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Environmental Studies |
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ENVA 367 - Environmental Justice
Unit(s): 4
This course examines how environmental ¿goods¿¿like clean air and water¿and environmental ¿bads¿¿like hazardous waste and industrial pollution¿come to be unequally distributed in societies, often along lines of race, class, and gender.
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ENVA 385 - USF Wild.Immer:SierrasToTheSea
Unit(s): 4
This course immerses students in two wildernesses over 21 days: The Sierra Nevada Mountains and Pt. Reyes National Seashore. Students will explore the diversity of ecosystems found while also contemplating the profound questions that wilderness immersion prompts: What is nature? What is the human relationship to nature? Includes 12 days of backpacking in the High Sierras.
College of Arts and Sciences
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ENVA 390 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Exploration of one or more selected topics in the field.
College of Arts and Sciences
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ENVA 396 - Community Internships
Unit(s): 4
Internship in an organization related to Environmental Studies.
College of Arts and Sciences
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ENVA 450 - Capstone Practicum in Environmental Studies
Unit(s): 4
An upper division seminar that serves as a capstone to the program. Students explore diverse environmental issues from the perspectives of the humanities as well as the natural and social sciences. The student’s environmental portfolio is reviewed during this seminar.
Prerequisite: ENVA 355
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ENVA 498 - Research for Adv Undergrad
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Original research supervised by a member of the staff, with credit to be fixed in each case. Designed to give students an acquaintance with, and an appreciation of, the principles and methods of original scientific investigation. A research report must be filed.
College of Arts and Sciences
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European Studies |
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EURO 370 - European Cultures and Lives
Unit(s): 4
The goal of this course is to provide a cultural history of Europe that will inform students about the historical particularity of this region intended to guide further study of contemporary society and culture. The period roughly from 1750 to the present will be covered. The method that will be employed is to present a historical continuum brought to life through the voices of figures who lived through some of the central transformations of the epoch. The course is divided into sections and each section will include various contemporary texts, including autobiographies, essays and novels. The idea beyond this method is to make the historical changes tangible and to understand how a variety of developments in letters, the arts, and the sciences intersected. As a European Studies course, the material presented will allow for the overcoming national self-definitions and is intended to direct students towards a regional understanding of shared history. In effect, national developments were intertwined throughout the period under investigation and the course will underline these commonalities.
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Executive MBA |
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EMBA 6900 - EMBA Directed Study
Unit(s): 0 to 3
School of Management
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EMBA 6901 - Negotiations
Unit(s): 2
Provides an introduction to the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of business settings. Negotiation is the art and science of creating and securing an agreement between two or more interdependent parties. The course is designed to expose students to negotiation problems in both domestic and international settings. This is a highly interactive course built around hands-on experiences, presentations, discussion, and reflection.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6902 - Leadership and Teams
Unit(s): 2
Integrates the theory and practice of effective leadership. A leader’s on-going learning experience integrates thinking at the individual, team and organization levels. Students learn to bring imaginative and disciplined thinking to complex problems to see differently and to act effectively through teams.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6903 - Financial Accounting
Unit(s): 3
Focuses on the financial reporting system that business entities use to convey information to parties external to the firm. The emphasis is on understanding the financial statements, what they impart about a business entity, and how to use this information to make decisions. Students learn the accounting principles, conventions and concepts underlying financial reporting with the objective of developing the ability to analyze and interpret financial statement.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6904 - Managerial Accounting
Unit(s): 3
Illustrates useful management accounting concepts and analytical techniques. Distinct from financial accounting, managerial accounting uses accounting data for internal management decisions via operating budgets, balanced scorecards, and other key performance metrics for financial monitoring and controls.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
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EMBA 6905 - Financial Management
Unit(s): 2
Addresses the underlying logic of the quantitative techniques applied in making informed and sophisticated financial decisions within the business world by managers and executives. This course is designed to develop the executive’s knowledge of the fundamental principles and concepts covered in finance. In addition, this course applies case study analysis to real world examples so students acquire a working knowledge of finance with a strong emphasis on business applications.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6906 - Global Business Conditions
Unit(s): 3
Develops the analytic skills and perspective necessary to systematically analyze changes in domestic and international business conditions. Students are introduced to selected principles of macroeconomic theory through lectures, exercises, class discussions and case studies based on current events. In the process, students gain an understanding of how economic theory can be used to assess the potential business impact of changes in the macro economy.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6907 - Exect Leadership Communication
Unit(s): 1
Presents communications strategies, frameworks, examples, and role play opportunities executives need to achieve their objectives, be more effective in their current and future roles, and feel comfortable communicating across a variety of channels. Whether in-person, online, live-streamed or with the media, the ability of communicate effectively is vital to an executive’s success.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6908 - Technology Trends
Unit(s): 2
Builds competency by exploring a diverse set of technological trends within a variety of industries, as understanding and preparing for the impact and opportunities of technology trends is a vital executive skill. This course uses case studies and incorporates discussions with current Silicon Valley tech leaders to highlight major technological shifts underway that can quickly destroy business models while inventing new ones.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
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EMBA 6909 - Business Law
Unit(s): 3
Presents law as a social institution with a focus on increasing the legal literacy of business executives. This course, which is structured into two parts, explores how law affects business strategy and decision-making The first part builds a foundation and includes an overview of the nature of law and its relationship to ethics, as well as an introduction to legal infrastructure-both procedural and substantive. The second part explores a selection of legal areas of particular interest to business leaders. Discussion topics are chosen – based on pressing, current controversie – from areas such as corporate and securities law, antitrust, employment law and commercial law.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
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EMBA 6910 - Managerial Economics
Unit(s): 2 or 3
The course includes an examination and application of those microeconomic tools essential to the management of organizations. This component of the EMBA program is aimed at informing managerial decision-making vis-à-vis: resource allocation; identifying optimal pricing points; strengthening the firm’s value chain; and maximizing profitability. In this course we review supply-and-demand analysis; the market environment in which firms position themselves; dissect patterns of consumer preferences; assess consumption and production functions; revenue and cost estimation; and illuminate the expanding role of information in driving competitor behavior at the global level.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6911 - Marketing Management
Unit(s): 2
Examines marketing environments and the impact marketing activities have on organizational operations in competitive, global, multicultural business settings. This course discusses both domestic and international frameworks of the fundamental marketing strategy functions of product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Also explored and analyzed are modern marketing problems and solutions from conceptual, legal, and ethical perspectives. Marketing information systems and the use of advanced technologies in marketing decision-making are explained.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6912 - Business Analytics
Unit(s): 2
Conveys key knowledge to (1) identify characteristics of the revolutions in data science and “big data’; (2) give examples of how data science is creating new (or transforming old) industries, services, or products; and (3) discuss new ethical conundrums that are emerging as a consequence of the revolutions in data science and ‘big data’. This course creates an understanding of some of the conceptual underpinnings of simple linear regression models, logistic regression models, decision trees, and basic clustering algorithms. These models will be applied to business problems through business case studies.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
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EMBA 6913 - Supply Chain Management
Unit(s): 2
Explores the major topics for various operational issues encountered in real life supply chain processes including purchasing, operations and distribution issues. This course focuses on how firms attempt to improve their competitive positions by strategically managing the flow of raw materials, work-in-process inventories and finished goods. A supply chain simulation exposes students to the operational and financial management challenge to better understand the interrelationships and integration between end customers as well as respective members of the supply chain.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
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EMBA 6914 - Data Visualization
Unit(s): 2
Social media analytics, web-tracking, device sensors, wearable computing and other technologies enable organizations to acquire, manage and analyze massive amounts of data to better understand their customers, products, competition, and markets. Armed with the insights gleaned from big data, companies can improve customer experience and products, optimize key business processes and uncover new monetization opportunities. The course will focus on teaching how combining existing and new sources of data with advanced analytics can power new business opportunities. Students will learn techniques, with a how-to guide that shows them how to leverage big data to drive business value.Full of practical techniques, real-world examples, and hands-on exercises, this course will explore the technologies involved, as well as how to find areas within the organization that can take full advantage of big data.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6915 - Ethics & Social Responsibility
Unit(s): 2
Operates under the belief that graduate education, specifically that within the executive realm, must go beyond the simple identification of ethical violations and move towards an understanding of how an individual’s ethics are constructed, how to actively construct and contribute to an organization’s ethical framework, and finally how to manage organizations and their respective members within such ethical boundaries. This class aims to move beyond the simple presentation of ethical scenarios that force a dichotomous choice of something being either ’good’ or ‘bad’ and instead instill an appreciation of the complexity involved in ‘being ethical’.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6917 - Entrreprenuership Management
Unit(s): 2
Integrates a dynamic and rapidly changing field dedicated to the founding and deployment of innovative solutions. This course is more than a set of tools and techniques for starting and growing a new venture. It is a mindset, a way of looking at the world in an opportunity focused and creative way. Students focus on the ideas, steps, and strategies required for creating a new venture.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6919 - Strategic Management
Unit(s): 2
Applies integrative and multi-disciplinary approaches to introduce and discuss cutting edge strategic management knowledge. Students gain a familiarity with significant concepts, issues and perspectives to enable them to understand the strategic challenges facing organizations today. The course also aims to increase students’ knowledge about how to create competitive advantage and to enable students to become a more effective contributor to the strategic process.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6920 - Applied Innovation
Unit(s): 3
Focuses on “the discipline of innovation” - habits of mind and follow-through that will allow students to “see differently,” and to act upon that sight in ways that will vault them ahead of the pack as both a creative problem-solver and positive option-builder. This course is specifically designed to teach a targeted set of innovation skills and applied creativity tools that can be learned, practiced, and used to generate fresh products, services, processes, and systems.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
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EMBA 6929 - Leading Organizational Change
Unit(s): 2
Exposes students to the methods, models, and processes specifically related to diagnosing and planning for organizational change and effectiveness in today’s business world. In addition to traditional lectures and readings, this course provides additional insights via students’ own planned change initiatives.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6952 - Cross Cultural Communication
Unit(s): 1
Develops the skills and knowledge required of executives to effectively lead culturally diverse working environments. This course covers the theoretical foundations of diversity and multiculturalism through the application of intercultural skills and knowledge necessary for teams of people to work together for a common goal while respecting each other’s cultures, values and identities.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
School of Management
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EMBA 6960 - Financial & Managerial Account
Unit(s): 3
School of Management
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EMBA 6969 - Financial Information Analysis
Unit(s): 2
School of Management
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EMBA 6971 - Developing Power and Influence
Unit(s): 2
School of Management
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EMBA 6978 - Final Project
Unit(s): 2
School of Management
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EMBA 6997 - Global Business Practicum
Unit(s): 2
Offers students the opportunity to further develop their understanding of international global and stakeholder management. Over 11 days, students visit corporations and organizations in two international destinations. This course is designed to enhance the program’s curriculum while challenging students to apply the principles and knowledge they have gained throughout the program to a real world, international business topic or case. The course has the potential to enrich the students’ lives as they explore a foreign culture together with their peers.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Business Administration Major
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FILI 101 - First Sem Filipino
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to Filipino. Emphasis on speaking and listening, along with vocabulary and grammatical structures. Basic conversational skills, and reading and writing. Exposure to culture.
College of Arts and Sciences
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FILI 102 - Second Sem Filipino
Unit(s): 4
A continuation of FILI 101. More vocabulary, grammar, and conversation. Emphasis on speaking, listening, reading, and writing with various aspects of culture integrated.
Prerequisite: (TAGL 101 or FILI 101) or YPSP 101 or Placement-Filipino with a minimum score of 126
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FILI 201 - Third Sem Filipino
Unit(s): 4
Review of basic grammar. Emphasis on speaking and listening skills given specific social-cultural situations, and reading and writing skills that center on cultural material. More grammatical structures.
Prerequisite: FILI 102 or TAGL 102 or YPSP 102 or Placement-Filipino with a minimum score of 136
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FILI 202 - Fourth Sem Filipino
Unit(s): 4
Emphasis on speaking and listening skills given specific social-cultural situations, and reading and writing skills given simple literary pieces. More grammatical structures.
College of Arts and Sciences
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FILI 398 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1
A course in the area of the proposed topic for directed study. Written permission of the instructor required.
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Financial Analysis |
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MSFA 61 - USBCC Integrated Skills
Unit(s): 0
Focus is on integration of the basic English skills of grammar, reading, vocabulary, and writing into typical areas of communication for finance and business.
Restriction: MSFA USBCC Fee - 250; Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
School of Management
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MSFA 62 - USBCC Oral Communication Skill
Unit(s): 0
Focus is on listening and speaking skills in daily situations and finance and business settings such as case studies.
Restriction: MSFA USBCC Fee - 250; Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
School of Management
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MSFA 710 - Microeconomics for Finance
Unit(s): 2
The course begins with a review of calculus. It then examines the concept of time value of money. It then examines the microeconomics of industry structure including perfect competition, competition with differentiated products and monopoly. It will conclude by a discussion of consumer theory and decision making under uncertainty.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
School of Management
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MSFA 712 - Financial Markets
Unit(s): 2
An overview of the characteristics of financial markets including their structure and organization. We examine common models for pricing bonds and equities. We introduce the role of financial statements and accounting rules into the valuation process. The role of government regulation and its effects on financial innovation are analyzed.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
School of Management
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MSFA 714 - Corporate Finance
Unit(s): 2
Covers the basic concepts of corporate finance: financial ratios in valuation, dividend discount models, determining a firm’s cost of capital, capital investment decisions and net present value vs. internal rates of return, treatment of leases, overview of mergers and acquisitions, hybrid securities.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 716 - Macroeconomics for Finance
Unit(s): 2
The course examines the structure of macroeconomic relationships and the role of government in the economy. It begins with an overview of long run economic growth and its determinants. Short run macroeconomic fluctuations, investment and government policies are then investigated. The course concludes with an overview of international linkages between economies including the role of foreign exchange markets.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
School of Management
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MSFA 720 - Equity Valuation
Unit(s): 2
An in-depth treatment of the interplay between accounting statements, economic analysis, and corporate finance models in the valuation of firm valuation and the value of equity. Models include relative ratio analysis such as the DuPont model, general cash flow model for valuing assets and liabilities, dividend discount models, free cash flow models, and technical analysis.
Prerequisite: concurrent ECON 714 or concurrent MSFA 714 or concurrent MBA 6101
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 722 - Fixed Income Valuation I
Unit(s): 2
A thorough and in-depth study of the structural features of debt markets. Term structure analysis of interest rates and bond valuation. Assessing sources of risk for debt portfolios, including the role of duration and convexity in evaluating the effects of interest rate changes. Credit analysis for corporate bonds.
Prerequisite: concurrent ECON 716 or concurrent MSFA 716 or concurrent MBA 6102
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 723 - Applied Investment Analysis
Unit(s): 2
This course emphasizes the needs and processes that underlie good financial market research so that students can apply their financial knowledge to practical data and projects. Students will work on actual research projects with investment firms who have latent research needs.Through these projects students will acquire the hands-on knowledge of the frontiers of financial and investment research that companies currently are grappling with.
Prerequisite: concurrent MSFA 722 and concurrent MSFA 720
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 724 - Derivatives I
Unit(s): 2
An overview of derivative markets and instruments including options markets, futures markets, and swap markets
Prerequisite: ECON 712 or MSFA 712
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 725 - Applied Equity Valuation
Unit(s): 2
Students will develop advanced techniques and models used by financial analysts to value companies. The focus is on research and analysis for a chosen company and constructing a report and investment recommendation. Students receive intensive training in building valuation models and presenting their own evaluation of a chosen company before a panel of investment bankers and investment managers.
Prerequisite: concurrent MSFA 720 and concurrent MSFA 722
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 726 - Adv. Fin. Statement Analysis
Unit(s): 2
An in-depth treatment of the interplay between accounting statements, economic analysis, and corporate finance models in the valuation of firms. Topics include accounting for leases, mergers, intangibles, and international subsidiaries. Emphasis is on forensic financial analysis of companies that may be systematically misrepresenting their economic condition through favorable accounting choices. • Prerequisites (MBA students must take accounting prior to this class)
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 728 - Ethics & Finance I
Unit(s): 1
Applicable laws and regulations including professional standards of practice, ethical conduct and professional obligations. Topics include conflicts of interest, insider trading, and an overview of presentation standards for portfolio results.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 730 - Behavioral Finance
Unit(s): 2
This course examines how limited information, limited attention and limited rationality impact financial markets. After a review of ‘heuristics and bias’ literature, we discuss trading strategies in markets whose structure give rise to momentum, bubbles and segmented markets with limited arbitrage.
Prerequisite: ECON 712 or concurrent MSFA 712 or MBA 6109
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 732 - Derivatives II
Unit(s): 2
Analysis of fixed-income derivatives including custom interest rate agreements and analysis of interest rate and currency swaps. Analysis of equity options and warrants, hedging and hedging strategies.
Prerequisite: ECON 724 or MSFA 724
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 734 - International Finance
Unit(s): 2
International financial systems and foreign exchange rate regimes. Foreign exchange market calculations and arbitrage relationships. Exchange rate forecasting methods. Study of currency strategies for international portfolio management. International CAPM models of securities pricing.
Prerequisite: ECON 716 or MSFA 716 or MBA 6102
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 736 - Econometrics
Unit(s): 2
Probability models for portfolio risk and return evalaution. Simple Regression Models with hypothesis tests, goodness of fit, and testing for problems with the data or the model. Multiple regression models with applications to CAPM and portfolio management. • Prerequisites (MBA students must take Stats prior to this class)
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 740 - Capital Market Theory
Unit(s): 2
This course introduces students to the essential aspects and tools of portfolio management. Developing expected returns and risks for asset classes and individual assets based on macro- and micro-expectational factors; Developing strategies for managing portfolios of domestic and foreign debt securities, including passive, semi-active, and active management techniques.
Prerequisite: ECON 712 or MSFA 712 or MBA 6109
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 742 - Alternative Investments
Unit(s): 2
The course will cover a history of alternative investments/strategies including private equity, venture capital, distressed debt, hedge funds, real estate, commodities and leveraged buy-outs. The primary goals of the course are to provide students with an understanding of alternative investments/strategies, their uses in a diversified portfolio, ways to access the investments and appropriateness for different investor types.
Prerequisite: ECON 712 or MSFA 712
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 744 - Financial Econometrics
Unit(s): 2
This course expands on the econometric techniques commonly used in finance. Financial markets have spurred many of the advances in econometrics in the past two decades, and in turn. Knowledge of financial markets is required in this course, but much of the finance theory in the course is communicated in the process of describing the econometric methods used.
Prerequisite: ECON 736 or concurrent MSFA 736
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 746 - Portfolio Management
Unit(s): 2
Efficient financial markets theory. Asset pricing theories and models. Portfolio management policies for individual investors, mutual funds, and institutional investors. Asset allocation and general portfolio construction. Fixed income vs. equity portfolio management strategies. Risk measurement and management.
Prerequisite: concurrent ECON 740 or concurrent MSFA 740
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 748 - Ethics and Finance II
Unit(s): 1
Professional standards of practice regarding Performance Presentation standards and associated ethical obligations. Ethical and practical issues in constructing and maintaining portfolio returns and appropriate benchmark portfolios.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 749 - MSFA
Unit(s): 1
The internship is 10-20 hours per week during a student’s last semester (fourth trimester) and counts for two units of academic credit. The student will work with a full-time MSFA faculty member on a research project/report that will be related to the work undertaken in the internship.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 798 - MSFA Internship
Unit(s): 2
The internship is 10-20 hours per week during a student’s second-to-last or last semester and counts for two units of academic credit. The student will work with a full-time MSFA faculty member on a research project/report that will be related to the work undertaken in the internship..
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Financial Analysis Major
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MSFA 799 - MSFA Directed Study
Unit(s): 0 to 4
By special arrangement.
School of Management
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French |
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FREN 100 - Intensive French
Unit(s): 8
French 100 combines first and second semesters of Elementary French while offering a smaller class size (16 students), cutting edge language learning technologies, and a small stipend to support outings in the City.
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FREN 133 - Intermediate French Conv
Unit(s): 2
French conversation at the intermediate level. Introduction to French and Francophone culture and society. (May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units of credit). Offered every semester.
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FREN 195 - FYS: First-Year Seminar
Unit(s): 4
First Year Seminars are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All FYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many FYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. FYSeminars are only open to students in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one FYS, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other FYSeminars this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman
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FREN 201 - Third Semester French
Unit(s): 4
Review of grammar. Accent on developing listening, speaking, reading, and stress on conversation.This course includes a mandatory one-hour weekly group conversation class with a tutor for nine weeks of the semester outside of the class meeting time.
Prerequisite: FREN 102 or Placement-French with a minimum score of 66 or FREN 100
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FREN 202 - Fourth Semester French
Unit(s): 4
An intermediate-level course focusing on developing the elementary reading, writing, listening and speaking skills as well as grammar acquired in the first year. In addition, there is an increased focus on cultural knowledge and the inclusion of a full-length work of literature.
Prerequisite: FREN 201 or Placement-French with a minimum score of 83
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FREN 216 - Foreign Lang Methodology
Unit(s): 2
Required for all Spanish and French conversation tutors. While simultaneously teaching conversation sessions, students will specifically learn how to: identify issues underlying communicative language and task-based teaching, create well designed language learning activities that engage learners in communicative language learning tasks, sequence those tasks, apply appropriate language teaching terminology during class discussions, reflect about themselves as learners and teachers, and participate in intellectual discussions about second language acquisition and foreign language teaching issues.
Prerequisite: FREN 202 or SPAN 202 or SPAN 222
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FREN 250 - Africa Films Africa
Unit(s): 4
The diversity of the African continent as seen through the eyes of its filmmakers. Weekly viewings and discussions will be informed by critical literature on African film and its place in the West and the developing world.
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FREN 255 - Diplomatie Sans Frontieres
Unit(s): 4
This course is designed to serve students intending to do internships or gain employment in French-speaking environments or countries. Although fully developing the language skills to function in international institutions takes years, learning the conventions associated with different kinds of communication and expanding your vocabulary in the areas of your specialization (whether it is politics, commerce, human rights, cultural diplomacy) can facilitate your assimilation once you find yourself immersed in that kind of environment.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 260 - African Literature and Film
Unit(s): 4
A substantial introduction to the literature and film of the African continent exposing students to the diversity of the continent through its rich literary heritage.
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FREN 265 - Les Enfants Terribles
Unit(s): 4
What can we learn from rebellious figures, those men and women who refuse to live by the rules? Meet some of France’s celebrated “unruly children,” explore their creative contributions to contemporary French culture, and brush up on your colloquial French.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 275 - Cultures de France
Unit(s): 4
French culture and civilization focuses on the study of French society from 1851 to the present through cultural phenomena in the context of major historical, political, and social events.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 312 - Finesses de la langue
Unit(s): 2
This course is designed to help students develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the subtleties of the French language. They will develop their vocabulary, grammatical sophistication, and reading proficiency.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 313 - Finesses de la langue II
Unit(s): 2
This course is designed to help students develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the subtleties of the French language. Students will develop their vocabulary, grammatical sophistication, and reading proficiency.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 315 - Paris: Biographie d’une ville
Unit(s): 4
This course offers a study of cultural currents that have made Paris a global metropolis. It invites students to explore diverse facets of Parisian life and encourages them to look at French culture through their own experience and artistic sensitivity.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 320 - Le plaisir du texte
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to reading and analyzing literary works, with special emphasis on the acquisition of critical vocabulary through readings in major genres (poems, plays, novels) and multiple writing assignments.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 322 - Le bon sens et la folie
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to the major literary currents of the 17th and 18th centuries, to the historical events that helped shape them, and to other cultural manifestations associated with them.
Prerequisite: FREN 202
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FREN 324 - Guerre et paix
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to the major literary currents of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries to the historical events that helped shape them, and to other cultural manifestations associated with them.
Prerequisite: FREN 255 or FREN 265 or FREN 275
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FREN 330 - Rencontres: L’Afrique francoph
Unit(s): 4
An intensive and comprehensive introduction to the literature and culture of the almost thirty French speaking countries of Africa through representative texts produced in three very culturally diverse regions: North, West and Central Africa.
Prerequisite: FREN 255 or FREN 265 or FREN 275
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FREN 332 - Rencontres: Le monde franco
Unit(s): 4
An intensive and comprehensive introduction to the Francophone world excluding Africa (which is covered in French 330). Texts, DVDs, and artifacts will be used as the basis for an exploration of the literary, cinematic and popular production, and the cultural and linguistic specificity of French-speaking groups in North America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Prerequisite: FREN 255 or FREN 265 or FREN 275
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FREN 340 - French Cinema and Literature
Unit(s): 4
A comprehensive history of French Cinema and literature from the turn of the 20th Century to the present. Students will read, analyze, compare and contrast literary and cinematic works of each significant period starting with the invention of the first camera and the Lumiere’s Brothers’ first films to the different movements that influenced today’s film and literary productions. Taught in English.
College of Arts and Sciences
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FREN 350 - Paris-Berlin
Unit(s): 4
The course explores the many cultural exchanges between France and Germany from the late 1800s to the early decades of the 20th century. In this period, Paris and Berlin were centers of artistic productions. The new perspectives in literature, art, architecture, and film of this period and their integration with social and political developments are focal points. The foundation is Nietzsche’s manifesto of personal self-overcoming.
College of Arts and Sciences
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FREN 390 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Exploration of one or more selected topics in the field.
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FREN 398 - Dir Reading & Research
Unit(s): 1 to 6
Individual project on various topics of French and Francophone studies to be determined with the instructor. Written permission of the department chair and the dean is required. Offered every semester at the upper-division level only to help students complete their requirements for the major or the minor.
College of Arts and Sciences
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FREN 440 - Special Topics in French
Unit(s): 4
Examples of courses: Images du féminin; Conditions de l’amour; Culture des affaires.
Prerequisite: FREN 315 or FREN 320 or FREN 322 or FREN 324 or FREN 330 or FREN 332
College of Arts and Sciences
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FREN 450 - Sp Topics:Francophone Lit/Cult
Unit(s): 4
Examples of courses: Carte d’identité; Migrations; L’Algérie francaise, la France algérienne.
Prerequisite: FREN 315 or FREN 320 or FREN 322 or FREN 324 or FREN 330 or FREN 332
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GEDU 603 - Methods of Ed Research
Unit(s): 3
An introduction to the process and methods of educational research articles and to developing a preliminary plan or proposal for research in the field.
School of Education
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GEDU 630 - Disability and Impairment
Unit(s): 3
Research approaches and discourse in psychology and medicine tend to place disability as a problem that resides within the individual body/mind. By contrast, disability studies perspectives help to contextualize our understanding of disability more broadly within society and culture, while at the same time, acknowledging individual variation. Students will be immersed in the debates, theoretical perspectives, methods, and findings that have been used to explain and address disability and impairment across disciplines.
School of Education
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GEDU 631 - Engage Scholar Disability Just
Unit(s): 3
The focus of this course is on interdisciplinary research, for the purposes of teaching and/or community engagement for disability justice. Research will be produced that promotes collaboration with communities. Findings will be presented to teachers and/or teacher educators in order to prepare doctoral students for leadership positions in education and advocacy, for the purpose of social change.
School of Education
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GEDU 632 - Disability Activism, Law & Pol
Unit(s): 3
This course provides a historical perspective to understand the emergence of disability law and public policy. Topics include early industrialization, compulsory schooling, American eugenics, institutionalization, and the Disability Rights Movement. Federal legislation, key statues, and landmark court cases associated with both disability rights and educational rights for students with disabilities are explored. Disability memoir, case law, guest speakers, as well as seminal and current critiques of the law are used, to support students in understanding the variation in interpretation of law, and the implications of this variation for students with disabilities in P-22 schools.
School of Education
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GEDU 633 - Disability Studies in Ed
Unit(s): 3
Across the field of disability studies, disability is defined not as a deficit inherent in certain body/minds, but rather as a relationship of differential power/privilege and constructed contextually. In this course we will look at the social meaning and material consequences of disability in various cultural and historical spaces, and how these have influenced educational opportunities for students who are labeled with disability. Epistemological and theoretical differences between disability studies in education, and traditional, special education will be explored to understand deeply-divided approaches to research and practice, as they relate to student disability. We will also understand how disability intersect and co-constructs other identity markers in educational spaces, nationally and globally.
School of Education
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GEDU 635 - Multiliteracies in Tchr Ed
Unit(s): 3
The concept of “multiliteracies” refers to a broad and inclusive model of literacy that accounts for the complex and rapidly changing modes of meaning making within our diverse society. While at least eighty percent of students classified as having a disability have difficulty reading, all students can benefit from some kind of literacy support: learning to read words, vocabulary, and comprehending text, and/or understanding language in context, using a cell phone, operating a washing machine, recognizing an important street sign or bus stop, following a recipe, or reading a prescription. This course is designed to survey the current research on teacher education with an emphasis on best practices for addressing a wide range of student literacies. Supported higher education teaching experiences will be provided, offering career advancement towards adjunct and faculty positions.
School of Education
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GEDU 697 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Level Restricted to Graduate
School of Education
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GEDU 698 - Special Topics Seminar
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Exploration of one or more selected topics in General Education.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
School of Education
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GEDU 700 - Philosophical Found of Ed
Unit(s): 3
Philosophical foundations of modern educational thought and practice in America, it also explores contemporary educational ideologies in the U.S.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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GEDU 701 - Anthropology of Educ
Unit(s): 3
Fundamental principles of anthropology as applied in education, business, and community learning contexts. An overview of the history, tradition, and political ideologies of two or more countries, other than the United States, provides a backdrop for the study of culture, technology, and values in an American pedagogical setting.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
School of Education
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