May 18, 2024  
2015-2016 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2015-2016 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Course Descriptions


 

Accounting

  
  • ACCT 6023 Tax Planning for Personal Investing

    (3 hours)
    Provide students with a basic understanding of federal taxation issues related to investments, compensation, retirement, Gift taxes, Estate taxes, and wealth planning. Prerequisite: One course in Federal Taxation or completion of an online tax module contained in course.
  
  • ACCT 6083 Professional Accounting Issues

    (3 hours)
    Study of issues and forces influencing the development of both private and public elements of the accounting profession. Topics covered include certification, specialization, ethics, legal liability, rulemaking processes, and extensions of the attest function. Prerequisite: ACCT 3123 with a grade of C or better, or equivalent.
  
  • ACCT 6143 Accounting Information Systems

    (3 hours)
    Systems analysis methodology applied to the creation and use of accounting information and concepts of internal control as they relate to the design, use, and audit of accounting information systems. Prerequisite: ACCT 3113 with a grade of C or higher.
  
  • ACCT 6163 Financial Reporting in the Energy Industry

    (3 hours)
    Financial analysis concepts from financial, managerial, cost, and tax accounting as applied to the energy industry. Includes an understanding of contracts, with related accounting treatment, common to the energy industry. Prerequisites: ACCT 2113 and 2123 or equivalents.
  
  • ACCT 6213 Financial Accounting Research Applications

    (3 hours)
    Impact of technical considerations of business events on financial statements. Includes accounting theories that may conflict with one another and thereby lead to different conclusions in different circumstances. Inductive deductive method of inquiry and empirical studies cast in a pragmatic framework. Prerequisite: ACCT 3113 with a grade of C or better, or equivalent.
  
  • ACCT 6223 Internal Reporting Issues

    (3 hours)
    Conceptual and practical aspects of designing and using management information systems for planning, control, and decision making in manufacturing, merchandising, service and not-for-profit organizations. Offered spring semester. Prerequisite: ACCT 3113 with a grade of C or better, or equivalent.
  
  • ACCT 6233 Topics in Federal Income Taxation

    (3 hours)
    Principles and concepts of federal income taxation as applied to various taxable entities. Emphasis on tax planning and research skills to provide solutions for business and individual tax situations in a constantly changing business environment. Prerequisite: ACCT 2123 with a grade of C, or equivalent.
  
  • ACCT 6243 Auditing Assurance for Accounting Systems

    (3 hours)
    Designing and auditing traditional automated systems and information-age systems. Focuses on impact of information technology on flow of information, business and accounting controls, auditing accounting systems, and financial and internal auditing issues. Prerequisite: ACCT 2123 with a grade of C or better, or equivalent.
  
  • ACCT 6253 CPA Review Preparation

    (3 hours)
    Prepares the student to sit for the Uniform CPA exam by systematically reviewing topics covered in the exam. The primary goal of the course is to take the rules and concepts studied in the accounting curriculum and incorporate them into a comprehensive understanding of the accounting framework. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor
  
  • ACCT 6313 Intermediate Financial Accounting I

    (3 hours)
    In-depth study of the theory, principles, and procedures of the measurement, recording, and reporting of financial accounting information according to current accounting principles. Prerequisite: ACCT 2123 with a grade of C or higher.  Class is cross-listed for master’s degree program in museum science and management program.
  
  • ACCT 6493 Tax Planning for Personal Investing

    (3 hours)
    Provides a basic understanding of federal taxation issues related to investments, compensation, retirement, gift taxes, estate taxes, and wealth planning.  Prerequisite: One course in federal taxation or completion of an online tax module contained in the course.
  
  • ACCT 7043 Fraud Detection and Prevention

    (3 hours)
    Provides an overview of the nature of fraud, fraud detection, and fraud prevention as applied to financial statements and against organizations. Includes the legal aspects of fraud. Prerequisite: Introductory accounting course (ACCT 2123, or MBA 7003 , or equivalent).
  
  • ACCT 7063 Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders I

    (3 hours)
    Study of concepts and principles of federal income taxation of corporations and their shareholders. Students are expected to apply their knowledge to solve advanced tax problems.
  
  • ACCT 7073 Management Control Systems

    (3 hours)
    Study of design and use of management control systems. Topics include: The Balanced Scorecard, activity-based costing, strategic management accounting, and cost accounting in the new economy. Key features are case studies and research projects. Prerequisite: ACCT 4223, MBA 7003 , or permission of instructor.
  
  • ACCT 7110-7140 MAcc Experience

    (0 hours)
    The purpose of MAcc Experiences is to provide broad exposure to the business world and members of the Tulsa area accounting community. Since the MAcc degree is a professional degree, students must be informed and adequately prepared to obtain employment for a career in accounting.
  
  • ACCT 7113 Information Security: Auditing and Assurance Services

    (3 hours)
    A critical analysis of the data and information flows in a variety of information systems architectures with attention to security and integrity in the audit and assurance process.
  
  • ACCT 7233 Tax Research, Practice and Planning

    (3 hours)
    Development of tax research skills and their application to tax practice and planning. Factual cases are analyzed to isolate critical facts and tax questions, and develop knowledge of the use of computerized tax databases, tax services and periodicals. Issues relevant to tax practice before the Internal Revenue Service are explored. Prerequisite: ACCT 4233 or equivalent.
  
  • ACCT 7243 Upstream Oil and Gas Accounting

    (3 hours)
    This course covers financial reporting under both U.S. and international standards for companies with significant upstream activities.  Topics typically include successful efforts, full cost, joint operations, impairments, asset retirement obligations, production activities, revenue, conveyances, unitizations, international agreements, disclosures, analysis, and current issues. Prerequisites: MBA 7003   or equivalent.
  
  • ACCT 7333 Advanced Financial Reporting & Analysis

    (3 hours)
    Emphasis on effective business analysis and decision making using financial information. The course includes accounting analysis for financing, investing and operating activities, financial analysis for equity and credit decisions, and advanced financial reporting techniques useful for analysis.
  
  • ACCT 7613 Internship in Accounting

    (3 hours)
    Applies accounting knowledge combined with an academic experience in a business entity setting. This course is graded P for Pass (Equivalent to an A or B) or F for Fail. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor.
  
  • ACCT 7973 Seminar in Accounting Issues

    (3 hours)
    A critical analysis of selected topics in accounting. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  
  • ACCT 7991-3 Independent Study in Accounting

    (1-3 hours)
    Individual study in a specialized area of interest. Prerequisites: Permission of graduate advisor and supervisory professor.

Anthropology

  
  • ANTH 6033 Archaeology of the Americas

    (3 hours)
    Analysis of sequences and processes of cultural development in the Americas. Early hunting cultures, plant domestication, the elaboration of society, and (where applicable) the rise and collapse of complex polities are evaluated and compared for North, Middle, and South America.
  
  • ANTH 6043 Old World Prehistory

    (3 hours)
    Examines the prehistoric cultures of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Sequences of cultural development are defined by considering technological, economic, and social change over the long prehistoric record.
  
  • ANTH 6053 Archaeological Analysis

    (3 hours)
    Focuses on the principal types of questions in which archaeologists are interested and the analytical techniques necessary to answer them. The course combines traditional and contemporary issues with a substantial laboratory component.
  
  • ANTH 6403 Qualitative Methods in Anthropological Research

    (3 hours)
    An introduction to qualitative methods of research and analysis such as in-depth interviewing, participant observation, focus groups and discourse analysis. Students design and implement a qualitative research project.
  
  • ANTH 6503 Topics in Prehistory

    (3 hours)
    Explores particular theoretical and methodological problem areas in archaeology. Topics may include the origins of food production, approaches to prehistoric demography, the rise of civilizations, prehistoric cultural ecology, multi-disciplinary research techniques, and others depending on the interests of the faculty. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Prerequisite: ANTH 2053.
  
  • ANTH 6603 Topics in Cultural Anthropology

    (3 hours)
    Explores a traditional area of inquiry in anthropology. Topics include, but are not limited to, culture materialism, economic anthropology, culture and personality, political anthropology, culture change, acculturation, and symbolic anthropology. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Prerequisite: ANTH 2043.
  
  • ANTH 6713 Regional Studies in Prehistory

    (3 hours)
    Human cultural development analyzed in selected areas of the world, including the peopling of an area, early and developed hunting cultures, domestication of plants and animals, development of village life, elaboration of society, technological development, and the origin of states. Topics alternate among geographical areas such as North America, South America, Europe, the Near East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and others, depending on research interests of faculty. May be repeated for credit when areas vary. Prerequisite: ANTH 2053.
  
  • ANTH 7053 Cultural Property: Ethics, and Law

    (3 hours)
    Provides students pursuing careers in museum work and anthropology a broad background in legal and ethical issues involving the study, use, and management of cultural property. Addresses issues concerning both tangible property (art objects, archaeological material, human remains, sacred artifacts, and other items of cultural patrimony) and intellectual property (music, song, design, and other cultural knowledge).
  
  • ANTH 7073 Cultural Resources Management

    (3 hours)
    Examines the history of the field of cultural resource management, including major federal and state laws that govern the preservation of cultural resources. Attention will be given to archaeological, historical, and architectural applications.
  
  • ANTH 7103 Seminar in Archaeological Theory: Archaeology as Anthropology

    (3 hours)
    Examines the development of archaeological theory in relation to the larger body of general anthropological theory. Emphasizes current theoretical orientations within the discipline, including: systems theory, classification schema, ethno-archaeology, processual archaeology, and cultural ecology.
  
  • ANTH 7113 Design and Administration of Archaeological Research

    (3 hours)
    Introduces the procedures of conducting archaeological research. Discussions focus on the development of research designs, methods of obtaining research funding, and the administration of a research project.
  
  • ANTH 7123 History of Anthropological Theory

    (3 hours)
    Anthropological thought from the 19th century through the present is surveyed, concentrating on the major evolutionary, historical, psychological, functional, and structural orientations of European and American anthropologists. Prerequisite: 15 hours of anthropology or permission of instructor.
  
  • ANTH 7163 Practicing Anthropology: Principles of Applied Anthropology

    (3 hours)
    Introduces concepts, ethical issues, theory, technical skills, and research methods used by applied/practicing anthropologists, as well the domains in which anthropological practitioners work; includes practicum experience with nonprofit groups or other local organizations.
  
  • ANTH 7173 Evolution of Complex Societies

    (3 hours)
    Complex societies evolved in only a few areas of the world, and archaeologists long have been interested in their formation processes. The class takes a historical approach, examining literature on the rise, development, and ruin of complex societies from many different theoretical perspectives. Examples from the Old and New Worlds are used to illustrate one of humanity’s major developments.
  
  • ANTH 7203 Ceramic Analysis

    (3 hours)
    Presents several approaches to the study of ceramics: identification of clays and tempering materials; determination of vessel size, shape, and form from fragmentary remains; and design element analysis strategies. Provides tools for both the functional and chronological aspects of ceramic analysis.
  
  • ANTH 7213 Analysis of Lithic Artifacts

    (3 hours)
    Examines various procedures employed in the analysis of chipped stone artifacts. Specific topics include morphological typologies, lithic technologies, functional attributes, and raw material characteristics.
  
  • ANTH 7233 Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology

    (3 hours)
    Instruction in the use of computer and statistical analyses for the solution of anthropological problems. Emphasis on the fundamentals of computer usage and the application of relevant statistics to anthropological data.
  
  • ANTH 7243 Paleoenvioronmental Reconstruction

    (3 hours)
    Discussion and critique of methods used to reconstruct climate and environment throughout the Quaternary, and analysis of the interaction between climate change and key events in human and faunal evolution. Lab will include hands on analyses of original materials from archaeological sites.
  
  • ANTH 7293 Human Behavioral Ecology

    (3 hours)
    An examination of theories and methods of the evolution of human behavior in response to ecological and social variation. Prerequisites: ANTH 2033 or ANTH 2053 or by permission of Instructor.
  
  • ANTH 7961 Residency

    (1 hour)
    See Graduate Residency (7961)
  
  • ANTH 7981-6 Thesis

    (1-6 hours)
  
  • ANTH 7991-3 Independent Research

    (1-3 hours)
  
  • ANTH 9981-9 Research & Dissertation

    (1-9 hours)

Art

  
  • ART 6003 Life Drawing

    (3 hours)
    Application of drawing principles and media to traditional and non-traditional life figure problems. Prerequisites: ART 2023 or permission of instructor
  
  • ART 6013 Sculpture Studio

    (3 hours)
    Focus on contemporary issues and a deeper engagement with materials. Development and execution of clear sculptural responses to material-based and topic-based assignments. Prerequisite: ART 2103
  
  • ART 6043 Digital Video & Animation

    (3 hours)
    Use the computer as a creative tool and incorporate digital media in their process and delivery format. Projects may include digital photography, mixed media, digital video, animation, and sound editing. Intended for students who would like to improve their sense of observation, timing, and motion through video/animation techniques. Prerequisite: ART/FLM 4233, or approval of instructor.
  
  • ART 6053 Drawing: Advanced Studio

    (3 hours)
    The language of drawing. In-class projects investigate a wide range of media and attitudes toward drawing. Prerequisites: ART 2023, or permission of instructor.
  
  • ART 6063 Printmaking Studio

    (3 hours)
    Intermediate level work in intaglio, lithography, monotype, serigraphy or relief. Emphasis on printmaking as an extension of drawing.
  
  • ART 6233 Interactive Media

    (3 hours)
    Study of the principles and fundamental techniques for creating multimedia projects that explore their potential for critical artistic expression. Examines issues specific to onscreen interaction and time-based media. Tools such as Flash, Dreamweaver, and other supporting programs will be covered. Students investigate alternative art discourses using interactive digital technologies. Prerequisites: ART/FLM 3443, ART/FLM 3463, or approval of instructor.
  
  • ART 6243 Digital Video and Animation

    (3 hours)
    Introduction to graphic design as a medium of communication. Provides appreciation of the visual tools and principles that lead to exploration and personal methodology. Techniques of pre-print production, with the use of typography, photography, and illustration. Students are taught the effectiveness of visual communication and its practices in the professional world today. Prerequisites: ART 3443.
  
  • ART 6253 Graphic Communication II

    (3 hours)
    Corporate design is the process of creating and disseminating the image or identity for a collective entity. This course involves designing a corporate symbol that is then implemented in stationery, marketing, packaging, architecture, brochures, billboards, and miscellaneous projects. A designer must create the personality/voice for a company that manufactures a product or provides a service. Prerequisite: ART 3243.
  
  • ART 6273 Typography and Graphic Production

    (3 hours)
    All aspects of typography are covered through lectures, demonstrations, and studio work. Creative thinking is encouraged with emphasis on the technical problem solving and aesthetic use of display and text type. This class prepares the student for significant design challenges in virtually all areas of communication design. Principles combined with a general history, both aesthetic and technical, will run concurrent with detailed critiques. Prerequisite: ART 3243 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ART 6293 Package Design

    (3 hours)
    Explores graphic design for three-dimensional formats such as packaging, point-of-purchase display, exhibition graphics and container design. Marker and finished comprehensives are executed for advertising and specialty graphics. Clarifies the process of developing graphic and visual articulation in package design. Prerequisites: ART 3243.
  
  • ART 6412-6 Sculpture Studio (varied emphasis)

    (2-6 hours)
    Provides an advanced studio experience in three-dimensional work investigating materials, media, installations, site specificity, scale, formats, or series. Emphasis is indicated in the respective fall/spring schedule of courses. Prerequisites: ART 2013, 3013.
  
  • ART 6432-6 Painting Studio

    (2-6 hours)
    An advanced course that encourages experimental approaches to painting through study of historical and contemporary painting. Exploration of color, surface and composition. Prerequisite: ART 1103, 1183 and 2113.
  
  • ART 6443 Adobe Illustrator

    (3 hours)
    Techniques and visual vocabulary of digital vector illustration and typography using the graphic application Adobe Illustrator. Lessons begin with generating basic linear shapes, patterns, gradations, and blends. We then move on to combinations of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Some real world illustration problems will be assigned. Prerequisite: ART 3443 or permission of the instructor. 
  
  • ART 6452-6 Photography Studio

    (2-6 hours)
    Advanced creative problems emphasizing individual investigation of various photographic techniques and materials. Readings required. Prerequisite: ART 1103, 1113, 2023, 2153, or per-mission of instructor.
  
  • ART 6462-6 Printmaking Studio

    (2-6 hours)
    Printmaking utilizing advanced techniques and concepts (photo-methods, color printing, series and edition work) in the areas of relief, intaglio, lithography, or monotype on individual problems.
  
  • ART 6482-6 Ceramic Studio

    (2-6 hours)
    Advanced problems in the use of clay as a medium of expression. Explorations include advanced glaze chemistry and research at various temperature ranges.
  
  • ART 6543 Advertising Design

    (3 hours)
    Through lectures, field trips, demonstrations, and studio work, students explore all facets of realistic advertising campaigns. The course proceeds from market research and sound, valid visualizations for advertising media through comp presentations. Emphasis is placed on presentation of all concepts as they are presented to the clients. Students gain familiarity with methods of creating advertising concepts via text and image, and also explore principles of advertising design and layout. Prerequisite: ART 3242 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ART 6902-6 Internship

    (2-6 hours)
    On-the-job training in a professional environment. The student, on the recommendation of his or her advisor, may earn two to six hours credit. By arrangement only. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  
  • ART 7042-9 Painting

    (2-9 hours)
    Creative problems in painting in any medium chosen by the student.
  
  • ART 7062-9 Printmaking

    (2-9 hours)
    A concentrated study of selected printmaking processes. Creative thinking and technical proficiency are emphasized.
  
  • ART 7132-9 Sculpture

    (2-9 hours)
    Research and experimental work with individual choice of problems in various sculptural media.
  
  • ART 7152-9 Ceramic Design

    (2-9 hours)
    Research and experimental work with individual choice of problems in various ceramic materials.
  
  • ART 7172-9 Photography

    (2-9 hours)
    Emphasizes project development, material exploration, and research concerning historical and contemporary issues in photography. Student work will be shown and evaluated at scheduled critiques.
  
  • ART 7433 Advanced Web Site Design

    (3 hours)
    A concentrated study of the power of web motion graphics. Instruction focuses on the manipulation of these programs as it pertains to design.
  
  • ART 7961 Residency

    (1 hour)
    See Graduate Residency (7961)
  
  • ART 7973 Studio Art Seminar

    (3 hours)
    Selected topics, which change each semester.
  
  • ART 7981-6 Research and Thesis

    (1-6 hours)
  
  • ART 7991-9 Independent Study

    (1-9 hours)

Art History

  
  • ARTH 6013 History of Photography

    (3 hours)
    Surveys the history of photography and the discourse shaping it from the 19th century to the present, with an emphasis on key technological and artistic developments. Hone skills of visual analysis, including formal and contextual methods, psychoanalysis, and postmodern and postcolonial theory. Lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: ARTH 2223.
  
  • ARTH 6033 Cultural Responses to War in the 20th Century

    (3 hours)
    Examines the methods that individuals in the 20th century have adopted to document, decry, and honor war. It focuses on three moments of cultural response to trauma: modernist production in World War I, West Germany during World War II, and American reactions to the Vietnam War. Prerequisites: ARTH 2203, ARTH 2223, or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 6053 Medieval Art

    (3 hours)
    Examines the visual arts of various media from the Early Christian period to the Gothic period, c. 300-1300, including the Byzantine, Islamic, Migration, Carolingian, Ottonian and Romanesque arts with a focus on the theological, social and political forces that molded their production and reception. Slide lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: ARTH 2203.
  
  • ARTH 6093 American Art

    (3 hours)
    Seventeenth to 21st century. Places art into broader cultural, historical, social, political context, examining discourses that shaped American art: mapping new terrain, defining America, representing republican virtue, nature and nation, art and commerce, machine aesthetics, and modernism, defining identities in a multicultural America, from Cold War to culture wars.
  
  • ARTH 6133 Greek and Roman Art

    (3 hours)
    Examines Greek art from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period and Roman art from the Early to the Late Empire. It offers a critique of the historigraphic presentation of Greek works of art as developmentally progressive, and an examination of the use of Roman form and content for political purposes. Slide lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: ARTH 2203 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 6353 History of Prints

    (3 hours)
    In this course, we explore printmaking from c. 1400 to 1800, from woodcut to lithography, with an emphasis on the social and political uses of prints. Slide lecture and discussion.
  
  • ARTH 6413 Baroque and Rococo Art

    (3 hours)
    Presents and offer analysis of the full range of visual arts (e.g., painting, sculpture, architecture, stage design, interior decoration, gardens, prints, etc.) of Italy, France and Spain (primarily), 1600-1750. Assess the social, political and religious contexts of these works. Slide lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: ARTH 2223 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 6423 Art Since Mid-Century

    (3 hours)
    Art and visual culture from mid-20th century to present, including Pop Art, Minimalism, conceptual art, land art, postmodernism, tactical media, and relational aesthetics. Places art into broader cultural, historical, social, political context, examining issues such as the development of new media; the changing status of the art object and the art market; the role of the artist; the relationship between artwork, artist, and viewer; and globalization.  Prerequisites:  None, but ARTH 2223 strongly recommended.
  
  • ARTH 6643 Italian Renaissance Art I: 1300-1480

    (3 hours)
    Explores the development of art and architecture produced in Italy from 1300 to 1480. Examines works of art, architecture, and materials culture within their broader social and historical context in an effort to better understand the works and the people who made and viewed them. Prerequisite: ARTH 2023 or ARTH 2223 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 6723 Northern Renaissance Art

    (3 hours)
    Painting, sculpture, and printmaking of Northern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. In the Netherlands, focuses on Jan van Eyck, the development of the Eyckian tradition, and the complex iconographic language of Bosch and Bruegel; in Germany, focuses on Durer, Grunewald, and the Danube School. Slide lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: ARTH 2203/HIST 3643 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 6733 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Painting

    (3 hours)
    In this course, we examine the form and content of the two-dimensional arts of the Protestant Northern Netherlands and the Catholic Southern Netherlands, with a focus on the art patronage system and the art market as they shape the painting of the 1600s. Slide lecture/discussion. Prerequisite: ARTH 2223.
  
  • ARTH 6743 Italian Renaissance Art II: 1480 - 1580

    (3 hours)
    Explores the development of art and architecture produced in Italy from 1480 to 1580. Examines works of art, architecture, and materials culture within their broader social and historical context in an effort to better understand the works and the people who made and viewed them. Prerequisite: ARTH 2023 or ARTH 2223 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 6803 Special Topics in Art History

    (3 hours)
    Examination of a special topic in art history. Prerequisite: ARTH 2203 or ARTH 2223 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 6813 Seminar in Art History

    (3 hours)
    In-depth examination of topic through extensive reading, in-class discussion and independent research projects.
  
  • ARTH 6913 19th-Century European Art

    (3 hours)
    Art and architecture from 1780 to 1880, from Neo-Classicism to Impressionism. Places art into broader cultural, historical, social, political context, examining various discourses that shaped 19th-century art: Enlightenment and French Revolution, classical revival, rise of Romanticism, encounter with new cultures, industrialization and urbanization, impact of photography, emergence of avant-garde. Prerequisite: ARTH 2223.
  
  • ARTH 6923 Fauvism to Abstract Expressionism

    (3 hours)
    Art and visual culture from the turn of the 20th century through mid century, including Fauvism, Cubism, Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. Examines the various discourses that shaped twentieth-century art and the analysis of it, such as modernism, the avant garde, psychoanalysis, social history, and semiotics. Prerequisite:  ARTH 2223 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 7961 Residency

    (1 hour)
    See Graduate Residency (7961)
  
  • ARTH 7973 Seminar

    (3 hours)
    Selected topics, which change each semester.
  
  • ARTH 7991-4 Independent Study

    (1-4 hours)

Biological Science

  
  • BIOL 6023 Environmental Microbiology

    (3 hours)
    Environmental microbiology of soil, air, and water focusing on topics of current interest, including problems in environmental biology and their solutions as they relate to microorganisms. Prerequisites: BIOL 3084 or BIOL 3314.
  
  • BIOL 6043 Protein Structure and Function

    (3 hours)
    An examination of the relationship between structure and function in protein chemistry, with detailed considerations of enzyme kinetics, and protein-protein and protein-nucleic acids interactions. Prerequisites: BIOL 1603, 1601, 1703, 1701, 2124, and CHEM 3011, 3013.
  
  • BIOL 6054 Histology

    (4 hours)
    Microscopic anatomy and histophysiology of tissues and organs of mammals. Correlation of structure and function is emphasized. Prerequisites: BIOL 1611, 1711; a previous physiology or anatomy course is helpful. 
  
  • BIOL 6113 Pathogenic Microbiology

    (3 hours)
    General principles of medical microbiology, microorganisms that cause disease, and details of the disease process.  General principles of pathogenic mechanisms, host defense systems and disease treatment strategies are introduced and applied to the study of specific pathogens (mostly bacterials pathogens) and their accompanying diseases.  Prerequisites: BIOL 1603, 1611, 1703, 1711, 2124.
  
  • BIOL 6123-4 Selected Topics in Microbiology

    (3-4 hours)
    Seminar that provides experience in critical reading, discussion, and writing of professional papers in the fields of microbial ecology and diversity. Prerequisites: Biology core courses (or equivalent).
  
  • BIOL 6153 Animal Behavior

    (3 hours)
    Introduction to classical ethology and behavioral ecology. Topics include animal communication, foraging, sexual selection, mating systems, social organization, spacing patterns, learning, evolutionarily stable strategies, alternative mating tactics, and human sociobiology. Prerequisites: BIOL 1603, 1611, 1703, 1711, 2124.
  
  • BIOL 6163 Experimental Techniques in Molecular Biology

    (3 hours)
    Isolate and detect RNA, DNA and protein; manipulate RNA and DNA; clone a gene of interest using polymerase chain reaction, and sequence DNA.  Provides background for further work in cell biology, virology, biotechnology, disease diagnostics and microbiology.  Lecture and laboratory combined four hours per week. Prerequisites: BIOL 1603, 1611, 1703, 1711, 2124.
  
  • BIOL 6173 Principles of Neuroscience

    (3 hours)
    Foundational topics in neuroscience, including neural/glial cell function, sensory systems, motor systems, and cognitive functions. Prerequisites: BIOL 1603, 1611, 1703, 1711, 2124; a previous physiology course is recommended but not required.
 

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