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COM 2205 - Public Speaking Credits: 4.00
Students will learn to compose and deliver oral extemporaneous speeches and presentations by selecting and organizing ideas, supporting ideas logically, backing claims with research, adapting to specific audiences, and delivering messages effectively using appropriate nonverbals. The course will be informed by various communication theories. Emphasis is placed on developing skills in persuasion, critical thinking, and information literacy.
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COM 2210 - Basic Video Editing Credits: 4
This course is designed to teach the theory and practice of digital video editing including capturing images and sound; manipulating them on a time line; designing titles, transitions, and effects; and finally outputting the project tape, web or DVD. Each student is required to script, shot-list, cast, and shoot a short, original narrative, and then electronically manipulate the sound and images to explore the vast flexibility of the medium, gain a greater understanding of how an editor generates causality, and develop a recognition of the connection between one’s own edit technique and successful story telling.
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COM 2250 - Television Production Credits: 4
This course focuses on the pre-production, production, and post-production aspects of television. Specific emphasis is on lighting, filming, editing, and writing. Students are included in the creation of a weekly television show.
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COM 2251 - Audio Production Credits: 4.0
This lecture/lab is an introduction to the concepts and techniques necessary to record, edit, mix, and master quality audio for cinema, radio, television, and the web. Emphasis on basic audio signal flow; the evolution of audio art and technology; and how dialog, sound effects, ambience, and music serve the narrative process.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites Second-semester first-year standing, or above
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COM 2265 - Special Topics in Communication Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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COM 2295 - Internship in Communication Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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COM 2298 - Independent Studies in Communication Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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COM 3105 - Relational Communication Credits: 4.00
This course explores how we affect, and are affected by, the personal relationships that we create, maintain, and sometimes terminate. Specific topics include significant others, the media, sexuality, social support, abusive
relationships, romance, friendships, family.
Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
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COM 3310 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism Credits: 4
This course looks at the modes of persuasion from the earliest recorded oral cultures to today’s electronic media, as well as provides an introduction to rhetorical criticism. Topics include how meaning, especially persuasive meaning, is constructed symbolically and how to critique a rhetorical text. Activities will enable students to better understand the workings of rhetoric in everyday life and give opportunities to improve their ability to discern the rhetorical intent in messages.
Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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COM 3320 - Communication and Interactive Media Credits: 4
Communication and Interactive Media examines how information and communication technology affect the nature and the quality of human communication. The course specifically addresses how use of technology influences the free flow of information, access to and construction of information, online relational development, and online community development. The course is theory and research based and students will be expected to reflect and draw upon their own experiences with technology.
Prerequisites Communication 2203 and 2204
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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COM 3326 - Organizational Communication Credits: 4
An examination of the communicative practices employed by organizations in their internal and external activities. Topics include: historical and current approaches to the study of organization communication; the development and application of theory to organizational communication problems; research methods used to evaluate organizations and their communicative practices. Students conduct on-site field studies and prepare written and oral presentations of their findings.
Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
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COM 3330 - Film Analysis Credits: 4
An advanced formal analysis of image, sound, montage and narrative of cinematic artifacts from a particular region, movement, era, auteur, or genre using a variety of theoretical, critical, and socio-historical perspectives. This course includes a weekly three-hour film viewing session.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites Communication 1104; Junior or Senior standing
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COM 3332 - Media Analysis and Criticism Credits: 4
Rather than passive spectators, audiences actively interpret media messages. This class examines the complex dialogue in the U.S. corporate commercial media system among media producers telling their fiction and nonfiction stories, commercial interests looking to make a profit, and individuals seeking information, entertainment and identity. We examine the social role of media with a focus on the symbolic nature of media messages. Rooted in a political economy theory of media and drawing from critical theories and postmodernist perspectives, approaches include semiotics, structuralist, narrative, and ideological analyses.
Prerequisites Communication 1103
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COM 3333 - Fiction Into Film Credits: 4
The process by which film adapts literary works. The course considers adaptations from short fiction, novels, and dramatic literature; exploring the formal traits unique to each individual genre, the formal traits shared by more than one genre, and the capacity of film adaptation to retain and transform narrative content. Students will write critical essays and a film script adapted from a piece of short fiction. The course includes a weekly three-hour film viewing session.
Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
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COM 3334 - Semiotics Credits: 4
Symbols and signs occur in systems and relate to each other within those systems. Film editing techniques and television schedules provide structures in which symbols appear. Viewers interpret the signs and symbols in television and film, usually outside their conscious awareness. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and structures in which they appear, and how we make sense of them.
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COM 3337 - Scriptwriting Credits: 4
The principles, techniques, and requirements of scriptwriting. These are developed through the analysis of existing materials and through the construction and composition of original scripts.
Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
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COM 3338 - European Film Art Credits: 4
Theoretical approaches to the study of film, the analysis of film making techniques and styles with reference to the roots of European film (Fritz Lang, Eisenstein, and the early work of Bunuel), but focusing on the important schools and trends of European cinema in the post-war period. Subjects include the major works of leading film directors, such as Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni, Bunuel, Truffaut, Godard, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, and Tarkovsky.
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression
(taught only on the Budapest Campus)
Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
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COM 3351 - Gender in Communication Credits: 4
This course examines current research from a critical cultural theoretical perspective on the role gender plays in communication, and how communication works to construct the notions of masculinity and femininity. Considering gender construction particularly in relation to power, we look at, for example, how language helps enshrine ways we talk and think about the sexes, how gendered behaviors like masculine violence and feminine submission become institutionalized, how pop culture and advertising circulate the messages of appropriate gendered behaviors throughout the media, and how cultural institutions like family, schools, sports, religion and the workplace reinforce gendered communication.
Prerequisites Communication 1102 and 1130
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural
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COM 3352 - Intercultural Communication Credits: 4
This course presents in an overview of current issues in communicating across cultures. The course examines how people from various ethnic, gender, generational, racial, cultural and religious backgrounds exchange meaning. Study will focus on many of the cultural variables in communication as well as how those variables work holistically within cultural systems. Topics include how the interaction between language, thinking patterns and culture affect communication, the nature of culture, issues of power, verbal and nonverbal codes.
Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern
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COM 3355 - Critical Theories and Popular Culture Credits: 4
This course examines the relationship between pop culture texts, the media used to propagate them and the dominant culture in which both exist. Using critical theoretical tools, students examine media content and pop culture formations. Topics include an historical overview of critical social theory, and the ways identities are formed in and in reaction to popular music, film, and television.
Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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COM 3365 - Special Topics in Communication Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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COM 3371 - Communication Systems Credits: 4.0
A communication system is a collection of individuals who relate to one another by means of shared messages and media networks. This course investigates the fundamental methods of thinking about such systems by intermixing a basic theoretical description of system theory (Weinberg) with case studies of its practical application (Lakoff). Topics include interaction in connected systems, the role of the environment, networks, complexity and self-reference.
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COM 3381 - Health Communication Credits: 4
The communication of health care with a focus on physicians and other providers, health care organizations, special interest groups, and government agencies. Particular issues include social support, gender, agenda setting, persuasive health campaigns, health policy, and media.
Prerequisites Junior or Senior standing.
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COM 3395 - Internship in Communication Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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COM 3398 - Independent Studies in Communication Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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COM 4465 - Special Topics in Communication Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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COM 4495 - Internship in Communication Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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COM 4498 - Independent Studies in Communication Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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COM 4594 - Senior Seminar Credits: 4
This Capstone seminar requires each student to design, execute, and present a significant research project, which focuses on a specific Communication phenomenon and uses either a quantitative or qualitative methodology.
Prerequisites Communication 2203 and 2204, one 3000-level course.
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COM 4595 - Independent Study with Campus TV Station
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CSC 1106 - The Art of Programming Credits: 4
An introduction to the use of algorithms for problem solving. The course will focus on finding algorithmic solutions for a given problem and expressing these solutions in a programming language.
This course includes a laboratory.
Prerequisites Placement above Mathematics 1002.
McDaniel Plan: Quantitative Reasoning.
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CSC 1109 - Discrete Mathematics Credits: 4
An introduction to mathematical reasoning, discrete structures, and foundations of algorithm analysis. Possible topics include propositional and predicate logic, proof techniques including mathematical induction, recurrences, sets, relations, pigeonhole principle, combinatorics, graphs, discrete probability, and number theory.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites Computer Science 1106 and Mathematics 1107 or placement
McDaniel Plan: Quantitative Reasoning.
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CSC 1165 - Special Topics in Computer Science Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering.
Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
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CSC 2209 - Computer Organization Credits: 4
Introduction to interaction between software and hardware levels in modern computers. Possible topics include Moore’s law, von Neumann architecture, data representation, error correction, digital circuits, CPU design, memory, input/output, file systems, data compression, operating systems, virtual machines, and programming tools.
Prerequisites Computer Science 1106.
Recommended Computer Science/Mathematics 1109.
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CSC 2217 - Data Structures Credits: 4
Study of data structures, recursion, searching and sorting algorithms. Introduction to complexity analysis of algorithms using Big-Oh notations.
Prerequisites Computer Science 1106 and Computer Science/Mathematics 1109.
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CSC 2222 - Database Design Credits: 4
An introduction to database management systems that examines both the relational and semi-structured data models. Topics will include design principles, query languages, data dependencies, and optimization techniques.
Prerequisites Computer Science 1106 and either Computer Science/Mathematics 1109 or Mathematics 2224.
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CSC 2265 - Special Topics in Computer Science Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering.
Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
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CSC 2295 - Internships in Computer Science Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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CSC 2298 - Independent Studies in Computer Science Credits: 0-4
Directed study for qualified students in more advanced topics in computer science theory, systems, or application areas.
Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
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CSC 3305 - Artificial Intelligence Credits: 4
The study of computer algorithms inspired by nature and algorithms imitating human reasoning. Possible topics include: heuristic search, neural networks, genetic algorithms, expert systems, fuzzy logic, automated theorem proving, and data mining.
Prerequisites Computer Science 2217.
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CSC 3306 - Principles of Database Systems Credits: 4.00
This course examines the underlying concepts and theory of database management systems. Topics include database system architectures, data models, query languages, conceptual and logical database design, physical organization, and transaction management. The entity relationship model and relational model are investigated in detail, object-oriented databases are introduced, and legacy systems based on the network and hierarchical models are briefly discussed. Mappings from the conceptual level to the logical level, integrity constraints, dependencies, and normalization are studied as a basis for formal design. Theoretical languages such as the
relational algebra and the relational calculus are described, and high-level languages such as SQL and QBE are discussed. An overview of file organization and access methods is provided as a basis for discussion of heuristic query
optimization techniques. Finally, transaction-processing techniques are presented with a specific emphasis on concurrency control and database recovery.
Prerequisites CSC 1106 and CSC 1107
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CSC 3314 - Theory of Computation Credits: 4
This course studies the abstract models of machines and languages recognized by them, and introduces the concept of computability. This course not only serves as the theoretical foundation of computer science, but also has wide application to programming languages linguistics, natural language processing, compiler design, and software design. Topics include finite automata and regular languages, pushdown automata and context-free grammars, grammar transformations and normal forms, Turing machines and computable functions, and unsolvable problems including the halting problem.
Prerequisites Computer Science/Mathematics 1109 or Mathematics 2224.
Recommended Computer Science 2217.
Cross-listed with Mathematics 3314.
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CSC 3315 - Graphics Credits: 4
Introduction to algorithms used to draw two and three-dimensional objects on a computer screen. Possible topics include: computation of polygon orientation and area, point-in-polygon test, point-on-line test, triangulation algorithm, rotations, Bresenham’s line drawing algorithm, Cohen-Sutherland line clipping algorithm, Bézier curve, perspective projection, hidden line elimination, and hidden-face elimination.
Prerequisites Computer Science 2217.
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CSC 3317 - Algorithms Credits: 4
Advanced study of tree and graph algorithms and algorithm complexity. Introduction to computational complexity classes P and NP.
Prerequisites Computer Science 2217.
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CSC 3365 - Special Topics in Computer Science Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering.
Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
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CSC 3395 - Internships in Computer Science Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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CSC 3398 - Independent Studies in Computer Science Credits: 0-4
Directed study for qualified students in more advanced topics in computer science theory, systems, or application areas.
Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
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CSC 4406 - Principles of Programming Languages Credits: 4
A survey of programming language concepts, functional languages, logical programming, and programming language semantics.
Prerequisites Computer Science 2217.
Recommended Computer Science/Mathematics 3314.
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CSC 4413 - Modern Cryptography Credits: 4
An introduction to data encryption and authentication in the modern age. The course covers both symmetric-key and asymmetric-key protocols. Topics may include block ciphers, pseudorandomness, message authentication codes, digital signatures, key distribution, and cryptanalysis. The course emphasizes mathematical rigor, including formal definitions of security goals and proofs of protocol security.
Prerequisites Computer Science 1106 and Computer Science/Mathematics 1109.
Recommended Computer Science/Mathematics 3314.
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CSC 4465 - Special Topics in Computer Science Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering.
Prerequisites permission of the instructor.
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CSC 4494 - Senior Project Credits: 4
A study of software development models, requirements specification, and GUI design. Student will propose, design, implement, test, and document a substantial application or write a thesis containing original work in theoretical computer science. Projects and theses will be presented in class.
Prerequisites Senior standing.
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ECO 1101 - Introduction to Political Economy Credits: 4
An introduction to economic reasoning and its application in analyzing economic problems and institutions.
This course is not open to students who have taken Economics 2201. It is not normally taken by majors in Economics or Business Administration.
Prerequisites Mathematics 1001 or placement above Mathematics 1001.
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ECO 2201 - Principles of Economics Credits: 4
The study of the economic foundations of any society: price theory – the market system, allocation of resources, and income distribution; macroeconomic theory – national income and employment, money and banking, growth, recession, inflation, and international trade.
Prerequisites Mathematics 1001, Mathematics 1002 or placement above Mathematics 1002.
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ECO 2205 - Environmental Economics Credits: 4
The study of efficient use of natural resources and protection of the environment both in the short term and the long run. Basic economic principles are developed and applied to global topics such as biodiversity, global warming, ozone depletion and sustainable development and to more local and regional ones having to do with pollution of air and water.
Cross-listed with Environmental Policy Science 2205.
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ECO 2265 - Special Topics in Economics Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
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ECO 2298 - Independent Studies in Economics Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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ECO 3303 - Microeconomic Theory Credits: 4
The theory of demand, production, cost, and resource allocation in a market economy. Models of market structure are developed and various forms of market failure are analyzed. Also developed are models of risk and uncertainty and theories of factor pricing and income distribution.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
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ECO 3304 - International Economics Credits: 4
The principles of international trade and finance: study of classic trade theories, trade policy, exchange rate markets, balance of payments, trade and growth/development, open economy business cycles, international organizations, and exchange rate policy.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
Offered in 2008-2009 and alternate years.
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ECO 3305 - American Economic History Credits: 4
This course is an interdisciplinary one which will use economic methods to analyze and interpret various episodes in U.S. History. Topics to be covered will include: colonial and antebellum money and banking; productivity growth and the secular change to manufacturing economy; slavery; the Civil War; growth of railroads; the gold standard; and the Great Depression.
Prerequisites Economics 1101 or Economics 2201.
Offered in 2007-2008 and alternate years.
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ECO 3318 - European Economic History Credits: 4
This course will examine various issues in the evolution and development of the European economy from the middle ages to the early 20th century. Central topics to be explored include trends in population and income growth, agricultural productivity and land redistribution, industrialization, and the evolution of international monetary arrangements, and the economic aspects of the varied political and religious systems and conflicts observed in Europe since the Middle Ages.
Prerequisites Economics 1101 or Economics 2201.
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ECO 3320 - Macroeconomic Theory Credits: 4
The study of national income and price determination, growth, and business cycles; the consumption/ leisure tradeoff, expectations and dynamic decision making, asset markets and investment, nominal frictions, and the role of fiscal and monetary policy.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
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ECO 3324 - Managerial Economics Credits: 4
The application of economic theory and quantitative methods for solving business problems. Emphasis is on analysis of demand, cost, and profit under conditions of imperfect information and uncertainty. Business pricing strategies receive special attention.
Prerequisites Economics 2201, Statistics 2215, or permission of the instructor.
Cross-listed with Business Administration 3324.
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ECO 3326 - Economic Development Credits: 4
The theories of economic growth and development applied particularly to underdeveloped areas of the earth. The interrelationship of economic, political, sociological, historical, and technological factors in growth and development are examined.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
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ECO 3327 - Industrial Organization and Public Policy Credits: 4
Study of structure, conduct, and performance of industry in the United States as they pertain to the goals and effects of public policy. Emphasis is on antitrust and regulation.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
Offered in 2007-2008 and alternate years.
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ECO 3365 - Special Topics in Economics Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
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ECO 3387 - Reading List Credits: 1
Reading is completed during the summer and tested by examination.
Open only to students declaring Economics or Business Administration as a major.
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ECO 3398 - Independent Studies in Economics Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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ECO 4310 - Money and Financial Markets Credits: 4
The study of the financial sector and its importance: market structure and financial instruments, asset pricing and interest rate determination, the operations and behavior of banks and other financial institutions, money-creation and central banking, and the interrelationship between money and financial markets and the macro economy.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 and senior standing, or invitation of the instructor.
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ECO 4312 - Mathematical Economics Credits: 4
This course deals with the application of basic mathematical principles and methods to various types of economic problems, including (1) the mathematical representation of basic economic principles and theories through economic models, (2) the use of matrix algebra in economic analysis, (3) the elements of calculus used in marginal analysis and the economic principles of unconstrained and constrained maximization and minimization and, (4) the application of differential and difference equation models in the study of economic growth.
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ECO 4405 - The History of Economic Thought Credits: 4
The development of economic theory from ancient times to the present. Contributions of Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages; major emphasis on mercantilism and nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic analysis.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
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ECO 4465 - Special Topics in Economics Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
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ECO 4487 - Reading List Credits: 1
Reading is completed during the summer and tested by examination.
Open only to students declaring Economics or Business Administration as a major.
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ECO 4490 - Senior Thesis Credits: 1-4
Directed individual research and writing. Open only to Economics majors. Honors students are normally expected to register for 3-4 semester hours.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
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ECO 4491 - Economics and Business Administration Colloquium Credits: 1
Readings and group discussion. Significant works in economics and business administration are read and analyzed.
This course is open to all senior Economics majors.
Prerequisites Economics 2201 or permission of the instructor.
Cross-listed with Business Administration 4491, 4492.
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ECO 4498 - Independent Studies in Economics Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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EDU 1141 - Teaching and Learning in a Diverse Society Credits: 4
An overview of education in the United States, including identification of pupil characteristics at all three educational levels: elementary, middle, and high school. The course includes psychology of teaching and learning, related educational foundations, and a research-based introduction to current issues in education. This course places a strong emphasis on understanding how students differ in their approaches to learning and creating instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners in order to meet individual needs. Incorporation of selected multimedia and technology and structured observations in elementary and secondary schools are included.
This course EDU 1141 should be completed in the spring of the first year or the fall of the second year at McDaniel College.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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EDU 1150 - Introduction to Special Education Credits: 4
An overview of the major exceptionalities, including giftedness, learning disabilities, emotional- behavioral disorders, physical disabilities, speech and language disabilities, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, visual impairments, and other related disabilities. Emphasis will be placed upon definition and educational interventions of school-age students.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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EDU 2015 - Literacy Processes and Acquisition Credits: 4
Examines the acquisition of reading, the foundations of reading development, and the interactive nature of the reading process. The course content addresses cognitive development, language processes, phonological awareness, phonics, and vocabulary knowledge in relationship to literacy acquisition. Candidates also explore the three purposes for reading and various text formats within a comprehensive balanced literacy program. A two-hour, twice a week practicum for the semester in an elementary school is the field experience for this course.
This course is for Elementary Education students only.
Prerequisites Education 1111 or 1141, sophomore status.
Co-requisite EDU 2115 Field Practicum.
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EDU 2100 - Diverse School Based Internship Credits: 2
The purpose of the Jan Term Teaching Internship in a Diverse Setting is to provide candidates with an internship experience in a more diverse setting than nearby Professional Development Schools can provide. Field practicum experiences in courses prior to the semester-long student teaching internship, as well as the student teaching internship itself, are scheduled in schools near the McDaniel College campus in order to facilitate transportation logistics. These schools within a reasonable commute distance do not allow for the ethnic diversity in the student population that teachers may encounter during their careers. The Jan Term requirement provides an additional experience that is critical to a teacher’s success in the classrooms of most communities. It also assists candidates in meeting Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) Principle 3: The teacher understands how students differ in their approaches to learning and creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners and McDaniel College’s Conceptual Framework. Outcome 2: McDaniel College prepares knowledgeable, caring, and reflective practitioners who use their self-awareness and knowledge of diversity to create learning environments that support their belief that all students can learn.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural
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EDU 2115 - Field Practicum in Literacy Processes and Acquisition Credits: 0
A 2 to 2.5-hour, twice a week practicum for the semester at a Professional Development School is the field experience
These are for elementary education students only.
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EDU 2140 - Field Practicum in Planning and Evaluating Instruction Credits: 0
A 2 to 2.5-hour, twice a week practicum for the semester at a Professional Development School is the field experience
These are for elementary education students only.
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EDU 2232 - Bilingual Special Education Credits: 4
A survey course that addresses the basic issues surrounding the teaching and learning of culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional learners. Topics concerning bilingual special education will be covered including: premises of bilingual/ multicultural/special education; culture and acculturation; native language development, second language acquisition, and language assessment; general assessment; referral and diagnostic process; federal and state laws; individualized education programs (IEP’s), curriculum development; inclusion and mainstreaming; consultation services; and parental involvement.
Prerequisites Education 1111 or 1141 or permission of the instructor.
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EDU 2240 - Planning and Evaluating Instruction Credits: 4
Planning and assessment for class and small group instruction is the major focus of this course. The course includes the study of long term and daily planning and the development of instructional outcomes. The course also emphasizes assessment from formative to summative and standardized to performance-based and portfolio. Students will complete a two hour, twice a week practicum for the semester in a secondary school during the semester.
This course is for Secondary Education or PK12 education students only.
Prerequisites Education 1111 or 1141, sophomore status.
Co-requisite EDU 2140 Field Practicum.
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EDU 2295 - Internships in Education Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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EDU 2298 - Independent Studies in Education Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors.
Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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EDU 3110 - Field Practicum in Elementary Science
This course is a field practicum in an elementary Professional Development School to accompany EDU 547 Teaching Elementary School Science.
Prerequisites EDU 1141 and EDU 2015. Junior standing. PRAXIS I
Co-requisite EDU 547
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EDU 3111 - Field Practicum in Elementary Social Studies Credits: 0.00
This course is a field practicum in an elementary Professional Development School to accompany EDU 544 Teaching Elementary School Social Studies.
Prerequisites EDU 1141 and EDU 2015. Junior standing, PRAXIS I
Co-requisite EDU 544
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EDU 3114 - Field Practicum in Elementary Mathematics Credits: 0
A 2 to 2.5-hour, twice a week practicum for the semester at a Professional Development School is the field experience
These are for elementary education students only.
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EDU 3124 - Field Practicum in Balanced Literacy Instruction and Materials Credits: 0
A 2 to 2.5-hour, twice a week practicum for the semester at a Professional Development School is the field experience
These are for elementary education students only.
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EDU 3140 - PDS Field Practicum in Secondary Choral Music
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EDU 3141 - Methodology in Secondary English
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EDU 3142 - PDS Field Practicum in Secondary Art
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EDU 3143 - PDS Field Practicum in Foreign Language
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EDU 3144 - PDS Field Practicum in Secondary Mathematics
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EDU 3145 - PDS Field Practicum in Secondary Social Studies
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EDU 3146 - PDS Field Practicum in Secondary Instrumental Music
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EDU 3147 - PDS Field Practicum in Elementary Art
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EDU 3148 - PDS Field Practicum in Secondary PE
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EDU 3149 - PDS Field Practicum in Elementary PE
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EDU 3150 - PDS Field Practicum in Secondary Science
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