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ACCT 8010 - Financial Accounting I
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Graduate or Undergraduate degree in bus other than AC. ACCT 2101 or MBA 8025 and, ACCT 2102 or MBA 8115 .
Description
Students will learn the financial reporting environment, the conceptual framework, the financial accounting process, preparation of financial statements, income measurement, and asset valuation.
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ACCT 8020 - Financial Accounting II
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 8010 .
Description
Students will learn the valuation of liabilities and investments, reporting of stockholders? equity, accounting for income taxes, postemployment benefits, leases, changes and errors, and preparation of statement of cash flows with complex transactions.
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ACCT 8030 - Managerial and Accounting Information Systems
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Graduate or Undergraduate degree in bus other than AC. ACCT 2101 or MBA 8025 , and ACCT 2102 or MBA 8115 .
Description
This course examines a wide range of fundamental managerial techniques used by companies for tracking and reporting internal operations. In particular, it focuses on techniques for costing and evaluating products, services, programs, projects, departments and other operational units. The primary emphasis is on developing the needed understanding, insights and skills for capturing, analyzing and applying internal accounting data in order to make optimum managerial-level, cost-related decisions and appropriate managerial performance evaluations. In addition, students are expected to develop analytical skills necessary for evaluating alternative designs of control systems.
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ACCT 8040 - Topics in Federal Taxation
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 8020 , with grade of C- or higher.
Description
This course introduces students to the federal tax concepts applicable to individuals, sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, estates, and trusts. In particular, it focuses on developing a professional level of problem-solving skills and critical thinking as well as oral and written communications. In addition, students are exposed to accounting periods and methods, deferred compensation, tax planning, ethical practices, and tax research. Emphasis is placed on differences between tax and financial accounting concepts.
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ACCT 8050 - Assurance and Information Systems Control
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 8020 , with a minimum grade of C-.
Description
This course develops students knowledge of Accounting Information Systems (AIS) and auditing the AIS focusing on both the processes of the AIS and the evaluation of accounting information. Topics include choosing , extracting and analyzing information to solve business problems, the ethical responsibilities the accountants, evidence accumulation and evaluation, materiality, risk assessment and control of the processes, and legal responsibilities. The course emphasizes the utilization of technology tools in business environments.
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ACCT 8120 - Advanced Federal Taxation
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 4510 or ACCT 8040 , with a Requirement minimum grade of C-.
Description
Students may not receive credit for both TX 8020 and ACCT 8120. This course provides an in-depth study of the fundamentals of federal taxation of corporations and partnerships.
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ACCT 8130 - Advanced Accounting Topics
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 4102 or ACCT 8020, with a minimum grade of C-.
Description
This course provides a study of accounting topics related to business mergers and acquisitions, international accounting and foreign currency issues, and other current topics of financial reporting.
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ACCT 8310 - Advanced Management Accounting Systems
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 4210 or ACCT 8030 ; or MBA 8025 or MBA 8115 ; or CIS 3260, CIS 3300 and CIS 3730.
Description
This course demonstrates how management accounting and control systems help managers make effective operating and strategy decisions in the firm. In particular, this course demonstrates how cost, planning, and performance measurement systems help managers increase the effectiveness of small and large firms within their current and future operating environments. To advance the skills necessary for evaluating and utilizing alternative control systems, this course also introduces economic and behavioral theories as well as current and emerging information technology and data analysis tools.
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ACCT 8389 - Directed Readings in Accounting
1 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor, good academic standing.
Description
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ACCT 8391 - Field Study in Accounting
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: MPA or MBA student with a 2.7 or higher GPA, accounting internship, consent of instructor.
Description
The purpose of this class is to provide course credit for students enrolled in the MPA or MBA program who have an accounting internship. Students are required to submit weekly journals describing their internship experience and a paper at the end of the semester. The topic for the paper has to be approved by the instructor. Students can register for this class only with the consent of the instructor. (May be repeated once.)
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ACCT 8420 - Special Topics in Financial Accounting
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 4113 or ACCT 8020 , with a minimum grade of C-.
Description
This course will cover advanced financial accounting issues such as those related to off-balance-sheet financing, segment and interim reporting, foreign currency transactions, translation of foreign currency financial statements, operation of the SEC, issues related to the adoption of IFRS in the US, accounting for reorganizations and liquidations, and accounting for estates and trusts. The course will also cover why and how managers manage earnings and critically examine a recently passed or proposed financial accounting standard.
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ACCT 8610 - Advanced Topics in Assurance Services
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 4310, ACCT 4610, both with a minimum grades of C-.
Description
This course covers auditing and assurance topics in depth from professional and research perspectives. The topics include audit judgment research, substantive testing research, fraud, going concern judgments, attestation engagements, international auditing, professional ethics, and litigation issues. Topics of current interest, especially those related to assurance services in an e-business environment and the development of international auditing standards, are also covered.
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ACCT 8630 - Information Technology Auditing
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 4610 or CIS 8000 or MBA 8125 .
Description
This course focuses on the knowledge and skills required for practice of IT auditing in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley world in which internal control is assessed in financial audits. The course covers assessment of internal control in technology-intensive settings, continuous monitoring and auditing of applications, and auditing of system develop- ment. Students work through audit simulations to develop IT audit expertise.
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ACCT 8680 - Security and Privacy of Information and Information Systems
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: CIS 3260 (or equivalent).
Description
(Same as CIS 8080). This course is designed to develop knowledge and skills for the management and assurance of security of information and information systems in technology-enabled environments. It focuses on concepts and methods associated with planning, designing, implementing, managing, and auditing security at all levels on different platforms, including worldwide networks for e-business. The course presents techniques for assessing risk associated with accidental and intentional breaches of security and covers the associated issues of ethical uses of information and privacy considerations.
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ACCT 8700 - Financial Statement and Business Analysis
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 4102 or ACCT 8020.
Description
This course provides in-depth use of methods for performing financial statement analyses to evaluate a company’s profitability, liquidity, solvency, and market value. It demonstrates how these analyses can be used to diagnose a company’s past performance and to set operational and financial targets in traditional and e-business environments.
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ACCT 8710 - Forensic Accounting
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 4610.
Description
This course introduces the advanced accounting student to the forensic accounting profession. The specific focus in on the three primary areas involved in forensic accounting, namely, conflict resolution, fraud detection and forensic auditing. The important theories underpinning the study of fraudulent behavior, damage theories and auditing are thoroughly discussed along with the practical aspects of the profession including the tools, techniques and expect- ations.
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ACCT 8740 - Seminar on Internal Auditing
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ACCT 4610 or ACCT 8050 .
Description
In this course students are introduced to the current theory and practices of internal auditing viewed as a component of organizational governance. Students will learn to evaluate the effectiveness of various internal controls and make recommendations for improving corporate governance. Impor- tant auditing-related theories including risk management will be discussed along with practical implications of in- ternal management controls and the monitoring required for improving their effectiveness. The course will include cases and also expose students to the ethical, independence, and technological issues that internal auditors deal with.
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ACCT 9100 - Seminar in Critical Analysis of Accounting Research
1 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Description
This course develops students’ ability to analyze accounting research papers with respect to design issues such as the choice of research issues, the development of theoretical underpinnings, the appropriateness of research methods, the effectiveness of methods’ application, and the cogency of the presented results. The research issues addressed span the subspecialties in accounting and expose students to current research. Students take this course continuously through at least the third year in the doctoral program and engage in oral and written critiques of accounting research papers.
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ACCT 9300 - Seminar in Managerial Accounting
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor
Description
This course covers the topics, theories, and methodologies relevant to research in managerial accounting. In addition to studying existing literature, students prepare research proposals in managerial accounting.
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ACCT 9400 - Seminar in Financial Accounting Research
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor.
Description
This course exposes the student to scientific inquiry and methodology as it applies to theory construction and verification in financial accounting. Topics include controversial issues in the field and an examination of significant research projects undertaken toward resolution of these issues. An emphasis is placed on critical evaluation of recent developments in empirical accounting research.
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ACCT 9900 - Reading Seminar in Accounting
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor.
Description
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Actuarial Science |
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AS 8140 - Probability
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Admission to MAS or Certificate.
Description
This course covers univariate probability distributions, including the binomial, negative binomial, geometric, hypergeometric, Poisson, uniform, exponential, gamma, and normal; multivariate joint distributions, conditional and marginal distributions, moments and generating functions, transformations of random variables, order statistics, and the central limit theorem.
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AS 8230 - Financial Mathematics
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Admission to MAS or Certificate.
Description
Topics include measurement of interest, accumulation and discount, forces of interest and discount, equations of value, annuities, perpetuities, loan amortization, yield rates, bonds and securities, duration and convexity, immunization, determinants of interest rates, the term structure, and interest rate swaps.
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AS 8340 - Life Contingencies
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course is an introduction to life contingencies as applied in actuarial practice. Topics include present value random variables for contingent annuities and insurance, their distributions and actuarial present values, equivalence principle, and other principles for determining premiums.
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AS 8350 - Insurance Mathematics
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: AS 8340 .
Description
This course consists of life insurance as well as non-life insurance mathematics. Topics include insurance and annuity reserves, characterization of discrete and continuous multiple decrement models paid and incurred loss development, loss reporting, and settlement delay.
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AS 8360 - Insurance Ratemaking
3 Credit Hours
Description
This new course exposes the students to the principles and techniques involved in insurance ratemaking across various product lines (life insurance, health insurance and Property & Casualty insurance). Insurance ratemaking (or pricing) is a key function performed by actuaries and is fundamental to the financial viability of an insurance company. The course will incorporate policy and claims experience, pricing assumptions, profitability targets, and capital requirements in developing premium rates.
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AS 8389 - Directed Readings in Actuarial Science
1 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor, good academic standing.
Description
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AS 8430 - Loss Distributions and Credibility Theory
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course provides an introduction to fitting and validating actuarial models, including estimating loss distributions and applying credibility theory, tests of goodness-of-fit for frequency and severity distributions, and credibility of information obtained from various sources.
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AS 8510 - Mathematical Finance for Actuaries
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: AS 8140 and AS 8230.
Description
This course covers the mathematical finance portion of the Society of Actuaries’ curriculum that corresponds to SOA Exam IFM. Topics include risk-weighted returns, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and factor models, discrete and continuous-time pricing of financial derivatives including the binomial model and the Black-Scholes formula, and delta-gamma hedging. The course focuses on actuarial and insurance applications and on computational questions similar to those in Exam IFM.
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AS 8810 - Analytic Methods in Actuarial Science
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: AS 4320 or ECON 8750 or Consent of instructor.
Description
This course introduces the student to the statistical practice in actuarial science taught through a seminar format. Some particular topics include simple linear regression models, multiple linear regression models, generalized linear models, variable selection, nonlinear regression, statistical learning, resampling methods, linear model selection and regularization, tree-based methods, unsupervised learning, and quantitative risk management. The course prepares students for the SOA’s SRM Exam (Statistics for Risk Modeling) and PA Exam (Predictive Analytics).
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AAS 6000 - Proseminar in Africana Studies
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course examines the origins, parameters, and scope of the discipline of Africana Studies.
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AAS 6005 - Theories in Africana Studies
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course examines the major theoretical formulations employed in Africana Studies.
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AAS 6007 - Black Feminist Thought
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Restricted to Africana Studies graduate students.
Description
Same as WGSS 6750 Explores the tradition of Black feminism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will critically read, discuss, and respond in writing to a series of texts representing Black feminist thought and its relationship to other feminisms. Students will be expected to demonstrate their knowledge of the Black feminist tradition and to demonstrate their ability to query, compare, and extend Black feminist theories.
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AAS 6010 - Research Methods in Africana Studies
3 Credit Hours
Description
Examination of the major research methodologies of Africana Studies.
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AAS 6012 - Qualitative Methods in Africana Studies
3 Credit Hours
Description
Examines qualitative methodologies utilized in Africana Studies.
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AAS 6013 - Professional Development in Africana Studies
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course is about building skills, connections, and ethical principles that will benefit your professional goals/personal life. In enrolling in this course you are taking a major step toward achieving your short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term goals on your way to your doctoral program or career.
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AAS 6015 - Methods in African American Oral History
3 Credit Hours
Description
This graduate seminar explores the using interviews as a research tool in the writing of African American history and culture. Oral narrative can amplify historical accounts with personal connections, motivations, and other information. Moreover the process of doing interviews often helps scholars find references or documents not yet deposited in archives.
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AAS 6016 - Critical Pedagogy and African American Education
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: AAS 6000 and 6005 with a B or better.
Description
This course will explore the principles and practices of critical pedagogy theory as it has developed both internationally and in the United States, with a focus on application in the historical and current education in the African American community and what it means to teach for freedom.
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AAS 6020 - Black Activism
3 Credit Hours
Description
Examination of 20th and 21st century Black movements for social justice. The course focuses on investigation of insurgent movements that primarily worked outside of parliamentary politics and taking a multi-disciplinary approach by the study of theories and histories of social movements of African descendants in the United States.
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AAS 6022 - The New African American Urban History and the Intervention of the Black Southern Diaspora
3 Credit Hours
Description
This graduate course seeks to explore the trends, tensions, and shifts that have emerged in how we study African Americans in urban spaces. It will introduce students to the historiographical literature, main themes, methodological approaches and techniques, questions, and historical interpretations to the urban experiences of African Americans. For graduate students with a sharp focus on research and writing.
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AAS 6025 - Seminar in African-American History
4 Credit Hours
Description
Same as HIST 8070 A three-topic sequence which explores the diversity in African-American ideologies, movements, class and gender. Topics vary according to instructor. May be repeated if topics vary.
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AAS 6027 - Seminar in Southern Black Freedom Struggle
4 Credit Hours
Description
This seminar will explore the history of the modern civil rights movement in the South from the decade of the 1940s to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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AAS 6028 - Black Political Participation
3 Credit Hours
Description
Black Political Participation offers an understanding of the historical and contemporary political experiences of African Americans. This course broadly examines some of the major debates within Black politics.
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AAS 6032 - Black Masculinity
3 Credit Hours
Description
An analysis of the social construction of Black Masculinity.
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AAS 6042 - Diversity and Aging
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as GERO 8124 and SOCI 8124. A broad overview of aging within the framework of race and ethnicity in American society. Major issues include minority aging research methodology; theories of ethnicity and aging; and life-course, “life-chance,” and socialization differences among older adults attributable to race, ethnicity, and/or minority status.
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AAS 6050 - African Social Movements
3 Credit Hours
Description
An examination of selected social movements in Africa from the end of the 19th century to present.
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AAS 6052 - Africana Women and Socio Political Change
3 Credit Hours
Description
An examination of gender and power relationships in the Africana World.
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AAS 6056 - Geography of Africa
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as GEOG 6402 An overview of the physical, economic, and cultural geography of Africa, including North Africa. Emphasis on relationships between Africa’s resources, both human and physical, and the development process.
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AAS 6065 - Black Visual Representation
3 Credit Hours
Description
The Iconography of the African Diaspora. This course will use interdisciplinary methods to study racialized iconic figures, the production of their images, and their impact across the world.
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AAS 6073 - 19th Century African-American Literature
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as ENGL 8831 Selected works by authors such as George Moses Horton, David Walker, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Frances E.W. Harper, Booker T. Washington, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline E. Hopkins, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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AAS 6080 - The Black Arts Movement
3 Credit Hours
Description
Examines the Black Arts Movement in its many manifestations including music, literature, theater, and the graphic arts of the period.
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AAS 6090 - African-American Religion
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as RELS 6250 Survey of the development of African-American religion from colonial times to the present, including an examination of both theological arguments and spiritual experiences.
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AAS 6095 - Race, Class and Gender in Contemporary South Africa
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as AAS 4975 In this course students learn how class, gender and racial categories have impacted the lives of South Africans.
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AAS 6098 - Special Topics
3 Credit Hours
Description
This courses highlights a specific issue/topic in Africana Studies. Topics vary depending on the specialty and/or research of the professor or current societal issues of concern.
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AAS 6110 - Black Women and Health
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as WGSS 6110. This course examines the intersections of race, gender, and health with a critical focus on the health experiences of women in the United States with some discussion of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. (Same as WGSS 6110.)
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AAS 6285 - Womanism and Social Change
3 Credit Hours
Description
This upper level course will explore womanism and social change as revealed in the oral histories and autobiographies of women of color who utilize religion or spirituality as a basis for their social justice commitments. This course will investigate activists from the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, Standing Rock, and Black Lives Matter movements amplifying research on queer women and women of color in non-violent social movements.
Global Scholars course.
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AAS 6340 - The Africana Experience through the Documentary Lens
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course provides an opportunity to critically examine the Africana experience through the use of documentary films paired with critical readings.
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AAS 6460 - Seminar in Atlantic World History
4 Credit Hours
Description
Examination of the political, social, cultural, and economic interactions of the inhabitants of Africa, Europe, and the Americas and their descendants. Topics may include comparative conquest, colonialism, geopolitical struggles, commodities, slavery and abolition, race and gender relations, revolution, migration, and 19th and 20th century nationalisms. May be repeated if topics vary.
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AAS 6500 - International Human Rights: Reparations for African Descendants in the US
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course explores the issue of reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States and examines other cases for reparations domestically and internationally.
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AAS 6999 - Directed Readings
1 to 9 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: GPA of 3.0.
Description
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AAS 8980 - Non-Thesis Research
1 to 15 Credit Hours
Description
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AAS 8999 - Thesis Research in Africana Studies
1 to 9 Credit Hours
Description
Faculty supervision and guidance of student thesis research.
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Analytics |
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MSA 7001 - Basic Math for Analytics
1.5 Credit Hours
Description
This is an introductory and review course on Calculus I, which provides the mathematical preparations for MSA students as well as others who are interested in sharpening their math skills. The course covers a variety of topics including functions, derivatives, integrals, differential equations and, infinite sequences and series. Content will be linked to various topics in courses such as statistics, machine learning, and econometrics. May be repeated but only if content varies.
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MSA 7003 - Foundations for Programming
1.5 Credit Hours
Description
This is an introductory and review course on data structures and algorithms, which provide the programming preparations for MSA students as well as others who are interested in sharpening their programming skills. The course covers a variety of topics including algorithmic complexity, object oriented programming, lists, hash tables, recursion, binary trees, heaps, sorting algorithms, and graphs. Content will be linked to various topics in MSA courses. May be repeated but only if content varies.
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MSA 8005 - Mathematical Foundations for Analytics
1 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: Permission from instructor.
Description
This is an introductory and review course on calculus, linear algebra, and probability foundations, which provides the mathematical basics for MSA students. The course covers a variety of topics including functions, limits, derivatives, integrals with single and multiple variables, and some probability foundations such as measures, expectations, and the central limit theorem. Content will be linked to various topics in other analytics courses such as machine learning, statistics, operations research, and econometrics.
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MSA 8010 - Data Programming for Analytic
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: MRM 8000 .
Description
This course builds upon the student’s foundation of programming principles through the introduction of application programming for data analysis. Major areas covered include inheritance and polymorphism, common programming data structures, and file and database access. Students will implement data analysis applications, which will be evaluated according to advanced programming principles. The programming language will be noted in the course listing for each semester.
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MSA 8020 - Data Visualization
1.5 Credit Hours
Description
This course introduces students to basic visualization tools as well as data exploration and data presentation skills.The course mainly covers 3 parts: visualization in R using ggplot2; visualization in Tableau; and advanced visualization tools including interactive visualization, spatial visualization and dimension reduction.
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MSA 8040 - Data Management for Analytics
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course introduces students to structured and unstructured data management methods and techniques. It covers a variety of topics including relational data modeling, logical and physical database design, structured query language, capturing, cleaning and merging unstructured data, and analysis techniques, such as classification, sentiment analysis, clustering and information retrieval. The methods and techniques discussed will be linked to other topics, such as machine learning, and applied to practical analytics problems.
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MSA 8050 - Scalable Data Analytics
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course covers essential concepts and tools for large scale data analytics. Topics include 1functional and parallel programming paradigms and languages, 2core components of large scale platforms, 3scalable machine learning algorithms, and 4real-time data analysis. Programming projects demonstrate design and implementation of large scale analytics pipelines for structured and un-structured data. May be repeated but only if content varies.
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MSA 8100 - Optimization Methods in Analytics
1.5 Credit Hours
Description
This course introduces students to the theory, algorithms, and applications of optimization in analytics. The optimization methodologies include linear programming, nonlinear programming and advanced optimization. Examples and applications in analytics, statistics and machine learning will be discussed. May be repeated but only if content varies.
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MSA 8150 - Machine Learning for Analytic
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: MSA 8010 .
Description
The course will cover theory, methods, and tools for automated inference from data. This introductory course will include (1) supervised learning, (2) unsupervised learning methods, (3) graphical structure models, and (4) deep learning. The course will prepare students in the fundamentals of machine learning, as well as provide practical skills in applying current software tools to machine inference from large data sets.
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MSA 8190 - Statistical Foundations for Analytics
3 Credit Hours
Description
The course covers basic probability and mathematical statistical theory, and provides a basic introduction to linear models, with an eye on application. The course starts with a primer on linear algebra, discussing the solution of linear equation systems, the rank of a matrix, determinants, eigenanalysis, and diagonalization; and basic probability theory, including probability spaces, dependence, random variables, (conditional) expectations, and sampling. It continues with the introduction of discrete and continuous distributions, and basic statistical theory of estimation and inference. Topics include consistency, unbiasedness, efficiency, maximum likelihood estimation, central limit theorem, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.
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MSA 8200 - Econometric Predictive Analytics
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: MSA 8190 or consent of the instructor.
Description
This course introduces students to different predictive models with a focus on real-world applications and datasets. The course covers three primary topics: the analysis of time series data, including estimation and inference for ARIMA models; the set of skills required to analyze real world data, including data pre-processing, data type identification, and different types of models for panel and cross-sectional data; the students will also have hands on experience of working with real world data.
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MSA 8350 - Legal Analytics
3 Credit Hours
Description
Cross listed with LAW 7675. This course introduces students to basic text analytic techniques, including theory and applications of text mining, natural language processing, machine learning, and other methods for managing and analyzing unstructured text data such as that found in legal and business documents. Students will formulate and answer questions at the intersection of law and business by applying these techniques to actual business-related legal texts, such as contracts, disclosures, regulatory proceedings, and judicial opinions.
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MSA 8389 - Directed Readings in Analytics
1 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Consent of the adviser, good academic standing and open to MSA students only.
Description
This course allows for in-depth study of topics of significance in analytics. Examples of topics that could be covered include applications of machine learning to business research, text analytics in law research, research between FinTech and analytics.
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MSA 8391 - Analytics Field Study
1 to 4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Consent of the adviser, good academic standing.
open to MSA majors only.
Description
The field study is a supervised practical application experience, an internship, or consulting experience, culminating in a term paper or thesis. It provides students the opportunity to learn and apply analytics project skills in a complex and professional setting. Students are responsible for choosing their field study topic and presenting a plan of study to be approved by their academic advisor. May be repeated but only if content varies.
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MSA 8395 - Special Topics in Analytics
1 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Instructor Approval.
Description
This course allows for in-depth study of topics of special current significance in analytics. Examples of topics that could be covered include new applications of analytics in areas like financial technology, new analytics technology, and experimental techniques and methodologies. The topic of each offering will be announced in advance, and students may take this course multiple times for course credit as different topics are offered.
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MSA 8500 - Image Analytics for Operations
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course covers essential concepts and tools about how to use images to improve company operations. The course covers topics such as image formation, processing, feature detection and matching, image segmentation, feature-based alignment, image stitching, and recognition. Machine learning methods such as convoluted neural networks will be discussed for classification and optical characteristic recognition. Various applications of using images in business context will be discussed.
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MSA 8600 - Deep learning analytics
1.5 Credit Hours
Description
This is an introductory and review course on historical development of neural networks and state-of-the-art approaches to deep learning. Students will learn the various deep learning methods and will also learn how to design neural network architectures and training procedures through hands-on assignments. The course covers a variety of topics including neutral network basics, deep learning strategies such as GPU training and regulation, convolutional networks, recurrent neutral networks, the long short-term memory and other gated RNNs and unsupervised deep learning. Applications of using deep learning into natural language processing and image recognition will be discussed throughout the course. May be repeated but only if content varies.
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MSA 8650 - Advanced Deep Learning with Business Applications
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: MSA 8100 , MSA 8600 , or instructor approval.
Description
This course uses advanced deep learning methods to explore how to make better business decisions from various data with a focus on texts and images. Text documents and images have proven to be useful complements to structured data in different research fields such as marketing, information management, real estate, accounting, finance, operations management etc. This course studies how to use deep neural network to solve business related problems. May be repeated but only if content varies.
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MSA 8770 - Text Analytics
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: MSA 8010 or an equivalent Python course.
Description
The course will build on established concepts in data mining, machine learning and natural language processing, and on newer developments in the applicability and usability of text data analytics. The course introduces students to the process of formulating business objectives, implementing rigorous text processing techniques, and lastly training, testing, implementing and evaluating various models. May be repeated but only if content varies.
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ANTH 6020 - History of Sociocultural Theory in Anthropology
3 Credit Hours
Description
Historical treatment of the major theoretical trends in anthropology.
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ANTH 6033 - Anthropology of Violence
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course explores the anthropological analysis of violence. Recent social and anthropological theory on violence will be central to the course. We will consider violence in many of its forms, including but not limited to direct violence, structural violence, cultural or symbolic violence, state-sanctioned violence (i.e., armed conflict, torture, death penalty, etc.). interpersonal violence, and gender-based violence.
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ANTH 6040 - Race, Class, and Gender in Global Perspective
3 Credit Hours
Description
Exploration of the various ways that perceptions and designations of race, class, and gender intersect with each other and shape the human experience. This includes an analysis how categories of class, ethnicity, and gender affect daily life for people in multiethnic, stratified societies, particularly in terms of how inequities of access to wealth, power, and resources have emerged on global and local levels. Structural violence is an important theme of many of the readings in the class. The idea of race as a social construct rather than a biological phenomenon is another key topic. We will examine how gender identity and gender roles are shaped by culture. Globalization and immigration, and their relationship to gender, race, and class, are foci of the latter part of the course.
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ANTH 6060 - Environmental Anthropology
3 Credit Hours
Description
During this course we will examine how humans interact with and are influenced by environmental resources, as well as how our actions impact natural resources and ecological systems. Human populations and cultural groups are therefore (re)situated in nature. The course is structured as a survey of the discipline, examining topics such as political ecology, cultural constructions of “nature,” climate change, and biodiversity at both local and international scales.
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ANTH 6080 - Consumer Culture, Social Change, and Ethnography
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course examines anthropological approaches to material culture and consumption: the practices, relations, and rituals through which things from food and clothing to shell valuables or money become meaningful and are used in the organization of social life. Readings include classic works of anthropology and social theory as well as recent ethnographies of western capitalist, colonial/postcolonial and postsocialist settings.
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ANTH 6111 - Anthropology of Self and Emotion
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as WGSS 6111. This course draws upon readings in anthropological theory and ethnography to consider the cultural construction of self-hood, identity, and feelings, with an emphasis on the historical specificity of particular experiences, how they may be influenced by factors such as capitalism, how they may change over time, and the significance of gender.
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ANTH 6112 - Modernity and Identity
4 Credit Hours
Description
Representations of modernity in postcolonial and metropolitan nation-states. National identities and their articulation with gender, race, and class.
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ANTH 6114 - Language and Social Justice
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as GLOS 6114. This course focuses on the linguistic anthropological study of inequality and questions of social justice that arise. From the work of translation in institutional settings that often falls to bilingual children of immigrants to the marked evaluation of African-American English, students will explore how language is integral in processes of exclusion, stigma, and oppression.
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ANTH 6150 - Museum Anthropology
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Grade of B or higher in ANTH 2010, 2020, or 2030.
Description
Museums provide a critical intersection between academic research and the public. This course critiques the mission of museums in a global world and explores how knowledge is conveyed through objects, and how museums can disseminate complex ideas to diverse audiences in accessible and inclusive ways. This course considers the role of museums in identity construction at local, national, and supra-national levels.
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ANTH 6160 - Archaeology of South America
3 Credit Hours
Description
Students utilize evidence from archaeology to learn about the major cultural groups of the pre-Hispanic Andes beginning with the earliest known human occupations more than 10,000 years ago and ending with the Colonial Period following Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire in the mid-16th Century.
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ANTH 6170 - Mesoamerican Archaeology
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course highlights some of the major cultural achievements of Mesoamerican peoples. The class begins with the peopling of the New World over 10,000 years ago and proceeds to cover the origins of agriculture and the development of complex societies from the Olmec to the Aztec. The course draws from the rich iconographic, epigraphic, and archaeological data of the region to explore concepts and specific sites up until the time of Spanish Contact, A.D. 1521.
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ANTH 6180 - Archaeology of Southeastern United States
4 Credit Hours
Description
The appearance of the earliest inhabitants of the Southeast, the development of complex societies, the effects of Europeans on indigenous culture, and the archaeology of the historic period. Students will be required to participate in three field trips.
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ANTH 6190 - Archaeological Practice and the Public
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course explores the many ways that professional archaeologists interact with the public, including through community collaboration with archaeological sites and collections, in museums and tourist venues, and through popular media. It examines how legislation and ethical debates affect archaeological practice, the impact of modern conflict on heritage, and how the past is intertwined with contemporary politics.
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ANTH 6200 - Urban Anthropology
3 Credit Hours
Description
Urban space and social stratification; theories of space, place, and identity; the city in the social imaginary.
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ANTH 6210 - The Anthropology of Europe
3 Credit Hours
Description
Crosslisted with ANTH 4210. This course exposes students to ethnographic research among peoples of Europe, with a focus on Mediterranean Europe, particularly Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain (PIGS) as member states of the European Union (EU), and as nations in crisis.
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ANTH 6220 - Refugees and Forced Migration
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as GLOS 6220. Provides an understanding of forced migration processes (the complex causes, characteristics, and consequences of displacement) and of the “refugee problem” (how international policymakers and scholars have constructed displacement as an object for analysis and action “and some of the consequences of this construction).
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ANTH 6230 - The Archaeology of Death and Dying
3 Credit Hours
Description
This class examines the archaeology of death and dying. Students explore the range of ways in which people have defined death as well as varied cultural responses to and treatments of dead bodies. Students will consider the potential and limitations of archaeological mortuary contexts and interrogate the extent to which analyses of funerary behaviors can inform our reconstructions of past societies.
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ANTH 6240 - Food: History, Ecology, and Political Economy
3 Credit Hours
Description
Explores the cultural histories of foods or types of food that have had major impacts on global political economy, ecology, and culture from the 14th century to present day.
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ANTH 6241 - Sexuality and Gender in Asia
3 Credit Hours
Description
Same as WGSS 6240. Students will be exposed to studies of sexuality and gender in Asia from the perspective of feminist theory, queer theory, LGBT studies, women’s gender, and sexuality studies. Materials explored include academic texts, memoir, fiction, and film. No prior course on Asian studies is required. The course will be particularly useful for majors/minors in Women’s Studies, anthropology, and Asian studies.
(Same as WGSS 6240.)
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