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GEOL 8998 - Doctoral Research Credit Hours: 9.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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GEOL 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation Credit Hours: 9.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: admission to candidacy as a doctoral student.
Doctoral dissertation work in progress.
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ECON 6198 - Research & Readings-Eco Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: approval of chair.
Student may elect to receive either S/ U or letter grade. Individually directed readings or research in a particular field of economics.
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ECON 6199 - Thesis Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECON 6298 - Research & Readings-Eco Credit Hours: 2.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: approval of chair.
Student may elect to receive either S/ U or letter grade. Individually directed readings or research in a particular field of economics.
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ECON 6333 - Applied Economic Methods Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: MATH 1432 or MATH 1314 or consent of instructor
Statistical basis for applied economic analysis, which includes discrete and continuous distributions, point estimation, tests of hypothesis, methods of estimation and properties of estimators and mathematical economic methods.
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ECON 6338 - Regression Causal Modeling and Social Science Data Mining Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and approval of the program director.
The course focuses on very basic statistical data mining tools. Topic areas include review of multiple regression analysis, models of association and clustering, statistical learning models, the explanation of individual behaviors, and simple forecasting models. This is an applied statistics course, not a course in computer science or database management.
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ECON 6340 - Health Economics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: and or consent of instructor.
Economic analysis of health care. Topics include the value of health, the demand of health care, health insurance markets, managed care and the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
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ECON 6345 - Energy Economics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: and or consent of instructor.
Energy economics with applications: Markets and market structures including the effects of regulations; sources; substitutes; externalities; data analysis and policy.
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ECON 6351 - Economic Forecasting Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: or consent of instructor.
Forecasting and modeling techniques including univariate and multivariate time series, model selection, response function analysis and variance decompositions, various non-linear models, and forecast evaluation.
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ECON 6352 - Quantitative Methods and Applications Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: , , and or consent of instructor.
Cost-benefit analysis, debt and equity financing, asset allocation, derivatives, among other topics. Microsoft Excel experience will be emphasized.
Maybe repeated for credit.
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ECON 6353 - Capital Market Economics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 6465 , 6475, and 6485 or consent of instructor.
This course covers capital markets from an economic perspective. Discussions will focus on the economic functions and roles capital markets play in the global economy, the key players and their economic functions, and various components that make up the capital markets such as stocks, bonds, options, and futures. Students will learn both mathematical methods for pricing capital assets and Excel applications of these methods. The student will gain an understanding of capital markets in theory and practice.
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ECON 6355 - Economic Development of Asia Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Economic and social problems of raising standards of living in Asia. Discussion issues include economic growth, growth and the environment, income disparities, the role of trade and foreign investment, and the accompanying political and social changes.
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ECON 6366 - Advanced Economic Theory Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Classical microeconomic concepts and models including topics in industrial organization.
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ECON 6368 - International Economics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
International trade and capital flows, with a focus on transition countries and emerging markets.
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ECON 6372 - Issues in Microeconomics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Contemporary issues in microeconomic theory, including various modeling techniques.
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ECON 6376 - Economics of Europe Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Study of the main macroeconomic processes of the European Union. European trading policy, including common market creation and development. Other macroeconomic issues such as European budget, unemployment, and EURO currency will be analyzed
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ECON 6390 - Workshop Research Methods I Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Economics research mthods covers how to devise a research agenda and mthodology, find research sources and tools, and how to carry out research.
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ECON 6391 - Master’s Internship Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisite: , , and consent of instructor.
Work with practicing economists in selected private industry, federal, state and local government offices.
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ECON 6393 - Master’s Research Project Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisite: Consent of program director.
Work under the guidance of faculty economists on selected research project(s).
Note: Practicum
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ECON 6394 - Tpcs-Eco of Socl Issue Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Note: Practicum
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ECON 6395 - Wkshp Res Method II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECON 6397 - Topics in Eco Research Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Selected Topics
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ECON 6398 - Res & Readings-Eco Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: approval of chair.
Student may elect to receive either S/ U or letter grade. Individually directed readings or research in a particular field of economics.
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ECON 6399 - Masters Thesis Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Consent of program director.
Faculty-guided applied research project.
May be repeated for credit.
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ECON 6465 - Econometrics Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 1
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Statistical tools needed to understand and execute empirical economic research. Topics include linear regression, instrumental variables estimation, limited dependent variable models and panel data methods. Emphasis will be on applying econometrics to real-world problems.
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ECON 6475 - Macroeconomic Analysis Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 1
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Advanced treatment of the core topics in macroeconomics with applications. Topics include business cycles, inflation, unemployment, growth, alternative exchange rate regimes, and fiscal and monetary policy.
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ECON 6485 - Microeconomic Analysis Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 1
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Fundamentals of market and individual choice analysis emphasizing empirical analysis in a business setting. Analysis of domestic and international markets and individual choice, including the theoretical study of the relationships within and between individuals, organizations, and the international economy.
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ECON 6691 - Master’s Internship Credit Hours: 6.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 6
Prerequisite: , , and consent of instructor.
Work with practicing economists in selected private industry, federal, state and local government offices.
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ECON 6693 - Master’s Research Project Credit Hours: 6.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 6
Prerequisite: Consent of program director.
Work under the guidance of faculty economists on selected research project(s).
Note: Practicum
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ECON 6699 - Masters Thesis Credit Hours: 6.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Consent of program director.
Faculty-guided applied research project.
May be repeated for credit.
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ECON 7190 - Research & Readings - Economic Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: approval of department chair
Student may elect to receive either S/U or letter grade. Individually directed readings or research in a particular field of economics.
May be repeated for credit
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ECON 7290 - Research & Readings - Economic Credit Hours: 2.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: approval of department chair
Student may elect to receive either S/U or letter grade. Individually directed readings or research in a particular field of economics.
May be repeated for credit
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ECON 7300 - Seminar Curr Econ Res Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Current topics in economic research presented in seminar format.
May be repeated with consent of instructor.
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ECON 7301 - Seminar in Microeconomic Research Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Current topics in microeconomic research presented in seminar format.
May be repeated for credit.
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ECON 7302 - Seminar in Macroeconomic Research Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Current topics in macroeconomic research presented in seminar format.
May be repeated for credit.
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ECON 7330 - Quantitative Economic Analysis Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Economics or consent of instructor
Statistical basis for applied economic analysis, which includes discrete and continuous distributions, point estimation, test of hypothesis, methods of estimation and properties of estimators.
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ECON 7331 - Econometrics I Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 6331 and MATH 2331 or consent of instructor.
Regression analysis and the general linear model. Topics covered include ordinary least squares, heteroskedasticity, autoregression, distributed lags, and generalized least squares.
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ECON 7335 - Applied Econometrics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7331 or consent of instructor
Econometric techniques for applied microeconomic research. Topics include randomized experiments, matching techniques, fixed effects models, differences-in-differences, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity designs.
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ECON 7340 - Economic Growth and Development I Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7344 and ECON 7331 or consent of instructor.
Long-run economic growth from pre-industrial agricultural economies to modern industrial capitalism. Topics include technology acquisition, accumulation of capital, demographic transition, institutional and geographic factors in development and income distribution.
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ECON 7341 - Microeconomic Theory I Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Economics or consent of instructor
Contemporary microeconomic theory of decision and allocation in a market economy. Topics include theories of the consumer, the firm, and competitive markets under complete and incomplete information.
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ECON 7342 - Microeconomic Theory II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Microeconomic Theory I.
Continuation of Microeconomic Theory I. Continuation of Microeconomic Theory I. Topics include market structure, centralized and decentralized decisions, alternative allocation mechanisms, contracts, capital theory, general equilibrium, unemployment, and money.
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ECON 7343 - Macroeconomic Theory I Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Economics or consent of instructor
Analytic tools of contemporary macroeconomics, including static analysis of classical and Keynesian models and the aggregate behavior of consumers, investors, and asset holders.
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ECON 7344 - Macroeconomic Theory II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Macroeconomic Theory I.
Continuation of Macroeconomic Theory I. Topics include dynamic analysis, long run growth, stochastic macroeconomics, and theories of expectations. Emphasis on recent literature in macroeconomic theory.
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ECON 7349 - Game Theory and Economic Behav Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 6342 or consent of instructor.
Modeling and analysis of strategic situations. Topics include cooperative game theory, simultaneous-move games and Nash equilibrium, sequential-move games and subgame perfect equilibrium, and applications.
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ECON 7350 - Economic Growth & Develop II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Formerly/Same as: ECON 7350 - Economic Growth and International Development
Prerequisite: or consent of instructor.
Advanced macroeconomics course on long-run economic growth and international development. Study of the interaction between factor flows, trade, capital markets and the growth process. Topics include property right institutions, corporate governance and government regulation. The course is intended for second- and third-year Ph.D. students in the Economics department.
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ECON 7351 - Develop Econ:Microecon Issues Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: or consent of instructor.
Examines the micro foundations of economic development, including education, health, the family, land, credit, risk and institutions. Teaches econometric tools that have been used by researchers to identify causal relationships, including panel data, instrumental variables, randomized experiments and natural experiments.
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ECON 7355 - International Finance and Macroeconomics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: and or consent of instructor.
International finance and open economy macroeconomics. Review of theoretical and empirical literature. Includes writing referee reports for peer reviewed journal articles, seminar presentations and development of critical analytical skills. The course is intended for second- and third-year Ph.D. students in the Economics department.
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ECON 7365 - Labor Economics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ; recommended, or consent of instructor.
Topics include: labor demand, labor supply, and human capital.
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ECON 7366 - Econometrics, Food & Health Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7341 , ECON 7342 , and ECON 7331 or consent of instructor
Quantitative analysis of the determinants of health. Traditional concepts of health economics will be presented along with empirical literature that utilizes natural and randomized experiments to identify health outcomes.
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ECON 7372 - Economics of Education Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ; recommended, or consent of instructor.
Topics include models of education, estimation of return to schooling, education production function and issues in school finance.
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ECON 7376 - Industrial Organization Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: or consent of instructor.
This course examines how industries are organized and how that affects their economic performance. Topics include the modern business firm and its vertical relations, market structure and the marketing strategies it can encourage including innovation, with attention to network industries and their problems of compatibility and standardization.
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ECON 7377 - Public Finance Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: and .
Selected topics in the incidence and effects of government revenues, expenditures, and debt.
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ECON 7378 - State and Urban Finance Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7341 or consent of instructor
Analysis of government tax and expenditure at the state and local level, with consideration of underlying determinants of local public sector budgets.
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ECON 7379 - Public Economics & Individual Behavior Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7341 or consent of instructor
Impacts of government policies emphasizing the effects on individual behavior. Topics include education, Social Security, health insurance, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and welfare.
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ECON 7380 - Macro Modeling & Forecasting Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7331 and .
Univariate and multivariate time series, unit roots and structural change, heteroskedasticity, co-integration, panels, and out-of-sample forecasting and predictability.
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ECON 7384 - Political Economy Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7341 and 7342 or consent of instructor
Modern political economy theory and empiric. Topics include voting, running for office, lobbying, and the implications of these behaviors for economic policies and institutions. Applications include democratization, campaign finance policy, and corruption
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ECON 7385 - Monetary Policy Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7342 and ECON 7344 .
Stabilization policy, rational expectations, and the Phillips curve, the IS curve, Phillips curve, and Taylor rule model. Monetary policy evaluation with Taylor rules and real-time data, and monetary policy and the financial crisis.
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ECON 7387 - Eco Anlysis-Urbn Areas Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Markets for housing and sites, determinants of land use patterns. Topics include demand, rent and density gradients, racial discrimination, land use regulation, transportation access.
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ECON 7388 - International Monetary Economics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Formerly/Same as: ECON 7398 - International Monetary Economics.
Prerequisite: ECON 7342 and ECON 7344 .
The foreign exchange market, models of money, prices, and exchange rates, fixed and flexible exchange rates, out-of-sample nominal exchange rate predictability, and purchasing power parity.
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ECON 7390 - Research & Readings - Economic Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisite: approval of department chair
Student may elect to receive either S/U or letter grade. Individually directed readings or research in a particular field of economics.
May be repeated for credit
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ECON 7393 - Time Series Analysis Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: or consent of instructor.
Focuses on the theory and application of univariate time series methods. Topics covered include both stationary and nonstationary time series, with an emphasis on inference in nonstationary processes, e.g. unit root tests.
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ECON 7394 - Time Series Analysis II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: or consent of instructor.
Time series theory with applications. Topics include state space models, Kalman filter, models of Markov switching, state space models with Markov switching, trend/cycle decompositions, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, structural change, and median-unbiased estimation.
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ECON 7395 - Selected Topics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECON 8198 - Doctoral Research Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Note: 1-3 credit hours per semester, or more than 3 by concurrent enrollment.
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ECON 8199 - Dissertation Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECON 8298 - Doctoral Research Credit Hours: 2.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Note: 1 to 3 credit hours per semester, or more than 3 by concurrent enrollment.
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ECON 8331 - Econometrics II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: .
Estimation methods in single-equation and simultaneous equations models. Topics include missing observations, errors in variables, and limited dependent variables.
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ECON 8333 - Econometrics III Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 8331 or consent of instructor
Econometric theory with applications. Asymptotic distribution theory, identification of simultaneous equation systems, estimation of systems of equations, specification and diagnostic testing, and the estimation of fixed random effects panel data models.
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ECON 8342 - Microecon Theory III Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: .
Concentration on recent journal literature in microeconomic theory.
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ECON 8344 - Macroecon Theory III Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: .
Concentration on recent journal literature in macroeconomic theory.
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ECON 8346 - Dynamic Macroeconomics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7342 , 7344, and 7331 or consent of instructor
Applied research methods with applications in macroeconomics. Topics include generalized method of moments, vector autoregression, and introduction to dynamic programming. Recent literature in applied macroeconomics will be reviewed
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ECON 8361 - Workshop Research Methods III Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: , and ECON 7331 or consent of instructor.
Data sources, specification analysis, and other aspects of empirical research in economics.
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ECON 8362 - Workshop Research Methods IV Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: , and or consent of instructor.
Formulation, execution, and presentation of a research paper in economics.
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ECON 8363 - Workshop in Research Methods V Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: , , and or consent of instructor.
Formulation, execution, and presentation of a research paper in economics for advanced students.
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ECON 8365 - Labor Economics II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECON 7365 , Continuation of ECON 7365 .
Topics include wage differentials, persistence in inequality and social mobility, the driving forces behind inequality, and unemployment.
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ECON 8396 - International Trade Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: .
Causes and consequences of international trade, theories and comparative advantage, theory and measurement of tariffs, capital movements, and multinational corporations.
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ECON 8398 - Doctoral Research Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Note: 1 to 3 credit hours per semester, or more than 3 by concurrent enrollment.
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ECON 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECON 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation Credit Hours: 6.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECON 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation Credit Hours: 9.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECE 6100 - Internship in Electrical and Computer Engineering Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 1
Prerequisite: One academic year as a graduate student.
Students work on a project in industry which is also supervised by a program faculty.
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ECE 6111 - Graduate Seminar Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECE 6127 - Power Transmission and Distribution Laboratory Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and ECE 2100 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 6377 .
Real and reactive power, power flow and voltage regulation, parallel lines and transformers, series and parallel network compensation, phase shift transformers, protection.
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ECE 6198 - Research Credit Hours: 1.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECE 6298 - Research Credit Hours: 2.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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ECE 6301 - Sensor Design and Applications Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor.
Design, analysis and application of sensors used to measure physical quantities such as flow, level, temperature, pressure and density.
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ECE 6302 - Introductn To Neuroengineering Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of Instructor.
Single neurons, principles of perception and movement, learning and memory, functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, transcranial magnetic stimulation, chemical stimulation, functional neuroanatomy.
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ECE 6304 - Visual System Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of Instructor.
Introduction to neurophysiology and systematic overview of visual system: eye, retinal structure and function, retino-geniculo-cortical and cortico-cortical pathways, computational models of retinal and cortical processing, techniques for measuring neuronal activity.
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ECE 6306 - Introduction to Nanotechnology Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECE 4339 or instructor permission.
Introduction to the fundamentals of nanoscale engineering. The emphasis of the course is on technologies that have significant potential to transform conventional semiconductor based electronics.
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ECE 6307 - Nanomaterials and Solar Energy Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECE 6306 or instructor permission.
Introduction to the engineering of nanomaterials with emphasis on structural, optical, magnetic and electronic properties as well as their applications in the conversion of solar energy to electricity or chemical energy.
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ECE 6308 - Advanced Batteries: Principles, Materials, and Devices Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or consent of the department.
Course provides an overview of electrochemical energy storage with a focus on Li-ion batteries, and covers fundamental electrochemistry, including battery-systems, including lead acid, metal hydride, redox flow, and Li-ion batteries.
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ECE 6309 - Microlithography for Micro-and Nano-system Manufacturing Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and/or consent of the instructor.
Fundamental principles of microlithography: resolution limits, resist exposure and development, and modeling; electron-beam, imprint, x-ray, and ion-beam lithography.
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ECE 6310 - Robotcs:Modls,Cntrl,Sns Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECE 4375 or equivalent.
The kinematics and dynamic modeling of robots as well as the development of algorithms for feedback control. Methods for force-torque sensing and robot vision will be presented.
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ECE 6312 - Fundamental of Ferromagnetic Materials & Devices Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: graduate standing and/or consent of instructor.
Magnetic materials, magnetic anisotropy, magnetostriction, magnetic domain structures, magnetization reversal, micromagnetics. Major ferromagnetic devices and systems including magnetic data storage, magnetic random access merory, magnetic logic, magnetic sensors.
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ECE 6313 - Neural Networks Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Generalization of single-cell models to networks; network dynamics; feed-forward and recurrent additive, shunting equations; short-term memory; long-term memory; Hebbian and non-Hebbian learning rules; associative and competitive learning; adaptive resonance theory.
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ECE 6314 - Nanoscale Design & Fabrication Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: ECE 6307 or instructor permission.
Fundamentals of nanoscale science and engineering. Effects of nanoscale phenomena on device scaling, technological advantages and challenges. Design, fabrication, metrology, and device integration at nanoscale.
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ECE 6315 - Neural Computation Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Feed-forward neural networks; supervised and unsupervised learning radial basis neural networks; feedback neural networks; Boltzmann machine; recurrent back propagation; self-organizing feature maps; learning vector quantization; fuzzy learning vector quantization; applications of neural networks.
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ECE 6316 - Computational & Biol. Vision Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Retinal structure and function, computational models of retinal processing, retino-geniculo-cortical and cortico-cortical pathways, computational bases of information processing in the visual system.
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ECE 6320 - Know-Bas in Ele En Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in electrical engineering.
Knowledge engineering, design of expert systems, LISP, frame-based and rule-based systems; survey of applications in electrical engineering; design project in an electrical engineering area.
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