Graduate Course Descriptions

Graduate Course Descriptions

Finance/FIN

Note: See quarterly class schedule or departmental advisor for further enrollment restrictions, requirements, or special course information. 

702     MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (3)

Analysis of issues relating to the financial management of financial institutions.

PREREQUISITE: EC 717, MBA 532.

710     INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT (3)

Concepts, theories, and techniques underlying the development of investment policies and strategies.

PREREQUISITE: MBA 731.

711     SEMINAR IN INVESTMENTS (3)

Advanced treatment of selected topics in investments including options, futures, and portfolio theory.

PREREQUISITE: FIN 710.

742     SEMINAR IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (3)

Advanced treatment of the theory and practice of long-term financial management. Topics include dividends, leasing, hybrid financing, derivatives and risk management, mergers and acquisitions, and divestitures.

PREREQUISITE: MBA 731.

743     SEMINAR IN WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT (3)

Advanced treatment of the theory and practice of working capital management, including cash management, credit policy, inventory policy, and short-term financing strategies. Extensive use of outside readings.

PREREQUISITE: MBA 731.

750     FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS (3)

Overview of the financial management function in health care organizations. Topics include budgeting, control, capital expenditure analysis, and rate settings.

PREREQUISITE: MBA 532.

760     SPECIAL TOPICS IN FIN (3)

In-depth analysis of a current trend in finance. Titles vary.

780     FINANCE INTERNSHIP (6)

One-quarter internship in a selected private or governmental organization under the direction of a faculty advisor and employment supervisor.

PREREQUISITE: COMPLETION OF AT LEAST 7 CORE COURSES.

781     SPECIAL STUDIES IN FINANCE (1 TO 3)

Intensive reading or research in a selected field of advanced finance.

790     SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (3)

Advanced treatment of the concepts and techniques of international financial management.

French/FR

Note: See quarterly class schedule or departmental advisor for further enrollment restrictions, requirements, or special course information. 

531     SURVEY OF FRENCH LITERATURE (4)

Middle ages, to the present.

590     FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (8)

For teachers of French.Intensive experience designed, through total immersion, to improve language skills (conversation and composition) and increase awareness of French civilization and contemporary culture.

603     ADVANCED STUDIES: LANGUAGE/CIVILIZATION (4)

Course content will vary.Topic chosen by instructor.Conducted in French.

622     VILLON TO CHENIER (4)

Three centuries of French poetry:Villon, Sceve, Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard, d’Aubigne, Malherbe, La Fontaine, Bioleau, Voltaire, Chenier.

623     SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NOVEL (4)

Mme de La Fayette, Scarron, Finelon, Montesquieu, Lesage, Privost, Diderot, and Ladlos. Graduate standing and instructor permission required.

641     LIBERTINES AND MORALISTS: RABELAIS TO VOLTAIRE (4)

Libertines and Moralista:From Rabelais to Voltaire:Currents of skepticism and humanism in the intellectual history of France.Major authors:Rabelais, Montaigne, Cyrano de Bergerac, Saint-Evremond, La Bruyere, La Rochefoucauld, Bayle, Fontenelle, Diderot, Voltaire.

PREREQUISITE: LANGUAGE COMPETENCE.

642     SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THEATRE (4)

Works of Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Marivaux, Diderot, Voltaire, Beaumarchais.

643     THE ENLIGHTENMENT (4)

History of political and social ideas in eighteenth-century France.Based principally on works of Montesquieu, Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau.

650     INDEPENDENT GRAD RESEARCH (1 TO 4)

Independent graduate research.

651     FRENCH ROMANTICISM (4)

From Rousseau to Hugo.Includes Bernardin de St. Pierre, Chateaubriand, Mme de Stael, Nodier, Lamartine, Vigny, Musset, Nerval.

652     NINETEENTH CENTURY NOVEL (4)

Chateaubriand, Constant, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and France.

653     POETRY FROM BAUDELAIRE TO BRETON (4)

Symbolists, Decadents, and Surrealists.

654     19TH CENTURY SHORT STORY (4)

Intensive study of such authors as Balzac, Stendhal, Nodier, Mirimie, Flaubert, Maupassant, and Huysmans.

662     TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE (4)

The novel.

PREREQUISITE: CONSENT OF INSTRUCTOR.

663     TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE: DRAMA (4)

Study of modern French theatre including: Cocteau, Giraudoux, Anouilh, Beckett, Ionesco.

PREREQUISITE: LANGUAGE COMPETENCE, GRADUATE STANDING.

665     PROBLEMS IN FRENCH LITERATURE (4)

Examination of selected topics in French literature to investigate various themes, myths, genres, literary movements, or characters. Titles vary.

681     INDEPENDENT READING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (4)

Independent reading for graduate students.

682     INDEPENDENT READING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (4)

Independent reading for graduate students.