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English NOTE: Students are not given credit for ENGL 101 , ENGL 102 , ENGL 111 , or ENGL 112 until they have achieved at least a “C” grade in it. There is no limit to the number of semesters that students may re-register for ENGL 101 -ENGL 102 .
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ENGL 388 - Great Books—Directed Reading I
2 Credits
2 hours per week.
This course affords the opportunity for the honor student to engage in semi-independent, directed reading of major texts or works in the discipline under the supervision of a faculty member.
Prerequisite(s) admission to the Departmental Honors Program.
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ENGL 390 - Comparative Mythology
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is a study of African, Asian, Germanic, Greek, and Roman mythology in terms of themes, archetypal patterns, perceptions of reality and truth, and narrative and dramatic uses.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 391 - Sacred Texts
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course studies sacred texts as works of literature. It focuses on the literary forms, mores, folkways, themes, and values of diverse cultural views as reflected in these sacred texts.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 395 - African-American Folklore
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course focuses on African-American folklore genres, including the folktale, trickster tales, legends and myths, riddles, proverbs, folk song, speech play, festivals, customs, folk beliefs, vernacular architecture, and other forms of oral and material folk traditions. There will be special emphasis on the connections of these cultural expressions to African traditions.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 398 - Writing Center Practicum
3 Credits
2 lecture hours. 3 lab hours.
This course will provide an introduction to current theories and practices of rhetoric, composition, and writing tutoring designed for majors and non-majors. Practicum students are afforded the opportunity to tutor in the Morgan State University Writing Center.
Prerequisite(s) ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 orENGL 111 and ENGL 112 . Students must pass each class with a grade of C or better.
Offered (FALL)
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ENGL 399 - Great Books—Directed Reading II
2 Credits
2 hours per week.
This course is the second part of Directed Reading I and affords the opportunity for the honor student to engage in semi- independent, directed reading of major texts or works in the discipline under the supervision of a faculty member.
Prerequisite(s) admission to the Departmental Honors Program and completion of Directed Reading I.
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ENGL 411 - The Victorian Poets
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course aims to present selected readings in the major poets of the period against the background of Victorian thought. (formerly ENGL 410).
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 412 - Twentieth Century British Literature
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is a study of the literary concepts, patterns, techniques, themes, and impact of twentieth century British literature. Among the authors studied are: Conrad, Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot, Auden, Joyce, Lessing, Shaw, Woolf, Greene, Waugh, C.L.R. James, and Achebe.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 413 - Studies in American Drama
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course consists of an intensive study of selected American plays including the works of African-American playwrights. (formerly ENGL 455)
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 414 - American Poetry
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is concerned with theme, language, and form in American poetry, from Whitman to the present, with special emphasis upon African-American poets such as Dunbar, Johnson, Cullen, Hughes, and Baraka. (Formerly ENGL 445)
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 418 - Introduction to Shakespeare
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course consists of lectures, readings and reports designed to impress upon the student the cultural, historical and philosophical significance of the works of Shakespeare in relation to modern living. The study includes As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear,
Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard II, , A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Henry IV: Part One. (formerly ENGL 433).
Offered (SPRING)
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ENGL 433 - The African-American Novel
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is a study of the historical development of the African-American novel in terms of form and function. It gives the student an overview of the corpus of novels written by African-Americans and of critical theories that have governed and evolved from them. The course focuses on major African-American novelists: Chesnutt, Toomer, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, Alice Walker, Naylor, and others.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 434 - The American Novel
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course begins with the works of Charles Brock- den Brown and traces the development of the American novel through the 20th century, with emphasis on contemporary novels. Phases for consideration are the Gothic romance, the historical novel, the novel of manners, the sentimental novel, the Rococo romance, the novel of social protest, psychological realism and naturalism and the blues presence in American literature.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 452 - Introduction to Linguistics
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is an introduction to the study of the structure and the social functions of language. It focuses on sounds, morphemes, analyses of syntax, and the use of language in various social contexts.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 453 - Introduction to the English Language
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is designed to increase the student’s awareness of the English language as a dynamic, changing instrument of communication and to develop his or her understanding of modern English syntax, vocabulary, etymology, spelling, pronunciation and usage through a study of the various stages of the history of English. (formerly ENGL 420).
Offered (FALL)
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ENGL 456 - Cognitive and Language Behavior
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
The purpose of this course is to integrate issues from the psychological and biological bases of language. Topics include language acquisition, language dysfunction, psycholinguistics and brain-related disorders.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 474 - Literature for Adolescents
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course, designed for prospective teachers of secondary English, is devoted to a study of literature appropriate for high school students. This course is strongly recommended for a student seeking a certificate to teach English in the secondary schools. (formerly ENGL 451)
Offered (SPRING)
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ENGL 475 - Women and Literature
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course surveys and analyzes the writings of women in four genres: short narrative, essay, novel, and poetry.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 484 - Seminar in the Novel
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is designed to facilitate the close study of the work of one novelist, who may be of any nationality, tradition, or literary period. The novelist will be selected by the faculty member conducting the seminar in a given semester.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 485 - Creative Projects
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This workshop is designed for students to work on a major project in the novel, short story, essay, scriptwriting, technical document or mixed genre work. Each student works closely with an instructor. Admission by the consent of the Department Chairperson. (formerly ENGL 307).
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 488 - Senior Project
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is designed to allow English majors to complete a work assignment that is supervised by either the English faculty or an agency approved by the English faculty. Depending on his/her focus, a student will be engaged in a research project, research assistant ship, teaching apprenticeship, creative writing project, writing internship, or electronic portfolio.
Offered (SPRING AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 489 - Senior Honors Thesis II
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is a continuation of Senior Honors Thesis I and concludes the conduct of advanced research, under the supervision of a faculty member. This half of the two-course sequence should be pursued during the spring semester. The student should complete the honor thesis by the end of March and should defend it before the departmental faculty in April.
Prerequisite(s) admission to the Departmental Honors Program and completion of Directed Reading I and II and Senior Honors Thesis I.
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ENGL 498 - Senior Internship
3 Credits
9 hours per week.
This course provides the opportunity for the student to obtain supervised work experience in the major at an off-campus site selected and approved by the Departmental Chairperson. Registration is limited to seniors with minimum 2.2 cumulative and major averages and re- quires approval of the Departmental Chairperson. Exceptions may be approved by the Dean.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENGL 499 - Senior Research or Teaching/Tutorial Assistantship
3 Credits
9 hours per week.
This course provides the opportunity for the student to attain first-hand research or teaching/tutorial experience under the supervision and mentorship of a tenure-track faculty member. Registration is limited to seniors with minimum of 3.0 cumulative and major averages and requires the approval of the Departmental Chairperson. Exceptions may be approved by the Dean.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENTR 350 - Value Creation
3 Credits
This course provides an action learning environment where you will develop your entrepreneurial mindset and the skills to turn that mindset into action. You will use the design thinking process (discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, and evaluation) to solve a problem and create value for stakeholders. You will practice applying/implementing an evidence-based approach (ask, acquire, appraise, aggregate, apply, assess) to problem-solving and creating value for stakeholders. This is a course in the Evidence-Based Management Certificate track.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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ENTR 351 - Introduction to Evidence Based Entrepreneurship
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course provides an action-learning environment where prospective innovators and entrepreneurs can learn how to successfully bring their ideas to market. Students will learn about and apply the evidence based entrepreneurship process to case studies. Students will also learn how to commercialize an idea of their own, to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams, and to develop and sustain a growth mindset. Specifically, students will work individually and in teams to identify opportunities, assess market potential, develop and validate business models (using a business model canvas), discover and validate customer needs, develop product/service prototypes, and develop and evaluate financial plans. (Formerly BUAD 351)
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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ENTR 352 - Customer Identification and Validation
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
Using action-learning methods students will identify and validate customer demand for a business proposition. Students will develop hypotheses about customers and their needs and wants and then use information collected via interviews with customers and other stakeholders/experts to test their hypotheses and refine their understanding of market demand. Students will conduct interviews in the field, in person and via phone, to develop expertise in interviewing methods and customer discovery processes.
Prerequisite(s) ENTR 351 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL)
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ENTR 353 - Social Entrepreneurship
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course provides an immersion experience in a social entrepreneurship environment. Students will use the mission model canvas to explore the challenges of developing and managing a successful social enterprise. Students will analyze the vision, mission, strategies, goals, customers, stakeholders, service model, operations and organizational structure of successful and failed social enterprises. Each student will complete a service-learning project, which will entail completing a project or solving a problem for an existing non-profit.
Prerequisite(s) ENTR 351 must be completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (SPRING)
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ENTR 360 - Start Up Accelerator
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course provides an extreme problem-based learning environment where students will start a business. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams (minimum of two, maximum of four), must start a business by mid-semester, and must have sales before the end of the semester. Students will learn by doing. Specifically, students will determine the legal structure of their firm, establish the legal structure of their firm, obtain a tax ID number, register their firm, create and implement an operating agreement, acquire any license needed, manage the firm(s), start-up, create firm infrastructure, manage operations, develop financial plans, monitor financial performance, develop a product/service, market a product/service, sell a product/service, get feedback from customers, and use customer feedback to improve the viability of their firm. Student teams that meet the requirements will receive $1,000 to help defray start-up expenses. Students will interact with and get feedback from Michael Seibel, partner at Y Combinator, the leading global start-up accelerator.
Offered (FALL)
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ENTR 361 - Business Accelerator
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course provides an authentic action-learning environment for student entrepreneurs. Students must have an existing business, which they want to take to the next level. Students may work individually or on teams, depending on the ownership structure of their firm (i.e., sole proprietors will work individually, partnerships and LLCs may work as teams). Students will agree to achieve significant improvements in the performance of their firm. They will use critical thinking, problem-based learning, financial planning, and action plans to more efficiently and effectively grow their business. Students must demonstrate significant improvement in their firm’s product/service, marketing, sales, operations, profitability/financial management, or product/market fit by the middle of the semester and again by the end of the semester.
Offered (SPRING)
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ENTR 380 - Start Up Development
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course provides an action-learning environment where prospective innovators and entrepreneurs practice successfully bringing their ideas to market. Students will work in an interdisciplinary team to commercialize an idea of their own specifically, students will use state-of-the-art software to support their implementation of the disciplined entrepreneurship process as they identify opportunities, assess market potential, develop and validate business models (using a business model canvas), discover and validate customer needs, develop product/service prototypes, and develop and evaluate financial plans. This is a course with “Honors” designation.
Prerequisite(s) ENTR 351 and ENTR 352 completed with grades of “C” or higher
Offered (SPRING)
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ENTR 384 - Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course examines the theory and practice of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition. Students will learn about and practice applying active search, passive search, fortuitous discovery, creation of opportunities, and effectuation. Students will use multiple opportunity recognition processes to identify and evaluate an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the relative merits of different approaches. (Formerly BUAD 384).
Prerequisite(s) ENTR 351 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL)
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ENTR 386 - Ideation and Creativity
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This experiential learning course provides students with the opportunity to practice applying a diverse set of approaches to idea generation and creativity, including: design thinking, systematic inventive thinking, deconstruction, four actions framework, divergent and convergent thinking, ideation/brainstorming, problem-solving, discovery framing, and securing/expanding/exposing/and challenging. Students will use these approaches to generate ideas and solve problems and then compare and contrast the outcomes achieved via various methods.
Offered (SPRING)
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ENTR 388 - Intellectual Property Protection
3 Credits
3 lab hours.
This course provides students with the opportunity to examine various types of intellectual property (i.e., patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, tech transfer, and licensing) and learn how to protect, manage, and acquire intellectual property as vital assets of a firm. Students will develop an intellectual property protection plan for a firm. identify an undeveloped intellectual property, and create a plan to acquire and develop an intellectual property.
Offered (FALL)
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ENTR 450 - Managing the Venture Financing Process
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course will examine the venture financing options available for new business startups. Emphasis is placed on creating and analyzing financial documents, approaching financial sources, selling stock for growing companies, and managing the financial condition of a new venture.
Prerequisite(s) ENTR 351 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL)
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ENTR 452 - Business Plan Development
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course provides an action-learning environment where students develop a business plan for a firm. Students will identify and evaluate an opportunity for a new venture and then develop a plan to gather the resources needed to convert the opportunity into a business. Students will examine and develop plans for market, customer, customer service, product/service development, marketing, operations management, human resource, and financial factors which may affect their firm’s success. Students will complete tow key projects: create a business plan for a new venture and manage a working capital simulation for a new venture. This is a course with “Honors” designation. (Formerly BUAD 452).
Prerequisite(s) ENTR 351 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (SPRING)
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ENTR 457 - Special Topics in Entrepreneurship
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course will investigate selected topics of significance to entrepreneurship, business and management. The precise focus varies by semester. Emphasis will be placed on developing the entrepreneurial, analytical and problem-solving skills of students as applied to current business issues.
Prerequisite(s) ENTR 351 , ENTR 352 , and ENTR 380 completed with grades of “C” or higher
Offered (SPRING)
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ENTR 461 - Business Accelerator
3 Credits
This course provides an authentic action-learning environment for student entrepreneurs. Students must have an existing business, which they want to take to the next level. Students may work individually or in teams, depending on the ownership structure of their firm (i.e., sole proprietors will work individually, partnerships and LLCs may work as teams). Students will agree to achieve significant improvements in the performance of their firm. They will use critical thinking, problem-based learning, financial planning, and action plans to more efficiently and effectively grow their businesses. Students must demonstrate significant improvement in their firm’s product/service, marketing, sales, operations, profitability/financial management, or product-market fit by the middle of the semester. ENTR 361
Offered (SPRING)
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ENTR 486 - Ideation and Creativity
3 Credits
This experiential learning course provides students with the opportunity to practice applying a diverse set of approaches to idea generation and creativity, including: design thinking, systematic inventive thinking, deconstruction, four actions framework, divergent and convergent thinking, ideation/brainstorming, problem-solving, discovery framing, and securing/expanding/exposing/ and challenging. Students will use these approaches to generate ideas and solve problems and then compare and contrast the outcomes achieved via various methods. BUAD 386
Offered (SPRING)
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ENTR 488 - Intellectual Property Protection
3 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to examine various types of intellectual property (i.e., patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, tech transfer, and licensing) and learn how to protect, manage, and acquire intellectual property as vital assets of a firm. Students will develop an intellectual property protection plan for a firm, identify an undeveloped intellectual property protection plan for a firm, identify an undeveloped intellectual property, and create a plan to acquire and develop an intellectual property. ENTR 388
Offered (FALL)
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ENVS 390 - Colloquium in Environmental Studies I
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
Advanced topics in Environmental Studies.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENVS 391 - Colloquium in Environmental Studies II
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
Advanced topics in Environmental Studies.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENVS 392 - Colloquium in Environmental Studies III
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
Advanced topics in Environmental Studies.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENVS 498 - Senior Internship
3 Credits
9 hours per week.
This course provides the opportunity for the student to obtain supervised work experience at an off-campus site approved by the Program Coordinator. Registration is limited to seniors with a minimum 2.2 cumulative and major average and requires approval of the Program Coordinator. Exceptions may be approved by the Dean.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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ENVS 499 - Senior Research or Teaching/ Tutorial Assistantship
3 Credits
9 hours per week.
This course provides the opportunity for the student to attain first-hand research or teaching/ tutorial experience under the supervision and mentorship of a tenure-track faculty member. Registration is limited to seniors with a minimum 3.0 cumulative and major average and requires the approval of the Program Coordinator. Exceptions may be approved by the Dean.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FACS 101 - Introduction to Business of Fashion
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course describes the fundamentals of the business of fashion. Emphasis is placed on the organization and operation of the United States textile industry including designing, manufacturing and marketing of textiles.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 110 - Textiles
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course teaches recognition, use and care of textiles related to characteristics of fibers, yarns, fabric construction and finishes.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 111 - Fundamentals of Color/ Design
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course is designed to teach students color theory, the physiology and psychology of color perception, and the physics of color in relation to the visual arts.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 112 - Principles of Clothing
3 Credits
2 lecture hours. 2 lab hours.
This course teaches recognition and the use of fibers, yarns, and fabric construction and finishes, as well as basic garment construction using commercial patterns.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 120 - Orientation in Family and Consumer Science
1 Credits
1 lecture hours.
This course is designed to provide an understanding of Family and consumer science and related disciplines. It examines the field’s history and philosophy, the curricula, professional opportunities and organizations.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 231 - Marriage and Family Relations
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course teaches development of family members throughout the life cycle and their contributions to personal and group well-being. Attention is given to courtship and engagement as well as factors promoting satisfactory family relationships.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 232 - Interior Design
3 Credits
2 lecture hours. 2 lab hours.
This course deals with the planning, furnishing and decorating of living areas in the home. Emphasis is placed on proper selection of materials and objects in terms of their artistic quality.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 250 - Consumer Education
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course is a study of consumer problems including rights and responsibilities, legislation and fundamentals of buymanship.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 311 - History of Costume
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course is a study of costume from ancient Egypt to the present day, reflecting the social, economic, and cultural environment.
Offered (SPRING)
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FACS 335 - Cross-Cultural Design
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course will include the elements and principles of applied design and explore their application in a number of different cultures throughout the world, with special emphasis on textile design. The influence of different cultures will also be considered.
Prerequisite(s) Instructor Consent
Offered (FALL)
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FACS 341 - Alcoholism and Family Substance Abuse
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
Families in the United States, from colonial days to the present, have been affected by alcohol abuse. This course will focus on the effect of alcoholism and substance abuse on urban family life. Preventive strategies will be explored and evaluated. Students will be asked to participate in Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Programs.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 342 - Early Childhood Development
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course includes a survey of the child from conception through six years of age. Areas included are the principles of development as they relate to the socio-emotional, physical, and cognitive development of the child.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 351 - Family Resource Management
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course is a comprehensive approach to utilizing effective management processes of one of the most vital segments of our lives - the home. These management processes will include communication, decision-making, feedback, goal setting, planning, implementing and evaluating through current readings, class problems and projects.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 355 - Parenting
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course focuses on parenting influences and parental roles in meeting children’s needs. Emphasis will be placed on children’s emotional needs, social, intellectual and moral development.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 360 - Human Sexuality and Behavior
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course focuses on the dynamics of human sexual development and orientation, reproductive health and the psychological and emotional aspects of sexual behavior. Emphasis is placed on the historical, cultural, social, legal and moral forces affecting sexual issues. Current research findings will be explored.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 380 - Fashion Merchandising
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course is a survey of the field of fashion merchandising and the principles of retailing. Emphasis is on the activities, operations, and practices in retailing. Course content will include: when and how to buy, coordination of buyers’ activities, pricing, problems involved in mark-downs, methods of inventory, and fashion trends.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 381 - Fashion Promotion
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course examines the principles and procedures in promoting the sale of apparel and related merchandise. It provides direct application of the principles and methods of display and advertising techniques and the use of electronic media.
Offered (FALL)
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FACS 410 - Clothing and Human Behavior
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course focuses on the study of clothing as a social and psychological force and the relationship between humans and their clothing, both individually and in groups. This includes the conventions and standards influencing clothing choice and use.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 411 - Advanced Clothing
3 Credits
2 lecture hours. 2 lab hours.
This course will emphasize advanced clothing construction techniques and the application of these techniques to the evaluation of ready-to-wear apparel.
Prerequisite(s) FACS 112 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (SPRING)
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FACS 412 - Flat Pattern Design
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course offers an introduction to basic principles of flat pattern design through the development and manipulations of a master pattern.
Prerequisite(s) FACS 112 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL)
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FACS 420 - Computer-Aided Design
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course infuses computer-aided systems into fashion conceptualization, design, and production.
Prerequisite(s) Instructor Consent
Offered (SPRING)
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FACS 421 - Exit Seminar in Family and Consumer Science
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course provides an opportunity for exploration of research on selected topics in Family and Consumer Sciences.
Prerequisite(s) FACS 120 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 452 - Family Housing in Contemporary Society
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course will examine contemporary American housing policies and issues. Specific focus will be directed to the economic, social, cultural, and political constraints and opportunities in the American housing delivery system.
Offered (FALL)
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FACS 454 - Methods & Observation in Family and Consumer Science
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course emphasizes the aims, methodologies, and observations of family and consumer sciences at the secondary school level. This course focuses on selection of subject matter, organization of materials and evaluation.
Offered (FALL)
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FACS 472 - Fashion Merchandising Practicum
3 Credits
9 hours per week.
This course provides supervised work experience and in-service training in an approved retail establishment.
Prerequisite(s) FACS 380 and FACS 381 completed with grades of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FACS 473 - Entrepreneurship in Family and Consumer Science
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This is a seminar course designed to assist students in the conceptualization, development, and management of a small business. The course will focus on options for operating a business from home, successful mail order practices, consignment agreements, and store front operations. Course provides supervised work experience and training in an approved retail establishment.
Prerequisite(s) Instructor Consent
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FIN 101 - Financial Literacy
1 Credits
1 hours per week.
This course will focus on how to deal with everyday basic personal financial matters, such as financial terminology, managing personal income and expenses, opening and managing accounts with banks and other financial institutions, tackling basic tax returns, establishing an dmaintianing credit, renting and buying or selling real estate, and obtaining appropriate insurances. The course will also introduce students to personal investing options, retirement planning and starting a business. the course is introductory in nature and is intended to expose students to basic financial principles.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FIN 341 - Introduction to Financial Planning
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course covers careers in financial planning and provides an introduction to the responsibilities of financial planners including credit and debt management, buying versus leasing, educational funding, financial planning for special circumstances such as divorce or disability, estate planning and income tax planning. Risk management, insurance and investment planning will also be covered. Financial planning professionals will be invited guests during class times to allow for more student engagment with experts in each area
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FIN 342 - Personal Finance
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
The focus of this course is the development of a framework for planning a lifetime finance program and making it operational. The course investigates alternative investments with a view toward optimizing personal wealth. Topics covered include budgeting, investing in education, cars, houses, securities, health and property insurance, pensions, and financial planning.
Offered (FALL)
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FIN 343 - Managerial Finance
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course covers the principles and practices used in the financing of business organizations. Topics include financial planning, funds acquisition, financial analysis, current asset management, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and ethical issues related to financial management.
Prerequisite(s) ACCT 201 or ACCT 211 and ECON 212 completed with grades of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FIN 344 - Security Analysis
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course emphasizes the investment needs of both individual and institutional investors. Topics covered include various types of securities, security markets, security analysis, risk-return analysis, regulation of security markets and ethics.
Prerequisite(s) FIN 343 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FIN 345 - Global Financial Markets and Institutions
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This is an integrative course which covers a variety of financial instruments and financial institutions from around the world. Topics include supply and demand for loanable funds, global financial markets, level and structure of interest rates, and monetary, fiscal and debt management policies.
Prerequisite(s) FIN 343 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FIN 422 - Portfolio Management
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is a continuation of FIN 344 . It emphasizes the portfolio aspects of investments. Topics covered include in-depth coverage of fixed income portfolio management; derivatives, options, Fu- tires, and forward contracts; international portfolio diversification and ethics.
Prerequisite(s) INSS 220 and FIN 344 completed with grades of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FIN 423 - Derivatives
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course builds on FIN 344 , Security Analysis, and FIN 422 , Portfolio Management. It introduces students to the major types of derivatives and conducts a comprehensive analysis of derivative pricing and applications. Topics include options, forwards, futures, swaps, and application of these derivatives in hedging investment risks.
Prerequisite(s) FIN 344 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (SPRING)
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FIN 426 - Fixed - Income Valuation
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course introduces students to the basic qualitative, quantitative, and risk-management aspects of fixed - income securities. In addition, the international aspects of bonds will be covered.
Prerequisite(s) FIN 344 with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL)
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FIN 431 - Equity Valuation
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course will cover the qualitative aspects of preferred and common equity but will focus on the valuation of common equity. The course will also cover industry analysis and market-based techniques of enterprise valuation.
Prerequisite(s) FIN 344 with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (SPRING)
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FIN 443 - Advanced Financial Management
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course emphasizes long term (capital budgeting) and short-term investment decisions. The course also covers the total environment in which the financial officer functions with comprehensive coverage of the financial officer’s use of budgets as well as financial and accounting concepts.
Prerequisite(s) FIN 343 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FIN 444 - Bank Management
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course covers such topics as problems and policies associated with liquidity and solvency, reserves and earning assets, loans and discounts, accounting analysis, income and expense, services, personnel and public relations.
Prerequisite(s) FIN 345 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL)
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FIN 446 - International Financial Management
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course ex- amines international banking and business finance from the conceptual, theoretical, ethical, and practical stand- points in the context of multinational business operations. Topics include foreign exchange markets, international banking, exchange risks management, financing and operational strategies and practices, and taxation of multinational operations.
Prerequisite(s) FIN 344 completed with a grade of “C” or higher
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FIN 448 - Cases in International Finance
3 Credits
3 hours per week.
This course is based on international financial management cases which analyze financial problems faced by corporations when operating in an international environment. Major topics covered are the international financial environment, international monetary systems, corporate strategy, and international investment decisions, portfolio diversifications, taxation issues, cost of capital, and financial structure in the multinational firm, sources of financing, foreign exchange risk and management, and managing multinational operations.
Prerequisite(s) FIN 344 , FIN 422 and FIN 443 completed with grades of “C” or higher
Offered (SPRING)
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FREN 101 - Elementary French I
3 Credits
3 lecture hours. 1 lab hours.
This course focuses on grammar, pronunciation, aural-oral comprehension.
Prerequisite(s) No previous French study or one year or level of French in high school.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FREN 102 - Elementary French II
3 Credits
3 lecture hours. 1 lab hours.
This is a continuation of FREN 101 .
Prerequisite(s) FREN 101 or one to two years or levels of French in high school.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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FREN 105 - Intensive Elementary French
6 Credits
6 lecture hours. 2 lab hours.
This is an intensive course covering the material of FREN 101 -FREN 102 in one semester.
Prerequisite(s) No previous French study or one year or level of French in high school.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 203 - Intermediate French I
3 Credits
3 lecture hours. 1 lab hours.
This is a review of grammar, pronunciation and composition, with graded readings and further development of aural-oral proficiency.
Prerequisite(s) FREN 102 or two to three years or levels of French in high school
Offered (FALL)
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FREN 204 - Intermediate French II
3 Credits
3 lecture hours. 1 lab hours.
This is a continuation of FREN 203 .
Prerequisite(s) FREN 203 or three to four years or levels of French in high school.
Offered (SPRING)
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FREN 206 - Intensive Intermediate French
6 Credits
6 lecture hours. 2 lab hours.
This is an intensive course covering the material of FREN 203 -FREN 204 in one semester.
Prerequisite(s) FREN 102 or two to three years or levels of French in high school.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 207 - Special Topics in French I
3 Credits
3 lecture hours. 1 lab hours.
This course will focus on the study of selected topics or current issues. It will provide students an opportunity to explore various topics in greater detail dealing with French and the Francophone world. Students will be exposed to, and practice, vocabulary and content likely to be used in business, music, fine arts, communications, and the professions. Specific focus will be on understanding, speaking, reading and writing about cultural, social, literary, and economic trends in France and Francophone countries. Course con- tent varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes.
Prerequisite(s) FREN 102 or two to three years or levels of French in high school.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 208 - Special Topics in French II
3 Credits
3 lecture hours. 1 lab hours.
This course is a continuation of FREN 207 .
Prerequisite(s) FREN 203 or FREN 207 or three or more years or levels of French in high school
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 307 - Business French
3 Credits
3 lecture hours. 1 lab hours.
This is a course designed for students who wish to become acquainted with the language of business in French. Business terminology, basic letter reading and writing are introduced and developed.
Prerequisite(s) FREN 204 or four or more years or levels of French in high school.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 311 - Advanced French Conversation and Composition I
3 Credits
3 lecture hours. 1 lab hours.
This course provides development of fluency and grammatical accuracy in speaking French. It requires writing of original compositions with stress on advanced grammar analysis and use of idiomatic expressions.
Prerequisite(s) FREN 204 or four or more years or levels of French in high school.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 312 - Advanced French Conversation and Composition II
3 Credits
3 lecture hours. 1 lab hours.
This is a continuation of FREN 311 .
Prerequisite(s) FREN 204 or four or more years or levels of French in high school
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 315 - Survey of French Literature I
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This is a general survey of French literature from its beginning to 1700.
Prerequisite(s) FREN 204 , or four or more years of French in high school.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 316 - Survey of French Literature II
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This is a general survey of French literature from 1700 to the present time.
Prerequisite(s) FREN 204 , or four or more years or levels of French in high school.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 317 - French Civilization I
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This is a comprehensive study of the origin and development of France as a great nation through the seventeenth century.
Prerequisite(s) FREN 204 , or four or more years or levels of French in high school.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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FREN 318 - French Civilization II
3 Credits
3 lecture hours.
This course traces the cultural development of France from the eighteenth century to the present.
Prerequisite(s) FREN 204 or four or more years or levels of French in high school.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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