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EEB 419 - Global Change Ecology 3 Credit Hours
Gain an in-depth understanding of current, global-scale environmental changes and the consequences of these changes for species, ecological communities, and humankind. Topics include climate change, habitat fragmentation, invasion biology, and larte-scale pollution in the Anthropocene with a focus on human-dimensions to these global challenges. Students will develop a greater appreciation for global change and the connections between humans and the natural world. Course will be a mix of lectures, reading of primary literature, group discussion/participation, and field research.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 260.
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EEB 420 - Fungal Diversity 3 Credit Hours
Ecology and evolutionary biology of fungi revealed mostly through use of molecular techniques. Many fungi, and the ecological roles they serve, are often obscure due to their ephemeral nature, difficulty of detection, and convergent gross morphological similarities. Advances in molecular biology have uncovered an unanticipated depth of diversity in fungi and permitted scientists to address research questions not possible until only recently. This seminar will provide an overview of fungal ecology and evolution by examining the primary literature. Multiple dimensions of fungal diversity are explored: taxonomic, genetic, and functional.
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EEB 421 - Community Ecology 3 Credit Hours
Interactions between individuals, species, communities, and environments, including competition, coexistence, predation, herbivory. Causes and consequences of biological diversity; biological invasions. Application of advanced sampling and analysis techniques. Local to global environmental change. Includes periodic field trips or laboratories.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 260.
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EEB 422 - Landscape Ecology 3 Credit Hours
Online course broadens the spatial scale of ecological study to consider influence of landscape-level patterns on ecological processes. Important issues, concepts, and methodologies relevant to landscape ecology. Students will a) research scientific literature and present findings in short oral presentations; b) research popular writing related to landscape ecology and present findings in short oral presentations; c) perform, analyze, and orally communicate computer simulation experiments.
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EEB 423 - Conservation Decision Making 3 Credit Hours
Online course will teach structured decision making process. Learn to enable people representing diverse interests to come together to form a common understanding and to create scientifically rigorous, inclusive, defensible, and transparent conservation and natural resource management plans. Course requires regular interaction with classmates in weekly online discussion, a mock conservation planning project, and a small-group evaluation of a published conservation plan (which includes a recorded interview of one of its authors).
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EEB 424 - Plant Diversity and Evolution 3 Credit Hours
A survey of the evolutionary history of photosynthetic cyanobacteria and green plants (green algae, bryophytes, lycophytes, ferns and seed plants). A hands-on laboratory provides an in-depth understanding of major morphological and developmental features of each group.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours lecture, 1 two hour lab.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 102, Biology 114, Biology 150, or Biology 158.
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EEB 425 - Communicating the Science of Climate Change Biology 3 Credit Hours
Online course examines impacts of global climate change on biodiversity. Understand past, current, and projected impacts of climate change and evaluate proposed solutions for the current climate crisis. Discuss implications of climate change science. Choose several socially-relevant climate change biology topics to research and communicate to the public.
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EEB 426 - Plant-Animal Interactions 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to the evolutionary and ecological aspects of interactions between plants and animals, including herbivory, pollination, and seed dispersal. Emphasis is on historical development of the field, discussions of primary literature, design of experiments, and writing.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 260.
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EEB 430 - Invasion Biology 3 Credit Hours
History, biology, and management of biological invasions, geography and scale of invasions, ecological effects, impacts to humans, and evolution of introduced and native species. Differences between “introduced” and “invasive” species will inform discussions about prevention, regulation, detection, management, and eradication. Comprehensive consideration of interesting case studies. Apply knowledge in a variety of scenarios and fields. Discussion of controversies surrounding biological invasions and prospects for the future of invasions considering biotic homogenization, animal rights, human activity, climate change, and management with new technologies.
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EEB 433 - Plant Ecology 3 Credit Hours
Fundamental concepts and techniques in plant ecology, including topics such as plant interactions with climate, microbiomes/herbivores, plant community dynamics, and plant-mediated ecosystem processes. By the end of the course students will have a working knowledge of the major concepts, current research being done and a toolbox of lab and field techniques in plant ecology. Specific skills to be developed include how to read, synthesize, and write ecological literature, experimental design, analyses of plants and plant processes, statistics/data analysis, and science communication. Course requires one weekend field trip.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 260.
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EEB 450 - Comparative Animal Behavior 3 Credit Hours
Explore the diversity of extraordinary and sometimes puzzling animal behaviors in the natural world, seeking to understand and test questions about how and why animals (including humans) behave the way they do. Students will develop scientific and professional skills in hypothesis development, critical thinking, visual representation of data, oral communication, and teamwork.
Cross-listed: (Same as Psychology 450.)
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EEB 451 - Research Ethics 3 Credit Hours
Ethics of scientific research with emphasis on biological sciences from genetic to ecological research. Ethics of intellectual property, allocation of resources for research, genetic engineering, research on marginalized and vulnerable populations, research on non-human animals, conservation biology, ecological fieldwork and more.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): English 102, 132, 290, or 298.
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EEB 454 - Animal Communication 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Psychology 454.)
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EEB 459 - Comparative Animal Behavior Laboratory 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to observational and experimental research in ethology.
Cross-listed: (Same as Psychology 459.)
(RE) Corequisite(s): 450.
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EEB 461 - Special Topics in Organismal Biology 3 Credit Hours
Current topics in organismal biology.
Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 12 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 280.
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EEB 464 - Macroevolution 3 Credit Hours
How, and, more importantly, why life on earth has changed through evolutionary processes. What leads to extinction or speciation, at what level does selection operate, are humans still evolving, and how we develop and test hypotheses in these areas will all be discussed.
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EEB 465 - Special Topics in Ecology 3 Credit Hours
Current topics in Ecology.
Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 12 hours.
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EEB 466 - Special Topics in Evolution 3 Credit Hours
Current topics in evolution.
Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 12 hours.
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EEB 469 - Special Topics in Conservation Biology 3 Credit Hours
Current topics on the conservation of biological diversity at population, community and ecosystem levels.
Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 12 hours.
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EEB 470 - Aquatic Ecology 3 Credit Hours
Physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of streams, lakes, and seas. Discover how anthropogenic activities are threatening these systems and the biodiversity therein. Coding and big data analyses will be an important part of this class. How to harness publicly available datasets to answer important questions in aquatic ecology and conservation.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours and 1 lab.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 411.
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EEB 473 - Herpetology 3 Credit Hours
Classification, evolution, ecology, biogeography, and anatomy of amphibians and reptiles.
Contact Hour Distribution: 3 hours lecture and 1 lab.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 250 or Biology 260.
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EEB 474 - Ichthyology 4 Credit Hours
Evolution, classification, collection and identification, distribution and biology of fishes with emphasis on freshwater fauna of Eastern North America.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours and 2 lab.
Recommended Background: Biology 260.
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EEB 480 - Natural History of the Smoky Mountains 3 Credit Hours
Field ecology course that includes a one-week field trip. Students will learn about the natural history and ecological and evolutionary factors that are responsible for the diversity of plants and animals in the Great Smoky Mountains. Emphasis on field study of selected biotic communities. Course will meet daily on campus for lectures/labs for 5 days (week 1) before venturing into the field. Students will stay full-time at the Biology Field Station in week 2. Course will conclude with 2 days (week 3) of oral presentations and discussion.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): Biology 150 and Biology 260 or equivalent.
Comment(s): This course is offered in the summer term only.
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EEB 481 - Avian Diversity 3 Credit Hours
Provides strong foundation in global and regional diversity of birds, their biogeography, evolution, and ecology. Learn to identify birds by plumage, voice, and behavior. Familiarize yourself with major groups of North American birds, their habitats and distributions and learn about the value of avian natural history collections and the challenges and rewards of preparing bird specimens.
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EEB 484 - Conservation Biology 3 Credit Hours
Application of principles and techniques of ecological research to conservation of biological diversity at genetic, population, community, and ecosystem levels.
Recommended Background: Biology 260.
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EEB 485 - Ethnobiology: Theory and Methods 3 Credit Hours
Dynamic relationships between humans and their environment. Focus on understanding of the drivers of human decision making and choice in plant and animal use which is critical for designing globally sustainable management plans.
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EEB 496 - Special Topics Seminars 1 Credit Hours
Special topics in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours. Maximum of two credit hours can count toward the major.
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EEB 500 - Thesis 1-15 Credit Hours
Selected directed readings or special course in topics of current interest. Consult departmental listing for offerings.
Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Level Restriction: Graduate credit only.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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EEB 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.
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EEB 503 - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar 1 Credit Hours
Advanced topics in ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology. Required of first- and second-year graduate students, as well as more senior graduate students on GTA support. Senior departmental majors and other graduate students are encouraged to enroll.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 16 hours.
Credit Restriction: Only 4 hours can be applied towards a graduate degree in ecology and evolutionary biology.
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EEB 504 - Special Topics 1-3 Credit Hours
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of instructor. Maximum 9 hours.
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EEB 507 - Seminar in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 2 Credit Hours
Research presentations by EEB graduate students.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 4 hours.
Registration Permission: Non-EEB students require consent of instructor.
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EEB 509 - Core: Ecology 3 Credit Hours
Readings, lectures, and discussion about key concepts in ecology.
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EEB 511 - Core: Evolution 3 Credit Hours
Readings, lectures, and discussion about key concepts in evolution.
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EEB 513 - Art and Organism - Integrative Biology of Aesthetic Experience 3 Credit Hours
Integrative approach to fundamental concepts of developmental biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and physiology applied to culture, art and aesthetic experience.
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EEB 543 - Aquatic Insects 3 Credit Hours
Taxonomy and biology of aquatic insects; immature forms.
Contact Hour Distribution: 2 hours and 1 lab.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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EEB 546 - Evolutionary Psychology 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Psychology 546.)
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EEB 547 - Conceptual Foundations of Evolution and Behavior 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Psychology 547.)
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EEB 550 - Ecological Niche Models and Species’ Distributions 1 Credit Hours
Species niches and spatial patterns – course will combine lectures with computer demonstrations and practice. Students are expected to develop and work on an instructor approved project during class and present project results at the end of the semester. This hands-on course will be structured in three modules: I. Species’ ranges in GIS; II. Species’ niches – ecological niche modeling; and III. Spatial patterns of biodiversity - macroecology and conservation. Each module will last 5 weeks and students have the option to enroll in one, two, or three modules.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 3 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Consent of instructor.
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EEB 560 - Biometry 3 Credit Hours
Statistical applications in biological research.
Recommended Background: Statistics course or consent of instructor.
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EEB 580 - Population Modeling 3 Credit Hours
Recent advances in modeling dynamics of size-structured populations to answer ecological and conservation questions. Use R to develop matrix and integral population models, learn to conduct sensitivity and elasticity analyses for transient and asymptotic dynamics, develop stochastic (iid, Markovian) models and age-from-stage models.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 411.
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EEB 581 - Mathematical Ecology I 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Mathematics 581.)
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EEB 582 - Mathematical Ecology II 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Mathematics 582.)
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EEB 583 - Advanced Biogeography 3 Credit Hours
Processes determining geographic distribution of animals and distribution and composition of animal communities.
Recommended Background: Ecology course or consent of instructor.
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EEB 585 - Mathematical Evolutionary Theory 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Mathematics 583.)
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EEB 587 - Phylogenetic Methods 1-3 Credit Hours
Topics include likelihood, Bayesian, and parsimony methods of tree inference, gene tree species tree and network methods, dating trees, correlating characters, discrete and continuous character models and diversification.
Repeatability: Not repeatable. May be taken once for 1 – 3 hours.
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EEB 591 - Foreign Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
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EEB 592 - Off-Campus Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
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EEB 593 - Independent Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
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EEB 598 - Biology Education: Theory and Practice 3 Credit Hours
Develops the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be an effective biology teacher at the college level. Outcomes of the course will include a knowledge of teaching techniques, practice evaluating the teaching of others, putting educational theory into practice, and a completed teaching philosophy statement.
Cross-listed: (Same as Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology 598 and Microbiology 598.)
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EEB 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.
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EEB 602 - Advanced Topics in Ecological Process and Structure 1-3 Credit Hours
Exposure and in-depth training in contemporary topics and approaches important to advanced research in ecological process and structure. Consult departmental listing for offerings.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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EEB 603 - Advanced Topics in Evolutionary Biology 1-3 Credit Hours
Exposure and in-depth training in contemporary topics and approaches important to advanced research in evolutionary biology. Consult departmental listing for offerings.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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EEB 606 - Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology 1-3 Credit Hours
Exposure and in-depth training in contemporary topics and approaches important to advanced research in conservation biology. Consult departmental listing for offerings.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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EEB 607 - Seminar in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 1 Credit Hours
Readings and discussion based on current literature.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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EEB 609 - Advanced Topics in Comparative Animal Behavior 1-3 Credit Hours
Exposure and in-depth training in contemporary topics and approaches important to advanced research in animal behavior. Consult departmental listing for offerings.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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EEB 610 - Advanced Topics in Mathematical, Theoretical and Computational Ecology 1-3 Credit Hours
Exposure and in-depth training in contemporary topics and approaches important to advanced research in mathematical, theoretical, and computational ecology. Consult departmental listing for offerings.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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EEB 611 - Advanced Topics in Organismal Biology 1-3 Credit Hours
Exposure and in-depth training in contemporary topics and approaches important to advanced research in organismal biology. Consult departmental listing for offerings.
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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EEB 612 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Toxicology 1-3 Credit Hours
Exposure and in-depth training in contemporary topics and approaches important to advanced research in environmental toxicology. Consult departmental listing for offerings.
Cross-listed: (Same as Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology 612.)
Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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EEB 681 - Advanced Mathematical Ecology I 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Mathematics 681.)
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ECON 400 - Special Topics II 3 Credit Hours
Variable topics for advanced students.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 311 or 313.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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ECON 413 - Macroeconomics: Business Cycles and Growth 3 Credit Hours
Analysis of macroeconomic short-run fluctuations and long-term growth. Coverage will also include the role of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate output, employment, and interest rates.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 313.
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ECON 421 - International Economics 3 Credit Hours
Balance of payments, exchange rate determination, monetary and fiscal policies, monetary arrangements, comparative advantage, tariff and nontariff trade distortions, protection arguments, and regional integration, with analyses based upon intermediate-level economic theory.
Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 421 and International Business 429.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
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ECON 435 - Industrial Organization 3 Credit Hours
Monopoly and competition in the global economy. Interrelationship of market structure, business behavior, and economic performance.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
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ECON 436 - Economics of Health and Health Care 3 Credit Hours
Medical care and health status; demand for medical care and insurance; physician and hospital supplies; government provision of services and insurance; regulation of health care markets.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
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ECON 441 - Labor Economics 3 Credit Hours
Extension of economic principles to labor markets, public policy questions, demand and supply, theory of wage differentials, unemployment, unions in the private sector, investment in individuals, education and training, and mobility.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
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ECON 463 - Environmental Economics 3 Credit Hours
Economic foundations for public decision making about environmental resources, utilizing tools from intermediate microeconomic theory. Emphasis on the welfare economic approach for the provision of public goods, with specific emphasis on market failure, externalities, benefit-cost analysis, and methods for valuing environmental resources and human health.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
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ECON 471 - Public Finance Expenditure Analysis 3 Credit Hours
Problems of collective consumption, external effects, public investment, social decision making.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
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ECON 472 - Public Finance: Taxation and Fiscal Federalism 3 Credit Hours
Analysis of federal, state, and local government revenue systems, to include individual and corporate income, sales, and property taxes and other tax and non-tax revenue sources. Consideration of current policy issues and relations among various levels of government.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
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ECON 482 - Introduction to Mathematical Economics 3 Credit Hours
Application of basic mathematical tools (e.g., calculus, matrix algebra, etc.) to major topics of economic theory.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 311 with grade of B or better.
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ECON 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.
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ECON 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.
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ECON 505 - Economics of Strategy 1.5 Credit Hours
Topics in microeconomics relating to firms‟ strategic decisions.
Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Business Administration admission. Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 506 - Market Forces in Global Environment 1.5 Credit Hours
Topics in macroeconomics, international trade, and international finance.
Comment(s): Or consent of instructor.
Registration Restriction(s): Master of Business Administration admission. Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 511 - Microeconomic Theory 3 Credit Hours
Theory of consumer choice and demand, theory of revealed preference, attributes of goods and implicit prices, market demand, labor supply, individual behavior under uncertainty, theory of firm, theory of production and cost, market structures, derived demand and factor pricing, introduction to welfare economics, market failure and theory of second best, pure exchange.
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ECON 512 - Microeconomic Theory 3 Credit Hours
Theory of consumer choice and demand, theory of revealed preference, attributes of goods and implicit prices, market demand, labor supply, individual behavior under uncertainty, theory of firm, theory of production and cost, market structures, derived demand and factor pricing, introduction to welfare economics, market failure and theory of second best, pure exchange.
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ECON 513 - Macroeconomic Theory 3 Credit Hours
Dynamic general equilibrium models, endogenous growth theory, credibility of monetary policy, budget deficits and fiscal policy, consumption, investment, asset pricing, overlapping generations models, real business cycle, search theory, and open-economy macro models.
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ECON 514 - Macroeconomic Theory 3 Credit Hours
Dynamic general equilibrium models, endogenous growth theory, credibility of monetary policy, budget deficits and fiscal policy, consumption, investment, asset pricing, overlapping generations models, real business cycle, search theory, and open-economy macro models.
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ECON 570 - Economics of the Public Sector 3 Credit Hours
Microeconomic behavior, resource allocation and market performance; market failure including externalities and public goods; equity, efficiency and welfare economics; income redistribution; public expenditures; political economy; taxation and tax policy; intergovernmental finance.
Comment(s): PhD Economics students must obtain consent of instructor.
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ECON 581 - Mathematical Methods in Economics 3 Credit Hours
Mathematical analysis in economic theory. Applications of selected mathematical techniques to economic topics: theories of choice, firm, consumer behavior, general equilibrium, games, distribution, growth, stability, and input-output.
Recommended Background: 311 and a calculus course.
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ECON 582 - Elements of Econometrics I 3 Credit Hours
Elementary econometric concepts and techniques. Least squares and maximum likelihood estimation, specification and econometric problems, statistical inference, generalized least squares, simultaneous equation models, applications of concepts to economic problems.
Recommended Background: Introductory statistics course.
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ECON 583 - Elements of Econometrics II 3 Credit Hours
Elementary econometric concepts and techniques. Least squares and maximum likelihood estimation, specification and econometric problems, statistical inference, generalized least squares, simultaneous equation models, applications of concepts to economic problems.
Recommended Background: Introductory statistics course.
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ECON 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.
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ECON 611 - Topics in Theoretical and Applied Microeconomics 3 Credit Hours
Construction and analysis of microeconomic models. Advanced topics in game theory, decision theory, and mechanism design.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 612 - Experimental and Behavioral Economics 3 Credit Hours
Design of economic experiments and the analysis of experimental data. “Paradoxical” findings and behavioral economic theories. Comparison of traditional and behavioral models.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 621 - International Economics 3 Credit Hours
Comparative advantage, trade migration, commodity composition of trade, protectionist devices, protectionist arguments, trade liberalization, U.S. trade policy.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 622 - International Finance 3 Credit Hours
Analysis of macroeconomic adjustment in open economies, with attention to foreign exchange markets, balance of payments, international policy coordination, integration of world capital markets, liberalization of non-market economies and the international monetary system.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 631 - Industrial Organization I 3 Credit Hours
Standard models of imperfect competition, oligopoly, and asymmetric information. Topics include pricing with market power and strategic decision making.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 632 - Industrial Organization II 3 Credit Hours
Economics of regulation and antitrust. Topics include public utility regulation, consumer product regulation, occupational safety regulation, environmental regulation and antitrust legislation.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 671 - Public Finance: Optimal Government Size and Expenditure Analysis 3 Credit Hours
Theory of public goods and externalities; public choice. Expenditure incidence and determinants; benefit cost analysis.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 672 - Public Finance: Taxation and Intergovernmental Relations 3 Credit Hours
Theory of taxation; tax incidence and tax efficiency; policy analysis of U.S. tax structure at federal, state, and local levels. Theory of fiscal federalism and intergovernmental relations.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 677 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics 3 Credit Hours
Alternative paradigms for allocating and valuing environmental resources. Exploration of issues related to market failure and differences between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 678 - Economics of Environmental Policy 3 Credit Hours
Topics in environmental policy analysis. Consideration of alternative policy instruments, defining policy objectives and role of risk in decision-making process.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 682 - Advanced Topics in Cross-Section Econometrics 3 Credit Hours
Models with limited dependent variables, panel data analysis, nonparametric estimation, selection models and duration models.
Recommended Background: 582 and 583.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 683 - Time Series Econometrics 3 Credit Hours
Univariate and multivariate time series modeling of economic data-AR, MA, ARMA, VAR; models of non-stationary time series-unit roots, cointegration and error correction models; time series models of heteroskadasticity-ARCH, ARCH-M, GARCH; exogeneity and causality.
Recommended Background: 582 and 583.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
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ECON 690 - Workshop 3 Credit Hours
Advanced topics in economics. Student participation.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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ECON 693 - Independent Study 1-3 Credit Hours
Directed research on topic of mutual interest to faculty and student. Variable title for transcript purposes.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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Education (EDUC) |
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EDUC 576 - Practicum in Classroom Teaching 1-8 Credit Hours
Teaching and teaching-related experiences in elementary and secondary school settings. Specific hours and school level assignment determined by licensure or certification requirements.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 24 hours.
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EDDE 415 - Language Development of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing I 3 Credit Hours
Language development of the deaf and hard of hearing contrasted with scope and sequence of normal language development. Formal linguistic systems used to describe language development.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): American Sign Language 211.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 425.
Comment(s): Taught in American Sign Language.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education or instructor permission.
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EDDE 416 - Language Development of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing II 3 Credit Hours
Language assessment and intervention approaches for deaf and hard of hearing.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 415.
Comment(s): Taught in American Sign Language.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education or instructor permission.
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