Course Descriptions

ACCT 505 - Advanced Cost Accounting

• Reinforce and enhance knowledge of traditional first course (ACCT 305) topics.
  • Management accountant’s role
  • Different costs for different purposes
  • Cost-volume-profit analysis
  • Job (order)costing
  • Activity-based costing and management
  • Master budget
  • Responsibility accounting
  • Flexible budgets and direct cost variances
  • Flexible budgets and overhead cost variances
  • Inventory costing and capacity analysis
  • Determining how costs behave
  • Decision making and relevant information
  • Process costing
• Extend knowledge and demonstrate intermediate­ level competence with second course (ACCT 405) concepts.
  • Pricing decisions and cost management
  • Balanced scorecard and strategic profitabilityanalysis
  • Custome profitability and sales variance analysis
  • Allocation of support department costs
  • Cost allocation related to joint products and by-products
  • Accounting for spoilage, rework, and scrap
  • Balanced scorecard related to quality and theory of constraints
  • Inventory management and JIT planning and control
  • Cost of capital and capital budgeting
  • Transfer pricing
  • Performance measurement
• Practice basic/intermediate Excel spreadsheet management accounting applications related to:
  • master budgeting
  • cash budgeting
  • cost of capital estimation
  • capital budgeting
  • process costing cost of production reports
  • variance analysis
• Graduate: Communicate the results of a case or their analysis of a problem

ACCT 530 - Governmental and Non-profit Accounting

• Develop and implement accounting and financial management procedures appropriate for governmental entities. The focus is on state governments and the political subdivisions thereof.
• Develop and implement accounting and financial management procedures for non-government assisted not-for-profit organizations. The focus is on volunteer health and welfare organizations, such as the American Red Cross.
• Develop and implement accounting and financial management procedures for selected special non­ for-profit entities: public/private colleges and universities, and public/private hospitals and other health care providers.
• Develop audit procedures for governmental and nonprofit entities.
• Communicate the results of an audit case or their analysis of an audit problem.

ACCT 546 - Income Tax Accounting II

• Locate and interpret primary and secondary authoritative sources of tax information using web-based services
• Apply U.S. tax law to meet compliance requirements.
• Apply U.S. tax law to identify tax planning opportunities.
• Communicate the results of research, compliance, and planning efforts, to audiences with different levels of expertise.
• Graduate students will be able to communicate their tax analysis in written and/or through a presentation.

ACCT 550 - Advanced Accounting

• Prepare consolidated financial statements (includes outside ownership and intra-entity asset transactions)
• Work with foreign currency transactions and hedging
• Translate foreign currency financial statements
• Prepare financial statements for partnerships
• Graduate students will communicate their case and/or problem analysis

ACCT 555 - Accounting Information Systems

• Explain the objectives and processes of each accounting transaction cycle and interpret flowcharts and other graphical documentation of those cycles.
• Apply the requirements and specifications of COSO and related official pronouncements regarding the design and implementation of internal controls.
• Identify the key components and processes of manual and computerized accounting information systems.
• Identify current issues and emerging technologies that affect the evolution of accounting information systems in a global economy mediated by networked digital technologies.
• Graduate students will communicate their case and/or problem analysis of various accounting information issues.

ACCT 561 - Fraud Examination

• Explain each element of the fraud triangle.
• Identify the types of fraud from different scenarios.
• Interview an individual suspected of fraud and request a signed confession.
• Properly collect and preserve fraud examination evidence for trial.
• Prepare a fraud report
• Graduate students will be able to communicate their case and/or fraud assessment.

ACCT 565 - Current Issues in Information Technologies

• Apply information technology principles correctly in an accounting environment.
• Evaluate information technology decisions in an accounting environment.
• Write communications that are well organized, developed, and expressed in an accounting environment.

ACCT 575 - International Accounting

• Explain the nature and scope of international accounting
• Identify the role that political, cultural, social, legal, and economic variables play in the development and practice of accounting in an international environment
• Analyze the financial impact of foreign currency exposure, taxation, and transfer pricing issues
• Explain the financial impact of significant differences between GAAP and IFRS
• Reformat and restate financial statements from US GAAP to IFRS and vice versa
• Graduate students will communicate their case or project analysis

ACCT 583 - Seminar Auditing

• Apply generally accepted auditing standards correctly in the areas of obtaining and documenting substantive testing evidence, reviewing and documenting engagement conclusions, and preparing audit communications.
• Research and prescribe appropriate generally accepted auditing standards in the areas of obtaining and documenting substantive testing evidence, reviewing and documenting engagement conclusions, and preparing audit communications.
• Evaluate the proper application of generally accepted auditing standards in the areas of obtaining and documenting substantive testing evidence, reviewing and documenting engagement conclusions, and preparing audit communications.
• Write communications that are well organized, developed, and expressed in the areas of obtaining and documenting substantive testing evidence, reviewing and documenting engagement conclusions, and preparing audit communications.

ACCT 584 - Professional Writing and Speaking for the Accountant

• Communicate about professional issues in a manner that is appropriate for different audiences.
• Use computers for perform career­ oriented tasks
• Discuss the professional responsibilities and challenges in various career paths.
• Graduate students will be able to communicate the results of a case or their analysis of a problem.

ACCT 588 - Contemporary Issues in Accounting

• Identify the significant factors that have changed the Accounting Profession over the past 20 years.
• Analyze and review financial and business data by applying the appropriate accounting and business principle and standard to a financial reporting issue.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to typical client accounting, tax and/or business valuation issues encountered in professional practice.
• Use critical thinking to identify, explore, and evaluate emerging issues and dilemmas in accounting and business.

ACCT 590 - Cooperative Education

ACCT 596 - Individual Study

ACCT 598 - Special Topics

ACCT 700 - Master’s Thesis, Project Study, and/or Examination

ADMG 501 - ITAM Boot Camp

ADMG 525 - Global Managerial Communications

ADMG 531 - Financial Analysis in IT and Administrative Management

ADMG 545 - Research and Statistical Analysis of Data

ADMG 571 - Global Administrative Policy

ADMG 572 - Leadership and Supervision

ADMG 573 - Global Leadership and Supervision

ADMG 574 - Global Project Management

ADMG 590 - Cooperative Education

ADMG 592 - Practicum

ADMG 596 - Individual Study

ADMG 598 - Special Topics

ADMG 631 - Organizational Development

ADMG 641 - Innovation and Entrepreneurial Growth

ADMG 654 - Applied Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

ADMG 681 - Social Informatics

ADMG 689 - Capstone Written Project

ADMG 700 - Master’s Thesis, Project Study and/or Examination

ANTH 500 - Professional Development

ANTH 521 - Cultural Resources Management

ANTH 527 - Environmental Archaeology

ANTH 596 - Individual Study

ART 500 - Professional Development

ART 525 - Advanced Studies in Photography

ART 541 - Advanced Studies in Wood

ART 546 - Advanced Studies in Jewelry and Metalsmithing

ART 550 - Advanced Studies in Drawing

• 2-cr: Apply critical theory to individual practice of drawing.
• 3-cr: Above, plus defend work in oral critique/discussion.
• 4-cr: Above, plus write critical statement of project aims and document project using industry-standard formatting.
• 5-cr: Above, plus submit portfolio for peer review.

ART 560 - Advanced Studies in Painting

ART 565 - Advanced Studies in Ceramics

ART 580 - Advanced Studies in Sculpture

ART 585 - Seminar in Contemporary Art

• Summarize and analyze theoretical developments affecting contemporary art
• Judge how developments in theory and artistic practices relate to social, economic, technological and political developments
• Evaluate and measure the influence of theoretical constructs to growth of contemporary artists
• Choose advanced theoretical concepts to incorporate into their own creative process
• Evaluate current scholarship regarding contemporary art

ART 589 - Art Concepts and Criticism

ART 596 - Individual Study

ART 598 - Special Topics

ART 599 - Seminar

ART 700 - Master’s Thesis, Project Study, and/or Examination

BIOL 500 - Professional Development

BIOL 501 - Research Methods and Techniques

• Investigate, evaluate, and synthesize a wide array of current and historic biological scientific literature sources.
• Construct testable scientific hypotheses based on observations and inferences.
• Apply appropriate scientific procedures to test hypotheses.
• Apply principles of data analysis (including statistics), avoid misinterpretation and misuse of data analyses, and identify and use suitable data analysis tools.
• Present scientific ideas clearly and concisely in writing, and revise own scientific writing based on standard scientific writing models (e.g., CBE Manual, Chicago Manual of Style).
• Construct quality figures and tables from original data sets and recognize common problems in data presentation

BIOL 502 - Research Proposal Presentations

• Design an original, effective study to address a particular biological question or hypothesis.
• Prepare and effectively present a research proposal in oral format.
• Analyze and critique research proposed by others.
   

BIOL 505 - Current Topics in Biology

• Critically evaluate primary or secondary literature in biology.
• Use effective oral communication skills in the sciences.
• Identify and summarize current topics in biology.
• Use effective written communication skills in the sciences

BIOL 513 - Advanced Biostatistics

• Design valid, efficient, and statistically powerful experiments (413/513)
• Visualize complex data sets and identify patterns of biological importance (413/513)
• Explain the underlying assumptions of common statistical tests and evaluate the potential consequences of violating these assumptions (413/513)
• Select and validate appropriate methods for the analysis of complex biological data sets (413/513)
• Analyze complex biological data sets, interpret the output, draw valid conclusions, and communicate findings (413/513)
• 513 only: Visualize, analyze, and present findings from a unique, complex dataset (513)

BIOL 528 - Nutrigenomics

• Recommend a diet given genomic data
• Identify SNPs that respond to diet
• Calculate a risk profile for an individual given data
• Critique scientific literature in nutrigenomics
• Give and explain examples of variation in alleles, gene regulation, and epigenetictags that relate to diet.
• Provide examples of dietary factors that influence gene expression patterns.
• Plan an experiment to detect diet sensitive variation using appropriate techniques (e.g., transgenic animals and cells, Quantitative PCR, promoter assays, chromatin immunoprecipitation, oligonucleotide and protein microarrays, bioinformatics, Biostatistics, pathway reconstruction programs)
• Apply bioinformatics tools to analyze nutrigenomic data.
• In addition, graduate students will be able to relate epigenetic patterns to diet and gene expression patterns.
• In addition, graduate students will be able to relate gut microbiome flora to diet, SNP patterns and gene expression.

BIOL 535 - Cell Analysis by Flow Cytometry

• Identify the appropriate fluorochrome (s) and describe the steps involved in sample preparation and analysis by flow cytometry.
• Identify and apply the appropriate cell analysis methods to analyze previously acquired flow cytometry data.
• Interpret basic flow cytometry data and report results of cell analysis by flow cytometry
• Design research projects requiring flow cytometry among research tools, acquire, discuss and report data including those acquired by flow cytometry.
• Select from highly rated journals a recently published article (3-year-old max) containing relevant flow cytometry data and discuss the findings reported

BIOL 565 - Advanced Animal Behavior

BIOL 566 - Conservation Biology

BIOL 590 - Cooperative Education

BIOL 592 - Biological Field Studies

BIOL 595 - Graduate Research

BIOL 596 - Individual Study

BIOL 598 - Special Topics

BIOL 599 - Seminar

BIOL 602 - Research Presentations

• Orally present research result at a level suitable for regional or national meetings.
• List characteristics of effective oral research presentations and identify weaknesses.

BIOL 700 - Master’s Thesis, Project Study, and/or Examination

BUS 541 - Advanced Business Law

CTE 500 - Professional Development

CTE 501 - Research Methods

CTE 502 - Statistics

CTE 522 - Survey of Research

CTE 526 - Program Delivery Methods

CTE 551 - Principles of Career and Technical Education

CTE 580 - Administration

CTE 581 - Program Resource Management

CTE 582 - Curriculum Development

CTE 583 - Partnerships and Advisory Committees

CTE 584 - Supervision and Evaluation

CTE 590 - Cooperative Education

CTE 592 - Practicum

CHEM 500 - Professional Development

CHEM 503 - Introduction to Research

CHEM 505 - Current Topics in Chemistry

CHEM 511 - Advanced Biochemistry

• Describe in text or in drawings the different types of regulatory elements in genes.
• Describe in text or in drawings the different mechanisms used by cells to regulate the expression of different genes.
• Describe in text or in drawings the different types of protein domains that mediate interactions with nucleic acids or other proteins.
• Critically examine and analyze experimental data from scientific literature.
• Present findings from published scientific papers to peers.

CHEM 512 - Biochemical Toxicology

CHEM 550 - Advanced Analytical Chemistry

• Explain the fundamental principles of advanced analytical measurements in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, separations, mass spectroscopy, and speciation.
• Use of advanced statistics in the analysis of chemical data.
• Propose the appropriate analysis technique when presented with a problem requiring advanced analytical instrumentation.
• Discuss recent advances in chemistry in analytical instrumentation for chemical analysis.

CHEM 551 - Atmospheric Chemistry

• List the chemical components of the atmosphere.
• Draw temperature and pressure profiles of the atmosphere and name each layer.
• Identify atmospheric transport mechanisms and describe how they work.
• Estimate each contributing factor to the greenhouse effect.
• List pertinent reactions involving ozone in the stratosphere and in the troposphere (Smog).
• List chemical equilibria that lead to acid rain.
• Analyze, synthesize and critique current topic in atmospheric chemistry.

CHEM 561 - Organic Reaction Mechanisms

• Relate how valence electrons in frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs) are involved in important bond- formation processes in organic chemistry.
• Be able to propose plausible arrow-pushing mechanisms to predict and rationalize the outcome of fundamental synthetic transformations in organic chemistry.
• Identify the factors that contribute to the stability and reactivity of stable organic molecules, reactive intermediates, and transition states.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of kinetic and thermodynamic concepts as well as how organic reaction mechanisms are determined experimentally.

CHEM 562 - Organic Spectroscopy

• demonstrate basic knowledge of the theory and applications of optical methods like ultraviolet and infrared spectroscopy, and polarimetry. Students will be engaged in independent projects outside of lecture time that will allow them to gain direct experience in structural identification of organic compounds
• develop a working knowledge of the theory and practice of mass spectrometry, with an emphasis on Interpretation of results
• develop a working knowledge of the theory and practice of tandem methods of chromatography/mass spectrometry, with an emphasis on interpretation of results
• demonstrate a basic knowledge of the theory behind NMR spectroscopy and how theory relates to interpretation of data for 1D and 2D NMR
• apply concepts of lD NMR spectroscopy (proton, carbon, and DEPT NMR) to structure determination of organic molecules. Students will also work on independent projects to gain direct experience in the structural identification of organic compounds.
• dimensional NMR spectroscopy (COSY, HSQC, HMBC, NOESY/ROESY) toward structure determination of simple and complex organic molecules correlate knowledge of organic spectroscopy topics covered in the course with an example from current
• correlate knowledge of the interpretation of NMR spectroscopy toward practical laboratory lD & 20 applications.  Students will also work on independent projects to gain direct experience in the structural identification of organic compounds.

CHEM 563 - Advanced Organic Synthesis (Put on reserve 9/16/15.)

• Access and use online and hard-copy organic chemistry reference resources and be able to choose among available resources for a particular research topic.
• Provide plausible mechanisms and rationalize the stereo chemical issues present (when applicable) for fundamental and important synthetic transformations in organic chemistry.
• Identify several disparate retrosynthetic possibilities for a given synthetic target and assess which disconnections among the available choices are better than others and why.
• Recognize regio-, c·hemo-, and stereoselectivity issues that may influence the plausibility and success of a chosen reaction sequence in a total synthesis endeavor.
• Identify key strategies used in the construction of landmark chemical syntheses reported in the literature.

CHEM 564 - Medicinal Organic Chemistry

• Explain the role of medicinal chemistry and apply the principles learned in chemistry and biology to the Explain the role of medicinal chemistry and apply the principles learned in chemistry and biology to the understanding of the drug discovery process.
• Discuss the three-dimensional properties and structural characteristics of organic molecules in drug design and enzyme inhibition.
• Determine how individual targets (e.g. enzymes and/or receptors) are identified as good targets, and how that information is translated into chemical lead structures.
• Determine the chemical synthesis of biologically active structures.

CHEM 567 - Physical Organic Chemistry

• Assess stabilities of organic species using thermochemical methods including group additivity schemes, bond dissociation energies, and computational methods.
• Evaluate proposed reaction mechanisms using experimental data including rate laws, isotope effects, and linear free energy relationships.
• Propose reasonable pathways for reactions involving radical and carbene intermediates.
• Outline pathways for photochemical processes.
• Critically examine and analyze experimental data from the physical organic literature.

CHEM 571 - Topics in Solid State Chemistry

CHEM 580 - Advanced Physical Chemistry

• Explain the fundamental principles in experimental and theoretical thermodynamics.
• Analyze complex mechanisms of chemical kinetics.
• Explain the uni-, bi-, and/or tri-molecular reaction mechanisms on the microscopic level from the perspective of molecular dynamics.
• Explain the fundamental principles of transition state theory and variational transitions state theory and apply these theories to analyze experimental kinetics data.
• Analyze and interpret atomic and molecular spectra.
• Discuss the underlying physical chemistry concepts in a selected area of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies.

CHEM 581 - Quantum and Computational Chemistry

• Apply quantum mechanical theory to describe and analyze translation, rotation, and vibration of microscopic particles.
• Apply quantum mechanical theory to describe and analyze electronic structures of atoms and molecules.
• Describe the principles and algorithms in the Hartree-Fock (HF) and post-HF theories.
• Use computational chemistry software programs widely used in academia and/or industry.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the recent progress in a selected area of computational chemistry.

CHEM 589 - Graduate Student Seminar

CHEM 590 - Cooperative Education

CHEM 592 - Laboratory Experience in Teaching Chemistry