Description Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and/or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor for these courses than is the case with field experience.
Notes Registration restriction: Instructor permission.
Description Accounting concepts and practices for entrepreneurs/small business owners. Emphasis given to the use of accounting tools to solve small business problems.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Not open to M.P.A. students.
Description Foundations of Accounting is an introduction to accounting as the means of recording, summarizing, and communicating events of the business enterprise. Basic accounting fundamentals and concepts that underlie the preparation, analysis, and interpretation of financial statements will be explored. The use of accounting information by business management in planning and controlling operations will also be emphasized. Exposure will be given to such topics as budgeting, performance evaluation, and relevant decision-making, cost behavior, and cost accumulation techniques.
Description Provides a discussion of the comparative accounting practices and problems in international environments. The course is designed to explore the concepts, principles, and practices underlying comparative international accounting systems.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ACCT 210, 211 - Principles of Accounting I and II, or permission of the instructor.
Description Involves the study of federal income tax as it applies to “C” corporations, “S” corporations, partnerships, and other business entities.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ACCT 310, 311 - Intermediate Accounting I and II, ACCT 320 - Cost Accounting and ACCT 430 - Income Tax Accounting.
Description Provides a study of current accounting theory and its applications. The course reviews theoretical aspects of accounting by means of problems, directed readings, and study of the various sources of accounting theory.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ACCT 310, 311 - Intermediate Accounting I and II, ACCT 320 - Cost Accounting.
Description The theory and practice of auditing. Topics include audit planning, internal control, audit procedures, audit reports and opinions, materiality, audit risk, evidential matter, as required by generally accepted auditing standards (GASS), professional ethics, legal responsibilities, and other selected topics.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ACCT 310, 311 - Intermediate Accounting I and II, and ACCT 360 - Accounting Systems.
Description Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems, and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-faculty interaction. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 of fewer students. Meeting duration depends upon the topic.
Description Cost Accounting is designed to increase the student’s understanding of theoretical and technical aspects of various advanced cost-managerial concepts. Emphasis is placed on the theory and methodology of cost determination, the use of cost for planning and controlling operations, and the analysis of costs for special decisions.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: ACCT 320 Cost Accounting or its equivalent.
Description Tax Planning & Practice is an in-depth analysis of the Internal Revenue Code and related regulations relating to “C” corporations, partnerships and “S” corporations. Emphasis is also placed on ethics training and tax planning skills.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: ACCT 430 - Income Tax Accounting or its equivalent.
Description Advanced Taxation is an in-depth analysis of the Internal Revenue code and Regulations in the areas of gift and estate taxation, trust taxation, and taxation of exempt organizations. Emphasis is also placed on tax planning and quality in a highly competitive, global marketplace.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ACCT 310, 311 - Intermediate Accounting I and II, ACCT 430 - Income Tax Accounting, and ACCT 731 - Seminar in Tax.
Description This course is an investigation of the conceptual framework that surrounds accounting practices. Emphasis is placed on understanding the reason accountants use the methodologies of GAAP as opposed to other possible methods of reporting or recording.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ACCT 310, 311 - Intermediate Accounting I and II or its equivalent.
Description Contemporary Topics in Auditing provides an understanding of auditing and its essential processes as they are applied in independent, internal and operational settings. These cover a study of the auditor’s professional role and obligations in our society, including ethical considerations, legal framework, and political environment of the profession in the U.S.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: ACCT 450 - Auditing or its equivalent.
ACCT 760 - ACCOUNTING IN GOVERNMENTAL AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
3credit hour(s)
Description This course is the study of the environment in which governmental and non-profit institutions operate and the structure of fund accounting as it applies to these entities.
Description This course is a study of business ethics within the context of standards applicable to the professional practice of accounting. The purpose of the course is to introduce an integrated ethical framework based on ethical reasoning and detailed exploration of the principles of ethical behavior in the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and other standards applicable to the practice of accounting. This course will also introduce the legal responsibilities associated with the practice of accounting.
Description Advanced Accounting covers special accounting problems relating to the preparation of combined and consolidated financial statements; partnership accounting; and foreign exchange transactions and translation.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ACCT 310, 311 - Intermediate Accounting or equivalent.
Description Managerial Accounting is a study of current and developing processes by which financial and operational information is prepared for management use, with an emphasis on information needs for planning, controlling, decision-making, and performance evaluation.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: ACCT 210, 211 - Principles of Accounting I and II or ACCT 520 - Foundations of Accounting or its equivalent. Not open to M.P.A. students.
ACCT 791 - INDEPENDENT STUDY/ READINGS IN ACCOUNTING II
1 to 3credit hour(s)
Description Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems, and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-faculty interaction. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting duration depends upon the topic.
Description Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than in the case with field experience courses. Required for all M.P.A. students following Plan C. A total of three credit hours is required.
ADS 510 - WORKING WITH FAMILIES ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ISSUES
3credit hour(s)
Description Traditional and contemporary theories of family counseling will be studied and applied to alcohol and drug abusing families. The role of the partner/family in the onset, progression, treatment, and prevention of alcohol and drug abuse will be reviewed.
ADS 512 - ALCOHOL AND DRUG USE IN DIVERSE POPULATIONS
3credit hour(s)
Description Alcohol and other drug use among diverse groups such as adolescents, people of color, women, elderly, and homosexuals will be studied. Strategies for effective treatment and prevention will be examined.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ADS 520, ADS 524 and ADS 552
ADS 515 - NATIVE AMERICANS AND SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE
3credit hour(s)
Description This course is designed to acquaint the substance abuse student/professional with the cultural and spiritual basics of effective substance abuse prevention and treatment with Native American populations and individuals. This will aid the student in applying culturally and spiritually appropriate prevention and treatment with Native American clients.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ADS 520, ADS 524 and ADS 552.
ADS 520 - CADE: COMPREHENSIVE ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION
3credit hour(s)
Description The fundamentals of the use, abuse and addictive nature of ethyl alcohol and other mood altering chemicals and the symptomology of alcoholism and other drug addiction. Provides facts and insights concerning the nature, scope and complexity of mood altering chemical substances and current approaches to treatment and prevention of alcohol and other drug abuse. Can be used toward Alcohol/Drug Treatment or Prevention State Certification.
ADS 521 - FOUNDATIONS OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG PREVENTION
3credit hour(s)
Description Past and current models of alcohol and other drug prevention will be studied to determine what led to their origin, strengths, weaknesses and effectiveness. Can be used for Alcohol/Drug Prevention Certification.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ADS 116 and 117, or consent of instructor.
Description The concept that alcohol and drug abuse treatment is a continuum from intervention through continuing care is emphasized. Acquaints the student with theories, models, stages and functions of alcohol and drug abuse treatment. Can be used for Alcohol/ Drug State Certification
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisites: ADS 552.
Description A study of the psychopharmacology of substance-related disorders coexisting with mental health disorders. Includes implications prescription drugs have for treating individuals with a dual diagnosis. Can be used for Alcohol/Drug Treatment or Prevention State Certification.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
ADS 526 - THEORY & PRACTICE OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG PREVENTION IN COMMUNITIES
3credit hour(s)
Description Examines program planning, organization and coordination necessary to develop and implement alcohol and drug prevention within communities. Can be used for Alcohol/Drug Prevention State Certification.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: ADS 521
ADS 592 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ALCOHOL AND DRUG STUDIES
1 to 3credit hour(s)
Description A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest lecturers may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/instructor interaction.
ADS 715 - WELLNESS, RECOVERY, & MAINTENANCE OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE: ADOLESCENT THROUGH GERENTOLOGIC ISSUES
3credit hour(s)
Description This course is devoted to learning the specifics of wellness, recovery, and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle throughout the lifespan from adolescence through old age. Students will learn the addiction and recovery issues specific to each age group and how to apply this knowledge to their clients
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Admission to ADS graduate program or consent of instructor
Description This course is devoted to honing individual and group counseling theory, techniques, and skills. This course examines issues related to counseling clients with substance abuse problems, and focus is placed on the student’s ability to use science-based methods for building client motivation and enhancing behavioral change.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Admission to ADS graduate program or consent of instructor.
Description This course is an investigation of core principles of clinical supervision, theoretical foundations, and techniques that are integrated into a system for supervising therapists across domains of activities and levels of experience.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Admission to ADS graduate program or consent of instructor.
Description This course provides a comprehensive understanding of policies related to drugs and alcohol in the United States, their historical antecedents, and the socio-political forces that influence their development. It also introduces students to emerging controversies concerning these policies and ethical issues related to policies. Students will utilize tools and skills necessary for conducting policy analysis and program evaluation.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Admission to ADS graduate program or consent of instructor.
ADS 755 - CASE MANAGEMENT & ASSESSMENT OF CO-OCCURING DISORDERS
3credit hour(s)
Description An exploration of common issues, assessment instruments, and strategies for mental health and substance abuse professionals utilizing an entire system of care. The course will incorporate design, implementation, and management of treatment for individuals with co-occurring disorders.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Admission to ADS graduate program or consent of instructor.
Description This course is devoted to learning the specifics of the history and culture of addiction. Students will learn the background of the addiction and recovery movements as well as how to apply this knowledge to current treatment programs and individual client prevention, treatment, and recovery. Required for ADS graduate degree.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Admission to ADS graduate program or consent of instructor.
Description This course provides a generalized theoretical overview of relapse prevention models describing applications of relapse prevention with specific target behaviors, determining client goals that include both abstinence and harm reduction, and multidimensional and dynamic determinants to assist with effective treatment.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Prerequisite: Admission to ADS graduate program or consent of instructor
Description A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
Description Applied, monitored, and supervised field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and/or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
AHED 553 - PERSONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT
3credit hour(s)
Description This course explores the personal side of change, the difference between change and transition, and basic change theory related to organizations.
Description This course provides an overview of the postsecondary education system in the U.S. It surveys the history, major features, and effects of this system.
AHED 735 - INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR ADULT EDUCATION
3credit hour(s)
Description An intensive study of advanced concepts in the field of study that relate to the research, reflective processes, and applications needed by practitioners via technology.
Description The course analyzes the scientific, programmatic and universal dimensions of comparative adult education within the contexts of ‘the local’ and the ‘the global’ by examining selected critical issues in adult education from a cross-cultural perspective and with special reference to the U.S., Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Description This course acquaints students with major theoretical traditions in the field of organizational development and change. Through writing and discussions, students will gain the reflective skills needed to make decisions based on theoretical, ethical, and professional knowledge. This course provides students with the background they will need to be effective change consultants and organizational leaders.
AHED 763 - INTRODUCTION TO STUDENT AFFAIRS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
3credit hour(s)
Description This course provides an understanding of the history and philosophy of higher education, and examines pertinent research in student services. An overview of current issues and future trends in student services are also a focus of attention. Required of all Master’s students in College Counseling.
Description This course explores the nature and increase of distance education initiatives in the U.S. and worldwide and examines their fundamental components. It presents the distance education system and its components, student characteristics and progress, teaching and advising, technology and media, course design and development, and administrative services and policy.
Description This course is a systematic study of the development, preparation, and implementation of educational outreach programs, services, and operations. This includes an analysis of the problems, the settings, and basis for policy formulations and decision-making.
Description A highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over electronic media such as internet and are at the upper division graduate levels. Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than 20 students.
Description Students complete individualized plans of study, which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and the student negotiate the details of the study plan. May be repeated.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Permission of the instructor is required.
Description Special topics course devoted to particular issues in adult & higher education. Guest lecturers may serve as the instructor. May be repeated with change of topic.
Description Supervised field-based experience in a setting appropriate to career goals. This course is limited to those Master’s students admitted to the adult and higher education program area.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Permission of the instructor is required.
Description Supervised field-based experience in a setting appropriate to career goals. This course is limited to those Doctoral students admitted to the adult and higher education program area.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Permission of the instructor is required.
Description Supervised field-based experience in a setting appropriate to career goals. This course is limited to those Specialist students admitted to the adult and higher education program area.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Permission of the instructor is required.
Description A survey of Indian tribal government and subjects related to tribal government including problems of leadership, tribal politics, intergovernmental relations, and trial enterprises.
Description An in-depth investigation of Federal, State, and Tribal laws, and the historical development of treaties, legislation, court decisions, and tribal governments.
Description An analysis of current American Indian life including inquiry into government policies, economics, and social adjustment to non-Indian society, and cultural changes as these relate to Indian citizens on and off the reservation.
Description Examines culture of the Siouan-speaking tribes of the Northern Plains using historical, anthropological, and linguistic approaches. The course focuses on the three divisions of the Sioux peoples, namely the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota. It also may include other Siouan-speaking tribal groups such as the Mandan, Omaha, and Winnebago
Description Approaches American Indian philosophy from an experiential point of view. Examines myth and legends to “construct” the outlooks or “world views” of American Indians.
Description This course examines the leadership and activism of American Indian women during the Red Power Movement of the 1970s. We will explore a definition of resistance that is culturally and historically specific to Native women. By viewing gender as a social construction that has cultural fluidity, we will analyze how Native American women understood and contested their many roles through time and across cultures.
Description A highly focused and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussion of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research.
AIS 591 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
1 to 3credit hour(s)
Description Students complete individualized plans of study, which include significant one-on-one student-instructor interaction. The faculty member and the student negotiate the details of the study plan. May be repeated.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Requires permission of the instructor.
Description Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
Description Special, intense sessions in specific topic areas. Approximately 45 hours of work is required for each hour of credit. Workshops may vary in time range but typically use a compressed time period for delivery. They may include lectures, conferences, committee work, and group activity.
AIS 791 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
1 to 3credit hour(s)
Description Students complete individualized plans of study, which include significant one-on-one student-instructor interaction. The faculty member and the student negotiate the details of the study plan. May be repeated.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Requires permission of the instructor.
Description Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
Description A comprehensive study of human developmental anatomy beginning at conception. There is an emphasis on normal and abnormal development during the embryonic stages with significant correlations between Embryology, Gross Anatomy, and Clinical Medicine.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Corequisite: ANAT 511 Gross Anatomy
Description A complete and detailed regional dissection of the human subject is performed utilizing human cadavers. Topographical and radiological correlations are utilized in combination with medical cases/clinical correlations to enhance student learning.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Permission of the instructor is required.
Description The course is a comprehensive study of human developmental anatomy beginning at conception. There is an emphasis on normal and abnormal development during the embryonic stages with significant correlations between Embryology adn Gross Anatomy.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Co-Requisites: Enrollment in Gross Anatomy (ANAT 711)
Description This course includes a study of medically related histology, organology and embryology. It focuses on identifying the normal histology as a foundation for pathology.
Prerequisites and Corequisites Permission of the instructor is required for second semester class.
Description Opportunity is given to conduct any desired research problems in the fields of gross, neural, embryological and microscopic anatomy or structural biology. By arrangement.
Description A highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over electronic media such as internet and are at the upper-division or graduate levels. Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than 20 students.
Description Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/faculty interaction.
Description Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.