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English
  

  • ENGL 3243 African American Literature


    (3 hours) HCGD
    Selected African American fiction, drama, and poetry studied in cultural and historic contexts. Writers may include Wheatley, Douglass, Harper, Dunbar, Chesnutt, Larsen, Hughes, Hansberry, Ellison, Morrison, Dove, Wilson.
  

  • ENGL 3313 19th-Century American Literature


    (3 hours)
    The development of America’s emerging national literature in prose, poetry, and fiction, before and after the Civil War. Writers may include Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Twain, James, and Wharton.
  

  • ENGL 3323 20th-Century American Literature


    (3 hours)
    The forms and directions of modern American writing from the turn of the century to c. 1960, tracing and critically considering the canon with attention to shifting cultural contexts. Figures may include Dreiser, Eliot, Wharton, Frost, Fitzgerald, O’Neill, Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, Stevens, Hellman, Ellison, O’Connor.
  

  • ENGL 3333 Contemporary American Literature


    (3 hours) HCGD
    American writing since c. 1960, exploring ‘postmodern’ in relation to ‘modern’ consciousness and craft in contemporary cultural contexts. Works drawn from a range of authors and genres, with attention to the multicultural diversities of the late 20th-century literary scene, as well as continuities with and divergences from the ‘classic’ American tradition.
  

  • ENGL 3343 African American Novel


    (3 hours) HCGD
    The origin and development of the African American novel, with attention to literary, cultural, and historic contexts. Works will be drawn from the literature of Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, urban realism, Modernism, and the Black Arts movements, as well as contemporary writers.
  

  • ENGL 3353 Contemporary British Literature


    (3 hours)
    Representative works of contemporary British literature from 1939-present. Figures may include Orwell, Greene, Graves, Lowry, Murdoch, Amis, Lessing, Fowles, Naipaul, Rushdie, Hughes, Larkin, Gunn, Walcott, Heaney, Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard, Drabble, Byatt, and others.
  

  • ENGL 3403 Bob Dylan


    (3 hours)
    Draws on the resources of the Bob Dylan archives to explore the life, music, poetry, and cultural context of this iconic figure.  Course will consider the albums as well as Dylan’s social, historical, and artistic influences, including the Beat poets, the bible, western cinema, American modernism, and Delta Blues.
  

  • ENGL 3413 King Arthur


    (3 hours)
    The Arthurian myth from its origins, through its flowering medieval romance, to its revival in the 19th, 20th, 21st centuries.  Authors treated may include Chretien de Troyes, Gottfried Von Strasburg, Marie de France, the Gawain poet, Chaucer, Malory, Tennyson, Wagner, Twain, and T. H. White.
  

  • ENGL 3423 Medieval British Literature


    (3 hours)
    Representative works, some in Middle English, from 13th through 15th centuries, with attention to Chaucer, the Gawain poet, and other writers. Texts may include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Piers Plowman, The Book of Margery Kempe, selected Canterbury Tales, and Le Morte D’Arthur.
  

  • ENGL 3433 16th-Century British Literature


    (3 hours)
    Texts from 16th-century England, with emphasis on non-dramatic poetry and particular attention to Spenser’s Faerie Queen. Figures may include More, Wyatt, Philip and Mary Sidney, Foxe, Hooker, Puttenham, Marlowe, Raleigh, Spenser, and others.
  

  • ENGL 3443 17th-Century British Literature


    (3 hours)
    Texts from 17th-century England up to the Restoration, with emphasis on poetry and drama. Figures may include Donne, Jonson, Wroth, Cary, Webster, Middleton, Beaumont, Fletcher, Herrick, Herbert, Marvell, Bacon, Burton, Philips, and others.
  

  • ENGL 3453 Restoration and 18th-Century Literature


    (3 hours)
    Representative literary works of the Restoration and 18th century. Figures may include Dryden, Behn, Congreve, Addison, Steele, Swift, Defoe, Gay, Thomson, Collins, Gray, Fielding, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Boswell, Thrale, and others.
  

  • ENGL 3463 The Romantic Period in British Literature


    (3 hours)
    Representative literary works of the Romantic movement in England in the late 18th century and early 19th century. Figures may include Burney, Wollstonecraft, Baillie, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Inchbald, Opie, Smith, Austen, Byron, Barbauld, Edgeworth, Percy and Mary Shelley, Keats, Clare, Bowles, and others.
  

  • ENGL 3473 The Victorian Period in British Literature


    (3 hours) HCGD
    British literature from 1830-1900. Figures may include Tennyson, the Brontës, Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Browning, George Eliot, Dickens, Hardy, Hopkins, Gissing, Arnold, Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, and Kipling. Same as WS 3473 .
  

  • ENGL 3483 Early 20th-Century British and Irish Literature


    (3 hours)
    Developments and experimentation in fiction, poetry, and drama in England and Ireland from 1900-1945. Figures may include Conrad, Joyce, Richardson, Woolf, Lawrence, Mansfield, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Sitwell, Eliot, Owens, West, Graves, Rhys, and Forster, with attention to relations between aesthetic and social contexts.
  

  • ENGL 3503 Modern Comparative Fiction


    (3 hours)
    A broad, international survey of the revolution that transformed literature and the arts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Avant-garde experiments challenged the conventions of realism, generating new and often scandalous forms that continue to shape contemporary art and writing. Readings include poetry, fiction, and drama. Works will be engaged alongside painting, film, and music from the era.
  

  • ENGL 3513 Modern Women Writers


    (3 hours)
    Focuses on modern women writers in relation to both the canons and avant gardes of the 20th and 21st centuries; selected 19th century antecedent writers may also be included. Looks analytically and historically at fiction, poetry, and drama by women writers of varying ethnic, class, racial, and sexual backgrounds. Contemporary critical discussion of women and gender. Same as WS 3513 .
  

  • ENGL 3523 Gender in Modernism and Postmodernism


    (3 hours)
    Developments and experimentation with the gendering of fiction and poetry by men and women writers in the 20th and 21st centuries. Explores the unstable borders between definitions of modernism and postmodernism (as names of historical periods, philosophies, and aesthetic methods) and between genders, including the problematic of “differences” (e.g. race, class, sexuality). Same as WS 3523 .
  

  • ENGL 3653 History and Literature


    (3 hours) HCGD
    The relationship between literary texts and their historical contexts, organized around a specific historical period, geographical area, or theme.  Same as HIST 3653 .
  

  • ENGL 3703 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3713 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3723 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3733 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3743 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3753 Black American Women Writers


    (3 hours)
    Representative works of poetry, fiction and drama by African American women, studied in cultural and historical context. Writers may include Wheatley, Jacobs, Hopkins, Larsen, Hurston, Marshall, Shange, Morrison, Lorde and Dandicat. Same as WS 3753 .
  

  • ENGL 3763 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3783 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3793 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3803 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3813 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3823 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3833 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3843 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3863 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3873 Digital Humanities and Literary Studies


    (3 hours)
    Theory and techniques of electronic literary studies, including markup, computational analysis, and visualization. The activities center on readings in literature, which are examined with technologies such as graphing, mapping, network analysis, and multimedia development. Significant attention is also given to theories of the archive, textuality, and bibliography, as well as historical and methodological overview of humanities computing. Students also gain familiarity with open source content management platforms. No technology experience is necessary. 
  

  • ENGL 3893 Special Topics in Literature and Language I


    (3 hours)
    The study of special bodies of literature in English (ethnic, cultural); the relation of literature to other disciplines (philosophy, music); and English language areas (rhetoric, semantics) and of the relation of language to other disciplines (politics, anthropology).
  

  • ENGL 3981 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Tutorial


    (1 hour)
    The TURC Tutorial is a four-course sequence of student-designed independent study for English majors enrolled in the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 3983 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Tutorial


    (1-3 hours)
    The TURC Tutorial is a four-course sequence of student-designed independent study for English majors enrolled in the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4003 Scholarly Writing


    (3 hours)
    Advanced expository writing for students considering graduate school and writing for professional scholarly publications. Emphasis on using theory in scholarly discussion; doing, analyzing, and incorporating scholarly research; organizing long papers; and writing at a professional level. Prerequisite: English core courses or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4013 London in the Age of Queen Anne: Church, Crown, Conflict, and Culture


    (3 hours)
    A study of the literature and culture of London from approximately 1702 to 1714, an era of intense turbulence but also artistic creativity, in what was at the time Europe’s largest and most vibrant metropolis.
  

  • ENGL 4113 History of Literary Criticism and Theory


    (3 hours)
    A selective survey of major trends and issues in the criticism of literature from Plato to the present. Emphasis on particular schools of criticism and on particular theoretical issues and problems. Prerequisite: Six hours of English core or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4123 Modern Literary Theory


    (3 hours)
    Topics in modern and contemporary criticism and theory. Prerequisite: Six hours of English core or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4163 Film Genres


    (3 hours)
    Intensive study of a particular genre of film, including, for example, the musical, the Western, the film noir, the comedy, the gangster film, or the social problem film. Students study major examples of the genre and read the appropriate theoretical and critical books and essays. Course may be taken more than once in different film genres. Same as FLM 4163 .
  

  • ENGL 4243 Advanced Fiction Writing


    (3 hours)
    Builds upon other fiction writing courses and focuses primarily on revision. Students work on refining first drafts of prose fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 2403  or ENGL 3213  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • ENGL 4263 Advanced Poetry Writing


    (3 hours)
    Further practice in writing, reading, and discussing poetry. Possible goals include: attempting longer, complete forms (series, epic, chapbook, book, etc.), entering networks/communities of contemporary poets, and submitting work for publication. Prerequisite: ENGL 3223  or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4393 The American Novel


    (3 hours)
    A study of major figures and innovations in American fiction, principally in 19th and 20th centuries, with attention to novel theory and to the Americanness of the American novel. Writers may include Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Twain, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Morrison. Prerequisite: ENGL 2313  or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4483 The British Novel I: Defoe to the Brontës


    (3 hours)
    Development of the British novel during the 18th century and the first half of the 19th, with attention to experiments in form and varieties of content, especially in works by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Scott, and Charlotte and Emily Bronte. Prerequisite: ENGL 2513  or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4493 The British Novel II: Dickens to Woolf


    (3 hours)
    Examines the social, political and aesthetic dynmaics of diverse novels of the Victorian and Modernist periods. Authors may include Dickens, George Eliot, Grand, Wilde, Lawrence and Woolf. Prerequisite: ENGL 2523  or permission of instructor. Same as WS 4493 . 
  

  • ENGL 4513 Chaucer


    (3 hours)
    The poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, with attention to historical context. Prerequisite: ENGL 2513  or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4543 Shakespeare


    (3 hours)
    The plays and poems of William Shakespeare, with attention to his professional career and historical context. Prerequisite: ENGL 2513  or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4563 Milton


    (3 hours)
    Major poems and selected prose of John Milton, with attention to historical context. Prerequisite: ENGL 2513  or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4593 Internship


    (3 hours)
    Knowledge and skills in language and literature applied and developed in approved organization on or off campus (journal, humanities council, etc); arranged through prior written agreement among student, faculty, supervisor, and sponsoring organization. Provides credit toward the degree, not the major. Interested students should consult the director of undergraduate studies. Prerequisites: English major, junior standing, and at least a 2.75 GPA in major.
  

  • ENGL 4703 Major Figures


    (3 hours) HCGD
    Major literary figures drawn from all periods, medieval to modern, and from all literature written in English. Prerequisite: Relevant English core course(s) or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4713 Major Figures


    (3 hours)
    Major literary figures drawn from all periods, medieval to modern, and from all literature written in English. Prerequisite: Relevant English core course(s) or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4723 Major Figures: Joyce and Yeats


    (3 hours)
    Major literary figures drawn from all periods, medieval to modern, and from all literature written in English. Prerequisite: Relevant English core course(s) or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4743 Special Topics - Poetry Advanced


    (3 hours)
    Special Topics in Poetry: Advanced writing.
  

  • ENGL 4783 Major Figures - James Joyce


    (3 hours)
    Major literary figures drawn from all periods, medieval to modern, and from all literature written in English.
  

  • ENGL 4803 Special Topics in Literature and Language II


    (3 hours)
    Advanced study of special subjects - literary, social, or linguistic - including group literatures (e.g., gay and lesbian, postcolonial), schools of criticism (e.g., semiotics, poststructuralism), movements (e.g., modernism, postmodernism), literary modes (e.g., pastoral), entertainment law, great directors, and periods and genres not covered in listed courses. Emphasis on research. Prerequisite: Relevant English core course(s) or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4813 Special Topics in Literature and Language II


    (3 hours)
    Advanced study of special subjects - literary, social, or linguistic - including group literatures (e.g., gay and lesbian, postcolonial), schools of criticism (e.g., semiotics, poststructuralism), movements (e.g., modernism, postmodernism), literary modes (e.g., pastoral), entertainment law, great directors, and periods and genres not covered in listed courses. Emphasis on research. Prerequisite: Relevant English core course(s) or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4823 Special Topics in Literature and Language II


    (3 hours)
    Advanced study of special subjects - literary, social, or linguistic - including group literatures (e.g., gay and lesbian, postcolonial), schools of criticism (e.g., semiotics, poststructuralism), movements (e.g., modernism, postmodernism), literary modes (e.g., pastoral), entertainment law, great directors, and periods and genres not covered in listed courses. Emphasis on research. Prerequisite: Relevant English core course(s) or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4863 Special Topics in Literature and Language II


    (3 hours)
    Advanced study of special subjects - literary, social, or linguistic - including group literatures (e.g., gay and lesbian, postcolonial), schools of criticism (e.g., semiotics, poststructuralism), movements (e.g., modernism, postmodernism), literary modes (e.g., pastoral), entertainment law, great directors, and periods and genres not covered in listed courses. Emphasis on research. Prerequisite: Relevant English core course(s) or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4873 Special Topics in Literature and Language II


    (3 hours)
    Advanced study of special subjects - literary, social, or linguistic - including group literatures (e.g., gay and lesbian, postcolonial), schools of criticism (e.g., semiotics, poststructuralism), movements (e.g., modernism, postmodernism), literary modes (e.g., pastoral), entertainment law, great directors, and periods and genres not covered in listed courses. Emphasis on research. Prerequisite: Relevant English core course(s) or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4893 Special Topics in Literature and Language II


    (3 hours)
    Advanced study of special subjects - literary, social, or linguistic - including group literatures (e.g., gay and lesbian, postcolonial), schools of criticism (e.g., semiotics, poststructuralism), movements (e.g., modernism, postmodernism), literary modes (e.g., pastoral), entertainment law, great directors, and periods and genres not covered in listed courses. Emphasis on research. Prerequisite: Relevant English core course(s) or permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4973 Senior Project


    (3 hours)
    Seminar designed to enable students to complete the English major in stimulating colloquy with each other, under the direction of a faculty member, in the fall of the senior year. Topics include issues of broad, current, sometimes interdisciplinary interest in the profession of literary studies.
  

  • ENGL 4981 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Tutorial


    (1-3 hours)
    The TURC Tutorial is a four-course sequence of student-designed independent study for English majors enrolled in the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4983 Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge Tutorial


    (1-3 hours)
    The TURC Tutorial is a four-course sequence of student-designed independent study for English majors enrolled in the Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4993 Independent Study


    (3 hours)
    Development by an advanced student of a special project founded on earlier coursework and considered by the instructor and the English advisor to bear a useful relation to the student’s overall program. May be taken once for credit. Prerequisite: Relevant English course and permission of instructor.
  

  • ENGL 5353 Teaching Second Language Writing


    (3 hours)
    Survey of first and second-language writing theories and research methods, as well as common pedagogical approaches to working with linguistically and culturally diverse writers. Students will read, evaluate, design, and adapt instructional materials for second-language writers. A service-learning assignment will provide students with the opportunity to serve as second-language-writing tutors on campus and in the community.

Finance
  

  • FIN 2063 Personal Financial Planning and Investing


    (3 hours)
    The financial system; the financial planning process; understanding financial statements; setting financial goals, strategies, and budgets; time value of money; tax management; managing credit; investment planning; stocks; bonds; mutual funds; retirement planning; and estate planning. May not be taken as a finance elective.
  

  • FIN 3003 Business Finance


    (3 hours)
    The financial management of business concerns, with primary emphasis on maintaining solvency and maximizing market value. Topics include estimation of future cash flows through the structure of current assets, evaluating profitability of funds commitments, the term structure of debt financing, and the preferred mix of debt and equity. Prerequisites: Junior standing; ENGL 1033 , ACCT 2113  and ACCT 2123 , ECON 2013  and ECON 2023 , MATH 1143  and MATH 1243 , BL 2013 , QM 2013  and QM 2023  with grades of C or higher; and FYE 1001 , BUS 2001 , and CIS 1001  with grades of P.
  

  • FIN 3023 Financial Institutions and Markets


    (3 hours)
    Interaction among financial institutions, financial markets, and the global economy. Emphasis on types of financial institutions, basic risk management, technological and regulatory changes taking place among financial institutions, and securities used to raise funds. Prerequisite: FIN 3003  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 3053 Principles of Real Estate


    (3 hours)
    This course explores the economies of real estate, real estate value, real estate finance, rights in real property and their transfer, public programs, and policies relating to real property. Topics to be covered include, real estate markets, legal and regulatory determinants of value, market valuation and appraisal, financing home ownership, and brokering and closing the real estate transaction.  Prerequisite: FIN 3003 with grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 3083 Investment Analysis


    (3 hours)
    Fundamental principles of investment decision-making under uncertainty; risk and return considerations of portfolios; equilibrium economic pricing models for financial assets. Portfolio allocation models are developed to explain the behavior of investors. Computer databases and software packages are used to evaluate these strategies in a realistic decision-making setting. Prerequisite: FIN 3003  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 4003 Working Capital Management


    (3 hours)
    Short-term financial management of a firm; especially financial analysis of past, present, and future operations, cash flow analysis, and current account management. Exchange rates, currency risk, hedging, and other global topics are integrated throughout the course. Decision-making using benefit/cost analysis is stressed. Prerequisite: FIN 3003  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 4013 Intermediate Corporate Finance


    (3 hours)
    Financial management of business with emphasis on maximizing a firm’s market value. Topics include goals of the firm, time value of money, valuation, cost of capital, capital structure, cash flows, risk and return, and cash budgeting. Prerequisite: FIN 3003  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 4033 Futures and Options


    (3 hours)
    Analysis of pricing and valuation of derivative securities such as futures, forwards, and option contracts. Focus of the course will be on the use of these securities for the purpose of hedging, insurance, and arbitrage. The course presents a framework for understanding the design of these securities and the use in risk management strategies. Prerequisite: FIN 3083  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 4043 Commercial Banking


    (3 hours)
    Continuation of FIN 3023  with greater emphasis on asset/liability management for financial institutions. Topics include asset-backed securitization, interest rate futures, options and swaps, and risk management. Prerequisite: FIN 3023  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 4063 International Business Finance


    (3 hours)
    Financial analysis and decision-making in a global context. Emphasis on foreign currency risk, comparative practices, political risk, global financial markets, and methods to measure and manage company exposure to international risks. Prerequisite: FIN 3003  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 4083 Portfolio Management


    (3 hours)
    Developing and implementing a portfolio to meet the objectives of an investment policy statement. Emphasis on constructing an investment policy statement, creating a policy portfolio, evaluating performance, and monitoring a portfolio and portfolio strategies for fixed income and equity asset allocations. Computer databases and software packages are used extensively to evaluate these strategies in a realistic decision-making setting. Prerequisite: FIN 3083  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 4113 Student Investment Fund I


    (3 hours)
    Actual management of a financial asset portfolio. Students determine the investment style, allocate assets, select securities, and place the trades. Students are responsible for maintaining and updating all policies, procedures, accounting records, and a web site. Prerequisites: FIN 3083 , an application form, and permission of instructor.
  

  • FIN 4123 Student Investment Fund II


    (3 hours)
    A continuation of FIN 4113 . Prerequisite: FIN 4113 , an application form, and permission of instructor.
  

  • FIN 4153 Analysis of Financial Statements


    (3 hours)
    The analysis and interpretation of financial reports, utilizing actual statements, problems, and cases. Emphasis is on the analysis (as opposed to the construction) of financial statements. Prerequisite: FIN 3003  with a grade of C or higher.
  

  • FIN 4973 Seminar in Finance


    (3 hours)
    Selected topics in finance. Prerequisites: FIN 3003  with a grade of C or higher and permission of instructor.
  

  • FIN 4991-3 Independent Study


    (1-3 hours)
    Offered to advanced undergraduate students for individual study in a specialized field of interest. Students individually plan their programs of study and prepare a formal report of their work. Prerequisites: FIN 3003  with a grade of C or higher; permission of instructor, School director, and associate dean.

Film Studies
  

  • FLM 1123 Philosophy and Film


    (3 hours) Block One
    Film is the democratic art form par excellence. From this point of view, we study revenge, honor, rivalry, jealousy, betrayal, love, sacrifice, heroism, conformism, fear, and social cowardice, as these are reflected in classic films such as High Noon and The Godfather. Same as PHIL 1123 .
  

  • FLM 2013 Introduction to Filmmaking


    (3 hours)
    The goal of the course is to provide a foundation in two key “languages” of film: 1) the language of the script and screenwriting, and 2) the language of filmmaking, from preproduction through postproduction. Both areas will be explored through practical work built on a foundation of theory and key definitions.  Film majors/minors only.
  

  • FLM 2043 American Culture on Film


    (3 hours) Block One
    Popular film and fiction communicate perspectives essential to the functioning of contemporary culture. Students gain the analytical vocabulary with which to recognize and describe contemporary issues presented by entertainment media. Non-American films and texts give a sense of which issues are peculiar to American culture and which are shared internationally.  Same as CPLT 2043 .
  

  • FLM 2063 Introduction to Digital Art


    (3 hours) Block One
    Introduction and investigation into the role of media in the world of art production.  Emphasis on computer-based skills of both still and moving images to produce new ways of thinking and conceptualization.  Same as ART 2063 .
  

  • FLM 2133 Music and Film


    (3 hours) Block One
    Explores the nature of musical expression in general, and music’s particular contribution to the development of motion pictures. A chronological survey of the musical techniques and styles used in film, and the strategies for analyzing and evaluating film music. No previous musical experience necessary. Same as MUS 2133 .
  

  • FLM 2163 Women and Democracy in Film


    (3 hours) Block One
    Examines how democracy affects questions of authority and freedom that arise between women and men, as interpreted through film and the classics of political thought. Same as WS 2153 /POL 2153 .
  

  • FLM 2213 The Music of the Harry Potter Films


    (3 hours) Block One
    Investigates the role of musical scoring for film, focusing on how the music underscore of the Harry Potter films, composed primarily by John Williams, Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexandre Desplat, supports story, character, and picture. Course will begin with a close look at how a film composer works and thinks in a musical language, the elements of music, and the technical and aesthetic functions of film music. Course will continue with a look at the thematic and dramatic design of the music from each of the films. Same as MUS 2213 .
  

  • FLM 2243 Music and Italian Cinema


    (3 hours) Block One
    Explores significant Italian films and their musical scoring. Films reflect various approaches to Italian filmmaking, film genre, culture, history, geography, and political and social issues, and are representative of the work of several important Italian film directors and composers. Same as MUS 2243 .
  

  • FLM 2253 African Film


    (3 hours) Block One
    Examines how African filmmakers have chosen to represent Africans, their civilizations, nations, histories and contemporary realities through films while challenging Euro-American stereotypical representations of the African continents.
  

  • FLM 2263 Music of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Films


    (3 hours) Block One
    Course investigates the musical scores for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit fantasy films, composed by Howard Shore in collaboration with other artists.  Course explores the structure, dramatic function, and meaning of the music and how it supports story, character, and visuals.  Comparisons will be made to other music settings of Middle-earth and for other fantasy films.  Same as MUS 2263   .
  

  • FLM 2273 Film History


    (3 hours) Block One
    Development of cinema from its origins in the late 1890s to the present. Emphasis is on technological innovations; film styles and genres; national and international influences; the star and studio systems; roles of writers, producers, directors; and the conjunction of aesthetic and commercial interests in the evolution of film. Same as ENGL 2273 .
  

  • FLM 2313 Gangster Films


    (3 hours) Block One
    Explores the meaning of genre, including what the gangster topos makes available to filmmakers. Promotes awareness of the range of issues addressed by this genre. Because film presents its argument by means classified as aesthetic, analysis of gangster films enhances understanding of ways in which sense-perceptible messages influence thought, decision, and action. Same as CPLT 2313 .
  

  • FLM 2403 Introduction to Creative Writing


    (3 hours)
    Offers instruction and practice in four main genres of imaginative writing: poetry, fiction, performance, and creative non-fiction. Geared for beginners in creative writing who may possess some limited knowledge and practice in theses genres but who want to learn more and bring more formal discipline to their writing. Same as ENGL 2403 /CPLT 2403 .
  

  • FLM 2453 Music and Society in the Americas through Film


    (3 hours) Block Two HCGD
    Introduction to the cultural history of modern music in the Americas. Explores the context of several American music genres including Blues, Jazz, Tango, Broadway, Caribbean styles, Country Tejano/Conjunto, Rock and Roll, Reggae and Hip Hop. Emphasis on understanding cross-cultural influences, interpreting musical commentary on gender, community, commercial and political trends in the larger historical development of music in the Americas. Same as HIST 2453 .
  

  • FLM 2993 Independent Study


    (3 hours)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  

  • FLM 3023 Documentary Expression in Film and Video


    (3 hours)
    Hands-on experience and editing skills for documentary video production. Students will analyze documentary structure and become more critical documentary viewers; learn the traditions of documentary by screening famous documentary films; and learn to select subjects, edit material to achieve the strongest effects, and devise sound and music as crucial elements of documentary filmmaking. Same as MSTU 3023 .
 

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