Mar 29, 2024  
2017-2018 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2017-2018 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Catalog


Graduate courses at Appalachian are numbered 5000 and above. 5000 is master’s level; 6000 is specialist level; 7000 is doctoral level. Courses numbered below 5000 may not count toward the minimum hours required for a graduate degree or certificate program of study.

Courses for Continued Enrollment

Courses numbered 5989/7989 courses are intended for continued enrollment purposes only and do not count toward the minimum hours required for a graduate degree or certificate program of study. All other courses described in this bulletin (except courses numbered 5989 and 7989) are courses that count as a required or elective course on a program of study for at least one graduate degree.

Cross-listed Courses

Several courses are shared across two or more disciplines or departments, and as such are cross listed under multiple prefixes. Students may only count one version of such a course on a program of study. These cross-listed courses are indicated with a notation in (parentheses) at the end of the course description.

Dual-listed Courses

Selected courses at the 5000 level are dual listed with senior undergraduate (4000-level) courses, meaning that the two courses may be offered in the same room at the same time. Graduate students in these 5000-level courses will have additional requirements specified on the syllabus to ensure a more in-depth study of the course topics. These dual-listed courses are indicated with a notation in [brackets] at the end of the course description. Graduate students may include up to 12 semester hours of dual-listed 5000-level courses on a program of study.

NOTE: When a prerequisite is at the undergraduate level (below the 5000 level), students should consult with the department regarding whether they have the relevant background to succeed in the graduate course.

 

Biology

Additional offerings by the Department of Biology include courses in General Science (G S)

  
  • BIO 5900 - Internship (1-6)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Practical biological experiences in federal, state, and local agencies.
    Graded on an S/U basis. [Dual-listed with BIO 4900.]
  
  • BIO 5980 - Instructional Methods in the Life Sciences (2)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course will provide training on effective pedagogy and communication skills for teaching assistants in the introductory biology program. In addition to the scientific principles of the weekly lab sessions, students in this course will be familiarized with the design of science lab content and the principles of developing effective assessment procedures. BIO 5980 may be repeated for two semester hours each semester; however, it cannot be counted toward the 30 semester hours minimum that are required for the Master of Science degree in Biology. Required of Graduate Teaching Assistants in their first year.
    Graded on an S/U basis.
  
  • BIO 5989 - Graduate Research (1-9)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course is designed to provide access to University facilities for continuing graduate research at the master’s and specialist’s levels. BIO 5989 does not count toward a degree.
    Graded on an S/U basis.
  
  • BIO 5998 - Thesis Preparation (1-3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course enables students to plan their master’s thesis project by examining the pertinent literature, developing the experimental design, and carrying out the proposed research. Extensive collaboration with the student’s thesis chair is expected. BIO 5998 may be repeated for 1-3 hours each semester, however, it cannot be counted toward the 30 semester hours minimum that are required for the Master of Science degree in Biology.
    Graded on an S/U basis.
  
  • BIO 5999 - Thesis (4 or 8)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Required in the program of study for the Master of Science degree in Biology.
    Graded on an SP/UP basis until the thesis has been successfully defended and received final approval, at which time all grades will be changed to S.
  
  • BIO 6520 - Teaching Apprenticeship (4)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course provides a teaching experience in undergraduate courses under direct supervision of a graduate faculty member. Specific objectives will be determined in a conference between the student and the graduate faculty member involved.
    Graded on an S/U basis.
  
  • BIO 6530-6549 - Selected Topics (1-4)


    When Offered: On Demand
  
  • BIO 6610 - Advanced Seminar in Current Research Topics (2)


    When Offered: Spring
    Lectures, readings, and discussions dealing with biological principles and theories.
  
  • BIO 6615 - Current Topics in Molecular Biology (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Seminar course exploring recent advances in Cell and Molecular Biology using primary literature published within the last six months. Course content changes each offering. BIO 6615 may be repeated for a total credit of 18 semester hours.
  
  • BIO 6989 - Independent Research (1-8)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This elective course may be taken in blocks of 1-8 hours. Results of the research must be reported in a scientifically acceptable manner.
    Graded on an S/U basis.

Business

Additional offerings for the Master of Business Administration Program include courses in Business Administration (MBA)

  
  • BUS 5001 - Foundations in Business Statistics (1)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course introduces the fundamental statistical tools for business applications using spreadsheets. The topics covered may include concepts of probability, probability distributions, and statistical estimation.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program or permission of the program director.
  
  • BUS 5002 - Foundations in Financial Accounting (1)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course will develop familiarity with the financial statements, including the balance sheet, income statement, statement of stockholders’ equity and the statement of cash flow.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program or permission of the program director.
  
  • BUS 5003 - Foundations in Economics (1)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course introduces the student to the microeconomic environment of business decisionmaking. Topics may include modeling markets with supply and demand analysis and the influence of price, production, cost and technology on the firms’ decisions.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program or permission of the program director.
  
  • BUS 5004 - Foundations in Finance (1)


    When Offered: On Demand
    An introduction to the financial concepts needed for the management of a business firm. Topics covered may include the time value of money, bond and stock valuation, capital budgeting, and financial statement analysis.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program or permission of the program director.
  
  • BUS 5005 - Foundations in Marketing (1)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course introduces the major concepts and tools employed in modern marketing. The course will study marketing from the perspective of for profit and not for profit organizations, domestic and international.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program or permission of the program director.
  
  • BUS 5006 - Foundations in Organizational Behavior (1)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course applies knowledge from the behavioral sciences to help students understand and solve problems they encounter as managers and group members in organizations. A variety of tools and concepts will be used to increase student awareness of the dynamics of organizational life, to approach organizational problems in unique ways, and to develop individual and group skills for functioning effectively in today’s organizations.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program or permission of the program director.
  
  • BUS 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)


    When Offered: On Demand

Business Education

Additional offerings by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction include courses in Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Curriculum & Instruction (C I)

  
  • B E 5555 - Advanced Methods in Teaching Business and Marketing Subjects (3)


    When Offered: Fall
    This course provides students advanced methodology and classroom strategies in business and marketing education. It places emphasis on current issues such as: best pedagogical practices for business and marketing subjects taught within the school setting, emerging learning environments in which all learners can be successful, authentic assessment appropriate to diverse learners, use of technology to enhance teaching and learning, innovative teaching strategies to design and modify instruction.
  
  • B E 5565 - Curriculum Development in Business and Marketing Education (3)


    When Offered: Spring
    This course provides students with understanding of principles for curriculum design, development, and implementation in business and marketing education. The content focuses on contemporary curriculum design and implementation strategies, a discussion of curriculum development for school-to- work transition, formulation of specific curriculum goals and objectives, identification and selection of relevant curriculum materials, and systematic assessment of the business and marketing education curriculum.
  
  • B E 5575 - Analysis of Teaching Practices in Business and Marketing Education (2)


    When Offered: Fall
    This course provides students with an opportunity to conduct an original and unique action research project in an educational setting. Students will examine interactions in the classroom through in- depth observation and analysis of teaching practices, conduct a survey of literature, and apply action research methodology in workforce development areas such as business and marketing education.

Career & Technical Education

  
  • CTE 5500 - Independent Study (1-3)


    When Offered: On Demand
  
  • CTE 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Subject matter may vary from term to term depending on student interest and need. A student may enroll more than once in a selected topics course provided that the content does not duplicate that of the previous course.
  
  • CTE 5619 - Curriculum Development in Career and Technical Education (3)


    When Offered: Spring
    This course provides students with understanding of principles for curriculum design, development, and implementation in career and technical education subjects. The content focuses on contemporary curriculum design and implementation strategies, a discussion of curriculum development for school-to-work transition, formulation of specific curriculum goals and objectives, identification and selection of relevant curriculum materials, and systematic assessment of the career and technical education curriculum.
  
  • CTE 5650 - Research in Career and Technical Education (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course provides students with an opportunity to conduct original and unique research in the field of career and technical education. Students will conduct research and design and develop an original project in their specific area of study based on the specific content area skills they have developed in their previous coursework.
  
  • CTE 5660 - Advanced Methods in Teaching Career and Technical Education (3)


    When Offered: Spring
    This course provides students advanced methodology and classroom strategies in career and technical education fields of study. It places emphasis on current issues such as: best pedagogical practices for career and technical education subjects taught within the school setting, emerging learning environments in which all learners can be successful, assessment appropriate to diverse learners, use of technology to enhance teaching and learning, innovative teaching strategies to design and modify instruction.

Chemistry

  
  • CHE 5070 - Advanced Physical Chemistry (4)


    When Offered: Fall
    Rigorous treatment of the laws of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Applications to gases, solutions and other condensed phases, studies of surface effects.
    Lecture four hours.
  
  • CHE 5500 - Independent Study (1-4)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
  
  • CHE 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)


    When Offered: On Demand
    An opportunity to study a special topic or combination of topics not otherwise provided for in the chemistry curriculum. May be repeated for credit when content does not duplicate.
    Prerequisite: graduate status.
  
  • CHE 5560 - Instrumental Methods of Analysis (4)


    When Offered: Fall
    A study of some of the modern instrumental methods of analysis including electrochemistry, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, magnetic resonance spectrometry, mass spectrometry and gas chromatography.
    Prerequisite: CHE 3301 (Physical Chemistry I).
    Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours.
  
  • CHE 5580 - Biochemistry I (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course covers the properties of amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids and presents a brief introduction to enzymology. Major emphasis is on the chemistry of biological compounds. An introduction to intermediary metabolism is also presented.
    Prerequisite: BIO 1801 (Biological Concepts I); CHE 2101 (Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry) or CHE 2202 (Organic Chemistry II) with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7).
    Lecture three hours. [Dual-listed with CHE 4580.]
  
  • CHE 5581 - Biochemistry I Laboratory (1)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Experimental investigations which supplement the study of the topics in biochemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHE 2203 (Organic Chemistry Lab I) (or equivalent);
    co- or prerequisite: CHE 5580  (or equivalent). [Dual-listed with CHE 4581.]
  
  • CHE 5582 - Biochemistry II (3)


    When Offered: Spring
    This course will cover the intermediary metabolism of amino acids, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids. Metabolic pathways and their associated enzymes are emphasized.
    Prerequisite: CHE 4580 (Biochemistry) with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7).
    Lecture three hours. [Dual-listed with CHE 4582.]
  
  • CHE 5989 - Graduate Research (1-9)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course is designed to provide access to University facilities for continuing graduate research at the master’s and specialist’s levels.
  
  • CHE 5999 - Thesis (4)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring

College of Health Sciences

  
  • CHS 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Subject matter may vary from term to term depending on student interest and need. A student may enroll more than once in a selected topics course provided that the content does not duplicate that of the previous course.
  
  • CHS 5950 - Interprofessional Fieldwork (0)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Provides the opportunity to integrate knowledge acquisition in the classroom with interprofessional fieldwork experiences.
    Graded on an S/U basis.

Communication

  
  • COM 5150 - Strategic Communication (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course provides advanced study in communication theory and practice foundational to achieving an organization’s strategic goals. Topics include the principles of human communication and the strategic communication process, including research, planning, messaging, and evaluation.
  
  • COM 5152 - Advanced Organizational Communication (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Application of communication methodology to the analysis of organizational communication processes. Students study methods of communication consulting, facilitation, and training.
    Prerequisite: admission to a certificate program, a graduate program, or permission of the instructor.
    [Dual-listed with COM 4152.]
  
  • COM 5311 - Communication in Conflict Management (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This is a course designed to provide the opportunity for students and the instructor to examine and research the central role of communication in resolving conflict within various organizational entities. The course will focus on conflict resolution and negotiation skills required in such environments as management and labor, public administration, families, and education. A particular area of concentration will be selected each semester.
    Prerequisite: admission to a certificate program, graduate program, or permission of the instructor.
    (Same as MBA 5311 .)
  
  • COM 5312 - Advanced Crisis Communication (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    A course designed to help students understand the role of communication in the overall management of an organizational crisis. Students will study how to prepare crisis material, including a crisis communication plan and crisis manual.
  
  • COM 5425 - Task-Oriented Group Facilitation Methods (3)


    When Offered: Spring
    Learn how to maximize the collective power of groups, organizations, and communities by developing facilitation skills that help groups think, talk, and work together. Application opportunities using these skills include community development, organizational planning, education, government, and other occasions when people want to turn ideas into productive action and meaningful accomplishments.
    (Same as PLN 5425 .)
  
  • COM 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)


    When Offered: On Demand

Communication Sciences & Disorders

  
  • CSD 5162 - Structural Analysis of Language (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    A study of language content, form, and use with special emphasis on the acquisition of descriptive taxonomies for the classification of spoken language samples. The course includes guided and independent practice in language sampling and analysis procedures.
    [Dual-listed with CSD 4162.]
  
  • CSD 5364 - Audiology (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    The science of hearing and the etiologies of hearing impairment.
    Prerequisites: CSD 2259 (Communication Disorders), CSD 2260 (Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanism), CSD 2464 (Basic Speech and Hearing Science), and CSD 2465 (Basic Speech and Hearing Science Laboratory); or permission of the department chair.
    [Dual-listed with CSD 4364.]
  
  • CSD 5500 - Independent Study (1-4)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
  
  • CSD 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)


    When Offered: On Demand
  
  • CSD 5561 - Introduction to Clinical Procedures I (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course provides instruction in methods used for intervention in speech-language pathology. Primary emphasis is placed on evidence-based remediation procedures for children and adults with communication disorders; implementing clinical approaches in a variety of settings; organization of clinical practicum; and writing skillful clinical reports, referral letters, IEPs, and IFSPs. Students will participate in clinical experiences.
  
  • CSD 5565 - Clinical Practicum II (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Supervised second level practicum in evaluation and therapy techniques in speech-language pathology. Specific clinical assignments will depend on prior and concurrent coursework in the disorders areas. Assignments will be consistent with the workload formula in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Graduate Student Handbook. Students may have an off-campus placement.
    Prerequisite: CSD 5561 .
  
  • CSD 5566 - Clinical Practicum III (3 or 6)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Supervised third level practicum in evaluation and therapy techniques in speech-language pathology. Specific clinical assignments will depend on prior and concurrent coursework in the disorders areas. Assignments will be consistent with the workload formula in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Graduate Student Handbook. Students may have an off-campus placement. CSD 5566 may be taken for 6 s.h. alone, or for 3 s.h. credit concurrently with a 3 s.h. enrollment in CSD 5569 .
    Prerequisite: CSD 5565 .
  
  • CSD 5569 - Clinical Practicum IV (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Supervised practicum involving evaluation and therapy techniques in speech-language pathology. Specific clinical assignments will depend on prior and concurrent coursework in the disorders areas.
    Prerequisite: CSD 5566 .
  
  • CSD 5660 - Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Sciences and Disorders (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course provides instruction in evidence-based practice, including research and experimental design in communication sciences and disorders. The course will focus on the importance of evidence-based practice in communication sciences and disorders; scientific principles, methods and controls used in the field; design and analysis of research on groups and single subjects; levels of evidence in evidence-based practice; and constructing, writing, and presenting a research manuscript using evidence-based practice.
  
  • CSD 5661 - Assessment and Evaluation (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    The philosophy and implementation of procedures for the evaluation of communication disorders in children and adults with emphasis on obtaining and interpreting case history data, conducting diagnostic interviews, and administering, scoring and interpreting data from diagnostic instruments used to evaluate articulation, language, fluency, voice, and motor speech disorders. Observation of and participation in diagnostic sessions are required.
  
  • CSD 5662 - Management of Hearing Disorders (3)


    When Offered: Spring, Summer Session
    Studies of the habilitation/rehabilitation of hearing impairments in preschool and school-aged children and adults. Emphasis on prescriptive and resource curricular management. Includes audition training, speech reading methods, and a survey of hearing aid monitoring techniques.
    Prerequisite: CSD 4364/CSD 5364 - Audiology (3) .
    [Dual-listed with CSD 4662.]
  
  • CSD 5663 - Disorders of Fluency (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Study of the etiology, evaluation, and management of disorders of fluency (including stuttering) in children and adults with a concentration on the major theories of causation.
  
  • CSD 5666 - Voice and Resonance Disorders (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Study of the etiology, evaluation, and rehabilitation of functional and organic voice disorders in children and adults, including a review of the anatomic and physiological bases of phonation, respiration, and resonation; theories of voice production; and physiologic and acoustic correlates of voice disorders.
  
  • CSD 5669 - Speech Sound Disorders (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Clinical application of current research in disorders of the speech sound system.
  
  • CSD 5672 - Severe Communication Disorders in Children and Adults (3)


    When Offered: Summer Session
    A study of the communication development of children and adults with severe communication disorders. Emphasis will be placed on developing expertise in ongoing evaluation through standard and nonstandard procedures, program planning, and use of augmentative communication systems.
  
  • CSD 5675 - Preschool Language Disorders (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    A study of the evaluation and management of language disorders in preschool children, including models of language and language disorders, high risk factors, and interdisciplinary assessment, program planning, and intervention.
    Prerequisites: CSD 3366 (Communication Development), CSD 4162 (Structural Analysis of Language), or permission of the instructor.
  
  • CSD 5676 - School-Age Language Disorders (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    A study of the identification, evaluation, and management of language disorders in school-aged children and adolescents, with special emphasis on language development after age five, the role of language in educational contexts, formal and informal assessment strategies, alternative service delivery models, and specific strategies for intervention.
    Prerequisites: CSD 3366 (Communication Development), CSD 4162 (Structural Analysis of Language), or permission of the instructor.
  
  • CSD 5678 - Written Language Disorders (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    A study of the identification, evaluation, and management of written language disorders in individuals from birth to 18 years who are at risk for or who have been identified as having a communication and/or specific language impairment (SLI). A special emphasis is placed on the written language skills of these individuals in a variety of educational contexts (e.g., daycare settings, developmental preschool programs, public schools, etc.). Formal and informal strategies for assessment, alternative service delivery models, and specific strategies for intervention will be covered.
    Prerequisites: CSD 5675  and CSD 5676  or permission of the instructor.
  
  • CSD 5682 - Communication Disorders in Diverse Populations (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    A seminar on the interrelationship of sociological variables and linguistic performance with special emphasis on communication differences and disorders among culturally and linguistically diverse populations, non-biased assessment of diverse populations, elective intervention approaches, and differing learning styles.
  
  • CSD 5766 - Neuroanatomy and Physiology (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Basic anatomy and physiology of the central and peripheral nervous systems with special emphasis on neural systems involved in normal and disordered speech, language, and hearing.
    Prerequisite: CSD 2260 (Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanism).
    [Dual-listed with CSD 4766.]
  
  • CSD 5850 - Adult Neurogenic Communication Disorders (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    Provides requisite knowledge for understanding, assessing, and treating language and cognitive impairments in adults with focal and diffuse brain injury. Students will learn about neural substrates for language and cognition, assessment principles, and treatment for aphasia, right hemisphere disorders, traumatic brain injury, and dementia.
  
  • CSD 5851 - Motor Speech Disorders (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course provides instruction in the differential diagnosis and management of neurogenic speech disorders, including the dysarthrias and apraxia of speech.
  
  • CSD 5852 - Dysphagia (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course provides instruction in the description, differential diagnosis, and management of swallowing disorders in adults and children. Discussion will include developmental, behavioral, structural, and neurogenic disorders and the cultural influences on eating behaviors.
  
  • CSD 5900 - Internship (6-12)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    An internship in the area of communication disorders.
    Prerequisites: completion of CSD 5566  or its equivalent and permission of the Communication Disorders faculty.
    Graded on an S/U basis.
  
  • CSD 5989 - Graduate Research (1-9)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course is designed to provide access to University facilities for continuing graduate research at the master’s and specialist’s levels.
  
  • CSD 5999 - Thesis (1-4)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring

Community & Regional Planning

  
  • PLN 5030 - Planning for Climate Resilience (3)


    When Offered: Fall
    City planners have many tools to address the impacts of local growth, environmental protection, economics and social equity. What is currently lacking are plans that account for climate change and build the capacity for resilience and adaptation in the face of the negative outcomes. In this course, we will gain a better understanding of climate change and the ways in which the cultural and political discourse influences our capability to address the climate change challenge at the local, regional, national and international level.
    [Dual-listed with PLN 4030.]
  
  • PLN 5240 - Sustainable Transportation Planning (3)


    When Offered: Fall
    Not all transportation is cars. In order to create a sustainable transportation system planners understand how a transportation network that supports transit, biking, walking and cars in an interconnected and equitable manner can connect the built environment. Major topics include transportation policy and planning, environmental implications of transportation decisions, equity, technology, nonmotorized and group travel modes, active living and active travel, public health and strong communities, and emerging models.
    [Dual-listed with PLN 4240.]
  
  • PLN 5400 - Planning Theory and Process (3)


    When Offered: Fall
    Foundations of community and regional planning, including linkages with planning theory and growth management, comprehensive planning steps, and how practicing planners use various planning aspects and applications to address contemporary urban and regional issues.
    (Same as GHY 5400 .)
  
  • PLN 5420 - Human Settlements and Planning History (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Foundations of community and regional planning relating to the growth and development of cities and historical aspects of planning. Examination of how design and form impact the built environment, to include prominent planners who have influenced planning over time. This course focuses on the American city, but some examples may be from European and Asian countries and colonial practices.
  
  • PLN 5425 - Task-Oriented Group Facilitation Methods (3)


    When Offered: Spring
    Learn how to maximize the collective power of groups, organizations, and communities by developing facilitation skills that help groups think, talk, and work together. Application opportunities using these skills include community development, organizational planning, education, government, and other occasions when people want to turn ideas into productive action and meaningful accomplishments.
    (Same as COM 5425 .)
  
  • PLN 5431 - Planning Methods and Techniques (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Foundations of community and regional planning relating to skills, knowledge, and abilities that practicing planners use to develop a better understanding of place. Scope of research includes components of plan-making (e.g., public opinion surveying; meeting facilitation; and demographic, economic, social, environmental, housing, land use, circulation, and community facilities studies).
  
  • PLN 5441 - Planning Studio (3)


    When Offered: Spring
    Application of planning skills and knowledge to a project. Each studio will have a project focus that may vary (but typically will include comprehensive planning, physical design, economic development, or spatial planning). A real location, fieldwork, and problem-solving are integral parts of this course.
    Prerequisite: PLN 5431 .
  
  • PLN 5450 - Inside the Sustainable City (3)


    When Offered: Spring
    This course explores the systems, planning practices, and individuals and organizations across sectors that make towns and cities work. The course considers examples-successes, failures and the more
    common mixed outcomes-of planning for sustainable communities, characterized by healthy environments, social justice and equity, and strong diverse economies. Major themes include poverty and wealth, production and consumption, conservation and ecosystem services, technology harnessed for sustainability, and individual and collective action. Systems studied include water, energy, waste, transportation, agriculture, construction and design, finance, education, governance, and more.
    [Dual-listed with PLN 4450.]
  
  • PLN 5460 - Environmental Policy and Planning (3)


    When Offered: Spring
    An in-depth look at issues of public participation and involvement, intergovernmental relations, and the tools and practices involved with environmental planning in the United States.
    [Dual-listed with PLN 4460.]
  
  • PLN 5470 - Community Development: A Sustainable Approach (3)


    When Offered: Fall
    Traditional models for community and economic development are giving way to 21st-century strategies using a sustainability framework that crosses temporal and spatial scales, and accounts for multiple dimensions of environment, economy and social equity. This course will explore and apply the language, tools and strategies employed by community development professionals, activists, and community members in urban and rural settings. Major topics include poverty and race, housing, economic opportunity, revitalization and gentrification, environmental justice, localism and globalism, and public participation in planning.
    [Dual-listed with PLN 4470.]
  
  • PLN 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)


    When Offered: On Demand
  
  • PLN 5730 - Land Use Controls, Planning Law, and Ethics (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Foundations of community and regional planning relating to plan implementation, including a spectrum of land use controls, the legal and constitutional framework of land use controls, and planning ethics.
  
  • PLN 5858 - Directed Research (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Directed research on a topic selected by the student in consultation with the instructor. The student will write a research paper and present findings orally on the selected topic. Students may not repeat PLN 5858 for credit.
    Prerequisite: approval of the instructor.
    (Same as GHY 5858 .)

Computer Information Systems

  
  • CIS 5100 - Management Information System (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    A study of the methods and procedures of computerized information systems and how they should be used to create viable management information systems. Includes administrative uses and limitations of information systems in a company. Measures of information system effectiveness, documentation procedures, data security, legal implications and personnel requirements as well as system configurations and software are included.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program, Graduate CIS Certificate Program or other graduate programs or by permission of the chair of the CIS Department.
  
  • CIS 5250 - Issues in E-Business (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course examines the concepts and issues associated with using the technologies and processes of electronic commerce to facilitate the operational success of a contemporary organization. Through extensive use of the Internet, students will gain direct experience with the promise, problems and potential of using information technology and electronic commerce in individual and organizational endeavors.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program, Graduate CIS Certificate Program or other graduate programs or by permission of the chair of the CIS Department.
  
  • CIS 5280 - Systems Management (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Introduction to General Systems Theory and its application to the analysis, design, and operation of information systems. Emphasis will be placed on the design and management of information technology, cybernetics, real-time systems, models and simulations, and man-machine systems.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program, Graduate CIS Certificate Program or other graduate programs or by permission of the chair of the CIS Department.
  
  • CIS 5300 - Managing Information Technology (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    A seminar course providing a broad overview of the information systems management function. Emphasis on information systems management, with particular attention on planning, organizing, and controlling user services and managing the computer information systems development process.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program, Graduate CIS Certificate Program or other graduate programs or by permission of the chair of the CIS Department.
  
  • CIS 5350 - Advanced Database Concepts (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Investigation and application of advanced database concepts including Database Administration, database technology and selection and acquisition of database management systems. In-depth practicum in data modeling and system development in a database environment will be emphasized utilizing both mainframe and micros.
    Prerequisite: CIS 4790 (Current Topics in Information Systems) or equivalent.
  
  • CIS 5450 - Project Management and Visualization (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course will focus on the leadership and presentation skills necessary to properly chose, design, lead and communicate an analytics project to senior business leaders, employees and external stakeholders. The course will include determining the business value of an analytics project; prioritizing various analytics projects and choosing the most important ones; communicating the business value of a project to the project team, clients and senior management; learning the art of making persuasive presentations; learning common presentation and reporting pitfalls. The course will also teach students how to create and deliver effective presentations to technical and non-technical audiences.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program, MS in Applied Data Analytics, Business Analytics Certificate or permission of the program director.
  
  • CIS 5500 - Independent Study (1-4)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
  
  • CIS 5530-5549 - Selected Topics (1-4)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
  
  • CIS 5580 - Data Communications and Networking (3)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course is designed to provide the student with the basic concepts of data communications and networks. Emphasis will be on the technical and the theoretical skills of data communications and networks that will be needed by those who will be involved in the analysis, design and programming of computer information systems. Students will be required to design a network.
    Prerequisite: CIS 3250 (Building Information Systems) (CIS 3250 can be taken concurrently).
  
  • CIS 5585 - Advanced Data Communications and Networking (4)


    When Offered: Fall, Spring
    This course is a continuation of CIS 5280  and explores advanced topics in data communications and networking. It encompasses parts 3 and 4 of the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) certification and, upon successful completion, allows students to take the CCNA certification exam.
    Prerequisite: CIS 5280 .
  
  • CIS 5610 - Global Information Technologies (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course presents students with the concepts and issues inherent in global information technology. The course examines the issues associated with using technology in a global environment, how global systems are developed, how culture, language, etc. impact systems and their development, outsourcing, strategies for global systems development and use, and issues facing Far East, European, Latin America, and Third World countries.
    Prerequisite: graduate status.
  
  • CIS 5620 - IS Strategy, Policy, and Governance (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course examines how to effectively lead an information systems organization. Chief Information Officers are tasked to take part in determining corporate strategy based on information technology and its potential role in corporate objectives - while determining the IS (Information System) strategy to most effectively implement the corporate strategy in terms of information technology, IS personnel, data, and telecommunications. That IS strategy will also be implemented in terms of an IS policy, and then executed as IS governance. IS governance will include personnel issues, legal and financial obligations, data privacy and security, vendor relations, and business unit liaison.
  
  • CIS 5630 - Data Management (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    Data mining is a broad area dealing with the analysis of a large volume of data that integrates techniques from several fields including machine learning, statistics, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and database systems. Data mining is a rapidly growing field that supports decision-making by detecting patterns, devising rules, identifying new decision alternatives and making predictions about the future. The course objective is to present the leading data mining methods and their application to real-world problems. The course is organized around a number of well-defined data mining tasks such as description, classifications, estimation, predictions, and affinity grouping and clustering. The topics covered include: introduction to knowledge discovery in the databases (KDD), statistical methods, emerging modeling techniques such as neural networks, and others.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program, MS in Applied Data Analytics, Business Analytics Certificate Program or permission of the program director.
  
  • CIS 5680 - Developing Software Solutions (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course focuses on the building of software systems including programming, logic, managing operating systems, and configuring large information systems, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. In this course, students will use a popular software package to build a working programming interface to solve business problems.
  
  • CIS 5710 - e-Business Systems (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This seminar course discusses e-business issues that are current, applicable, relevant, and interesting. Students are expected to develop and execute a team project throughout the course. Relevant areas of e-business studied will include: electronic commerce, personalization management systems, content management systems, customer relations management systems, and community systems. This course ties together concepts from different areas of management and the economic, behavioral, functional and technical aspects of information systems.
  
  • CIS 5720 - Advanced Internet Technologies (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    In this course, students will have the opportunity to learn the technologies that are commonly used to develop e-business. These enabling technologies include ASP.NET, VB Script, Java2EE, XML, Web Service, XHTML, DHTML, Java Script, JSP, among others. The technologies that this course incorporates may change based upon current industry trends. This course concentrates on the skills to use these technologies and the business processes that drive Internet development, so that students are able to develop a robust, reliable, functional, and secure industry-level e-business web site.
    Prerequisite: CIS 5710 .
  
  • CIS 5750 - Web Analytics (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course proposes to focus on the concepts and technologies every leading organization needs to realize the full potential of their web sites. Students will be introduced to Internet technologies and tools that allow for collection of web data (e.g., web traffic, visitor information), clickstream analysis, search engine optimization, analysis of paid search advertisements, social network analysis of social media sites (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, YouTube), and information visualization in relation to web analytics. Current and emerging analytics technologies will be covered as well as ethical principles in relation to the use of web and social media data.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program, MS in Applied Data Analytics, Business Analytics Certificate or permission of the program director.
  
  • CIS 5830 - Security, Privacy and Ethical Issues in Analytics (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course is designed as a broad overview of important security, privacy, ethical and societal issues that are relevant to the field of Business Analytics.
    Prerequisite: admission to the MBA Program, MS in Applied Data Analytics, Business Analytics Certificate Program or permission of the program director.
  
  • CIS 5840 - Advanced Security (3)


    When Offered: On Demand
    This course is designed to cover the main common body of knowledge topics identified by the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification program. Topics include security management practices, access control, security models and architecture, physical security, telecommunications and networking security, cryptography, disaster recovery and business continuity, law, investigation, ethics, applications and systems development, computer forensics and, operations security.
    Prerequisite: CIS 5830 .
 

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