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ENWR 5310 - Advanced Poetry Writing Intensive work in poetry writing, for students with prior experience. May be repeated with different instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; limited enrollment. Students should submit a sample of their writing well in advance of the first class meeting.
Credits: 3 |
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ENWR 5559 - New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing.
Credits: 1 to 4 |
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ENWR 5610 - Advanced Fiction Writing A course for advanced short story writers. Student manuscripts are discussed in individual conference and in class. May be repeated with different instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; limited enrollment. Students should submit a sample of their fiction well in advance of the first class.
Credits: 3 |
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ENWR 7310 - Advanced Poetry Writing Graduate-level poetry writing workshop for advanced writing students. A weekly 2.5 hour workshop discussion of student poems.
Credits: 3 |
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ENWR 7559 - New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing.
Credits: 1 to 4 |
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ENWR 7610 - Fiction Writing A course devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Limited enrollment. 751 is prerequisite for 752.
Credits: 3 |
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ENWR 8559 - New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing.
Credits: 1 to 4 |
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ENWR 8993 - Independent Writing Project Intended for graduate students who wish to do work on a creative writing project other than the thesis for the Master of Fine Arts degree under the direction of a faculty member. Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
Credits: 3 |
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ENWR 8995 - Research in Creative Writing Research in creative writing for M.F.A. students.
Credits: 3 |
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ENWR 8999 - M.F.A. Thesis The project must comprise a substantial body of original writing 80 pages of fiction (one long or two or three short stories), a full-length play or two one act plays, or a collection of poems (approximately 48 pages); and it must, in the opinion of the faculty, be of publishable quality, comparable to the literature taught in other courses offered by the department.
Credits: 3 |
Accounting |
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ACCT 5210 - Introductory Auditing Examines auditing methodology through a study of auditing standards. Includes the nature of evidence, program planning, work papers, internal control evaluation, types of audit tests, and audit reports. Prerequisite: ACCT 312.
Credits: 3 |
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ACCT 5250 - Advanced Auditing Builds on the concepts and practice examples from introductory auditing to provide students with an in-depth understanding of professional standards, the audit process, advanced audit techniques, and the auditor’s role in ensuring that publicly issued financial statements are fairly presented. Prerequisite: ACCT 521.
Credits: 3 |
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ACCT 5310 - Selected Topics in Advanced Accounting Studies accounting and financial reporting for partnerships, business enterprise segments, home office/branch office, foreign transactions and translation, business combinations, and other intercorporate investments and consolidated statements. Prerequisite: ACCT 312.
Credits: 3 |
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ACCT 5330 - Accounting for Non-Business Organizations Financial accounting for governmental and non-profit organizations. Studies the theory and techniques of accounting and reporting for various funds and groups of accounts. Prerequisite: ACCT 312.
Credits: 3 |
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ACCT 5460 - Federal Taxation II Analyzes of the federal income tax law and its application to corporations, shareholders, partnerships, partners, estates, and gift transactions. Prerequisite: ACCT 445.
Credits: 3 |
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ACCT 7300 - Accounting Theory Accounting Theory
Credits: 3 |
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COMM 5100 - Accounting Information Systems This course is designed to achieve the following objectives: design and use accounting information systems; learn COSO, COBIT and the foundations for building business controls and managing business risk; understand IT governance in an organization and how IT controls and governance relate to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; understand how IT controls and risks must be integrated into a company¿s overall risk profile; design and implement control systems.
Credits: 3 |
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COMM 5130 - Advanced Financial Accounting Covers accounting and financial reporting for business combinations (including consolidated financial statements), international accounting issues, foreign currency translation, reorganizations and liquidations, accounting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and accounting for partnerships. Emphasizes the conceptual understanding of major issues and technical accounting requirements. Prerequisite: COMM 311.
Credits: 3 |
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COMM 5140 - Strategic Cost Management Explores the roles of accounting information in strategically positioning the firm and in improving performance and examines cost management problems and practices in U.S. and selected foreign firms. The course primarily deals with activity-based cost management, kaizen, target costing, and the balanced scoreboard. Additional topics include the theory of constraints, the strategic value chain, the half-life metric for improvement, and the role of accounting in managing quality. Prerequisite: COMM 311.
Credits: 3 |
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COMM 5150 - Introductory Auditing Includes the planning, processes (gathering evidence), and judgments required to render an opinion on an entity’s financial statements. Deals with evidence theory, risk identification, and professional judgment. Audit methodology is examined through a study of auditing standards and the concepts and procedures developed to implement those standards. Other topics include professional ethics, auditors’ liability, internal control assessment, audit program development, working papers, types of audit tests, and audit reports. Prerequisite: COMM 510 and 311.
Credits: 3 |
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COMM 5450 - Federal Taxation I Analyzes the federal income tax law and its application to business, investment, and personal transactions. Prerequisite: COMM 2020 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3 |
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COMM 5460 - Federal Taxation II Analyzes the federal income tax law and its application to corporations, shareholders, partnerships, partners, and estate and gift transactions. Considers the basic concepts and tax attributes relating to alternative forms of operating a business. Provides the basic skills necessary to do tax research. Prerequisite: COMM 545 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3 |
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COMM 5510 - Selected Topics in Commerce Seminar on current issues in commerce. Independent Study Prerequisite: Fourth-year Commerce or graduate standing, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3 |
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COMM 5700 - Financial Trading This course examines the nature and influence of trading on financial market prices. Particular attention is directed to the role of noise in financial markets; the psychology of participants in financial markets; the identification of potential profitable trading opportunities; back office processing of trades; the management of the trading function; and artificial neural networks and AI expert trading systems. Mock pit trading sessions are held to give firsthand experience in simulated pit trading environments and illustrate some of the skills necessary for successful trading. Prerequisite: Fourth-year Commerce or graduate standing, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7261 - Management Writing for Accounting Professionals This course covers management writing strategies essential for clear, organized, specific messages. We¿ll focus on the importance of audience, occasion, and style which are the foundation for successful and persuasive writing. Topics include effective emails and memos, the two most commonly used business messages. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 1 |
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GCOM 7310 - Strategic Business Advising and Communication This course covers the entire spectrum of business risks facing companies in a global economy. The course focuses on how to build an enterprise risk management process that includes: understanding risk and decision making, strategy and objectives, risk identification, risk assessment, risk response, controls, and monitoring. The course looks at international risk frameworks, international and US regulatory requirements related to risk, and international and US stock exchange requirements. The course also ties the enterprise risk management process into corporate governance, shareholder value and disclosures to shareholders.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7311 - Strategic Business Advising This course explores the dynamics of the business advisory services’ segment of the global consulting market and a common structured methodology to identify, create a framework to solve, and ultimately resolve any type of business-advising problem.
Credits: 1.5 |
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GCOM 7320 - Accounting Policy This course will cover the theory and practice of corporate financial reporting. It will highlight the development of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and accounting policy choices from two perspectives. Restricted to MS in Accounting students
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7330 - Enterprise Risk Management and Consulting The course looks at the strategic, operational, and financial risk that organizations face. Through case discussions, the process of risk identification, risk assessment, and risk monitoring is covered.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7340 - Special Topics in Accounting The purpose of this course is to expand your knowledge of financial reporting and to familiarize you with topics currently of interest to the accounting profession, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. To achieve these objectives, the course will examine accounting issues from two perspectives. First, we will explore financial reporting and financial reporting issues from a user perspective. This perspective should enable you to understand the significance of financial statement components more completely and will facilitate your future performance in your financial statement analysis course. Second, we will examine the authoritative accounting literature underlying acceptable accounting choices. As an accounting professional, you will often be faced with ambiguous or unclear accounting issues. This perspective will improve your ability to conduct financial reporting research and to provide concise and thoughtful resolutions to theses issues. The perspective will also provide a foundation for your future graduate course in accounting policy. The pedagogy for the course will include lectures, readings, illustrative class examples, research cases, memorandum preparations and class presentations.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7341 - Accounting for Derivatives This course develops a framework for understanding the nature, uses, and financial reporting of derivatives. The first section of the course discusses the various types of derivatives, including their uses in business settings and the methods used to determine their ¿fair value.¿ Pre-Requisites: Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7350 - Special Topics in Auditing, Assurance and Ethics This course provides students with an integrative exposure to topics that reflect current professional practices and best practices as identified by regulatory bodies, other profession-related organizations, academics and practitioners. State-of-the-art topics will be covered primarily through (a) professional and academic readings and (b) exposure to practitioners and other experts. The course will focus on the integration of new topics with material learned in other courses and placing topics in the context of auditing and assurance.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7351 - Special Topics in International Accounting The role of accounting in international contexts will be explored, with the objective to help students become familiar with regulatory, cultural and business environment issues that affect and are affected by accounting and the accounting profession. Specific topics will vary from semester to semester, but the course will likely include an international travel component and interactions with many international parties.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7361 - Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions The purpose of this course is to explore mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate control transactions within an accounting and valuation framework. This course also serves an integrative purpose. Mergers and acquisitions represent significant changes that involve the entire enterprise. As such, this course provides an opportunity to link financial decision-making with the overall strategy of the firm. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7370 - Financial Statement Analysis The course centers on the fundamentals of valuation, and how accounting and other information affect perceived and managed value. The course begins by establishing value maximization as the goal of the firm. The process and fundamentals of valuation are explored. Second, students explore how to analyze the decisions that affect firm value (e.g., investing, financing, etc.). Third, students explore the impact, on perceived value, of accounting alternatives (e.g., U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Standards).
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7381 - Ethics in Business, Accounting, and Auditing This course examines ethical considerations within the specific contexts frequently encountered by accountants to recognize common ethical situations faced in business (by auditors and their clients) and those unique ethical issues faced by auditors. We will study ethical frameworks and professional rules and practice applying analyses to real-life and fictitious cases to learn from the mistakes of others and to avoid mistakes. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7400 - Leading for Results in the Accounting Profession The course will focus on key issues facing professionals, professional service firms and the entire profession. We will hear from many leaders in the profession about keys to success-both in today’s environment and in the future. A primary objective of the course will be to expose students to important issues that will be critical for success in the future in terms of both personal career issues and profession-wide developments. Restricted to MS in Accounting students.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7410 - Tax Research This course is designed to equip students with the special investigative skills, and the technical tools, techniques, and insights required to analyze, interpret, summarize, and present complex financial, tax, accounting, and business related issues in a manner that is both understandable and supported by documentary evidence. This course has been designed to expose students to the various statutory, administrative, and judicial sources of the tax law. Case studies are used throughout the course to assist students in developing and refining their proficiency in identifying issues, locating and interpreting pertinent authority, and effectively and professionally communicating their conclusions. Students learn how to use several commercially available research tools (LEXIS/NEXIS, RIA CheckPoint, etc.), analytical tools (e.g., financial modeling tools and simulation tools), and presentation tools more creatively, more efficiently, and more effectively.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7420 - Taxes and Business Strategy The course will provide a framework for understanding how taxation influences asset prices, equilibrium returns, and the form and content of contractual agreements. This is achieved by integrating the tax law with fundamentals of corporate finance and microeconomics. In addition, the course focuses more clearly on the economic consequences of alternative contractual arrangements than on the precise tax laws governing the arrangements. Restricted to MS in Accounting students,
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7430 - Taxation of Pass Through Entities This case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various legal, business, and tax issues arising in connection with the start-up of new business and with the formation, operation, distributions, reorganization, and termination of liability companies, partnerships, S corporations and other conduit entities (e.g., real estate investment trusts and mutual funds). The course provides in-depth coverage of the technical rules of Subchapters K and S and places special emphasis on the identification and implementation of tax-planning strategies available to conduit entities and their owners. The course contains modules on entrepreneurship and accounting for partnership transactions.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7440 - Taxation of Corporations and their Shareholders Transactions This case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various business, tax, and accounting issues arising in connection with the formation, operation, and termination of domestic corporations and their shareholders. The course provides in-depth coverage of the technical rules of Subchapter C, and places special emphasis on the identification and implementation of tax planning strategies available to corporations and their shareholders.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7450 - Corporate Mergers, Acquisitions, Divisions and Recapitalizations This eclectic, case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various financial, tax, and accounting issues arising in connection with corporate mergers, acquisitions, divisions, and recapitalizations. It presents a detailed introduction to the qualitative and quantitative valuation techniques used in analyzing proposed transactions. Students are exposed to the vast array of legal, tax, and accounting issues that arise in connection with negotiating, structuring, closing, and reporting these transactions and how these various factors impact corporate value. Tax due diligence and financial statement analysis are also covered. This course also examines the conceptual themes and the technical rules that govern the filing of consolidated tax returns and compares and contrasts the those rules with the generally accepted accounting principles that govern the preparation of consolidated financial statements. SFAS 109 (tax provision) is also covered in this course.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7460 - Tax Strategies for the Executive and the Entrepreneur This is an eclectic course that addresses the federal income, estate, and gift tax issues and strategies that arise in connection with executive compensation (stock options, nonqualified deferred compensation strategies, etc.), planning for the death or incapacity of the owners of a closely held business (buy-sell arrangements, succession planning, etc.), gratuitous inter vivos and testamentary transfers of large wealth. The course provides in-depth coverage of federal estate and gift taxes, the generation-skipping transfer tax, and the use of trusts. Related business issues non-tax aspects of executive compensation and business succession planning and related financial accounting principles are also covered.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7470 - International Business and Investment Transactions This eclectic, case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various financial, accounting, and tax issues arising in connection with a wide range of international business and investment transactions. It presents a detailed introduction to international finance (e.g., accessing international financial markets, managing foreign exchange risk, and using various financial instruments), and comprehensive coverage of international taxation and tax planning strategies (including transfer pricing, foreign tax credit planning, Subpart F, etc.). The course also contains a module on U.S. accounting principles applicable to multinational transactions and operations, and on the managerial accounting aspects of control systems for multinational business operations. Students are exposed to international accounting standards promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Committee. The tax and accounting systems of several countries are compared and contrasted with those of the United States. The course also contains a module on state and local taxation.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7641 - Communicating Effectively as Accounting Professionals Participants will sharpen speaking and writing skills for professional situations related to their areas of concentration. We¿ll learn strategies for structuring and delivering persuasive material for a variety of audiences and engage in some of the most important conversations taking place in business today that cut across all areas. These may include globalization and emerging communication technologies. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 1.5 |
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GCOM 7740 - Global Finance and Accounting The course explores how firms manage multinational operations. The course first sensitizes students to the challenges confronting global enterprises (e.g., culture, laws, etc.). Second, macroeconomic issues are explored (e.g., exchange rate determination). Third, we examines the nature & framework of international finance decisions (e.g., investing, financings, etc.). Fourth, the impact of differing accounting standards & tax laws are explored. Prerequisite: Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7760 - Real Estate Investments and Analysis Develops an analytical framework by which individuals and institutions can make real estate investment and financing decisions. Emphasizes theory, concept building, financial modeling, and practical real estate applications. Uses the case method to illustrate implementation of an analytical framework. Prerequisite: Restricted to MS in Accounting students.
Credits: 3 |
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GCOM 7993 - Independent Study and Supervised Research Students taking this course will explore areas and issues of special interest that are not otherwise covered in the graduate curriculum. This course is offered at the discretion of the supervising professor.In addition to other requirements imposed by the instructor, the course requires a final paper of publishable ‘law review’ quality be completed and submitted prior to the end of the semester.
Credits: 1 to 9 |
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GCOM 8972 - Non-Topical Research Non-Topical Research
Credits: 3 |
Urban and Environmental Planning |
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PLAC 5041 - Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance The course will examine the dialogue between economic forces and design decisions in the real estate development process. The course will emphasize the ability of intelligent design to create lasting economic value and the utilization of marketing and finance strategy to augment project viability and profitability.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5130 - Applied GIS Workshop Students apply GIS technology to examine significant issues of land, natural resources, and the characteristics of urban development.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5240 - Consensus Building, Negotiation and Mediation Examines the processes by which consensus can be developed, focusing general negotiation theory and skill development, including the concept of principled negotiation; the conflict landscape, including government and non-government organizations; and negotiation resources and opportunities, including organizations, processes, and enabling legislation.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5430 - Land Development Workshop Explores the land development process from the perspective of the private land developer interacting with local governments. Includes development potential, site, and traffic analysis; land planning; development programming; and services to accommodate new development and public regulation of land development.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5470 - Development Dynamics Examines the roles of developers, investors, designers, planners, and others, identifying the objectives each have in the development decision process. Discusses the interplay and communications of what constitutes sound economics and good design.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5610 - Community Planning Workshop Land use plans are developed, usually in conjunction with citizens, for a community undergoing change. Cross-listed with PLAN 401.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5720 - Transportation and Land Use Reviews basic relationships between land use and transportation. Considers the decision process, planning principles, impact measures, and the methodological framework for identifying and evaluating practices in action on a regional, local, and neighborhood scale.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5740 - Transportation Planning and Policy This course introduces graduate and advanced undergraduate students to current issues in the field of transportation planning and policy. It addresses all modes of transportation (auto, walk, bike) and considers multiple scales (national, state, regional and local). Through the analysis of key topics such as congestion, air quality, social equity, and security, we will gain an understanding of how decisions about the transportation system are made and the role of transportation planners and advocates in these decisions.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5800 - Green Lands This course assesses the existing ‘green infrastructure’ of counties in Virginia and develops strategies for protecting environmental assets and channeling future development to the most appropriate locations. Students will use the existing county comprehensive plan to create effective strategies for implementation of goals related to conserving open space and creating livable communities.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5820 - Sustainable Planning and Design Workshop Students act as a consultant team to develop sustainable planning and design strategies for sites which rotate each year.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5850 - Community Food Systems Using case studies of cities and regions in the U.S. and throughout the world, this course explores global health issues through the lens of food systems. The purpose is to reveal how food production and distribution are key indicators of environmental and economic health.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5860 - Green Cities/Green Sites This course teaches students how to redesign city properties to reduce runoff pollution and follow environmentally sensitive design principles. By assessing the city’s existing ‘greenfrastructure’ and retrofitting city lands and buildings, students learn how the city can demonstrate environmentally sensitive design, protect public health and provide more opportunities for environmental education and healthful recreation. The course works with a different local partner each semester.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5870 - Environmental Impact Statements This course is intended to provide students with a broad background of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and the subsequent laws and administrative processes from which developed the environmental impact assessment, particularly the environmental impact statement. The course introduces a framework for conducting environmental impact assessments, technological methods for predicting changes in environmental characteristics, considerations involved in interpreting significance of predicted impacts, techniques for accomplishing public participation, and practical considerations for writing environmental impact statements as applied to a local project. Students will also discuss the future of Environmental Impact Assessments, Community Impact Assessments, Health Impact Assessments and other similar tools.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAC 5993 - Applied Independent Study Applied independent study.
Credits: 1 to 3 |
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PLAC 8060 - Urbanism Design Studio This design studio pulls together many issues that graduate students have studied individually in design technology, theory and history courses into a complex and integrated section of a living and working community. This research looks at integrating infrastructure systems as a community connection system, energy producing ecology and as a civic public space symbol. Pre-Requisites: ARCH/LAR 7010
Credits: 6 |
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PLAN 5020 - Urban Design Explores methods of urban design analysis, stressing observational and representational methods. Emphasizes relationships among public and private buildings, spaces, and transportation corridors in commercial centers. Cross-listed with PLAN 202.
Credits: 4 |
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PLAN 5110 - Digital Visualization for Planners Digital technology for representing and analyzing planning data will include photo-editing, web page design, geographic information system mapping, spreadsheet modeling, and document layout and production. The major emphasis will be on two- and three- dimensional representation of spaces common to planning: streetscape, neighborhoods, communities and regions. Representation of the past, the present and prospective futures to both professional and citizen audiences will receive critical attention. Cross-listed with Plan 211.
Credits: 4 |
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PLAN 5120 - Geographic Information Systems Reviews the use of computers in planning, emphasizing geographic information systems for collection, analysis, and display of spatial information in urban and environmental contexts.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5250 - Public Involvement Examines both the theory and practice of public involvement in planning. Explores the planner’s responsibility to the public and techniques for effective engagement.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5300 - Preservation Planning Studies current literature on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of historic places. Develops techniques for surveying, documenting, evaluating, and planning for preservation. Analyzes current political, economic, and legal issues in preservation planning.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5310 - History of Cities and Planning An overview of the planning profession with emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century American urban history.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5400 - Housing and Community Development Provides an introduction to the housing and community development area of planning practice. Topics include the housing and development industries, neighborhood change processes, social aspects of housing and development, and housing and development programs and policy issues.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5410 - Economic Built Environment Economics studies the efficient allocation of scarce resources. Efficiency is achieved when an economy cannot make anyone economically better off without making someone else worse off. In most mixed economies, like the U.S., there is a dominant market system of organizing economic activity that coordinates the basic questions of allocation: what, how and for whom to produce.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5420 - Economic Development Explores the economy of a community, neighborhood, or region as an essential element, in livability and sustainability. Planners engage economic development by working with the community to assess needs and opportunities, through public-private business partnerships, and in development review.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5440 - Neighborhood Planning As the “building blocks” of cities, neighborhood plans involve citizens in addressing issues of housing, jobs, public services, education, recreation, and transportation.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5450 - Healthy Communities Explores connections between the built environment and community health, with an emphasis on re-integrating planning with its original roots in public health.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5500 - Special Topics in Policy Planning Varies annually to meet the needs of graduate students.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5580 - Short Courses in Planning A series of one-credit short courses, whose topics vary from semester to semester.
Credits: 1 |
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PLAN 5600 - Land Use and Growth Management Introduces the theory and practice of land use planning and growth management as they have evolved historically and as expressed in contemporary practice. Addresses the need and rationale for land use planning as well as its tools.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5630 - Design of Cities Cities are physical artifacts that are experienced psychologically and socially. This course investigates the theories surrounding these processes to reach an understanding of humanistic urban design intentions. Experiential realities are explored through case studies, readings, and mapping exercises.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5650 - Brownfields Redevelopment This course analyzes the challenges and opportunities posed by the development of environmentally impaired properties. It explores the legal, political, and philosophical underpinnings of environmental regulation. The course includes fundamentals of real estate finance, including risk dynamics and debt capital, and assesses community involvement in redevelopment solutions.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5670 - Urban Habitat Seminar that explores the interconnections between infrastructure¿ecological systems, transportation, and water supply¿and the form and vitality domestic urban landscape. Readings, discussions and research papers examine contemporary case studies, from the Charlottesville Urban Habitats Design Competition to ideas for rebuilding New Orleans.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5770 - Plan Implementation Emphasizes the use of zoning, subdivision, and other regulations to implement comprehensive plans. Attention is given to capital facilities programming and building codes.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5810 - Sustainable Communities Examines sustainable communities and the environmental, social, economic, political, and design standards that underlie them. Focuses on reviewing case studies of cities, towns, and development projects that reflect principles of sustainability.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5830 - Environmental Policy and Planning Examines contemporary environmental policy and practice, including exploration of the normative-philosophical debate surrounding environmental issues. Emphasizes understanding the political and institutional framework for establishing policy and programs; exploring the action approaches to environmental planning including moral suasion, regulation, public investment, and public incentives; and case studies of environmental planning at the federal, state, and local levels.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5840 - Environmental Ethics and Sustainability Detailed exploration of the normative debate surrounding environmental issues. Focus on the foundations of environmental economics, questions about the value of endangered species, concerns of future generations, appropriateness of a sustainable society, notions of stewardship, and obligations toward equity.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5870 - Environment and Economy Rather than being opposite, environment and economy are both dimensions that must be addressed to achieve sustainable outcomes. This course explores these issues and students develop proposed solutions.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5880 - Coastal Planning Issues Explores the special characteristics of coastal and island settings for their planning significance. Addresses natural hazard mitigation, wetlands, and biodiversity.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5890 - Global Environmental International Development This course will explore development related root causes of environmental degradation in an international context. The course examines theoretical frameworks explaining the linkage between underdevelopment and environmental issues in a developing country context. Specifically, the course will explore the importance of overconsumption, technology, poverty, and inequality as complex set of factors contributing to the environmental crisis.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 5993 - Applied Independent Study Individual study directed by a faculty member. Prerequisite: Planning faculty approval of topic.
Credits: 1 to 4 |
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PLAN 6010 - Planning Process and Practice A practicum/problem course focusing on the use of maps and quantitative information in the planning process. Develops familiarity with types and sources of data and assesses the relevance of data for various types of problem situations. Provides experience in producing quality professional analysis. Also develops team skills and graphic presentation abilities. A core course.
Credits: 4 |
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PLAN 6040 - Legal Aspects of Planning Addresses the law as it relates to planning practice. Includes substantial work in traditional areas of land-use law, but also deals with the law as an instrument for change. Emphasizes developing legal research skills and performing legal analysis. A core course.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 6050 - Methods of Planning Analysis Applies quantitative skills to the planning process: analyzes decision situations and develops precise languages for structuring or communicating their quantitative dimensions. Includes lectures, case studies, and reviews of statistical methods, survey research methods, census data analysis, program and plan evaluation, and computer modeling. A core course.
Credits: 4 |
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PLAN 6070 - Urban Theory and Public Policy Concentrates on normative and empirical urban theory central to understanding the design and effects of public policies. The theories and applications considered span a number of academic disciplines. Stresses application of theoretical perspectives to federal, state, and local policy choices. A core course.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 6090 - Planning Theory and Practice Provides a history of the intellectual and professional roots of contemporary planning theory and practice. Analyzes these roots with an eye to stimulating new perspectives and concepts for a sustainable community orientation. A core course.
Credits: 3 |
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PLAN 8999 - Master’s Thesis A thesis is optional for the Master of Urban and Environmental Planning degree. Students should begin early to explore topics and to identify potential committee members. A guideline document is available.
Credits: 3 to 6 |
Human Resources |
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HR 5020 - Staffing and Career Management Examines the processes and techniques that establish and govern the flow of interrelated organizational staffing activities. Includes case studies covering the latest staffing models and systems, economic conditions that impact staffing, laws and regulations, strategy and planning, measurement, job analysis, internal and external recruiting, and decision making.
Credits: 3 |
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HR 5030 - Strategic Compensation Explores strategic choices in managing compensation through a pay model that is based upon the foundational policy decisions of the compensation system, the means of compensation, and the objectives of the compensation. Includes strategic perspectives, internal consistency, external competitiveness, employee contributions, and administration of the pay system efficiently, equitably, and in compliance with the law.
Credits: 3 |
African American Studies |
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AAS 5528 - Topics in Race Theory This course examines theories and practices of race and otherness, in order to analyze and interpret constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of race from the late 18th to the 21st centuries. The focus varies from year to year, but the consistent theme is that race is neither a biological nor a cultural category, but a method and theory of social organization, an alibi for inequality, and a strategy for resistance.
Credits: 3 |
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AAS 5559 - New Course in African and African American Studies New course in the subject of African and African American Studies.
Credits: 1 to 4 |
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AAS 5891 - South Atlantic History This course focuses on Africa and Latin America to analyze the applicability of the concept of Atlantic History. We explore tensions, juxtapositions and intersections between different branches of Atlantic History, as well as related fields such as African Diaspora and Imperial Studies. We examine the social, cultural and commercial interactions between European and and indigenous West African peoples, the middle passage and slave resistance.
Credits: 3 |
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