Apr 28, 2024  
2015-2016 Graduate Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Construction Management

  
  • CMGT 6664 - Advanced Cost Estimating/Cost Analysis


    3

    Incorporates emerging estimating and cost control measures in construction industry. Conceptual and definitive estimating, cost developing, cost analysis methods, project delivery implications, international work implications, and computer applications and modeling.
  
  • CMGT 6665 - Residential Codes, Contracts, and Law


    3

    P: Acceptance into the MCM program. Existing and emerging codes and legal conditions within the residential construction sector.
  
  • CMGT 6670 - Special Topics in Construction


    3

    P: Consent of chair. Exploration and research in personal areas of interest.
  
  • CMGT 6670 - Special Topics in Construction


    3

    P: Consent of chair. Exploration and research in personal areas of interest.
  
  • CMGT 6700 - Research Capstone Seminar


    3

    P: CMGT 6610 ; consent of instructor. Provides graduate students in construction management an opportunity to conduct independent study and research for the non-thesis master’s degree program.

Counselor Education

  
  • COAD 6001 - Special Topics


    1

    May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. Focused study in selected significant and/or contemporary topics in adult education and/or counseling. Title varies with topic.
  
  • COAD 6002 - Special Topics


    2

    May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. Focused study in selected significant and/or contemporary topics in adult education and/or counseling. Title varies with topic.
  
  • COAD 6003 - Special Topics


    3

    May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. Focused study in selected significant and/or contemporary topics in adult education and/or counseling. Title varies with topic.
  
  • COAD 6004 - Interpersonal Communication Skills


    3

    For noncounselor education majors. Overview of communication skills useful in professional settings when assisting people with decisions about relationships and life choices.
  
  • COAD 6100 - Introduction to Student Affairs


    3 Same as ADED 6100  

    Introduction to the profession in post-secondary education, including student development theories, foundations of student affairs, and structure, organization and management of student affairs programs.  
  
  • COAD 6358 - Classroom Assessment and Measurement


    3

    Application of measurement techniques to classroom instruction. Preparation of classroom assessment instruments, application of statistical techniques, and use of standardized tests and assessment data to improve instruction and lead curriculum development.
  
  • COAD 6370 - Counseling Children and Adolescents


    3

    Developmental counseling approaches and techniques used with children and adolescents, including individual, group, and family procedures for prevention, development, and treatment as well as consultation processes.
  
  • COAD 6400 - Introduction to Counseling and Human Services


    3 Formerly COAD 5370

    Issues and processes of counseling services and programs. Emphasis on history, philosophy, functions, and professional issues in counseling.
  
  • COAD 6401 - Analysis of the Individual


    3

    Techniques of test and nontest nature for studying individuals. Use of anecdotal records, rating scales, autobiographies, personal data blanks, sociometric devices, and case study. Taking, scoring, and interpreting of mental ability, aptitude, interest, and personality tests useful in counseling work.
  
  • COAD 6402 - Career Development and Counseling


    3

    World of work, types of occupational and educational information, sources of information, methods of disseminating the information, and career development theory.
  
  • COAD 6404 - Counseling Theory and Techniques


    3

    Approaches to counseling, interviewing methods, psychological factors underlying various methods, tools of counseling, and evaluation of counseling.
  
  • COAD 6405 - Group Procedures


    3

    Application of group methods in counseling. Group dynamics, group therapy, group techniques, and applications of these factors to counseling programs.
  
  • COAD 6406 - Counseling in Schools


    3 SL

    P: COAD 6400 , COAD 6404 ; or consent of chair. Development and coordination of comprehensive school counseling program. Planning and management skills, roles of other school personnel, consultation skills, and ethical and professional issues in school counseling.
  
  • COAD 6407 - Social and Cultural Issues in Counseling


    3

    P: COAD 6400 .  Contemporary issues and trends in counseling related to cultural aspects of clients and society. Presents ideas about counseling relationships to encourage an expanded view of professional helping.
  
  • COAD 6408 - Counseling the Exceptional Student


    3

    Counseling theories and techniques relevant with exceptional students and their parents. Reviews characteristics and legislation regarding exceptional students. Emphasis on counseling process in dealing with problems of exceptional students.
  
  • COAD 6409 - Counseling Skills and Techniques


    3

    Fundamental skills development for subsequent professional studies of counseling. Emphasis on development of specific skills in counseling, testing, human relations, design of counseling strategies, and treatment plans.
  
  • COAD 6411 - Student Affairs and College Counseling


    3

    P: COAD 6400 , COAD 6404 ; or consent of instructor. Sociological, psychological, and historical bases of student affairs counseling in higher education. Procedures for developing, implementing, and managing student affairs counseling programs.
  
  • COAD 6412 - Developmental Counseling and Learning: A Life-Span Approach


    3

    P: COAD 6400 . Application of human development theories to selection of appropriate counseling strategies and interventions with clients throughout the life span.
  
  • COAD 6414 - Family Approaches in Professional Counseling


    3

    P: COAD 6404  or consent of instructors. Survey of family approaches and interventions used by professional counselors in clinical and educational settings. Consideration of the ethical code of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC) and related professional issues.
  
  • COAD 6415 - Clinical Mental Health Counseling


    3

    P: COAD 6400 . History, philosophy, organization, management and delivery of counseling services in diverse clinical mental health settings. Focus on helping strategies that promote mental health wellness, personal growth, and development through preventive, developmental and remedial models of intervention.
  
  • COAD 6416 - Concepts of Self


    3

    P: COAD 6404  or equivalent. Personal frame of reference for students to examine how self-concept relates to human growth, achievement, and developmental change in counseling.
  
  • COAD 6482 - Supervised Counseling Practicum


    3

    Weekly on-campus group supervision and individual site supervision required. P: COAD 6400 , COAD 6404 , COAD 6409 . Application of counseling skills and knowledge, including individual counseling and consultation, in clinical mental health, school or higher education setting.
  
  • COAD 6483 - Counseling Concerns and Counseling Strategies


    2

    P: COAD 6409  or consent of instructor. Seminar. Timely concerns of clients and effective strategies for intervention. Examines strategies used to help clients with topical issues.
  
  • COAD 6991 - Counseling Internship I


    3

    Requires both university and field supervision. P: Minimum grade of B or better in COAD 6482  and a minimum grade of B or better in either COAD 6406 , COAD 6411  or COAD 6415 . Supervised counseling experience including direct service provision at site specific to professional specialization.
  
  • COAD 6992 - Counseling Internship II


    3

    Requires both university and field supervision. P: Minimum grade of B or better in COAD 6482 , COAD 6991  and a minimum grade of B or better in either COAD 6406 , COAD 6411  or COAD 6415 .  Supervised counseling experience including direct service provision at site specific to professional specialization.
  
  • COAD 7000 - Thesis


    1-6

    May be repeated for a maximum of 6 s.h.
  
  • COAD 7001 - Thesis: Summer Research


    1

    May be repeated. No credit may count toward degree. Students conducting thesis research may only register for this course during the summer.
  
  • COAD 7402 - Seminar–Career Development (Theory and Program)


    3

    P: COAD 6402  or equivalent or consent of instructor. Explores aspects of effective career development, successful career preparation, and life-long career planning. Practical application of career theory concepts to rapidly changing world of work and futuristic trends.
  
  • COAD 7404 - Advanced Counseling and Consulting Strategies


    3

    P: COAD 6404  or equivalent or consent of instructor. In-depth examination of various counseling strategies and approaches for practicing counselors. Study of selected consulting models and approaches.
  
  • COAD 7405 - Practicum in Group Counseling


    3

    P: COAD 6405  or equivalent or consent of instructor. Supervised practicum in group counseling. Emphasis on development of counseling skills through analyzing and leading small groups. Didactic content related to experiences in group work.
  
  • COAD 7408 - Professional, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Counseling


    3

    P: COAD 6409  or equivalent or consent of instructor. For advanced students in counseling.
  
  • COAD 7411 - Administration and Management of Student Affairs in Higher Education


    3

    P: COAD 6411  or consent of instructor. Managing and understanding student affairs agencies, workers in those agencies, and student needs that create those agencies. Considers planning, funding, budgeting, and direction of such agencies.
  
  • COAD 7480 - Research Methods and Design in Counseling


    3

    P: EDUC 6480  or master’s in counseling or equivalent or consent of instructor. Review of methodological problems in counseling research. Development and critique of research designs. Emphasis on application of research to work of counselor.
  
  • COAD 7482 - Counseling Supervision


    3

    P: Enrolled in EdS in counselor education; COAD 7404 , COAD 7405 ; or consent of instructor. Practicum experience in supervision of counselor trainees. Establishment of supervisory relationship, critiquing of tapes, and application of supervision principles.
  
  • COAD 7580 - Introduction to Medical Education


    3

    Review of the historical roots and continuum of medical education, instructional methods, accreditation requirements, and research of medical education.

Criminal Justice

  
  • JUST 5000 - Comparative Criminal Justice


    3

    P: Graduate standing in JUST or consent of instructor. Multinational and comparative study of crime and criminal justice including the examination of legal, police, court, correction, and juvenile system models.
  
  • JUST 6000 - Criminal Justice Principles


    3

    Systemic nature of current crime control efforts in criminal justice system.
  
  • JUST 6001 - Seminar in Research Methods and Statistical Interpretation


    3

    Fundamental principles of research methodology, experimental and survey designs, scaling and sampling techniques, and interpreting statistical analyses.
  
  • JUST 6002 - Seminar in Criminal Justice Education


    3

    P: Graduate standing in JUST. Effective delivery of instruction of foundational and contemporary criminal justice issues.
  
  • JUST 6006 - Seminar in Corrections


    3

    Analytical perspective of history, development, current practices, and future of corrections. Detention, institutional, and community-based correctional issues in local, state, and federal systems.
  
  • JUST 6012 - Seminar in Law Enforcement


    3

    Police culture in American society. Emphasis on territorial control, solidarity vs. code of silence, issues of morality, and price of misconduct.
  
  • JUST 6201 - Seminar in Criminal Behavior


    3

    P: Graduate standing in JUST. Theories and systems of criminological thought. Analysis of conceptual foundations of contemporary institutions and policies, formulation of crime prevention strategies, and development of responses to practical problems which arise in delivery of criminal justice.
  
  • JUST 6202 - Advanced Criminology


    3

    P: JUST 6201 . Criminological theory applied to crime in NC, US, and other countries.
  
  • JUST 6211 - Statistics in Criminal Justice


    3

    P: Graduate standing in JUST or consent of instructor. Social science statistics for data analysis.
  
  • JUST 6300 - Principles of Criminal Justice Administration and Management


    3

    Theoretical and practical analysis of management principles of criminal justice organizations. Organizational structure, leadership strategies, strategic planning, and performance evaluation.
  
  • JUST 6400 - Contemporary Issues in Juvenile Justice


    3

    Violent juvenile and female offenders and juvenile system.
  
  • JUST 6500 - Seminar in Criminal Justice Courts


    3

    P: Graduate standing in criminal justice or consent of instructor. Substantive and procedural law. Judicial process, criminal law, constitutional criminal procedure, rights of prisoners, and juvenile law.
  
  • JUST 6501 - Civil Liability in Criminal Justice


    3

    Liability issues of criminal justice personnel in US. Strategies to reduce risk of exposure to liability. Legal role and responsibilities as criminal justice practitioner.
  
  • JUST 6502 - Criminal Justice and Terrorism


    3

    Issues of (who) the types of individuals and organizations involved in terrorism; (what) the types of activities conducted; (when) examinations of historical, socio political, and economic forces that facilitate terrorism; (where) temporal and geographic aspects of terrorism; (how) structural, administrative and organizational issues related to terrorism, and official (governmental, law enforcement) responses to terrorism.
  
  • JUST 6601 - Special Topics


    2-4

    P: Graduate standing in JUST or consent of instructor. Contemporary criminal justice issues.
  
  • JUST 6602 - Directed Study in Criminal Justice


    3

    For advanced students. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 s.h. with consent of director. Independent study under faculty supervision.
  
  • JUST 6700 - Diversity Issues in Criminal Justice


    3

    Impact of America’s changing demographics. Emphasis on women, elderly, and minorities. Criminal justice professionals and clients.
  
  • JUST 6800 - Program Evaluation (Applied)


    3

    P: Graduate standing in JUST or consent of instructor. Evaluation methods that provide understanding of qualitative research.
  
  • JUST 6990 - Field Practicum


    3

    P: Successful completion of minimum of 30 s.h. in JUST graduate program. Practical application of criminal justice knowledge in community settings.
  
  • JUST 6991 - Professional Paper


    3

    P: Graduate standing in JUST. Independent analyses of a pertinent criminal justice related problem with faculty guidance culminating in a written report.

Design Banked Courses

  
  • DESN 5500 - Independent Study: Graphic Communication


    3 F,S,SS


Drawing

  
  • ART 5550 - Advanced Figure Drawing


    3

    P: ART 3553. In-depth investigation of the figure for exploring various drawing issues.
  
  • ART 5551 - Advanced Drawing


    3

    P: ART 4551. In-depth exploration of drawing as depiction, organizational device, metaphor, and object Drawing for exploring aesthetic issues related to various forms of image making.
  
  • ART 6550 - Problems in Drawing


    3

    To be taken in sequence.
  
  • ART 6551 - Problems in Drawing


    3

    To be taken in sequence.
  
  • ART 6552 - Problems in Drawing


    3

    To be taken in sequence.

Driver Education Banked Courses

  
  • DRED 5310 - Advanced Motorcycle Safety


    3


Economics

  
  • ECON 5000 - General Topics


    3

    May be repeated for credit with change of topic. P: For undergraduate students: ECON 3144, 3244. Consideration of new or advanced topics in economics.
  
  • ECON 5150 - Development


    3

    P: For undergraduate students: ECON 3144. Applies microeconomic analysis to investments in human resources, efficient organization of rural economics, intersectoral and international exchange, and interaction between politics and markets, especially in less developed countries.
  
  • ECON 5170 - Resources I


    3

    P: For undergraduate students: ECON 3144. Applies microeconomic analysis to study of allocation of natural resources.
  
  • ECON 5360 - Mathematical Economics


    3

    P: For undergraduate students: MATH 2171 or equivalent. Mathematical analysis applied to economic theory. Structure and specification of quantitative models.
  
  • ECON 5501 - Macroeconomic Theory


    3

    P: For undergraduate students: ECON 3244; ECON 5360  or MATH 2172. Business cycle fluctuations. Emphasis on determinants of consumption and investment and effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy.
  
  • ECON 5800 - Public Economics


    3

    P: For undergraduate students: ECON 3144. Application of microeconomic analysis to collective choice in democratic societies, government expenditure programs, and taxation.
  
  • ECON 5910 - Health Economics


    3

    P: For undergraduate students: ECON 3144, 3244. Organization structure, financing, and regulation of health care delivery and economic measurement of performance.
  
  • ECON 6000 - Advanced Topics


    3

    May be repeated for credit. Current advanced-level topics in economics.
  
  • ECON 6102 - Labor Supply


    3

    P: ECON 6301 , ECON 6401 . Theory and estimation of static labor supply models and general theory of allocation of time.
  
  • ECON 6300 - Economics of Coastal Populations


    3

    Advanced introduction to application of microeconomic analysis of coastal environmental problems and issues and economic basis for formation of coastal and marine policies.
  
  • ECON 6301 - Econometrics I


    3

    Statistical theory and its basic applications to analysis of economic data.
  
  • ECON 6302 - Econometrics II


    3

    P: ECON 6301 , ECON 6401 . Development of general linear model and its extensions for analysis of economic data.
  
  • ECON 6390 - Research


    3

    May be repeated. May count a maximum of 6 s.h. P: ECON 6301 , ECON 6401 ; consent of graduate director. Objectives and structure of methodologies for formulation. Conduct empirical research in economics.
  
  • ECON 6401 - Microeconomic Theory I


    3

    Economic theory of behavior of households and firms in market economy.
  
  • ECON 6402 - Microeconomic Theory II


    3

    P: ECON 6401 . Extensions of choice theory. Efficiency and equilibrium under conditions of uncertainty and imperfect information. Welfare under second-best constraints.
  
  • ECON 6910 - Quantitative Methods in Health Economics


    3

    Applications of quantitative methods to selected health economics topics of current policy relevance.
  
  • ECON 7010 - Coastal and Marine Economics and Policy


    3

    Economic theory of coastal and marine environmental management and policy; treatment of externalities, common-pool resources, and public goods; benefit-cost analysis; ecosystem services and valuation methods; economics of biodiversity; fisheries economics; market-based approaches to environmental policy; economics of climate change.

     
  
  • ECON 8111 - Economic Theory I


    4

    Fundamental models and methods of economic analysis: theory of choice; consumer and producer behavior; behavior under uncertainty; general competitive equilibrium, welfare, and efficiency; equilibrium with uncertainty.  
  
  • ECON 8310 - Advanced Econometrics


    4

    P: ECON 6302 MATH 5102 MATH 6802 ; or consent of graduate director.  Development of asymptotics and advanced estimation techniques.
  
  • ECON 8350 - Applied Research Methods


    3

    P: ECON 8310 . Application of econometric techniques including limited dependent variable models, panel data estimators, instrumental variables estimators, and spatial econometric models.
  
  
  • ECON 8510 - Applied Welfare Analysis


    3

    P: ECON 8111 . Theory of normative models for applied welfare economics and their application to public policy.

     
  
  • ECON 8540 - Environmental and Resource Economics


    3

    P: ECON 8111 . Advanced economic theory of environmental management and policy, treatment of externalities, market and nonmarket approaches to environmental improvement, sustainable use of resources and nonrenewable resources, and economics of climate change.

     
  
  • ECON 8901 - Research Workshop


    1

    May be repeated for a maximum of 6 s.h. P: Consent of director of graduate studies. Present and discuss research methodologies as well as new results in the literature.

     
  
  • ECON 9000 - Dissertation Research


    3-9

    May be repeated for a maximum of 18 s.h. P: Consent of advisor and director of graduate studies. This course is graded S or U and is not included in meeting the cumulative “B” average required for graduation. 
  
  • ECON 9001 - Dissertation: Summer Research


    1

    May be repeated. No credit may count toward degree. P: Consent or advisor and director of graduate studies.

     

Economics Banked Courses

  
  • ECON 8112 - Economic Theory II


  
  • ECON 8211 - Macroeconomic Theory I


  
  • ECON 8212 - Macroeconomic Theory II


  
  • ECON 8241 - Applied Macro I


  
  • ECON 8242 - Applied Macro II


  
  • ECON 8412 - Risk Analysis II


  
  • ECON 8413 - Risk Analysis III


 

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