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

Course Descriptions


 

Accounting (ACCT)

  
  • ACCT 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.
  
  • ACCT 505 - Financial Accounting I

    1.5 Credit Hours
    Understand financial accounting principles, analyze financial statements of U.S. Public companies, and interpret related information, including financial statement notes. Emphasis on assessing company liquidity, profitability, asset management, and capital structure.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Business Administration admission. Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ACCT 506 - Managerial Accounting I

    1.5 Credit Hours
    Understand the methods and techniques used by managers to solve business problems using accounting data and to plan and assess business operations.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 505.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Business Administration admission. Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ACCT 507 - Financial Reporting Research and Contemporary Issues

    3 Credit Hours
    Theory and practice of contemporary financial reporting issues are covered with an emphasis on researching the authoritative accounting literature. Specific contemporary issues covered vary each semester.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 508 - Business Combinations

    3 Credit Hours
    Application of accounting theory to business combinations and related topics, including mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, and foreign currency issues.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 509 - Financial Institutions

    3 Credit Hours
    Exposes students to various aspects of financial institutions.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy - accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 518 - Professional Standards

    3 Credit Hours
    Basic standards and contemporary issues relevant to assurance providers. Actual practice cases are used to illustrate application.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 519 - Seminar in Business Risk and Assurance Methodology

    3 Credit Hours
    Business risk and emerging methodology used by assurance providers.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 521 - Governmental, Not for Profit, and Management Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Accounting principles and reporting models for governmental and not for profit organizations. Uses of management accounting information in decision making and performance evaluation.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 522 - Valuation I

    3 Credit Hours
    Focus is on financial statement analysis, especially within the context of pricing the equity and debt interests of a business enterprise. Also encompasses basic valuation methods and techniques used to value such interests, as well as the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy - accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 523 - Valuation II

    3 Credit Hours
    Focus is on advanced valuation topics such as real estate, private firms, distressed firms, financial firms, the valuation of contingent claims (options, derivatives, futures, etc.), and managerial considerations to valuation such as valuation creation.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy - accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 530 - Tax Research, Accounting Practice, and Procedures

    3 Credit Hours
    Methods of researching tax issues within the federal tax system with emphasis on Internet-based research tools. Tax accounting periods and methods. Tax procedures for dealing with the Internal Revenue Service. Tax practice standards and ethical concerns.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 531 - Tax Strategy and Corporation Tax Issues

    3 Credit Hours
    Current issues in tax strategy and planning including investment models, implicit taxes, organizational form, and other selected topics. Income taxation of corporate operations including financial statement implications of income taxes. Course is intended for Master of Accountancy students in the taxation concentration.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 532 - Corporate Taxation and Reorganizations

    3 Credit Hours
    Current issues in corporate taxation including organization and capital structure, distributions, liquidations, acquisitions, and reorganizations. Course emphasizes group projects and presentations. Web-based research tools used extensively.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 531.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 533 - Taxation of Partnerships and S Corporations

    3 Credit Hours
    Current issues in partnership and S corporation taxation including partnership formation, operations, allocations, and distributions; LLCs; S corporation election and operations; and comparisons of different flow-through entities. Course emphasizes group projects and presentations. Web-based research tools used extensively.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): 531.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 535 - Entity Taxation and Other Tax Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to tax strategy and planning.  Income taxation of corporate operations including financial statement implications of income taxes.  Introduction to entity formation, distributions, and liquidations. Introduction to tax issues pertaining to partnerships and S corporations.  Course is intended for Master of Accountancy students in the audit and controls concentration.
    Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy.
  
  • ACCT 539 - Multi-Jurisdictional Tax Planning and Policy

    3 Credit Hours
    International and state tax law as it pertains to business transactions. Particular emphasis is placed on identifying tax planning opportunities and designing tax strategies to meet planning objectives.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 531.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 593 - Individual Research in Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Directed research in topic of mutual interest.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Comment(s): Or consent of Master of Accountancy advisor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Master of Accountancy – accounting major.
  
  • ACCT 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.
  
  • ACCT 611 - Doctoral Seminar in Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of issues reflected in accounting literature.
    Comment(s): Or consent of PhD program advisor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Doctor of Philosophy – Haslam College of Business. Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ACCT 612 - Doctoral Seminar in Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of issues reflected in accounting literature.
    Comment(s): Or consent of PhD program advisor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Doctor of Philosophy – Haslam College of Business. Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ACCT 619 - Doctoral Research in Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Study of research methodology and application of various research methods in accounting literature.
    Comment(s): Or consent of PhD program advisor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Doctor of Philosophy – Haslam College of Business. Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ACCT 621 - Accounting Colloquium

    1 Credit Hours
    Research and discussion of contemporary issues in practice of accountancy.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 4 hours.
    Comment(s): Or consent of PhD program advisor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Doctor of Philosophy – Haslam College of Business. Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ACCT 622 - Accounting Colloquium

    1 Credit Hours
    Research and discussion of contemporary issues in practice of accountancy.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 4 hours.
    Comment(s): Or consent of PhD program advisor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Doctor of Philosophy – Haslam College of Business. Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ACCT 693 - Independent Study

    3 Credit Hours
    Directed research in topic of mutual interest.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Doctor of Philosophy – Business Administration major – accounting concentration. Minimum student level – graduate.

Advertising (ADVT)

  
  • ADVT 490 - Special Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Detailed study of a specialized area of advertising. Topics vary by semester and include advanced media strategy, advanced creative strategy, direct marketing, and multicultural advertising.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 360.
  
  • ADVT 500 - Thesis

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to graduate students.
  
  • ADVT 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when the 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): Enrollment is limited to graduate students.
  
  • ADVT 510 - Advertising and Society

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of advertising as institution in a free-enterprise democratic society and its relation to social, legal, cultural, and economic institutions.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to graduate students.
  
  • ADVT 520 - Advertising and Communications Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Application of contemporary communications theories of attitude change, information-processing, and persuasion as applied to creative strategy decisions.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to graduate students.
  
  • ADVT 530 - Advertising and Public Relations Research

    3 Credit Hours
    Nature, scope, and application of research function to advertising and public relations decisions.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Statistics 531 or equivalent.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to graduate students.
  
  • ADVT 540 - Advertising Decision Making

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of decision making in budgeting, creative strategy, media strategy, research, evaluation, and agency-client relationships. Advertising response functions.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to graduate students.
  
  • ADVT 560 - Account Planning

    3 Credit Hours
    Account Planning focuses on the development of advertising strategy based on insight-oriented research. Emphasis on the use of qualitative research in advertising strategy development, secondary and quantitative data also used.
  
  • ADVT 561 - Social Media in Advertising and Public Relations

    3 Credit Hours
    Practical and analytical skills necessary to create, evaluate and execute social media campaigns. Emphasis on on-line reputation management, ethical/legal/privacy issues and evaluating digital technologies.
    Cross-listed: Same as Public Relations 561.

  
  • ADVT 590 - Project

    3 Credit Hours
    Capstone project under guidance of faculty. Application of principles from previous course work.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Enrollment is limited to graduate students.
  
  • ADVT 597 - Independent Study

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Must be a graduate student.
    Registration Permission: Advanced undergraduate students who wish to be considered must seek permission of instructor.
  
  • ADVT 680 - Mass Communication Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Journalism and Electronic Media 680.)


Aerospace Engineering (AE)

  
  • AE 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.
  
  • AE 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.
  
  • AE 511 - Inviscid Flow

    3 Credit Hours
    Kinematics and dynamics of inviscid fluids; potential flow about body, conformal mapping.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 541 and Mathematics 425.
  
  • AE 512 - Viscous Flow

    3 Credit Hours
    Derivation of fundamental equations of compressible viscous flow; boundary conditions for viscous heat-conducting flow; exact solutions for Newtonian viscous flow (Navier-Stokes) equations for special cases; similarity solutions. Thermal boundary layers, stability of laminar flows, transition to turbulence, 2-D turbulent boundary layer equations. Incompressible-turbulent mean flow, and compressible boundary layer flow.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • AE 513 - Experimental Methods in Fluid Mechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Experimental techniques with laboratory experiments; representative experiments: hot wire anemometry and turbulence measurements, flow visualization, wind tunnel tests, water table experiments, supersonic flow experiments, boundary layer measurements, laser-optical measurements.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 541.
  
  • AE 515 - Air Vehicle Aerodynamics and Performance

    3 Credit Hours
    Application of aerodynamics principles to air vehicles to provide estimates of performance, stability, and control characteristics for subsonic to hypersonic speeds. Relations among thrust, drag, lift and attitude, propulsion systems, vehicle performance characteristics, and trajectory optimization.
  
  • AE 517 - Finite Elements for Engineering Applications

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 517.)

  
  • AE 518 - Computational Fluid Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 518.)

  
  • AE 521 - Aerodynamics of Compressible Fluids

    3 Credit Hours
    One-dimensional internal and external flow; waves; small perturbation theory; slender body theory; similarity rules; method of characteristics.
  
  • AE 522 - Aerodynamics of Compressible Fluids

    3 Credit Hours
    One-dimensional internal and external flow; waves; small perturbation theory; slender body theory; similarity rules; method of characteristics.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 521.
  
  • AE 525 - Hypersonic Flow

    3 Credit Hours
    Slender body flow; similitude; Newtonian theory; blunt body flow; viscous interactions; free molecule and rarefied gas flow.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 512
  
  • AE 531 - Magnetohydrodynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Electromagnetic field theory; chemical kinetics; thermodynamic and thermophysical properties of gas plasmas; governing equations and applications.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): Mathematics 471.
  
  • AE 532 - Introduction to Turbulence

    3 Credit Hours
    Macroscopic effects, analogies, statistical treatment, correlation functions, energy spectra, diffusion; application of turbulent jets and pipe flow.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 511 and 512.
  
  • AE 533 - Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 533.)

  
  • AE 535 - Mechanical Vibrations

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 534.)

  
  • AE 536 - Continuum Mechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 536.)

  
  • AE 541 - Fluid Mechanics I

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 541.)

  
  • AE 542 - Fluid Mechanics II

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 542.)

  
  • AE 545 - Optical Engineering I

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 545.)

  
  • AE 546 - Optical Engineering II

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 546.)

  
  • AE 547 - Linear Control Systems Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 547.)

  
  • AE 557 - Aerospace Vehicle Flutter and Vibration

    3 Credit Hours
    Aeroelastic phenomena. Structural and aerodynamic operators. Stability criteria for airfoils operating in oscillating stream. Two- and three-dimensional flutter of wings, control surfaces and empennages.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 551.
  
  • AE 559 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials I

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

  
  • AE 562 - Fundamentals of Aeroacoustics

    3 Credit Hours
    Generation, propagation and absorption of sound in static and moving media.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • AE 565 - Structural Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 565.)

  
  • AE 566 - Electric Propulsion

    3 Credit Hours
    Engineering concepts of electric propulsion and its application to modern satellites and deep space probes. Topics include physical principles, practical designs, and performance levels of electrically-powered space propulsion thrusters including: ion engines; pulsed and steady-state (fixed field) plasma and MHD thrusters, including Hall Thrusters, and others.
    Recommended Background: Rocket propulsion.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
  
  • AE 569 - Plasma Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamental concepts of plasma including electromagnetic theory, collision processes, kinetic theory, microscopic and macroscopic descriptions, transport properties, and magnetohydrodynamic analysis.
    Recommended Background: Vector calculus and graduate fluid mechanics.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
  
  • AE 577 - Neural and Fuzzy Approaches in Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Nuclear Engineering 577.)

  
  • AE 581 - Rocket Propulsion I

    3 Credit Hours
    Rocket propulsion fundamentals; thermodynamics of nonreacting and chemically reacting ideal gases, rocket nozzle design; ideal rocket performance parameters; rocket heat transfer; chemistry of propellants; liquid rocket engine systems; ground testing; introduction to solid propellant rockets.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
  
  • AE 590 - Selected Engineering Problems

    2-6 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Comment(s): Enrollment limited to students in problems option.
    Registration Permission: Consent of advisor.
  
  • AE 592 - Off-Campus Study

    3 Credit Hours
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Permission: Departmental approval.
  
  • AE 593 - Independent Study

    3 Credit Hours
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Permission: Departmental approval.
  
  • AE 595 - Seminar

    1 Credit Hours
    All phases of aerospace engineering, reports on current research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and UTSI.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 20 hours.
  
  • AE 599 - Special Topics in Aerospace Engineering

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • AE 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.
  
  • AE 601 - Doctoral Research Methodology

    3 Credit Hours
    Methods of planning and conducting original research and proposal writing.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate / doctoral students.
    Registration Permission: Departmental approval.
  
  • AE 644 - Theory of Turbulence

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 644.)

  
  • AE 647 - Nonlinear Control Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 647.)

  
  • AE 655 - Advanced Topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics (3)

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 655.)

  
  • AE 656 - Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics Practice

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 656.)

  
  • AE 659 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials II

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 659.)

  
  • AE 681 - Advanced Viscous Flow Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Critical review of significance to governing equations. Nature of boundary layer approximation as singular perturbation problem. Uniqueness and existence of solutions. Applications of group theory. Special problem areas of interest to students.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 512, continuum mechanics, and Mathematics 562.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • AE 682 - Rocket Propulsion II

    3 Credit Hours
    Solid propellant rocket performance, homogeneous and heterogeneous propellant chemistry and combustion system performance, thermal decomposition and gas phase reaction models; effect of chamber pressure and additives on solid propellant burn rates, erosive burning; analysis of two-phase solid rocket exhaust flow. Introduction to nuclear and electric propulsion; electrical resistance and electric field (ion) engine performance, magnetohydrodynamic thrusters, traveling wave thrusters; exotic propulsion systems.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 581.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
  
  • AE 690 - Advanced Topics in Aerospace Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • AE 693 - Independent Study

    3 Credit Hours
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Departmental approval.

Africana Studies (AFST)

  
  • AFST 413 - Music and the African Diaspora

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Musicology 413.)
  
  • AFST 421 - Comparative Studies in African and African-American Societies

    3 Credit Hours
    Comparative studies of African and African-American societies in such areas as education, religion, and social stratification. Includes the respective views African-Americans and Africans have of each other and concept of Pan-Africanism.
  
  • AFST 443 - Topics in Black Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See English 443.)

  
  • AFST 450 - Issues and Topics in African-American Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary but include a variety of problems, issues, and individuals from the field of African-American studies.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • AFST 452 - The Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Political Science 452.)

  
  • AFST 456 - Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Sociology 452)

  
  • AFST 464 - Art of Southern and Eastern Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Art History 461.)

  
  • AFST 465 - Art and Archaeology of Ancient Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Art History 462.)

  
  • AFST 466 - Arts of the African Diaspora

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Art History 463.)

  
  • AFST 471 - African-American Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Art History 470.)

  
  • AFST 473 - Black Male in American Society

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines historical images, myths and stereotypes which have developed concerning African-American males in American society. Includes the impact of such critical factors as black feminism, violence, concepts of masculinity, the family, white males, white females, homosexuality, nationalism, and athletics on African-American males in America.
  
  • AFST 484 - African-American Women in American Society

    3 Credit Hours
    Focuses on historical and contemporary social, economic, and political factors in American society as they relate to the black woman.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Women’s Studies 484.)

  
  • AFST 510 - Special Topics

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.

Agricultural and Resource Economics (AREC)

  
  • AREC 412 - Agricultural Finance

    3 Credit Hours
    Macro-finance, financial objectives, acquisition of debt and equity funds, capital investments, capital allocation, debt repayment, credit analysis, borrower and lender loan application analysis, insurance strategies, computer applications, kinds and sources of agricultural credit, and financial intermediation.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 212 and Accounting 200.
    Recommended Background: Introductory economics and microcomputer competence.
    Comment(s): Graduate standing may satisfy prerequisites.
  
  • AREC 420 - International Agricultural Trade and Marketing

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to real and monetary aspects of international trade effect on agricultural commodity flows; partial equilibrium analysis of international trade in agricultural products; institutional aspects of international marketing of agricultural products.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 320 or Economics 311.
    Comment(s): Graduate standing may satisfy prerequisites.
  
  • AREC 430 - Food and Agricultural Policy

    3 Credit Hours
    Values, goals and policy process. Economic rationale and effects of policy. Historical development and current characteristics of commodity, credit, food, and trade policy.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 320 or Economics 311.
  
  • AREC 442 - Agribusiness Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced concepts in developing business and marketing plans and in applied management principles such as inventory control and pricing techniques. Discussion of management issues including going international, employee supervision, management succession and guerilla marketing. Teamwork emphasized in managing an agribusiness firm through game simulation. Written and oral presentation required.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 212 and Accounting 200.
    Recommended Background: Intermediate microeconomics.
    Comment(s): Graduate standing may satisfy prerequisites.
  
  • AREC 445 - Economics of Biomass for Renewable Energy

    3 Credit Hours
    Overview of the economics of renewable energy and the potential role for biomass. Assessment of the economic, environmental, and policy forces that are shaping the bioenergy industry. Exploration of methods for evaluating the economic feasibility of bioenergy feedstock production, logistics, and conversion.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 201 or Economics 201.
    Comment(s): Graduate standing may satisfy prerequisites.
 

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