A study of the principles and cases in commercial banking practice. Financial institution management practices are studied within the economic, monetary, fiscal and legal framework of the American economy.

Financial price risk in the form of unexpected movements in the foreign exchange rates, interest rates, and commodity prices and their impacts on a firm's earnings, cash flows, value, and competitiveness are the focus of this course. Various financial derivatives such as forwards, futures, options, and swaps and different hedging techniques, principles, and strategies will be studied. The course also includes the design, development, execution, and evaluation of corporate risk management program.

This course provides an overview of financial management at the international level. Topics covered include: The nature and uses of international financial markets, the financial behavior of multinational corporations, exchange rates, and hedging in international business.

This course provides students with the skills necessary to apply modern financial theories to real world applications in both corporate finance and investments. Students will get hands-on experience implementing models from areas such as capital budgeting, financial planning, and asset valuation.

This is a course for graduate students who want to learn business analytics and data science in finance. Students will learn how to collect raw data from various sources, including web-scraping techniques using Python or other programming languages. Once students have the data, they'll learn how to clean up and pre-process the data, such as filling in the missing values, converting categorical data into numerical data. Students will learn various statistical tools in descriptive and predictive analytics, including regressions and state- of-the-art machine learning techniques.

A basic orientation in commonly used instruments, institutional structures, and real estate financing policies. Emphasis will be placed on martgage instruments, mortgage types, effective cost of borrowing, construction lending, financial institutions, loan underwriting, and the secondary mortgage market. Analysis is primarily from the debt investor's perspective.

A study of the theory of money, interest and financial intermediation. In addition to the theory, the major financial markets, financial institutions and financial instruments will be examined. Finally, the governmental agencies which regulate the industry will be discussed as will the overlapping nature of the regulatory process.

An intensive study of current theory and research in a topic in finance as discussed in scholarly journals. Examples of possible topics include: Capital structure, agency theory, market efficiency, contingent claims. May be repeated with a different subtitle for a maximum of 12 credits.

Identification of 100 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas based upon bark, form, twig, and bud characteristics. Laboratory, four hours per week for one-half semester. Class will be conducted in an outdoor forest setting often in steep terrain and inclement weather.

A 2 credit hour course examining the basic structure of wood and how it affects wood's physical properties. Topics include macroscopic wood properties, composition and structure of wood cells, hardwood and softwood structure, juvenile wood, reaction wood, wood and water relationships, wood deterioration and prevention, and specific gravity and density.