Course Descriptions

LAJ 700 - Master’s Thesis, Project, Study, or Portfolio

• Students will develop an in-depth knowledge of a specific area of law, police, courts, or corrections.
• Students will develop communication skills, including writing and/or speech.
• Students will utilize criminological or criminal justice theory in the creation or defense of positions they take in their work. 
• Students will produce their own research product.
• Students will develop an ability to synthesize complex material relating to criminal justice and criminology. 

LIS 500 - Professional Development

LIS 596 - Individual Study

LIS 598 - Special Topics

LIS 599 - Seminar

LIS 696 - Individual Study

LIS 698 - Special Topics

LIS 699 - Seminar

MGT 525 - Strategic Management/Business Simulation (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• Demonstrate knowledge of business strategy concepts, theories and applications.
• Make and justify strategic decisions in a business setting.
• Integrate strategic decision making theories and select appropriate frameworks to make business decisions in a given context.
• Assess the business environment with relevant theoretical frameworks and identify the implications for strategic decisions.

MGT 589 - Business Ethics

• Demonstrate knowledge of legal statutes, professional guidelines, and institutional policies that guide professional behavior.
• Compare and contrast ethics philosophies, frameworks, morals and values.
• Demonstrate knowledge of issues in organizational ethics, including: corporate misconduct, employee deviance, and ethics of business strategy.
• Relate theories of stakeholder management to organizational ethics.
• Employ strategies for managing others in an ethical way and strategies encouraging others to be ethical.
• Demonstrate knowledge of ethical decision-making models and be aware of the evolution of these models.
• Identify constraints on ethical decision- making, including situational pressures, individual bias, and judgment errors.
• Utilize compensatory strategies for improving ethical decision-making.
• Demonstrate knowledge of individual differences in ethical decision -making.
• Comprehend the short and long-term implications of decision-ethicality.

MGT 596 - Individual Study

MGT 598 - Special Topics

MGT 599 - Seminar

MGT 696 - Individual Study

MGT 698 - Special Topics

MGT 699 - Seminar

MATH 500 - Professional Development

MATH 591 - Workshop

MATH 595 - Graduate Research

MATH 596 - Individual Study

MATH 598 - Special Topics

MATH 599 - Seminar

MATH 696 - Individual Study

MATH 698 - Special Topics

MATH 699 - Seminar

MIS 520 - Enterprise System Integration and Application

• Recognize the importance of business processes and the role of information in supporting process integration in modern organizations
• Diagram fundamental business processes in areas such as accounting, procurement, fulfilment, production, inventory and warehouse management, and material planning.
• Outline the various types of data necessary to support different business processes.
• Apply the tools and systems available in a recognized enterprise resources planning system to collect and analyzed business processes in a simulated environment.
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• Prepare and apply changes to decision variables to improve performance in a simulated operating environment involving demand, distribution, operations, purchasing, inventory and other related processes.
• Evaluate and explain the impact of changes to variables on the operating performance of individual processes and the overall business system.
• Demonstrate the required steps to enter data, implement processes, analyze results and modify actions when using a modern enterprise resource planning system.

MIS 546 - Systems Analysis and Design in Business

• Differentiate between the role of configuration and customization in the design and implementation of an enterprise resource planning system (ERP).
• Explain how processes, structure, data and business rules affect how to configure an ERP system to address requirements of an organization.
• List the most common functional areas of an organization addressed when designing and configuring an ERP system.
• Formulate the requirements to configure each component of an enterprise resource planning system to meet the needs of a specific organization.
• Perform the actions necessary to configure an ERP system to support the management structure and operation requirements of a specific organization. 
• Evaluate how changes in an organizations structure and/or operations may require changes to an ERP system configuration.
• Implement changes to an ERP system configuration to match changes in a specific organizations structure and operations.
• Outline the steps to properly test, debug and document changes in ERP systems configuration.

MIS 560 - Applied Business Analytics

• Discuss the role of data in supporting management decision making
• Apply the fundamentals of data mining technologies to common business decisions.
• Prepare a data mining application using industry-based enterprise management system.
• Distinguish among the various data warehousing models.
• Create a series of data analyses to address specific business decisions related to management, marketing, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, accounting and human resources.
• Create a series of performance dashboards and employ the dashboards to evaluate performance, assess options and apply changes to improve performance in a simulated environment.

MUS 500 - Professional Development

MUS 510 - Vocal Jazz Choir

• Demonstrate characteristic jazz tone quality on their instruments and voices.
• Demonstrate characteristic jazz phrasing and style on their instruments and voices.
• Work together to create a cohesive group sound with an overall high quality artistic, emotional and technical impact.
• Perform a wide variety of music composed and arranged for the vocal jazz ensemble.
• Improvise in a vocal jazz ensemble setting, including musical interaction within the ensemble.

MUS 513 - Flute Choir

MUS 514 - Brass Choir

MUS 515 - Chamber Orchestra

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including: improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Demonstrate leadership competencies appropriate to ensemble playing including leading sectionals, understanding the full score and how your part fits into the whole, and nonverbal artistic communication
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 517 - Chamber Music Ensemble

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including: improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Demonstrate leadership competencies appropriate to ensemble playing including leading sectionals, understanding the full score and how your part fits into the whole, and nonverbal artistic communication
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 520 - Methods of Teaching Theory

• Articulate principles of sequential undergraduate instruction in written and aural music theory (e.g. music fundamentals, harmony and voice-leading, aural skills, dictation, and basic analysis).
• Design and deliver effective undergraduate lessons in written and aural music theory.
• Evaluate music theory texts and musical examples for their appropriateness for introductory, remedial, and advanced music theory instruction.
• Design and interpret the results of diagnostic exams, skills checks, and written/aural examinations to provide feedback and evaluate student achievement in music theory.

MUS 521 - Methods of Musical Research

MUS 522 - Advanced Orchestration

MUS 523 - Advanced Composition

• Identify forms and structural elements in compositions including: form, phrase structure, modulations, and transitions.
• Aurally identify, discuss, and analyze formal structures of a composition including: form, key centers, modulation, secondary functions, tonicization, chromaticism, change of orchestration, transitions, types of modulation, and compositional techniques.
• Identify the performance practice of certain composers.
• Recognize the “voice” certain composers exemplify in their music and understand what characterizes such a voice and find ways to begin to create their own “voice.”
• Gain knowledge of and incorporate Terminology/techniques pertaining to melodic development, form, structure, harmony, style, and compositional techniques.
• Compose original works incorporating theoretical knowledge while developing a creative and unique “voice.”
• Demonstrate knowledge and competency of notation software such as Finale or Sibelius.

MUS 524 - Applied Pedagogy in Music

• Describe and discuss topics pertaining to applied instruction.
• Identify areas of personal interest within their specific instrument/voice and pursue in-depth research, writing and application of these topics.
• Identify a variety of different teaching methodologies.
• Identify basic types of learning styles.
• Identify and assess qualitative elements of musical interpretation, including musicianship, listening, technique, individual practice, and performance.
• Demonstrate understanding of basic human anatomy and its relationship to proper alignment.

MUS 529 - Percussion Ensemble

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including
• Improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Demonstrate leadership competencies appropriate to ensemble playing including leading sectionals, understanding the full score and how your part fits into the whole, and nonverbal artistic communication
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 532 - Big Band

• Demonstrate characteristic jazz tone quality on their instruments.
• Demonstrate characteristic jazz phrasing and style on their instruments.
• Work together to create a cohesive group sound with an overall high quality artistic, emotional and technical impact.
• Perform a wide variety of music composed and arranged for the jazz big band.
• Improvise in a jazz big band setting, including musical interaction within the ensemble.

MUS 536 - Diction for Singers 1

• Identify the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• Execute the physical movements necessary to produce the sounds symbolized by the IPA symbols used in Italian, Latin and English.
• Transcribe Italian, Latin and English texts in correct IPA symbols using standard rules of pronunciation.
• Read Italian, English, and Latin aloud from IPA transcriptions and from the original text.
• Sing the sounds of the standard musical forms of Italian, English and Latin from IPA transcriptions and from the original text.
• Translate Italian and Latin texts word for word using a combination of rudimentary grammar rules, a dictionary, and a poetic translation when available.
• Identify mispronunciations and poorly produced phonetic sounds in Italian, Latin and English song literature.

MUS 537 - Diction for Singers 2 (Advanced IPA and German)

• Identify the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• Execute the physical movements necessary to produce the sounds symbolized by the IPA symbols specifically used in German pronunciation.
• Transcribe German texts in correct IPA symbols using standard rules of pronunciation.
• Read German aloud from IPA transcriptions and from the original text.
• Sing the sounds of the standard musical forms of German from IPA transcriptions and from the original text.
• Translate German texts word for word using a combination of rudimentary grammar rules, a dictionary, and a poetic translation when available.
• Identify mispronunciations and poorly produced phonetic sounds in German song literature.

MUS 538 - Diction for Singers 3 (Advanced IPA and French)

• Identify the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Students will be able to execute the physical movements necessary to produce the sounds symbolized by the IPA symbols specifically used in French.
• Transcribe French texts in correct IPA symbols using standard rules of pronunciation
• Read French aloud from IPA transcriptions and from the original text.
• Sing the sounds of the standard musical forms of French from IPA transcriptions and from the original text.
• Translate French texts word for word using a combination of rudimentary grammar rules, a dictionary, and a poetic translation when available.
• Identify mispronunciations and poorly produced phonetic sounds in French song literature.

MUS 540 - Advanced Choral Interpretation and Technique

• Exhibit how to prepare the score and plan rehearsals for an extended masterwork
• Describe multiple philosophies of programming.
• Develop an active listening evaluation process appropriate to the student’s situation.
• Construct an adjudicator’s “cheat sheet”
• Create effective standing arrangements
• Construct an overview of yourself (reflective practice in choral education).

MUS 541 - Advanced Conducting

• Demonstrate basic conducting skills including basic beat patterns, expressive conducting, preparation, releases, cuing, fermatas, asymmetric beat patterns, phrasing, tempo changes, dynamics, and articulation
• Read basic clefs including treble, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass clefs
• Read basic orchestral instrument transpositions including B-flat, E-flat, F, A, and G
• Be able to critically examine other conductors
• Articulate issues that relate to orchestral conducting including: programming, ear training, rehearsal technique, budget management, and string bowing
• Demonstrate knowledge of standard orchestral repertoire

MUS 547 - Electronic Music Composition

MUS 554C - Advance Technique Class: Strings

• Acquire intermediate to advanced performance skill on secondary instruments
• Demonstrate awareness of methods of effective group and individual instrumental instruction (modeling, pacing, diagnostics)
• Demonstrate knowledge of the sequence of intermediate to advanced instrumental technique

MUS 554D - Advance Technique Class: Woodwinds

• Articulate and apply the principles of the sequence of technique to planning of woodwind instruction.
• Articulate and apply the principles of prioritization in diagnosing and planning for remediation in woodwind instruction.
• Demonstrate the ability to model basic posture, embouchure, intonation, and articulation on a woodwind instrument.
• Evaluate solo and ensemble literature (both for performance and technical development) with regard to its pedagogical appropriateness for learners of woodwind instruments at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.
• Identify and diagnose basic reed problems, and demonstrate the knowledge and technique to address the problems through reed adjustment.
• Identify and diagnose basic instrument problems, and demonstrate the knowledge and technique to address the problems.

MUS 554E - Advance Technique Class: Brass

• Acquire intermediate to advanced performance skill on secondary instruments
• Demonstrate awareness of methods of effective group and individual instrumental instruction (modeling, pacing, diagnostics)
• Demonstrate knowledge of the sequence of intermediate to advanced instrumental technique

MUS 554G - Advance Technique Class: Percussion

• Acquire intermediate to advanced performance skill on secondary instruments
• Demonstrate awareness of methods of effective group and individual instrumental instruction (modeling, pacing, diagnostics)
• Demonstrate knowledge of the sequence of intermediate to advanced instrumental technique

MUS 554H - Advanced Technique Class: Guitar

• Acquire intermediate to advanced performance skill on secondary instruments
• Demonstrate awareness of methods of effective group and individual instrumental instruction (modeling, pacing, diagnostics)
• Demonstrate knowledge of the sequence of intermediate to advanced instrumental technique

MUS 558 - Survey of Solo Vocal Literature

MUS 560 - Instructional Development in Music Education

• Read, interpret, and discuss scholarly and professional literature pertaining to curriculum design and assessment in music education.
• Create examples of program and course design consistent with standards-based music instruction.
• Create examples of student assessments consistent with standards-based music instruction.

MUS 561 - Opera Workshop

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production
• Improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Demonstrate leadership competencies appropriate to ensemble playing including leading sectionals, understanding the full score and how your part fits into the whole, and nonverbal artistic communication.
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 562 - Opera Production

• Prepare an advanced operatic role musically, including professional preparation expectations and the proper musical style for the period and genre.
• Prepare an advanced operatic role dramatically, including character study and preparation as well as stage protocol and execution.
• Integrate their musical and dramatic preparation into practical performance experience in the final culminating performances.
• Participate in all aspects of opera production, including building sets and costumes, running stage equipment and using proper stage procedure.
• Incorporate their individual areas of expertise (Conducting, coaching, teaching) to prepare the overall production.

MUS 564 - Major Applied Area (Individual Instruction)

• Demonstrate musicianship through the artistic mastery of the instrument.
• Acquire advanced pedagogical knowledge of the instrument.
• Demonstrate advanced proficiency in rhythm, sight-reading, and style.
• Acquire knowledge and develop advanced performance ability through the study of basic literature of the instrument appropriate to the level of study.

MUS 564A - Major Applied Area: Piano

MUS 564B - Major Applied Area: Voice

MUS 564C - Major Applied Area: Strings

MUS 564D - Major Applied Area: Woodwinds

MUS 564E - Major Applied Area: Brass

MUS 564G - Major Applied Area: Percussion

MUS 564H - Major Applied Area: Guitar

MUS 566 - Wind Ensemble

MUS 567 - University Choir

MUS 568 - Chamber Choir

MUS 569 - Symphonic Winds

• Demonstrate advanced individual creative and interpretive skills in a group environment.
• Interpret advanced music in the collaborative atmosphere of ensemble and section settings.
• Demonstrate advanced leadership and team working skills required when performing in a music ensemble with others.
• Employ and improve advanced musical and technical skills through ensemble and sectional rehearsal and the individual practice of parts.

MUS 571 - History of Orchestra Music

MUS 572 - Music in the 20th Century

MUS 573 - History of Opera

MUS 574 - Jazz Styles and History

• Analyze jazz compositions and arrangements in terms of harmonic, rhythmic, and structural elements, as well as historical and cultural context.
• Transcribe parts of jazz compositions and arrangements.
• Compose/arrange short musical examples in the style of various artists/genres.
• Identify jazz styles through listening.
• Identify various jazz styles through written notation.
• Compare and contrast various jazz styles in a critical context using current and historical sources.
• Read a first-person biography by a well-known jazz artist, cross-referenced to other primary sources.

MUS 575 - History of Chamber Music

MUS 576 - History of Choral Music

MUS 577 - Orchestra

• Demonstrate fundamentals of proper tonal production including: improve their recognition of aural skills including using intervals, rhythms, and listening to other sections in the ensemble
• Perform quality music of varying time periods in the appropriate style
• Demonstrate leadership competencies appropriate to ensemble playing including leading sectionals, understanding the full score and how your part fits into the whole, and nonverbal artistic communication
• Practice sight reading skills

MUS 579 - Aesthetics of Music

MUS 587 - Marching and Concert Band

MUS 588 - Symphonic Band

MUS 592 - Accompanying Practicum

MUS 595 - Graduate Research

MUS 596 - Individual Study

MUS 598 - Special Topics

MUS 599 - Seminar

MUS 600 - Graduate Cognate Project

• Demonstrate graduate level knowledge in a second area of study.
• Demonstrate graduate level skills and progress in applied study, as well as the acquisition of a knowledge base of performance repertoire and pedagogical literature by presenting an appropriate performance, project, or combination in lecture-demonstration.
• Demonstrate graduate level skills and progress in conducting by preparing, rehearsing, and conducting a work at an appropriate level.
• Demonstrate graduate level skills and progress in musical composition through the creation of an original work.
• Demonstrate graduate level knowledge, critical thinking, research and writing skills in music education by presenting an appropriate covering paper or written project.
• Demonstrate graduate level knowledge, critical thinking, research and writing skills in Music History by presenting an appropriate covering paper or written project.
• Demonstrate graduate level knowledge, critical thinking, research and writing skills in Music Theory by presenting an appropriate covering paper or written project.
• Demonstrate graduate level skills and progress in applied study, as well as the acquisition of a knowledge base of a range of performance repertoire by presenting an appropriate performance.

MUS 610 - Graduate Seminar in Music: Composer

• Demonstrate a command of scholarly and professional literature pertaining to a particular composer’s life and works.
• Articulate and support personal positions and interpretations of issues pertaining to a particular composer’s life and works.

MUS 611 - Graduate Seminar in Music: Music Education

• Demonstrate a command of scholarly and professional literature pertaining to seminar topics in music education.
• Articulate and support personal positions and interpretations of issues pertaining to seminar topics in music education.

MUS 612 - Graduate Seminar in Music: Music History/Literature

• Demonstrate a command of scholarly and professional literature pertaining to seminar topics in music history/literature.
• Articulate and support personal positions and interpretations of issues pertaining to seminar topics in music history/literature.

MUS 613 - Graduate Seminar in Music: Music Theory/Composition

• Demonstrate a command of scholarly and professional literature pertaining to seminar topics in music theory and/or composition.
• Articulate and support personal positions and interpretations of issues pertaining to seminar topics in music theory and/or composition.

MUS 614 - Graduate Seminar in Music: Performance

• Demonstrate a command of scholarly and professional literature pertaining to seminar topics in music performance.
• Articulate and support personal positions and interpretations of issues pertaining to seminar topics in music performance.

MUS 615 - Graduate Seminar in Music: Conducting

• Demonstrate a command of scholarly and professional literature pertaining to seminar topics in conducting.
• Articulate and support personal positions on issues pertaining to seminar topics in conducting.
• Articulate and support musical interpretations of issues pertaining to seminar topics in conducting.

MUS 616 - Graduate Seminar in Music: Pedagogy

 

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: graduate standing.

Credits:
(1-3)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate a command of scholarly and professional literature pertaining to seminar topics in music pedagogy.
• Evaluate instructional materials pertaining to seminar topics in music pedagogy.
• Develop instructional materials pertaining to seminar topics in music pedagogy.

MUS 664 - Major Applied Area (Individual Instruction)

• Demonstrate musicianship through the artistic mastery of the instrument.
• Acquire advanced/professional level pedagogical knowledge of the instrument.
• Demonstrate advanced/professional level proficiency in rhythm, sight-reading, and style.
• Acquire knowledge and develop advanced/professional level performance ability through the study of basic literature of the instrument appropriate to the level of study.

MUS 696 - Individual Study

MUS 698 - Special Topics

MUS 699 - Seminar

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

NUTR 541 - Applications in Dietetics

• Promote effective interpersonal relationships in the practice of dietetics
• Utilize computer and other technologies in the practice of dietetics
• Participate in design and evaluation of quality management programs
• Comply with the Code of ethics and Standards of Practice for the Profession of Dietetics
• Provide nutrition care for individuals and groups of all ages through systematic screening, assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, and documentation
• Provide nutrition counseling and education to individuals and groups for health promotion, maintenance, treatment, and rehabilitation
• Participate in the management of cost effective nutrition care
• Assure that foodservice operations meet the food and nutrition needs of target audiences

NUTR 543 - Advanced Nutritional Biochemistry

• Apply current research information in the practice of dietetics.
• Describe the regulation of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism as they are affected by different physiological states.
• Describe the process of protein catabolism with an emphasis on amino acid nitrogen disposal.
• Apply the knowledge about carbohydrate, lipids, and protein metabolism.

NUTR 545 - Advanced Studies in Developmental Nutrition

• Apply current research information in the practice of dietetics.
• Provide nutrition counseling and education to individuals and groups for health promotion, maintenance, treatment, and rehabilitation.
• Participate in activities that promote improved nutrition status of consumers and market the profession of dietetics.

NUTR 546 - Advanced Nutrition for Physical Activity, Exercise and Sport

• Describe nutrition and exercise science as it applies to active individuals (fitness/recreational exercise), including those involved in strenuous exercise (competitive athletes/individuals) and those who are beginning a training program.
• Describe changes in fuel substrate (protein, fat, carbohydrate, alcohol) metabolism and utilization as it relates to exercise duration and intensity (elite and fitness/health levels; mode of exercise) and health.
• Describe the role of energy balance in weight maintenance, weight gain, weight loss and the factors impacting each side of the energy balance equation; methods for measurement.
• Describe body composition and performance including methods of assessment.
• Calculate periodized macronutrient and micronutrient needs that may be unique to individuals engaged in physical activity at various fitness levels.
• Create ”best” dietary recommendations for physically active individuals of different fitness levels and considering sex, age, body weight and health status. Explain the mechanisms and the scientific basis behind these recommendations. Illustrate how these recommendations can be met with food in the diet of an active individual.
• Describe the interrelationship of diet and exercise for optimal health and well-being.
• Analyze current sports nutrition scientific literature and apply key principles.