TO: All Faculty DATE: September 1, 2010
FROM: Dr. Dorota Huizinga Dr. Edgar P. Trotter Associate Vice President Acting Associate Vice President
Graduate Programs and Research Undergraduate Programs
RE: Proposed New Courses – Fall 2010
The following courses have been proposed and are submitted to all faculty for review (UPS 411.100). Copies of the course proposals are on file in the Academic Programs Office.
Pursuant to UPS 411.100, the Graduate Education Committee will review 500-level course proposals and 400-level courses available for use on graduate study plans. Courses numbered
100-400 will be routed to the University Curriculum Committee, except for those that request inclusion in the General Education Program, which will be reviewed by the General Education Committee.
The deadline for submitting questions (written inquiries about the appropriateness of a new course proposal) is September 15, 2010. Questions should be submitted in writing to the appropriate Associate Vice President in Academic Programs: the Dean of the college proposing the course, the chair of the College Curriculum Committee, and the chair of the proposing department. Conversions of questions to challenges (formal objections to a course proposal) must take place by November 1, 2010.
College of Business and EconomicsMGMT 510 Seminar in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Managerial Ethics (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: Graduate status. Analyzes how to generate a competitive advantage through ethics-based business strategies, and examines how to enhance social responsibility in conducting business activities in finance, accounting, marketing, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, HR, and management and information technology.
College of CommunicationsCOMM 331 News Literary (3) UCC
Course will help students understand where information comes from and how to evaluate its credibility, truth and accuracy through critical examination. Topics include newsgathering and presentation and differences among news, opinion, advertising, public relations and entertainment.
COMM 439 Literary Journalism (3) GRAD
Prerequisite: COMM 334. An examination of literary journalism in theory and in practice. This advanced course exposes students to the works of literary journalism, the elements of the genre and its historical development. Students will produce two major projects during the semester.
College of Communications Joint Courses withCollege of Business and Economics
IMC 501 Principles of Marketing Management (3) GRAD
(Integrated Marketing and Communication) Examines the fundamental development of effective global strategies for products and service. Topics include assessing market potential, segmentation, and targeting, as well as product design, promotion, distribution and pricing with an emphasis on online marketing.
IMC 502 Research Strategies for Integrated Communications (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: IMC 501. Studies the role of research in marketing decision making, and will cover various research methods including online research. Topics include public secondary data sources, syndicated data, designing custom research studies, and data analysis.
IMC 503 Consumer Behavior (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: IMC 501, 502. Examines the needs and motivations of consumers and the psychology behind their spending. Course trains students to make sense of consumers and how to determine what they think, feel, and say about consumption plans and experiences.
IMC 504 Interactive Communication Technologies (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: IMC 501, 502, 503. Examines the Internet and technology that enables marketing communications to interact with consumers. In addition to data-base management, it provides a synthesis of information about framing and composition, graphic design, and the tools for critically examing media technology.
IMC 505 Communications in the Management of Customer Relationships (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: IMC 501, 502, 503, 504. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the process of managing all customer touch points to maximize loyalty, while decreasing turnover. This course studies the use of information technology for planning and collecting relevant customer information, and the design of management response.
IMC 506 Global Business Communication (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: IMC 501, 502, 503, 504, 505. Examines the keys to effective global and intercultural communication, and focuses on understanding the differences in media systems and policies that exist across borders as well as the underlying value and communication patterns of different national cultures.
IMC 507 Integrated Communications Management (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: IMC 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506. Covers the essentials of brand promotion through integration of advertising, public relations, support media, event sponsorship and branded entertainment. Students learn the management process beginning with research, strategy and planning through campaign execution and evaluation.
IMC 508 Marketing Decisions: Financial Aspects (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: IMC 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507. Will provide an overview of necessary marketing financial concepts, and their application in making decisions. It also introduces common databases used to assess market potential, define target markets and specify audiences for communication, and provides cases for illustration.
IMC 509 Brand Strategy and Management (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: IMC 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508. Provides the necessary understanding to plan strategy, build brand equity, and manage brands by understanding the needs of the target market. The course will include discussion of concepts such as product development, product life cycle, and portfolio management.
IMC 510 Capstone Practicum (3) GRAD
Prerequisites: IMC 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507- 508, 509. Culminating course; students use knowledge to develop a brand promotion campaign. Through interaction with a local or global brand client, students conduct primary research, propose a promotion plan and provide assessment tools to address a brand-related marketing problem.
College of EducationSPED 425 Language and Culture for Special Populations: Foundations of
Culture and Language and the IEP (4) UCC
Prerequisite/Pre-service class for Special Ed Credential program, may be taken co-requisitely with
SPED 322 and SPED 371. Introduction to language and culture for special populations. It covers the foundations and characteristics of bi-cultural English learners who also have disabilities and presents the most current, evidence-based practices for assessing and teaching this special population.
SPED 482C Curriculum, Methods and Intervention in Early Childhood Special Ed (3) UCC
Prerequisites: SPED 371, SPED 400 or concurrently enrolled in SPED 400. Early childhood special education foundations course with a focus on very young children birth to five in the area of curriculum development, instructional planning, designing engaging room environments, technology applications and intervention.
College of Engineering and Computer ScienceCPSC 477 Introduction to Grid Computing (3) GRAD
Prerequisite: CPSC 351. Introduction to various aspects of Grid Computing emphasizing integration of homogeneous and inhomogeneous computational resources to provide high performance computing seamlessly, efficiently, and securely; using Globus toolkit as the integration framework for demonstrating and implementing various aspects of Grid Computing.
College of Health and Human DevelopmentHESC 480 Introduction to International Health (3) GRAD
Prerequisite: HESC 220. Provides an overview of issues in international health with an emphasis on core disease conditions. Introduction to leading causes of death and disability within an international context as well as programmatic and policy responses to improve international health.
HESC 481 Globalization and Health GRAD
Prerequisite: HESC 220. Provides an overview of the health effects of globalization. The course emphasizes health concerns arising from political, economic and social interconnectedness and the need to find common solutions to ensure human health worldwide.
College of Humanities and Social SciencesENGL 460 19th Century American Literature (3) GRAD
Poetry, drama, and prose in nineteenth-century America. Major writers such as Emerson, Stowe, Dickinson, and Thoreau.
GEOG 483 Mountain Field Geography (3) GRAD
Prerequisite: GEOG 110, 281. Summer field study of the physical and environmental geography of mountain systems in the West. Focus on alpine/subalpine glacial action, weather and climate, biogeography, soils, human impacts, and sustainability.
HIST 475B U.S. in the 1950s (3) GRAD
Prerequisite: HIST 170A and 170B; Or HIST 180 and 170A or 170B; or HIST 190 and HIST 170A or HIST 170B; or HIST 180 or HIST 190. This course will look at American society, politics, and culture during the Cold War era. The class will begin with World War II’s end, examine the Cold War at home and abroad, and end with America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
HIST 477B Native American History (3) GRAD
Prerequisite: HIST 170A, 170B, 180, or 190. Examination of the role of Native Americans in American history. A focus on religion, education, literature, commerce, and museums to understand the interactions between Native Americans and Americans of other races and ethnicities within the context of wider historical trends.
POSC/CRJU 471 Moot Court: Legal Practicum (3) UCC
Prerequisites: Any one of the following POSC 375; CRJU 310A/B; POSC/CRJU 472; POSC 473; POSC 474; CRJU 485, open to undergraduates only not open to graduate students. Seminar preparing students for competition. Students learn legal research, writing, court strategies and oral argument; civil liberties law, cases and adjudication; appellate court review and amicus brief reading and writing.
VIET 204 Intermediate Vietnamese B (3) UCC
Prerequisite: VIET 203 or equivalent. Continued development of students’ communicative competence in Vietnamese with a focus on listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture at the intermediate level. Emphasis on building vocabulary and developing grammatical accuracy. Conducted primarily in Vietnamese.
VIET 305 Advanced Vietnamese A (3) UCC
Prerequisite: Vietnamese competency or VIET 204. Continued development of students’ communicative competency in Vietnamese with a focus on listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture at the advanced level. Emphasis on building vocabulary and strengthening grammatical accuracy. Conducted in Vietnamese.
College of Natural Sciences and MathematicsBIOL 427 Stem Cell Biology (3) UCC
Prerequisite: BIOL 303 or 309. BIOL 405 recommended. The historical context, principles, methodology, clinical impact on society and the individual, recent relevant scientific facts and progress, controversies and perspective of stem cell biology with a focus on applications to regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.
BIOL 527 Stem Cell Biology (3) GRAD
Prerequisite: Graduate standing; undergraduate experience in cell or molecular biology recommended. The historical context, principles, methodology, clinical impact on society and the individual, recent relevant scientific facts and progress, controversies and perspective of stem cell biology with a focus on applications to regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.
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