The goals of this Externship course are to develop an understanding of legal and policy issues arising from energy development and environmental protection in Kentucky; to assess the legal implications of emerging energy strategies, including carbon sequestration from coal gasification; and to increase understanding of the role played by attorneys in the Energy and Environment Cabinet.

This externship develops students' interviewing, counseling, legal research and litigation skills under the supervision of the attorneys in the Fayette County Attorney's Office. Students will be expected to do legal research and writing, contact and interview witnesses, attend court sessions and assist the prosecutors therein, and assist in maintaining electronic case files. Students will support their supervising attorney in all areas related to the representation.

In 1910, J.R.R. Tolkien began construction of a fictional language of the Elves, which ultimately resulted in the creation of at least fifteen different languages and dialects. Why would someone create their own language? And how would a person begin to even do so? In this course, we will answer both questions directly, addressing the impetus for language invention and the process by which one creates a language.

Designed to give students a broad introduction to the field of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The first half of the course offers a basic foundation in the study of grammar, introducing the five core components of human grammar: syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology and semantics. The second half of the course builds upon this knowledge by surveying a number of subfields of linguistics, including historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and language and the brain.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Students investigate the Information Society and its relationships with our world including the impact on information organizations and communities. Students focus on the discipline's ethics, values, and core concepts.

Within given theoretical contexts, students search and retrieve organized information. Students learn to construct, apply, and critically evaluate advanced information search and retrieval strategies.

Students learn and apply the basic elements of management and leadership within the context of information organizations.

A survey and historical study of culturally diverse literature for youth of all ages. Students will engage in extensive reading, evaluation, and discussion of literature and the issues related to developing an understanding of various cultures and special populations within the United States.

The goal of this course is to introduce major theories and methods for understanding and analyzing social media for information organizations (both non-profit and profit). This course will review topics such as social networks, ethics and policy, marketing approaches, and social analytics, and then discuss various applications of social media in different disciplines and information organizations including scholarship, library, healthcare, and education.