Courses

    Prereq., general background in European history.

    Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

    Educates students in one of a selected set of methodological specializations used in the study of human interaction. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

    Engages in debates about historical methods and how the past is represented. Central topics will include memory and the forces of nationalism and war; commemoration and monuments; the role of memory in the construction of race and ethnicity; personal past and cultural remembrance; and the relationships between academic, public, and popular histories. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Introduces classic and recent scholarship, and critical issues in African American history, from slavery to the present. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Examines theory, method, and application of grounded practical theory, an approach to building normative theory through description, critique, and theoretical reconstruction of situated communicative practices. Semester project involves analysis of a sample of discourse from a public or field observation setting. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Recommended prereq., COMM 5210.

    Explores theory and practical field measurements for validation of airborne and spaceborne spectral image acquisition. Emphasizes radiative scattering properties of soil, vegetation, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Characterization and calibration of instrumentation used to measure these properties. Prereq., GEOL/GEOG 4093/5093. Recommended prereq., GEOL 5240. Same as GEOG 6443.

    Acquaints students with various topics not normally covered in the curriculum. Offered intermittently or upon student demand, and often presented by visiting professors. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Theory and practical field measurements for validation of airborne and spaceborne spectral image acquisition. Emphasizes radiative scattering properties of soil, vegetation, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Also focuses on characterization and calibration of instrumentation to measure these properties. Restricted to graduate students. Prereqs., GEOL/GEOG 4093/5093. Recommended prereq., GEOL 5240. Same as EBIO 6440.

    Focuses on cultural diversity in human communication, acquainting students with classic and contemporary readings that articulate relationships between communication and culture, and introducing them to methodologies used to develop a cultural approach toward a variety of observable forms and practices of communication. Recommended prereq., COMM 5425. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Examines theory, research, and practice associated with facilitating group interaction processes (e.g.,group creation, conflict communication management, conversation and discussion, task accomplishment, and team communication), including facilitation associated with teaching an introductory communcation course. Recommended prereq., COMM 5420. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Introduces the major constructs used by formal theories of syntax to capture the relationship between meaning and syntactic form and uses data from diverse languages to explore the universality of these constructs. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Continuation of APPM 5470. Advanced study of the properties and solutions of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations. Topics include the study of Sobolev spaces and variational methods as they relate to PDEs, and other topics as time permits. Prereq., APPM 5470. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Explores the history, routine communicative practices, common interactional troubles, cross-cultural differences, and expectations about "Ideal" communicative conduct for workplace and public meetings. Seminar project involves field study of a meeting group. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Recommended prereq., COMM 6030.

    Studies some of the main topics in the philosophy of language, such as meaning and theories of meaning, translation, speech acts, rules of language, reference, relevance of psycholinguistics, language and thought, and language and ontology. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Overview of ethics and ethical issues in the profession of audiology. Topics to be discussed include code of ethics by professions, approaches to analyzing ethical dilemmas, ethics in relationships with manufacturers, and ethical considerations inteaching, clinical practice and research. Prereq., good standing in SLHS graduate program or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Surveys the structure of one or more languages, emphasizing understanding how parts of the language interact. Designed to supplement courses in which parts of languages are used to illustrate theoretical claims. Prereqs., LING 5410 and 5420. Repeatable for credit up to 6 total credit hours provided the topics vary. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Prereq., instructor consent.

    Overview of professional issues related to the profession of audiology. Topics to be discussed include certification, licensure, professional associations, infection control, practice management, federal regulations related to audiology, professional communications and professional relationships. Prereq., good standing in SLHS graduate program or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.

    Emphasizes mathematical theory of statistics. Topics include distribution theory, estimation and testing of hypotheses, multivariate analysis, and nonparametric inference, all with emphasis on theory. Prereq., APPM 5520 or MATH 5520.

    Students compare and contrast selected structures of languages treated from a typological, genetic, or a real perspective. No special prior knowledge of the subject language is required. Prereqs., LING 5410, 5420, and 5570, or equivalent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

    Introduces major topics and themes in South Asian history. Reviews central theories relating to topics such as religion, nationalism, law, gender, colonialism, and literature. Formerly HIST 6628.

    Offers selected topics in probability such as sums of independent random variables, notions of convergence, characteristic functions, Central Limit Theorem, random walk, conditioning and martingales, Markov chains, and Brownian motion. Prereq., MATH 6310 or equivalent. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Advanced study on the current science surrounding hearing assessment of adults across the age span. Includes theoretical foundations and clinical applications. Prerequisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.

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