Jun 16, 2024  
2012-2013 Graduate Catalog 
    
2012-2013 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Electrical - Electronics Technology

  
  • ELET 6399 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 3.
    May be repeated for six semester hours credit.


Spanish

  
  • SPAN 6170 - Bibliography

    Cr. 3. (1-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Use of current bibliographical sources for investigative/analytical study of Spanish-language literature and linguistics.

  
  • SPAN 6198 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of chair.

  
  • SPAN 6298 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of chair.

  
  • SPAN 6301 - Critical Readings in Spanish Literature

    Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Reading of selected core works of Spanish literature with emphasis on critical interpretation and analysis.

  
  • SPAN 6302 - Critical Readings in Spanish Literature

    Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Reading of selected core works of Spanish literature with emphasis on critical interpretation and analysis.

  
  • SPAN 6303 - Critical Readings in Spanish American Literature

    Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Reading of selected core works of Spanish American Literature with emphasis on critical interpretation and analysis.

  
  • SPAN 6304 - Critical Readings in Spanish American Literature

    Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Reading of selected core works of Spanish American Literature with emphasis on critical interpretation and analysis.

  
  • SPAN 6305 - Teaching Spanish for Acquisition

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Required of all teaching assistants and highly recommended to all graduate students. An introduction to different methodologies for teaching Spanish as a second language.

  
  • SPAN 6330 - Language Variation and Change

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Graduate status. Linguistic and social phenomena that motivate variation and change in Spanish.

  
  • SPAN 6331 - Historical Grammar

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

  
  • SPAN 6332 - Spanish Culture and Civilization

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Principal characteristics of Spanish culture and civilization (literature, history, music, painting, architecture, etc.). Studied in Spain.

  
  • SPAN 6333 - Studies in Nineteenth Century Spanish Literature

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

  
  • SPAN 6334 - Spanish-American Culture and Civilization

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Principal characteristics of Spanish-American culture and civilization (literature, history, music, painting, architecture, etc.). Studied in Spanish America.

  
  • SPAN 6335 - Golden Age Drama

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Social meaning and artistic values of significant works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

  
  • SPAN 6338 - Poetry of the Golden Age

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

  
  • SPAN 6344 - Hispanic Literature of the United States

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Survey of the major literary works of Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and other U.S. Hispanic writers, past and present.

  
  • SPAN 6345 - Women Write America/Las Mujeres Reescriben America

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Students will be considering how a variety of U.S. women writers of Latin American descent (U.S. Latinas) “write” America. They, too, are Americans but their experiences, marginalized as women, as Latinas, and sometimes by class or sexuality, marks them as outside of the dominant notion of what America is and who counts as American. The writings of these women creatively reimagine an America that reflects brown bodies and faces, painting a very different picture of the U.S.

  
  • SPAN 6355 - Spanish Phonology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Sound system and prosodic features of modern Spanish; phonological theories and their application to Spanish.

  
  • SPAN 6356 - Spanish Syntax

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Spanish syntax as exemplifying language universals: grammatical relations, word order, transitivity, causative constructions, relative clauses.

  
  • SPAN 6357 - Spanish Semantics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Relationship between syntax and semantics. Application of structural semantic theories to the Spanish language; concepts of semantic and lexical fields. Current approaches to the analysis of the Spanish lexicon; discourse pragmatics.

  
  • SPAN 6358 - Spanish Sociolinguistics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Sociolinguistic principles and patterns as illustrated in Spanish.

  
  • SPAN 6359 - Spanish Dialects in the United States

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Major dialect areas of Spanish spoken in the United States in their phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic variations.

  
  • SPAN 6360 - Culture and Communication: Methods in Linguistic Anthropology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing of PB status. This course explores the multiple methodologies that exist for researching language as a mode of communication and interaction within the field of linguistic anthropology.

  
  • SPAN 6363 - Literature of the Middle Ages

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

  
  • SPAN 6366 - Spanish-American Literature to 1830

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
  
  • SPAN 6367 - Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish-American Theatre

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
  
  • SPAN 6368 - Modernist Movement in Spanish America

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: SPAN 3321 and SPAN 3322. Study of foreign influences. The distinctive characteristics of the movement; contributions of major authors.

  
  • SPAN 6370 - Research Methods

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Methods of bibliographical and field research, use of technology, techniques of documentation, analytical taxonomies, and the establishment of acceptable evidence in research.

  
  • SPAN 6375 - Modern Spanish-American Narrative to 1950

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Evolution of writers’ central themes from the environmental to the existential.

  
  • SPAN 6379 - Contemporary Spanish-American Narrative from 1950 to the Present

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. The principal manifestations of thought and the interrelationship between certain themes and techniques in the development of the contemporary narrative in Spanish America.

  
  • SPAN 6380 - Advanced Grammar for Spanish Teachers

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: SPAN 4365 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Intensive analysis of Spanish grammar with emphasis on differences between Spanish and English.

  
  • SPAN 6381 - Spanish Poetry from Becquer to the Present

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. A close analysis of the works of major artists illustrating the poetic trends from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

  
  • SPAN 6382 - Golden Age Prose

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

  
  • SPAN 6385 - Contemporary Spanish-American Poetry

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

  
  • SPAN 6386 - Contemporary Spanish Fiction

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Readings in twentieth century Spanish fiction, emphasizing the major trends in modern Spanish narrative.

  
  • SPAN 6389 - Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers of Spanish

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Methodology for teaching Spanish to Mexican-American and other students from a Spanish-speaking background.

  
  • SPAN 6392 - Reading Spanish for Nonmajors I

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or approval of chair. Reading knowledge of Spanish as a research tool. Accelerated study and analysis of grammar and linguistic structures of Spanish scholarly and scientific literature.

  
  • SPAN 6393 - Reading Spanish for Nonmajors II

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: SPAN 6392  or equivalent. Continuation of SPAN 6392  with emphasis on translation problems. Readings in specific research areas.

  
  • SPAN 6394 - Selected Topics in Teaching Spanish

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: SPAN 4371 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Varying topics such as techniques of teaching grammar, conversation, composition, and writing. May be repeated once for credit with approval of chair.

  
  • SPAN 6395 - Selected Topics in Spanish Language and Linguistics

    Cr. 3. (3 0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Varied topics dealing with Spanish language, dialects, and linguistic theory. May be repeated with the approval of the chair.

  
  • SPAN 6396 - Selected Topics in Spanish Literature

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: 12 semester hours in advanced Spanish literature or approval of chair. May be repeated with approval of chair.

  
  • SPAN 6397 - Selected Topics in Spanish-American Literature

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: 12 semester hours in advanced Spanish-American literature or approval of chair. May be repeated with approval of chair.

  
  • SPAN 6398 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of chair.

  
  • SPAN 6399 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
  
  • SPAN 6598 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of chair.

  
  • SPAN 7198 - Reading and Research in Language and Literature

    Cr. 1-6 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of graduate advisor in Spanish. Instructor-supervised independent study in subjects not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings.

  
  • SPAN 7298 - Reading and Research in Language and Literature

    Cr. 1-6 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of graduate advisor in Spanish. Instructor-supervised independent study in subjects not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings.

  
  • SPAN 7301 - Methods of Study in U.S. Hispanic Literature and Language

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Presentation of research issues with critical, methodological, and bibliographical resources. Includes a historical overview of field.

  
  • SPAN 7302 - Advanced Research and Writing Seminar

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Use of bibliographic resources and various methods of research in preparing scholarly books and articles.

  
  • SPAN 7304 - Critical Theory

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Analysis of main concepts shaping contemporary approaches to literature.

  
  • SPAN 7391 - Studies in Spanish American Literature

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    One selected topic (such as Chronicles of the Indies, Novel of the Mexican Revolution, Ruben Dario) is explored in depth. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

  
  • SPAN 7392 - Studies in the History of Hispanic Ideas

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    One selected topic (such as Spain and European Culture, European Thought in Latin America, the Development of Hispanic Nationalism in the U.S.) is explored in depth with emphasis on ideological currents. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

  
  • SPAN 7393 - Methods of Study in Spanish Linguistics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Examination of various methods of linguistic analysis in Spanish, such as transformational grammar, socio- and psycholinguistics. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

  
  • SPAN 7394 - Studies in Spanish Literature

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    One selected topic (such as El Cid, Cervantes, the Generation of the ‘98, the Theater of Garcia Lorca) is explored in depth. Course may be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

  
  • SPAN 7395 - Studies in U.S. Hispanic Literature

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    One selected topic (such as Bilingual Literature, Nuyorican Literature, Chicano Literature, Ethnic Autobiography, U.S. Hispanic Theatre) is explored in depth. May be repeated for credit when the topic varies.

  
  • SPAN 7398 - Reading and Research in Language and Literature

    Cr. 1-6 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of graduate advisor in Spanish. Instructor-supervised independent study in subjects not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings.

  
  • SPAN 7399 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 3-6 per semester.
  
  • SPAN 7498 - Reading and Research in Language and Literature

    Cr. 1-6 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of graduate advisor in Spanish. Instructor-supervised independent study in subjects not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings.

  
  • SPAN 7598 - Reading and Research in Language and Literature

    Cr. 1-6 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of graduate advisor in Spanish. Instructor-supervised independent study in subjects not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings.

  
  • SPAN 7698 - Reading and Research in Language and Literature

    Cr. 1-6 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: approval of graduate advisor in Spanish. Instructor-supervised independent study in subjects not normally or not often included in the regular course offerings.

  
  • SPAN 8399 - Dissertation

    Cr. 3-6 per semester.
  
  • SPAN 8699 - Dissertation

    Cr. 3-6 per semester.

Public Administration

  
  • PUBL 6325 - Capstone Problem Project

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Intensive study of significant policy issue of student’s choice; student formulates and analyzes real issue of public policy and makes independent and specific recommendations about the issue.

  
  • PUBL 6343 - GIS for Urban Applications

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Introduces students to the applications of geographic information systems (GIS) for urban decision makers in the fields of urban geography, urban planning, public health, environmental assessment, hazard and emergency management.

  
  • PUBL 6350 - Public Management

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: none. Lecture and seminar on developing knowledge and skills to effectively manage in public organizations.

  
  • PUBL 6415 - Decision Science for Public Affairs

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Introduces management science approach to problem solving in order to support management, planning, and decision making, and evaluation in the public and non-profit sector, including decision analysis, simulation, and forecasting.


Subsea Engineering

  
  • SUBS 6310 - Flow Assurance

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Consent of course instructor. The course emphasizes the understanding of basic sciences, engineering and flow assurance principals, and its application to the assessment, prevention and remediation of low assurance problems in subsea systems

  
  • SUBS 6320 - Riser Design

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Consent of course instructor. This class provides a thorough study of the analysis of riser systems including global riser analysis methods, strength capacity calculations, fatigue life estimation, pipe mechanics, ocean environment loading, vessel dynamics, and vortex induced vibration.

  
  • SUBS 6330 - Pipeline Design

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Consent of course instructor. This class will address all the design stages of an analytical approach to subsea pipeline design including pipeline sizing and material grade selection based on analyses of stress, hydrodynamic stability, span, thermal insulation, corrosion and stability coating.

  
  • SUBS 6360 - Subsea Materials and Corrosion

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Consent of course instructor. The course focuses on preventing the corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement of materials exposed to hydrocarbons and sea water in oil and gas operations.

 

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