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ENGL 5270 - Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy
Studies of writing, rhetoric, and literacy with an emphasis on historical and cultural contexts.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4270
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic and permission of department.
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ENGL 5271 - Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and New Media
Studies of writing, rhetoric, and new media and digital technologies with an emphasis on historical and cultural contexts.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4271
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ENGL 5272 - Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing
Explores language and writing as sites of political contestation in local, national, and global contexts. Examines theoretical debates and effects of politics and history on language and learning.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4272
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ENGL 5274 - Visual Rhetoric
Theory and practice of crafting rhetorical arguments in print and electronic media that depend upon visual exhibits, such as drawings, photographs, tables, graphs, icons, and videos.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4274
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ENGL 5275 - Rhetoric and Technology
Research and theories of the rhetorical construction of technology in history and culture.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4275
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ENGL 5277 - Digital Literacies
Exploration of the intersections between evolving digital literacies and traditional school-based literacies.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4277
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ENGL 5280 - Writing About Place
As writers of nonfiction, students write about specific places by researching their histories and imagining their futures, whether those places are preserved, threatened, stagnant, or revitalized. Through drafting, editing, and multiple revisions, students produce illustrated work suitable for publication consideration.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4051
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ENGL 5290 - Advanced Creative Project
The planning, writing, and polishing of a work of at least 20 pages of poetry or at least 40 pages of fiction or creative non-fiction with the guidance of a member of the department’s creative writing faculty. The final work may be a single piece or a collection of pieces and will evolve under the supervision of the primary instructor. .
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: With permission of department, students who took the course as undergraduates may repeat as graduate students.
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ENGL 5325 - Trauma and Memory in Contemporary American Literature
Examination of selected works that explore national experiences of trauma in the U.S.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4325
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ENGL 5400 - Research, Theory, and Practice of Tutoring Writing
A practicum which educates student peer tutors to assist writers in UNC Charlotte’s Writing Resources Center (WRC). All writing consultants are required to complete this course, which provides an introduction to writing center research, theory, and practice. Coursework explores the history, contexts, and research-based principles of writing centers; the social, collaborative nature of learning; strategies of one-with-one writing instruction; threshold concepts in Writing Studies; composition theory; and current issues in writing pedagogy, such as linguistic justice and accessibility. Significant attention is given to research-based practices for supporting multilingual writers. In addition to completing coursework, students tutor in the WRC for three hours per week. Because this course includes a practicum in the WRC, enrollment is by permission only, following a successful interview with the Director and/or Associate Director of the WRC.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Interview and permission of Writing Resources Center Director and/or Assistant Director.
Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4400 and WRDS 4402
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ENGL 5410 - Professional Internship
Students work 8-10 hours (for 3 credit hours) or 16-20 hours (for 6 credit hours) per week in a placement arranged by the Internship coordinator. Only three credit hours may be applied to the English major at either the undergraduate or graduate level; three additional hours may be counted as a University or Communications elective.
Credit Hours: (3 or 6)
Restriction(s): Permission of English Internship Coordinator; Junior, Senior, or Graduate standing; English major, English minor, or Communication Studies minor; minimum 2.5 GPA; and a course in professional communication (e.g., journalism, technical communication, public relations, public relations lab, or mass media).
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ENGL 5852 - Independent Study
Individual investigations and appropriate exposition of the results. (Unless special permission is granted by the Department Chair, no more than six hours may apply toward the English major.)
Credit Hours: (1 to 3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
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ENGL 6008 - Topics in Advanced Technical Communication
Theoretical and practical exploration of advanced topics in technical communication, including projects in which students write and publish documents by rhetorically integrating text, graphics, and other media using computer aids.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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ENGL 6062 - Topics in Rhetoric
Examination of and/or research concerning selected issues in rhetorical theory or pedagogy.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic and permission of department.
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ENGL 6070 - Topics in English
Selected topics of literature, rhetoric/writing, and language.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic and permission of department.
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ENGL 6072 - Topics in Literature and Film
Selected topics in literature and film.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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ENGL 6073 - Topics in Creative Writing
Selected topics in creative writing.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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ENGL 6101 - Introduction to English Studies
The discipline of English–its nature, its history, and its methods. Emphasis on (1) the interrelations of literature, language, and writing; and (2) the diversity of cultural origins and critical perspectives in English studies, with concentration on selected major critical approaches. Intensive writing and practice in methods of research. Required of all M.A. in English students, preferably at or near the beginning of their programs.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): EDCI 8131 .
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ENGL 6102 - Literary Theory
Modern literary theory focusing on the theoretical concepts which underpin literary analysis. Emphases may differ from semester to semester; readings will focus on major theoretical statements and on criticism which applies several approaches to particular literary works. Students will be required to apply what they have learned.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): EDCI 8132 .
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ENGL 6103 - Introduction to Children’s Literature and Culture
Covers a range of texts for children and adolescents, including both historical and contemporary works.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6104 - Major Figures and Themes in Children’s Literature
Focuses on significant authors, illustrators, or themes in children’s and/or adolescent literature.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): EDCI 8133 .
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic and permission of department.
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ENGL 6111 - Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories
Source materials, textual problems and stage conventions in selected comedies and history plays illustrating Shakespeare’s dramaturgy.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6112 - Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Source materials, textual problems and stage conventions of the great tragedies, illustrating Shakespeare’s dramaturgy.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6113 - Milton
The complete poetry and selections from the prose.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6116 - Technical/Professional Writing
An introduction to the theoretical and practical exploration of key issues and developments in the field of technical/professional writing. Students will write and publish print and online documents by rhetorically integrating text and graphics. Students in the Technical/Professional Writing Concentration are expected to enroll in 6116 as their first or second course in the program.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Graduate or Post-Baccalaureate Graduate standing.
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ENGL 6123 - The Augustan Age, 1660-1785
Close reading of Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and a consideration of other literary figures and trends, in the light of intellectual and historical currents.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6125 - The Romantic Era, 1785-1832
Development of the Romantic movement, with emphasis on the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge and other major poets.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6126 - The Victorian Era, 1832-1900
Emphasis on Tennyson, Robert Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, Newman.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6127 - Seminar in Language, Culture, and Society
Discussions on topics such as the complex relationships between language and culture, how language affects perception and cognition, and how language affects the individual’s sense of self and the group’s sense of community.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Recommended an introductory course in linguistics.
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ENGL 6141 - American Romanticism
Major writers of the 1830s, 40s, and 50s, including Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendental Movement.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6142 - American Realism and Naturalism
Major writers of the two movements before and after the end of the 19th century, including Twain, Howells, James, Crane, Dreiser, Norris.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6143 - American Modernism
Six to eight writers of the period since World War I, both prose and poetry.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6144 - Stylistics
Methodologies for analysis of the style of texts, with special emphasis on diction, syntax, prose, rhythm, voice, and metaphor.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6147 - Perspectives in African American Literature
A survey of African American literature, emphasizing the major authors, those relevant historical and social factors, and those specific literary movements that have influenced the development of African American literature.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): EDCI 8134 .
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ENGL 6160 - Introduction to the English Language
History and nature of English, its grammar, syntax, and lexicon. Integrates the study of language-based rhetorical and literary theory, asks students to consider the nature of language in general, its impact on the user, and the development of the systems of English, concentrating on features of major British and American dialects and registers. Required of all M.A. in English students, preferably at or near the beginning of their programs.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6161 - Introduction to Linguistics
Introduction to linguistics, its techniques and objectives, descriptive and historical approaches, language families, language and culture.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6162 - History of the English Language
Origins and development of spoken and written English, from its earliest forms to contemporary usage, with some attention to dialects and lexicography. (May not also receive credit for ENGL 4260.)
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6163 - Understanding Language Learning: Mind, Identity, and the Sociocultural World
Theories of language learning processes and their intersection with mind, identity, and sociocultural contexts. Credit will not be given for ENGL 6163 where credit has been given for ENGL 4263.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 6160 or permission of instructor
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ENGL 6164 - Comparative Language Analysis for Teachers
An introduction to the theory and practice of contrastive language analysis. Examination of universal features of the process of second language acquisition and the effects of a learner’s first language on the acquisition of a second language, and explore how teachers can use such knowledge to facilitate the learner’s acquisition of a second language.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6165 - Introduction to English for Specific Purposes
An introduction to learner-centered approaches to teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to non-native learners who need to learn English for a very definite academic, professional or vocational purpose.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): EDCI 8137 .
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ENGL 6166 - Rhetorical Theory
Rhetorical theories, past and present, focusing on ways that these varied frameworks of understanding have informed the generation, understanding, and pedagogy of writing and other modes of discourse. Emphases vary from semester to semester, readings concentrate on major selected rhetorical theories and on implications of these theories for the understanding and pedagogy of discourse.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): EDCI 8138 .
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ENGL 6167 - Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
An introduction to the major components of designing and carrying out a research project in applied linguistics.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 6161 or permission of instructor.
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ENGL 6168 - Practicum in English for Specific Purposes
The course provides supervised experiences in teaching in an educational setting outside the public schools with an emphasis on developing skills as an education professional.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of the Graduate Program Director.
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ENGL 6181 - Composition Theory and Pedagogy
An introduction to various theories that shape composition and its teaching.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6182 - Research Theory and Method in Rhetoric and Composition
An exploration of research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, including various methods of conducting research and their implications for knowledge-making in the field.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6183 - Critical Pedagogy and the Teaching of Writing
Explores how ideologies and ideas of literacy shape practices in the teaching of writing.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6195 - Teaching College English
Examination of major issues in the theory and practice of literature and composition instruction at the college level.
Credit Hours: (3)
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ENGL 6274 - Contexts and Issues in the Teaching of English
Examine key concepts of the discipline. In doing so, students consider their own identities as readers, writers, teachers, researchers, and makers of meaning. Emphasizes critical approaches and pedagogical issues, with special attention given to technology in the teaching of language, composition, and literature, as well as cultural contexts for the study of English.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Admission to the Program.
Cross-listed Course(s): EDUC 6274
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ENGL 6495 - Internship in College Teaching
Teaching in one section offered by the Department of English under the supervision of English faculty. Students will be accepted for internship only near the end of the degree program and upon approval of the Department. Students will be assigned to teach selected basic courses, and also will participate in periodic conferences and seminars. It is strongly recommended that students also take ENGL 4400 before ENGL 6195 .
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 6195 .
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ENGL 6496 - Practicum in Teaching College English
Practicum designed to prepare students to teach courses in English studies.
Credit Hours: (1)
Restriction(s): Permission of Graduate Program Director
Grading Method: Graded on a Pass/Unsatisfactory basis.
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ENGL 6674 - Applied Research Methods in the Teaching of English
Provides the opportunity to apply research methods in classrooms. Examine identities as readers, writers, teachers, and especially as classroom researchers.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): EDCI 8121 .
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ENGL 6680 - Seminar in British Literature
Study of a topic in British Literature.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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ENGL 6685 - Seminar in American Literature
Study of a topic in American Literature.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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ENGL 6687 - Seminar in Global Literature
Study of a topic in global literature.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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ENGL 6890 - Directed Reading
An independent study of a topic in English that a student arranges individually with their graduate program director.
Credit Hours: (1 to 3)
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ENGL 6895 - Project
Appropriate research and written exposition of that research, which may or may not be an outgrowth of work done in previous courses. If the project is the outgrowth of previous coursework, additional research and exposition must be done beyond that previously undertaken. Based on a written proposal from the student, the project is directed by a graduate faculty member appropriate to the topic, appointed by the Graduate Program Director after consultation with the student, and defended before three graduate faculty members. It is recommended that project work not be undertaken until near the end of the student’s program. A Creative project option is available for students who have completed appropriate coursework in Creative Writing. A statement of recommendations and requirements for form and procedures is available in the Department of English.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit three times for students in the M.A./M.F.A. dual degree program.
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ENGL 6974 - Thesis/Project in the Teaching of English
Research integrating the fields of English and Education in a theoretical or application-oriented study. If the thesis/project is the outgrowth of previous coursework, considerable additional research and exposition must be done.
Credit Hours: (6)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
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ENGL 6996 - Thesis
Appropriate research and written exposition of that research, which may or may not be an outgrowth of work done in previous courses. If the thesis is the outgrowth of previous coursework, considerable additional research and exposition must be done beyond that previously undertaken. The proposed thesis work, as well as the final product, will be approved by a committee of three graduate faculty appropriate to the topic, appointed by the Graduate Program Director after consultation with the student, on the basis of a written proposal from the student. It is recommended that thesis work not be undertaken until near the end of the student’s program. The thesis title is to be shown on the student’s final transcript. A Creative thesis option is available for students who have completed appropriate coursework in Creative Writing. (A statement of recommendations and requirements for form and procedures is available in the Department of English.)
Credit Hours: (6)
Grading Method: Graded on a Standard Letter Grade basis each term.
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FINN 5158 - Student Managed Investment Fund I
Management of an actual portfolio consisting of a portion of the University’s Endowment Fund. Students are required to take FINN 5159 following this course.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): FINN 3120 or MBAD 6152 , FINN 3222 or FINN 6153 /MBAD 6153 , and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 5158 .
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FINN 5159 - Student Managed Investment Fund II
Management of an actual portfolio consisting of a portion of the University’s Endowment Fund.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): FINN 5158 , FINN 3120 or MBAD 6152 , FINN 3222 or FINN 6153 /MBAD 6153 , and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 5159 .
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FINN 5275 - Enterprise Risk Management
An in-depth discussion of risk management in non-financial firms, including analysis of techniques that firms use to manage risks. Risk management strategies and how they are applied to business problems are discussed. Some of the techniques examined include self-insurance, captives, financial instruments, and retentions.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): FINN 3271 or permission of department chair
Cross-listed Course(s): FINN 4275
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FINN 6058 - Special Topics in Financial Services
Each year, the subject matter of this course deals with a different specialized and contemporary topic of interest to students who are preparing for management careers in the financial services industry. The topics are chosen and covered in a way that builds on and supplements the topics covered in other courses in the Financial Institutions/Commercial Banking concentration. Emphasis is placed on the managerial implications of the subject matter as well as the impact on the financial system.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MBAD 6152 .
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6160 .
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit one time.
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FINN 6151 - Financial Institutions and Markets
Major financial institutions, particularly commercial banks, and their role in the intermediation process and as suppliers of funds to the money and capital markets. Comparative financial policies of these institutions are examined in the context of their legal and market environment.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6151 .
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FINN 6152 - Financial Management
Theory and practice of corporate finance including asset management, cost of capital and capital budgeting, optimization problems and socio-economic aspects of financial management. Computer technology may be employed when applicable.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6152 and MSRE 6152 .
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FINN 6153 - Investment Management
Theory and practice of investment decisions of individuals and fund managers. Topics include: the status of capital market theory, the efficient market hypothesis literature, and a portfolio performance measurement. Standard institutional and investment analysis topics, futures and options markets, and international investment topics are covered.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MBAD 6152 .
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6153 .
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FINN 6154 - Applied Business Finance
Examination of business finance topics which typically confront the firm’s primary finance functional areas (CFO, Treasurer, Controller). The purpose is to develop advanced analytical skills in those topic areas. Topics include: lease vs. buy (borrow); leveraged buy-outs: merger analysis (emphasis on valuation); international operations of American firms (capital budgeting and cost of capital); capital structure; risk management. Such additional topics as working capital management; risk management; and relevant current topics are included as time permits.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MBAD 6152 .
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6154 .
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FINN 6155 - Multinational Financial Management
Financial management of the multinational firm including management of foreign exchange risk and political risk, and the control and evaluation of financial policies of multinational firms.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MBAD 6152 .
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6155 .
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FINN 6156 - Commercial Bank Management
Techniques for the management of commercial banks. Topics include: industry structure, administrative organization, management of assets, liabilities, and capital, and financial analysis of the banking firm.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MBAD 6152 .
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6156 .
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FINN 6157 - Advanced Corporate Finance
Theories of modern corporate finance, including theory of efficient capital markets; uncertainty and the theory of choice; market equilibrium asset pricing models (capital asset pricing model, arbitrage pricing theory, Black-Scholes); theories of capital structure and the cost of capital; dividend policy; and leasing.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MBAD 6152 .
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6157 .
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FINN 6203 - Financial Economic Theory
The fundamental principles of risk pricing and risk allocation in a unified framework. Discretetime model is employed to underscore the relationship between the techniques used in finance and the economic analysis of risk. The objective is to understand the economics of asset pricing and how derivatives and options are used in practice and their limitations.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Admission to the graduate program and permission of Program Director.
Cross-listed Course(s): ECON 6203 .
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FINN 6210 - Financial Elements of Derivatives
Examines the nature and functions of futures and options markets. Topics include: hedging for risk reduction and the role of derivative instruments in the capital markets. Focuses on basic pricing techniques which are derived from no-arbitrage relations.
Credit Hours: (3)
Corequisite(s): FINN 6203 or permission of department.
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FINN 6211 - Fixed Income Securities and Credit Risk
The fixed income securities and portfolios, as well as the theory and practice of fixed income markets. Topics include: fixed income instruments and sectors, duration and convexity, term structure of interest rates, securitization, portfolio management, hedging, and credit risk.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): FINN 6210 or permission of department.
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FINN 6212 - Advanced Financial Derivatives
Multi-factor derivative pricing models. Topics include: the discrete-time and discrete-state models, Ito processes, relevant topics on stochastic calculus, Risk Neutral Valuation, and review of the Black-Scholes model. Additional topics include: commodity pricing models, stochastic volatility models, multi-period discrete-time (GARCH) models, and the interest rate models such as the Vasicek and CIR models.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): FINN 6210 or permission of department.
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FINN 6213 - Risk Management and Financial Institutions
Topics include: How market risk, credit risk and operational risk are quantified; Basel II regulatory framework; estimation of aggregate economical capital; calculation and use of RAROC; and recent bank risk management tools: back test, CCAR and Dodd-Frank proposals. Also addresses recent big losses that have occurred in financial markets and how they can be avoided.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): FINN 6203 or permission of department.
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FINN 6214 - Asset and Portfolio Management
Provides a foundation in investments and portfolio management from the perspective of an institutional investor. Particular attention is given to the issues associated with managing assets of an insurance company. Topics include: measuring and modeling return and risk, expected return models, information ratio, valuation theory and practice, forecasting, portfolio construction, transaction costs, turnover and trading, performance analysis, asset allocation, securities analysis, and the legal and regulatory landscape of institutional investing.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): FINN 6203 or permission of department.
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FINN 6215 - Risk Management in Corporations
An in-depth discussion of enterprise risk management for all types of firms using the firm value maximization approach, including analysis of techniques that firms use to identify and manage risks. Risks are classified as hazard, operational, strategic, and financial risk. Risk management strategies and how they are applied to business problems in a dynamic business environment are discussed. Some of the strategies examined include insurance, self-insurance, captives, financial instruments, and retention.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): FINN 6203 or permission of department
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FINN 6216 - Quantitative Risk Management
The quantitative techniques and tools for the risk management, beginning with basic concepts and methodologies. Topics include: risk measures such as VaR and Expected Shortfall, univariate and multivariate models, copulas and tail dependence in risk management framework, and back testing. Also discusses how to estimate VaR and Expected Shortfall parametrically, semi parametrically and nonparametrically.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): FINN 6203 or permission of department.
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FINN 6219 - Financial Econometrics
Advanced time series with financial applications. Topics include: time series regressions (univariate and multivariate, stationary and non-stationary) and time series models (including ARMA, ARCH, GARCH, stochastic volatility and factor models). Emphasis placed on model properties, estimators, test statistics, and applications in finance.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 6218 , ECON 6113 , or STAT 6113 .
Cross-listed Course(s): ECON 6219 .
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FINN 6800 - Directed Study in Finance
Independent study of a theoretical and/or an empirical problem in a specific area of finance. Topics of the investigation may originate from the student or from the faculty member supervising the study. The student’s work assignments are designed by the student and faculty member who oversees the project of study. The credit hours are determined prior to enrollment and are based on the particular project undertaken.
Credit Hours: (1 to 3)
Restriction(s): Enrollment in M.S. in Mathematical Finance.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit up to 6 credits and permission of the Graduate Program Director.
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MFPA 5123 - Human Behavior in Fire
Individual decision processes and behavior, modeling of people movement, calculation methods for egress prediction, egress design, and fire safety signs and alarm systems.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ETFS 3103 and ETFS 3113, or permission of department.
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MFPA 5132 - Fire and Building Codes, Standards, and Practices
History of fire safety regulation development; building fire characteristics, fire test methods, and fire safety of buildings and structures; contemporary building and fire codes, practices, and their enforcement.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ETFS 3103 or permission of department.
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MFPA 5144 - Fire Protection Systems
An advanced study of various fire protection systems in regard to contemporary fire and life safety problems. Topics include: process of fire and smoke development, principles of active fire suppression and detection systems, hydraulics, automatic sprinkler systems, passive fire protection systems, structural fire resistance, installation and maintenance of fire protection systems.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ETFS 3103, ETFS 3113, or permission of department.
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MFPA 5150 - Human Resources Management in Emergency Services
A study of the context of public personnel fire/emergency services related administration; basic functions of job evaluation and compensation, employee rights and responsibilities; the legal constraints including equal opportunity, health and safety, collective bargaining; government productivity.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
Cross-listed Course(s): MPAD 6134 .
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MFPA 5223 - Industrial Safety and Facilities Management
Investigation and analysis of hazard control principles relating to the management of personnel, facilities, and equipment, including control procedures, work-task analysis, risk identification and countermeasures, safety training, and pertinent safety management techniques.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ETFS 3123 or permission of department.
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MFPA 6000 - Special Topics in Fire Protection and Safety Management
Examination of specific new and emerging areas in the fields of fire protection and safety management.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit.
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MFPA 6103 - Fire Dynamics
Introduces students to fundamentals of fire and combustion and is intended to serve as the first exposure to fire dynamics phenomena. Includes fundamental topics in fire and combustion such as thermodynamics of combustion, fire chemistry, premixed and diffusion flames, solid burning, ignition, plumes, heat release rate curves, and flame spread.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ETME 3143 and ETME 3244, or permission from the department.
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MFPA 6113 - Fire Failure Analysis
Provides knowledge for the development of fire investigation and reconstruction as a basis for determining fire cause and origin and evaluating and improving fire safety design. Accident investigation theory and failure analysis techniques such as fire re-creation testing and modeling are presented.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MFPA 6103 or permission of department.
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MFPA 6120 - Public and Private Sector Interoperability
A study of multi-agency interoperability and the effective organization and management of emergency resources at various fire and large-scale emergency incidents. Includes a review of national standards and federal regulations impacting emergency incident management. Case studies of actual and theoretical incidents will be used to reinforce command and control concepts.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
Cross-listed Course(s): MPAD 6290 .
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MFPA 6124 - Fire Service and the Community
Theoretical concepts of public service to build an understanding of how the fire service fits within the community.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
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MFPA 6126 - Arson
Utilizes lecture and case studies of arson fires that were started for various reasons, including financial gain, revenge and to conceal other crimes. The criminal intent and the psychological aspects of the fire setter are discussed.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
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MFPA 6164 - Fire Science Laboratory
Instruction and hands-on experience with fire-science-related experimental measurement techniques. The objective is to expose students to laboratory-scale fire experiments, standard fire tests and state-of-the-art measurement techniques.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MFPA 6103 or permission of department.
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MFPA 6203 - Fire Modeling
Modeling of compartment fire behavior is studied through the use and application of two types of models: zone and field. The zone model studied is CFAST. The field model studied is FDS. Focus on the understanding of each of these models is the primary objective in terms of needed input, interpretation of output and limitations.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MFPA 6103 or permission from the department.
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MFPA 6232 - Structural Fire Safety
Provides the knowledge needed for structural fire safety design and analysis. Course topics include design philosophies and methods in fire safety engineering, principles of and approaches for structural design for fire safety, behavior of compartment fires, behavior of structural materials in fire, and structural fire safety of typical materials and their components.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ETGR 2102 or ETME 3123, ETME 3244, or permission of department.
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MFPA 6233 - Performance-Based Design
Practical applications of fire protection engineering principles to the design of buildings. Both compartmented and non-compartmented buildings will be designed for criteria of life safety, property protection, continuity of operations, operational management and cost.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ETFS 6203 or permission of department.
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MFPA 6243 - Research Investigation
Opportunities in conducting research to tackle fire safety related realworld problems. With guidance from the instructor, students can work individually or as a team on a onesemester project.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
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MFPA 6244 - Fire Detection and Smoke Management
Addresses the fundamentals and practices of fire detection and smoke management. Topics include: principles of fire detection, fire alarm technology, and contemporary fire detection and alarm systems; principles applicable to the design and analysis of smoke management systems; factors affecting smoke movement; smoke hazard assessment; airflow in buildings, performance characteristics of smoke control and management systems.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ETFS 3103 or permission of department.
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MFPA 6252 - Law and Fire Safety
Responding to natural and manufactured building hazards requires a complex legal environment, including regulation and liability. Key topics include the use of model codes, administrative regulation, retrospective codes, federal preemption, arson, performance based codes, risk based regulation, engineering malpractice, product liability and disaster investigation.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
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MFPA 6255 - Leadership/Conflict Management in Public Emergency Services
The role of the administrator as a focal point in social change and the management of the conflict, which occurs. Perspectives on the negotiation and bargaining process will be reviewed.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
Cross-listed Course(s): MPAD 6141 .
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MFPA 6260 - Organization and Management of Public Fire Protection
A presentation of modern management principles and techniques to the organization and delivery of the array of services that communities have come to expect from the fire service. The traditional and evolving roles of the fire service to protection, prevention, risk analysis and community service are also considered.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
Cross-listed Course(s): MPAD 6104 .
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MFPA 6270 - Budgeting, Grants, Contracts and Finance in Emergency Services
Develops the understanding of strategic planning, contracting and budgeting practices as well as grant proposal writing with the emphasis on contract administration skills necessary to operation of a functioning governmental entity.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
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