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Graduate Catalog 2015 - 2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Applied Music
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • MUA 603 - Recital Preparation

    (2 credits)
    Selection, research, and preparation of the graduate recital. May be repeated for credit. Four credits are required for graduation for students specializing in performance.


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  • MUA 607 - Practicum In Chamber Music

    (2 credits)
    Preparation and research of a special project from vocal or instrumental chamber music literature, leading to an informal or concert performance at the end of the semester. May be repeated for credit.


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Art
  

  • ART 502 - Project-Based Interpretation

    (3 credits)
    This course familiarizes students with new delivery systems for art interpretation, including museum labels, websites, documentaries, and apps. Skills in audience analysis, writing and planning, social strategies and communicative imagination will be explored through directed projects.


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  • ART 506 - Museology 1: Collections

    (3 credits)
    This course presents an overview of the field of museum studies with an emphasis on contemporary collections management practices. The course also covers a discussion of the principles of museum administration and offers an encounter with professionals currently working in the field.


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  • ART 507 - Museology 2: Exhibitions

    (3 credits)
    This course presents an overview of the field of museum studies with an emphasis on exhibitions. The course offers a practical guide to exhibition development, planning, and design, as well as an outline of museum administration and an encounter with professionals currently working in the field.


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  • ART 511 - Drawing: Graduate Studio

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Special permission of the instructor. Advanced picture-making with drawing media. Students will be asked to create a series of related drawings that deal directly with content, composition, and design. This series should result in a group of drawings that might be displayed together in a gallery setting. This class will be taught concurrently with ART 411-Advanced Drawing. Graduate students enrolled in this course are expected to work more independently, to be more active in class discussions, and to meet higher standards generally. May be repeated for up to 9 credits.


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  • ART 521 - Painting: Graduate Studio

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Special permission of the instructor. Advanced individualized studio projects in painting developed in consultation with the instructor. May be repeated for up to 9 credits.


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  • ART 526 - Sculpture: Advanced Studio

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Special permission of the instructor. Development of individual approaches to three-dimensional form. May be repeated for up to 12 credits. Materials fee.


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  • ART 531 - Printmaking: Graduate Studio

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Special permission of the instructor. Advanced individualized studio projects in printmaking developed in consultation with the instructor. May be repeated for up to 9 credits. Materials fee.


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  • ART 532 - Photography: Graduate Studio

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Special permission of the instructor. An advanced photography course emphasizing the development of a coherent body of work, as well as professional practices for photographic artists. Work may utilize a wide range of photographic media. This class is taught concurrently with ART 432-Advanced Digital Photography. Graduate students enrolled in this course are expected to work more independently, be more active in class discussions, and meet higher standards generally.May be repeated for up to 9 credits. Materials fee.


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  • ART 550 - Women in Art

    (3 credits)
    A survey of women’s involvement in the western tradition from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world; this course examines representations of women along with women as patrons and viewers of art and the work of women artists.


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  • ART 553 - Art of the Islamic World

    (3 credits)
    A survey of art and architecture in the Islamic World (the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, and India), focusing on the period from the early caliphates (c. 700) to the heights of the Islamic empires (c. 1700), and concluding with a brief introduction to modern and contemporary materials.


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  • ART 554 - Medieval Art

    (3 credits)
    A survey of western art from the late Roman Empire (c.300) through the late Middle Ages (c.1400), including architecture, manuscript illumination, metalwork, sculpture, and textile production. The focus of the course is on the interactions of artworks and audiences in producing meaning within specific historical circumstances.


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  • ART 558 - The Art of King Arthur

    (3 credits)
    This course examines representations of the tales of King Arthur and his court in both visual and textual form, from the Middle Ages, the nineteenth century, and contemporary culture, in order to both situate these stories in their original context and understand their enduring interest up to our own time. The focus of the course is not on rediscovering the historical Arthur, but instead on understanding the different meanings that Arthurian materials have held for different audience at different points in time. The graduate version of this course is distinguished by an emphasis on the study of medievalism in art and art history


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  • ART 565 - Northern Renaissance Art

    (3 credits)
    This course covers art produced in northern Europe (England, France, Germany, and the Netherlands) from c. 1400 through c. 1600. It is focused on three major issues: the changing social role of the artist and the work of art; the development and impact of print making technologies; and the impact of the Protestant Reformation.


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  • ART 570 - American Visual Culture

    (3 credits)
    American visual culture from the late 19th through the 20th centuries. Focuses on the interrelationship between traditional art media and visual forms of American popular and mass culture, considered within their appropriate social and political contexts.


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  • ART 571 - Art in the 19th Century

    (3 credits)
    A survey of art and culture focusing on romanticism and landscape painting; the deterioration of the distinction between “high” and “low” art forms; the transformation of the modern metropolis; and women, the “Orient,” and the “primitive” within art and society.


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  • ART 572 - Art in the 20th Century, 1900-1945

    (3 credits)
    This course introduces the main developments in twentieth-century European and American art until 1945, while also helping students to employ strategies for analyzing and interpreting visual art and culture. Modern art has questioned and challenged Western pictorial conventions and traditions and so studying modern art requires that we interrogate the changing ways in which art is viewed and discussed. In this course, artworks will be discussed in a variety of ways including their formal and stylistic characteristics, the cultural and social conditions in which they were produced, and the meanings that have been and can be interpreted from them.


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  • ART 573 - Art in the Twentieth Century, 1945 -2000

    (3 credits)
    This course introduces the main developments in twentieth-century European and American art from the second half of the twentieth century, while also helping students to employ strategies for analyzing and interpreting visual art and culture. Modern art has questioned and challenged Western pictorial conventions and traditions and so studying modern art requires that we interrogate the changing ways in which art is viewed and discussed. In this course, artworks will be discussed in a variety of ways including their formal and stylistic characteristics, the cultural and social conditions in which they were produced, and the meanings that have been and can be interpreted from them.


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  • ART 575 - City & Civilization

    (3 credits)
    This course provides an in-depth chronological look at a single city, covering its social, symbolic, functional, industrial and biotechnical domains as generators of architecture, monuments and urban planning, with an emphasis on cultural, historical and demographic contexts. The focus city will shift; ART575 can be taken for credit three times with differing foci.


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  • ART 580 - Global Themes in Art

    (3 credits)
    This course focuses on a theme or topic and examines its appearance in art from a variety of times, places, societies, cultures, and/or traditions. May be repeated when the theme or topic changes.


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  • ART 583 - Indian Art

    (3 credits)
    This course explores the art and visual culture of India stressing the political, religious, social, and visual aspects of the artworks studied.


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  • ART 586 - Regional Art In Africa

    (3 credits)
    Examines the historical arts of a selected region of Africa from the archaeological past to contemporary movements. May be repeated for credit when the treated region changes. Discussed regions include Western Sudan, the Guinea Coast, Central, South, and East Africa.


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  • ART 592 - Contemporary Critical Theory

    (3 credits)
    This course introduces recent developments in theory and philosophy and examines their implications for the production, study, and teaching of art and design. Topics covered include: post-modernism, post-structuralism, semiotics, and deconstruction; phenomenology, performance theory, and affect theory; actor-network theory, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and eco-criticism.


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  • ART 594 - Special Topics In Art History

    (3 credits)
    Intensive study of a relatively narrow subject or topic to be announced in advance. May be repeated for up to 9 credits.


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  • ART 596 - Independent Reading And Research: Art Education

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Written permission of instructor. Study of an art education topic of special interest to the particular student. Subject and plan of study to be designed jointly by student and instructor. May be repeated for credit.


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  • ART 693 - Special Topics In Studio Art

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Special permission of the instructor. Intensive study of a subject or topic to be announced in advance. May be repeated for credit. May have materials fee.


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  • ART 695 - Art Seminar

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Close examination of a topic through research and discussion, with emphasis on the social context of art. Topic is selected jointly by instructor and students. May be repeated for credit. Normally offered every semester.


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  • ART 696 - Independent Studies In Advanced Studio Art and Design

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Written permission of instructor and art advisor. Studio projects in advanced work. Sections are: (1) computer graphics, (2) ceramics, (3) drawing, (4) painting, (5) photography, (6) printmaking, (7) sculpture, (8) other-four credits, or (9) other-two credits.


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  • ART 697 - Independent Reading And Research: Art History

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Written permission of instructor and Graduate Adviser. Study of a topic of special interest to the particular student. Subject and plan of study to be decided jointly by student and instructor. May be repeated for credit.


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Biology
  

  • BIO 500 - Graduate Orientation

    (1 credits)
    Topics include program rules and regulations, research opportunities, scientific writing, and scientific ethics.


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  • BIO 504 - Biological Chemistry

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: BIO 306 or equivalent. Metabolic reactions of the cell for energy production and storage. Structure and function of proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. Regulation and control of metabolic pathways.


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  • BIO 508 - Animal Cell Culture

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: BIO 308 or equivalent or persmission of instructor. Theoretical and practical introduction to methods of animal cell culture necessary for research in biomedical or biotech labs and in the pharmaceutical industry. Techniques will include choice of medium, passaging, freezing, tests of purity and viability and stable and transient transfection.


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  • BIO 512 - Advanced Immunology

    (3 credits)
    Co-requisite: BIO 513 /BIO 713 . Prerequisites: BIO 308/309, BIO 412/413, and BIO 504/704; Co-requisite: BIO 513/713. The study of immune cell development, organization and expression of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genes, including antigen processing and presentation, cytokine regulation, apoptosis, immunity to infections, diseases, and vaccines.


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  • BIO 513 - Advanced Immunology Laboratory

    (1 credits)
    Co-requisite: BIO 512 /BIO 712 . Prerequisites: BIO 308/309, BIO 412/413, and BIO 504/704; Co-requisite: BIO 512/712. The laboratory covers antibody production, general immunoassays, tissue culture techniques, and genetic engineering techniques.


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  • BIO 516 - Microbiology

    (3 credits)
    Co-requisite: BIO 517 /BIO 717 . Co-requisite: BIO 517/717. Structure, function, and genetics of major groups of microorganisms, with emphasis on bacteria; the role of microbes in the economy of nature and man.


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  • BIO 520 - Explorations in Biology: Inquiry-Based Investigations of Urban Ecosystems

    (2 credits)
    A weeklong introduction to the ecology of human-dominated ecosystems. Lectures and laboratories consider biodiversity, human impacts on ecosystems and vice versa, and ecological monitoring programs and their integration into school curricula. Intended for upper elementary, middle, and high school teachers. Held at the Woodlake Environmental Field Station, Peninsula, Ohio.


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  • BIO 523 - Mammalian Physiology Lab

    (1 credits)
    Corequisite: BIO 522 /BIO 722 . Corequisite: BIO 522/722. Exercises that emphasize modern methods of physiological measurements, and the analysis and presentation of physiological data.


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  • BIO 526 - Neurobiology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: BIO 301 or equivalent. Exploration of the relation of behavior to neural function; topics include basic neurophysiology and properties of sensory and motor systems illustrated with human and non-human examples.


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  • BIO 528 - Endocrinology

    (3 credits)
    Introduction to functions of hormones and endocrine glands, including mechanisms controlling hormone secretion; mammalian systems emphasized.


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  • BIO 530 - Bioinfomatics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: BIO 306 and BIO 310 or equivalents or consent of the instructor. A course in either statistics or computer science is highly recommended. Introduction to the tools and techniques of Bioinfomatics with emphasis on computational techniques to analyze genomic and proteomic data. Topics include searching of databases, sequence alignment and analysis, phyologenetic methods and computer programming to analyze database information. A project using original or Internet bioinfomatics tools is required.


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  • BIO 534 - Tech Molecular Bio

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate student in Biology or permission of instructor. Corequisite: BIO 535 Fundamental concepts and methods in molecular biology relevant to careers in biological and biomedical research and biotechnology.


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  • BIO 535 - Tech Molecular Bio Lab

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate student in Biology or permission of instructor. Corequisite: BIO 534 Laboratory exercises allowing hands-on experience in selected techniques covered in BIO 534.


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  • BIO 536 - Evolutionary Genetics

    (3 credits)
    An introduction to the modern theory of evolutionary genetics, including development of the concepts of genetic diversity, natural selection, random genetic drift, population substructure, infinite-alleles models, and the neutral theory of molecular evolution.


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  • BIO 538 - Clinical Genetics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: good standing in the Physician Assistant Program or permission of the instructor. Principles of clinical genetics and the use of traditional and molecular methods for the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of genetic disorders.


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  • BIO 540 - Biostatistics

    (3 credits)
    Introductory course in biostatistics, including probability, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, regression, and other analytical statistical methods applicable to biology.


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  • BIO 542 - Morphometrics

    (3 credits)
    Application of mathematical and statistical methodology to problems of biological structure and functional form. Individual projects involve detailed morphometric analyses of real data.


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  • BIO 548 - Biogeography

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: BIO 300, 302, or 304 or equivalent. Topics reflect the study of the distribution, ranges and limits of animals and plants and the interaction of physical and biotic systems to explain patterns of diversity and change across time at population, community and ecosystem levels.


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  • BIO 550 - Evolutionary Biology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: BIO 304 or equivalent. Advanced lectures on evolution that consider traits, genes, and their interaction with environmental variation. Topics include the basic quantitative methods required to interpret evolutionary change, the consequences of population structure, molecular approaches to phylogenetic studies, and the changes in genetic variation under different models of selection, drift, migration, and mutation.


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  • BIO 552 - Urban Ecology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate student in Biology or Environmental Science or permission of instructor. Corequisite: BIO 553 Understanding how human actions change ecological processes and ecosystem services in urban environments is important for designing and developing sustainable cities. This course will present concepts and frameworks related to urban ecology; explore the cross-disciplinary nature of urban ecology; and explore the challenges to designing ecologically sound and sustainable urban areas.


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  • BIO 553 - Urban Ecology Lab

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate student in Biology or Environmental Science or permission of instructor. Corequisite: BIO 552. This lab will test concepts and frameworks related to urban ecology; investigate how urban and urbanizing regions modify the natural environment; and explore the challenges to designing ecologically sound and sustainable urban areas


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  • BIO 554 - Ecology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites:BIO 300, 302, and BIO 304 or equivalent. Study of interactions of organisms within their environment, including growth and regulation of populations, communities, energetics of organisms and ecosystems, life-history evolution, and systems ecology.


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  • BIO 555 - Ecology Laboratory

    (1 credits)
    Corequisite: BIO 554. Selected exercises designed to reinforce concepts covered in BIO 554. The laboratory includes a few one-day field trips on weekends.


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  • BIO 562 - Evolutionary Ecology of Sexual Reproduction

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: BIO 300 or BIO 302 or permission of instructor. Although organisms spend huge amounts of energy in carrying out activities related to sexual reproduction, it is by far the most dominate mode of reproduction, but why? This course will attempt to explore that question and to examine various modes of sexual reproduction in diverse organisms in an evolutionary context.


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