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Copyright & Disclaimer Information: Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. CollegeSource®, Inc. and Career Guidance Foundation. CollegeSource® digital catalogs are derivative works owned and copyrighted by CollegeSource®, Inc. and Career Guidance Foundation. Catalog content is owned and copyrighted by the appropriate school. While CollegeSource®, Inc. and Career Guidance Foundation provides information as a service to the public, copyright is retained on all digital catalogs. Copyright & Disclaimer Information: Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. CollegeSource®, Inc. and Career Guidance Foundation. CollegeSource® digital catalogs are derivative works owned and copyrighted by CollegeSource®, Inc. and Career Guidance Foundation. Catalog content is owned and copyrighted by the appropriate school. While CollegeSource®, Inc. and Career Guidance Foundation provides information as a service to the public, copyright is retained on all digital catalogs. Course Descriptions / 147 IME-582 Industrial Engineering 4 0 0 4 Prerequisite: Senior I Standing This course relates IE concepts to lean enterprise and engineering management for the students with no IE background and covers the tools and techniques to plan for output needs, to analyze, design, and implement a lean process, and to evaluate the process and pursue continuous improvement. It includes subjects from job design, human machine interface design, and ergonomic and human factors of product design to plant layout and material handling as well as pull manufacturing and lean manufacturing. The use of popular software packages is a major part of the course. Terms Offered: TBA ISYS-201 Fundamentals of Information Systems 4 0 0 4 Systems theory, quality, decision making, and the organizational role of information systems are introduced, Information technology including computing and telecommunications systems are stressed. Concepts of organizations, information systems growth, and process improvement are introduced. Terms Offered: Winter, Spring ISYS-211 Information Systems Productivity 3 0 2 4 Students with minimal computer skills will learn to enhance their personal productivity and problem solving skills by applying information technologies to problem situations and by designing and using small information systems for individuals and groups. Terms Offered: Summer, Fall ISYS-440 Information Management 3 0 2 4 Prerequisite: ISYS-211 The concepts, principles, issues and techniques for managing corporate data resources. Techniques for managing the design and development of large database systems including logical data models, concurrent processing, data distribution, database administration, data warehousing, data cleansing, and data mining. Terms Offered: TBA ISYS-442 Technical Infrastructure 3 0 2 4 Prerequisite: ISYS-201 Telecommunications fundamentals including data, voice, image, and video. The concepts, models, architectures, protocols, standards, and security for the design, implementation, and management of digital networks. Essentials of local area networks, (LAN), metropolitan area networks, (MAN), and wide area networks (WAN). Transmission and switching efficiency. Regulatory and technical environments. Topics include security and authentication, network operating systems, e-commerce and associated web sites and practices, and middleware for wireless systems, multimedia, and conferencing Terms Offered:TBA ISYS-444 Systems Analysis 3 0 2 4 Prerequisite: ISYS-201 Systems development life cycle; analysis and design techniques; information systems planning and project identification and selection, requirements collection and structuring, process modeling, data modeling, design of interface and data management, system implementation and operation, system maintenance, and change management implications of systems. Globalization issues in systems. Students will use current methods and tools such as rapid application development, prototyping, and visual development. Terms Offered: TBA ISYS-446 Project Management 3 0 2 1 Prerequisite: ISYS-201 Managing projects within an organizational context, including the processes related to initiating, planning, executing, controlling, reporting, and closing a project. Project integration, scope, time, cost, quality control, and risk management. Managing the changes in organizations resulting from introducing or revising information systems. Identifying project champions, working with user teams, training, and documentation. The change management role is of the IS specialist. Terms Offered: TBA ISYS-448 Information Technology Management 3 0 2 4 Prerequisite: ISYS-201 The top management, strategic perspective for aligning competitive strategy, core competencies, and information systems. The development and implementation of policies and plans to achieve organizational goals. Defining the systems that support the operational, administrative, and strategic needs of the organization, its business units, and individual employees. Approaches to managing the information systems function in organizations, including examination of the dual challenges of effectively controlling the use of wellestablished information technologies, while experimenting with selected emerging technologies. Role of the CIO. Terms Offered: TBA ISYS-450 E-Commerce 3 0 2 4 Prerequisite: ISYS-201 The course focuses on the linkage between organizational strategy and networked information technologies to implement a rich variety of business models in the national and global contexts connecting individuals, businesses, governments, and other organizations to each other. The course provides an introduction to e-business strategy and the development and architecture of e-business solutions and their components. Terms Offered: TBA LANG-101 Beginning German I 4 0 4 4 This course is the first in a three-part sequence to an introduction to speaking, reading, and writing German. To that end, its focus is on the grammar, vocabulary, and syntax of the German language. Students are eligible to take this course only if they have less than one year of high school German, or less than one term of college German. A basic skill course, it counts only for free elective credit toward graduation. At least 4 hours per week will be required in a language laboratory. Terms Offered: As Needed LANG-102 Beginning German II 4 0 4 4 Prerequisite: LANG-101 or equivalent This course is the second in a three-part sequence to speaking, reading, and writing German. It develops the grammar, vocabulary, and syntax of the German language based on the foundation established in German I. Students are eligible to take this course only if they have less than two years of high school German, or less than two terms of college German. A basic skills course, it counts only for free elective credit toward graduation. At least 4 hours per week in a language laboratory will be required. Terms Offered: As Needed LANG-103 Beginning German III 4 0 4 4 Prerequisite: LANG-102 or equivalent This course is the third in a three-part sequence providing an introduction to speaking, reading, and writing German. It develops the grammar, vocabulary, and syntax of the German language based on the foundation established in German I and German II. A basic skills course, it counts only for free elective credit toward graduation. At least 4 hours per week will be required in a language laboratory. Terms Offered: As Needed LIT-304 American Literature and Philosophy 4 0 0 4 Prerequisites: COMM-101, HUMN-201, SSCI-201 Selected topics founded and expressed in literature during the philosophic and the literary development of the Republic. Terms Offered: All LIT-307 Poetry: Substance and Structure 4 0 0 4 Prerequisites: COMM-101, HUMN-201, SSCI-201 An analysis of poetry written in the context of the development of intellectual concepts. Emphasis is on the philosophical content, its moral and ethical dimensions, structure, and the intellectual climate which gave rise to significant aesthetic ideals. Biography and critical interpretation are included. Terms Offered: All LIT-309 The Literature of Multicultural America 4 0 0 4 Prerequisites: COMM-101, HUMN-201, SSCI-201 This course examines U.S. multicultural literatures from several critical perspectives. A study of primary texts by American writers whose themes and techniques of narration reflect the development of U.S. literacy discourses of race, identity, myths of origin, gender, and cross-cultural communication. The broad array of texts includes novels, poetry, memoirs, and films from a multiplicity of cultural perspectives. Engagement in comparative work with an eye toward understanding the complexity and the demands of a multicultural society. Terms Offered: As Needed
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While CollegeSource®, Inc. and Career Guidance Foundation provides information as a service to the public, copyright is retained on all digital catalogs. 148 / Kettering University LIT-315 Literature of the Fantastic 4 0 0 4 Prerequisites: HUMN-201, SSCI-201 This course examines the fantastic in literature and film. It includes such topics as the role of escapist literature in society, fantasy as satire and social criticism, and the use of both fantasy and horror literature and cinema to explore taboos about mortality, insanity, and sexuality. Terms Offered: As Needed LIT-317 Masterpieces of Drama 4 0 0 4 Prerequisites: HUMN-201, SSCI-201 This course examines several significant works of drama. Topics include the role of stage and cinematic drama in human society, drama as social criticism, and the nature of various kinds of dramatic works including tragedy, comedy, and satire. Terms Offered: As Needed LIT-351 Literature in a Foreign Language 4 0 0 4 Prerequisites: COMM-101, LANG-103 or equivalent, HUMN-201, SSCI- 201 This course provides an exposure to literature read and discussed in a foreign language. It further develops students’ abilities in reading, speaking and writing a foreign language while providing familiarity with the literary heritage of a foreign culture. Terms Offered: As Needed LIT-372 Masterpieces of Literature 4 0 0 4 Prerequisites: HUMN-201, SSCI-201 This course will concentrate on learning the characteristics of several literary genres as exemplified by master writers. The course may include genres such as: Epic Narrative poetry, Classical Satire, Classical Philosophy, Medieval Narrative Poetry, Realistic Novel, Modern Short Story & Novel. Terms Offered: As Needed LIT-379 The Plays of Shakespeare 4 0 0 4 Prerequisites: HUMN-201, SSCI-201 This course will be a concentrated study of selected tragedies, comedies, and history plays by William Shakespeare. The emphasis will be on the universal human dimensions of the plays within the context of the Elizabethan age. Plays such as Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Richard III will be used. Terms Offered: As Needed LS-489 Senior Seminar: Leadership, Ethics and Contemporary Issues 4 0 0 4 Prerequisites: COMM-101, COMM-301, ECON-201, HUMN-201, SSCI-201, a 300 level course in either Humanities or Social Science This course examines the interrelated subjects of leadership, ethics and contemporary issues. Because it is a culmination of their general education, students in this course use the methods and perspectives learned in the preceding general education courses. After examining general theoretical approaches through a common text, the course will involve three “case studies” with suitable assigned readings. One case study will focus on a corporation in order to illustrate leadership, ethics and contemporary issues; a second will focus on a person in order to illustrate leadership, ethics, and contemporary issues; the third will focus on an important modern episode, event or condition that exemplifies issues of ethics and leadership. Terms Offered: All MATH-100 College Mathematics 4 0 0 4 Prerequisite: Placement Test. A study of functions and their algebra and graphs. Special functions of engineering and science are emphasized, including polynomial, trigonometric, and exponential functions and their inverses. Concepts and methods of algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry important to calculus are also emphasized. NOTE: Credits for MATH-100 do not apply to degree requirements. Also placement in MATH-100 may delay entry in courses for which calculus is a prerequisite. Terms Offered: All MATH-101 Calculus I 4 0 0 4 Prerequisite: MATH-100, a sufficient score on the placement exam, or permission of the Department Head An introduction to the theory and techniques of differentiation of polynomial, trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic, hyperbolic, and inverse functions of one variable. Also included are limits, continuity, derivative applications and interpretations. Computer software will be used to aid in understanding these topics. Terms Offered: All MATH-101X Calculus I 4 2 0 4 Prerequisite: MATH-100, a sufficient score on the placement exam, or permission of the Department Head This course is for students showing a lack of proficiency in algebra and trigonometry on the placement examination. The course contains the same material as MATH-101 but in addition, includes a review of algebraic expressions, trigonometic functions and their inverses, and analytic geometry. Computer software will be used to aid in understanding these topics. Terms Offered: Summer, Fall MATH-102 Calculus II 4 0 0 4 Prerequisite: MATH-101 or MATH 101X Riemann integration and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, including applications to area, volume, etc., and basic methods for conversion of integrals including change of variable, substitutions, partial fractions, integration by parts, improper integrals and numerical integration. Also introduced are sequences and series in one variable with emphasis on Taylor Series. Computer software will be used to aid in understanding these topics. Terms Offered: All MATH-122 Integral Calculus and Series 4 0 0 4 Prerequisite: MATH-101 or MATH 101X or permission of the Department Head Integration of algebraic and transcendental functions, basic techniques of integration, infinite series, partial differentiation, and multiple integration involving areas. Applications to the field of business and management. This is the second calculus course for management students. Terms Offered: Winter, Spring MATH-203 Multivariate Calculus 4 0 0 4 Prerequisite: MATH-102 A study of polar coordinates, parametric equations, and the calculus of functions of several variables with an introduction to vector calculus. Topics include surface sketching, partial derivatives, gradients, differentials, multiple integrals, cylindrical and spherical coordinates and applications. Computer software will be used to aid in understanding these concepts. Terms Offered: All MATH-204 Differential Equations and Laplace Transforms Prerequisite: MATH-203 4 0 0 4 An introduction to the principles and methods for solving first order, first degree differential equations, and higher order linear differential equations. Includes a study of the Laplace transform and its application to the solution of differential equations. Also included is an introduction to Fourier series. Existence and uniqueness theorems for O.D.E.’s are also discussed. Terms Offered: All MATH-205 Applied Probability and Statistics 4 0 0 4 Prerequisite: MATH-203 Corequisite: The student may take MATH-203 as a co-req but must have permission from the instructor. The study of the basic concepts and methods of probability and statistics. Topics covered include introduction to the field of probability and statistics, sample spaces, counting techniques, laws of working with probability and conditional probability independence. Families of discrete and continuous random variables, expected values and other measures are considered. The central limit theorem is emphasized along with an introduction to sampling theory, parameter estimation and hypotheses testing. Terms Offered: All MATH-226 Statistics for Management I 4 0 0 4 Prerequisite: MATH-101 A study of the basic concepts and methods of probability and an introduction to statistics. Topics covered include the fundamental concepts of probability and families of discrete and continuous random variables. Also included are the Central Limit Theorem, and estimation and tests of hypotheses for parameters for a single population. The course also includes an introduction to MINITAB, a statistical computing package. Terms Offered: Summer, Fall
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