora. This body of research raises many issues at the cutting edge of anthropological thinking about the nature of cultural continuity and change, identity, consciousness and tradition, and the co-construction of race and nation, to list but a few. This course will introduce the work of pioneering anthropologists of the African Diaspora throughout the Americas, situating their work in the context of various intellectual and political currents of the 20th century, and tracing their legacy in contemporary anthropology and related fields, such as cultural studies and ethnohistory. Much of this recent work reconceptualizes an Atlantic World or “Black Atlantic” that is rich with contemporary interconnections and movements of people between points in the Americas, Europe, and Africa that complicate earlier notions of unidirectional influences from Africa to the New World. We will attempt to map a dialogue between anthropological work on African diasporic culture(s) (situated within the predominately white/Euro academy) and the political and social concerns and consciousness of Afro-American people themselves (not just U.S. African-American, but all of the Americas).
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area IV: Other Cultures and Civilizations.
Cross-Listed: Cross-listed with ANTH 3580.
|
| |
-
AFS 3600 - Black Woman-Black Man Relationships
This course is a study of the dynamics of the Black male/Black female relationships in a variety of contemporary settings. Students are expected to assist in the conduct and documentation of the proceedings of the annual Black Male-Female Panel Discussion of social issues of special interest to the Black community, including family dynamics, male-female relationships and strategies for the improvement of those relationships.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: AFS 3100
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
|
| |
-
AFS 3900 - Women Writers in Contemporary Black Literature from the 19th Century to the Present
An interdisciplinary course that focuses attention on the creative and critical writing by major women writers from Africa, the U.S., and the Caribbean. It meets a need for majors in Africana Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and English.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies Area IV: Other Cultures and Civilizations.
|
| |
-
AFS 3950 - Women of Color in the U.S.
Examines how race, gender and class (institutionalized through images, workplace experiences, and family policies) have shaped the lives of women of color (Native Americans, African-Americans, Latinas, Asians, and Arab women) in the United States - and they have acted, individually and collectively, to fight oppression and create community.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
|
| |
-
AFS 4650 - Internship in Africana Studies
Students will participate in an internship/practicum where their knowledge will be put directly into practice. They will be led through this experience with a seminar led by an approved faculty member from the AFS core faculty and, where appropriate, a person from the student’s disciplinary major department.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Completion of a minimum of 15 credit hours in the AFS major. Call number obtained from AFS administrative assistant.
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
|
| |
-
AFS 4860 - Africa and the Slave Trade
This course will examine Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Course is cross-listed with HIST 4860.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
AFS 4980 - Directed Independent Study
A program of independent study, directed by an approved AFS faculty member, that allows the student to pursue readings relating to the Black Experience not dealt with in other courses. The initiative for describing the project, planning the method(s) of investigation, determining the appropriate results, and securing the cooperation of a faculty member to advise the work must come from the student. Applications are available in the AFS office and must be approved by the director.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
|
| |
-
ANTH 1100 - Lost Worlds and Archaeology
An introduction to the archaeological record relating to the development of culture from its stone age origins through the development of village agriculture and the beginnings of urban life.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area IV: Other Cultures and Civilizations.
|
| |
-
ANTH 1200 - Peoples of the World
A survey of the rich variety and range of non-Western peoples throughout the world, with emphasis on the role of culture in shaping human thought and behavior.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area IV: Other Cultures and Civilizations.
|
| |
-
ANTH 1500 - Race, Biology, and Culture
This course is an introduction to the anthropological study of human biological variation in modern populations. We will examine from a biocultural perspective how human populations adapt to life in difficult environments (e.g., tropics, high altitude, arctic) and in so doing, we will explore the biological and social meanings of human racial variation.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area VII: Natural Science and Technology: Applications and Implications.
|
| |
-
ANTH 2100 - Introduction to Archaeology
The science of archaeology is explored in terms of the methods and concepts used to discover and interpret past human behavior. Select portions of the Old and New World prehistoric cultural sequences provide the frame of reference.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area V: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
|
| |
-
ANTH 2400 - Principles of Cultural Anthropology
An introduction to the basic concepts, theoretical approaches, and methodological strategies employed in the study of traditional and contemporary sociocultural systems throughout the world. Attention given to research techniques and the insights derived from detailed case studies and cross-cultural comparisons.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area V: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
|
| |
-
ANTH 2500 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
A survey of physical anthropology; evolutionary theory; hominid and primate evolution; the living primates, human osteology, human genetics and population variation.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area VI: Natural Science with Laboratory.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
|
| |
-
ANTH 2510 - Forensic Anthropology
This course introduces the fundamentals of forensic anthropology, an applied field of anthropology involved in the recovery, identification, and assessment of human skeletal/dental remains in a medico-legal context. We survey the basics of identifying bones of the human skeleton, forensic science method and theory, and research methods.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area VII: Natural Science and Technology: Applications and Implications.
|
| |
-
ANTH 2600 - Sex, Gender, Culture
Sexual differences around the world are culturally elaborated into gender-specific behaviors, normed relations between gender-coded people and objects, and various ideologies supporting the differences. In this course, biological and cross-cultural data will be used to explore the foundation of this process and the social, cultural, and psychological consequences of gender coding on men and women in different cultural settings.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
|
| |
-
ANTH 2800 - Language in a Global World
This introductory course in linguistic anthropology presents languages and speech practices around the world as cultural phenomena. The lecture component covers a sampling of topics and approaches to studying language as cultural practice, including cases from U.S. society and from diverse language communities around the world and considering contemporary issues including language rights, language shift, bilingual education, and language revitalization. The lab component allows students to develop an understanding of basic linguistic principles and apply linguistic and discourse analyses to diverse cross-cultural examples.
Credits: 4 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area V: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
|
| |
-
ANTH 3010 - Anthropology through Film
Anthropology through Film is designed to introduce students to the concepts, methods, and practices of cultural anthropology through the viewing and analysis of ethnographic films and the reading of select ethnographic writings. A principal course objective is to learn how to analyze what the filmmaker has done well and what is lacking in the ethnographer’s portrayal of other cultures. Consequently, more general issues of representing other cultures will be considered in relation to the themes of power, the legacy of colonialism, and the world economic system.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
ANTH 3030 - Historical Archaeology
Investigates the role of the material world in the colonial encounter and the development of capitalism. The course will integrate theoretical, methodological and substantive issues with an emphasis, though not exclusive focus, on North America. Prerequisite: ANTH 2100 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
ANTH 3060 - Archaeology of Civilization
The course discusses the forces leading to the rise of the state and the emergence of centers of civilization. It investigates state emergence cross-culturally, examining shared characteristics and innovative pathways, social accomplishments and social costs, New World and Old World, far-flung and more recent past.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2100 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
-
ANTH 3090 - Archaeology of Inequality and Resistance
The course examines the dynamics of historical and archaeologically known forms of control and domination based upon status, class, gender, and ethnicity. The course focuses on the social relation of oppressor and oppressed, the ideologies of control and the forms of social resistance.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ANTH 2100 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
|
| |
Page: 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
| 7
| 8
| 9
| 10
| 11
… Forward 10 -> 29 |
Print this Page