This course will introduce students to the thoroughbred sales industry. Students will learn about the different regional and targeted markets as well as the sales process from sales prepping to being auctioned off. Students will learn about the different sales organizations and the different roles of individuals at the sales including consignors, auctioneers, sales companies, veterinarians, owners, pinhookers, and bloodstock agents. Students will also be introduced to the legal aspects of thoroughbred sales from contracts to insurance to financial transactions and conditions of sale.

This course will introduce students to the components of planning a successful event and equip them with a thorough understanding of the variety of equine events in the industry. Students will learn about the process of event planning including pre-planning, organization, budgeting, marketing and communications and planning for the unexpected. Students will plan a student focused event to create a formal event proposal.

An investigation of the stressors and crises experienced by families and their members and their efforts to cope with them. Special attention is given to prevention, management and enrichment strategies. Implications for practitioners will be drawn from conceptual frameworks and recent research.

Exploration and definition of the legal, ethical, and professional issues in the practice of couple and family intervention. Emphasis will be on developing professional skills, attitudes, and identity for couple and family intervention.

Study and application of established theories and techniques in couple therapy and in sex therapy. Emphasis on developing and demonstrating knowledge, skills, issues, and treatment procedures in couple and family therapy.

Advanced study of quantitative research methods, including but not limited to complex study designs, model building and structural equation modeling, reliability and validity of measures, statistical power and effect size, mediator and moderator variables, and identifying appropriate statistical techniques for specific types of problems.

Emphasizing both theory and practice, this course is an in-depth study of long-term corporate investment and financing decisions. Topics include valuation, capital budgeting, cost of capital, leasing, dividend policy, capital structure, and mergers and acquisitions.

Primary emphasis on the implementation of financial theory for the management of the assets of a business firm. Topics include capital budgeting, working capital planning, financing the firm, cost of capital and the financial structure of the firm, and mergers and acquisitions.

This is a 4-credit, advanced biology and/or wildlife course about amphibians and reptiles for both undergraduate and graduate students. Lectures and labs follow two concurrent themes: 1) a survey of amphibians and reptiles, with special emphasis on Kentucky species, and 2) a general analysis of amphibian and reptile biology, ecology, conservation and management.

This course provides students with hands-on experience in a diverse array of conceptual research techniques used by ecologists and evolutionary biologists. The focus will be on optimization methods used for predicting animal and plant behaviors and life histories, and on methods for assessing population trends and dynamics. Mathematical techniques used will include graphical analyses, matrix algebra, calculus, and computer simulations.