Courses

The stage manager is the glue that binds all production elements together. This course will examine the many dimensions and duties of the stage manager for live productions. It will focus on the important skills such as: communication, organization, and focus of the stage manager in the different phases of producing a play or musical (pre-production, rehearsals, performances, and post-production).

To give the student an overview of the theory and practices of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and to meet the appraisal license requirements of State of Georgia.

An examination of the structure, organization, and functions of state and local governments. The role of the state and local governments in the federal system is analyzed. Selected state and local problems are reviewed.

An in-depth study of the political process and administrative procedures used in American state and local governments to address social, economic and political issues. Comparative analysis of relevant actors and strategies across the states is incorporated.

Elements of statics in one, two, and three dimensions, centroids, analysis of structures and ma-chines, friction.

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This course provides an introduction to the use of quantitative analysis methods in anthropological research. Topics will include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and multivariate statistics. Students will be expected to gain a basic understanding of the logic behind each test, when it should be used, and how results should be interpreted.

This course helps develop programming skills necessary for statistical analysis and data science. Students will learn the basic syntax and functions of the programming language, data organization and visualization, programming, as well as how to use existing packages of the language. Case studies in applied statistics, data science, or machine learning will be discussed.

Course emphasis is on applications of statistics in business . Topics include methods of presenting data, numerical measures and correlation, probability theory and probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.

This course covers basic quantitative tools for use in strategic and business decision making. Topics include decision analysis, linear regression, forecasting, linear programming and waiting line models.