Sep 26, 2024  
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Finance

  
  • FINA 7321 - Fixed Income Security Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Provides thorough grounding in fixed income security analysis.  Develops performance measures for bond portfolios and analyzes their hedging and risk characteristics.  Various strategies for pricing government and corporate bonds are also examined.
  
  • FINA 7322 - Security Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Topics will include:  Analytical methods used in projecting individual stock and bond performance such as discounted cash flows, factor models, value versus growth and an analysis of factors affecting the risks and returns of individual securities.
  
  • FINA 7325 - Equity Valuation and Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Study of equity valuation in financial market equilibrium, trading strategies, and development of performance measures to evaluate mutual funds and investment performance.
  
  • FINA 7326 - Private Equity and Investment Banking

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6335 or FINA 6A35 .

    Structure and objectives of private equity with a focus on venture capital and entrepreneurial finance. Analysis of investment opportunities, structuring, financing and growing portfolio companies and small businesses.
  
  • FINA 7327 - Debt Markets

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Provides a thorough grounding in the concepts of language of fixed-income securities analysis, including valuation and price-risk assessment.  The course will also develop performance measures to see how bond portfolios can be structured to achieve desired hedging and risk characteristics.
  
  • FINA 7329 - Behavioral Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Examination of individual decision behavior within a financial market context. Evaluation of psychological explanations for market movements and anomalies. Emphasis on the application of psychological principles to decision making behavior.
  
  • FINA 7330 - Advanced Corporate Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    In-depth analysis of value maximization, capital budgeting, cost of capital, financial structure and dividend policy, working capital management, and financial forecasting.
  
  • FINA 7331 - Strategic Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Provides a unified framework for the financial management of the firm using modern theories of competitive analysis and security pricing.  Firm performance analysis through economic and cash flow value-added (EVA and CVA) methodologies is emphasized.  Case studies examine the interaction between financial and business strategies.
  
  • FINA 7333 - Mergers, Acquisitions & Joint Ventures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    In-depth study of major aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures and their impact on firm value.  Emphasis is on effective techniques for valuation, tax optimization, and post-project implementation.
  
  • FINA 7334 - Strategy For Project Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and FINA 6335 or FINA 6A35 .

    Focuses on the reasons why borrowers employ project financing and critically examines whether such uses create or destroy value. Special attention is given to project financing as a strategy to manage different types of risk. Topics include the theory of project financing, the creditworthiness to project loans, sources of funding, and the impact of project financing on project economics.
  
  • FINA 7335 - Value Creation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Financial management of the firm from a value creation and value maximization perspective.  Deals with capital budgeting, cost of capital, valuation, incentives and information issues.
  
  • FINA 7336 - Techniques For Project Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6335 or FINA 6A35 .

    Examines the financial know-how and negotiating approaches needed by borrowers to implement project finance transactions. Builds upon the broader strategic material covered in the Strategy of Project Financing. In-depth examination on the topics such as credit assessment, deal structuring, choosing advisers, and the final negotiation and documentation of a financing.
  
  • FINA 7340 - Financial Markets

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    In-depth analysis of the financial system in which banks, other intermediaries, and non-financial organizations function.
  
  • FINA 7341 - Commercial Banking

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Survey of commercial banking principles and in-depth analysis of current banking issues.
  
  • FINA 7350 - Derivatives I: Options

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 7A50 .

    Analysis of the theory of options and its applications in practice.  Emphasis is on the options’ strategies and modeling as used in managerial risk management.
  
  • FINA 7351 - Derivatives II: Forwards, Futures and Swaps

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 7A50 .

    Analysis of the theory of forwards, futures, and swaps, and their applications in practice.  Emphasis is on the use of these derivatives in risk management by investors and firms of all sizes.
  
  • FINA 7352 - Energy Derivatives

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6335 or FINA 6A35 .

    Analyzes the most important traded energy instruments, including futures, swaps, and options; the institutons on which they are traded; and their pricing. Relationships between economic fundamentals and price behavior are explored, as are the implications of these relationships for the pricing of traded energy instruments and the management of energy price risk, current policy issues in energy markets.
  
  • FINA 7354 - Financial Securities and Innovation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6335 or FINA 6A35 .

    Develop frameworks for analyzing new types of securities. Focus on the benefits and risks of financial innovations and examine the most widely used approaches for their pricing.
  
  • FINA 7360 - International Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: (Also INTB 7360, formerly FINA/INTB 7386.)
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Students may not receive credit for both FINA 7386 and INTB 7386.  A comprehensive overview of currency, equity, and international bond markets around the world.  Institutional, theoretical issues, and current trends will be analyzed.  A strong emphasis will be placed on the hedging techniques and tools used to reduce the risks associated with those financial markets.
  
  • FINA 7361 - Risk Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Examines advanced risk issues for top management.  Systematic characterization of types of risk facing corporations and the hedging of such risks through the use of derivatives, futures and forwards, securitization, and specialized contracting arrangements with input suppliers and purchasers.
  
  • FINA 7370 - Cases in Corporate Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FINA 7368
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Application of financial theory to analyze interesting and topical case studies of corporate financial management.
  
  • FINA 7371 - Energy Value Chain

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6335 or FINA 6A35 .

    The nature of energy assets, operations and products produced, and the economics of each component of the EVC.
  
  • FINA 7372 - Upstream Economics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6387 

    The energy industry’s upstream (E&P) segment, discussing geological processes that form and trap hydrocarbons, describing the techniques used to find, produce, and process energy discoveries. Ownership, operational decision making, finding and lifting costs, risk assessment and mitigation, reserve accounting, financing, and unconventional hydrocarbons.
  
  • FINA 7373 - Petrochemical and Refining Economics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and FINA 6387 .

    Consideration of economic concepts and analysis of the structure and behavior of global refining and petrochemical industries. Exploration of current issues facing the industry, including the impact of changes in relative hydrocarbon values, regulatory impacts, unconventional crudes, alternative transportation fuels, and the role of the industry in economic development.
  
  • FINA 7376 - Energy Trading

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Energy trading organization and the risks facing energy companies.  Emphasis on valuation in contract trading, including technical and fundamental analysis in petroleum, natural gas, and power markets.
  
  • FINA 7380 - Real Estate Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FINA 7391.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    Introduction to real estate economics and finance fundamentals.  Analysis of investments, trends in development, and financing.
  
  • FINA 7397 - Selected Topics in Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FINA 7391.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and FINA 6A35 or FINA 6335 .

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • FINA 7497 - Selected Topics in Finance

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • FINA 8199 - Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • FINA 8338 - Sem in Fincl Mgt I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and FINA 6335 .

    Advanced study of the theoretical issues and quantitative techniques of the financial management of the firm.
  
  • FINA 8339 - Sem in Fincl Mgt II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and FINA 6335 .

    Advanced study of the theoretical issues and quantitative techniques of the financial management of the firm.
  
  • FINA 8368 - Seminar in Investments

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and FINA 6335 .

    Advanced study of the theoretical issues and quantitative techniques of the security analysis and portfolio evaluation.
  
  • FINA 8372 - Seminar Options & Futures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    The course develops the option pricing techniques and their application to corporate finance.
  
  • FINA 8373 - Emp Methods in Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    The course discusses various empirical methods used in current finance literature.
  
  • FINA 8374 - Fixed Income Securities

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    The course provides a thorough analysis of fixed income securities including default-free government bonds and corporate and derivative securities.
  
  • FINA 8378 - Sem-Fin Mkts&Institutns

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and ECON 6375 .

    Advanced study of the theoretical issues and quantitative techniques relating to financial intermediation and monetary theory and policy.
  
  • FINA 8389 - Colloquium in Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.

    Interdisciplinary discussion of current research, issues, and problems in finance.
  
  • FINA 8395 - Teaching Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor.

    Supervised practice in the teaching of finance.
  
  • FINA 8396 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor.

    Supervised research in finance.
  
  • FINA 8397 - Selected Topics in Finance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • FINA 8398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.

  
  • FINA 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

  
  • FINA 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

  
  • FINA 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 9.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.


French

  
  • FREN 5334 - Jung and French Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • FREN 6313 - Advanced Composition and Stylistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Rhetorical figures of the French language, the different registers of discourse, idioms and comparative stylistics.
  
  • FREN 6315 - Advanced Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Translation of literary and non-literary texts.
  
  • FREN 6316 - Contemporary France

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    French Institutions, political and social issues, and France in the Francophone World.
  
  • FREN 6320 - History of French Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • FREN 6323 - 17Th-Cent Theatre

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    The French theatre of the seventeenth century: Corneille, Racine, Molière, and their contemporaries.
  
  • FREN 6325 - 18Th Cen Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Study of poetry, drama, and fiction. Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Montesquieu, Prévost, Rousseau, Diderot, Laclos.
  
  • FREN 6328 - 19Th-Century Novel

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Romanticism, realism, naturalism, and the literature of the turn of the century.
  
  • FREN 6329 - The Modern French Novel

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    From Proust to the new novel.
  
  • FREN 6330 - Modern French Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • FREN 6331 - 20th Century French Theatre

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Leading playwrights from to the turn of the 20th century to the theatre of the absurd.
  
  • FREN 6334 - Jung and French Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Application of Jungian theory to various works of French literature.
  
  • FREN 6340 - French Women Writers

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    French women writers from the Renaissance to present.
  
  • FREN 6341 - Food in French Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Perspectives on food and gastronomy in French history, culture, and society.
  
  • FREN 6350 - Sex and the Other in French Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Gender, sexuality, and identity in French and francophone literature.
  
  • FREN 6380 - Practicum in Teaching Methodol

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • FREN 6392 - French For Non Majors

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None

    French 6392 is intended to teach graduate students in majors other than French to read French texts. The emphasis will be on comprehension and not on aspects such as pronunciation.
  
  • FREN 6393 - French for Non-Majors

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Reading for non-majors II is a course for graduate students of majors other than French

    It reviews and expands upon the components necessary to read French texts.
  
  • FREN 6397 - Topics-Fre Lit Lang Cul

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • FREN 6398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • FREN 6399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • FREN 7399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0

Foresight

  
  • FORE 6311 - Introduction to Foresight

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FUTR 6311 - Introduction to Futures Studies.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    An introduction into the methods, practitioners and issues of foresight research.
  
  • FORE 6319 - Proseminar in Foresight

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FUTR 6319 - ProSeminar in Futures Studies.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    A review of Foresight as a professional discipline and practice, including the latest techniques and the ethics of professional practice.
  
  • FORE 6331 - Social Change

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FUTR 6331 - Social Change.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    A review of classical and contemporary theories of how organizations, societies, and other human systems change over time.
  
  • FORE 6333 - Systems Thinking

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FUTR 6333 - Systems Thinking.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Introduces students to a perspective on the world involving the interaction of interconnected parts.
  
  • FORE 6351 - Futures Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FUTR 6351 - Futures Research.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    An introduction to and practice in the tools and techniques used in traditional and in alternative futures forecasting.
  
  • FORE 6355 - Alternative Perspectives on the Future

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.

    Alternative Perspectives brings together new and different perspectives, concepts, and methods for approaching the future, emphasizing challenging assumptions, and developing critical and creative thinking.
  
  • FORE 6371 - World Futures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FUTR 6371 - World Futures.
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    A review of global trends shaping the future, including the most important demographic, environmental, technological, economic, political, and cultural changes.
  
  • FORE 6395 - Master’s Project in Foresight

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: TECH 6395 - Master’s Project in Futures Studies in Commerce.
    Prerequisite: FORE 6319 .

    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • FORE 6396 - Internship

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Formerly/Same as: FUTR 6396 - Internship.
    Prerequisite: FORE 6319 .

    Part- or full-time experience in a futures studies or industry setting.
    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • FORE 6397 - Selected Topics in Foresight

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • FORE 6398 - Special Problems in Foresight

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    May be repeated for credit.

  
  • FORE 6399 - Master’s Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: FUTR 6399 - Master’s Thesis.
    Prerequisite: FORE 6319 .

    Conduct independent research according to Department guidelines.
    May be repeated for credit.


General Business Administration

  
  • GENB 6A50 - Business Communications

    Credit Hours: 1.5
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1.5   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing

    Communication skills useful in business, including methods for organizing ideas and presenting information.
  
  • GENB 6A98 - Research

    Credit Hours: 1.5
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1.5   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and approval of chair.

    Research
    May be repeated when topics vary.

  
  • GENB 7A97 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 1.5
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1.5   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    May be repeated when topics vary.

  
  • GENB 6350 - Bus Comm & Ethical Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Study of communication and critical thinking skills useful in business, including methods for organizing ideas, analyzing data, assessing decision alternatives, presenting information, and developing an ethical framework for professional behavior.
  
  • GENB 6398 - Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.

  
  • GENB 7196 - Internship

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Enhancement of concepts and techniques learned in the classroom.  Written report required.
  
  • GENB 7197 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair or program director.

    May be repeated as topics vary.

  
  • GENB 7297 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair or program director.

    May be repeated as topics vary.

  
  • GENB 7303 - Professional Accounting Communication

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Strategies to increase the effectiveness of oral and written communication to accounting information stakeholders.
  
  • GENB 7304 - Business Ethics for Accountant

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Ethical principles in business and accounting, focusing on the origins of ethical thinking (history/philosophy), modern day ethical issues (real business cases), and the professional ethical standards applicable to CPAs today.
  
  • GENB 7305 - Commercial Law

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Application of basic legal principles to contracts, sales, insurance, commercial paper, agency, business organizations, real property, personal property, trade regulation, secured transactions, and bankruptcy.
  
  • GENB 7334 - Principles of Microfinance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Study of the provision of financial services to low-income or solidarity lending groups including consumers and the self-employed, who traditionally lack access to banking venues.
  
  • GENB 7335 - Research & Application of Emerging Innovations in Microfinance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and or instructor approval.

    Application of principles of microfinance, including research and service learning projects.
  
  • GENB 7390 - Books an MBA Should Read

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing

    Reading for breadth, sophistication, and business-related applications.
  
  • GENB 7393 - Business Consulting Lab I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and permission of instructor.

    Consulting and engagement management practices. Involves participation in a live project.
  
  • GENB 7394 - Business Consulting Lab II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and permission of instructor.

    Consulting and engagement management practices. Involves participation in a live project.
  
  • GENB 7397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of department chair or program director.

    May be repeated when topics vary.

  
  • GENB 8301 - Communication of Academic Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor

    Writing and presenting academic papers in all business administration disciplines.

German

  
  • GERM 6198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • GERM 6333 - The Age of Enlightenment

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: GERM 6330
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    The study of major works of literature and criticism written between 1700 and 1781; that is, from Gottsched to Kant.
  
  • GERM 6343 - The Romantic Movement

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    The origin and development of German romanticism (1798-1835). Examination of major literary, critical, and philosophical texts.
  
  • GERM 6354 - 19th Century Drama

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing

    Introduction to critical literature dealing with the drama of the period; analysis and discussion of representative works of major dramatic authors.
 

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