Courses

Advanced poetry writing course that explores different styles of contemporary American poetry such as political poetry, eco-poetry, ekphrastic poetry and more. Students will create at least ten new poems and submit them for workshop.

Exploration of core international relations concepts and processes through the team-based design and execution of a variety of advanced political simulations, games, and/or role-playing activities.

Advanced topics in polymer science are discussed with a focus on high performance polymers such as high impact, conducting, shape memory, high temperature and the underlying phenomena that provide these unusual properties, and advanced polymer topic areas such as flame retardancy, barrier properties, dielectric properties, rheology, and fiber reinforced composites.

Recent developments in both functional and structural polymers including approaches to synthesis, processing techniques, high-strength materials, electronic polymers, optic polymers, and medical polymers.

The course teaches students to analyze financial problems and develop sophisticated financial models for modern portfolio management.

This course focuses on the development of conversational skills through role-playing, oral presentations, and vocabulary building.

Post-production as a creative discipline. The class will discuss the language of the fiction film through shot-by-shot analysis of scenes from feature films. Story structure and storyboarding, picture and sound editing, titling, special effects, and professional DVD authoring will be covered. Each student will be required to complete a short editing exercise. Subsequently each student will write, storyboard, direct, and edit a short fiction film.

An advanced study and review of the literature on the application of the principles of nutrition to poultry; the functions of individual nutrients, their deficiency symptoms and their supply in terms of feedstuffs and practical poultry diets. May count either POUL 5050 or POUL 6050.

An advanced study of the prevention, diagnosis, control and treatment of economically important diseases of poultry. May count either POUL 5080 or POUL 6080.

This course is an advanced treatment of various elements of power systems, including symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults, symmetrical components, system protection, transient stability, transient operation of transmission lines, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA).