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H	Honors. Courses with an H following the course number satisfy honors requirements.
V	Honors and Writing Intensive. Courses with a V following the course number satisfy both honors and liberal education writing intensive requirements.
W	Writing Intensive. Courses with a W following the course number satisfy the writing intensive requirement for liberal education.
cr	Credit.
1-4 cr [max 6 cr]	The course can be taken for 1 to 4 credits and may be repeated for up to 6 credits.
Prereq	Course Prerequisites.
Prereq listed by number only	A prerequisite course listed by number only (e.g., Prereq - 3105) is in the same discipline as the course being described.
DGS	Director of Graduate Studies.
div	Division
DUS	Director of Undergraduate Studies.
equiv	Equivalent.
fr, soph, jr, sr	Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior.
,	In prerequisite listings, a comma means "and".
!	Work for this course will extend past the end of the term. A grade of K will be assigned to indicate that the course is still in progress.
dagger or %	All courses preceding this symbol must be completed before credit will be granted for any term of the sequence.
section mark or =	Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for the course listed after this symbol.
paragraph mark or &	Concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in the course listed after this symbol.
#	Approval of the instructor is required for registration.
delta or ?	Approval of the department offering the course is required for registration.
square or @	Approval of the college offering the course is required for registration.
A-F only or S-N only	Grading Option. If no grading option is listed, the course may be taken using either option.

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Credit Course Descriptions

Adult Education (ADED)

College of Education and Human Development

ADED 5001
Survey: Human Resource Development and Adult Education
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Overview of fields of human resource development and adult education. Includes societal context, systems theory, processes, definitions, philosophies, goals, sponsoring agencies, professional roles, participants, and resources. Emphasis on the unique characteristics and ways the fields overlap and enhance one another.

ADED 5101
Strategies for Teaching Adults
(3.0 cr)
Psychological theories of adult learning; learning styles and personality types; teaching styles; group and team learning; moderating and study circles; teaching technologies and distance learning; gender, race and cultural communication. Applications of strategies.

ADED 5102
Perspectives of Adult Learning and Development
(3.0 cr)
Emphasis on major adult development theorists, theories, and current applications. Transformative learning, self-directed learning, experiential learning, and cooperative learning provide theoretical framework for exploring physiological, psychological, sociological, and cultural aspects of adult development through the life span.

ADED 5201
Introduction to Adult Literacy
(3.0 cr)
Definitions of literacy: workplace, community and family. Issues: poverty, welfare, ethnicity, cultural diversity, social class, language and learning, immigrants. Review of literacy programs, funding, and professionalization. Reaching and recruiting undereducated adults. The role of the family and schools; community, state and local government. New social action approaches required for licensure.

ADED 5202
Assessment of Adult Literacy
(3.0 cr)
Assessment of adult literacy problems as they affect work, family and community. Setting educational goals; formal versus informal assessment; case studies; educational planning.

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Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (AEM)

Institute of Technology

AEM 5321
Modern Feedback Control
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4311 or #)
State space theory for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) aerospace systems. Singular value decomposition (SVD) technique and its applications to performance and robustness. Linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) and eigenstructure assignment design methodologies. Topics in H [infinity symbol]. Applications.

AEM 5401
Intermediate Dynamics
(3.0 cr; Prereq- IT upper div or grad, 2012, Math 2243)
Three-dimensional Newtonian mechanics, kinematics of rigid bodies, dynamics of rigid bodies, generalized coordinates, holonomic constraints, Lagrange equations, applications.

AEM 5451
Optimal Estimation
(3.0 cr; Prereq-IT upper div or grad, 2012, Math 2243)
Three-dimensional Newtonian mechanics, kinematics of rigid bodies, dynamics of rigid bodies, generalized coordinates, holonomic constraints, Lagrange equations, applications.

AEM 8421
Robust Multivariable Control Design
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 8411 or equiv)
Application of robust control theory to aerospace systems. Role of model uncertainty/modeling errors in design process. Control analysis and synthesis, including H2 and H optimal control design and structural singular value techniques.

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Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Education (AFEE)

College of Education and Human Development

AFEE 5116
Coordination of SAE Programs: Work-Based Learning
(2.0 cr; Prereq – Agricultural education major or equiv; A-F or Aud)
Principles/techniques for coordinating work-based learning. Supervised agricultural experience in agricultural education. Historical/philosophical roots of experiential learning, integration with classroom instruction, legal aspects, record keeping, coordination techniques, current agreement laws.

AFEE 5118
Strategies for Managing and Advising the FFA Organization
(2.0 cr; Prereq – Agricultural education major or equiv; A-F or Aud)
Principles/techniques to advise an FFA chapter. Historical/philosophical basis of FFA, organization/structure. Integration with classroom instruction, public relations, recruitment, and administration of FFA chapters.

AFEE 5220
Special Topics in Agriculture Education and Extension
(1.0-3.0 cr; max 12cr)
Content varies by offering.

AFEE 5233
Advanced Procedures in Teaching Agricultural Education
(2.0 cr; A-F only)
New developments in methodology; assessment of innovations and procedures; consideration of various levels of instruction.

AFEE 5235
Advanced Supervised Agricultural Experience Programs
(2.0 cr)
The organization and administration of agricultural experience programs for middle and secondary level students: career exploration, improvement projects, experiments, placement in production/business/community settings, entrepreneurship. Current state and national programs and resource material.

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Applied Business (ABUS)

College of Continuing Education

ABUS 4011
Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Business Challenges
(3.0 cr; Prereq - at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Global competitiveness, product and service quality, information revolution, and changing customer/workforce demographics. Approaches to meeting contemporary challenges studied against historical backdrop of evolving management practices. Emphasizes developing systematic ways of analyzing complex problems.

ABUS 4012
Problem Solving in Complex Organizations
(3.0 cr; Prereq - at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Open systems perspective. Analyzing root causes/effects of problems/solutions across boundaries in organization. Process analysis as problem-solving tool. Problem-solving frameworks/processes. Techniques for analyzing root causes, expanding alternatives, predicting consequences, making choices.

ABUS 4022
Managing Organizational Relationships
(3.0 cr; Prereq - at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Political dimensions of organization life. Diagnosing how power is distributed/exercised in modern organizations. Cooperative relationships, frameworks for analyzing motives for observed behavior. Skills for managing upward, lateral, and downward relationships. Recognizing potential ethical dilemmas.

ABUS 4023
Communication for Results
(3.0 cr; Prereq - at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Aspects of communication essential for being persuasive/influential. Organizing/presenting ideas effectively, strategies for audience analysis, choosing communication methods, making appropriate use of informal influence methods, handling dissent. Processes for intercultural communication.

ABUS 4031
Accessing and Using Information Effectively
(3.0 cr; Prereq - computer literacy; at least 45 cr)
Role of information in business operations. Information systems, data management. Accessing external information using information search services, CD-ROMs and periodicals. Accessing internal information using desktop database system, electronic mail, or computer conferencing. Typology of information applied in case studies and exercises.

ABUS 4041
Dynamics of Leadership
(3.0 cr; Prereq - at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Developing a global/ethical perspective to navigate changes driven by expanding global markets, need to compete with global competitors, and need to interact across cultures within/outside the organization.

ABUS 4042
Planning and Implementation at the Business Unit Level
(3.0 cr; at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Creating/implementing operating plans. Operations flowcharts, budgets, schedules, and staffing plans. Integrating plans with overall business strategy. Factors in implementation. Developing strategies for change.

ABUS 4043
Project Management in Practice
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4102, at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Tools/techniques to support project leader in scheduling, coordinating, and allocating resources. Field project with nonprofit community organization, smaller business, or student's employing organization.

ABUS 4101
Accounting and Finance for Managers
(3.0 cr; Prereq - one semester of lower-div Principles of Accounting; A-F only)
Principal concepts of finance. Business decision making from accounting/financial perspective. Analysis of cost-volume-profit relationships, capital budgeting, variances, uses/sources of funds, valuation.

ABUS 4102
Operations in Manufacturing and Service Businesses
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4102, at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Concepts/principles related to management of operations functions. Operations strategy, process, design, just-in-time inventory management, forecasting, scheduling, quality improvement. Relationships between operations and the environment.

ABUS 4103
Marketing and Sales
(3.0 cr; Prereq - at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Legal, behavioral, ethical, competitive, economic, and technological factors as they affect product pricing, promotion, and marketing. Personal selling function as integral part of distribution system. Sales force organization, selection, training, motivation, compensation, forecasting, budgeting, control.

ABUS 4104
Management and Human Resource Practices
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4102, at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Providing day-to-day leadership. Organizing work, motivating employees. Delegating, coordinating, and achieving results. Front line human resource practices, including selection, induction, and training of new employees, employee appraisal. Handling grievances/discipline.

ABUS 4501
Entrepreneurship
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4101, 4103, at least 34 cr)
Self-employment as alternative to employment. Phases of entrepreneurship, including identifying an opportunity, start-up, managing/harvesting a small business. Emphasizes all aspects of business plan.

ABUS 4509
New Product Development
(3.0 cr; Prereq - at least 45 cr; A-F only)
How new consumer, industrial, and service products are planned/developed. Idea generation, concept/buyer testing, pricing, sales/profit strategies, product positioning, promotion, packaging/distribution. Marketing case histories. Student projects.

ABUS 4511
Small Business Survival Skills
(3.0 cr; Prereq - at least 45 cr; A-F only)
Forging realistic growth trajectory. Designing adaptive organization. Identifying/building on strengths. Avoiding growth-induced failure. Coping in environment of resource poverty. Real-life cases.

ABUS 4601
Corporation Finance
(3.0 cr; Prereq - Econ 1101 or Econ 1102, Math 1031, 4101 or Acct 3001; A-F only or audit)
Fundamental principles of financial management. Implementation by corporate financial managers in strategic financial decisions. Financial statement analysis. Time value of money. Risk and return. Equity valuation. Fixed income securities. Capital budgeting analysis. Cost of capital. Long-term financing. Capital structure analysis. Dividend policy.

ABUS 4701
Introduction to Marketing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - [Econ 1101 or Econ 1102], [Acct 3001 or 4101]; A-F only, spring, every year)
Marketing as facilitation of exchanges that satisfy the needs of all parties. Emphasizes conceptual tools for the creation of a marketing plan. How marketing relates to other functional areas of business. Importance of an ethical, global view.

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Art (ART)

U of M Duluth, School of Fine Arts

ART 2900
Visual Literacy
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Various forms of visual expression – art, commercial imagery, typography, architecture, graffiti, etc. – as rhetoric. Introduction to variety of theories and/or modes of criticism, and consideration of their value for explanation of visual expression.

ART 3030
Art in Technologies I
(Max crs 6.0; 2 repeats allowed; A-F only, unless otherwise noted; Prereq – 1013, 3016, art or art ed major or art minor or #)
Interdisciplinary, collaborative investigations linking traditional to emerging electronically-based art technologies.

ART 3907
Typography II
(3.0 cr, A-F only, unless otherwise noted; Prereq – 2907, graphic design major or #)
Through course activities and assignments, including developing a new typeface, students will continue their study of the letterform. They will improve their presentation skills and hone their ability to organize, arrange, and present clear and meaningful information within a single or multi-faceted layout.

ART 4905
Design Technology II
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 2905, Graphic design major and #; A-F or Aud, fall spring, every year)
This course will explore advanced principles of design and apply them with the latest forms of technology through the concepts of basic marketing strategies and advanced concept, design, and navigation for the Web. Students will gain understanding of color management, explore paper options, and be familiar with pre-press issues. Using their acquired design knowledge and multiple advanced design software programs, students will practice creating concepts and projects acceptable as press-ready portfolio pieces.

ART 5016
2-D Digital Studio II
(Max crs 6.0; 2 repeats allowed; A-F only, unless otherwise noted; Prereq – 3016, art or art ed major or art minor or #)
Students will refine their skills in digital art making. Each student will create work for minor and major critiques throughout the semester. Assignments encourage the student to explore subjects as metaphors, to examine visual narratives, and to create visually stimulating and challenging designs.

ART 5030
Art in Technologies II
(Max crs 6.0; 2 repeats allowed; A-F only, unless otherwise noted; Prereq – 3030, art or art ed major or art minor or #)
Advanced interdisciplinary, collaborative investigations linking traditional to emerging electronically-based art technologies.

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Art History (ARTH)

U of M Duluth, School of Fine Arts

ARTH 4901
History of Graphic Design
(3.0 cr [max 9.0 cr]; Prereq – Graphic design major and #; no Grad School credit; A-F or Aud, fall spring, every year) Directed, but primarily independent, creative research for outstanding students.
This course will cover the timeline of 19th and 20th century history relative to developments and movements in design, including designers and specific work that have been significant in the development of graphic design. Lectures, readings, and discussion will explore the sociological and economic implications of communications innovations, while striving to understand the direct relationship between culture, society, business, and design.

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Biomedical Engineering (BMEN)

Institute of Technology

BMEN 5001
Advanced Biomaterials
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 3301 or MatS3011 or grad student or #; A-F or Aud, fall every year)
Commonly used biomaterials. Chemical/physical aspects. Practical examples from such areas as cardiovascular/orthopedic applications, drug delivery, and cell encapsulation. Methods used for chemical analysis and for physical characterization of biomaterials. Effect of additives, stabilizers, processing conditions, and sterilization methods.

BMEN 5041
Tissue Engineering
(3.0 cr; Prereq - IT upper div or grad student or med student or #)
Fundamentals of wound healing and tissue repair; characterization of cell-matrix interactions; case study of engineered tissues, including skin, bone marrow, liver, vessel, and cartilage; regulation of biomaterials and engineered tissues.

BMEN 5101
Advanced Bioelectricity/Instrumentation
(3.0 cr; Prereq - Phsl 5440, calculus, college physics; spring)
Instrumentation, computer systems, and processing requirements for clinical physiological signals. Electrode characteristics, signal processing, and interpretation of physiological events by ECG, EEG, and EMG. Measurement of respiration.

BMEN 5201
Advanced Biomechanics
(3.0 cr; Prereq - [IT upper div or grad student], AEM [statics, deformable media] or #)
Introduction to biomechanics of musculoskeletal system. Anatomy, tissue material properties. Kinematics, dynamics, and control of joint/limb movement. Analysis of forces/motions within joints. Application to injury, disease. Treatment of specific joints, design of orthopedic devices/implants.

BMEN 5311
Advanced Biomedical Transport Processes
(3.0-4.0 cr; Prereq - IT upper div or grad student or #; [ChEn 5103 or ME 5342] recommended)
Introduction to biological fluid, mass, and heat transport. Mass transfer across membranes. Fluid flow in vessels/interstitium. Heat transfer in cells, tissues, and body. Applications to blood oxygenation, respiration, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.

BMEN 5351
Cell Engineering
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5301 or equiv, 5310 or equiv, 5201 or equiv, IT upper div or grad student or #; fall, spring)
Survey of engineering approaches to cell-related phenomena important to cell and tissues engineering: receptor/ligand binding, trafficking and signaling processes; applications to cell proliferation, adhesion, and motility; cell-matrix interactions.

BMEN 5371
Biomedical Applications of Heat Transfer in Humans
(3.0-4.0 cr; Prereq - Phsl 3061, 3071 5061)
Overview of physiology underlying thermoregulation in humans, clinical applications of heat transfer in humans, framework for design project.

BMEN 5401
Advanced Functional Biomedical Imaging
(3.0 cr; Prereq-IT upper division or graduate student or #)
Functional biomedical imaging modalities. Principles/applications of representative functional imaging technologies that offer high spatial resolution or temporal resolution. Emphasizes principles and methodological foundations of bioelectromagnetic imaging and magnetic resonance imaging. Other functional biomedical imaging modalities.

BMEN 5444
Muscle
(3.0 cr; spring)
Muscle structure/function: molecular mechanism by which force is generated.

BMEN 5501
Biology for Biomedical Engineers
(3.0-4.0 cr; Sem Prereq - engineering upper div or grad student)
Concepts of cell/tissue structure/function. Basic principles of cell biology. Tissue engineering, artificial organs.

BMEN 8601
Biomedical Engineering Seminar
(1.0 cr; S-N only)
Lectures and demonstrations of university and industry research introducing students and faculty to methods and goals of biomedical engineering.

BMEN 8602
Biomedical Engineering Seminar
(1.0 cr; S-N only)
Lectures and demonstrations of university and industry research introducing students and faculty to methods and goals of biomedical engineering.

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Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology (BICB)

U of M Rochester

BICB 8510
Computation and Biology
(3.0 cr; 5 repeats allowed; S-N only, unless otherwise noted; prereq BICB grad student or consent of instructor)
This course will be taught in modular form and will provide first-year BICB graduate students with an overview of topics in, for instance, molecular biology and genetics; mathematics, statistics and biostatistics; programming in FORTRAN and C/C++; programming in Perl; data management; and data mining. The modules will be offered based on the needs of each incoming class of BICB graduate students.

BICB 8620
Topics in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology (BMB 8350 Introduction to Bioinformatics)
(1.5 cr; Prereq - BICB grad student, DGS consent)
Each section corresponds to one of the Mayo courses or MOT courses

BICB 8620
Topics in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology (CORE 6100 Chemical Principles of Biological Systems)
(2.0 cr; Prereq - BICB grad student, DGS consent)
Each section corresponds to one of the Mayo courses or MOT courses.

BICB 8666
Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1.0 cr; Prereq - doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations , up to 12 combined cr; % for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr)
Doctoral student credits. Arranged by department.

BICB 8920
BICB Seminar
(1.0 cr; 6 repeats allowed; S-N only, unless otherwise noted; Prereq - BICB grad student)
This is a weekly seminar that features research talks.

BICB 8930
BICB Journal Club
(1.0 cr; 10 repeats allowed; S-N only, unless otherwise noted; Prereq - BICB grad student or instr consent)
Weekly seminar. Journal articles presented by participants.

BICB 8991
Independent Study
(1.0 cr; Prereq - BICB grad major)
Individual research on specialized topics.

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Business

See Master of Business Administration

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Business and Industry Education (BIE)

College of Education and Human Development

BIE 5662
Computer Training in School and Industry Settings
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5011 or equiv)
Alternative teaching practices for business applications software: word processors, spreadsheets, graphics, desktop publishing, databases, and communications; public school and industry settings.

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Center for Spirituality and Healing (CSPH)

Academic Health Center

CSPH 5535
Rieki Healing
(1.0 cr; Prereq - Jr or sr or grad student or consent of instructor; S-N only)
History, principles, precepts, and practical application of Reiki energy healing. Alternative energy healing modalities, current research findings. Activation of the Reiki energy, hand positions to perform a treatment. Students provide Reiki treatments, discuss findings.

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Chemical Engineering (ChEn)

Institute of Technology

ChEn 5771
Colloids and Dispersions
(3.0 cr; Prereq - Physical chemistry; A-F or audit)
Preparation, stability, coagulation kinetics or colloidal solutions. DLVO theory, electrokinetic phenomena. Properties of micelles, other microstructures.

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Child Psychology (CPsy)

College of Education and Human Development

CPsy 4311
Behavioral and Emotional Problems of Children
(4.0 cr; Prereq - intro psych; A-F only)
Behavioral and emotional problems of children and adolescents; psychopathology contrasted to normal development; symptoms, causes, course, and prevention of common disorders, excluding physical and sensory handicaps.

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Computer Science and Engineering (CSCI)

Institute of Technology

CSCI 1902
Structure of Computer Programming II
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 1901 or consent of instructor. Students must also attend an on-campus lab for CSCI 1902)
Object-oriented programming using language such as C++ or Java. Builds on 1901, presenting additional data structures/algorithms. Object-oriented approach to implement data structures/operations as abstract data types.

CSCI 2031
Introduction to Numerical Computing
(4.0 cr; Prereq – Math 2243 or #)
Introduction to numerical computing for CSCI, mathematics, and science/engineering students. Uses Mathematica or Matlab to cover numerical error, root finding, systems of equations, interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration, least squares, and differential equations.

CSCI 4041
Algorithms and Data Structures
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 1902 and 2011 or #; no cr for grads in CSCI)
Rigorous analysis of algorithms and their implementation. Algorithm analysis, sorting algorithms, binary trees, heaps, priority queues, heapsort, balanced binary search trees, AVL trees, hash tables and hashing, graphs, graph traversal, single source shortest path, minimum cost spanning trees.

CSCI 4061
Introduction to Operating Systems
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 2021 or EE 2361; no cr for grads in CSCI)
Foundations of operating systems. History/evolution of operating systems, shells, tools, memory organization, file system overview, I/O, concurrent processes, interprocess communication.

CSCI 4131
Internet Programming
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5131; 4061; 4211 recommended, cannot be taken for grad CSCI credit)
Issues in internet programming. Internet history, architecture/protocols, network programming, Web architecture. Client-server architectures and protocols. Client-side programming, server-side programming, dynamic HTML, Java programming, object-oriented architecture/design, distributed object computing, Web applications.

CSCI 4203
Computer Architecture
(4.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 2021 or #; meets concurrently with CSCI 5201, EE 4363, EE 536)
Introduction to computer architecture. Aspects of computer systems, such as pipelining, memory hierarchy, and input/output systems. Performance metrics. Examines each component of a complicated computer system.

CSCI 4211
Introduction to Computer Networks
(3.0 cr; Prereq - credit will not be granted if credit has been received for CSCI 5211; CSCI 4061 or #; basic knowledge of [computer architecture, operating systems] recommended, cannot be taken for grad CSCI cr)
Concepts, principles, protocols, and applications of computer networks. Layered network architectures, data link protocols, local area networks, routing, transport, network programming interfaces, networked applications. Examples from Ethernet, Token Ring, TCP/IP, HTTP, WWW.

CSCI 4707
Practice of Database Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - meets concurrently with CSCI 5707, Inet 4707; CSCI 4041 or # ) Concepts, conceptual data models, case studies, common data manipulation languages, logical data models, database design, facilities for database security/integrity, applications.

CSCI 5103
Operating Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 4061 or #)
Conceptual foundation of operating system designs and implementations. Relationships between operating system structures and machine architectures. UNIX implementation mechanisms as examples.

CSCI 5104
System Modeling and Performance Evaluation
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5103 or #; spring, odd years)
Techniques for modeling computing systems for performance evaluation through analytical/simulation techniques. How to model computing systems and communications protocols to evaluate their performance under different operating conditions.

CSCI 5105
Foundations of Modern Operating Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 5103 or #)
Advanced concepts that build foundations of modern operating systems. Advanced scheduling algorithms, distributed communication/synchronization, consistency/replication models, distributed file systems, security, protection/virtualization, OS architectures.

CSCI 5106
Programming Languages
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4011 or #)
Design and implementation of high-level languages. Course has two parts: (1) language design principles, concepts, constructs; (2) language paradigms, applications. Note: course does not teach how to program in specific languages.

CSCI 5107
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics 1
(3.0 cr; Prereq - credit will not be granted if credit has been received for CSCI 4107; [4041 or #], fluency in C/C++, mastery of basic concepts in linear algebra)
Fundamental algorithms in computer graphics. Emphasizes programming projects in C/C++. Scan conversion, hidden surface removal, geometrical transformations, projection, illumination/shading, parametric cubic curves, texture mapping, antialiasing, ray tracing. Developing graphics software, graphics research.

CSCI 5108
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics II
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5107 or #)
Advanced topics in image synthesis, modeling, and rendering. Image processing, image warping, global illumination, non-photorealistic rendering, texture synthesis. Parametric cubic surfaces, subdivision surfaces, acceleration techniques, advanced texture mapping. Programming is in C/C++.

CSCI 5109
Visualization
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 1902, 4041 or equiv or #)
Fundamental theory/practice in data visualization. Emphasizes programming applications. Volume visualization, vector field visualization, information visualization, multivariate visualization, visualization o large datasets, visualization in immersive virtual environments, and perceptual issues in effective data representation. Projects are implemented in C++ using VTK or similar visualization API.

CSCI 5115
User Interface Design, Implementation and Evaluation
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 4041 or #)
Theory, design, programming, and evaluation of interactive application interfaces. Human capabilities and limitations, interface design and engineering, prototyping and interface construction, interface evaluation, and topics such as data visualization and World Wide Web. Course is built around a group project.

CSCI 5116
GUI Toolkits and Their Implementation
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5115 or 5107 or #)
Structure and design of user interface toolkits and frameworks. Aspects of GUI toolkits (e.g., window system protocols, event processing, geometry management, resource management, data management, constraints). Course is built around implementation assignments and case studies of toolkits.

CSCI 5125
Collaborative and Social Computing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5115 or consent of instructor)
Introduction to computer-supported cooperative work, social computing. Technology, research methods, theory, case studies of group computing systems. Readings, hands-on experience.

CSCI 5131
Internet Programming
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5106, 5211 or #; credit will not be granted if credit has been received for CSCI 4131; CSCI 4081, (or 5801), 5707 recommended)
Issues in Internet programming: Java programming, concurrent programming, workflow. Distributed databases, security, collaborative computing, object-oriented architecture/design, network publishing, messaging architecture, distributed object computing, internets.

CSCI 5143
Real-Time and Embedded Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 4061 or #)
How to control robots and video game consoles. Lecture, informal lab.

CSCI 5161
Introduction to Compilers
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4011 or #; fall, spring, every year)
Theories and mechanisms of programming language processing tools. General compiler organization: lexical scanner, syntax parser, symbol table, internal program representation, code generator. Relationship between design and implementation. Run-time memory management mechanism.

CSCI 5204
Advanced Computer Architecture
(3.0 cr; Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for CSCI 8203, EE 8365, or EE 5364; CSCI 4203 or EE 4363)
Instruction set architecture, processor microarchitecture, memory, I/O systems. Interactions between computer software and hardware. Methodologies of computer design.

CSCI 5211
Data Communications and Computer Networks
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 4061 or consent of instructor; basic knowledge of computer architecture, operating systems, probability; meets concurrently with CSCI 4211)
Fundamental concepts, principles, protocols, and applications of computer networks. Layered network architectures, data link protocols, local area networks, network layer/routing protocols, transport, congestion/flow control, emerging high-speed networks, network programming interfaces, networked applications. Case studies using Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, TCP/IP, ATM, Email, HTTP, and WWW.

CSCI 5221
Foundations of Advanced Networking
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 2011, 5106 or consent of instructor)
Design principles, protocol mechanisms. Network algorithmics, implementation techniques. Advanced network architectures, state-of-art/emerging networking technologies/applications, network modeling. Simulation, experiments.

CSCI 5271
Introduction to Computer Security
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 4061 or #)
Concepts of computer, network, and information security. Risk analysis, authentication, access control, security evaluation, audit trails, cryptography, network/database/application security, viruses, firewalls.

CSCI 5283
Computer-Aided Design I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 2021 or #)
CAD for digital systems. Emphasizes VLSI. Hardware description languages, synthesis, simulation, test generation.

CSCI 5302
Analysis of Numerical Algorithms
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 2031 or #)
Additional topics in numerical analysis: interpolation, approximation, extrapolation, numerical integration/differentiation, numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations.

CSCI 5304
Computational Aspects of Matrix Theory
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5302 or #)
Perturbation theory for linear systems and eigenvalue problems. Direct and iterative solution of large linear systems. Decomposition methods. Computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Singular value decomposition. LAPACK and other software packages. Methods for sparse and large structured matrices.

CSCI 5403
Computational Complexity
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4041 or #)
Computational models, complexity measures in each model, and related complexity classes.

CSCI 5421
Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 4041 or #)
Fundamental paradigms of algorithm and data structure design. Divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, greedy method, graph algorithms, amortization, priority queues and variants, search structures, disjoint-set structures. Theoretical underpinnings. Examples from various problem domains.

CSCI 5451
Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms and Programming
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 4041 or #)
Parallel architectures design, embeddings, routing, examples of parallel computers, fundamental communication operations, performance metrics, parallel algorithms for sorting, matrix problems, graph problems, dynamic load balancing, types of parallelisms, parallel programming paradigms, message passing programming in MPI, data parallel programming in HPF, shared-address space programming in threads.

CSCI 5461
Functional Genomics, Systems Biology, and Bioinformatics
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 3003 or 4041 or consent of instructor)
Computational methods for analyzing, integrating, and deriving predictions from genomic/proteomic data. Analyzing gene expression, proteomic data, and protein-protein interaction networks. Protein/gene function prediction, Integrating diverse data, visualizing genomic datasets.

CSCI 5471
Modern Cryptography
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 2011, 4041, familiarity with number theory or finite fields, or #)
Introduction to cryptography. Theoretical foundations, practical applications. Threats, attacks, and countermeasures, including cryptosystems and cryptographic protocols. Secure systems/networks. History of cryptography, encryption (conventional, public key), digital signatures, hash functions, message authentication codes, identification, authentication, applications.

CSCI 5481
Computational Techniques for Genomics
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 4041 or #)
Techniques to analyze biological data generated by genome sequencing, proteomics, cell-wide measurements of gene expression changes. Algorithms for single/multiple sequence alignments/assembly. Search algorithms for sequence databases, phylogenetric tree constructive algorithms. Algorithms for gene/promoter and protein structure prediction. Data mining for micro array expression analysis. Reverse engineering of regulatory networks.

CSCI 5511
Artificial Intelligence I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 2011 or #)
Introduction to AI. Problem solving search, inference techniques. Logic and theorem proving. Knowledge representation, rules, frames, semantic networks. Planning and scheduling. Lisp programming language.

CSCI 5512W
Artificial Intelligence II
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI5511 or #; meets concurrently with CSCI 5519)
Advanced topics in AI for solving complex problems. Machine learning (symbolic/neural networks approaches), genetic algorithms, reasoning with uncertainty, utility theory and decision theoretic methods, natural language processing, perception robotics, introduction to Prolog programming language.

CSCI 5521
Pattern Recognition
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5301, Stat 3021 or #)
Problems of pattern recognition, feature selection, measurement techniques. Classification methods: statistical decision theory, nonstatistical techniques. Automatic feature selection and data clustering. Syntactic pattern recognition. Mathematical pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Applications in information retrieval and WWW data mining.

CSCI 5523
Introduction to Data Mining
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 4041 or equiv or #)
Data pre-processing techniques, data types, similarity measures, data visualization/exploration. Predictive models (e.g., decision trees, SVM, Bayes, K-nearest neighbors, bagging, boosting). Model evaluation techniques, Clustering (hierarchical, partitional, density-based), association analysis, anomaly detection. Case studies from areas such as earth science, the Web, network intrusion, and genomics. Hands-on projects.

CSCI 5525
Machine Learning
(3.0 cr; Prereq – Grad student or #)
Models of learning. Supervised algorithms such as perceptrons, logistic regression, and large margin methods (SVMs, boosting). Hypothesis evaluation. Learning theory. Online algorithms such as winnow and weighted majority. Unsupervised algorithms, dimensionality reduction, spectral methods. Graphical models.

CSCI 5541
Natural Language Processing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5511 or #; spring even years)
Elements of linguistic analysis for speech and unstructured text. Phonology, syntactic parsing, semantic interpretation, information extraction. Techniques for modeling uncertainty in linguistic analysis: probabilistic models, Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), Dynamic Bayes Nets (DBNs), Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (PCFGs), Discounting and backoff smoothing, Maximum entropy modeling. Elements of information theory: entropy, perplexity, metrics for comparing models.

CSCI 5551
Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5511 or #)
Transformations, kinematics/inverse kinematics, dynamics, control. Sensing (robot vision, force control, tactile sensing), applications of sensor-based robot control, robot programming, mobile robotics, and microrobotics.

CSCI 5552
Sensing and Estimation in Robotics
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 5551, Stat 3021 or #)
Bayesian estimation, maximum likelihood estimation, Kalman filtering, particle filtering. Sensor modeling and fusion. Mobile robot motion estimation (odemetry, intertial, laser scan matching, vision-based) and path planning. Map representations, landmark-based localization, Markov localization, simultaneous localization/mapping (SLAM), multi-robot localization/mapping.

CSCI 5561
Computer Vision
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5511 or #)
Issues in perspective transformations, edge detection, image filtering, image segmentation, and feature tracking. Complex problems in shape recovery, stereo, active vision, autonomous navigation, shadows, and physics-based vision. Applications.

CSCI 5707
Principles of Database Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 4041 or #)
Fundamental concepts, database architecture, alternative conceptual data models, foundations of data manipulation/analysis, logical data models, database designs, models of database security/integrity, current trends.

CSCI 5708
Architecture and Implementation of Database Management Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5707 or #)
Techniques in commercial and research-oriented database systems. Catalogs. Physical storage techniques. Query processing and optimization. Transaction management. Mechanisms for concurrency control, disaster recovery, distribution, security, integrity, extended data types, triggers, and rules.

CSCI 5801
Software Engineering I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 1902, 2011 or #; meets concurrently with CSCI 4081W )
Advanced introduction to software engineering. Software life cycle, development models, software requirements analysis, software design, coding, maintenance.

CSCI 5802
Software Engineering II
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5801 or #)
Introduction to software testing, software maturity models, cost specification models, bug estimation, software reliability models, software complexity, quality control, and experience report. Student groups specify, design, implement, and test partial software systems. Application of general software development methods and principles from 5801.

CSCI 5980
Current Trends on Computer Architecture and Compiler Optimization
(1.0-3.0 cr; Prereq - grad standing, students should be familiar with basic computer architecture concepts such as pipelining, caches, cache coherence protocol, and branch prediction. Exposure to classic compiler optimization techniques such as dataflow analysis, register allocation and alias analysis is a plus; may be repeated for cr; fall, spring, summer, every year.)
This course explores the motivation and design issues behind recently emerged innovations in computer architecture and investigates how the compiler and the hardware can work in tandem to fully exploit the potential of each innovation. By comparing and contrasting hardware-base and compiler based techniques in architecture design, the students will gain in-depth understanding of the design trade-offs in modern architecture. Performance, although very important, is not the only criteria in optimizing computer systems, this course will also discuss recent proposals on improving the non-performance metrics in computer systems. This course will cover, but not limited to the following topics: multithreADED architectures speculative execution, power-efficient design, value predication, feedback-directed optimization, runtime optimization, architectural support for reliable system, and alias analysis.

CSCI 5980
Software Development for Regulated Industries: Medical
(3.0 cr; Prereq – consent of instructor; may be repeated for cr)
Lectures and informal discussions on current topics in computer science.

CSCI 8101
Advanced Operating Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5103 or #)
Successful research systems and existing theory of systems design. Goal is not merely to catalog systems or learn mathematics, but to develop a sense of elegance of design that leads to successful systems.

CSCI 8102
Operating Systems Theory
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 8101 or #)
Fundamental principles underlying design of distributed and multiprocessor operating systems. Foundations of distributed computing systems; shared multiprocessor systems.

CSCI 8115
Human-Computer Interaction and User Interface Technology
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5115 or #)
THIS IS A DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION INTENSIVE COURSE - IT WILL NOT BE VIDEO STREAMED.
Current research issues in human-computer interaction, user interface toolkits and frameworks, and related areas. Research techniques, model-based development, gesture-based interfaces, constraint-based programming, event processing models, innovative systems, HCI in multimedia systems.

CSCI 8161
Advanced Compiler Techniques
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 4061 or #)
Techniques for uniprocessors and parallel computers. Fundamental program analysis instruments such as data flow analysis and data dependence analysis. Variety of code generation and transformation techniques.

CSCI 8205
Parallel Computer Organization
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5204 or EE 5364 or #; meets concurrently with EE 8367)
Design/implementation of multiprocessor systems. Parallel machine organization, system design. Differences between parallel, uniprocessor machines. Programming models. Synchronization/communication. Topologies, message routing strategies. Performance optimization techniques. Compiler, system software issues.

CSCI 8211
Advanced Computer Networks and Their Applications
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5211 or #)
Current research issues in traffic and resource management, quality-of-service provisioning for integrated services networks (such as next-generation Internet and ATM networks) and multimedia networking.

CSCI 8271
Security and Privacy in Computing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - [5211m 5103] or #; 5471 or EE 5248 or Math 5248 or equiv recommended; A-F only)
Recent security/privacy issues in computer systems/networks. Threats, attacks, countermeasures. Security research, authentication, network security, wireless security, computer system security, anonymous system, pseudonym, access control, intrusion detection system, cryptographic protocols. How to pursue research in security and design secure systems.

CSCI 8314
Iterative Methods for Linear Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5304 or #)
Large sparse systems. Sparse systems; methods like Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, relaxation, and conjugate gradient; preconditioning; and parallel implementation.

CSCI 8363
Numerical Linear Algebra in Data Exploration
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5304 or #)
Computational methods in linear algebra, matrix decompositions for linear equations, least squares, eigenvalue problems, singular value decomposition, conditioning, stability in method for machine learning, large data collections. Principal directions, unsupervised clustering, latent semantic indexing, linear least squares fit. Markov chain models on hyperlink structure.

CSCI 8404
Design and Analysis of Approximation Algorithms
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5403 or 5421 or #)
Because an exact solution is often unfeasible for computationally difficult problems in important applications, approximation algorithms are a significant area of study. Introduces techniques for design of approximation algorithms; theory for evaluating the algorithms’ performance.

CSCI 8442
Computational Geometry and Applications
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5421 or #)
Designing efficient algorithms and data structures for geometric problems. Models of computation, convex hulls, geometric duality, multidimensional search, Voronoi diagrams and Delauney triangulations, linear programming in fixed dimensions, lower bound techniques. Applications, advanced topics.

CSCI 8551
Intelligent Agents
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5511 or #)
Theories of intelligent agents. Agent architectures; knowledge representation, communication, cooperation, and negotiation among multiple agents; planning and learning; issues in designing agents with a physical body; dealing with sensors and actuators; world modeling.

CSCI 8701
Overview of Database Research
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5708 or #)
Research papers from journals and conferences on current topics in databases, such as database research methodologies, relational implementation techniques, active databases, storage systems, benchmarking, distributed and parallel databases, new data models, prototype systems, data mining, and future directions.

CSCI 8715
Spatial Databases and Applications
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 4707 or 5707 04 GIS 5571 or GIS 5573)
Motivation, models of spatial information, querying spatial data, processing strategies for spatial queries, multi-dimensional storage/access methods, spatial graph datasets, spatial data mining, trends (e.g., spatio-temporal databases, mobile objects, raster databases).

CSCI 8725
Databases for Bioinformatics
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4707 or 5707 or #)
DBMS support for biological databases, data models. Searching integrated public domain databases. Queries/analyses, DBMS extensions, emerging applications.

CSCI 8735
Advanced Database Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4707 or 5707 or 5708; A-F or Aud)
Database systems for emerging applications, nontraditional query processors, multi-dimensional data indexing. Current research trends.

CSCI 8801
Advanced Software Engineering
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 5801 or #)
Software reusability, Internet/Intranet programming, software reengineering, and software safety.

CSCI 8970
Computer Science Colloquium
(1.0 cr; S-N only)
Recent developments in computer science and related disciplines. Students must attend 13 of the 15 lectures.

CSCI 8980
Special Advanced Topics in Computer Science
(1.0-3.0 cr; Prereq – #)
Lectures and informal discussions.

CSCI 8980
Special Advanced Topics in Computer Science (Functional Genomics, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics)
(3.0 cr; Prereq – some programming skills are required for this course. Biology or other non-CS students are required to take CSCI 3003 or an equivalent programming course as a prerequisite or to get instructors’ approval. Prior knowledge of biology is highly recommended.) Recent developments in biotechnology have enabled large-scale DNA sequencing and high-throughput measurement of several cellular phenomena including gene expression, protein-protein interactions and protein localization. These technologies have generated an unprecedented amount of data that contains rich information about gene function and systems-level organization of the cell. The tremendous amount of data presents an exciting opportunity for computer scientists, because computational models are necessary tools for interpreting and integrating the data to make inferences about cellular function. This course gives an introduction to various types of functional genomic data available and current computational and statistical methods used for analyzing the data to answer questions in functional genomics and systems biology. We will cover the analysis of gene expression data, proteomic data, and interaction data, with a special focus on how they can be used to understand and infer networks. We will end with a discussion of integrating multiple complementary data types, a powerful approach to build accurate descriptive and predictive models. These topics span a variety of computational methods from signal processing, machine learning and statistics including clustering, classification, pattern discovery, statistical tests and network inference. Methods for effective data visualization will also be a recurring theme.

CSCI 8980
Special Topics in Computer Science (Computational Vision and Robotics)
(3.0 cr; Prereq – consent of instructor)
The course objective is to address current research problems in the “Computer Vision” and “Robotics” areas, with special emphasis on problems that cross the boundaries between them. In particular, the course will be based on the presentation of several research papers and a big project, preferably on vision-based robotics. Each student should select three/four papers that he/she will present during the semester (papers outside the suggested list are also welcome). You are also asked to work (in teams) on a project, write a project report, and present/demonstrate the work during the last week of classes. The course will discuss issues in active vision, mapping, localization, motion analysis, distributed sensing/estimation, distributed robotics, mobile robots, sensing for humanoids, stereo, surface and solid representation, shape recovery, edge detection, image segmentation, texture analysis, vision-based navigation, applications, and medical imaging.

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Control Science and Dynamical Systems (CSDY)

Institute of Technology

CSDY 8899
Control Theory Seminar
(1.0-3.0 cr; Prereq - CSDy or IT grad student; S-N only)
Current research and advanced topics.

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Curriculum and Instruction (CI)

College of Education and Human Development

CI 5137
Multicultural Gender-Fair Curriculum
(3.0 cr; Prereq - graduate student; A-F only)
Issues related to diversity in learning settings and the exploration of culture in educational contexts. Explores rationale for and process of considering a multicultural and gender-fair curriculum; cultural issues inherent in curricular change; language, culture, sexual preference, special needs students, and the conflicts between culture and curriculum.

CI 5343
School Technology Funding
(1.0 cr; A-F only)
Developing a multi-year funding strategy for establishing K-12 technology integration in accordance with a technology vision/plan.

CI 5345
Facilitating Technology Integration in Classrooms II
(1.0 cr; A-F only)
Technology-supported teaching/learning at one's educational site. Preparing a vision statement for technology’s role in student learning. How to assume an advocacy role in establishing technology use for instruction/learning.

CI 5346
Staff Technology Development and Support
(1.0 cr)
How to lead organization in designing, implementing, evaluating, improving, and sharing approaches to staff development. Technology-related staff development. Facilitating development through use of technology.

CI 5351
Technology Tools for Educators
(3.0 cr; Prereq - basic knowledge of Macintosh operating system and a word processing program)
Develop skills in using selected technology applications to support teaching and learning. Internet applications, presentation software, multimedia authoring tools, desktop publishing software, Web page creation. May also include a field-site project.

CI 5731
Social Studies for the In-Service Elementary/Middle School Teacher
(3.0 cr; Prereq - elem/middle school tchg exper or instructor consent; A-F only)
Content and organization of elementary and middle school social studies programs. Understanding and improving the teaching –learning situation through the analysis of current trends and issues in the field. Integration with other subject areas where appropriate.

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Educational Policy and Administration (EDPA)

College of Education and Human Development

EDPA 5080
Portfolio Seminar I: Special Topics (Educational Policy and Administration)
(1.0-3.0 cr)
Topical issues in educational policy/administration.

EDPA 5080
Special Topics: Introduction to Program Evaluation
(1.0 cr)
This seminar is designed for relative newcomers to the field of evaluation in non-profit and for-profit settings as well as educators who want to learn the basics of program evaluation. Topics include defining evaluation, finding the value in evaluation, planning for evaluation, collecting and analyzing data, and writing reports. The workshop will be integrative and applied, so participants are asked to identify a potential program to be evaluated prior to the session.

EDPA 5321
The Principalship
(3.0 cr)
Role of the principal: qualifications, duties, and problems.

EDPA 5324
Financial Management for Elementary-Secondary Education
(3.0 cr)
Provides an overview of state-local school finance systems, budgeting, governmental fund accounting, and interpretation of financial information. For graduate students pursuing licensure as elementary-secondary principals and superintendents.

EDPA 5344
Legal Aspects of Elementary-Secondary Education
(3.0 cr)
Overview of legal foundations of elementary/secondary education. Statutory themes, relevant case law, emergent policy issues. Implications for educational organizations and for administrative practice.

EDPA 5368
Special Services: Policy and Administration
(3.0 cr)
Legislative, procedural, executive, and judicial actions that affect services, families, and children with special needs at all levels of government: federal, state, and local. For administrators, supervisors, and other professionals responsible for managing general, special, and alternative education programs.

EDPA 5385
Licensure Seminar
(1.0 cr; [max 4.0 cr]; S-N only)
Preparation for licensure program. Program overview, pre-assessment, reflective practice, APA writing, exit panel review, administrative employment interview.

EDPA 5386
Portfolio Seminar
(1.0 cr; [max 4.0 cr]; S-N only)
Development of electronic administrative licensure portfolio as part of process to earn endorsement for license as a school superintendent, K-12 principal, director of special education, or director of community education.

EDPA 5387
Administration of Teaching and Learning
(1.0 cr)
Administration of teaching/learning as a system in an inclusive school system. Multiple experts present components of system. Focuses on questions an administrator must address when functioning as leader of learning.

EDPA 5389
Administration of Community and Alternative Education Programs
(3.0 cr)
Competencies of leadership, community relations, communication, community assessment, program development, program evaluation. Philosophy/administration of community/alternative education programs.

EDPA 5391
Special Education Law
(1.0 cr; Prereq - designed for students working on licensure in PK-12 administration)
Competencies of leadership, policy, and political influence. Legal/regulatory applications focusing on special education law.

EDPA 5501
Principles and Methods of Evaluation
(3.0 cr)
Introduction to program evaluation. Planning an evaluation study, collecting and analyzing information, reporting results; evaluation strategies; overview of the field of program evaluation.

EDPA 5524
Evaluation Colloquium
(1.0 cr; Prereq - 5501 or EPsy 5243; S-N only)
Informal seminar of faculty and advanced students. Issues/problems of program evaluation.

EDPA 5704
College Students Today
(3.0 cr)
Issues involving population of students in colleges/universities. College student development theory, students' expectations/interests. How college affects student outcomes. Role of curricular/extracurricular activities. Student-faculty interaction.

EDPA 5721
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education
(3.0 cr)
Review of research. Theoretical frameworks, methodological perspectives, and research strategies used to study students, staff, and faculty; historical perspectives.

EDPA 8502
Program Evaluation Theory and Models: Qualitative and Quantitative Alternatives
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5501 or EPsy 5243)
Concepts, approaches, models, and theoretical frameworks for program evaluation that have developed since the 1960s.

EDPA 8596
Evaluation Internship
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5501 or EPsy 5243)
Hands-on experience in conducting a program evaluation in a real-world setting under super-vision of an evaluation professional.

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Educational Psychology (EPSY)

College of Education and Human Development

EPSY 5135
Human Relations Workshop
(4.0 cr )
Experiential course addressing issues of prejudice and discrimination in terms of history, power, and social perception. Includes knowledge and skills acquisition in cooperative learning, multicultural education, group dynamics, social influence, effective leadership, judgment and decision-making, prejudice reduction, conflict resolution.

EPSY 5243
Principles and Methods of Evaluation
(3.0 cr)
Introductory course in program evaluation; planning an evaluation study, collecting and analyzing information, reporting results; overview of the field of program evaluation.

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Electrical and Computer Engineering (EE)

Institute of Technology

EE Colloq
Electrical Engineering Colloquium
(0 cr; Prereq - grad student or #)
Recent developments in electrical engineering and related disciplines. NOTE: No credit for UNITE students.

EE 0001
Refresher Course for Electrical Engineers
(0 cr; Prereq - [BSEE or BEE], pass EIT exam, four yrs elec eng experience; A-F only)
Review of electrical engineering fundamentals required to pass the Minnesota Professional Engineering Examination in electrical engineering. Organized review of material ordinarily contained in electrical engineering college curriculum. Emphasizes problem solving with orientation as close possible to type of question in exam.

EE 0361
Introduction to Microcontrollers: Discussion
(0 cr; Prereq – concurrent registration in EE 2361; No grade – S/N only)
Discussion section to go with EE 2361.

EE 2361
Introduction to Microcontrollers
(4.0 cr; Prereq – EE 1301 or CSCI 1113 or [2301, CSCI 1901], and EE 0361; concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in EE 0361)
Computer organization, assembly language programming, arithmetic/logical operations, parallel/serial input/output. Exception handling, interrupts, using special-purpose features such as A/D converters, fuzzy logic, DSP operations. Integral lab.

EE 3005
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
(4.0 cr; Prereq – Math 2243, Phys 1302; not for EE majors)
Fundamentals of analog electronics, digital electronics, and power systems. Circuit analysis, electronic devices and applications, digital circuits, microprocessor systems, operational amplifiers, transistor amplifiers, frequency response, magnetically coupled circuits, transformers, steady state power analysis.

EE 3015
Signals and Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 2011, IT student or #. Students must attend an on-campus lab.)
Basic techniques for analysis/design of signal processing, communications, and control systems. Time/frequency models, Fourier-domain representations, modulation. Discrete-time/digital signal/system analysis. Z transform. State models, stability, feedback.

EE 3025
Statistical Methods in Electrical and Computer Engineering
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 3015, IT or instructor approval; fall, spring, every year)
Notions of probability. Elementary statistical data analysis. Random variables, densities, expectation, correlation. Random processes, linear system response to random waveforms. Spectral analysis. Computer experiments for analysis and design in random environment.

EE 3115
Analog and Digital Electronics
(Students must attend an on-campus lab – limited space available)
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 3015 or 3015,IT or #)
Feedback amplifiers. Stability and compensation. Oscillators. Internal structure of operational amplifiers. Switching active devices. BJT and FET logic gates. Sequential circuits. Designing complex digital circuits.

EE 3161
Semiconductor Devices
(4.0 cr: Prereq – upper div IT, 2011, Phys 1302, Phys 2303 or Chem 1022)
Elementary semiconductor physics; physical description of pn junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field-effect transistors.

EE 3601
Transmission Lines
(3.0 cr; Prereq – EE 2011, Math 2243 or Math 2373 or Math 2573, Phys 1302 or Phys 1402, IT or approval of the department offering the course)
Properties of transmission lines, electrostatics, magnetostatics, and electromagnetic waves in unbounded space. Guides, cavities, radiation theory, antennas.

EE 4111
Advanced Analog Electronics Design
(4.0 cr; Prereq-3015, 3115)
Basic integrated circuit building blocks of differential amplifiers, high bandwidth, instrumentation amplifiers. Current/voltage references. Feedback, stability, and noise in electronic circuits. Integral lab.

EE 4233
State Space Control System Design
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 3015, upper div IT or #; no EE or CompE grad cr)
State space models, performance evaluation, numerical issues for feedback control. Stability, state estimation, quadratic performance. Implementation, computational issues.

EE 4301
Digital Design With Programmable Logic
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 2301, CSCI 1113 or CSCI 1901)
Introduction to system design and simulation. Design using VHDL code and synthesis. Emulation using VHDL code. NOTE: On-campus lab required. Contact UNITE for specific times of labs and/or to see if work experience can be used in lieu of lab.

EE 4341
Microprocessor and Microcontroller System Design
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 2301, 2361, upper div IT; no EE or CompE grad cr)
Microprocessor interfacing. Memory design. Exception handling interrupts. Parallel/serial input/output. Bus arbitration control. Multiprocessor systems. Direct memory access (DMA). Designing dynamic RAM memory systems. Special DRAM modes. Interleaved memory. Advanced bus structures. Integral lab.

EE 4363
Computer Architecture
(4.0 cr; Prereq - EE 4203, CSCI 2361; meets concurrently with EE 5361, CSCI 5201)
Introduction to computer architecture. Aspects of computer systems, such as pipelining, memory hierarchy, and input/output systems. Performance metrics. Examines each component of a complicated computer system.

EE 4389W
Introduction to Empirical Inference and Soft Computing (WI)
(3.0 cr; Prereq 3025, ECE student or Stat 3022; computer programming or MATLAB or similar environment is recommended for ECE students)
Empirical inference and statistical learning. Classical statistical framework, model complexity control, Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) theoretical framework, philosophical perspective. Nonlinear methods. New types of inference. Application studies.

EE 4501
Communications Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 3025; no EE or CompE grad cr; fall, every year)
Systems for transmission/reception of digital/analog information. Characteristics/design of wired/wireless communication systems. Baseband, digital, and carrier-based techniques. Modulation. Coding. Electronic noise and its effects on design/performance.

EE 4541
Digital Signal Processing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 3015, 3025 or #)
Review of linear discrete time systems and sampled/digital signals. Fourier analysis, discrete/fast Fourier transforms. Interpolation/decimation. Design of analog, infinite-impulse response, and finite impulse response filters. Quantization effects.

EE 4607
Wireless Hardware System Design
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 3015, 3115, 3601, IT student)
Random processes, noise, modulation, error probabilities. Antenna operation, power transfer between antennas, rf propagation phenomena, transmitters/receivers, transmission lines, effect of antenna performance on system performance, rf/microwave device technologies, small-signal amplifiers, mixers, power amplifiers, rf oscillators.

EE 4609
Digital Signal Integrity
(3.0 cr; =EE 5609; Prereq – 2011, Phys 1301, 1302 [sr EE or CompE major])
Introduction to high speed interconnect design. Transmission line theory, coupled line theory, elements of microwave circuit theory, parasitic calculations/measurement, techniques for good interconnect design.

EE 4721
Introduction to Power System Analysis
(3.0 cr; Prereq 2011)
AC power systems. Large power system networks. Mathematics and techniques of power flow analysis, short circuit analysis, and transient stability analysis. Use of a power system simulation program for design. Integral lab.

EE 4722
Power System Analysis Laboratory
(1.0 cr; Prereq 4721)
Lab analysis of AC power systems, power system networks, power flow, short circuit, transient stability.

EE 4701
Electronic Drives
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 3015)
AC/DC electric-machine drives for speed/position control. Integrated discussion of electric machines, power electronics, and control systems. Computer simulations. Applications in electric transportation, robotics, process control, and energy conservation.

EE 4741
Power Electronics
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 3015, 3115)
Switch-mode power electronics. Switch-mode DC power supplies. Switch-mode converters for DC and AC motor drives, wind/photovoltaic inverters, interfacing power electronics equipment with utility system. Power semiconductor devices, magnetic design, electro-magnetic interference (EMI).

EE 5121
Transistor Device Modeling for Circuit Simulation
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 3115, 3161 or #)
Basics of MOS, bipolar theory. Evolution of popular device models from early SPICE models to current industry standards.

EE 5141
Introduction to Microsystem Technology
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 3161, 3601; spring every year)
Microelectromechanical systems composed of microsensors, microactuators, and electronics integrated onto common substrate. Design, fabrication, and operation principles. Labs on micromachining, photolithography, etching, thin film deposition, metallization, packaging, and device characterization.

EE 5163
Semiconductor Properties and Devices I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 3161, 3601 or #)
Principles and properties of semiconductor devices. Selected topics in semiconductor materials, statistics, and transport. Aspects of transport in p=n junctions, heterojunctions.

EE 5164
Semiconductor Properties and Devices II
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 5163 or #)
Principles and properties of semiconductor devices. Charge control in different FETs, transport, modeling. Bipolar transistor models (Ebers-Moll, Gummel-Poon), heterostructure bipolar transistors. Special devices.

EE 5171
Microelectronic Fabrication
(4.0 cr; Prereq - IT sr or grad student)
Fabrication of microelectronic devices; silicon integrated circuits, GaAs devices; lithography, oxidation, diffusion; process integration of various technologies, including CMOS, double poly bipolar, and GaAs MESFET.

EE 5181
Introduction to Nanotechnology
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 3161, 3601, or IT grad student)
Nanoscale imaging. Patterning using scanning srobes, soft-lithography, stamping, and molding. Nanomaterials, properties, synthesis, applications. Nanomanufacturing/component integration using engineered self-assembly/nanotransfer. Labs on AFM, microcontact printing, nanoparticles/nanowire synthesis.

EE 5231
Linear Systems and Optimal Control
(3.0 cr; Prereq - IT grad, EE 3015 or #)
Properties and modeling of linear systems; linear quadratic and linear-quadratic-Gaussian regulators; maximum principle.

EE 5235
Robust Control System Design
(3.0 cr; Prereq - IT grad, 3015, 5231 or #)
Development of control system design ideas; frequency response techniques in design of single-input/single-output (and MI/MO) systems. Robust control concepts. CAD tools.

EE 5301
VLSI Design Automation I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 2301 or #)
Basic graph/numerical algorithms. Algorithms for logic/high-level synthesis. Simulation algorithms at logic/circuit level. Physical-design algorithms.

EE 5302
VLSI Design Automation II
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 5301 or #)
Basic algorithms, computational complexity. High-level synthesis. Test generation. Power estimation. Timing optimization. Current topics.

EE 5323
VLSI Design I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 2301, 3115 or #)
Combinational static CMOS circuits. Transmission gate networks. Clocking strategies, sequential circuits. CMOS process flows, design rules, structured layout techniques. Dynamic circuits, including Domino CMOS and CSVS. Performance analysis, design optimization, device sizing.

EE 5324
VLSI Design II
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 5323 or #)
CMOS arithmetic logic units, high-speed carry chains, fast CMOS multipliers. High-speed performance parallel shifters. CMOS memory cells, array structures, read/write circuits. Design for testability, including scan design and built-in self test. VLSI case studies.

EE 5329
VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5323 or #)
Programmable architectures for signal/media processing. Data-flow representation. Architecture transformations. Low-power design. Architectures for two’s complement/redundant representation, carry-save, and canonic signed digit. Scheduling/allocation for high-level synthesis.

EE 5333
Analog Integrated Circuit Design
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 3315, grad student or #)
Fundamental circuits for analog signal processing. Design issues associated with MOs/BJT devices. Design/testing of circuits. Selected topics (e.g., modeling of basic IC components, design of operational amplifier or comparator or analog sampled-data circuit filter).

EE 5364
Advanced Computer Architecture
(3.0 cr; Prereq - credit will not be granted if credit has been received for EE 8365, CSCI 5204, CSCI 8203; 4363 or CSCI 4203)
Instruction set architecture, processor microarchitecture. Memory and I/O systems. Interactions between computer software and hardware. Methodologies of computer design.

EE 5371
Computer Systems Performance Measurement and Evaluation
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 4364 or 5361 or CSCI 4203 or 5201 or #; meets concurrently with EE 5863)
Tools/techniques for analyzing computer hardware, software, and system performance. Benchmark programs, measurement tools, performance metrics. Deterministic/probabilistic simulation techniques, random number generation/testing. Bottleneck analysis.

EE 5381
Telecommunications Networks
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 4501, 5531 or #)
Fundamental concepts of modern telecommunications networks, mathematical tools required for their performance analysis. Layered network architecture, point-to-point protocols/links, delay models, multi-access communication/routing.

EE 5393
Circuits, Computation and Biology
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 3025, 4501, IT grad student)
Connections between digital circuit design and synthetic/computational biology. Probabilistic, discrete-event simulation. Timing analysis. Information-Theoretic Analysis. Feedback in digital circuits and in genetic regulatory systems. Synthesizing stochastic logic and probabilistic biochemistry.

EE 5501
Digital Communication
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 4501, 3025, sr or grad in IT major or #)
Theory and techniques of modern digital communications. Communication limits; modulation and detection; data transmission over channels with intersymbol interference; optimal and suboptimal sequence detection; equalization. Error correction coding; trellis-coded modulation; multiple access.

EE 5505
Wireless Communication
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4501, [IT grad student or #]; 5501 recommended; spring, every year)
Introduction to wireless communication systems. Propagation modeling, digital communication over fading channels, diversity and spread spectrum techniques, radio mobile cellular systems design, performance evaluation. Current European, North American, and Japanese wireless networks.

EE 5531
Probability and Stochastic Processes
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 3025, grad in IT major or #)
Probability, random variables and random processes. System response to random inputs. Gaussian, Markov and other processes for modeling and engineering applications. Correlation and spectral analysis. Basic estimation principles. Examples from digital communications and computer networks.

EE 5542
Adaptive Digital Signal Processing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 4541, 5531 or #)
Design, application, and implementation of optimum/adaptive discrete-time FIR/IIR filters. Wiener, Kalman, and Least-Squares. Linear prediction. Lattice structure. LMS, RLS, and Levinson-Durbin algorithms. Channel equalization, system identification, biomedical/sensor array processing, spectrum estimation. Noise cancellation applications.

EE 5551
Multiscale and Multirate Signal Processing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 4541, 5531, grad in IT major or #)
Multirate discrete-time systems. Bases, frames; continuous wavelet transform; scaling equations; discrete wavelet transform; applications in signal and image processing.

EE 5561
Image Processing and Applications
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 4541, 5581, IT grad student or #)
Two-dimensional digital filtering/tranforms. Application to image enhancement, restoration, compression, and segmentation.

EE 5581
Information Theory and Coding
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5531 or #)
Source and channel models, codes for sources and channels. Entropy, mutual information, capacity, rate-distortion functions. Coding theorems.

EE 5583
Error Control Coding
(3.0 cr; Prereq-3025, Math 2373 or equiv, IT grad student)
Error-correcting codes. Concepts, properties, polynomial representation. BCH, Golay, Reed-Muller/Reed-Solomon codes. Convolutional codes. Iterative codes.

EE 5585
Data Compression
(3.0 cr; Prereq - IT sr or grad or #)
Source coding in digital communications and recording; codes for lossless compression; universal lossless codes; lossless image compression; scalar and vector quantizer design; loss source coding theory; differential coding, trellis codes, transform and subband coding; analysis/synthesis schemes.

EE 5601
Introduction to RF/Microwave Engineering
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 4601, IT sr or grad)
Fundamentals of EM theory and transmission lines concepts. Transmission lines and network analysis. CAD tool. Lumped circuit component designs. Passive circuit components. Connectivity to central communication theme.

EE 5602
RF/Microwave Circuit Design
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 5601 or equiv)
Transmission lines, network analysis concepts. CAD tools for passive/active designs. Diode based circuit designs (detectors, frequency multipliers, mixers). Transistor based circuit design (amplifiers, oscillators, mixer/doubler).

EE 5607
Wireless Hardware System Design
(3.0 cr)
The operating frequency, modulation scheme, data encoding approaches, etc. used in a wireless system are chosen to meet various performance requirements such as data rate, number of users, cost, and coverage area. This leads to the development of specifications for the rf hardware. Typically there are a number of ways in which the rf hardware can be realized. It is important for both the systems engineer and the hardware designer to have an idea as to the various options available. Tradeoffs can then be made resulting in the selection of the best choices for the antennas, amplifiers, mixers, etc. that make up the rf system. The course begins by showing how system parameters lead to the specifications that the hardware must meet. Next options for the transmitter and receiver architectures are explored. This is followed by a study of the various components and technologies that make up a typical rf system including how they are specified, approaches for realizing them and the philosophy behind their design. The intent of this course is to introduce the student to the rf hardware aspects of a wireless system. The student will develop a good understanding of the various rf hardware approaches and the tradeoffs between them.

EE 5609
Digital Signal Integrity
(3.0 cr, =EE 4609; Prereq – 2011, Phys 1301, 1302 [EE or Comp E grad student])
Introduction to high speed interconnect design. Transmission line theory, coupled line theory, elements of microwave circuit theory, parasitic calculations/measurement, techniques for good interconnect design. Term paper.

EE 5611
Plasma-Aided Manufacturing
(4.0 cr; co-taught with ME 5361; Prereq - ME 3321, ME 3322 or equiv; upper div IT or grad student)
Manufacturing using plasma processes. Plasma properties as a processing medium. Plasma spraying, welding and microelectronics processing. Process control and system design; industrial speakers. Cross-disciplinary experience between heat transfer design issues and manufacturing technology.

EE 5616
Antenna Theory and Design
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5601 or concurrent registration in 5601)
Antenna performance parameters, vector potential/radiation integral, wire antenna structures, broadband antenna structures, microstrips/aperture theory, antenna measurements.

EE 5621
Physical Optics
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 3015 or #)
Physical optics principles, including Fourier analysis of optical systems and images, scalar diffraction theory, interferometry, and coherence theory. Applications discussed include diffractive optical elements, holography, astronomical imaging, optical information processing, and microoptics.

EE 5624
Optical Electronics
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 3601 or Phys 3002 or #)
Fundamentals of lasers, including propagation of Gaussian beams, optical resonators, and theory of laser oscillation. Polarization optics, electro-optic, acousto-optic modulation, nonlinear optics, and phase conjugation.

EE 5627
Optical Fiber Communication
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 3015, 3601 or #)
Components and systems aspects of optical fiber communication. Modes of optical fibers. Signal degradation and dispersion. Optical sources and detectors. Digital and analog transmissions systems. Direct detection and coherent detection. Optical amplifiers. Optical soliton propagation.

EE 5629
Optical System Design
(2.0 cr; Prereq - IT sr or grad student)
Elementary or paraxial optics. Non-paraxial, exact ray tracing. Energy considerations in instrument design. Fourier optics and image quality. Design examples: telescopes, microscopes, diffraction-limited lenses, projectors, and scientific instruments.

EE 5653
Physical Principles of Magnetic Materials
(3.0 cr; Prereq - IT grad or #)
Physics of diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism; ferromagnetic phenomena; static and dynamic theory of micromagnetics, magneto-optics, and magnetization dynamics; magnetic material applications.

EE 5655
Magnetic Recording
(3.0 cr; Prereq - IT grad or #)
Magnetic fundamentals, recording materials, idealized models of magnetic records/reproduction, analytic models of magnetic record heads, sinusoidal magnetic recording, digital magnetic recording, magnetic recording heads/media, digital recording systems.

EE 5657W
Physical Principles of Thin Film Technology
(4.0 cr; Prereq - IT sr or grad student or #)
Physical principles of deposition, characterization, and processing of thin film materials. Materials science, vacuum science, and technology. Physical vapor deposition techniques. Properties of thin films and metallurgical/protective coatings. Modification of surface films. Emerging think film materials/applications. Lab. Demonstration experiments. Note: On-campus lab required. Connect with UNITE for specific times of labs and/or to see if work experience can be used in lieu of lab. Registrations will be accepted for graduate students, graduate PRD status, and adult specials. Any undergraduate student registration will be placed on a waiting list.

EE 5705
Advanced Electric Drives
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 4701)
D-q axis analysis of salient-pole synchronous motor drives; vector-controlled induction motor drives, sensor-less drives, voltage space-vector modulation techniques, current-source inverter drives, reluctance drives; power quality issues. Integrated software lab.

EE 5741
Advanced Power Electronics
(3.0 cr; Prereq – IT grad student)
Physics of solid-state power devices, passive components, magnetic optimization, advanced topologies. Unity power factor correction circuits, EMI issues, snubbers, soft switching in dc/ac converters. Practical considerations. Very low voltage output converters. Integrated computer simulations.

EE 5811
Biomedical Instrumentation
(3.0 cr; Prereq - IT sr or life-science sr or grad student)
Biological signal sources. Electrodes, microelectrodes, other transducers. Characteristics of amplifiers. Noise in biological signals. Filtering, recording, display. Protection of patients from electrical hazards. Experiments in neural/muscle stimulation. EKG/EMG recording, neuron simulation, filtering, and low-noise amplifiers.

EE 5821
Biological System Modeling and Analysis
(3.0 cr; Prereq - IT sr or life science sr or grad)
Purpose of biological system modeling; advantages, limitations, special problems. Models of nerve excitation and propagation. Biological control systems; respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Sensory organs and theories of perception. Limbs and locomotion.

EE 5940
Special Topics in Electrical Engineering I (Circuits, Computation and Biology)
(3.0 cr; Prereq – Math 2263, 3025 or Stat 3021)
Connections between digital circuit design and synthetic/computational biology. Probabilistic, discrete-event simulation. Timing analysis. Information-Theoretic Analysis, Feedback in digital circuits and in genetic regulatory systems. Synthesizing stochastic logic and probabilistic biochemistry.

EE 5940
Special Topics in Electrical Engineering I (Digital Signal Integrity)
(3.0 cr)
As digital system clock speeds increase and signal risetimes decrease, the effect of interconnects between circuits and even on chip become important. Improperly designed interconnects can create reflections, ringing, high levels of crosstalk and other effects. These can cause false switching, data corruption, high levels of electromagnetic interference, etc. Designers of today's high speed digital systems must therefore have a good understanding of transmission line theory, coupled line theory, parasitics and techniques for good interconnect design. The intent of this course is to introduce the student to these topics and to develop an understanding of high speed interconnect design.

EE 5940
Special Topics in Electrical Engineering I (Introduction to Nanophotonics and Biophotonics)
(3.0 cr; Prereq – Basic knowledge of Maxwell’s equations)
This course will cover basics of optics in nanostructures and their applications for photonics, biosensing and biological imaging. Fundamentals: Review of Maxwell’s equations, electrodynamics of metals; Fresnel’s equations; Photonic crystals; Nano-Optics – Surface Plasmon waves; Nanoparticle optics (metal particles and quantum dots); Near-field imaging and microscopy; Light transmission through nanoscale apertures; Negative refractive index and superiens; Biophotonics and Biological Imaging; Basic concepts and advanced microscopy; Raman spectroscopy and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS); Surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors; Advanced microscopy: Fluorescence techniques, Confocal imaging, Total Internal Reflection Florence (TIRF) microscopy, FRET. Hands-on computer simulations: (1) SPR phenomena and light transmission through nano-apertures; (2) Finite-Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulations of wave propagation.

EE 5950
Special Topics in Electrical Engineering II (Digital Signal Processing II)
(3.0 cr, Prereq - EE 4541 and a knowledge of Matlab or equivalent)
Covers analog and digital design of Chebyshev, elliptic, and allpass filters. Theoretical development and design of FIR filters, like frequency sampling filters, equalizers, inverse filters, optimal filters, smoothing filters. Spectral analysis and synthesis. Network structures for infinite impulse response (IIR) and FIR filters. Design of nonlinear filters, like ordered-statistics filters, median filters, homomorphic filters. Matlab or equivalent will be used throughout the course.

EE 5950
Special Topics in Electrical Engineering II (Error Control Coding)
(3.0 cr)
Fundamental concepts of coding (minimum distance, error probability computation and bounds, coding gain, bounds on minimum distance, random coding bounds). Basic linear code properties (parity check and generator matrices, Hamming codes, syndrome, standard array, cosets). Polynomial Codes (theory of linear vector spaces, algebra of groups and fields, polynomial codes, cyclic codes). Important classes of linear/polynomial codes (BCH codes, Golay codes, maximal-length codes, Reed-Muller codes). Reed-Solomon Codes (RS codes as non-binary BCH codes, Berlekamp decoding, Euclid’s decoding algorithm, frequency-domain decoding, time-domain decoding, error-and-erasures decoding). Convolutional codes (state and trellis diagrams, error probability bounds, Viterbi decoding, Fano sequential decoding, soft-output decoding). Iterative Codes (turbo codes, LDPC codes, iterative decoding, distance parameters).

EE 5960
Special Topics in Electrical Engineering III (Fuzzy Logic: Theory and Applications)
(3.0 cr; Prereq - EE 4541, some DSP and knowledge of MATLAB or equiv)
Fuzzy logic, an artificial intelligence language, is one of the fastest growing technologies in the world. Successful applications of fuzzy logic are adjunct to solving highly nonlinear system problems. For example, fuzzy logic is entering medical disciplines like open-heart surgery and cancer detection. Several engineering problem solutions using fuzzy logic will be outlined. Covered in the course are crisp and fuzzy sets with their relations. Membership functions, inference, and defuzzification. Fuzzy arithmetic and algebra problems. Fuzzy rule-based systems and nonlinear simulations. Fuzzy decision making, classification, and recognition. Applications of fuzzy logic to digital signal processing, digital control, filters, image processing, medicine, etc. The use of simple MATLAB functions, which are provided with the course.

EE 5960
Special Topics in Electrical Engineering III (Integrated MEMS and Sensors)
(3.0 cr; Prereq – general knowledge of freshman physics, freshman biology, basic electronic circuits, basic semiconductor devices and technologies are required. The following courses are highly recommended but not prerequisite: EE 3161 Semiconductor Devices; EE 5141 Introduction to Microsystem Technology; EE 5171 Microelectronic Fabrication)
This course covers the general spectrum of integrated MEMS and sensors with an emphasis on interdisciplinary applications in system perspective. In this course, we approach MEMS as an enabling technology to innovate or provide enhanced system solutions for specific market needs. We will divide the lecture topics categorized by applications and each topic will be covered from top-down approach rather than bottom-up. This class is designed to be open for undergraduate as well as graduate students and participation of students from other departments is strongly encouraged due to the nature of interdisciplinary topics to be covered. For the novice students in MEMS area, fundamental micromachining technologies will be introduced at the beginning of the course with some introductory review of semiconductor processing technologies. After understanding the basic MEMS technologies, we will move on to some selected applications including RF MEMS, Optical MEMS, thermal imaging sensors, BioMEMS, microfludics and biomedical sensors. Each topic requires the understanding of its own extended field outside of EE; however, the course will always take the position to approach each topic from an EE stand.

EE 5960
Special Topics in Electrical Engineering III (Integrated CMOS Sensors for Bio-Interface: Measuring Vision, biometric, DNA, Olfactory, Neural Signals)
(3.0 cr, Prereq – General knowledge of freshman physics, basic electronic circuits, fundamental semiconductor devices and technologies are required. The following courses are prerequisite: EE 3005 Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, EE 3115 Analog and Digital Electronics. The following courses are highly recommended but are not prerequisite: EE 3161 Semiconductor Devices, EE 5323 VLSI Design, EE 5333 Analog Integrated Circuit Design)
This course covers the topics of CMOS sensors for bio-interface with an emphasis on basic circuit level designs to improve system level performance. In this course, we review various CMOS sensors including CMOS vision sensors (optical interface), capacitive fingerprint biometric imagers (touch interface), DNA sensors (biomolecule interface), olfactory sensors (gas molecule interface) and neural probes (neuron interface). The basic principle of operation of each sensor will be introduced followed by detailed discussion of on-chip readout and signal conditioning circuitry used to enhance signal levels. Various analog and digital mixed-signal circuit designs in practical sensor implementation will be extensively explored to achieve high signal-to-noise ratio. This class is designed to be open for undergraduate as well as graduate students and the scope of topics will assume that students only have the knowledge in the basic electronic circuits and simple semiconductor devices. First, fundamentals of digital camera system will be introduced with a brief history of imaging devices. How CMOS vision sensors are different from CCD will be explained by presenting basic photo-detector pixel schemes and related active pixel architectures. Basic readout units and different A/D converter options will be reviewed. Also, we will cover high performance CMOS vision sensors such as high-resolution, high frame rate, and wide dynamic range sensors for vision interface. This lecture will provide general sensor issues (noise, power, sensitivity, response time, etc.) using the CMOS vision sensor as an example. Various noise sources in CMOS vision sensors (temporal noise, fixed pattern noise, circuit noise, etc) will be analyzed and noise canceling circuits will be discussed. In the later part of the lecture, the discussion will be extended to other bio-interface sensors. Capacitive fingerprint biometric image sensor is a natural extension of vision sensors because it shares similar readout circuit blocks in an array form. DNA sensors implemented in conventional CMOS technology will be introduced followed by olfactory sensors integrated with on-chip MEMS thermal structures. Finally, CMOS neural probes for cellular interface will be presented in the application of neuroscience study and brain-computer communications. Wireless transmission of neural signals and wireless power delivery will be discussed. Students will be exposed to the immense range of integrated CMOS sensors from basic concepts to various interesting applications. Students will acquire practical analog and digital mixed-signal design knowledge and experience through lectures as well as homework assignments. Students will be asked to select on interesting topic among the various CMOS sensors covered in the class and to submit a term project paper.

EE 8161
Properties of Semiconductors I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - #)
Modern solid-state theory applied to specific semiconductor materials; influence of band structure and scattering mechanisms upon semiconductor properties; plasma effects in semiconductors; mathematical treatments of generation-recombination kinetics, carrier injection, drift, and diffusion; use of semiconductor properties in devices of current importance.

EE 8215
Nonlinear Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq – #)
Current topics in stability analysis of nonlinear systems, design of controllers for nonlinear systems, discrete-time and stochastic nonlinear systems.

EE 8301
Advanced Topics in Design Automation: Reconfigurable Computing
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud. Prereq - General knowledge of algorithms and computer systems. Knowledge of computer-aided design [CAD], computer architecture and operating systems a plus, but not a necessity)

This course covers the concept, hardware platforms, and software support systems for reconfigurable computing (RC) using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). An FPGA device is made of an array of programmable logic blocks and programmable switches that connect the blocks. Reconfigurable computing takes advantage of the programmability of FPGAs and modifies the configuration of the logic blocks and switches on the FPGA to build new functional units that better match application hardware requirements.

EE 8337
Analog Circuits for Wireless Communications
(1.0-3.0 cr; Prereq - #; may be repeated for cr)
This course will cover both the basic background and advanced design concepts necessary to design integrated CMOS RF circuits. Emphasis will be placed on CMOS and RF however, where appropriate mention will be made of bipolar circuits and applications to other communications areas. Topics to be covered include: (a) Passive and active components for RF; (b) Smith charts and S-parameters; (c) noise; (d) High frequency amplifier design; (e) LNA design; (f) Mixers; (g) RF power amplifiers; (h) Oscillators and synthesizers'; (i) Wireless system architectures.

EE 8367
Parallel Machine Organization
(3.0 cr; Prereq - CSCI 8367; 5364 or CSCI 5204)
Design/implementation of multiprocessor systems. Parallel machine organization, system design. Differences between parallel, uniprocessor machines. Programming models. Synchronization/communication. Topologies, message routing strategies. Performance optimization techniques. Compiler, system software issues.

EE 8541
Image Processing and Applications
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4541, 5581 or #)
Two-dimensional digital filtering and transforms; application to image enhancement, restoration, compression, and segmentation.

EE 8581
Detection and Estimation Theory
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5531 or #)
Risk theory approach to detection and estimation, random process representation, signal parameter estimation. Waveform estimation; detection of phase, frequency, and delay in signals. Applications to communications and radar-sonar signal design and processing.

EE 8591
Predictive Learning From Data
(3.0 cr; Prereq - IT grad student or #)
Basic elements and application areas of artificial intelligence (AI) related to design and implementation of expert systems (ES). Knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, ES and their environment, planning, natural language processing (NLP), intelligent computer-aided instruction (ICAI), and AI tools (software and hardware).

EE 8660
Seminar: Magnetics
(1.0 cr; S-N only)
Current literature, individual assignments.

EE 8950
Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
(1.0-3.0 cr)
Topics vary according to needs and staff availability.

EE 8980
Graduate Seminar II
(UNITE students cannot take seminar for credit.)
Recent developments in electrical engineering, related disciplines.

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Health Science Management (HSM)

College of Continuing Education

HSM 3501
Statistics and Research Design
(3.0 cr; Prereq - college algebra; A-F only)
Students will review the process of research with a focus on applications in health science fields. The course provides study content in statistics, research study design including problem statement development and protocol development, research questions or hypothesis development, feasibility, sampling methods and instruments, data management, data analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of research. Concepts in analysis include both descriptive and inferential statistics.

HSM 3521
Health Care Delivery Systems
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Students explore health care delivery systems including a review of health economics, third party and public reimbursement, and contemporary trends in health care organizations, management and administration. Regulations, standards, quality assurance, accreditation and ethical issues are considered in the context of contemporary medical practice. Future implications for the health care providers and professionals, patients and families, communities, and international health are included in this course.

HSM 4501
Writing for the Health Professions
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Writing for the health professions consists of developing skills to critically review medical literature and present research data. Research is the study of a basic science or clinical area to answer questions or evaluate a hypothesis. The solutions to a research question must be found using a scientific method incorporating logic, systematic approach, and objective analysis to ensure consistency and validity. Students will support a hypothesis using extensive research of previously conducted work. Students will present data in both graphic and narrative form using style and format consistent with professional standards.

HSM 4541
Health Care Finance
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Students will review general principles of financial management with application for the healthcare industry. The financial and management goals of various types of medical institutions will be examined. The course will focus on the operational knowledge of financial management theory. Emphasis will be placed on how hospitals and hospital departments develop an operating & capital budget and create the proper balance for business growth and development. Students will be exposed to the challenge of medical business in the face of governmental policies, procedures and ethical issues controlling the healthcare industry.

HSM 4561
Health Care Administration and Management
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Students acquire background and skills in the business and administrative aspects of health care. Applications of business theory are applied to medical settings including: organization models, reimbursement methodologies, information systems, staff-scheduling, employee evaluation, accreditation agencies, productivity management, budget planning, and group leadership.

HSM 4581
Teaching in the Health Care Setting
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Students will review basic components of contemporary learning theory and how to design teaching strategies and evaluate educational outcomes. Students will be involved in assignments requiring evaluation of educational needs, development of curriculum, application of various instructional methods and assessment of learning. Clinical experiences involve student teaching with allied health practitioners, patients, and families.

HSM 4611
Allied Health Grand Rounds
(1.0 cr; A-F only)
This capstone course reviews allied health clinical and professional issues from a broad spectrum and also allows reflection on caregiver roles in human caring. Presentations cover a wide range of topics that impact allied health practitioners and include global views of national health policy, economics, ethical and legal problems, and challenging clinical cases. Group discussion sessions provide a forum for multidisciplinary review of cases in order to bring larger issues down to individual patient and family experiences.

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Human Resource Development (HRD)

College of Education and Human Development

HRD 5001
Survey: Human Resource Development and Adult Education
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Overview of fields of human resource development and adult education. Includes societal context, systems theory, processes, definitions, philosophies, goals, sponsoring agencies, professional roles, participants, and resources. Emphasis on the unique characteristics and ways the fields overlap and enhance one another.

HRD 5105
Strategic Planning Through Human Resource Development
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5001W or 5101, 5102, 5103, 5104)
The theory and practice of strategically developing, utilizing and aligning human resources as a major contributor to organizational and quality improvement success.

HRD 5301
Organization Development
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Introduction to major concepts, skills, and techniques for organization development/change.

HRD 5662
Computer Training in School and Industry Settings
(2.0 cr; Prereq - BIE 5011 or equiv)
Alternative practices for teaching business applications software use--such as word processors, spreadsheets, graphics software, desktop publishing software, databases, and communications software--in both public school and industry settings.

HRD 5770
Quality Improvement Initiatives: Practical Uses
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Explanation of issues, methods, and knowledge in HRD areas. Topics vary.

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Industrial Engineering (IE)

Institute of Technology

IE 4521
Statistics, Quality and Reliability
(4.0 cr; Prereq - Upper div or grad student or CNR)
Random variables/probability distributions, statistical sampling/measurement, statistical inferencing, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, sing/multivariate regression, design of experiments, statistical quality control, quality management, reliability, maintainability, availability.

IE 5111
Systems Engineering I
(2.0 cr; Prereq - IT upper div or grad student; A-F or Aud)
Overview of systems-level thinking/techniques in context of an integrated, design-oriented framework. Elements of systems engineering process, including lifecycle, concurrent, and global engineering. Framework for engineering large-scale, complex systems. How specific techniques fit into framework.

IE 5441
Engineering Cost Accounting and Cost Control
(4.0 cr; A-F or Aud)
Financial accounting, managerial accounting, engineering economics. Preparing financial statements, handling accounts payable/receivable, inventories, depreciation. Financing sources, capital cost/structure. Time value of money and of risk in managerial decision making. Design of cost accounting system and activity-based accounting.

IE 5511
Human Factors and Work Analysis
(4.0 cr; Prereq - upper div IT or grad student; A-F or Aud)
Human factors engineering (ergonomics), methods engineering, and work measurement. Human-machine interface: displays, controls, instrument layout, and supervisory control. Anthropometry, work physiology and biomechanics. Work environmental factors: noise, illumination, toxicology. Methods engineering, including operations analysis, motion study, and time standards.

IE 5513
Engineering Safety
(4.0 cr; Prereq - upper div IT or grad student; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Occupational, health, and product safety. Standards, laws, and regulations. Hazards and their engineering control, including general principles, tools and machines, mechanics and structures, electrical safety, materials handling, fire safety, and chemicals. Human behavior and safety, procedures and training, warnings and instructions.

IE 5522
Quality Engineering and Reliability
(4.0 cr; IT or grad student; 4521 or equiv; upper div or grad student or CNR)
Quality engineering/management, economics of quality, statistical process control design of experiments, reliability, maintainability, availability.

IE 5541
Project Management
(4.0 cr; Prereq - upper div or grad student)
Project screening/selection, multiple-criteria methods for project evaluation, project structuring/work breakdown, project teams, project scheduling, resource management, life-cycle costing, project control, project termination, research/development projects, computer support for project management.

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Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (LaMP)

Medical School

Lamp 4177
Pathology for Allied Health Students
(3.0 cr; Prereq - regis allied health program, anatomy course, physiology course or #)
General and organ system pathology.

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Latin (Lat)

College of Liberal Arts

Lat 3113
Republican Latin Authors
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 1002 or 1111 or 3111 or 3 yrs high school Latin or approval of the department)
Intermediate Latin reading featuring selections from Caesar, Cicero and Catullus. Grammar review; introduction to Latin metrics; history and culture of the late republic.

Lat 3300
Intermediate Latin Poetry
(4.0 cr; Prereq - jr or sr)
Readings in Latin poetry. Introduction to Latin Meter. Vergil and Catullus/Ovid offered in alternate years.

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Manufacturing Technology (MT)

College of Continuing Education

MT 4001
Manufacturing Cost Accounting, Analysis, and Control
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
Basic accounting concepts. Financial statements. Analysis/control of current assets. Income tax planning. Cost analysis. Standard costs for product costing. Time value of money. Quantifying risk/uncertainty. Utility theory, cost of capital, capital structure. Capital budgeting under capital rationing. Management decisions and investment.

MT 4011
Design of Manufacturing Systems and Simulation
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud)
Design/analysis of manufacturing systems: flow lines, assembly systems, cellular manufacturing, flexible manufacturing, automated systems. Control issues in manufacturing systems: facility layout, scheduling, batch sizing, group technology, bottleneck management. Modeling/analysis tools, including computer simulation and operations.

MT 4012
Manufacturing Processes
(3.0 cr, A-F only)
Description/modeling of commonly used manufacturing processes. Process descriptions, process capabilities/performance, process models relating process parameters to part/process characteristics, process control.

MT 4015
Quality Engineering
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Statistical, engineering, and management approaches to quality improvement. Economics. Teams and information systems. Problem-solving. Function deployment. Value analysis. Reliability engineering. Design for manufacturability analysis. Experiment design. Statistical control. Process validation/capability. Standards, audits, certification.

MT 4025
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4012, ABUS 4102; A-F only, spring, every year)
Manufacturing systems as open systems. Manufacturing system design. Information flow and computer networks. Network classification/services, hardware components. Network protocols/architecture applied to product design/manufacturing. Computer software used to simulate system/environment interaction.

MT 4201
Statistical Process Control
(3.0 cr, A-F only)
Cost of quality, hypothesis testing, control charts, other methods. Process capability, acceptance sampling methods, reliability, gage capability studies. Designing experiments. Factorial designs, Six Sigma concepts, computer analysis methods, blocking/randomizing trials. Impact of Taguchi methods.

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Master of Business Administration (MBA)

University of Minnesota Duluth, Labovitz School of Business and Economics

MBA 8111
Business, Government, and Society
(2.0 cr; Prereq - MBA grad student or approval of the college; A-F only)
How cultural, political, global, legal, and economic factors impact business activities. Issues of business ethics and social responsibility.

MBA 8211
Data Analysis and Statistics for Managers
(2.0 cr; Prereq - Econ 2020 or equiv; A-F only)
Concepts/principles of business statistics, data analysis, and presentation of results. Research process and design, secondary and primary data collection, measurement concepts, sampling design, use and interpretation of statistical techniques, research ethics, reporting, and evaluating research findings.

MBA 8311
Operations Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq - FMIS 3301 or equiv, grad student or @; A-F only)
Operations management strategies for the organization. Computer-implemented decision support models introduced in contexts such as project management, resource allocation, forecasting, quality management, inventory management, and simulation.

MBA 8411
Policy Formulation and Implementation
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 8311, 8611, 8711, 8811, grad student or approval of the college; A-F only)
Formulation and implementation of organizational strategy and policy that results in a sustainable competitive advantage. Develop skills in integrating all functional areas of business as well as identifying industry and competitive trends to determine organizational strategy.

MBA 8501
Management Accounting
(3.0 cr; Prereq - Acct 2005 or equiv, grad student or approval from UMD Business School; A-F only)
Interpreting and using accounting reports and supplementary information for management planning, coordination, and control; emphasis on using accounting information for decision making in problems of product mix, cost-volume-profit analysis, and other profit planning and control areas.

MBA 8512
Managerial Economics
(2.0 cr; Prereq - [Econ 1022, Econ 1023 or equiv], grad student or @; A-F only)
Application of economic theory and economic methodology to managerial decision making. Supply and demand, production, consumer behavior, business and economic forecasting, pricing and marketing strategies under differing competitive conditions, government's role, and the global market.

MBA 8611
Financial Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq - FMIS 3601 or equiv, grad student or approval from UMD Business School; A-F only)
Corporate financial policy. Application of financial theory and decision-making tools.

MBA 8711
Marketing Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq - MgtS 3701 or equiv, grad student or @; A-F only)
Planning, implementation, evaluation, and control of organizational marketing activities. This process includes environmental market analysis in order to achieve competitive advantage and effective resource allocation.

MBA 8811
Human Resource Challenges
(3.0 cr; Prereq - MgtS 3801 or equiv, grad student or approval from UMD Business School; A-F only)
Overview of contemporary human resource issues, human resource systems, procedures, and decisions that guide effective, efficient, and equitable management of people in organizations.

MBA 8995
Special Topics (Improvisation Theater for Business)
(1.0 cr)
This course is intended to provide students a platform to get a better understanding of themselves and their relationship with others in order to develop some key soft skills that are important in the modern business environment. It applies the principles of improvisational theater to help students explore and develop their ability to face risky, uncertain situations and respond effectively and efficiently.

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Mathematics (MATH)

Institute of Technology

MATH 4242
Applied Linear Algebra
(4.0 cr; Prereq 2243 or 2373 or 2573) Matlab will be used for a portion of this course. Systems of linear equations, vector spaces, subspaces, bases, linear transformations, matrices, determinants, eigenvalues, canonical forms, quadratic forms, applications.

MATH 4567
Applied Fourier Analysis
(4.0 cr; Prereq 2263, 2373 or 2573)
Fourier series, integral/transform. Convergence. Fourier series, transform in complex form. Solution of wave, heat, Laplace equations by separation of variables. Sturm-Liouville systems, finite Fourier, fast Fourier transform. Applications. Other topics as time permits.

MATH 5248
Cryptology and Number Theory
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 2 sems soph math)
Classical cryptosystems. One-time pads, perfect secrecy. Public key ciphers: RSA, discrete log. Euclidean algorithm, finite fields, quadratic reciprocity. Message digest, hash functions. Protocols: key exchange, secret sharing, zero-knowledge proofs. Probabilistic algorithms: pseudo primes, prime factorization. Pseudo-random numbers. Elliptic curves.

MATH 5485
Introduction to Numerical Methods I
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 2243 or 2373 or 2573, familiarity with some programming language)
Solution of nonlinear equations in one variable. Interpolation, polynomial approximation, numerical integration/differentiation, numerical solution of initial-value problems.

MATH 5486
Introduction to Numerical Methods II
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 5485)
Direct/iterative methods for solving linear systems, approximation theory, eigenvalue problems, methods for systems of nonlinear equations, numeric boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations.

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Mathematics Education (MTHE)

College of Education and Human Development

MTHE 5101
Teaching Elementary School Mathematics
(3.0 cr; Prereq - Elem Ed or Special Ed Med student or teaching license or #)
Modern trends, methods and materials used to convey mathematical ideas.

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Mechanical Engineering (ME)

Institute of Technology

ME 3221
Design and Manufacturing I: Engineering Materials and Manufacturing Processes
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 2011, AEM 3031, MatS2001, ME upper div; A-F or Aud)
Students must also attend on-campus lab. Undergraduate credit only.
Material behavior/failure in design/manufacturing. Models for material removal, bulk deformation, sheet metal forming, and consolidation processes. Characterization of process capabilities/parts.

ME 3333
Thermal Science III
(3.0 cr; Prereq – ME 332, ME upper div; A-F only)
Mechanisms of heat transfer: conduction, convection, radiation. Differential analysis of momentum/energy equations. Forced/natural convection, heat exchangers.

ME 5211
Human Factors and Work Analysis
(4.0 cr; Prereq - IT upper div or grad, 3222, CSCI 1113 or equiv; A-F or Aud) Human factors engineering (ergonomics), methods engineering, and work measurement. Human-machine interface: displays, controls, instrument layout, and supervisory control. Anthropometry, work physiology and biomechanics. Work environmental factors: noise, illumination, toxicology. Methods engineering, including operations analysis, motion study, and time standards.

ME 5241
Computer-Aided Engineering
(4.0 cr; A-F only. Prereq – IT upper div or grad, 3222, CSCI 1113 or equiv)
Apply computer-aided engineering to mechanical design. Engineering design projects and case studies using computer-aided design and finite element analysis software; design optimization and computer graphical presentation of results.

ME 5248
Vibration Engineering
(4.0 cr; Prereq – IT upper div or grad, 3281)
Apply vibration theory to design; optimize isolators, detuning mechanisms, viscoel suspensions and structures. Use modal analysis methods to describe free vibration complex systems, relating to both theoretical and test procedures.

ME 5286
Robotics
(4.0 cr; Prereq 3281 or equiv; upper div ME or AEM or CSci or grad student)
Manipulator forward/inverse kinematics, homogeneous transformations, coordinate frames, Jacobian/velocity control, task primitives/programming, computational issues. Determining path trajectories. Reaction forces, manipulator dynamics/control. Vehicle kinematics, dynamics, and guidance. Lab project demonstrates concepts.

ME 5341
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering and Design
(4.0 cr; Prereq – IT upper div or grad student, 3321, 3322; A-F or audit)
Characteristics of applied heat transfer problems: nature of problem specification, incompleteness of needed knowledge base, accuracy issues. Categories of applied heat transfer problems (e.g., materials processing, turbomachinery, cooling of electronic equipment, biomedical thermal therapeutic devices, heat exchangers, HVAC systems).

ME 5343
Advanced Mechanism Design
(4.0 cr; Prereq – IT upper div or grad, 3222 or equiv, basic kinematics and dynamics of machines; knowledge of CAD packages such as Pro-E recommended; A-F or Aud)
Analytical methods of kinematic, dynamic, and kinetoelastodynamic analysis and synthesis of mechanisms. Computerized design for function, path, and motion generation based on Burmeister theory.

ME 5344
Thermodynamics of Fluid Flow with Applications
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 3333 or 3324, IT upper div or grad student)
Technology trends and packaging needs of microelectronic components. Thermal characteristics, heat transfer mechanisms, thermal failure modes of electronic/microelectronic equipment. Reliability prediction. Thermal stress/strain in layered structures and solder joints.

ME 5348
Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment
(4.0 cr; Prereq – 3333 or 33324, IT upper div or grad student)
Technology trends and packaging needs of microelectronic components. Thermal characteristics, heat transfer mechanisms, thermal failure modes of electronic/microelectronic equipment. Reliability prediction. Thermal stress/strain in layered structures and solder joints.

ME 5361
Plasma-Aided Manufacturing
(4.0 cr; co-taught with EE 5611; Prereq - ME 3321, ME 3322 or equiv; upper div IT or grad student)
Manufacturing using plasma processes. Plasma properties as a processing medium. Plasma spraying, welding and microelectronics processing. Process control and system design; industrial speakers. Cross-disciplinary experience between heat transfer design issues and manufacturing technology.

ME 8254
Fundamentals of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
(4.0 cr; A-F only)
Note: This course will require students to attend an on-campus lab six times during the semester - contact professor directly about this requirement.
Major classes, components, and applications of MEMS. Principles behind operation of MEMS devices/systems. Standard microfabrication techniques. Unique requirements, environments, and applications of MEMS. Students apply microfabrication techniques/applications to design/manufacture of MEMS device or microsystem.

ME 8390
Advanced Topics in the Thermal Sciences
(1.0 cr; [max 6 cr]; A-F or Aud)
This course is for persons who wish to learn modern fluid mechanics, mass transfer, and radiative transfer in a real-world setting. The biomedical setting for the work will be an enhancement, but no prior knowledge of this field is needed.

ME 8773
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
(1.0 cr; Prereq - IT grad student; S-N only)
Recent developments.

ME 8774
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
(1.0 cr; Prereq - ME 8773; S-N only)
Recent developments.

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Nanoparticle Science and Engineering (NPSE)

Institute of Technology

NPSE 8001
Introduction to Nanoparticle Science and Engineering
(3.0 cr; A-F or Aud)
A broad, interdisciplinary overview of the emerging field of nanoparticle science and engineering. This introductory course, designed for students with diverse backgrounds in science and engineering, covers a wide spectrum of topics—from the synthesis of nanoparticles, to nanoparticle growth and transport, to characterization methods for nanoparticles, to novel nanoparticle-based materials and devices.

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Nursing (NURS)

School of Nursing

NURS 3700
Human Experience of Health and Illness
(2.0 cr; Prereq - nursing student or #; A-F only)
Uses literature, film, and fine arts to explore health/illness as multicultural individual, family, and community experiences. Theoretical perspectives about health/illness. Social-cultural organization of health services, social mandate for professional participation in health/illness events.

NURS 3702
Introduction to Nursing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - nursing student or #; A-F only)
Nature of nursing, nursing practice, nursing history, roles, foundational concepts, classification systems, documentation. Students develop nursing care plans using nursing process. Clinical application in various settings.

NURS 3704
Nursing Fundamentals I: Assessment and Intervention
(4.0 cr; Prereq - nursing student or #; A-F only)
Foundational psychomotor skills/interventions used in nursing practice when caring for persons throughout lifespan in various contexts. Theory/skills of health assessment, including health history and physical exam of infants/adults.

NURS 3706
Therapeutic Communication
(3.0 cr; Prereq - nursing student or #; A-F only)
Developing therapeutic use of self. Applying communication strategies to provide optimal nursing care and to communicate with individuals, families, interdisciplinary teams, and communities.

NURS 4100
Introduction to Nursing, Health, and Health Promotion
(5.0 cr; Prereq - Nurs 4000, &4101, &4103, &4104)
Nature of Nursing/Nursing practice and relations among their foundational concepts: health, person, environment. Concepts of health, health assessment, and health promotion for individuals within context of family/community.

NURS 4101
Clinical Practicum: Health and Health Promotion
(4.0 cr; Prereq - concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Nurs 4100; A-F only)
Performing psychomotor skills in standardized physical assessment. Nursing, complementary, and delegated medical interventions in caring for individuals throughout their life span. Health promotion/disease prevention in community groups/facilities or health-focused facilities. Health assessment. Clinic/lab.

NURS 4103
Therapeutic Communication in Health Care
(3.0 cr; Prereq - concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Nurs 4100, 4101, 4104)
Principles of interpersonal communication with clients/other health professionals. Interacting with clients, families, and communities.

NURS 4104
Ethical Sensitivity and Reasoning in Health Care
(2.0 cr; Prereq - [concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Nurs 4100, 4101, 4103] or #)
Range/complexity of ethical issues/dilemmas in health care. Ethical concepts, principles, and theories. Addressing specific morally troubling issues in health care settings.

NURS 4200
Care of Adults With Health Disruptions I: Physiological Conditions
(6.0 cr; Prereq - [4100, 4101, 4103, 4104, &4202, &4205, &4210] or [&4210, &4302, &4306])
Nursing care of adults experiencing acute/chronic physiological disruptive events. Recognizing response patterns. Formulating goals. Applying appropriate interventions. Evaluating client outcomes.

NURS 4202
Core Interventions for Nursing Practice
(2.0 cr; Prereq - [&4200, &4205, &4210] or [&4205, &4300, &4310])
Psychomotor skills in core nursing, complementary, and delegated medical interventions for persons/families, throughout the life span, experiencing health disruptions/developmental transitions.

NURS 4205W
Nursing Theory and Research
(3.0 cr; Prereq - undergrad in Nurs, &4200, &4202, &4210 or &4202, &4300, &4310)
Examine knowledge basic to the discipline and practice of nursing. Relationships among research, theory/theoretical formulations, and practice. Research process is introduced with attention to utilization of research in practice.

NURS 4210
Care of Adults With Health Disruptions II: Psychiatric Illnesses
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 4100, 4101, 4103, 4104, &4200, &4202, &4205)
Forming therapeutic relationships with clients experiencing psychiatric illnesses. Collaborating with multidisciplinary team to assess biopsychosocial needs, develop holistic plan of care, help clients negotiate care, and evaluate client outcomes.

NURS 4300
Family-Centered Nursing Care of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
(6.0 cr; Prereq - Nurs 4100, 4101, 4103, 4104, [[concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Nurs 4202, 4205] or [4302, 4306]], 4310)
Caring for children/families when children are acutely or chronically ill. Situations/conditions common to children. Opportunities for practice at hospitals, health care agencies, schools, and community organizations.

NURS 4302
Expanded Interventions for Nursing Practice
(2.0 cr; Prereq - Nurs 4202, 4210, 4300, 4306, [4310 or 4200], 4306)
Building on core interventions for Nursing practice to perform psychomotor skills in expanded Nursing, complementary, and delegated medical interventions when caring for persons throughout the life span in differing contexts.

NURS 4306
Health Care Delivery Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4205, concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Nurs 4300, 4302, [4310 or 4200], 4210, 4306)
Foundation for interpreting structure/processes of health care delivery. Roles of health professionals. Social, economic, technologic, political factors influencing health care quality, access, cost. Ethical implications of health resource use.

NURS 4310
Holistic Care of Childbearing Families
(4.0 cr; Prereq - Nurs 4100, 4101, 4103, 4104, [[concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Nurs 4202, 4205, 4300] or [4300, 4302, 4306]])
Nurse's role during antepartum period, birth experience, and immediate postpartum phase. Health promotion, risk reduction, and active participation of clients to achieve optimum family health.

NURS 4400
Health Care of Populations
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4200, 4210, 4300, 4302, 4306, 4310, &4401, &4402, &4404, &4406, &4410)
Synthesize knowledge and skills to promote and protect the health of populations through systematic assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. Emphasis on nursing research, roles, public health values, and collaborative activities promoting population health.

NURS 4401
Health Care of Populations: Clinical Practicum
(2.0 cr; Prereq - 4200, 4210, 4300, 4302, 4306, 4310, &4400, &4402, &4404, &4406, &4410)
Guided practice in population-based nursing to promote and protect health through systematic assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. Critical examination of interdisciplinary collaboration, partnering with culturally diverse populations, and ethical decision-making in public health.

NURS 4402
Taking Ethical Action in Health Care
(1.0 cr)
Distribution of scarce resources to meet health care needs in various health care settings. Ethics in a managed care environment. Increasing focus on how to take ethical action in health care.

NURS 4404
Applied Nursing Research and Research Utilization
(2.0 cr; Prereq - 4205 or #)
Design and carry out a research project of limited scope to develop fundamental skills in systematic inquiry, and interpreting and evaluating research as it applies to nursing practice. The final product is a scholarly research report.

NURS 4406W
Leadership and Management for Shaping Professional Nursing Practice
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 4103, 4205, 4306; A-F only)
Provides a basis for synthesis of current leadership and management theories within the professional practice of nursing. Examine the interaction among professional nursing issues, health care trends, and the leadership potential of nurses.

NURS 4410
Critical Care Nursing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4200, 4210, 4300, 4302, 4306, 4310, &4400, &4401, &4402, &4404, &4406)
Acquire fundamental knowledge underlying the care of patients with life-threatening conditions and their families in a highly technological and unpredictable environment. Analyze relationships of multi-system alterations in functioning from complex physiological disruptions using advanced critical thinking and prioritization skills.

NURS 4412
Acute and Critical Nursing Care of Children
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4100, 4101, 4102, 4103, 4104, 4200, 4202, 4205, 4210, 4300, 4302)
Care of children with life-threatening conditions and their families in highly technological environment. Interrelationships among multi-system alterations due to complex physiological disruptions. Critical thinking.

NURS 5200
Holistic Health Assessment and Therapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurses
(3.0 cr; Prereq - #)
Health assessment knowledge/skills for advanced Nursing practice with patients across age span, including pregnancy. Selected Nursing interventions, complementary therapies examined for application to specific populations/illnesses.

NURS 5204
Population Focused Assessment and Intervention
(2.0 cr; Prereq - grad nursing major)
Population focused assessment in health planning. Models of assessment for communities, organizations, other aggregates. Skill development in conducting/analyzing/using assessment in planning population focused interventions.

NURS 5222
Advanced Physiology
(3.0 cr; Prereq - grad nursing major or #)
Systems approach to human physiology/pathophysiology. Physiologic changes across life span. Emphasizes clinical application using population-specific content related to various specialty areas in advanced practice nursing.

NURS 5224
Clinical Pharmacotherapeutics
(3.0 cr; Prereq - nursing grad student in advanced practice in primary care, physiology course, or #) Foundation in pharmacotherapeutics across life span. Pharmacodynamics/kinetics/epidemiology, client patterns of medication use, selection of appropriate drugs for selected client conditions, and prescriptive writing privileges for advanced practice nurses.

NURS 5501
Professional Issues in Nurse-Midwifery
(1.0-2.0 cr; Prereq - nurs grad major, or #; S-N only) Analysis of professional issues that confront and impact the practice of certified nurse-midwives. History and development of the professional organization including certification, legislation, ethical dimensions, public policy, and clinical practice issues.

NURS 5808
American Indian Health and Health Care
(2.0 cr; Prereq - upper div or grad student or #)
Examines health of native nations in Minnesota within historical/cultural contexts. Epidemiology of major health conditions, health services, traditional Indian medicine, health beliefs. Opportunities for contact with Native American community.

NURS 8100
The Discipline of Nursing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - grad nurs major or #)
Knowledge structures used in Nursing; theories, models, and conceptual frameworks. Articulation and evaluation of personal conceptual framework for advanced nursing practice.

NNURS 8140
Moral and Ethical Positions in Nursing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - grad nurs major or #) Synthesis of ethical positions, from nursing perspective, on health-related issues at individual, group, population, and policy levels. Normative ethics, theoretical basis for positions taken, and contextual implications for subsequent action.

NURS 8170
Research in Nursing
(3.0 cr; Prereq - &8170 or inferential stat course taken within two yrs)
Research process/methods appropriate for problems relevant to nursing. Critique of research studies, proposal development.

NURS 8240
Advanced Practice Nursing: Roles and Issues
(2.0 cr; Prereq - admission to advanced practice area of study or #)
Current most relevant professional/health care issues affecting diverse advanced practice Nursing roles. Role theory, practice models, interdisciplinary team function, reimbursement, certification, scope of advanced nursing practice.

NURS 8241
Health Care Leadership for a Changing World
(2.0 cr; Prereq - AHC grad student or #)
Application of leadership theory/research to strengthen students' capacity to facilitate change in health care delivery system.

NURS 8242
Population Focused Health Care Delivery Systems
(2.0 cr; Prereq - grad nurs student or #)
Health care organizations/delivery systems, their relation to health of diverse populations. Models of population focused care, use of research to improve health care delivery, effect of economic/social factors on health/health services.

NURS 8402
Primary Care: Assessment and Management of Health for Advanced Practice Nurses
(2.0-4.0 cr; Prereq - 5200, 5222, 5224, 8242; A-F only)
Data-based assessment/management of preventive health services and common acute/chronic conditions of primary care populations. Emphasizes clinical reasoning and independent/collaborative practice health care plans.

NURS 8501
Reproductive Health Care for Women
(3.0-8.0 cr; Prereq - 5200, or #)
Theory, current research underlying clinical practice in assessing/managing issues related to women's reproductive/sexual health throughout life cycle.

NURS 8502
Reproductive Health Care for Women at Risk
(2.0-6.0 cr; Prereq - 8503 or 8520)
Theoretical and research basis for advanced practice nursing care of women and infants at risk for medical and/or psychosocial problems. Selected high-risk perinatal and complicated gynecological and neonatal conditions.

NURS 8601
Interventions for Health of Populations
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 8040 or PubH 5733)
Synthesis of behavior formation/change, public health, and nursing models, theories, and research for critiquing and designing population-focused interventions. Developing, implementing, evaluating, and proposal writing for culturally competent public health interventions in community-based settings.

NURS 8603
Public Health Nursing Leadership Practicum
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 8100, 8170, 8241, 8242, 8600; S-N only)
Synthesis of leadership and advanced public health nursing theories and research; their applicability within public health nursing leadership situations.

NURS 8721
The Nurse Educator in Higher Education
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 8241, 8242, 8720, educational measurement course, grad nursing major or #)
Teaching practicum: comprehensive implementation/evaluation of effectiveness of personal teaching models in classroom/clinical settings in an academic environment. Roles/responsibilities of faculty. Issues affecting curriculum design/development.

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Occupational Therapy (OT)

Center for Allied Health Programs

OT 6100
Public and Professional Engagement I
(0.5 credit; S-N only, unless otherwise noted)
Working in collaboration with an academic advisor, students will establish personal and professional goals and design a series of experiences in the natural setting (assignments, service learning, and public engagement) that include a broad base of contexts/practice settings and clients (society, community, family) across the lifespan.

OT 6101
Foundations of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
(4.0 credits; A-F only, unless otherwise noted)
This online course explores the science of human occupation as if informs the theory and practice of occupational therapy using the Occupational Competency Framework (person, occupation, and environment). The historical and philosophical foundations of occupational therapy are examined; application of assessment of occupation is included.

OT 6102
Professional Identity: Behaviors and Attitudes
(2.0 credits; A-F only, unless otherwise noted)
This course introduces the profession of occupational therapy examining the behaviors and attitudes of the practitioner, professional organizations, teams, and ethics using guided online activities. To begin the professional development process, an intensive seminar exploring self-attributes through standardized personality inventories is included.

OT 6103
Occupational Therapy Process for Society
(3.0 credits: A-F only, unless otherwise noted)
Students in occupational therapy will appreciate the influence of society on health, occupational participation and the practice of occupational therapy. Students will analyze the health care system through global comparisons and will apply key concepts in written assignments and experiential learning activities.

OT 6111
Foundations: Occupations as Therapy
(3.0 credits; A-F only, unless otherwise noted)
This course enables students to apply the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework to an analysis of a series of craft-based activities and representative daily occupations. Students begin learning to grade and adapt activities to enhance performance.

OT 6113
Occupational Therapy Process for Community
(3.0 credits; A-F only, unless otherwise noted)
Application of the OT process to wellness and health promotion activities in the community. Focus is on knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to understand the influence of community health on the health of individuals. Health behavior theories, program development an evaluation. Application of OT theoretical models to community health.

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Pharmacy (PHAR)

College of Pharmacy

PHAR 1001
Orientation to Pharmacy
(1.0 cr)
Pharmacy career opportunities, pharmacist's role, issues faced by pharmacy profession, information about College of Pharmacy.

PHAR 1002
Health Sciences Terminology
(2.0 cr; Prereq - orientation [online], obtain info by end of 1st day of class. Questions may be addressed to Ruthie Knoche Granheim, medterm@umn.edu; Telephone 612-624-7976.
Students analyze/build words from combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes in a systematic manner. Medical language that serves as basis for coursework in health sciences. Self-study course.

PHAR 1003
Self Care: A Guide to Today's Nonprescription Pharmacy
(2.0 cr)
The goal of this course is to help create informed consumers who appropriately use over the counter products. Before self medicating, it's important to understand your symptoms and your treatment options. After self-medicating, it's important to monitor your condition and to know when to get help. In this course, we'll cover the most common conditions treated with non-prescription medications.

PHAR 3800
Pharmacotherapy for the Health Professions
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
This online pharmacotherapy course is designed to provide a general overview of drug therapy for health professional students. The course will assist students in ensuring the appropriate use of various drugs, by describing their indications, how they work in the body, common side effects and suggested monitoring parameters. Participants will be able to assess their knowledge of the material via immediate feedback from self test questions and apply their learning to case studies.

PHAR 5201
Health Sciences Applied Terminology
(2.0 cr; Prereq - orientation [online or in-person]; obtain info by end of 1st day of class.
Medical terms, how to apply them when documenting/reporting patient care procedures. Medical language that serve as basis for coursework in health sciences. Self-study course.

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Physics (PHYS)

Institute of Technology

PHYS 4101
Quantum Mechanics
(4.0 credits; Prereq - [2302 or 2601 or Chem 3502], two sems soph math)
Mathematical techniques of quantum mechanics. Schrodinger Equation and simple applications. General structure of wave mechanics. Operator methods, perturbation theory, radiation from atoms.

Note: A group of at least three has to be maintained throughout the semester for the discussion. If there are less than three UNITE students, each must join an on-campus discussion session. If there is a UNITE group, students can meet together at a convenient time and location – but MUST meet on Thursdays for 50 minutes. Discussion problem is not grADED, but it is understood that the students must discuss the problem among themselves and solve the problem together. Homework is due on Thursdays – faxed or postmarked on Thursdays. Quizzes will be faxed to students on quiz day and must be faxed back the same day.

PHYS 4211
Introduction to Solid-State Physics
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 4101, 4201)
A modern presentation of the properties of solids. Topics include vibrational and electronic properties of solids; diffraction of waves in solids and electron band structure. Other possible topics include optical properties, magnetic phenomena, and superconductivity.

PHYS 5401
Physiological Physics
(4.0 cr; Prereq - Phys 1301 or 1401)
Musculoskeletal system, circulatory system/membrane transport, biological control systems, propagation/action potential in nervous system, biomagnetism, electromagnetism at cellular level.

PHYS 5402
Radiological Physics
(4.0 cr; Prereq - Phys 1302 or 1402)
Signal analysis, medical imaging, medical x-rays, tomography, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine, MRI, and similar topics.

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Physiology (PHSL)

Medical School

PHSL 5061
Principles of Physiology for Biomedical Engineering
(4.0 cr; Prereq - biomedical engineering grad, one yr college chem and physics and math through integral calculus)
Human physiology with emphasis on quantitative aspects. Organ systems (circulation, respiration, renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, muscle, central and peripheral nervous systems), cellular transport processes, and scaling in biology.

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Public Health (PUBH)

School of Public Health

PUBH 3040
Dying and Death in Contemporary Society: Implications for Intervention
(2.0 cr; Prereq - hlth science major or social work major or educ major or mortuary science major or #)
Concepts, attitudes, ethics, and lifestyle management related to dying, death, grief, and bereavement. Emphasizes preparing community health and helping professions/educators for educational activities in this area.

PUBH 3102
Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health
(3.0 cr; Prereq - credit will not be granted if credit has been received for PubH 5201)
Scope of the field of environmental health. Concepts upon which environmental interventions are based. Consulting literature to identify appropriate interventions for community environmental health problems. This online version requires Internet access and basic computer skills, course URL will be provided to registered students. Interested students should go to http://www.publichealthplanet.org for course details.

PUBH 6003
Fundamentals of Alcohol and Drug ABUSe
(1.0 cr; Prereq - 3003, 3004; education student or #)
Scientific/socio-cultural aspects of alcohol/drug problems. Emphasizes role of education in health conservation and drug ABUSe prevention.

PUBH 6005
Topics: Community Health Education
(1.0-4.0 cr [max 20.0 cr]; fall, spring, every year)
Topics of interest in community health education

PUBH 6020
Fundamentals of Social and Behavioral Science
(3.0 cr; Prereq - public health [MPH or Certificate] student or health journalism MA major or #)
Four major approaches to public health problems: psychosocial, economic, community, policy. Theory, implementation. Small groups provide opportunity to practice skills.

PUBH 6103
Exposure to Environmental Hazards
(2.0 cr; Prereq - EH major or #; A-F or Aud, fall, summer, every year)
Concepts, assessment, and control of exposure to biological, physical, and chemical hazards in the environment. Environmental health as an essential component of public health.

PUBH 6104
Environmental Health Effects: Introduction to Toxicology
(2.0 cr; A-F only)
Identifying mechanisms/effects on human health of environmental agents. Chemical, biological, physical, and psychological agents.

PUBH 6170
Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety
(3.0 cr; =[Nurs 5170]; Prereq - Environmental health major or #; fall, summer, every year)
Concepts/issues in occupational health/safety. Application of public health principles/decision-making process in preventing injury/disease, promoting health of adults, protecting worker populations from environmental hazards. Observational visit to manufacturing facility.

PUBH 6181
Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards
(2.0 cr; =[VMed 5165]; Prereq - [[Professional school or grad student], PubH 5330] or #; spring, summer, every year)
Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/laboratory methods.

PUBH 6201
Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health
(2.0 cr; Prereq - public health [MPH or certificate] student or health journalism MA major or #)
The field, current issues, principles/methods of environmental/occupational health practice.

PUBH 6281
Immigrant Health Issues
(3.0-4.0 cr; Prereq – Public health or grad student or #)
How to access demographic, health, and background information on U.S. immigrants. Characteristics and health needs of immigrants. Designing culturally competent health programs. How to advocate for changes to promote immigrant health. Community visits required.

PUBH 6291
Independent Study: Public Health Practice
(1.0-4.0 cr [max 20.0 cr]; Prereq - public health practice MPH major, #; OPT No Aud, fall, spring, summer, every year)
Independent study supervised by a public health practice faculty member.

PUBH 6299
Public Health Practice: Introductory Seminar for Health and Human Resources Professionals
(1.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq - baccalaureate degree or degree from a health professional program or grad student in dentistry or medicine or nursing or pharmacy or public health or veterinary medicine; S-N only)
Science/art of public health. Emphasizes interdisciplinary linkages to practice communities. National/local priorities as outlined in "Healthy People 2010" serve as framework for presentations on current issues/trends by public health leaders.

PUBH 6320
Fundamentals of Epidemiology
(3.0 cr; Prereq - public health [MPH or certificate] student or [environmental health [MS or PhD] or health journalism MA] major or #)
Basic concepts and knowledge of epidemiology, a methodology used to study the etiology, distribution, and control of diseases in human populations.

PUBH 6399
Topics: Epidemiology
(1.0-4.0 cr [max 20.0 cr]; fall, spring, summer, every year)
New course offerings or topics of interest in epidemiology.

PUBH 6414
Biostatistical Methods I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - no credit will be granted if credit has been received for PubH 5450; pub hlth or hlth sci grad student or #)
Descriptive statistics, graphical methods. Use of Excel. Proportions, relative risk, odds ratios. Random sampling. Estimates of mean, medians, measures of variability. Normal distribution, t-/chi-square tests. Confidence intervals. Correlation/regression. Inference/causality. This online version requires Internet access and basic computer skills, course URL will be provided to registered students. Interested students should go to http://www.publichealthplanet.org for course details. This section is reserved for students in the Public Health Practice major. Contact Anne Ehrenberg at php@umn.edu for a permission number.

PUBH 6535
Healthcare Services Accounting
(3.0 cr; Prereq – AHC student or consent of instructor; experience with spreadsheets such as Excel or Lotus recommended; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, every year)
Accounting techniques applied to healthcare services including, differential, absorption, and activity-based costing. Budgeting, variance analysis. Financial accounting, including transaction data and accrual accounting. Developing financial statements. Ration analysis.

PUBH 6553
Health Care Management Ethics
(1.0 cr; Prereq – public health MPH or MHA or certificate student or #; A-F only, spring every year)
Ethical issues faced by health care managers as leaders of an organization, members of a profession, and coordinators of clinical processes. Perspectives of managerial, organizational, professional, and clinical ethics.

PUBH 6554
Marketing Health Services
(2.0 cr; Prereq – health care admin student or #; A-F or Aud, spring, summer, every year)
Managing the marketing function, marketing planning, strategy, and management concepts. Identifying marketing problems/opportunities. constructing, evaluating, and managing a marketing plan.

PUBH 6555
Topics in Health Economics
(2.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, summer, every year)
General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy.

PUBH 6556
Health and Health Systems
(2.0 cr; A-F or Aud, fall, every year)
History/evolution of U.S. health/medical care systems. Determinants of health, threats to health. Promising avenues for programs/policies in prevention, health promotion, and protection.

PUBH 6557
Health Finance I
(2.0 cr; Prereq – [[Health care admin or public health admin/policy major], familiarity with computerized spreadsheets] or #; fall, every year)
Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance. Net present value, financial analysis, capital budgeting, financing options/decisions, capital structure, capital asset pricing model, financial planning, working capital management.

PUBH 6558
Health Finance II
(4.0 cr; Prereq – [[Health care admin or PubH admin/policy] student, familiarity with computerized spread-sheets]] or #; spring, every year)
Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance and insurance concepts integrated/applied to health care. Capital/operating budgets. Medicare's payment systems for hospitals/physicians, risk-adjusted capitation payment systems. Population-based health care finance, managed care. Financing aspects of public health policy and health care reform.

PUBH 6568
Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Health Care
(2.0 cr; prereq-public health MPH, MHA or certificate student or #; A-F only)
Leading/participating in interdisciplinary teams. Team communication, problem solving, conflict management, organizational support.

PUBH 6627
Sexuality Education: Criteria, Curricula, and Controversy
(1.0 cr; Prereq - prefer public health student or grad student or professional in public health or in education; 5 seats reserved for UC students)
Issues/controversies affecting K-12 sexuality education. Current research/guidelines for effective, responsible education and curricula selection. Various curricula being used in the United States. Challenges in teaching sensitive issues inherent in sexuality education.

PUBH 6648
Topics: Maternal and Child Health
(1.0-4.0 cr [max 20.0 cr]; fall, spring, summer)
Topics of interest in maternal/child health.

PUBH 6711
Public Health Law
(2.0 cr; Prereq - grad student or professional school student or #)
Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system.

PUBH 6727
Health Leadership and Effecting Change
(2.0 cr; Prereq - public health [MPH or certificate] student or #)
Applications of a broad theoretical base in planned change to solve managerial/organizational problems in students' future roles as leaders in health professions.

PUBH 6741
Ethics in Public Health: Professional Practice and Policy
(1.0 cr; Prereq - public health or grad student or #)
Introduction to ethical issues in public health practice/policy. Ethical analysis, recognizing/analyzing moral issues. This online version requires Internet access and basic computer skills, course URL will be provided to registered students. Interested students should go to http://www.publichealthplanet.org for course details. Priority will be given to students in the Public Health Practice major. Contact Anne Ehrenberg at php@umn.edu for a permission number.

PUBH 6742
Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy
(1.0 cr; Prereq - public health or grad student or #)
Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues. This online version requires Internet access and basic computer skills, course URL will be provided to registered students. Interested students should go to http://www.publichealthplanet.org for course details. Priority will be given to students in the Public Health Practice major. Contact Anne Ehrenberg at php@umn.edu for a permission number.

PUBH 6751
Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations
(2.0 cr; Prereq – public health MPH or certificate student or dentistry MS or environmental health MS or PhD major or #; A-F only, fall, spring, every year)
Role of health-care services administrators, principles of management, administrative process. Lectures, case studies.

PUBH 6752
Public Health Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq - [public health [MPH or certificate] student or [environmental health [MS or PhD] or [health services research, policy/admin [MS or PhD]]] major or #)
Managing projects/organizations in public health. Skills/knowledge necessary to determine mission of an organization, structure it to support individuals in their work, and motivate/manage to achieve goals.

PUBH 6760
Health Care Financial Management: Public Sector Emphasis
(2.0 cr; Prereq - grad student or professional school student or #)
Theory of managerial/financial accounting and of healthcare finance as they relate to program development for non-profit organizations. Emphasizes methods whereby programmatic goals/objectives can be integrated into financial planning, budget preparation, and budget control. Examining an overall program through financial analytical techniques.

PUBH 7200
Topics: Public Health Practice
(0.5-4.0 cr [max 20.0 cr])
New course offerings or topics of interest in public health practice.

PUBH 7210
Topics: Global Food Systems
(0.5 cr [max 3.0 cr]; S-N only)
Food systems related to specific food products, including inputs, processes, and outputs from production sites to consumers. Context for food safety policy. Concept of food system biosecurity as prerequisites for a safe, abundant, affordable, and diverse food supply. Case studies of food-borne disease outbreaks illustrate critical controls in food production.

PUBH 7211
Food System Biosecurity: Preparedness and Response
(1.0 cr; Prereq - grad student or professional school student or #)
Public health preparedness and response related to food system biosecurity. Systems approach to biosecurity. Models for systematic evaluation of vulnerabilities (HACCP, ORM) and problem solving (Haddon's Matrix). Risk communication, preparedness planning, text exercises, contingency planning.

PUBH 7212
Food System Biosecurity: Threats
(1.0 cr; Prereq - grad student or professional school student or #)
Public health threats to food system biosecurity. Principles of biosecurity, vulnerabilities of the food system from pre-harvest through post-processing, potential threats by class of agent, strategies to minimize threats and protect public's health.

PUBH 7213
Applications of Microbiology to Food Systems Monitoring
(1.0 cr; Prereq - grad student or professional school student or #)
Microbiological testing to determine prevalence of pathogens in specific foods. Identification of causes of foodborne disease outbreaks. Monitoring critical control points. Traditional/rapid lab methods are used to detect indicator organisms, pathogens, and other contaminants of public health concern.

PUBH 7214
Principles of Risk Communication
(1.0 cr; OPT No Aud, summer, every year)
Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

PUBH 7215
Food Safety Risk Assessment
(1.0 cr; OPT No Aud, summer, odd years)
Risk assessment methods and data needs to identify important foodborne disease hazards, evaluate potential control strategies, and identify research needs.

PUBH 7216
Food Safety Risk Management
(1.0 cr; OPT No Aud, summer, odd years)
Strategies for managing risk of food-borne diseases for specific foods and across food system.

PUBH 7217
Advances in Molecular Epidemiological Analysis
(1.0 cr; OPT No Aud, summer, odd years)
Overview of molecular laboratory techniques used to detect, identify, and characterize infectious disease agents. Application of molecular subtyping techniques to surveillance and outbreak investigations. Implications for public health practice

PUBH 7218
Culturally Based Community Health Immersion
(0.5 cr; S-N only, summer, every year)
Students view public health practice in action and reflect on ways that urban environments impact health services for members of underserved/emerging communities. One-day field trip to a culturally specific community health setting in the Twin Cities.

PUBH 7294
Master's Project: Public Health Practice
(1.0-3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq - public health practice MPH major, or #; S-N only)
Directed field research. Original or secondary analysis of data sets related to public health practice.

PUBH 7296
Field Experience: Public Health Practice
(1.0-3.0 cr [max 3.0 cr]; Prereq - public health practice MPH major, or #; S-N only)
Directed field experience or clinical rotation/practicum in selected community or public health agencies/institutions. Integration of knowledge/skills in population science for public health.

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Radiation Therapy (RTT)

College of Continuing Education

RTT 3501
Introduction to Radiation Therapy
(2.0 cr)
Course explores the role of Radiation Therapy as one of three major modalities for the treatment of cancer and focuses on radiation therapy procedures and equipment including simulation, dosimetry, and treatment units and charting of radiation doses. Presents a brief introduction to cancer facts and figures, the epidemiology, spread, staging, and treatment of the most common occurring cancers. Includes the psychosocial aspects of a cancer diagnosis and how it impacts patient care interactions. This course is instrumental in preparing the student for initial clinical rotations.

RTT 3521
Patient Care in Radiation Oncology
(2.0 cr; A-F only)
This course provides the student with the skills to assess and manage patient side effects and psychological conditions resulting from a course of radiation therapy. Includes the basic concepts of patient care, including vital sign determination, emergency management and CPR, medical-surgical asepsis, infection control, nutrition, tube management and patient examinations. Safety considerations for patient and staff are identified.

RTT 3541
Pathology
(1.0 cr; A-F only)
The focus of this course is the normal and abnormal development of human cells and tissues with particular attention to cell structure, function, and kinetics. Processes such as cellular adaptation and injury, inflammation and repair, hemodynamics and inherited disorders are examined. Content includes the types of growth, causative factors, and biological behavior of neoplastic disease.

RTT 3551
Radiation Oncology Physics
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
The course includes general physics principles, property of radiation, radiation production and control, measurement of emitted radiation, attenuation, and transmission of radiation. The specific characteristics and construction of the various treatment units are included along with a detailed analysis of the structure of matter and the principles of radioactivity and decay. Students learn about the use of sealed sources to place or implant in tumor volume, comparison of low dose rate and high dose rate brachytherapy and permanent implant techniques.

RTT 3561
Cross-Sectional Anatomy
(2.0 cr; A-F only)
The main emphasis of this course is the study of anatomy as viewed on cross-section and demonstration of knowledge and understanding of human anatomy in relationship to radiation oncology. The student will identify anatomic structures (organs, vessels, etc.) and their interrelationships when viewed in successive transverse planes as seen on diagrams and CT scan images. The course includes visits to the anatomy lab where students explore gross human anatomy and anatomic relationships of organs in human cadavers. This course is a review of structure and function of the body.

RTT 3581
Principles and Practices of Radiation Therapy I
(4.0 cr; A-F only)
Introduces the student to the management and treatment of the oncology patient. Students will learn the histology, etiology, anatomy, presenting symptoms, diagnosis, staging and the treatment regimens utilized (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy) for each major cancer site. Particular emphasis is given to the specific radiation therapy treatment approach used for each cancer site. The technical approach: simulation procedures, patient positioning and immobilization concerns, planning requirements, treatment techniques, electronic and manual radiation record keeping and management of side effects will be included. This course is designed to give the student further information in order to integrate classroom material with clinical practicums. Laboratory sessions in the simulator are conducted using an anthropomorphic phantom. Disease sites discussed in this first course will include treatment regimens that are of simple to intermediate complexity in terms of dosimetric planning issues.

RTT 3601
Clinical Quality Assurance and Computer Applications
(1.0 cr; A-F only)
This course is designed to provide the student with knowledge of the principles and concepts of Quality Assurance/Management. Includes methods and frequency for performing the various checks on patient treatment records, linear accelerators and simulator equipment as well as the acceptable limits of these tasks. Reviews the interrelationship of national and state regulations.
The use of computers in a modern radiation oncology department is presented with information about computer applications such as digital imaging, computed tomography, picture archiving systems, treatment verification systems, electronic portal imaging, 3-dimensional imaging software and treatment planning.

RTT 3701
Advanced Radiobiology and Radiation Protection
(2.0 cr; A-F only)
Content is designed to present the basic and more advanced principles of radiobiology, radiation protection, and safety as it relates to Radiation Oncology, including the interactions of radiation with cells, tissues and the body as a whole and resultant biophysical events. Discussion includes theories and principles of tolerance dose, time-dose relationships, fractionation schemes and the relationship to the clinical practice of radiation therapy. Radiation health and safety requirements of federal and state regulatory agencies, accreditation agencies and health care organizations are incorporated, along with specific responsibilities of the radiation therapist.

RTT 4581:
Principles and Practices of Radiation Therapy II
(4.0 cr; Prereq - RTT 3581, A-F only)
A continuation of the Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology I, this class explores more advanced principles of applying virtual simulations, three dimensional planning and conformal treatments, including Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy. Explores the natural history, diagnosis and management of the cancer disease sites requiring this sophisticated treatment along with the technical issues relating to simulation, treatment techniques, electronic record keeping.

RTT 3596
Clinical Practicum I
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Introduction to the clinical practice of a radiation therapist. Under direct supervision students will observe and assist in actual patient radiation treatments and simulation procedures. This initial clinical experience assists the student in obtaining a basic level of technical skill and gain an understanding the cancer care team.

RTT 3696
Clinical Practicum II
(3.0 cr; Prereq - RTT 3596; A-F only)
This session is designed to assist the student in the initial application and integration of principles of radiation therapy practice into the clinical setting. The student actively participates in patient care procedures and will be able to perform simple to intermediate level clinical competency exams.

RTT 4511
Dosimetry and Treatment Planning
(3.0 cr; Prereq - RTT 3551; A-F only)
This course provides the student with the basic concepts of clinical dosimetry and treatment planning. Isodose charts and various isodose distributions will be discussed along with treatment dose calculations, irregular fields, beam weighting, dose limiting structures, selection of optimal treatment field design and other pertinent dosimetry principles. Includes discussion of emerging technologies and how they impact treatment planning.

RTT 4596
Clinical Practicum III
(6.0 cr; Prereq - RTT 3596, 3696; A-F only)
This rotation further assists the student in the application and integration of principles of radiation therapy practice into the clinical setting. The student participates in patient care procedures and continues to complete required intermediate level clinical competency exams. Includes assessment of the student's understanding of the methodology behind the treatment technique and their critical thinking ability.

RTT 4601
Project
(1.0 cr; A-F only)
The student will research a topic of their choice and present their paper to faculty and students. The student will be encouraged to submit the paper for publication. This is a guided independent study project. Faculty will be available to provide guidance and input into the development of the project.

RTT 4696
Clinical Practicum IV
(3.0 cr; Prereq - RTT 3696, 3696, 4596; A-F only)
This clinical session continues to assist the student in the achievement of clinical competencies. Students will complete required advanced level clinical competency exams. The student's understanding of the methodology behind the treatment technique and their critical thinking ability will be assessed. During this session, students rotate through dosimetry and participate in radiation treatment planning.

RTT 4796
Clinical Practicum V
(3.0 cr; Prereq - RTT 3596, 3696, 4596, 4696; A-F only)
In this final clinical rotation the student is responsible for demonstrating knowledge and full comprehension of all radiation treatment and simulation procedures. This session allows students to enhance their problem solving abilities as they assist with the integration of dosimetric changes in a treatment and participate in advanced level procedures. Includes spot checks or completion of any remaining clinical competency exams.

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Respiratory Care (RC)

College of Continuing Education

RC 3101
Respiratory Care Modalities and Equipment I
(4.0 cr; Prereq - RC 2210; A-F only)
Students will become proficient in performing non-invasive monitoring and therapeutic procedures. Those procedures will include: medical gas therapy, humidity and aerosol therapy, bronchial drainage, and volume expansion therapy. Commonly prescribed aerosol medications will also be reviewed. Procedures will be discussed in context with national practice guidelines as to the scientific basis of: rational, limitations, hazards and complications, issues of asepsis and modification to adapt to patient needs.

RC 3102
Respiratory Care Modalities and Equipment II
(4.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3101; A-F only)
Students will attend weekly conferences and seminar to discuss cases of clinical importance in respiratory care. The professional medical literature will be critically reviewed both from the standpoint of scientific method and clear writing style. Students will review patient cases with attention to events that required problem solving and critical thinking. Students will collaborate on a class research project leading to abstract submission. (1 hour {either Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Case Conference} or Combined Critical Care Conference and two-hour seminar weekly)

RC 3201
Cardiopulmonary Patient Assessment
(4.0 cr; Prereq - RC 2210; A-F only)
Patient assessment skills are developed to allow students to interpret patient data including: the chart record, interview, physical examination, medical laboratory data, pulmonary function reports (including blood gas analysis), electrocardiogram, hemodynamic record, mechanical ventilator flow sheet, and radiographic imaging. Cardiopulmonary diseases are introduced with emphasis on pathophysiological manifestations that can be assessed. The laboratory provides a setting for role playing, mock exams and practice of assessment skills.

RC 3301
Clinical Practice I
(4.0 cr; Prereq - RC 2210; A-F only)
Students begin a series of rotations including 18 different clinical areas at the Mayo Medical Center. Each rotation requires completion of specific competencies. Those areas include 9 intensive care units, the operating room, emergency room, general floor care areas, pulmonary function labs, sleep disorders center, smoking cessation clinic, pulmonary rehabilitation program, home care, and an outpatient clinic. Students will perform respiratory care procedures and diagnostic testing with the supervision of a clinical instructor.

RC 3302
Clinical Practice II
(4.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3301; A-F only)
Students continue a series of rotations including 18 different clinical areas at the Mayo Medical Center. Those areas include 9 intensive care units, the operating room, emergency room, general floor care areas, pulmonary function labs, sleep disorders center, smoking cessation clinic, pulmonary rehabilitation program, home care, and an outpatient clinic. Students will expand their competencies in adult as well as perinatal and pediatric critical respiratory care.

RC 3401
Seminar in Respiratory Care I: Case Reports and Fundamentals of Research
(1.0 cr; Prereq - RC 2210; A-F only)
Course Description: Students will attend weekly conferences and seminar to discuss cases of clinical importance in respiratory care. The professional medical literature will be critically reviewed both from the standpoint of scientific method and clear writing style. Students will review patient cases with attention to events that required problem solving and critical thinking. Students will collaborate on a class research project leading to abstract submission. (1 hour {either Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Case Conference or Combined Critical Care Conference} and two-hour seminar weekly)

RC 3402
Seminar in Respiratory Care II: Case Reports and Fundamentals of Research
(1.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3401; A-F only)
Students will attend weekly conferences and seminar to discuss cases of clinical importance in respiratory care. The professional medical literature will be critically reviewed both from the standpoint of scientific method and clear writing style. Students will review patient cases with attention to events that required problem solving and critical thinking. Students will collaborate on a class research project leading to abstract submission.

RC 3501
Advanced Cardiopulmonary Respiratory Physiology and Pathophysiology
(3.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3201; A-F only)
The first half of the course will provide students with a detailed review of the physiology cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. Once the normal function has been mastered, a review of adult, pediatric and perinatal pulmonary and cardiac disorders will be undertaken. Emphasis will be placed on: presenting assessment, laboratory evaluation, major pathology, pathophysiologic manifestations and treatment options. Lab will allow observation and measurement of normal and simulated abnormal cardiopulmonary physiology.

RC 4111
Advanced Adult Respiratory Critical Care Techniques
(3.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3102; A-F only)
Students will focus on topics relevant to providing respiratory care to critically ill adults. There will be an emphasis on reviewing case examples of cardiopulmonary problems and therapeutic procedures. However, a multi-organ system-wide patient approach will be maintained. Advanced competencies in ventilator management and critical care monitoring procedures including hemodynamic monitoring will be assured by laboratory experiences.

RC 4201
Subspecialization in Respiratory Care: Advanced Perinatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care
(2.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3102; A-F only)
This didactic course combined with its clinical counterpart will allow students to assume the role of the perinatal/pediatrics specialist as defined by National Board for Respiratory Care's (NBRC). A thorough review of the literature on mechanical ventilation, monitoring applied with emphasis on an evidence-based care will be provided. Current strategies for extended mechanical ventilation or other forms of long-term support will be reviewed using case study examples. (32 hours of class; 32 hours of laboratory)

RC 4202
Subspecialization in Respiratory Care: Advanced Cardiopulmonary Diagnostics
(2.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3102; A-F only)
Students will review the rationale and methods used in cardiopulmonary diagnostics. This course along with its clinical counterpart will allow students to assume the role of the advanced pulmonary function technologist and completing the NBRC's CPFT and RPFT specialty board exams. Procedures in which participants would become competent would include inert gas and body plethysmographic measurement of lung capacity, diffusion studies, bronchial provocation, and heart & lung function during maximal exercise. Interpretation of results and quality control in the laboratory will be facilitated by case reviews and laboratory experiences. (32 hours of class; 32 hours of laboratory)

RC 4203
Subspecialization in Respiratory Care: Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Disease Prevention and Case Management
(2.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3102; A-F only)
Students will review the delivery of care to chronically ill patients with lung and heart disorders with emphasis on respiratory care. The rehabilitation process will be applied to hospital-based programs, extended care facilities and in the home. Topics include clinical testing, exercise prescriptions, and practice guidelines for management. Patient case reviews as part of the laboratory will underscore the multidisciplinary approach to case management and responsibilities unique to the respiratory therapist. This course along with its clinical counterpart will allow students to perform the responsibilities attributed to this subspecialty in respiratory care. Students will become certified asthma educators.

RC 4301
Seminar: Research Project and Publication
(1.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3402; A-F only)
Students will be responsible for preparing a research project for submission. This includes assembling a poster, abstract, or manuscript of original research. Research mentors will be assigned to allow guided independent study.

RC 4496
Subspecialty Clinical Practicum in Advanced Respiratory Care I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3302; A-F only)
Students will complete competencies focused in the areas of advanced-level respiratory care including clinical subspecialties and related areas important to the respiratory care practitioner desiring greater scope of practice. Rotations are 8 weeks in length and include 120 hours of directed clinical experience. Rotations are conducted at facilities within the Mayo Health System and institutions affiliated with the University of Minnesota. Two rotations can be completed in one semester.

RC 4596
Subspecialty Clinical Practicum in Advanced Respiratory Care II
(3.0 cr; Prereq - RC 3302; A-F only)
Students will complete competencies focused in the areas of advanced-level respiratory care including clinical subspecialties and related areas important to the respiratory care practitioner desiring greater scope of practice. Rotations are 8 weeks in length and include 120 hours of directed clinical experience. Rotations are conducted at facilities within the Mayo Health System and institutions affiliated with the University of Minnesota. Two rotations can be completed in one semester.

Specialties available under both courses RC 4496/4596
RC 4496/4596 (NPS):
Clinical experiences in: high-risk delivery, perinatal and pediatric intensive, inter-hospital transport and chronic care.

RC 4496/4596 (CRITCARE):
Clinical experiences in intensive care of patients including: post-operative general-surgical, neurology/neurologic surgery ICU, trauma care, medical ICU, thoracic surgical ICU, inter-hospital transport, and hemodynamic monitoring,

RC 4496/4596 (CPD):
Clinical experiences in pulmonary function testing including: lung volume measurement, diffusion studies, exercise testing, sleep diagnostics, ventilation control, indirect calorimetry, provocation testing, oxygen titration, and laboratory quality control.

RC 4496/4596 (RHB):
Clinical experiences in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation including: cardiopulmonary disease assessment, disease prevention, patient family education, evaluation of impairment/disability, exercise training and social and psychological considerations.

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Rhetoric (RHET)

College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences

RHET 1001
Introduction to the Major of Scientific and Technical Communication
(2.0 cr)
Research origins/history. Defining technical communication in professional world. Focuses on audience, purpose, ethics, global communication, and collaboration. Journal articles, student/professional organizations, guest presentations, interviews. Career assessment inventories, in-class/electronic discussions, oral presentations, feasibility report.

RHET 3221
Theories of Human Communication
(4.0 cr)
Through lecture, discussion, simulations, and small group work students become familiar with theories and practices of interpersonal, small group, organizational, and scientific, and technical communication.

RHET 3257
Scientific and Technical Presentations
(3.0 cr; Prereq - college level beginning speech or instructor permission)
Oral presentation skills for scientific or technical topics. Visual communication, audience analysis, organizing a presentation, and presenting complex material. Emphasizes use of computers.

RHET 3266
Group Process, Team Building, and Leadership
(3.0 cr; Prereq - college level beginning speech or instructor permission)
Group processes, team building from perspective of managers/leaders. Communication techniques in small group decision making process. Theories of team/small-group communication. Case studies. Group project for each student.

RHET 3371
Technology, Self, and Society
(3.0 cr; Prereq - [jr or sr])
Cultural history of American technology. Social values that technology represents in shifts from handicraft to mass production/consumption to modern transportation, communication, and bioengineering. Ethical issues involved in themes of power, work, identity, and our relation to nature. How technology conditions our way of thinking.

RHET 3401
Internet Communication: Tools and Issues
(3.0 cr; Prereq - Internet access including e-mail, [Netscape 3.0 or higher or equiv])
Current/developing tools/issues of Internet-based communication. E-mail, e-commerce, social/cultural context of communication. Discussion topics vary, depending on current issues in existing or emerging technologies. Active online participation required.

RHET 3562
Technical and Professional Writing
(4.0 cr; Prereq - [1101 or EngC 1011 or 1152W or equiv], [jr or SR]; A-F only)
Written/oral communication in professional settings. Gathering information, analyzing audience, assessing conventional formats. Drafting, testing, revising documents. Oral presentation of final reports.

RHET 3671
Project Design and Development I
(3.0 cr; scientific and technical communication major or instructor permission)
Rhetorical principles applied to visual presentation of information/data in print documents. Students create examples of visual communication and design selected technical publications. Principles of technical writing.

RHET 3672
Project Design and Development II
(3.0 cr; Prereq - Rhet 3671; A-F only)
Students study, plan, research, design, and develop technical communication print documents, including documentation, brochures, and newsletters. Introduction to workplace project processes. Emphasizes developing production-quality documents.

RHET 4165
Managerial and Organizational Communication, Planning, and Change
(3.0 cr; Prereq - Rhet 3266 or instructor permission; A-F only)
A study of organizational theory, communication processes, planning, and change with emphasis on action research in scientific and/or technical settings. Study of organization and management theory to develop organizational consultative skills.

RHET 4501
Usability and Human Factors in Technical Communication
(3.0 cr; Prereq - sr or grad student or #)
Principles/concepts of human factors/usability testing. Developing objectives, criteria, and measures. Conducting tests in lab, field, and virtual environments. Using software programs to analyze qualitative/quantitative data. Lab fee required for use of the Usability Services Laboratory to conduct usability projects.

RHET 4561
Editing and Style for Technical Communicators
(3.0 cr; Prereq - [3562, [STC major or grad student]] or #)
Editorial process, levels of style, ethical considerations. Cohesion, clarity, coherence, organization, audience. Writer-editor relationship. Editor's marks. Copyright issues.

RHET 4573
Writing Proposals and Grant Management
(3.0 cr; Prereq - Rhet 3562; A-F only)
Research funding sources. Interpreting an RFP or program announcement. Letters of intent. Grant preparation following guidelines of an RFP or program announcement. Proposals for nonprofits or research/business proposals. Using Microsoft Project.

RHET 4662
Emerging Technologies in Technical Communication
(4.0 cr; Prereq - Rhet 3562 or equiv; A-F only)
Creating multimedia, hypertext, online help, and internet documents. Linear/nonlinear design, linking, reading/editing online. Principles of technical communication taught through projects: scripts, online support, mark-up language.

RHET 5111
Information Design: Theory and Practice I
(3.0 cr; Prereq - grad student or #; A-F only)
Audience analysis, media selection, message design through various theoretical perspectives, including cognitive/schema, social construction, feminist, intercultural theories. Usability testing, contextual inquiry as means to study effectiveness of messages.

RHET 5112
Information Design: Theory and Practice II
(3.0 cr; graduate level; instructor permission)
Political, economic, social, and technical aspects of media selection and message design. Media analyses, scripts, budgets, treatments, project design plans, interactive screens. Online design project.

RHET 5258
Information-Gathering Techniques in Scientific and Technical Communication
(3.0 cr)
Informational, employment-cycle, and problem-solving interviews. Emphasizes guides, schedules, questioning techniques, and communication theories. Descriptive statistics used to analyze data for various projects.

RHET 5511
Research in Scientific and Technical Communication
(3.0 cr; A-F only)
Experimental/survey research techniques for quantitative/qualitative methodologies in scientific/technical communication. Face-to-face, phone, focus group interviewing. Questionnaire development, contextual inquiry. Using rating, ranking, q-sort methods. Ethics, experimental bias, inferential statistical analysis.

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Social Work (SW)

School of Social Work

SW 5309
Case Management With Special Populations
(3.0 cr; Prereq - graduate or adult special student or instructor permission)
Examine concepts and principles of case management practice with special populations such as older adults, persons with developmental disabilities, and persons with serious and persistent mental illness. The core functions of case management practice in a range of settings are addressed in relationship to issues of diversity, vulnerability, and empowerment.

SW 5313
Social Work With Older Adults
(2.0 cr; Prereq - grad or non-degree seeking student or #; fall, spring)
The practice components of social work with older adults including assessment, intervention, and case management. Taught from the perspective of bio-psycho-social strengths and challenges and within the context of current social policy and delivery systems.

SW 5315
Social Work Practice in Hospitals and Health Care Settings
(2.0 cr; Prereq - grad student or adult special or instructor approval)
Prepares students for social work practice in a hospital or health care setting. Focus on integration of conceptual and practice subject matter that covers differential assessment, clinical intervention models, impact of acute and chronic illness, special populations, managed care, legal and ethical issues, interdisciplinary team work, and transition planning in health care.

SW 5317
Social Work With Involuntary Clients
(2.0 cr; Prereq - grad or adult special or #)
Includes theory, ethics, effectiveness, and intervention methods for work with client systems that experience involuntary contact with a social worker. Interventions at micro, mezzo, and macro levels are included. Practice in varied settings such as child welfare, mental health, corrections, and public schools as well as practice related to organizational responses to change.

SW 5810
Seminar: Special Topics
(1.0-4.0 cr [max 10.0 cr])Various topics. Specific titles listed in class schedule.

SW 5813
Child Welfare and the Law
(2.0 cr; Prereq - 2nd yr MSW or advanced standing or #; fall, spring)
Social work practice in juvenile court. Child ABUSe/neglect reporting laws, risk assessment, reasonable efforts, case plan, custody proceedings, permanency planning, termination of parental rights, child testimony, social worker testimony, adoption laws.

SW 8010
Seminar: Field Practicum I
(4.0 cr; Prereq - SW 8201; S-N only)
Integrates classroom learning with direct experience of a social work field internship. Professional support/learning groups focus on student-and facilitator-identified issues. Students discuss professional/personal biases, ethical dilemmas, and supervisory issues. Cross-cultural understanding, implications of cross-cultural practice.

SW 8020
Field Practicum II
(4.0 cr; Prereq - 8010; S-N only)
Integrates classroom learning within a concentration with the direct experience of an internship. Students expand competency in cross-cultural practice.

SW 8030
Advanced Standing Social Work Practicum
(1.0-4.0 cr; Prereq - advanced standing; S-N only)
Integrates classroom learning with direct experience of a social work field internship. Professional support/learning groups discuss issues raised in field placement. Groups focus on professional/personal biases, ethical dilemmas, supervisory issues, cross-cultural sharing, and implications of students' privilege/power in relation to client systems.

SW 8051
Psychopathology and Social Work Practice
(3.0 cr; Prereq - all foundation courses for full program or advanced standing or instructor approval)
Psychopathology from ecosystemic perspective. Biopsychosocial influences on incidence, course, treatment of common mental disorders diagnosed from infancy through adulthood. Differential effects on populations at risk. Diagnostic skills, alternative intervention strategies, social work roles.

SW 8101
Social Policy and Delivery Systems for Child Welfare and Family Services
(3.0 cr; Prereq - [8211, advanced standing] or #; spring, every year)
Federal, state, and local policies related to contemporary child welfare system and system of social services to families. Current debates about policies, financing, and structure and organization of service delivery; process of influencing policy changes in children and family services.

SW 8103
Health and Mental Health Policy
(3.0 cr; Prereq - [8211, advanced standing] or #; spring, every year)
Factors affecting health and mental health status of variety of populations. Policies on organizational, local, state, and federal levels affecting health status; financing; and delivery of health and mental health services. Ethical issues embedded in policies, issues in need of policy development.

SW 8201
Social Work Methods: Practice With Individuals and Systems
(3.0 cr; Prereq - MSW student; A-F only)
Introduction to theories, knowledge, values, skills in initial phases of social work practice. Practice phases: assessment, goal setting, contracting, intervention, treatment. Developing relationships, interviewing skills in practice with diverse populations. Ecological problem-solving framework from empowerment orientation.

SW 8202
Social Work Methods: Practice With Families and Groups
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 8201 or #; A-F only)
Intervention theories, roles, methods, evaluation in practice with families/groups. Continues ecological problem-solving framework from 8201.

SW 8211
Macro Social Work Practice and Policy Advocacy
(3.0 cr; Prereq - 5101 or #; A-F or Aud, spring, every year)
Policy analysis, development, implementation, community development, social action, social planning. Ecological, problem-solving, empowerment perspectives, policy/methods. Theories of organizational/community development/change.

SW 8312
Advanced Social Work Practice With Groups
(3.0 cr; Prereq - SW8201, 8202, adv standing or #)
Advanced clinical social work practice with groups. How to differentiate among available models of group work and select an appropriate model based on needs of client population and on context in which they are served.

SW 8313
Professional Practice in Interdisciplinary Teams and Collaboratives
(3.0 cr; Prereq - foundation curriculum, advanced standing or grad student in health and human service or in educational professional program, or instructor approval)
Principles of interdisciplinary/interorganizational collaboration in human services, health, and educational settings. Team building, decision-making models, engaging value differences, managing conflict on team, role/status disparities, relational communications. Emerging approaches to interorganizational collaboration.

SW 8314
Social Work Interventions With Families
(3.0 cr; =[SW 5318]; Prereq - =5318; adv standing or 8202 or #; spring, every year)
Interventions based on systems perspective of family as center of focus, in environmental context. Policy/practice principles of working with families in their home, community environment.

SW 8602
Direct Practice Evaluation
(2.0 cr; Prereq – 8601 or equiv or #; fall, spring, every year)
Students design evaluations that incorporate current evaluation methods and principles derived from research, theory, practice wisdom, their own experience. Evaluation methods include single-system designs, client- focused evaluations, practitioner-focused evaluations, and use of event analyses, standardized instruments, self-constructed instruments.

SW 8872
Social Work Research Seminar II
(3.0 cr; Prereq – 8871 or #; spring, every year)
Additional topics: methodologies and design of quasi-experiments, surveys, descriptive research, grounded theory, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.

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Statistics (STAT)

College of Liberal Arts

STAT 5101
Theory of Statistics I
(4.0 cr; =STAT 4102; Prereq-Math 2263)
Logical development of probability, basic issues in statistics. Probability spaces. Random variables, their distributions and expected values. Law of large numbers, central limit theorem, generating functions, multivariate normal distribution.

STAT 5102
Theory of Statistics II
(4.0 cr; -STAT 4101; Prereq – 5101 or Math 5651)
Sampling, sufficiency, estimation, test of hypotheses, size/power. Categorical data. Contingency tables. Linear models. Decision theory.

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Translation and Interpreting (TRIN)

College of Continuing Education

TRIN 1201
Fundamentals of Health Care for Interpreters
(3.0 cr; Prereq – bilingual proficiency in English, second language of instruction, dept consent. A-F only)
Technical vocabulary, oral discourse patterns used by health care providers in talking to patients, family members. Language of American health care interview.

TRIN 1301
Interpreting in Legal Settings
(3.0 cr; Prereq – bilingual proficiency in English, second language of instruction, dept consent)
American legal system. Technical vocabulary used in courts and other legal settings. Oral legal discourse. Presentations by specialists, discussion, exercises for review/practice.

TRIN 3001
Introduction to Translation
(3.0 cr; Prereq – bilingual proficiency in English, second language of instruction)
Theory of and supervised practice in translation. Re-expressing meaning in a second language. Translation primarily of English language texts concerning public health/safety, legal/voting rights, regulations, and procedures.

TRIN 3101
Introduction to Interpreting
(3.0 cr; Prereq – TrIn 3001 recommended, high level of proficiency in spoken English and another language)
Practical and theoretical introduction to interpreting in health, human service, and legal settings. Emphasis on understanding the unique role of the interpreter, current models and modes of interpreting, ethical issues and professional standards of practice, and developing pre-interpreting skills.

TRIN 3102
Consecutive Interpreting
(3.0 cr; Prereq – TrIn 3101, high level of proficiency [in spoken English and in another language] as demonstrated by application)
Practice/theory at professional level in interpreting in health, human service, legal settings, research/storage, intercultural issues. Analyzing interpretive process. Performance assessment through audio/videotaping. Subject languages (e.g.; Spanish, Russian, Somali) specified for each section.

TRIN 4201
Interpreting in Health Care Settings
(3.0 cr; Prereq – TrIn 1201; bilingual proficiency in [English, second language of instruction], dept consent. A-F only)
Technical vocabulary, oral discourse patterns used by health care providers in talking to patients, family members. Language of American health care interview.

TRIN 4301
Interpreting in Legal Settings
(3.0 cr; Prereq – bilingual proficiency in [English, second language of instruction], dept consent)
American legal system. Technical vocabulary used in courts and other legal settings. Oral legal discourse. Presentations by specialists, discussion, exercises for review/practice.

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Work, Community, and Family Education (WCFE)

College of Education and Human Development

WCFE 5511
Education for Work
(3.0 cr)
Examination of contextual bases underlying education for work; implications for practice.

WCFE 5901
Using Research in Work, Community, and Family Education
(3.0 cr)
Introduction to the role of work, community, and family education research in professional practice, significant problems of practice for research, alternative modes of research, and synthesis and application of the results of research.

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