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2009-2010 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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HIST 3430 - Historical Study Abroad
Goals: To study the history of a particular place by traveling and immersion.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: Greece and the European Union.
Taught: This course is offered for credit whenever an appropriate study abroad is being conducted under the auspices of Hamline University.
Credits: 4 credits
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HIST 3930 - Topics in United States History
Goals: To study the history of the United States.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: Reform Movements in American History, Immigration, Landmark Trials.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended: Completion of three 1000-level HIST courses.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: History
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HIST 5950 - Seminar in History
Goals: This course provides the capstone experience in the major. The goal of this course is to practice and polish previously learned skills and experiences to produce a significant historical research paper.
Content: Varies from year to year. Recent examples: Biography as History; Diplomatic History; Environmental History.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, three 1000-level HIST courses, three 3000-level HIST courses, and completion of HIST 3010 or 3000. (Seven courses total.)
Credits: 4 credits
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HLTH 1170 - Personal and Community Health
Goals: To explore health knowledge, attitudes, personal health behaviors, important trends in major health areas of concern today. To encourage students to examine, reflect upon, and act to change or strengthen health habits.
Content: Mental health, drugs, human sexuality, prevention and control of diseases, nutrition, weight control, fitness, aging and dying, and consumer health.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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HLTH 1180 - From Knowledge to Action
Goals: To provide prospective teachers skills in teaching behavioral change and health/wellness skills, utilizing models of behavior change and motivational communication.
Content: Skill sets that integrate models and theories of behavior change and learning into lesson planning and classroom communication.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Credits: 2 credits
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HLTH 1520 - First Aid and Personal Safety
Goals: To identify ways to prevent injury and/or illness, recognize when an emergency has occurred, follow emergency action procedures, and apply basic first aid skills. American Red Cross Certification in Community First Aid and CPR.
Content: Shock, wounds, burns, respiratory emergencies, sudden illness, poisoning/drugs, thermal regulation, bone and joint injuries.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 0.5 semester credit
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HLTH 3630 - Prevention and Management of Athletic Injuries
Goals: To become familiar with modern sports medicine techniques. To develop an understanding of the basic principles of prevention, management, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries.
Content: Modern principles of athletic training with special emphasis on prevention of athletic injuries including prophylactic taping techniques, and management of athletic injuries including basic injury assessments. Other areas or presentation include mechanism of injury, principles of physical conditioning, emergency medical techniques, and analysis of protective equipment.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: Basic human anatomy is recommended but not required.
Credits: 4 credits
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HLTH 3700 - Critical Health Issues in Drug Education, Stress Management, Nutrition, and Sexuality Education
Goals: Students will be able to identify behaviors and factors that prevent or reduce the risk of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use, misuse, and abuse. The student will understand health-enhancing behaviors that reduce health risks including strategies to reduce and prevent stress-related health practices. Students will understand the concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention as it pertains to behaviors influencing our sexuality.
Content: Investigate addictions and addictive behavior. Use, misuse, and abuse of pharmaceutical drugs, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and illicit drugs. Understanding stressors and stress management. Nutritional issues: eating healthy and safe, weight management, and eating disorders. Investigation of multifaceted human sexuality: defining gender identity and roles, the female and male reproductive anatomy, pregnancy, birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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HLTH 5630 - Advanced Techniques in Athletic Training and Sports Medicine
Goals: Students will focus on the rehabilitation techniques in athletic training. Emphasis will be on designing, managing, and evaluating rehabilitation programs.
Content: Areas of study will include core stabilization, plyometrics, open vs. closed-kinetic chain exercises, PNF, and aquatic therapy. Review of common injuries and establishment of proper rehabilitation protocols will be the main focus.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: HLTH 3630.
Credits: 4 credits
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HLTH 5890 - School Health Program
Goals: To understand that organized and effectively coordinated programs are essential to the goal of furthering school health education.
Content: Introduction to the complete school health program, healthful school living, health services, and health instruction.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Credits: 4 credits
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IJRN 5960 - Internship Seminar in International Public Journalism
Goals: To provide experience in international journalism via a student internship with a local media partner and to reflect upon the practice of public journalism as a means of engagement with various audiences.
Content: Students conduct media shadowing and a formal internship in print, audio, video, or online journalism. Class sessions contextualize the internship and allow students to share, compare, and analyze their internship experiences.
Taught: Annually, in the fall semester.
Prerequisites: Acceptance into the certificate in international journalism program or permission of instructor. Must co-register for GLOB 5900 or 5910.
Credits: 4 credits
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IJRN 5970 - International Journalism Capstone Media Project
Goals: To produce an independent media project in some area of international journalism for public dissemination.
Content: In consultation with the instructor, students take primary responsibility for developing, researching, and producing a piece of print, radio, television, and/or online journalism.
Taught: Annually (by arrangement).
Prerequisite: Advanced standing in the certificate in international journalism program and permission of instructor (submission of independent study form signed by instructor and certificate in international journalism program director).
Credits: 4 credits
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INTD 5990 - Alkire Internship Seminar
Junior or senior standing, or consent of the instructor. Primarily intended for economics and management majors, but other majors with administrative internships are welcome.
Credits: 4 credits
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ITAL 1110 - Beginning Italian I
Goals: To teach students to speak, understand, write, and read simple Italian, especially in practical situations.
Content: Practical situations and vocabulary, grammar, and cultural knowledge necessary to cope with them: for example, meeting people, ordering food and drink, asking for and giving directions, shopping for food, clothing, and reading materials, telephoning, travelling, getting medical help, interacting with Italian people.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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ITAL 1120 - Beginning Italian II
Goals: To teach students to speak, understand, write, and read simple Italian, especially in practical situations.
Content: Practical situations and vocabulary, grammar, and cultural knowledge necessary to cope with them: for example, meeting people, ordering food and drink, asking for and giving directions, shopping for food, clothing, and reading materials, telephoning, travelling, getting medical help, interacting with Italian people.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ITAL 1110 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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ITAL 3210 - Intermediate Italian I
Goals: To acquire those basic grammatical structures not presented in the elementary sequence, to improve spoken and written Italian, and to develop a familiarity with all aspects of the culture of Italy.
Content: Conversational practice and grammar review are supplemented with compositions and readings. Conversation is more complex than in beginning Italian, and cultural differences are stressed.
Taught: Periodically.
Prerequisite: ITAL 1120 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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ITAL 3220 - Intermediate Italian II
Goals: To acquire those basic grammatical structures not presented in the elementary sequence, to improve spoken and written Italian, and to develop a familiarity with all aspects of the culture of Italy.
Content: Conversational practice and grammar review are supplemented with compositions and readings. Conversation is more complex than in beginning Italian, and cultural differences are stressed.
Taught: Periodically.
Prerequisite: ITAL 3210 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 1110 - Legal Systems in American Society
Goals: Familiarization with the American legal system.
Content: A jurisprudential exploration of the American legal system with special emphasis on the role of law in the American social order. Working models of the judicial system are studied and the legal decision-making process is examined. Emphasis is placed on basic values of legal system: justice, equality, and fairness.
Taught: Every semester.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 1250 - Legal Research and Writing
Goals: To introduce students to legal materials and methodology.
Content: A writing-intensive course with emphasis on the development of legal research, writing, and drafting skills. An introduction to legal methodology and materials is presented by lecture, in-class exercises with out-of-class research, and writing exercises, utilizing materials of the law library.
Taught: Every semester.
Prerequisite (or co-requisite): LGST 1110, or LGST 5000, or CJFS 1120, or permission of the instructor or chair.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 1440 - Beginning Mock Trial
Goals: Students learn basic trial procedures and advocacy skills through practice sessions and simulations of courtroom procedures and activities. Students prepare for and conduct a trial of a hypothetical case. Student teams compete in invitational regional and national competitions.
Content: Participatory study of trial practice in the United States, advocacy, lawyering skills, and legal ethics. Focus on developing students’ speaking and critical thinking skills. Course is tied to the Hamline mock trial program.
Taught: Annually.
Note: To be eligible for course credit, the student must participate in mock trial team practice during the fall, winter, and spring terms and participate in tournaments. Students enroll in LGST 1440 the first year.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3100 - American Constitutional Law
Crosslisted
Also listed as PSCI 3100.
Goals: To study the role of the courts in the development of the American Constitution. To introduce students to the “rule of law” concept in Anglo American judicial history.
Content: Reading and analyzing a wide variety of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court. An examination of the relationship between the government and the individual in the context of national and state power, the Bill of Rights, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3330 - Social, Political and Legal Philosophy
Crosslisted
Listed under Philosophy as PHIL 3330.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3410 - Special Topics in Law
Goals: Intensive study of a limited legal topic.
Content: An intensive study of a specific area of law. Topic varies from year to year. Some past topics have included: Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, Bankruptcy Law, Insurance Law, Law and Justice in Australia, Comparative Legal Systems, Distributive Justice in the Himalayas, and Pension and Benefit Law.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, LGST 1250, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3440 - Advanced Mock Trial
Goals: Students learn basic trial procedures and advocacy skills through practice sessions and simulations of courtroom procedures and activities. Students prepare for and conduct a trial of a hypothetical case. Student teams compete in invitational regional and national competitions.
Content: Participatory study of trial practice in the United States, advocacy, lawyering skills, and legal ethics. Focus on developing students’ speaking and critical thinking skills, team work, and leadership. Course is tied to the Hamline mock trial program.
Taught: Annually.
Note: To be eligible for course credit, the student must participate in mock trial team practice during the fall, winter, and spring terms and participate in tournaments. Students enroll in LGST 1440 the first year.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3520 - Civil Litigation and Trial Practice
Goals: To acquaint students with the elements of civil trials, from initial pleading through appeal.
Content: A study of fundamental principles of civil litigation, the court systems, attorney’s functions, common types of civil lawsuits and defenses. Lecture and discussion is combined with role play exercises and writing assignments. Students prepare documents and conduct interviews and a mock trial.
Taught: Every semester.
Prerequisite: LGST 1250 or LGST 5000 (may be taken concurrently).
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3530 - Estates and Trusts
Goals: To introduce students to vocabulary, concepts, and procedures associated with drafting, probate, and administering the decedent’s estates and trusts.
Content: A study of the legal concepts, processes, and practices associated with distribution of a decedent’s property. An introduction to trust construction and administration.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: LGST 1250.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3540 - Family and Gender Issues in Law
Goals: To introduce students to the theories, policies, and practices of law affecting women, men, and children in their familial, domestic, and gender roles.
Content: The course will explore the many complicated applications of law that affect men, women, and children in their relationships with each other. Analytical, practical, and verbal skills necessary for working in the area of family law will be emphasized. Students will examine laws affecting the gender roles and status of people within domestic relationships through lecture, class assignments, and exams. Students will produce a simulated client file demonstrating their ability to apply the legal principles and procedures that are covered throughout the course.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: LGST 1250.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3550 - Real Property
Goals: To understand the basic concepts and instruments affecting real property, including ownership interests, transfers of title, purchase agreements, mortgages, leases, liens, title examination, legal descriptions, and surveys.
Content: Learning theory and practice underlying laws, conveyancing documents, and other agreements affecting real property; coordinating mortgage foreclosures; study of additional requirements for transactions involving large commercial properties; registration proceedings; taxes, special assessments, legal descriptions, and other matters affecting real property.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: LGST 1250, LGST 5000 (may be taken concurrently), or permission of instructor.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3560 - Law of Business Organizations
Goals: To present the principles of law applicable to different types of business organizations and the preparation of related documents.
Content: The formation of business entities, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations; articles of incorporation and by-laws; close corporations; shareholders and directors meetings; corporate equity and debt securities; various types of agreements and distributions; bankruptcy; pertinent sections of the Uniform Commercial Code and the drafting of supporting documents.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1250, LGST 5000, or M&E 3600 (may be taken concurrently.)
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3570 - Probate Procedures
Goals: To introduce students to vocabulary, concepts, and procedures associated with probate administration.
Content: A study of the legal concepts, processes, and practices associated with the distribution of a decedent’s estate. Students are introduced to the Uniform Probate Code, the laws of succession: testate and intestate, the legal forms related to formal and informal estate administration and relevant legal theory.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000 and LGST 1250 (may be taken concurrently.)
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3600 - Business Law
Crosslisted
Listed under Management & Economics as M&E 3600
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3640 - Taxation of Individuals
Goals: To introduce students to concepts and practices in the law of individual taxation.
Content: An introduction to the law of personal taxation. Students are introduced to tax theory, relevant statutes and rules. Areas of study include but are not limited to: Gross Income, Deductions, Capital Gains and Accounting Methods. Students work on a variety of problems involving tax forms and procedures.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, or M&E 3600.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3670 - Legal Interviewing
Goals: To provide students with conceptual understanding of interviewing in law-related fields and to develop student speaking and listening skills related to interviewing.
Content: This course will cover the theory and practice of interviewing in law related fields. Special emphasis will be put on developing the skills of question formulation, attentive and active listening, and interview recording. The course will include interviewing simulations in class and on video tape.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, or CJFS 1120.
Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 3680 - Law of Evidence for Legal Professionals
Goals: To introduce students to the law of evidence.
Content: This course will cover the rules of evidence, the theory and history of evidentiary law in America, and relevant case law in the field of evidence. Special emphasis will be placed on providing students with an appreciation of how the law of evidence relates to the work of evidence collection, preservation and organization, and preparation for trial. Students in this course will learn how to prepare evidence for electronic presentation. Students will learn how to lay foundations and present evidence in simulated court experience.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, or CJFS 1120. LGST 1250 is also recommended.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3750 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
Goals: To introduce students to the theory and practice of alternative dispute resolution methods in the field of law.
Content: This course will cover negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and other methods of resolving disputes as alternative to trial. Students will engage in skill-building exercises and in simulated negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations in class and on videotape. Emphasis will be placed on skill development as well as detailed understanding of the work involved in preparation for actual negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: None
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3810 - Criminal Law and Practice
Crosslisted
Also listed as CJFS 3810.
Goals: To acquaint the student with the theory and practice of substantive criminal law.
Content: A study of the substantive aspects of criminal law, including traditional elements of crimes, statutory definitions, and judicial interpretations of specific crimes and motor vehicle offenses, as well as inchoate crimes, defenses to legal liability, and sentencing procedure. Focus is placed on developing practical skills associated with working in the field of criminal law.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, or CJFS 1120, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3820 - Constitutional Issues in Criminal Procedure
Crosslisted
Also listed as CJFS 3820.
Goals: To acquaint the student with the theory and practice of criminal procedural law.
Content: An overview and critical examination of the procedural aspects of criminal law and issues relating to constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, unlawful gathering of incriminating evidence through interrogation and identification procedures, and the provision of legal counsel in criminal matters.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, or CJFS 1120 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3960 - Legal Studies Internship
Goals: To provide law school early admissions candidates an internship experience that will give the students a chance to develop and demonstrate those traits of maturity required for early admission to the Hamline University School of Law.
Content: An individually planned on-the-job or community volunteer experience for early admissions candidates. The internship is chosen so that the student will have real responsibility and a chance to demonstrate commitment and maturity.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and approval of legal studies chair or pre-law advisor. (Students need to secure an internship before the semester in which they are taking the class and doing the internship.)
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 3990 - Practicum
Goals: To apply the concepts and principles previously learned in a practical working environment under the supervision of a lawyer and/or an experienced paralegal (legal assistant).
Content: A 150-hour apprenticeship in the performance of the duties of a paralegal in one of the typical settings for members of the profession; hands-on production of drafts and collation of legal documents under experienced supervision and guidance; attendance at weekly seminars, designed to tie experiential and academic experiences together and to ensure adequate preparation for entry in the profession.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 or LGST 5000, LGST 1250, LGST 3520, and four other credits of Legal Studies coursework. (Students need to secure an internship before the semester in which they are taking the class and doing the internship.)
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 5000 - Postbaccalaureate Orientation
An introduction to law, the American legal system, legal materials, legal methodology, legal ethics as applied to paralegal (legal assistants), the paralegal profession and the Hamline postbaccalaureate program. This course is designed for and limited to postbaccalaureate legal assistant students. MAPA students may take this course with permission.
Taught: The beginning of each semester. Starts shortly before the semester begins and ends shortly after the semester begins.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 5410 - Advanced Special Topics in Law
Goals: To provide students with an opportunity to engage in an advanced study in a specialized area of law.
Content: An intensive study of an advanced area of law. Topics vary from semester to semester. Some past topics have been: securities law, immigration law, contracts, and law of worker’s compensation.
Taught: Every semester.
Prerequisites: LGST 1110 or 5000 and 1250 (which may be taken concurrently), or permission of the legal studies department chair or director of the paralegal program. LGST 3520 is recommended.
*Paralegal specialty course.
Credits: 2 credits
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LGST 5800 - Senior Seminar in Legal Studies
Goals: To introduce students to advanced legal research and writing methods. To provide opportunity for individual and independent legal research on advanced topics.
Content: This course will include a study of advanced techniques in legal research including federal and other states’ materials. This course will be conducted as a seminar in which the students and the faculty member explore current issues in the legal field. Each student will develop and pursue an individually designed research project leading to the production of an advanced writing project on a current issue related to the legal field.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: Senior standing, LGST 1110 or LGST 5000 and LGST 1250, or permission of the legal studies chair or director of the paralegal program.
Credits: 4 credits
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LGST 5950 - Seminar on American Law and Legal Systems
Content: This is a seminar course for students seeking early admission to law school and pre-law juniors and seniors. Each student participates for two semesters (fall and spring). Each student will prepare and present an independent research paper to the seminar. The class is structured as a tutorial in the spring. Each student is expected to master one topic and to instruct the other students.
Taught: Annually. Students must start in the fall and continue through the spring.
Prerequisites: Junior standing, LGST 1250, and declared candidacy for early admission to the law school, or permission of the pre-law advisor.
Credits: 1 credit in fall, 1 credit in spring
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LSTD 5000 - Latin American Studies
Goals: To expose the student to contemporary Latin American problems and examine how Latin America attempts to solve them, how the United States attempts to help solve them and how the two solutions often conflict.
Content: United States response to rebellion, reform and revolution in Mexico (1910), Guatemala (1954), and Cuba (1959), and in other Latin American countries striving for social change. An analysis and discussion of debts, boycotts, loans, coups, invasions, and intervention from 1910 to present.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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LSTD 5100 - Contemporary Issues in the Americas
Goals: The primary objective of this course is to further our understanding of the Americas by studying many of the political, social, economic, and historical forces affecting the region today. Through this course students will come to appreciate the complex interrelatedness of these and other issues, and the necessity, in this new era of the “global village,” for international relations to be founded on knowledge, understanding, and respect.
Content: Through a case study approach we will examine how certain issues are played out in specific countries. For example, we will look at Mexico as we try to understand the phenomena of migration and urbanization; in Argentina and Brazil we will engage issues of authoritarianism and models of economic development; the examples of Peru and El Salvador will teach us about revolution; Chile will introduce to the changing role of Latin American women; and nations of the Caribbean will serve as case studies on race and ethnicity. Specific case studies may vary from year to year.
Taught: Annually.
This course is not recommended for first-year students.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E TBD - Corporate Finance
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M&E 1200 - Introduction to Business and Economics
Goals: To provides students with an overview of business, management, and economics. The purpose of this course is to help students develop the ability to use these concepts to make business and management decisions. The major emphasis will be on concepts and their applications in the workplace of organizations–both profit and non-profit. This course aims to help students understand the dynamic nature of today’s business environment and to equip them with skills to analyze business/economic problems.
Content: Business model simulations will be used to help students understand various functions within business organizations. Also, to prepare for the workplace, this course will aim to identify workplace competencies and successful business practices.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 1210 - Microeconomic Analysis
Goals: To introduce students to theory relating to the economic decisions made by individual consumers and firms.
Content: Analysis of demand, supply, and markets. Topics include consumer behavior, firm operation in product and factor markets, and industry structure.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 1220 - Macroeconomic Analysis
Goals: To acquaint students with the structural framework and principles involved in the determination of the level of aggregate economic activity: national income, output, employment, and price levels.
Content: Analysis of problems of unemployment, inflation, economic growth, and related government policy.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 1230 - Statistics
Goals: To acquaint students with major parametric and nonparametric statistical techniques.
Content: Data organization, simple probability, and sampling distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; regression and correlation; time series; selected non-parametric tests.
Prerequisites: None, though a basic understanding of algebra is expected. Credit will not be given for both M&E 1230 and PSY 1340 or M&E 1230 and MATH 1200.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 1300 - Quantitative Analysis and Data Management
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 1650 - Financial Accounting
Goals: To familiarize the student with the methods and principles employed in financial accounting and with the interpretation of financial statements.
Content: Introductory financial accounting procedures, reports, and principles.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 1680 - Managerial Accounting
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 1900 - Workshop in Applied Investing
Goals: This course provides students the opportunity to value public companies and receive hands-on experience in the securities industry, all within the context of a non-threatening learning environment. This workshop acts as a portfolio manager deciding how and where to invest a small portion (initially about $35,000) of the university’s actual securities. The course’s mission is to: a) develop an understanding of the stock market, including an appreciation of its innate risk and the development of tools to mitigate risk, b) learn how to apply the financial concepts taught in academic management courses to the real world, c) practice analyzing (valuing) a company from an investor’s perspective, and d) consider social/ethical responsibilities and values of a company in deciding to invest in other companies.
Credits: 2 credits, offered only Pass/No Pass
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M&E 3110 - Foundations of Management
Goals: To understand basic concepts, theories, and research in management and to apply them to practical management problems. To relate the liberal arts to work, using a common theme of ethics.
Content: The principal functional areas of management (planning, organizing, controlling, and leading) are examined in the context of organizations and groups. Ethical issues and the different views of work from various fields are examined.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1230, and M&E 1650, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3120 - Foundations of Marketing
Goals: To understand basic marketing concepts and to apply them to practical marketing problems.
Content: Legal, behavioral, ethical, competitive, economic, and technological factors are examined as they affect product, price, promotion, and place decisions.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1230, and M&E 1650, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3130 - Foundations of Finance
Goals: To understand fundamentals of financial management and to analyze quantitative and judgmental aspects of financial situations.
Content: Business organization, ratio analysis, forecasting, breakeven analysis, working capital management, capital budgeting, valuation, leverage, and financial markets are examined.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1230, and M&E 1650, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3510 - Labor Economics
Goals: To provide students a well-balanced presentation of models of labor economics, applications, policies, and major analytic areas within labor economics.
Content: Labor market analysis, labor unions and collective bargaining, government and the labor market, theories of labor market discrimination, earnings, income and wage differentials, and race and gender issues of the labor market.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1220, and M&E 1230, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3520 - Financial Markets and Institutions
Goals: Analysis, within the economy, of money, interest rates, banks, and other financial institutions.
Content: Examines goals, strategies, and analytical decisionmaking by banks, central banks, and other financial institutions.
Prerequisites: M&E 1220 and M&E 3130 or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3530 - Economics of Public Finance
Goals: To understand the effect of governmental expenditure and taxation policies on a society’s economy and citizens.
Content: The basis for government economic activity. Employs equity and efficiency criteria to analyze government expenditure and taxation programs.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1220, M&E 1230, and MATH 1170 or MATH 1162, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3570 - Intermediate Microeconomics
Goals: To understand and apply methods used in economics to analyze the behavior of prices and the market mechanism.
Content: Allocation decisions of individual consumers and firms as well as the interaction of consumers and firms in single markets.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1220, M&E 1230, and MATH 1170 or MATH 1162, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3580 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
Goals: To understand and apply methods used in economics to analyze the gross national product, inflation, employment levels, and economic growth.
Content: The course explores theories that explain the behavior of GNP and related variables. Keynesian, monetarist, and other models are studied.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1220, M&E 1230, and MATH 1170 or MATH1162, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3600 - Business Law
Goals: To provide an overview of the law as it relates to the formation, operation, and completion of business transactions. The course is not only intended to assist the student who plans a career in management, but also the student interested in a legal career.
Content: Contracts, sales, secured transactions, commercial paper, and bankruptcy.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3610 - Human Resource Management
Goals: To explore the field of human resource (HR) management from the perspective of HR professionals, supervisors, managers, and employees. To learn how to identify and implement human resource policies and practices that are legal, ethical, organizationally sound, and help the organization to achieve its goals.
Content: Recruiting, interviewing, and placing employees; creating an effective work environment; analyzing jobs; affirmative action and diversity in the workplace; compensation systems; union/management relations; the ethics and legality of human resources decisions; and the strategic nature of human resource management.
Prerequisites: M&E 1220 and M&E 3110, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3620 - Financial Analysis
Goals: To demonstrate the use of the theory of financial management as an integral part of making complex business decisions and to prepare students to present and defend their reasoning in a clear and concise manner.
Content: Fixed asset management, capital structure management, and financial analysis and planning.
Prerequisites: M&E 1220 and M&E 3130, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3660 - Investment Management
Goals: To learn and apply basic concepts of investment management using risk/return analysis and empirical evidence to examine the efficient markets hypothesis, portfolio diversification strategies, securities valuation, and investment decision-making in changing global markets.
Prerequisite: M&E 3130 or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3670 - Marketing Management
Goals: To understand marketing management concepts through text and readings. To become familiar with current marketing thought through reading and analysis of journal articles. To function effectively as part of a management team which is addressing marketing problems. To develop an understanding of the principal tools of the marketing manager. To recognize the factors which affect the efficiency and effectiveness of marketing programs.
Content: The development and implementation of marketing strategy, with particular emphasis on the major components of a marketing program.
Prerequisites: M&E 1220 and M&E 3120, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3680 - Operations Management
Goals: To explain the basic concepts, principles, and techniques for managing manufacturing and service operations. The course will utilize both quantitative and qualitative methods when exploring techniques that improve the operations of different environments This course is targeted to provide general management students with an appreciation of the function of operational thinking.
Content: Operational management functions, operations, strategy, product design, service operations design, managing quality, planning and scheduling projects, workforce management, materials management, inventory planning and scheduling, and forecasting.
Prerequisite: M&E 3110. Junior or senior standing, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3690 - Decision Science
Goals: To introduce students to decision-making analysis, stressing problem formulation, analytical methods for solution, and use of computer models.
Content: Decision theory, linear programming, simulation, and implementation.
Prerequisites: M&E 1220, M&E 3110, M&E 3120, M&E 3130, and MATH 1170 or MATH 1162, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3700 - International Economic Development
Goals: To gain understanding of the problems and issues of economic development and to examine and appraise the major prevailing approaches to those problems.
Content: Global Third World as well as high-income market economy perspectives; concepts of growth and development; major contemporary approaches; diversity among the Third World countries; dualism; cultural factors; population, labor, migration and education; poverty and inequality; strategies for investment and structural transformations; international trade, investment and development; planning, control, and macroeconomic policies.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1220, M&E 1230, and MATH 1170 or MATH 1162, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3750 - International Trade and Finance
Goals: To acquaint students with the evolving patterns of trade and investments in the global economic environment and with the major issues confronting national and international institutions of trade and finance.
Content: Topics covered include theories of foreign trade with perfect and imperfect competition. Trade policy issues, protectionism, and U.S. trade policies and its institutional settings. The effects of growth and factor mobility on trade. Balance of payments, trade deficit, and domestic economic issues. Multinational enterprises, economic integration, and new international economic cooperation. Trade and development.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1220, M&E 1230, and MATH 1170 or MATH 1162, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3800 - International Marketing
Goals: To provide students with a fundamental understanding of concepts, theories, issues, and practices related to international and global marketing. The course will explore marketing issues in crosscultural perspectives and investigate culturally appropriate global opportunities. The course will also address ethical issues related to market development and explore the managerial implications of these cultural and ethical issues as they relate to the market practice.
Content: Global marketing and marketing research, social and cultural environment, political, legal, and financial environment, segmenting and targeting, exporting and importing, product pricing, distribution, and advertising in the global marketplace.
Prerequisites: M&E 1220 and M&E 3120, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3810 - International Business Environment
Goals: To provide an overview of the international business environment including key international institutions. In this course, students will explore the meaning and nature of culture as well as its influence on management functions and international business throughout the world. The course will examine dominant cultural norms in key world regions and effective cross-cultural communication and management methodologies designed to enhance international business success.
Content: The nature and role of culture in international business and management, regional cultural norms throughout the world, international negotiating and resolution styles, cross-cultural synergy, international business ethics, international human resources management issues, and international organizations that influence business.
Prerequisite: M&E 3110. Junior or senior standing, or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3960 - Internship with Seminar
Crosslisted
(or INTD 5990 Alkire Internship Seminar)
Goals: To provide an opportunity to apply students’ skills and knowledge in a working/learning context. To complement internships by providing discussion groups for sharing and crosschecking students’ experiences.
Content: Students must hold an internship and will also meet once a week as a group to articulate and assess their experiences.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or consent of the instructor. Primarily intended for economics and management majors, but other majors with administrative internships are welcome.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 3980 - Special Topics
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M&E 5810 - Managerial Economics
Goals: To introduce students to applications of microeconomic theory and methodology and develop mathematical problem solving skills as they apply to business firm behavior.
Content: microeconomic applications: demand analysis, production and cost analyses, pricing, risk analysis, forecasting, linear programming, constrained and unconstrained optimization techniques.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1220, M&E 1230, and MATH 1170 or MATH 1162, and junior or senior standing or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 5820 - Econometrics
Goals: To enable students to understand and use economic indicators, time series, and regression analysis in model building and forecasting.
Content: Estimating model parameters, hypothesis testing, and interpreting economic data.
Prerequisites: M&E 1210, M&E 1220, M&E 1230, M&E 3570 or M&E 3580 or M&E 5810, and MATH 1170 or MATH 1162, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 5850 - Strategic Management
Goals: To learn to think strategically. To learn to work effectively on a policy setting management team. To develop knowledge and skills necessary to analyze and resolve formulation and implementation issues.
Content: The formulation and implementation of management strategy, utilizing learning from other business courses and insights from business experiences.
Prerequisites: M&E 1220, M&E 3110, M&E 3120, and M&E 3130, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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M&E 5860 - Senior Seminar Economics
Goals: To develop and test economic models through in-depth, independent research in theoretical and applied economics.
Content: Research methodology and recent analytical and theoretical approaches to questions on topics such as the environment, health care, industrial organization, international economics, labor, money and banking, regional and urban economics, and welfare economics. Students choose a research topic, review the literature, construct a theoretical model, and collect and analyze data for final presentations.
Prerequisites: M&E 3570, M&E 3580, and M&E 5820, or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1130 - Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics
Goals: To gain an understanding of how the language of mathematics is used in problem solving. This course is especially appropriate for prospective elementary teachers.
Content: Precise formulation of problems, symbolization, strategies for solution of mathematical problems, introduction to various number systems and to mathematical logic.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1161 - Precalculus/Calculus I–A
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus, with a concurrent review of pre-calculus concepts.
Content: Pre-calculus mathematics emphasizing functions, graphing, and trigonometry concurrent with a first course in calculus. The calculus includes limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of functions of one variable, along with applications. Both MATH 1161 and MATH 1162 are required to fulfill MATH 1170 prerequisites for other courses.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: Plane geometry and high school algebra.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1162 - Precalculus/Calculus I–B
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus, with a concurrent review of pre-calculus concepts.
Content: Pre-calculus mathematics emphasizing functions, graphing, and trigonometry concurrent with a first course in calculus. The calculus includes limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of functions of one variable, along with applications. Both MATH 1161 and 1162 are required to fulfill MATH 1170 prerequisites for other courses.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1161.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1170 - Calculus I
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus.
Content: Limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of functions of one variable. Applications are taken mostly from the physical sciences.
Prerequisite: Twelfth-grade high school mathematics with at least B grades or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1180 - Calculus II
Goals: To learn how to use the calculus of one variable and the fundamental concepts of the calculus.
Content: Integrals of functions of one variable, sequences and series. Applications are taken mostly from the physical sciences.
Prerequisite: MATH 1170 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 1200 - Statistics and Data Analysis
This course will cover the fundamentals of statistical data analysis: elementary probability, descriptive statistics, parametric and nonparametric tests of hypotheses, analysis of variance, correlation and regression. Statistical computing will be in R and, if time is available, SPSS.
Prerequisite: High school algebra.
Credit will not be given for both MATH 1200 and PSY 1340 or MATH 1200 and M&E 1230.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3200 - Applied Modeling and Statistics
Goals: To gain an understanding of applied statistics with emphasis on multivariate statistical analysis building on the concepts learned in elementary statistics courses.
Content: Topics will include statistical models motivated by examples drawn from diverse fields including economics, education, and biology; model selection and factor analysis; maximum likelihood; multiple regression; MANOVA; logistic regression; and the bootstrap.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: MATH 1170. MATH 3320 is recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3320 - Multivariable and Vector Calculus
Goals: To extend concepts of calculus in two variables to the calculus of several variables.
Content: Vector calculus, partial and total differentiation, maximum/minimum problems, multiple integration, line and surface integrals, vector and scalar fields, theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3330 - Linear Algebra
Goals: To gain an appreciation for how abstract structures are used to solve theoretical and practical problems.
Content: Systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces and bases, transformations, eigenvectors, introduction to linear differential equations.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3440 - Discrete Mathematics
Goals: To introduce the concept of the discrete as well as techniques used in higher non-continuous mathematics, providing the necessary background material required by computer scientists for algorithm analysis.
Content: Sets and numeration, combinatorics, logic, algorithms, recursion, generating functions, graphs, and trees.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1170.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3550 - Foundations of Mathematics
Goals: To study mathematics as a logico-deductive system and to analyze those concepts and techniques that underlie all of mathematics.
Content: Logic, proof construction, sets, relations, functions, mathematical induction, arguments involving infinite sets, number systems, axiomatics.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3560 - Modern Geometry
Goals: To introduce to the concept of model building in mathematics from both a synthetic and an axiomatic point of view.
Content: Various geometries are studied with attention paid to what geometry is. Hilbert’s axiom system for Euclidean geometry, hyperbolic geometry, and transformations.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1170.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3720 - Introduction to Applied Mathematics
Goals: To introduce techniques and methods of mathematics especially appropriate to the physical sciences.
Content: Introductory ordinary differential equations, linear partial differential equations, emphasizing separation of variables, Fourier series, special functions.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3320 and PHYS 1240 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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