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SYS 6014 - Decision Analysis
Principles and procedures of decision-making under uncertainty and with multiple objectives. Topics include representation of decision situations as decision trees, influence diagrams, and stochastic dynamic programming models; Bayesian decision analysis, subjective probability, utility theory, optimal decision procedures, value of information, multiobjective decision analysis, and group decision making. Prerequisite: SYS 603, 605, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6016 - Knowledge-Based Systems
A graduate-level survey of artificial intelligence techniques with emphasis on their application to systems engineering problem- solving. Topics include: informed and uninformed search; propositional and first order logic; and learning techniques such as Bayes nets, reinforcement learning and neural networks. Students are required to have sufficient computational background to complete several substantive programming assignments. Cross-listed as CS 616.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6018 - Data Mining
Data mining describes approaches to turning data into information. Rather than the more typical deductive strategy of building models using known principles, data mining uses inductive approaches to discover the appropriate models. These models describe a relationship between a system’s response and a set of factors or predictor variables. Data mining in this context provides a formal basis for machine learning and knowledge discovery. This course investigates the construction of empirical models from data mining for systems with both discrete and continuous valued responses. It covers both estimation and classification, and explores both practical and theoretical aspects of data mining. Prerequisite: SYS 621, SYS 421, or STAT 512.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6021 - Linear Statistical Models
This course shows how to use linear statistical models for analysis in engineering and science. The course emphasizes the use of regression models for description, prediction, and control in a variety of applications. Building on multiple regression, the course also covers principal component analysis, analysis of variance and covariance, logistic regression, time series methods, and clustering. Course lectures concentrate on theory and practice.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6023 - Cognitive Systems Engineering
Introduces the field of cognitive systems engineering, which seeks to characterize and support human-systems integration in complex systems environments. Covers key aspects of cognitive human factors in the design of information support systems. Reviews human performance (memory, learning, problem-solving, expertise and human error); characterizes human performance in complex, socio-technical systems, including naturalistic decision making and team performance; reviews different types of decision support systems, with a particular focus on representation aiding systems; and covers the human-centered design process (task analysis, knowledge acquisition methods, product concept, functional requirements, prototype, design, and testing).
Credits: 3
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SYS 6034 - Discrete-Event Stochastic Simulation
A first graduate course covering the theory and practice of discrete-event stochastic simulation. Coverage includes Monte Carlo methods and spreadsheet applications, generating random numbers and variates, specifying input probability distributions, discrete-event simulation logic and computational issues, review of basic queueing theory, analysis of correlated output sequences, model verification and validation, experiment design and comparison of simulated systems, and simulation optimization. Emphasis includes state-of-the-art simulation programming languages with animation on personal computers. Applications address operations in manufacturing, distribution, transportation, communication, computer, health care, and service systems. Prerequisite: SYS 6005 or equivalent background in probability, statistics, and stochastic processes.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6035 - Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems
Complex system are composed of many independent parts, each endowed with behavioral rules that dictate its actions while the collective behavior of the overall system displays unpredictable, /emergent/ properties, thus the whole is indeed more than the sum of its parts. The course will examine the nature of complex systems as observed in many disciplines including biology, physics, economics, political science, ecology, sociology, and engineering systems. Agent-based modeling and simulation will be used as a tool for further understanding such systems. Prerequisite: Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6043 - Applied Optimization
Presents the foundations of mathematical modeling and optimization, with emphasis on problem formulation and solution techniques. Includes applications of linear programs, nonlinear programs, and combinatorial models, as well as a practical introduction to algorithms for solving these types of problems. Topics are illustrated through classic problems such as service planning, operations management, manufacturing, transportation, and network flows. Prerequisites: Two years of college mathematics, including linear algebra, or instructor permission
Note: This course cannot be applied toward completing the requirements for an M.S. or Ph.D. in Systems Engineering
Credits: 3
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SYS 6045 - Applied Probabilistic Models
The goal of this course is to develop an operational understanding of the basic tools of probabilistic modeling, including (i) a review of undergraduate probability, (ii) introduction to Bernoulli and Poisson processes with applications, (iii) Markov chains and applications, and (iv) limit theorems. Homework and exams will emphasize the use of basic concepts of probability theory in applications. This course cannot be applied toward completing the requirements for an M.S. or Ph.D. in Systems Engineering.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6050 - Risk Analysis
A study of technological systems, where decisions are made under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Topics include conceptualization (the nature, perception, and epistemology of risk, and the process of risk assessment and management) systems engineering tools for risk analysis (basic concepts in probability and decision analysis, event trees, decision trees, and multiobjective analysis), and methodologies for risk analysis (hierarchical holographic modeling, uncertainty taxonomy, risk of rare and extreme events, statistics of extremes, partitioned multiobjective risk method, multiobjective decision trees, fault trees, multiobjective impact analysis method, uncertainty sensitivity index method, and filtering, ranking, and management method). Case studies are examined. Prerequisite: APMA 310, SYS 321, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6054 - Financial Engineering
Provides an introduction to basic topics in finance from an engineering and modeling perspective. Topics include the theory of interest, capital budgeting, valuation of firms, futures and forward contracts, options and other derivatives, and practical elements of investing and securities speculation. Emphasis is placed on the development and solution of mathematical models for problems in finance, such as capital budgeting, portfolio optimization, and options pricing; also predictive modeling as it is applied in credit risk management. Prerequisite: SYS 603 or equivalent graduate-level optimization course. Students need not have any background in finance or investment.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6064 - Applied Human Factors Engineering
This topic covers principles of human factors engineering, understanding and designing systems that take into account human capabilities and limitations from cognitive, physical, and social perspectives. Models of human performance and human-machine interaction are covered as well as methods of design and evaluation. Prerequisite: Basic statistics knowledge (ANOVA, linear regression)
Credits: 3
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SYS 6070 - Environmental Systems Analysis
This course focuses on the infrastructure for the provision of drinking water, wastewater/sewage, and solid waste management services in the context of the environmental systems in which they are embedded and the institutional framework within which they must operate. It begins with coverage of the infrastructure design, operation, and maintenance, proceeds to a treatment of the concept of integrated sanitation systems, and then considers the major environmental issues relevant to these services, including global warming, the millenniu development goals, and sustainability. It also includes a study of the common tools in environmental systems analysis: lifecycle assessment, environmental economics, mass and energy balances, benefit-cost analysis, risk analysis, and environmental forecasting. Prerequisite: CHEM 152, PHYS 241.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6074 - Total Quality Engineering
Comprehensive study of quality engineering techniques; characterization of Total Quality Management philosophy and continuous improvement tools; statistical monitoring of processes using control charts; and process improvement using experimental design. Prerequisite: Basic statistics or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6097 - Graduate Teaching Instruction
For master’s students.
Credits: 1 to 12
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SYS 6555 - Special Topics in Distance Learning
Special Topics in Distance Learning
Credits: 3
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SYS 6581 - Selected Topics in Systems Engineering
Detailed study of a selected topic, determined by the current interest of faculty and students. Offered as required.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6582 - Selected Topics in Systems Engineering
Detailed study of a selected topic, determined by the current interest of faculty and students. Offered as required.
Credits: 3
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SYS 6993 - Independent Study
Detailed study of graduate course material on an independent basis under the guidance of a faculty member.
Credits: 1 to 12
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SYS 6995 - Supervised Project Research
Formal record of student commitment to project research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary.
Credits: 1 to 12
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SYS 7001 - System and Decision Sciences
Introduction to system and decision science with focus on theoretical foundations and mathematical modeling in four areas: systems (mathematical structures, coupling, decomposition, simulation, control), human inputs (principles from measurement theory and cognitive psychology, subjective probability theory, utility theory), decisions under uncertainty (Bayesian processing of information, Bayes decision procedures, value of information), and decisions with multiple objectives (wholistic ranking, dominance analysis, multiattribute utility theory). Prerequisite: Mathematical analysis and probability theory at an undergraduate level; admission to the graduate program.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7002 - Case Studies in Systems Engineering
Under faculty guidance, students apply the principles of systems methodology, design, and management along with the techniques of systems and decision sciences to systems analysis and design cases. The primary goal is the integration of numerous concepts from systems engineering using real-world cases. Focuses on presenting, defending, and discussing systems engineering projects in a typical professional context. Cases, extracted from actual government, industry, and business problems, span a broad range of applicable technologies and involve the formulation of the issues, modeling of decision problems, analysis of the impact of proposed alternatives, and interpretation of these impacts in terms of the client value system. Prerequisite: SYS 601, 603, and 605.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7005 - Advanced Stochastic Processes
Provides a non-measure theoretic treatment of advanced topics in the theory of stochastic processes, focusing particularly on denumerable Markov processes in continuous time and renewal processes. The principal objective is to convey a deep understanding of the main results and their proofs, sufficient to allow students to make theoretical contributions to engineering research. Prerequisite: SYS 605 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7016 - Artificial Intelligence
In-depth study of major areas considered to be part of artificial intelligence. In particular, detailed coverage is given to the design considerations involved in automatic theorem proving, natural language understanding, and machine learning. Cross-listed as CS 716. Prerequisite: SYS 616 or CS 616.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7021 - Research Methods in Systems Engineering
The study of the philosophy, theory, methodology, and applications of systems engineering provides themes for this seminar in the art of reading, studying, reviewing, critiquing, and presenting scientific and engineering research results. Applications are drawn from water resources, environmental, industrial and other engineering areas. Throughout the semester, students make a presentation of a chosen paper, followed by a discussion, critique, evaluation, and conclusions regarding the topic and its exposition. Corequisite: SYS 601, 603, 605, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7027 - Quantitative Models of Human Judgment and Decision-making
This course provides an introduction to quantitative methods of measuring human performance in complex systems. The focus of the selected methodologies is based on providing insight into human performance in order to guide design and/or training. Assignments involve applying the methods to a human-machine system problem. If possible the application domain will involve the student’s research area of interest. Competency with regression techniques (e.g. SYS 421 or SYS 618) and statistics/design of experiments preferred.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7030 - Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
An introduction to time series analysis and forecasting. Topics include exploratory data analysis for time-correlated data, time series modeling, spectral analysis, filtering, and state-space models. Time series analysis in both the time domain and frequency domain will be covered. Concentration will be on data analysis with inclusion of important theory. Prerequisite: SYS 605 or equivalent, SYS 421 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7034 - Advanced System Simulation
Seminar on contemporary topics in discrete-event simulation. Topics are determined by student and faculty interests and may include model and simulation theory, validation, experiment design, output analysis, variance-reduction techniques, simulation optimization, parallel and distributed simulation, intelligent simulation systems, animation and output visualization, and application domains. Term project. Prerequisite: SYS 605, 634, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7042 - Heuristic Search
Characterization and analysis of problem solving strategies guided by heuristic information. The course links material from optimization, intelligence systems, and complexity analysis. Formal development of the methods and complete discussion of applications, theoretical properties, and evaluation. Methods discussed include best-first strategies for OR and AND/OR graphs, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming, tabu search, and tailored heuristics. Applications of these methods to engineering design, scheduling, signal interpretation, and machine intelligence. Prerequisite: SYS 605 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7050 - Risk Analysis
A study of technological systems, where decisions are made under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Part I: Conceptualization: the nature of risk, the perception of risk, the epistemology of risk, and the process of risk assessment and management. Part II: Systems engineering tools for risk analysis: basic concepts in probability and decision analysis, event trees, decision trees, and multiobjective analysis. Part III: Methodologies for risk analysis: hierarchical holographic modeling, uncertainty taxonomy, risk of rare and extreme events, statistics of extremes, partitioned multiobjective risk method, multiobjective decision trees, fault trees, multiobjective impact analysis method, uncertainty sensitivity index method, and filtering, ranking, and management method. Case studies. Prerequisite: APMA 310, SYS 321, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7052 - Sequential Decision Processes
Topics include stochastic sequential decision models and their applications; stochastic control theory; dynamic programming; finite horizon, infinite horizon models; discounted, undiscounted, and average cost models; Markov decision processes, including stochastic shortest path problems; problems with imperfect state information; stochastic games; computational aspects and suboptimal control, including neuro-dynamic programming; examples: inventory control, maintenance, portfolio selection, optimal stopping, water resource management, and sensor management. Prerequisite: SYS 605, 614, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7054 - Multiobjective Optimization
Analyzes the theories and methodologies for optimization with multiple objectives under certainty and uncertainty; structuring of objectives, selection of criteria, modeling and assessment of preferences (strength of preference, risk attitude, and trade-off judgments); vector optimization theory and methods for generating non-dominated solutions. Methods with prior assessment of preferences, methods with progressive assessment of preferences (iterative-interactive methods), methods allowing imprecision in preference assessments; group decision making; building and validation of decision-aiding systems. Prerequisite: SYS 603, 614, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7063 - Response Surface Methods
Response surface methods provide process and design improvement through the collection and analysis of data from controlled experimentation. This course investigates the construction of response models for systems with discrete and continuous valued responses. The course will cover design of experiments for optimization and methods for building and using response surfaces from simulation, known as simulation-optimization. Prerequisite: SYS 601, 605, and 674, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7070 - Sequencing and Scheduling
A comprehensive treatment of scheduling theory and practice. The formal machine-scheduling problem: assumptions, performance measures, job and flow shops, constructive algorithms for special cases, disjunctive and integer programming formulations, branch-and-bound and dynamic programming approaches, computational complexity and heuristics. Includes alternative scheduling paradigms and scheduling philosophies and software tools in modern applications. Prerequisite: SYS 603, 605, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7075 - Bayesian Forecast-Decision Theory
Presents the Bayesian theory of forecasting and decision making; judgmental and statistical forecasting, deterministic and probabilistic forecasting, post-processors of forecasts; sufficient comparisons of forecasters, verification of forecasts, combining forecasts; optimal and suboptimal decision procedures using forecasts including static decision models, sequential decision models, stopping-control models; economic value of forecasts; communication of forecasts; and the design and evaluation of a total forecast-decision system. Prerequisite: SYS 605, 614, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7096 - Systems Engineering Colloquium
Regular meeting of graduate students and faculty for presentation and discussion of contemporary systems problems and research. Offered for credit each semester. Registration may be repeated as necessary.
Credits: 1
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SYS 7581 - Advanced Topics in Systems Engineering
Detailed study of an advanced or exploratory topic determined by faculty and student interest. Offered as required.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7582 - Advanced Topics in Systems Engineering
Detailed study of an advanced or exploratory topic determined by faculty and student interest. Offered as required.
Credits: 3
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SYS 7993 - Independent Study
Detailed study of graduate course material on an independent basis under the guidance of a faculty member.
Credits: 1 to 12
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SYS 8995 - Supervised Project Research
Formal record of student commitment to project research for Master of Engineering degree under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary.
Credits: 1 to 12
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SYS 8999 - Non-Topical Research, Masters
Formal record of student commitment to master’s research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Registration may be repeated as necessary.
Credits: 1 to 12
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SYS 9997 - Graduate Teaching Instruction
For doctoral students.
Credits: 1 to 12
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SYS 9999 - Dissertation
For doctoral students.
Credits: 1 to 12
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TBTN 5010 - Advanced Modern Tibetan I
A continuation of the Intermediate Tibetan I/II sequence, focusing on advanced grammar, syntax, and structures. Emphasis is placed on mastering comprehension and communication in colloquial Tibetan, writing skills in the various scripts of literary Tibetan, and integrating comprehension of colloquial and literary forms. The course employs a dynamic, interactive format to foster speaking and listening skills. Pre-Requisites: TBTN 2020 Intermediate Tibetan II.
Credits: 3
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TBTN 5030 - Advanced Modern Tibetan III
A continuation of the Advanced Tibetan I/II language sequence, focusing on advanced grammar, syntax, and structures. Additional emphasis will be placed mastering oral communications skills through conversation, utilizing grammatical structures introduced in Advanced Modern Tibetan II. Pre-Requisites: TBTN 5020 Advanced Modern Tibetan II.
Credits: 3
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TBTN 5040 - Advanced Modern Tibetan IV
A continuation of the Advanced Tibetan language sequence, focusing on advanced grammar, syntax, and structures. Additional emphasis will be placed on mastering oral communications skills through conversation, utilizing grammatical structures introduced in previous courses. Pre-Requisites: TBTN 5030 Advanced Modern Tibetan III.
Credits: 3
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TBTN 5559 - New Course in Tibetan
New course in Tibetan.
Credits: 1 to 4
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United States History |
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HIUS 5021 - Counterpoint Seminar: Teaching Post-Civil War American History
This course offers future elementary, middle and high school teachers of American History the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K-12 teaching. Specifically, the course looks back at HIUS 202 (or equivalent courses that future teachers may have taken elsewhere) and reconsiders that content for its applications to K-12 classrooms. The course is co-taught by instructors from the Curry and the Department of History. Prerequisites: HIUS 202 or its equivalent or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
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HIUS 5081 - Turning Points in U.S. History: Micro-Analytic Methods
The course has two main objects. The first is to linger over several turning points in the history of the United States. The second is work on `micro-analytic¿ methods to use in studying such critical episodes.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 5559 - New Course in United States History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIUS 6006 - The Vietnam Tapes: Pres Recordings of Kennedy,Johnson&Nixon
This colloquium will explore Vietnam War thru once-secret White House Tapes of the presidents who waged it. Miller Center’s Presidential recordings program, historians of war and curriculum specialists and participating teachers will study the most consquential decision-making episodes in American History and develop strategies for teaching in their classroom.
Credits: 1
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HIUS 7001 - Introductory Colloquium in American History
American history from 1607 to the present, emphasizing various approaches and current problems in recent historiography.
Credits: 6
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HIUS 7002 - Introductory Colloquium in American History
American history from 1607 to the present, emphasizing various approaches and current problems in recent historiography.
Credits: 6
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HIUS 7031 - Social History of Early America
American social history through intensive readings on historical demography, immigration, the family, and social structure.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7041 - The Early American Republic, 1783-1830
Reading and discussion in national political history from 1789 to 1815.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7051 - Antebellum America
Studies selected problems and developments in the period 1830-1860 through reading and discussion.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7061 - New Approaches to American Political History
Studies the 19th century, introducing the new conceptual and methodological approaches historians and political scientists have brought to bear on American political history. Explores critical realignment, collective biography, content analysis, legislative roll-call analysis, and popular voting analysis.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7071 - Civil War and Reconstruction
Studies selected problems and developments through reading and discussion.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7101 - Early American Military History
Introduces the military history of the American colonies and the U.S. between 1689-1815. Topics include the history of early conflicts with the Indians; the colonial wars; the American Revolution; and the War of 1812. Explores the significance of warfare for the emerging republican culture of the U.S., focusing on the social contexts of war as these have been revealed in the ‘new military history.’
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7131 - The Emergence of Modern America, ca. 1870-ca. 1930
Studies the distinctive characteristics of American modernity as they emerged in the period from the end of reconstruction to the 1930s. Concentrates on the interplay between large national changes and local life as America became a world power. Investigates the reciprocal relations between society and politics, social organization and science and technology, large-scale bureaucratic organizations and the changing class structure, culture, and ideology.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7141 - The New Deal Order, 1929-1973
Studies the rise and fall of domestic liberalism and the political economy that sustained it.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7151 - The United States, 1945-Present
An intensive reading course emphasizing historiographic approaches to synthesizing post-war America.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7152 - The United States, 1945-Present
This is a readings and discussion course on U.S. history from 1945 to the present. Students will be graded based upon participation in discussion and short historiographic essays.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7171 - The American Culture of Consumption, 1920-1990
An intensive readings course exploring the cultural, social, and political implications and evolution of consumption.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7201 - S History of Technology and Environment, Special Topics – Energy
Popular interest in energy waxes and wanes with the price of gasoline. A historical perspective, however, shows the central role energy sources and transformations have played across the economic, cultural, and regulatory history of the United States. To a large degree, our energy history guides our chores today. Geared to history graduate students, this course or its cross-listed clone (STS 7201) is open to all UVA graduate students.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7231 - The American South Before 1900
Surveys major themes and interpretations of the American South, especially 19th century.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7232 - The South Since 1900
A colloquium on selected themes in 20th century southern history.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7235 - Southern History
Reading and discussion on selected topics of southern history.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7261 - American Political Development in Action
Readings drawn from the leading works in this field that span history, political science, and sociology. Students will also attend colloquia where works in progress will be presented by leading scholars.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7301 - American Studies Seminar
A co-taught, interdisciplinary seminar combining the study of a chronological period with a significant focus on the implications of the material for public historians. Includes the disciplines of art history, architecture, literature, anthropology, archaeology, music, government, and history. Period of focus is defined by co-faculty.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7451 - Urban History
Reading and discussion of primary and secondary sources focused on different topics annually.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7471 - American Labor History
Readings and discussion on U.S. working class, including its institutions, consciousness, social composition, politics.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7481 - Approaches to Social History
Study of the relationships between social history and other disciplines through readings and discussions about broad interpretative problems in 19th and 20th century American society.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7559 - New Course in United States History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of United States history.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIUS 7611 - Women’s History
Readings and discussion on selected topics in the history of women in the U.S.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7651 - The History of United States Foreign Relations
Colloquium on selected themes and topics in the history and historiography of U.S. foreign relations.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7655 - American Legal History
Intensive study along topical and chronological lines of the ways in which fundamental legal forms (federalism or property or contract) have shaped (and been shaped by) American politics and society from the eighteenth century to the recent past.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7656 - 20th Century U.S. Social and Legal History
Studies in the role of law and lawyering in American poliicsand society since 1950.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7657 - Topics in American Intellectual History
Studies selected aspects and problems in the history of American thought. Prerequisite: HIEU 578, 579 or the equivalent.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 7658 - Nineteenth-Century American Social and Cultural History
Reading and discussion of primary and secondary sources.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8002 - First-Year Seminar in American History
A seminar for master’s candidates in American history, emphasizing research methods and techniques, writing, and general historiographical approaches to American history.
Credits: 6
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HIUS 8031 - The Early Period of American History
The Early Period of American History
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8041 - The Age of Jefferson
Intensive study of different aspects of problems of this period of American history by means of discussions, readings, and research papers.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8051 - Antebellum America
Research on selected topics in the period 1830-1860.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8061 - Nineteenth-Century American Political History
Research on selected topics in American political history, 1840-1880. Students write a research paper utilizing one or more of the techniques and concepts studied the first semester.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8121 - Civil War and Reconstruction
Examines special problems, with critical analysis of papers presented by students. Focus of study is national rather than sectional.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8131 - The Emergence of Modern America, ca. 1870-ca. 1930
Explores the distinctive characteristics of American modernity as they emerged in the period from the end of reconstruction to the 1930s. Concentrates on the interplay between large national changes and local life as America became a world power. Investigates the reciprocal relations between society and politics, social organization and science and technology, large-scale bureaucratic organizations, and the changing class structure, culture, and ideology.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8141 - American History, 1929-1945
A research seminar in which students write a major paper on some aspect of American history during this period. Prerequisite: Graduate status; at least one upper-division undergraduate course, including this period or a relevant graduate course.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8142 - American History, 1945-Present
A research seminar that addresses problems in post-war historical research.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8230 - The Nineteenth-Century South
Research on selected topics in the history of the American South during the eras of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New South.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8235 - Topics in Modern Southern History
A research seminar. Prerequisite: HIUS 724 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8451 - The History of United States Foreign Relations
A research seminar.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8471 - Twentieth-Century United States Labor History
Research seminar in labor history, covering topics from the era of Samuel Gompers to the decomposition of the post World War II socio-political order. Emphasizes the cultural and political conditions which gave rise to the industrial union movement of the 1930s and 1940s and to the internal dynamics of the trade unions of that era. Examines state politics and the labor policies of the leading firms in the core sectors of the economy.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8611 - Graduate Seminar in Women’s History
Examines American women’s history culminating in the composition of an original research paper based on primary source materials from any era. Paper either deals with some aspect of the history of American women or examines the history of gender relations. Includes peer readings and critiques.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8671 - The Civil Rights Movement
A research seminar on the ideas, individuals, social forces, protest movements, and public policies that dismantled the southern system of segregation and disfranchisement.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8755 - American Legal History
Directed research in selected areas of American legal history.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8756 - Lawyers in American Public Life
Reading and biographical research on the legal profession and the role of lawyers in American government and politics since 1789.
Credits: 3
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HIUS 8757 - Nineteenth-Century American Social and Cultural History
A research seminar.
Credits: 3
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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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