This course is a hybrid cultural studies seminar and creative composition course that explores jazz theory as a philosophical artistic practice rooted in American democracy. It investigates jazz aesthetics as a literary, visual, and musical art form, and it examines theories of jazz composition as philosophical statements in direct conversation with the principles of U.S. democracy. The course also explores the philosophical and aesthetic connections of jazz literature to surrealist and existentialist artistic movements in modern and postmodern cultural contexts.

This course is a hybrid cultural studies seminar and creative composition course that explores jazz theory as a philosophical artistic practice rooted in American democracy. It investigates jazz aesthetics as a literary, visual, and musical art form, and it examines theories of jazz composition as philosophical statements in direct conversation with the principles of U.S. democracy. The course also explores the philosophical and aesthetic connections of jazz literature to surrealist and existentialist artistic movements in modern and postmodern cultural contexts.

An introduction to news media management focusing on start-up, design and operation of on-line newspapers and magazines. This course takes an intensive look at the editorial content, advertising, business and management side of journalism. Lecture, two hours per week; laboratory, two hours per week.

Using a team approach, students will engage in a variety of experiential learning projects with sport management and innovation as contextual themes. Special emphasis will be placed on self-reflection within sport leadership as well as real-life application in case studies, semi- structured interviews, and participant observation. Principles related to management, marketing, effective communication, and leadership within the sport and entertainment industry will also be discussion topics.

A multidisciplinary graduate course using contemporary studies of negotiation and bargaining from the individual to the international level. Uses both public (Diplomatic) and private (Commercial) examples, including case studies and practice negotiations. Group and national differences are explored as well as the content and environment of negotiations.

Study of electric utility distribution power systems. Topics include configurations, equipment, customer class data, load flow, phase balancing, capacitor placement, system protection, power quality, and distributed generation.

Students will gain practical general training and experiences in the healthcare workplace with a focus on exposure/experience in clinical leadership and management. The CLM faculty in coordination with the practicum coordinator will arrange these experiences with the site employer/personnel and develop an individualized plan for the student at each site. The plan relates the workplace training and experiences to the student's general and technical course of study.

May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

This course examines elites in different areas of the world paying special attention to what defines them as power holders, their sub- cultures, histories, strategies of class reproduction, and relations to subaltern groups.The class will also explore the critical perspectives gained from studying up, as well as the theoretical and methodological difficulties of doing this kind of work.

This course will examine the pathogenic mechanisms used by bacteria to cause human disease. Bacterial virulence factors & host susceptibility factors will be discussed, with an emphasis on understanding the techniques that can be used to identify these traits in newly emerging pathogens.