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INFS 592 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is no wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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INFS 601 - Information Systems 1-3 credits
Systems theory, quality, decision making, and the organizational role of information systems are introduced. Information technology including computing hardware, software and telecommunications systems are integrated into the alignment with the Enterprise’s Strategy and Key Business Processes.
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INFS 605 - Information Systems Programming 3 credits
Planning, coding, and testing computer programs such as Object Structures that can be used for business applications. Emphasis will be on Data Theory and programming event driven graphical user interfaces.
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INFS 608 - Applied Statistics 3 credits
This course presents an overview of statistical concepts and techniques and incorporates significant information technology integration. Statistical techniques covered in this class would include sampling, sampling distributions, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, inference procedures for population characteristics, and linear regression. Utilization of statistical software is incorporated. Technology integration includes some or all of the following: The use of Internet-based resources to supply data for analysis and information on current issues relevant to the course; the use of simulations, games, and computer applications to reinforce statistical concepts, and the introduction of software tools that enhance the summary and presentation of statistical data and analysis in a professional setting.
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INFS 612 - Management and Evaluation of Information Systems 3 credits
Introduction to the application of information systems in organizations and the role of managers in providing IS services to the organization. While the course includes a survey of the various topics that comprise information systems, it also focuses on Business Process Analysis, Problem Identification, Measuring Enterprise Processes, and Evaluating Enterprise Processes, Benchmarking, Business Process Reengineering, and Creating Alternative Recommendations.
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INFS 614 - Introduction to Research 3 credits
The course presents concepts and skills necessary to formulate, design, and execute research projects with particular emphasis on information systems research. Topics include: Definition of research and the nature of scientific inquiry, components of the research project, finding and using the literature of the discipline, managing the research project, writing and presenting, and an overview of research methods.
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INFS 692 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is no wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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INFS 720 - System Analysis and Design Using Case Tools 3 credits
A study of the advanced theory and practice of systems analysis and design concepts and techniques, with an emphasis on the design part of the systems analysis process. Computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools and Human Computer Interaction are also emphasized. Prerequisite(s): INFS 601 and INFS 612
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INFS 724 - Project and Change Management 3 credits
A study of the principles and techniques used in managing information systems and organizational change projects. Project management software will be used in this course.
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INFS 730 - Programming for Electronic Commerce 3 credits
An introduction to the architecture of WWW, usability of Website designs and Web client programming. There is a substantial programming component in the course. Prerequisite(s): INFS 605
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INFS 732 - Electronic Commerce 3 credits
A study of Internet and Electronic Commerce systems. Emphasis on infrastructure of Electronic Commerce, online user behavioral differences, marketing on the Internet, online advertisement, electronic payment systems, strategy and implementation, privacy and security issues, and global digital economics. Prerequisite(s): INFS 612 and INFS 730
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INFS 734 - Client-Server Technologies 3 credits
A survey of techniques to manage Web servers. Topics include advanced design issues, balancing, server extensions, Web agents, and current design techniques. Students will develop prototypes of Electronic Commerce sites with database interfacing, data validation, and scripting. Prerequisite(s): INFS 612 and INFS 730
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INFS 742 - Healthcare Information Infrastructure 3 credits
Study of the healthcare information infrastructure in the healthcare delivery system in the United States. Examination of issues related to healthcare information systems, healthcare information policy development, uses and users of healthcare information, healthcare informational privacy, and clinical data standards. Electronic health record systems will be investigated. Prerequisite(s): HIMS 501
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INFS 744 - Healthcare Information Analysis 3 credits
Survey of clinical computing applications and their integration to support health care delivery. The evaluation of such systems in regard to clinical decision making, clinical quality assessment, and healthcare research support. Prerequisite(s): INFS 742
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INFS 750 - IT Infrastructure, Technology and Network Management 3 credits
A study of IT Infrastructure, systems, and networks according to the OSI model. Special consideration is given to Internet, Intranet, local and wide area network design, technical requirements, operation, and management. Prerequisite(s): INFS 601
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INFS 752 - Advanced Network Technology and Management 3 credits
A study of the configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of a model network environment. Network management strategies including file access, group policies, storage, and security will be examined. This course uses a virtual environment to prepare the student to manage network environments. Prerequisite(s): INFS 750
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INFS 754 - Network Security/Intrusion Detection 3 credits
Provides a comprehensive overview of network security and intrusion detection. Topics include security overview, authentication, attacks and malicious code, communication security, Web security, network security topologies, intrusion detection, firewalls and VPNs, security baselines, security algorithms, physical security, disaster recovery, forensics overview, and other state-of- the-art developments. Prerequisite(s): INFS 750
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INFS 756 - Cloud Computing and Network Services 3 credits
This course will introduce the use of virtual systems and servers to study a new delivery paradigm for the delivery of information technology services. A thorough examination of virtualization technologies will provide students with the foundation to plan, manage, and configure business application models. These network services will be configured on university servers and provide hands-on experiences. Prerequisite(s): INFS 750
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INFS 760 - Enterprise Modeling and Data Management 3 credits
A study of the principles and techniques used in Enterprise Modeling, and Data Management. Topics include the architecture and techniques in designing and implementing enterprise models, database design and implementation technologies. Prerequisite(s): INFS 601
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INFS 762 - Data Warehousing and Data Mining 3 credits
The main concepts, components, and various architectures of Data Warehouse. Advanced data analysis and optimization of Data Warehouse Design. Data Warehousing and OLAP tools. Applying data mining algorithms to retrieve highly specialized information or knowledge about the data stored in the Data Warehouse. Prerequisite(s): INFS 605 and INFS
760
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INFS 764 - Information Retrieval 3 credits
Provides hands-on experience with procedural extensions to the SQL language for retrieval and manipulation of data. topics include data control languages, control structures, looping and branching, local and global variables, exception handling, stored procedures and database triggers, cursors and cursor processing. Prerequisite(s): INFS 605 and INFS
760
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INFS 766 - Advanced Database 3 credits
This course is designed to give the student a strong foundation in the theoretical underpinnings of current database systems. Emphasis will be placed on database theory and will cover such issues as distributed databases, concurrency control, security, optimization, and specialized data models. It will also explore emerging database methodologies and their impact on current practices. Prerequisite(s): INFS 760
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INFS 780 - Information Technology Strategy and Policy 3 credits
Focus on the use of information systems technology to develop and maintain a strategic competitive advantage. Topics also demonstrate how Information Systems technologies are used to enhance organizational performance and effectiveness. Prerequisite(s): INFS 720 , INFS
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INFS 788 - Information Systems Project: 1-3 credits
Special projects developed to integrate the specialized skills and knowledge presented throughout other courses in the Masters curriculum. Practical knowledge will also be acquired through the application of theoretical concepts to actual computer systems problems and opportunities in a real-world situation. Prior permission and approval of the project is required. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor
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INFS 789 - Master’s Research Problems/Projects Sustaining 0 credits
This is a zero-credit instructional method type used to track students who are not currently working with faculty on thesis or doctoral activities. Universities may require students to register under this instructional method type to remain active degree candidates.
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INFS 791 - Independent Study 1-3 credits
Includes Directed Study, Problems, Readings, Directed Readings, Special Problems, and Special Projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor
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INFS 792 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is no wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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INFS 805 - Design Research Methods 3 credits
The course develops skills needed for conducting research whose aim is to invent methods and techniques that make information systems more effective and efficient. Students will also acquire skills in developing research proposals that follow the design research paradigm and will learn how to publish such research.
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INFS 810 - Qualitative Research Methods 3 credits
This course helps develop knowledge and skills in the application and use of qualitative research techniques. The course provides a survey of the methodological literature on qualitative research methods paired with appropriate article-length exemplars in the information systems domain. This course covers a variety of different research strategies including case study, qualitative data collection and analyses techniques, ethnography, meta- ethnography/meta-interpretation. In addition, students acquire skills in developing a research approach, understanding and using a grounded- theory approach, and triangulation methods for strengthening research findings and supporting methodological choices.
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INFS 815 - Quantitative Research Methods 3 credits
This course presents quantitative research methods commonly used in information systems research. Topics include (but not limited to) design and analysis of experiments and regression analysis. Regression analysis topics would cover topics related to simple and multiple regression, inferences in regression and correlation analysis, model selection, model validation, and model diagnostics. Design and analysis of experiments would cover topics related to single-factor, two-factor, and multi-factor studies. Information systems research applications will be emphasized using different statistical techniques that will assist IS researchers in designing experiments and drawing inferences from experimental data. Utilization of statistical software is incorporated. Prerequisite(s): INFS 608
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INFS 820 - Current Issues Health Informatics 3 credits
Current trends and issues in health informatics and recent research, theory, and developments in health informatics.
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INFS 830 - Decision Support Systems 3 credits
The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the concepts, techniques and application of computer-based decision support systems. The course covers issues pertaining to the design, history, theory, practice, methods and techniques, new developments, and applications of computing technologies to support decision processes and decision-making by individuals, groups and organizations.
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INFS 834 - Knowledge Management 3 credits
Knowledge management is an emerging discipline of how to effectively deploy organizational practices, processes, and technology to increase the return on knowledge capital. Knowledge capital includes everything from new drugs designed from research into the human genome to better processes for responding to customer service complaints. This course will examine knowledge management from a general manager’s perspective, both as knowledge workers themselves and as those responsible for an organization’s overall knowledge effectiveness.
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INFS 838 - Decision Support/Knowledge Management Research 3 credits
This course focuses on research issues pertaining to decision support systems and knowledge management. Students will examine and evaluate the research literature from a wide variety of sources, both academic and applied. Students will also indicate various research frontiers associated with decision support systems and knowledge management.
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INFS 848 - Information Assurance/Computer Security Research 3 credits
This course focuses on research issues pertaining to information assurance and computer security. Students will examine and evaluate the research literature from a wide variety of sources, both academic and applied. Students will also identify various research frontiers associated with information assurance and computer security.
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INFS 868 - Health Informatics Research 3 credits
This course focuses on research issues pertaining to health informatics research. During this seminar course, students will examine and evaluate the research literature from a wide variety of sources, both academic and applied. Students will also identify various research frontiers associated with health information research.
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INFS 889 - Program Sustaining 0 credits
Program sustaining course for students in the doctorate program.
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INFS 890 - Seminar 1-3 credits
A research seminar course in information systems.
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INFS 891 - Independent Study 1-3 credits
Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depend upon the requirements of the topic.
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INFS 892 - Topics 1-3 credits
A topics course in information systems.
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INFS 898D - Dissertation 1-12 credits
A formal treatise presenting the results of study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the applicable degree. The process requires extensive and intensive one-on-one interaction between the candidate and professor with more limited interaction between and among the candidate and other members of the committee.
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INFS 899D - Dissertation Sustaining 0 credits
This is a zero-credit instructional method type used to track students who are not currently working with faculty on thesis or research activities. Universities may require students to register under this instructional method type to remain active degree candidates.
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Library Media |
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LIBM 692 - Topics 1-4 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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Learning Technologies |
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LT 712 - Principles of Learning Instructional Technology 3 credits
This course will review theories of learning as they relate to on-line and technology supported learning. Principal theories of learning with a foundation in instructional design, such as behavioral learning, cognitive information processing theory, and constructivist learning, will focus class activities and discussion. Also studied are the factors affecting human learning, including implications of the design and management of instruction.
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LT 716 - Systematic Design of Instruction 3 credits
Students will learn concepts and tools for applying systems theory to instructional design, including needs, instructional, learner, and context analyses, objectives, assessment, strategy, development, and evaluation. Addresses client learning needs in various organizational settings: business, industry, government, health care, education, and not-for-profit.
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LT 731 - Multimedia Production 3 credits
Students learn principles of visual design, use of sound and color, and hands-on production of text and animated resources for use in educational and training materials for the development of interactive multimedia and hypermedia lessons and presentations. This course will require a summer one-week campus residency.
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LT 741 - Introduction to Distance Education 3 credits
This course is an analysis of the history, philosophy, design, and evolution of distance learning systems. Distance learning is a worldwide concept and course uses examples from many countries to emphasize institutional, program and course design methods and approaches. The course assumes a system perspective in the analysis of distance education and the distance learner. The carious components of distance learning systems are introduced and overviewed including a) course development and design; b) course production; c) course delivery; d) learner support; e) evaluation of courses and the methods of cybernetic control of both student performance and instructional effectiveness; and f) research and evaluation of distance learning systems.
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LT 785 - Research Methods in Education Technology 3 credits
Designed to develop the skills of the practitioner to be a consumer of computer-based learning research. This course covers basic and applied computer-based education research design and the interpretation statistics.
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MATH 509 - Foundational Mathematics 3 credits
A foundational course in number theory, abstract algebra, linear algebra and discrete mathematics.
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MATH 593 - Workshop 1-3 credits
Special, intense sessions in specific topic areas. Approximately 45 hours of work is required for each hour of credit. Workshops may vary in time range but typically use a compressed time period for delivery. They may include lectures, conferences, committee work, and group activity.
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MATH 692 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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Mass Communications |
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MCOM 592 - Topics 1-5 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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MCOM 692 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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Middle Level Education |
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MLED 593 - Workshop 1-3 credits
Special, intense sessions in specific topic areas. Approximately 45 hours of work is required for each hour of credit. Workshops may vary in time range but typically use a compressed time period for delivery. They may include lectures, conferences, committee work, and group activity.
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Physical Education |
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PE 592 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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Science Education |
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SCED 592 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
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SCED 593 - Science Education Workshop 1-3 credits
Training in the form of a workshop to further content knowledge in one or more areas of the sciences and to increase participants’ abilities to apply and transfer scientific ideas and techniques to the classroom.
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SCED 692 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
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SCED 792 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
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Secondary Education |
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SEED 592 - Topics 1-5 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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SEED 593 - Workshop 1-3 credits
Special, intense sessions in specific topic areas. Approximately 45 hours of work is required for each hour of credit. Workshops may vary in time range but typically use a compressed time period for delivery. They may include lectures, conferences, committee work, and group activity.
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Special Education |
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SPED 592 - Topics 1-3 credits
Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
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Theatre |
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THEA 692 - Topics 1-4 credits
Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
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