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2022-2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENG 6510 Women Writers:
A study of women writers from a variety of racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds arranged by a given genre and theme to determine how these textual works and their authors have imagined and constructed women’s roles. The course could include women writers across cultures and at different historical times. Different theoretical approaches like feminism and cultural criticism will also be used in the examination of women’s writing. Writers studied might include Jane Austen, Harriet Jacobs, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Arundhati Roy, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Louise Erdrich, and Sandra Cisneros. The course material will depend upon the individual instructor.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6530 20th Century British Drama
A study of plays by representative British dramatists from the 1890s to the present, with an emphasis on the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Other dramatists include Wilde, Yeats, Synge, Granville-Barker, O’Casey, T. S. Eliot, Osborne, and Pinter.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6540 20th Century British Poetry
A study of the major British poets representing various schools and movements, including Eliot, Yeats, Lawrence, Graves, Auden, Spender, Lewis, D. Thomas, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6550 Twentieth-Century British Fiction
A study of major novelists and story writers, including such authors as Conrad, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Woolf, Mansfield, Bennett, Galsworthy, and Forster. The major criticism of their work is also studied.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6560 Contemporary Modes of Criticism
An examination of various contemporary approaches to the analysis and evaluation of literature. Beginning with a consideration of traditional approaches to literary criticism and analysis in Aristotle, Longinus, and Horace, and in twentieth-century normative critics such as Eliot, Brooks, and Richards. The second part of the course introduces the student to trends in contemporary criticism such as Deconstructionism, New Historicism, Feminist Criticism, Queer Theory, and Postcolonial Theory. The principal aim of the course is to familiarize the student with a range of approaches for later exploration. Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 656
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6620 Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Literature
Discussion of the poetry of Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, Katherine Philips, and the prose of Sir Thomas Browne and Jeremy Taylor. Emphasis is on the metaphysical vision of a universe that is one and organic, concepts of human sexuality and death, and the techniques of private-mode poetry and prose.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6630 Jonson, Herrick and Their Contemporaries
Discussion of the Cavalier or Social Poets of the seventeenth century, including Jonson, Herrick, King, Carew, and Lovelace; the Public Poets, Milton and Dryden; and selected prose of Milton, Burton, and Bacon. Emphasis is on the concept of friendship and the nature of true happiness, which is central to these artists, and on the techniques of social and public poetry and prose.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6650 Studies in Irish Literature
This course provides an examination of literature written in English by Irish writers. It will focus on the complex relationships between political nationalism and culture in Ireland and/or the Irish diaspora and address central issues including the relationship between politics and language, the role of British imperialism in forming Irish identities, and the ways in which the Irish attempted to revise such definitions. The course also will touch on issues of gender, social class, and race and ethnicity. The outline (themes and authors) will vary depending upon the instructor’s interests and expertise.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6660 Studies in the European Novel
Studies in the European Novel aims to provide an understanding of the development of the novel in Europe, as influenced by European history and geography, as well as the range of narrative possibilities and themes, focusing on connections and differences of period, culture and nation. Potential subjects of study include but are not limited to Cervantes, de La Fayette, Goethe, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Stendhal, Flaubert, Pérez Galdós, Manzoni, de Queiroz, Camilo Jose Cela, Eco, Camus, Duras, Robbe-Grillet, or Saramago. The literary texts will be studied within the contexts of contemporary literary criticism and literary theory, including the nature of narrative and the formal techniques and devices of narration. Instructors may focus on a period of their choosing, such as: the picaresque novel and the romance; the 19th-century novel; the 20th-century novel or others. Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 6910
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6710 Literature of Psychoanalysis
Examines the interrelationship between depth psychology and literature, and the use of psychoanalysis in interpreting works, in analyzing artistic creativity and in practicing literary criticism. Selected authors studied include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, Gide, Beckett and Dostoevski.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6730 Fiction and Film
An examination of literature that has been adapted from novel, story, play, myth, legend, and the Bible into various film forms, including narrative and animation. Works discussed and viewed may include Tom Jones, Death in Venice, “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “Beauty and the Beast,” Black Orpheus, Hamlet, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, and Cinderella.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6740 Literature and the Arts
A study of literature adapted to art, dance, film, music, opera, television, and spoken-word recording that may include The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and the Disney animation; the Bible and paintings by the Masters; Beaumarchais’ The Barber of Seville and Rossini’s opera; Henry James’s The Golden Bowl and the video adaptation; E. T. A. Hoffmann’s stories, The Tales of Hoffmann opera by Offenbach, the Nutcracker ballet by Baryshnikov; Shakespeare’s Othello and Verdi’s opera adaptation; and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in many of the arts, including Zeffirelli’s film, Delius’s opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, the B.B.C. video production, and Michael Smuin’s ballet.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6750 Cultural Percept Books and Films
This course explores the various ways an individual country, its people, and their culture are depicted and perceived by writers and film makers, both natives and non-natives alike. The course focuses on only one country and follows a given theme through a variety of works, although the country and the theme may vary from semester to semester.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6760 Women and Film Noir
Through film, literature, and cultural history, this course examines key issues raised by the genre of film noir and the film noir heroine. Topics for discussion include what makes a “bad” heroine, the purpose of the film noir heroine fantasy for its audience, how the portrayal of noir heroines reflects historical shifts in attitudes about the role of women, and the relationship between between the noir heroine’s rapacious desires and the articulation of selfhood.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6770 Ethnic American Literature
This course explores the rich multicultural nature of the American experience focusing on immigrant, Native-American, and African-American literatures in their historical and cultural contexts. Students are encouraged to explore their own ethnic roots and family histories.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6780 Modern Literary Biography
In this course, students examine the evolving genre of biography by reading biographies of literary figures and selected works that established the reputations of these writers. Issues for discussion include the art of writing biography, how critical theory influences the ways biographers approach their subjects and their audience, whether or not connections can be established between a writer’s life and a writer’s work. Students will have the opportunity to conduct formal biographical research themselves.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6790 Beat Generation
This course concentrates on the poetry and prose of the Beat Generation with special attention paid to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs, and including Diane DiPrima, Amiri Baraka, and Bob Kaufman. Consideration will be paid as well to other alternative schools of American poetry of the fifties and sixties with which Beat literature shared aesthetic and social concerns–The Black Mountain School, The New York School, and The San Francisco Renaissance.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6800 Virginia Woolf and Circle
A study of the major works of Virginia Woolf by placing her in the different circles in which she moved - modern female writers, modern male writers, artists, poets, biographers, and gay and lesbian writers. This course includes different genres: fiction, poetry, essays, drama, and biography, and also studies developments in art. Gender and sexuality, the new modernist aesthetic, and political ideas such as socialism and pacifism are among the issues explored.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6810 Literature of the 1950s
This course provides an examination of cultural history, popular culture, literary movements, and cultural anxieties of an era fraught with contradictions. Students study fiction, poetry, films, and plays produced in the 1950’s, as well as cultural artifacts, commentary, and memoir that look back to this era.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6820 Law and Literature
Using materials from all genres, and cutting across historical periods, the course explores the complex interrelationship between law and literature, using methods of approach from literary theory, legal theory, and cultural studies.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6830 Post-Colonial Literature
An in-depth study of colonial and post-colonial works, written in English, of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, within cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. Students pay close attention to representations of race, nationality, class and gender, to Eurocentric assumptions about culture, and how post-colonial fiction influences and is illuminated by contemporary post-colonial theory. Authors may include Kipling, Conrad, Achebe, Rao, Markandaya, Rhys, Brathwaite, Coetzee, Soyinka, Mukherjee, Kincaid, Jhabvala, Naipaul, Walcott, and others.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6840 Gay, Lesbian or Queer Literature
This course offers a historical survey of gay, lesbian, or queer literary texts from the Renaissance to the present, with a focus on the aesthetic values, literary forms, and styles in which writers portray same-sex desire.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6850 Irish Literary Renaissance
This course provides an examination of literature written by Irish writers at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, with a focus on the complex relationships between political nationalism and culture in modern Ireland. Issues addressed include the relationship between politics and language, the role of English imperialism in forming Irish identities and the ways in which the Irish Literary Renaissance attempted to revise such definitions, the relationship between the Irish present and the Irish past, and the hot-button issue of religion. Selected texts by Irish writers who chose not to make “Irish” Ireland an overt subject of their work are also discussed.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6860 James Joyce
This course engages students in a close reading of James Joyce’s major works: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. Joyce’s works are examined from a variety of critical perspectives which may include feminist and gender criticism, post-colonial criticism, deconstruction theory, reader-response theory, and Marxist criticism.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6870 Travel Writing Seminar
This course addresses the field of travel writing in both its literary and journalistic forms. Readings and writings are assigned on a weekly basis. Students produce original material in this intensive writing workshop.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6880 Studies in Global Literature
This course adopts a comparative, texts-in-context approach to studying selections of literature from across the world, either Anglophone or in translation, from pre-modern epic, poetry, and drama to modern and contemporary literature. The course guides students to analyze the popularity of such courses in the metropolitan academy within a broad framework of “world/global literatures” and understand key theoretical approaches to the study of world literatures. Individual courses may be organized either by genre, historical or literary period, topics or theme. Literary texts will be studied within the contexts of contemporary literary criticism and literary theory.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6900 Masculinity and Nation
This course looks at literary constructions of nation and gender, particularly texts that, in various ways, construct the nation in terms of masculinity and masculinity in terms of the nation. As an outgrowth of feminism’s challenge to the unproblematic equation of male experience with human experience, masculinity itself has come under new critical scrutiny. At the same time, postcolonial discourse has helped shed light on the construction of the “imagined community” of the nation. The course looks at the role literary texts have played in the interrelated concepts of national identity and masculine identity. The nation and period studied depend on curricular needs and the teacher’s expertise. For example, the course might focus on nineteenth-century Britain, exposing students to influential works rarely assigned in other courses, such as boys’ school stories, and also offering them a new way to view more canonical works. Alternatively, the course might focus on mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century America, and look at the frontier, the New World versus the Old World, African American masculinity, and more. Other possible foci include early-modern England, contemporary America, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6920 William Faulkner and Toni Morrison
This course examines selected major works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, two of the most important twentieth-century American writers, reading their novels within the context of their respective cultural, historical, and social backgrounds. Students learn how each author portrays life in American from his/her unique perspective and how each portrays issues of regionalism (north/south), race (black/white), and gender (female/male). The course familiarizes students with the major critical work about each author and with the literary movements of modernism and postmodernism.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6930 Studies Literature of Adolescence
A survey of the literature of adolescence in several cultures and historical periods, this course explores selected works of important writers and novelists in their aesthetic, historical, and cultural contexts. Authors may include J.W. von Boethe, Sandra Cisneros, J.D. Salinger, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Judy Blume, Michelle Cliff, Maya Angelou, Esmerelda Santiago, Christ Crutcher, and others. The course familiarizes students with the history of the concept of adolescence, the conventions of the coming-of-age novel, the various definitions of “adolescent literature,” and the ways that popular culture and multiethnic and global issues affect the production and consumption of adolescent literature. Students also become familiar with current scholarship in the field.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6940 History of Rhetoric
This graduate seminar focuses on the history of rhetoric, specifically the development and meaning of the term through (and in) Western civilization and thought. Beginning with the origins of rhetoric, the course offers an historical examination of rhetoric through the classical, medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and twentieth century, focusing on both the shifts in definition and the changes in use of the term as revealed through the literature of the periods examined. Readings may include definitive texts by Gorgias, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, Locke, Nietzche, Bakhtin, I.A. Richards, Derrida, and others. Students produce weekly journals in response to the readings. In addition, they are responsible for presenting at least one theorist/author from our readings to the class, placing that author and their text in historical context.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 6990 Research and Thesis
A seminar for graduate students in both concentrations who are writing their master’s thesis. Under the direction of the seminar leader, a member of the English graduate faculty, students meet weekly to discuss their progress, articulate and solve problems encountered in their research and writing, and share their work with other writers/researchers. A thesis proposal approved by the graduate committee the semester preceding the one the student plans on registering for this course.
Credits: 3.0
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ENG 7000 Independent Study
With the approval of the faculty advisor and the graduate committee.
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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ENG 7900 MFA Thesis Seminar
A seminar/workshop for M.F.A students in creative writing who are composing their Master’s thesis. In addition to planning and drafting the M.F.A Thesis, students learn manuscript submission procedures, are informed about career opportunities, and complete an essay on the craft of writing.
Credits: 4.0
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ENG 7950 MFA Thesis Project
During the MFA Thesis Project, students draft and complete a substantial manuscript of publishable quality in the genre of their choice. A full-time faculty member of the English Department will work closely with students supervising the concepualizing and drafting of his/her thesis and completing a reflective essay on their writing. Prerequisite(s): ENG 7900
Credits: 4.0
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ENT 7000 Independent Study
Arranged with a faculty sponsor and agreed upon by the department chair and dean.
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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ENT 7010 Entrepreneurship
This course provides a highly practical introduction ot the field of entrepreneurship and the creation of new business ventures. It focuses on the motivation and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, the germination and analysis of business ideas/opportunities, the development of business, marketing, organizational, and financial plans, and the identification of alternative sources of venture capital. Prerequisite(s): MGT 6040 Cross Listed Course(s): MGT 7010
Credits: 3.0
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ENT 7120 Crisis Management for Organizations
This course introduces various facets of crisis management. The focus is on the decisions that owners/managers of small businesses are faced with before, during, and after a crisis. While emphasis is placed on how crises are addressed in small business because of the disproportionate effect crises have on them, much of the course material is applicable to larger businesses as well. Prerequisite(s): MGT 6040 Cross Listed Course(s): MGT 7120
Credits: 3.0
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ENT 7200 Financing New Ventures
This course focuses on educating students on the business and personal requirements required to fund new ventures. Major emphasis is placed on the assessment process that all entrepreneurs are faced with and on understanding the source of funds available to entrepreneurs. This course complements the Business Plan course and focuses on the financial documents required for each plan. Prerequisite(s): ACCT 6060 and FIN 6070 Cross Listed Course(s): FIN 7200
Credits: 3.0
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ENT 7300 Marketing for Entrepreneurs
This course addresses market-oriented problems for entrepreneurs, including identification and selection of marketing opportunities and demand for forecasting; formulation of competitive strategies; and designing and/or evaluating marketing plans and programs. Includes marketing in special fields such as services and not-for-profit areas. Various marketing decisions are examined with regard to product planning, channels of distribution, promotion activity, pricing, and aspects of international marketing. Integration of the Internet with marketing techniques is also discussed and examined. Prerequisite(s): MKT 6080 Cross Listed Course(s): MKT 7300
Credits: 3.0
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ENT 7600 Innovation and New Product Development
This is an overview course that provides both the context of rapid change and means by which we can help guide innovation and entrepreneurship within organizations. By understanding the historical lessons of change, we can minimize potential innovation failures and gear up for distruptive or incremental change. Both entrepreneurs and established firms must respond to multiple changes in their environments to survive. But even more so, these changes that extend from globalization to technology to demographics and beyond provide opportunities for new streams of revenue and competetive advantage. This course will explore a wide range of topics, approaches, and techniques that promote innovation and entrepreneurial behavior in different organizations of all sizes. It will explore how breakthroughs in technologies and markets create opportunities and threats, and how organizations that can master innovation have an advantage over those who lag behind. We will also consider internal structures, processes, core competencies, and cultures of innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity in different size firms. Prerequisite(s): MKT 6080 and FIN 6070 Cross Listed Course(s): MKT 7600
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 5010 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research
Introduction to research involves the understanding and conceptualization of research techniques and how they can be effectively implemented. Topics include qualitative and quantitative research fundamentals, research purposes and problems, hypothesis testing methods, data collection and analysis techniques, and reading research literature. The first three chapters of a thesis will be written.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 5030 Seminar in Contemporary Topics
This course will be a seminar in which current topics related to the field of specialization will be explored. The course will vary according to student need and graduate advisor’s identification of topics in the exercise sciences pertinent for particular student populations. The seminar will deal with
current issues in the appropriate topical area and other relevant issues related to exercise science. Discussions, structured reading assignments in physical education, exercise science and sport studies. Prerequisite(s): EXSC 5020 with a grade of C
Credits: .0 - 3.0
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EXSC 6120 Cardiovascular Physiology
Cardiovascular physiology is concerned with the electrical activity, hemodynamics and control of the heart, and circulation and how these are affected by physical training. Metabolic diseases are conditions that affect the internal systems of the body and exhibit themselves through cardiovascular diseases. The laboratory exercises will include various measurement and evaluation aspects of the cardiovascular system. Prerequisite(s): Permission Required
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6130 Neuromuscular Physiology
This course provides specialized training in the field of neurophysiology. Laboratory and theoretical aspects are integrated through the applications of physiological principles of exercise from a perspective of the coach, teacher, trainer, or sports-skill specialist.t. Prerequisite(s): Permission Required
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6140 Physiology of Aging and Chronic Conditions
This course examines the effects of physical activity on the process of aging. Focusing on the physiological and neuromuscular bases of physical activity, this course explores the aging process. It also covers the important conceptions of nutrition, drugs and medications, the psychological and social components of aging and exercise programming. Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate course in Exercise Science
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6200 Curriculum Trends and Issues in Physical Education
This course will address selected topics that affect physical education and sport curriculum, such as marginality, character education, health and obesity, competition, assessment, equity, and social context of curriculum. A project on a physical education issue in the work-place is required.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6210 Constructivist Curriculum and Teaching in Physical Education
Focused on developing teaching skills in a contemporary curriculum trend in physical education, with an emphasis in integrating practice and theory of a number of instructional models such as tactical games teaching, creative dance, curriculum gymnastics, sports education, physical activity, and lifestyle health concepts. Strategies for building learning communities through small group teaching are emphasized in a supportive structure for change through peer support and networking among the course participants. This course has a practical emphasis and includes a school-based project.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6220 Supervision in Physical Education
This course will focus on the professional model of individual and collaborative supervision. The course will utilize an open systems framework to present the topics. An overview of the relevant theory and research in supervision and administration as it relates to supervisory practice in physical education will be discussed. The course will provide a detailed analysis of supervisory problems that occur in practice, and afford the students the opportunity to learn how to identify and solve these problems by utilizing ethical administrative and best supervisory practices.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6230 Research on Curriculum and Supervision in Physical Education
The purpose of this course is to engage in an in-depth study of the research on teaching and the application of research-based knowledge to the teaching of physical education. The course is designed for graduate students to study the process and implementation of the research on teaching. This includes the study of the historical background, common research paradigms, selected published research reports, and application of research to teaching.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6240 Human Motor Development
A study of the process of motor development and motor behavior across the lifespan. Observation and analytical skills will be developed in the locomotor, non-locomotor and manipulative skill sequences. Relationships among growth, maturation, motor performance and the person’s context will be discussed. Developmental considerations will be discussed with respect to planning and directing movement experiences for individual across a lifespan. Individual and gender differences will be identified and applied to movement settings. The service-learning experience consists of weekly instruction in a community based early childhood motor skill program or a senior recreation center. Academic concepts learned in class will be applied and utilized in the service-learning setting.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6520 Biomechanics Across the Age-Spans
This course examines the principles of physics as applied to human movement. Special emphasis will be placed on examining and applying anatomical and mechanical principles to human locomotion and selected movement skills. The quantitative and qualitative approach to movement analysis will be utilized. Theory and application of biomechanical principles of exercise.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6530 Advanced Motor Behavior
A study of the neural mechanisms underlying the control of our movements and the psychological processes that individuals confront in the process of skill acquisition. Theory and application - motor skill acquisition and neural control of movement, skill analysis and practice.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6540 Applied Psychology of Sport and Exercise
This course will present an overview of the applications of selected psychological theories and concepts to the sport and exercise experience. More specifically, the student will gain an understanding of how psychological factors affect sport and exercise performance and how participation in sport and exercise affects psychological well-being.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 6600 Special Topics and Current Trends
This course introduces students to research across the field of kinesiology which constitutes exercise science, physical education and sports studies. Special lecturers will present seminars on current and/or seminal research issues in the various sub-disciplines. Students are required to engage in
readings and discussions on each topic in the seminar series. Discussions, structured reading assignments in exercise science, physical education and sport studies will take place in the classroom and through online learning techniques.
Credits: 3.0
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EXSC 7000 Independent Study
Arranged with a faculty sponsor and agreed upon by the department chair and dean.
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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EXSC 7700 Internship and FIeldwork Experience
This is the culminating experience for students in the MS Exercise Physiology and MS Sport Administration. Students are assigned to a sport specific, corporate fitness center, hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation center, administrative, management, business, or sport-team setting for practical experience in the application of concepts. Prerequisite(s): Department Permission required
Credits: 0 - 6.0
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EXSC 7800 Thesis Exercise Science
Supervised research involving the establishment of a research question, review of literature, properly conducted research, collection of data, analysis and written submission. Prerequisite(s): EXSC 5020
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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FIN 6070 Finance for Managers
A study of the basic principles and practices of financial management of private (as opposed to government owned or affiliated) business operations. The principles and models discussed in the course can be equally applied to publicly listed companies as well as privately owned ones. This course includes an operational framework for financial analysis, financial planning including capital budgeting, along with valuation analysis and cost of capital. The basic framework of analysis used is that of risk and return, emphasizing that the objective of the firm is to maximize shareholder return, subject to satisfying societal and other stakeholder concerns. Prerequisite(s): ACCT 6060 , ECON 6090
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 6550 Financial and Economic Global Strategy
This course deals with the environment in which international business is conducted, including economic and financial relations, environmental and strategic factors that affect business operations within different nations. Topics include international trade, the balance of payment, exchange rate determination, hedging of foreign exchange exposure, tariffs and other trade restrictions, economic development, economic integration, and international economic organizations within different nations. Also reviewed are the economic, political and cultural conditions that influence international business. Prerequisite(s): ECON 6090 ,FIN 6070
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 6990 Internship in Finance
This is a cooperative education / field work experience. The mission of the intership program is to provide students with a valuable employment experience by working, uninterrupted for a significant amount of time, with a public, private, or governmental entity in the student’s geographical area.
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7000 Independent Study
As approved and to be arranged. Prerequisite(s): Permission of dean
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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FIN 7090 Income Tax Analysis and Plan
This course focuses on principles and current law and practice of income taxation and its impact on financial planning for individuals, couples, and families in their roles as investors, employees, and business owners. Prerequisite(s): FIN 607 and ACCT 606
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7150 Retirement Planning
The intent of this retirement planning course is to provide individuals with knowledge of both public and private retirement plans. The public plans include social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The private plans include both defined benefit and defined contribution plans and their regulatory provision. The specifics of the various plans are analyzed, as well as non-qualified deferred compensation plans. Finally, issues that individuals face in retirement, such as life-style choices and medical issues, are discussed. Prerequisite(s): FIN 607
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7160 Insurance Analysis/Planning
This course introduces students to risk management and insurance decisions in personal financial planning. Topics include insurance for life, health, disability, property and liability risks, as well as annuities, group insurance, and long term care. Prerequisite(s): FIN 607
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7350 Investment Analysis/Plan
This course provides the student with an understanding of the various types of securities traded in financial markets, investment theory and practice, portfolio construction, and management and investment strategies and tactics. Prerequisite(s): FIN 607
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7500 Estate Planning
This course focuses on the efficient conservation and transfer of wealth, consistent with the client’s goals. It is a study of the legal, tax, financial, and non-financial aspects of this process, covering topics such as trusts, wills, probate, advanced directives, charitable giving, wealth transfers, and related taxes. Prerequisite(s): FIN 607
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7510 Operational Finance Decision
Concentrates on techniques for arriving at practical solutions to financial problems in organizations. Areas such as working capital management, short-term financing and investment are explored. The course is designed for students who have a conceptual background in corporate finance and a desire to apply the theory and methods of mathematical modeling and analysis to the everyday decisions of the financial officer. Topics covered include receivables management, the credit-granting decision, management of inventory, investment, cash management, trade credit, bank credit, short-term financing and an integrated approach to working capital management. Prerequisite(s): BSCO 607 or equivalent
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7520 Investment Analysis
This course provides an analysis of the Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) and valuation of securities. Offered at the Cotsakos College of Business Global Financial Learning Center, it explores the risk and return characteristics of various financial investment instruments, such as stocks, fixed income securities, options, and other derivatives. The student develops an understanding of pricing processes, valuation models, efficient markets, international capital markets, and rational expectations. The student is also exposed to global financial markets from the perspective of long-term investments. A simulation portfolio investment game is conducted in the class. The course extensively uses both global and domestic real-time data available at the trading floor. Prerequisite(s): FIN 607
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7530 Financial Planning and Capital Budgeting
Examines the critical role of financial planning for a business enterprise and its relationships to the firm’s objective. This includes the development and interpretation of financial plans under certainty and uncertainty. Special emphasis is given to the application of theories that address the acquisition and allocation of financial resources. Prerequisite(s): MBA 6050 and FIN 6070
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7540 Financial Intermediation
Designed for students of financial management who need to understand how the rapid development of nonbank financial intermediaries, such as the saving and loan industry, life insurance, mutual funds, pension funds, and finance companies, has reshaped the flow of debt and equity funds in the United States money and capital markets. The newer theories of financial growth alter existing principles of competition between financial institutions; these in turn affect portfolio decisions, marketing plans, pricing, and the profitability of financial institutions. Prerequisite(s): FIN 607
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7550 International Economics and Finance
This course deals with the environment in which international business is conducted, including both economic relations and environmental factors that affect business operations within different nations. Topics include international trade, the balance of payment, exchange rate determination, tariffs and other trade restrictions, economic development, economic integration, and international economic organizations within different nations. Also reviewed are the economic, political and cultural conditions that influence international business. Prerequisite(s): FIN 607 and ECON 609
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7560 Case Studies in Finance
This course discusses various cases pertaining to corporate finance following the case study approach. Complex financial problems are explored in depth. Students are expected to analyze multi-faceted financial problems from the standpoint of the financial manager of a business enterprise, including domestic, global, and multinational firms. The students are primarily exposed to the concept of value creation, which encompasses capital investment analysis including risk analysis; financing, including evaluating sources of capital; and major strategic decision making, including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Prerequisite(s): FIN 607
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7570 Investment Policy, Ethics, and Portfolio Management
The primary objective of this course is to discuss the process of portfolio management. It covers the concepts of management of individual investor portfolios, management of institutional investor portfolios, professional ethical standards of practice, equity portfolio management strategies, debt portfolio management strategies, real estate and alternative investments in portfolio management, portfolio risk management, and portfolio performance measurement and presentation. Prerequisite(s): FIN 6070
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7580 Derivative Securities
This course covers introduction to derivatives and basic trading strategies. Attention is paid to two primary types of derivative securities: options and futures. With the data feeds and financial modeling tools in the E*Trade Financial Learning Center, it examines the nature of various strategies involving futures and options on stocks, stock indexes, currencies, and underlying futures. Both the standard binomial and Black-Scholes option pricing models are developed to value the options and futures. The feature of embedded options in convertible bond and other exotic options is discussed. Prerequisite(s): FIN 6070
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7590 Commercial Bank Management and Financial Services
The course provides a rigorous introduction to the world of commercial banking and related financial services which includes an overview of field, an analysis of commercial banks including how to analyze and evaluate bank financial statements; profit drivers in banking; managing principal risks in banking including credit (loan management) and interest rate (asset liability management) risks, and finally the evolving role of commercial banking in the twenty first century. The course is designed for students who are interested in a career in banking and financial services, or for those who are already there and would like to upgrade their discipline based analytical and other skills. Prerequisite(s): FIN 6070 , ECON 6090 , ACCT 6060 .
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7600 Financial Analysis and Decisions
This course is an in-depth study of the information contained in the financial statements and the techniques to analyze corporate profitability and risk, and to make credit and investment decisions. Prerequisite(s): ACCT 606 or 212 Cross Listed Course(s): ACCT 7600
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7650 Risk Management
This course is directed toward students interested in understanding how large-scale complex risk can be quantified, managed and hedged. We identify the enterprise and business risks, regulatory requirements such as Basel I, II, III and techniques to measure and report risk. This course will enhance MBA students’ potential ability to purse career opportunities in financial banks, credit analysis and other related areas. Prerequisite(s): FIN 6070 , FIN 7520
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7750 New Venture Finance
This course is designed to provide rigorous introduction to the world of entrepreneurship and its financing needs that are synergistic with the business strategy of a new venture. The course discusses development of a business plan, and given such a plan, provides an analysis, assessment of the financing needs of the venture and development of a financing plan to provide the needed funding. In the process, the course provides a comprehensive introduction to the question of enterprise valuation, from the points of view of both the outside investor and the entrepreneur. Basically, this course is designed for a student who will, at some point of time in his/her career, will get involved in a traditional entrepreneurial activity, either as a startup, as a significant expansion of an existing venture, or in a large corporation as part of a corporate entrepreneurial activity building a new venture.
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7800 Health Care Financial Management
The course is to introduce financial management concepts to the healthcare organization. This course will introduce the topics of financial and managerial accounting and finance as they apply to the provision of health care services.
It applies accounting, financial and administrative knowledge to the management of the aforementioned institutions. In this context, the students will acquire knowledge and application in areas such as financial statements and their analysis, short term management of assets and debts, capital structure, cost of capital, financial prediction, financial condition analysis, capital budgeting and sensitivity analysis. Prerequisite(s): ACCT 6070 andFIN 6075
Credits: 3.0
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FIN 7990 Selected Topics
A topic not covered by an existing course will be offered as recommended by the department and approved by the dean. Prerequisite(s): Permission of the department chairperson
Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
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FINP 7700 Personal Financial Planning
This is a master’s level course that surveys the principles, processes, and decision-making tools of finance as they apply to individuals throughout their life cycles. Prerequisite(s): ECON 6095 , ACCT 6065
Credits: 3.0
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FINP 7720 Retirement Planning
This course is designed to advance students’ skills and competence in retirement planning service. This course will focus on the rules, regulatory consideration of retirement plans, household retirement planning needs analysis, process and investment vehicles in retirement income and distribution management.
Credits: 3.0
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FINP 7790 Financial Planning Capstone
This course is designed to for students to integrate the personal financial planning knowledge acquired in all courses and apply that knowledge to create a comprehensive financial plan using professional planning software. Student will need to collect data, analyze the data and identify the problems, and apply critical thinking and problem solving in order to determine a set of recommendations for a given client.
Prerequisite(s): FINP 7710 and FINP 7720
Credits: 3.0
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FINP 7990 Selected Topic
A topic not covered by an existing course will be offered as recommended by the department and approved by the dean. Prerequisite: Permission of the department Chairperson (1-6 credits) May be completed for a total of 6 Credits
Credits: 1.00-6.00
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GEO 5050 Field Study Abroad
Presents a unique opportunity to study, through travel, the political, economic, and cultural aspects of one area of the world. Students, in collaboration with their instructor, are required to submit a project, based on the tour that displays independent investigation. Whenever possible, local resource persons are invited to enhance the program.
Credits: 3.0
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