3 credits An analysis of how soils are formed through interactions of climate, vegetation/biotic features, parent material, and slope over time. Classification and distribution of soils are emphasized.
3 credits The physical basis of stratigraphy and sedimentation, including processes, environments of deposition, character, relationship, distribution, and origin of sedimentary rocks.
3 credits Biogeochemistry is the study of how living systems influence, and are controlled by, the geology and chemistry of the Earth. The course explores major chemical, biological, and geological processes that occur within and between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on geologic and human time scales.
3 credits Composition, structure, occurrence, and origin of the more important economic deposits, including metallics, nonmetallics, and mineral fuels.
3 credits Studies of petroleum, coal, and uranium deposits. Topics include composition, origin, occurrence, exploration methods, economics, and conservation.
3 credits The use of computers as tools to evaluate and present geologic data, with particular emphasis on using real data to investigate geologic and environmental problems.
3 credits A survey of principles and techniques of field wok in spatial science and allied fields. The course focuses on identifying, classifying, interpreting, and coding landscape features.
3 credits The course focuses on proposal development, academic writing skills, and an evaluation of the research approaches in spatial and earth sciences research.
ENVI 645 - Advanced Spatial Analysis and Quantitative Methods
3 credits This course provides students with an overview of topics and techniques in spatial analysis including multivariate statistics. All students complete a research project that utilizes the collection, manipulation, analysis, and representation of quantitative data appropriate to their research interests.
ENVI 733 - Seminar in Earth and Environmental Systems
3 credits This seminar focuses on surveying the current academic literature and discussing emerging research topics in allied fields and requires students to reflect on current research practices and emerging issues across the geosciences. This seminar is also linked to the department’s speaker series and attendance is required at all presentations.
3 credits Research on the development and behavior of adolescents is reviewed in an attempt to determine how the adult may best foster favorable growth.
0.5-3 credits This course is devoted at each offering to the study of a contemporary problem, trend, or innovative development in educational psychology.
Note May be repeated . Repeatable May be repeated, if a different topic is studied, for a maximum of 6 credits.
3 credits A basic course in statistics. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, selected sampling distributions, correlation and simple linear regression, and elementary hypothesis testing (e.g., t-tests, chi-square). Students learn to use computer software appropriately to analyze their data, and to interpret computer output.
EPSY 620 - Foundations of Qualitative and Quantitative Research
3 credits Introduction to qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in behavioral sciences. Topics covered include scientific methodology; measurement; evaluation; quantitative/qualitative designs; data collection; data analysis; interpretation of and generalization from data.
3 credits Students will undertake a thorough examination of developmental changes that occur throughout life. In addition to milestones of development, mechanisms of development and psychoeducational strategies to facilitate optimal development are considered.
3 credits Students will explore the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of adults from adolescence through senescence. Emphasis is placed on students learning to understand, apply, and critique theories of adult development in terms of their psychoeducational implications for adult life in our pluralistic society.
3 credits Traditional and contemporary psychological theorists plus related experimental literature are examined from a historical perspective. Attention is directed specifically to the methodological biases of psychological theories relating to learning, psycholinguistics, problem solving, intelligence, and evolutionary psychology.
3 credits An application of psychological theory to classroom teaching and learning especially in the areas of development, discipline, and motivation.
3 credits Advanced work in the study of psychopathology of children and adolescents. Assessment, diagnosis, and intervention of mental disorders will be covered extensively. Emphasis will be placed on treatment of children and adolescents in home, school, and community settings.
EPSY 627 - Learning Theory and Social Emotional Bases for Behavior
3 credits This course develops theoretical and practical understanding of the cognitive foundations that underlie human behavior. Content includes exposure to multiple learning and emotional processing theories, with emphasis on the impact of social and emotional factors on cognition and behavior.
3 credits This course represents an attempt to bridge the gap between behavioral psychology and the biological bases of behavior. Particular emphasis is placed on brain-behavior relationship in the area of learning and learning disabilities.
EPSY 710 - Introduction to Qualitative Methods of Inquiry
3 credits Instruction in theories and methods related to qualitative research. Topics covered include theoretical and disciplinary perspectives on qualitative inquiry, research questions appropriate for qualitative inquiry, utilization of techniques for collecting qualitative data (interview and observation), design issues involved in qualitative research, and practice in the critique of published qualitative research.
EPSY 711 - Advanced Qualitative Methods and Inquiry
3 credits Advanced instruction in the analysis, writing, and critique of qualitative research. Topics covered include strategies of analysis, coding techniques, utilization of qualitative data analysis programs, interpretation of qualitative data, strategies and approaches for writing up results of research utilizing qualitative methods and methodologies.
3 credits Hypothesis testing procedures including multiple correlation and regression and analysis of variance (e.g., one-way, factorial, repeated). Students learn to use computer software to analyze their data, and to interpret output.
EPSY 713 - Multivariate Statistics and Advanced Research Design
3 credits Multivariate statistics including canonical correlation, multivariate analysis of variance, discriminant function analysis, factor analysis, and other advanced multivariate analyses, as well as advanced research design and related issues. Students learn to use computer software to analyze their data, and to interpret computer output.
Prerequisites EPSY 712, PSY 604, or consent of instructor.
3 credits In-depth analysis of specific problem areas in psychological development of the person and practical applications of principles. Emphasis is placed on current research and applications of research findings.
2-4 credits Supervised research and independent study in selected areas. Designed for doctoral students. All works offered on an individual basis with approval of instructor concerned and Department Chairperson.
Repeatable May be repeated with consent of Department Chairperson.
3 credits This course deals with theoretical and practical issues of corporate financial management in an international environment. Emphasis is placed on decision making by multinational firms in capital budgeting, working capital management, and the procurement of funds in international markets.
Prerequisites M.B.A. 622 or consent of M.B.A. Director.
FIN 534 - Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
3 credits An examination of the precepts underlying the valuation of securities and an analytical handling of the various techniques of securities analysis.
Prerequisites M.B.A. 622 or consent of M.B.A. Director.
3 credits This course examines both practical and theoretical aspects of financial futures and option markets. Included will be discussion of theoretical models, hedging strategies, and practical uses of these securities.
Prerequisites M.B.A. 622 or consent of M.B.A. Director.
3 credits In this course, models for asset allocation, security selection, portfolio hedging, stocks valuation, bond valuation, and derivatives pricing are discussed. Simple statistical and econometric methods of forecasting may be examined.
Prerequisites 333
Note The course is an elective intended for students who are in the finance track (majors and minors).
3 credits The institutional structure of the financial system surveys both the public and private sectors of the money and credit economy. Emphasis placed on understanding the impact of the commercial banking system, financial intermediaries, and public finance needs upon the conduct of business finance.
Prerequisites M.B.A. 622 or consent of M.B.A. Director.
3 credits The procedures used for appraisal of credit risk and selection of investments are investigated. Attention given to the influence of the regulator environment and the problem of shifts in deposit liabilities.
Prerequisites M.B.A. 622 or consent of M.B.A. Director.
FIN 669 - Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
2-3 credits Features of investment analysis involving securities markets, economic influences, legal aspects, sources of information, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, and portfolio management.
Prerequisites MBA 622 or consent of department chair.
FIN 670 - Readings in Corporate Financial Management
3 credits An intensive examination of current literature dealing with problems of current, future, and permanent importance in the field of finance. Provides for an integration of significant issues which cut across the individual finance areas.
1-6 credits A subject in the finance area will be examined. The topic area may vary each semester. This course is designed to meet special interest needs of the students.
Prerequisites M.B.A. 622 or consent of M.B.A. director.
Repeatable May be repeated for up to 6 credits with a different topic.
3 credits Study of the principles of French linguistics. Prescriptive and descriptive analysis of phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures in contemporary French.
3 credits Study of the formation of speech sounds in the French language. Intensive practice in pronunciation with an emphasis on articulation, rhythm, and intonation. Includes study of dialectal variation and application for language teaching.
3 credits Systematic translation of contemporary literary, cultural, and technical texts from French into English and from English into French, including analysis of corresponding grammatical, stylistic, and semantic problems.
1-3 credits Studies in French language, literature, or culture with topics changing from semester to semester according to the needs and interests of the students.
Repeatable May be repeated for credit under different topics.
1-3 credits Individualized study in an area of French language, literature, or culture, the topic to be determined by the academic and professional needs of the students in a given semester.
Repeatable May be repeated for credit under different topics.
3-4 credits Provides a broad basis for more advanced study in the areas of geography-geology. Specifically designed for students with minimal undergraduate preparation in these areas.
3 credits Primarily concerned with the solar system, the stars, and recent advances in astronomy. In the section on meteorology, weather will be analyzed in terms of air mass movements and location of fronts.
GEOG 606 - Economic Activity in Man’s Spatial Environment
4 credits Consideration of the economic activities and the spatial relationships in economic development which influence urban-regional occupancy patterns.
3 credits Analysis of the factors which influence the spatial organization of economic activities, including the location of economic activities and related theories; the significance of transport and its role in changing patterns of regional specialization.
3 credits Location theory and models of economic activity which individually relate to the geographic distribution of single industries, the complex patterns of regionally integrated phenomena, or the process of urbanization.
3 credits Principal land uses and emphasis on the impact of changing economic and social conditions. Land use studies as a basis for regional planning.
GEOG 637 - Regional Resources and Conservation Problems
3 credits Regional resources development and management and the problems associated with the utilization of soils, water, minerals, forests, and recreational resources.
3 credits Knowledge of landscape-forming processes is gained by an in-depth study of fluvial processes in the laboratory and in the field; other fluid processes, aeolian and glacial, are analyzed.
Prerequisites 350
Cross-listed (Also listed as Geology 657.) Note A field project and field trips are required, including research on a field problem. A two-hour lecture and a two-hour laboratory weekly.
GEOG 667 - Remote Sensing: Research Seminar in Geographical Applications
3 credits Research in remote sensing, using advanced techniques applied to a field of study such as land use, vegetation, climatology, agriculture, or environmental problems. Research activities are accompanied by presentations on advanced remote sensing topics.
6 credits Directed employment in an agency or firm engaged in urban-regional development, planning, or policy formation in an area of the student’s background and interest.
1-6 credits Provides a broad basis for more advanced study in the areas of geography-geology. Specifically designed for students with minimal undergraduate preparation in these areas.
1-6 credits Primarily concern of the course is the solar system, the stars, and recent advances in astronomy. In the section on meteorology, weather is analyzed in terms of air mass movements and location of fronts.
3 credits The focus of this course is on the geochemical processes that control the fate and transport of pollutants in the environment. Student have opportunities to collect environmental samples and learn analytical techniques to evaluate local environmental problems.
3 credits Knowledge of landscape-forming processes is gained by an in-depth study of fluvial processes in the laboratory and in the field; other fluid processes, aeolian and glacial, are analyzed.
Prerequisites 350
Cross-listed (Also listed as Geography 657.) Note A field project and field trips are required, including research on a field problem. A two-hour lecture and a two-hour laboratory weekly.
This research-based seminar focuses on early evolution of the Earth and its life forms. Topics include, but are not limited to, Precambrian geology, fossil evidence of early life, and the characteristics and evolution of early life through the early Paleozoic.
Applied research is conducted in environmental geology, hydrology, oceanography, petroleum geology, and geochemistry. Students will also critically review recent articles related to new technological developments in geology and learn how to collect and reduce data.
3 credits Seminar-based course discussing recent research on ancient oceans. Topics include microfossil and geochemical techniques used to assess environmental change, applications of paleoceanographic information for interpretations of ancient climate change, ocean changes through time, and case studies of selected ocean environments.
3 credits Seminar-based course discusses recent research on coastal processes. Topics include the causes and consequences of sea-level rise, coral reef destruction and beach erosion, and attempts to mitigate the negative impacts of these processes.
3 credits Study of the origin of sandstone with the objectives of reconstructing the Earth’s history and to explore and exploit petroleum and groundwater resources in sandstone reservoirs.
Prerequisites 455/555, one year of college CHEM, or consent of instructor.
GEOL 690 - Advanced Topics in Earth and Quaternary Sciences
3 credits The study of selected topics in Earth and quaternary science are discussed. Examples include modern day global change in the context of quaternary climate variability, humans as agents of change, and the impact of environmental pressures on ecosystems and organisms.
This course is designed to enhance student skills in synthesizing and communicating geologic concepts. These skills are necessary to build successful careers in geology and are required throughout a career in geology.