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Apr 18, 2024
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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [NOTE!!!! THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. FOR THE CURRENT CATALOG, GO TO CATALOG.NIU.EDU]
Course Descriptions
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ACCY 375 - Accountancy Writing Lab
Development of effective written communication skills appropriate for accounting professionals. Provides the accounting specific context to integrate technical accounting knowledge with the skills and abilities needed to communicate that knowledge in written form within a professional accounting environment. Must be taken concurrently with ACCY 320 or ACCY 360.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 310 with a grade of C or better; COMS 100; ENGL 203 or ENGL 204.
Credits: 1
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ACCY 465 - Forensic Accounting/Fraud Examination
Study of fraud detection and control from the perspective of public, internal, and private accountants. Topics include principles and standards for fraud-specific examination, fraud-specific internal control systems, and proactive and reactive investigative techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, ACCY 332, ACCY 360, and ACCY 375.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 405 - Interdisciplinary Seminar
Lecture/discussion to develop skills related to studio practice and portfolio development for undergraduate students in their senior year. Includes critiques, artist presentations, portfolio documentation, personal thesis statements, critical writing, and selected readings.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Senior standing and pass portfolio review in B.F.A. studio program.
Credits: 3
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FLFR 371 - Masterpieces of French Literature in Translation
Study of masterpieces of French literature in translation from the Middle Ages to the modern period with emphasis on their social and cultural context; introduction to critical analysis.
Credits: 3
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FLGE 322 - Cultural and Literary Topics in German-Speaking Countries
Survey of cultural practices in German-speaking countries with a focus on literary, artistic, cinematic, and popular works of historical importance.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLGE 202 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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GEOG 300 - Proseminar
Professional development for students in geography and meteorology. Educational opportunities and career options. Library and literature research skills. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Declared major in geography or meteorology.
Credits: 1
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GEOG 490 - Community Geography
Team research project focusing on an issue of practical concern to the northern Illinois community. Application of geography and/or meteorology tools and methods to contemporary issues. Variable topics. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: GEOG 359, STAT 200, and at least 15 semester hours in geography or meteorology.
Credits: 3
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ISYE 401 - Internship
A work experience for the student lacking professional industrial and systems engineering experience. The learning experience is organized and supervised cooperatively by the department and selected organizations. A wage-earning position for a minimum of six 40-hour work weeks, or 240 hours, must be obtained with the guidance and approval of the department’s faculty coordinator. The student and faculty coordinator must prepare a statement of educational objectives that will become part of the student’s record. A report that describes the learning experience is also required to be placed in the student’s record.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Junior standing and consent of major adviser and supervising instructor.
Credits: 1-3
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MKTG 412 - Professional Selling in the Field
Exposure to contemporary sales leadership issues at corporate locations. Recent topics include career development and advancement, relocation, mentoring, ethical dilemmas in career progressions, personal financial planning, amongst others. Includes presentations from recognized sales executives and discussions with company representatives across varied industries. Engagement in a variety of activities including presentations, needs analysis, simulations, and a term project.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: MKTG 350 and consent of department.
Credits: 3
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MKTG 440 - Contemporary Leadership in Sales
Draws on insights from industry leaders to examine topics in professional selling as they relate to the sales person and to sales strategy including consensus and social selling, personal branding, and sales ethics.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: MKTG 350.
Credits: 3
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UHHS 200 - Experiences in Health and Human Sciences I
Approved introductory experiences and related training programs supervised by a professional specialist. When credit is earned in conjunction with UHHS 300, Experiences in Health and Human Sciences II, total credit hours in both courses may not exceed 30 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of college.
Credits: 3-30
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UHHS 300 - Experiences in Health and Human Sciences II
Approved experiences and related training programs supervised by a professional specialist. When credit is earned in conjunction with UHHS 200, Experiences in Health and Human Sciences I, total credit hours in both courses may not exceed 30 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of college.
Credits: 3-30
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Accountancy |
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ACCY 206 - Introductory Financial Accounting
Introduction to financial accounting as a means for recording transactions and preparing financial statements for external reporting purposes. Examines the nature of accounting, basic accounting concepts, financial statements, accrual basis of accounting, the accounting cycle and internal control. Topics include corporate accounting for assets, liabilities and stockholders’ equity, and the corporate income statement. Emphasis on usefulness of accounting information for business decision making. Not open to students with credit in ACCY 288.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Completion of 24 or more semester hours of course work and a grade of C or better in OMIS 259 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 207 - Introductory Cost Management
Introduction to the study of the information required for decision making in management planning and control systems. Theory and application of product costing, operational control, cost allocation, and performance evaluation for manufacturing, merchandising, and service organizations. Topics include cost-volume-profit analysis, standard costing, budgeting, job order costing, activity based costing, and process costing.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 206 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 288 - Fundamentals of Accounting
Designed for students who do not expect to become professional accountants, but who need to understand basic accounting concepts and to gain insight into the structure and the operating characteristics of accounting systems. Emphasis on accounting principles, structuring accounting to serve a variety of purposes, and the meaning and limitations of financial statements. Not open to College of Business majors or to students with credit in ACCY 206 and/or ACCY 207.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 306 - Financial Accounting Information for Business Decisions
Financial accounting and reporting from the point of view of the user of financial accounting information. Emphasis on the use of financial accounting information in decision making. Not open to accountancy majors.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in ACCY 206. CRQ: FINA 320.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 307 - Managerial Accounting Information for Decisions and Control
Study of managers’ use of accounting information for decision making. Topics include budgeting, forecasting, cost estimation, cost allocation, cost-volume-profit analysis, product pricing, income statement analysis, performance measurement, and non-routine decision making. Not open to accountancy majors.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in ACCY 207. CRQ: FINA 320.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 309 - A Survey of Income Taxes
Introduction to federal income tax provisions, providing an overview of federal income tax developments. Emphasis on taxation of business and individual taxpayers including implications for decision making. Not open to accountancy majors.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 207 or ACCY 288.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 310 - Accounting Information Systems
Study of organizational accounting information systems that capture information from the major business processes and transaction cycles. Emphasis on how these information systems serve as the basis for the functional areas of accounting and business, including internal controls, databases, and other information technologies through a case study approach.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Acceptable score on the Accountancy Qualifying Examination or consent of department. CRQ: FINA 320.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 319 - Fundamentals of Accounting Information Systems
Intended for students who wish to study internal auditing but are not accountancy majors. An introduction to the accounting systems in organizations that capture information from the major business processes and transaction cycles. Coverage of accounting transaction processing, internal controls, and applications of accounting systems concepts through projects and cases. Not open to accountancy majors or those with credit in ACCY 310.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FINA 320 and OMIS 351, or consent of department.
Credits: 1
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ACCY 320 - Intermediate Cost Management
Study of managers’ use of accounting information for decision making in manufacturing and service organizations. Topics include budgeting, cost estimation, cost allocation, cost-volume-profit analysis, non-routine decision making, transfer pricing, performance measurement, and the use of Excel for modeling business decisions.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 310 with a grade of C or better.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 331 - Financial Reporting I
Study of financial accounting and reporting issues, including the conceptual framework, balance sheet and income statement preparation, revenue recognition, time value of money, monetary assets, inventories, plant assets, current liabilities, and long-term debt. Employ authoritative sources in researching accounting issues. Acceptable score on the Accountancy Qualifying Examination or consent of department.
Prerequisites & Notes
CRQ: FINA 320 and ACCY 310.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 332 - Financial Reporting II
Study of financial accounting and reporting issues, including accounting for income taxes, pension and other benefit plans, leases, earnings per share, accounting changes, stockholders’ equity, investments and statement of cash flows. Employ authoritative sources in researching accounting issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320 and ACCY 331.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 360 - Assurance Services
Study of assurance services, including auditing and attestation. Emphasis on underlying concepts, standards, and procedures associated with assurance services, including engagement planning, risk assessment, internal control testing, evidence gathering and documentation, and communication of findings.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 310 with a grade of C or better.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 370 - Accounting Career Planning Seminar
Explores the various career paths available to accountants. Assists in identifying and developing career goals, job search strategies and skills, and interpersonal skills. Activities include self-assessment and career goal planning, resume writing, mock interviews, networking, and information interviews.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Acceptable score on the Accountancy Qualifying Examination or consent of department.
Credits: 1
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ACCY 411 - Advanced Accounting Information Systems
In-depth study of advanced accounting information systems and applications. Emphasis on applied topics such as database systems, general ledger systems, e-commerce, and internal control issues. Students may not receive credit for both ACCY 411 and ACCY 611.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, ACCY 310, and ACCY 375; or consent of department. CRQ: ACCY 360 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 415 - Data Analytics in Accounting
Study of the use of accounting data to identify, analyze and solve business problems. Examines the processes needed to develop, report and analyze accounting data and the business risks related to data collection, storage and use.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, ACCY 360, and ACCY 375.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 421 - Advanced Cost Management
Study of advanced topics related to managers’ use of accounting information for management planning and control systems. Topics include advanced costing techniques, division performance measurement, customer profitability analysis, incentive systems, and other contemporary cost management issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, ACCY 320, and ACCY 375.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 433 - Financial Reporting III
Study of financial accounting and reporting issues, including accounting for business combinations, consolidated financial statements, conversion of foreign financial statements, foreign currency denominated transactions, and derivatives and hedging activities. Employ authoritative sources in researching accounting issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, ACCY 332, and ACCY 375.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 435 - SEC Reporting and Corporate Governance
Examination of topics related to the origin, nature, and legal framework of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); SEC registration and reporting; the requirements, procedures, and responsibilities of being a public company; and the theory and practice of corporate governance.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, and ACCY 331.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 439 - Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting
Study of select topics in financial accounting and reporting to supplement knowledge attained in required financial reporting courses.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, ACCY 332, and ACCY 375.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 450 - Taxation of Business Entities and Individuals
Study of basic concepts of federal income taxation related to business entities and individuals. Includes the study of property transactions.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, and ACCY 332.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 455 - Individual Taxation
Study of the basic concepts of federal income taxation as they apply to individuals. Topics include gross income, exclusions, deductions, the taxation of sole proprietors, and computation of gains and losses on the disposition of property. Not available for credit to students with credit in ACCY 309.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, and ACCY 331; and junior or senior standing.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 456 - Advanced Federal Taxes
Study of federal taxes imposed on business entities with emphasis on corporations, partnerships, and S corporations including an overview of tax research techniques. Students may not receive credit for both ACCY 456 and ACCY 644.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 455 with a grade of C or better or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 462 - Internal Auditing
Study of internal audit objectives, processes and reporting. Topics include internal audit standards, internal controls, risk assessment, risk-based audit procedures, documentation, and communications. Employ authoritative sources to examine ethical issues, emerging issues, and industry specific issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, ACCY 360, and ACCY 375.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 467 - Auditing of Accounting Information Systems
Study of the auditing of computer-based accounting information systems with a focus on control and security. Topics include information technology as it relates to assurance services, internal control assessments, and evidence-gathering activities. A student may not receive credit for both ACCY 467 and 667.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, ACCY 360, and ACCY 375; or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 470 - Accountancy Advanced Writing Lab
Continuation of ACCY 375. Use of critical thinking skills to develop effective written communication appropriate for communicating technical topics in accounting. Explores a variety of situations that accounting professionals experience in their careers and discusses the necessary communication skills.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 370 and ACCY 375.
Credits: 1
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ACCY 472 - Independent Study in Accountancy
Individually arranged study of an accounting topic or topics that are not part of our regular course offerings. May be repeated to a maximum of 3 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 331 with a grade of B or better and ACCY 360 with a grade of B or better and ACCY 375 and subject to a faculty member’s discretion and availability and consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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ACCY 473 - Internship in Accountancy
Full-time work for at least 10 weeks in the accountancy/financial function of a sponsoring organization. Students submit periodic reports and deliver an oral presentation to the Department of Accountancy internship coordinator for grading. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 310 and ACCY 331 and ACCY 370 and ACCY 375; and either ACCY 320 or ACCY 360; and junior standing; and consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 475 - C.P.A. Problems I
Study of accounting principles and practices for issuers, nonissuers, and governmental entities. Discussion of related theory and completion of relevant, complex problems. Computer-based practice in the solution of typical problems encountered in the C.P.A. exam. May not be used as an accountancy elective.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 476 - C.P.A. Problems II
Study of auditing principles and practices for issuers, nonissuers, and governmental entities. Discussion of related theory and completion of relevant, complex problems. Computer-based practice in the solution of typical problems encountered in the C.P.A. exam. May not be used as an accountancy elective.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 480 - Governmental and Not-For-Profit Accounting
Study of state and local government accounting; not-for-profit organization accounting including tax issues and industry specific issues in healthcare and colleges and universities; Government Auditing Standards and the Single Audit Act; and federal government accounting.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: A grade of C or better in each of the following courses: FINA 320, MGMT 335, MKTG 295, OMIS 338, ACCY 332, and ACCY 375.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 490 - Current Topics in Accountancy
Study of new developments in accountancy including current topics and issues. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours when topics vary.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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ACCY 499 - Honors Directed Research in Accountancy
Open only to students participating in the University Honors Program. Individually arranged research in an accountancy topic of the student’s selection which must be approved by the student’s Honors adviser, the faculty member supervising the research, and by the department chair.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 375 and consent of department.
Credits: 3
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Actuarial Science |
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ACSC 350 - Theory of Interest
Rates of interest, present and future values, annuities-certain, perpetuities, loans, bonds, and guaranteed investment contracts. Key techniques in financial mathematics including discounting, accumulation, amortization, and yield rate determination. Modern financial concepts including yield curves, spot and forward rates, duration, convexity, and immunization. Covers the learning outcomes regarding financial mathematics in the exam FM of the Society of Actuaries (SOA), which is also the Exam 2 of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS).
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: MATH 230.
Credits: 4
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ACSC 400X - Probability
Crosslisted as STAT 400. Probability spaces, random variables, discrete, continuous, mixed probability distributions, moment generating functions, multivariate distributions, conditional probability, conditional expectation, and special distributions.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: MATH 232 and STAT 300; or consent of department. CRQ: MATH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 405 - Quantitative Methods for Actuaries
Multivariate distributions, transformations of random variables, conditioning for joint distributions, random sums, finite-dimensional properties of discrete-time Markov chains, homogeneous, and non-homogeneous, Poisson and compound Poisson processes, thinning and summing of independent Poisson processes. Together with STAT 400/ACSC 400X, covers the learning outcomes in the exam P of the Society of Actuaries (SOA), which is also the Exam 1 of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS).
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: STAT 400 or ACSC 400X or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 417X - Applied Statistical Learning
Crosslisted as STAT 417. Modern statistical methods for supervised and unsupervised learning with an emphasis on model assessment, selection, and regularization. Practical problems are solved using statistical software packages. A particular emphasis is placed on high dimensional problems.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: STAT 410 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 437X - Categorical Data Analysis
Crosslisted as STAT 437. Contingency tables. Poisson, binomial, and multinomial regression techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: STAT 435.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 438X - Applied Time Series Analysis
Crosslisted as STAT 438. Removal and estimation of trend and seasonality, autoregressive, moving average, and mixed models; model identification and estimation; diagnostic checking; and the use of time series models in forecasting.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: STAT 435.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 450 - Life Contingencies and Payment Models I
Survival-time distributions, and their curtate versions, for one or two lives, possibly dependent, truncated or censored. Mortality tables, aggregate, select and ultimate, and their use in modeling continuous life-time data. Present-value-of-benefit distributions for life insurances and annuities in the single and multiple-decrement models.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACSC 350, and ACSC 400X or STAT 400, or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 451 - Life Contingencies and Payment Models II
Premium calculations for life insurances and annuities via percentiles and the equivalence principle. Liability calculations for life insurances and annuities via the prospective, retrospective methods. Calculation of reserves for fully-discrete life insurances. Discuss the above for single and multiple-decrement models. Extend the present-value-of-benefit, present-value-of-loss-at-issue, present-value-of-future-loss random variables and liabilities to discrete-time Markov Chain models.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACSC 450.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 455 - Loss Models I
Definition and selection of probability distributions appropriate for insurance data that are heavily tailed and skewed, such as Severity Model, Frequency Model, Aggregate Model, and Risk Measures.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: STAT 410.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 456 - Loss Models II
Estimation of parameters of probability distributions appropriate for insurance data that are heavy tailed and skewed; assessment of credibility of data for ratemaking, such as Construction and Selection of Parametric Models, Credibility, Insurance and Reinsurance Coverage and its pricing and reserving.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACSC 455.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 460 - Financial Derivatives
Crosslisted as ECON 484X. Review of financial derivatives including futures, European and American options and exotic options. Greeks, trading and hedging strategies. Pricing derivative securities with appropriate boundary conditions, including the Black-Scholes formula, binomial trees, lattice models and finite difference methods. Simulation and variance reduction techniques. Interest rate models. Covers the learning outcomes regarding financial models in the exam MFE of the Society of Actuaries (SOA), which is also the Exam 3F of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS).
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACSC 405.
Credits: 3
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ACSC 491 - Special Topics in Actuarial Science
Discussion and study of readings on topics of special interest to undergraduate actuarial students, including preparation for actuarial examinations. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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ACSC 496 - Actuarial Internship
Work as an intern or in a department-approved co-op placement for a minimum of 100 hours per semester hour at an off-campus agency, or participate in the regular activities at the NIU Statistical Consulting Services. S/U grading. No more than 3 semester hours of STAT 495 or ACSC 496 can be counted toward NIU’s required hours for graduation or toward NIU’s 40 upper-division hour requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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Allied Health and Communicative Disorders |
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AHCD 444 - Independent Study in Health Sciences
Independent study of current topics in the health sciences under faculty supervision. May be repeated or taken concurrently to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of school.
Credits: 1-6
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AHCD 480 - Internship: Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Supervised internship in health and human services to include agency/facility visits, discussion and observation of service provision, and entry level experiences.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Junior or senior standing and consent of school. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 semester hours.
Credits: 3
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AHCD 490 - Senior Seminar
Introduction to research topics in allied health and communicative disorders with discussion of research questions and methodologies. Participation in a research project under faculty direction required.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Senior status, with a GPA of 3.30 or higher at the completion of 90 hours, or consent of school.
Credits: 3
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AHCD 494 - Workshop in Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Application of principles of allied health and communicative disorders or rehabilitation to problems of special interest to the participant. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 semester hours. Available for concurrent enrollment. S/U grading may be used.
Credits: 1-3
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AHCD 498 - Tutorial in Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Directed individual study and research in special areas of allied health and communicative disorders. Speech Language Pathology/Audiology, majors may repeat to a maximum of 6 semester hours. Available for concurrent enrollment. S/U grading may be used.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of school.
Credits: 1-3
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American Sign Language |
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FLSL 101 - Beginning American Sign Language I
Development of receptive and expressive skills in American Sign Language. Emphasis on developing skills in a non-English syntax system and communication with deaf and hard of hearing people in activities of daily living. Three hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory.
Credits: 3
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FLSL 102 - Beginning American Sign Language II
Continuation of FLSL 101 emphasizing the improvement of communicative skills. Three hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLSL 101 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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FLSL 105 - Fingerspelling, Numbers, and Classifiers in American Sign Language
Emphasis placed on how to use and understand fingerspelling, numbers, classifiers, and how to make and understand appropriate changes in handshapes and patterns. Provides hands-on experiences and skill-building activities needed for appropriate method to develop an understanding of the context behind the method used. Taught in American Sign Language.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLSL 101 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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FLSL 201 - Intermediate American Sign Language I
Continuation of FLSL 102, with emphasis on developing fluency in American Sign Language. Three hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLSL 102 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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FLSL 202 - Intermediate American Sign Language II
Continuation of FLSL 201, with emphasis on comprehension and production of increasingly complex linguistic structures. Emphasis on the development of fluent conversational skills utilizing grammatical nonmanual signals and markers. Students will learn how to narrate, describe, compare, and comment. Taught in ASL (i.e., without voice). Will include expanded discussion of Deaf Culture and its contribution to the arts. Three hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLSL 201 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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FLSL 311 - Advanced Sign Language Conversation
The incorporation of knowledge in American Sign Language (ASL) grammar and vocabulary, previously taught in intensive practical training in conversational skills, to achieve fluency of structural knowledge and expression. Conversational topics will include academics, business, medical, sports, religion, current events, and more. Taught in American Sign Language.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLSL 202 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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FLSL 321 - ASL Literature and Arts
Examination and analysis of contents, themes, and techniques of work from different areas of literature and the arts. Emphasis on practices in planning, developing, performing and critiquing various works in different genres. Taught in American Sign Language.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLSL 202 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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FLSL 325 - Introduction to the Linguistics of American Sign Language
Analyze the visual language of ASL that has its own grammatical rules to expressively convey information. Overview of phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics will be discussed. Taught in American Sign Language.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLSL 202 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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FLSL 361 - Deaf Culture
Focus on the history, perspectives in medical, social and cultural-linguistic models, identity, power, folklore, politics, deaf education, Deaf gain, anthropology, and sociology of Deaf culture. Intersectionality within Deaf culture will be also discussed. Taught in American Sign Language.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLSL 201 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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FLSL 400 - Special Topics in American Sign Language
Examination of documentaries, films, video clips, autobiographies, books, and scholarly articles to develop an understanding of the contributions of different Deaf individuals and groups. Topics and issues may differ each course. Topic announced, may be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours when topic varies. Taught in American Sign Language.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: FLSL 201 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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Anthropology |
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ANTH 102 - Rise of Civilization
Forces leading to the emergence of early civilizations in the Near East, Egypt, China, Mesoamerica, and South America. Aspirations, problems, and needs addressed in the art, literature, history, and other enduring contributions of the civilizations of antiquity. Examination of ancient achievements and values from humanistic and artistic perspectives.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 103 - The Great Apes
Introduction to the Great Apes from the perspective of biological anthropology. Review of the anatomy, evolution, taxonomy, social organization, feeding ecology, evidence of culture and tool use, language skills, and conservation status of the chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 104 - Anthropology of Pop Culture: Making the Familiar Strange
Examination of American popular culture as a widely-shared and contested set of beliefs, values, and practices embodied in a variety of topics such as consumerism, sports, race and ethnicity, poverty and social mobility, food systems, sex and sexual orientation, and globalization. All topics are critically examined in a crosscultural and/or cultural evolutionary anthropological context.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 105 - Archaeology Myths and Mysteries
Examines how archaeologists study the remains of the past to understand prehistoric people and their lifeways. Develops methods for critically evaluating the archaeological records. Explores concepts characterizing science and pseudoscience to develop criteria for distinguishing the two.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 120 - Anthropology and Human Diversity
Survey of human cultural diversity throughout the world. Anthropological approaches to understanding multiculturalism. Examination of factors underlying human diversity.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 210 - Exploring Archaeology
Survey of the basic concepts and principles employed by archaeologists with illustrations from world prehistory.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 220 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
The concept of culture; its origin, development, and diversity. Culture as an adaptive mechanism. Theory and method of cultural anthropology applied to the analysis of selected cultures.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 230 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Nature and function of language; anthropological motivations for the study of language; contributions of anthropological linguistics; distribution and relationships of languages of the world.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 240 - Becoming Human: Discovering Human Origins
Who are we, and where did we come from? An overview of the evolution of modern humans. Topics include human biology, human variation, basic principles of genetic inheritance, evolutionary history, living primates, and the human fossil record. Hands-on learning opportunities will provide experience in understanding scientific attempts to reconstruct our past.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 301 - American Culture
Examination of a series of topics in American culture including the impact of industrialism, the rise of feminism, the current popularity of sports, the role of advertising, and the changes in the structure of the family. Focus on what anthropological culture theory can tell us about our own culture.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 302 - Asian American Cultures
Introduction to the study of Asian American cultures. Review of the history of migration from Asian countries to the United States, and examination of the contemporary ethnographic portrayals of different Asian communities. Emphasis on the lives of Southeast Asian refugees and migrants who have come to the U.S. in the last 25 years. Uses anthropological writings on changing patterns of kinship, social organization, economics and religion, as well as first-person literary accounts.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 304 - Muslim Cultures in Anthropological Perspective
Cultures and social issues of the Islamic regions in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. History, development, and spread of Islam. Anthropological aspects of selected Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian cultures, including social organization, gender, marriage, and law in an Islamic context.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 310 - The Archaeology of Oceania and Southeast Asia
Descriptive and comparative study of the origins and rise of complex societies in Oceania and Southeast Asia.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 313 - Archaeology through Fiction
Introduction to ancient world cultures, including Egypt, the Middle East, Rome, Europe, and North America through novels that use archaeological data and characters. Topics include assessing the accuracy of data, borrowing from scholarly literature, and connections to current controversies over looting, site destruction, and the faking of antiquities.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 326X - Survey of World Music
Crosslisted as MUHL 326. Survey of traditional music (both folk and classical/court) in world cultures. Examination of the relationship of music to selected aspects of the peoples and cultures of East, South, Central, and Southeast Asia, Australia, Polynesia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ. Junior standing or consent of school. There is no prerequisite for musical ability.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 328 - Anthropology of Religion
Description and analysis of religious and ritual activities and how they articulate with other aspects of culture.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 329 - Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems
Examination of selected contemporary world problems such as hunger and food systems, population, inequality, colonialism and underdevelopment, human conflict, environmental degradation, the challenges of indigenous peoples and peasants, and globalization. Application of a deep temporal cultural evolutionary context and a broad crosscultural framework to the study of contemporary world problems not inherent to the human condition.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 331 - Language and Culture
Relationships of language to other forms of cultural behavior; influence of linguistic structure and categories on modes of thought and cognition; reflections of cultural emphases in language; forms of language and their distribution.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 230 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 341 - Primatology
Crosslisted as BIOS 341X. Study of living nonhuman primates. Topics include primate taxonomy, behavior, natural history traits, ecology, reproduction, feeding and locomotor adaptations, and anatomy. Lectures and laboratory.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 343 - Extinction: Where the Wild Things Were
Crosslisted as ENVS 343X. Examination of the processes of natural selection, genetic drift, the formation of new species, and extinction. Review of natural extinction events due to environmental change as well as human-induced extinctions of prehistoric, historic and modern species.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 361 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
Examination of the diversity of women’s lives cross-culturally from an experiential and structural viewpoint. Emphasis on the interlocking dimensions of women’s experiences including nationality, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and religion. Drawing on examples from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and ethnic populations within the U.S., course readings explore commonalities and differences in women’s social positions, cultural knowledges, life-cycle changes, and gender relationships.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 363 - Globalization and Corporate Cultures
Broad overview of anthropological perspectives on development, globalization, and corporate culture in the international setting. Population shifts, global trade, ideology, technology, and organizational cultures with special attention to applied problems of intercultural communication in Western and non-Western corporate settings.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 401X - Third Clinical Secondary School Experience in History/Social Sciences
Crosslisted as ECON 401X, GEOG 401X, HIST 401, POLS 401X, PSYC 401X, and SOCI 401X. Discipline-based clinical experiences for prospective secondary teachers in history and social sciences. Observations, evaluation, and practicum on methods and problems in teaching in the discipline. Includes a minimum of 40 clock hours of supervised and formally evaluated experiences in the particular setting likely for the student teaching experience. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department. CRQ: ANTH 496X or ECON 496X or GEOG 496X or HIST 496 or POLS 496X or PSYC 496X or SOCI 496X.
Credits: 1-2
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ANTH 404 - Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean
A holistic view of the Caribbean region examining scholars and outsiders’ representations. Topics include slavery and its impacts on racial/ethnic identities and categories, economies, food production, trade and the region’s rich and diverse expressive culture. Contemporary sociopolitical and economic aspects are discussed.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 407 - Peoples and Cultures of Insular Southeast Asia
Introduction to the social and cultural diversity of insular Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Emphasis on the region’s geography, colonial experience, and patterns of social organization kinship, religious belief, ethnic pluralism, and authority.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 408 - Peoples and Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia
Introduction to the social and cultural diversity of mainland Southeast Asia-Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Emphasis on the area’s geography, history, kinship and social organization, religious beliefs (especially Theravada Buddhism), ethnic diversity, and contemporary problems.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 409 - Cultures and Societies of the Middle East
Studies the peoples and societies of the Middle East and North Africa from an anthropological perspective. Explores problems of crosscultural examination and the role of anthropology in the formation of the idea of the “Middle East” as an area of study. Examines and problematizes key themes commonly linked with the region, such as tribe and state, family and kinship, gender and sexuality, honor and shame, tradition and modernity, and religion and secularism. Includes ethnographies based on field work in the region, contemporary news reports, and films.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 410 - Environmental Archaeology
Introduction to methods and theories relevant to analysis and interpretation of past human-environment interactions, by examination of historical and current theoretical literature. Emphases on outlining the kind of environmental data that survives in the archeological record (geological, botanical, faunal, chemical), recovery and analytical methods, and inferences made from these data to understand human-environment dynamics. Topical themes include the use of archeological sites as paleoenvironmental archives, plant and animal domestication, human impacts on ancient environments, and cultural collapse/resilience.
Credits: 3
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