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Graduate Catalog 2015 - 2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Economics
  

  • ECN 516 - Comparative Economic Systems

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Intermediate microeconomic and macroeconomic theory. Analysis of selected economic systems with an emphasis on economic planning. Offered only on sufficient demand.


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  • ECN 541 - Bus Fluctuations & Forecasting

    (3 credits)
    Nature and causes of business fluctuations, business cycle theories; methods of forecasting GDP, inflation, and unemployment; micro-foundations of macroeconomic forecasting equations dealing with consumption functions, investment function, demand for money, Okun’s law, Phillip’s curve, price equation.


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  • ECN 550 - Economics of Law

    (3 credits)
    The concepts of public and private goods, externalities, and benefits versus cost are used to analyze the effects and efficiency of property, contract, tort, and criminal law. In addition, the trade-offs are examined in such areas as plea bargaining, trial versus settlement of civil cases, and various arrangements for payment of legal costs.


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  • ECN 561 - Public Expenditures

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Intermediate microeconomics. Introduction to public sector economics, including welfare economics and the role of the public sector in a mixed economy; public expenditure theory; and economic analysis of various federal government expenditure programs. Offered on sufficient demand.


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  • ECN 562 - Taxation

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Intermediate microeconomics. Economic theory of taxation; economic analysis of federal taxation, including the personal income, corporate, and social security taxes; and analysis of such state and local taxes as property and sales. Offered on sufficient demand.


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  • ECN 570 - Urban And Regional Economics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Intermediate micro-economic theory. Location theory of the firm and industry, industrial locational patterns, land use patterns, measurement of economic activity, and regional trade; regional hierarchies and systems of cities; techniques of regional analysis; base theory, local multipliers, input-output analysis, gravity, potential, and spatial interaction models. Offered only on sufficient demand.


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  • ECN 572 - Urban Manpower Problems

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Intermediate microeco-nomic theory. Intensive analysis of labor markets; wages and income determination and distribution; structural versus demand unemployment; productivity and the supply of labor; technology and changes in demand for labor; unemployment and urban poverty; job security, wage and hour regulation; training and manpower policies. Offered only on sufficient demand.


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  • ECN 574 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

    (3 credits)
    Analysis of the causes of environmental problems using the concepts of public goods and externalities. Examination of the impact and efficiency of regulatory approaches in controlling pollution and congestion. Externality and sustainability issues involving the rate of exploitation of natural resources are explored. Both positive and normative economic reasoning are applied to the related issues of population size, economic-ecological interactions, and future prospects for humanity.


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  • ECN 582 - International Trade

    (3 credits)
    The determinants of comparative advantage and the pattern of international trade; the gains from trade, and the effects of trade restrictions; trade, growth, and development; the balance of payments; the economics of exchange rates; macroeconomics in an open economy. Cross-listed with ECN 782. Candidates for the M.A. in Economics should register for ECN 582.


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  • ECN 585 - Economics of Development and Growth

    (3 credits)
    A theoretical approach to development problems of the less-developed nations; comparison of growth theories; inequality and economic development; population and growth; the impact of development on rural and urban sectors; market failures and government policies; international assistance.


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  • ECN 610 - Mathematical Economics for Economists

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: MTH 181 or equivalent. Provides a technical foundation for other graduate courses. An examination of calculus of one and several variables, including partial and total differentiation, and first and second order derivatives, with applications to economic analysis and optimization. Elements of matrix algebra are studied along with various applications.


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  • ECN 622 - Statistical Methods for Economists

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: OMS 201 or equivalent. Development of statistical theory and its application to economics. Topics include probability theory, discrete random variables, continuous random variables, estimation, derivation of important sampling distributions, hypotheses testing and regression analysis.


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  • ECN 625 - Econometrics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: ECN 610 and ECN 622 or equivalents. Classical least squares assumptions for simple and multiple regression; estimation; associated statistics, e.g., R2, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals; scaling; prediction; dummy variables; heteroscedasticity; autoregressive disturbances; multicollinearity; certain types of specification error; lagged relationships; simultaneous equilibrium models; limited dependent variable models; time series topics. Cross-listed with ECN 725. Candidates for the M.A. in Economics should register for ECN 625.


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  • ECN 628 - Applied Economic Analysis

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: ECN 625. Use of economic theory to develop empirical models. Course covers how to clean datasets for analysis, merge datasets, build bridges between data series with different coding schemes and other important data management techniques. Development of properly specified empirical models using appropriate techniques and analysis of results using statistical software. Appropriate presentation of results through project reports and class presentations.


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  • ECN 633 - Advanced Microeconomics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites or co-requisite: ECN 610  or equivalent and intermediate microeconomics. Consumer theory; choice and demand under certainty and uncertainty; intertemporal choice; production, input demand and cost, supply; and perfectly competitive markets and applications. Cross-listed with ECN 733. Candidates for the M.A. in Economics should register for ECN 633.


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  • ECN 635 - Competition and Strategy

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites or co-requisite: ECN 610  or equivalent and intermediate microeconomics. Organization of firms and markets in perfectly competitive industries. Internal organizational strategies (scale and scope, make-or-buy, centralization vs. decentralization, etc.), external competitive strategies (pricing, product choice, advertising, entry and exit, R&D, etc.), and their mutual interdependence are analyzed. Cross-listed with ECN 735. Candidates for the M.A. in Economics should register for ECN 635.


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  • ECN 643 - Advanced Macroeconomics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: ECN 610 or equivalent and intermediate macroeconomics. An analytical examination of the forces that determine the level of national income, employment, prices, and economic growth under the classical, Keynesian, and post-Keynesian assumptions; Ricardian equivalence, time inconsistency issue, growth models, macroeconomic policy. Cross-listed with ECN 743. Candidates for the M.A. in Economics should register for ECN 643.


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  • ECN 654 - Financial Economics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: ECN 633. Monetary systems; financial markets; financial intermediation; risk; term structure of interest rates; models of stock and bond prices; capital asset pricing model; financial derivatives; the efficient markets hypothesis; central banking; monetary theory. Cross-listed with ECN 754. Candidates for the M.A. in Economics should register for ECN 654.


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  • ECN 656 - Monetary Theory And Policy

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: ECN 654. Monetary theories, supply and demand for money, and the instruments of monetary control, including the influence of monetary policy on money and capital markets; examination of proposed alternate monetary policies. Offered only on sufficient demand.


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  • ECN 675 - Labor Economics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Economics MA Program student or permission of instuctor. Analysis of labor market issues such as labor supply and demand, wage inequality, human capital formation, unemployment, the minimum wage, labor mobility and unions. Considers policy applications including school quality choices and the effect of health and safety regulations.


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  • ECN 694 - Special Topics In Economics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Course title and content may change from term to term. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ECN 695 - Seminar In Economics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Discussion course in a particular area of economics with one instructor and a small group of students. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ECN 725 - Econometrics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: ECN 610 and ECN 622, or permission of instructor. Classical least squares assumptions for simple and multiple regression; estimation; associated statistics, e.g., R2, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals; scaling; prediction; dummy variables; heteroscedasticity; autoregressive disturbances; multicollinearity; certain types of specification error; lagged relationships; simultaneous equilibrium models; limited dependent variable models; time series topics. Cross-listed with ECN 625.


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  • ECN 733 - Advanced Microeconomics I

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites or co-requisite: ECN 610  and intermediate microeconomics. Prerequisites or co-requisite: ECN 610 and intermediate microeconomics. Consumer theory; choice and demand under certainty and uncertainty, intertemporal choice; production, input demand and cost, supply; and perfectly competitive markets and applications. Cross-listed with ECN 633.


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  • ECN 735 - Competition and Strategy

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites or co-requisite: ECN 610  and intermediate microeconomics. Prerequisites or co-requisite: ECN 610 and intermediate microeconomics. Organization of firms and markets in perfectly competitive industries. Internal organizational strategies (scale and scope, make-or-buy, centralization vs. decentralization, etc.), external competitive strategies (pricing, product choice, advertising, entry and exit, R&D, etc.), and their mutual interdependence are analyzed. Cross-listed with ECN 635.


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  • ECN 743 - Advanced Macroeconomics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: ECN 610 and intermediate microeconomics. An analytical examination of the forces that determine the level of national income, employment, prices, and economic growth under the classical, Keynesian, and post-Keynesian assumptions; Ricardian equivalence, time inconsistency issue, growth models, macroeconomic policy. Cross-listed with ECN 643.


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  • ECN 754 - Financial Economics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: ECN 733. Monetary systems; financial markets; financial intermediation; risk; term structure of interest rates; models of stock and bond prices; capital asset pricing model; financial derivatives; the efficient markets hypothesis; central banking; monetary theory. Cross-listed with ECN 654.


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  • ECN 794 - Special Topics In Economics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Course title and content may change from term to term. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ECN 795 - Seminar In Economics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. The seminar focuses on a particular area of economics, and requires class presentations by students and out-of-class writing assignments, as well as other assignments chosen by the instructor. May be repeated with change of topic.


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Education Counseling
  

  • EDA 593 - Current Issues In Counseling

    (4 credits)
    Specific topic is included in the course schedule. Provides students with the opportunity to investigate a designated topic in-depth and/or to carry out a supervised investigation within the limits of the seminar title. Group meetings enhance discussion and problem exploration. May be repeated with change of topic. (offered infrequently).


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  • EDA 651 - Individual Projects in Education

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of department chair. An independent project in a selected area of education; project must be approved by and arrangements made with permission of department chair, the advisor, and a supervising faculty member. Offered every semester.


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  • EDA 693 - Current Issues In Administration

    (4 credits)
    Specific topic is included in the course schedule. Provides students with the opportunity to investigate a designated topic in-depth and/or to carry out a supervised investigation within the limits of the seminar title. Group meetings enhance discussion and problem exploration. The course may be repeated with different content areas (offered infrequently).


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Education-DTE
  

  • EDC 500 - Diversity in Educational Settings

    (3 credits)
    Focuses on issues related to the education of culturally and linguistically diverse children, gifted children, and children with special needs. Gender issues in education and the relation of diversity to all areas of the teaching-learning process are discussed. Course work involves the development of effective strategies for teaching all children about diversity and for promoting positive relationships among teachers, parents, and children. Required for early childhood teaching license, pre-kindergarten endorsement, and TESOL endorsement.


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  • EDC 501 - Child Development

    (3 credits)
    Emphasis on various aspects and phases of human growth and development from conception to adolescence, including physical/motor, socio-emotional, moral, and cognitive development. Attention is given to relationships among aspects of development and between development and school learning. Human Development option in the College core; required for early childhood teaching license.


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  • EDC 509 - Secondary Methods for the Art Specialist

    (3 credits)
    Class sessions, studio laboratory work, and school-site experiences that develop the necessary knowledge and competencies for planning, implementing, and evaluating art programs in the secondary school.


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  • EDC 511 - Instructional Design & Delivery

    (3 credits)
    Explores theories, methods, and procedures underlying the development and design of instruction, with particular attention given to selected models of teaching and their practical application, strengths, and limitations. Other topics include the systematic analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation of instruction as a continuous integrated process; the importance of audience awareness and the learning environment in instruction planning; and the use of instructional technologies to enhance student learning and develop curricular materials.


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  • EDC 512 - Instructional Development In Foreign Language Education

    (4 credits)
    Aids practicing elementary and secondary educators in developing curriculum, objectives, classroom materials, and appropriate teaching methods. Students critically review current research and trends in relation to national and state standards for foreign language instruction.


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  • EDC 513 - Instructional Development In English/Language Arts Education

    (4 credits)
    Aids practicing elementary and secondary educators in developing curriculum, objectives, classroom materials, and appropriate teaching methods. Students critically review current research and trends in relation to national and state standards for instruction in the English language arts.


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  • EDC 514 - Instructional Development In Art Education

    (4 credits)
    Aids practicing elementary and secondary educators in developing curriculum, objectives, classroom materials, and appropriate teaching methods. Students critically review current research and trends in relation to national and state standards for instruction in the visual arts.


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  • EDC 515 - Instructional Development In Mathematics Education

    (4 credits)
    Aids practicing elementary and secondary educators in developing curriculum, objectives, classroom materials, and appropriate teaching methods. Students critically review current research and trends in relation to national and state standards for mathematics instruction.


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  • EDC 517 - Instructional Development In Science Education

    (4 credits)
    Aids practicing classroom teachers by providing strategies and tools for modifying commercial curricula, enhancing teaching methods, and adapting instructional technologies. Students critically review research and trends related to continuing issues in science education.


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  • EDC 520 - Teaching Mathematics with Technology

    (2 credits)
    This course is designed to help teachers of mathematices use technology to increase student learning in mathematics. Course participants will use technology to explore the issues surrounding the classroom use of technology. Specifically, this course will help teachers develop knowledge of research and theories regarding teaching and learning mathematics using technology. The course will also help teachers develop proficiency in the appropriate application of various technologies to encourage students to develop greater conceptual understanding of mathematics and develop higher order thinking skills.


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  • EDC 521 - Assessment in Mathematics Education

    (3 credits)
    The course in Assessment, Diagnosis, and Evaluation in Mathematics will prepare P-6 Mathematics Specialist Endorsement candidates to be able to direct the alignment of curriculum with the state’s Academic Content Standards within and across grade levels. In addition, they will analyze and interpret data from student assessments for teachers, parents, and the community.


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  • EDC 522 - Practicum in Mathematics Intervention

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Three years of successful experience in teaching mathematics. Practicum in Mathematics Intervention is structured to provide P-6 mathematics teachers with necessary leadership experience for designing intervention programs for schools. In addition, the course helps the practicing teachers to create curriculum and instruction for students who are potentially at risk in learning mathematics. Also, the course stresses the practical application of theory and research to the planning and delivery, and evaluation of instruction.


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