Course Descriptions

MATH 410 - Introduction to Stochastic Processes

3 cr.

An introduction to stochastic processes studying Markov chains, stationary distributions, birth and death processes, pure jump processes, second order continuity, integration and differentiation, and stochastic differential equations.

MATH 441 - Partial Differential Equations

3 cr.

Treatment of partial differential equations (PDEs) with applications, including derivations of classical PDEs from mathematical physics.  Topics include: separation of variables, orthogonal expansions and Fourier series, and Strum-Liouville theory.  Additional topics may include: PDEs in various coordinate systems, PDEs on unbounded domains, and Fourier transforms.

MATH 446 - Real Analysis I

3 cr.

Topics include: the algebra and topology of the real numbers, functions, sequences of numbers, limits, continuity, absolute and uniform continuity, and differentiation.

MATH 447 - Real Analysis II

3 cr.

Selections from: integration theory, infinite series, sequences and infinite series of functions, and related topics.

MATH 448 - Modern Algebra I

3 cr.

Fundamental properties of groups, rings, polynomials, and homomorphisms.

MATH 449 - Modern Algebra II

3 cr.

Further study of algebraic structures.

MATH 460 - Topology

3 cr.

Topological spaces: connectedness, compactness, separation axioms, and metric spaces.

MATH 461 - Complex Variables

3 cr.

The theory of complex variables: the calculus of functions of complex variables, transformations, conformal mappings, residues and poles.

MATH 462 - Vector Calculus

3 cr.

The calculus of scalar and vector fields and of functions defined on paths or surfaces. Implicit Function, Green’s, Strokes, and Gauss’ Theorems. Applications.

MATH 463 - Topics in Biomathematics

3 cr.

A study of discrete and continuous mathematical models in biology.  Topics include: population dynamics of single species and interacting species, infectious diseases, population genetics, and cell populations with tumor modeling.

MATH 479 - The Art of Problem Solving

4 cr.

An introduction to the creative, inspirational, and playful side of mathematics exemplified in high quality middle school, high school, and undergraduate mathematics competitions and mathematical research.  Emphasis is placed on building a repertoire of mathematical strategies and tactics, then applying these methods in unfamiliar situations.

MATH 484 - Special Topics

MATH 493 - Undergraduate Mathematics Research

3 cr.

An introduction to mathematical research.  Students will be required to investigate, present and write up the result of an undergraduate-level mathematical research project.  Students will gain experience in researching the mathematical literature, investigating a mathematical problem, and learning how to write a mathematical paper.  Students will be required to present their results in both oral and written form.

MATH 494 - Undergraduate Mathematics Research

3 cr.

An introduction to mathematical research.  Students will be required to investigate, present and write up the result of an undergraduate-level mathematical research project.  Students will gain experience in researching the mathematical literature, investigating a mathematical problem, and learning how to write a mathematical paper.  Students will be required to present their results in both oral and written form.

MGT 251 - Legal Environment of Business

MGT 351 - Principles of Management I

3 cr.

Survey course examines key aspects of organizations and their management – dynamic environments, organization design and structure, roles/functions of managers, managing technology and change, global management, and alternative types of organizations. This course examines the expanding role of the manager from planning, organizing, controlling and directing, to the knowledge and skills involved in managing and working with a diverse workforce.

MGT 352 - Principles of Management II

3 cr.

Survey course examines the individual in the work setting, working with a variety of people inside and outside the organization.  This course deals with such issues as motivation, leadership and communication diversity at the work place, and with individual effectiveness, interpersonal relations, and group skills.

MGT 361 - Human Resources Management

3 cr.

Course explains the functions of a human resources division or department – including job descriptions, labor demographics, recruitment and hiring, turnover and mobility, interviewing, aptitude and other employee testing, performance evaluation, disciplinary procedures, employee health and safety, wage and hour administration, government regulations; and the handling of absenteeism, alcoholism, and drug addiction.

MGT 362 - Employee-Management Relations

3 cr.

This examines employee-management practices in contemporary society, employee participation in unions, and their spill-over effect on nonunion settings.  Course topics include unions, the collective-bargaining process, wages and benefits, seniority, grievance procedures, and arbitration.  Discrimination in employment and equal-employment opportunity will be discussed, as well as future issues in union and nonunion settings and international employee-management relations.

MGT 455 - Business Policy and Strategy

3 cr.

This is the capstone course for all Business majors.  Concepts and skills developed in the prerequisite courses are integrated and applied to the overall management of an organization.  Topics will include setting objectives, designing strategic plans, allocating resources, organizational structuring and controlling performance.

MGT 460 - Organization Theory

3 cr.

Study of the forces both within and outside the organization that determine the structure and processes of an organization.  Topics to be covered will include technology and size- influences, conflict, boundary roles, matrix structure, political factors, and sociotechnical systems.

MGT 461 - Managing Through Systems and Quality

3 cr.

Systems theory provides a powerful way to understand work organizations: as interacting, inter-dependent systems.  Managing effectively through systems involves working with vision, with empowered, growing people with a customer orientation, with good measures and analysis, and with a continuous improvement culture.  This course will focus on these quality management approaches that form the underpinning of tomorrow’s management practices.

MGT 462 - Project Management in Organizations

3 cr.

This course will examine advanced project-management concepts from all phases of the project lifecycle (from requirements-specification through post-project assessment).  Special emphasis will be placed on understanding projects within the context of complex organizational settings by utilizing an open-systems perspective.  Linkages with more permanent administration structures within the organization will be reviewed.  (Credit cannot be earned for MGT 462 and OIM 462 .)

MGT 471 - Group Dynamics

3 cr.

Survey of constructs, research and applications of small group phenomena in an organizational contest.  Examines theories, research measurements and observational methods used in studying groups.  Students will be able to explore their own behavior in groups by participating in various groups and/or by observing others in group experiences.  The course will prepare students to be effective in groups.

MGT 473 - Organizational Social Responsibility

3 cr.

This course introduces students to basic concepts underlying the social responsibility aspect of the management process.  The role of pluralism is examined in the societal system to provide an understanding of the evolving relationship between organizations and society as a whole.  The managerial approach is explored in the light of the increasing importance of societal impact on the organization.

MGT 474 - (D) Managing a Multicultural Workforce

MGT 476 - Sport Facilities Management

MGT 495 - European Business Experience

3 cr.

Students will have an opportunity to participate in lecture-discussion sessions with top-level executives from various multinational corporations, local business firms, and government agencies in a number of different countries in Europe.  Participants will gain a basic understanding of the issues prominent in international business today.  Course involves travel to Europe.  (Credit cannot be earned for MGT 495 and IB 495  and MKT 495 .)

MGT/IB 475 - International Management

3 cr.

Focuses on functional strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs), structure and control-systems of MNCs, and comparative management.  Specific MNC strategies to be covered include entry, sourcing, and marketing, finance, human resources and public affairs.  Study of structure and control systems includes corporate structure, headquarters-subsidiary relationships.  Study of comparative management systems focuses on nature of management systems and practices in different cultures.

MGT/IB 475 - International Management

3 cr.

Focuses on functional strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs), structure and control systems of MNCs, and comparative management.  Specific MNC strategies to be covered include entry, sourcing, marketing, finance, human resources and public affairs.  Study of structure and control systems includes corporate structure and headquarters-subsidiary relationships.  Study of comparative management systems focuses on nature of management systems and practices in different cultures.

MIT 313 - The Internet Cultural Revolution

3 cr.

The internet has significantly revolutionized the way we live our lives.  This course will examine various topics (privacy; copyright law; free culture ethics; internet life styles; and information theory).  Students will read, discuss, and write on the viewpoints of experts from many diverse fields.

MIT 315 - Database Management for Web Applications

3 cr.

This course covers the fundamentals of relational database systems in the context of how databases may be employed in Web applications.  Topics include high-level data modeling; relational data-base design, creation, and data manipulation using SQL; interactive-websites design and implementation.  It uses an appropriate database package such as Oracle and PostgreSQL.

MIT 322 - Two-Dimensional Computer Animation Techniques

3 cr.

A course in the creation of computer animation, with an emphasis on Web-based implementation.  This course introduces techniques for computer animation such as key-framing, motion capture, layers, guides, tweening.  The techniques will be implemented using the industry-standard software, Flash.  The course also includes an overview of story-telling, story-boarding and scene composition.  A major project will be required. (Credit cannot be earned for MIT 322 and ART 322 )

MIT 324 - 3D Computer-generated Animation/Content

MIT 481 - Information Technology Internship

MIT 490 - (W) Information Technology Project

3 cr.

In this course, students prepare and present Information Technology projects to be evaluated by the instructor and their fellow students.

MKT 351 - Principles of Marketing

3 cr.

This course introduces the student to the field of marketing. An overview of the principles on which the discipline is founded.  The marketing concept is presented as the framework under which the decisions related to marketing-mix variables (product, place, price and promotion) are made by organizations.

MKT 361 - Marketing Research (W)

3 cr.

Study of the role of marketing information as the basis for decision-making.  Topics include research design, methods of gathering data, questionnaire structure, interviewing methods and preparing the final report.

MKT 362 - Consumer Behavior

3 cr.

Study of theories of consumer behavior.  The buyer is analyzed at the individual level in terms of motivation, attitudes, etc. and at the social level in terms of influence on buying behavior from the socio-economic environment.

MKT 370 - Interactive Marketing

3 cr.

This course examines the integration of evolving interactive technologies in the design and implementation of marketing programs.  The use of information technology infrastructure to support the execution of conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of ideas, goods and services has the potential of making the marketing process more efficient and productive. 

MKT 470 - Marketing Communications

3 cr.

Personal and mass communication approaches generated by manufacturers and intermediates or institutions toward target markets.  The design of advertising campaigns to shift consumer attitudes, to secure resellers’ support and to inform, persuade, and move them to action.  Development of copy selection and media and measurement of promotion effectiveness including evaluation of sales force.

MKT 471 - Sales Force Management

3 cr.

This course develops the concepts and techniques needed to identify and analyze the various decision areas faced by a sales-force manager.  Topics include recruiting, selecting and training the sales force; forecasting, budgeting and sales quotas; assigning, motivating and compensating the sales force.

MKT 472 - Retailing Management

3 cr.

This course focuses on the decision areas facing retail managers, including retailing, structure, merchandising, locations, store layout, promotion, pricing and personnel.

MKT 473 - Sports Marketing

3 cr.

This course will prepare students to plan and execute marketing strategies for Sports Organizations and organizations that market themselves through sports.  Students will examine the explosion of opportunities and challenges in this unique business thanks to advances in telecommunications and performance technologies as well as the shrinking global marketplace.

MKT 474 - Personal Selling

3 cr.

This course focuses on the direct selling process: how it fits into the marketing function, the ability to communicate a product’s features, advantages and benefits, and the principles of effective selling.  Students practice making oral and written sales presentations.  Students also learn what a career in sales entails.

MKT 476 - Marketing Strategy

3 cr.

The theme of this course is building effective marketing strategies through integrated decision-making.  Emphasis is on different decision models within functional areas such as demand analysis, consumer research, product and promotion management, etc.

MKT 477 - Sustainable Marketing

3 cr.

Sustainable marketing is a new approach which expands the boundaries of traditional marketing.  In this course, we will focus on how companies are learning to innovate, develop, produce, promote, distribute and take back products and services in new ways that reduce waste and pollution in order to satisfy all stakeholders.

MKT 495 - European Business Experience

3 cr.

Students will have an opportunity to participate in lecture-discussion sessions with top-level executives from various multinational corporations, local business firms, and government agencies in a number of different countries in Europe.  Participants will gain a basic understanding of the issues prominent in international business today.  Course involves travel to Europe.  (Credit cannot be earned for MKT 495 and IB 495  and MGT 495 .)

MKT/IB 475 - (D) International Marketing

3 cr.

Analysis of the marketing strategies of multinational corporations with emphasis on the internal environment of country markets.  Discussions will include comparisons of different regional markets along socioeconomic, political and cultural lines.  Different types of international market barricades and the corresponding market-entry strategies will be analyzed.  Additional readings from international publications will be required.

MS 101 - Concepts of Leadership I

MS 102 - Concepts of Leadership II

MS 111 - Leadership Applications Laboratory

MS 112 - Leadership Applications Laboratory

MS 131 - Advanced Leadership Applications Laboratory

MS 132 - Advanced Leadership Applications Laboratory

MS 201 - Dynamics of Leadership I

MS 202 - Dynamics of Leadership II

MS 301 - Military Leadership I

1.5 cr.

This course continues to develop each student’s leadership qualities and teaches students how to plan, resource and execute effective training in preparation for attendance at the Leadership Development Assessment Course prior to their senior year.

MS 302 - Military Leadership II

1.5 cr.

This course continues to develop each student’s leadership qualities and teaches students how to plan, resource and execute effective training in preparation for attendance at the Leadership Development Assessment Course prior to their senior year.

MS 401 - Advanced Military Leadership

MS 402 - Advanced Military Leadership

MS 480 - Internship in Military Science: Leadership Development Assessment Course

2 cr.

This internship is a paid four-week experience of training and evaluation conducted at Fort Lewis, Washington with ROTC cadets from all across the country.  It gives the student the opportunity to practice the leadership theory acquired in the classroom, as well as participate in a wide range of military skills and tactical training.

MS 481 - Internship in Military Science: Cadet Troop Leading

1 cr.

This internship is a paid three-week experience of leadership training and mentoring.  The intern leads and supervises soldiers in the planning and execution of the unit’s scheduled training as an understudy to a military officer in the U.S. Army.

MUS 111 - (CA) Music History I

MUS 112 - (CA) Music History II

MUS 211 - Keyboard Music

MUS 213 - Symphony

MUS 217 - Opera

MUS 218 - American Musical Theatre

MUS 219 - History of Jazz

MUS 220 - (CA,W) Music in the Renaissance

MUS 222 - Bach

3 cr.

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach in the context of the musical forms, styles, and genres current in the first half of the 18th century.  A survey of Bach’s life and works is followed by detailed study of selected vocal and instrumental compositions.

MUS 223 - Mozart

3 cr.

An examination of Mozart’s major works in the genres of symphony, concerto, chamber music, church music, and opera, together with a brief biographical survey.  The influence of late 18th-century culture and musical conventions on Mozart’s work is considered.

MUS 225 - Beethoven

3 cr.

Study of a composer whose fiery personality drove him to express through music universal concepts in an age of revolution, e.g., freedom and the dignity of the person.  Course traces the evolution of Beethoven’s major works – sonatas and concertos, symphonies and string quartets, as well as Fidelio and the Missa Solemnis – and the effect of his deafness on his view of life and on his later works.

MUS 226 - Romantic Music of the Nineteenth Century

MUS 228 - Music of the Twentieth Century

3 cr.

A study of the history and literature of Western classical music in the 20th century.  The various “isms” of the period, including impressionism, expressionism, neo-classicism, serialism, and minimalism, will be examined.

MUS 233 - Music in America

MUS 235 - Music Theory I

MUS 236 - Music Theory II

3 cr.

Extension of the tonal vocabulary to include chromatic harmony, modulatory techniques, and the use of extended chords, as well as an overview of selected post-tonal procedures.

MUS 280 - Liturgical Music

MUS 284 - Special Topics

MUS 335 - Introduction to Composition

3 cr.

Guided individual projects in original composition, together with the analysis of selected works from the classical repertory.

NEUR 110 - Neuroscience Lab Rotations

NEUR 111 - Neuroscience Research Literature

NEUR 231 - (E) Behavioral Neuroscience

3-4.5 cr.

Introduction to the field of neuroscience, examining the cellular bases of behavior, effects of drugs and behavior, brain/body correlates of motivation and emotion, and neural changes accompanying pathology.  Three hours lecture and optional 1.5-credit laboratory. Lab fee; Lab offered fall only. (Credit cannot be earned for PSYC 231  and NEUR 231.)

NEUR 330 - (W) Neuroscience Research Methods

4 cr.

Hands on experience using techniques specific to neuroscience to understand neurobiological problems.  Integrated lecture and laboratory class outlining the theories and application of neuroscience.  Topics vary but may include neuropharmacology, immunohistochemistry, neurostatisitics, neurophysiology and computer-aided neuroreconstructions.

NEUR 339 - Psychopharmacology

3 cr.

This course surveys the field of psychopharmacology with particular attention being paid to functional neuoranatomy, the important role of behavioral science, and the neuropharmacology of normal/abnormal behaviors.  Numerous research strategies are examined, including dose response functions, therapeutic indices, routes of administration, and pharmacological/behavioral models of clinical conditions.  (Credits cannot be earned for PSYC 339  and NEUR 339.)

NEUR 348 - Functional Neuroanatomy

3 cr.

Study of the organization and function of the neuron, neural circuits, and the major sensory and motor components of the central nervous system; bioelectric phenomena, synaptic transmission; the neural basis for higher functions such as cognition, memory, and learning.  Three hours lecture.  (Credit cannot be earned for BIOL 348  and NEUR 348.)

NEUR 350 - Cognitive Neuroscience

3 cr.

This course explores the neural underpinnings of human cognition by introducing research on the relationship between mind and brain.  The course introduces and expands on neuroanatomy, research methods used to make inferences about brain bases of cognition (e.g., imaging, electronencephalography, lesion studies), and computational approaches to cognitive neuroscience.  Discussions and activities focus on the brain bases of cognitive operations in perception, attention, memory, language, executive control, social cognition, reasoning, and decision making.

(Credits cannot be earned for NEUR 350 and PSYC 350 .)

NEUR 358 - Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

3 cr.

Introduces Biology and Neuroscience majors to the cellular and molecular biology of the vertebrate nervous system. Includes ion channel structure and function, synthesis, packaging and release of neurotransmitters, receptor and transduction mechanisms, intracellular signaling, cell-to-cell communication, glial cell function, and neural growth and development.  Three hours lecture.  (Credit cannot be earned for NEUR 358 and BIOL 358 .)

NEUR 384 - Special Topics in Neuroscience

3-6 cr.

Course topics are developed by individual faculty to provide in depth coverage of specific areas in neuroscience.  Some courses have required or elective laboratory components.  Course titles and descriptions will be provided in advance of registration.

NEUR 444 - Sensory Biology

3 cr.

The course applies multidisciplinary approaches to the study of senses: physics of stimuli, anatomy of receptor organs, neurophysiology of receptor cells, anatomy and central processing, animal behavior and artificial sensor design.  The course focuses on terrestrial vertebrates with occasional discussions on aquatic sensory systems. Three hours lecture.  (Credit cannot be earned for NEUR 444 and BIOL 444 .)

NEUR 493 - Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience

1.5-3 cr.

Individual study and research on a specific topic relevant to neuroscience under the supervision of a faculty member. It is strongly recommended that this research be initiated during the junior year, and it is expected that the research will extend over a two-semester period.

NEUR 494 - Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience

1.5-3 cr.

Individual study and research on a specific topic relevant to neuroscience under the supervision of a faculty member. It is strongly recommended that this research be initiated during the junior year, and it is expected that the research will extend over a two-semester period.

NSCI 102 - Science and Society

NSCI 103 - (E,W) The Ascent of Man

NSCI 105 - Science in the Cinema

NSCI 108 - (E) Science in Our Time

NSCI 201 - (E) Science and the Human Environment

NSCI 208H - (E,W) Science in Our Time