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American Art & Visual Studies: Subtitle Required

According to the subtitle, this course examines various aspects of American art & visual culture in their social, political, and aesthetic contexts between the 18th and the early 21st centuries. Topics range from the traditional fine arts media to photography, advertising, film, and various forms of popular culture. May be repeated under a different subtitle to a maximum of six credit hours. Prereq: A-H 101 or A-H 106 recommended.

Business Data Management

This course introduces "big data," data harvesting and cleaning, relational databases, structured query language (SQL), Data Warehousing, and online analytical processing (OLAP). The course emphasizes data structure, database design, data queries and data manipulation.

Business Data Mining

Data mining is concerned with tools and techniques to numerically and visually explore vast data sets, classify data, predict outcomes, and identify associations, patterns, and exceptional events. Such capabilities enable firms to - for example -- better segment markets, evaluate and classify stocks, identify prospective customers, predict contingencies and catastrophes, identify defaulters and fraudulent transactions, measure churn, identify threats, perform service requests, and bundle goods and services. Such capabilities are critical in global, competitive business settings.

Topics In Analytics

This course covers contemporary topics in enterprise data, analysis, and decision making. Past coverage has included Data Mining, Data Communications, and Valuation of Information. The topics covered would also be valuable to students from programs such as Computer Science, Telecommunications, Statistics, and Engineering.

Business Data Analysis

Business Data Analysis is a course in applied business decision making. It uses Excel to organize, summarize, and analyze data and to interpret the results of such analysis. It is an introduction to the process of transforming raw data into results to support common business decisions. The course will emphasize hands-on problem solving in a business context rather than on the specific techniques.

The British Empire, 1322-1879

This course covers the rise, fall, and rise of the British empire from its extension into Scotland and Ireland till the beginning of the age of "New Imperialism," explaining the means by which Britain came to dominate one-third of the globe, and its impact on the many cultures, economics, and geopolitical entities of the third world. It will further discuss how those cultures transformed Britain itself.

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