Jun 30, 2024

2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog

2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Film and Media
	FLME 3115 - Screenwriting & Visualization for the Short Film/Video 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Students will develop fiction scripts and/or non-fiction/documentary proposal documents for short film/video projects. Narrative and rhetorical strategies will be explored through characterization, structure, conflict and dialog/voice-over. Course provides an in-depth experience for students intending to make a short film or video in subsequent production courses from the script or proposal developed in the course.
	FLME 3155 - Digital Cinematography 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. A comprehensive introduction to cinematography. The course covers framing and lighting for different film and electronic imaging formats. Out-of-class collaboration is required. Students must bear all additional costs for productions during the semester.
	FLME 3300 - Dramatic Writing for Stage and Screen 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description (Same as THEA 3300 ). Basic principles of generating creative concepts, writing in dialogue form, dramatic structure, characterization, and using page formats for both play and screenplay. Students will write short pieces in both forms.
	FLME 3410 - Making a Living in the Arts 3 Credit Hours Description This course is designed to arm students with the skills they need to successfully navigate the film, television and theatre industries. Students will develop real-world networking skills and best practices. They will learn through doing as they develop a vision, create a plan, and build a website.
	FLME 3600 - Radio/TV New Media History 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description An overview of the history of radio, television and new entertainment media in the cultural contexts in which they emerged and have evolved into the 21st century. Discusses the local, national, and international media environments that influenced broadcasting media forms and charts aesthetic, audience, production, regulatory, industrial and technological developments and the social meanings and debates provoked by programming.
	FLME 3690 - Honors Readings 1 to 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Good standing with the Honors College and consent of instructor. Description Discussion and readings on selected topics.
	FLME 3800 - Media Industries in Culture 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description An overview of how industrial, regulatory, economic, and cultural forces interact in the production, distribution and reception of media texts. Considers the ideological and institutional structures that impact our experience of cultural forms.
	FLME 4000 - Acting and Directing 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: Extensive out of class collaboration is required. Description Acting and Directing for the Camera. An in-depth exploration of approaches to performance for the actor and director of film and television production.
	FLME 4120 - Production I 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: (Special authorization required. See degree requirements.) Description Introduction to film-style, digital video production with an emphasis on story development, basic editing technique and dynamic camerawork as a means to develop directorial vision. Students will produce short fiction, non-fiction and experimental projects. Two lecture and two laboratory hours per week.
	FLME 4125 - Community-Based Media Production 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: (Special authorization required. See degree requirements.) Description Seminar combines service learning and advanced digital video production to preserve stories of overlooked local communities. Two lecture and two lab hours.
	FLME 4130 - Production II 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: (Special authorization required. See degree requirements). Description Advanced course in film-style, digital video and/or film production with additional focus on advanced story development, directing, lighting and sound. Students will pre-produce, produce and/or post-produce fiction, non-fiction and/or experimental projects. Two lecture and two laboratory hours per week.
	FLME 4135 - Digital Cinematography 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: Out of class collaboration is required. Student must bear all additional costs for productions during the semester. Description A comprehensive introduction to cinematography. The course covers framing and lighting for different film and electronic imaging formats. (Formerly FLME 3155).
	FLME 4140 - Serial TV Production 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description The creative, technical, and managerial process of developing serialized entertainment for television as it propagates the Internet, both as audio-visual entertainment and audience response data. Students will learn the development, production, post-production, dissemination, and analytic stages of contemporary New Media television practice by working in teams to produce a serial or episodic internet-based TV show. Extensive collaborative production required.
	FLME 4142 - Writing the Series 3 Credit Hours Description Students will study and practice the essential elements and conventions of writing the series. Students will also develop a Pitch Package for an original web series.
	FLME 4145 - Digital Editing 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Requirements: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description An exploration of editing media through the manipulation of images and sound.
	FLME 4150 - Documentary Production 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: (Film majors only: special authorization required. See degree requirements.) Description Advanced documentary digital video production with a focus on a variety of formal approaches to non-fiction filmmaking. Two lecture and two lab hours.
	FLME 4155 - Producing Emerging Media 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Film majors only. Description Students analyze and produce new media and then create a series of new and emerging media products. Students learn to use new forms of distribution and master promotional tools to build an audience for their work. Two lecture and two laboratory hours.
	FLME 4156 - Media Entrepreneurship 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Students will develop or continue to develop a media concept, business, or technology through an intensive semester-long curriculum structured as an incubator/accelerator. This class will study the convergence of media producer and media entrepreneur while students create at the intersection of media, business, and technology and culminate with a final presentation of the student’s pitch and prototype to media industry professionals.
	FLME 4157 - Cross-Media Design 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Design multimedia stories from the ground up in which movies, video games, websites, smartphone applications, comic books, and other media are equal partners and all elements of a complete story.
	FLME 4158 - New Media Production 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description An exploration of the production visual and audio assets for Internet transmission and interactive media experience, using techniques and forms that best utilize the evolving aesthetics of the digital and interactive media cultures of the moment. New concepts of interactive storytelling in documentary and/or fiction, and for the visualization of characters and their settings will blend cinematic aesthetics with other aesthetic systems.
	FLME 4159 - Computational Media 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description An introduction to the production of creative components of interactive and digital media derived from code and computation that is at the forefront of new forms of personal and public expression. Popular culture in the form of games, websites, interactive television, interactive animation and digital art use computational media, and will be the genres that students will produce.
	FLME 4160 - Fiction Film Production 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Advanced course in digital video and/or film production which focuses on advanced story line development, producing, directing, lighting and sound. Students will write, pre-produce, shoot and post-produce their project, culminating in the creation of short fiction film.
	FLME 4165 - Special Production Topics 3 to 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Supervised experience in individual projects developed out of the student’s professional or vocational interests and responsibilities. There is a fee associated with this course that must be paid on enrollment in the course. May be repeated once if topic varies.
	FLME 4170 - American Film History I 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Discussion of the structural, aesthetic, and social factors that shaped American film from its inception through the classic studio period.
	FLME 4180 - International Cinemas 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description An examination of a specific major international film industry or movement and its contributions to world cinema. Films will be studied in their immediate cultural and larger historical and critical contexts. May be repeated once if topic varies.
	FLME 4185 - Global Media and Culture 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Critically examines the ideological, cultural, economic, social, political and industrial dimension of media globalization, drawing on examples from diverse geographical and cultural locations, and reviews the main theoretical debates shaping contemporary conversations about globalization, media and culture. 3.000 credit hours. Global Perspectives Course.
	FLME 4190 - US Independent Film History 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description An examination of the industrial, socio-cultural and formal-aesthetic characteristics of independently produced, distributed and/or exhibited American films. This course also addresses the validity and usefulness of the “independent” label within the present media context.
	FLME 4200 - Television Analysis 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Examination of contemporary television’s formal-aesthetic traits as well as its shifting position as a cultural, social, political and industrial force. Exploration of how television is being transformed as it converges with other digital technologies.
	FLME 4210 - Critical History of Radio and Television 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description History of television and its origins in radio, focusing on the medium as a technology, an industry, a site of gender and racial representation, a component of American social history, and a cultural forum.
	FLME 4240 - Documentary Studies 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description The history of non-fiction film and production.
	FLME 4250 - Producing for Television and Film 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Role of the producer in television and film. Refinement of skills in developing program ideas, supervising production, and financing projects.
	FLME 4260 - Adapting Literature to Film 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description A study of how one medium is transformed into another based on a close reading of both. Adaptation theory will be included, as well as a consideration of the interim screenplay and the film production process where possible.
	FLME 4280 - Authors and Genres 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Study of genre theory as applied to specific genres such as western, melodrama, comedy, and detective film. May be repeated once if topic varies.
	FLME 4310 - Feature Screenwriting I 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Principles of writing the full-length screenplay for a feature film. Preparation for and writing of the first half of the screenplay. The second half will be completed in the sequence course, FLME 4320 - Feature Screenwriting II .
	FLME 4320 - Feature Screenwriting II 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4310 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Principles of writing the full-length screenplay for feature film, including contest competitions and marketing. Writing and revising the second half of the screenplay begun in FLME 4310 - Feature Screenwriting I .
	FLME 4361 - Sound Design 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Requirements: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description The expressive aesthetics of motion picture sound, its technology and methods of production will provide students the foundations for creating soundtracks for their own films in progress, or for films already completed. Extensive lab time is required. Students must be able to work collaboratively to produce studio and field recordings.
	FLME 4365 - Experimental Media Production 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Requirements: Only students who have met the Film an Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description An advanced production course that explores highly personal avant-garde and experimental media making by any means necessary, including but not limited to: experimental documentary and fiction, found footage/cameraless filmmaking, new media, web video, mobile media, video art, installation, etc.
	FLME 4370 - Visual Effects for Film 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description This course will explore concepts of visual effects for film, television, and games. These concepts will be applied to practical exercises where students will learn to manipulate media through compositing and 2-D animation.
	FLME 4375 - Music Video Production 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Requirements: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description This advanced course explores the history and developing aesthetics of music video through hands-on production exercises and projects. Participants learn about, analyze, and discuss the variety of modes in which musicians promote themselves, express their worldviews, and tell stories through the music video medium.
	FLME 4545 - Social Justice Short Fiction Screenwriting 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 3115 or FLME 3300 /THEA 3300 with a grade of C or higher. Description Students will develop short fiction scripts based on a social justice issue. The course will concentrate on researching and synthesizing the info into an impactful social justice-themed short script.
	FLME 4650 - Media Theory 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Theoretical writing about television and other media from a cultural studies perspective. Critical Thinking Through Writing Course.
	FLME 4750 - Film Theory and Criticism-CTW 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all film majors. Description Film form and techniques; theoretical and critical writing about film; screenings. Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course.
	FLME 4760 - African Americans in Film 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description (Same as AAS 4900 ). Mainstream Hollywood representation of African-Americans and the alternative film portrayals by African-American producers.
	FLME 4765 - Gender in Film and Television 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description (Same as WGSS 4340 ). Examines representations of gender in film and media from a variety of analytical perspectives as a way to understand social relations and cultural practices.
	FLME 4770 - Race and Representation 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Race as theory and method of representation across media and cultural spheres. Emphasis on close analysis of formal and social construction of racial meanings in national and international contexts. May be repeated once if content varies.
	FLME 4780 - Special Topics 3 to 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description May be repeated once if topic varies.
	FLME 4800 - Media Industries 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Technological, economic, historical, political, and social forces that shape the film, television, and media industries.
	FLME 4810 - Media and Popular Culture 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: (For Film majors only). Description (Same as JOUR 4810 ). Examination of mediated popular culture forms from a variety of analytical perspectives as a way to understand social structures and everyday practices. Emphasis on dominant cultural and subcultural readings of artifacts produced by the media.
	FLME 4840 - Computer Graphic Imaging 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description (Same as CSC 4840 and GRD 4840 ). Study the theories, techniques, and tools for creating 3D graphics content. Topics include 3D modeling, camera, lighting, materials, texture mapping, physics-based modeling, basic animation, and rendering techniques (such as tracing and radiosity).
	FLME 4870 - Honors Thesis: Research 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Good standing with the Honors College and consent of instructor. Description Readings and research preparatory to honors thesis or project. This course may include a Signature Experience component.
	FLME 4880 - Honors Thesis: Writing 3 to 6 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4870 with a grade of C or higher, good standing with the Honors College, and consent of instructor. Description Writing or production of honors thesis or project. This course may include a Signature Experience component.
	FLME 4890 - Special Projects 3 to 9 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Nine hours major credit and consent of instructor. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Individually designed project in the area of film utilizing on-campus and/or field resources. May be repeated for a maximum of nine hours.
	FLME 4910 - Senior Seminar in Film 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4650 or FLME 4750 with a grade of C- or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all film majors. Description Senior class standing. An in-depth examination of the relationship between media authors and audiences, resulting in a significant research/creative project. Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course.
	FLME 4915 - Special Production Project 3 to 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FLME 4120 with a grade of C or higher. Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Supervised experience in individual projects developed out of the student’s professional or vocational interests and responsibilities. There is a fee associated with this course that must be paid on enrollment in the course.
	FLME 4960 - American Film History II 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description American film from the post-classical period to the present. Discussion of the semiotics, aesthetics, economics and politics of Hollywood and independent cinema.
	FLME 4980 - Internship 1 to 6 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description Further Eligibility criteria may be obtained from the School of Film, Media, and Theatre Internship Coordinator. Representative field experiences in film and media. This course may include a Signature Experience component. This course cannot be repeated for more than 6 credit hours.
	FLME 4995 - Directed Readings B.I.S.-CTW 3 to 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Requirements: This course may satisfy the junior and/or senior-level Critical Thinking Through Writing requirements. Description Directed Readings designed for Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies students.
	FLME 4999 - Directed Readings 1 to 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Description
Finance
	FI 3300 - Corporation Finance 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ACCT 2101 , and ACCT 2102 , and ECON 2105 , and ECON 2106 , and CIS 2010 , and BUSA 2106 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. B.B.A. students may not register for this course until ECON 2105 , and ECON 2106 , and ACCT 2102 are passed with degree credit. Description This is an introductory course in the financial management of non-financial corporations and the role of interest rates and capital markets in the economy. Topics include the structure and analysis of financial statements, time value of money calculations (using financial calculators), stock and bond valuation, financial forecasting, valuation of income-producing physical assets, determination of the cost of capital, and the profitability of proposed investments in fixed assets, risk-return tradeoffs that must be considered in using financial leverage, and methods used in obtaining funds from the various capital markets. This course is taught mainly through lectures and class discussions of textual materials and problems.
	FI 4000 - Fundamentals of Valuation 6 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 3300 (with B- or better), and MATH 1070 and BCOM 3950 and MGT 3100 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This course develops core competencies that all finance majors should possess. Topics include foreign exchange markets, interest rate risk, term structure theory, introductory option pricing, future markets, valuation, and modern portfolio theory. Quantitative methods are examined in conjunction with each topic.
	FI 4020 - Financial Analysis and Introduction to Loan Structuring 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 3300 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description Students intensively examine financial statements and business characteristics to learn the information content of financial statements. Applications focus on how they can be used to identify the pattern of funds need for a business and the best financing vehicle to meet that need. The primary tools of analysis are financial statement construction, cash flow statements, financial ratios, common-sized statements, cash budgets, proforma statements, sustainable growth rates, and cost-volume-profit analysis. Students evaluate the needs of a variety of companies that differ with respect to type, industry, profitability, growth, seasonality, cyclicality, and degree of distress. The primary teaching method is a case analysis, and a significant course objective is the development of communication skills.
	FI 4040 - Foundations in International Finance 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This course exposes students to foreign exchange risk and develops their understanding of institutional realities encountered by the financial manager in a global economic environment. Activities of currency arbitrage, hedging, and speculation are examined in light of exchange rate regimes, eurocurrency markets, the balance of payments, mechanics of foreign exchange conditions in international finance, and international trade activities. Global Perspectives Course.
	FI 4050 - Apprenticeship in Fintech 1 to 6 Credit Hours Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description The FinTech revolution is creating significant disruption to the financial services sector. Understanding, assessing, and forecasting FinTech’s impact on financial services is particularly important because of the role of financial services in the global economy. The course is designed to prepare you for the workforce through a collaborative training program between (i) the Robinson College of Business Career Advancement Center, (ii) an academic unit, and (iii) a Potential Employer/Project Funder/Project Initiator. You will acquire skills, competencies, understanding, and work experience in the FinTech industry. The course covers interviewing and job preparation skills, soft skills, oral and written skills, technical skills reinforcement, apprenticeship, and presentation skills.
	FI 4080 - Financial Modeling 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This course presents the tools necessary to build advanced Excel spreadsheets for financial decision-making. Topics include financial statement modeling, firm valuation, portfolio construction, risk measurement, term structure modeling, and option valuation. The spreadsheets created in this course will feature Visual Basic Applications, pivot tables, regression analysis, matrix operations, solver, and goal seek.
	FI 4090 - Introduction to Financial Data Analytics 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 3300 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours, CSP 1, 2, 6. Description This course provides the foundation for financial data analytics. The objective of this course is to gain experience in analyzing financial data using modern machine learning techniques, statistical methods, and prediction models. Students will perform data analysis using a statistical programming environment to address a range of financial questions in practice. Students will have hands-on experience in the development of data analytics applications.
	FI 4092 - Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Finance 3 Credit Hours Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This is an advanced undergraduate elective course on artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics applications in finance. Students will develop an understanding on how modern machine learning methods and other analytics techniques can be used to address practical problems encountered in asset management, corporation finance, and financial institutions settings. Students will develop programming skills using Python language for the applications of these methods. The techniques discussed will include tree regression, neutral network, textual analysis, web scraping, data visualization, and model assessment and selection using cross-validation.
	FI 4200 - Introduction to Derivative Markets 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This course introduces students to derivative instruments, which are contracts whose values derive from prices of underlying assets and goods such as equities, currencies, debt, and commodities. The main focus is on the valuation and application of the principal derivative building blocks including futures and forward contracts, options, and swaps. Coverage is given to the market structure and to how these products are specifically used by corporations and financial institutions for controlling financial market risks. The course keeps abreast of global developments and new product innovations.
	FI 4210 - Portfolio Management Practicum 1 to 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Description Registration is subject to instructor approval. Students meet weekly to manage an all-equity security portfolio. Financial decision-making is emphasized through use of quantitative and relative valuation models. Topics include sources of investment information, financial statement analysis, determination of cash flows, equity valuation, technical analysis, behavioral finance, investment policy statement, sector allocation, risk, and performance attribution. Effective presentation and persuasion skills are emphasized. First semester Bloomberg certification is part of evaluation criteria. Second semester Series 65 and CFA Ethics Self-Test are part of evaluation criteria. This course may include a Signature Experience component. Students are expected to repeat this course for a total of 3 hours credit.
	FI 4240 - Global Portfolio Management 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description Using FI 4000 as a base, this course explores the practical aspects of investment valuation and portfolio management in a global framework. The focus is on market microstructure, framework, bond-equity-portfolio management, and overall asset allocation. Practical aspects of portfolio management are introduced through lectures and class discussions of journal articles and of cases.
	FI 4260 - Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, and Trading Strategies 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This is an advanced undergraduate elective course on investment funds including hedge funds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The course will cover their organizational forms, performance, and risk-return characteristics. The course will consider many of the trading strategies employed by funds such as long-short equity, merger arbitrage, relative value arbitrage, and convertible arbitrage. Students will gain skills in designing and proposing risk-appropriate trading strategies to meet client needs. The course will also reflect ongoing developments and changes in markets, demographics, legal environment, regulations, and technology.
	FI 4300 - Advanced Corporate Finance 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This course develops a framework for analyzing corporate investment and financial decisions facing financial managers and introduces students to the tools to make such decisions. Students are introduced to the central issues in capital structure and dividend policy decisions and the interaction between financing and investment decisions. Techniques are introduced for evaluating strategic investments in technology, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and research and development. They also form the basis for the valuation of firms in traditional and new-technology industries and security offerings such as initial public offerings. A variety of pedagogical vehicles are used including problem-solving, case studies, lectures, and group projects.
	FI 4320 - Corporate Financial Decision Making 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This course uses a combination of lectures, case analyses, class discussions, and projects to develop the ability and skills necessary to devise and implement strategic financial decisions within the firm. Students will learn how to bridge the conceptual foundations and the practice of finance to create and execute value-enhancing strategies under realistic scenarios. Specific topics may include the estimation of divisional cost of capital, project analysis, and firm valuation. The course will also cover selected topics such as incentive alignment, corporate governance, and financial restructuring based on current relevance and innovation in the field.
	FI 4389 - Directed Readings in Finance 1 to 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 and consent of instructor. Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This course may include a Signature Experience component.
	FI 4391 - Field Studies in Finance 1 to 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 and consent of instructor. Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description The field study is a supervised, business-site learning experience that provides students the opportunity to learn and apply finance skills in a professional setting. Participating students are expected to perform business-related tasks for a designated number of hours each week, attend educational lectures and seminars, and submit assignments, projects and term papers. Participating students will be selected through a competitive review. This course may include a Signature Experience component. May be taken more than once, but only three credits may be applied toward major requirements.
	FI 4400 - Financial Institutions 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This course examines the major financial management issues confronting depository financial service firms (commercial banks and bank holding companies, savings organizations, credit unions). Specific topics include the economics of intermediation; forces affecting change; legal/regulatory influences; profitability analysis; and management of various risk areas such as interest rate risk, liquidity risk, and capital management. One area not covered is loan analysis since the topic is treated in great depth in FI 4020 . Classroom instruction includes lecture, discussion, and cases.
	FI 4411 - Financial Management Issues in the European Union 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 3300 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This course provides an opportunity to examine the business climate in the European Union with a special emphasis on the Netherlands. Students will gain insight into the financial management 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.
	FI 4420 - The Financial System 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 4000 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description This is a macro-finance course, focusing on the broad issue of funds flows through the entire economy. The objective is to provide students with an understanding of the characteristics of the major financial markets and financial instruments, the identity and nature of the major players in those markets, the forces influencing how funds flow through the worldwide system, and the role of interest rates in the process. While the course does address the role of the Federal Reserve in the financial system, monetary theory and policy are not covered.
	FI 4460 - Foundations of FinTech 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 3300 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours, CSP 1, 2, 6. Description The financial services industries are changing rapidly with the emergence of financial technology (FinTech). The objective of the course is to provide students with an overview of FinTech and introductions to its applications in financial services, such as commercial and investment banking, digital investing, financial advising, and insurance. Students are expected to develop a broad understanding of the recent FinTech development and its impact on different parts of the financial world. Students will also have hands-on problem-solving experiences that can be useful in FinTech applications and innovation. Topics may include but are not limited to: blockchain and cryptocurrencies, smart contracting, P2P lending, crowdfunding, roboadvising, and InsurTech.
	FI 4462 - Blockchain and Business Disruption 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 3300 . Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description Blockchain is a transformative technology in finance and other businesses, including banking, payments, financing, securities exchanges, real estate, insurance, supply chains, healthcare, media, and other industries. This course provides an introduction to blockchain technology and its disruptive roles in business. Students will have hands-on and problem-solving experiences that can be useful in blockchain applications and innovation. Topics may include but are not limited to: blockchain and cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings, blockchain platforms, smart contracts, decentralized applications, applications of blockchain technologies in various business areas.
	FI 4470 - Commercial Banking and FinTech 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FI 3300 or Instructor Approval. Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours. Description Crosslisting: NEX 4003. The FinTech revolution is creating significant disruption to the traditional processes of managing and regulating financial institutions, especially banks. Understanding, assessing, and forecasting FinTech’s impact on banking is particularly important because proper management and oversight of financial institutions are essential to the efficient operation of the national, as well as global, economy. In this course, students will learn about the principles and practices of commercial bank management, bank regulation, and the tradeoffs between risk and return. Challenges presented by the FinTech revolution, including traditional and emergent competitors as well as demographic, social, and technology forces driving change in the industry, will be integrated throughout the entire course.
Fin-Tech Academy
	FTA 4001 - Foundations of Fintech 0 Credit Hours Corequisites: FI 4460 . Description The financial services industries are changing rapidly with the emergence of financial technology (FinTech). The objective of the course is to provide students with an overview of FinTech and introductions to its applications in financial services, such as commercial and investment banking, digital investing, financial advising, and insurance. Students are expected to develop a broad understanding of the recent FinTech development and its impact on different parts of the financial world. Students will also have hands-on problem-solving experiences that can be useful in FinTech applications and innovation. Topics may include but are not limited to: blockchain and cryptocurrencies, smart contracting, payments, digital banking, P2P lending, crowdfunding, Robo-advising, and InsurTech.
	FTA 4002 - Financial Technologies 0 Credit Hours Corequisites: CIS 4002 . Description This course examines the information and communications tools, technologies, and standards integral to consumer, merchant, and enterprise services in the payments and financial service sectors. Explores technology’s role in reshaping FinTech businesses. Technologies span messaging, communication networks and gateways, core processing, mobile and online software, and application program interfaces (APIs). Includes the challenges, standards, and techniques associated with securing systems and data.
	FTA 4003 - Commercial Banking in FinTech 0 Credit Hours Corequisites: FI 4470 . Description The FinTech revolution is creating significant disruption to the traditional processes of managing and regulating financial institutions, especially banks. Digital technology is increasingly altering basic financial intermediation functions such as payment processing, risk management, information dissemination, price discovery, capital raising, and consumer expectations concerning access to funds and the timing of loan decisions. Understanding, assessing, and forecasting FinTech’s impact on banking is particularly important because proper management and oversight of financial institutions are essential to the efficient operation of the national, as well as global, economy. In this course, students will learn about the principles and practices of commercial bank management, bank regulation, and the tradeoffs between risk and return. Challenges presented by the FinTech evolution, including traditional and emergent competitors as well as demographic, social, and technology forces driving change in the industry, will be integrated throughout the entire course.
	FTA 4005 - Introduction to Financial Data Analytics 0 Credit Hours Corequisites: FI 4090 . Description This course provides the foundation for financial data analytics used in business and FinTech applications. The objective of this course is for students to gain experience in analyzing financial data using modern machine learning techniques, statistical methods, and prediction models. Students will develop computational skills to perform data analysis using a modern statistical programming environment, and apply these skills to address a range of problems encountered by business firms, including those in the FinTech industry. The topics discussed include an introduction to R language, visualization of financial data, cluster analysis, simple and multiple linear regression, classification models, high dimension data analysis using Lasso, and model assessment and selection using cross-validation. Students will have hands-on experience in the development of data analytics applications to analyze real-world financial problems.
	FTA 4100 - Intro to Information Security for FinTech 0 Credit Hours Corequisites: CIS 4680 . Description The purpose of this course is to introduce the business student to the rapidly evolving and critical international arenas of privacy, information security, and critical infrastructure. This course is designed to develop knowledge and skills for security of information and information systems within organizations. It focuses on concepts and methods associated with security across several systems platforms, including internal and Internet-facing systems. The course utilizes a world view to examine critical infrastructure concepts as well as techniques for assessing risk associated with accidental and intentional breaches of security in a global network. It introduces the associated issues of ethical uses of information and of privacy considerations.
First-Year Experience
	PCO 1020 - First Semester Experience 1 Credit Hours Description The goal of this course is to promote student success at Georgia State University’s Perimeter College and beyond by providing students with the information, resources, and skills to develop an effective academic plan that will enable them to graduate on time. The PCO 1020 course orients students to the rigors of higher education, emphasizes the importance of degree completion, and exposes students to the college community at large. Within the context of this course, students hone communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills while defining their personal identity, exploring the college community, and formulating academic and career goals for success.
Folklore
	FOLK 3000 - American Folklore 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Regional character of the United States, illustrated by a variety of folklore genres from each region, including legends, songs, customs, arts, and crafts.
	FOLK 3100 - Folklore and Literature 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Literary aspects of folklore relevant to the English major, including oral literature genres (especially the folktale) and ballad and analysis of the uses of folklore in literary works.
	FOLK 4000 - Georgia Folklife 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description European-American, African-American, and Native American traditions of the southeastern United States with a concentration on Georgia, illustrated by materials from the Georgia Folklore Archives.
	FOLK 4020 - America’s Folk Crafts 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Traditional hand skills of North American folk-culture regions including folk arts, crafts, architecture, food-ways and preindustrial technology, their Old World sources, and display in folk museums.
	FOLK 4050 - Global Ceramic Traditions 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a C or higher. Description An international survey of folk pottery from prehistory to today, combining material folklore study, art history, and cultural geography to explore continuity and change in hand-based technologies, societal uses and meanings of traditional clay products and aesthetics and creativity in each group’s tradition. Global Scholars course.
	FOLK 4100 - British Folk Culture 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description The oral, musical, customary, and material traditions of England, Scotland, and Wales, including their regional variation and reflection of major historical currents.
	FOLK 4110 - Irish Folk Culture 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103 with a grade of C or higher. Description Traditional culture from the Celts to the present, including saga literature, farmsteads and houses, music, singing, storytelling, and supernatural beliefs.
Foreign Language
	FORL 3022 - Language Acquisition for World Language Teaching 3 Credit Hours Description This course prepares students to understand language learning processes and current best teaching practices to maximize learners’ proficiency. Students create a portfolio to demonstrate their ability to teach foreign languages at home and abroad, in the public or private sector. Topics addressed include learner characteristics, second language development and assessment, and standards-based lesson planning in meaningful cultural contexts and proficiency assessment. Strategies for marketing second language abilities and teaching are developed.
	FORL 4025 - Approaches to Early Language Learning, Grades P-8 3 Credit Hours Description This course prepares individuals to work with second/foreign language learners in developmentally appropriate ways to maximize young learners’ second language proficiency. Topics addressed are: learner characteristics, child development theories, second language development and assessment, dual language immersion, approaches to effective Standards-based lesson planning in meaningful cultural contexts for grade levels P-8, and edTPA.
	FORL 4026 - Approaches to Language Teaching, Grades 9-12 3 Credit Hours Description Applicable knowledge of learner characteristics, foreign language curricula and standards, edTPA, unit/lesson planning, approaches to effective lesson implementation and assessment in meaningful cultural contexts for grade levels 9-12.
	FORL 4030 - Teaching Diverse World Language Learners - Field Experience 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites: FORL 4025 or FORL 4026 with a grade of C or higher, or equivalent. Description This field-based experience offers students an opportunity to observe and teach diverse world language students in local K-12 schools. In addition to learning about how to differentiate instruction to meet diverse learner needs, students will complete a mini edTPA in preparation for the culminating field experience class.
	FORL 4060 - Teaching Diverse World Language Learners - Internship 3 to 6 Credit Hours Description Internship in Foreign Language Education. This full-time field-based experience offers students an opportunity to hone their teaching skills in local K-12 World Language classrooms under the guidance of a university supervisor and an on-site mentor. Students will gain experience planning, instructing, and assessing for diverse learners. The course culminates with the official submission of edTPA (a national standardized teacher performance assessment), which is required for teacher certification.
	FORL 4061 - Teaching Diverse World Language Learners - Student Teaching 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: completion of all other course in teacher education, and passing score on departmental language proficiency examination. Description Student Teaching in Foreign Languages. This full-time field-based experience offers students an opportunity to hone their teaching skills in local K-12 world language classrooms under the guidance of a university supervisor and an on-site mentor. Students will gain experience planning, instructing, and assessing for diverse learners. The course culminates with the official submission of edTPA (a national standardized teacher performance assessment), which is required for teacher certification. This course may include a Signature Experience component.
	FORL 4062 - Teaching Diverse World Language Learners - Student Teaching 4 Credit Hours Prerequisites: Completion of all other courses in teacher education, and passing score on departmental language proficiency examination. Description This full-time field-based experience offers students an opportunity to hone their teaching skills in local K-12 World Language classrooms under the guidance of a university supervisor and an on-site mentor. Students will gain experience planning, instructing, and assessing for diverse learners. The course culminates with the official submission of edTPA (a national standardized teacher performance assessment), which is required for teacher certification. This course may include a Signature Experience component.

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Course Descriptions

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Corequisites

Course Credit Hours

Prerequisites

FLME 3115 - Screenwriting & Visualization for the Short Film/Video

FLME 3155 - Digital Cinematography

FLME 3300 - Dramatic Writing for Stage and Screen

FLME 3410 - Making a Living in the Arts

FLME 3600 - Radio/TV New Media History

FLME 3690 - Honors Readings

FLME 3800 - Media Industries in Culture

FLME 4000 - Acting and Directing

FLME 4120 - Production I

FLME 4125 - Community-Based Media Production

FLME 4130 - Production II

FLME 4135 - Digital Cinematography

FLME 4140 - Serial TV Production

FLME 4142 - Writing the Series

FLME 4145 - Digital Editing

FLME 4150 - Documentary Production

FLME 4155 - Producing Emerging Media

FLME 4156 - Media Entrepreneurship

FLME 4157 - Cross-Media Design

FLME 4158 - New Media Production

FLME 4159 - Computational Media

FLME 4160 - Fiction Film Production

FLME 4165 - Special Production Topics

FLME 4170 - American Film History I

FLME 4180 - International Cinemas

FLME 4185 - Global Media and Culture

FLME 4190 - US Independent Film History

FLME 4200 - Television Analysis

FLME 4210 - Critical History of Radio and Television

FLME 4240 - Documentary Studies

FLME 4250 - Producing for Television and Film

FLME 4260 - Adapting Literature to Film

FLME 4280 - Authors and Genres

FLME 4310 - Feature Screenwriting I

FLME 4320 - Feature Screenwriting II

FLME 4361 - Sound Design

FLME 4365 - Experimental Media Production

FLME 4370 - Visual Effects for Film

FLME 4375 - Music Video Production

FLME 4545 - Social Justice Short Fiction Screenwriting

FLME 4650 - Media Theory

FLME 4750 - Film Theory and Criticism-CTW

FLME 4760 - African Americans in Film

FLME 4765 - Gender in Film and Television

FLME 4770 - Race and Representation

FLME 4780 - Special Topics

FLME 4800 - Media Industries

FLME 4810 - Media and Popular Culture

FLME 4840 - Computer Graphic Imaging

FLME 4870 - Honors Thesis: Research

FLME 4880 - Honors Thesis: Writing

FLME 4890 - Special Projects

FLME 4910 - Senior Seminar in Film

FLME 4915 - Special Production Project

FLME 4960 - American Film History II

FLME 4980 - Internship

FLME 4995 - Directed Readings B.I.S.-CTW

FLME 4999 - Directed Readings

FI 3300 - Corporation Finance

FI 4000 - Fundamentals of Valuation

FI 4020 - Financial Analysis and Introduction to Loan Structuring

FI 4040 - Foundations in International Finance

FI 4050 - Apprenticeship in Fintech

FI 4080 - Financial Modeling

FI 4090 - Introduction to Financial Data Analytics

FI 4092 - Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Finance

FI 4200 - Introduction to Derivative Markets

FI 4210 - Portfolio Management Practicum

FI 4240 - Global Portfolio Management

FI 4260 - Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, and Trading Strategies

FI 4300 - Advanced Corporate Finance

FI 4320 - Corporate Financial Decision Making

FI 4389 - Directed Readings in Finance

FI 4391 - Field Studies in Finance

FI 4400 - Financial Institutions