May 17, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Course Descriptions


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Corequisites

A corequisite identifies another course or courses that should be taken concurrently with the listed course. A student who enrolls in a listed course with corequisites must also enroll in those corequisite courses. A student who has previously completed a corequisite course may not need to repeat it; he or she should consult with an academic adviser before registering to determine specific requirements.

Course Credit Hours

The total semester hours of credit for each course are shown in parentheses immediately following the course title.

Prerequisites

A prerequisite identifies a course or other requirements that a student must have completed successfully before enrolling in the listed course. Any student who has not met prerequisites for a course may be administratively withdrawn from that course at the discretion of the instructor. It is the policy of some university departments to withdraw automatically any student who enrolls in a course without first meeting its prerequisites.

 

Other Courses

  
  • CNHP 3100 - Electronic Health Records


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Health Informatics Course Fee - $125

    Description
    This course covers the hist0ory, benefits, standards, functionality, security, and confidentiality as well as the impact of electronic health records (HER) in the healthcare environment. Students will have hands-on experience using HER software to complete common work tasks in health care settings. Types of electronic management systems will be explored along with their impact on various areas of the healthcare system.

  
  • CNHP 3105 - Health Promotion and Electronic Health Records


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Health Informatics Course Fee - $125

    Description
    This course provides an overview of health maintenance and health promoting applications used in public health and by the individual consumer. The course includes information exchange issues specific to these applications and the Electronic Health Record (EHR).

  
  • CNHP 3975 - Principles and Motivation of Running


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites/Co-requisites: None.
    Description
    Course Description: This course will examine the principles of running as well as the motivation needed to set goals, reduce injury for a life of running.

  
  • CNHP 4000 - Introduction to Clinical Health Informatics


    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: CNHP 2010, CIS 2010.
    Description
    Thorugh class discussion, guest lectures from health informatics practitioners and faculty, students are introduced to the present and projectted roles of clinical health informatics professionals.

  
  • CNHP 4070 - ADULT AND PEDIATRIC LIFE SUPPORT


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Prerequisites: Current BLS Healthcare Provider.Course Description: The adult and pediatric advanced life support course is designed to develop the participant’s proficiency in providing care during a cardiopulmonary arrest. This course is offered to allow for a more in-depth understanding of the pathophysiology as well as assimilation of the knowledge necessary to carry out various skills required during emergent circumstances. This course will follow all American Heart Association’s recommendations for life saving resuscitation during cardiac and/or respiratory failure/arrest. Participants who complete this course will receive both the ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) and PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) certifications.

  
  • CNHP 4105 - Providers and Vendors


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Description
    This course provides an overview of the environment and activities necessary to plan, select, contract, and implement systems from suppliers in the health care I.T. industry. The course includes information exchange issues specific to these applications and the Electronic Health Record (EHR).

  
  • CNHP 4107 - Usability and Human Factors in Clinical Informatics


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Description
    This course will explore the discussion of rapid prototyping, user-centered design understanding effects of new technology workflow on downstream processes; facilitation of unit-wide focus groups or simulation.

  
  • CNHP 4109 - Training and Instructional Design in Health Informatics


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Health Informatics Course Fee - $125

    Description
    This course will provide an overview of learning management systems, instructional design software tools, teaching techniques and strategies, evaluation of learner competencies, maintenance of training records, and measurement of training program effectiveness. In addition, this component will discuss selecting and implementing Web 2.0 technologies as instructional technologies given a specific platform and training programs.

  
  • CNHP 4110 - Future Trends-Telehealth (CTW)


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Health Informatics Course Fee - $125

    Description
    This course provides an overview of telehealth and the basic knowledge necessary to understand the role of the Telehealth Coordinator in a healthcare organization. This course also serves at a Critical Thinking Through Writing course for the Lewis Schools B.I.S. in Health Informatics program.

  
  • CNHP 4250 - Entrepreneurship and Health Informatics


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Description
    This course introduces the student with the personal qualities of successful entrepreneurs in health information technology. Students will learn techniques in networking, resume writing, social media ethics and self-branding.

  
  • CNHP 4350 - Project Management in Health Informatics


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Description
    This course introduces the student to project management with a focus of systems implementation and to working for vendor of health information systems. The project management process along with its relationship to the phases of the project life cycle are emphasized.

  
  • CSC 2222 - Introduction to Information Security and Privacy


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: CSC 1302 Principles of Programming II with a C or higher or permission of the department
    Description
    With the proliferation of data and devices in our everyday lives, it is critical that security and privacy concerns are adequately considered in the design and development of new systems. This course provides a hands-on approach to a basic overview of concepts related to Information Security and Privacy. The objective is to provide practical experiences to establish a basic competence in a wide array of contemporary information security and privacy topics, including encryption and decryption, software security, network security, application security, access models, and anonymity. 

  
  • ENI 3200 - Innovating a Better Society for All


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    This course introduces students to social innovation and human-centered design as a means to addresscomplex social problems, also known as wicked problems. Through a combination of case studies, guestlectures, design thinking exercises and a culminating team project, students will gain the personal andprofessional skills required for identifying wicked problems and designing innovative solutions which canmake the world better for all. The course will focus on developing three core competencies: (i) Identifyingopportunities for developing innovations which address complex social problems related to issues ofequity, diversity and inclusion, (ii) Identifying opportunities for co-creation and collaboration acrosscommunities, disciplines and sectors as inputs to the social innovation process, and (iii) Understandingthe processes required to design, prototype and implement social innovations.

  
  • ENI 3500E - Decentralized Commerce


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: None.
    Description
    New protocols, tools, and techniques are restructuring the internet into a more distributed,trusted, and self-managing network. Students will master foundational blockchain and metaverseconcepts and explore Web 3.0 enabling technologies. Students will gain the ability to confidentlyuse decentralized technologies like blockchains, fungible and non-fungible tokens, peer-to-peerapps, and more. Students will understand how these technologies are being applied in theentertainment and creative industries around the world and critically assess when Web 3.0technology is advantageous over other solutions both from a technical and economicalperspective.Crosslist: CMIS 3500.

  
  • ENI 3501E - Self and Community in the Metaverse


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Exploring Futurism & Creating Possible GSU Futures in VR & a GSU Metaverse: Students will learn about VR and decision-making in technology through reflecting on themselves, their communities and their responsibilities as technological creators. This course will not necessarily be about technology theory, but rather it will engage students in exercises that allow them to understand how they can be creators, decision-makers and problem-solvers for the future.

  
  • ENI 3770 - Franchising Entrepreneurship


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.
    Description
    Crosslists: HADM 3770.Franchising basics will be explored as applied to a variety of businesses. The effects of franchising on modern business, what defines a franchise, types of franchises and the roles of franchisors and franchisees will be analyzed through real-life franchise examples. The advantages and disadvantages of franchising will be discussed as well as factors that should be considered in selecting the franchise. Raising capital will be explored as well as legal issues particularly as applied to start-up operations. The operation of the franchise business will be explored. Resources on the international, national and regional levels for franchise operations will be included and comparisons between international and domestic franchising will be discussed.

  
  • HI 2000 - Introduction to Health Informatics


    1 Credit Hours
    Description
    Through class discussion, visits from practitioners, and faculty lectures, students are introduced to the present and projected roles of health informaticians.

  
  • HI 3101 - Title: Intro to Electronic Health Records and Applications


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance to the BIS in Health Informatics or BIS in Health Sciences Program.
    Health Informatics Course Fee - $125

    Description
    Course Description: Intro to Electronic Health Records and Applications. This course covers the benefits, standards, functionality, and security as well as the impact of electronic health records (EHR) in the healthcare setting. Throughout this course, you are going to be exposed to hands-on software utilizing EHR Clinic to show you common software applications in a physicians office. Hands-on application of the EHR software will help you achieve an understanding of concepts used in the day-to-day operations of a medical office or hospital.

  
  • HI 3106 - Information Systems and Public Health


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Health Informatics Course Fee - $125

    Description
    Course Description: Information Systems and Public Health. Prerequisite: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor. Course Description: This course provides an overview of how platforms, including electronic health record (EHR) systems, support public health services. It explores public health data, data sources, and challenges regarding information exchange across multiple information systems.

  
  • HI 3910 - Introduction to the Health Care System


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course will introduce and describe the complex health care services system in the U.S. Students will understand how the system developed, how health services in the U.S are organized, managed and financed, and the key issues facing the health care sector.

  
  • HI 3950 - Healthcare Finance Analytics


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS in Health Informatics program or permission of the instructor.
    Description
    The course will cover the finance of healthcare informatics and value-based payments including models under MIPS/MACRA, commercial payer value and fee-for service contracts, grants, pay-for-performance, downside/upside risk and full capitation. The purpose of this class is to assist the student in developing the necessary analytical ability, attitudes, and decision-making skills required of a healthcare manager in changing and transformational environment.

  
  • HI 3970 - Health Information Systems


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Health Information Systems. The course provides a broad overview of the critical role of information systems and informatics in the health sector and its strategic importance to health management. The focus is on the use of information systems throughout the health care sector.

  
  • HI 4100 - Quality and Safety in Health Informatics


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Description
    This course examines processes used to measure, evaluate and improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of health care information. The course includes information exchange issues specific to these applications and the Electronic Health Record (EHR).

  
  • HI 4112 - Title: Telehealth Applications for Health Informaticians (CTW)


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or BIS in Health Sciences program.
    Health Informatics Course Fee - $125

    Description
    Course Description: Telehealth Applications for Health Informaticians (CTW). Prerequisite: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or BIS in Health Sciences program. Description: This course provides an overview of telehealth modalities and technologies and provides basic knowledge for understanding the role of telehealth in a healthcare organization. It also serves as a Critical Thinking through Writing (CTW) course in the Lewis College.

  
  • HI 4120 - Workflow and Process Management in Health IT


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Health Informatics Course Fee - $125

    Description
    Course Description: Business Processes in Health Informatics. Prerequisite- Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor. This course examines the fundamentals of health workflow process analysis and redesign as a necessary component of practice automation in health information technology (HIT). Topics include workflow and technology design, process validation, quality improvement, change management, strategic planning, and the future of Healthcare IT.

  
  • HI 4122 - Title: System Analysis & Design in Health Care


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Health Informatics Course Fee - $125

    Description
    Course Description: System Analysis & Design in Health Care. Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor. Course Description: This course will explain systems analysis and design concepts. It will introduce project management techniques used early in the systems development process. Students will compare structure and agile systems development methods. Students will learn how IT supports business requirements in today’s healthcare environment and describe major IT developments and trends.

  
  • HI 4260 - Title: Professional Development in Health Informatics


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Course Description: Professional Development in Health Informatics. Prerequisite: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor. Course Description: This course will introduce students to career management and professional development techniques and skills needed to navigate the multi-disciplinary field of Health Informatics. Students will learn techniques in networking, resume writing, social media ethics, and self-branding. Students will enhance their interviewing skills and hear from several current industry representatives in a range of Health Informatics careers.

  
  • HI 4270 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH INFORMATICS


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Description
    Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor. This course provides an overview of project management with a focus on health IT projects. It explores the tools and techniques necessary for creating and following a project management plan.

  
  • HI 4450 - Data Analytics in Healthcare


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Description
    Course Description: Data Analytics in Healthcare. Prerequisite: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor. This course provides the foundation needed to understand complex data structures and the requirements for retrieving and analyzing data to address healthcare questions. Students will gain an understanding of the methods, methodologies, and analytic tools required to select and prepare data for analysis. Students will gain knowledge of SAS, R, and Tableau for data querying through hands-on sessions. Students will also learn techniques for data evaluation and visualization.

  
  • HI 4600 - Capstone Project in Health Informatics


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Description
    Course Description: Capstone Project in Health Informatics. This course provides opportunities for an independent study on a topic selected by the student under the direction of a faculty member. Students will synthesize learning in health informatics through a project-based approach, and will work individually to tackle real-world challenges and opportunities within the health informatics industry. Emphasis will be placed on applying knowledge from project management, data analytics, quality improvement and health policy.

  
  • HI 4601 - Health Informatics Internship


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS in Health Informatics or permission of instructor. On-site clinical health informatics experience.
    Description
    This course is designed to provide the senior-level student an opportunity to assist with the planning and implementation of health information technologies in an approved on-campus site or an approved off-campus site. Students perform HI-related duties such as: practice workflow and information management redesign, implementation support, implementation management, technical/software support, HI training and instructional design, enterprise architecture, etc. Students will meet periodically with a HI faculty member to discuss problems and issues relevant to the area of implementing HI technologies.

  
  • HI 4680 - SECURITY AND PRIVACY THROUGH HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor.
    Description
    Prerequisites: Entrance into BIS degree in Health Informatics or permission of instructor. This course provides an introduction to security and privacy as it pertains to healthcare information and healthcare information systems. It explores the impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Informatics Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act on healthcare organizations with regard to information security and privacy measures.

  
  • HS 2050 - INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH SCIENCES


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course introduces the student to the field of health sciences with an emphasis on present and projected health science professions.

  
  • HS 3110 - Rehabilitation Sciences: Interprofessional Research Practicum


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: CNHP 3500 Research Methods.
    Description
    This course will provide students who had previously studied theories of research methods to apply those in a supervised environment. The students are encouraged to observe ongoing research that is being conducted in a laboratory setting, followed by a reflection and evaluation of the procedures and methods that were used as part of the data collection. Students will also be provided anonymized data sets on which they will be given the opportunity to run statistical analysis and be able to interpret the data using both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The observed research will primarily be cross-sectional studies that are performed on healthy human subjects, and therefore, they will required to complete the research ethics and compliance training as part of this course prior to commencing their research observation. The course is aimed at improving students research skills and develop skills in both interpreting and presenting the data.

  
  • HS 3115 - Rehabilitation Sciences: Early Childhood Rehabilitation


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course will provide an overview of typical development from infancy to adolescence, in all developmental domains, with a focus on motor development, and how pediatric physical therapists use typical development concepts to screen or evaluate infants or children with atypical development. Emphasis is placed on the principles, processes, and phases or growth. This course is conducted partially online to facilitate students active learning and students are expected to follow the designated deadline to complete each online module. Students will require to observe different rehabilitation settings to understand how pediatric physical therapists use developmental concepts to screen, evaluate and facilitate infants or children with atypical development or clinical diagnosis improve their motor function.

  
  • HS 3120 - Introduction to Pharmacology for Health Professions


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites/Corequisites: Intro to BIS in Health Sciences program or permission of instructor.
    Description
    Course Description: This course will introduce students to general concepts and principles of pharmacology, including fundamentals of drug actions at the molecular level, the major classes of drugs, and mechanisms of action and therapeutic indications of drugs within the major drug classes.

  
  • HS 3300 - Human Services Policy, Planning and Trends


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: BIS in Health Sciences Major.
    Description
    This course focuses on the complex forces that influence health policy and program planning. Emphasis is placed on ecological, economic, ethical, legal, and social issues. Crosslisted with NURS 3300.

  
  • HS 4001 - Global Health- Study Abroad


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Exploratory major or acceptance to a Lewis College professional program.
    Description
    The primary purpose of this program is to increase the global competency and cultural communication skills of students and faculty, as well as to understand the social and medical history of disease and healthcare. This course will help prepare Georgia State University students to excel within increasingly global healthcare systems. Students will have a greater appreciation for cultural diversity, and will investigate how healthcare professionals have sought to contain, control, treat, and cure different health conditions.

  
  • HS 4025 - Complementary and Alternative Pharmacological Health and Wellness


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: CNHP 2010.
    Description
    This course provides an overview of pharmacological agents and drugs which are commonly used to complement prescription drugs or are used as an alternative to prescription drugs.

  
  • HS 4115 - Signature Experience for Interprofessional Rehab Sciences


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course will focus on exposing students to various technologies that are utilized across health care professions. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the role technology plays in the rehabilitation of individuals with various disabilities and/or conditions and how technology can support continued participation in valued activities. Students may also learn how advancements in technology continue to support student learning opportunities. Students will integrate knowledge gained throughout the course by designing and/or developing a technological device to address an unmet need for a given individual or population.

  
  • HS 4125 - Rehabilitation Sciences: Caring for the Community from an Interprofessional Approach


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course examines an interprofessional approach to community practice that promotes the health and wellbeing for at-risk, underserved, and marginalized populations. Through a review of multidisciplinary evidence-based practices, students will develop an understanding of approaches that promote health and wellbeing at the individual, group, and population level within communities. Additionally, there will be a focus on current community health issues.

  
  • HS 4790 - Directed Readings in Health Sciences


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: CNHP 3000, CNHP 3500.
    Description
    This course is designed to provide a broad overview of topics within the discipline of health sciences. Readings from textbooks, journals and scientific literature will be assigned.

  
  • INEX 1000 - INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PLACEHOLDER


    0 Credit Hours
    Description
  
  • INEX 2000 - INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PLACEHOLDER


    1 Credit Hours
    Description
  
  • INEX 3000 - INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PLACEHOLDER


    1 Credit Hours
    Description
  
  • INEX 4000 - INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PLACEHOLDER


    1 Credit Hours
    Description
  
  • PHPH 4200 - ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Students will be introduced to these topics through current and historical case studies. While focused mainly in the United States, international cases and perspectives are also studied.

  
  • RCB 2000 - TEST


    1 Credit Hours
    Description
    Test 2.0

  
  • STAT 4650 - Introduction to Statistical and Mathematical Image Analysis


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: MATH 4751 or MATH 6751 with a grade of C or higher; Ability to program in a high-level language is helpful, but not required. Matlab or python is recommended.
    Description
    Fundamentals of image processing, including image digitization, description, enhancement, segmentation, registration, image transforms, filtering, interpolation, and spatial correlation. Concepts are illustrated and analyzed with concrete examples of applications to practical situations, including examples from industrial and biomedical image processing.

  
  • STAT 4770 - Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: MATH 4548 or MATH 6548, MATH 4752 or MATH 6752, and the ability to program in R.
    Description
    This course is an introduction to fundamental ideas in multivariate statistical analysis using case studies. Topics covered includes descriptive, exploratory, and graphical techniques; introduction to cluster analysis, principal components, factor analysis, discriminant analysis, Hotelling’s T2 and other methods. Applications include the use of a statistical computer package.


Accounting

  
  • ACCT 2101 - Principles of Accounting I


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Principles of Accounting I is an introduction to the principles of financial accounting. The course focuses on analyzing business transactions to chart their effects on the results of operations, the cash flows, and the financial position of businesses organized for profit. Emphasis is on using financial information from a decision-making perspective to optimize the outcomes of business decisions. Topics include recording, reporting, and analyzing assets, liabilities, stockholders’ equity, revenues, and expenses.

  
  • ACCT 2102 - Principles of Accounting II


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACCT 2101.
    Description
    Principles of Accounting II is an introduction to the principles of managerial accounting. Emphasis is given to the development and use of accounting information to support managerial decision-making in manufacturing, service, and merchandising operations. Topics include managerial concepts and systems, analyses for decision making, and planning and control.

  
  • ACCT 4101 - Essentials of Financial Reporting I


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACCT 2101 and ACCT 2102 with a grade of C or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.In this course students will learn how to value and record operating activities in the accounting cycle, analyze data to provide insights about business operations and performance, and apply critical thinking to support evidence-based conclusions including ethical dimensions.

  
  • ACCT 4102 - Essentials of Financial Reporting II


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: ACCT 4101 and BCOM 3950 with a grade of C- or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.In this course students will learn how to identify, analyze and record the assets, liabilities and equity of an enterprise, account for and report complex business transactions and disclosures, apply financial accounting theory, professional standards and judgment to real world business transactions, and analyze firm performance using financial accounting information.

  
  • ACCT 4210 - Cost / Managerial Accounting


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACCT 2101 and ACCT 2102 with grade of C or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.Students study the information needed by managers to plan, monitor, and improve their critical processes, products, and services. This course stresses the application of information technologies to tasks such as measuring costs to produce, market, and deliver products and services; planning via flexible budgets and cost-volume-profit analysis; implementing activity-based management systems; and measuring and performance. Students communicate implications of their analyses to stakeholders using database, spreadsheet, and word processing skills.

  
  • ACCT 4310 - Accounting Information Systems


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: CIS 2010, MGT 3100, and ACCT 4210 with grade of C- or higher
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.This course develops skills required by accountants as users, managers, designers, and evaluators of information systems in business environments. The skills include choosing, extracting, and analyzing information to solve business problems, modeling technology-enabled business processes, and evaluating internal control in business environments.

  
  • ACCT 4389 - Directed Readings in Accounting


    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACCT 2101, and ACCT 2102 with grade of B or higher, and consent of instructor.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.This course may include a Signature Experience component. This course may include a Signature Experience component.

  
  • ACCT 4391 - Field Study in Accounting (May be repeated once)


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACCT 4112 with a 3.0 GPA or higher and enrolled as an under- graduate accounting major and consent of instructor.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.The field study is a supervised, employer-site learning experience. In this experience, students have the opportunity to apply accounting skills in a professional setting. Students must consult with the instructor or with the School of Accountancy’s Undergraduate Program Coordinator before registering to determine whether their employment internship experiences will qualify for credit. This course may include a Signature Experience component. This course may include a Signature Experience component. (May be repeated once.)

  
  • ACCT 4411 - Financial Reporting Issues in the European Union


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: ACCT 2101 and ACCT 2102.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.This course provides an opportunity to examine the business climate in the European Union with a special emphasis on the Netherlands. The course emphasizes the financial reporting aspects of a business. Students will gain insight into the financial reporting of small and medium sized businesses in the Netherlands as well as European multinationals and U.S. multinationals operating in the Netherlands. Students will learn the benefits of being in the European Union and how it facilitates the movement of money, people, goods and providing services across countries in the European Union.

  
  • ACCT 4510 - Introduction to Federal Income Taxes


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACCT 4101 with a grade of C- or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.This course introduces students to the federal tax concepts applicable to sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, estates, and trusts. Emphasis is placed on differences between tax and financial accounting concepts. In addition, students are exposed to accounting periods and methods, deferred compensation, tax planning, ethical practices, and tax research.

  
  • ACCT 4610 - Introduction to Assurance Services


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACCT 4102 and ACCT 4310 with a grade of C- or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.This course develops students’ knowledge of auditing, attest, and assurance services in traditional and e-business environments. Topics include the role of such services in society, evidence relevance and reliability, materiality, risk and control, information integrity, and methods of verification.

  
  • ACCT 4750 - Technology and Values in the Accounting Profession


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 1070, ACCT 4101 and ACCT 4102 with a grade of C- or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours. The objective of this capstone course is to prepare the undergraduate student in accounting for a professional career of technological and cultural change. This course focuses on creating, managing, and controlling such change to achieve superior performance. It uses an economic decision-making approach to demonstrate the value of recent information technologies and the importance of maintaining social and professional norms.

  
  • ACCT 4810E - Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Decisions and Disclosures of Business


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisites: None.
    Description
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.The objective of this course is provide students familiarity with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decisions and disclosures for business. Topics include defining E, S, and G outcomes; discussing the regulatory framework about ESG disclosures; understanding ESG ratings; and assessing the current debate on ESG. As part of the course evaluation, students will analyze a sustainability report issued by a company.


Acting

  
  • ACT 1701 - Theater Practicum


    1 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as THEA 1701). (Same as THEA 1701).This course is participation as a performer in theatre productions (full length plays or musicals. produced as part of the fine arts season). Audition required in advance.

  
  • ACT 2100 - Play Analysis for Production


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as THEA 2100).This course includes a textual analysis of play scripts, with an emphasis on the perspective of the practitioner of theatre for production purposes.

  
  • ACT 2210 - Beginning Acting


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as THEA 2210).The fundamentals of acting theories and techniques are taught through improvisation, character development, monologue, and scene-work.

  
  • ACT 3210 - Advanced Acting


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACT 2210 or THEA 2210 with a grade of C or higher.
    Description
    (Same as THEA 3210). (Same as THEA 3210). Continuation of the study of the theories of acting with practice in applying techniques and skills.

  
  • ACT 4000 - Acting/Directing for the Camera


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACT 2210 or THEA 2210 with a grade of C or higher.
    FMT Lab Fee - $75

    Description
    (Same as FLME 4000  and THEA 4000 ). (Same as FLME 4000 and THEA 4000). An in-depth exploration of approaches and the relationship to performance for the actor and director of film and television production. Course fee attached.

  
  • ACT 4100 - Acting for Film Techniques


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACT, THEA or FLME 4000 with a grade of C- or higher.
    Description
    Advanced acting techniques for the actor to develop skill in acting on camera. Specific topics will change. Course is repeatable three times for 12 credit hours toward degree credit to be used in the Major, Allied Field, or Electives areas of the degree. 3 Course is repeatable three times for 12 credit hours toward degree credit to be used in the Major, Allied Field, or Electives areas of the degree.

  
  • ACT 4210 - Acting Techniques


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACT 3210 with a grade of C or higher.
    Description
    (Same as THEA 4210). (Same as THEA 4210). Advanced acting techniques for the creation and performance of various dramatic forms. Specific topics will change. Can be repeated for a maximum of twelve (12) hours, if topics vary.

  
  • ACT 4211 - Movement Techniques for Actors


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACT 3210 with a grade of C- or higher.
    Description
    Advanced movement techniques for the actor to develop skill in utilizing the actor’s body in performance. Specific topics will change. Course is repeatable three times for 12 credit hours toward degree credit to be used in the Major, Allied Field, or Electives areas of the degree. 3 Course is repeatable three times for 12 credit hours toward degree credit to be used in the Major, Allied Field, or Electives areas of the degree.

  
  • ACT 4212 - Voice Techniques for Actors


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACT 3210 with a grade of C- or higher.
    Description
    Advanced vocal techniques for the actor to develop skill in utilizing the actors voice in performance. Specific topics will change. Course is repeatable three times for 12 credit hours toward degree credit to be used in the Major, Allied Field, or Electives areas of the degree. 3 Course is repeatable three times for 12 credit hours toward degree credit to be used in the Major, Allied Field, or Electives areas of the degree.

  
  • ACT 4255 - Voice and Movement


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACT 3210 with a grade of C or higher.
    Description
    (Same as THEA 4255). (Same as THEA 4255). Advanced acting techniques for the creation and performance of various dramatic forms focusing on Vocal Techniques and Movement Theory.

  
  • ACT 4355 - Devising Theatre


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ACT 3210 with a grade of C- or higher.
    Description
    Devising technique for the creation and performance of original dramatic content. 3

  
  • ACT 4860 - Special Topics


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Special topics in theatre performance and playwriting.


Africana Studies

  
  • AAS 1141 - Introduction to African and African American History to 1865


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An introductory survey of African-American History that provides engagement with significant topics, themes and issues in the African American experience from pre-colonial Africa, through enslavement in North America.

  
  • AAS 1142 - Introduction to African American History Since 1865


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An introductory survey of African-American History that provides engagement with significant topics, themes and issues in the African American experience from Reconstruction into the present. (Same as HIST 1142.)

  
  • AAS 2010 - Introduction to Africana Studies


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Intellectual and social origins of African-American Studies. Key concepts, themes, and theories of the discipline.

  
  • AAS 2140 - African American Literature


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: English 1101 with a C or higher.
    Description
    Historical survey of English-language literature by people of African descent in the Americas, particularly in the U.S., with consideration of literary genres, conventions, and modes. Issues such as periodization, canon formation, national identity, and the interrelationships between literature and other elements of culture will be explored.

  
  • AAS 3000 - African-American Family


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as SOCI 3162. Contemporary theories and research of the African-American family.

  
  • AAS 3010 - Narratives of Race, Gender and Sexuality: Quare Readings


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Focuses on recognizing and employing various reading practices and themes of intersectionality within a number of literary narratives.

  
  • AAS 3020 - Themes in Afro-Latin American and -Latinx Studies


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach in examining the cultural and historical implications of Black life in the context of the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. A close examination of a variety of cultural productions produced by or about people of African descent with identity connections to Latin America. Through the study of cultural expressions of Blackness throughout different regions of the Americas, students consider the relationship that social and historical processes such as national sovereignty and colonialism have on cultural and artistic production made by and about Afro-descent individuals. (Same as WLC 3010 and WGSS 3020.)

  
  • AAS 3050 - Introduction to African-American Psychology


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010, AAS 1140, AAS 1141, AAS 1142, HIST 1140, HIST 1141, or HIST 1142 with a D or higher.
    Description
    Same as PSYC 3520. Examination of theory and research pertaining to African-American psychology. Special emphasis on the Afrocentric perspective.

  
  • AAS 3070 - African-Americans in the Criminal Justice System


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An examination of the relationship between the African-American community and the criminal justice system.

  
  • AAS 3120 - African Diaspora


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010, AAS 1140, AAS 1141, AAS 1142, HIST 1140, HIST 1141, HIST 1142, or ANTH 2020 (each with a D or higher).
    Description
    Same as ANTH 3120. Investigates the dispersal, growth, and influence of people of African descent throughout the world. A comparative analysis of historical, political, cultural, economic, and social development of the African diaspora. Global Scholars course.

  
  • AAS 3124 - Diversity and Aging


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as GERO 3124  and SOCI 3124. This course examines aging as a social process and focuses on the influence of ethnicity and race, as well as other key social relations in shaping the life course. We will define and examine diversity and disparity and consider many of the socio-cultural factors that give rise to differences across the life course and in later life.

  
  • AAS 3212 - Race & Ethnic Relations


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    The major processes and outcomes that occur when racial or ethnic groups interact. Topics studied are the nature of racism, prejudice, discrimination, cultural pluralism, assimilation, integration, segregation, and immigrant adjustment patterns, as well as methods of resolving problems associated with these phenomena. Global Scholars course. (Same as SOCI 3212).

  
  • AAS 3240 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Origins, adaptations, and contemporary social, economic, political, and belief systems of the indigenous and mixed populations of Africa. Global Scholars course.

  
  • AAS 3450 - History of African-Americans in Georgia


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examination of the political, economic, and social development of African-Americans in Georgia.

  
  • AAS 3500 - Jazz History


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as Mus 3500. Study of the development of jazz from its origins to current trends including stylistic periods such as New Orleans, swing, bop, cool, avant garde, and fusions. Emphasis on evolution of form, improvisational style, and influential artists.

  
  • AAS 3670 - Social Justice in Sports


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course examines the impact that sports activism has had on global issues. Global Scholars course.

  
  • AAS 3750 - Race and Racism


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as PHIL 3750. Study of philosophical issues related to race and racism. Topics may include philosophical analysis of concepts such as oppression, race, racism, discrimination, and stereotyping as well as critical investigation of practices and institutions related to racism and ending it, such as the ethics of racial profiling, racism and mass incarceration, and racism and social integration.

  
  • AAS 3810 - History of African-American Music


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as MUA 3810. History and styles of African-American music.

  
  • AAS 3880 - African-American Literature


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as ENGL 3950. History and development of African-American literature, with emphasis on major writers.

  
  • AAS 3960 - African-American Literature by Women


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as ENGL 3960  and WGSS 3960. Survey of literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Includes such authors as Wilson, Wheatley, Larsen, Hurston, Dove, Hansberry, and Morrison.

  
  • AAS 3975 - Concepts and Theories in Africana Studies


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Either AAS 1140, AAS 1141, or AAS 1142; and AAS 2010 and AAS 3120, each with a C or instructor approval.
    Description
    Examination of the major concepts and theoretical orientations used in Africana Studies.

  
  • AAS 3980 - Research Methods in Africana Studies-CTW


    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010 with a C or higher.
    Description
    Qualitative and quantitative research techniques employed to generate knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of Africana Studies.

  
  • AAS 4000 - Issues in the African-American Community


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as SOCI 4310. Examination of the impact of major societal issues on the African-American community.

  
  • AAS 4010 - Civic Engagement in Africana Studies


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An experiential course where students develop civic responsibility and utilize their skills and talents to the service of community organizations with the specific goal of helping to empower them to address African American and broader community needs. This course may include a Signature Experience component.

  
  • AAS 4030 - African-American Relationships


    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Same as SOCI 4311. Explores historical, social, psychological, and economic factors affecting African-American relationships. Issues include negative images and stereotypes, color, beauty and pornography, sex-gender and role identity, consumerism and narcissism, and employment.

 

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