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2017-2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Mechanical Engineering (ME)

  
  • ME 678 - Advanced Topics in Fuel Cells and Electrochemical Power Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Graduate level topics in electrochemical power systems. Includes emphasis on transport issues in polymer electrolyte fuel cells and flow batteries, with some
    topical coverage of other electrochemically based power systems.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Recommended Background: Course in Fuel Cell Engines.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ME 686 - Human-Robot Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of modern human-robot system concepts: review of current research and literature in telerobotics, human-robot cooperation and interaction, including internet integration, cloud computing, virtual reality and haptic interfaces.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 586 or consent of instructor.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ME 687 - Control of Robotic Manipulators

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamentals of robotic manipulator control: Trajectory planning, motion control: independent joint control, computed torque; task environment interaction control: compliance, impedance, force and hybrid control schemes; and current robot manipulator control topics.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 586, or equivalent.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • ME 693 - Independent Study

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

Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MRST)

  
  • MRST 401 - Dante and Medieval Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Italian 401.)

  
  • MRST 402 - Petrarch and Boccaccio

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Italian 402.)

  
  • MRST 405 - Medieval Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See English 401.)

  
  • MRST 406 - Chaucer

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See English 402.)

  
  • MRST 410 - Topics in Medieval / Early Modern French Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See French 410.)

  
  • MRST 432 - Medieval Art of the West, 800-1400

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Art History 431.)

  
  • MRST 442 - Northern European Painting, 1350-1600

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Art History 441.)

  
  • MRST 452 - The Art of Italy, 1250-1450

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Art History 451.)

  
  • MRST 510 - Special Topics

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

Microbiology (MICR)

  
  • MICR 410 - Microbial Physiology

    3 Credit Hours
    Examination of concepts in microbial physiology and the structure and function of microbial cells.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 220.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology 401.
  
  • MICR 411 - Microbial Genetics

    3 Credit Hours
    Mechanisms of gene regulation as well as genetic and phenotypic variation in prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 220 and 240.
    Recommended Background: Microbiology 321.
  
  • MICR 421 - Food Microbiology

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Food Science 421.)

  
  • MICR 429 - Medical Microbiology Laboratory

    2 Credit Hours
    Laboratory exercises in medically important areas of microbiology including microorganisms, pathogenesis, and immunology.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 229.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): 420.
  
  • MICR 431 - Advanced Immunology

    3 Credit Hours
    Evaluation of current immunological research and methods used to examine the evolution of the innate and adaptive immune responses, the role of microbial communities in host health, as well as the development of vaccines, cancer therapeutics, and allergy/autoimmunity treatments.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 330.
  
  • MICR 440 - Virology

    3 Credit Hours
    Pathogenesis and molecular biology of viruses.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 220 and 240.
    (DE) Corequisite(s): Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology 401.
    Recommended Background: Microbiology 321 and 330.
  
  • MICR 470 - Microbial Ecology

    3 Credit Hours
    Physiological diversity and taxonomy of microorganisms from natural environments. Emphasis on the functional role of microorganisms in natural and simulated ecosystems.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 220.
  
  • MICR 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.
  
  • MICR 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.
  
  • MICR 515 - First Year Graduate Research Colloquium

    1 Credit Hours
    Designed to provide new Microbiology graduate students with the fundamental tools necessary to succeed in the departmental graduate program. Students engage in discussions with faculty, become acquainted with important electronic research tools and receive training in oral scientific communication.
  
  • MICR 520 - Microbial Pathogenesis

    3 Credit Hours
    Broad study of host-pathogen relationships including the biochemical, cellular, genetic, genomic and evolutionary factors which play a role in microbial pathogenesis.
    Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 420 and 520.
    Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
  
  • MICR 540 - Genomics and Bioinformatics

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamentals of a new scientific discipline based on sequencing genomes (entire DNA) of individual organisms. Goals, principles and types of genome analysis are covered in a traditional lecture course. Computational tools for genome analysis (bioinformatics) are presented in both lecture and hands-on (computer-laboratory) settings.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Life Sciences 517.)

    Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 480 and 540.
  
  • 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 607 - Journal Club in Computational Biology

    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
    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 540 - String Literature and Pedagogy I

    3 Credit Hours
    Recommended Background: Completion of minimum 200-level applied studies in strings, or by approval of instructor.
  
  • MUIN 550 - String Literature and Pedagogy II

    3 Credit Hours
    Recommended Background: Completion of minimum 200-level applied studies in strings, or by approval of instructor.
  
  • 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.
 

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