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SOWK 998 - Dissertation Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to defend their doctoral dissertation for approval by the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the dissertation chairperson and committee, the dissertation is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and may be considered as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. This course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student is registered for 3 credit hours, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 808
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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Sociological Foundations Education |
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SFED 510 - Historical, Philosophic and Sociological Foundations of Urban Education
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines education from the perspective of the history, sociology, and philosophy of education. Some of the major topics are social forces and schooling; the social system and culture of the school; social class differences in education; the place of philosophy in education; and functional analysis of educational problems.
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SFED 582 - The Exceptional Child: Administrative and Program Needs
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to sensitize educators to the need for effective educational programming for exceptional children. It explores the legal basis for P.L. 94-142 and its amendments for working with handicapped children in regular educational programs. An overview of the area of special education and its implications for teaching and learning constitutes the framework for the emphasis of this course. Special attention is given to the characteristics and needs of minority handicapped children.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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SFED 651 - Social Policy and Futurism
3 hours.
3 Credits
The study of the future is a subset of social policy determination and its allied field social planning. This course will provide information and academic content that will be useful as alternatives for dealing with the future.
Offered (FALL)
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Sociology and Anthropology |
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SOCI 500 - Proseminar in Sociology
1 hours.
1 Credits
This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the sociological mind, and the manner in which sociologists approach, analyze, and study social phenomena. Emphasis will be placed on the development of sociology as a discipline and the major concepts, theories, issues, research methodologies, and ethical problems associated with the discipline. This is a required core course.
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 510 and SOCI 511 .
Offered (FALL)
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SOCI 510 - Social Statistics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to multivariate parametric and non-parametric statistical techniques including multiple and partial correlation, multiple regression, factor analysis and path analysis, as they are applied to socio-cultural phenomena. The major focus will be on the use of computer programs (including SPSS, and SAS) in performing these techniques. This is a required core course.
Prerequisite(s) First Year Graduate Students in Sociology Only
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 500 and SOCI 511 .
Offered (FALL)
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SOCI 511 - Classical Sociological Theory
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course aims to provide the student with a thorough analysis of the history of sociological theory and of the specific contribution of the early thinkers in sociology. Attention is paid to the various intellectual streams of thought and to other disciplines which have influenced the development of sociology. This course is a required core course.
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 500 and SOCI 510 .
Offered (FALL)
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SOCI 520 - Techniques of Social Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to enhance the students’ knowledge and understanding of the basic research techniques and procedures used in sociological research. It focuses on the formulation of research problems, research designs, questionnaire construction, proposal writing, data collection and data analysis. This is a required core course.
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 511 . Students must pass SOCI 511 with a grade of B or better.
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 521 .
Offered (SPRING)
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SOCI 521 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
3 hours.
3 Credits
The paradigms which guide current sociological thought are examined and compared. Problems with theory and application (praxis) are studied through the use of recent sociology research. This is a required core course.
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 511 or permission of Graduate Coordinator. Students must pass SOCI 511 with a grade of B or better.
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 510 and SOCI 511 .
Offered (SPRING)
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SOCI 530 - Black Americans in Sociological Thought
3 hours.
3 Credits
The treatment of African Americans in the literature and theories of sociology are studied as well as the contribution of African American sociologists to the development of the discipline.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 531 - Sociology of Oppression
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course will deal with the issue of oppression not only in the United States, but also in other parts of the world. As such, attention is focused on the social and historical foundations of oppression, the various forms oppression may take, and the consequences of oppression. Particular attention is paid to slavery, colonialism, and racism, as well as to oppression resulting from ethnicity, gender, class and poverty religion, political ideology, age, national origin, etc.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 540 - Sociology of Education
3 hours.
3 Credits
Education is presented as a social institution in terms of its functions and its structural bases. Attention is given to the internal processes and structure of educational institutions and to their interdependent relationship with other social institutions.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 543 - Race, Education, and Social Inequality
3 hours.
3 Credits
Issues relevant to the education of ethnic minorities are studied. In addition, a variety of topics is considered including the values of ethnic groups toward education, their accessibility to the educational system, the extent of educational ethnocentrism, and the place of ethnic studies within policy control of the educational system.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 545 - Identities and Interaction
3 hours.
3 Credits
A sociological approach to study of human social action and the dynamics of social interactions. Special attention is paid to development of self and group identities as a product of social interactions.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 550 - Sociology of the Family
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course involves the study of the family as a social institution including its biological and cultural foundation, its historic development, and its changing structure and functions. With respect to social change, crucial disorganizing and reorganizing factors are isolated.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 553 - The Black Family in America
3 hours.
3 Credits
The domestic organization of black Americans is studied, taking into account (1) their African heritage; (2) their history of enslavement and ongoing economic and political oppression; (3) their patterns of mating, marriage, and divorce; (4) their patterns of fertility and attitudes towards the young; and (5) their increasing integration into the mainstream of American society.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 554 - Intimate Relationships
3 hours.
3 Credits
An understanding of contemporary courtship, and marriage, and family interaction as social psychological phenomena is provided. Consideration is also given to the major sources of marital strains and conflict in the family.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 555 - Alternatives to the Traditional Family Structure
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines living arrangements that substitute for, or supplement, those in the tradition-al family. A critique of traditional family structure is given. Among the alternative lifestyles considered are communal living, living together, bachelorhood (for both females and males), single parent families, homosexual unions, co-marital relationships, and serial monogamy. Also considered are lifestyles influenced by a variety of religious and counterculture ideologies.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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SOCI 560 - Seminar in Urban Sociology
3 hours.
3 Credits
In this course, students are presented with a, broad theoretical matrix in, which to examine the process of urbanization in relationship to ecological organization, technological change, planning practice, and development policy.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 562 - Collective Behavior
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course deals with the concept of collective action (sometimes referred to as collective behavior) and the various theories that are employed to explain this phenomenon, not only in the United States but also in other parts of the world. Examined also are the social factors that account for the emergence of this form of group action and the efforts that are made to contain it and the consequences of such action. Particular attention is paid to such forms of collective action as slave rebellions, strikes, protest demonstrations, fads, riots, and especially anti-colonial movements and other categories of social movements.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 564 - Race and Ethnic Relations
3 hours.
3 Credits
The sociological responses of ethnic groups to the special character and problems of contemporary urban life are examined and analyzed. Also included is the study of the effects of ethnicity, on people’s accessibility to, and service by political structures, business and financial organizations, and public and private service agencies, and the type of coverage which they receive by mass media.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 565 - Sociology of Migration
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course deals with the various social factors that undergird both internal and external migration. As such, the course focuses on a number of theories of migration, structural factors that conduce to migration, and the social consequences of migration. Special attention is paid to the concept of migration, the effect of poverty and other economic factors, racial/ethnic discrimination, political persecution, etc., on migration; and the impact of conflicts with host populations, competition for scarce infrastructural resources, etc., that result from migration.
Offered (FALL OR SPRING)
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SOCI 566 - Sociology of Baltimore
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides students with an opportunity to use theories and principles associated with urban sociology for the systematic and diachronic study of the Baltimore metropolitan area as an urban system. A particular focus of the course is the treatment of culture, social organization, and social problems within the research context of a case study. Students may undertake, within a supervised context, the analysis of demography, ecology, crime, criminal justice, education, transportation, work, racial and ethnic relations, housing, zoning, commerce, and neighborhood organization as they pertain to the Baltimore metropolitan area.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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SOCI 570 - Seminar in Applied Sociology
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the present application of sociology to the resolution of social problems and focuses also on the role of the applied sociologist in the non-academic work setting. Required core course.
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 510 , SOCI 511 , SOCI 520 , SOCI 521 . Students must pass these courses with a grade of B or better.
Offered (FALL)
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SOCI 600 - Evaluation Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides students with an understanding of program evaluation as it encompasses systematic observations that are designed to determine whether a social program or practice achieves its goals. In particular, students will be exposed to that aspect of applied sociological research that focuses on program design and planning, program monitoring, outcome evaluation, and economic efficiency, and the employing of science to gather valid and reliable data. Required Core Course.
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 510 , SOCI 511 , SOCI 520 , SOCI 521 . Students must pass these courses with a grade of B or better.
Offered (SPRING)
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SOCI 793 - Master’s Pre-Candidacy
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a master’s graduate student engaged in study prior to the achievement of master’s candidacy. Students preparing for comprehensive examinations or for a thesis proposal defense enroll in this course. Additionally, students needing additional time to complete a Master’s Project enroll in this course after initial enrollment in the appropriate Master’s Project course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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SOCI 797 - Thesis Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) Department permission
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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SOCI 799 - Thesis Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and may be considered as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. This course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student is registered for 3 credit hours, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) Department permission, SOCI 510 , SOCI 511 , SOCI 520 , SOCI 521 . Students must pass these courses with a grade of B or better.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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Telecommunications Management |
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TELC 500 - Urban Telecommunications Networks
3 hours.
3 Credits
Examines the overall field of Telecommunications. Uses in business organizations, industry and government, customer demand, growing importance of careers in telecommunication, public and private telecommunication networks, transmission networks and transmission channels.
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TELC 510 - Telecommunications Structure and Regulation
3 hours.
3 Credits
The telecommunications industry, and its regulation/deregulation by the federal, state, and local governments, is critically examined. “Telecommunication” is defined broadly as public and private electronic communication, such as broadcasting (local and network), cable and satellite-delivered television, wired and wireless telephone systems, and computer networks (Internet and WWW). Specifically, the course will investigate the historical and developing structures of these different electronic mass media industries, as well as provide in-depth analysis of those companies that provide common carrier services. Additionally, it will explore the influence of federal, state, and local administrative agency rulemakings, regulatory agencies such as the FCC, state public utility commissions, tariffs, and laws e.g., the Telecommunications Act of 1996, on the changing structure of the telecommunications industry. Current issues relating to the structure and regulation of the telecommunications industry will be discussed.
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TELC 512 - Management and Leadership Theories
3 hours.
3 Credits
A semester-long overview of general communication theory coupled with a multidisciplinary introduction to management and leadership theory. Students will continuously experience how to understand and apply theoretical approaches to their professional pursuits in the field of telecommunication management.
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TELC 520 - Communications Technologies
3 hours.
3 Credits
How technology and media affect the human communication processes. Impact of telecommunications technology on business, education, and urban life.
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TELC 531 - Cable Broadband Communications
3 hours.
3 Credits
Technical, legal, operational and service dimensions of cable television in an urban setting.
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TELC 532 - Telecommunications Services
3 hours.
3 Credits
Examination of broadcasting, pay-cable, pay-for-view television, subscription, satellite master antenna television, multi-channel, multipoint distribution services, low power television, direct broadcast satellite, teletext and video text.
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TELC 533 - Data Processing and Communication
3 hours.
3 Credits
Effects of computers on the creation, control, content and flow of communication in organizations and society. Work related to this course will be done in a laboratory setting in order to provide experience with computing systems.
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TELC 535 - Data Communications Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
Discussion of the components of data communications systems: Development of data codes, data transmission controls, predominate information codes, specialized data transmission techniques and line configurations.
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TELC 540 - Organizational Communication
3 hours.
3 Credits
Examination of both the Coordination and assignment of duties as contrasted with management style. Discussion of the technical human and conceptual skills necessary within the modern organization. The role of the media manager as it relates to interpersonal communication, external conditions and as a source of information.
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TELC 541 - Strategic Planning and Control
3 hours.
3 Credits
Evaluation of organizational needs and how they are meeting b existing systems. Proposal of alternative systems, traffic studies, future usage patterns, grade of service and system evaluation.
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TELC 542 - Telecommunications Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
Examination of the historical, social, cultural, legal and economic structure and operation of media organizations in the United States. The role of management formulation of policy and the process of decision-making.
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TELC 543 - Financial Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
Examination of media financial planning. Discussion of the manager as financial planner, developer of action plans, examiner of assets and liabilities. Methods of financial reporting and financial projections.
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TELC 544 - Media and Social Services
3 hours.
3 Credits
Use of mass media in urban-based community campaigns related to health, public safety, education and other social services. Discussion will cover the role of nonprofit organizations in setting research strategies and campaign evaluation.
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TELC 550 - Audio Studio Production Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
Examination of non-broadcast and broadcast audio production systems. Understanding of formats, demographic trends, financial status and employment patterns.
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TELC 551 - Video Studio Production Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
Examination of growth of noncommercial and commercial video along with non-broadcast applications and how they relate to production of programming, development of revenue and financial trends.
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TELC 552 - Programming Analysis
3 hours.
3 Credits
Discussion of formulation of action plans. How they relate to media research, sources of audience research, research development and programming.
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TELC 553 - Non-Broadcast Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
Future of video in a corporate setting how private television is being used, teleconferencing, in-house production systems, supplemental outside services, selective distribution and organization and staffing within the non-broadcast setting.
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TELC 554 - Community Cable Operations
3 hours.
3 Credits
Critical examination of the development of local cable television origination, community cable television channel rules, regulations, and policies, how cable television channels are used in urban settings, and interconnection among urban cable television systems. Specifically, an analysis of the development of public, educational, and government (PEG) access cable channels, including leased cable access, will be investigated from multiple perspectives i.e., historical, legal, social, economic and technological. Also, the roles and interactions of particular stakeholders i.e., local franchising authorities, cable operators, cable access audiences, community access center managers, and advocacy groups, will be critically reviewed. Current issues relating to local cable television access channels will be discussed.
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TELC 555 - Production Workshop
3 hours.
3 Credits
Laboratory course to develop advanced production skills in both direction and production. Student teams will be expected to produce a minimum of two programs either for audio, video or cable formats.
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TELC 570 - Telecommunications Research Methods
3 hours.
3 Credits
Applications of data and interpretation for management decisions. Ratings and other secondary sources of data, surveys, experimental testing of programs and media campaigns and critical evaluation of research.
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TELC 600 - Telecommunications Internship
6 hours.
6 Credits
Practical, community-based work experience. Student will work with an outside institutional or agency in order to polish the skills necessary to function in a management role. Students will be expected to master specific competencies with a reasonable amount of supervision within the area of their desired specialization. For a portion of the seminar, each student will function as a full-time professional within a designated agency.
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TELC 650 - Telecommunications Seminar
3 hours.
3 Credits
In the final semester of the program, students will enroll in a coordinated project seminar. The seminar will examine current problems related to telecommunications law, management, structure, and production. Students will be required to produce a final project, a design prospect, paper, or other agreed-upon appropriate work that corresponds to their area of special interest.
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TRSP 513 - Transportation Internship
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides practical experience in the field of transportation and an opportunity to apply research and management tools to real world situations by placement with a transportation agency or organization.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 514 - Advanced Transportation Internship
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides practical experience in the field of transportation and opportunity to apply transportation research and management tools to real-world situation. It is designed for students selected for the MSU-MDOT internship program or other similar internship and co-op programs
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 601 - Introduction to Transportation Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides rudimentary exposure to the transportation systems, covering the common cross-cutting issues and different modes, landmark policies, transportation planning, traffic engineering, roadway design, operations analysis and management. Discussions will include emerging paradigms such as intelligent and sustainable transportation systems.
Offered (FALL)
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TRSP 602 - Economics of Transportation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course, which is a mix of theoretical and applied studies, focuses on the microeconomic tools necessary for understanding, analyzing, and managing transportation industry. The major subjects covered include costs, pricing, regulation, inter-modal competition, and strategic decision making.
Offered (FALL)
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TRSP 603 - Quantitative Methods in Transportation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course reviews statistical analysis and probability models relevant to transportation systems. Discussions include descriptive statistics, regression and correlation analysis, hypothesis testing using parametric and non-parametric statistics, and probability distribution models.
Offered (SPRING)
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TRSP 604 - Operations Research Applications in Transportation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course reviews operations research techniques most relevant to physical distributions and transportation systems management. Discussions include linear programming (integer programming), transportation and transshipment problem, dynamic programming and inventory control, and graphs. Problem formulation skill is emphasized.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 605 - Land Use and Transportation Planning
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course discusses the basic concepts, principles, strategies, and tools of local-level urban transportation and land use planning. The focus is on the real-world planning process and implementation and its relationship with transportation planning.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 606 - Urban Public Transportation Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course aims to acquaint students with the major problems and issues in the planning and management of public transportation systems. The role of the various types of public transportation systems will be examined.
Offered (FALL)
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TRSP 607 - Freight Transportation Systems and Logistics
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on management of the distribution of goods and freight within and between urban areas. The course covers management of raw materials and finished products transported from sources to marketplace.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 608 - Advanced Logistics and Supply Chain Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses on the strategy, tactical, and contingency planning in the physical distribution of goods and service. Such planning deals with the trends facing firms and the strategies, options, and tactics available through physical distribution.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 609 - Transportation in Developing Countries
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an opportunity for in depth examination of transportation issues as they relate to developing countries. The course deals with problems, issues, policies, and solutions of transportation systems and the development process.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 610 - Management of Transportation Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course aims to familiarize students with some of the basic tools and skills required for mid-level and senior managers in transportation. It focuses on managerial issues and problems including economic, marketing, operational, financial, technological, political and institutional concerns.
Offered (FALL)
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TRSP 611 - Labor Relations in Transportation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the relationship between the transportation and its organized or union employees. It discusses labor-management cooperation to enhance employee productivity while meeting employee needs. The major issues in collective bargaining and negotiation is also discussed.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 612 - Special Problems in Transportation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides the opportunity for students to examine special topics of interest in transportation. They may include Air & Water Ports Management, Transportation Safety, Transportation Policy, Transportation & Energy Conservation, Transportation & Spatial Integration, and other transportation issues.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 613 - Air Quality Modeling and Noise Analysis
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides the fundamental understanding of air quality concepts and problems encountered when complying with Federal Air quality planning/analytical requirements. It aims to acquaint students with air quality and noise analysis techniques used by transportation professionals.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 614 - Air and Sea Port Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an understanding of the planning, management and operations of transportation hubs. It focuses on the relationship between the planning process and management needs in the facility operation. Master planning and its impacts on facilities’ management are covered.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 615 - Traffic and Highway Systems Design & Analysis
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course discusses the basic concept of traffic and highway systems performance analysis and design. Topics covered include traffic flow theory, traffic data collection and analysis, levels of service concept and analysis, traffic safety, highway geometric and drainage design.
Offered (SPRING)
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TRSP 616 - Microcomputer Applications in Transportation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to provide an introduction of microcomputer applications appropriate for solving problems in transportation planning and management.
Offered (SPRING)
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TRSP 617 - Intelligent Transportation Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the cross-cutting issues in intelligent transportation system (ITS) deployment in the U.S. Discussions include the overview of ITS evolutionary process, the original six program category areas, the new seven services, and intelligent transportation infrastructure and system architecture.
Offered (SPRING)
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TRSP 618 - Advanced Urban Transportation Planning
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course discusses the traditional four-step planning process and the respective mathematical models and algorithms. Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art travel demand simulation software is emphasized. Students will be given a case problem to develop, document and present a transportation model.
Offered (SPRING)
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TRSP 619 - Geographic Information Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course exposes students to the concepts of spatial analysis using GIS tools. Students learn to develop and use a GIS-based decision support system, to undertake GIS need assessment studies, and to determine the appropriate software and hardware requirements.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 620 - Transportation Systems Evaluation
3 hours.
3 Credits
The course focuses on analytical methods commonly used in transportation planning. Discussions include transit, highway, and intersection capacity analysis, pavement performance evaluation, traffic accident analysis, benefit-cost analysis, and environmental impact assessment process.
Offered (SPRING)
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TRSP 623 - Urban Infrastructure Planning and Management
3 hours.
3 Credits
This multidisciplinary course will expose the student to the various components of critical urban infrastructure, with a primary focus in transportation infrastructure planning and management processes; and supplemental discussions in sewer, water, energy, and telecommunication distribution systems.
Offered (FALL)
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TRSP 625 - Transportation Policy
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces development, analysis and implementation of U.S. transportation policy. It focuses on how potential ideas for government action are translated from concepts into reality. A conceptual framework to understand how policy is formed at different levels is analyzed.
Offered (FALL)
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TRSP 701 - General Systems Theory
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to the concept and types of systems, and application of systems-based solution approach in transportation and urban infrastructure planning and management.
Offered (FALL)
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TRSP 717 - Advanced Intelligent Transportation Systems
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course exposes students to high-level simulation and communications tools for modeling connected vehicles, including vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), adaptive traffic signal systems, driver response to traveler information systems, and multimodal transportation systems safety and security.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 725 - Advanced Policy Analysis
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course simulates a think-tank environment for analyzing complex issues, using landmark transportation and infrastructure policy decisions as case studies. Students will be exposed to quantitative tools for analyzing complex issues.
Prerequisite(s) TRSP 603 or instructor approval
Offered (SPRING)
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TRSP 788 - Supervised Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to enable students to participate in meaningful and rigorous research in transportation. Under the supervision and direction of a faculty members, the student will conduct research in an area of interest.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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TRSP 790 - Independent Study in Transportation
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course enables students, under the tutelage of a graduate faculty, to undertake independent study on timely and practical transportation problems/issues not directly or extensively addressed by other courses in the curriculum.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 795 - Project Report
3 hours.
3 Credits
Project Report allows the students to learn how to prepare a real project. The course provides the student with the opportunity to formulate and develop a professional engineering project under the guidance of a faculty advisor. This course emphasizes the analysis and the design of a specific engineering problem, and the student must address advanced professional engineering issues, which may include analysis, design, synthesis, feasibility, development of alternatives, standards and codes, and other relevant issues. Technical writing skills will be developed, and the course culminates in a final report. Each student completing this course is expected to submit a technical report on their research project that is suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed conference or journal. Students should also prepare a conference-ready or journal-ready paper for submission by the end of the semester. This course should be taken in the final semester.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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TRSP 797 - Thesis Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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TRSP 799 - Thesis Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and may be considered as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. This course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student is registered for 3 credit hours, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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TRSP 889 - Contemporary Global Issues in Transportation and Urban Infrastructure
3 hours.
3 Credits
It exposes students to timely global issues and emerging paradigms in transportation and infrastructure planning, design, and management. Topics covered include adaptive and sustainable urban infrastructure systems, emergency-response transportation planning and management, transportation-energy infrastructure nexus, and innovative infrastructure financing methods.
Offered (SPRING)
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TRSP 988 - Doctoral Research Seminar I
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course provides the forum for doctoral students at the advanced stage of their dissertation research to partake in research symposium and pedagogical activities for peer and faculty evaluation.
Offered (FALL)
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TRSP 993 - Doctoral Pre-Candidacy
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a doctoral student as a full-time student engaged in study prior to the achievement of doctoral candidacy. Students studying for comprehensive examinations or preparing for a proposal defense enroll in this course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be considered a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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TRSP 996 - Directed Dissertation Research
3 hours.
3 Credits
This course enables students to undertake supervised research directed towards their dissertation. Students will undertake extensive review of literature and explore available technological tools and other pertinent resources for developing their dissertation proposal.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
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TRSP 997 - Dissertation Guidance
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a doctoral student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the dissertation. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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TRSP 998 - Dissertation Defense
3 hours.
9 Credits
This course allows doctoral students the opportunity to defend their doctoral dissertation for approval by the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee after the dissertation has been completed. After gaining approval of the dissertation chairperson and committee, the dissertation is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and may be considered as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
Offered (FALL/SPRING)
Contact Hours Three
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EDPL 804 - Race and Public Policy in Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This interdisciplinary course will explore intersections of public policy and race in education. Students will study the process of policy making, and analyze the impact on individuals, communities and institutions. The course will situate the local perspective of Baltimore’s history of educational policy in the larger landscape of national policies from past to present.
Offered (AS NEEDED)
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