This course will address how preservationists, through repair, alterations, and additions, utilize historic structures while preserving portions and features that convey the building's historical, cultural and architectural values through what is known as adaptive reuse. Students will utilize the theory behind and engage in the practice of property selection, architectural assessment, finance, compatible reuse, and redesign.

This course is an introduction to the field of coaching. Students will be exposed to fundamentals of instruction, training principles, coaching philosophies, and sports sciences as they relate to coaching. Contemporary issues associated with coaching, such as youth sports, will be addressed.

This course is intended to provide students with an overview of the management practices utilized in the sport and fitness industry. Sport Management will include learning opportunities related to planning & organizing; staffing; directing; and networking associated with managing a sport or fitness program.

Survey of linguistic pragmatics, including Gricean implicature, reference, presupposition, speech acts, information structure, and the representation of discourse. Discussion focuses primarily but not exclusively on the English language. This course may require LIN 540 taken concurrently.

A laboratory course offering students the opportunity for hands-on application of the general theories and methods of linguistics at the level of advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate training. The lab environment will generally involve both individual and small group work, developing both independent research skills and an ability to engage in collaborative linguistic investigation. May be repeated for credit under different topics.

Media psychology provides a basic overview of human thought and behavior regarding communications media. The course addresses issues of preference and media choice and of the effects of media use on audience beliefs, attitudes and behavior through the lens of social science.

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of adaptation. By studying several famous examples of literary and filmic adaptations, students will examine critically the primary criteria and constraints involved in narrative adaptation. With these examples serving as models, students will produce, in the form of brief stage- and/or screenplays, their own creative adaptations of classic narrative works (stories, tales, myths, folklore, films, etc.).

This course presents methods for analyzing and controlling nonlinear dynamic systems. The major topics are: 1) fundamental properties of nonlinear ordinary differential equations such as existence and uniqueness; 2) Lyapunov stability theory; and 3) nonlinear feedback control techniques such as backstepping, feedback linearization, and Lyapunov-based design.

Medical Laboratory Science is an allied health profession and as such, this course is designed to address professionalism topics specific to Medical Laboratory Scientists. The course focuses on healthcare diversity, work place challenges, and career success.

PGY 394 is designed to provide students with an intensive experience in laboratory or field research. Participants should take an active role in the design and execution of experiments and in the analysis and interpretation of data. They should be capable of "independent research" in the sense that they can conduct the experiments with little direct supervision. Students are expected to become familiar with related research in the current literature by regularly reading scientific journals.