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ENMG 658 - Financial Management [3]
TThis course focuses on analysis and interpretation of financial statements with an emphasis on measuring the results of operations and financial position of business organizations. Course topics include: compilation of financial statements, ratio analysis, business profitability-breakeven analysis, return on assets, return on investment, business financing, planning and budgeting.
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ENMG 659 - Strategic Management [3]
This course is intended to integrate the learning from the previous engineering management courses and to focus it on the perspective and problems of the Chief Executive Officer and other “C-suite” organizational strategic managers. The focus is on understanding the Strategic Management Process (SMP) in large organizations, which includes both strategy formulation and strategy implementation. There is a particular focus on strategic management of technology and innovation. The theme of the course is that large organizations do better when they formulate a strategic action plan based on their strategic management process. In addition to case studies and textbook readings, working in groups, students will complete a Business Plan to develop and demonstrate their strategic management skills.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENMG 660 - Systems Engineering Principles [3]
ustry standards for SE and SA and a standard definition for the “The Systems Engineering (SE) Process” are provided and are used throughout the course. The course describes how the SE process is implemented in standard life cycle models and through various standard organizational structures. Key SE technical process topics include: Requirements Definition, Requirements Analysis, Architectural Design, Implementation, Integration, Verification, Validation, and Transition. Key SE management process topics include: Decision Analysis, Technical Planning, Technical Assessment, Requirements Management, Risk Management, Configuration Management, Interface Management, and Technical Data Management. Other topics will include: IPTs, Model-Based Systems Engineering, DoDAF, Structured Analysis, UML, SysML, requirements allocation, traceability, specialty engineering, technology readiness assessment, technical performance measurement, earned value measurement, and work breakdown structures. Students will develop a requirements document, and integrated architecture, and a System Engineering Plan (SEP). Homework and Exams are designed to provide the opportunity to practice the concepts learned in class.
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ENMG 661 - Leading Virtual Global Teams [3]
This course is designed to help the student apply managerial concepts and skills to managing and leading virtual and/or global work teams. Geographically dispersed work teams have great challenges: tone is difficult to convey electronically, time zones limit audio communication opportunities, work oversight requires more reposting, and teambuilding is exceedingly difficult using technological - rather than in-person - tools. Language and culture differences in multinational teams compound these challenges. Students will learn to empower others, build credibility, communicate appropriately and adapt quickly across cultures and technologies.
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ENMG 662 - Financial Decision-Making in Engineering [3]
This course examines decision-making in engineering organizations based on comparisons of the investment worth of alternative courses of action with respect to their costs and/or incomes. The early part of the course focuses on the conventional mathematics of money. This mathematics is then applied to consideration of practical investment decisions, such as replacement, public sector investments, service industry investments, and decision making under incertainty. The course presents the overlapping aspects of accounting, finance, and investment analysis.
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ENMG 663 - Advanced Project Management [3]
This advanced course in project management builds on the beginner level project management courses to expand the hands-on applications, with a focus on critical evaluation of project performance and ultimately creating an environment for maximizing one¿s own project management performance. With a strong emphasis on the importance of learning through application, the course will bridge academia with the professional business environment to provide opportunities for students to interact with industry professionals as the students execute their course work. Students will also confront the real challenges facing project managers associated with the growing global and virtual workforce through the use of on-line learning tools and methods of collaboration. At the successful completion of the course, students will have the requisite skills and experiences necessary to function effectively, and artfully, as
Prerequisite: ENMG 650 or ENMG 668
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENMG 664 - Quality Engineering and Management [3]
This course provides an overview of the basic principles and tools of quality and their applications from an engineering perspective. The primary quality schools of thought or methodologies, including Total Quality Management, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma, and quality approaches from key figures in the development and application of quality as a business practice, including W. Edwards Deming and Joseph M. Juran will be analyzed. Some of the key mathematical tools used in quality systems will be discussed, including Pareto charts, measurement systems analysis, design of experiments, response surface methodology, and statistical process control. Students will apply these techniques to solve engineering problems using the R software. Reading assignments, homework, exams, and the project will emphasize quality approaches, techniques, and problem solving.
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ENMG 668 - Project and Systems Engineering Management [3]
This course covers fundamental project control and systems engineering management concepts, including how to plan, set up cost accounts, bid, staff and execute a project from a project control perspective. It provides an understanding of the critical relations and interconnections between project management and systems engineering management. It is designed to address how systems engineering management supports traditional program management activities to break down complex programs into manageable and assignable tasks.
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ENMG 672 - Decision and Risk Analysis [3]
This course provides an overview of decision and risk analysis techniques. It covers modeling uncertainty, the principles of rational decision-making, representing and solving decision problems using influence diagrams and decision trees, sensitivity analysis, Bayesian decision analysis, deductive and inductive reasoning, objective and subjective probabilities, probability distributions, regression analysis. This course can be counted as either a management course or an engineering course for the M.S. in Engineering Management.
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ENMG 680 - International Project Management [3]
This course explores the best management practices of international projects, emphasizing the importance of leadership skills and virtual teamwork. International projects differ from domestic projects by their complexity of culture, increased communications and collaboration requirements, local customs and practices, differing languages and currencies, and the type of available resources. The course describes how to conduct project planning in each of the life cycle phase and then to execute the plan through recommended international organizational structures.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENMG 690 - Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship [3]
This course offers an overview of innovation and its role in entrepreneurial ventures, both in new companies and within existing corporations. Additionally, the basics of entrepreneurship with specific emphasis on technology-based business start-up will be investigated. For the purposes of this course, technologies include IT, engineering and bio-tech. The course covers where to find innovative ideas and how to determine if a business idea is feasible, along with a high- level discussion of the critical success factors in new venture start-up.
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ENMG 691 - Topics in Engineering Management [3]
The special topics course explores current topics relative to managing technical teams and organizations.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENMG 692 - Principles of Organizational Learning [3]
Influenced by the technological revolution and globalization of business, an increasingly complex and challenging competitive marketplace has evolved. Businesses must contend with significant uncertainty, and traditional business models are less eff ective. Survival for modern businesses will require the effective use of information and knowledge. This course covers how to improve the organizational learning posture at firms, analyze and implement effective knowledge creation models, and how firms can retain and manage knowledge.
Course ID: 101894
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENMG 693 - Management Project [3]
The Management Project is the capstone course for the Technical Management Program. This course is normally taken in the final semester of their Technical Management program. Students will carry out individual research in a management topic of interest to the student and approved by the faculty member. The student’s work shall demonstrate mastery of the management and leadership skills obtained in the program. The result of the research is typically in the form of a case study and analysis.
Prerequisite: ENMG 650 or ENMG 668, ENMG 652, ENMG 656, ENMG 658
Components: Capstone
Grading Method: R
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ENMG 7700 - Master’s Special Study [1]
Note: Open to students with special projects on application to the instructor who will supervise the particular project. Request for permission to register must be in writing and must specify the number of credits sought.
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ENGL 601 - Methods of Interpretation [3]
An advanced study of contemporary literary theory, its methods and practices, and an investigation of its value for research in the discipline, and for the practice of literary criticism.
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ENGL 604 - Advanced Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature [3]
An advanced study of selected literary texts from medieval times to the early modern period. Topics to be announced each semester offered.
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ENGL 605 - Advanced Topics in Eighteenth-Century & Romantic-Era Literature [3]
An advanced study of the Eighteenth-century and Romantic-era literature and culture, the material production of texts written during this period, and developments in theory and literacy criticism relevant to this field.
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ENGL 606 - Advanced Topics in Victorian Literature [3]
An advanced study of Victorian literature and culture, the material production of Victorian texts, and developments in theory and literacy criticism relevant to this field.
Course ID: 102203
Components: Lecture
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ENGL 607 - Language in Society [3]
In this course, students will study written texts and oral language exchanges in order to learn how language functions in various social settings. They will master skills and methods of sociolinguistic inquiry in the context of actual discourse communities. Students will produce research findings that contribute to current debates in sociolinguistics.
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ENGL 610 - Seminar in Genre Studies [3]
This course is a study of major developments in genre theory and the history of literary genre. Emphasis may be placed on one genre or one writer whose work exemplifies that genre. Topics to be announced each semester offered.
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ENGL 616 - Advanced Topics in Literature and Other Arts 3
An examination of the intersection between literature and music, the visual arts, film, theatre, and/or dance. Topics and approaches will vary and may involve the study of specific literary genres, artistic movements, or may focus on a significant writer or artist.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: Regular
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ENGL 619 - Literature and the Sciences [3]
An intensive study of the relationships between literature and some aspect of the physical, biological or social sciences. Topics to be announced each semester.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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ENGL 625 - Material Culture and Production [3]
An advanced interdisciplinary study of the material conditions in which texts are produced and consumed.
Course ID: 102204
Components: Lecture
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ENGL 630 - The Interpretation of Literary Masterworks [3]
This course will examine a selection of important works from the world literary tradition in the light of enduring ideas, themes and interpretive problems. Topics, which will vary from semester to semester, may deal with such concerns as the conception and uses of time in narrative, the poetry of political engagement or changing concepts of the hero. Note: Also listed as HUM 630.
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ENGL 631 - Contemporary Issues: Texts and Concepts [3]
Focuses on an issue of current importance and examines its representation in selected works of modern and contemporary literature. Topics, which will vary from semester to semester, may deal with such problems as ethos and action, politics and culture, the representation of the natural environment, contemporary self-consciousness, masculine and feminine in modern fiction, relativity in art and science and society. Note: Also listed as HUM 631. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.
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ENGL 635 - Digital Humanities [3]
This course provides comprehensive graduate-level coverage of the field of digital humanities. During the course of the semester we will explore several distinct areas within the field, including humanities computing, critical code studies, and new media studies. Students will be expected to engage in code-making and use of digital tools.
Course ID: 101946
Components: Lecture
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ENGL 641 - Literature, Values, and Social Responsibility [3]
This course treats literary texts as vehicles of value in a variety of cultures: national, ethnic, gendered, privileged and oppressed. It examines the way in which values survive in the language and literature of particular peoples and how such values form part of their broad social identity. In particular, the course focuses on how literature can be applied to specific political, economic and education problems.
Note: Also listed as LLC 641 .
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ENGL 648 - Seminar in Literature and Culture [3]
Study of the relationships between literature and culture with emphasis on literature as a product and manifestation of cultural forces. Topics are announced each semester.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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ENGL 649 - Genre Analysis [3]
Taught in an electronic classroom, Genre Analysis will be guided by the theory and methodologies, primarily, of Swales and Bakhtin. Students will conduct what Swales calls textographies or studies of text and situation. In particular, we will examine the rhetoric of academia, science, media, and law, both print and electronic. During the course, students will employ multi-methodologies to study text, including observation, discourse analysis, interview, and think-aloud protocols. We will also investigate academic writing and the development of academic language and literacy. The face-to-face course will incorporate online communication, as well as traditional writing processes and will explore rhetorical analysis as compared to genre analysis.
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ENGL 664 - Advanced Topics in Women and literature [3]
The study of literature by or about women with particular attention to questions of gender and sexuality. The course will address questions of canonicity and a female literary tradition, examine gender politics in relation to genre and constructions of woman in literary texts, and engage with feminist literary theory.
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ENGL 666 - World Literature Written in English [3]
A study of literature written in English from around the world. The course focuses on those works and national traditions not covered in the British-American literary curriculum. Attention is paid to the historical, cultural and political contexts of Anglophone writing in various locations around the world as well as to the distinctive linguistic and rhetorical features of such works.
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ENGL 669 - Advanced Topics in Literature, Race and Ethnicity [3]
This course will examine literature that engages specifically with race and ethnicity. Students will be introduced to scholarly approaches to the study of race and ethnicity in literature and will be challenged to think critically about representations of racial and ethnic identities and experiences in a variety of literary traditions. This course is not bound to a specific time period or region and topics may include focused study of particular authors, genres, historical moments, or theoretical frameworks. Topics to be announced each semester.
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ENGL 671 - Rhetorics of Science [3]
This course focuses on issues of current importance in science. Students will explore the various ways these issues are represented in scholarship, popular writing, symbolic and actual practices, and lived experience. Emphasis will be oon connecting theories of rhetoric and communication with ongoing debates in science, and attention will be paid to how these debates intersect with race, disability, gender identity, sexuality, and socioeconomic status.
Repeatable up to 9 credits. Counts for A, B, or C depending on topic.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENGL 686 - Teaching Composition: Theory and Practice [3]
This course examines our changing understanding of the teaching of composition during the past 30 years by tracing key theories and pedagogies across this period. These sometimes-conflicting approaches to teaching writing include the following orientations: cognitive, expressivist, social constructionist and political. The course is intended for current and prospective teachers of English at elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.
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ENGL 688 - Teaching Writing with Computer-Assisted Instruction [3]
This course introduces the methods of computer-assisted writing instruction to current and prospective teachers across the curriculum. It allows participants to practice these methods in class and provides opportunities for discussion and investigation. Designed for educators in all disciplines and at all levels, this course invites participants to explore ways of integrating technologies into their own classrooms and curricula.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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ENGL 690 - Topics in the English Language [3]
A study of various aspects of the English language. These might include a historical survey of the structure of the language from Old English through Middle English to Modern English; contemporary varieties of English, both standard and non-standard; and the development of new Englishes around the world.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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ENGL 692 - Topics in Rhetoric and Composition [3]
This course will emphasize one of two ways for students to examine theories of speaking and writing. The first, historical in emphasis, will trace current models of the writing process to their traditional sources in Greek and Latin rhetoric. The second, contemporary in emphasis, will examine present trends in writing research, the problems of different methodologies and new developments that influence how researchers study writing.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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ENGL 693 - American English Structure for ESOL/FL Teachers: Syntax and Morphology [3]
An overview of the syntactic and morphological system of modern American English. An in-depth examination of the most productive and important rules of English grammar from the point of view of English as a second language and English as a secondary foreign language. Practice in detecting and diagnosing the errors, explaining rules simply and clearly and employing effective instructional techniques will be provided.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
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ENGL 700 - Independent Study 3
This course provides the student with the opportunity to study independently any aspect of texts, technologies, and literature not covered by regular course offerings. (Repeatable up to 9 credits.) Counts for A, B, or C depending on the topic.
Course ID: 102331
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: Regular
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ENGL 798 - Portfolio Independent Study [3]
The Master’s Portfolio is created under the direction of a graduate faculty member. Three credit hours are required for the Master’s degree with Portfolio.
Course ID: 102141
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ENGL 799 - Master’s Thesis Research [3]
Master’s thesis research is conducted under the direction of a faculty member.
Note: Six credit hours are required for the Master’s degree with thesis
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ENTR 601 - Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset [3]
This course provides participants with the tools necessary for applying entrepreneurial thinking in their work and life. Participants learn the creative problem solving process, which helps them recognize opportunities for improving performance, choose correctly from a wide variety of resources for solving problems efficiently, anticipate problems in project planning, and promote the continuous involvement of others.
Course ID: 102496
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 602 - Leadership and Communications [3]
The course uses John C. Maxwell’s Five Levels of Leadership model to provide an understanding of how to grow into a superior leader as well as how to interact with team members based on their own level of development. This course employs strategies for participant development of effective communication skills.
Course ID: 102523
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 603 - Legal and Ethical Issues for Entrepreneurs [3]
Organizations have a myriad of responsibilities driven by legal requirements and ethical responsibilities/principles. This course focuses on the legal issues faced by entrepreneurial organizations and how they are often intertwined with the organization’s ethical responsibilities.
Course ID: 102524
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 604 - Entrepreneurial Finance & Planning [3]
This course focuses on finance, planning and start-up considerations that every entrepreneur must face. It is designed for students who have a deep interest in understandings the inner-workings of a start-up entity and an entrepreneurial venture. The purpose of the course is to teach what is needed to properly plan, finance and maintain a healthily entrepreneurial venture.
Course ID: 102525
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study. A working knowledge of basic accounting terms and financial statements.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 605 - Learning Organizations [3]
This course covers design thinking as an approach to consider issues and resolve problems more broadly than is typically applied to business and social issues. This course instructs participants in methods for creating an organizational culture of resilience. The course covers the research-derived four pillars of the resilient organization and methods for creating them.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 606 - Diffusion of Innovation [3]
This course looks at how to successfully harness, promote and diffuse innovation and an innovation mindset across all levels of an organization. This requires a switch in the organization’s culture to accommodate a free flow of new ideas. An organization’s change agents can facilitate the diffusion of this innovation mindset by consistently engaging with others, encouraging their sharing of new ideas and thinking, and challenging them by fostering an environment of friction.
Course ID: 102522
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 608 - Design Thinking [3]
This course addresses the fundamental principles of design thinking, and solving for difficult entrepreneurship and business problems facing early and growth-stage companies. A regional entrepreneurial company will serve as a source of problems for student teams who will take on the role of advisors.
Course ID: 102504
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 609 - Sales and Marketing [3]
This course will introduce the basics of selling and how entrepreneurial techniques can make a difference in the success of an idea or inspire growth in a company. The class will focus on the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and review the relationship of customer need identification and the reasons that make people buy.
Course ID: 102503
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 610 - Intrapreneurship [3]
This course identifies how participants can ultimately encourage and enhance a team’s synergy, causing it to become more than the sum of its parts, by showing commitment to both teammate and team goals and by jointly solving problems. It also provides a transformational learning opportunity for leveraging their leadership efficacy by cultivating self-awareness, successful communication skills, positive team interactions, and creating a growth mindset.
Course ID: 102502
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 611 - Project Management Approaches [3]
This course provides participants with the requisite knowledge to explore how agile concepts can be employed to enhance project performance. Participants will learn the roots of the agile movement, key concepts, definitions, roles, and various tools and techniques.
Course ID: 102501
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 612 - Creative Problem Solving and the Socialpreneur [3]
This course explores approaches to solve a specific socialpreneurship problem that is too ambiguous, complex, or messy to be addressed directly through traditional strategies. It seeks to increase the participants’ understanding of innovation and creative problem solving, and to enhance the ability to promote these skills in others. Students will work with a local, socially motivated entrepreneur and their organization to develop solution sets to a real-world complex problem.
Course ID: 102500
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 613 - Marketing and Fundraising [3]
In this course, participants explore the foundations of target marketing and learn the best practices for harnessing the power of modern marketing tools and data. Participants also learn how to evaluate the capacity of their organization’s fundraising infrastructure, as well as implement fundraising development and diversification strategies.
Course ID: 102499
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the program or at least the second semester of graduate study.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 614 - Capstone I [1]
This course is the first of a two part capstone of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Masters of Professional Studies. The course is taken at the completion of the four required courses. The combination of the two part capstone takes a feasible concept and develops each element to create an integrated plan. These courses leverage all the MPS coursework. Capstone 1 focuses on concept development, industry and market analysis, marketing and sales plan, financial plan, and the business model. This course allows the student to develop their initial thinking in each of the aforementioned elements.
Course ID: 102498
Prerequisite: Completion of all other courses in the program.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 615 - Capstone II [2]
This course is the second of a two part capstone of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership Masters of Professional Studies. The course is taken at the completion of all other required courses. The combination of the two part capstone takes a feasible concept and develops each element to create an integrated plan. The capstone courses leverage all the MPS coursework. Capstone 1 focuses on concept development, industry and market analysis, marketing and sales plan, financial plan, and the business model. In addition, this course includes the development of management, operations, and launch plans. This course takes the students initial concept and brings it to reality. All the draft plans from Capstone 1 are integrated into a final business plan. The business plan is pitched at the Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition or to another appropriate audience.
Course ID: 102497
Prerequisite: Completion of all other courses in the program.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENTR 690 - Special Topics in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Leadership [3]
The special topics courses will cover emerging or specialized Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Leadership topics on an as-need basis.
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENEN 610 - Environmental Chemistry [3]
This course presents chemical principles in the context of aquatic systems such as rivers, oceans, wetlands and the sub-surface environment. Equilibrium and kinetic concepts are reinforced through the use of chemical equilibrium and kinetic models. Surface and colloid chemistry are also discussed. At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the basic chemical phenomena that control the fate of pollutants in the environment.
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ENEN 612 - Environmental Physico-chemical Processes [3]
This course focuses on physico-chemical processes that control the fate of contaminants in engineered and natural systems is discussed. Physico-chemical phenomenon is first introduced from a phenomenal standpoint, then its role in both engineered and natural systems discussed. At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the basic physico-chemical phenomena that control the fate of pollutants in the environment.
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ENEN 613 - Environmental Organic Chemistry 3
This course examines physical and chemical processes that affect the environmental fate of organic contaminants in aquatic systems. Structure-activity relationships will be introduced to predict the partitioning of organic chemicals in the environment. An emphasis will be placed on the fate of persistent organic pollutants (e.g., polychlorinated biphenyls, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and pesticides) and contaminants of emerging concern (e.g., pharmaceuticals, hormones, and personal care products) in environmental sorption and transformation reactions. The fate of organic chemicals in these systems will be evaluated using equilibrium and kinetic models.
Prerequisite: ENCH 410 (C or Better) or ENEN 610 (B- or Better)
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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ENEN 614 - Environmental Biological Processes [3]
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the fundamental and design aspects of biological processes. The course focuses on engineered biological treatment for both municipal wastewater systems and contaminated soils and sediments. An understanding of biological treatment operations requires knowledge in the fundamental areas of biochemistry, mass transport, microbiology, reaction kinetics and reactor engineering.
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ENEN 616 - Environmental Engineering Laboratory [3]
This course introduces laboratory techniques needed to conduct environmental research. Topics to be discussed include laboratory safety; quality assurance/quality control; experimental design; contaminant analysis; physical, chemical, biological processes; and data analysis.
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ENEN 621 - Groundwater Hydrology [3]
This course provides students with the fundamentals of sub-surface hydrology and the study of scientific and engineering problems related to groundwater quantity and quality. It introduces the fundamental groundwater fluid and solute mass balance equations. It also relates the parameters of the equations to physical and chemical properties of soils and geological formations. Elementary analytical and computational solution techniques and their applications to the movement of water and solutes in natural environments are discussed.
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ENEN 623 - Flow Through Porous Media [3]
The course presents the fundamental theories of fluid flow dynamics through porous media, which are applicable to many disciplines of science and engineering. Students will learn to identify key features of porous media and their physico-chemical properties, represent the features mechanistically, identify their associated fluid transport processes, derive conservation equations for the processes and solve the equations. Both analytical and numerical solution techniques for saturated and unsaturated flow equations and their applications to engineering problems are introduced.
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ENEN 627 - Environmental Modeling [3]
The course covers the fundamental theories and techniques of modeling environmental processes, which is applicable to many disciplines of science and engineering. Students learn to identify key features of the environments and their ecological, biological and physico-chemical properties, represent the features mechanistically, identify their associated processes, derive governing equations for the processes and solve the equations. Solution techniques based on those available in Microsoft EXCEL will be introduced, and the students will learn to use the software as a universal solution platform by writing formulae and Microsoft Visual Basic macros to solve their assignment problems.
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ENEN 629 - Physical Hydrology [3]
This course provides an introduction to quantifying the components of the hydrologic cycle-precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, runoff, stream flow and groundwater flow. Emphasis is on quantifying flow and storage in watersheds, including temporal and spatial patterns. Appropriate field and laboratory tests used to measure hydrologic processes and mechanistic and statistical models for data evaluation and interpretation are presented.
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ENEN 640 - Hazardous Waste Site Remediation [3]
This course describes the regulatory atmosphere encountered in waste site remediations, hazards from hazardous waste sites and how risk is associated with cleanup. A principal focus is on technologies used to clean up sites and the process through which technologies are selected. The course is accentuated by practical exercises and case history discussions.
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ENEN 642 - Treatment Plant Design [3]
This course presents the methodology, analysis and design for water distribution systems, wastewater collection systems and water and wastewater treatment plants.
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ENEN 646 - Environmental Fate and Transport of Contaminants [3]
This course covers basic principles of chemical fate and transport in the environment. Course materials includes the fundamental concepts and practical, quantitative problem-solving techniques dealing with environmental contaminations. Mass balance; chemical equilibria and kinetics; environmental transport; and advanced topics, such as groundwater well dynamics and subsurface fate and transport, atmospheric transport of pollutants and Monod kinetics are among those included in the materials. Computer software is also used to solve complex but practical fate and transport problems in the environment.
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ENEN 648 - Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation [3]
The objective of this course is to examine the fundamental principles governing toxic contaminant exposure and risk to humans and ecosystems. The course covers necessary aspects of probability and statistics, physical and chemical behavior of key priority pollutants, mass transfer and exposure pathways of the contaminants, human and environmental toxicology and methodologies for risk assessment. Concepts of green engineering focused on design, commercialization, and use of processes and products to reduce generation of pollution and risk to human health and the environment are studied. Case studies of remediation technology applications with a focus on understanding how human and environmental risk is managed in a real-life situation are presented.
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ENEN 651 - Water Resource Systems Analysis [3]
The focus of this course is the application of mathematical optimization techniques to the management of water resource systems. Case studies include water quality control, groundwater remediation design, reservoir operation and operation of water distribution systems.
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ENEN 654 - Water in the Urban Environment [3]
This course is designed for first-year graduate students who have been awarded Integrative Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) fellowships on the theme of “Water in the Urban Environment” and is intended to provide an overview of topics related to the broad themes of the program. The syllabus will focus on the environmental, engineering, economic, and policy aspects of water management in urban areas and will address the impacts of urban development on hydrology, geomorphology, water quality and aquatic ecology. The course is team-taught by faculty from Geography and Environmental Systems, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Economics, and Public Policy. There will be several field trips outside of regularly scheduled class time.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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ENEN 656 - Research Design for the Urban Environment [3]
This is a core course in the IGERT “Water in the Urban Environment” program. Topics include the following: What are the valid and feasible research questions for different kinds of projects? What are the assumptions, conceptual models and research approaches associated with different disciplinary perspectives? What are the key requirements for successful interdisciplinary research? What themes and trends will be important in the near future in interdisciplinary environmental research focusing on urban environment and water resources? Students will work individually and as members of interdisciplinary teams to present case studies, analyze journal articles and grant proposals, educate other students about their own disciplinary perspective, terminology, and methods, and develop research plans in response to an example RFP addressing an urban water-related problem. Each team will prepare written documents and will present and defend its work to the faculty and other IGERT students.
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ENEN 658 - Modeling and Spatial Statistics with Applications in the Urban Environment [3]
The goal of this course is to provide students with knowledge of mathematical models for the urban environment from various disciplinary perspectives, and how such models might be coupled to address urban water problems. Simple models from the fields of environmental contaminant transport, economics, and ecology will be used as examples. Material covered will include time series analysis and geostatistical analysis of spatially distributed data in the physical, biological, and social sciences. The course will highlight challenges of the interdisciplinary perspective, including (1) space and time scales of concern to different disciplines; (2) issues with uncertainty in data and models; and (3) examples of models that are available to the different disciplines. The course will include hands-on exercises and the challenge for students to combine models from different disciplines.
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ENEN 660 - Air Pollution [3]
The objective of this course will be to provide an introduction to the sources, chemistry and fate of airborne pollutants. In general, it will be broken into three parts: sources and dispersion processes, gas-phase chemistry and particulate-phase chemistry. The focus will be on the urban atmosphere, but as some pollutants have impacts well beyond their source region some discussion of global cycles will be appropriate. The course should provide a general introduction to atmospheric chemistry including both gas-phase and particulate-phase processes.
Prerequisite: Prerequisites: CHEM 101, CHEM 102 or equivalent, MATH 225.
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ENEN 699 - Environmental Engineering Independent Study [1-6]
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ENEN 701 - Special Topics in Environmental Engineering [1-3]
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ENEN 799 - Master’s Thesis Research [2-9]
Master’s thesis research under the direction of a faculty member.
Note: Six credit hours are required for the M.S.
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ENEN 888 - Graduate Environmental Engineering Seminar [1]
This purpose of this course is to expose students to a wide variety of topics in environmental engineering, science and policy. The course meets once per week with an invited speaker giving the lecture. Students write a summary and critical review of the lecture. The course is offered pass/fail only. The course is offered every semester and may be repeated for credit.
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ENEN 898 - Pre-Candidacy Doctoral Research [3-9]
Research on the doctoral dissertation conducted under the direction of a faculty advisor before candidacy.
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French |
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FREN 600 - Special Projects in French [3]
Advanced work in French and Francophone language and linguistics. Topics may include intensive work on prose style, study of a particular socio-linguistic problem or analysis of some aspect of the French language.
Note: Open to students with special projects on application to the instructor who will supervise the particular project. Permission to register must be in writing and must specify the number of credits sought.
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FREN 610 - Studies in French Language and Linguistics [3]
Advanced work in French and Francophone language and linguistics. Topics may include intensive work on prose style, study of a particular socio-linguistic problem or analysis of some aspect of the French language.
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FREN 630 - Studies in French Literature [3]
Selected topics in French and Francophone literature may include the study of a century, movement, genre, theme or individual author. Topics will be announced each semester the course is offered.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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FREN 640 - Studies in French-Speaking Culture and Society [3]
Selected topics will deal with French speaking societies of the present or past, both in Europe and elsewhere. Topics will be announced each semester the course is offered. Among the recent offerings: Contemporary French cinema, the dark side of the Classical Period, Senegal and the French experience and French public memory and national identity.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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FREN 650 - Seminar in French [3]
Topics will cover some aspect of French language, literature or civilization. Topics will be announced each semester the course is offered.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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Gender and Women’s Studies |
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GWST 601 - Directed Independent Study [1-3]
Independent readings under faculty supervision.
Note: Intended for students who desire to study independently an aspect of gender and women’s studies not covered by regular course work. May be taken for one to three credits.
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GWST 613 - Language, Gender and Culture [3]
In Language, Gender and Culture, students gain an in-depth understanding of how gender and language are integrated into the fabric of cultures and societies and how sociocultural contexts give meaning to linguistic practices and to gender categories. Students will examine and evaluate a diverse body of literature and scholarship from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, gender studies, and sociology that bear on these issues. Critical attention will be paid to understanding the roles of language and gender in the U.S. context, especially with regard to the U.S. social institutions of education and the media; we will also explore relationships between language and gender in a range of other Western and non-Western cultures. Students will apply what they have learned in the course to final projects that may be research-based or outreach-based.
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GWST 633 - Gender, Work and Family in Cross- Cultural Perspective [3]
This course examines the intersection of work and family as affected by gender stratification in various countries. The topics covered include the separation and interdependence of work and family, gender wage differences, occupational gender segregation, division of household labor and childcare, dual-earner families and the impact of national policies (childcare, parental leave and affirmative action) on women and men.
Linked with/Also listed as Cross-listed as SOCY 633 .
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GWST 634 - Gender and the Life Course [3]
This course examines the complex interactions of two critical social constructs: gender and the life course. Material will examine how these constructs have developed over time, how they vary across cultures and historical periods, and how they interact to construct very different lives for males and females in society. Specific foci of the course are the demographic and biological underpinnings of gender and the life course, age stratification systems, variations of timing of family and other life events by gender, life course transitions, the effects of aging on social power and health and how gender and life course interact with/are reinforced by social policy. Building in diversity of class and race/ethnicity in examining variations, the course will employ readings and examples from the major life stages of childhood, adolescence, adulthood and later life. Crosslisted as SOCY 634 .
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GWST 669 - Femininity and Masculinity in the Middle Ages [3]
The central theme of this course will be the importance of gender as a category of cultural difference. We will consider the ways in which medieval society defined femininity and masculinity, appropriate male and female behavior, and men’s and women’s bodies. What did it mean to be masculine/feminine within medieval culture? Who created these definitions? How were the definitions challenged? What role does sexual behavior play in these definitions? How do other categories, like economic class, religion, and ethnicity complicate ideas about gender? To address these questions, each week we will read some combination of primary sources, monographs and scholarly articles that center around a particular theme.
There are four main goals in this course. The first is to learn how ideas about masculinity and femininity shaped the lives of men and women in medieval Europe. The second is to master the historiography of sex and gender in recent medieval histories. The third is to develop your own research project. The final goal is to improve your presentation skills. To that end, each of you will be responsible for leading one class and, at the end of the semester, you will each present your independent research to the course as a whole.
Linked with/Also listed as Cross-Listed: HIST 669
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GWST 680 - Theories of Feminism [3]
This course examines the major theories of feminism through the study of works by central feminist thinkers considered in their social, historical and intellectual contexts. Such topics as reproduction and sexuality; the sexual division of labor; political rights; identity and subjectivity; and the intersection of class, race, nation, sexual orientation and gender will be explored from the dominant theoretical perspectives of feminism.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: GWST 100, GWST/AMST 310 or permission of instructor.
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GWST 690 - Advanced Topics in Gender and Women’s Studies [3]
An intensive study of a specialized topic or problem involving gender and/or women’s studies using interdisciplinary methodologies. Topics to be announced each semester offered.
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GWST 695 - Research Seminar in Women’s Studies [3]
The seminar will focus on the topic of feminist research methodologies. The seminar includes discussion of methodological issues central to conducting research about gender within the social sciences and humanities fields. The seminar will evaluate these debates through review of specific case studies. In addition, students will develop strategies for evaluating research and methodologies used by other disciplines in terms of their appropriateness for gender and women’s studies scholarship.
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Geography and Environmental Systems |
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GES 600 - Special Topics in Geog & Env Sys [3-4]
This course is provided to allow flexibility in offering work not found elsewhere in the course offerings. The topic will be announced prior to the semester when it will be offered. May be repeated for credit.
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GES 601 - Introduction to Geography and Environmental Systems [3]
This course is a graduate-level introduction to the principles underlying geographic and environmental systems. Guiding theories of human geography, physical geography and environmental science will be introduced through detailed examination of cross-cutting multidisciplinary issues including natural hazards and human vulnerability, the management of water resources and fossil fuels, and global environmental changes such as the recent atmospheric-oceanic warming trend and land-use/land-cover change. Within these topics, specific theories guiding geographic and environmental research will be covered in depth, including spatial analysis, critical geographic theory, postmodern social theories, and political ecology. Important theories governing the functioning of environmental systems will be presented. This includes the cycling of mass and energy between Earth’s various spheres and the theory of Earth as a dynamic system seeking equilibrium in the face of multiple perturbations both natural and anthropogenic.
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GES 602 - Research Methods [3]
This course is designed to provide GES graduate students with a clear understanding of past and present methodology associated with spatial, temporal, and dynamic research in geography and environmental systems. The primary focus of the course will be on the development of research questions and how to utilize various types of analyses to answer these questions and further fields of inquiry. Several methodologies will be covered during the course of the semester and applied to specific research questions generated by students in the course.
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GES 604 - Forest Ecology [4]
A field-intensive course emphasizing forested landscape ecosystems and plant species of the Mid-Atlantic. Our challenge is to understand ecosystems, their physical and biotic characteristics, their relationship to one another in the field, successional trends, and selected aspects of their functioning. This course will stress forest species, and especially (1) field identification and characteristic habitats, (2) establishment ecology, (3) competitive and mutualistic relationships, (4) occurrence and diversity related to habitat conditions, (5) establishment and occurrence in relatively undisturbed (by humans) and disturbed environments, and (6) genetic and non genetic variation of populations, as well as adaptation to specific environments.
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GES 605 - Applied Landscape Ecology
This course applies the tools of landscape ecology, including GIS, remote sensing, aerial photography and landscape classification, to explore the spatial patterning of ecological processes across landscapes at different scales. Hands-on lab and field exercises will develop understanding and skills necessary for students to plan and conduct their own investigations of landscape pattern, process, and change in local and regional landscapes in collaboration with the instructor. Prerequisites: GEOG 305 and 386 or permission of instructor. NOTE: The course includes 4 full day Saturday field trips, scheduling to be arranged. Students enrolling for graduate credit are required to design and execute an original research project relating to their Thesis or Dissertation work.
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