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Graduate Catalog 2019-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

Master of Business Administration
  

  • MBAP 6001 - Business & Professional Communication

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    This course is designed to promote the skills and strategies that are necessary for MBA students to communicate effectively in business management roles. Students are expected to examine and practice case analysis, presentation skills, and critical writing through a variety of assignments. Students will be expected to critically analyze cases and effectively apply the communication skills to resolve conflicts. Throughout the class, students will receive feedback from the professor, peers, and self in an effort to focus attention on ways to improve individual communication. Strategic topics include overcoming barriers to communication, channel choice, audience analysis, business ethics, crisis management, giving and receiving feedback, and communicating leadership and advocacy.
  

  • MBAP 6011 - Statistics and Quantitative Methods

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    The emphasis of this course is the appropriate choice of and appropriate use of quantitative methods for making business decisions. Tools covered include probability, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and correlation, advanced regression with time series data, forecasting, linear programming, decision analysis, and simulation.

    Prerequisite(s): BUSA 2182
  

  • MBAP 6021 - Management Information Systems

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    The course is a study of the efficient and effective development and use of information systems and computer technology in organizations. Topics are covered at the personal, workgroup, enterprise, and global level. Case studies, what-if analysis, decision support tools, and problem solving models are used to clarify concepts. The course will emphasize general and enduring principles for future needs while including specific and practical necessities for present needs.
  

  • MBAP 6031 - Accounting and Decision Making

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    This course is a study of the concepts and techniques relating to the accounting information needed by management for planning, directing, controlling and evaluating company operations. Case problems that require students to interpret and discuss their analysis in the context on managerial decision-making will be used.

    Prerequisite(s): ACCT 2101 and ACCT 2102 or Departmental permission
  

  • MBAP 6041 - Organizational Theory and Behavior

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    This course will provide the student with knowledge of a variety of topics in society. Topics of study include marketing ethics, the marketing environment, identification and analysis of present and potential consumers; and product development, distribution, pricing and promotional strategies from both global and domestic perspectives.
  

  • MBAP 6051 - Managerial Economics

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    Introduce the student to the application of microeconomics theory and economic reasoning to the managerial decision making. The student will learn the tools and the economic methodology that will help managers make sound decision making. Topics covered include demand and production analyses; marginal and revenue analyses; price discrimination in various market structures; competitive industry equilibrium; information asymmetry; decision making under uncertainty; oligopoly and game theory; externalities; and the economic issues that face managers in the global economy.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 2105 and ECON 2106 or Departmental permission
  

  • MBAP 6061 - Managerial Finance

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    This is a corporate finance course that introduces students to theories and techniques for managing capital sources and uses within the framework of shareholder wealth maximization. Emphasis is placed on understanding and critiquing financial decision-making. Topics include time value of money, financial statement analysis, cash flow determination, capital budgeting techniques, project analysis, stock and bond valuation, risk and return, cost of capital, capital structure, and options. All managers are required to possess a basic understanding of finance and financial management. This course is designed as an introduction to finance via conceptual thinking, basic financial analysis, financial calculations, and capital markets. Projects and current events are used throughout the course to provide students with hands on experience in the use and application of financial tools. This course should provide students with basic financial and math skills and an excellent introduction to financial management concepts.

    Prerequisite(s): FINC 3155
  

  • MBAP 6071 - Marketing Management

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    This course develops the environmental, managerial, and strategic planning aspects of marketing theory and practice. The characteristics and management of markets are examined in topics that include the marketing environment, components of the marketing mix, market segmentation, and planning. Students gain experience through conducting marketing mix exercises, engaging in marketing simulations, and by producing and presenting actual marketing plans.
  

  • MBAP 6091 - Strategic Management

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    The course integrates the subject matter of several disciplines in solving comprehensive, multi-faceted management problems at the strategic, policy-making level of the organization including ethical and international implications. This course requires knowledge of accounting, finance, marketing, economics, organizational theory, quantitative and behavioral decision-making, planning, and control methods. The importance of problem identification, strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation is the focus of the course. This course is the capstone course for graduate business administration students.
  

  • MBAP 6902 - Organizational Leadership

    Credits: 3
    Course Designation Core Courses

    This course will provide both a theoretical and practical review of leadership within organizations. Students will be exposed to basic leadership theory and research while also being given real-world examples through cases and interaction with practitioners. Students will also be asked to apply these theories through in-class activities and projects. This course will provide students with an understanding of leadership theory and will develop their leadership skills in decision-making, communicating, conflict management, motivation, and leading teams.

Master of Science in Marine Sciences
  

  • MSCI 5201 - General Oceanography

    Credits: 4
    Graduate level survey of the major disciplines of marine science including physics, geology, chemistry and biology. Emphasis will be placed on global scale processes including forces driving major ocean currents, tectonic activity, equilibrium chemistry, chemical and biological processes involved in nutrient cycling, and the determinants and effects of global climate change on major ocean processes.

    Prerequisite(s): Calculus I, Physics, Chemistry or Biology
  

  • MSCI 5202 - Coastal Oceanography

    Credits: 4
    Course will consist of a variety of lectures, labs, and field experiences related to coastal oceanographic processes. Topics will include coastal physical oceanography (tides, wind driven currents, estuarine processes and stratification), coastal geology (depositional and erosion in coastal and offshore regions), biology, and biogeochemical cycling in the coastal zone (benthic and water column processes).

    Prerequisite(s): MSCI 5201 
  

  • MSCI 5401 - Technical Writing and Communication

    Credits: 3
    Explores the elements of communicating scientific and technical information. It provides an overview of communication design, audiences, formats, style, mechanics, graphics, literature search, manuscript preparation, and seminar presentation.
  

  • MSCI 5402 - Research/Marine Science Seminar

    Credits: 1
    Participation in preparation, presentation and discussion of marine-related seminar topics.
  

  • MSCI 5403 - Research/Marine Science Seminar II

    Credits: 1
    Participation in preparation, presentation and discussion of marine-related seminar topics.
  

  • MSCI 5501 - Fish Ecology

    Credits: 3
    This course presents the differences in morphology, ecology, behavior and life-history traits of the most common groups of cartilaginous and bony fishes. Course structure is based on overview of each fish group followed by active discussion of specific ecological characteristics of families and/or species based on primary literature selected by students.
  

  • MSCI 5560 - Advanced Environmetrics

    Credits: 3
    A statistics course that reviews linear statistical methods and teaches nonparametric approaches to treat environmental/biological data. May include but not be limited to: power tests, randomization and experimental design, analyses of variance, covariance and deviance, simple to polynomial regression, non- parametric tests of significance, pairwise and multiple comparisons, and response surfaces.

    Prerequisite(s): Statistics
  

  • MSCI 5601K - Introduction Environmental Permitting Processes

    Credits: 3
    This course will provide students with an understanding of the regulatory authority promulgated to the US Army Corps of Engineers. Students will be introduced to the origin, history and present-day application of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Navigation Act. Specifically, students will gain first-hand knowledge of: (1) environments regulated by US Army Corps of Engineers (2) regulations and policies that govern activities in waters of the US; (3) Corps-based interactions with other federal, state and local agencies; and (4) procedures and practices for authorizing projects in waters of the US.
  

  • MSCI 6201 - Marine Ecology

    Credits: 3
    This course provides an overview of how basic ecological principles apply to marine systems. Primary areas of focus include: competition, predation, abiotic constraints, population dynamics, age distributions, and community organization. Key subject areas will be discussed using primary literature selected by students. Emphasis will be placed on experimental design of ecological studies.
  

  • MSCI 6202 - Advanced Oceanography

    Credits: 3
    A continuation of principles introduced in MSCI 5201  Introduction to Marine Sciences. Lectures and problem sets will develop a working knowledge of physical and chemical ocean processes, particular those important to continental shelves and other upwelling environments. Physical processes that will be discussed include buoyancy input, wind forcing, tidal stirring, tidal rectification, and seasonal mean circulation. Chemical processes that will be discussed include kinetic predictions for reactions in seawater, vertical and horizontal transport of materials, isotopic clocks and tracers, nutrients, and chemical fluxes across major marine interfaces, including estuaries. Fundamental physical, chemical, and biological interactions will be explored using reading and sample problems.

    Prerequisite(s): College Physics, Chemistry, Calculus, and MSCI 5201 
  

  • MSCI 6310 - Scientific Ethics

    Credits: 3
    The basics in philosophical and ethical thought in science, expanded to include the faculty/student relationship, peer review, data treatment, analysis and interpretation of data, funding sources and competition, proprietary research, politics of science in America and abroad (what factors shape funding emphases, how research foci vary regionally and globally).
  

  • MSCI 6323 - Coastal Law and Policy

    Credits: 3
    An exploration of common federal and state law principles and legislation affecting uses of the lands, waters, and natural resources of the coastline and the adjacent ocean waters. Topics studied include doctrines defining public and private property rights in the shoreline and submerged lands, coastal wetlands protection, beach management, marine fisheries, aquaculture regulation, marine protected species in coastal areas, pollution control, energy and mineral development, food sources, marine transportation and coastal land use control.
  

  • MSCI 6324 - Coastal Zone Management

    Credits: 3
    All coastal states now cooperate with the U. S. Government in managing the coastal zone to maximize human and natural value. The laws, regulations, policies, public goals, and agencies involved in this effort will be described and evaluated for effectiveness.
  

  • MSCI 6530 - Research Methods in Marine Ecology

    Credits: 3
    This elective graduate-level course exposes students to a variety of techniques commonly used to address questions about the ecology of marine ecosystems. In particular, students will learn methods for studying the abiotic and biotic components of intertidal, estuarine and nearshore environments of the Georgia coast. Lecture material will be supplemented with readings from the text and published scientific research articles.

    Prerequisite(s): None. Students must be degree-seeking graduate students or non-degree students who have completed an undergraduate degree.
  

  • MSCI 6542 - Fisheries Population Dynamics

    Credits: 3
    Formulation and use of mathematical models used in stock assessment of commercial and recreational fisheries. Includes stock concept, estimation of growth, mortality rates, gear selectivity, estimating CPUE, maximum sustainable yield, stock/recruitment relationships, analytical and holistic models, data requirements and start to finish methods for fisheries stock assessment reports. Microcomputer modeling and analysis packages will be used.

    Prerequisite(s): Calculus
  

  • MSCI 6546 - Mariculture

    Credits: 3
    Introduction to the principles and practice of the culture of marine organisms. Includes site selection, water quality, production systems, feeds and nutrition, health, broodstock management and husbandry, and economics, overview of finfish, molluscan, and crustacean, and aquatic plant culture, physiology of growth and reproduction including exposure to advanced technology (e. g. molecular methods, neuroendocrinology).

    Prerequisite(s): Biology, MSCI 5201  
  

  • MSCI 6550 - Analytical Techniques in Seawater, Sediments and Soils

    Credits: 3
    Students will obtain competency in a variety of analytical techniques for the analysis of seawater, marine sediments, and soils. Nutrient analysis, chemical constituents, contaminant analysis including both organic and inorganic contaminants, and bacteriological water quality.

    Prerequisite(s): Chemistry
  

  • MSCI 6552 - Marine Biotechnology

    Credits: 4
    An overview of concepts, approaches, techniques, and applications of biotechnology with emphasis on marine biotechnology. Principles of recombinant DNA technology, its relevance to genetic engineering, and its uses in basic and applied biology. Methodology and concepts of genetic engineering technology; molecular mechanisms of gene transfer, integration and expression of transgenes in target tissues/organisms. Applications of marine biotechnology in aquaculture, marine environmental protection, the use of transgenic fish, production of fuels from algae and natural products of pharmaceutical value from marine organisms, and other applications.

    Prerequisite(s): Genetics
  

  • MSCI 6562 - Remote Sensing

    Credits: 3
    Principles, characteristics and applications of environmental remote sensing. Topics include concepts and foundations of remote sensing photographic systems and interpretation of thermal and multispectral scanning radar systems, satellite remote sensing and digital image processing. Aspects of oceanographic data such as phytoplankton abundance, sea-surface temperatures, ocean wind speeds and instrumentation such as SeaWiFS, AVHRR, and SSM/I will be emphasized.

    Prerequisite(s): Calculus, Statistics
  

  • MSCI 6725 - Coastal Wetland Ecology

    Credits: 3
    Introduction to coastal wetlands (brackish/fresh water marshes, swamps, and bogs), with an emphasis on typical southeast US flora and fauna. Wetland physical diagnostic characteristics (hydrology, pedology) as well as biological parameters (primary productivity, biogeochemistry and nutrient transport) will be covered.
  

  • MSCI 6726 - Coastal Botany

    Credits: 4
    Identification, classification, ecology of coastal plants and algae; wetland and barrier island plant communities and functions; physiological ecology of coastal plants and algae.

    Prerequisite(s): Botany or Ecology
  

  • MSCI 6745 - Aquatic Pathology

    Credits: 4
    Systematics, life history, spread, etiology, diagnoses and treatment of selected diseases among shellfish, fish, and marine mammals. Viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoan and invertebrate pathogens. The importance of aquatic diseases in aquaculture and to public health.

    Prerequisite(s): Biology
  

  • MSCI 6747 - Marine Mammalogy

    Credits: 3
    Natural history, taxonomy, anatomy, physiology, ecology, conservation, and economic importance of the cetacea, pinnipedia, and sirenia.

    Prerequisite(s): Biology
  

  • MSCI 6781 - Benthic Ecology

    Credits: 3
    Ecology course describing the general chemical, biological and physical nature of the sediment environment, comparing these traits across saltmarsh, deep sea and shelf habitats. Including trophic relationships and distribution of organisms, the role of microbial communities, formation of detritus, and sediment transport.
  

  • MSCI 7344 - Fisheries Management

    Credits: 3
    Environmental ecology, conservation, and processes used to manage living marine and aquatic resources harvested or otherwise impacted by human activities. Examples from global, regional, and local areas will be highlighted.
  

  • MSCI 7527 - Coastal Environmental Certifications

    Credits: 3
    Provides background, basis in law, descriptions, and requirements for a variety of certifications and training associated with environmental regulation compliance in coastal areas.
  

  • MSCI 7564 - Geographic Information Systems & Database Management in Coastal Studies

    Credits: 4
    Theory, concepts, limitations, and implementation of geographical spatial analysis systems for the study of coastal processes. Through a “hands-on” approach, students will become familiar with the use of GIS and other information management systems for analysis of complex large databases pertaining to coastal processes.
  

  • MSCI 7600 - Oceanic Change: Climatic and Human Perturbations of Marine Ecosystems

    Credits: 3
    The impacts of climatic variations and human activities on marine ecosystems are examined in this course. The time-scales of climatic perturbations studied will range from tectonic to seasonal scale variations and storm events. Human impacts will include topics such as eutrophication, overfishing, emission of greenhouse gasses and dredging. There will be some flexibility in the exact topics covered and papers read in accordance with the interest and goals of enrolled students.
  

  • MSCI 7728 - Coastal Processes

    Credits: 3
    Changes in the very dynamic coastal environment are best understood by evaluating the major physical processes that control coastal configuration, including tides and currents, storm impacts, sea level change, sediment transport, barrier island and delta formation, and river input. In addition, organism impacts on the coastal environment will also be evaluated (marsh vegetation, dune vegetation, human alterations, estuarine nurseries).

    Prerequisite(s): MSCI 5201 , MSCI 5202 
  

  • MSCI 7743 - Fisheries Oceanography

    Credits: 3
    Introduction to the physical and biological processes (i.e. , recruitment variability, compensatory mechanisms, and species interactions) that control the abundance of living marine resource populations. Includes case studies of contemporary multidisciplinary research.
  

  • MSCI 7754 - Marine Biogeochemistry

    Credits: 3
    Chemistry course, which focuses on the sources, transport and fate of organic, matter in natural environments including marines sediments, soils and natural waters. Includes the global carbon cycle, analytical methods in organic geochemistry, geochemistry of organic matter constituents, geochemistry of humic substances.
  

  • MSCI 7782 - Marine Microbial Ecology

    Credits: 3
    Emphasizes the diversity and role of microorganisms in marine ecosystems. Nutrient cycles, methods of microbial analysis, genetic diversity, and the functional roles of microorganisms in marine systems.
  

  • MSCI 7783 - Water Column Ecology

    Credits: 3
    Major biological processes in the water column of estuarine, coastal, and open sea environments, with emphasis on interactions of biota with marine chemical and physical processes.
  

  • MSCI 7801 - Directed Research

    Credits: 1-3
    Directed readings or research at the graduate level to meet the needs of individual students. Consent of instructor required.

    Prerequisite(s): MSCI 5202  
    Variable Credit Variable credit.
  

  • MSCI 7851 - Special Topics

    Credits: 1-3
    Content to be determined each semester.

    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Variable Credit Variable credit.
  

  • MSCI 7991 - Thesis I

    Credits: 3
    Thesis research and preparation. Approved thesis advisor, thesis committee, and Thesis Proposal Defense forms required.
  

  • MSCI 7992 - Thesis II

    Credits: 3
    Thesis research and preparation. Approved thesis advisor, thesis committee, and thesis proposal defense forms required.

    Repeatability: May be repeated for credit.
  

  • MSCI 8822 - Advanced Methods of Quantitative Analysis

    Credits: 3
    This course is designed to expose participants to higher level methods systematic inquiry to answer questions requiring quantitative procedures. Its aim is to provide participants the understanding necessary to effectively apply the tools of multivariate statistical analysis in the appropriate circumstance. An additional purpose of this course is to prepare participants for careers in the research sciences or higher level graduate studies.

Master of Science in Urban Studies and Planning
  

  • MSUS 8807 - Historic Preservation

    Credits: 3
    Examination of the field including values, principles, practices, development of planning and organization for preservation, preservation law, economics and politics.
  

  • MSUS 8850 - Urban Fiscal Policy Analysis

    Credits: 3
    Provides a systematic study of the development, implementation, and evaluation of urban policies, with special emphasis on their fiscal impacts. Applies economic principles to the study of the role of government.
  

  • MSUS 8861 - History, Scope, and Practice of Public Administration

    Credits: 3
    Study of the organization and operation of government agencies, their role in policy making and implementation, the various concepts and theories pertaining to administrative behavior, and the performance of the basic tasks of management.
  

  • MSUS 8866 - African American Adms in Urban Bureau

    Exploratory course of the contributions and issues facing African-American urban public administrators. Emphasis on administrative behavior and style, value orientations, and role expectations.

Master Social Work
  

  • MSWK 6000 - Special Topics

    Credits: 3
    Special topics course will allow for different courses to be offered based on various topics chosen by faculty members or resulting from student requests. This will allow for current issues to be addressed, as well as courses by visiting and adjunct faculty. The course will be taught as a regular course with several students attending the same classes and laboratories (if offered). If a given special topic is offered more than once per two-year period, it will be submitted for formal approval through regular university procedures. A course outline and syllabus will be submitted to and approved by the department chair prior to scheduling of course.
  

  • MSWK 6100 - Independent Study

    Credits: 3
    Independent study is designed to offer the individual student an opportunity to explore subjects outside the traditional classroom setting. The specific course requirements will be formulated by the student under the direction of a selected instructor who possesses expertise on the subject matter. Exceptions to the 3. 0 GPA may be made for students under extenuating circumstances. An independent study form must be signed by the instructor of record and the department chair prior to a student’s enrollment in the course. A statement regarding the conditions and credit/semester limits under which the course may be repeated must clearly be stated in the description. May not be repeated for more than 9 credits.
  

  • MSWK 6601 - Law, Race and Poverty in the Welfare of Children

    Credits: 3
    The course focuses on child abuse and neglect, separation and loss, foster care, kinship care, the courts and legal issues related to decision-making. Emphasis is placed upon the differential application of the law and the intervention of Social Workers.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSW program.
  

  • MSWK 6649 - Ethics and Diversity in Social Work Practice

    Credits: 3
    This required entry level course introduces the graduate student to ethics and the significance of ethical behavior and human diversity dynamics in social work practice. It covers core concepts such as Self- Determination, Informed Consent, Conflict of interest, Professional Boundaries, Confidentiality, Competence, Integrity, Nondiscrimination and Cultural Competence. Students will understand the historical context and social dynamics that divide and join groups. The significance of the life experiences and how it is connected with the trust issues and the use of social services is emphasized. It examines diversity in a global environment and explores various forms of oppression and social and economic injustice due to class, religion, age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and culture.
  

  • MSWK 6650 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment I

    Credits: 3
    An examination of normal human development through the life cycle using biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural perspectives. The systems perspective and the ecological model are used to guide this course.
  

  • MSWK 6651 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment II

    Credits: 3
    An examination of human behavior as it relates to macro systems. Communities and organizations are considered from the social systems perspectives. Organizational cultures, policies and procedures, reward systems, and goals of operation are studied.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6650 
  

  • MSWK 6652 - Cultural Diversity in Social Work

    Credits: 3
    This course utilizes an Afrocentric paradigm and strengths perspective to develop and /or enhance self- awareness and sensitivity for culturally competent social work practice with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations. It examines diversity in a global environment (local, national, international, rural and urban) and explores various forms of oppression and social and economic injustice due to class, religion, age, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, culture, physical and/or mental ability, gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgendered populations.

    Prerequisite/Corequisite(s): MSWK 6650  and MSWK 6680 
  

  • MSWK 6653 - Theoretical Perspectives on Human Behavior and Social Environment

    Credits: 3
    Frameworks for organizing and integrating knowledge about human system at individual, family, group, organization, and community levels within the historical, global and ethical context of the profession are considered. Developmental theories are examined using bio-psycho-social ecological factors in the context of social assessment and intervention.
  

  • MSWK 6660 - Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families

    Credits: 3
    The foundation practice course. The course focuses on the fundamentals of intervention at the micro level and the skills needed for generalist practice.
  

  • MSWK 6661 - Social Work Practice with Groups, Communities, and Organization

    Credits: 3
    A course focusing on the development of the knowledge, values, and interventive skills related to problems of larger client systems, families, groups, communities, and organizational structures.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6660 
  

  • MSWK 6670 - Research Methods I

    Credits: 3
    An examination of research methods in social work and their relevance for social work practice. Emphasis is on research as a scientific process and its utility in policy development and in evaluation of social work practice and social service delivery systems.
  

  • MSWK 6672 - Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Social Work Practice

    Credits: 3
    This course will familiarize students with the history and pharmacology of alcohol and other drugs (AOD); the etiology of AOD abuse and dependence; approaches to assessment and treatment of AOD abuse and dependence; the importance or relevant social systems (e. g. , family, work, community/society) and spirituality in addition and recovery; and the role of the social worker in a multi-disciplinary approach to AOD abuse prevention and treatment. The emphasis in the course will be on the etiology and treatment of AOD abuse and dependence with the poor, the oppressed, racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, and other at- risk urban populations.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6650  and MSWK 6651 
  

  • MSWK 6675 - Advocacy and Service Delivery in Child Welfare Policy and Practice

    Credits: 3
    This course provides a historical overview of child welfare services in American society, establishes a framework for both policy and practice, and examines current trends in child welfare. Child welfare services are viewed critically, holistically and contextually with an emphasis on the entire Child Protective Services component and the judicial system. The process of identifying and addressing maltreatment, abuse and neglect issues, the challenges that child and family advocates face today and future trends will be the focus of the course. Specific discussion and content will cover diversity, cultural issues and at-risk/minority populations.
  

  • MSWK 6680 - Social Welfare Policy and Services

    Credits: 3
    A foundation course which introduces students to current policies, programs, and delivery systems and their impact on contemporary social problems and conflicting issues. The historical development of social welfare in the United States is studied and the concept of the welfare state is introduced. Concepts intrinsic to social welfare policy are introduced.
  

  • MSWK 6685 - Gerontology Policy and Practice

    Credits: 3
    This course prepares students to implement and evaluate foundation learning experiences to work effectively with older adults and their families. Students will use evidence-based practices to assist older adults and their families to exercise self-determination, while recognizing the diversity of the older adult attitude toward acceptance of help. Students will understand the Social Security system and financial issues of older adults.
  

  • MSWK 6689 - Field Practicum I: Orientation and Seminar

    Credits: 3
    This course prepares students for responsible entry into the social work profession by providing opportunities to practice social work with a generalist perspective in agency settings under educational supervision. This beginning experience includes service to vulnerable and oppressed populations while learning generalist skills. Students are placed in a human service setting under an approved social work professional. The practicum placement guides students into becoming culturally competent, self- reflective and self-evaluating generalist social workers. Students are required to complete a 200-clock hour field practicum over the semester in an approved field agency.
  

  • MSWK 6690 - Field Practicum II

    Credits: 3
    This course is to be taken with the concurrent field seminar. Students register under a faculty liaison. The faculty liaison acts as the connection between the agency, the student, and the school. The faculty field liaison provides support for the Field Supervisor and serves as a mentor for the student.
  

  • MSWK 6691 - Field Seminar II

    Credits: 3
    This course builds upon and extends the learning of problem solving skills and strategies begun in Field Practicum and prepares students to enter the advanced curriculum. Students remain placed the approved human service setting begun in Field Practicum I. Students are required to complete 200 clock hours of field practicum over the semester.
  

  • MSWK 6720 - Death and Dying, Loss and Grief

    Credits: 3
    End of life issues increasingly involve social work practice. Work with individuals and families are stressed. Role of palliative care is examined.
  

  • MSWK 6750 - Clinical Practice I

    Credits: 3
    This is the first course in a two-course sequence of Advanced Clinical Practice. Students in this course will integrate core counseling skills and generalist social work practice perspective gained in MSWK 6660  into a personal treatment philosophy from an ecosystemic perspective using social work theoretical approaches to individuals, families, and groups. Another major thrust for the course will be to integrate the eclectic knowledge base of MSWK 6660  on a group, community, and an organizational level into social work treatment models and theories (e. g. , Ethnic-Sensitive/Multidimensional Practice Model; Task-Centered, Life Model of Practice). This is a “how to” hands on course with the primary objective of learning how to integrate theory into practice on a micro, mezzo, and macro level.
  

  • MSWK 6751 - Clinical Practice II

    Credits: 3
    This is a second course in the two-semester sequence of Direct Clinical Practice. Students in this course will begin the process of integrating skills gained in MSWK 6660 , MSWK 6661  and MSWK 6750  to develop a personal treatment philosophy from an ecosystem perspective, using family-centered and community organization approaches. A major thrust for the course will be how to integrate the theoretical models of structural, solution-focused, strategic, and experiential treatment into practice.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6650 
  

  • MSWK 6752 - Crisis Intervention and Brief Therapy

    Credits: 3
    This advance elective covers the history, development, and application of both crisis theory and brief solution-focused treatment within the context of the significance of biopsychosocial potential for healthy human development and social functioning. Emphasis is placed on practical application of techniques in situations such as natural disaster, death and dying, AIDS, battering, post-traumatic stress syndrome, rape, suicide, and family dysfunction.
  

  • MSWK 6760 - Research II

    Credits: 3
    The advanced application of social research methodology to the design, implementation, and evaluation of program and practice models in social work and social welfare. Students develop skills necessary to undertake advanced social work research and evaluation of practice skills and programs and contribute to increasing the knowledge base of the profession.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6670 
  

  • MSWK 6762 - Mental Health Issues with Adults

    Credits: 3
    This course reviews with adults who are experiencing mental health issues with a specific emphasis on the Afrocentric and Feminist Perspectives. It employs the use of DSM-5TR and strength based psychosocial assessments and treatment planning, diversity issues, the impact of managed care, influence of poverty in welfare reform, and ethical concerns and the psychopathologies of adulthood: schizophrenia; mood disorder; anxiety; adjustment and dissociative disorders; substance-related disorders; personality disorders with special attention to borderline, narcissistic and anti-social personality disorder. Health conditions impacting mental health including HIV/AIDS and dementia are also examined.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6650 , MSWK 6651 , and MSWK 6670 
  

  • MSWK 6772 - Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Social Work Practice

    Credits: 3
    This course will familiarize students with the history and pharmacology of alcohol and other drugs (AOD); the etiology of AOD abuse and dependence; approaches to assessment and treatment of AOD abuse and dependence; the importance of relevant social systems (e.g., family, work, community/society) and spirituality in addiction and recovery; and the role of the Social Worker in a multi-disciplinary approach to AOD abuse prevention and treatment. The emphasis of the course will be on the etiology and treatment of AOD abuse and dependence with the poor, the oppressed, racial, ethnic and sexual minorities and other at-risk populations.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6650  & MSWK 6651 .
  

  • MSWK 6780 - Social Administration I

    Credits: 3
    A study of organizational theory as the basis of social administration. The course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for administration and management. Emphasis is placed on principles, concepts, and models of social welfare administration.
  

  • MSWK 6781 - Social Administration II

    Credits: 3
    This is a core course for the Administration concentration. It builds on MSWK 6780  Social Administration I course in advancing students’ generalist knowledge and skills for work in organizations and communities. Historically, nonprofit organizations have been used as the avenue for obtaining social justice and equity for groups that have been victimized by discrimination and oppression (African Americans, gays and lesbians, the handicapped, and others). This course looks at the history of some of these organizations and the ways in which many of them were able to groom leaders who often became national and international spokespersons for social justice. The course also focuses on selected frameworks for, and critical tasks involved with, managing community-based human service organizations and/or programs in both urban and rural areas. The course is designed to develop specific managerial knowledge and skills that are useful in a fluid, fast-paced social service environment.
  

  • MSWK 6782 - Advanced Policy and Planning

    Credits: 3
    This course, the second in the policy sequence, builds upon policy analysis and history of social welfare. It focuses on the skill development for the practice of policy. Students are required to complete the phases of the policy-making process from agenda setting through policy evaluation while demonstrating analytical, political, value clarifying and interactional skills.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6680 
  

  • MSWK 6790 - Field Practicum II

    Credits: 6
    A practicum focusing on clinical social work with individuals, families, and groups or on social administration and the preparation of the student for responsible ethical practice as a social work administrator. Student must complete 350 clock hours in a field setting.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6690  
  

  • MSWK 6791 - Field Practicum III

    Credits: 6
    A continuation of MSWK 6790 . This course is a practicum focusing on clinical social work with individuals, families, and groups or on social administration and the preparation for ethical practice as a social work administrator. Student must complete 350 clock hours in a field setting.

    Prerequisite(s): MSWK 6790  
  

  • MSWK 6792 - Field Practicum III

    Credits: 3
    This course is to be taken with the concurrent field seminar. Students register under a faculty liaison. The faculty liaison acts as the connection between the agency, the student, and the school. The faculty field liaison provides support for the Field Supervisor and serves as a mentor for the student.
  

  • MSWK 6793 - Field Seminar III

    Credits: 3
    The advanced field course provides students with opportunities to gain expertise in an area of concentration (Clinical Social Work or Social Work Administration).
  

  • MSWK 6794 - Field Practicum IV

    Credits: 3
    This course is to be taken with the concurrent field seminar. Students register under a faculty liaison. The faculty liaison acts as the connection between the agency, the student, and the school. The faculty field liaison provides support for the Field Supervisor and serves as a mentor for the student.
  

  • MSWK 6795 - Field Seminar IV

    Credits: 3
    This course builds upon and extends the learning of the concentration (Clinical Social Work or Social Work Administration) practicum experience. Opportunities are provided for students to enhance social work leadership and management skills within practice contexts and as a member of the profession and cultivate leadership qualities of self-awareness, self-care, and life-long learning. This course focuses on helping students successfully transition from the role of student to professional. Students are required to complete 250 clock hours of field practicum over the semester.
  

  • MSWK 6805 - Integrative Seminar

    Credits: 3
    An integrative seminar serving as the capstone course and designed to facilitate and insure the integration of social work methods and the application of these methods in varying fields of practice with appropriate undergirding of social work values. A product of the teaching/learning milieu is a research project which serves as evidence that students are ready for autonomous practice.
  

  • MSWK 6834 - Public Budgeting and Finance

    Credits: 3
    This course provides an interdisciplinary approach for examining public (federal, state, and local governments) and non-profit budget processes. Students will examine how federal, state, and local governments get and spend money. Special emphasis is placed on the benefits and challenges of implementing programs and services using federal, state, and local government funding. Through lecture, discussions, and course assignments students obtain hands-on experience preparing, managing, evaluating capitol and programmatic budgets (e. g. , reviewing and analyzing federal, state and non-profit budgets, program reports, and audits). Students assess the struggle between various branches of government, political rules, revenue legislation, and appropriations legislation to understand, recognize, and forecast funding trends
  

  • MSWK 7000 - Military Social Work

    Credits: 3
    This course examines social issues and service needs of military personnel and their families. The structure of official service is examined; needs of reservists and National Guard members and their families are also addressed.
  

  • MSWK 7340 - Working with Difficult Children and Adolescents

    Credits: 3
    This course addresses the problems of treating children and adolescents with severe behavioral problems by presenting a family-based model that articulates how to engage the uncooperative child or adolescent in the treatment process using age appropriate strategies.
  

  • SOWK 5501 - Law, Race and Poverty in the Welfare of Children

    Credits: 3
    A required course for first year Title IV-E Child Welfare recipients. The course focuses on child abuse and neglect, separation and loss, foster care, kinship care, the courts and legal issues related to decision- making. Emphasis is placed upon the differential application of the law and the interventions of human service workers.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to MSW Program

Mathematics
  

  • MATH 5001 - Advanced Calculus I

    Credits: 3
    This course provides a rigorous treatment of the basic ideas and techniques of mathematical analysis, including such topics as point set algebra, the real number system, functions, sequences, limits, continuity, theorems and continuous functions, uniform continuity, differentiation, Riemann integration, the Riemann-Stieltjes integral, power series, uniform convergence

    Prerequisite(s): Math 2121 or Departmental permission
  

  • MATH 5011 - Advanced Calculus II

    Credits: 3
    This course is a continuation of a rigorous treatment of the basic ideas and techniques of mathematical analysis, including such topics as functions of several variables, implicit functions, Jacobians and transformations of multiple integrals, line and surface integrals, improper integrals, linear function spaces, Fourier series and orthogonal functions.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 5001  or Departmental permission
  

  • MATH 6001 - Advanced Linear Algebra

    Credits: 3
    This course starts with basic concepts in in vector spaces and covers in-depth study of linear transformation and their associated matrices, Jordan canonical forms, quadratic forms, rational forms, and inner product spaces.

    Prerequisite(s): Math 3101 or Departmental permission
  

  • MATH 6101 - Abstract Algebra I

    Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to groups, sub-groups and cyclic groups, Lagrange theorem, isomorphism, homomorphism, quotient groups, direct product, permutations groups, conjugate classes, Sylow theorems, finite abelian group, group action, solvable groups.

    Prerequisite(s): Math 4101 and Math 4111 or Departmental permission
  

  • MATH 6111 - Abstract Algebra II

    Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to the definition of ring, ring theorems; integral domain, ring homeomorphisms, ideals; prime and maximal ideals, Euclidean domain, principal ideal domain, unique factorization domain, vector space, fields, extension fields; normal extension, separable extension, finite fields; field isomorphism; Galois extension.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 6101  or Departmental permission
  

  • MATH 6121 - Graph Theory

    Credits: 3
    This course presents fundamental concepts, distance in graphs, trees, connectivity, bipartite Graphs, digraph and tournaments, coloring of graphs, matching and factors, Ramsey number, and planar graphs.

    Prerequisite(s): Math 3101 or Departmental permission
  

  • MATH 6201 - Real Analysis II

    Credits: 3
    This course presents a rigorous treatment of fundamental concepts in analysis, focusing on reasoning and proofs. Topics include real numbers, metric spaces, sequences and series, fundamentals of limits, and continuity and differentiation of real functions. It is the first course in the analysis sequence, which continues in Real Analysis II.

    Prerequisite(s): Math 3211 or Departmental permission
  

  • MATH 6211 - Real Analysis II

    Credits: 3
    This course is a continuation of MATH 6201 . Topics will include Riemann-Stieltjes integral, sequences of functions and uniform convergence, transcendental functions, the inverse and implicit function theorem, differential forms, and an introduction to Lebesgue measures and L2 spaces.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 6201  or Departmental permission
  

  • MATH 6221 - Introduction to Complex Variables

    Credits: 3
    This course explores the algebra of complex numbers, analytic functions, mappings, Cauchy integral theory, residue theory and applications, entire, meromorphic functions and analytic continuation.

    Prerequisite(s): Math 4221 or Departmental permission
 

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