Sep 27, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Digital Media

  
  • DIGM 4350 - Venue Transmedia

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in DIGM 3374 .
    Description
    The tools, technologies, and practices of producing and directing a multiplatform live event in a venue with an audience in attendance. Capturing the event, video switching, text and motion graphics generation, sound design and mixing, video projection, lighting, and content streaming for remote delivery and viewing.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • DIGM 4351 - Portfolio Development for Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: A grade of C or higher in DIGM 2357, DIGM 3351, and DIGM 3354.
    Description
    Students will brand themselves and their careers by completing and polishing their hard-copy portfolios and by using commercially-available online resources to build their online portfolios.
  
  • DIGM 4371 - 3D Modeling and Animation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: A grade of C or better in DIGM 3370 .
    Description
    Three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated imagery (CGI), including modeling, coloring, texturing, rigging, and animating objects and character; also morph targeting for facial expressions and phonemes.
  
  • DIGM 4372 - Costing in Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Formerly GRTC 4372
    Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in DIGM 2357, DIGM 3351, and DIGM 3354. (DIGM 3354 waived for Graphic Communications Technology Minors).
    Description
    Principles and techniques of cost estimation for digital media production.
  
  • DIGM 4373 - Photographic Tone and Color Reproduction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in DIGM 3252 .
    Description
    Tone and color theory, measurement, and modification; calibrating and characterizing input and output devices; G7 calibration technology; converting photographs to match output device requirements for black-and-white or color reproduction; outputting images to meet or exceed customer expectations.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • DIGM 4375 - Package Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: A grade of C or better in DIGM 3252  and DIGM 3152 .
    Description
    Packaging design from the perspectives of brand alignment, aesthetics, form, manufacturing processes, sustainability, utility, and commercial and governmental requirements. Creating prototypes; developing and presenting client proposals.
  
  • DIGM 4376 - Integrated Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: DIGM 2351 , 2353, 3354 and 3357 (DIGM 3354  waived for Computer Graphics Minor).
    Description
    Developing personal and corporate brands that integrate print- and web-design, computer graphics, photographs, videos, social- and mobile-media.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • DIGM 4378 - Senior Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly GRTC 4378
    Prerequisite: Grade of C or higher in DIGM 4351 or consent of program coordinator.
    Description
    Directed research project.
  
  • DIGM 4379 - Transmedia Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Grade of C or higher in DIGM 2357, DIGM 3351, and DIGM 3354.
    Description
    The technology, production, and management of creative story-telling authored across multiple media distribution platforms.
  
  • DIGM 4381 - Mobile Application Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: (ELET 2300 or COSC 1336) & (Digital Media Major or Minor) & C or better in DIGM 1350.
    Description
    Mobile applications design using object-oriented programming; 2D and 3D graphics; cloning mobile applications.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: May not apply to a major in Digital Media.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • DIGM 4382 - Simulation and Gaming

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Digital Media Major or Minor, B or better in DIGM 4371  and ELET 2300 .
    Description
    Creating games and simulations. Interactivity, storytelling and development of characters, Virtual Reality, Haptics, object-oriented programming, and controllers. Use of 3D modeling, game art, animation, and cinematics.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • DIGM 4390 - Current Issues in Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly GRTC 4390
    Prerequisite: Senior Standing in Digital Media major or minor; consent of program coordinator.
    Description
    Issues and topics in digital media.
    Note: Check class notes for prerequisites as topics vary.
  
  • DIGM 4396 - Internship in Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Formerly Formerly GRTC 4396.
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
    Additional Fee: Y Fee Type Lab Fee
  
  • DIGM 4397 - Selected Topics in Digital Media

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly Formerly GRTC 4397.
    Prerequisite: Approval of department chair.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • DIGM 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly GRTC 4398
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
    Description
    Individual projects under faculty sponsorship.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit.

  
  • DIGM 4399 - Senior Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly GRTC 4399
    Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in DIGM 2351, DIGM 3351, DIGM 3354, and DIGM 4372.
    Description
    Directed research project.

Economics

  
  • ECON 2301 - Principles of Macroeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 1314 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Aggregate economy, inflation, recession, and economic policy. Economic growth, business cycle theory, and international trade.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Credit may not be earned in both ECON 2301 and 2305. Economics majors/minors with at least a B+ in ECON 2301 may petition to substitute 2301 for 2305.
    Core Category: (80) Core-Social & Behavioral Science
    TCCNS Equivalent: ECON 2301
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 2302 - Principles of Microeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 1314 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Individual consumer and firm behavior, supply and demand and the market determination or prices, production, and income. Includes government price ceilings, monopoly and antitrust, market failures and environmental pollution.
    Repeatability: No

    Core Category: (80) Core-Social & Behavioral Science
    TCCNS Equivalent: ECON 2302
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3320 - Introduction to Economic Data Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Completion of MATH 1314, MATH 1342 or BUS 2305 and MATH 1325 or MATH 2413.
    Description
    Introduction to basic concepts in statistics and calculus with strong emphasis on the application of statistical methods to the analysis and interpretation of economic data. Students will learn how to carry out statistical analysis in spreadsheet programs like Excel and using Stata and R softwares.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3332 - Intermediate Microeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 or Math major with sophomore standing in the Option in Mathematical Finance program.
    Description
    Rigorous introduction to resource allocation in a market economy including consumer behavior, firm behavior, supply and demand, efficiency and the determination of prices.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3334 - Intermediate Macroeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2301 or Math major with sophomore standing in the Option in Mathematical Finance program.
    Description
    Rigorous introduction to the determination of aggregate output, employment, the price level and income. Includes effects of inflation, causes of business cycles determination of economic growth, impacts of monetary policy and effects of government taxation, spending and the national debt.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3340 - Comparative Economic Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ECON 4379
    Prerequisite: ECON 2301 or ECON 2302 or ECON 3332 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    The role and impacts of alternative allocation systems, including markets, socialization and central planning. Structure and performance of historical and contemporary economic systems, with implications for the emerging world economy.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3341 - Russian and Chinese Transformation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ECON 4386
    Prerequisite: junior standing.
    Description
    Examination of Soviet and Chinese economic history from their communist takeovers to the present. Focuses on the era of Soviet planning in both countries. Explores the factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and of the Chinese reform of the late 1970s that made possible China’s rapid growth over the past three decades.
  
  • ECON 3342 - Global Issues in Economic Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Comparative study of populations that have experienced a dramatic transformation and improvement in the conditions of their life and those that have not; lectures and reading materials to facilitate a better understanding of the world, its politics, its people, the problems facing the global environment and the changing global economy.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 3344 - History of Economic Doctrine

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332 and ECON 3334 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Development of economic thought and the intellectual and historical framework within which economic ideas have grown. Among the thinkers that are emphasized are Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Malthus, Marshall, Say, Turgot and Keynes.
    Repeatability: No

    Core Category: (81) Core-Writing in Discipline WID
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3347 - Capital Market Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2301 and BUSI 2305 or MATH 1342 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Financial assets in the context of time, uncertainty, options, and information. Time value of money, market efficiency, risk, asset pricing, derivatives, firm capital structure, market microstructure, and quantitative financial modeling.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3348 - Food, Population, Agriculture and the Environment

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    The objective of this course is to provide reading material and lectures which facilitate a better understanding of the world, its politics, its agriculture and food production, the dynamics of population, the problems facing the global environment and the changing global economy in which we live. Central to the course is both the sustainability and the economics of global food production systems and their ability to end hunger and malnutrition and to feed a growing world population.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 3350 - American Economic Growth

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 and ECON 2301 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Applications of economic analysis to American economic history and how that history has shaped modern economic institutions, including the experience of the Colonies, the American Revolution, Industrialization, the Civil War and the Great Depression.
    Repeatability: No

    Core Category: (81) Core-Writing in Discipline WID
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3351 - The Economics of Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ECON 4383
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 and ECON 3320 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Nature, causes and possible solutions to problems in underdeveloped economies. Analysis of economic, political and human implications of economic growth, including the influence of the international aid community and the consequences of world trade.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3357 - Data Management with Economic Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 1325 or MATH 2413 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    This course introduces the basic elements of data collection, cleaning and preparation, as well as statistical principles, methods, and programing for data analysis. It focuses on advanced topics in Excel and introductory SQL to create relational databases, extract information, manipulate and prepare data and perform data analysis with the applications in risk management and financial modeling.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 3361 - Economics of Globalization

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2301 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Analysis of modern day economic globalization, focusing on capital market integration and its effect on economic growth and development, income inequality and labor markets.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Credit may not be earned in both INTB 3353 and ECON 3361.
    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 3362 - Mathematics for Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 1325 or MATH 2413 or higher or consent of instructor.
    Description
    In this course, we focus on gaining proficiency in foundational tools of linear algebra and calculus that are essential for analyzing economic and econometric problems. Students will also be introduced to concepts from real analysis and set theory that will prepare them for potential graduate studies in Economics and related social sciences. Coursework will train students in using R and Matlab to computationally test and implement concepts from the course.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • ECON 3363 - Environmental Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECON 3332 and ECON 3320 or consent of instructor.
    Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECON 3332 and ECON 3320 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Analyses of environmental quality and environmental regulation. Measurement of costs and benefits of potential solutions. Comparison of real world solutions, tried and untried, to theoretically preferred solutions and to current U.S. environmental policy.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3365 - Labor Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECON 3332 or consent of instructor.
    Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ECON 3332 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Introduction to economic theory, data and policy issues in labor economics. Labor market effects of minimum wage laws, mandatory employee benefits, technological change, international trade and immigration. Effects of income replacement programs, rise in female labor supply, rise in income inequality, decline in manufacturing and the decline of unions.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3368 - Economics of Health Care

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Determinants of supply and demand for health care, including the regulatory environment and government policy. Medical insurance, behavior of patients and medical professionals, methods of health finance, medical liability, government programs and regulation of health care industry.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3370 - Introduction To Econometrics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ECON 4365 Introduction To Econometrics
    Prerequisite: ECON 3320 with a grade of C- or better, or MATH 3339 or STAT 3331 with a grade of C- or better, or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Introduction to basic econometric concepts and methods necessary for conducting empirical analysis. Practical applications using Excel and Stata. Topics include model specification, regression analysis, results interpretation and an overview of advanced topics in econometrics.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • ECON 3371 - Economics of Money & Banking

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2301 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Analysis of how the banking system and monetary policy determine the money supply and interest rates. U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, unemployment, inflation, stock and bond markets and interest rates.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3377 - Economics of Public Finance

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 or consent of instructor.
    Corequisite: ECON 3332.
    Description
    Effects of economic incentives on voters, government officials, economy and markets. Analysis of situations where private markets fail to be efficient. Applications to government policies at federal and local levels, including welfare, insurance, health care, policing, roads and Social Security. Analysis of tax system and interaction among federal, state, and local governments.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3385 - Economics of Energy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    National and international energy markets in various forms, including oil, natural gas and alternative energy sources. Pricing, distribution and allocation and U.S. and international regulation of industry.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 3389 - Topics in Contemporary Economics I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Sophomore standing
    Description
    Development of economic thought and the intellectual and historical framework within which economic ideas have grown. Among the thinkers that are emphasized are Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Malthus, Marshall, Say, Turgot and Keynes. A survey of contemporary economic theory and problems.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

  
  • ECON 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of chair.
  
  • ECON 4198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
       
  
  • ECON 4298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
  
  • ECON 4321 - Economic Analysis of U.S. Legal System

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing.
    Description
    Economic implications of law and the legal system, including common law, constitutional law, and administrative law. Property torts, contracts and criminal law.
  
  • ECON 4331 - Economics of Gender

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 and ECON 3320 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECON 3332, or consent of instructor.
    Corequisite: ECON 3332, or consent of instructor
    Description
    Gender gap in market work and market pay and the role of household specialization and discrimination. Female labor force participation in the U.S. and the influence of industrial structure, technology, marriage, and fertility on a women’s decision to engage in market work.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 4335 - Economic Growth Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332, ECON 3334 and ECON 3320 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Theory and empirics of economic growth with emphasis on international comparisons of performance of income and productivity. Technology, population dynamics, government policy, culture, income inequality, international trade, democracy, and the rule of law.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 4338 - Regression Causal Modeling and Social Science Data Mining

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Econ 3370 (previously Econ 4365).
    Description
    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 and not a course in computer science or database management.
  
  • ECON 4345 - Social Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    In this course, we will extend our basic tools of economic analysis to explore a variety of social phenomena that are key elements of our day to day lives. Instead of treating people as individual actors making decisions in isolation from each other, we will explicitly consider the roles of interactions between members of a society. Main topics covered are social learning, norms and conformity; identity, culture and status; peer effects and sorting and segregation.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 4349 - Introduction To Game Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: BUSI 2305 or MATH 1342 and ECON 3332 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Introduction to the theory of games and solution methods. Real world situations as games, predicting outcomes using game theory techniques. Bargaining, oligopoly, auctions, coordination, and provision of public goods.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 4360 - Intro-Mathematical Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 1325 or MATH 2413 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Develop algebra and calculus based techniques for analyzing economic decisions. Solve constrained optimization problems for consumer choice and for determination of optimal input levels for production by firms. Elements of game theory and dynamic economic decision making.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 4363 - Political Economy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332 and ECON 3320 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Study of politics through the language of economics with precise arguments based on mathematical models and statistical analysis; tools and facts regarding the nuances of policy making and politics; sophisticated arguments about why people vote, whether politicians matter and whose interests they represent, the role of the media, corruption, and the nature of lobbying.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 4368 - International Monetary Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3334 and Econ 3320 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Exchange rate determination, the balance of payments, the international flow of capital and its impact on economies, alternative exchange rate systems, government management of international financial environment and European, Latin America and Asian exchange rate crises.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 4370 - International Trade

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ECON 3376
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332 and ECON 3320 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Causes of international trade and its effect on national economies. Consequences of trade barriers and trade policies in different economic environments, including reaction to national monopolistic practices. International transmission of investment, labor and technology.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 4372 - Economics of Education

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 and ECON 3320 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECON 3332, or consent of instructor.
    Corequisite: ECON 3332.
    Description
    The roles of technology and globalization in the requirement for an educated work force. Effects of education policies on meeting the need for skilled workers, including the roles of school resources, teachers, and peers.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 4373 - Economics of Financial Crises

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332 and ECON 3320 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECON 3334 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    This course reviews the historical background behind various crises that have occurred around the world and proposes theories to address them. Topics covered include banking crises, sovereign debt defaults, economic depressions, international contagion, exchange rate crises, hyperinflations and behavioral finance.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 4374 - Behavioral Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Introduction to basic findings of the Behavioral Economics field, including ways in which the predictions of classical economic theory fail in the real world, and to modifications to theories to better explain and predict human behavior.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 4376 - Industrial Organization

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ECON 3376
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332 and ECON 3370 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    This course will cover the basic tools and issues in the field of industrial organization. Prominent topics will include oligopoly, cartel behavior, anti-competitive practices, anti-trust and regulation.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 4377 - Urban Economics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332 and ECON 3320 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Analysis of the American city’s economic structure; its causes, location of residential and production activities, income disparities and implications for urban development and how the public sector affects the urban economy.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECON 4378 - Chinese Economy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 2302 and Econ 3320 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    This course provides an introduction to the recent development of Chinese economy. The course has an emphasis on the microeconomic literature, covering topics including fertility policy, inequality, environment and migration.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 4385 - Monetary Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3334 and ECON 3320 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECON 3370 or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Monetary policy affects all aspects of the economy: interest rates, inflation, unemployment, stock prices, and even income inequality. The Chair of the Federal Reserve Board, which sets monetary policy, is often called the second most powerful person in the United States. The course will consider how monetary policy is conducted in the United States and other countries, with particular attention to developments since the Financial Crisis and Great Recession of 2008.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECON 4389 - Topics in Contemporary Economics II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Junior standing.
    Description
    A survey of contemporary economic theory and problems.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • ECON 4390 - Economics Internship

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3332  and ECON 3334  and consent of instructor.
    Description
    Work with practicing economists in selected private industry, federal, state and local government offices. Correlated readings.
    Repeatability: May be repeated once for credit. Only three hours may apply toward the ECON major requirements.

  
  • ECON 4395 - Selected Topics in Applied Econometrics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3370 (previously ECON 4365).
    Description
    This course is a continuation of ECON 3370 (previously ECOM 4365) and introduces students to several extensions of multiple regression methods for analyzing data in economics and related disciplines. Topics might include regressions with panel data, instrumental variables regression, analysis of randomized experiments, regressions with time series data, forecasting, probability models, survival analysis, etc. See semester course listing section sub-titles and descriptions for details.
  
  • ECON 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of chair.
  
  • ECON 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECON 3399  and approval of department chair.

Education

  
  • EDUC 1301 - Introduction to the Teaching Profession

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    An enriched, integrated pre-service course and content experience that provides active recruitment and institutional support of students interested in a teaching career, especially in high need fields. The course provides students with opportunities to participate in early field observations of P-12 schools with varied and diverse student populations and provides students with support from college and school faculty for the purpose of introduction to and analysis of the culture of schooling and classrooms.
    Repeatability: No

    TCCNS Equivalent: EDUC 1301
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • EDUC 2301 - Introduction to Special Populations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly EPSY3360 Individuals with Disabilities
    Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    An overview of school and classrooms from the perspectives of language, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic and academic diversity, and equity with an emphasis on factors that facilitate learning. Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the characteristics of exceptional learners, including legal implications. 2. Describe and analyze characteristics of diverse learners and how diversity impacts learning. 3. Describe the impact of socio-economic status on learning and creating equitable classrooms. 4. Demonstrate an understanding of the benefits and challenges of racial, ethnic, and other types of cultural diversity in the classroom.
    Repeatability: No

    TCCNS Equivalent: EDUC 2301
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • EDUC 3101 - Practicum for Preservice Teachers

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: EDUC 1301 or CUIN 3316 or CUIN 3221.
    Description
    Practicum of design and implementation of instruction and assessment; classroom management; teacher inquiry.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • EDUC 4311 - Student Teaching and Integrated Technology: Elementary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 12
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4312 - Student Teaching and Integrated Technology: Elementary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
  
  • EDUC 4313 - Student Teaching: Early Childhood Education

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4314 - Student Teaching: Secondary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4315 - Student Teaching: Secondary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4316 - Student Teaching: Art - Elementary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4317 - Student Teaching: Art - Secondary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4318 - Student Teaching: Music - Elementary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4319 - Student Teaching: Music - Secondary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4322 - Student Teaching: Theater - Elementary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 12
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

  
  • EDUC 4323 - Student Teaching: Theater - Secondary

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 12
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
  
  • EDUC 4324 - Student Teaching and Integrated Technology: Middle School

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 12
    Prerequisite: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting, including technology integration, guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4325 - Student Teaching 4-8 2Nd 7 Wks

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Middle School Prerequisites: completion of professional development sequence and admission to student teaching.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting, including technology integration, guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
    Repeatability: N

    Additional Fee: $50.00 per SCH Fee Type Student Teaching Fee
  
  • EDUC 4511 - Student Teaching and Integrated Technology-Elementary

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0.0    Lab Contact Hours: 20.0
    Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education program and approval of advisor.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.
  
  • EDUC 4512 - Student Teaching and Integrated Technology-Elementary

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0.0    Lab Contact Hours: 5.0
    Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education program and approval of advisor.
    Description
    Demonstration of specified competencies in a school setting guided by a cooperating teacher and directed by a university supervisor. Seminar required.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  
  • ECE 1197 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: None.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECE 1397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECE 2100 - Circuit Analysis Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 2202 .
    Description
    Introduction to the electronics laboratory equipment. Introductory experiments in circuit analysis. Formal report writing. This laboratory course is a prerequisite for all other ECE laboratory courses.
  
  • ECE 2197 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: None.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECE 2201 - Circuit Analysis I

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGI 1100, ENGI 1331, ENGL 1301 or ENGL 1309, ENGL 1302 or ENGL 1310, MATH 2413, MATH 2414, PHYS 2125, PHYS 2325.
    Corequisite: MATH 2415, MATH 3321, or MATH 2318 and MATH 3331, PHYS 2126, and PHYS 2326.
    Description
    Analysis of resistive circuits, including node voltage and mesh current methods, and Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits.
    Repeatability: No

    Note: Major exams given on Saturdays.
    Additional Fee: Yes Fee Type Engineering Equipment Access Fee
  
  • ECE 2202 - Circuit Analysis II

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ECE 2201 and PHYS 2126.
    Description
    Analysis of electric circuits, including inductors, capacitors, and first order circuits; sinusoidal analysis.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECE 2397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECE 3155 - Electronics Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Prerequisite: ECE 2100  and ENGI 2304  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 3355 .
    Description
    Laboratory projects concerning topics studied in electronics
  
  • ECE 3197 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: None.
    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    Additional Fee: N
  
  • ECE 3317 - Applied Electromagnetic Waves

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHYS 2126 and PHYS 2326.
    Corequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 3337.
    Description
    Maxwell’s equations in time and frequency domains, Poynting’s theorem, plane wave propagation, reflection and transmission in lossless and lossy media, transmission lines, waveguides, and antennas.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes Fee Type Engineering Equipment Access Fee
  
  • ECE 3318 - Applied Electricity and Magnetism

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECE 2202.
    Description
    Fundamentals of electricity and magnetism, vector calculus, Maxwell’s equations, Kirchoff’s laws, static electric and magentic fields, resistance, capacitance, inductance, magentic circuits, and transformers.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes Fee Type Engineering Equipment Access Fee
  
  • ECE 3331 - Programming Applications in Electical and Computer Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: MATH 3321  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 2201 .
    Description
    Procedural programming in C and C++, with applications in electrical and computer engineering.
  
  • ECE 3337 - Signals and Systems Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECE 2202 .
    Description
    Time and frequency domain techniques for signals and systems analysis. Engineering applications of the convolution integral, Fourier series and transforms, and Laplace transforms.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECE 3340 - Numerical Methods for Electrical and Computer Engineers

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECE 3331 .
    Description
    Basic numerical methods with engineering applications. Emphasis on use of computer-based solution techniques.
  
  • ECE 3355 - Electronics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECE 2202 .
    Corequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in ECE 3337  and ECE 3155 .
    Description
    Signal and amplifier concepts; operational amplifiers; diodes and nonlinear circuits; bipolar junction transistors; biasing, small and large signal analysis; transistor amplifiers.
    Additional Fee: Y
  
  • ECE 3364 - Circuits and Systems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECE 3337 
    Description
    Three-phase circuits, self inductance, mutual inductance single-phase transformers, three-phase transformers, Laplace transform circuit analysis, analysis and design of frequency-selective circuits, control system characteristics and stability.
  
  • ECE 3366 - Introduction to Digital Signal Processing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ECE 3337 .
    Description
    Credit may not be received for more than one of ECE 3366  and BIOE 3366 . Discrete-time signals and systems, discrete Fourier methods, sampling, z-transform, modulation, synthesis of discrete-time filters using digital signal processors. Examples will be taken from bioelectrical signals.
 

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