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2015-2016 Graduate Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Microbiology (MICR)

  
  • MICR 559 - Introduction to Oceanography

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Geology 559.)

  
  • MICR 576 - Applied Microbiology and Bioengineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 576.)

  
  • MICR 591 - Foreign Study

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • MICR 592 - Off-Campus Study

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • MICR 593 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • MICR 594 - Grant Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Readings and description of scientific ethics and grant writing.
  
  • MICR 595 - General Seminar

    1 Credit Hours
    Lectures and seminars by invited speakers, faculty, and graduate students.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
  
  • MICR 596 - Laboratory Rotation

    3 Credit Hours
    Familiarization with research areas in department through series of rotations in laboratories of individual faculty members.
  
  • MICR 598 - Biology Education: Theory and Practice

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 598.)

  
  • MICR 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation

    3-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 601 - Journal Club in Microbial Physiology

    1 Credit Hours
    Readings and discussions based on current literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 602 - Journal Club in Microbial Pathogenesis

    1 Credit Hours
    Readings and discussions based on current literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 603 - Journal Club in Immunology

    1 Credit Hours
    Readings and discussions based on current literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 604 - Journal Club in Virology

    1 Credit Hours
    Readings and discussions based on current literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 605 - Journal Club in Microbial Genetics

    1 Credit Hours
    Readings and discussions based on current literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 606 - Journal Club in Microbial Ecology

    1 Credit Hours
    Readings and discussions based on current literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 609 - Journal Club in Microbial Genomics

    1 Credit Hours
    Readings and discussions based on current literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 18 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 610 - Topics in Microbial Physiology

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 410 or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 615 - Graduate Research Colloquium

    1 Credit Hours
    Oral communication of scientific research.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 20 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 617 - Synthetic Microbiology

    3 Credit Hours
    Application of synthetic biology and principles of physiology and biochemistry to design microorganisms adapted to specific environments and/or host organisms.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 620 - Topics in Microbial Pathogenesis

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (Same as Animal Science 620.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 430 or consent of instructor.
    Recommended Background: 420.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 630 - Topics in Immunology

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 430 or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 640 - Topics in Virology

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 440 or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 650 - Topics in Microbial and Molecular Genetics

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 411 or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 660 - Topics in Eukaryotic Pathogens

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MICR 670 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Microbiology

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MICR 680 - Foundations in Microbiology

    3 Credit Hours
    Readings and discussions of historically relevant research contributions to microbiology.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.

Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (MFLL)

  
  • MFLL 482 - Special Topics in Global Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies. Focus from global perspectives on directors, stars, film genres, national and regional cinema movements or other topics. Taught in English.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Cinema Studies 482; Global Studies 482.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • MFLL 512 - Teaching a Foreign Language

    3 Credit Hours
    Practical application of methods for teaching and evaluating basic language skills and foreign language skills, and cultural knowledge through seminars, demonstrations, peer teaching, and observation of foreign language classes. Required of all MA and PhD students holding Graduate Teaching Assistantships, except those whose previous training or experience warrants their being excused by the department.
  
  • MFLL 582 - Special Topics in Global Cinema

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies. Focus from global perspectives on particular directors, stars, film genres, national and regional cinema movements, film theory/criticism, or other topics. Taught in English.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Cinema Studies 582.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • MFLL 584 - Modern Theory and Criticism

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century critical theory, including psychoanalysis, Marxism, structuralism, and more.

Music Education (MUED)

  
  • MUED 510 - Foundations of Music Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Historical, philosophical and aesthetic bases.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUED 520 - Research in Music Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Definition of research problems, data collection and analysis, and research report writing. Application of knowledge of research techniques to analysis of existing research literature in music education.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUED 550 - Curriculum Development and Evaluation in Music Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Principles of curriculum development applied to music education programs. Formulating objectives; construction of evaluation instruments, survey of appropriate literature.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUED 560 - Advanced Studies in General Music

    3 Credit Hours
    Current trends, methodologies, and strategies appropriate for general music classroom. Study of Dalcroze, Orff, Kodaly, cooperative learning, critical thinking. Practical application for teaching students K-8.
  
  • MUED 570 - Studies in Multicultural Music Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Study of music literature, art and customs of various cultures appropriate for students in K-8. Strategies and techniques for teaching music at this level.
  
  • MUED 574 - Analysis for Teaching for Professional Development

    2 Credit Hours
    Strategies to document and analyze effectiveness of teaching and professional development. Study and application of various approaches.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): 575.
  
  • MUED 575 - Professional Internship in Teaching

    1-8 Credit Hours
    Teaching and teaching-related experiences in professional settings in public schools.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Admission to teacher education required. Enrollment limited to post-baccalaureate students in professional year program.
    Registration Permission: Consent of School of Music.
  
  • MUED 580 - Seminar in Music Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Class investigation and individual reporting of pertinent topics and issues in music education.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUED 590 - Special Topics in Music Education

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUED 591 - Clinical Studies

    4 Credit Hours
    Group and individual seminar activities during full-time internship. Application and evaluation of professional core competencies. Completion and presentation of portfolio and analysis of teaching project.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): 575.
  
  • MUED 593 - Special Problems in Music Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.

Music Ensemble (MUEN)

  
  • MUEN 503 - Small Jazz Ensemble

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 504 - Jazz Ensemble

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 505 - Studio Orchestra

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 506 - Trombone Choir

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 510 - Percussion Ensemble

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 515 - Chamber Music Ensemble

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 530 - Chamber Singers

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 540 - Opera Theatre

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 550 - Concert Band

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 552 - Symphonic Band

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 553 - Wind Ensemble

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 554 - Pep Band

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 559 - Marching Band

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 570 - Symphony Orchestra

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 580 - Concert Choir

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 583 - Men’s Chorale

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 4 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 589 - Women’s Chorale

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUEN 599 - Accompanying

    1 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition or consent of instructor.

Music General (MUSC)

  
  • MUSC 500 - Thesis

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MUSC 501 - Graduate Recital

    2 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 4 hours.
  
  • MUSC 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MUSC 510 - Music Bibliography

    3 Credit Hours
    Bibliographic methodology in music.
  
  • MUSC 520 - Musical Styles

    3 Credit Hours
    Elements of design and their role in definition of musical styles.
    Recommended Background: Music Theory 400 and Musicology 400, or passage of Music Theory and Musicology diagnostic exams.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUSC 521 - Special Topics in Performance

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of school director.
  
  • MUSC 540 - Secondary Applied Music

    1 Credit Hours
    May be taken by music majors desiring applied study on a 2nd or 3rd instrument.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires audition and payment of applied music fee.
  
  • MUSC 593 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated: Maximum 15 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.

Music Instrumental (MUIN)

  
  • MUIN 490 - Instrumental Conducting

    3 Credit Hours
    Knowledge and skills in instrumental conducting. Various periods and composers and relationship of different styles to the conductor’s art. Musical analysis and practice in conducting.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Music Education 320.
  
  • MUIN 560 - Orchestral Repertoire

    1 Credit Hours
    Intensive weekly master class focused on the performance of standard orchestral repertoire used in most orchestral auditions.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUIN 580 - Band History and Literature I

    3 Credit Hours
    Antiquity to 1900.
  
  • MUIN 581 - Band History and Literature II

    3 Credit Hours
    1900 to present.
  
  • MUIN 584 - Practicum for Instrumental Conductors

    1 Credit Hours
    Intern experience in field other than area of major interest.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 2 hours.
  
  • MUIN 590 - Advanced Instrumental Conducting

    2 Credit Hours
    Physical techniques of conducting, study and analysis of scores, rehearsal techniques. Attention to individual problems. Requires applied music fee.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 8 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUIN 593 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated: Maximum 15 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
  
  • MUIN 595 - Instrumental Conducting Performance

    1 Credit Hours
    Preparation and juried performance of band or orchestral work(s).
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.

Music Jazz (MUJZ)

  
  • MUJZ 410 - Advanced Improvisation

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of individual skills and solving individual problems in jazz improvisation.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 220.
    Registration Restriction(s): Bachelor of Music ― music major/studio music and jazz concentration.
  
  • MUJZ 420 - Jazz Pedagogy

    1 Credit Hours
    Methods and materials relating to teaching of jazz, designing and administering jazz programs, and rehearsal techniques for jazz ensembles.
    Registration Restriction(s): Bachelor of Music ― music major/studio music and jazz concentration.
  
  • MUJZ 520 - Seminar in Jazz

    3 Credit Hours
    Topic varies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
  
  • MUJZ 593 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated: Maximum 15 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.

Music Keyboard (MUKB)

  
  • MUKB 410 - Organ Practicum

    1 Credit Hours
    Improvisation, hymn playing, and accompanying on the organ.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 3 hours.
    Recommended Background: Requires organ proficiency at the 200 level.
  
  • MUKB 420 - Piano Literature I

    3 Credit Hours
    From 1750 to the middle 19th-century.
  
  • MUKB 430 - Piano Literature II

    3 Credit Hours
    Middle 19th-century to the present.
  
  • MUKB 460 - The Organ and Its Literature I

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of the organ and organ literature from the Middle Ages to approximately 1750. Problems of style and interpretation. Pedagogical literature and methods.
  
  • MUKB 470 - The Organ and Its Literature II

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of the organ and organ literature from 1750 to the present. Problems of style and interpretation. Pedagogical literature and methods.
  
  • MUKB 480 - Teaching Class Piano

    3 Credit Hours
    Historical survey and evaluation of teaching materials and methodology for college and/or adult beginning piano classes with collateral teaching experience.
  
  • MUKB 485 - Suzuki Piano Method I

    2 Credit Hours
    Study of the philosophy, procedures, and literature of the Suzuki Piano Methods Books 1 and 2.
  
  • MUKB 490 - Internship

    2 Credit Hours
    Opportunity for pedagogy students to gain experience in teaching beginning students under the supervision of experienced instructors.
    Contact Hour Distribution: Includes weekly discussion seminars.
  
  • MUKB 491 - Internship

    2 Credit Hours
    Opportunity for pedagogy students to gain experience in teaching beginning students under the supervision of experienced instructors.
    Contact Hour Distribution: Includes weekly discussion seminars.
  
  • MUKB 520 - Piano Literature Seminar

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • MUKB 531 - Recital Project

    2 Credit Hours
    Vocal recital. Preparation and accompaniment of full recital for accompanying concentrations only.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUKB 540 - Advanced Piano Pedagogy

    2 Credit Hours
    Topics vary. Evaluation and study of methods and materials for teaching piano at all levels. Supervised laboratory teaching.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 8 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUKB 541 - Recital Project

    2 Credit Hours
    Instrumental recital. Preparation and accompaniment of full recital for accompanying concentrations only.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • MUKB 560 - Organ Literature Seminar

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • MUKB 593 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated: Maximum 15 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.

Music Performance (MUPF)

  
  • MUPF 403 - Flute

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 8 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 304.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 200.
    Comment(s): Requires audition, registration for ensemble appropriate to degree program, and C or higher in 304.
    Registration Restriction(s): Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Arts ― music major or music minor.
  
  • MUPF 404 - Flute

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 8 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 403.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 200.
    Comment(s): Requires audition, registration for ensemble appropriate to degree program, and C or higher in 403.
    Registration Restriction(s): Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Arts ― music major or music minor.
  
  • MUPF 405 - Oboe

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 8 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 306.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 200.
    Comment(s): Requires audition, registration for ensemble appropriate to degree program, and C or higher in 306.
    Registration Restriction(s): Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Arts ― music major or music minor.
  
  • MUPF 406 - Oboe

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 8 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 405.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 200.
    Comment(s): Requires audition, registration for ensemble appropriate to degree program, and C or higher in 405.
    Registration Restriction(s): Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Arts ― music major or music minor or consent of instructor.
  
  • MUPF 410 - Bassoon

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 8 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Music General 200.
    Comment(s): Requires audition, registration for ensemble appropriate to degree program, and C or higher in 311.
    Registration Restriction(s): Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Arts ― music major or music minor or consent of instructor.
 

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