Students apply the design process and creative problem-solving to a comprehensive studio project focusing on healthcare, wellness, and sustainability. Students focus on detailed research, programming and investigations of spatial definition and organization as they relate to human interaction with the built-environment. Students are charged a fee for this course.
A program to investigate design outside of the studio and classroom. Travel experience in combination with on-site lectures and discussions provide opportunity for exploring design considering contextual factors and theories in relation to the locale and precedent. Specific experience to be defined by faculty with a rate of 50 hours of travel for each credit hour earned.
Advanced exploration of a specific topic in the profession of interior design. May be offered as a studio and lecture. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Minimizing risk of loss through bankruptcy by business creditors and debtors; Uniform Commercial Code versus the federal Bankruptcy Act; nonbankruptcy creditors' and debtors' remedies in commercial context, including assignments and arrangements under state law; commercial bankruptcy; rehabilitation under Bankruptcy Act.
Nature of contract, insurable interest, making the contract, concealment, representations, warranties, implied conditions of forfeiture, waiver and estoppel, rights under the contract, and construction of the policy.
This course is designed to cover in depth some of the important topics of tort law that often are not covered in basic Torts. These topics include economic torts such as tortious interference with contract and economic advantage and the economic loss rule. The major dignitary torts of Defamation and Right to Privacy are also covered.
Seminar in selected legal problelms, as designated by the faculty.
A study of the materials of legal research and reference work. Emphasis is placed on the methods of effective research and the actual use of legal materials in the solution of practical reference problems. The selection, cataloging, classification, and storage of materials in a law collection are considered. The specialized requirements of law librarianship and law library administration are treated.
An intensive study of trends in school media centers with emphasis on research, technology, and the role of the school media specialist in the school curriculum.
Theories and practice of bibliographic description and subject analysis. Covers the organization of both print and electronic information, including use of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Dewey Decimal Classification, Library of Congress Classification and Library of Congress Subject Headings.
