Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Course Numbers

West Texas A&M University follows a four-digit numbering system, known as the Texas Common Course Numbering System (TCCNS). The four-digit numbers are identified below:

  • First digit identifies the level (1 = freshman, 2 = sophomore, 3 = junior, 4 = senior, 5 = stacked undergraduate/masters, 6 or 7 = graduate, 8 = doctoral);
  • Second digit identifies the credit-hour value; and
  • Third and fourth digits establish the course sequence or type of course (92 = special topics, 93 = honors, 94 = individual/directed studies, 95 = problems, 96 = readings, 97 = research, 98 = internship, 99 = practicum).

0001–0999—developmental courses, do not count toward degree.

1000–2999—primarily freshman and sophomore courses.

3000–4999—open to students who have completed at least 30 hours and any prerequisite.

5000–5999—graduate level stacked with undergraduate.

6000–7999—graduate level (master’s/doctoral).

8000–8999—doctoral students only.

NOTE: Students who have taken and received credit for an undergraduate “stacked” course at WTAMU cannot take and receive credit for the corresponding graduate course.

Course Prefix

The course prefix indicates the assigned WTAMU course abbreviation and course number; e.g., ACCT 2301.

Course Abbreviation and Number in Brackets

A course abbreviation (prefix) and number in brackets indicates the corresponding common course number, established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, if the common course number and/or prefix is different from the WTAMU number; e.g., [GOVT 1310].

Field-of-Study Curriculum (FOSC)

Field-of-study curriculum is a set of courses that satisfy lower-division requirements for a bachelor’s degree in a specific academic area. All public four-year institutions of higher education are required to accept Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board-approved field-of-study courses. Field-of-study curriculum is indicated with the abbreviation “FOSC” within the brackets indicating the common course number of a course; e.g., [MUSI 1181, 1182; FOSC].

Numbers

The numbers indicate semester credit hours, lecture clock hours per week and lab clock hours per week; e.g., 3 3 0 indicates three semester credit hours, three clock hours of lecture per week and zero clock hours of lab per week.

(HAZ)

Courses marked with (HAZ) may require the use of hazardous chemicals and/or equipment. To participate in these classes, an online “Student Laboratory Safety Training” is required and assigned through WTClass upon registration for the class. By registering for the class, the student agrees to 

  • Complete the assigned training by no later than 12th class day for fall/spring terms or 5th class day for summer terms; and
  • Acknowledge non-participation in activities if not completed by 18th class day for fall/spring terms; 10th class day for summer terms.

 

 

English

(Offered through the Department of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages.)

  
  • ENGL 2343 - Literature and Ideas

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s):  . Interdisciplinary course designed to show how literature and other fields of knowledge interact. May be repeated once when topics vary for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 2350 - Introduction to Creative Writing

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301 . Introduction to creative writing. Students introduced to basics of composition of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, learning process, revision, and editing. Culminates in a creative writing portfolio of five poems, a 1000-word piece of creative non-fiction.
  
  • ENGL 2372 - Style and Information Design

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  and ENGL 1302  or ENGL 1301  and ENGL 2311  or equivalent; demonstrated computer competency. Introduction to style and design of technical, professional and scientific documents. Course will address questions of audience, the writing process, sentence-level issues, collaboration and style guides used throughout the disciplines.
  
  • ENGL 3094 - Individual Study

    1-3 0 0
    Individual study designed to meet needs and interests of the student. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 3301 - Creative Writing: Fiction

    3 3 0
    Workshop in the art of writing fiction; topic may vary. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 3302 - Creative Writing: Nonfiction

    3 3 0
    Workshop in the art of writing nonfiction. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 3304 - Advanced Professional Documentation

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301 . Explores in detail the documents produced by technical writers on a regular basis, including standard operating procedures, proposals, requests for work, requirements documents, security plans, contingency plans, memoranda of understanding, etc. Major assignments include a recommendation report, a proposal and a disaster recover plan.
  
  • ENGL 3305 - Technical Style and Editing

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301 . Introduction to the characteristics and function of prose style across a variety of technical and professional genres. Course will address: audience, context and purpose and how they influence style, the professional writing process, and sentence-level issues. Students will gain an advanced knowledge of style guides. Students will gain practical experience editing a variety of professional and technical documents. This course builds essential written communication skills such as communicating about specialized topics to specialized audiences, communicating with clarity and problem-solving skills.
  
  • ENGL 3306 - Creative Writing: Poetry

    3 3 0
    Workshop in the art of writing poetry. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 3307 - Information and Document Design

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s):  . Provides an overview of the theory and practice of information design, visual rhetoric, visual communication, and document design. Fundamental technical communication skills, concepts, and theories will be covered. Major assignments will vary but may include the production of original designs for a specific audience/client. This course builds essential written communication skills such as creating content and making design choices for specific audiences and different users, communicating about specialized topics to specialized audiences as well as problem-solving skills. This course also offers some technical skill-building, specifically in how choose, and use, different technological platforms for designing and deploying communication artifacts.
  
  • ENGL 3310 - Semantics

    3 3 0
    Derivations and growth of language.
  
  • ENGL 3311 - Introduction to Language Structure

    3 3 0
    Using advances made in linguistics, explores how English makes meaning through use of semantics, syntax, morphology and phonology. Emphasis on literary language as it affects children ages 6 to 18.
  
  • ENGL 3312 - History of the English Language

    3 3 0
    Growth and development of the English language from Anglo-Saxon to modern English.
  
  • ENGL 3341 - Studies in Drama

    3 3 0
    Related works examining major lines of development; topics will vary. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 3342 - Film Studies

    3 3 0
    Introduction to and development of the art of analyzing film. Analysis of the challenges and difficulties of turning literary works into film. Comparison of analyzing novels and films. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 3350 - The Bible as Literature

    3 3 0
    Literary nature of the Bible and of its influence on Western writing.
  
  • ENGL 3351 - Survey of English Literature to 1700

    3 3 0
    Survey of English literature from its origin through the Restoration.
  
  • ENGL 3352 - Survey of English Literature Since 1700

    3 3 0
    Survey of English literature from the Neoclassical period to the present.
  
  • ENGL 3360 - Survey of American Literature to 1865

    3 3 0
    American literature from its beginnings through Whitman.
  
  • ENGL 3361 - Survey of American Literature after 1865

    3 3 0
    American literature from the advent of realism to the present.
  
  • ENGL 3380 - Literary Analysis

    3 3 0
    Introduction to fundamentals of literary analysis, critical vocabulary and close reading of a wide range of literature across a variety of periods and genres.
  
  • ENGL 3381 - Literature for Children and Young Adults

    3 3 0
    General survey of literature which is suitable for children and/or young adults, sources of children’s and young-adult literature, standards for selection and evaluation of children’s and young-adult literature.
  
  • ENGL 3383 - Masterpieces of World Literature

    3 3 0
    Introduction to significant international literatures and their contexts. Topics may include postcolonial literatures, world literatures in translation, surveys of non-Anglo national literatures, world literatures as resistance.
  
  • ENGL 3398 - Internship in English

    3 0 0
    Prerequisite(s): Twelve hours of English credit; approval of Department Head or Undergraduate Coordinator of English. Provides faculty-directed practical experience in a working environment outside of West Texas A&M University. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4301 - Advanced Composition

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s):   and either   or  . Traditional and recent theories of composition with emphasis on practical and pedagogical techniques of improving expository writing. May be repeated once when topics vary for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4304 - Writing for Digital Media

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301 . This course introduces students to the foundational concepts of writing across a variety of digital platforms. Students will write and design rhetorically effective text for a variety of audiences. Fundamental technical communication skills, concepts, and theories will be covered. Assignments may include audience analysis, evaluation of media, production of web-based and digital documents such as wikis, blogs, infographics, and production of an original website or other digital text. No programming or web development experience needed. This course builds essential written communication skills such as creating content and making design choices for specific audiences and different users, communicating about specialized topics to specialized audiences, as well as problem-solving skills. This course also offers some technical skill-building, specifically in how to choose, and use, different technological platforms for designing and deploying communication artifacts.
  
  • ENGL 4305 - Advanced Topics in Technical Communication

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301 . Exploration of a number of advanced issues related to technical communication. Fundamental technical communication skills, concepts, and theories will be covered. This course builds on essential written communication skills and problem-solving skills. Depending on the course topic, technical skills may also be taught. Topics may vary at instructor discretion. May be repeated once when topics vary for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4306 - Advanced Editing and Publishing

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2311  or ENGL 1302 . Students demonstrate ability to work in groups and to accept and implement mentor feedback by producing as a group, and under direction of a faculty mentor and according to style-guide, one or more publication projects effectively edited and competently designed. Some semesters involve service-learning projects for non-profits or small businesses.
  
  • ENGL 4307 - Grant Writing

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2311  or ENGL 1302 . This course covers the basic techniques of successful grant writing. Topics include concept development, funding sources research, writing, technical writing, and editing skills relevant to the grant writing process.
  
  • ENGL 4310 - Advanced Grammar

    3 3 0
    Review of traditional grammar; introduction to modern grammar.
  
  • ENGL 4311 - Language Acquisition

    3 3 0
    How users of English make meaning through language. Emphasizes phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax.
  
  • ENGL 4321 - British Romanticism

    3 3 0
    Survey of Romantic Movement in Britain. Emphasis on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, Keats and Byron. May be repeated once when topics vary for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4322 - Victorian Poetry

    3 3 0
    Intellectual background and major poets of the Victorian age in Britain.
  
  • ENGL 4323 - Modern Literature

    3 3 0
    A study of Modernism and/or contemporaneous movements that focus on British and American writings from 1900–1945.
  
  • ENGL 4332 - 19th-Century Novel

    3 3 0
    Development of the English and/or American novel in the 19th century.
  
  • ENGL 4350 - Medieval Literature

    3 3 0
    Medieval literature through the 15th century. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4351 - Studies in Middle English

    3 3 0
    Special topics in the literature and culture of Middle English literature. May include emphasis on Geoffrey Chaucer, the Alliterative Revival, Romance, or otherwise. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4352 - Works of William Shakespeare

    3 3 0
    Works of William Shakespeare with an emphasis on drama. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4353 - Renaissance Literature

    3 3 0
    Literature written in England, 1500-1660. Topics may include drama exclusive of Shakespeare with an emphasis on dramatists such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster and Middleton; prose writings of More, Sidney, Bacon, Donne and Bunyan; and/or poetry by Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Donne, Marvell and Milton. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4354 - Contemporary Literature

    3 3 0
    A focus on contemporary literature(s) written since 1945. Emphasis may be on American, British or world literatures. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4360 - American Regionalism

    3 3 0
    American literature from the late 19th through the mid-20th century in a variety of genres to include local color writing as well as the broader cultural and intellectual movements within regionalism as geographically defined.
  
  • ENGL 4361 - Multicultural American Literature

    3 3 0
    Focused, comparative study of multicultural U.S. literatures.
  
  • ENGL 4363 - Literature of the Southwest

    3 3 0
    Introduction to works distinctively Southwestern in tone and subject with emphasis on 20th-century essays, short stories and novels.
  
  • ENGL 4364 - 17th-Century Literature

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): six hours of English. Examination of literature written in Britain during the 17th century. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4365 - 18th-Century Literature

    3 3 0
    Introduction to literature written during the 18th century. May focus on American, British and/or world literatures. May be repeated once for credit.
  
  • ENGL 4366 - Postcolonial Literatures

    3 3 0
    Introduction to colonial, neocolonial, and postcolonial literatures, organized by theme, community/nationality, or period. May be repeated once for credit as topics vary.
  
  • ENGL 4367 - African-American Literature

    3 3 0
    Examines African-American Literatures from a variety of genres, from multiple historical and literary perspectives, and from various periods. May be repeated once for credit when topics vary.
  
  • ENGL 4368 - Studies in Race and Literature

    3 3 0
    Comparative study of race as defined and portrayed in works of literature and other cultural products. Repeatable for credit if content has changed.
  
  • ENGL 4380 - Literary Theory

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3380 . Introduction to the major principles of contemporary literary theory and criticism.
  
  • ENGL 4389 - Instruction of English Capstone

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): senior standing. English Language Arts students deliver a presentation to an academic audience on incorporating recent scholarly and creative  responses into instructing secondary school English curriculum and prepare a portfolio of materials relevant to teaching English in high school.
  
  • ENGL 4390 - English Capstone

    3 0 0
    Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. Focuses on research, documentation methods, and academic prose style. Enables students to develop, expand, and finalize their capstone projects for online publication and formal presentation.
  
  • ENGL 4392 - Special Topics in Literature

    3 3 0
    Concentrated study of selected genres, periods or authors. May be repeated once for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 4393 - Honors

    3 0 0
    Prerequisite(s): senior standing and approval of department head. Completion of a senior thesis or research project by a candidate for graduation with special honors in the department. Course must be taken in addition to the 123-hour minimum degree requirement.

Environmental Engineering

EVEG

  
  • Student Laboratory Safety Training

    EVEG 2331 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering (HAZ)

    Cross-listed with CENG 2331 . 3 2 2
    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 1301 ,  . Prerequisite or concurrent: CHEM 1412 . Introduction to environmental problems, water quality indicators and requirements, potable water quality and quantity objectives, water sources and treatment methods; water pollution control objectives and treatment methods; solid waste management and introduction to air pollution control.
  
  • Student Laboratory Safety Training

    EVEG 3304 - Introduction to Fluid Mechanics for Civil and Environmental Engineers (HAZ)

    Cross-listed with  . 3 2 2
    Prerequisite(s):  , MATH 2414 ,  / . Introduction of properties of fluids, conservation of mass, energy, and momentum with applications to internal and external flows. Laboratory collection and analysis of data from experiments to determine fluid and flow field properties with emphasis on conservation principles.
  
  • EVEG 3342 - Principles of Water and Wastewater Treatment Design

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1412 , CENG 2331  /  , and CENG 3304  /EVEG 3304 . Physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of water and wastewater including air stripping, coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, chemical oxidation/disinfection, fixed film and suspended growth biological processes and sludge management.
  
  • Student Laboratory Safety Training

    EVEG 3343 - Principles of Air Pollution Monitoring and Control (HAZ)

    3 2 2
    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1412 , CENG 2331 /EVEG 2331 , and CENG 3304 /EVEG 3304 . Prerequisite or concurrent:  , EVEG 3404 . Application of principles of environmental engineering, solid mechanics, and fluid mechanics to monitoring and control of potential air pollutants including liquids, gases and particulate matter. Required laboratory field trips. Collection and analysis of air quality data.
  
  • Student Laboratory Safety Training

    EVEG 3344 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering Systems Design (HAZ)

    Cross-listed with CENG 3344 . 3 2 2
    Prerequisite(s):   , CENG 2331 /EVEG 2331 . Application of principles of mechanics and environmental engineering to solid and hazardous waste management. Required laboratory field trips. Collection and analysis of data necessary to design solid and waste management systems including disposal and mitigation.
  
  • EVEG 3361 - Modeling for Environmental Engineering

    Cross-listed with CENG 3361 . 3 2 2
    Prerequisite(s):  / ,  / ,   or  , MATH 3342 . Concepts of pollutant generation, dispersion and mixing, control processes, and reactor design. Introduction to environmental fate-and-transport modeling. Use of approved reference method models for air and water pollution.
  
  • EVEG 3371 - Engineering Applications in GIS

    Cross-listed with CENG 3371 . 3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ENGR 1301 , MATH 2413 , permission from instructor. The combination of mapping and databases to provide combinations of spatial information and modeling capabilities for engineering applications. Introduction of basic concepts and data sources, including global positioning systems and basic output products.
  
  • EVEG 3411 - Water Resources Engineering

    Cross-listed with CENG 3411 . 4 3 1
    Prerequisite(s):  /  or MENG 4304 . Prerequisite or concurrent: EVEG 2331 /CENG 2331 . The hydrologic cycle: precipitation, infiltration, runoff, evapotranspiration, groundwater, and stream flow. Hydrograph analysis, flood routing, frequency analysis and urban hydrology. Hydraulics including pipe and channel flow with design applications in culverts, pumping, water distribution, storm and sanitary sewer systems.
  
  • Student Laboratory Safety Training

    EVEG 4097 - Environmental Engineering Research (HAZ)

    1-3 0 0
    Prerequisite(s):     and consent of instructor. Selected individual research topics in environmental engineering to accommodate more substantial research than can be encountered in normal course work. May be repeated when topics vary for a maximum of six hours.
  
  • EVEG 4098 - Environmental Engineering Internship

    1-3 0 0
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor, junior or senior standing. Internships provide a unique opportunity for students to apply engineering knowledge and skills in the workplace. May be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • EVEG 4340 - Environmental Systems Engineering

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s):   or   ; two from    . Introduction to system dynamics and control theory with application of systems thinking and techniques to environmental engineering problems.
  
  • EVEG 4341 - Groundwater Hydrology and Modeling

    3 3 0
    Introduction to flow through porous media and Darcy’s Law. Application of fluid dynamics principles to groundwater flow.
  
  • Student Laboratory Safety Training

    EVEG 4380 - Environmental Engineering Design (HAZ)

    3 2 2
    Prerequisite(s): Senior classification and consent of instructor. Must complete three of the following four courses–EVEG 3411 , EVEG 3342 , EVEG 3343 , and EVEG 3344 . Project selected for engineering design team with primary application of air quality, water quality, or solid waste and hazardous material management.
  
  • EVEG 4392 - Special Topics in Environmental Engineering

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): instructor consent. Current topics or topics of special interest to environmental engineering. May be repeated when topics vary for a maximum of six credit hours.

Environmental Science

  
  • ENVR 1407 - Fundamentals of Environmental Science

    4 3 2
    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1406 . Introduces the field of environmental science. Covers the fundamental concepts, issues and concerns associated with natural and man-made environmental problems.
  
  • ENVR 3092 - Special Topics

    1-6 0-6 0-12
    Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor. Consideration in recent advances in environmental sciences. May be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENVR 3434 - Numerical Methods in Environmental Science

    4 3 2
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 1316  or MATH 2412 . Introduces quantitative problem solving in the earth and environmental sciences. Focuses on quantifying uncertainty and applying numerical methods and simplifying assumptions to obtain solutions to real-life problems.
  
  • ENVR 4095 - Problems

    1-6 0-6 0-12
    Prerequisite(s): permission of instructor. Independent studies in environmental science not covered by regular courses. May be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • ENVR 4098 - Internship in Environmental Science

    1-3 0 0
    Prerequisite(s): successful completion of 60 credit hours and consent of instructor. Two to six weeks internship at a plant, business or agency to observe and participate in daily operations, under supervision of cooperating personnel involved in environmental aspects of the place. May be repeated for a maximum of three credit hours.
  
  • ENVR 4111 - Seminar

    1 1 0
    Prerequisite(s): successful completion of 60 credit hours. Principles of professional ethics and conduct applied to the fields of environmental science and geoscience, and the development and practice of written and oral communication skills.
  
  • ENVR 4301 - Preparation of Environmental Impact Statements

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): successful completion of 60 crediit hours. Preparation, review, evaluation and interpretation of environmental impact statements and environmental documents.
  
  • ENVR 4302 - Environmental Law

    3 3 0
    Fundamental study of legal aspects and responsibilities of businesses, industries and agencies.
  
  • ENVR 4305 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

    Cross-listed with GEOG 4305 . 3 2 2
    Research tool combining mapping and databases to provide combinations of spatial information and modeling capabilities in a multi-disciplinary format. Introduction of basic concepts of geographic information systems (GIS), GIS data sources, including global positioning systems and basic output products.
  
  • Student Laboratory Safety Training

    ENVR 4306 - Hazardous Waste Site Assessment (HAZ)

    3 2 2
    Course provides the student with OSHA 1910.120 certification to work on hazardous waste sites as well as advanced skills in site assessment, sampling protocols, and the selection and use of safety equipment.
  
  • ENVR 4308 - Fundamentals of Air Quality

    3 3 0
    This course provides a basic survey of air pollution fundamentals. This class will examine the meteorological and chemical/physical processes behind air pollution as well as air pollution regulation, human health and ecosystem impacts, management and control mechanisms.
  
  • ENVR 4311 - Modeling Earth and Environmental Systems

    3 3 0
    Basics of physically-based system modeling for earth and environmental systems. Model applications in understanding, managing, and predicting earth and environmental systems. Overview of aatmospheric, hydrologic, geological, ecological and other models.
  
  • ENVR 4320 - Global Agriculture and the Environment

    Cross-listed with PSES 4320 . 3 3 0
    Discussion of agriculture systems and practices in relation to how they affect environmental quality from local to global scales.
  
  • ENVR 4340 - Environmental Project Management

    3 3 0
    Provides students with project management skills required for certification in the PM discipline. Structured to match a project’s life cycle, course covers detailed topics of basic concepts of project management, including initiating projects, planning projects, controlling projects, executing projects, and closing projects.
  
  • ENVR 4350 - Computer Applications in Hydrogeology

    Cross-listed with  . 3 2 2
    Prerequisite(s): GEOL 3350 . Solving hydrogeology problems using real data and utilizing commercially available software. Examples of problems include direction and velocity of groundwater flow, contaminant transport, and volume and depletion calculations of confined and unconfined aquifers.
  
  • ENVR 4377 - Toxicology

    Cross-listed with BIOL 4377  . 3 3 0
    Emphasizes major classes of pharmaceuticals and environmental pollutants, target organ and non-target organ directed toxicity, exposure assessment in occupational and environmental settings, toxicological methods, and current topics.
  
  • ENVR 4404 - Environmental Sampling and Interpretation

    4 3 2
    Hands-on experience in sampling, data validation and interpretation of air, water, soil and biota parameters using current EPA and state protocols. Planning, chain-of-custody, quality assurance and sampling technique.

Finance

(Offered through the Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance.)

  
  • FIN 1307 - Introduction to Personal Finance

    3 3 0
    Problems related to financing family and individual needs. Topics include budgeting, credit management, consumer and student loans, buying a house, buying a car, banking, saving, insurance and personal taxes. Open to business and non-business majors.
  
  • FIN 3311 - Real Estate Finance

    3 3 0
    Legal nature of real estate mortgages, kinds of mortgages, second liens, real estate bonds, land contracts, lease-back, savings and loan associations, bank finance, mortgage banking, loan applications, title analysis, financing forms, FHA and conventional loans.
  
  • FIN 3320 - Business Finance

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ACCT 2301 , ACCT 2302  or concurrent enrollment. Organization, financing and management of a business organization. Topics covering financial instruments, optimum capitalization mixes, leverage, capital budgeting and cost of capital are developed.
  
  • FIN 3335 - Processes of Risk Management

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 3320  or consent of instructor. Comprehensive overview of financial, legal and operational aspects of commercial risk management and insurance process as practiced in business and industrial settings.
  
  • FIN 3350 - Personal Financial Planning

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 3320  or concurrent enrollment. Strategies and methods of effective financial planning for the individual. Planning consisting of personal financial statements, budgeting, time value of money, cash and credit, debt management, insurance, investments, tax, education, retirement, and estate.
  
  • FIN 4096 - Supervised Readings in Finance

    1-6 0-6 0
    Prerequisite(s): 12 semester hours of advanced work in a business major, junior standing, approval of department head. Current problems in finance through reading business periodicals, government publications and books which have had a profound influence in the financial world.
  
  • FIN 4308 - Introduction to Data Analytics

    Cross-listed with CIDM 4308 . 3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): CIDM 3330 , FIN 3320 . Provides students with a comprehensive and broad introduction to data analytics concepts, theories, and competencies. Students will develop familiarity with data analytics tools, deeper utilization of SQL and RDBMs database tools spreadsheets, business intelligence software, data mining tools, and web-oriented analytics services.
  
  • FIN 4311 - Corporate Governance and Ethics

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 3320  or concurrent enrollment. Comprehensive overview of current issues in corporate governance and ethics. Topics include theory of the firm, corporate governance and the role of law, board composition and control, executive compensation, corporate citizenship and accountability, ethical decision making, corporate fraud and international governance.
  
  • FIN 4315 - Contemporary Issues in Tax Planning and Finance

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): ACCT 2302 . Introduction to income-tax law and how that law interfaces with business, investment, personal activities and decisions.
  
  • FIN 4320 - Investments

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 3320  or consent of instructor. Emphasizing the commitment of funds to various security forms such as common stocks, bonds, warrants, convertible bonds, liquid assets and other securities. Industry analysis also is required.
  
  • FIN 4321 - Portfolio Management

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s):  . Methods of modern portfolio analysis and management. Topics include selection of assets, investment styles, portfolio performance evaluation, efficient markets, diversification, international investing and risk analysis. Students will design and implement investment strategies. May be repeated when topics vary for a maximum of six credit hours.
  
  • FIN 4323 - International Finance

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 3320  or consent of instructor. Financial management concepts and practices unique to multi-national firms with cases and lectures on risk analysis, financing methods, long-range planning and other topics. Emphasis on pragmatic handling of topical problems in international finance.
  
  • FIN 4324 - Management of Financial Services

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 3320  or consent of instructor. Management of financial intermediaries of both depository and non-depository form. Consideration of institutional objectives; environmental, legal and regulatory constraints; changing trends in the development and provision of financial services to both commercial and individual sectors.
  
  • FIN 4325 - Financial Analysis with Technology Applications

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s):   or consent of instructor. Technology applications of financial analysis that reinforces students’ understanding of fundamental topics in finance. Sample topics include time value of money, financial statement analysis, stock valuation, bond valuation, portfolio theory, option pricing model, and capital budgeting.
  
  • FIN 4326 - Financial Management

    3 3 0
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 3320 . Responsibility of the chief financial officer of the firm with regard to short-term, intermediate-term and long-term financial planning. Decision-making function within realities of the financial world.
  
  • FIN 4328 - Futures and Options

    Same as AGBE 4328 . 3 3 0
    Theory and practical trading application for agricultural commodities’ futures and options markets.
 

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