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  • ENG 1500 - Writing about Literature (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . A study of the practical and technical skills involved in the reading of literary genres. Specific focus will be placed on critical thinking and on analytical skills which enhance comprehension of various literary texts, especially poetry. English and Mass Communication majors and minors must earn a C or better prior to enrolling in any ENG or MSCM course for which ENG 1500 is a prerequisite.


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  • ENG 2105 - Introduction to Technical Writing (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . (Fall, Spring) A study of the tools and techniques of technical writing with individualized assignments pertaining to a student’s discipline. Emphasis on letters, instructions, memos, proposals, reports, and collaborative writing.


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  • ENG 2115 - Introduction to Linguistics (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . (Spring) An overview of patterns and use of language. Includes discussion of elements of language (including sound systems, word formation, and syntax), historical change, and social/psychological elements (including social influences and language acquisition).


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  • ENG 2130 - Sociolinguistics (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . An examination of the social dimension of language use, focusing on principles and applications. Topics include styles, registers, social and regional dialects as well as such variables as age, social class, gender, and ethnic identity.


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  • ENG 2200 - Sophomore Honors Seminar: A Historical and Comparative Study of Human Institutions (3)

    Prerequisites: Admission into the University Honors Program. An introduction to and comparison of various political, economic, social, and religious institutions throughout history.  Emphasis is placed on the importance of human institutions for the historical and social development of humankind.


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  • ENG 2220 - Sophomore Honors Seminar: A Historical and Comparative Study of Human Institutions I (3)

    Prerequisites: Admission into the University Honors Program. An introduction to and comparison of various political, economic, social, and religious institutions throughout history. Emphasis is placed on the importance of human institutions for the historical and social development of humankind.


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  • ENG 2350 - Studies in English Literature (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . (Fall, Spring) An exploration of selected works by authors writing in English. This course focuses on a particular period, movement, genre, or engagement with a cultural or philosophical debate.


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  • ENG 2410 - Sacred Texts and Traditions of South Asia (3)

    This course employs philosophical and historical analysis to examine the sacred diversities of life in South Asia. Through a textual and social understanding of these diversities, the course introduces an increasingly key world region. In addition to shedding light on past and present socio-cultural life in South Asia, the course holds up a mirror to comparatively reflect on Western conceptions of the world, both sacred and secular.


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  • ENG 2510 - Language, Culture, and Communication (3)

    The anthropological study of language analyzes communication in light of socio-cultural diversity. This course focuses on the anthropology of language to illustrate how communication practices (as well as linguistic meanings and messages) are comparatively grounded in socio-cultural formations. It examines how language is both an individual and collective form of communication and focuses on how people socio-culturally negotiate, contest, and reproduce it over time.


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  • ENG 2700 - Introduction to Creative Writing (3)

    Introduction to Creative Writing is a course designed to give students from all majors an opportunity to enhance their skills as writers through the writing of creative prose and poetry.  The course will help students express their creative abilities as well as make them better writers by focusing on basic writing skills involving narration, description, and clarity.


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  • ENG 2720 - Introduction to Creative Writing (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1110   Introduction to Creative Writing is a course designed to give students from all majors an opportunity to enhance their skills as writers through the writing of creative prose and poetry.  This course will help students express their creative abilities as well as make them better writers by focusing on basic writing skills involving narration, description and clarity.


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  • ENG 3010 - The Basics of Legal Writing (3)

    Pre- or Co-requisite:   ,   (or their equivalent) The upper-level course will introduce the rigors of legal writing to undergraduate and graduate students.  The course will give students practical knowledge of the skill set required to successfully apply to and matriculate through law school.  The process involves the integration of grammar and mechanics and the technical aspects of legal writing-the result being that students will have a more realistic view of the writing utilized in the legal profession.  In an effort to illustrate the connectivity of fundamental writing skills to legal writing, the course will move the students through completing a LSAT writing sample, writing a personal statement for a law school application, and thereafter, completing some first-year law school legal writing assignments, while emphasizing the importance of proper grammar and mechanics.


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  • ENG 3030 - Forensic Linguistics (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . A study of forensic linguistics, including the main aspects of language crimes, language as evidence, forensic document examination, and forensic phonetics. In addition to theory, the course provides opportunities for practical application of forensic techniques.


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  • ENG 3105 - Professional and Technical Writing (3)

    Prerequisites: Prerequisites for undergraduates: ENG 2105 . (Fall, Spring) A study of professional communication with practice in writing documents such as proposals and formal reports. Formerly offered as ENG 4105.


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  • ENG 3130 - Writing for Social Change (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . This class explores civic reasons for writing that differ from academic and professional situations yet depend on similar resources to do effectively: critical reading; analytical, creative, and persuasive writing; and both primary and secondary research. Students will explore historical intersections of social change movements and writing, identify their own compelling social change projects of local or national/international significance, and learn effective writing strategies for communicating their social and political perspectives.


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  • ENG 3410 - African American Literature I (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1500 . (Fall, Spring) A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by major figures in African American literature from its inception through the Harlem Renaissance.


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  • ENG 3430 - Social Inequality in South Asia through Literature and Film (3)

    This course employs literature and film to focus on culture and society in South Asia (i.e., India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal). By reading the stories of individuals and groups in social context and across genres, this course explores cultural forms of discrimination in South Asia and people’s strategies for bettering their everyday lives through social justice.


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  • ENG 3440 - Social Inequality in South Asia Through Literature (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210  -  English Composition II   The course employs literature and documentary film to focus on culture and society in South Asia (i.e., India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal). It Specifically addresses the issue of caste as a form of social inequality. By reading the stories of individuals and groups in social context and across genres,this course explores cultural forms of discrimination in South Asia and people’s strategies for bettering their everyday lives through social justice.


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  • ENG 3505 - Women and Literature (3)

    A study of the work of women writers.  Course content may vary and may focus on a particular genre and may include relevant theory and criticism.


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  • ENG 3510 - Visual Rhetoric and Composing (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . (Fall/Spring) A writing-intensive introduction to critically reading and composing visual texts.  Through analysis and production, students will learn the rhetorical conventions of various media, including digital, material, and bodily modes of communication.


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  • ENG 3900 - Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . Opportunities for students to continue to develop their writing skills in the nonfiction genre with an emphasis on the short-story, essay, and memoir forms. This course provides intensive instruction and practice in the art of reading and writing creative nonfiction.


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  • ENG 3910 - Creative Writing: Nonfiction (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . Opportunities for students to continue to develop their writing skills in the nonfiction genre with an emphasis on the short-story, essay, and memoir forms.  This course provides intensive instruction and practice in the art of reading and writing creative nonfiction.


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  • ENG 4105 - Internship in Professional & Technical Writing (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210  and permission of the instructor. This course provides an opportunity for practical workplace experience in professional and technical writing in a business, industry, or other professional organization.


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  • ENG 4140 - Writing for Digital Media (3)

    Prerequisites: Eng 1210 A study of the principles and practice of writing for, with, and about digital media.  Emphasis on integration of content and design considerations in digital writing environments. 


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  • ENG 4210 - Fiction, Film and South Asia’s Past (3)

    This course addresses how contemporary film and fiction represent South Asia’s past. It combines writing and films to analyze questions about society, economy and power in South Asia. By highlighting such questions, the course explores people, events and historical processes in modern and early modern South Asia.


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  • ENG 4510 - History of Rhetoric (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . (Fall/Spring) An advanced survey course on the Rhetorical Tradition.  Through the study of Classical to contemporary texts, students will learn about the historical origins and development of rhetoric as a discipline.  Students will apply rhetorical strategies to enhance persuasive writing skills.


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  • ENG 4900 - Integrating Reading and Writing (3)

    Prerequisites: Formal acceptance into the School of Education for English with Licensure. (Fall, Spring) A study of methods designed to prepare middle and high school language arts teachers to plan English curricula. Course content focuses on unit and lesson planning.


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  • ENG 4910 - Theories of Writing (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210 . An advanced survey course introducing historical through emerging theoretical frameworks in the field of composition and rhetoric. Focuses on the relationship between theory and practice by demonstrating how theories of writing function in actual texts and rhetorical situations, including students’ own literate lives and classrooms.


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  • ENG 4940 - Fiction, Film and South Asia’s Past (3)

    Prerequisites: ENG 1210  -  English Composition II   This course addresses how historical film and fiction represent South Asia’s past. It combines writing and films to analyze questions about society, economy and power in South Asia’s past. By highlighting such questions over time, the course explores people, events and historical processes in modern and early modern South Asia. 


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  • ENPH 3600 - Instrumentation and Measurement Lab (2)

    Measurements are essential to quantitatively validate the predictions of theories in all branches of science and engineering. Nearly all of our current quantitative understanding of the natural and engineered world has come from the interplay between theory and measurement. Models and simulations of systems require experimental validation. Performance of engineered systems must not only be predicted, but also measured and tested. In this course, we will learn the basic tools of making physical measurements and conducting experiments. We will collect data, conduct basic error analysis, and design experimental systems. We will build the necessary supporting electronics and learn to collect data with computer based data acquisition systems. 


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  • ENSC 1000 - Introduction to Sustainable Planet (3)

    Prerequisites: Freshman standing at NCCU. This course reviews multifaceted issues of the climate change with different angles including technical challenges and capacity, cultural influence, and societal values practiced in different regions of the world.  This course also reviews how the impacts of climate change are manifested in different regions of the world.  Additionally this course provides information about the most up-to-dated remediation technologies that can be practiced by individuals and industrial sectors for building a sustainable planet.


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  • ENSC 2100 - Global Environmental Sustainability (3)

    Prerequisites: One introductory level course in science and math.  Concurrent enrollment is acceptable.  Sophomore standing for EEGS majors or a consent from instructor. This course provides in-depth reviews of representative environmental issues around the globe that have caused catastrophic consequences to the local ecosystems and human health and how individual events ended up causing global issues.  This course also presents various types of remediation technologies that have been made available and commercially used to slow down, halt, or even reverse the course of each event affecting local, regional, and/or global economies.  Finally this course discusses conservation aspect of sustainability that individuals and local municipalities can practice without leaving environmental footprints.


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  • ENSC 2600 - Environmental Science (4)

    Prerequisites: GEOG 2010  GEOG 2100  GEOG 2350  and ENSC 2100   This course is designed to provide students with a solid foundation in basic knowledge of environmental science. It covers natural chemical cycles, how human affect them, and strategies to ameliorate human impacts. This course involves studying major problems of pollution of the atmosphere, water,the land surface and the food chain. Emphasis will be placed on environmental pollution processes associated with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. The course includes lectures, hands-on lab exercises,and field trips.


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  • ENSC 3500 - Environmental Fluid Mechanics (3)

    Prerequisites: PHYS 2110 General Physics I, MATH 1200 College Algebra and Trigonometry II This course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts and terminology of fluid mechanics as used in scientific studies of environmental systems, with an emphasis on a physical understanding of how and why fluids behave as they do in environmental contexts.  The goal is to give students a basis and vocabulary for understanding and learning to solve problems that involve fluid mechanics and environmental transport processes.


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  • ENSC 3600 - Air Quality and Control (3)

    Pre- or Co-requisite: MATH 1200 , PHYS 1000  or higher, CHEM 1200 , and HEDU 3100 ; or consent of the instructor. Air Quality and Control is an upper-level course for students interested in understanding the overall impacts of air pollution in our life. The course will cover sources, effects, control systems, and regulations regarding air pollution.


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  • ENSC 3700 - Water Quality and Control (3)

    Pre- or Co-requisite: MATH 1200 , PHYS 1000  or higher, BIOL 1202 , CHEM 1200 , and HEDU 3100 ; or consent of the instructor. CHEM 3100  is useful. Water Quality and Control is an upper-level course for students interested in water quality management. Water quality management is based on scientific disciplines such as chemistry, microbiology, hydrology, engineering, and public health. This course will examine important water quality issues in order to identify quantitative solutions with optimum outcomes for the environment and public health.


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  • ENSC 3900 - Environmental Sampling and Analysis (4)

    Prerequisites: MATH 1410 , PHYS 2110 , CHEM 1200  and CHEM 3100 ; or consent of the instructor. Environmental Sampling and Analysis is an upper-level course designed to provide students with the ability and skills necessary to measure chemical and biological contaminants in environmental media. The course provides rigorous preparation for students interested in careers that will involve collection and analysis of environmental samples as well as students planning to pursue research careers.


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  • ENSC 3950 - United States Environmental Policy and Regulation (3)

    Prerequisites: Junior class standing. This course will examine the major set of actors and interests in environmental issues, focusing on the role of government and the body of law and regulation that responds to these issues. Major environmental legislation such as the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Resource and Conservation Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act will be reviewed. Emphasis will be placed on the response to national laws and regulations in North Carolina.


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  • ENSC 4200 - Principles of Toxicology (3)

    Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor, CHEM 4500  highly recommended. This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts and principles of the multidisciplinary science of toxicology. It is designed to provide a foundation for matriculation in advanced courses in toxicology. Students learn about routes and processes for entry, biotransformation, and elimination of toxicants from the body; toxicity mechanisms; and toxicity testing procedures.


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  • ENSC 4300 - Principles of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Safety (4)

    Pre- or Co-requisite: CHEM 1200 , BIOL 1620 , HEDU 3100 , and ENSC 4200 ; or consent of the instructor. Principles of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Safety is an introduction to the science and art of the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, prevention, and control of those environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the workplace which may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort among workers or among citizens of the community. By the end of this class, students should be able to give a basic assessment of the hazards present in an occupational environment and the appropriate control methods.


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  • ENSC 4400 - Special Topics in Environmental Science (1 to 4)

    The selected topics for each offering will vary depending on the expertise of visiting faculty and other resident expertise. Topics will be those not covered in other courses. Student participation will include written and oral presentations and laboratories when appropriate for the topic. Course may be taken two times for credit.


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  • ENSC 4410 - Environmental Modeling & System Dynamics (3)

    Prerequisites: Math 1200 College and Trigonometry II The environment can be considered as a large, comprehensive system composed of consistently changing dynamic parts.  This course is an introduction to the modern method of scientific study through computational modeling, with a particular focus on systems dynamics - an approach that is well suited for many environmental applications.  There is an emphasis on the reasoning necessary to interpret, critique and ultimately create simplified models of complex environmental systems. 


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  • ENSC 4420 - Environmental Science Seminar (1)

    Prerequisites: Senior status in Environmental Science major or consent of instructor. This course is a study of a contemporary environmental problem, its scientific, social, and policy dimensions, and its possible solutions. Students synthesize, integrate, and apply their broad environmental science backgrounds through interactions with expert guest speakers, field trips, and class discussions and presentations.


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  • ENSC 4450 - Environmental Chemistry (3)

    Prerequisites: CHEM 1100 , CHEM 1200 , CHEM 3100 , CHEM 3120 . CHEM 4010  highly recommended. This course includes the study of the sources, reactions, transport, and fate of chemicals in environmental media. It includes an in-depth study of how molecular interactions and macroscopic transport phenomena determine the distribution of compounds released into the natural environment in space and time.


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  • ENSC 4500 - Risk Assessment and Risk Communication (3)

    Pre- or Co-requisite: HEDU 3100 , ENSC 4200  or consent of the instructor. This course covers the fundamental concepts of environmental risk assessment, relative risk analysis, and risk perception, including identifying and quantifying human health impacts, and evaluating ecological risk. The course describes legislative and regulatory initiatives that use risk assessment as a framework for decision-making along with the controversy that surrounds such approaches.


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  • ENSC 4510 - Environmental Science Internship (3)

    Prerequisites: Senior standing in Environmental Science major or consent of the instructor. Students will complete a minimum of 300 hours in an internship in a public or private sector agency or organization where opportunities are provided for observing and performing a variety of environmental science or environmental health science functions under the supervision of a professional.


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  • ENSC 4600 - Environmental Nanotechnology (3)

    Prerequisites: Completion (or concurrent course listing) of one-year long introductory physical science course and one physical science course at either 2000 or 3000 level, or approval from the instructor This course is designed to introduce both fundamental theories and practical technologies practiced in academic institutions, environmental engineering firms, and regulatory agencies in the U.S. and abroad to upper-level students in the department.  Students will learn basic concepts behind nanoscale science and engineering practices.  Students will then participate in several representative projects of real-life cases that they will encounter in their future professional and/or academic careers.  At least two projects related to air and water contamination and remediation techniques will be introduced in the class as a way to facilitate their learning process.  This course will also provide students in the class opportunities to operate several key instruments such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electric classifier and condensation particle counter (SMPS as a combined form) for engaging in nano industries.  A visit to nanotechnology center in town will be required during the semester.


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  • ENSC 4700 - Independent Study (1 to 3)

    Prerequisites: Departmental approval. This is an advanced course designed to allow the student to gain specialized knowledge in an area within environmental science. The student is expected to develop the questions to be addressed through the independent study, read the literature on the selected topic, and give oral and written reports of their readings.


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  • ENSC 4800 - Introduction to Research (1 to 3)

    Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. This course allows the student to participate in ongoing faculty research projects. Three research hours per week for each semester credit hour is expected. Students will be expected to produce a written paper on their research project each semester. This is a variable credit (1-3 hours) course; the course may be taken three times for credit.


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  • ENTR 3000 - Business Accounting (3)

    Prerequisites:   .   The course is intended to prepare Entrepreneurship Concentration students in understanding and preparing their financial and accounting reports; review necessary accounting needs for a small business; analyze cash flow and profitability issues through ratio analysis, and make recommendations to resolve them; create systems to keep your bookkeping and financial reporting current; create manageable financial reporting systems so that the right people get the right information-on time; understand the basics of budgeting and long-term planning, and creating concrete and workable financial goals.

    How the course is designed to facilitate your learning?  The course like entrepreneurship is all about action.  While interactive lectures and audio and video presentation will accompany the learning process in every class, the primary focus will be on using software application to work through each of the areas of Accounting and Finance for a small business enterprise.


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  • ENTR 3500 - International Entrepreneurship (3)

    Prerequisites:   . The course focuses on the skills and knowledge required for developing a new global venture.  From the perspective of a start-up entrepreneur, we will examine the key success factors in creating a new business with a focus on international markets.  Specifically, the course will concentrate on training students in recognizing business opportunities in different countries, global market entry, global business plan writing and global enterprise management.


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  • ENTR 3900 - Invention, Innovation and Technology Commercialization (3)

    Prerequisites:     Invention, Innovation and Technology Commercialization intends to help you understand the process of taking a technological invention and how using different innovative methods you can take it from an idea to creating a venture that will help commercialize it.  The course will primarily focus on University Technology Transfer processes and grant writing to access SBIR/STTR funding.

    What the course offers?  The course offers to help you differentiate between invention and innovation and understand how you can continuously improve your discovery and innovation process.  It also takes you through the process of developing the idea into a full-fledged product, the legalities associated with it, and the strategic marketing and financial decisions you will need to make in order to commercialize the product.

    How the course is designed to facilitate learning?  The course like entrepreneurship is all about action.  While interactive lectures and audio and video presentation will accompany the learning process in every class, the primary focus will be on two projects.  The weekly case study project will take the entire class individually through the invention, innovation and commercialization process.  The second project will be oriented around developing your own ideas or inventions into and carrying out a feasibility study to check if your invention is marketable resulting in a grant proposal for further funding for the development of your product.


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  • ENTR 4200 - New Product/Service Development (3)

    Prerequisites:   and   .  Admission to a degree granting college.  Any student who has not completed these requirements will not be allowed in this course with no exceptions. This course focuses on the tools and techniques required during the entire new product/service development process.  It is intended that, through required independent reading, classroom lectures, contests, and essay tests, the student will acquire 1) working knowledge of the fundamental principles of new product development (NPD); and 2) a greater ability to think both qualitatively and quantitatively about NPD problems.


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  • ENTR 4500 - Technology Based Social Entrepreneurship (3)

    Prerequisites:    The course describes the needs and techniques for creatively recognizing and developing new ventures with real social value that contribute to the society at large and support long-term economic growth and sustainability.  This course will focus on creating social value through the use of high technology that can have the maximum benefit to the recognized social problem.

    What the course offers?  The course offers to take you step-by-step through the entire process of recognizing and starting a new social venture.  It trains you in community impact studies and needs assessment analyses that help develop social value based ideas.

    How the course is designed to facilitate your learning?  The course like entrepreneurship is all about action.  While interactive lectures and audio and video presentation will accompany the learning process in every class, the primary focus will be on case study analyses, and community study impact exercises applied to real world social venture.


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  • ENTR 4650 - Small Business Analytics (3)

    Prerequisites: ENTR 3000  or permission of instructor The course introduces students to exploring key organizational and market data, of small businesses, to uncover emerging trends, forecast customer demand and make fact-based decisions, all using powerful Analytics software.

    How the course is designed to facilitate your learning?  The course like entrepreneurship is all about action.  While interactive lectures and audio and video presentation will accompany the learning process in every class, the primary focus will be on using the software application to work through each department in the firm which would be a source of data will represent patterns and trends.


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  • ENTR 4750 - New Venture Management Consulting (3)

    Prerequisites:  MGT 4550 , and MKT 3210    The New Venture Management Consulting is the capstone course for the Entrepreneurship Concentration.  The course offers to take you step-by-step through the entire small business management process in an Information Technology (IT) based company.  It briefly reviews the new venture creation process and explores techniques for enhancing the marketing, operations and profitability of the existing business through a series of consulting exercises for real world IT based companies.

    How the course is designed to facilitate your learning?  The course like entrepreneurship is all about action.  While interactive lectures and audio and video presentation will accompany the learning process in every class, the primary focus will be on becoming consultants for a local small business and apply the analytical skills learned in class, to the company’s present situation and recommend the most effective way the company can manage its small business.


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  • EPHY 3200 - Material Science (3)

    Prerequisites: CHEM 1200 , PHYS 2320 , or permission of instructor. This course introduces students to the structure of semiconductors, metals, ceramic, polymers and composite materials, and the physical principles underlying the relationship of a material’s structure to its optical, thermal, electrical and mechanical properties.  The course is designed to provide a scientific foundation that can be to understand material properties and optimize material properties through rational design. (Three lecture hours per week).


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  • EPHY 3400 - Digital Systems Laboratory (3)

    Prerequisites: PHYS 3100 . This course will cover digital design topics such as digital logic, sequential building blocks, finite-state machines, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), timing and synchronization.  Lectures and problem sets will introduce fundamental topics then students will embark on lab assignments and ultimately, a digital design project.  The lab introduces practical aspects of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion.  The students would design and implement a final digital project of their choice, in areas such as games, music, digital filters, wireless communications, video, and graphics.


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  • EPHY 3500 - Signals and Systems (3)

    Prerequisites: PHYS 3100 ; PHYS 4220 . Mathematical representation of signals and systems.  Classification and analysis of systems in both the time-and frequency-domains.  Impulse Response and Convolution Integral.  Continuous-time signals and linear systems:  Fourier Series, Fourier Transform, Laplace Transform and State Variables.  Discrete-time linear systems:  difference equations, Discrete-Time Fourier Transform, z-Transform.  Sampling and discrete-time processing of continuous-time signals.


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  • EPHY 4500 - Electronic Properties of Materials (3)

    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. This course will introduce students to elements of solid state physics.  The course is intended to create the background required to understand the physics of solid state device operations.  The course will prepare students for advanced courses in solid state quantum electronics.  We will develop the fundamental concepts of the band structure of crystalline materials required for understanding of many-particle phenomena such as electronic transport, optical conductivity, and thermal properties of materials.  Specific topics will include properties of advanced low-dimensional materials (surfaces and interfaces, quantum wires, quantum dots, organic semiconductors).  The course is designed to provide the opportunity for students from different backgrounds to undertake a study and research in solid state electronic materials engineering.


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  • EPHY 4600 - Materials Characterization Laboratory (3)

    Prerequisites: EPHY 3200 Material Science  or Permission of Instructor. This course is designed to provide the students with the theoretical background and hands-on experience with instrumentation required to characterize the morphology, structure and properties of materials.  The lecture component of this course will focus on the physical principles underlying the measurement techniques and analysis of collected data.  The laboratory component will focus on safe and effective operation of advanced instrumentation. (One lecture and three laboratory hours per week).


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  • EPHY 4700 - Engineering Physics Research & Development Seminar (1)

    The goal of this course is to give students a general understanding of what contemporary physics and engineering research and development (R&D) is about, how it is structured and organized, why we need to do R&D, and how R&D allows us to advance our knowledge and get practical benefits for real life.  The course consists of three major components.  They are introductory lectures on contemporary topics given by the instructor, student discussion panels, and student seminar presentations.


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  • EPHY 4800 - Engineering Physics Design I (3)

    Prerequisites: Senior Status; Permission of Instructor. This is part 1 of two-part design course for the undergraduate engineering physics program.  This course provides an operational experience in the development of innovative and realistic engineered products.  Student groups design, build, and test a product that solves an open-ended design problem or consumer need.  Each group may be assigned a design project selected from topics suggested by faculty or choose their own design project pending instructor approval.  They are responsible for (i) designing and developing specifications, (ii) planning a budget, and (iii) biweekly progress reports.  Teamwork, communication, and project management are stressed throughout the semester.


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  • FCSC 1000 - Introduction to Family and Consumer Sciences (3)

    An introduction to the field of family and consumer sciences and its philosophy from a historical, contemporary, and futuristic perspective.


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  • FCSC 2000 - Career and Technical Education (3)

    A study of the history, philosophy, organization, and administration of Career and Technical Education in Family and Consumer Sciences Programs. Emphasis will be given to North Carolina’s programs. Observation and participation required to provide early field experiences for prospective teachers.


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  • FCSC 2150 - Computer Applications in Consumer and Family Oriented Careers (3)

    The application of computer technology to consumer and family oriented careers and individual and family situations.


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  • FCSC 2170 - Interpersonal Relationships and Group Dynamics (3)

    A study of group behavior, conflict management, group dynamics, and problem solving techniques in interpersonal relationships.


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  • FCSC 2500 - Consumer and Family Finances (3)

    Consideration of basic economic principles which influence consumer decisions involving individual and family finances with emphasis on purchasing practices of the consumer.


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  • FCSC 2800 - Health, Nutrition, and Safety in Early Childhood (3)

    An overview of the health, medical, and physical needs of young children including safety procedures, infection control, common health problems, and licensing standards. Competencies for working with typical children and those with complex medical needs and physical disabilities are emphasized.


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  • FCSC 2810 - Introduction to the Education of the Young Child (3)

    An orientation to the philosophy, history, foundations, and basic principles of child development, early childhood education, and early childhood special education. Emphasis is on recommended practices including family-centered, interdisciplinary, inclusive, individualized, individually appropriate, and culturally sensitive care.


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  • FCSC 2900 - Prenatal, Infant, and Toddler Development (3)

    An interdisciplinary, multicultural study of theories and research related to the physical, sensor motor, social, emotional, cognitive, communicative, aesthetic, and adaptive development of infants and toddlers. Observation experiences required.


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