2018-2019 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    Apr 30, 2024  
2018-2019 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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French Horn

  
  • FHN 726 - French Horn Instruction

    Setnor School of Music
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.

Fiber Arts

  
  • FIB 620 - Fiber Arts Research Problems

    School of Art
    1-12 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Designed by student and faculty to involve student in program of personal research in fiber arts (whether on- or off-loom) stressing development of concept and technique.
    Repeatable
  
  • FIB 720 - Fiber Arts Research Problems

    School of Art
    1-12 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Continuation of FIB 620.
  
  • FIB 996 - Final Presentation

    School of Art
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Final presentation accompanied by written statement, culminating in oral examination for M.F.A. or M.I.D. degree. Taken during final semester upon advisor’s approval.
  
  • FIB 997 - Masters Thesis

    School of Art
    0-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Formal master’s thesis. Written document exhibiting substantive and original research. Planned under direction of major departmental advisor.

Film

  
  • FIL 500 - Selected Topics

    Department of Transmedia
    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • FIL 520 - Film Studies Seminar

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Advanced topics relating a focused set of critical and theoretical questions to a specific film or group of films. For graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
    PREREQ: FIL 225 OR 226
  
  • FIL 521 - Filmmaking: Selected Topics

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Modes of filmmaking such as experimental, narrative, expository; or technical areas such as cinematography, lighting, or art design.
    PREREQ: FIL 223
    Repeatable 2 time(s), 9 credits maximum
  
  • FIL 523 - Cinema Acting&Directing

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Exercises in filming fictional dramatic scripts. Required of B.F.A. acting students and all film drama directors.
    PREREQ: FIL 223 AND DRA 105 AND DRA 305
  
  • FIL 527 - Critical Problems Film&Video

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Methods of film and video criticism. The place of the author, the text, the spectator, and the ideological underpinnings of aesthetic value in the critical process.
    PREREQ: FIL 225 AND 226
  
  • FIL 620 - Filmmaking:Graduate Project

    Department of Transmedia
    0-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    First-year graduate filmmaking. Required of all M.F.A. film candidates. Meets weekly. Individual and group filmmaking projects. Permission of Instructor.
  
  • FIL 623 - Film Script Writing

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Students produce scripts based on problems of adaptation as well as original work. Problems in dramatic structure, diegesis and dialogue. Permission of Instructor.
  
  • FIL 625 - Intro Film Theory&Criticism

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Individual and group graduate research projects in topics of film theory and criticism. Permission of Instructor.
  
  • FIL 626 - Problems of Film Perception

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Additional graduate research in topics of film theory. Required of all M.F.A. candidates.
    PREREQ: FIL 625 
  
  • FIL 720 - Filmmaking:Graduate Project

    Department of Transmedia
    0-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Advanced graduate filmmaking, required of all M.F.A. candidates. Meets weekly. Individual and group filmmaking projects.
    PREREQ: FIL 620 
  
  • FIL 725 - Film Theory: Topics

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
  
  • FIL 726 - Film Theory: Topics

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
  
  • FIL 996 - Final Presentation

    Department of Transmedia
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Written statement to accompany final project, culminating in oral examination for M.F.A. degree. Taken during final semester upon advisor’s approval.
  
  • FIL 997 - Masters Thesis

    Department of Transmedia
    0-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Formal master’s thesis. Written document exhibiting substantive and original research. Planned under direction of major departmental advisor.

Finance

  
  • FIN 600 - Selected Topics

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • FIN 607 - Bank Management

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    1.5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course will describe how a bank operates and the unique set of financial statements and terms that are specific to the banking industry.
  
  • FIN 652 - Working Capital Management

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FIN 452
    Introduction to corporate financial decision-making related to daily operations, including balanced scorecard use, financial forecasting, management of current assets and liabilities, international issues, and use of information technology. Case studies are emphasized. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FIN 653 - New and Emerging Markets

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: INB 653 
    Analysis of the business, economic, and financial environment of emerging markets. Portfolio investment analysis and corporate financial policy and strategies in emerging markets.
  
  • FIN 654 - Financial Analytics

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    An introduction to methods and tools useful in decision-making in the financial industry, including: macroeconomic event studies, analysis of term structures, Morningstar equity data, style analysis, credit card receivables, trading analytics, execution algorithms, etc.
  
  • FIN 657 - International Financial Management

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: INB 657 
    Major financial decisions of international firms in context of special risks and opportunities. Foreign direct investment theory.
  
  • FIN 659 - Introduction to Derivatives

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FIN 459
    Pricing, market structure, hedging, trading strategies, arbitrage relationships, and applications to corporate securities for options and futures contracts, swaps, and other derivative instruments. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: MBC 633 
  
  • FIN 660 - Fixed Income Securities

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Pricing, market structure, hedging, trading strategies for fixed income derivative securities like swaps, swaptions, caplets, floorlets, and credit risk derivative instruments.
  
  • FIN 664 - Institutional Trading

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: FIN 464
    The course focuses on the practical aspects and costs of trading, and will facilitate an understanding of the trading problem, including order types, order routing processes and latest developments in securities markets and regulations. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FIN 665 - The Securities Market

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: FIN 465
    Role and nature of securities markets in our economy and the needs they serve. Market concept; criteria for studying the effectiveness of securities markets.
  
  • FIN 666 - Value Investing

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FIN 466
    The fundamentals of value investing through the analysis of public corporate businesses and the securities and credit instruments they issue. Investment vs. speculation. Real world cases and applications. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: MBC 633  OR (MBC 627  AND MBC 628 )
  
  • FIN 668 - Seminar in Finance

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: FIN 468
    Specialized work for advanced students on particular phase or topic in finance. Reading, reports, and thesis.
    PREREQ: MBC 633 , ECN 601 
  
  • FIN 669 - Distress Investing

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Double Numbered with: FIN 469
    The course prepares you to understand, analyze and evaluate investments in the securities of companies in financial distress. Uses a practical approach to learning as well as hands on experience analyzing actual special situations.
  
  • FIN 673 - Control Investing

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FIN 473
    What control investors do and how they do it: friendly and hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts and other contests for control are covered.
    PREREQ: FIN 666 
  
  • FIN 741 - Risk Management: Credit Risk

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    1.5 credit(s) Irregularly
    Quantitative models dealing with default risk. Credit risk models, credit derivative markets, credit default swaps and linked notes, credit spread options, basket default swaps.
    PREREQ: MBC 633  AND MBC 638 
  
  • FIN 742 - Risk Management: Operational Risk

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    1.5 credit(s) Irregularly
    Evaluation and management of operational risk in a banking/financial institution environment. Regulatory risk and capital requirements. Theoretical and practical aspects of operational risk models.
    PREREQ: MBC 627 , MBC 628 , MBC 631 , AND MBC 638 
  
  • FIN 751 - Corporate Financial Policy & Strategy

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Advanced issues in corporate investment decisions, dividend and debt policy, corporate restructuring, risk management, and corporate governance.
    PREREQ: ECN 604 , MBC 633 , AND MBC 638  
  
  • FIN 755 - Applied Financial Management

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected applications of financial analysis and theory to firm problems. Topics vary as financial environment changes. Mergers, acquisitions, ESOP leveraged leasing, etc. Seminar method, written and oral reports, case analyses.
    PREREQ: MBC 633 
  
  • FIN 756 - Investment Analysis

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    For students desiring preparation for professional investment work. Detailed analysis of individual securities and application of analytical methods to portfolio management.
    PREREQ: MBC 633 , MBC 638 
  
  • FIN 758 - Portfolio Analysis and Theory

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Practical as well as theoretical problems of modern portfolio selection techniques and analysis. Independent, empirical work by the student and important macro implications of portfolio selection.
    PREREQ: FIN 756 , MAS 766 /ISM 743
  
  • FIN 761 - Financial Modeling

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Build models for financial statement analysis, valuation, capital budgeting, capital structure, portfolio selection, interest rate risk, option valuation, and other areas of finance using a computer tool such as Microsoft Excel.
    PREREQ: FIN 751  OR FIN 756 
  
  • FIN 827 - Corporate Financing Transactions

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    1.5-2 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course combines diverse aspects of business and law education in a transaction-based setting. It guides students through a syndicated commercial loan, including the structuring, negotiation, pricing, and documentation.
  
  • FIN 855 - Financial Management

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Theory of financial decision making, consumption and investment decisions. Selected problems of application of corporate policy including capital budgeting under uncertainty, leasing, corporate growth, mergers, liquidation, and reorganization. Theoretical and empirical aspects of valuation.
    PREREQ: FIN 751 , MAS 766 
  
  • FIN 960 - Grad Seminar in Finance

    Martin J. Whitman School of Management
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Readings, discussions, and reports for doctoral candidates.
    Repeatable

Flute

  
  • FLT 510 - Flute Instruction

    Setnor School of Music
    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For non-music students.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 4 credits maximum
  
  • FLT 515 - Flute Instruction

    Setnor School of Music
    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For music students.
  
  • FLT 516 - Flute Instruction

    Setnor School of Music
    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For music students.
  
  • FLT 615 - Flute Instruction

    Setnor School of Music
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • FLT 616 - Flute/Music Majors

    Setnor School of Music
    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
  
  • FLT 715 - Flute Instruction

    Setnor School of Music
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.
  
  • FLT 716 - Flute Instruction

    Setnor School of Music
    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For performance majors.

French and Francophone Studies

  
  • FRE 600 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • FRE 605 - French Culture in Age of Louis XIV

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Double Numbered with: FRE 405
    Study of French literature, aesthetics and culture of absolutism. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 607 - French Libertine Fictions

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Double Numbered with: FRE 407
    Analysis of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French libertine texts and their relation to philosophy, art, religion, and society. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 609 - French Culture and Revolution

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Double Numbered with: FRE 409
    French enlightenment literature and culture considered within the context of the French Revolution. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 611 - Moliere

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Double Numbered with: FRE 411
    Study of the playwright’s major works in light of contemporary political, social, and cultural trends. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 612 - French Women Writers

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: WGS 612 
    Double Numbered with: FRE 412
    Trends in French feminine and feminist writing from the early modern period to the present. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 617 - “Impressions d’Afrique”:Caribbean Gazes

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Double Numbered with: FRE 417
    A survey of African issues through the eyes of Francophone Caribbean writers and their texts. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 619 - Sembene Ousmane and the African Cinema

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Double Numbered with: FRE 419
    A study of Sembene Ousmane’s work as an introduction to the aesthetics and politics of Black African Cinema, and to issues of film history and theory. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using French

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Language training to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of French.
    Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum
  
  • FRE 621 - Francophone African Criticism

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Double Numbered with: FRE 421
    Major trends in Francophone African literary criticism. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 627 - The Renaissance Body

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FRE 427
    Examines the body as a trope in French literature and culture of the late-medieval and Renaissance periods. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 631 - Montaigne and the New World of Renaissance Writing

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FRE 431
    Examines the modernity of Montaigne’s Essais (1580-92) by focusing on the author’s creation of a self-portrait in writing. Additional work required of graduate students.

Forensic Science

  
  • FSC 606 - Advanced Forensic Science

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Double Numbered with: FSC 406
    Selected areas of current interest in forensic science presented. The application of scientific methods and techniques to crime detection and the law.
    PREREQ: CHE 113 OR CHE 106 OR CHE 109 OR BIO 121
  
  • FSC 631 - Statistics for Forensic Science

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 431
    Statistical concepts and methods relevant to forensic science. Includes probability, error limits, confidence intervals. Correlation, regression, and calibration. Focus on practical application, including DNA population probabilities, evidence evaluation, and hypothesis testing. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 632 - Research and Career Resources

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Provides practical skills and resources for research and careers in forensic science. Effective and ethical research and literature interpretation, critical thinking skills, communication methods specific to forensic science and their potential discovery issues, trial procedures.
  
  • FSC 633 - Quality Assurance and Ethics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Application of the ISO standard for accredited forensic laboratories. Ethical decision model; case studies; root cause analysis; correcitve action; document control; method validation; roles of police, attorneys, forensic scientists; ethical issues in U.S. legal system.
  
  • FSC 635 - Medicolegal Death Investigation I

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 435
    Medicolegal death investigation which deals with the history, purpose and legal underpinning of death investigations, effectively handling a death scene, and protocols for public safety and scene processing. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: FSC 451 OR FSC 651 
  
  • FSC 636 - Medicolegal Death Investigation II

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 436
    Second course in the sequence dealing with information on medicolegal death investigation and deals with procedures for MDI processing and other topics for conducting scientific medicolegal investigations. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 637 - Medicolegal Death Investigation for Emergency Responders

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 437
    Course focuses upon the information needed by emergency responders in dealing with suspicious or unexpected deaths. Topics will include dealing with sudden or unexpected deaths, handling the scene, death investigation laws and other topics. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 640 - Special Topics in Advanced Forensics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Double Numbered with: FSC 440
    An in-depth study of scientific disciplines engaged in the criminal justice and legal systems by providing a rational basis for interpreting the scientific analysis of forensic evidence through relevant case studies. Additional work required of graduate students.
    Repeatable
  
  • FSC 644 - Forensic Chemical Analysis

    College of Arts and Sciences
    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 444
    Lecture content, delivered online, and laboratory on analytical methods of forensic chemistry. Underlying theory and direct experience in various chemical tests and spectroscopic methods. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: CHE 116 OR 119; CHE 117 OR 139
  
  • FSC 645 - Forensic Biochemical Analysis

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Lecture and laboratory course in forensic biochemistry. Concepts and theory behind bioanalytical techniques, along with direct experience in many of the commonly used forensic biochemical analysis techniques. Students must have undergraduate level general chemistry experience.
  
  • FSC 651 - Forensic Pathology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 451
    Introduction to forensic pathology and medi-colegal investigation of death. Role and jurisdiction of the Medical Examiner, including the autopsy. Specific patterns of injury, types of deaths referred to the Medical Examiner, postmortem decompositional changes, and special topics of interest in death investigation will be discussed. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 652 - Forensic Mental Health

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 452
    Role of consultation, research and clinical practice in areas in which psychiatry is applied to legal issues. Covers how mental health and legal systems function together; issues common to forensic psychiatric analyses. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 653 - Forensic Toxicology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 453
    Procedures utilized in forensic toxicology, including specimen types, sample preparation, instrumentation, analytical methods, and interpretation of findings. Knowledge of organic and analytical chemistry is strongly advised. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 654 - Nuclear Forensics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: FSC 454
    The science behind the detection, analysis, and source attribution of nuclear materials. Includes engineering, social, and governmental considerations in the wide range of circumstances encountered in this field. Offered only online. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: CHE 116
  
  • FSC 657 - Principles of Human Toxicology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BIO 657 
    Double Numbered with: FSC 457
    This course examines key aspects of human toxicology, including dose-response relationships, absorption, distribution, biotransformation, elimination, toxicokinetics, molecular mechanisms of toxicity, pesticides, metals, and toxic responses in specific organ systems. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 658 - Scientific Regulation and Compliance

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Basis for regulations and implications for different careers in complying with laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to businesses like pharmaceutical, biotechnology, research, forensic and government laboratories. Implications for not complying with regulations. Case studies.
  
  • FSC 661 - Firearms and Impression Evidence

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 461
    Forensic analysis of firearm and impression evidence and its presentation through court testimony. Manufacturing methods’ impact on identification. Serial number restoration, distance determination, full auto conversions, trace evidence, latent print analysis, laboratory quality assurance. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 662 - Forensic Entomology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Double Numbered with: FSC 462
    Application and utility of insects as evidence in criminal investigations. Biology and importance of different insect groups in decomposition process. Collection, identification, and processing of insect evidence. Temperature-time relationship in insect growth, its practical use in calculating post-mortem intervals. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 663 - Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 463
    A lecture and laboratory introduction to the analysis of bloodstain patterns in a forensic context. History, theory, and scientific principles behind the analysis methods are supported by laboratory creation and analysis of various types of bloodstains. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 664 - Latent Print Processing

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 464
    Provides practical knowledge of how to search for, develop, document, and preserve latent prints in a mock crime scene and laboratory setting. Utilizes visual, physical, and chemical methods. Additional work required of graduate students.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
  
  • FSC 665 - Latent Prints

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 465
    Biology of friction ridge skin including pattern class recognition. Digital imaging of latent prints, analysis and comparison, evidence processing including individual mock cases near the end of the semester. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 667 - Forensic Photography

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 467
    Use of photography in criminal and civil investigations and trials. Changing face of photography and how use of digital cameras has altered rules of evidence and admissibility. Proper use of digital single lens reflex cameras and digital flash. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 668 - Crime Scene Investigation

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 468
    History and practice of crime scene investigation, including photography, sketches, note-taking, processing and collection of evidence. Includes bloodstain pattern interpretation, collision reconstruction, case studies, mock crime scenes, moot court. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 669 - Science of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: BIO 669
    Double Numbered with: FSC 469
    Scientific basis and means for countering WMDs, including biological systems. Protective measures, proven doctrines, practical questions, and problem solving. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 671 - Firearms and Impressions Evidence II

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Modeled after an internationally recognized firearms examiner training program. Students operate comparison microscopes, perform firearms comparisons, receive operability/armorers training, and view firearms manufacturing processes to understand the forensic identification of fired ammunition components.
    PREREQ: FSC 661 
  
  • FSC 672 - Advanced Light Microscopy

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BIO 672
    Double Numbered with: FSC 472
    Theory and practice of modern light microscopy, including the fundamentals of image formation and applications in the biological and biomedical sciences, including reviews of microscopy methods and analog and digital image capture. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 674 - Forensic DNA Analysis

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 474
    Explores the present-day state of forensic DNA analysis with a focus on the workflow, instrumentation and methods for data interpretation. Includes a computer laboratory component. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 675 - Latent Prints II

    College of Arts & Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 475
    Advanced level coverage of latent print: advanced analysis, comparison, identification; distortion, understanding causes of error; understanding forms of bias; courtroom preparation and testimony; topics research and presentation. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: FSC 665 
  
  • FSC 676 - Cold Cases

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Crosslisted with: BIO 676
    Double Numbered with: FSC 476
    Methods and practice in solving unsolved cases using fundamental science, court documents, and other sources of information. Will include work on real cases. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 690 - Independent Study

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Repeatable
  
  • FSC 990 - Independent Study

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s)
    Repeatable

Fashion Illustration

  
  • FSH 570 - Fashn Illustratn Res Prob

    School of Design
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Individual development in specialized areas of fashion illustration.
    PREREQ: FSH 471

Food Studies

  
  • FST 600 - Selected Topics

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    1-3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • FST 601 - Seminar in Food Studies and Systems

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Introduction to selected foundational texts, research strategies, and disciplinary developments in food studies and food systems.
  
  • FST 603 - The Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FST 403
    Evolution of human right to adequate food. Social, political, economic and cultural conditions influencing progressive realization of right to food and nutrition. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FST 604 - Food Studies Research Methods

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Research methods for graduate food studies introducing qualitative and quantitative methods, GIS, and food system assessments with emphasis on research design, data management, and writing a proposal.
  
  • FST 621 - Morality of a Meal:Food Ethics

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FST 421
    Food consumption and production are explored in the context of community and environment with the application of ethical theories to broad food issues and challenges. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FST 700 - Selected Topics

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
 

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