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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 - AGI Wall Strt: Adv Equ Val
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 738 - Fixed Income Valuation II
Unit(s): 2
Valuation of advanced fixed income securities including collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), other securitized assets, and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Emphasis is on using probability models in the valuation process.
Prerequisite: concurrent ECON 722 or concurrent MSFA 722
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 - CPT Internship
Unit(s): 2
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 799 - MSFA Directed Study
Unit(s): 0 to 4
By special arrangement.
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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 101 - First Semester French
Unit(s): 4
An elementary French course. Accent on listening, speaking, reading and writing skills at the beginners level.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.
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FREN 102 - Second Semester French
Unit(s): 4
Continuation of First Semester French.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 101 or Placement-French with a minimum score of 40
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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GEDU 702 - Soc/Crit Theoretical Foundtns
Unit(s): 3
This seminar provides a social and critical theoretical foundation to the study of education. The aim of the course is to examine the ways that particular theorists have conceptualized 1) what education is, 2) how to characterize its social power and potential, and 3) how theory informs our research processes and praxis. The readings introduce students to philosophies and critiques of education as well as to broader social and political theories that challenge commonsense definitions of education as a whole with a specific focus on knowledge production, ideology, power, and agency.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 703 - Public Scholar & Comm Eng Lrng
Unit(s): 3
The purpose of this course is to prepare doctoral students with a deep understanding of the theory and practice of community-engaged scholarship before entering into fieldwork with a local school or organization. In addition to course readings and discussions, students will learn first-hand from School of Education faculty with track records of community partnerships who will share their experiences as guest speakers.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 704 - Psych Founds of Educ
Unit(s): 3
Systematic exploration and critical investigation of the theoretical foundations and the practical problems and issues encountered in the application of psychology to education.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 705 - Law and Education
Unit(s): 3
Survey of federal and state statutory and case law in the following: compulsory education, loyalty, religion, freedom of speech, due process, equal protection, termination, evaluation, negotiations, records, discrimination, the Civil Rights Act as amended, special needs, ADA, and civil and tort liability.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 706 - Applied Educational Statistics
Unit(s): 3
A conceptual and procedural understanding of descriptive and inferential statistical procedures in educational research.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 707 - Advanced Statistics
Unit(s): 3
A continuation of applied educational statistics (706) and an introduction to multivariate statistical analyses used in research in education. Among the subjects to be considered are the following: factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA), analysis of covariance, repeated measures ANOVA, multivariate ANOVA, multiple regression, discriminant analysis, and factor analysis.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 708 - Research Methods in Ed
Unit(s): 3
Introduction to quantitative and qualitative educational research traditions, procedures, theories, and methods. Includes practical applications to educational problems. Recommended that 0704-706 be taken before 0704-708.
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 711 - Survey Research
Unit(s): 3
Introduction to the logic and methods of survey research. Common problems of conceptualizing, planning, conducting and analyzing surveys along with strategies, designs procedures and techniques used to solve such problems.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 712 - Qualitative Research
Unit(s): 3
This course revolves around the theory and methods of qualitative research, drawn from the social sciences of anthropology and sociology, as applied to education. Students will learn to formulate a research question, collect data through observation and interviewing, and analyze data. Coursework includes a student-developed research project.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 713 - Content Analysis
Unit(s): 3
This course examines issues related to the collection and analysis of textual and other representational data for research purposes, covering several approaches to content analysis, both qualitative and quantitative.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 714 - Educ & Psych Measurement
Unit(s): 3
Principles of classical, modern (item-response theory), and cognitive test theory applied to educational and psychological measurement and their application to doctoral research. Applications to both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing orientations will be stressed throughout the course. The focus will be on test development and test evaluation.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 716 - Program Evaluation
Unit(s): 3
Introduction to program evaluation. Basic issues of evaluation design, data collection, interpretation, and communication of results are discussed. Emphasis is placed on designing evaluations based on an understanding of how programs are implemented.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 718 - Ethnic/Mult Resrch Iss
Unit(s): 3
An examination of various research paradigms employed by social scientists, educators, human service professionals, and community agencies interested in the study of comparative group behaviors, educational strategies and learning patterns within racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
Restriction: College restricted to School of Education; Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GEDU 721 - Correlational Designs
Unit(s): 3
Correlational approaches to analyzing educational data, including simple and multiple regression, path analysis, LISREL, and hierarchical linear models.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 and GEDU 707 and GEDU 708
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 722 - Meta-Analysis
Unit(s): 3
Prerequisites: GEDU - 706, GEDU - 708. This course deals with the methods and process of meta-analysis, which is a quantitative review of the literature. Students will have the opportunity to plan a meta-analysis and to evaluate published meta-analyses in an area of education.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
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 723 - Part Crit Ped Rsch
Unit(s): 3
A discussion of the theoretical foundations of participatory critical pedagogy research as well as a description of effective processes to conduct research utilizing this methodology. Students will be encouraged to (a) define and/or refine the methodology of their own dissertation and (b) acquire experience in the process of dialogic retrospection - the praxis of dialogue as an emancipatory tool, the creation of a text from dialogue transcripts and the analysis of the generative themes contained in the dialogue.
Prerequisite: GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
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 724 - Introduction to SPSS
Unit(s): 3
A second course in statistics using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Topics include file organization, data entry and cleaning, variable creation and recoding, data analysis, record keeping, reliability analyses, merging data files, and SPSS data analysis procedures (descriptive, comparative, correlational, classificatory), and table creation.
Prerequisite: GEDU 706 with a minimum grade of B- and GEDU 708 with a minimum grade of B-
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 725 - Skills for Scholarly Writing
Unit(s): 3
This course is designed to assist doctoral students to learn a style for scholarly writing, including the dissertation. Dissertation writing requires a distinctive type of writing, an academic, scholarly approach that meets local conventions, in contrast to an ‘essayist,’ term paper method of writing or a popular periodical style. The tasks, activities, and discussions of this course will include attention to approaches to formal writing that retain clarity, logic and interest, applications of APA as appropriate to dissertation writing, and a review of common grammatical usage.
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 730 - 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 731 - 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 732 - 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 733 - 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 735 - 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 798 - Special Topic Seminar
Unit(s): 1 to 3
Exploration of one or more selected topics in General Education.
Restriction: Degree restricted to Doctor of Education and No Degree Doctoral; Level Restricted to Doctoral
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GERM 101 - First Semester German
Unit(s): 4
German 101 is the first in a three semester series of courses designed to introduce students to the German language and to provide them with the basic skills to function in a new linguistic and cultural environment. While the class sessions are centered on practicing communication in German, all four skills for language acquisition - listening, speaking, reading and writing - are emphasized. This course requires additional conversation practice in nine scheduled sessions outside of the class meetings. German 101 is offered every fall semester.Note: All students enrolling in a German class at USF for the first time who have taken German before and/or were raised speaking German are required to take the placement test and/or contact the German Studies coordinator. (Please see the Department of Modern and Classical Languages website for more information).
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 102 - Second Semester German
Unit(s): 4
German 102 is the second in a three semester series of courses designed to introduce students to the German language and to provide them with the basic skills to function in a new linguistic and cultural environment. While the class sessions are centered on practicing communication in German, all four skills for language acquisition - listening, speaking, reading and writing - are emphasized. This course requires additional conversation practice in nine scheduled sessions outside of the class meetings. German 102 is offered every spring semester.
Prerequisite: GERM 101 or Placement-German with a minimum score of 33
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 102P - German 102 Language Practicum
Unit(s): 0
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 201 - Third Semester German
Unit(s): 4
German 201 is the last in a three semester series of courses designed to introduce students to the German language and to provide them with the basic skills to function in a new linguistic and cultural environment. While the class sessions are centered on practicing communication in German, all four skills for language acquisition - listening, speaking, reading and writing - are emphasized. German 201 is offered every fall semester.
Prerequisite: GERM 102 or Placement-German with a minimum score of 55
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 202 - Fourth Semester German
Unit(s): 4
Intermediate German. This course focuses on reading, discussing, and writing about authentic materials in a culturally relevant context while reviewing and expanding grammatical concepts covered in first through third semester German. Extensive use of literary and non-fictional texts, film, and online resources will expand students’ German language proficiency and intercultural competence.
Prerequisite: GERM 201 or Placement-German with a minimum score of 80
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 305 - Conversation and Writing
Unit(s): 4
Continuation of intermediate German. Like German 202, this course focuses on reading, discussing, and writing about authentic materials in a culturally relevant context while reviewing and expanding on previously studied grammatical concepts. Extensive use of literary and non-fictional texts, film, and online resources will expand students’ German language proficiency and intercultural competence.
Prerequisite: GERM 202
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 310 - Adv Readings & Composition
Unit(s): 4
This course stresses advanced reading, writing and discussion in German based on a variety of authentic materials like fictional and non-fictional texts. Specific topics to be determined. Prerequisite: GERM - 305 or equivalent German language proficiency as determined by the department. (Please see the Department of Modern and Classical Languages website for more information).
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 318 - Jewish Lit & Cult/20th C. Euro
Unit(s): 4
Taught in English. Fulfills Core-C Literature requirement. Listed as elective for Jewish Studies and Social Justice, International Studies, and European Studies.This course examines some of the most important issues involving ethnicity, heritage, and identity by focusing on major expressions by writers and artists of Jewish background in Western and Eastern Europe. The class is interdisciplinary in scope, using literature, theater, film, art, music, and other media to define concepts that have shaped significant contributions by Jewish artists, thinkers and intellectuals, particularly in the German and Yiddish vernacular. Against the changing historical backgrounds, the class seeks to gain a deeper understanding of what it meant to be Jewish in the early part of the century, and to distinguish different forms of acculturation and/or assimilation. It then moves on to discuss literary testimonies of Holocaust survivors and ends with examples of the burgeoning Jewish culture in post-wall Germany.
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 320 - German Lit & Cult/1945-Today
Unit(s): 4
Taught in English. Fulfills Core-C Literature requirement. Listed as elective for International Studies and European Studies. This course centers on discussions of literary production in post - World War II Germany against the background of the profound historical, political and social changes in central Europe and the world at large, which mark the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. After explorations into different works from East- and West-Germany until 1989 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, a particular emphasis will be placed on developments in the “new” German capital Berlin. Students examine texts in different genres, including prose, poetry, theory, and film, while gaining a deeper understanding of the contexts in which new ideas and forms of expression emerge. A special focus will be the question of identity and identifications as shaped by personal, national, and trans-national influences.
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 350 - Paris-Berlin
Unit(s): 4
Taught in English. Fulfills Core-C Literature requirement. Cross-listed with French Studies. Listed as elective for International Studies, European Studies, and Jewish Studies and Social Justice. This course explores the profound social and intellectual changes which marked the turn into the 20th century in Europe, particularly Germany, Austria, and France, and the reflection of these changes in the arts. The concepts of “modernity” and “modernism” will be the point of departure for an overview of the “_isms” by which this period is defined in political (e.g. Nationalism, Imperialism, Socialism, Capitalism, Feminism), philosophical (e.g. Social Darwinism, Rationalism, Idealism), and artistic terms (e.g. Naturalism, Postimpressionism, Expressionism, Symbolism, Surrealism). We will analyze groundbreaking theoretical works by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and others, and delineate their influences on literature and film. Special attention will be given to the interplay of different movements and ideas, and the (self-)awareness of the subject in a rapidly changing and challenging world.
College of Arts and Sciences
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GERM 398 - Dir Reading & Research
Unit(s): 1 to 4
Directed Studies supplement regular course offerings for smaller groups of students at a higher level of German proficiency. They focus on reading and discussing texts and films in German while improving written and oral language proficiency. The specific contents will be determined by instructor and students in collaboration. Interested students should contact the German Studies program coordinator.
College of Arts and Sciences
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MGEM 5101 - Global Environmt & Bus Trends
Unit(s): 3
An overview of major forces and trends of the world: including but not limited to the economic, political, demographic, and technological forces, and trends in globalized competition and globalized cooperation in business. Of particular interest to this group of students, their deep understanding of such forces and trends should help them to spot meaningful opportunities and threats that would allow fruitful entrepreneurial pursuit.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5102 - Tech Apprec & Intel Prop Mgmt
Unit(s): 3
A broad scale survey of new and emerging technologies, including but not limited to, information and digital technology, material science and nanotechnology, life science and bio-technology, and space technology. To couple with their general understanding and appreciation of these business-opportunity-laden technologies, this group of students should also study different legal protections (or little or no protection) given to patents and other forms of intellectual property in the U.S., in Europe, in Asia, and in the rest of the world. Cases may be used to study how successful companies have managed their creation, protection, exploitation of intellectual property rights globally.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5104 - Crs-Cul Mng & Eth Bus Prac
Unit(s): 3
This course focuses on the cultural and ethical aspects of management and business practice. Although EU and other regional and global treaties have reduced many structural barriers, businesses still face various cultural and ethical challenges in different parts of the world. Among other things, this course will expose students to several traditional values systems, such as Christianity, Buddhism, and Confucianism; certain contemporary value systems, such as social welfare system and environmentalism; and social roles of various institutions, such as governments, churches, families, and businesses. This is a foundation course on cross-cultural and ethical issues. A number of functional area courses will expand from this base to address cross-cultural and ethical issues in respective business functional areas.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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MGEM 5105 - Operations mgmnt & Supply Chai
Unit(s): 3
Globalized production and outsourcing have become a norm in business. Assuming these students have already been familiar with general principles and methodologies of operational efficiency and optimization, this course will focus on the challenges associated with country borders. Among other things, this course will examine import/export control, customs inspection and delays, licensing, certification, environmental protection rules, and a whole host of other complications. These factors vary from one country to another, and complicates businesses’ decision making in their operations management and supply chain management.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to Global Entrepreneurial Mgt Major
School of Management
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