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CSE 8356 - Border and Transportation Security
Credits: 3
Legal, political, and economic challenges of border and transportation security. Specific technologies include power solutions, wireless communications, sensor networks, sensing devices, screening devices, image acquisition, and image processing.
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CSE 8359 - Advanced Software Security
Credits: 3
Advanced software security architectural patterns, software reverse engineering, and malware analysis. Advanced software exploitation techniques including shell coding, return-oriented programming, ASLR, and DEP bypassing. Advanced Web application security and secure coding principles/practices. Security testing techniques, fuzzing, operating system security, and root kits. Prerequisite: CSE 5359, or CSE 7359 , or equivalent.
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CSE 8375 - Coding Theory and Applications
Credits: 3
Information theory concepts: measure of information, mutual information, entropy. Algebra: groups, rings, finite fields, algebra of polynomials. Algebraic codes: linear codes, cyclic codes, BCH codes. Fire codes: encoding/decoding logic. Arithmetic codes: AN codes, separate adder and checker. Applications to computer systems. Prerequisites: Elementary probability concepts and digital logic circuits.
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CSE 8377 - Fault-Tolerant Computing
Credits: 3
Faults, errors and failures, hardware fault tolerance, reliability, availability, reliable distributed systems, checkpointing and recovery, atomic actions data and process resiliency, software fault tolerance, and case studies. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
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CSE 8380 - Parallel and Distributed Processing
Credits: 3
Parallel and distributed processing is a fast-growing technology that permeates many aspects of computer science and engineering. This course emphasizes the strong interaction between parallel and distributed algorithms, architectures, and software. Topics include parallelism analysis in numeric and non-numeric algorithms, array processors, associative processors, multiprocessors, marker-propagation networks, distributed operating systems, networks of workstations, Internet computing, and case studies. Prerequisites: Computer architecture and a high-level programming language.
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CSE 8381 - Quantum Logic and Computing
Credits: 3
Survey of quantum logic and quantum computing from the viewpoint of a computer engineer or computer scientist. Focuses on issues in reversible computation, quantum information modeling, quantum logic circuit design, models of quantum computation, and quantum computer algorithms. Also surveys existing and emerging circuit models used to implement quantum logic circuits. Introduces principles of quantum mechanics as related to quantum computation. Prerequisite: CSE 7381 or CSE 7385 , or EE 7381 or EE 7385 , or consent of instructor.
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CSE 8383 - Advanced Computer Architecture
Credits: 3
Advanced topics in computer architecture and parallel processing. Prerequisite: CSE 7381 .
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CSE 8386 - Testing of VLSI Circuits
Credits: 3
The objective of testing is to verify that the manufactured custom chips function correctly according to their specifications. Testing process includes fault modeling, mainly automated simulation, test pattern generation, and testable and self-testing design synthesizing. Structured chips such as memories, PLAs, and FPGAs are also tested for correctness. The course surveys the state-of-the-art test approaches used in industry and in other research environments. Prerequisite: Digital logic design, data structures, and algorithms.
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CSE 8387 - Switching Theory and Applications in VLSI Cad
Credits: 3
Advanced topics in switching theory and electronic design automation methods. Emphasizes the underlying theory and algorithms of EDA tools and their application. Particular emphasis on the representation and properties of discrete mathematics and synthesis, verification, and simulation problems. Includes binary and multiple-valued logic models that are targeted to conventional and emerging technologies, as well as optimization techniques for cost, performance, low power, and other constraints. Recommended: Experience in the use of HDLs and algorithm development and implementation.
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CSE 8388 - Embedded Computing System Design
Credits: 3
Embedded systems are generally part of complex systems. An embedded system carries out the computational subtasks of the main system. The computing systems within home appliances and automobiles are examples of such systems. This course will cover the process of embedded computing system design under, mainly, cost, power, performance and several system-specific restrictions.
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CSE 8389 - Foundations of Formal Verification and Validation
Credits: 3
Detecting and correcting integrated circuit design errors before device fabrication is an increasingly complex and costly problem. This course surveys common approaches for formal methods used in industry and in other research environments. Emphasizes trade-offs between formal methods and validation techniques and the use of commercial state-of-the-art software tools. Includes equivalence checking, model checking, theorem proving, and advanced topics in validation and simulation. Introduces the application of formal methods in other areas. Prerequisite: Knowledge of programming languages, data structures, advanced digital logic design, and computer architecture, or consent of instructor.
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CSE 8390 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Special and intensive study of selective topics in computer science aimed at encouraging students to follow recent developments through regular critical reading of the literature.
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CSE 8391 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Individual or group study of selected advanced topics in computer science. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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CSE 8392 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Individual or group study of selected advanced topics in computer science. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. (*updated* 2/1/2018; effective Spring 2018)
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CSE 8393 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Special and intensive study of selective topics in computer science aimed at encouraging students to follow recent developments through regular critical reading of the literature.
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CSE 8394 - Selected Problems
Credits: 3
Independent investigation of topics in computer science approved by the department chair and by the major professor. Prerequisite: 12 credit hours, graduate level.
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CSE 8395 - Selected Problems
Credits: 3
Independent investigation of topics in computer science approved by the department chair and by the major professor. Prerequisite: 12 credit hours, graduate level.
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CSE 8396 - Dissertation
Credits: 3
Students may need to register in several dissertation courses to obtain the desired number of dissertation credit hours, with a limit of no more than 15 credit hours in a single term and no more than 10 credit hours in the summer terms. For example, CSE 8396 and CSE 8996 (12 credit hours total) would be allowed during a fall term.
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CSE 8490 - Special Topics
Credits: 4
Special and intensive study of selective topics in computer science aimed at encouraging students to follow recent developments through regular critical reading of the literature.
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CSE 8491 - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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CSE 8492 - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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CSE 8493 - Special Topics
Credits: 4
Special and intensive study of selective topics in computer science aimed at encouraging students to follow recent developments through regular critical reading of the literature.
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CSE 8494 - Selected Problems
Credits: 4
Independent investigation of topics in computer science approved by the department chair and by the major professor. Prerequisite: 12 credit hours, graduate level.
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CSE 8495 - Selected Problems
Credits: 4
Independent investigation of topics in computer science approved by the department chair and by the major professor. Prerequisite: 12 credit hours, graduate level.
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CSE 8496 - Dissertation
Credits: 4
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CSE 8596 - Dissertation
Credits: 5
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CSE 8693 - Special Topics
Credits: 6
Special and intensive study of selective topics in computer science or computer engineering aimed at encouraging students to follow recent developments through regular critical reading of the literature.
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CSE 8694 - Selected Problems
Credits: 6
Independent investigation of topics in computer science or computer engineering approved by the department chair and by the major professor. Prerequisite: 12 credit hours, graduate level.
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CSE 8695 - Selected Problems
Credits: 6
Independent investigation of topics in computer science or computer engineering approved by the department chair and by the major professor. Prerequisite: 12 credit hours, graduate level.
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CSE 8696 - Dissertation
Credits: 6
Students may need to register in several dissertation courses to obtain the desired number of dissertation credit hours, with a limit of no more than 15 credit hours in a single term and no more than 10 credit hours in the summer terms. For example, CSE 8396 and CSE 8996 (12 credit hours total) would be allowed during a fall term.
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CSE 8996 - Dissertation
Credits: 9
Students may need to register in several dissertation courses to obtain the desired number of dissertation credit hours, with a limit of no more than 15 credit hours in a single term and no more than 10 credit hours in the summer terms. For example, CSE 8396 and CSE 8996 (12 credit hours total) would be allowed during a fall term.
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Creative Computing |
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CRCP 6291 - Special Topics
Credits: 2
Designed to cover topics at the graduate level that may have temporary or limited interest. (*updated* 1/16/2018; effective Spring 2018)
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CRCP 6391 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Designed to cover topics at the graduate level that may have temporary or limited interest. (*updated* 1/3/2018; effective Spring 2018)
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Double bass |
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DBBS 6100 - Private Study: Double Bass
Credits: 1
One half-hour lesson each week (14 per term) with a jury examination at the conclusion of each term. These repeatable course numbers are offered each fall, spring, and summer. Students are required to accept internships in performance or private teaching, subject to availability and/or scheduling conflicts with other SMU courses. Internships may begin prior to the beginning of the term.
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DBBS 6200 - Private Study: Double Bass
Credits: 2
One 1-hour lesson each week (14 per term) with a jury examination at the conclusion of each term. These repeatable course numbers are offered each fall and spring. Majors are required to enroll in private studies each term until degree requirements are completed. Students are required to accept internships in performance or private teaching, subject to availability and/or scheduling conflicts with other SMU courses. Internships may begin prior to the beginning of the term.
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Design and Innovation |
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DSIN 7301 - The Context and Impact of Design
Credits: 3
Focuses on a series of broad cultural topics through a design lens. Includes discussion and exploration of design topics that cut across eras, mediums, and scales. Emphasizes the idea of the intentionality of a design, as situated in its original context, as well as a design’s continuing relevance to modern life.
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DSIN 7302 - Form and Composition
Credits: 3
Introduces 2-D and 3-D design through assignments focused on the process of creating design work and receiving criticism. Includes overall design principles, 2-D graphic design, 3-D form making, and a culminating final assignment to utilize a full repertoire of design skills. Concentrates on design production with brief training on various digital and analog tools. Students do not need to have a design production background to complete the assigned projects. MADI majors only.
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DSIN 7303 - Human-Centered Design
Credits: 3
A fast-paced, project-based examination of human-centered design, which is a well-established process and set of methods aimed at devising solutions based on people’s needs. Explores HCD’s foundation in design research that emphasizes primary, contextual research such as interviews, observations, and adapted ethnographic methods, with a focus on empathy for the user and rapid prototyping to quickly express possible solutions. MADI majors only.
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DSIN 7304 - Building Creative Confidence
Credits: 3
Focuses on traditional and nontraditional strategies, tools, and mind-shifts required for creativity. Students develop tactical skills to generate, express, and develop their ideas. Investigates the essential components of successful innovation and ways to overcome cultural and personal blocks against creativity. Work is individually produced.
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DSIN 7390 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Individual or group study of selected topics in engineering. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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DSIN 7391 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Individual or group study of selected topics in engineering. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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DSIN 7392 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Individual or group study of selected topics in engineering. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. (*updated* 12/22/2017; effective Spring 2018)
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DSIN 7393 - Special Topics
Credits: 3
Individual or group study of selected topics in engineering. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. (*updated* 1/5/2018; effective Spring 2018)
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DSIN 7501 - Design and Innovation Studio I
Credits: 5
Students use problem-solving techniques, individually and collectively, to achieve an appropriate design solution in an unscripted and dynamic situation much like a real-life employment scenario. Projects are determined each term dependent on potential partnerships, available resources, and current municipal issues or topical events in the DFW area. Includes practical application of human-centered design processes and skills, as well as problem definition, design research, team collaboration, rapid prototyping and testing, storytelling, and presentation. Cotaught by a design faculty member and industry expert. Culminates with a public critique of the students’ work by faculty and external stakeholders. MADI majors only. Prerequisite: DSIN 7303 .
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DSIN 7502 - Design and Innovation Studio II
Credits: 5
Students use problem-solving techniques, individually and collectively, to achieve an appropriate design solution in an unscripted and dynamic situation much like a real-life employment scenario. Projects are determined each term dependent on potential partnerships, available resources, and current municipal issues or topical events in the DFW area. Includes practical application of human-centered design processes and skills, as well as problem definition, design research, team collaboration, rapid prototyping and testing, storytelling, and presentation. Cotaught by a design faculty member and industry expert. Culminates with a public critique of the students’ work by faculty and external stakeholders. MADI majors only. Prerequisite: DSIN 7501 .
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DSIN 7590 - Special Topic
Credits: 5
Individual or group study of selected topics in engineering. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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DSIN 7591 - Special Topic
Credits: 5
Individual or group study of selected topics in engineering. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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Doctor of Ministry |
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DM 9302 - Ministry in the Black Church
Credits: 3
Explores the ministry of the black church. Examines the underlying theological rationale and its practical implications for ministry in the black church from the perspective of cultural pluralism in the black experience. Includes an experience in the context of the black church.
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DM 9321 - Witness and Ministry in Context
Credits: 3
A focused study of Christian witness and ministry in a cultural context, on-site within a region, with attention given to the role of theological reflection in an environment affected by globalization in all its dimensions. Includes reading assignments and a daylong orientation before the course begins and a debriefing after the travel portion of the course. (*updated* 12/12/2017; effective January 2018)
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DM 9375 - Advanced Sacramental Praxis
Credits: 3
A critical examination of sacramental praxis, with particular attention given to implications for ecclesiology, formation, and mission. Also covers pathways to reform.
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DM 9381 - Font, Table, and Mission: Baptism and the Lord’S Supper
Credits: 3
Biblical, historical, theological, and praxis reflection on baptism, the Holy Eucharist, and their interrelationship. Attention is given to leadership roles among the priesthood of all believers, along with the formational and missional dynamics related to these sacraments.
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DM 9392 - Research Methodology
Credits: 3
An introduction to quality research and writing in the field of professional degrees, particularly in the areas of religion, theology, and Christian ministry. Provides materials for expanding the field of online church-based research with academic rigor and professionalism. Offers an opportunity for students and instructors to integrate writing, rhetoric, and theology improving communication skills for the writing of the final project. (*updated* 12/12/2017; effective January 2018)
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DM 9394 - Thesis Seminar
Credits: 3
Equips students with tools to complete their thesis and/or a portfolio based on completed course work that demonstrates growth in the goals of the program. (*updated* 12/12/2017; effective January 2018)
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CISB 6210 - Essential Law for the Entrepreneur
Credits: 2
Provides a broad awareness of and skill in coping with critical legal issues encountered by the entrepreneur building a growth-oriented business, from venture initiation through the expansion stage. Students also develop skills in minimizing exposure to liability and litigation and in working effectively with attorneys and regulators. Topics include contract law, legal entities, governance, intellectual property, e-law and e-litigation, securities law, dispute resolution and litigation management, employment law, and protection of intellectual assets.
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CISB 6211 - Enhancing Operational Performance for Entrepreneurial Companies
Credits: 2
By successfully managing and directing the operations of his or her fledgling company, an entrepreneur can build a firm capable of withstanding the challenges of an ever-changing marketplace. The course uses lectures and cases to emphasize practical, real-world approaches to operations. Topics include industry and competitor analysis, assessing financial strength, the business model, building the management team, measuring costs, the legal foundation of the business, marketing issues, preparing for the challenges of growth, and growth by acquisition.
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CISB 6212 - International Entrepreneurship
Credits: 2
Explores complex issues entrepreneurs face in doing business in a global environment and ways to successfully cope with that environment. Uses an international perspective to examine entrepreneurial opportunity identification and evaluation; market analysis and intelligence; joint ventures and partnerships; agents, VAR’s and representatives; regulations, laws, and customs; regional and cultural issues; financing foreign ventures; and choice of domestic and international legal entities.
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CISB 6214 - Law of Financial Transactions for Entrepreneurs
Credits: 2
Explores the issues that determine the proper entity for a business (corporation, partnership, or LLC); the legal and practical issues in funding a business in the startup phase; and the tax, legal, and business issues that determine the proper structure for mergers and acquisitions. Also, how VC funding works and how to negotiate with VCs; the mechanics of stock option plans and how to design them; how to read definitive documents and what to look for; and how the IPO process works.
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CISB 6216 - Managing the Entrepreneurial Business I
Credits: 2
Focuses on entrepreneurial management and leadership issues in a rapidly changing micro and macro environment. Topics include management of adversity and/or rapid growth, entrepreneurial leadership, and contemporary management theories applied to the entrepreneurial setting.
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CISB 6217 - Managing the Entrepreneurial Business II
Credits: 2
Addresses legal and financial issues encountered by entrepreneurs trying to professionalize and grow the existing enterprise. Topics include developing visionary skills, protecting intellectual property, and managing rapid change. Also, turnaround strategies and approaches. Prerequisite or corequisite: CISB 6216 .
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CISB 6218 - Managing the Family-Owned and Closely Held Business
Credits: 2
Explores the unique challenges and opportunities involved in owning, building, and managing family-owned and closely held enterprises. Examines key business, personal, and interpersonal issues relevant to the continuity and management of these firms, with a focus on family business systems and family dynamics.
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CISB 6220 - Social Media for Entrepreneurs
Credits: 2
Equips students with the social media concepts and tools required to make informed decisions and set the direction for their company. Focuses on helping entrepreneurs build and sustain the successful, integrated, digital-media programs required to compete in the connected economy. Topics include leveraging social media, picking the right channel/platform, building a social plan, determining metrics, tracking strategies, creating a strategic differentiator matrix, and understanding social media law. Students learn how to develop buyer persona for a prototype product and how to develop an online go-to-market strategy for a new product launch.
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CISB 6222 - Starting a Business
Credits: 2
Identifies, qualifies, quantifies, and validates an entrepreneurial opportunity, with the objective of deriving a repeatable, scalable, and profitable business model. Students learn how to take a validated opportunity and create a marketing plan, a financial projection, and an elevator pitch. Uses business modeling tools to develop and refine the business plan.
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CISB 6223 - Early-Stage Valuation and Fund
Credits: 2
Focuses on securing funding in the early stage of a venture and on using the venture capital method for determining the valuation of the deal. Students learn how to prepare an executive summary, a financial forecast, and an investor pitch to early-stage investors, and to determine the exit valuation. Students gain an understanding of investors’ screening methodology, deal metrics, and equity architecture.
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CISB 6224 - Venture Financing
Credits: 2
Explores evaluating the opportunity, developing the business concept, and assessing and acquiring financial resources. Examines the most important financing concepts for the entrepreneur, including startup, expansion, leveraged buyouts, mergers, and acquisitions. Also, situations where proper venture financing can mean the difference between success and failure.
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CISB 6225 - Entrepreneurial Exit Strategies: LPO, Sale, IPO, Recapitalization, and Liquidation
Credits: 2
Examines one of the key strategies required of any entrepreneurial venture: how the founders and investors realize the appreciated value of their contributions to the business. Includes in-depth coverage of the strategies and methodologies for each of the major types of exit transactions: leveraged buyouts, the sale of the business, the use of an initial public offering, recapitalization of the firm, and liquidation of the business.
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CISB 6226 - Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Credits: 2
Provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to select viable opportunities and evolve them into high-potential concepts and business models. Topics include identifying and evaluating opportunity, evaluating markets, developing a powerful value proposition, creating a sustainable competitive advantage, developing powerful and successful business models, and evolving an insightful sales forecast.
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CISB 6228 - Corporate Entrepreneurship: Intrapreneuring
Credits: 2
Detailed examination of the challenges and trade-offs a corporation faces when trying to implement and manage for corporate entrepreneurship. Develops and analyzes key elements for intrapreneurship, success drivers, and business frameworks and models. Topics include the definition of intrapreneurship and comparing and contrasting it with traditional entrepreneurship; the impact of corporate culture, processes, and structures on the rate of innovation and new venture development; international impacts on intrapreneurship; and models for sustaining and adapting corporate entrepreneurship. An M.B.A. graduate who can innovate and grow new ventures within a corporation can add significant value to the company for which he/she works.
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CISB 6230 - Teaming with Venture Investors
Credits: 2
Examines business practices and applications that are unique to the venture-funded, early-stage company. Building a fast-growth, venture-backed company is different from building a company using the entrepreneur’s own funds or those of friends or relatives. The entrepreneur must be effective working with “smart money.” Students learn management techniques, organizational processes, and collaboration models that contribute to success as an entrepreneurial executive in a venture-backed enterprise. Covers what the venture investor looks for; evolution of the entrepreneur’s role as the CEO; and board responsibilities, leadership, and behavior. Also, recognizing the key challenges and typical mistakes that lead to failure in the early-stage, venture-backed company and how to prevent them.
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CISB 6295 - Directed Study in Cisb/Entrepreneurship
Credits: 2
The student works directly with a professor on a specific project or projects. Credit is given based upon evaluation by the professor. Students are responsible for submitting a proposal to a professor for directed study credit.
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CISB 6485 - Directed Study in Cisb/Entrepreneurship
Credits: 4
The student works directly with a professor on a specific project or projects. Credit is given based upon evaluation by the professor. Students are responsible for submitting a proposal to a professor for directed study credit.
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Economics |
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ECO 5101 - Topics
Credits: 1
Topics vary. Prerequisites: C- or better in the following: ECO 3301, ECO 3302 and STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or STAT 4340.
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ECO 5201 - Topics
Credits: 2
Topics vary. Prerequisites: C- or better in the following: ECO 3301, ECO 3302 and STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or STAT 4340.
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ECO 5301 - Topics
Credits: 3
Topics vary. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or C- or better in the following: ECO 3301, ECO 3302 and STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or STAT 4340.
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ECO 5320 - Health Economics
Credits: 3
An introduction to the economics of health and health care policies and how they have affected the structure, function, and cost-effectiveness of the health care industry, principally in the United States. Prerequisite: C- or better in ECO 3301.
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ECO 5340 - Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Credits: 3
Provides a basis for the modeling of decision-making under conditions of incomplete information. Prerequisites: C- or better in the following: ECO 3301, ECO 3302 and STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or 2340.
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ECO 5341 - Strategic Behavior
Credits: 3
Introduces the basic concepts and tools of game theory, with applications to various areas of economics. The various topics are unified by the techniques employed for determining the outcome in particular situations. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or C- or better in the following: ECO 3301 and STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or STAT 4340.
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ECO 5342 - Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Credits: 3
Students study the field of behavioral economics in which the underlying assumptions of economics models are tested using experimental techniques. Guided by behavioral regularities, new models of behavior are introduced. Prerequisite: C- or better in ECO 3301. Recommended: ECO 5341 , ECO 5350 .
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ECO 5350 - Introductory Econometrics
Credits: 3
The basic concepts of econometrics and, in particular, regression analysis, with topics geared to first-time regression users. Students may not receive credit for this course and STAT 5350. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or C- or better in the following: MATH 1309 or MATH 1337; ECO 3301; and ITOM 2305 or STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or STAT 4340.
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ECO 5353 - Law and Economics
Credits: 3
Examines economic theories that explain the development of common law and constitutional law and the economic implications of contracts, antitrust laws, and liability rules. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or C- or better in the following: ECO 3301 and STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or STAT 4340.
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ECO 5357 - Economics of Human Resources
Credits: 3
Examines several topics of interest to modern labor economists. The course is equally devoted to theoretical modeling and the interpretation of empirical evidence, and to the analysis of policies such as education subsidies, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, and immigration restrictions. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or C- or better in the following: ECO 3301 and STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or STAT 4340. ECO 4351 is recommended.
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ECO 5360 - Economic Development: Macroeconomic Perspectives
Credits: 3
A macroeconomic examination of the economic issues faced by developing countries. Topics include population growth, national savings, capital accumulation, human capital formation, government institutions, and international integration. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or C- or better in the following: ECO 3302 and STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or STAT 4340.
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ECO 5362 - Economic Growth
Credits: 3
Examines the facts and theories of economic growth, the economics of technological changes, and the role of governments and markets in promoting or impeding economic development. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or C- or better in the following: ECO 3301, ECO 3302 and STAT 2301, STAT 2331, or STAT 4340.
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ECO 5365 - Federal Government Expenditures
Credits: 3
Focuses on theoretical principles useful for analyzing the role of government intervention. Topics may vary from year to year. Prerequisites: C- or better in ECO 3301, MATH 1309 or 1337, and one of the following: STAT 2301, 2331, or 4340.
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ECO 5366 - Federal Government Taxation
Credits: 3
Develops principles to be used when evaluating a specific tax and uses them to investigate specific federal revenue sources such as taxes on personal and corporate income. Prerequisites: C- or better in ECO 3301, MATH 1309 or 1337, and one of the following: STAT 2301, 2331, or 4340. Recommended: ECO 3302.
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ECO 5375 - Economic and Business Forecasting
Credits: 3
Presentation of methods used by economists to forecast economic and business trends and ways of evaluating the usefulness of these methods. Students may not receive credit for this course and STAT 4375. Prerequisites: C- or better in the following: STAT 2301, STAT 2331; or STAT 4340; or ITOM 2305 and ECO 5350 .
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ECO 6049 - Graduate Full-Time Status
Credits: 0
Full-time status for M.A. students.
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ECO 6101 - Internship for M.A. Students
Credits: 1
Students analyze economics problems appropriate to the interning firm or organization. Can be taken only twice. Prerequisites: 3.000 GPA in economics courses and approval of faculty sponsor and director of graduate studies.
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ECO 6301 - Internship for Master’s Students
Credits: 3
Students analyze economic problems appropriate to the interning firm or organization and write a short report about their experiences. Can be taken only twice. Prerequisites: 3.000 GPA in economics courses and approval of faculty sponsor and director of graduate studies.
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ECO 6320 - Applied Monetary Theory and Policy
Credits: 3
Covers operation of the banking sector, demand for money and control of its supply, and economic policymaking by the Federal Reserve and its importance for business decision-making at senior levels.
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ECO 6330 - International Economic and Financial Environment
Credits: 3
Topics include foreign exchange markets operations, balance of payments adjustments, the international equilibrium system, and international aspects of economic policymaking. Employs mathematical modeling as appropriate and requires some research using methods of quantitative analysis. A student cannot receive credit for both ECO 6330 and ECO 7332 .
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ECO 6331 - International Trade
Credits: 3
Surveys the major theories of world trade; analyzes the empirical evidence regarding these theories; and develops a framework for the analysis of trade policy instruments such as tariffs, quotas, and voluntary export restraints.
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ECO 6333 - Trade Policy and the World Trading System
Credits: 3
Surveys the major institutions of world trade. Analyzes the political economy of trade policy in major trading countries in conjunction with the rules of world trade as defined by the agreements of the WTO and the agenda of the World Bank and the IMF.
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ECO 6352 - Applied Econometric Analysis
Credits: 3
Deals with statistical techniques that go beyond multiple regression analysis such as multinomial choice models, duration models, count models, spatial regression and panel models, logit and probit models, and count data. Emphasizes extensive computer analysis or current economic topics using advanced econometric techniques. Prerequisites: C- or better in ECO 5350 and graduate standing, or permission of instructor.
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ECO 6371 - Introduction to Quantitative Economics
Credits: 3
Prepares first-year Ph.D. students for the study of economic theory and econometrics. Covers topics in mathematics and probability that are widely applied in economic theory and econometrics.
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ECO 6372 - Econometrics I
Credits: 3
Theory and applications of statistical inference. Topics include probability and sampling, distribution theory, estimation, hypothesis testing, and simple regression analysis. Prerequisite: ECO 6371 or equivalent.
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ECO 6374 - Econometrics II
Credits: 3
Econometric theory and methods with emphasis on regression analysis, maximum likelihood, quasi-maximum likelihood, GMM and instrumental variables, and specification testing. Prerequisite: ECO 6372 .
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ECO 6375 - Econometrics III
Credits: 3
Introduces advanced econometric techniques. Topics include limited dependent variables, panel data models, time series models, and resampling methods. Prerequisite: ECO 6374 .
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ECO 6380 - Predictive Analytics for Economists
Credits: 3
A study of data-mining techniques used by economists in the fields of applied economics, marketing, finance, and statistics. These techniques include classification methods, affinity analysis, and date reduction and exploration methods. Students may not receive credit for this course and STAT 5380 . Prerequisites: Graduate standing or C or better in the following: ECO 5350 , and ITOM 2305 or STAT 2301, 2331, or 4340.
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ECO 6381 - Economic Analysis I
Credits: 3
Analysis of basic models of the firm under purely competitive markets and monopolistic competition and simple consumer behavior models. The exposition employs basic mathematical tools such as calculus.
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ECO 6382 - Economic Analysis II
Credits: 3
Analysis of basic national income models and various modifications of these models.
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