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2014-2015 University Catalog 
    
2014-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


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Civil Engineering

  
  • CE 52700 - Analytical Methods For The Design Of Construction Operations Sem. 1


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides an investigation of quantitative methods used for the design and analysis of construction operations to maximize productivity and minimize resource idleness. Includes discussions on queuing theory, line of balance techniques, linear programming, and simulation. Comprehensive group projects involve modeling and analyzing actual construction operations. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 53000 - Properties And Production Of Concrete


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic properties of hydraulic cements and mineral aggregates and their interactions in concrete. Properties of plastic and hardened concrete. Modifications through admixtures. Production, handling, and placement problems. Specifications; quality control and acceptance testing; lightweight, heavyweight, and other special concretes. A one-day field trip is required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 53500 - Bituminous Materials And Mixtures


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Consideration of major types of bituminous materials-asphalt cements, cutback asphalts, asphalt emulsions, and tars. Influence of chemical composition upon physical properties. Desirable aggregate characteristics for bituminous mixtures. Construction techniques. Current practices for determining optimum asphalt contents. Two one-day field trips are required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 53800 - Experimental Methods In Construction Materials Research


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will introduce the student to the fundamental aspects of the computer control of experimental equipment. Emphasis is placed on the difficulties of interfacing computers and instruments. Experimental techniques for measuring important properties of construction materials are discussed. For example, techniques involving the use of strain gages, optical measurements, and measurement of properties such as pore structure and surface area are considered. Emphasis is placed on the effects of experimental techniques on the resulting measurements. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 54000 - Open Channel Hydraulics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Energy and momentum principles, design of open channels for uniform and nonuniform flow, boundary layer and roughness effects, flow over spillways, energy dissipation, flow in channels of nonlinear alignment and nonprismatic section. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 54200 - Hydrology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Meteorology; precipitation; stream flow, evaporation, and transpiration; subsurface flows, well hydraulics; runoff relations and hydrographs; elements of stream flow routing, frequency and duration studies; extreme values statistics applied to flood and drought forecasting; application of hydrologic techniques. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 54300 - Coastal Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to coastal engineering with emphasis on the interaction between oceanic dynamic processes (waves, currents, and tides) and coastal regions (beaches, harbors, structures, and estuaries) and on the engineering approaches necessary to prevent adverse effects caused by this interaction. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 54400 - Subsurface Hydrology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic principles of fluid flow in saturated and unsaturated materials. Darcy’s law, well hydraulics, determination of hydraulic properties of aquifers. Infiltration theory. Discussions of artificial recharge, land subsidence, saltwater intrusion, ground water quality and contamination. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 54500 - Sediment Transport Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Sediment properties and the mechanics of sediment transport. Threshold of movement. Riverbed load and suspended load theories. Regime theory and stable channel design. River diversion problems. Erosion. Geomorphologic and water quality aspects. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 54700 - Transport Processes In Surface Waters


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Four main topics are covered: (1) density-stratified two-layer systems in lakes and channels, with applications to mixed-layer growth, oil-spill containment, salinity intrusions, (2) advection-diffusion modeling in channels, including analytical solutions to steady and unsteady, one- and two-dimensional problems, (3) mechanisms of diffusional transport, including turbulence in channels and longitudinal shear dispersion, and (4) near-field analysis of discharges, including similarity analyses of jets and plumes. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 54900 - Computational Watershed Hydrology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Use of professional computer programs for the calculation of the runoff from complex basins. Generation of unit hydrographs. Calculation of losses, channel and reservoir routing, parameter optimization, and application of Kinematic wave technique to urban catchments. Offered in alternate years. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 55000 - Physico-Chemical Processes In Environmental Engineering I


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This is the first of a two-course sequence and covers physico-chemical processes as applied in water and wastewater treatment. Topics include: reactor theory, mixing, gravity separation, centrifugation, adsorption, ion exchange, disinfection kinetics, acid/base chemistry, neutralization, precipitation, and corrosion. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 55700 - Air Quality Management


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Discussion of fugitive, mobile, and point sources of air pollution with attendant effects on materials, plants, and humans. Development and status of state and federal regulations with emphasis on the development and use of mathematical dispersion models including meteorological fundamentals and atmospheric transport. Discussion of concepts for ambient air quality control strategies including urban planning and transportation considerations. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 55900 - Water Quality Modeling


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Mathematical modeling of chemical and biological processes occurring in natural aquatic systems. Classical oxygen demand and nutrient processes are modeled, as well as chemical specific transport and fate processes. Emphasis is placed on deterministic models, mass balance approaches, and chemical specific coefficients or parameters. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 56000 - Public Mass Transportation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Public mass transportation system technologies, design, operation, and planning including vehicle characteristics, bus transit, light rail and rail rapid transit, schedules and networks, capacity, passenger characteristics, and paratransit. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 56100 - Transportation Systems Evaluation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Concepts and principles of transportation economic analysis, transportation costs and benefits, user and nonuser consequences, needs studies, finance and taxation, methods of evaluation of plans and projects, cost-effectiveness, environmental impact assessment. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 56200 - Geometric Design Of Highways


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Development and applications of concepts of geometric design for rural and urban highways. Design controls and criteria, elements of design including sight distance and horizontal and vertical alignment, cross-section elements, highway types, intersection design elements, types of interchanges and interchange design elements, grade separations and clearance. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 56300 - Airport Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Airport design requirements derived from using aircraft design parameters and operational characteristics; airport configuration; runway length and orientation; geometric design of taxiways, exits, and runways; apron design; airspace obstacles; effects of air traffic control; lighting and marking; asphalt pavement and rigid concrete pavement design; pavement overlays; evaluation of runway pavement; drainage; earthwork; and project management. A field trip is required. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 56500 - Traffic Engineering: Operations And Controls


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Traffic laws and ordinances; design and application of signs, markings, and signals; timing of isolated and interconnected signals; speed regulation; one-way streets; pedestrian, bicycle, and mass transit considerations; traffic engineering administration. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 56600 - Transportation Planning


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals of transportation planning. Historical development and current status of techniques used in travel demand forecasting: trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, traffic assignment. Data collection and use of surveys. Applications to passenger and freight movement in urban and statewide contexts. Implications for policy formulation and analysis. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 56700 - Highway Traffic And Safety Analysis


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Traffic and safety studies including: traffic and safety impact studies, control and geometry improvements, hazard and countermeasures identification, predicting safety benefits, before-and-after studies; data collection and computer tools for highway traffic and safety evaluation. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 56800 - Highway Infrastructure Management Systems


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Processes and techniques of managing rehabilitation and maintenance of highway infrastructure facilities including roads and bridges. Three management systems are examined: pavement, bridge, and roadway maintenance. The primary emphasis is on data collection, life cycle cost analysis, priority setting and optimization, program development strategies, and institutional issues. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 57000 - Advanced Structural Mechanics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Studies of stress and strain, failure theories, and yield criteria; flexure and torsion theories for solid and thin-walled members; and energy methods. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 57100 - Earthquake Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The objectives of the course are to: (1) expose the fundamentals of structural design in earthquake regions; (2) explain the functions of linear, nonlinear, and limit analyses with respect to design; (3) describe the complex relationships between ground motion models and structural response models in the linear and nonlinear response ranges; and (4) provide the students perspectives about the behavior of building structures in the earthquake environment. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 57200 - Prestressed Concrete Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Behavior and design of prestressed concrete structures, prestress losses, composite construction, flexure and shear design, deflections, and special topics. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 57300 - Structural Dynamics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of structural members and systems subject to dynamic loads such as wind and earthquake loads; basic theory for single-degree-of-freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom analytical models of civil engineering structures; free vibration, harmonic and transient excitation, foundation motion, resonance spectrum, Lagrange’s equation, modal analysis, lumped parameter methods, computer methods. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 57500 - Experimental Methods In Structural Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Theory, methods, and techniques for experimental studies of structural members and systems. Measurements fundamentals; transducers for measuring strain, displacements, force and torque, pressure, and temperature. Physical modeling principles: similitude, materials and their properties, and loading systems for application to studies of elastic and inelastic models. Case studies. Individual project required of each student. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 57600 - Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design and behavior of columns, two-way slab and slab-beam floor systems, and beam-column joints; strut-and-tie models. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 57900 - Structural Stability


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Bending of structural members subjected to axial and lateral loads; buckling of compression members and frames in elastic and inelastic ranges, local buckling, lateral buckling of beams, design criteria. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 58000 - Advanced Geotechnical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced treatment of topics in geotechnical engineering, including the engineering response to loading, soil properties, earth pressures, shear strength, soil compaction and fabric, permeability, and consolidation and settlement analysis. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 58300 - Slopes And Retaining Structures


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected topics in soil response and technology needed in conventional geotechnical analysis and design; shearing behavior in clays; subsurface investigation; lateral earth pressures, retaining walls, and sheet pile walls; stability of slopes. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 58400 - Foundation Analysis And Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design of shallow foundations (isolated, combined, and strip footings), with specific attention to issues of mutual concern and interest to geotechnical and structural engineers. Review of factors that serve as the basis for selection of foundation type. Interpretation of subsurface exploration results. Settlement analyses and limit bearing capacity analyses. Communications and interaction between geotechnical and structural engineers. Structure and contents of a geotechnical report. Detailed treatment of geotechnical/structural design criteria and methodologies for various types of shallow and deep foundations. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 58700 - Soil Dynamics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Vibration of elementary systems, foundation vibratory theory, foundation design for vibratory loads, foundation isolation, wave propagation theory, response of soils to dynamic loading, dynamic soil properties, dynamic behavior of waste materials, field and laboratory methods for evaluation of dynamic soil properties, liquefaction of sands, vibratory compaction of granular materials. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 59100 - Advanced Structural Steel Design


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Design and behavior of plate girders; design of composite beam and column members; behavior and design of bolted and welded connections, including moment-resistant connections, seated connections, and gusset-plate connections. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 59200 - Plastic Design Of Steel Structures


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Ultimate load capacity of steel structures; methods of analysis for structures in the plastic range; plastic design of continuous beams, frames, and connections. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 59300 - Environmental Geotechnology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of regulations related to hazardous and solid waste disposal, including hazardous waste characterization. Discussion of contaminant transport in porous media and relationship with remediation technologies for hazardous waste sites. Discussions of soil properties relative to waste containment systems, soil stability, and permeability. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 59400 - Transportation Systems Analysis


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Identifies concepts fundamental to the planning, design, operation, and management of transportation systems. Aims to impart a systems perspective to transportation problems. Incorporates concepts from economics, engineering, operations research, management, psychology, and public policy analysis. Topics include supply-demand microeconomic framework, analysis of transportation demand, system performance, network equilibrium, and associated case studies. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 59500 - Finite Elements In Elasticity


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamentals of theory of elasticity; variational principles; one-, two-, and three-dimensional elasticity finite elements; interpolation methods; numerical integration; convergence criteria; stress interpretation. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 59700 - Civil Engineering Projects


    Arrange Hours and Credit. Hours and credits to be arranged. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CE 59800 - Graduate Professional Internship


    Credit Hours: 0.00. Professional experience in Civil Engineering. This internship experience is intended to complement the student’s academic coursework and help prepare the student for a career as a practicing engineer. Program coordinated by school with cooperating employers. Must complete one academic year in Civil Engineering. A written report is required. (May be repeated but may not be taken in successive semesters.). Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 61200 - Physical Geodesy


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Gravity field modeling. Spherical harmonics. Gravimetry and gravity reduction methods. Discrete/continuous estimation. Gravity prediction, collocation. Local and world height datums. Earth rotation, differential equations of Euler and Liouville. Basics of inertial surveying. Prerequisite: CE 61100. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 61400 - Statistical And Econometric Methods I


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Basic and advanced statistical and econometric methods as applied to engineering-related problems. Introduction to ordinary least squares regression, count-data models including Poisson and Negative binomial regressions and their extensions, simultaneous equations models, multinomial logit models, ordered probability models, joint discrete/continuous models, and hazard-based duration models. Prerequisites: STAT 51100 . Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 61500 - Statistical And Econometric Methods II


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Advanced statistical and econometric methods as applied to engineering-related problems extending the techniques covered in CE 61400 . Topics include: seemingly unrelated regression, three-stage least squares, generalized extreme value models, nested logit models estimated by full information maximum likelihood, random parameters (mixed) logit models, models with fixed and random effects, and zero-inflated count-data models. Prerequisites: CE 61400 . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 63100 - Advanced Concrete And Aggregates


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Microstructure of concrete. Physicochemical properties of cements and their hydration. Nature of hardened cement paste. Properties of aggregates. Workability, strength, shrinkage, creep, and fracture of concrete. Durability, freezing and thawing, air-entertainment, reactions of aggregates, chemical attack. Influence of microstructure on engineering properties of concrete. Prerequisite: CE 53000 . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 66100 - Algorithms In Transportation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Modeling and analysis of transportation network problems through the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms. Emphasis on the use of quantitative techniques of operations research to model system performance. Covers fundamental data structures, complexity analysis, memory management, recursive programs, application of graph theory and network analysis to transportation problems, analytical formulations and solution algorithms for traffic assignment problems, and dynamic traffic assignment. Prerequisite: CE 59600 or IE 50100. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 67100 - Behavior Of Metal Structures


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the behavior of metal structural components and metal structural systems. The performance of civil engineering type metal structures in various loading environments is examined, and correlations between behavioral characteristics and various design specification requirements are reviewed. Primary emphasis is placed on the behavior of steel structures, although other metal systems also are discussed. Specific topics include material behavior, manufacturing processes, fatigue and fracture, bolting and welding procedures, and repair and retrofit techniques. Course material is augmented with a number of case studies. Prerequisite: CE 59100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 67200 - Advanced Topics In Structural Engineering


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. A series of minicourses on special topics offered as CE 67000, CE 67200, etc. These special topic minicourses provide an opportunity for introducing students to topics of contemporary importance or special interest which fall outside the scope of the regular structural courses. Information about current offerings may be obtained from the schedule of classes or the structural engineering. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 67401 - Bridge Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course reviews a number of fundamental topics related to the structural design of highway bridges. Some of the key features include bridge types, aesthetics, structural analysis methods, vehicle load distribution, deck design and detailing, steel girder design, concrete girder design, integral abutment design, bearings, and construction. Concurrent prerequisites: CE 57200  and CE 59100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 67500 - Finite Element Analysis


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Theoretical basis of the finite element method; elements for use in the solution of two- and three-dimensional stress problems, plate-bending problems and shell problems; static and dynamic loadings; vibration and stability problems; geometrical or material nonlinearities; flow problems. Prerequisite: CE 57700 or 57800. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 67600 - Behavior Of Reinforced Concrete Members


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Studies of the behavior and strength of reinforced concrete members, behavior of beam-columns, deflections, shear, bond, and cracking. Review of research and pertinent literature. Emphasis is placed on the background, use, and limitations of present design specifications. Prerequisite: CE 57600 . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CE 68100 - Engineering Properties Of Soils


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Engineering properties of soils, including compaction phenomena, with emphasis on strength and compressibility. Experiments to examine the nature and validity of strength and compressibility theories and their application to stability and settlement analysis. Measures of soil fabric; behavior of waste/marginal materials. Prerequisite: CE 48300 . Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 68200 - Ground Water And Seepage


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Hydromechanics of confined and unconfined flow of water through soils, potential theory, conformal mapping transient flow. Applications to design of earth dams. Prerequisite: CE 483000. Typically offered Summer Spring.
  
  • CE 68400 - Geological Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles describing the mechanical response of geomaterials subjected to disturbance by man. Relation between geology and engineering. Weathering and hydrothermal alteration of rock masses. Weathered rocks, problem soils, and transitional materials. Soluble rock terrain (karst). Applied geomorphology. Civil engineering design factors and case histories that relate to the behavior of rocks and sediments. Characterization of geomaterials behavior, exploration and measurement of their engineering properties. The focus of the course is on theoretical and practical solution of engineering problems. Prerequisite: CE 483000. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 68500 - Rock Mechanics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Mechanical properties governing rock behavior, from intact rock to fractured rock masses. Laboratory experiments and field tests. Failure criteria. Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics. Rock mass deformability. Analytical and empirical approaches for the design and construction of civil engineering structures in rock masses. Slope stability. Bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations. Prerequisite: CE 48300. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 68600 - Underground Construction


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Planning, analysis, design, and construction of underground structures in soft ground and rock. Ground structure interaction. Static and seismic stresses on tunnel support. Relative stiffness method. Ground deformations. Construction methods, types of support, and their effects on the surrounding ground. The focus of the course is on the understanding of the interaction between ground and structure. Prerequisite: CE 48300. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 68901 - Plasticity Theory


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course covers stress analysis, strains analysis, elastic and inelastic constitutive relations, with emphasis on plasticity, and the solution of plastic boundary-value problems for a wide range of materials, including metals, soils and alloys of various types. Specific topics covered by the course include: tensors, stress analysis, strain analysis, laws of thermodynamics, basic concepts from elasticity, viscoplasticity as an extension of viscoelastic concepts, classical plasticity, principle of maximum plastic dissipation, Drucker¿s inequality, yield function and yield surface, flow rule, hardening rule, classical models (Tresca, Von Mises, Mohr-Coulomb, Drucker-Prager), bounding-surface plasticity, thermodynamics and constitutive models, causes of plasticity at the microstructural level, noncoaxial plasticity, limit analysis, method of characteristics (slipline method) and cavity expansion analysis. Prerequisite: AAE 55300  or ME 61200 . Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CE 69100 - Civil Engineering Seminar


    Credit Hours: 0.00. An interdisciplinary seminar which provides a forum for invited speakers and staff to discuss new developments in practice and current research in civil engineering. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CE 69500 - Probabilistic Methods In Geotechnical Engineering


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the nature of particulate media and their description and characteristics. Compares deterministic and probabilistic approaches to the action and reaction of structures of, on, or in soil when subjected to loadings. Considers uncertainties in material parameters and their effect on designs. Stability is assessed in terms of reliability as well as customary factors of safety. Prerequisite: CE 58000 . Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CE 69700 - Civil Engineering Projects


    Arrange Hours and Credit. Topics vary. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CE 69800 - Research MS Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CE 69900 - Research PhD Thesis


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

Classics

  
  • CLCS 18100 - Classical World Civilizations


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course introduces students to “Classical” civilizations on three continents (Europe, Africa, and Asia) demonstrably interconnected by an ancient world system. Course focuses on essential themes of past civilization: religion, philosophy, surviving texts, gender relations, urbanism, technology, social and political formations. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 22000 - Topics In Classical Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected topics in Greek and Roman literature. All readings in English translation. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 23010 - Survey Of Greek Literature In Translation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to Ancient Greek literature from homer to Plato. All readings in English. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 23100 - Survey Of Latin Literature


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Highlights of literature written in Ancient Rome at times of political, social, and intellectual turbulence. Reading (all in English) includes Vergil’s Aeneid, as well as selections from other influential Latin texts. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 23200 - Classical Roots Of English Words


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This is an introduction to English etymology with emphasis on building vocabulary. Students will learn English derivatives from both classical Greek and Latin. All texts to be read in English. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 23300 - Comparative Mythology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Comparative study of the myths of major ancient cultures, with emphasis on shared typological features. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 23500 - Introduction To Classical Mythology


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the myths of western antiquity, as represented in ancient Greek and Latin texts and images. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 23600 - Ancient World Onscreen


    Credit Hours: 3.00. How film represents ancient Mediterranean civilizations and retells ancient myths; how cinematic renderings of ancient history shape views of the past and how these are affected by contemporary sensibilities. No knowledge of Greek or Latin required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 23700 - Gender And Sexuality In Greek And Roman Antiquity


    Credit Hours: 3.00. How identities based on gender, sexual behavior and sexual desire, and socio-economic status are established in ancient Greece and Rome. Exploration of why these ancient views of gender and sexuality remain of continuing importance in the 21st century. All readings in English. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 23800 - The Tragic Vision


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Greek and Roman tragedy from their beginnings until today. Readings in English from representative authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca; later receptions of ancient tragedy in drama and other media. Course may include performance, theories of comedy and tragedy, or recent and current expressions of the tragic in film and other media. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 28000 - Topics In Classical Civilization


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected topics in Ancient Civilization. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 33100 - Survey of Latin Literature in Translation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This introductory-level course explores just a few of the highlights of Latin literature in English translation. We shall investigate the topics of power, persuasion, and memory, among other themes. Readings (all in English) include Vergil’s Aeneid (in its entirety), as well as selections from Catullus, Cicero, Ovid, Tacitus, and others.
  
  • CLCS 33700 - The Ancient Epic


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the epic in four ancient cultures, with emphasis on its structure, nature, and social functions. Readings may include Gilgamesh, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Beowulf, Tain, Mahabharata, and others. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 33800 - The Tragic Vision


    Credit Hours: 3.00. “The Tragic Vision” explores the “script” of Hollywood movies as it pertains to the classical literary and performance genre of tragedy, which emerged in Athens in the fifth century BCE. This course is different from CLCS 336, “The Ancient World Onscreen,” in that while CLCS 336 gives an overview of the Greco-Roman periods in films, such as Clash of the Titans, Troy, or Gladiator, CLCS 338 focuses on “tragedy” as it was defined in ancient Greece and by subsequent philosophers, including Hegel and Nietzsche. Examples of films viewed in this class are Pasolini’s Edipo Rei (Oedipus), Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra, and Marcel Camus’s Black Orpheus. We approach the literary texts as “scripts” of the tragic genre, and we are also interested in what tragedy means today.
  
  • CLCS 33900 - Literature And The Law


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of literary texts that shed light on the varied practices and ideals that different ancient and modern societies have regarded as “lawful”, “just”, and “good”. Exploration of questions and conflicts arising from disagreement about these ideals and from the difficulties enacting them through legal systems, political structures, and individual choices. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 38000 - Alexander The Great and Hellenistic World


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course examines the career of Alexander the Great and the rise of Macedonia in the Hellenistic Era. Topics include the emergence of Macedonia under Philip II; the achievements of Alexander the Great; and the wars of succession following his demise. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 38100 - Julius Caesar: Statesman, Soldier, Citizen


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course Examines the career of Julius Caesar by focusing on events from Caesar’s birth (100 BCE) through his assassination in 44 BCE. Course places Caesar’s complex personality within the context of political, military, economic, social, and cultural upheaval during the Late Roman Republic. . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 38300 - The Roman Empire


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course examines developments from the Augustan Settlement to the end of the Roman Empire (27BCE - 476CE), along with aspects of religious, social, sexual and material culture throughout the Mediterranean at that time. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 38500 - Science, Medicine And Magic In The Ancient West


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the development of the idea of rationality in the West through examination of the evolution of Greek and Roman sciences, with emphasis on medicine and astronomy. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 38600 - Ancient Greek Religion


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the religious beliefs and practices of ancient Greece, based on written, artistic, and archaeological evidence of their forms and functions. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 38700 - Roman Religion


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of the religious beliefs and practices of ancient Rome, based on written, artistic, and archaeological evidence of their forms and functions. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLCS 48000 - Potters And Society In Antiquity


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course covers the range of eastern Mediterranean ceramics encountered in Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project from the Bronze Age to the Later Roman Empire. Course also explores strategies employed by archaeologists and historians to exploit ceramics as research materials. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 48100 - Culture And Society In The Age Of Pericles


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course explores interrelationships between the emergence of Greek democracy and the cultural, political, social, and economic rise of Athens in the fifth century BCE. More broadly, course surveys history of the Greek world from the Late Bronze Age to 362 BCE. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 48300 - Republican Rome


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course examines the military, political, economic, and social developments that enabled the Roman people to expand from an Italian city-state to a trans-Mediterranean empire, and the consequences that initiated the decline and transition in their republican form of government. . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 49900 - Special Topics In Classics


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Special Topics in Classics. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLCS 59000 - Directed Reading In Classics


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Directed readings in Classics. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall.
  
  • CLCS 59300 - Special Topics In Classical Literature


    Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Special topics in Classical Literature. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall.

Clinical Pharmacy

  
  • CLPH 36100 - Geriatric Pharmacy Practice


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is designed to provide health professional students with a general understanding of the elderly population and the medical care they receive. The course considers sociological-psychological aspects of aging and their effects on health delivery for the elderly. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CLPH 43000 - Introduction To Critical Care Pharmacotherapy


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with the specialized use of drugs in certain types of critical care disease states with a strong orientation toward case based learning. The course is designed to meet the needs of students with an interest in further developing their knowledge base in common acute diseases by utilizing real-life patient cases. Instruction will be provided through a combination of lectures and progressive case discussions. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 43500 - Pediatric Pharmacotherapy


    Credit Hours: 2.00. This elective course will focus on the pharmacotherapeutics and pathophysiology of the more common disorders that apply to the pediatric population. The purpose of the course is to discuss the relevant differences between the adult and pediatric population in regards to the diagnosis, treatment options, desired therapeutic outcomes and therapeutic drug monitoring parameters. Instruction will be provided through a combination of lectures, case discussions, homework assignments, and group presentations. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 44800 - Therapeutic Case Studies


    Credit Hours: 2.00. This course is intended to complement instruction of other courses in the second professional year of the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum and to review many of the topics previously addressed in the Integrated Pharmacotherapy courses and Professional Program Laboratories. It is hoped that students who elect this course will enhance their development of a strong foundation of knowledge, clinical skills and abilities in order to meet the school’s professional outcome abilities. Team-based problem-solving methodology will be utilized to discuss patient cases related to topics covered in the IP sequence. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • CLPH 44900 - Introduction To Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course that provides an overview of psychiatric pharmacy practice, introduction to stigma and diversity issues in mental illness, and disease state overviews in a lecture format. In one class period, the students are able to interact with 4th year pharmacy students and/or pharmacy residents who have worked or are working in the area of psychiatric pharmacy. Four of the class periods also provide live presentations and interactions with persons living with severe mental illness and mental health workers who work with them. Mental Health America of Tippecanoe County works with the instructor to schedule these live presentations. Students are assessed for attendance and participation and also for a reflection written about each class period. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CLPH 45100 - Pharmacy Practical Training


    Credit Hours: 1.00. Course allows students to gain employment experience in a pharmacy practice setting. Students receive credit for practical experience in the time period just prior to course enrollment when they complete the course paper requirement. Pre-approval of enrollment required prior to employment experience. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • CLPH 45300 - Advanced Primary Literature Evaluation: A Focus On Therapeutic Issues


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The purpose of this elective course is to enhance the primary literature evaluation skills of the student prior to clerkship rotations. The course is designed to meet the needs of students with an interest in pursuing post-graduate training programs to enhance their ability to discuss the medical literature. Instruction is provided through a combination of lectures and class discussions of recently published literature articles with a cardiovascular focus. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 45400 - Advanced Practice In Psychiatric Pharmacy


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The purpose of this course is to provide the student with knowledge and insight regarding the use of medications in persons with mental illness. Instruction will be provided in the following areas (but not limited to): (1) psychiatric disease states; (2) psychiatric medications - usual dosing, adverse effects, drug interactions; (3) clinical use of psychiatric medications in psychiatric pharmacy practice; (4) useful and appropriate monitoring parameters; (5) the interaction of medical illness in the treatment of psychiatric disorders; (6) strategies to improve medication adherence and minimize adverse events; (7) utilization of recognized treatment guidelines in clinical care. Case-based learning will be utilized in emphasize important points in clinical use and monitoring of psychiatric medications and disorders. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 45600 - Pharmaceutical Care Of Diabetes


    Credit Hours: 2.00. The purpose of this course is for students to obtain a comprehensive knowledge of the pharmaceutical care of diabetes. Students will expand understanding of comprehensive diabetes care. This will expose the students to experiences in which they will gain an appreciation for the complexities involved with diabetes, develop empathy for patients with diabetes, construct evidence-based treatment plans, and enhance oral and written communication skills. Students will also complete care plan assignments to apply concepts learned in the didactic lectures. This course provides a platform for shaping pharmacists into excellent caregivers for patients with diabetes. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • CLPH 45700 - Pharmaceutical Care In Developing Countries


    Credit Hours: 2.00. This elective will emphasize the major disease states, rational drug selection, especially with a limited medication formularly, desired therapeutic outcomes, and the provision of complete pharmaceutical care to patients in developing countries. The impact of drug therapy on health care, economics, and quality of life for diverse populations will be emphasized. Students will prepare to provide care in a cross-cultural environment in which resources are limited. Instruction is provided through a combination of lectures, discussions, and presentations. Enrollment is limited to Doctor of Pharmacy students (068) DP-C status or by consent of course coordinator. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • CLPH 46000 - Principles Of Pharmaceutical Care And Biometrics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Therapeutics use of drugs to selected human disease states and an introduction to biometrics with an emphasis on the applications of biometrics to interpret and analyze data. Permission of department required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • CLPH 46300 - Pediatric Pharmacotherapy


    Credit Hours: 1.00. This course will consist of a lecture/case discussion format. The lectures will focus on the pediatctric management of the following topics: Clinical Application in Pharmacokinetics, Fluids and Electrolytes, Nutrition, Respiratory Infections/Menigitis, Pain Management, and OTC products. The case discussions allow for practical application of the information gained through the lectures. Typically offered Spring.
 

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